The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-14

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PUBLISHED EvERY THURSDAY.
REDWOOD FALLS MINNESOTA.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Anthony Gardner has been elected
President of Liberia.
Peace has been concluded between
Abyssinia and Egypt.
The Queen of Holland died on the 3d.
She was dfty.nine years old.
The Montcnegrins recently attacked and
captured the Turkish Village stozer.
The French Cabinet has forbidden al
political meetings OF over twenty persons.
The next Ohio Democratic State Con.
vention is to be held at Columbus ON the 25th
of July.
Several of the Sofas and officials con.
cerned in the recent emewte at Constantinople
have been expatriated.
Ex.GOv. Warmoth, of louisiana, and
Miss Sallie Durand were married ut New.
ark, N. j., a few days ago.
In consequence of the opposition of Aus.
tria, :he Porte has abandoned the idea of
forming Polish Legion.
A call has been is sued for State Re.
publican Convention to meet at Harrisburg.
Pa, on the 18th Of August.
A school-teacher in Hartford (Conn. }
died recently of hydrophobia. He was bitten
by dog on the sOth Of last April.
The flftieth anniversary of the Episco.
pacy Of the Pope was celebrated at Rome
with imposing demonstrations, on the I'd.
The Russian Army on the Danube is to
be increased to 600 men, and provision
contracts for this number have been made.
Montreal, Can, was visited by . de.
structivc fire on tue SOth ult. Sixty houses
were burned, involving loss of nearly $780,.
90.
In consequence of the unprecedented
stage of water in the Danube, operations in
the north Of Turkey are brought to . stand
still.
The tariff for passenger travel between
Chicago and New York and Boston has been
reduced to SIS and SIC respectively, ON linn
tied tickets.
A conspiracy has been discovered in
Belgrade, against Prince Milan and favoriug
the Prince Of Montenegro. Numerous NJ.
rests have been made.
Gov. Cuilom, of Illinois, has vetoed the
bill passed by the last Legislature, to make
silver coins a le2al-tender for the payment of
debts in the State of Illinois.
Fletcher Harper, the sole surviving
member of the original New York publishing
house of Harper s. Brothers, died in that
city on the 10Th. He was seventy-two years
old.
The house of Alexander Snyder, in
Portland, Ontario, was burned on the night
of the SOth ult. Two Of his children per-
ished in the flames, and his wife was serious |
ly burned.
The little schooner New Bedford, only
twenty feet long, sailed from New Bedford, |
Mass, on the 10Th, having on board Capt.
Grape aud his wife. She Is bound for Lon.
don, England.
j. Lothrop Motley, the American histo- |
rian, formerly United States Minister to the |
Court OF st. James, died in London, England, |
on the Both ult, of paralysis. He was sixty
three years old
On the LIST, there were coin bonds out.
standing, 81, e92, Oe4 $50; total debt, e. go.
3o2,2l1; cash in Treasury, 3166, 9e4 1863; debt |
less cash in Treasury, % 063 81, S42; decrease
during May, s6,9sl PA.
The mystery surrounding the disap. |
pearance of Willie Dean, of Chicago, was
solved on the 18th, by the finding of the body |
of the boy between the railroad tracks and |
the breakwater at the foot of Twenty-first
street in that city.
Austria recently sent note to the Porte,
demanding a written declaration that restric- |
tons on the navigation of the Danube should |
not outlsst the war or serve as . precedent |
Turkey and Russia have both sent the dec
laration demanded.
Two persons, named Mullins and
Hughes, who attempted, several months |
ago, to steal the remains of ex.Presideut
Lincoln from his tomb at Springfield, ILL.,,
have been adjudged guilty and sentenced to
the Penitentiarv for one year each.
A recent letter from Sweetwater, Tex.
states that the town Of Double Mountain, in
the Panhandle Of Texas, had been captured
by Apache Indians, and all the stock in the
town run of. Severe fighting between sixty
hunters and twice that number of Indians
is also reported, the Indians being virtually |
defeated with considerable loss ON their
side.
May 30 was generally observed Is Deco
ration Day throughout the country. The cere.
monies at Arlington were participated In by |
the President and Mrs. Hayes and the Cabi.
net. the President and his wife, with aov.
ers brought by themselves, decorating the
graves Of dead soldiers, and especially the
monument to the unknown. All the Govern.
ment offices In Washington were closed on
that day.
1t was recently reported from Washing.
ton that all representations on the subject Of
the Chisolm massacre had been referred to |
Atty. Gen. Devens, who would examine the
laws for the purpose Of ascertaining whether
there is any authority for the Federal Courts
to interfere. The Secretary of State has
taken part in the investigation because of the
fac that the British authorities complained
that one Of the parties massacred was q Brit.
ish subject
CONDENSED TElEeRAPN)c NEWS.
The Cabinet at Washington decided, On |