The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-13
THE NEW WORLD.

to float from Pittsburgh, Pa, to New Orleans
in his life-saving suit. He started on the
morning of the oath.
THE Rhode Island Prohibitory State
Convention met, on the 25th, and nominated
as candidates for State officers the present in
cumbents. who are Republicans.
DEXTER, Me-, declines to accept the
theory that Barron, the Cashier of the Dexter
Savings Bank, committed suicide, and has
just held memorial service in honor of the
man who was "faithful unto death.''
THE man who, in broad daylight,
tore the diamonds from the ears of Mrs. De-
Barry, on Fifth avenue, New York City, has
been sentenced to the State Prison for txen.
ty years.
The Philadelphia Record announces
an advance of s1.50 per ton in the price of
iron since Jan. 1.
ANGEL, the defaulting Secretary of
the Pullman Palace Car Comp any, appeared
before the Chicago Criminal Court, on the
9th, pleaded guilty to the charge Of embez-
element, and was sentenced to ten years. con-
fnement in the State Prison, at Joliet.
The resignation of Gov. Wade Hamp-
ton, of South Carolina, was made public, on
the 9th ult., and he was Immediately there
after commissioned United States Senator.
The Ohio State Republican Central
Committee has decided to hold the next Re-
publican State Convention at Cincinnati. on
the 2Sth of May.
The Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the National Greenback party
IF. P. Dewees) has addressed letter to the
Secretary Of the Honest-Money League (Thos.
NJ. Nichols) refusing to enter into the pro-
posed public discussion of the Greenback
question, unless the Honest-Money League
'can show that it is authorized to speak for
one or both of the regularly organized politi-
cal parties.'
FIVE County Court Judges in Vir-
ginia have been indicted in the United States
Circuit Court for the Western District of Vir-
ginia, sitting at Danville, on the alleged
charge of Withholding from negroes the right
OF serving on juries. In the Virginia Legis-
lature, on the 2Sth ult., resolutions were
adopted condemning this action of the Fed
eral Court and directing the Attorney-General
to take proper steps to bring such proceedings
before the United States Supreme Court for
review and final adjudication.
THE Greenback and Democratic State
Conventions of Michigan met at Lansing, on
the 2Sth ult, and united upon the following
State ticket: Judge of Supreme Court, John
B. shipman; Regens Of the University, Geo.
P. Sanford and Henry Whiting. The Con.
ventions resolved on the financial question as
follows: "That money should be issued in
sufficient volume to meet the requisites OF
business; that the Government should regu.
late the value of money by preserving uni.
form ratio between supply and demand, and
that this delicate and important power should
never be delegated to banks, corporations OF
individuals"
A TERRIBLE disaster occurred at Car
bon Hill, Ohio, a small place in the Hook
ing Valley, on the night of the 9th ult. j.
NJ. Lunsford, who kept small store attached
to his house, was awakened by fire and smoke
at midnight, and At once set about removing
his family. His wife and a boy, aged two
years. were placed out Of danger, and he then
went up stairs to rescue the rest of the fam
lily, but he was overcome by smoke and suffo.
Gated. Within five minutes from the disoov-
cry of the fire the building was completely
developed In flames, and the shouts and cries
Of the poor victims (seven in nu,nher) re-
naming in the building were heard by the
neighbors who had assembled at the fire, but
could not be reached, and the father and
three daughters, aged twenty, thirteen and
ten years, and three sons, aged sixteen,
twelve and seven, persisted in the flames. II
was feared the wife and mother would become
raving maniac.
A cOAL-orL explosion occurred in
Baltimore, on the evening Of the 9th ult.,
which caused the death Of Clara Sharp (col
ored) and her son, and serious injury to two
other persons. The house was destroyed.
The President, on the night of the LIST.
sent to the House, where the measure origina-
ted, his veto OF the bill restricting Chinese i'm
migration. A motion to pass the bill, notwith-
standing the objections Of the President,
failed by vote OF 100 ayes to IS noes-.ess
than the necessary two-thrds.
The public-debt statement for Feb.
ruary makes the following exhibit: Total
debt (including interest), %, 473, 500. 039
Amount Of cash in Treasury, $447, 292, 496.
Debt, less amount in Treasury, $2,Oo6, 2O7,
81. Increase during the month, e31l,4l1.
The Judge of the Superior District
Court Of Louisiana has decided that the do.
eision Of the Supreme Court IN the Anderson
ease b Winding "a Ne oase d Wells CAsss.