The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-07-22
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches,

4A6 NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington.
Mr.. MAYNARD, the new Postmaster
General, has notified the authorities that he
will be in Washington about August l, pre-
pared to enter on the duties of his office.
THk Cabinet met in Washington on
the 18th and resolved to thoroughly investi-
gate the causes which led to the Narragansett
disaster, and determine where the resposibil-
fty belongs.
The announcement is made that the
Postmaster-General has decided to prevent
the sending through the mails Of advertising
cards of various sizes with one cent stamps
attached. After October 1 no cards except
the regulation postal cards will be transmitted
Mt less than letter rates-thrce cents for each
half ounce
THE Agricultural Department crop
report was published ON the 18th. The cot
ton crop appears to be the best for many
years; wheat much above the average, and
the corn crop unprecedentedly good. In
Texas corn was rated at 1l6 and cotton at
ia.
On the 18th Senator Don Cameron
was in Washington and appeared to be in Or
binary gcol health, having almost entirely
recovered from his recent indisp,sition. He
is reported to have stated that there was not
word of truth in the stories about his failing
health.
JUDGE LAWRENCE, of Ohio, has de-
cided to accept the First COMPREHENSIVE of
the Treasury.
The East.
A DRUNKEN driver tipped over q
wagon containing party of excursionists
from Michigan, while descending Mount
Washington on the 18th, causing the death of
Mrs. Ira Chichester, of Allegan, and the Sc
we're Injury Of several others. The driver was
fatally hurt.
THE excessive heat caused the death
of over one hundred children in New York on
the 18TH Among the victims was a four
months-old grandchild of General Hancock
The thermometer ranged from 81 to 81 de-
grees in the shade. Two fatal cases Of sum
stroke were reported.
ACCORDING to the recent census Al
bany, n. Y, has population of 9O,143.
ON the 18th the Democratic Congress
sional Committee met at New York and eff
fected reorganization. The committee con-
sists of Senators Wallace, Mcdonald and
Whyte and Congressman Eppa Hunton, H.
u. Davis and j. c. s. Blackburn, together
with August Belmont and General w. B.
Franklin. The committee has established
headquarters at Washington, and will coop
crate with the National Committee.
AT the meeting of the Democratic
National Committee in New York on the
18th ex-senator w. H. Barnum, of Connect
icut, was appointed Chairman, and F. o.
Prince, of Massachusetts, Secretary. In COM
company with the committee appointed by
the Cincinnati Convention, the committee
proceeded to General Hancock's headquar-
tiers, on Governors Island, and formally no.
titled him and Mr.. English of their nominal
tons to the Presidency and vice-P Presidency
The circular of Dun, Barlow 4 Co.
shows failures in the United States and Can
adas in the last three months and for the first
half OF 1850, as compared with the CORE
spending time in 1879. During the last three
months there were in the United States 1,OO5
failures, with liabilities at so, Ill $50, and dur
ing the first half of 1880, 2,497, with liabili-
ties of s32, SIS, 1853. In the first six months
of 1879 there were 4,O5S failures, with $685.
s79. 80 liabilities.
ON the 18th just as gravel train with
three hundred laborers on board approached
a large derrick which stood BY the side of the
track of the Long Island Railroad near East
Rockaway, n. Y, one of the wire supports fell
across the train, sweeping nearly every man
from the cars. Twenty-six were severely in
jured, six of them fatally.
AN adjourned meeting of the Nation
al Democratic Committee was held in New
York on the 14th, and the following gentle
men were appointed an Executive Campaign
Committee: William H. Barnum, Connecti-
cut: Frederick o. Prince. Boston; George T.
Barnes, Georgia; William C. Cloudy, ILL
nos; Austin II. Brown, indiana; NJ. NJ.
Ham, Iowa; Henry D. McHenry, Kentucky;
Outerbridge Horsey, Maryland; B. F.
Jonas, Louisiana; Patrick H. Kelly, Mime
sofa; A. H. sulloway, New Hampshire;
Orestes Cleveland, New Jersey; Abram 8.
Hewitt, New York; Senator Ranso ON, North
Carolina; W. W. Armstrong, Ohio; William
L. Scott, Pennsylvania; Thomas O'Connor,
Tennessee, and B. B. Snalley, Vermont. The |
committee chosen elected Mr.. Barnum Chair
man, Mr.. Prince Secretary, and Duncan 8.
Walker Assistant Secretary
ACCORDING to the census returns
Buffalo, n. Y, has population of 1874, 1885,
and Syracuse 52,2l0. Rutland, the largest |
city in Vermont, contains a population of
IL. E23
ITwas reported on the 14th that miners
had found gold in paying quantities in Hami,-
ton county, N. Y, near the Vermont line. The |
claim is made that five dollars worth could |
be collected by competent laborer each day. |
The precious metal is said to be found in the |
sands of stream which passes through |
quartz gulch.
The Democrats of the Nineteenth |
Pennsylvania District have renomnated Con-
gresham Beltzhoover.
The New Hampshire Republican
State Convention will meet at Concord ON
the 9TH OF September.
A BRIDGEPORT Comm cartridge
company has commenced work on an order
from the Turkish Government for 4,5OO, 600 |
cartridges.
On the 18th an oil-pipe burst near
&c
The clothing of a fve-year-old daughter of |
John Washburne, who was playing near by, |
became saturated with oil, and before she |
could get away she was caught in the flames
and literally roasted alive.
West and South.
In Chicago on the 18th there were
cases of sun-stroke, of which thir-
teen were fatal. The mercury rose to "a de-
grees in the shade. Excessive heat generally |
prevailed throughout the West
Two MORE cases of yellow fever were
reported at the quarantine station in New |
Orleans on The 18th.
SOME weeks ago United States reve-
nue. officers were arrested and imprisoned in
Georgia for killing mooHshiner. writ of |
habeas corpus was sued out and the prison. |
ers brought before Judge Woods, Of the |
United States Court, with a view to their re-