The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-05

to the National Board OF Health all papers
belonging to the Treasury Department relat-
ing to dieinfecting ships with yellow fever on
board, and to inform the board that the Sec
Rotary of the Treasury will give prompt con-
sideratiOn to any suggestions that the Board
of Health may make in relation to the subject.
A REPORT from the Board of Home
Missions was read before the Presbyterian
General Assembly at Saratoga. on the 10th,
showing the following interesting facts {:
Number OF missionaries engaged in the work.
1,2O2; Sunday-Schools organized in 1878 and
1879, 264; number of scholars, 11l,SSl;
churches organized during these years, 1856;
increase of membership, 1O,S72; total number
Of communicates in churches under control of
the board, 66, AS; aggregate of congregations,
1O1,7Sl; number of Sunday-Schools, LIST !;
number of church edifices, 1,O52; value of
same, &2,S49.315; receipts for the year. $292, :
$780,
A GLOUCESTER (Mass.) dispatch of
schooner Ida E. Baker, with her crew of
twelve men.
SUP'T RIDDLE, the head of the New
York public school system for ten years,
whose recent book on Spiritualism has Gre
ated SO wide sensation, has resigned, and
his resignation has been accepted.
The Broadway Savings Bank, of St.
Louis, the largest of its kind in that city, sus-
pended, on the 2lst. Over sl0O,OOO of the
money belonging to the public schools was
deposited with it. The bank had q heavy line
of depositors.
In the Presbyterian General Assem-
bly,, at Saratoga, on the 22d, resolution was
unanimously adopted requesting Rev. DR..
Patton, of Chicago. not to accept the invita-
ton to a professorship in England, but to re-
main in the United States. The report on
Colored Missions represented the receipts
from church sources as $52,921; from
State school funds. $4,000. Expenditures on
account of missions, $40, 800; printing, $6O7;
officers and investments, $9,416. There are
forty-eight ordained missionaries, of whom
thirty-six are colored. and fifty-eight teachers,
Of whom thirty-six are colored.
The will of the late Judge Packer,
of Mauch Chunk, Pa, bequesths $l,5OO,O 900
for the endowment of Lehigh University, at
Bethlehem; $4,000 for a library for the
University; 100000 to st. Luke's Hospital,
Bethlehem, and $50. 900 for st. Marks Episco-
psi Church at Mauch Chunk.
The menagerie establishment of j.
NJ. French, near Detroit, was burned on the
morning of the 22d. Among the animals de-
stroyed was the elephant Sultan, five lions, a
zebra, leopard and other valuable animals.
The seventh annual exhibition of
the Chicago Interstate Industrial Exposition
is to open on the 81 Of September and close
on the 18th of October.
A PITTSBURGH dispatch of the 23d
says the Widow Oliver lectured in that city
the night before, and the affair was regular
farce. There were only twenty-three persons
present, and not half q dozen of them paid
their way. The manager then went out and
stood on q prominent street corner and dis
tributed tickets free to everybody who passed.
Even in this way he did not succeed in filling
The house.
IT was thought in Washington, on
the 23d, that, at the rate at which the 4-per-
cent refunding certificates were being dis
posed of, they would all be sold within the
succeeding ten days. They were then being
disposed of by purchasers to brokers at pre-
MUM of 1920. There was great rush for
them at all Eastern and Western points where
the Government agents were employed in put
ting them on the market.
THE assignee of Archbishop Purcell.
of Cincinnati, on the 23d, filed statement of
the affairs of the Archbishop and his brother,
as follows: Total claims, 50 697, 651.49; assets:
81, ISL ,569.47, of which amount $41S, 5362S is
considered doubtful or worthless.
Both houses of the Illinois Legisla-
ture have passed Militia bill, which, in sub
stance, forbids the arming of Independent
bodies of men. Before such will be allowed
to arm themselves and parade, they must be-
come connected with some authorized militia
ry organization.
THE Warner Silver bill passed the
National House of Representatives, on the
oath, after acontinuous session of twenty.one
hours, by vote of III yeas to 81 nays.
THE workingmen of San Francisco
ton, by getting up an immense torchlight
procession on the evening of the 24th The
procession was pronounced success, over
10, COO persons being in line.
In the Town of Kewaskum, Wis, on
the 23d, a man named Nicholas Altenhofer
beat out the brains of his six-weeks-old child
by knocking its head against the wall. He
then carried the dead infant two miles to
priest and acknowledged the crime.
j. P. KR1EGER, JR., the Cashier of
The lately.suspended Broadway Savings Bank,
Of st. Louis, has been arrested upon the
charge of embezzlement and malfeasance.
Suits have also been begun against the d.
rectors of the bank.
A FIRE beginning at midnight and
until noon, on the oath, destroyed
property on the Brooklyn IN. W wharfs
worth from $780, to *75O,OJO.
The California State Democratic
Convention has been postponed until July l.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the oath
says that it had been ascertained there that
Gen. Grant would leave Yokohama for San
about the last of june Arrange
ments had been made for a large excursion
party to meet him at the latter city.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, the dis
anti-Slavery agitator and lecturer,
died in New York City, on the evening of the
24th. The cause of his death was nervous
prostration consequent upon the paralysis of
some OF the vital organs. He was seventy
four years old.
A MAN named Pylus Walker, for
many years fisherman, who lived near Mag
ara, was swept over the American Falls on
the 25th, in the presence of large crowd of
1t seems Walker was under
the influence of liquor at the time of the acct
dent, and lost an oar in the swift current of
the stream above the Falls while trying to row
to Goat Island in q skiff. He was quite a
noted character at the Fails, and had been the
rescuer of many lives exposed to danger in
the rapids of the river.
THE Democratic Caucus Committee
of the National House of Representatives