The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-06
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

CURRENT PARAaRAPMD.
The Bulgarian Constitution has been
ratified by the Car.
Ex-Prcsident Grant sailed from Mar
settles for Suez, on the ed.
The new Pension Arrears bill was
signed by the President, on the 18th.
The Gothenberg (Sweden) CONNER
cial Company has lately failed for $l,OOO,O 900.
Hon. Matt. H. Carpenter was elected
United States Senator from Wisconsin, by the
Legislature, on the I'D.
DIR. Linderman, the Director of the
United States Mint, died at his residence, in
Washington, on the eth.
Both houses of the North Carolina
Legislature elected Gov. z. b. Vance United
States Senator, on the 2lst.
On the 2lst, the Florida Legislature
elected Hon. Wilkinson Call United States
Senator to succeed Conover.
The Comptroller has called for re-
port Of the condition of all National Banks
at the close of business on the LIST of January.
Mrs. Davis and her onc-year-old
child, of Scranton, Pa, were burned to death,
a few days ago. by the explosion Of kero-
sene lamp.
The Judson Bank, at Ogdensburg,
n. T., closed its doors on the I'D. With mod
GRAFTON on the part , 81 the creditors tn" "'''
On the 24th, the Secretary of the
Treasury made another call for $4,000, 600
coupon $40 bonds, principal and interest pay
able on the cath of April.
Over 5000 bills had been introduced
in the National House of Representatives,
since the beginning of the present session, up
to the morning of the oath.
The Legislature of Missouri, on the
,lst, elected Col. George G. Vest United States
Senator for the long term, and Gen. James
Shields for the short term.
The Arkansas Legislature, in Joint
Convention, on the 25th, elected j. D. Walker
United States Senator, by vote of 6S against
N.
The boiler of locomotive exploded
near Bradford, Pa, on the evening of the
18th, killing one man outright, fatally injur-
ing three and seriously injuring four others.
The account recently published of
the death of a man in Newton, Fountain
County, Ind, from the fall of an aerolite, is
pronounced by Prof. Cox, State Geologist of
Indiana, to be miserable hoax.
At Mortville, Me-, a few evenings
ago, John Mcfarland, wife and grand-daugh-
ter, were killed by an insane man named
Rowell, who was afterward shot dead by
nclghbor whom he had attacked
II. l.. T. Beal CONSERVATIVE, elected
to the Forty-sixth Congress, has been chosen
to ill the vacatcy in the present Congress,
caused by the death of Representative Doug
las, of the First Virginia District
The St. Petersburg Golos announced,
on the I'D, that Prof, Nordenskjold's Arctic
steamer Vega was ice bound four miles from
East Cape in Behring's Strait. Special relief
expeditions had been sent to rescue her.
Gen. John A. Logan was, on the
2lst, elected United States Senator from Illi-
nois, by the following vote: Senate-Logan,
y; Black "a; McAuliffe, l. House-Logan,
so; Black, TO; Campbell, 10; McAuliffe, 3.
-Ist., reelected Roscoe Conklng to the United
States Senate; the Pennsylvania Legislature,
reelected j. Donald Cameron, and the Con-
necticut Legislature elected Orville H. Plat.
The Russian and German medical
journals state that Eastern Europe is in a
state Of great alarm at the rapid progress of
the plague toward the north and east of Rus
sia, from the Caspian Sea along the course of
the Eolga.
Judge Moore, of Chicago, in a re-
cent divorce-case, held that when separation
was by consent it was not such desertion,
within the meaning Of the statute, as would
justify the party deserted in obtaining d.
vOrce.
The Department of the Interior has
received confirmatory information that Sitting
Bull has crossed the Canadian line, and be-
lievcs there will soon be a large gathering of
hostile savages in that section. Immediate
hOstilltieS are not feared.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
announced tkat henceforth Government in
tcrest, will be paid at all Sub-Treasures, in
coin or currency, at the option of the payee,
and that the policy of paying gold only at
New York will be abandoned.
The New York Tribune of the 9th
says it was stated most positively that the
body of A. 7. Stewart had not been re-
covered by Mrs. Stewart, or Judge Hilton, or
any agent. The Tribune, however, did not
say the alleged recovery had been denied BY
Judge Hilton or Mrs. Stewart
In the United States Court at Jack
sOnville, Fla, on the 23d, the presiding
Judge sentenced the Brevard County Can
wasting Board, convicted of making false
return Of the election, as follows: Lee,
County Clerk, three years, and Wright and
Johns, Sheriff and Justice, respectively, one
year each in the Albany IN. " Penitentiary.
Hon. Dan w. Voorhees, was elected
United States Senator for the long and short
terms, by the Legislature of Indiana, on the
2lst. The vote was as follows: Short term
scnate-voorhees,2 g; Orth, %; Buchanan, 1.
House-voorhees, 81; Orth, 81; Buchanan, 2;
Shackelford, 1. Long rm-Senate-Voor-
hoes, %; Harrison, q; Buchanan, 1. House
VOORHEES,, 81; Harrison, SO; Buchanan, 2.
The following is the text of the bill
to facilitate the refunding of the National
debt, which was passed by the United States
Senate, on the 22d. (having previously passed
the House,:
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby
for lawful money of the United States that NAV
be presented for such exchange, certificates Of
deposit OF the denomination Of ten dollars bear
ing interest ct the rate IF 8 per cent per annum
and convertible at any time. with accrued in
tereet, into the 4-per-cent. bonds described in
the Refunding act; and the money 30 received