The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-14
THE NEW WORLD.

Hon. BLAND BALLARD, Judge of the
United States District Court of kentucky,
died at his home in Louisville on the goth.
Heart disease or apoplexy was the cause of
his death.
On the goth John Kranz, of East
Pennington, Polk County, Wis, drove into a
lake, with six children in his wagon, to water
his horses. The animals became frightened
and raa into deep water, upsetting the wagon
and drowning Kranz and five children.
The Department of State at Wash
ington issued circular on the Goth, as fol-
lows: "For the Information of merchants,
manufacturers and others who may be dis
posed to take part in the representation of
States at the Sydney and Melbourne exhibi-
tons, the Secretary of State announces that
the organization of the Commission for both
exhibitions is as follows: Commissioner,
Oliver NJ. Spencer, Consul-General of the
United States at Melbourne Wet. Honorary
Commissioners. Augustus Morris, Sydney
N. 8. w.; Samuel C. Lord, Melbourne, Wet.
DR.. c. Z. Cox, of Washington, has been ap-
pointed Secretary of the Commission, and
will sail from San Francisco on the 4th Of
August. All persons having occasion to do
so can communicate with the Secretary of the
Commission, to the care of the State Depart
ment, where the mail will be regularly made
up"
The eighteenth annual session of the
National Educational A ssociation commenced
at Philadelphia, on the 29th. Mayor Stokely
and Edward Shipper delivered addresses of
welcome, and John Hancock, President of the
Association, responded.
The amount of National-Bank notes
redeemed at the United States Treasury dur
Ing the last fiscal year, on account of failures,
going into liquidation and reducing circula-
ton, was 1886, 457.
A CALL has been issued for q State
Convention of the Republicans of Nebraska,
to meet at Omaha on the LIST of October.
PRESCOTT j. PILLsBURY, Cashier of
the Lawrence (Mass.) National Bank, was ar
rested on the 30th ult., upon the charge Of
being defaulter for the sum of $1,000, and
lodged in jail in default of $250, 900 bail.
PROFESSOR CHANDLER, of the New
York Board of Health, says the scarlet fever
caused more deaths in New York State last
year than the yellow fever did in the South,
and yet failed to excite public apprehension,
or to make people ordinarily careful to pre-
vent the infection.
Two YOUNG sons OF DR.. A. H. s.
Boyd of Livingston County, KY, being i'll,
their father, few mornings ago, through
mistake, gave them poison for santonine, and
the boys died in less than an hour after the
accident.
A DISPATCH was received from Cen
eral Miles on the 3lst ult., stating that, after
the action on Beaver Creek, the hostile Sioux
engaged fed northward, leaving their proper
ty scattered along the trail for fifty miles.
Their main camp stampeded and retreated
across the line to Wood Mountains in the
British Possessions.
THE Boston Commercial Exchange
has resolved to follow the example and ad-
vice of tue New York Commercial Exchange
in adopting the GENITAL system as the basis OF
trade. On and after the LIST of next October
they will use the GENITAL system in all their
transactions, so far as is compatible with ex-
isting laws; and they have resolved to petition
the State Legislature to make such changes
as are necessary in the State laws to conform
to the chan ;e agreed upon.
The National Educational Associa-
ton, at its session in Philadelphia on the
9lst ult., adopted resolutions advocating the
donation Of portion of the public domain
for the endowment and maintenance of in
situations in the States and Territories for
the higher education of woman, and a com,
mittee was appointed to bring the subject