The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-20

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5506 and $500 of the United States Revised
decided that the indictments were properly
drawn, and affirmed the Constitutionality oil
the sections under which they were bound.
MEssRs. WELLS, Kenner and Casa
nave. of Returning Board fame, appeared
before the Superior Criminal Court of New
Orleans, on the 9th, withdrew their plea OF
not guilty, and fled q demurrer to the infor-
nation against them, in which they claimed
that, under the Supreme Court decision in the
case of Anderson, they were entitled to a
nolle pros. The Attorney General holds that
the decision in the Anderson case is not res
judicata, aud holds good only in that case.
Ex-Gov. HARTRANFr was, on the
9TH, appointed Postmaster of Philadelphia.
FOUR Deputy United States Marshals
made an attack upon a party of five moon
sinners in Patrick County, Va, on the 9th.
The latter were fortified and resisted. A
fight ensued. in which two moonshiners were
badly wounded. The remaining three left
their fort and commenced retreat, when
| four or five mountaineers, under command of
one Lineburg, came to their rescue and drove
the Government officials from the field, badly
wounding two of them.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9TH
says the Agricultural Report, just issued,
gives the average price of the cotton crop for
the whole country at 81 cents pound; the
value of the crop for 1878 was Sl94, 7OO, COO.
The average price OF tobacco was 5 6-l0 cents {;
total crop of 1878 estimated at 1893 OOO, 600
pounds, worth 81, OOO, 900. Horses increased
8 per cent, but the price very materially de-
creased. Cows show an increase in nearly all
the States, and sheep increased nearly per
cent. The prices for hogs have been ruinous-
ly low. while the increase is about per cent.
| Mules increased about per cent.
4 BILLIARD TOURNAMENT, in New
York City, closed on the eth, with Jacob
schaefer as champion player of the United
States and winner of the $1,000 prize. On
the last game, between him and George Slos-
son, the latter made a run of 4S4, but the
former won the game, the averages being IS So
| AMI 81 ~.
THE Congressional Sub Committee
| investigating the charges made against Judge
Blodgett, of the United States District Court
for the Northern District OF Illinois, closed
| their labors in Chicago, on the 9TH, after a
session of nearly two weeks. A report of the
evidence would be submitted to the full
Judiciary Committee of the National House
| of Representatives, who will consider the
same and report to the House such action in
the matter as may be deemed desirable.
WILLIAM H. HEATH, Auditor of St.
Louis County, Mo-, from 1865 to 1876, has been
found guilty of embezzling about $143, 900 of
| the public funds, and sentenced to ten years.
imprisonment in the State Penitentiary.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9Th
says the President had directed his Cabinet
officers to submit to him the names OF all the
important offices under their respective de
partments which expire within the ensuing
new names or reappoint the old ones before
the Senate adjourns and passes into Demo-
cratic control.
SUIT has recently been brought
against the proprietors OF skating rink at
Worcester, Mass, for not allowing colored
men to skate on their ice.
THE Cheyenne Indian prisoners from
worth, Kan, on the Sth, under a strong cav
airy SudTu. 1uey Will uS tuFIeu over TO the
State authorities for trial for raiding, depre-
dating and numbering citizens in Western
Kansas, last fall.
The House Democratic caucus has
agreed to report q bill repeating the test oath
at present required to be taken by jurors.
AT Flora, ILL.,, on the 9th, all trains
on the Ohio Il Mississippi Railroad were de-
layed by the enforcement of the State Sunday
law.
On the 10th, Hon. Isaac P. Chris
tiancy placed his resignation as United States
Senator in the hands of Gov, Croswell, of
Michigan.
Hon. JOSEPH CASEY, Chief-Justice
of the Court of Claims, died at Washington,
on the morning of the 10th. He was first ap-
pointed by President Lincoln.
AT Troy. N. Y, on the 10th, G.. F.
Simmons, crAzed by the elopement Of his
wife, poisoned his three children and then cut
his own throat.
CONVERSATIONAL.