The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-12
New England States had the worst

New England States had the, worst
snow storm of the season on the 9Th. Twenty
| inches of snow fell. -.
| The Turkish budget of the 7th inst.
indicates rapidly increasing complications in
| the Herzegovina rebellion. e. f5' F"
The world will lie glad to learn that
the Bismarck election passed off quietly and
| that John A. Mclean was reelected MAYOR.
A ferry boat being drawn across the
river Dee, in Scotland, on the 5th, was capsiz-
ed by the current and thirty persons drowned,
Reports from. the city of Mexico
state that hundred people were killed bv
the police of that city for rejoicing over the
revolution. .,.. y
The coal operators of Cleavland.
Ohio, are preparing to resume work, displac-
ing the. old workmen with green hands. and
serious trouble is anticipated.
A large sale of short-horn cattle
took place at Liberty, Iowa, on the 9Th, bring
ing an average price Of $3.50 per head. The
number sold was one hundred and sixty.
Orders were received at New York
and Boston to cut off the water, light, and
fuel supply of the government Offices because
the appropriation for the same was ex-
hausted.
A supply train which returned from
the Black Hills to Bismarck on the Sd. brings
more favorable reports from the mines. O
the two hundred Bismarckers there snot one
is dissatisfied, they say.
The revolution goes bravely on in
Mexico. Matamoras was captured on the Sd,
after sharp fight of thirty minutes. The
revolutionists captured $50 men, II pieces of
artillery and 7l2 stand of small arms. The
casualties were killed and 10 wounded.
Dispatches from London represents
a bad state of affairs in Turkey. The insur
rectionists are increasing in number, and the
inactivity of the government is almost sure
to precipitate general revolution, unless
other powers take more decided steps to pre-
vent.
The appropriation for water, fuel
and lights for public buildings having been
exhausted, Secretary Bristow ordered all lights
and water turned off and fires put out in all
the government buildings of the country.
The matter had frequently been brought to
the notice of the proper committee, which
took no action. There is a fine of $4,000 for
over-drawing the appropriation in every case.
The National Campaign.
The Democratic State Convention
for Missouri has been called to meet at Jeffer-
son City May, slst.
The Ohio mass convention to ap.
point delegates to the indianapolis greenback
convention, was attended, by about twenty
five persons.
A large vote was polled at the Con-
necticut election, resulting in the election of
1ngersoll, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, and Waite, Republican, for congress-
man.
The c0lored national convention at
Nashville was well attended Speeches were
made by Pinchbak and other prominent COL
ored men, most Of whom advocated new de-
parture by cutting loose from the Republican
party and hereafter voting for the best men
regardless of party lines.
The National colored convention at
Nashville did not make the new departure
expected of it but passed resolutions of the
strongest confidence in the Republican party,
and of Grant and Morton. Dishonesty, how
ever, they condemn, and deplore the action
of the U. S. Senate in relation to Pinchback's
seat.