The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-06-27
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

NEOWOOO FALLot M1NNE0V1A
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHN.
Ex-King George, of Hanover, died
recently at Paris.
The Minnesota Republicans will hold
their State Convention at St. Paul, ON the 4tk
Of September.
The Colorado State Republican Con-
vention has been called to meet at Denver, on
the 9Th of August.
The Florida Sub Committee of the
Potter Investigation arrived in Washington
on the morning Of the 14th.
NJ. Muir 4 Sons, grain merchants, of
Glasgow, Scot, have recently failed, with
liabilities amounting to eSO0,OOO
Hon. E. F. Noyes, United States Min
lister to France, reached New York on the 18th.
He will testify before the Potter Investigating
Committee.
William Cullen Bryant, the venera-
bic poet, and editor of the New York Eve,ai,sg
Ios, died in New York, on the 12th. He was
in his eighty-fourth year.
On the 18th, Dennis DOnnelly cxpi-
ated on the scaffold, at Pottsville, Pa, his
crime Of murder. This was the fifteenth of
the "Mollie Maguire'' executions.
The Pope's health is declining, and
physicians declare his removal from the Vati-
can as necessary for his recovery, but the ma
jority of the Cardinals oppose his removal.
Hon. f. w. Stoughton, the United
States Minister to Russia, has written letter
reputiating all completely in the proceedings
which form the subject of Investigation by
the Potter Committee.
The Government officials at Chicago
report the wide distribution of counterfeit
quarters Of the new design. They are made of
German silver, washed with quicksilver, and
have greasy feeling.
Rev. DIR. George Seymour was, on
the 18th, consccrated Episcopal Bishop of the
Diocese of Quincy, III. The ceremonies took
place in Trinity Church, New York, and were
participated in by nine Bishops.
a Washington dispatch of the 18th
states that France, Greece, Italy, the Neither
lands, Hungary, Russia and Switzerland had
accepted invitations to the International Mon
etary Conference, and that Austria, Belgium,
Germany and Great Britain had the subject
under consideration.
The Matthews Senate Investigating
Committee met on the 18th. Senator Mat
thews was present. A note was received from
the Potter Committee stating that it was
necessary that Mr.. Anderson should be pres
ent during the days session of that commit
tee. \ recess was then taken.
The funeral services over the re-
mains of the late William Cullen Bryant took
place in All Souls Church, in New York City,
on the 18th, in the presence of great assem-
blage of the friends of the dead poet. Rev.
Henry W. Bellows was the officiating clergy
man. The remains were deposited at Roslyn,
L. l., by the side of his wife.
The resolution reported from the
judiciary Committee of the National House of
Representatives, and adoped by that body on
the l4th BY a vote of 234 to IA, reads as fol-
lows: THAT the two Houses of the Forty
fourth Congress having counted the votes
east for Pesident and Vice-Presidcnt of the
United States, and having declared Ruther-
ford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler duly
elected President and Nice-President, there is
no power in any subsequent Congress to re-
verse that declaration; nor can any such
power be exercised by the Courts of the
United States, or any other tribunal that Con-
grcss can create under the Constitution"
A clerk in the Internal Revenue De-
partment lately addressed letter to Sec'y
Schurz, stating that he had been called upon
to contribute to fund for election purposes,
and asking whether such contribution was re-
CURED, and whether his status in the Depart
ment would be affected if he did or did not
pay. In reply, the Secretary said he was as
free as any other citizen to pay or not as he
pleased, and that in either event his tenure of
office would not be affected. At a Cabinet
meeting, held on the 18th, the President in
formed the heads of Departments that Sec'y
Shurz's letter embodied his own opinions.
THE EASTERN CONTROVERSY.
A Vienna correspondent telegraphed
to London, en- the 18th, that Russia had re-
Gently taken a very overbearing turn toward
Austria. 1t was stated that the Russians in
Roumana had received orders to be in readi
ness for hostilities.
1t was reported, on the 18th, that the
Russian Army Corps had commenced advanc-
ing on Pilesti, in Roumania, and had already
reached Titu and Gancste. 1t had entered
some villages occupied by Roumanian troops,
and the Roumanian Government, fearing
bloOdshed, had ordered the troops to retire
in the direction of Pilesti and Tirgovesti. The
Government would ask an explanation of
Russia, and il the answer should be unsatis