The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-07-18
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,

The recent report of the death of the
Emperor Of Morocco is declared to be untrue.
The aggregate appropriations made
by the last Congress amounted to SIS, JOB 9SS
The total amount of deficiencies
provided for BY Congress since last October il
t15OOO0
The Russians estimate their total war
expenditures at 9Ss,OOO,OOO roublcs (nearly
t'@,OO,OOO)
The American residents and visitors
in Paris celebrated the Fourth BY q concert
and grand .tete.
The New Hampshire House of Rep
resentatives has passed a bill prohibiting the
sale of lager beer.
A recent dispatch from Calcutta re-
ports that 4, ~ houses had been DESTROYED by
fire in Mandalay, India.
The condition of the Emperor of Ger
many was thought to be improving, on the
Alta. Modelling, his woulj-be assassin, was re-
covering also.
The Arkansas Democrats have re-
nominated Gov. Mellcr for reelection. ia
cob Froblich is the nominee for Secretary of
State aud I. J. Churchill, for State Treasurer
Advices received from nearly all
points in Kansas indicate that the yield of
wheat in the State. this year, will be largcA
by thousands of bushels, than that of any
previous year.
President Hayes, Sec'y Sherman and
other Washington celebrities were present at
the second days proceedings. ON the 4th, of
The Centennial cOmmcmoratiOn of the Battle
and Massacre of Wyoming, Pa.
The Austrian police are said to have
discovered circumstances leading to the be-
lief that Nobclng's attempt on the life of the
Emperor Wilhelm was connected with the in.
trigues of the Russian Socialists.
The National Agricultural Congress
will meet at New Haven Conn.,, ON the 9th
cf August. 4 number of eminent professors
aud others have promised addresses on vari-
GUS subjects pertaining to agricultural pur-
suits.
In the Alabama Republican State
Convention, at Montgomery, on the 4th,
resolution indorsiny President Hayes for his
wise and patriotic policy, was laid on the Ia
BILE. as was also "a resolution to nominate a
State ticket.
The public-debt statement for June
shows a total Of debt and interest of s., %.
6l0.+43: cash in Treasury, :aaa;, So, 6l2; debt
less cash in Treasury 81 u,s5. Isl, S3l; increase
during June, s., l49, 81; decrease since June
50, ISL, S24,'1l,S9l.
AT u German Lutheran picnic near
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 4th, large tree fell
on a party who had fled to it for shelter from
raging storm, and instantly killed ten and
wounded fifteen Of the number. Several of
the injured, was feared would die.
A Washington dispatch of the LIST
saws the order authorizing military pursuit
into Mexico OF cattle thieves would hereafter
he literally construed, irrespective of Mexi-
can protests, on the ground that Mexico, by
herself preventing the incursions of the
thieves, can obviate the necessity Of an in
vasion.
Mr.. Abram S. Hewitt has published
vigorous reply to Mr.. Henry Watterson's
charge that he withheld from the Democrats
in Congress Mr.. Tilden's opinion of the Elec-
toral bill. He states that Mr.. Tilden did not
Intimate to him either his approval or disap-
rroval Of that measure prior to March 4, 1877,
but from what he did say he was convinced
that he did not wish his friends to be respon-
shle for the defeat of the measure.
A Washington dispatch of the 9TH
says Secy Sherman had not decided to an
nounce the resumption of specie payments in
advance of the LIST Of January next, the time
fixed by law. He stated, however, that re-
sumption may come, before that time, by
natural causes, when the premium on specie
shall disappear; that We are now approaching
that point, and that he thinks it the duty of
the Government to employ all legitimate
means to produce such result. The coin-bal-
ance in the Treasury was S2OO. OOO, 900. and was
steadily increasing.
Mrs. Elizabeth Riley, living in the
southwestern suburbs of st. Louis, after an
unsuccessful attempt to build a fire in the
kitchen stove, few days ago, poured coal oil
from can onto the fuel, thinking the fire was
all out. Much to her surprise, the flames
burst out the top of the stove and exploded
the can, covering her with shower Of burn
ing oil, which quickly set fire to her clothing.
She rushed into the yard screaming for help,
when her husband James Riley, and her
daughter, Celia, came to her assistance, and
in their efforts to relieve her they were Sc
riously burned. Mrs. Riley lived but few
hours after the accident.
A New York special of the 10Th says
Eliza PinkstOn, one of the witnesses before
the Louisiana Returning Board had made an
affidavit denying the statements she then
made, ard stating that she had been paid the
sam Of $500 to make them. Since then Eliza
has been remarked, her husband being Way
man Pritchard, who also makes affidavit that
the statement now made by his wife is the
one she told him before their marriage. Their
present residence is at Canton, Miss It was
reported, on the Sd, that Col. Jack Wharton,
United States Marshal at New Orleans, had re-
ceived letter from Postmaster Smith, at Can
ton, Miss, in which Smith says he had just
seen Eliza Pinkston, who informed him she
had been interviewed by prominent Demo-
crat from Louisiana, who desired her to 90 to
New Orleans and give testimony contradictory
to that given by her before the Returning
Dc1'a' Che Hhduc statement 70 tnlS Demo-
crat which She had since contradicted. She also
contradcted the affidavit above mentioned.
THE EASTERN CONTROVERSY.
Berlin kilograms of the 4th say the
Turkish representatives in the Congress had
announced their assent to the Austrian &C.
curation Of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the lat
ter Power having disavowed any intention to
annex these Provinces. The AustriaDs had
agreed TO enter Bosnia at two points smulta-
neoIs'y, advancing slowly so as to give the