The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-19

Published Every Thursday.
REDWOOD FALLS. MINNESOTA
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches,
From Washington.
The postal business Of the United
States during last year is summarized as fol-
lows: Letters, S6S, 493, 572; postal-cArds, 276,.
44S,sl6s newspapers to subscribers and news
agents, 695, La, 6a4; magazines to subscribers
and news-agents, &472, 216; books, circulars
and miscellaneous printed matter, 800, Sa5,
$50; articles of merchandise, 22,634, 456.
Grand total, 2,2l1, O6S, l24. The matter oil
originated in this country.
WASHINGTON telegram of the 10th
says General Augur had been ordered 10 the
Newport (Ky.) Barracks, and would resume
command of the Department of the South.
The value of petroleum and petro.
!eum products exported from this country
during the fiscal year ending June 80 last wat
S36, 2al, OG6, against sc, 3O5, 249 worth export
ed during the previous year.
The Treasury Departments has re.
Gently issued sn order for the shipment Of
standard silver dollars from the minis OF the
United States at the expense of the minis in
sums of $780, or any multiple thereof, upon
deposit Of United States notes, fractional
currency, fractional silver coin or National.
Bank notes with any Assistant Treasurer OF
National-Bank depositary. Smaller sums will
be sent by mail, free Of postage, at the risk
of the party to whom sent.
The East.
Ex-Governor BIGLER, of Pennsyl-
wanna, died few days ago, at his residence at
Clcarfield, in that State. lie was Governor
of Pennsylvania from, 1859 to 1880, when he
was elected to, and served one term in, the
United States Senate.
FORTY-SEyEN Sicilians and fourteen
Turks were among the l,l34 immigrants who
arrived at Castle Garden, New York City, on
the 9th.
On the morning of the 10th fire at
Hunters Point, n. Y, destroyed a great
quantity Of lumber, many canal boats and
several vessels. Approximate loss about
$4,000.
THOMAS B. REED has been renOmi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans of the
First Maine District.
A FEW days ago young lady named
Dehart, residing at Port Mariner, Staten
Island, N. Y, concluded thirty-two days
fast without food or water. 1t was under
taken by the advice of her physician for the
cure of q stomach affection.
IT was announced by the Secretary
of the National Prohibition Committee on the
10th that the Prohibition party would place
an electoral ticket before the voters of twenty
States this year.
THE Butler and Democratic State
Committees of Massachusetts, have called for
united State Convention to meet at Worces.
ter on the LIST of September.
OK the 10th the New York Federal
Grand Jury. which had been investigating
the Seawanhaka disaster, returned indict-
ments for manslau yhter against four Govern
ment Inspectors of Life Boats and Boilers,
the captain and engineer and the owners of
the steamer.
THERE were eight cases of sunstroke
In New York on the 10th. Six were fatal.
ACCORDING to the late census returns
the population of Massachusetts, is l, 7S3 Sl2,
a gain of 3a6 900 since $780, and 132. 600 since
1915
The Connecticut State Republican
Convention met at Hartford on the 18th and
nominated a full State ticket.
AT meeting in New York on the
18th of the Executive Committee of the
Worlds Fair Commission, to decide in what
manner subscriptions to the capital stock
should be made, resolution was adopted de-
claring that ten per cent. be paid at the time
of subscription, and the remainder after per-
mauent organization, subject to the call of
the Executive Committee, in six fifteen-per-
cent. installments, at intervals of sixty days
each, to commence July l, 1881.
A SECTION of an excursion train re-
turning from Atlantic City to New York on
the evening of the 18th ran into the rear end
of another section, killing two persons and
injuring twenty-five others.
THE boiler of portable engine ex-
ploded at Hamlin, near Rochester, N. Y,
few days ago, killing boy and injuring two
or three other people. The boiler was thrown
two hundred feet through barn.
In trials of speed against time at
Rochester, n. Y, on the 18th, Vanderbilt's
young mare Maud 8. and the noted horse st.
Julien each trotted mile in 2:11s4, beating
the fastest previous record by one second.
The American Bankers Association,
at its recent session in Saratoga, reelected
Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, Presi-
dent, and Jacob D. Vermilyc, First Vice
President.
Ur to the morning of the 18th thir-
teen persons had died from injuries received
in the railroad accident near Atlantic City,
n. j., the day before, and it was feared many
Others would die. 1t had transpired that
about seventy-fve persons were more or less
injured by the collision.
A. NJ. FOGG, Democratic nominee for
Congress, has been Endorsed by the Green
hackers of the Second Maine District.
West and South.
The engine of a threshing-machine
on the farm of Elias McCann, near Lakeland,