The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-27
THE NEW WORLD.

The inquiry into the conduct OF Maj.
Reno at the Battle Of Little Big Horn River,
in the summer of 1876, which had been in prog
ress at Chicago, for the preceding four weeks,
was concluded, on the morning Of the 18th.
The decision will not be made public until
reversed or approved by the authorities at
Washington.
The Republican Senators held eau
Gus at Washington, on the evening Of the
18th, and agreed to resist to the fullest limit
the determination of the House to incorpo-
rate in the appropriation bills anything like
political legislation.
A KANSAS City (Mo. telegram of the
18th says terrible accident had occurred in a
cut being made there for the Chicago Il Alton
Railroad. The almost perpendicular walls of
the cut, ninety feet in height, caved in, and
four teams and about forty men were buried
under 5000 yards of falling earth. Six per-
sons were killed outright, and several others
were wounded.
A REPORT that trains were detained
at Flora, ILL.,, on a recent Sunday, on account
of the enforcement of the State Sunday laws,
is denied by the Ohio d Mississippi Railroad
officials. The dispatch to that effect originated
with some person who had been misinformed
or was evilly disposed.
T. b. S. PINCHBACK (colored) has
accepted the position of Revenue Agent in
the Louisiana District.
w. B. FLEMING has been elected to
Congress from the First Georgia District, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death Of the
late Julian Hartridge.
The Michigan Republican State Gen.
trail Committee have called a State Conven-
ton to meet at Lansing on the 9th OF March.
The Democratic State Convention and the
Greenback State Convention meet at the same
place on the 2Sth of February.
THE Missouri Court of Appeals have
decided, in the case of an application for an
injunction to restrain the st. Louis School
Board from teaching foreign languages and
ornamental branches in the schools of that
city, that the whole matter is in the hands Of
the Legislature and that courts have no pow.
er in the premises.
A NATIONAL CONFERENCE of colored
citizens is to be held at Nashville, Tenn, on
the 9Th of May, ITO consider the situation oil
the colored people in the South, relative to
the enjoyment of life, liberty and property
also their educational, moral, social and DO
litical condition and the question of emigra-
tion."
In letter to the National House Of
Representatives, ON the 18th, Sec'y Sherman
states the estimate of expenditures for the
next fiscal year amounts to e2S4, 562, 49, The
estimated receipts are: From customs, $133,.
100000; internal revenues, $106, 600, 900; mis-.
cellaneous sources, $lS,5O0, 900; total re.
ceipts, e257, 500, 000-leaving . deficiency oil
$21O62, 419.
HON. H. c. BURcHARD. present
Member Of Congress from the Fifth Illinois
District, was, ON the 14th, nominated Is Di.
rector OF the United States Mints, uce DR.,
Lindcrmann, deceased.
Hon. ZACHARIAH CHANDLER was
nominated, on the evening of the 18th, by the
Republicans in the Michigan Legislature, for
United States Senator, to succeed Hon. /. p.
Christiancy, resigned.
THE temperance of me yellow
fever in the South is emphatically denied in
dispatches from New Orleans and Louisville.
The New York Tattersalls waa
burned, on the night of the 18th. Over six.
ty horses persisted in the flames.
AT Detroit, on the evening of the
18th, Marie Azurine, while performing q
trapeze act, lost her hold upon the bar, and
fell headlong, distance Of thirty feet. The
result was broken collar-bone three ribs
fractured and fatal internal injuries.
Ar Baltimore, on the 18th, five
JndOea of Election varo rorvlctoA .,d -
fenced to imprisonment for interfering with
the United States SUPERVISOR Of Election Il
the late Congressional election in that city.