The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-08

desired amount.
CoUNr DE LEssEPs and party sale,
for France ON the Let. The Count expects L
return to New York next December.
A FEW mornings ago two officers ant
the steward OF . New York police boat wer
fatally burned, while asleep
The Vermont Democratic State Con
vention, to select delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention, has been called to meet at Mont
pelier on the 29d Of this month.
EUGENE FAIRFAX WILLIAMSON, tn.
author of the postal communication purport
ing to come from the Rev. DR., Dix, Of New
York. has been indicted and arraigned, and
has pleaded not guilty.
THREE boys, trying to escape from
the Philadelphia House Of Refuge, on the LII
beat Keeper Pierce 10 severely that hislife va.
despaired Of
West and South.
The new directory OF st. Louis places
the population Of that city at $4,000 persons
Northumberland SHERIDAN and
party, who were with General Grant in Cubs
and Mexico. arrived at Chicago on the 29tf
ult. .s+5.af-t
A FEW days ago a lunatic made 9
murderous assault on Horace Wood, hi
nephew, near Sandusky, Ohio, and was choked
to death by the latter.
THE court-martial sentence Of dis.
missal from the United States Army Of Major
Marcus A. Reno, Of the Seventh Cavalry, wa
promulgated from department headquarters
at St Paul on the Goth ult. The sentence VA
to take effect April 1.
CHIEF OURAY was at Fort Leaven-
worth on the SOth ult., and had chat with
Douglass and the other captive Indians. He
said he hoped the prisoners would be punish
ed If guilty, and that Douglass would not
have attempted to escape II he had not been
afraid Of being hanged.
The Georgia Democratic State Con-
vention Is to be held at Atlanta on the 9th Of
June.
DURING General Grants recent visit
to Houston, Tex, some one shut off the gas
from the city and spiked the cannon. The
Mayor has offered . reward Of e5O0 for the
arrest of the offenders.
GEORGE MITCHELL, . San Francisco
painter, became insane on the 3Oth ult.
Though his futile endeavors to solve the Is
puzzle.
Two cARD-PLAYERsi in Bandera Coun-
ty, Tex, quarreled recently, adjourned to the
street, and shot each other dead.
BURDErTz E. PArrEN, who was &C
cused of bribing Cook County un.) juror,
and who afterward, when the matter was
about to be investigated, went to Kansas, was
brought back to Chicago on the 10Th ult., and
on the 81st was sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment in the County Jail for contempt
of Court.
Ex-PREs1DENr GRANT arrived at New
Orleans on the 31st ult., and was enthusiast
cally received.
TIE Kansas Republicans held their
State Convention at Topeka on the S1st ult.
and chose delegates from the State at Large
and from the various districts to the National
Convention. The delegates favor the nomi-
nation of Senator Blaine.
AT Kent, O., q few days ago, Mrs.
Polly A. Lake took d,se of strychnine, sup
posing it to be quinine, and died in less than
thirty minutes.
The Kentucky Legislature has passed
a bill doing away with public executions in
that State.
The San Francisco city election was
held on the 3)th ult., and resulted in . vic
tory for the Citizens ticket over the Work
ingmen's candidates by majority Of from
(, 900 to 5000.
The Nebraska Democratic State Con-
vention assembled at Columbus ON the 31st
ult., and adopted resolutions sustaining tie
two-thirds rule in the National Convention;
advocating hard money and low tariff; de-
the alleged wrong inflicted upon the
party and the country at large by the Repub-
licans in 1876 and pledging the Democrats Of
Nebraska to right those wrongs as far as pos
sible, and punish the wrong-doers.
IT has been recently decided by the
Illinois Supreme Court that school directors
and teachers may lawfully require the Bible
to be read in the public schools of the State.
AFTER the adjournment of the Kan
sas Republican State Convention ON the
morning of the LIST the third-termers Of the
Second and Third DISTRICTS held meetings,
passed resolutions complimentary to General
Grant, and elected delegates to Chicago to
Blaine men.
IT was stated on the LIST that the Ne
braska delegates to the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, while uninstructed, were known to be
enthusiastic Tlden men.
AT Louisville, KY, on the LIST Judge
H. B. Brown, in the Circuit Court of the
United States, fled an opinion in the quit of
Comerford to enjoin the Postmaster at Louis
vile from seizing and OBTAINING the lottery
letters, under instructions from the Depart
ment, and held that the seizure and deten-
ton Of lottery letters was unauthorized by
any act Of Congress, and that the Postmaster
was liable to suit for damages.
An important witness in several muir.
der cases in Live Oak County. Texas, has been
assassinated by unknown persons.
A FEW days ago William Roberts,
who was sentenced to three years. imprison-
ment in the Kentucky State Penitentiary for
burglary, and who escaped about eighteen
months ago, before his time had half expired,
voluntarily returned an surrendered himself
up to Serve out the remainder Of his sentence.
The Brown County CTexas) Court
House was recently burned to the ground.
Several prisoners persisted in the flames.
NORTH CAROLINA is furnishing deal
Of interesting society news. Its latest con-
tribution is the story of young lady who was
for some time contemporaneously engaged to
two young men, and finally married one and
Immediately thereafter eloped with the other.
A LATE inundation in Crittenden
County, Arkansas, resulted in the drown
ing and starving Of several hundred head of
cattle.
IT is stated that the cattle In Utah,
Idaho and Oregon have suffered severely the
past winter from the cold and for want of
pasturage, and that the mortality has been
great beyond precedent In some districts
fifty per cent Of the herds have died.
A coLoRED refugee at st. Louis re-
Gently shot and killed his wife because she
refused to give up her situation and live with
him.
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