The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-03-14
EPITOME Of THE WEEK.
Condensed Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Ex-Presidcnt Grant arrived at Con-
s,antinople, on the 81.
Father Angelo Secchi, the famous
Italian astronomer, is dead.
Pope Leo NH. was crowned in the
Sistine Chapel, in Rome, on the 81.
The State Convention of the National
party will be held in the City of Springfield,
ILL.,, on the eth of March.
The Missouri State Prohibition Con
Vcntion will be held in ST. Louis, on the 9th of
June. 4 State ticket is expected to be nomi-
mated.
The total internal revenue receipts
for the month Of February show decrease of
Sl.iSa.22ss as compared with the correspond
ing month of last year.
The President has declined to reap
point Simmons Collector of the Port of Bos-
,on and has nominated \. W. Bard, a Boston
merchant, as his successor.
AHS ASAucSSSV Ntdtc N'Uu-
vOtion for the nomination of five candidates
for Supreme Court Judges. has been called to
meet on the 2.th of May
On the 2Sth ult.. both houses of Con-
grcss passed the Silver bill over the Presi
dents veto, the vote in the Senate being yeas,
80. nays IL: and in the House. yeas, l!6:
nays. ;:'
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics
reports that the exports of merchandise dur
ing January exceeded the imports by S53,-
ii',h,. and during the seven months Of the
cirremt fiscal year by Sl:56Ga,l 3,.
Miss Bertha Won Hillern, Il Chicago
female pedestrian, recently completed. 1T Pitts
hUrgh, Pa. lcO-nile walk in twenty-sevcn
hours and iiftvthrcc and half minutes The
last mile was made in eleven and a half min
ute>.
Hon. \. G.. Porter. of Indiana, has
been nominated First Comptroller of the
Treasury, aud 4. c. Botkin, of Milwaukee,
| nited States Marshal for the Territory Of
Montana. The Senate. on the 18th. confirmed
the nomination of Bayarl Taylor to be Min
lister to Germany.
\. G. Parker. cX-Treasurcr of South
Carolina. has been released from Jail on his
own rceognizance on his giving evidence i'm
i'licating his former associates and surrender
ing documentary proof against them. 1t was
stated i'll a Charleston Is. CO dispatch of the
9Th ut. that he would he used as a State wit
hess in future prosecutions.
EN-Cnited States Senator b. +. Wade
died II Jefferson. Ohio. on the morning of
the I'd in the >eventveighth year Of his age,
HIS mind was clear To the last and, although
unable To speak. he show ed by signs that he
recognized those around him. His diving
moments were free from pain. He left about
Ss",ro, all in goo,! condition, to he disposed
of hv his friends he preferrins to make no
will
An old man, named MOritz Kaiser.
liking near Fisk Landing. in Monroe County,
III. having become dcsponlcnt over his
financial mi>fortunes a few nights AGO. after
partakinG pretty freely of some yillainoUs
whisky. Killed his Young wife and their six
children tthe oldest of whom was a son ten
year, Of a@cl. and then. setting fire TO his
house, flung himself down beside his murdered
sons, and persisted in the flames, the charrel
corp>cS OF the entire family being fond the
next morning. giving every indication of the
manner i'll which the tragedy had been en-
acted.