The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31
EPlTOME OF THE WEEK.

hGOWOOO FAALO, M1NNG0V4A
EPlTOME Of THE WEEK.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
The Concord IN. H.) Savings Bank
has suspended.
Lord Dufferin, retiring Governor.
General Of Canada, left for England, on the
10th.
The Rothschilds have ayr eed [
loan Egypt sSO,oOO.OOo to clear off her float
ing debt.
The Vermont Legislature, on the
18th, reelected Justin 8. Morrill, to the United
States Senate.
Clarkson n. Potter has declined a
denomination in the Twelfth New York Con.
gressional District.
The Archbishop of Salonica, the
anti-Russian candidate, has been elected Greek
Patriarch in Turkey.
In consequence of the glut of cotton
goods, several Of the largest mills in Lanca-
shire, Eng, have shut down.
The Sultan has authorized Baker
Pasha to employ 10000 men to complete the
defensive lines Of Constantinople.
4 Berlin dispatch of the 10th says
the Emperor William would resume the Gov
crnment on the lst of December.
The German Parliament passed the
AntiSocialist bill, on the 10Th. by vote of I'll
TO l49. The Assembly was then prorogucd.
Sec'y Sherman announced, on the
10TH that 10000 ounces Of silver would be
the amount purchased weekly by the Treasury
Department.
\ Columbus (Ohio) telegram of the
al>t ANNOUNCES the death of Bishop Sylvester
H. Rosecran>. He died quite suddenly in that
city of hemorrhsge of the lungs.
Two and a half million of francs for
warded to Ahcona by the National Bank of
Genoa, Italy, have been stolen en- route. Three
employees of the bank have been arrested for
the theft.
The distribution of the Exposition
prizes took place at Paris, on the 3ist, Prcsi-
dent MacMahon conducting the ceremony.
Several Americans received decorations of the
Legion of Honor.
The Orangemen have entered action
for damages against the Mayor of Montreal,
Can. for false arrests on the 18th of last July.
David Grant, County Master, claims $4,000,
and the others $500.
Admiral Paulding, senior officer on
the retired list of the navy, son of the captor
Of Maj. Andre, and the last surviving officer
OF the Battle of Lake Champaign, died at
Huntington, l.. L.. on the Goth.
The United States Treasury at WASH
ington, on the 10th, held :34S, CSC, $50 in Gov
ernment bonds to secure bank circulation,
sl3, 80, 400 to secure public deposits, and ST.
.r.s22, TOO to secure subscriptions to the 4-per-
Gem. bonds.
At the recent races on the course of
the Chicago Jockey and Trotting Club, the
horse Hopeful made the unprecedented time
of a mile in 2:l61s, to wagon. The owner has
issued challenge to all the world to try con-
clusons with Hopeful.
A Washington special of the 10th
says the new plan of registering third-class
mail matter, which had been in operation
three weeks, had proved to be great success,
and reports from all directions showed that
its advantages were appreciated by the public.
The October returns to the Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate the average con-
1itinp ~ ho %<b .,n on
with October, 1877, the growing crop shows
an improvement of IL per cent. With the in
creased acreage planted, the present crop
promised to produce more than 5, OOO, 900 bales.
The report of the Committee of In
vestigat.on into the affairs OF the lately-sus-
pended City of Glasgow Bank was made pub
lie, on the 18th. The losses, as shown BY the
balance sheet, reach the enormous aggre ate
of s5,l90.9S3. 1t is intimated that the stock
holders will be called upon for $500 per share.
The whole management of the City
of Glasgow Bank--the Secretary, the Manage
ing Director and the six Directors-were ar
rested, on the 18th, upon the charge of fraud,
and confined in separate apartments in the
City Prison. They each declared they would
have surrendered voluntarily had they known
they were wanted.
A letter received, recently, in New
York, from the City of Mexico, says that, on
the 18th ult, at Alfalfa, a mob, melted by
priests, killed twenty Protestants and wound
ed number of Others. In Pueblo the mob
threatened to break up the Protestant Mis-
sions. President Disz had promised the Rev.
DIR. Butler to do all in his power to protect all
religious denominations.
Manton Marble has published, in the
New York Herald, sweeping denial of the
charges connecting him with the cipher dis
patches sent to and from the South during the
Returning Board excitement, in 1876 He af-
firms that he never, directly or indirectly,
sought, or assented to any scheme, to purchase
or secure for Tilden the State Canvassers' GER
tificate Of the vote OF Florida.
October returns to the Department
"f Agriculture place the average condition of
the corn crop at IS per cent, an increase of
per cent over the September average. The
total yield will not vary largely from l,3OO,-
OOO,OCO. The yield of wheat will exceed that
OF last year, total of over 400. COX, 900 being
Indicated. The oat crop will probably be
somewhat larger than the fine crop of 1877.
A panic occurred in colored church
at Lynchburg, Va, on the eveling of the
10th, while party was being married. The
house was densely crowded, and just as the
ceremony was concluded, some one cried out
that the church was falling. a rush was
made Tor the door, and during the excitement
which followed, the bride, groom and eight of
their immediate attendants were crushed and
tramnIpd tn death nv. tho