The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-07-12
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
Condensed Telegraphic News.

EPlIUME Ut The WEEK.
Condensed Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
The elections in France have been post
poned till the l4th Of October.
George Fister, of Mahanoy City, Pa,
died Of hydrophobia few days ago.
The celebrated trotting mare Lady
Thorne died recently at Trenton, Nj.
A conspiracy to blow up the banks of
andria.
The President has appointed Gen. Will.
lam G. Lcduc, of Minnesota, Commissioner
Of Agriculture.
Austria has 80 900 men on the frontier
in Dalmatia, Croatia, Sclavonia, Banat and
Pennsylvania.
Gen. Sherman has started for the Vel
lows+Gne River, for the purpose of inspect
ing the frontier posts.
The rumors of the conclusion of peace
with Abyssinia were denied in an Alexandra
Egypt dispatch of the eth.
Robert Dale Owen, the Spiritualist,
and an eminent author, died few days
ago at Lake George, n. Y. He was seventy.
six years old.
The Iowa State Democratic Convention,
for the nomination of State officers, has been
called to meet ut Marshalltown on the 18th
of August.
The Supreme Court of IndiaAa has re-
Gently filed decision sustaining the decision
Of the Dearborn Circuit Court declaring that
Utah divorces arc illegal.
Gen. Grant and wife were received by
the Queen of Crest Britain, at Windsor Cas-
tie. on the 26th. In the evening grand din
ner party was given in his honor.
l.. Cass Carpenter. an United States
Revenue Collector, at Charleston, 8. e., has
been arrested and held to bail upon the
charge Of Z" raising State revenue warrants.
The Deputies of the Cretan Assembly
have sent telegram to the Sultan, asking
for mixed Commission to examine the
questi n at issue between the Mussulmen
and Christians.
A potato field at Mulheim, on which
the Colorado beetle appeared, has been Gov.
cred with petroleum and tan-bark, and set
on fire, the German Government indcmni.
flying the owner.
On the 25th, an insane man called at
the Executive Mansion in Washington to oh.
tain an order for the payment to him of the
Geneva award. He had large bundle of
papers supporting his claim.
The house of Mr.. Latreille, at Roches-
terville, Cam, was burned few nights ago,
and his son, eleven years old, persisted in the
flames. Mrs. L. and her mother were also
fatally burned.
The American Tract Society has elected
the following-named officers for the ensuing
year: President, VIM c. Chaplin; vicc-Pres.
idents, john G. Tappan, Gen. Erastus
Blakeslee; Secretary and Treasurer, Arthur
Gilman.
A special election was held in Charles.
ton County, s. c., a few days ago, for seven.
teen members Of the Legislature. The Re.
publicans decided to make no nomination
and the Democratic candidatcs-fourteen
whites and three colored-wcrc elected with
out opposition.
The amount of United States currency
outstanding, on the LIST, according to the
official statement, was: Old demand notes
$685. 80; legal-tender notes, 1853, 764 1872
notes of 1863, $96, 2s5; compound interest
notes, 500, a6O; fractional currency. so,
4O3, 1874; total, $3.50, 627 ,976.S4.
The stage from Deadwood was stopped
by highwaymen, near Cheyenne River, few
rights ago, and both the treasure boxes
taken. The robbers sent word by the driver
to the managers Of the stage line to send
them pair of gold-scalcs, as dividing dus
with spoon was not always satisfactory.
The balance of the 81 SOC, 600 advanced
to the Centennial Exposition has been paid
overto the United States Treasury by tn,
President Of the Centennial Board Of Finance
The Government allowed the $4,000 I'D
vanccd by the Board to pay the salaries O,
special customs officers in the carly days O
the Exposition.
The coinage reports from all the Mint
in the United States, except that at Carso,
City, New, state that the aggregate coiuag,
for the fiscal year is I'll ,OOO, 900, showing al
increase over that Of the last fiscal year o.
S14,OoO,OOO. The total amount of silver coli
issued up to the LIST was $50, l2l ,5S7, of which
I'll, 1881 $40 was issued on account of curren
cy obligations, and SCI ,O6l in redemption
of fractional currency.
A special commission appointed by tn
Come ticut Legislature to examine into tn,
condition of the Life Insurance Companie
of that State, have reported to the Stat
Commissioner that they have examined
large part of the assets of the Char.er Gal
Company, and find that there is an actua
deficit In such assets of over g., 3OO, 900; an,
that there are questionable assets amountin,
to over 81 1881 OO. 1t is thought, however
that policy holders ought not, under prt sen
circumstances, to sacrifice their policies.
Some years ago, Mrs. Sarah M. Vic
tor was convicted in the courts of Cuyahog
County, Ohio. of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to be hung. Sentence wa
committed to imprisonment for life. Ate
several years. confinement in the Pcniten
tiary, the prisoner wcaried of the life and ap
piled to the Columbus Courts to have tn
original sentence carried out, on the groun'
that she had not consented to Communication
The Judge had the matter under advisemen
for eighteen mon hs, and, on the 18th, rem
dercd an opinion that Mrs. Victor was, II
the eye Of tho law, an escaped prisoner, an,
issued an order for her delivery to the au
thorfties Of CuyahOga. An application wa
subsequently made to the Supreme Court TO
lave to file petition in error, and Mrs. Vic
tor was remanded to the Penitcntiary Il
await its decision.
THE TURCO.RUsSIAN WAR.
A Russian official dispatch, published
In London. on the morning of the 2Sth, say
the Turks had attacked the right wing of tn,
Russi ans, and been repulscd with great loss