The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-27

wounded. The ARRAY took place in the State
Treasurer's Office.
THE Gloucester (Mass.) fishing fleet
felt the full force of the gale of the Goth OF
February last. A Boston dispatch of the 18th
says it had been ascertained that of the fifty
vessels exposed to the storm fourteen have
foundered, with all on board. The loss of
life is said to be 146, and the loss of property
to aggregate $4,000. TIE drowned men left
forty.one widows and over 100 orphans.
The Manhattan Savings Bank, Of
New York, which was robbed, some months
ago, of $4,000 600 of its securities, resumed
business, on the morning of the 18th.
The Postal Appropriation, bill which
passed the Forty-fifth Congress, authorized
the Postmaster-Ge General to introduce and fur
nish for public use double letter-sheet envel-
opes and postal cards, on which shall be
placed postal stamps Of the denominations at
present used, so constructed as to allow an
answer to letter or card to be returned in
the same envelope or on the same card-the
envelopes to bear two three-cent stamps and
the cards two one-cent stamps.
Gov. PRESCOTT has appointed
Charles H. Bell, of Exeter, Senator from New
Hampshire, for the extra session to I'll the
vacancy occasioned by the expiration Of the
term of Senator Wsdleigh Mr.. Bell has &C
cepted.
THE Treasury Department at WASH
ington has, by an amended circular, issued on
the 18th, invited all Collectors OF Customs,
Surveyors of Customs acting also as Collect
Of p,,h1 io
of money order offices and all other public
officers OF whatever character, to become
agents for the sale of the ten-dollar certif-
Gates authorized to be issued by the act Of
February last, commission to be allowed and
bond required.
The trustees appointed to ascertain
the indebtedness of Archbishop Purcell, of
Cincinnati, report that he owes an aggregate
of q, 7,37l.57.
By an explosion in the Mahoning
Powder Works, near Danville, Pa, on the
18th. the building was completely destroyed,
and Willis Lloyd, one of the proprietors, j. j.
Evans and j. c. Mowrer were instantly killed,
their mangled remains being scattered in
every direction.
A BILL has been introduced in the
lower House of the Illinois General Assem-
bly, to prohibit treating"
DIR. JOHN NJ. WoODwORTH,' Super
vising Surgeon General of the Marine Hospi-
tai Service, died at Washington on the 14th.
He was formerly q medical practitioner in
Chicago.
ROBERT w. HAYDEN and NJ. w. Bar
hop tn a.
Charlotte, N. c., on the 18th, and the former
was killed
SEVEN hangingsfo for murder occurred
in the United States, on the 18th. John Q.
Pinkham was executed at Concord, N. H.,
for the murder Of Mrs. Berry, in January,
1877; VIM. H. Devliu, at Lowell, Mass. for
the murder of his wife and infant child, in
January, 1877; Henry Gravelin, at Windsor,
VT. for the murder of Herbert U. White, In
1876; Chinaman at Marysville, CAL, for a
murder committed last November; a Mexi-
can at Pueblo, COL, for murder also commit
ted last fall, and two men named Eugene
Avery and Archie Brown, at Portland, Ore,
for the murder of Louis Johns last August.
HUNDREDS of negroes from Missis-
sippi and Louisiana have recently come to st.
Louis under the promise that when they ST.
rived there they would be furnished with sub
sistence and transportation to Kansas. These
representations proved to be untrue. and
there is great restitution and much suffering
in consequence.
The firm of Smith, Nichols & Rog-
ers, of Providence, R. l., failed or the 18th.
Liabilities, 100000.
The pedestrian match in Gilmore's
Garden, New York, closed on the evening of
the 18th, resulting in the victory of Rowell,
the Englishman, who takes with him the
champion belt. Rowell covered 500 miles,
Ennis AS miles, and Hartman $50 miles. The
total receipts of the m atch were $4,000.
The remains of Bayard Taylor were
consigned to their last resting place in Long.
wood Cemetery, Kennett Square, Pa, on the
18th. The funeral was attended by the Gov
ernor and q joint committee of both houses
of the Legislature.
MAJ.-GEN. THOMAS w. SHERMAN
died at Newport, r. l., on the afternoon OF
the 10th, four days after the death Of his wife.
He was a native of Rhode Island, served dur
ing the Mexican and late Civil Wars, and was
put on the retired list some time ago, after
having been appointed Brevet Major-General
for brave and gallant service.
PETER KLEIN, man charged with
the preparation of horrible outrage near
Newport, Ky, few days ago, was arrested
in Cincinnati, on the night of the 18th. and
taken across the river into Newport. On the
evening of the 10Th, a large crowd of indig.
nant citizens took possession of the prisoner
by force. and hung him to tree until he wa.
dead.
AFTER long rain storm at Reading.
Pa, on the night of the 10Th and morning OF
the 18th, there was observed all through the
city strange, yellowish deposit, resembling
sulphur, which was supposed to have come
down with the rain. A similar phenomenon
was observed at Allentown. in the same State
where, instead of rain, snow fell, beneath
which, on the ground, was q substance, in
come places half an inch deep, strongly re-
sembling and having the color and smell Of
sulphur. A quantity of it scraped together
and set on fire burned as readily and emitted
the same fumes as sulphur.
The case of the widow Mary s. Oil
yer 8gdlnSt ex-senator simon cameron 1Ol
5000 damage for breach of promise of mar
riage came up in the Circuit Cour. in Wash
ington, on the 18th. The plaintiff testified
that, in 1875, Mr.. Cameron proposed marriag.
to her. and she accepted. Three letters from
him were submitted, one of them closing
with the sentence: "You will be my wife,
Defendant did not come to the house wher,
she lived, as he said the people there did mo-
like it. She saw him quite often in Washing
| ton.
In the Democratic caucus of member.
Of the National House of Representatives, o.
the evening Of the 18th, Samuel J. Randall, o
Pennsylvania, was renominated for Speaker
receiving seventy-fve votes to ffty-seven 70
j. e. 8. Blackburn, of Kentucky; three TO
j. A. Mcmahon, OF Ohio; four for 8. 8. Cox
OF New York, and two for w. R. Morrison, o
Illinois. The vote for Clerk of the House re
suited: Adams, seventy-six; Caldwell (Ala. }
sixty-four. Thompson and Field were renom
mated for Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper
respectively, by reclamation, and Dr.. Harrison
was renominated for Chaplain. On motion o
Mr.. Blackburn, Mr.. Randalpa nomination