The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-23
EPITOME Of THE WEEK.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

the 10th.
The Michigan Democratic State Con
vention will be held at Lansing, ON the 18th Of
June.
The Maine National Greenback''
party will hold State Convention at Lewis
on, on June 5.
The State Convention of the National
party will be held at Grand Rapids, Mich. on
the 5th of June.
Kate Morris, of New Orleans, was
burned to death few days since by the explo.
sion Of a coal-oil lamp
Mr.. Shearer has declined the nomi.
nation Of the National party for Lieutenant.
Governor of Pennsylvania.
Prof. Henry, of the Smithsonian In
stitute, died at Washington. D. c., on the
18th. He was about eighty years old.
Gen. Thomas 5. Dakin, Captain of
the American Rifle Team, died in New York
City, on the 18th, of paralysis of the heart.
Catherine E. Beecher, sister of Henry
dence of Rev. Thos. X. Beecher, in Elmira,
n. Y.
The amount of legal-tender United
States notes outstanding, on the 18th, was
$S46.6Sl Ole; fractional currency, eli, son, 9Sl,
making total of $363, 4S5,997.
A Berlin dispatch of the 10th says
the German Government had declined the in
vitatiou from the United States to attend the
International Coinage Congress.
A late New York dispatch says that
more than 10000 men were provided with
employment by the Young Mems Christian
Associations in the United States during last
year.
A call has been issued for a State
Convention of the Independent Greenback
party. to be held at Emporia, Kan, on the
81 Of July, to nominate candidates for State
offices. etc.
The Chief of the Ca
madam Militia has ordered the distribution of
arms and military stores at various points on
the border, in anticipation of Fenian raid
from the States.
Up 10 the 7th, the New York Syndi-
cate had actually taken 325 1000 of the
$SO,0O.0O new 41s-per-cent Government
bonds which it recently contracted for with
the Secretary Of the Treasury.
A fifteen-year-old boy died in Chi
csgo, few days ago, of what was believed to
be hydrophobia. He was bitten but three
weeks before his death by dog which was
supposed to have the distemper.
In Chicago. few days ago, a woman
laid out for burial, and in honor of whose
memory wake was being held, surprised her
friends by coming back to life. She had
narrow escape from a horrible DEATH Her son
had given her an overdose of chloroform, and
the physicians had pronounced her dead.
The recent National State COnyen-
ton Of Pennsylvania nominated: For Cover
nor, 8. r. Mason; observation-disclosures,
Christopher Shearer; Secretary of Internal
Affairs, James L. Wright; Judge of Supreme
Court, Benjamin S. Bentley. The platform
generally re-enunciates the principles adopted
at the Toledo Convention.
Bishop McCoskry has recently ad-
dressed a letter to Bishop Smith, of Kentucky,
President of the House Of Bishops, withdraw.
ing his resignation and announcing his aban-
donment OF his contemplated Journey to
Europe. and his readiness to answer his accu-
sers according to the forms and methods pro-
vided in the canons of the church. He SOL
EMMY and emphatically denies the truth Ct
the allegations made against him.
A recent Washington telegram says
the secret-Service Division had received infor.
nation that 800 counterfeit notes had made
their appearance in Chicago. They are on
the Second National Bank Of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, and the National Revere Bank of Boston,
Mass, and were transferred from the counter
feit-plate of the Merchants National Bank of
New Bedford, Mass. The work is well exc
cuted, and the National Bank notes of this de-
nomination should be carefully examined, as
other counterfeit issues from that same plate
are likely to be produced.
The fifty-third anniversary of the
American Tract Society was held in New York
on the Sth. The report of the Treasurer
showed expenditures during the year of SAO9,-
1872 receipts including balance on hand April
l, 1871, t4l5,Ol6 During the year 235 colpor.
teurs have been employed in the United States
and two in the British Provinces, circulating
l66,5SS volumes and addressing 75S meetings.
The Home Missionary Society also held it,
nity-second anniversary on the same day.
The number OF clergymen in the service of the
society was stated to be 1856. The officers of
the previous year were reelected, the vacan
eies caused by death alone being filed BY new
men.
Six years ago Julia Leblanc, daugh.
ter OF . Jefferson County MOI farmer, mys-
teriously disappeared and was never again
seen alive. A few days ago q negro, while
shooting along the bank of the Mississippi
twenty miles below Leblanc's home. saw 3
Skin noattng down the stream, ard, on over.
hauling 1t, found that it contained female
skeleton, which proved to be that Of the miss
Ing girl. The theory is that she was stran.
gled and placed In the skiff, which was then
tied to the bank Of creek leading to the
Mississippi, where the underbrush concealed
1t from observation; that there the boat re-
manned until the rope rotted, when It noated
down stream and was secured as stated.
THE EAs1nxr CONTROVERSY.
koumania has issued another circu.
lar to the Powers protesting against the Rus
sian occupation Of her territory, and announc.
ing that Roumanian officials were being elected
from their posts in Beesarabia.
According to Berlin specials of the
had Inl
Turkish prisoners of war, numbering about
10000. because Ut the uncertainty of the &C
ton of the Porte in the event of war with
Great Britain.
A Vienna dispatch of the Stb SAYS
anarchy reigned in the newly-annexed dis.
riots OF Montenegro. The Albanians, Chris
ans and Moslems refused to acknowledge tse
authority Of the reigning Prince, and insur
rection might be expected at any moment.
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