The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-08

Inc Pan-Angllcan Conference adj.
iourned on the 9th.
There are to be $50 grand prizes and
$500 gold medals awarded at the Paris Expo
sitiOn. -
A Washington dispatch OF the 2Sd.
SAYS the wool clip this year is 3 per cent.
greater than that of 1877.
Another call for S5,OOO,OOO of $40
bonds of 1865 was made, on the a:}d, interest
to ccas, of the 23d of October.
The Republican State Convention Of
Nebraska for the nomination of State ticket
is to he held on the LIST Of October.
Fourteen children and three teachers
were drowned, on the :6th, by the capsizng of
boat on the River Blackwater, near the
Town OF Bailieborough, Ireland.
The Texas Democratshave nominated
Judge .. NJ. Roberts for Governor, Joseph
y. Gagcrs for MISUNDERSTANDING and Geo.
Mccormick for Acknowledgement.
The total receipts of the Government
from internal revenue for the year ending
June 80. 1873. were Sill, 0S9, 3l9.al, or 81. 9u5
>,..3+ less than for the year preceding.
The coach which left Deadwood for
Cheyenne. on the :.3d. was stopped on the
road by six armed men, who captured the
mail bags and riled them of their contents.
A London telegram of the 9th an
nounccs the appointment of the Marquis of
e asia
erucr-tieneral Of Canada, to succeed Lord
DUtfei!r.
A bin fc~ the punishment of tramps.
which passed the New Hampshire House of
Representatives, on the 9th, provides PEN
atty Of imprisonment Tor from fifteen months
10 five years. the former penalty being for
any person proved tramp.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
has appointed Prof Low. of New York; Prot.
Dctmars, of Chicago; DR.. Dyer, of Illinois;
DIR. !. W. Voyles, of Indiana; DR.. Albert
Dunlap. of Iowa: DR.. Hines, of Kansas, and
DR.. Salmon of North Carolina, as Board to
investigate the origin of, and devise remedy
for the hog cholera.
The recent decision of the Commits
sioner of the General Land Office upon the
Kansas Pacific Railroad lands is in favor of
settlers who have pre-empted railroad lands
which remained unsold at the end of the third
wear after the completion Of that road. This
decision affects the status of many thousand
sales which have been made by the several
Pacific Railroad Companies, whose charters
contained the same clause as that of the Kan
sas Pacific. providing that if any of the grant
ell lands remained unsod by the company at
the expiration of three years from the COM
plction of the road, such lands should be sub
jet to presumption entry at S1.25 an acre.
In the early part of last June, a
Deputy United States Marshal, attended by
three Deputy Revenue Collectors. attempted
10 arrest man in Pickens County, s G., on
charge of ilictly di>tilling whisky. One
of The hired men of the accused made an al
legged forcbe resistance to the officers, and
was killed The four men were indicted for
murder, and conflict of authority grew out
of the case between the State and Federal
Courts. the State authorities cohtending for
the sole jurisdiction Of tl& State Court, Judge
kershaw refusing to grant writ of transfer
to the United States Circuit Court. 1t was
decided at Washington, on the 9th, to insist
upon the transfer of the case to the latter
court, and measures would be taken accord
ingly.
The conditions We're very favorable
for the astronomical observations of the re-
cent eclipse of the sun, especially on the line
u totally in the Western States and Terri
tories. Prof. Colbert, of the Chicago AstrO-
nomical Society, reports that his observations
at Denver tend to show that the moons path
in the heavens lay little further to the south
ward than indicated by the lunar tables or
else that the estimate of tire moons diameter
is too iarge--pcrhaps both The duration of
the totality was two minutes forty and one
half seconds-three and one-haif seconds
less than the computed time. The
measures made by Mr.. yesterday indicated
that the corona extended out on an average
about tweuty-siX minutes of arc, correspond
ing toa distance of fully 100000 miles. all
around the sun. The chromosphere was
distinctly seen by Prof. IiouCh, indicating a
thickness of some 1000 miles. The protll-
bcrances were much less prominent that at
most of the recent eclipses. The scarcity Of
red lines tends to confirm the theory of con-
ncction with sun spots, their present time
being near the minimum OF such spots. No
signs of Vulcan were discerned by any of
the party at Denver. Prof. Watson, of Ann
Arbor. Mich, was at Separation, Wyo. T.,
and discovered an intra-Mercurial planet
of the size of four and a half
magnitude star, about ~ deg. south
west of the sun. Mr.. Lockyer, who was
with Prof Watson, says the corona was ten
times brighter than in 1871, showing great
variation of such brightness between the
maximum and minimum periods of sun spots.
On this occasion the corona vanished in
stantly, while in 1871 it remained visible fol
several minutes after totally. Edison's cx.
periments, at Rawlns, with the tasimetcr
are said to have been quite satisfactory. The
observations at Fort Worth, Tex, were a per-
feet success. Several photographs of the
eclipse were taken in different localities.
GEN ERAl.
A Rome dispatch of the 23d says the
Vatican was celebrating a project with rela