The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-01-29

by yeas, go; nays, 10.
Two CHILDREN of A. j. Wilson set
fire to their fathers stable at Chatham, Ont,
few days ago, and were burned to death.
A ROME telegram of the goth says
the Pope was surprised and indignant at Car
dinal McCloskey's reception of Parnen in
New York.
A CONsrANTINOPLE dispatch of the
I'd says the famine in Mosul was SO severe
that the people were selling their children to
procure food.
A PARIS dispatch of the goth an
nounccs the death from pneumonia of Jules
Favre, the French statesman. He was sew
enty-one years old.
A CHrNAMAN who was to have been
executed at Portland, Ore, on the 2Oth, COM
mitted suicide the night before by strangling
himself in his CELL
SETH A. TERRY, the Secretary of the
Territorial Savings, Building 4 Loan Asso-
citation at Washington, D. c.. has been de-
clared to be q defaulter in the sum of $4,000
L~,:-l-A---~ nf Morylond has
elected Mr.. Arthur German (Democrat) to
the United States Senate, to succeed Mr..
Whyte, whose term expires on the 4th of
March, 1881.
THE Cincinnati Times of the 21st
says it had positive information from au-
thoritative sources that the National Demo-
cratic Convention will be held at Music Hall
in that city.
AT a meeting of the Council of the
Home-Rule League in Dublin on the 18th
resolution was passed thanking the people of
America for their prompt aid to the dis
tressed in ireland.
The Illinois State Board of Agricult-
for 1879 amounted to the grand total Of 3O5.-
9l3,371 bushels, for which the producers re-
ceived s91, 4S3,052.
The Department Of Agriculture esti-
mates the present cotton crop at 5,Oai,3S1
bales of four hundred and fifty pounds each,
and the value in round numbers at 1921 ,00O,-
co., against $193 OOO, 600 in 1875
A TELEGRAM received at the Interior
Department in Washington on the 2lst
states that Walter X. Irwin, Of Illinois, Chief
of the Private Land Division of the General
Land Office, was found dead in bed at Mobile
on the morning of that day.
THE Maryland Republican State Con-
vention to select delegates to the Republican
National Convention at Chicago will be held
at Frederick City, May 6. The Kentucky
for tho 10 IN no
held at Louisville on the l4th of April.
On the 22d, the Mississippi Legisla-
ture elected J. z. George, the Democratic
caucus nominee, United States Senator, and
the Louisiana Legislature elected r. L. Glib
son, also the Democratic candidate, to be
Senator from that State from March 4, 1889.
Mr.. Georges term will begin in March, 1881.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has rendered a decision that soldiers
who enter soldiers homes cannot be de-
prived of their pensions, thus sustaining q
former ruling of the Commissioner of PEN
sions that such pensions should not be paid
to the officers of the homes, but to the pen
sioners themselves.
AN Oswego (Kansas) dispatch of a
recent date says negro emigrants from Texas
continued to arrive in that county in great
numbers on the Missouri, Kansas Il Texas
Railroad, and by trains across the Indian
Territory. The winter was mild, but house
room was not to be had for them. Some
were living in tents and wagons in the woods.
Some deaths had taken place, and some suf-
fering from poverty.
L. - L.
Senate by the President on the 10Th were the
following: James Russell Lowell, of Massa-
chusetts, as Minister to England; John w.
Foster, of Indiana, Minister to Russia; ex-
Governor Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin,,
Minister to Spain; Philip H. Morgan, of
Louisiana, Minister to Mexico; Eli H. Muir
ray, of Kentucky, Governor of Utah Terri
tory.
Ex-PREs1DENr GRANT and party
reached Havana, Cuba, on the morning of
the ed. As the steamer entered the port, it
was boarded by a representative of the Cap
tain-General and General Arias, the Civil
Governor of the Province, who rendered to
General Grant the Inequalities of the city
and an abode in the palace. The party will
leave for Vera Cruz, Mexico, on the 18th of
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and other West India islands.
AMONG the Executive documents laid
before the National House of Representatives
on the 21st was a communication from the
Secretary of the Treasury stating that the
United States Sub-Treasurer at New York
had for some time employed the New York
Clearing House to facilitate the transaction
nf his hy,sfOoas Thof tv,ixh <ho
Clearing House was entered into in Novem-
Der, 1878, after he had obtained the verbal
opinion of the Attorney General that such an
arrangement would not be contrary to law.
A WOMAN named Mrs. Margaret
Tumy, widow aged seventy years, died on
the 18th, at her home in Walnut Hills, near
Cincinnati, from the effects of voluntary star
walton. She had been . sufferer for years
from dyspepsia, and few weeks ago recover
ed from serious illness, but the attack had
developed in her mind the remarkable
hallucination that her stomach was gone.
No amount of persuasion could convince
her to the contrary, and she from
that time persistently refused to take food.
After she had suffered from starvation for
nearly two weeks she was prevailed on to
take little meat, which she was in the habit
OF holding in her mouth short time, swal-
lowing nothing but the juice pressed out of
IT, This and few ounces of liquid was all
that entered her stomach during her long fast
of four weeks. She remained conscious till
within an hour of her death.
General.
WILLIAM NJ. LEEDS, formerly Chief
Clerk Of the Indian Bureau of the Interior
Department, was before the House Commit
tee on Indian Affairs on the 18th. He At