The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-03-07

poned III the Maine Senate.
\ New York City gourmand has ac-
comr>hed the feat of eating roasted quail
day for thirty consecutive days.
says the 4-per-cent. loan was being taken at
the rate of Sl,No,ooO per week.
\ call has been issued for Il State
Democratic Convention to be held at Spring
field. Ill.,. on the llth of April next
1t is stated on authority which is not
questioned that .O.OOU.OOO human beings are
starving in the famine-stricken Provinces of
Northern China
Hon. Il. w. Taylor, First Comptroller
VI the United States Treasury. was stricken
with paralysis on the morning of the 25th and
died soon after.
\ man named L. Herbert Chase, of
Boston. Mass. has been recently found guilt.
81: the poisonous aiulteratior OF candy. and
has appealed from the verdict
The Indiana State Board of Agricult-
iir, has decided to hold the next State Fair
during the last week in September. just pre-
ccling the ST. Louis Fair. They fixed the
price of admission at twenty-five cents.
BY consent of all the parties TO the
Lurd-l Hicks controversy, an order has been en-
tered by the Supreme Court of New York dis
continuing all proceedings in the lunacy mat
ter Il compromise having been effected.
hox
Cured in many portions of California, and
great damage wrought in the vicinity of Sac
ramento. On the Goth. the ' ila@e of WASH
ngton. opposite Sacramento. was altogether
under water.
What was regarded as Il test vote in
the House. on the Silver bill. as amended by
the Senate was. on the motion to lay the bill
and amendments on the table. which was mega
lived by ayes. -: noes, aOi. The amendments
were aftcrvard concurrcd in by large major
itv.
jeremiah Connolly and George Sher-
", who some weeks ago, murdered Hugh
McConyille on public thoroughfare i'm Chi
ca-o were found guilty by Chicago jury, on
the 23d. and the penalty fixed at death by
hanging The verdict gave general Satsfac-
tiun.
The murderer Rande. convicted at
talc>hurg. H.. of murder, and sentenced to
the Penitentiarv for life. arrived AT Joliet
Prison on the afternoon of the 23d. 1t was be-
lleved that the extraordinary CELEBRITY of the
officers movements alone prevented Randc
from being lyuchcd.
The motion for: new trial in the
ease of Gen. Anderson, of the Louisiana Re
turain- Board, has been denied by Judge
Whitaker. at New Orleans. On the 18th Mr.
Anderson was sentenced to two wears impris-
onnent in the Penitentiary at hard labor and
I" pay the cost Of his prosecution.
The statement is made from Wash
n@ton that fears are entertained. at the War
Department, that there may be another gen
eral Indian war with the Sioux on the opening
of spring Several hundred lodges have left
Spotted Tail and Red Cloud Agencies, and are
said to be roaming in Northern Dakota. where,
it is thought, they will be Joined by Sitting
Bull.
On the 22d, Mrs. Isabella Reecher
Hooker appeared before the Senate Committee
on Privileges and Elections to discuss the
question Of woman suffrage. 4 number of
senators wives and other distinguished
women were present. Mrs. Hooker replied at
considerable length to the arguments usually
made against granting political rights to
women.
The report of the United States Ento-
theological Commission, now going through
he press. states that. in the opinion of the
Commission. the grasshoppers will do no seri-
Gus injury the coming summer in the terri
tory beyond the Mississippi and south of the
tor'ieth parallel. and probably not for several
year, to come. 1t bases its opinion upon the
facts that none of the insects that were
hatched i'll that lie zion remained to lay eggs;
that scarcely any eggs were laid by the scatter
Ing autumn swarmers. and that the permanent
habltit of the locusts east of the mountains is
likewise remarkably free of eggs.