The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-14
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
CURRENT PAKAaRAPms.

LII SWL VI LIE LIN
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
The Greek Cabinet have resigned il
body. aud the King has accepted their resig
nations.
About $50 Mormons arrived at New
York from Europe, on the 29th ult., and woul,
soon del art for Utah.
st. Petersburg journals report larg,
number Of suicides and attempted suicides 1,
the Russian army in Bulgaria.
Halbert f. Paine, of Wisconsin, ha.
been appointed United States COMMISSIONS
Of Patents, IN. Ellis Spear, resigned.
The board investigating the case o.
Fitz-John Porter has adjourned to meet IL
West Point, on the 18th Of December next.
The President issued proclamation
on the 3lst ult., setting apart Thursday, Nov
Is. as day of National Thanksgiving aut
Prayer.
About $4,000 spindlcs and 7,UOt
looms. in Burnley, Eng, are operating or
short time, and many OF the larger mills have
stop; Cd production entirely.
The North-of-England Carriage 4
Iron Com; any and Thompson i Nephews
timber merchants, of London and Scotland
have failed. Liabilities heavy.
The Coroner's investigation Of the
recent railroad disaster at Pontypridd, in
England, has resulted in verdict Of man
slaughter against the >ignaman.
The public debt statement for Octo.
her shows "A total Of debt and interest of =,
2aH.4ls.SE Cash in Treasury, S2s5,2l1, 4.3.
Deb, less cash in Treasury. 5000, auO, OS3.
Decrease during October, si.7O>, 400
The Directors and other officials of
'he City OF Glasgow Bank have been commit.
Several persons prominently connected with
the bank have disappeared.
One Miles, Il Salt Lake Mormon,
who lately married three women In the Nor
mon Endowment House in that city, has
been held to bail in the sum of Fl, 500. to
await the action of the Grand jury upon a
charge of bieamy.
The London International Pedestrian
Tournament, with twenty-three competitors,
terminated on the night Of the ID. Corkey
made 5al miles within six days, and was de-
clarcd the victor. The betting was five to one
against Corkey at the start.
Mrs. Noonan. wife of Sergt. Noonan
Of the Seventh Cavalry, who died at Fort
Lincoln on the 3lst ult., proves to have been
a man, who has been playing wife and laun
dress in the Seventh Cavalry for over nine
wears. He was Mexican.
Two wings of the Roman Catholic
Ecclesiastical College of Maynooth, Ireland,
were destroyed by fire, on the 3lst ult. Loss,
about $4,000, many of the students losing all
their personal effects and some of them mar
ro.ly escaping with their lives.
few days ago, a party of masked
men stopped the stage from Cheyenne to
Dead~ood, took therefrom Mclaughlin and
Mansfield, couple of road agents who were
being taken to the latter place for trial,
roadside and hanged them by the neck until
they we're dead.
The net revenue for the fiscal year
ending June 80 last. from the sale of postage
stsmps, was sls. S3s,ll5, against sl5, So. 9s5
the previous year. The amount of stamps,
stamped envelopes, et.., sold was So, 3.5, 1913,
against SIS. in 1877. Expended dur
ing the year for mail transportation, $40, A4,-
ls9, against sl0,356,O!3 the previous year.
The President has officially promul-
gated through the State Department., the
convention which had been ratified between
the United States and all the Nations Of Eu-
rope, except Great Britain, together with
most OF the South American Republics, pro-
vliug for the establishment and maintenance
at Paris of an International Bureau of Weights
and Measures.
AT the recent meeting, at Taunton,
Mass, of the American Missionary Associa-
ton. 90 delegates were present. The annual
report shows receipts for the year to have
been :l"o.6Ol: expenses, SlSS,019: balance,
s'32.. The current receipts did not equal
those of the preceding year by $4,000. The
debt, which two years ago amounted to $685.
600, has been reduced by gifts and pledges to
go :.s The " ork among the Chinese and
freedmen is said to have been productive of
much yool
The fishery controversy with Great
Britain has been reopened, Mr.. Evarts, the
Secretary of State, having notified that Gov
eminent that the United States will decline to
pay the $500 900 award, due on the 23d of
November, because the Province of Newfound.
land has been permitted to pass laws which
practically abrogatc the Washington Treaty.
The Secretary forcioly expresses his surprise
and Indignation, and says that no payment Of
the late award will be made until the obnox-
ious legislation is repealed.
In his report to the Secretary of the
Interior, the Commissioner Of the General
Land Office says that. during the fiscal year
ending June 80, S,6lS,1 acres of public lands
were disposed of, and S,O4l, 011 acres were sur
veycd in addition to ri ,6lS AS acres previous
y surveyed. The total number Of acres of
;uhiic domain still unsurveyed is something
over l,0W,O O,0O acres. The disposals were
o. D.
"4: tinber-culture entries, 1,S7O 434: DESERT
land entries, 30 553; cash entries, 81. SIS;
grants t. railroads, 6O6,34O; swamp lands
patented, 2o2, 926. Other grants to States,
2l4,s2 The cash receipts amounted to So
W. 55i, being 1868, J67 more than the receipts
Tor the preceding year.
The annual report of the Commits
s:orer OF Internal Revenue shows the revenue
collected during the fiscal year ending June
81 last to have been ell, OS9,3l6. The total
the previous year was :lle,Jy5, 1874. The re-
ccilts were from the following sources:
1877. 1874
spirits announcement. So. 469,43O AJOa2O. 500
tobacco ... Il lOf 5a7 1O1e1 80
rermented liquors. 94S0.7S9 9937. G62
Banks and bankers 3s2o7N Slg2 G9I
Stamps, penalties, etc 7lO6.63g 7l6s IO
Total. -..........s lls,ss6 1874 elll.06e .sl6
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