The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-24


elected State Legislature would be largely
Democratic. McKeuna (Dem.) for Congress,
in the Third District, would have . majority
Of about 500 over Walker (Kep. and Green
back). The First and Second Districts had
been also carried by the Democrats.
The Democrats carried Indiana at
the late election by about 1O,O00-that being
the majority on the State ticket The re.
turns received, on the 18th, indicated that the
State Legislature would consist OF twenty
five Democrats, twcnty-four Republicans and
one National in the Senate, and fifty-five
Democrats, thirty-eight Republicans and seven
Nationals in the House-thus securing VoOr-
hces' reelection to the United States Senate.
The Congressional delegation would proba-
bly, stand ~ follows: Republicans Dis
trict, Heilman; 5th, Brown; 9th, Orth; 10th,
Calkins; 18th, Cowgirl; 18th, Baker. Demo
crats-Second District, Cobb; Sd, Bicknell;
4th, New; 9Th. Myers; Sth, Hostetter; 18th,
Colerick. Democrat and Acknowledgement
District, Dc LaMatyr.
The Republicans claimed, on the
morning of the 18th, majority in Ohio of
from 5000 to 5000, the Democrats conceding
the State by $500. The Republicans carried
Hamilton County, by majorities ranging from
2OO to 1,OOO-Butterworth's majority over
Sayler flor Congress), being loss 1t was
thought at Cincinnati. on the 9th, that the
Ohio delegation in the next Congress would
stand rs follows: Democratic Third District,
Mcmahon; 5th, Lefever; 9Th, Hill; 7th,
Hurd; Sth, Finley; 9th, Converse; 10Th, Ew-
ing; 18th, Dickey; 18th, Warner; 18th. Ath-
erton; 18th, Geddes; total, II. Republicans
First District, Butterworth; ID, Young; 4th.
Keller; 18th, Neal; 10th, Mckinley; 18th,
Monroe; 18th, Updegraff; 18th, Garfield; Goth.
Townsend; total, 9.
A Berlin paper of the 10th publishes
dispatch from Russia announcing the be-
ginning of an agitation in Russia having for
its object the forced abdicatiOn of the Gear.
A Turkish force of $4,000 men has
been gathered at Novi Bazaar to oppose the
further occupation of that section BY Austria.
Ex-State- Treasurer Mercer was ar
rested at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 10th, on an
indictment found by jackson County Grand
Jury, for violating the statute fOrbidding the
Treasurer to derive any benefit or advantage
from the deposit Of public money, and also
on an indictment for embezzlcment. At the
same time the present State Treasurer, Gates,
was also arrested on similar indictments.
Mercer was held to bail in the sum of I'll, 600,
and Gates in the sum Of $4,000.
Complete returns from the recent
town elections in Connecticut show eighty
towns Republican, fifty-five Democratic, and
thirty evenly divided. Last year seventy were
Republican, sixty.nine Democratic and twen-
ty-six divided.
A Des Moincs telegram of the 18th
says the returns received there from the Iowa
election indicated that the Republican ma
jority in the State would be about 10000.
The Greenback-D Democratic candidates for
Congress in the sixth and Seventh Dis
tricts Weaver and Gillette) were probably
elected. The other seven districts were car
ried by the Republicans.
A Lahore Qndia) dispatch of the
1ltn says $4,000 British Troops were already
gathered at Peshawur, preparatory to an at
tempt to carry the Khyber Pass.
AConstantinople dispatch of the 18th
says Austria had notified the Porte that it
would not attempt the occupation of Novi-
Bazaar.
The Russian Minister has informed
the Porte that the Russians will retain Adrian.
ople until treaty is signed confirming those
parts of the San Stefano Treaty not affected
by the decisions of the Berlin Congress, and
that, until such signature, state of war ex-
lists.
After q consultation in Washington,
on the 18th, between the President, the Sec
rotary of the Treasury and the Attorney Gen
eral, it was decided that troops could not then
be used to aid the Internal Revenue officers
n Arkansas in breaking up illicit distiller-
es, as requested by Collector Wheeler, at
Little Rock. At the Cabinet meeting, the
opinion of the Attorney General was read, to
the effect that the civil authorities must e.x
haust all means in their power to enforce the
laws before the military can be called upon.
When shown that the civil authorities are
powerless in this respect, the President will
issue his proclamation, and, If necessary,
military force will be used to enforce the Rev
enue laws.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 18th
says the Russians were marching toward Adri-
anople, from the north.
Baboeski, position recently occu-
pied by the Russians, near Constantinople,
was taken possession of by the Turks direct
" after the Russians evacuated it. On the
18th, Gen. Todleben notified the Porte that it
must be abandoned or the Russians would
proceed to take it forcibly.
Letters were received at DesMOines,
Aho -
stated that the Indians had murdered thirty
white people in the vicinity of Culbertson,
and carried off two girls from ranch in that
neighborhood. The Indians were driving OF
all the stock they could.
The Rhode Island Greenback State
Convention met at Providence, on the 18th,
and, after four hours fruitless efforts to ef-
trict Conventions. Lycurgus Sayles was
nominated for Congress in the Eastern. and
}. Francis Smith in the Western, District.
The completion of the defensive lines
about Constantinople was authorized by the
Porte, on the 14th.
Some of the tribes near Bagdad have
revolted against Turkish rule. An urgent
call has been made for reinfOrcements by the
authorities there.
1t was reported from Vienna, on the
18th, that Montenegro and Roumania had re-
fused to restore their Turkish prisoners until
they had received their allotted territory and
compensation respectively.
THE YELLOVV.EBvBR 0COUR0R.
Thirty-five deaths occurred in Mem
phis and vicinity, on the 18th. Among those
rcpOfted sick of tho fcvsr ,raa IaNoe.on