The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-30

Nebraska, the other day, falling sixty feet to
the frozen ground. He survived the Accident
but two hours. e.
JOHN G CALHOUN, nephswof the famous
soatA Carolinian, about to y discharged
from the California State InsaAe Asylum,
fell into the river At Stockton . few daSs ago,
and was drowned.
Snow fell to the depth of Ave inches at
Richmond. Va, on the 90th.
ACCORDING to dispatches received from the
Oklahoma invaders ON the SOeh provisions
were running short at Payne's camp. It WAS
reported that camp Of thirty EIGHT wagon 1
and Afty HAen had been established On The
Cimarfon within the limits OF Indian Terff-
tory.
TIE following horrible saosy comes from
Monro County. Miss ssippi. Two fends sought
shelter 81 \ farm house on the 18th, and dur
ing the night chloroformed the family, took
all the money and valuables they could ind,
and then set fire to the house. Father, mother
and child persisted i'm Che names. Oae OF the
men was captured the next day, and, on con-
Tossing his guilt was tied to tree and burned
alive.
1 ATarecent gathering in Richmond, Va, the
Cathokc Bishop Of Virginia Induced thirty
CAthoaic liquor dealers Of that city to sign
pledge to close the r saloons ON Sunday.
On the night of the 18th Granville Harrell.
a negro, who killed David Simmons with an
Ak, near Jackson, Miss, some days before,
was lynched BY masked party.
THE late drop in wheat caused Jones q
Mcdonald and Ray 4 McLaury, two Chicago
commission firms, to suspend. They had
been operating heavily In the cereal. Jones
d McDonald's liabilities were s500.00a
The announcement is made that Governor
Foster has withdrawn from the contest for
the Ohio Senatorship
The three negroes recently sold at Liberty,
Va, under the vagrant Law Of the State have
been discharged under Q writ Of habeas cor.
pus, ON the ground that their cases did mot
come within the scope of the act.
THE Ohio Supreme Court has recently de-
cided that Telephone Company cannot law
fully discriminate against any person or COR
poration in putting up its Instruments.
grain commission firm of St. Louis, failed
with liabilities Of $4,000. The firm was
"long on wheat" The Chicago firm of
Gardner, Stone & Co., the head of which is
an Ex-Governor of Massachusetts,, has also
failed for about e10o, Ooo. aud for substantially
the came cause.
THE San Francisco authorities have re.
shipped to Hong Kong fourteen Chinese lsp-
ers lately arrived from that country.
Foreign Intelligence.
ACCORDING to . Dublin dispatch Of the
18th Mr.. Downing, q Justice of the Peace in
County Mayo, had been obliged to Zee to
Dublin for having issued wrtts Of ejectment.
A strong police force alone prevented the
wrecking of his residence by mob of two
thousand persons.
Two THOUSAND persons met in Berlin on
the 10th and resolved to buy nothing from
Jewish shops, and to return no Liberal to
Parliament who will not vote to suppress the
liberty of the prescribed people.
Francis T. AUCKLAND, the English writer
on natural history, is dead.
AT Mullinger, ireland, ON the 10Th Land
League meeting was held at which 10000
persons were present
MARY E. GURD was killed by . street car in
Toronto, Canada, few days ago, and her
mother, on viewing the remains, became
h0pelessly insane.
ACCORDING to Dublin dispatches of the Goth
British troops were daily be ng landed at
Queenstown, and the troubles in Ireland were
as pronounced as ever. The constabulary
had been instructed to use the utmost vigi.
lance to protect bailiffs and custodians.
A REPUBLIC has been organized at Heidel.
burg, in Africa, BY the Beers, who number
five thousand, and detachment of Colonia.
troops has been sent to the scene of the re-
volt 1t was thought in London on the Goth
that Wolseley would be dispatched thither
with British army.
A RECENT confagration at Rangoon, in Bur-
HE TASK u feOig ani1.us sn. ......~--
Turkey has been abandoned as hopeless by
Herr Wittendorf, the Prussian fnancie..
The Duchess of Westminster, in her
younger days reigniug beauty in the British
Court, died recently.
AT Coleraine, Ireland, on the 21st an en-.
thusiastic demonstration of Oran emeu and
Protestant farmers took place, at which reso-
lutions were adopted denouncing the Land
League agitation and the inaction of the
Government relative to affairs in Ireland.
As tenant-farmer named Mullen, was re-
turning from Ballinrobe market on the night
of the 9th, he was fired upon by SIX men
concealed behind a wall on the road to Holly.
mount. He died Immediately, all the bullets
taking effect.
On the 21st Rev. Mr.. Delabere, Vicar of
Prestbury, Eng, was suspended for six
months for ritualistic practices.
A RAILWAY collision occurred nea. Leeds,
Eng, on the 2lst, in which one man was
killed and fifty injured.
DURING the last fiscal year the public debt
of Canada was increased $9,5OO,OOO.
IT 'sreported that the British Postal Depart.
ment has announced that it is prepared to
establish lephonic facilities in any town in
the Kingdom.
OwING to the disturbed condition of affairs
in Ireland the Empress of Austria announces
that she shall forego her usual hunting season
in that country.
LATER.
The cost Of running the Government
printing office at Washing on during the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1880, was $2,0s4,-
$50
ELEVEN Sioux Chiefs called at the White
House in Washington on the 23d. and shook
hands with the President Their mission is
the negotiation Of right Of way with several
railway lines.
GENrLRMAx JOS" the man who perse-