The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-12

/. +ssytsh 1 ansos lsadea . sAeuuzzle with
powder and slugs.
81 The total coinage at the United
States Mint and branches for the last month
was s9576, 500. Of this amount s2,45O ,OOC
we're in standard silver dollars. '.r II .-.-
ADoLPH e. BoR1E, ex-Secretary OF
the Navy, died in Philadelphia on the morn.
ing of the 5th,, aged Seventy one years. He
had been in in-health for a long time.
SECRETARY SHERMAN issued a cir
cular on the Sd, inviting proposals for the
: sale to the Government of 1--WE and six-per-
cent: bonds to the amount Of I'll, 100000
TiiE Berliner Zeitung, d radical nom
Soeialistic newspaper published at the Ger
man Capital, has been surpassed for pub
fishing sharp attack upon the Government.
A PANAMA dispatch, received on the
III says De Lesseps had eight working par
ties-over one hundred and thirty five men
surveying the Isthmus for the ,Inter-Oceanic
Canal.
A NEGRO cabin on the plantation of
Captain William Slack, near Columbia, s. c.,
was burned few nights ago, and two men, a
woman and six children persisted in. the
flames. ,t-
IN executive session on the 9TH the
United States Senate rejected, by a vote of
AZ to 10, the nomination of John NJ. Morton
to be Collector Of Internal Revenue at San
Francisco.
THREE men. in Philadelphia, recently
convicted of making fraudulent election re-
turns, have been sentenced to pay fine of
800 and costs, and to undergo imprisonment
for twelve months. s-''
THE Connecticut Republican State
II Convention for electing delegates to the Ma
tional Convention will be held at New
Haven, April 4. The New Jersey Conven-
ton is to be held on the 9th of May.
Ten Cinnamon were burned to death
ina san Francisco wash house on the MORN
ing of the 5th. They were all on the first
floor of the burning building, and could have
escaped if they had not been stupefied with
. & - >---Cl
A REPORT, recently current, of the
intended marriage of Samuel J. Tilden to
lady of Lewisburg, Pa, is denied on the au-
thority of Mr.Tilden's secretary, who says
Mr.. t. never had the pleasure of knowing of
the existence of any such lady. c7l..s.
The British Parliament was opened
on the 5thSwith Impressive ceremonies. A
speech from the throne was read, in which
hra rafn odd 10 <ho yo<o So,
Africa, the present war in Afghanistan and
the impending famine in Ireland.
BOGUs- fye-dollar gold pieces are be-
ing circulated quite extensively on the Pa
ciic coast. The imitation is said to be per-
feet except in weight, the coin being only 700
fine. Mexican doubloons of similar char
acter are also being offered for sale.
On the evening of he2dM Mr. Parnell
delivered an address concerning the evils and
injustice Of the Irish land.tenure to a large
audience in the hall of the House of Repre-.
sentatives at Washington. Speaker Randall
presided, and several members of Congress
were present.
The public-debt statement for Janu-
airy makes the following exhibit: Total debt
Cncluding interest,) 42,2O4, 526, 500. Cash
IN Treasury, $903, 742 26S. Debt, less amount
in Treasury, $4,000, TS4,241 Decrease during
the month, $1L0l4,a6A Decrease since June
30, 1879, s26, 423,Ol5.
The Milwaukee (Wis.) County Hos
pital was destroyed by fire on the morning of
the Sd. The building contained thirty in
mates. and of these all escaped except Mrs.
Christine Nelson, a predetermined woman,
3 'atuety vests old. and Fred Scharff, an insane
man, both of whom perished in the flames.
On motion of Mrs. Belva A.. Lock
wood, Samuel r. Laurey, colored man and
President of colored college or academy at
Huntsville, Ala, was on the I'd admitted to
the bar OF the Supreme Court in Washington.
He is the fifth person of his race who has been
admitted to the bar Of the Supreme Court,
but SO far none of them have had any cases.
FROM report recently submitted to
Congress by the Secretary Of War it appears
that the organized strength of the militia
force of the different States consists of 145
general officers l,6O5 regimental, field and
staff officers, 6l9S company officers and
ll1,O31 non-commissioned officers, musicians
and privates. The unorganized force or
nupber ofmen Evailable for military duty is
put down at 6, SIC, 75s:: Il
IT was ann ounced on the 4th that the
proprietor of the New York Herald had given
100000 for the relief of the distress in Ire
land. The Herald says: +" The multitude of
people who are starving are relatives of our
own citizens, and it would be a disgrace to
look on coldly while they perish by the most
piteous of all Deaths" It engages to see
that this $l00d00 and every dollar added
thereto goes to the relief of . actual want
DECISIONS have recently been rem
dered by Judge McAllister, of the Appellate
Court sitting IN Chicago, to the effect that
prospective but implanted crops are not sub
ject to mortgage, and that railroad companies
are not compelled to furnish seats or refuse
ito take passengers, although they may do the
latter when tn cir cars are crowded, and that
persons who insist on boarding trains already
fun muse take their chances, and il injured
have no remedy. IG'r.. icataG
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SUPERINTENDENT. WALKER has writ
ten letter from Washington to the Peoria
(W) 7ra'yesips, in reply to an, inquiry rela-
tive to circular issued from Chicago BY
so-cailed "Census Information Bureau. - in
tiGkte ~: II s'~eqlds .sav>that the per-
-6RsSsA$eer theS ny be- -isuing this cir
cular are not, and are not fikely TO be. and
certainly can have no right to be, in posses
p sion OF any informtiou, not common to the
whole body of citizens; that they have, and
Efap 4Re, 10 legitimate msssaof promoting
the suecesS6f any &pphel8t4er appointment
as Census Enumeration; and that the circular
B.lssS Rstln taasy'' the he aspect 'p =: Of
ri AW 4sHfscro4 spsei6l of the I'd to
the Chicago Ess..tng JoGs,Sd says the irst YER
sionf the aissed confession Of General
JAZZ .hamsncnd'was altogether wrong Gem
Hral Hammond stated that be at frat thought
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