The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-03-15

REDWOOD FALLS MINNESOTA
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
CONDENSED rElEsRAPHlc NEWS.
CHINA has entirely broken Of diplomat
relations with Spain, the dispute CROWN
out OF the Cuban Coolie question.
The marriage of King Alfonso, of Spain
and the daughter Of the Duke de Montpen
sier Is announced for the end of April.
JACK MCCALL, the murderer of Wild Bill
at the Black Hills, some months ago, wa
recently hanged at Yankton, Dakota Terri
tory.
THE public debt statement, published Of
the LIST, shows: Total debt, q, 2.6l2. q
cash In Treasury, $lSS, SSl ,645; debt, les
cash In Treasury, $2.Oss, ISL, 142; decreas
during February, 81 ,OsO, ~.
TIE Chief.Justice of the Supreme Cour
has lately rendered an important decisio,
sustaining the so.called Granger law of Hi
nois, fixing the maximum of warehouse
charges. The case at issue was that o
Mum 4 Scott rs. the People of the State o
Illinois. The Court holds that the law /,
Constitutional. At the same time, decisions
were rendered sustaining the Wisconsin
Iowa and Minnesota laws.
THE win of the late Commodore Wander
bilt was offered for probate on the 9th ult
Protests were offered by Cornelius j. Van
derbilt and four other heirs.
LATE Halifax IN. 81 dispatches announce
great CONSERVATION in that country over the
discovery that the seal used by the Govern.
ment Is not the true seal, and that in conse.
quence all public acts since 1869 are void.
OS the 9th ult., the United States Treas
urer destroyed s745,s2s legal-tcnders. the
same being eighty per cent. of the National
Bank notes issued during February This
leaves the outstanding legal-tenders 1854,
..39, 49,
BERLIN dispatches to the London Times,
printed on the sSth, say the sentiment of the
better class of Russians was decidedly op-
posed to the immediate commencement of
hostilities with Turkey.
ACCORDING to latest advices from st. Pc.
tersburg, statement recently telegraphed
from Berlin, that Russia would demobilizc
her army when peace with Servia and Mon
tenegro should be proclaimed by Turkey,
was absolutely untrue.
RAGUsA dispatches Of the 1st announce an
insurrection of the Miridites. They were
besieging Turks h fortress near Prizrendi.
THE Joint Convention of the two houses
of Congress concluded the counting of the
Electoral votes at Ais on the morning of the
I'd, and Acting Vice-President Ferry de-
declared Messrs. Hayes and Wheeler duly
elected President aud Vice President of the
Uuited States, and declared the Joint Con-
vention dissolved.
The Russian troops have been ordered to
evacuate Servian territory.
Hon. MRS. NORTON, poetess and novelist,
was lately married to Sir William Maxwell,
Member of the British Parliament. The
years old.
j. T. HART, the American sculptor. died
at Florence, Italy, on the I'd.
ON the I'd, the President issued procla-
mstion calling upon the Senate of the Ferty-
fifth Congress to meet in Executive session
at noon on the 5th.
On the I'd, the President sent a dispatch
to Gov. Packard, of Louisiana, in which he
stated that he felt it his duty to say that he
did not believe public opinion would longer
support the maintenance of State Govern
ment in Louisiana by the use of the mill
tary, and that he must thereafter concur in
the manifest feeling. The troops would
protect life and property, but would not be
used to establish or pull down either claim.
ant. 1t was not his purpose to recognize
either government. In reply to this dispatch
Gov. Packard telegraphed that he should
maintain his Government by all the means
at his command. Gov. Nichols issued
on the same day congratulatory telegram
to the people Of Louisiana, advising that
they refrain from violence, and leave to those
charged with the duties of government the
responsibility Of enforcing the laws. United
States Marshal Pitkin telegraphcd from
Washington that the Presidents dispatch,
above alluded to, did not change the statu
quo, and was not intended to change it.
WELDON, the would-be assassin of Gov.
Packard, at New Orleans, was, on the I'd,
discharged, by the Packard authorities, on
bail of 5000.
A COLUMBIA Is. CO. telegram Of the I'd
says that in the Tilda Norri habeas corpus
case, before the Supreme Court, Justice
Wright (colored) had stated that he was in
Inundated into signing the order discharging
the prisoner. He subsequently revoked his
signature and published the reasons there
for. The court was crowded on the after
noon Of the I'd to hear the final decision of
the case, which would be considered as de.
Gliding the validity of the Hampton Govern.
ment. Justice Wright was absent, and Jus.
tice Willard adjourned without rendering
the decision.
The funeral of John O'Mahoney, which
occurred at dublin, Ireland, on the 4th, was
participated in by about 5000 persons.
A LARGE block of buildings devoted to
the wholesale trade was burned I'M st. Louis,
on the 4th. Loss, estimated, 100000.
PRESIDENT HAYES was sworn into Office
on saturday evening, the Sd, the oath being
administered by Chief-Justice Waite.
The members Of the Louisiana Returning
Board, who we've imprisoned for contempt,
have heen, by resolution Of the House of
Representatives, released. The House voted
to drop all investigations.
ACCORDING to New York special of q re-
cent date, Tweed had settled his difficulties
with the city, and his speedy release was ex-
pscted.
The Democratic caucus of the National
House OF Representatives, at its last meeting,
adopted an address to the country, protest.
ing against the declaration of the election of
Hayes and Wheeler; criticising the action of
the Electoral Commission; declaring that
the rights of Congress have been invaded;
that crime aud fraud have received judicial
sanction, and that republican institutions
have heen imperiled.
LONDON dispatches Of the Sd say that all
accounts received from Constantinople rep
resent the condition of the Turkish Empire
Is exceedingly desperate. In some portions
the scarcity Of provisions had assumed the