The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
A FEW days since two colored men

A FEW days since two colored men
were impaneled in the Grand Jury of the
Louisville (Ky.) Criminal Court, and one
colored man served during the day on petit
Jury. The white men on both juries made no
objection, although 1t was the first time in the
history Of the State of Kentucky that q negro
| served on jury.
DIR. JOHN A. BAURER has been placed
on the California Republican Electoral ticket,
| In place of Claus Spreckles, withdrawn be-
cause he had received decoration from the
King Of the Sandwich Islands.
The Congressional nominations on
the 7th were as follows: Sixth Wisconsin
District, Congressman Gabe Bouck, Demo-
crat; Third Minnesota, General Sibley, DEM
ocrat; Third Iowa, NJ. II. Moore. Greenback.
The following Western and Southern
Congressional nominations were announced
on the Sth: Second Virginia District, John
+. Dizendorf, Republican; Second Maryland,
F. T. Shaw, Democrat; Fifth North Carolina,
T. b. Keogh, Republican,; Fourth Louisiana,
N. c. Blanchard, Democrat; Second Wiscon-
sin, Congressman l.. B. Caswell. Republican;
Eighth Wisconsin, Congressman T. c. Pound,
Republican; Ninth Michigan, George Parma
lee, Greenback; Third Iowa, william G.
Stewart, Democrat.
The Greenbackers of the Second
Missouri District have nominated R. P. Maine
for Congress. c. P. Ramsdell is the Repub-
lican candidate in the Third Virginia, aud ].
9. Smith in the Fourth Alabama, Districts.
PRESIDENT HAYES and suite reached
San Francisco on the evening of the 9th, and
were cordially aud enthusiastically received
BY the people Of that city.
RECENT heavy rains have done much
damage to the TOBACCO crop In many counties
OF Virginia, particularly along the river
bottoms. The tobacco-wor has also been
at work, and the crop will, it is said, be
the smallest raised in Virginia for many
years.
An east-bound express train on the
indianapolis u st. Louis Railway was thrown
from the track on bridge thirty feet high,
near Terre Haute, Ind, on the night of the
Sth. George Morris, conductor, was killed
and several passengers were injured. One
of the rails on the bridge had been loosened
and drawn to one side BY some mscreant, in
the hope that the cars would be thrown into
the chasm.
Foreign Intelligence.
ATTEMPTS have recently been made
to circulate in Great Britain forged American
bank notes Of the denomination of $50 on the
Broadway and Trademarks National Banks
of New York.
The steamer Nevada, from Liver
pool on the 9th, has among her passengers
346 Mormon emigrants, mostly English, Scotch
and Welsh.
DURING the recent journey of the
Car from St. Petersburg to Livadia the rail-
road line was guarded by 5000 peasants and
1000, troops
The MARI Lane Erpress of a recent
date contains reports which indicate that the
worst fears Of the English farmers as to quail
ity and yield of grain had been realized. The
result Of the thrashings SO far had been ex-
ceedingly disappointing, the bad season and
the prevalence Of mildew having greatly re-
duced the marketable value OF wheat. Bar
ley was reported to be discolored and imper-
fectly ripened. The oat crop is said to be the
only fair grain crop this year.
A PARIS telegram of the 9TH says
that treaty annexing the island of Tahiti
to France was signed last June.
ACCORDING to a London dispatch of
the 7th the Imperial Bank of Germany had
ordered its Bremen and Hamburg branches
to suspend payments.
The British Parliament was pro-
on the eth until November 30 by
speech from the throne read by a Royal Com
missioner.
On the 9TH about $4,000 nail makers
in Fast Worcestershire and Staffordshire,
England, struck against proposed reduction
of wages
A FEW nights ago the township of
Upton, in one of the eastern counties of the
Province Of Quebec, was overrun by fire. The
flames started from burning stubble, and
presently became manageable. Only one
house In the center Of district several miles
square escaped destruction. A loss of $780,
900 was inflicted and 1900 people were
rendered houseless.
AN explosion occurred in SeahaM
colliery, near Durham, Eng, at half past two
on the morning of the Sth. There were
nearly 800 hundred men in the pit, and, up to |
the morning Of the 9th, only sixty Of the
men had been rescued.
INTELLIGENCE was received in Lon
Ion on the sth that the city of Sofa, in Bull
yaria, was on fire, with a prospect of total |
destruction.
Two HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE |
head of cattle were. lost from the steamer |
rhanemore during its recent passage from
Baltimore to Liverpool.
A wATER-sPOUr recently destroyed a
number of houses and killed several persons |
at Ivry, France.
IT is said the entire length of the St.
Gothard Tunnel will be In operation April /,
1891.
The disturbances throughout Arme-
MIA have been recently assuming the proper
tons of an instruction.
IT is said that Bulgaria will, in o.
tober, declare her entire independence of
Turkey.
A COLLISION occurred on the night of
The 10th between several Newark IN. J.) Re- |
publican clubs and some citizens of Harrison. |
During the fight fire arms were used and four |
members Of the clubs were badly injured.
NEARLY full returns from the Ver-
mont election indicate Republican major |
ty of about 26, OOO
UP to the morning of the 18th about
thirty corpses had been recovered from the |
seaham Colliery. 1t was believed that the |
lead would number between $50 aud 16O |
Over 400 horses and mules were in the Dit |
md had undoubtedly persisted
A SEATTLE wv. T.) dispatch of the
10Th says: captain Smith, Of the steamer
Josephine, just arrived from Skagt, reports
hat while ascending that river Tuesday last,
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