The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-28

1aHc. 5ne rTeNcn 3utnOf, mas been
elected Member Of the Academy.
The Russian Army in the new Asiatic
Provinces of Russia has been again placed on
war footing.
Moncasi, the man who attempted
to assassinate the King Of Spain, has been sen.
fenced to death.
Returns from all the counties in Min
nesota were published, on the 18th, showing a
Republican majority Of l1,S24.
The High Court of Judiciary at
Glasgow has refused to admit to hail any
more of the City of Glasgow Bank Directors.
The Marquis anu Marchioness <of
Lorne left Liverpool. on the 18th. for Halifax
The former will assume the government of
Canada on his arrival.
The trouble between Spain and
Morocco has been settled by indemnity to the
families Of the assassinated Spaniartis and a
salute to the Spanish flag.
SiXty-six clerks on the contingent
rolls Of the Patent Office, in Washington,
were discharged, on the l4th, for lack of funds.
Half of them were women.
During the fiscal year ending June
70, 1873 American Consuls abroad collected
fees aggregating $6S,, 9l41l, being sllO, 24O
u in excess of the salaries paid.
AT Preston, Eng, $4,000 spindles,
1850 looms and 1900 workmen are idle, and
large number Of cotton mills are working
not more than two days each week.
The New York Times of the 18th
says the Greenback- Labor organs claimed that
their party had east, this year, $1,000 votes,
as against Isl 900 last year, and 50 600 in 1876.
A New York husband. Michael Rossi-
ter, threw lighted lamp at his wife's head on
the night of the 18th. The lamp broke, and
the poor woman was burned to death.
The vote for Governor at the recent
election in New Hampshire stood as follows:
Head (Rep.). 3S,OS5; Mexican CDem), 81, OS3;
Brown (Greenbacker), 6.3>5; Prohibition and
scattering, 129. Head over all, 4SS.
a Wilmington (N. CO. dispatch of
the 18th says it seemed settled, beyond doubt,
that Martin tRep.) was elected to Congress
from the First District in that State by forty
to fifty majority
A female pedestrian-Miss May Mar
shall-recently walked, at Buffalo, n. Y, go
miles in sixty hours. Her fastest mile was
made in eight minutes. She was walking
against time, and had twelve minutes to spare
The official returns from all the
counties in Pennsylvania show that Hoyt,
Republican, for Governor, received 319561
votes; Dill, Dem, 291 900; Mason, Nat, ST.
s5S, and Lane, Prohibition, 1858. Total vote,
,02.o3S.
By vote of seven to one, the New
Haven Comm Board of Education have de-
cided to keep the old uniform plan of reli-
gious exercises in the public schools of that
city. One of the two Catholic members voted
with the majority.
The boiler of a locomotive exploded
at the Philadelphia Il Reading Depot, in Ma
honey City, Pa, on the afternoon of the 10th,
instantly killing an engineer, conductor and
boy, and fatally injuring another boy. Eight
or ten other persons were badly injured.
An official proclamation in South
Carolina announces that Wade Hampton be-
ing incapaciated by recent injuries from dis
charging the duties of Executive, has trans
ferred the office Of Governor to Lieut.. Gov
Simpson, who is now styled Acting Governor
According to the New York 7ribune's
tables, on the morning of the 18th (the re-
turns being mostly ofiiciaD, the vote in that
State at the recent election was as follows:
Republican, 3S9,616; Democratic, 2.O6O;
Greenback, 7l,020; Prohibition, $685. Total
vote this year, 1863 larger than that of last
year.
The official returns made to the Bu-
reau of Statistics show that during the month
of October, this year, the number of foreign
ers arriving at the port of New York was 3D.
IS, against S.623 during the same month last
Year. During the nine months ending Sept.
30 last there were 81, 963 arrivals During
the same time last year the number was Co.
81
The failures announced by cable, on
he 18th, We're: John Lomas Il Co., chemical
manufacturers, of Jarrow-on Tyne, with liabil-
Co, ship owners, of London. owing $500, 900;
James Forrest Il Co., of Blackburn, owing
100000; Wilhelm, Preston u Co., of Ham
burg. china and glass dealers, with heavy liza
bilites, and five brokers at Glasgow.
Judge McAllister, of Chicago, form
crly Supreme Judge of Illinois, has recently
decided that an indebtedness based upon
"option'' dealings and evidenced by notes of
hand cannot be collected, even though the
notes be in the hands of innocent third par
ties, on the ground that the "option" deal is
declared by the Illinois statue to be gam
bling transaction, and paper issued on such
transactions worthless.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th
says It was stated there that Lord Salisbury,
in his reply to Sec'y Evarts, was as earnest in
his position that the Canadian Fishery Award
was made in accordance with the Treaty of
Washington as Evarts was in maintaining the
opposite view. The correspondence was not
likely to be concluded by the 23d. when the
award would become due, and it would prob
ably be paid under wrotcst.
An earthquake in New Grenada,
South America, in October last, did consider
able damage to property and several lives arc
reported lost. Advices from San Salvador
state that the destruction in the southern por-
tons of that Republic was complete, and the
loss of life and property was very great. The
Volcanoes of Izaleo and Santa Anna were I'm q
state Of tremendous activity, and the inhab-
itants in the neighborhood were terribly
alarmed, and many had fled to places Of safety
The Treasury Department issued q
circular, on the 18th, to the effect that any
person subscribing, thereafter, for 4-pcr-cent
bonds might pay for them with any of the
$50 bonds Of the act of March 3, 1865, re-
deemable at the pleasure of the Government
after the LIST of July, 1870, in the same way a.
If they were called at the date of subscrip
tion, in regular course; but the subscription
must be accompanied with . full description