The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-16
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CURRENT rAsAsRArns.
The plague has appeared among the
Cossacks Of Astracnan.
Tho total currency outstanding
amounted, on the lst to $685., 2OS, 5S4.
The Pope is said to DC consulting as
to the ACCESSIBILITY Of calling new Ecumcni
cal Council.
The French Government has given
one years notice Of the termination of all
commercial treaties.
The Town Council of Cork has voted
not to give Gen. Grant reception "bccausc
of his anti-Catholic opinions"
Hon. Caleb Gushing died, at his
home, at Newburyport, Mass, on the night
of the I'd, aged seventy-nine years.
Ex-President Grant was received,
hanqueted, aud had citizenship conferred up
on him at Londonderry. ireland, on the 9TH.
The strike among the cotton opera
tives at Oldham, Eng, has ended, the opera
tivcs acceding to the terms of the mill-owners.
The business failures in Great Brit
ain. during 1878, numbered 15,O59-an in
crease VI 4,O31 over those of the preceding
year.
The total coinage at the United States
Mint, during 1878, was: Gold, sl3, rs 042;
silver. ell. IS, SO; copper, 57,99S.5O. Total,
$25,0s4, $3.50.
A Berlin dispatch of the I'd says the
German Government had given notice that all
its treaties of commerce would terminate BY
the end of 1879.
Juan Moncasi, who attempted to
assassinate the King of Spain, on the 18th of
October last, was executed at Madrid on the
morning of the 4th.
The Directors Credit Company, of
London, with capital of g., 2o50. 900, and liza
hlities agsregating S. go, 900, went into lqui-
dalton, on the I'd.
An International Industrial Exhibi-
ton is to be held at Moscow, Russia, in 1850,
on the twenty fifth anniversary of the Cars
accession to the throne.
In consequence of the enormous de-
probation of Turkish paper money, the baker
shops in CoDstantinople have refused to &C
cept it and have closed their shops.
On the I'd, at Ismid, near CONSTANT
nople, a thirty-eight ton gun burst during
practice, on the British man-of-war Thunder
cr. The vessels turret was destroyed, and
seven men were killed and forty wounded.
The public-debt statement for De-
cember shows total of debt and interest of
$23G, 544,l3S. Cash in Treasury, SEA, $685.
Gs1. Debt, less cash in Treasury, g., 02S, 64S,-
Ill. increase during the month, 81, 233, 7S5.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S annual state
mcnt Of the yield of precious metals on the
Pacific Coast, during 1878, is: Gold, $685.
95, DBL silver, SIS, Al. 391; lead, 81, 49, 600;
the total being 1926, l3a less than during
1871
Resumption of specie payment at
Eastern cities, on the I'd, seemed to cause but
little stir or excitement In New York large
proportion of the gold checks presented at the
Sub-Treasury were paid in United States notes,
at the request of holders
During the past year OH failures
were reported in New York City, with liabili-
ties of $tS95i, 4o3, and assets at S1S,695, 53l.
This exceeds the record of any former year,
but the large number is mainly due 70 the re-
neal nf the Rankrunt act
The Maine Legislature. on the Sd,
elected Alonzo Garcelon, Governor. Mr..
iarcclon was the Democratic candidate at the
late election in the State, but received Repub-
lican' support in the Legislature in prefer
ence to J. l.. Smith, the Greenback candidate.
The seventy-seventh call for the re-
dcmption of $50 bonds of 1865, consols of
1861. was issued on the 4th The call is for
<l0,0Vo,OOO ts6,OOO0OO coupons and $4,000
go registered), principal and interest to be
paid ON and after the 4th Of April next.
On the LIST inst, the PostOffice De-
rartment at Washington reduced the prices
Of stamped envelopes on an average of % per
cent throughout the entire schedule, and a
telegram of the 5th says the result was seen
in the largely-ncreased acquisitions then be-
ing received.
The subscri ptions for the 4-per-cent.
Government bonds, on the 9th, amounted to
over 81, 000,OCO, the largest amount ever SUBJ
scribed for in one day. Another call was
issued for $40, 100000 5-2Hs $4,000, 600 coupon
and s4,0O),O00 rcgistcred), interest to cease
On the 9th of April.
Ex.Presidcnt Grant reached Dublin,
ireland, on the Sd. accompanied by Gen,
Moves, United States Minister to France.
During the day the freedom of the CITY was
presented to him incloscd in an ancient carved
hog-oak casket. In the evening grand ban
quet was given to him, at which speeches
were made by Gen. Grant, Minister Noycs, DIR.
Butt and others.
About 100 delegates of the Greenback
party, from the several New England States
met at Boston, Mass, few days ago Wen
dell Phillips made an address, in which he
said he had endcavorcd to form Labor party,
and il could not be done, and he was glad of
it. plan Of organic alton was agreed upon,
under the name of the Greenback-l.abor
larty OF New England. A resolution was
adopted declaring that the paramount issue
OF the Greenback Labor party movement is
the immediate substitution of greenbacks for
National Bank curr ency.
GEN ERAl..
a London dispatch of the LIST says the
recent sudden thaw had caused numerous
floods in England and Scotland. Much dam
~t.,I De-, T.
deem.