The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-02
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches,
From Washington.

Nor long ago William A. Bucking-
ham, Milford Comm boy, picked up .
mail bag which had fallen from a train near
that place, and laboriously carried It to the
depot. Postmaster-General Key wrote an
autograph letter of commentator to the boy,
and directSH his Third Assistant to forward
to him SIT Of copy of Government stamps
worth SaO5.05 as memento of regard.
On the 25th Judge Key retired from
the Office Of Postmaster-G General, and Horace
Maynard, late Minister to Turkey, was in
stalled in his place. Before leaving, the Post
office employees presented Judge Key with an
appropriate address. Later ths President
signed the retiring Postmaster Generals
commission as Judge of the Eastern District
of Tennessee, and General Lougs'rees's COM
mission as Minister to Turkey.
PRESIDENT HAYES left Washington
on the a6.h for California. lie would be
Joined Oh the route by Secretary Ramsey,
Generals Sherman and McCook and Others.
1t was said he would make no political
speeches during his absence from Washing
ton.
The East.
THE Democrats Of the Thirteenth
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The Poor Directors of Berks County,
Pa, are said to have recently made horrible
discovery. The evidence before them showed
that Benjamin Zechler, a German by birth,
and about fifty-ive years Of age, had been
confined in a rude log-hut for twenty-seven
years. In all that time the unfortunate man
W ho.1
His brother gave him some food at
times, but his fuel was restricted to
a fire kindled in early winter, and
from which the smoke aud gas escaped
through chinks in the hut. A chain was
attached to his leg, which preclrxed all
possibility of escape, but it was long enough
to allow him to reach either wall, which in
his frenzy he often beat with his hands, feet
and head. The condition of the poor Great
ure when discovered was loathsome. A charge
of inhuman treatment would be preferred
against the brother.
THE Massachusetts Greenbackers will
hold their State Convention at Worcester on
the 22d Of September.
JUDGE CHARLES j. FoLGER has
been nominated by the Republican State
Committee of New York as candidate for
Judge of Appeals.
GENERAL ALBERT j. MEYER, Briga-
tiier General of the Unitel States Army, and
Chief Signal Officer of the Weather Bureau,
died at Buffalo on the 2ith, after several days
illness.
THE steamers which arrived at New
York on the 18th from Europe brought gold
to the value of 81, 100000.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the
18th that Loeb Il Co., exporters and import
ers of clocks, hardware and silver-plated
goods at New York, had failed, with liabili-
ties of $4,000.
On the 18th Judge Jere S. Black ar
rived at New York from Liverpool.
j. ID. PHELPS was renominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the Second
New Jersey District on the 25th.
GENERAL THOMAS D. HOx1E has been
nominated for Governor by the New Jersey
Greenbackers
A VERY great mortality has prevailed
among children in New York City during the
recent warm weather there. 1t is said chole-
IA infantum and other infant diseases have
visited nearly every tenement house and car
AN engine-boiler on the King farm,
near Bradford, Pa, blew up few days ago,
and Wilbur. Chambers, cousin of Wesley
Chambers, the oil-king of that locality, was
fatally injured. The force of the explosion
sent him 400 feet through the air.
The Democrats of the Eighteenth
Pennsylvania District have nominated R. NJ. |
speer, and the Republicans of the Twenty
ninth New York District have nominated |
David P. Richardson, for Congress.
West and South.
ACCORDING to corrected census re-
urns Cleveland, Ohio, has a nonulation of |