The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-07
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CURRENT PAsAaRAPHs.

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CURRENT PAkAaRAPHs.
The entire Italian Cabinet resigned,
Oh the I'D.
A Bulgarian insurrectionary move-
ment is reported near Salonica.
The Austrian budget for 1879 esti-
mates deficit Of Is, SO7, 40 forms.
A call for $4,000 per share has been
made on the shareholders Of the City of Glas-
gov Bank.
Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Ire
land, is dead. He was born in 1903, and nom-
mated Cardinal in 1866
At the recent election in Indiana the
Democratic vote was 194,49l; Republican,
1So,15S: National Grcenback, 39,44S.
John lines Wright 4 Co., of Glas-
gov and London, have failed. Wright was
one of the imprisoned Directors of the City of
Glasgow Bank.
The United States Treasury held, on
the a6th *s4S, .l4.6OO in Government bonds to
secure bank circulation, and sl3,SOS, 400 to
secure public deposits
Snow to the depth of nine inches fell
in the northwestern part Of Ontario, on the
night of the eth, doing great damage to the
fruit and other trees.
The wheelbarrow-man. Lyman Pot
ter, reached San Francisco on the afternoon
OF the 18th He was met, on his arrival, by
large crowd of citizens.
The Car has issued an ukase d.
recting that military furloughs shall only be
granted for particularly urgent reasons, and
In any case not to extend beyond February.
A large number of German papers,
suspected of Socialistic leanings, have been
denied circulation in Germany. The Chicago
Socialist newspapers are included in the list.
Charles Etheridge, well-known in
eurance and loan agent, Of st. Paul, has ab-
seconded. An examination of his accounts
shows that he Is y defaulter to a very large
amount.
The coin balance in the United States
lIVASutv CIOSc VI UuSlUesS, Oh tue sOlns
Was a23S, 1S.0OO; currency balance, sl2, 49,
40, including $lo,OOO,OOO of the fractional
currency fund.
Abram S. Hewitt has been de-
feated for the Congressional nomination in
his (the Tenth New York; District The
Democratic nominee chosen in his stead is
said to be an anti-Tilden man.
At political meeting in Philadel-
phia. few evenings ago, some one threw q
large stone at Speaker Randall. who was ad-
dressing the crowd. The Speakers escape is
said to have been narrow one
Decatur and Edwards Counties in
Sappa Valley, Kan, recently raided by the
Cheyennes, have been devastated BY prairie
hres, and nearly everything not destroyed by
the Indians consumed. Several persons are
ssdd to have persisted in the flames.
The full official returns of the recent
election in Iowa give the total vote for Secre
tary of State as follows: Hull (Rep.), 10, sos;
Farnsworth (Greenback and Dem) }, l25, ia.
Hull's majority, $3.50 The rest of the Re
publican State ticket average about the same
majority.
The large dry-goods house of Dodd,
Brown Il Co., of st. Louis, failed, on the
ed, with liabilities estimated at S1,5OO,ON,
the bulk Of which was owing in New York.
This Was the largest firm in the city and one
OF the largest, in its business operations, in
the West.
In his annual report to the Secretary
OF War. Mr. Benjamin Alvord, Paymaster-
General Of the Army, gives The total disburse-
ments during the fiscal year ending June 30, |
1878, at Sill, 5s59O31S The number of de-
scrtions in the army during the year was L.
va less number than in any previous year
since the war.
Att'y-Ien. Devens recently sent a
telegram to the United States Attorney at
Charleston, s. G., to the effect that he wanted
nc trsficking with or guarantees from parties
charged with the violation of the laws in re-
gard to the exercise of the elective franchise,
but that he desired judicial investigation of
outraees alleged tohave been committed upon
unoffending people in the exercise of their
rights as citizens of the United States.
The official estimates required for
gregste S36,55l,9oO. The estimated postal
revenues will fall short of this sum by s. 9O:,-
s'6. The amount appropriated for the cur |
rent fiscal year is t33, $50 373 of which a, 222-
ga comes from the general Treasury. 1t is
estimated, therefore, that Sl,6S56O2 more
than this years appropriation from the Treas. |
ury will be required for the next fiscal year.
a Washington dispatch of the 22d
states that, at the Cabinet meeting, held on
that CAV, the heads of the several Depart
ments presented estimates for the next fiscal |
year, which were reduced to the lowest figures
possible, in view Of the falling off in the reve.
nues. The aggregate amount required will
not vary materially from the appropriations
made for the present fiscal year. with the ex-
ception of deficiency in the Postoffice De.
partment, and increased expenditures in the
Indian Office.
Charles H. Hartwell, the conductor
who had charge OF the train which met with
the recent accident at Wollaston, Mass, on
the Old Colony Railroad, has been held in
slo.ooO for trial for manslaughter in Decem-
Der next Engineer Hurlburt, of the freight
train, Is adjudged guilty OF gross negligence
In occupying the inward track without giving
the proper signal, and Engineer Westgate, of
the forward engine of the excursion train, has
been declared not a suitable person for the
position, owing to want of familiarity with
the track, etc.
GENERAL.
According to Constantinople dis
patches of the ed, trouble had arisen be-
tween the Russians the Turks and the Rou.
melians over the administration of affairs in
the latter country. and fears were entertained
that serious military. complications would en-
sue.