The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-11-04
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches.

Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington.
EXPERTS In the Treasury Department at
Washington have declared the bonds found in
the possession Of Doyle, recently arrested in
Chicago, to be counterfeit
A FEW days ago an inventor of new flying
machine tried the experiment of launching It
from the top of the Patent Office in Washing
ton, and saw it speedily dashed to pieces on
the sidewalk below. He had not been foolish
enough to attach himself to it.
THE population of the District of Columbia
is Ii, 6SS, of whom SO, 594 are males and o.
GA females The whites number lis, 2S6;
colored, 59,37S; Chinese, Is; Japanese, 5.
and Indians, g.
ACCORDING to the annual report for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1850, It appears
that on that date the postal service was in
operation on LIS railroad routes, aggregat-
ing $3.50 miles in length. at an annual cost
for transportation alone Of $40 4SS, 9S6. The
cost Of transportation on 1855 star service
routes (aggregating 2S5, AS miles) for the
year was 1881, 40. This was $9l9, 1919 in
excess Of expenditure for the same branch
of the service in the preceding year, and
$l,42l, 449 greater than the estimate submit
ted by the Department to Congress in Decem-
Der, 1878
The statement is made that the excess Of
exports over imports Of merchandise from and
nto the United States, given in specie values,
Ava V..S ...n~ ...~..s--~ $1,000 $3.50 90, - -
$sS, 76O, 1870. The excess in the corresponding
nine months last year was $l6l, 49S, S36 The
excess Of imports Of gold and silver coin and
bullion during the nine months ended Sep
TENDER 80, 1850. was $29, 500, 7o5; correspond
ing months of 1879, $25. 4S1, 49,
IT has been lately decided by the Acting
Commissioner of the General Land Office that
when . person has commenced proceedings
for cancellation Of homestead entry in order
to avail himself Of the privileges of the act of
May IA, 1850, he has acquired such an adverse
interest as will prevent contestee from mak K
ing payment under the act Of June Is, 1850,
for the land embraced in the homestead; or, in
other words that the right Of entry conferred
by said act Of June Is, $780, is confined to
cases wherein the United States and appli-
cant to purchase are the only parties inter-
ested.
IT was announced on the 18th that Sitting
Bull had made application to the War De-
partment at Washington for terms Of sur
render, and that General Terry had been del
egated to arrange the terms Of the surrender.
The East.
TINS year the registration Of voters in New
York City exhibits total of 1864 names.
The total registration in 1876 was 1S3,064.
On the 25th the one hundredth anpiver-
sary Of the adoption of the Constitution of
Massachusetts, was celebrated in Boston by q
display of flags, the decoration of the old
State-House, and the firing of one hundred
guns on the common. On the front Of the
old State-House was displayed the motto:
" October 25, $780," An address was also
made by Governor Long
1t has been recently discovered that Mary
Ann Connor, of Philadelphia, who died six
weeks after marriage and just after making
her will, leaving all her property, about So
coo, to her husband. Michael Common, was the
seventh wife of the man, his sixth wife hav-
ing died within few months of his marriage
to the woman who recently expired. It is
alleged that he treated his wife with brutali-
~, and that Immediately after death her face
turned light blue and her body became
swollen.
A MASSACHUSETTS widow named Mary Har-
rington has recently obtained verdict under
the State Civil-Damage law for 50, 400, in a
suit for $4,000 against Michael McKellop, a
liquor-dealer of Holyoke, for the loss of her
husband, who was killed by Michael O'Neil,
in drunken row, liquor being procured in
the deTenuant'S saloon.
JOSEPH connolly, porter, and Jonathan
White, farmer, recently persisted in burn
ing lodging house in New York City.
WHILE William Mallarkey was drilling an
his clothes, which had become saturated with
oil. took fire from derrick lamp, and he
was burned to crisp. George Knapp, a
fellow-workman, who tried to extinguish
the flames, was seriously, and perhaps fatal
ly, burned.
JOHN DUFF, the builder Of the Union Pa
cifc and Hannibal & st. Joe Railroads, died
at Jamaica Plains, Mass, few days ago. His
estate is valued at over 100000
On the morning of the 9th the Ansonia
Watch and Clock works at Brooklyn, N. Y,
the most complete of the kind in the United
States, were destroyed by fire. Loss about
S1,0O0OOO. Over 1920 persons are thrown
out of employment.
c. RIsLEY d Co., of New York, . firm
which has been engaged in the coffee trade
for thirty years, have made an assignment.
The liabilities of the firm are placed at $780,
Co., The failure is attributed mainly to a
shrinkage in the value OF goods held by the
firm.
ACCORDING to the official census the popu-
lation of Rhode Island is 276 530-males, 1884,
034: females, 143, 496. The whites number
269 $50, and the colored Qncluding 81 Indians
and "a Chinese) 6,997.
On the 9th the National Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union opened its session in
Boston. Miss Frances E. Willard presided,
and claimed this year to have been the most
encouraging the W orld has ever seen in the
progress Of temperance reform.
SARAH BERNHARD the distinguished
French actress, has arrived in New York. A
party of French citizens met her some dis
tance down the bay and welcomed her to the
United States.
OK the 2Sth Mn. Lincoln, the widow of
the late President, was lying dangerously i'll
at the Clarendon House in New York City.
She arrived from France on the day before
in apparent good health, and was taken Ill
Immediately on reaching the hotel
West and South.
Ok the 25th President Hayes and party
reached Shakespeare, N. NJ, and left at once
for Fort Cummings.
A FEW nights ago murderous fight oc-
Cured I'm low den near Camp Sheridan,
Neb., where large number of cow boys and
soldiers had congregated A dance was in
progress, and poor whisky was consumed in