The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-16

and ex-Gov. Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin
Consul-General to Paris, France.
Silver coin certificates of the demon.
nations Of ten and twenty dollars have been
prepared in Washington, and certificates fol
larger amounts will be printed during the cur
rent month.
The remains of John Morrissey were
buried at Troy, N. T., on the 4th. The flner
al was largely attended The entire State
Senate and several members of the House
were present.
The officers of the Gilbert Elevated
Railroad. in New York City, recently made an
official trial trip, running train Of three cars,
carrying $50 passengers, from Trinity Church
to Central Park, distance Of five miles, in
eleven minutes.
The public-debt statement for April
shows total of debt and interest of e., 232
923oai; cash in Treasury, $la5,5l5,376; debt
less cash in Treasury, g., O36, sU7 go; decrease
during April, $3,Ol5,S64; decrease since June
80, 1877, $23, l5O574.
w. S. UBrien, of the great bonanza
died at San Rafael, Cal, on the afternoon of
the I'd, after lingering illness of several
months. His estate is vaguely estimated at
from $l5.OO0,OOO to SO, 100000.
The Committee on Education and
Labor, in the National House Of Representa-
tives, have agreed upon a bill making it a
misdemeanOr for the Master of a vessel to
tol- Ahr,~
rlale or female. to the United States after Jan.
l, 1879.
The steamer Cimbria, having on
board force of 600 Russian sailors and
thirty officers, put into Southwest Harbor
Me-, the other day, and up to the morning of
the LIST remained there with steam up appar-
emily awaiting orders. Her mission to this
coast has not transpired.
Advices have been received ut Gen.
Sheridan's headquarters, in Chicago, that Sit
ting Bull had sent a message to Gen. Miles,
commanding the District of the Yellowstone,
making overtures for peace 1t was also re-
ported that the fugitive Nez Perces were pre-
pairing to recross the line with view to sur
render.
Gen. John NJ. Buckley, formerly AS
sistant Attorney-Generalo of the United States.
committed suicide near Milwaukee, on the
night of the 4th, by drowning himself in the
lake. He had before made three attempts to
poison himself. The inducing causes of the
act were poverty, domestic trouble and lack of
employment.
The Paris Exposition was formally
opened by President MacMahon, on the lst
The attendance was large and enthusiastic
The Exhibition as whole was still in an in
complete condition, but few days. labor would
remedy the existing chaotic condition of af-
fairs. The American Department was entire
ly creditable and attracted great attention.
A quantity of well-executed counter
felt trade-tlollars have been captured at Gin.
clnnatL They are composed of block tin, bis
muth and pulverized glass, and are of standard
weight and have the color and ring of the real
dollars. 1t is necessary to weigh them to de.
tect their character, or press them between the
teeth, when the glass they contain gives forth
cracking sound
Minister Seward, few days ago, tel
egraphed to the Department of State in Wash
ington that the famine in the Northern Prov
inces Of China will continue six months longer.
Funds for the relief of sufferers, II transmitted
by telegraph, can be disbursed by the Foreign
Committee, or by the Commission appointed
at Pekin. correspondent of the New
York Evening Post, writing from Toxic,
under date of April 5, sends the following
The famine in the North of China RACES with
increasing severity, and the most dreadful re.
ports come from the afflicted regions. In one
town man opened q shop for the sale OF
human flesh. and did a good business in can.
nibalisttc joints and roasts till the local Man.
dar,n caused the shopkeeper to be arrested
and beheaded."