The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-10-07
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington.
DURING the last fiscal year 3O,66l tons of
newspapers and periodicals passed through
the United States mails, being an increase of
5.C9S tons over the previous year. The post
age collected last year was 81, 2226, 452, an in
crease of $12a, o66 over that Of the year be-
fore.
THE statue of Admiral Farragut, by Winnie
Ream, was placed on the pedestal on Farra-
gut Square, in Washington, on the goth ult.
and yelled to wait the day of the public cere-
mony of unwilling.
DURING August the value of the exports
from this country exceeded the value Of the
imports by $l0,9l7, lss, against SIS, SOS, 100
for the corresponding month of last year.
The value OF the gold bullion imported dur
ing August Of this year was g, 23S, 3S9 in ex-
cess of the value Of the bullion exported,
against an excess of IS, 935 AZ in 1879.
DURING the year ended June3l, 1880, 7,240, =
531 postal money-ordcrs for 800, S., SIS were
issued, against tSS, 254, 841 the previous fiscal
year; fees and premiums received by post
masters during the fiscal year, SOL, O9l, or
$l15,S21 moro than the previous fiscal year;
commissions paid postmasters and expenses
for clerk-hire, etc, s659 SIG, which, deducted
from the gross receipts derived from fees
and premiums, leaves $ss7, Sis as the gross
revenue Of the Bureau for the year. Other
1oa tho pof Of
the Money Order Bureau.
ACCORDING to the report Of the Comptroller
of the Currency the additional circulation
issued during August and September
amounted to 500, $50; amount surrendered
aud destroyed, $939, 569-leaving a decrease
of circulation during the two months of
1886, ?39. The net increase of National Bank
notes during the year ending October was
S9,654, 1l3; increase of legal-tender notes on
deposit for the purpose Of retiring the Ma
tional-Bank circulation during August and
September, 1855, 05l; increase during the
year ending October 1, 1850, 81, 1882;
amount OF legalte notes on deposit,
80, 1863, 2S3; total amount of National Bank
notes outstanding October l, 1880, $342 &c.
S33 not including National gold bank-notes,
amounting to 81, S25, 900; amount of United
States currency outstanding, $685., 6s2,914.
The East.
THE Psn-presbyterian Council, in session
in Philadelphia, has decided to hold its next
gathering in Belfast, Ireland, in 1854.
s. NJ. WAITE, the defaulting bank-Presi-
dent, was arraigned at Brattleboro, VT, on
eight indictments on the 18th, and pleaded
not guilty to all. He is charged with larceny,
forgery and negotiating forged notes.
EX-CoNGREssMAN ALBRIGHT died q few
days ago, at Mauch Chunk, Pa, of paralysis.
THERE were 43,2Sl persons registered in
Brooklyn, n. Y, on the 2Sth. In 1876, the
number registered on the first day was 49,
543.
The Philadelphia Democrats made the fol-
lowing nominations for Congress on the 18th:
Charles A. Snowden in the First District;
Daniel Dougherty, Second; Speaker Samuel
j. Randall, Third; George Bull, Fourth;
John X. Folwell, Fifth. Congressman Robert
klotz has been renominated by the Demo-
Gratis in the Eleventh Pennsylvania District.
A STATE CONVENTION of the New York De-
mocracy was held at Saratoga on the 18th,
and the State Central Committee was recon-
structed by the placing thereon of five Tam
many men. Judge Rapello was nominated
for Chief-Justice of the Court of Appeals.
JOHN NJ GAMBLER is the Republican candi-
date for Congress in the Eighth Massachu-
sets District; Gillian Roberts in the Third
New Jersey, and Albert C. Woodwork in the
Eleventh Massachusetts,. The Democrats of
the Seventh New Jersey District have nomi-
mated A. A. Hardenburgh.
The distemper among horses reported ex-
listing in Boston made its appearance in New
York City on the 2Sth. 1t seemed to be influ-
enza, which was the incipient stage of the
epizootic of 1873.
DIR. MICHAEL CoRRIGAN, Bishop of Newark,
n. j., has been appointed Coadjutor Bishop
of New York. The appointment was made
at the request of Cardinal McCloskey, and
carries the right to the succession.
BEFORE retiring to bed on the night of the
18th ult., at the Burnet House, Stroudsburg,
Pa, James Hanna blew out the gas. He and
a companion were found dead the next morn
ing.
THE Democrats Of the Twentieth Pennsyl-
vania District have nominated Ex-Governor
n. q. Curtin for Congress, and the Green
hackers of the Sixteenth New York District
have nominated Alexander Gregory.
On the 29th ult. the New Hampshire State
Greenback Convention met at Manchester
and placed in nomination full State ticket,
headed by Warren G. Brown for Governor.
The Albion Print Works Company, located
at Conshohockcn, Pa, suspended payment
on the 30th ult., and made an assignment of
its property for the benefit of its creditors.
The Directors state that owing to sundry
losses and misfortunes the concern was
obliged to 60 into liquidation.
AT its session in Philadelphia on the Goth
ult. the Pan-Presbyterian Council adopted
resolution recommending that the churches
take under careful consideration the revised
version of the Bible now being made.
The census returns give the six New En-.
gland States total population of 4,O14,3 OS,
being an increase of 52S, 966 in ten years.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations made in the
Eastern States on the Both ult. Greenback-
First New Hampshire District, DR.. La Farelle;
Second do, John F. Woodbury.; Third do,
Dudley T. Chase. Republican, Thirteenth
New York, John H. Ketcham (renominated);
Thrtieth do, John Van Voorhis (renominat-
ed; Thirty-second do, Myron P. Bush. Demo
cratic-FOurth Massachusetts,, William Gas
ton; Twentieth New York, Judge Hilton.
West and South.
Bishop FEEnAN, of Nashville, has been re-
Gently officially notified by the Vatican author
tiles of his elevation to the Archbishopric of
Chicago.
THOMAS ALLEN has been nominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the Second