The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-12-20
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
Condensed Telegraphic News.


Condensed Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
The Lakeside Publishing and Print
ing Company of Chicago have gone into vol
untary bankruptcy.
The Wolfsboro On. H. Savings Bank
has suspended. Deposits about $4,000 and
derositors lose about Is per cent.
James Il. Eustis (Dem.) was admit
ted to seat in the United States Senate. on
the 10TH by a vote of ~ toS.
4 call has been issued for Il State
Democratic Convention to meet at Concord,
n H., on the 10th of January next.
Col. Robt. Tyler, son of the late
President Tyler, died Of paralysis of the brain,
at Montgomery, Ala, on the night Of the Sd.
Senior Estrada, the captured Presi-
dent Of Cuba, has arrived in Spain and has
been imprisoned in the fortress at Barcelona.
The New Haven Comm Board of
Education has votcd-6 to 3--to dispense
with religious exercises in the schools of that
city.
The nomination of Hon. John B..
Hawlcy. of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, has been confirmed by the
Senate.
A few days ago thirteen July rioters
were sentenced at Baltimore, Md, to from six
IL eight months Imprisonment. About forty
theirs were awaiting trial.
Judge Humphreys, of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, decided
on the 4th, the hahds corpus case of Senator
Patterson, and discharged him from custody.
Hon. John Nj. Harlan formally quail
flied as Judge of the United States Supreme
Court. on the 10th, and took his seat on the
bench as the successor of Hon. David Davis.
Orders have been recently issued for
the departure Of number of troops to the
Rio Grande, in Texas, in the interest of peace
and for the protection of the people from raid
inw parties.
On the 9th. the Secretary of the Treas
ury issued the tiftv-ffth call for the redemp-
ton Of $50 bonds. The amount called for is
slo,00D.0tO. and the announcement made that
principal and interest will cease on the 9TH of
March next.
An election was recently held in
Georgia which resulted in the adoption of the
new Constitution and the designation of At
lanta as the State Capital by about 10000 ma
ioritv, and the adoption of the Homestead
law Of ISL by Il small majority
In his recent report, the Secretary
If the Interior states that the number of
acres of Government land disposed of during
the last fiscal year was 1, $40 s61.1O-a decrease
from the sales of the year preceding of 1.674,
h,>.,i acres. The total cash receipts were
Sl.i526!si.223.
Peter b. Sweeney has paid the last
n-tallmcnt of the 100000 and interest which
he agreed to pay the City of New York in set
Element of the Tammany Ring suits against
him. This arrangement. it is said, has
stripped him entirely of his property. He has
resumed his profession as a lawyer.
The officers of the National Baseball
League. for the coming year. are: President
W. y. Hubert, Chicago: Secretary-N. E.
Young. Washington: Board of Directors-J.
W. Ncf. Cincinnati; W. p Rogers Milwa,l-
kce: W. B. Petit, Indianapolis: \. s. Soden,
Boston: the President being also, e1-cUi.to, a
member Of the Board.
\ Paris dispatch to the New York
Wruld. published on the 4th, saws Gen. Grant
had Informed correspondent of that paper, in
recent interview. that he would not accept
any office under any Administration. and par
ticularly in the Diplomatic Service. This state
mcnt was made when his rumored assignment
to the Berlin Mission was brought to his notice
On the hearing of writ of hnbeds
eoil"@, on the 9th, Judge McAlister, of Chi
cago, formerly of the Illinois Supreme Court,
decided that the Illinois law for the punish
the Tramp law is unconstitutional and
void The Judge declared it lone of the most
atrocious laws ever placed upon 'the statute
books"
On the evening of the 9th, Hon. John
Burleigh. an cx-Member of Congress from
Maine started in carriage from Salmon
Falls to SouthBcrwick, in that State, and. while
crossing bridge over the Salmon Falls River
his horse sheered and went over the railing
precipitating the carriage and Mr.. Burleigh to
the bed of the stream 200 feet below. Mr.. Bur-
leigh was instantly killed.