The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
West and South.

HE United states circuit court at
San Francisco has pronounced the law for
bidding the employment of Chinese by cor
porations in California unconstitutional. An
appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court,
it is stated.
The United States Circuit Court at
Detroit has sentenced the late cashier of the
Flint National Bank to the penitentiary for
five years, for defrauding the bank.
The State Convention of the National
Greenback party Of Tennessee has been called
to meet at Nashville, May q, to choose dele
gates to the Chicago Convention.
The steamer City of Mexico, with
Generals Grant and Sheridan on board,
reached Galveston, Texas, at noon on the
2Sd, after q stormy passage from Vera Cruz.
The distinguished party was enthusiastically
received by large concourse of people.
NEARLY all the passenger conductors
of the Hannibal & st. Joseph Railroad received
notices of dismissal on the 23d. The reasons
we're not given.
A SAN Francisco telegram of the Esd
says the late sentences of Kearney and Gan
non had provoked the ire of their more radical
| supporters, and the situation was then con-
sidered more warlike than ever.
RECENTLY q North Carolina wedding
party was broken up by the arrest of the
bridegroom for burglary-a capital offense in
| that State.
The Minnesota State Democratic
Convention to choose delegates to the Gin
cinnati Convention will meet in st. Paul on
the Goth of May.
On the 21st, at Evansville, Ind, a
microphone was placed on the pulpit of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and con-
nected with telephones in the houses of q
number of infirm and aged members who
| were unable to attend church service. By this
means they were enabled to hear the entire
service, organ, choir and preacher, quite dis
tinctly.'
JOHN B. GR1BLER was lately SEN
fenced to sixty days imprisonment in the
Chicago JAIN for having attempted to bride .
juror in q civil case before one of the city
courts. A private detective named Patten,
who is said to have been the go-between and
to have paid the money, was arrested at Wa
mego, Kansas, ON the 23d.
ON the oath Judge Moran, of the
Cook County (M.) Circuit Court, rendered a
decision substantially holding that persons
not freeholders are debarred from serving on
juries in Illinois. He said the common law
provided that freehold qualification waa
necessary for jurors, and as there was no pro-
vision Of any State law repeating this prin-
ciple, but, on the contrary, the statute re-
quired that " juror should be free from all
legal exception" he held that non-freehold-
ers were not competent to serve.
The Illinois Supreme Court, in the
case Of the City Of Chicago against the sure.
ties Of David A. Gage, lately defaulting City
Treasurer has lately decided that the fact
that the bondsmen signed in blank, leaving
certain blanks to be filed, did not invalidate
the bond. The Court held that the sureties
signed the paper knowing 1t to be bond, and
that the contingent circumstances were such
that they must have known that Gage was te
sponsible for the faithful performance Of hi
duties - such official, and in reality each ont
constituted Gage his agent to complete thu
bond.
A SPECIAL to the Denver Tribune
dated March %, says Indians had lately at
tackled party Of six men near Santa Barba
RI, N. NJ, killing them al.
A FEW days ago . barn and smaller
building at Winfield, Kan, were carried ava!
by cyclone, and neither had been found, no
even fragment, after ten hours' search.
On the 25th the Texas Republican
State Convention met ct Austin, and elected
delegates to the National Convention.
majority are said to favor the nomination o
General Grant. The delegates were instructe,
to vote - unit in the convention.
OK the evening Of the 35th sub
committee Of the Anti Third Term Commit
tee OF the National Republicans Of g. Loui
met in that city and issued . call for Nation
Il Mass Convention to be held in st. Louis OF
the 9Th Of May for the purpose Of giving q
preston to the win of the American peopl
against the principle Of . third term, imam
gurating movement with . view to fixing
limit b Executive tsQQre hy CqQstttVttsna