The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-30

Compiled from Latest Dispatches
From Washington.

From Washington.
Ok the 18th Acting Postmaster. Gcners
Hazen issued an order to exclude ffor
the mails all registered letters containin
postal m 'ney orders addressed to agents {
alleged fraudulent lotteries at Louisville an
Covin2 ton, KY, and New York City.
The Secretary of the Treasury has I!
sued q circular instructing the Assistan
United States Treasurer at New York to pa
out at his counter, until further notice
standard silver dollars, or silver certificates, i
sums of ten dollars, or any multiple there
of, for like amounts Of gold coin, or gol
bullion, deposited with him.
MICHAEL JOYCE and John C. Berry, Will
handling a Calling gun at the Unite'
States Arsenal, Washington, D. c., on tn
18th, were shot and instantly killed.
IT is stated that more than 5000 patent
will expire during the present year, man.
Of them being important
ACCORDING to Washington dispatches o
the I'D the demand for standard silver dol
lars was steadily increasing. During thu
week ended September Is $So2, 600 was issued
against $500, 900 for the previous week.
was c0lu tuC 1ACoSuIy DCt0A unACuV Ae~A VA
rected SIS, OO0, 600 silver certificates to b.
printed, the first order for which, based OF
the gold deposit in New York, had just beer
received by the United States Treasurer. i
was for So, 900 certificates to be paid in St
Louis at the Sub Treasury.
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT has recently writer
a letter to Marshall Jewell, Chairman of the
Republican National Committee, declining te
preside at any campaign meetings.
The East.
A FEW days ago Wilkesbarre penn
family ate some corn-meal in which arsenic
had been mixed for the purpose of poisoning
rats. Three, Miss Sylvania Carl, her sistel
and Mrs. R. s. Woodward, died from the ef
fects, and it was thought on the 10th that
four others could not survive.
On the Goth more than half the horses
of Boston were suffering from a disease
strongly resembling the epizootic, although
oil a mild type. Veterinary surgeons believed
that every equine in the city would be at
tackled by the disease. 1t was feared ii
would spread to other parts of the country.
ex-senator LAFAYETTE s. FOSTER, OF
Connecticut, a direct descendant Of Miles
Standish, died few days since. He was
Senator at the time of the death of President
Lincoln, and on Mr.. Johnson's elevation to
the Presidency became Vice President of the
United States, which position he held for a
few months until his term expired.
OK the Goth the Republicans of the Four
teehth Pennsylvania District nominated
ex-senator Simon Cameron for Congress.
Mr.. Cameron declined, and the nomination
was gwen to Samuel F. Barr, for many years
his private secretary.
GEORGE w. HEWITT has been nominated
for Congress by the Greenbackers of the
First Connecticut District.
THE ladies of the Congregational Churches
of the United States have been invited to
attend a Woman's Home Missionary Conven-
ton, to beheld in the First Church, Lowell,
Mass, October ).
OK the 2lst the New Hampshire State
Prohibitory Central Committee met in Con-
cord and nominated Congressman, Electors
and State officers.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations we're made
on the 2lst as follows: Fourth Connect
cut, George W. Peck, Democrat; Thirty
first New York, Congressman Richard Crow
ley, Republican; Twelfth Pennsylvania, D.
W. Connolly, Greenback; Third New Jersey,
Congressman Miles Ross, Democrat; Third
Massachusetts, Major A. Dearborn, Demo-
crat.
On the 2lst the Maine State Greenback
Convention met at Portland and adopt
ed resolutions indorsing the proposed Fusion
Electoral ticket. After the adjournment of
the regular Convention Scion Chase and
about twenty others, calling themselves
-" straight Greenbackers," nominated anoth-
er Electoral ticket.
THE Massachusetts Greenbackers met in
State Convention at Worcester few DAYS
ago and nominated full State ticket, head
ed by General Horace B. Sergeant for Gov
ernor Resolutions opposing the use of
liquor and tobacco, indorsing Scion Chase's
bolt in Maine and condemning General But
Ter for joining the Democratic party were
tabled.
THE Democrats of the First New Hampshire
and the Fifth New Jersey Districts have nom-
mated A. H. sulloway and Augustus W. Cut
Ter for Congress, respectively.
YOUNG Chinaman, student at Spring
field, Mass, has lately embraced Christianity,
and, in consequence, has been ordered home
by his parents. lie consulted with Secretary
Evarts, and found that the treaty between
the United States and China stipulated that
the Chinese in this country should enjoy en-
tire liberty of conscience, and be exempt
from all disability or persecution on account
of their religious faith or worship.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations we're made on
the 23d as follows: Third New Jersey
District, W. L. Hope, Greenback; Sixth New
Jersey, Edward Balbach, Jr., Democrat;
Ninth Massachusetts, NJ. j. McCafferty,
Democrat; Thirty-third New York, H. A.
Balloon, Democrat; Thirty-second New York,
Jonathan Scoville, Democrat.
OK the 23d the one hundredth anniversary
of the capture OF Major Andre at Tarrytown
was appropriately celebrated at that place. A
statue of Patriotism was unveiled on the spot
where Andre was captured, and at the same
hour of the day. The Grafton was delivered
by Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew. Messrs. Tilden
aud Garrison N. Potter also delivered ad-
dresses.
Snow fell on Mount Washington, N. H., on
the morning of the 23i.
Mrs. GRACE, of Philadelphia, mother of
two little girls who were killed in the recent
railroad disaster at Mays Landing, N. j.,
died recently from the shock to her system
produced by the death of her children.
West and South,
On the evening of the 18th the National
Liberal League, in session at Chicago, ad-
journed to meet next year at place to be
By the Board of Directors. r. C.
Spencer, Chairman of the Committee on
Future Works, failed in an attempt to have
the resolution relative to the repeal of the
Objectionable Postal laws modified in a man.
ner similar to that proposed by Colonel Incer-
soil before his resignation, and introduced a
resolution to the effect that the management
of the affairs of the League be turned over 6
the free-lovers and spiritualists. A resolu-
ton that Mr.. Spencer be expelled was there
upon adopted amid con siderable excitement.
On the evening of the 10th fire in
Green Bay, Wis, destroyed sixty Of the best
residences Of that city, thirty barns and the
Presbyterian church. The loss was estimated
at between $l5O,0o0 and Sl75, ZOO. The insur-
ance was very light
On the Goth the Republicans of the
Tenth Tennessee District nominated WILL