The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-01
GENERAL MATTERS.

Maj. Voyer, in charge Of the govern
ment police in Quebec, has died from wound
caused by the accidental discharge of pistol
in his own hands.
None Of the convicted crookeds at
St. Louis will he sentenced until all motions
for new trials have been disposed of.
On the 18th the House of the Missis.
sippi LEGISLATURE proceeded to the bar of the
Senate and made q formal impeachment Of
Lieut. Gov. Davis.
Willie GABRIELLE, aged ten, was found
dead near Plainview, ILL.,, with the dead body
Of horse he had been riding lying upon his
corpse. It is supposed that both were killed
in fall.
Major Maginpis, Of Montana, has intro.
duced bill in tne House Of Congress, appro-
priating $500, 900 for the erection Of military
posts on the Yellowstone and Musclashell
rivers. -,~,>s~
The Legislature and State officers of
Wisconsin have been invited by the Mayor
and Common Council of Atlanta (Ga.) to par
ticipate in an excursion throughout the south
during March.
On the night of the ED fire destroyed
the gcanary Of Russell Hackett, of Augusta,
Wis, together with tive thousand bushels of
wheat and $4,000 worth Of agricultural lmple-
ments. Supposed to he ineendiary.
"A novel walking match is on the
boards of Chicago amusements: Henry
Schimel is to walk 500 niles in IA hours, and
Miss Ellen Wickers is to attempt to walk $50
miles in the same time for a purse of $500
side.
A Washington telegram of the 18th
says that the resignation OF Gen.
Schenck Minister to England, has not yet
been received, but that it is expected. No in
timations are officially made as to his sue
cessor.
In the burning of Sulphur Springs Or
phan Home, near Buffalo, N. Y, nearly fifty
persons narrowly escaped. The scene is de-
scribed as intensely exciting, and the loss as
irreparable by the charitable societies owning
the institution.
Dominica Davina, Antonio Catatano
and Bastian Lombardo, three Italians, con-
victed last October OF waylaying on the street
in the norther part Of St. Louis, and assassin
ating Francisco Fattra in April, 1874, were
hung in that city on the 18th.
A Cincinnati telegram of the 9th
denies the reports that the hotels there intend
charging increased rates during the holding
of the Republican National Convention, OF
that the rooms are being taken for speculative
purposes. Large numbers OF rooms have al
ready been secured by State delegations, but
the number is by no means exhausted.
All reports connecting the name of At.
torney General Pierrepont with the mission to
England are erroneous. Judge Pierrepont
says he would not, on any condition, leave this
country during the centennial year, or while
so important canvass AZ will engage universal
attention is pending. Equally incorrect have
been rumors that Secretary Fish will succeed
Schenck.
MIR. A. P. Burbank, the elocutionist
and public reader. has had an unexpected
measure Of success in the East. In New York
city alone he read to ten paying audiences.
One afternoon he read in Steinway Hall to an
assemblage OF $500 people, and in the even
ing to an audience of 200 in Chickering Hall.
He has postponed his return to Chicago from
March to April 1. 49,. +.
Cardoza, the black superintendent Of
education in Mississippi, has had the rare dis.
l:tinction Of an almost unanimous impeachment
by the House OF Representatives-only tour
radicals having the hardihood to vote against
the resolution. "A man thus deserted by his
lparty friends must have an unusual load Of
intamy bucklea on his back, even for Mis-.
lsissippi politician. g