The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-13
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Washington to the effect that the Hulapai
Indians, in Northern Arizona, were starving
He wanted to know II they Sould be fed by
the War Department. There being no ap
procration available for such purposes, the
matter was referred to the Department of the
Interior.
w. H. HENDERSON, commercial edi-
tor of the San Francisco Chronicle, recently
committed suicide by shooting himself twice
in the head.
REV. THOMAS A. SnARKEY has been
elected to succeed Bishop Odenheimer as
Bishop of Northern New Jersey.
Mrs. N. ELLIOTT, of Sevoy, Kan,
was killed and horribly mutilated few days
ago, by the explosion of q coal-oil lamp.
The wife of George Francis Train
was found dead in her bed few mornings
ago, at her fathers house in New York City.
Her death was attributed TO paralysis of the
heart.
A CHINESE will, entirely in Chinese
characters, was recently offered for probate
in the Surrogate's Office, in New York City.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts
has rendered a decision in the case of the Rev.
H. j. Manson, the Adventist minister who
married himself in presence of his congrega-
ton at Worcester some months ago, to the
effect that there was no legal marriage.
MAJOR GENERAL HOOKER died at
Garden City, Long Island, on the afternoon
of the 3lst ult. His death was sudden.
General Hooker was sixty years old.
JACOB ABBOTT, the author, died at
his home at Pennington, Me-, on the 31st
ult. He was seventy-nine years old.
AT the session of the Woman's Ma
tional Christian Temperance Union i'll Indian
apolis on the 3lst ult. one hundred and forty
six officers and delegates were reported to be
in attendance. Miss Frances E. Willard, of
Illinois, was elected President for the ensuing
year. The remaining officers were reelected,
as follows: Corresponding Secretary, Mrs.
Mary T. Burt, of Brooklyn, N. Y; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. NJ. \. Woodbridge, of Raven
ma, Ohio; Assistant do, Mrs. Caroline B.
Bull, of East Hampton, Conn.,; Treasurer,
Miss Esther Pugh, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
THE Comptroller of the Currency re-
ports the whole amount of additional cir
culation issued since the publication of his
annual report in November, 1878, as $15,-
435, The total average amount issued
the past twelve months has been ut the rate
of about 81, 800, 600 per month. The increase
of circulation for the year ending November
l, ISIS, was s4,Sl6,GS4, and the total decrease
from JANUARY IA, 1875, to the LIST of November,
1877, was more than s3O,OOO0OO. The total
amount issued for the months of October was
s3,6O2, 900, and during the months of Septem-
Der and October, 1854, ITO, or about one-half
the whole amount issued during the year.
The increase in legaltender notes deposited
for the purpose of retiring circulation dur
ing the year ending November l, 1879, was
S3,2 ,OO1, leaving the net increase of Nation
al-Bank circulation issued during the year at
$11, 4S4,5S2.
CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER MYER has
completed his annual report. During the
year 122 men have been instructed as assist
ant observers, and mine for promotion as SER
geants; 10 stations have been maintained,
and twenty-five stations of a second class.
called "Sunset Stations" have been contin-
ued. An examination as to the accuracy of
the daily preannouncements of the weather
shows an average percentage of 9O.7 per cent.
verified. The display of cautionary day-and-
night signals, by flags and lights, has been
made Systematically at ninety-four sea and
lake ports. The adoption of the 'off shore"
signal has much increased the usefulness of
the service. Of the cautionary signals dis
played, SOL per cent. have afterward been re-
ported as justified.
In his annual report Quartermaster-
Gapora1 Narc hot <ho
penditures of his department during the last
fiscal year were so, 75S, 900. The Depart
ment moved during the year 59177 persons,
1927 beasts and 10, 40 tons of supplies from
the settlements to the military posts, many
of them in the far interior and at the end of
long lines of communication. The cost of
this transportation was s2,215,96S. The
Pacific Railroads earned for Government
s722,OOO.
AT the Cabinet meeting in Washing
ton on the 31st ult. the Secretary of the
Treasury called attention to the fact that the
Dominion of Canada had prohibited the inn
pOrtation of American cattle, on account of
of pleuro- pneumonia, and as
the same fear existed among Americans in
regard to Canadian cattle, it was agreed that
an order should be Immediately issued pro-
hibiting the introduction of Canadian cattle
into this country.
Hon. ZACHARIAH CHANDLER, United
States Senator from Michigan, was found
dead in his bed at the Grand Pacific Hotel in
Chicago, on the morning of the LIST. The
jury which was called to investigate the
cause Of his death decided that it resulted
from cerebral hemorrhage induced by cold
which he had taken while speaking at
GAINESVILLE, Wis. His remains were taken
to Detroit on the morning of the I'd, and were
accompanied by large delegation from that
city and Chicago. Mr.. Chandler was born at
Bedford, N. H., December 10, 1913, and was
therefore in the sixty-sixth year of his age
when he died. He came to Detroit in 1898;
was elected Mayor of that city in 1851;
was the nominee of the Wing party
of Michigan for Governor in 1852;
was elected United States Senator
to succeed Lewis Cass in 1857; was reelected
Senator in 1862 and again reelected in 1869;
was defeated for reelection in 1875 by Mr..
Christiancy; was appointed Secretary of the
Interior by President Grant in 1875; in 1876
was chosen Chairman of the Republican
National Committee, and was elected to fill
the unexpired term of Senator Christiancy
on the appointment of the latter as United
States Minister to Peru in 1878. Mr. Chandler
was wealthy man, his estate being valued at
from 81, 5000 to s2,OOO,OOO He leaves only
one child, the wife of Hon. Eugene Hale, of
Maine.
GENERAL GRANT arrived at Omaha
on the LIST. The welcome extended him there
was, like all the greetings to him at all prom
inent places along the route from San Fran
cisco, cordial and enthusiastic one. The
Mayor delivered short address, to which
General Grant briefly and pleasantly respond
ed. banquet was given to the distinguished
guest in the evening.
The public-debt statement for OctO-
Der makes the following exhibit: Total debt
(including interest), $2,246,6 94, 357 Cash in
Treasury, S229, S44,S11. Debt, less amount in
Treasury, $2Ol6,S49,546. Decrease during the
month, $40, 49,, 9O6. Decrease since June 80
1879, $10,357, no.
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