The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-08-30

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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
REDWOOD FALLS. MINNESOTA.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
William Longman, the WE'LL known Brit
ish publisher, is dead.
A State Prohibition ticket has been
nominated in New York.
The Pennsylvania Independent Green
back State Convention is to be held at Will
Transport, on the 10Th Of September.
AT Flushing. N. Y, few days ago,
two children Of F. NJ. Lavalley were burned
to death by the explosion of can Of kero
scne oil.
The Servian Cabinet have rendered
their resignation on account of differences
in respect to the foreign policy of the Gov
ernment
The English Privy Council has prohib.
tied the landing in Great Britain OF the
leaves or stalks of potatoes from the United
States, Canada or Germany.
The London Horticultural Gazette says
the crops in England would prove q dis
NAL failure this year. Potatoes were being
generally threatened with disease.
The Colorado beetle, despite the ener.
getic attempts of the Government to stamp
it out has spread over field of twenty-five
acres at Langenreichenbach, Germany.
Official intelligence has been received
from Sunla. in Northwest Hindoostan, of the
discovery of conspiracy against the Ameer
of Cabool Four officials have already been
executed.
W. B. Hibby, indicted for subornation
ofperjury in the recent Grover investigation
at Portland, Ore, has been held to bail in the
sum of $500, and committed to Jail in de-
fault thereof.
AT its late session in Louisville, Ky,
the National Educational Association ap.
pointed committee to memorabilia Con-
yress ON behalf of National Educational
Bureau and Museaw.
The Commission to treat with Canada
for the return of Sitting Bull aud his forces
is composed of Gen. Terry and John Mcneil,
the latter st. Louis merchant. Capt. Cor
bin will act rs Clerk of the Commission.
Prof. Watson, of the Michigan State
University, announces the discovery by him
Of hitherto unknown planet, in the con-
stellation of Capricorn. 1t is moving west
and north, and shines like star of the tenth
magnitude.
The land case, involving the title of the
Stare of Kansas to over 5000 acres of land,
being the aggregate of the grant under the
act Of 1861, admitting Kansas into the
Union, has been decided, by the Interior De-
partment, in favor of Kansas.
Atty. Gen. Raleigh T. Daniel, Of Vir.
ginia, died at Richmond, on the 10th, after
short illness, of hemorrhage of the bowels.
He was seventy-two years old, and was the
Democratic candidate for reelection to the
Attorney Generalship q the State.
The Twenty.third Ohio, President
Hayes old regiment, is to hold its annual
reunion at Fremont, on the 14th of Septem-
Der. President Hayes and Gems. Sherman
and Sheridan will be among the distin.
guishcd persons who will be present.
The annual meeting of the Army of the
Tennessee will occur this year at st. Paul,
MIMI, on the 5th and 9Th of September.
Elaborate preparations are making for this
reunion. The President and his Cabinet
have been invited and are expected to be
present.
Prof. Hall, of the National Observatory
at Washington, announces the discovery
through the agency Of the great telescope at
that institution, of a small satellite of the
planet Mars, and of a still smaller body
which is supposed to be another moon of
the same planet.
The Executive Committee of the Cen.
trail Ohio Workingmen's Industrial Union
have issued an address setting forth the
principles of the Workingmen's party, and
recommending that conventions be held in
the several counties to nominate county
officers and establish Industrial Union Clubs
In every township and voting precinct
A call has been issued for State Con.
vention of the New York Independents to be
held on the 25th of September. The call
asks for the Immediate consideration of the
platform adopted in the National Convention
at Indianapolis, May IL, 1875; denounces the
Resumption act and demands its repeal, and
stigmatzes the issue Of the ~ per cent.
bonds as barefaced robbery of the people
to the extent of $lS,O0O,OOO.
Late reports of the famine in India rep
resent that the area affected contains Is, OOO,-
600 persons dependent for food upon the
transportation of grain to the country; that
the Madras Presidency was powerless to sat-
isfy their wants, and that all that could be
obtained was necessary to sustain life. Over
100000 persons had already persisted, and
more had been found dead on single morn.
ing than died during the whole period of the
Bengal famine. A frantic appeal for help
had been sent to the principal cities of En-
gland, Scotland and India.
COi. John A. Joyce, sentenced to the
Penitentiary at Jefferson City, NO., for his
connection with the St. Louis whisky ring,
has been released from confinement. The
case came up on writ of habeas corpus, the
plea of Joyce being that he could not be SUBJ
jected to cumulative sentence, and that his
two years. imprisonment having expired,
he was entitled to his release. The Judge
took the same view of the question, but re-
quired Joyce to furnish bonds in the sum Of
Il 900 to re.pOnd to the order Of the higher