The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-12-27
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
Condensed Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPus.

Rev. MIR. Harris, of Chicago, was,
on the 18th, elected Bishop Of the new Epis-
copal Diocese Of Quincy, Ill.
The election for Mayor in Boston,
Mass. has resulted in the choice of Pierce
(Rep) by majority Of 3 Isl.
Senior Estrada, the captured Presi-
dent of Cuba, has arrived in Spain and has
been imprisoned in the fortress at Barcelona
The crisis in France has been settled
for the present by the formation of a new
Ministry under the Presidency of NJ. Dufaure
All the old officers of the Union
League Of America were reelected at recent
session Of the National Council, held in Phla-
delphia.
Several saloon-keepcrs in New York
City have been recently arrested for violating
the License laws, and hundreds of saloons have
been closed.
Both houses of the California Legis-
lature have adopted resolution asking Con-
gress to lay tariff Of $3.50 per capita on
Chinese immigrants.
A large majority of the Northumber-
land England) collieries have stopped work
i'll consequence Of a proposed reduction of IL /
per cent. in the rate Of wages.
The municipal election in Charleston,
$ c., on the 18th, resulted in the election of
W. W. Sole as Mayor and the entire Democratic
ticket by large majority.
Patterson, the Democratic claimant,
was, on the 18th, admitted to seat in the Ma.
ticnal House of Representatives as Congress
man from Colorado, by a vote of liz to no.
Hon. Richard c. Mccormick has
been nominated by the President, and unani-
mouslv confir ned by the Senate, to be United
States Commissioner-l;cnera at the coming
Paris Exposition.
Hon. G. f. Loring has resigned his
position as Judge Of the United States Court
Of Claims, to take effect Jan. |, and the Pres-
dent has nominated Hon. J. {. Bancroft Davis,
of New York, to succeed him.
j. +. Farley was, on the 18th, nomi-
mated for United State Senator by the Demo-
cratic caucus of the California Legislature.
The vote on the first ballot stood: Farley,
~: Mcdonald. Is: Hager, Is.
An attempt was recently made to
assassinats the Prince of Montenegro. The
house he occupied as headquarters was mined
and blown up. and one of his body-guard was
killed and six injured. Prince Milan was out
of the house and escaped uninjured.
A few days ago an armed and masked
mob took possession of the Town of Osceola.
Mo-, went to the Court-House and carried
away all the documents relating in any way to
tax matters. The trouble grew out of a rail-
road tax levied to pay for past-duc interest on
abroad bonds.
In Executive session, on the after
noon of the ETH, the Senate rejected the
Presidents nominations for the New York
Customs offices, by a vote of 81 to 25 The
only Republican Senators who stood by the
President were Messrs. Burnside, Christiancy,
Conover, Dawes, Hoar and Matthews.
The publishers of the atlantic Monthly
celebrated, in Boston, on the 18th, the seven
tieth birthday of the poet J. Greenleaf Whit
tier. Oliver Wendell Holmes read poem.
MARX Twain,'' H. W. Longfellow, Chas.
Dudley Warner and others, took part in the
ceremonies Of the occasion.
The well-known firm of j. ID. Easter l.
Co, of Chicago, dealers in agricultural imple-
ments, failed, on the 18th, with liabilities
aggregating Sl,OOO.0OO. Ballard, Fast Il Co.,
of Canton, Ohio, large manufacturers, also
failed, in consequence it is said, of their init
mate business relations with the tirst-named
firm.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Chicago favoring the reconciliation of silver
was held in the Tabernacle, on the evening of
the 18th. Hon. {. b. Lawrence, late Chief
Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, pre-
sided. After addresses by prominent citizens,
resolutions were adopted denouncing the al
legged secret and unfair manner in which the
Decentralization act was passed by Congress,
and demanding that the present Congress re-
store silver con to its former place as a legal
tender, on an equality with gold.