The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-12-25
THE NEW WORLD.

was nominated ana cOnnfme0 a0 secretary OF
War, vice McCrary, resigned, on the 10th.
One of the most violent storms in the
| memory of the oldest inhabitant occurred In
Dakota on the 10th. Snow fell to great
depth, and drifted to such an extent as Ia
make travel impossible.
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT was pleasantly
received at Louisville, KY, on the 10th, and
accorded hearty welcome by the State and
municipal authorities and the citizens gen.
| orally.
The commission appointed by the in
solvent court Of Montreal to investigate the
condition of the Consolidated Bank of that
city has discovered that everything was swept
away by the Encouragement and corrup-
ton Of the directors and the absconding SUI
perintendent. A special of the 10th says
the stock had been offered for nothing to
| those who would assume the liability of the
call, the amount of which was still unknown.
The capital sunk in this rotten concern was
estimated at $4,000, 900.
THE National Council of the Union
League Of America met in annual session at
Philadelphia on the 10th. VIM. A. Newell, of
New Jersey, was reelected President; Thos.
G. Baker, of New York, Corresponding Sec
rotary, and Samuel +. Gwynner, of Pennsyl-
vania, Recording Secretary. A series of reso-
buttons was adopted declaring it the duty of
the Nation to execute the laws with force, II
necessary; demanding protection by National
law of all citizens in the enjoyment of all
their privileges and immunities; denouncing
Southern War claims, etc., etc.
PETITIONS to Congress for the repeal
of the Legal-tender act have recently been
circulated and extensively signed in New
York, Boston and other Eastern cities.
ACCORDING to a Los Pinos telegram
of the nth Ouray had brought in one of the
Indians demanded by the Commissioners,
and had promised to surrender the others as
soon as they were captured. It was stated
that the Commission had decided to recon-
mend that the White River Agency be abol-
ished, and that the Utes of the agency be
distributed between Los Pinos and the South
ern Agency; that the loss of property occa-
stoned by the outbreak be paid for out of
the Ute fund now at Washington, and that the
portion of the reservation formerly occupied
by the White River Utes be coded to the Gov
eminent.
The State Oranges of Iowa, Indiana
and Ohio have recently elected their officers
for the ensuing year, among whom are:
Iowa-E. N. Gates, Worthy Master; NJ. L.
Devin, Treasurer; w. l.. Carpenter, Secre-
tary. Indiana-Aaron Jones, Grand Master,
Ohio-President, J. H. Brigham; Treasurer.
r. Stevenson; Executive Committee, 8. H.
Ellis, A. P. Axtell, D. Grouse; Business
Agent, w. H. Hill.
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT arrived at Gin
cinnati on the 18th. Great preparations had
been made for his reception in that city, and
the demonstration was on par with those of
other cities on similar occasions. The Mayor
made a welcoming address, to which the ex-
President appropriately responded. A ban
quet was given in the evening, which is said
to have been the grandest affair of the kind
in the history of the city.
A FREDERICKSBURG (Va.) telegram
OF the 18th states that leading Democratic
citizens of Richmond County, in that State,
headed by Charles Pitts, their recently
elected member of the Legislature, had petit
toned Judge Jones to include within the
jury list such of the colored citizens of the
county as the court shall think well qualified
to serve as jurors.
The readjusters of the Virginia Leg
islature have nominated General William
Malone as their candidate for the United
States Senate.
On the 18th the New York Board of
State Canvassers declared all the Republican
candidates elected except the State Engineer
and Surveyor. Horatio Seymour, Jr., the
Democratic candidate for that office, is de-
clared elected.
RED ROCK. a town in Pennsylvania,
near Bradford, was completely destroyed by
fire on the 18th. The fire started from the
accidental ignition of quantity of petro-
leum, and the explosion of several tanks of
oil completed the work of destruction. Three
hundred families are rendered homeless and
entirely destitute.
Hon. G. B. GRINNELL, of Iowa, de-
ivered an address before the National Agri-
cultural Society in New York on the evening
of the 18th in which he stated that in Iowa
2,OOO, 600 annually are lost by what is known
as hog cholera, and more than that sum by
the insect which cuts short the wheat crop of
the State. "Iowa asks in vain for our men
OF science and means to discover a remedy
for these losses. People complain with rea-
son that the total appropriation of 500, 1000,
which is not more than the value of cheap
cigar for each of our inhabitants, is niggardly
and out of proportion"
On the 18th Secretary Schurz re-
ceived information that the Utes, in demand
ing trial at Washington, only meant that they
wished to be dealt with by the Government
at any point outside Of Colorado. One of the
savages remarked that the offenders might
as well be hanged to trees at the agency as to
be tried at Denver.
On the 18th Judge Virgin, of the
Maine Supreme Court. after hearing argu-
ments in favor of and against the propriety Of
granting writ of mandamus to compel the
Governor and Council to throw open the
election returns for inspection, refused to
grant the application, deciding, in substance,
that the Governor and Council had an official
duty to perform, and for that purpose had
the exclusive possession of the returns for q
reasonable time; that during that time they
were acting under oath, and that while thus
acting the court had no right to interfere,
On the 18th a petition in chancery
was filed in the United States District Court
at New Orleans to annul Mrs. Dorsey's be-
quest to Jefferson Davis. The document &C.
cuses the great Confederate of unduly infiu-
encing generous but weak-minded lady, and
alleges that his intercourse with her from
hrst to last exhibited design on his part to
secure her fortune by working upon her DO
litical and religious Sympathies.
a WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
says the Senate Finance Committee had
postponed till after the Christmas recess the
Warner Silver bill, the Trade-dollar bill, and
Bayard's resolution concerning greenbacks,
ON the ground that the subjects require fuller
discussion than could be given by a commit
tee before adjournment.
On the 18th the New York Produce
Exchange voted-s6S to 605-to adopt the
GENITAL system. There was great dissatisfac-
ton at the result, and the minority threaten
ed to secede and establish a new Exchange
where business could be transacted upon the
bushel plan.