The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

OOn0enso0 Ae10grapnl0 NEWS
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Ex-Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, reach
cd New York, from Europe, on the 9Th.
The Republican State Committee o.
Georgia has disbandcd, by vote of ten to two
United States Minister Picrrepont
has rendered his resignation, to take effect OF
the LIST Of December.
Gambetta has been again sentenced
~ three months Imprisonment and fined $500
for placarjing his recent manifesto.
On the 10th. the Nebraska Repub.
Leans met in State Convention and nomi
mated Chief Justice Lake for reelection.
\ confidential agent has reached
London to secure testimony whose object is tc
break the will Of the late Commodore Wander.
bilt.
The body of Gen. Custer was buried
in the cemetery at West Point. N. Y. on the
10th. The ceremony was participated in by
1900 persons.
The General Episcopal Convention,
in session at Boston. has consented to the
proposition to divide the State Of Illinois into
three Dioceses.
4 devil-tish has lately been brought
to New York. which by actual measurement is
for'y<ix feet six inches from the point of one
of its arms to the end of its tail.
The Ritterschaftlichc, Il private bank
in advances on land aud agricultural produce,
failed. on the llth, for f15O,OO.
The Spanish Government has paid
the American Minister $4,000 ON account of
claims for losses incurred by American citizens
in Cuba through the revolution.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee of Kansas have nominated VIM. r.
Wasstaff for Chief Justice, and Thomas W..
'vatcrson for Lieutenant Governor.
Of the large number of cotton claims
revived and presented to the Treasury De-
partmcnt during the last four months, not one
has been reported on favorably by the Sec
Rotary.
\ recent New York dispatch says the
sum tSl00.0tWl necessary to secure the trans
porta,ion to and erection in that city of the
Egyptian obelisk now standing at Alexandria,
had been raised.
Senator Morton was, on the 10th, re-
moved from Richmond, Ind. to his home in
Indianapolis. He stood the journey remarka-
bly, well. He had no use Of his limbs except
the right arm. but his mind seemed to he as
active ever.
Congress convened in special session
On the 18th. in accordance with the proclama-
tion of the President. Samuel J. Randall, of
Pennsylvania, was chosen Speaker of the
House. he receiving 149 votes, to 49, for James
\. Garfield. Of Ohio.
The statement of VIM. NJ. Tweed,
which had been previously submitted to the
Acknowledgement of the State. was published
on the 10th. 1t contained the names Of TWEEN
ty-one State Senators who had been paid for
their votes or silence
The Chicago Inter- Ocean says that
numerous relies of the victims of the Ashtabula
and summer. and deposited in the Coroner's
Office in that city, and that they will be sold at
public auction in January next. The Inter
ocean hopes that this information may he wide
~ circulated. that survivors may write for a
delay. or visit Ashtabula before the sale, in
order to obtain some relic of their lost ones.
a meeting to indorsc the Admins
tration of President Hayes was held in Cooper
Institute, New York, on the evening of the
10th. q. W. Curtis made the speech Of the
evening. after which resolutions were adopted
congratulating the country on the success
claimed in behalf Of the course pursued by
President Hayes relative to Southern affairs
and Civil-Servicc reform. The candidates NOM
mated by the late Republican Convention were
Endorsed. The attendance was very large.
The appropriations asked for by the
President in his message are: War Depart
ment 49,, 4:&, 7I5; Navy, S2,OOS, SCI; Court of
Claims, 81 .aO6. 454: Postoflice, $1OOOOO: Treas
urv, 2'3.s?l: Department of Justice, S362,
Ss5: Library OF Congress. *ss22.SOO. Total,
S3i.aU6.a01. The following estimates for the
present year are submitted without recon-
mendation: Rivers and harbOrs, 3,22aO, 40;
forts and Notifications, $2,O7s,OOO; per-
manent annual appropriations, $l,O9O,44.
A meeting of representative business
men interested in the approaching Paris Ex-
position was rccently-held in New York City.
Nearly every State in the Union was repre-
scented. The Executive Committee was ap-
pointed. and the following-named gentlemen
We're elected permanent officers of the American
Union Of Paris Exhibitors: President, Gen.
J. X. Hawlev: First Vice-Prcsident, A. T.
Goshorn: Second Vice-President, X. A. Cheese
borO; Treasurer, August Belmont; Core
spending Secretary, H. d. OlcOtt; Recording
Secretary. Maxwell Woodruff, of Washington.
The Chairman Of the meeting explained that
the French Government required that appli-
cations for space in the Exposition should be
made through an official body or committee
The National Convention of Humane
Societies was held at Cleveland, Ohio, on the
9TH to consider the maltrcatment Of animals
in transit between the West and the East.
Resolutions We're adopted calling attention to
the cruelties inflicted on animals i'm the transit
to the scaboard, etc, and calling upon Con-
gress and the various State Legislatures to
pass laws to prevent such cruclties. A pcrrna-
nent organization was effected, under the
name of the g international Humane SOcicty,'
and E. l.. Brown, of Illinois, was chosen
President: A. Firth, of Massachusetts, Secrc-
tary, and S. J. Levick, of Pennsylvania, Treas
urer. The next meeting is to be held in Balti-
more on the second Wednesday of October,
1873 fi
THE ruRCO.RUSsIAN WAN.
The Russian estimate places Mukh-
tar Pasha's losses in the late battles in Asia
Minor at 5000.