The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-17
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,


90 4 SANA VA AL w AA4As
CURRENT PAkAGRAPHs.
The Emperor of Austria has accept.
cd the resignation Of the Hungarian Cabinet
Gen. Sherman arrived in Washing.
ton. on the eth, from his extended Western
trip.
Smith, Fleming & Co., London, East
India merchants. have failed, with liabilities
aggregating s+,a@,50O.
Potter, Wilson Il Co., shipOwners
and Colonial merchants, of Glasgow, Scot.
land have failed for S3OOO,OOO
The Austrian losses since the Occu-
patton of Bosnia and Herzegovina aggregate
1900 men up to the LIST Of October.
Pirates have made their appearance
in the Persian Gulf, and the British Minister
has asked permission from the Porte to send
a nau-of-war to operate against them.
The United States Treasury held, on
the 9TH. S3i952 40 in Government bonds
10 secure National Bank circulation, and
Sla>'S. 400 tc secure public deposits.
Field-Marshal Count Won Moltke. the
Commander-in-Ch ef of the German Armies,
had rendered his resignation, upon the ground
Of extreme age and rapidly embarrassing intirnl-
tiles.
The baseball champion season has
closed, with the Boston Club in the lead. The
Cincinnati Club is second; Providence, third !;
Chicago, fourth: Indianapolis, fifth; Milwau-
kce sixth.
\ Berlin paper of the Sd says that
the late Prof. Petermann, the Seographcr,
did NOT die from apoplexr, as reported, but
that he committed suicide because of domes-
tic troubles.
j. Il. Calder, Cashier of the Grocers'
and Producers Bank of Providence, r. l., has
proved to be defaulter in the sum of about
100000. The bank has been forced into
liquidation in consequence
The public-debt statement for Sep
TENDER shows a total of debt and interest of
Sa.3ll. o5O.,a5. Cash in Treasury, sa>5, 3422,
24o. Debt, less cash in Treasury, 81, OF. $685.
The Russian Imperial Commission,
~ investigate alleged frauds in the Commits
sariat during the late war, has charged 500
officers of various grades, including forty
Colonies with fraud and misapplication of
public moneys.
The Greenback vote in Colorado, at
the recent election, aggregated about loo.
The Republican majority in the State, over
the combined Democratic ana Greenback vote,
will be from $500 to $500. The Legislature
is largely Republican,
Gen. Banks failed to secure renOm-
nation for Congress in his (the Fifth Massa-
chuscttS) District. at the recent District Re.
publican Convention. The fifteenth ballot re-
suited in fifty. one votes for Selwyn L. Bow
man and fifty for Gen. Banks.
The State apartment at Washington
has received intelligence Of serious insurrec-
ton in the Danish Island of Santa Cruz, in
the West Indies, and have sent war vessels
there to protect American residents. 1t was
reported, on the 4th, that the mob had cap
tured and burned the Town of Fredercksted.
The Chicago papers of a recent date
chronicle the DEATH in that city, of Gen. Sher.
idan's noted war horse Winchester" The
horse was given to the General in 1862, by Col.
Campbell. and was then three and half years
old. He was ridden by the General during
the war, and took his name from the famous
ride to Winchester.
The walking match in New York
City, between the champion O'Leary and
John Hughes, Of New Jersey, terminated on
the 5th, in an easy victory for the former,
who did not find it necessary to come up to
li> previous record to win. During the six
days walk O'Leary made 4O3 miles, and
Hughes 3ll. The latter was said to be used up.
A general order has recently been is
sued from the War Department in Washington,
calling the attention of officers of the army to
a section in the Army Appropriation bill,
passed at the last session Of Congress, prohibit
Ing the use OF the army as posse con,itatts, ex-
cept in such cases as may be expressly author
lied by the Constitution or acts of Congress
In reply to an inquiry whether, I'M
der the new postal regulations, bank notes
and sreenbacks can be mailed as third-class
matter. the Po>toflice Department has ruled
that bank notes and greenbacks, having
written signatures, or signatures added by
means OK .fnc smile stamps, or other mark or
sign added to the original pr mt (enyraviny),
sought to he sent in the mails, would be SUBJ
Jet to letter rates Of postage, under Sec 156
of the Postal laws
The Board of Foreign Missions, in
session at Milwaukee. on the 81, elected Of
iicers for the ensuing year as follows: Mark
Hopkins, ID. D., President; William E. Dodge,
Nce-Presdent; Nathaniel G. Clark and E. K
Alden, Corresponding Secretaries; Rev. John
o. Means, Recording Secretary: Langdon s.
Ward. Treasurer; Avery Plummer, Arthur W.
TUFTS and }. NJ. Gordon, Auditors; A. G..
Thompson, ID. d., Alpheus Harding, Ezra
Farnsworth, Joseph s. Ropes, Prof E. G..
Smyth. Z. Z. Burns, Elbridge Torrey, F. b.
Webb and Rev. Isaac K. Worcester, Pruden-
tial Committee.