The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-16
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AT meeting OF the Council OF the
Massachusetts, Medical Society held in Boston
on the LIST, it was resolved to admit women tc
membership.
WENDELL PHILLIPS has declined the
nomination of the Massachusetts Greenback
Convention as candidate for Lieutenant
Governor.
THERE arrived ut the port of New
York during August II, SSl immigrants, against
1863 during the same month last year. The
total arrival of immigrants during the year
ending August 81 was 10S, 5O7, against 75,O35
during 1878.
The coinage of the United States
mints for September was as follows: Gold,
$500, 100; silver, &, 1896 O92; minor coins,
S4,6M. The total number of pieces was 8,
99S,9l2, of the total value of $9,279, SOC.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat corrc-
spondent at Bunker Hill, ILL.,, about thirty
two miles northeast of St. Louis, writes that
he saw Wise's balloon pass that point about
$50 on the evening of the 2Sth ult., the day
of the ascension. From there the balloon
took course almost directly north, and was
subsequently, seen about ten miles away. A
son-in-law of Professor Wise denies that the
balloon was old or rotten, and says it was
entirely new, had never been used before,
and was one of the best ever made.
THE Joint Executive Railroad Com
mittce, in session in New York on the I'd,
voted an advance in East-bound frcights to a
basis of thirty-five cents TN grain, forty cents
for fourth-class and fifty cents for live hogs
from Chicago to New York, to take effect Oc-
tober Ii.
UP to the night of the Sd the list of
dead by the Adrian (NIich.) accident had
reached thirteen, and there were said to be 224
sufferers under medical treatment. The
town was scene of woe, lamentation and
mourning.
ARREARS of pension claims to the
amount of $50, 81, 5O7 had been settled up to
October 1. The average amount of arrears in
each case was S545 The whole number of
eases settled in September was 1927. 1t is
estimated that there are still about 5000 or
1000 pensioners entitled to arrears whose
cases have not been settled.
The Comptroller of the Currency re-
ported on the Sd that the whole amount of
additional National Bank circulation issued
since the publication of his annual report in
1873 was S1l $685. 325. The amount of circula-
ton issued in the months of November and
December, 1873, and in January, May, June,
July and August, 1879, was considerably less
than $1,OOO,OOO for each month. The amount
issued in February was Sl,64S,4O1; March,
Sl,0Sl ,0a6; April, S2,OlS,634. The amount
issued in September, 1879, was 50, 4SO, 973-
more than twice the amount issued during
the preceding four months. The total average
amount Of additional circulation issued the
past four months has been at the rate of q
little more than 81, Co., 900 per month.
A HERDER who reached Rawlins from
the Ute country on the 9Th reported that
man named Taylor had told him that he
had ridden around the intrenched camp of
Captain Payne, and that, up to the LIST, he
still held his position. Mr.. Taylor reported
that the country around White River was full
of hostiles, including among others tho
Arrapahoes, Shoshones, Snakes and BAN
nocks. Nobody at Rawlins doubted that
Agent Meekcr and his family had been
murdered. North Park prospectors were
leaving their claims, having been ordered to
get out of the country within three days UNI
der penalty of massacre.
A DENVER (Colorado) telegram of
the 4th says the Governor had been notified
that Lake City and Ouray were threatened by
hostiles, and that troops and ammunition
were wanted.
The Post-office Department has re-
Gently made decision which has been
adopted by the Postmaster-General, and
which, it is said, will be strictly enforced, pro-
hibiting the mailing of letters to lottery COM
pancs or their agents; also, forbidding the
sending of money to lottery companies by
postal order or registered letter. The lot
terry agents in Washington are indignant at
this decision, and think it can not stand. 1t
is said the lottery companies will take the
case to the courts and maintain their rights
to the use of the mails.
A DISPATCH from St. Louis on the
9Th says a telegram had been received from
Girard, ILL.,, from reporter who had acc M
panied John Wise, Jr., to explore the Ma
coupin Creek bottoms in search of the lost
balloonists, to the effect that they had found
no trace of the balloon or its occupants in
that section, and they did not believe they
had come down south of Springfield. The
balloon was seen Sunday night (2Sth ult.) by
farmers east of Girard, very high in the air
circulars were also found near Illiopolis This
eXplodes theory advanced by some that the
missing travellers had landed in Macoupin
County.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 9Th
says there were then in the Treasury s31, 56O,-
600 in standard silver dollars, and SIG, 94O, 900
in subsidiary silver coins.
The O'Leary walking tournament
began in New York at one o'clock on the
morning of the 9th. Thirty-five men started.
MEssRs. MOODY AND SANKEY began
a series of revival meetings in Cleveland,
Ohio, on the 9Th.
The baseball season closed a few
days ago, the Providence Club securing the
This club won fifty-five out
OF seventy-eight games; the Boston Club
forty-nine out of seventy-eight, and the Chi
Cages forty-five out of seventy-seven.
AT San Francisco on the 9Th Profess
sor Colgrove and c. II. Williams made bal.
loon ascension. When about two hundred
feet high the balloon collapsed, and both fell
to the ground, sustaining injuries from which
they shortly after died.
On Robert Bonner's private track
near New YORK, the other day, John Murphy
drove Rarus mile in two minutes and eleven
and half seconds. Edwin Forest was after
ward driven mile in exactly the same time.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 9th
says the Government Sub-Treasuries were all
supplied with gold, and were paying it out
freely on current obligations.
RETURNS received on the morning of
the eth from the election in Connecticut indi-
Gated that the Constitutional amendments
providing for biennial elections for the Legis-
lature, and extending the term of office of
Judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts
to the age of seventy-fve years, had been
overwhelmingly defeated.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court
has rendered decision in the riot losses in
Pittsburgh during the great railroad strike,
holding Allegheny County liable for the de-
struction of property In the case brought be-
fore the court.
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