The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-01-01

GENERAL WILLIAM MALONE, the
candidate of the Readjusters Of the Virginia
Legislature, was elected United States Sem
ator on the 10th, by vote of 70 against So
for Mr.. Withers, the present incumbent.
The vote in the Senate was Malone, g;
Withers, Is In the House, Malone, So;
Withers, 20; Wickham, 2.
The fee bill reducing the fees and
salaries of all Wyoming officers, passed at the
late session of the Legislature, has been
stolen, - is alleged, since adjournment, by
some of the parties interested.
The detailed report of the condition
of the Washington Monument submitted to
the House on the 10th, shows an expenditure
of $99, $50 since the work was undertaken by
the present Commissioners, leaving unex-
pended and available for the further prosecu-
ton of the undertaking 500, 739. To con-
tinue the work until October 81, 1881, would
require $500, QUO additional, and to complete
the shaft to the proposed height of 500 feet
would require $6T,S21.S
The session of the International
Dairy Fair in New York on the 10th was dis
tinguished by the award of the prizes. The
first premiums for creamery butter we're
given to citizens of Iowa and Wisconsin, and
for dairy butter, to citizens of Eastern States.
Canada took the first premium for best cheese.
AT the meeting of the National Re-
publican Committee in Washington on the
18th it was decided that the Convention in
1880 should be held in Chicago on the Sd
day of June, the vote standing: Chicago, "a;
Saratoga, "A, and Cincinnati and indianapolis
each g Senator j. Donald Cameron, of Penn
sylvania, was elected Chairman over Mr..
Averill, of Minnesota, the vote being: Cam
eron, q; Averill, 10; Platt, 1-Messrs Cam
eron, Averill and Root declining to vote.
Eulogies we're pronounced upon the late Sem
ator Chandler, and resolutions of respect
resolutions of respect we're adopted. The
changes in the Committee were the resigna-
lions of Messrs. Kemble, of Pennsylvania,
Noyes of Ohio, and Cornell, of New York,
and the substitution therefor of J. D. Cam
eron, of Pennsylvania, w. c. Cooper, Of
Ohio, and Thomas C. Plat, Of New York, re-
spectively. William L. Heath, of Michigan,
was accepted to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Zachariah Chandler.
On the 18th the Governor and Coun-
Gil of Maine issued certificates to such persons
as appeared to them to have been elected
members of the next Legislature. In the
Senate the Fusionists are given twenty and
the Republicans eleven, and in the House the
former have seventy-eight and the latter
sixty-one. The Republican majority on joint
ballot on the face f the returns was nearly
thirty.
SAMUEL E. PERKINS, Chief Justice
of the Indiana Supreme Court, died on the
night of the 18th at his residence in Indian
apohs. Judge Perkins was sixty-eight years
old.
On the 10th Josephine Taylor,
daughter of the President of the Mormon
Church, escaped the vigilance of her father,
and, reaching Ogden penniless, boarded .
passenger-train for the East. When the con-
ductor made his usual ticket-taking tour he
found her without the necessary ticket, and,
on arriving at the next station, put her of
without ceremony. Here she entreated the
agent to secrete her for q time, but he proved
obdurate, and she was soon in custody aud
taken back to Salt Lake City by her fathers
friends.
GENERAL GRANT has announced his
intention to visit Washington in January, as
the guest of General Beale.
AT the meeting of the Presbyterian
Synod of Long Island on the 18th the appeal
of the opponents of Mr.. Talmage from the
decision of the Presbytery was dismissed by
two-thirds vote.
AT meeting of the grain dealers of
New York on the 18th the vote of the Prod
uce Exchange to conform to the GENITAL sys-
tenn was loudly denounced, and q resolution
to adopt the system was defeated by an over
whelming vote.
In the Ottawa Valley, Ontario, the
thermometer ranged from fifteen to thirty
four degrees below zero on the night of the
18th.
GOVERNOR GARCELON, of Maine, has
issued an address to the public justifying the
reversal by himself and his Council of the
election results ella aimed by the Republicans.
A RooroS Telegram Uf the 18th says
that the pleuro-pneumonia had broken out
among the cattle in New Hampshire.
Two MURDERERs were hung in Vir-
ginia and one in Georgia on the 10th.
A ST. LOUIS dispatch of the 10Th says
Dan Rice, the famous circus man, had made
announcement that he had been converted
and would at once enter the field as an
evangelist. He had had interviews with Mr..
Moody, and would probably begin his new
career BY speaking at Moody's meeting, and
then seek such fields as offer the best pros
pect of success in his new work.
BOrH houses of Congress adjourned
on the 10Th until the 9th of January next
ACCORDING to Winnipeg special to
the st. Paul Pioneer- Press of the 10Th an ex-
plosion of nitro-glycerine had occurred on the
Canada Pacific Railroad near Rat Portage,
which caused the instant death of four per-
sons and seriously injured three others. One
of the men in handling a can OF nitro-glycer-
inc let it fall from his hand to the frozen
earth, and an explosion followed with the re-
suit stated.
On the 10th, at Carlisle, Pa, a wom-
an named Zell was sentenced to be hanged
for murder.
The legal-tender notes outstanding
on the 18th aggregated s346, 1881, 016. There
were also outstanding SIS, 7o4, 1881 of frac-
tional notes.
WILLIAM MCKEE, the senior proprie
tor of the st. Louis Globe Democrat, died early
on the morning of the 10th, at his residence
in the western part Of the city, of paralysis.
He was sick only one hour.
AT an indignation meeting held in
Augusta, Maine, on the night of the 10Th,
resolutions were adopted denouncing the ac-
ton Of the Governor and Council in refusing
to give certificates to certain Senators and
Representatives alleged to have been elected
at the recent State elections. Large delega-
tons we're present from various parts of the
State, and Senator Blaine delivered an ad.
dress, which was enthusiastically received.
THE MARKETS..
NEW YORK, December 2O..-Flour-
White Wheat Extra, s6.25@675. Wheat
No. Chicago Spring, $1.43(0l44; No. 2
Milwaukee, $l.44H@l.45. Oats Western
Mixed, $50 5OLc. Corn Western Mixed,
6211d63xc. Pork-Mess, $12250l2.50. Lard
-a712h. Lattle-$7. O0@lO Is for Common to
Extra. Sleep $4O4&0o. Hogs-N.5O@
4.65.