The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-12-18
THE NEW WORLD.

IHE Democrats were successful IN the
municipal election at New Haven, Conn.,, on
the I'd.
The United States Senate on the
ID voted to continue for the present the
Standing and Select Committees appointed
at the last session, with but two changes
Mr.. Ferry to take the place of the late Mr..
Chandler on the Committee on Naval Affairs.
and Mr.. Baldwin (the new Senator from
Michigan) to fill the vacancy, caused by Mr..
Chambers death, on the Committee on Com
merce.
HE Kellogg-Spoford Investigating
Committee closed its labors iE New Orleans
on the Sd, and adjourned to meet in Wash
ington to prepare their report.
NEW ORLEANS dispatches of the Sd
claim the election of Wiltz (Democrat) for
Governor by 10000 majority. The new Con-
stitution was believed to have been adopted
by majority fully as large.
The Canadian Government has de-
cided to appoint Minister Resident in Lon
don, and who will also be a member of the
Cablnet, and it was stated on the I'd that Sir
A. 1. Gait had been appointed.
The Catholic Bishop of Boston, in
communication published on the ID, urges
the faithful to send their children to paro-
chial institutions when possible, and if such
schools do not exist, to establish them. Int
he does not recommend excommunication or
other severe measures in the cases of those
who disregard his advice.
THE Trustees of Rev. Mr.. Talmape's
church in New York have voted to withdraw
from the Presbytery because of the alleged
prosecutions to which their pastor has been
subjected"
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES seven
tieth birthday anniversary was celebrated at
Boston on the Sd by a breakfast, at which
Emerson, Longfellow and number of other
men Of letters of note gathered to do honor
to the man and the occasion.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has RECENTLY
Issued circular inviting proposals for the
sale to the Government of &l,OOO 600 of the
SIX per cent. interest-bearing bonds of the
United states, known as ''sixes of 1872 The
bonds thus to be purchased will be applied to
the sinking fund.
ANDREW TRACY was hung at Smith
port, Pa, on the 18th, for killing Mary Reilly,
whom the rules of the Catholic Church for
babe him to marry because they were first
cousins. The first attempt at the hanging
was failure, Tracy's fall causing the knot to
unite, thus allowing him to fall to the ground
uninjured. The knot was readiusted. and
this time he was satisfactorily executed.
A NAN named Upton, of Ansonia,
Conn.,, returned home drunk, . few nights
ago, and threw at his wife . lighted lamp.
which fell into the cradle, and q child was
burned to death. The wife, in endeavorinp
to save the child, was also fatally burned. =
APPLICATION was made on the 4th tn
the Maine Supreme Court, upon the petition
OF Andrew r. G.. Smith, Senator-elect from
Lincoln County, and Nathan 7. Hill, Senator
elect from Hancock County, asking the court
to issue rule of court to the Secretary of
State, commanding him to appear before said
court December Q, and show cause wbv he
should not give said Senators access to the
returns of the Senatorial votes of their re-
spective districts, and an opportunity to ex-
anime the same, and for . writ of mandamus
to issue against said Secretary. The Judge
issued the order.
THERE being great demand for one
cent bronze pieces the Philadelphia Mint
turned out over 100000 pieces of that de-