The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-10-14

country from July up to October&
IT is stated that over 2,000, 600 bushels o.
grain were shipped to Europe from this coun
try during the month of September. There
were 800 vessels employed in the transport.
DURING the last fiscal year the coinage Of
silver ct the United States mints amounted
to about 2S.0o0, 600. Adding the net exports
of silver bullion and probable consumption
In the arts, ETC., the production of silver fol
the year probably amounts to about 81, co.,
000-$2 00O, 900 less than the previous fiscal
year.
The East.
DIR. GoERsEN, of Philadelphia, charged
with poisoning his young wife in order to sc.
cure her property, has been convicted Of muir.
der in the first degree.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made of the failure Of
Robinson, Lord & Co., extensive dealers in
wood and willow ware, New York.
JUsr before final adjournment the Pan-Pres
byterian Council, recently in session at Phil.
adclphia, resolved that no action on the sub
ject of Bible revision should be taken by the
Council until the work is completed.
A MAN named Joseph L. Martinez died
recently at Jersey City, N. j., of hydro.
phohia- He was bitten twelve years ago.
THE dissensions which existed among the
Republicans OF the Sixteenth New York Dis
trict have been settled by the withdrawal of
the opposing candidates for Congress and the
nomination of DR.. s. o. vanderpool Is COM
promise candidate.
A. J. CLEMENTS is the Greenback candidate
for Congress in the Fourteenth New York
District.
SIX THOUSAND HORSES were down with the
epizootic in New York on the 4th, and {, 700 in
Brooklyn and Jersey City. In Philadelphia
five per cent of the horses were said to be
affected.
DAVID DOUGLASS & Co., New York linen
importing firm, suspended on the 4th.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made on
the 5th as follows: Second Massachusetts,
District Congressman B. W. Harris, Repub-
ltcan; First Connecticut, George Beach,
Democrat; Thirteenth New York, Edward
7. Gsul, Democrat; Sixteenth Pennsylva-
mia, David Kirk, Democrat; First Massachu-
sets, Charles G. Davis, Democrat; Fourth
Massachusetts,, Leopold Morse, boiling Dem
ocrat.
On the 5th the Ladies' Deposit Company
of Boston, an institution which did q large
business by reason of its paying eight per
cent. per month interest on deposits, sus-
pended business. A large crowd Of women
surrounded the place all day, and some of
them became very much excited. The victims
are school-teschers, seamstresses, and others
who worked for living
Two OF the largest buildings in Waterbury,
Conn.,, comprising Holmes, Booth s. Haydon's
machine works, with large quantity of cost
ly implements, we're lately destroyed by fire.
Loss estimated at $4,000.
THE nomination for Congress recently ten
dercd A. A. Ramsey by the Third Massachu-
sets District Republicans has been declined.
OK the 5th Charles H. voorhis, Congress-
man from the Fifth New Jersey District, was
indicted for emtezzling moneys of the Hack
ensack Bank.
A REDUCTION Of ten per cent. in the wages
of the operatives of the A. W. Sprague Man.
ufacturing Company's mills of Natick, R. l.,
caused them to quit work on the 5th, and the
mills shut down.
AT the close of the first day for the regis
tration of voters in New York City 72,57O
names were registered. This is a large in
crease over the number who registered the
first day in 1876.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS were made
on the 9th as follows: Thirty-third New
York District, George Van Camper, Demo-
crat, rice Prof. Balcam, declined; Twenty
fifth New York, William c. Ruger, Democrat;
Sixth Massachusetts,, Eben F. Stone, Repub-
lican; Second New York, Dennis O'Brien,
Democrat
The announcement is made that D. P.
Dewes has withdrawn from the canvass ss
nominee of the Grcenback party for Judge of
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
PRoF. BENJAMIN PIERCE, the celebrated
mathematician and professor at Harvard Col
lege, formerly Superintendent Of the Coast
Survey, died few days ago.
THE transactions Of the New York Clearing
House during the year ending October
amounted to S3S, sos, 667, 25.3S, the largest
tum ever reached in one year.
JOHN Cook, living at New Brunswick, N.
j., recently ran a nail into one of his feet,
and died few days afterward of lockjaw.
On the 9th James Mcdowell, messenger
for the Marine Bank of New York, was robbed,
while in a Wall street stage, of pocket-book
containing $2!.953.
The Trcnn;al Convention of the Protest.
ant Episcopal Church met ut New York on
the 9th.
OK the 9th fire broke out in the Chase
Mill, Lowell, Mass, completely destroying
the structu e. The walls of the mill fell
upon the Faulkner Mill, setting that on fire,
also, and burning it to the ground. The loss
on the Chase Mill is 100000, and on the
Faulkner Mill about SlO),OO Over 400 per-
sous were thrown out of employment by the
fire.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made on
the 9TH as follows: First Rhode Island Dis
trict, Nelson W. Aldrich, Republican; Twelfth
New York, NJ. S. Gardner, Greenback; Four
teenth New York, Congressman William
Lounsberry, Democrat.
The General Episcopal Convention, at its
session in New York on the 9TH, adopted
resolution instruc,ing the Committee on Can
ons to investigate AMI report whether Right
Reverend Samuel A. McCoskry, late Bishop
of the Diocese OF NJ chigan, had been deposed
from the holr ministry and all the Offices
thereof, according to the laws of the church.
GovEkNoR-ELEcr FARNHAM, of Vermont,
vas sworn into office on the 7tb.
The Rhode Island Republicans nominated
candidates for Presidential Electors on the
9TH.
West and South.
SEVEN persons in Milwaukee were recently
poisoned by eating wild parsnips for dinner.
Physicians were called In Is soon Is the first
symptoms of the poisoning became manifest,
aud all but two of the victims were soon pro-
nOunced out Of danger. The parsnips were
bought Of the family grocer.
TRUE BILLS have been found BY the United
States Grand Jury at Atlanta, Ga, against
thrty-eight moon sinners, who had made At
tacks on the United States revenue officers.