The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06

}ago handed to Judge Mentx, OF the st. Marys
Parish Court, document signed by them.
selves, requesting him . resign because, d
they alleged, of his manifest incompetency
and theinterested motives which,. in most
cases, influence his judicial decisions. The
Judge replied that he had tried to perform
his duty faithfully and impartially, and stated
that inasmuch as the signers of the paper did
not vote for him at the late election he should
continue to administer the functions Of his
Office until his constituents (meaning the
colored people, called upon him to resign.
The members of the bar talked Of appealing
to the next Legislature to secure the Judges
impeachment by that body.
THE jury in: the trial at Leavenworth,
Kan, of Embry, for the shooting of Col
Anthony, returned verdict on the oath of
not guilty after consultation of about five
minutes. -.
AT Cincinnati, few nights ago, Mrs. Law
renee dropped a coal.oil lamp, which was
broken. The fire caught in the carpet and
in her clothes, and in . moment she was
wrapped in flames and was fearfully and
probably fatally burned. Her husband and
daughter made efforts to save her and were
themselves badly burned about the hands.
THE mercury in the thermometer rose to
eighty degrees above zero at Memphis, Tenn,
ON the 25th.
1T was reported from San Francisco on the
e5th that United States troops had gone to
the Sonora frontier to protect American soil
from invasion by the Mexicans.
| NEWS from San Diego, CAL, received in San
Francisco on the 9th says the report that a
revolution was in progress at San Rafael,
Lower California, was q canard.
THE ninety-eighth anniversary of the battle
of Trenton, which occurred Dec. &c, TIT, was
celebrated at Trenton, n. j., on the 9th, in a
mock engagement between troops represent
ing the Federal and British armies. After
the surrender of the Hessians the victors and
vanquished were sumptuously dined at Wash
ington Hall.
A WOMAN named Holdson, living at Merom,
Ind, in attempting to set a lamp on mantel
the other evening dropped and broke it,
scattering the coal.oi over her clothes,
which took fire and burned her SO badly that
she died a short time afterward.
A SPRINGFIELD Qn) special dispatch of
the 9th says Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, who
had been residing in that city since her
sojourn at Batavia, was greatly improved in
health and spirits.
EX-SENATOR WIN. A. RICHARDSON died of
paralysis at Quincy, ILL.,, on the morning of
the 9th, after an illness of ten days. He was
sixty-four years of age.
GEO. NJ. SINGLE, proprietor of the City
oofU l1k< l..
ment on the 9th. Liabilities from $4,000
to $4,000; assets not over $4,000. H. Is
bell and j. Bennett, two leading boot and
shoe dealers at Kalamazoo, Mich, also failed
on the 9th. Isbelrs liabilities are $S2, 900;
assets from $4,000 to $4,000 Benefits not
stated.
In Chicago, on the 9th, spring wheat, No.
2, was weaker. closing at 94M@95c cash.
Cash corn steady; closing at 4s115c for No. 2
and Sc for new rejected. Cash oats, No. 2,sold
at 29A@3Oc; January options were sold
at 301sc. Rye, No. 2, 6716@6sc. Barley, No.
2, SO71@S1c. Cash mess pork closed at
sls.9o@19.O0 Lard, s121o@l2.121S. Good to
choice beeves brought e450@5.75; medium
grades, &4.00@425; butchers stock, $25O@
S.75; scalawags, ETC., $2O0@2.5O. Hogs
brought $67O@7.1O for good to extra.
Sheep sold at $4.500525 for good to choice.
FOREIGN lNTELLIGENCE.
| A SPECIAL from Berlin to the London
Times of the I'D says it had been ascertained
that the total number killed by the dynamite
] explosion at Bremen Haven was 12S; wound
ed, Sc; 20 of the injured were hopelessly
MANNED, and there were Sc widows and 135
| orphans of victims of the disaster, for whose
benefit it was proposed to raise a subscription
fund of $4,000.
A VIENNA special of the 22d says eighty
insurgent delegates had recently met at
Jamnetza, in Bosnia, and unanimously re-
jected the Sultan's firman, proposing sundry
reforms, as unworthy of confidence. They
had formed sort of provisional govern
ment.
THE British training-ship Goliath was
burned at Gravesend' on the morning of the
I'D. 1t was thought that twenty boys had
persisted.
A SHANGHAI (China) dispatch of the ed
announces that Chen Lang Pin and lung
Heng had been appointed Ministers to the
United States.
ACCORDING to Vienna special of the Odd
thirty.six Turks had recently been arrested
for conspiracy to murder some of the Chris
tan subjects of Turkey. 1t was reported that
the Prince of Montenegro had negotiated
loan of 81, 600 900 and was about to interfere
in behalf of the Herzegovinians.
News had been received at st. Petersburg,
Russia, on the sd of the complete suppress
sion of the Khokand rebellion. The neigh
boring rebellious tribes had also been de-
feated with very great loss.
A REPORT was current In Havana on the
23d that VIM. M. Tweed had arrived there on
schooner, and had been seen by several
New Workers in that city who had known
him by sight.
ACAIRo Egypt dispatch of the oath says
an expedition, consisting of $4,000 men,
would start for Abyssinia at once. It would
be accompanied by every American officer in
the Khedive's service.
THE death of Rt. Hon. Earl stanhope, q
Unknown historian and essayist, was an
nounced from London on the Ath.
A PENANG (Malacca) special of the oath
reports the capture of Kintah by the British
troops and the flight of the rebel leaders to
Palane.
A BERLIN telegram of the Goth says the
leading American residents of that city had
called meeting for the purpose Of protest
ing against the structures of the German press
On American character in their comments on
the Bremen Haven plot.
HERR RENNER, correspondent of the
Schlesische Zeituno, has been arrested and
maltreated by Turkish troops in Bosnia, and
the Berlin Government has been asked to
interfere.
MADRID dispatch of the 18th says the
royal palace at Barcelona had been almost
entirely destroyed by fire on that day.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 18th
says the disorders In Khokand would soon
be made the occasion by Russia for the an
nexation of the remainder Of the country.
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