The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-26


REDWOOD FALLS. MINNESOTA.
EPlT0ME OF THE WEEK,
CURRKNT PARAsaRAPua.
The French Chamber of Deputie.
adjourned simedie on the 18th.
The anniversary of the fall of Pleyns
was celebrated throughout Roumania, on the
10th.
Princess Alice, Duchess of Darmstadt
second daughter Of Queen Victoria, died on
the morning Of the l4th.
Russia has announced the imposition
OF duty Of forty kopecks gold per pood az
fbs) on raw cotton.
Col. b. Hammer has been elected
President and DR.. E. Welt vice-President OF
the Swiss Confederation for 1872
Mahmoud Damad Pasha has been
appointed Governor of Tripoli, in Barbary.
This Is equivalent to Punishment.
Advices have been received from
Mogador that terrible famine prevails there,
the deaths numbering twenty five daily.
Edward O'Kelly, the last Fenian
prisoner, is to be released before Christmas,
according to . late decision OF the British
Cabinet.
Intelligence has been received of the
death. in Glasgow, Scotland, Of Henry Wells,
founder Of the wcll.known firm of Wells.
Fargo Il Go.
The Turkish Government has sur
rendered Romer, the American charged with
conspiring against the Sultan, to the United
States Consul.
The Joint Commission on the Pro.
posed Transfer Of the Indian Bureau to the
War Department closed its hearing of evil
dence, on the 18th.
William tombstone, formerly Clerk
in the Saline County Bank, of Marshall, NO.,
arrested some time ago in Scotland, was ex-
amined on the charge Of forgery, in London,
on the 10th, and held for extradition.
The bill$or the payment of invalid
aud other pensions for the past fiscal year, as
1t passed the House, on the 18th, appropriates
81, $3.50, OOO-*225O, 600 less than the amount
estimated, and $500 less than the appro-
priation for the current fiscal year.
At the session of the Michigan State
Grange, on the 18th, officers were elected as
follows: j. j. Woodman, Master; 8. F.
Brown, Treasurer; J. 7. Cobb, Secretary; Mrs.
I. L. Whitney. Ceres; Mrs. G. W. Ewing.
Pomona; Mrs. j. J. Woodman, Flora.
The report of the Investigating Com
mittee into the Condition Of the West of En-
gland and South Wales District Bank, lately
suspended. shows that the whole capital and
reserve fund have been lost, and that there is
further deficiency of :l,5O0O0O. for which
the stockholders are liable.
A movement which has been agi-
tated in Ohio having for its object the nomi-
nation OF Senator Thurman, as Governor of
the State, has received its quictus by the per-
mptory refusal of that gentleman to make
the canvass or accept the proffered nomina-
ton. The Senator says his health will not
allow him to make the race.
Two men named Mitchell and Ketch-
um, respectively, who were charged with
stealing cattle, were recently taken from the
officers having them in charge by a band of
Texas COW boys, in Custer County, Neb.,
cruelty tortured in Indian fashion and then
burned to death. 1t has since transpired that
the unfortunate men were innocent of the Of
fpnSts with which fhav Vvoro oh ar0od
The vote for Mayor in Boston, Mass,
on the 10th, was as follows: Prince (Dcm.),
1885; Edman tRep.), 1900; King Work
ingmcn's candidate), 43l. The election in
Lynn, on the same day, resulted in the choice
Of Sanderson (workingmen's candiiatc) by a
plurality Of 2,OO). The entire Workingmen's
ticket was elected. At Worcester, the Citi-
zens' candidate (Pra,t) received 3,2l6 votes
TO 1,Ms for Dickinson, nominated by the But
Ter Club.
Tho Ohio State Grange, on the 18th,
elected officers as follows: Master, 8. H.
Ellis, of Warren; Ovcrscer, T. +. Joy; Lee
urer, J. W. Ogden, OF Champlain; Treasurer,
Robert Stevenson, of Greene; Secretary, w.
". Miller, Of Erie; Steward, David Whcppy;
Chaplain, S. Y. Baldwin; Gatekeeper, L. F.
Smith; Ceres, Mrs. s. II. Ellis; Pomona, Mrs.
7. r Shields; Flora, Mrs. ". w. Miller; Ex-
ccutive Committee, J. H. Brigham, A.
Paxtel and David Brousc; Business Agents,
W. Z. Hill. OF Cincinnati, and V. E. F. En-
Agn, Of Cleveland.
The South Carolina Legislature, on
the 10th, elected Gov. Hampton to the United
States Senate. The vote in the Senate was
unanimous, and the House. with two cxccp-
tons, also voted for him-the exceptions be-
Ing Miller and Simmons, the colored members
from Beaufort, who voted for Mackey. Gov
Hampton was still severely suffering from the
injuries received several weeks before By be-
ing thrown from a mule while out hunting.
One OF his legs had been amputated below
the knee. His immediate friends said his
condition was not dangerous.
The following are the yeas and nays
in the United States Senate on the passage,
in that body, of the Edmunds bill in regard to
the count Of the Electoral vote for President
and Vice President:
p r.sss7SAi l;a Anthony. Bsyard, Blaine.
Edmund.: Ferry. Hsmiin. Hoar.' Howe. ingalls,.
kellogg: kirkwcod. Mcmillan. Matthews. Meni-
dock. Patterson. Plumb. R0bbins, Saunders,
Teller. Wadleigh. WindOm-35.
Davis w. VAL Dennis. Eaton. Eustis. Gordon,
Grover. Harria. Hereford. Hill, Jones F1a.), Ken.
nan, Lamar, McCreery, Mcdonald, Maxey, Ram
dolph. Ransom, Thurman. Voorhees,, Wallace.
Withers-6
A vote was taken in the British
House Of Commons, on the 10th, on the reso-
luton censurinK the Government for its in
augrration of the Afghan War, resulting in its
rejection by a vote Of IS to 9Ol. It was also
voted that the expenses OF the war be betrayed
from the Indian revenues.