The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-28

REDWOOD FALLS MINNESOTA.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Ludwig ILL.,, Grand Duke Of Hesse, is
dead.
John 8. c. Abbott, the author, died on
the 18th. He was seventy years old.
On the 18th. ex.Gov Hendricks and
wife left New York in the steamer scythia,
for Europe.
The Porte has demanded of Servia an
explanation of the object Of Prince Milan's
recent visit to the Gear.
Ex-senator Pratt. of Indiana, died at
his residence, in Logansport, Of heart dis.
ease, on the morning Of the 18th.
An ordinance has been passed by the
Chicago Common Council prohibiting the
selling Of fireworks at retail il the city.
Lady Sterling Maxwell, better known
as Hon. Mrs. Norton, died on the 18th, at
her husbands residence in Perthshire, En-
gland.
The Sultan of Turkey has issued an
trade, which calls upon Turkish subjects, Of
whatever creed, to prepare Immediately for
active service.
The Commander. in. Chief of the Otto
man Army has issued an order directing that
every Roumanian soldier taken prisoner shall
he put to death.
Senator Morton and party arrived at
San Francisco ON the 18th, en- route for Ore
gon, where they were going to prosecute the
Grover Investigation.
The entire Freshman class Of Princeton
College, numbering nearly one hundred stu
dents, has been suspended and ordered to
leave town. The otfensc charged was bull
DOING the faculty.
The price of newspaper composition in
Philadelphia has been reduced by the Typo
graphical Union of that city to forty cents
per 1000 ems, and book work to thirty five
and thirty-seven cents.
A complaint has been filed, by the
United States District Attorney for the New
York District, against Samuel J. Tilden, to
recover s15O,O0O alleged to be due as unpaid
incomc-tax from 1861 to 1871.
A few DAYS ago the First National Bank
of Mount Vernon, ILL.,, sent package con-
tanning $4,000, per Adams Express, to the
Third National Bank Of st. Louis. When
the package was delivered it proved to be
brown paper.
The engineers who made the geological
explorations and soundings for submarine
tunnel between France and England report
that the tunnel is perfectly practicable, as
there is continuous bed of chalk between
the two shores.
A National Christian Temperance Con-
vention is to be held at Lake Bluff, north of
Chicago, to begin on the 10th of July and
continue five days. DR.. Reynolds, assisted
by the officers of the Association, will have
charge of the meetings.
Elk President Grant was presented with
the freedom Of the City of London, at Guild
hall, on the 18th. About 500 of the digni-
taries Of the Corporation participated in the
ceremony. The gold casket containing the
parchment was deliberately engraved and Or
namented.
On the 10th, the Treasury Department
resumed the shipment Of one and two dollar
notes, legal tenders, in limited quantities, to
banks and those sending National Bank or
greenback currency for redemption, and also
to an amount not exceeding ten dollars to
each applicant.
According to late Washington dis
patch, the outstanding circulation of one and
two-dollar notes was $5l, 4N 81, and
SIC, 1888 were in the Treasury Office re.
served for use. The amount in the Engrav-
ing and Printing Bureau, nearly ready for
delivery, was $500, 972.
The recent election in Georgia, rs to
whether State Convention should be held
for the purpose of remodeling the Constitu-
ton, resulted in majority of about 10000
in favor of such Convention. The northern
counties Of the State voted almost unani-
mously in the affirmative.
According to recent Washington As
sociated Press dispatch, president Hayes,
although in former years predisposed, like
many other hard-money men, to adhere to
the prevalent doctrine of finance writers in
favor of single gold standard, has material
ly changed his views during the progress of
the general discussions regarding the wis.
dom and propriety of the act of 1873, which
demonetized the old legal-tendcr silver dol
lar. He is now in favor of its rcmouetiza.
ton, and Of the adoption OF the double
standard of gold and silver; or, in other
words, he favors full return to the con-
dition Of things in relation to these sub.
jects which existed previous to the legisla-
ton Of 1878, being convinced that such re-
turn to the former system will greatly pro.
mote the resumption Of specie payments-an
object that he regards as of the first import
ancc. While, however, he considers the leg.
islation of 1873 to have been hasty and un.
called for Interference with the legal-tender
powers of large portion of our circulating
medium, he has not yet formed any deter
mination to bring the subject officially to the
attention of Congress, although it Is by no
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