The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-04

PUBLISHED EvEkH TAUASD 81
REDWOOD FALLS MINNESOTA
.EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed felsgraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Le vcrricr, the celebrated French as.
trcnomcr. Is dead. Errr,
William Henry Fox Talbot, the chief
discoverer Of photography. is dead.
The New Jersey Prohibitionists have
nominated Rudolphus Bingham for Gov
ernor. asG
An advance of 10 per cent. by the coal
companies at wilkesbarrc, Pa, has been re.
fused by the striking miners.
Spencer. Guild and Buckley. late officers
of The late Chicago State Savings Institution,
have been indicted for cmbexxlement
\ gre ut demonstration of workingmen
in honor of ex-Fresident Grant, was held at
Newcastle, Eng, on the AFTERNOON Of the
I'D
Hon. Il. B. Washburne, late United
States Minister to France, reached New York
ON the 18th. Hcwill reside In Chicago In the
future.
The Republican candidates for the As
sembly in France had published q manifes-
-, n, 1D~xS
ident MacMahon.
United States Senator Bogy, of Mis-
souri,, died at st. Louis, on the 90th, of
malarial fever contracted in Washington.
He was sixty-four years old.
Mr. d. o. Strong, having failed to quail
ify as Receiver of the collapsed Chicago
State Savings Institution, Judge L. B. Otis
was, on the 18th, appointed to the position.
Orson Pratt, the Mormon Apostle, who
has recently returned from England, left
New York for Utah. ON the s3d. He was &C.
companied by Joseph F. Smith, nephew Of
the Prophet Joseph.
Prince Louis Napoleon has arrived at
Belgium, with a view, 1t is stated, of being
convenient to France, to take advantage of
complication expected to arise out Of the
result of the coming elections.
The Pennsylvania Greenback State
Convention met at Williamsport, on the 10Th,
ard nominated BENZ. 8. Bently for Supreme
Judge; J. f. Emerson for Auditor General
and j. l.. Wright for State Treasurer.
"
The yellow-fever was increasing at
Fcrnandlna, Fla, on the 21st. The Mayor
issued an appeal for aid for the sufferers,
and there was general feeling Of alarm
throughout Florida and the Gulf Coast re-
cion.
There were in the United States Treas
ury, ON the 2lst, United States notes to the
amount of SS4,2l9,697, and National Bank
notes to the amount of e12, 46l ,996. This
did not include sums deposited in the Ma
tional Banks.
The Quarantine Officer at the Port of
San Francisco, in his annual report, gives
statistics which show that the number Of
Chinese arriving on the Pacific coast during
period Of one year exceeded only by 400
those returning home.
A schooner recently arrived at San
Francisco from the Arctic regions, brings
the intelligence that, of the seventy men left
by the abandoned whaling fleet last year,
all but two had probably persisted in the ice
pack, the two survivors having reached
Point Barrow.
The Maryland Republican State Con.
,,v,t;.,, x,,oc 1o1d ~ Rol<;unoro ~, <ho On<e,
DIR. G. E. Porter was nominated for Comp
trollcr, and resolutions were adopted cor.
daily approving of the course pursued by
the President in his dealings with the South,
and opposing the repeal of the Resumption
act.
The Fidelity Savings Bank, of Chicago,
of which John Z. Haines is President, closed
its doors, on the morning of the oath. The
suspended bank has 1900 dcpositors, to
whom there il due about 81 800, OO0 The
failure Is not regarded as 60 serious ~ those
which preceded it, and it was thought, on
the evening of the oath, that it would pay
its creditors from 20 to so percent. Of their
deposits.
The Massachusetts, State Republican
Convention, which met at Worcester on the
10Th, nominated A. H. Rice (present incum-
bcnt) for Governor; H. G. Knight for Lieu
tenant Governor; II. b. Pierce for Secretary
of State; Z. X. Train for Attorney General;
Charles Endicott for Treasurer, and ]. L.
Clarke for Auditor. The platform approves
the Presidents Southern policy; favors the
resumption Of specie payments; approves
civii-servicc reorm; indorses the Presidents
order prohibiting office-holders from exer-
cising imp roper and undue influence upon
political affairs, etc. etc.
The New Jersey State Democratic Con.
vcntion met at Trenton, on the 18th, and
nominated Gen. George B. Mcclellan for
Governor. Resolutions were adopted re-
affirming the National Democratic platform
of 1876: declaring that President Hayes
was placed in his present position
by fraud; congratulating the country
that he has found it necessary, "in
order to receive the respect and support
of any portion of the American people, to
adopt the Democratic policy of local SELF
government, and abandon all further de-
vices TO per?ctuate sectional jealousies;" OPP
posing special legislation for corporate or
individual interests at the expense of the
people, ETC., etc.
THE TURCO.RUsSIAN WAR.
A Pera dispatch d the 1et6 says shsl
Russians had been dispossessed Of the en-
tire Schpka Pass. From Russian sources
this report was denied. and the statement
made that the Turks had been forced to
yield up Fort ST. Nicholas after having held
it for six hours. .-.-s, i
A Tiflis telegram, received in Vienna,
ON the IS h, coutfadicts the reported evac0a-
ton of Arabian. in Asia Minor.
Two Russian 4luboQgiA the Kilis
mouth of the Danube were recently attacked
by Turkish isCn clad, and onetuSboatwas