The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-12
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches,
From Washington.

vision OF the Post-ofiice Department.
On the SOth ult the Secretary Of the Treas
ury gave notice that on and after May he
would pay the fve-per-cents included In the
last call, with interest to May 81. Over a..
WOOOO OF six-per-cents had been received Tor
continuance, and notifications had also been
received from . large number OF holders Of
their Intention to have their bonds continued,
and asking for the necessary blanks No
doubt was entertained by the Secretary that
all the bonds would be presented in due time
for continuance.
THE public-debt statement for April shows
the following: Total debt Uncluding inter-
esD 1907, 500, $50. Cash in Treasury, $685.
s3l, 1875 Debt, less amount in Treasury, 81
So4,U'2, 69A Decrease during the month,
$685., 9Ol Decrease since June 80, 1850
$sS,O99, COL.
IT has been recently decided by the United
States Treasurer that deposits for the reduce
ton Of National Bank circulation shall here
after be made in United States notes only.
PosrMAsrER-GENERAL JAMES proposed on
the % to cancel all the contracts for the ex-
tension Of the "Star-route'' service made by
General Brady, and begin anew, and thus de-
termine whether the increase in the service
on such routes is necessary or not
THE United States Treasurer furnishes the
following statement of United States cur
rency outstanding st the close Of business
on the 9th ult: Demand notes, $50 $50;
legal-tender notes, new issue. $l4, 1914 400;
legal-tender notes, series Of 1859, $50. 25l,-
As; do. of 1874 SIS, 4Sl, 39S; do Of 1875, $751;
9SS, 33l; do of 1873 $ll4, 034, 395; do. Of 1879,
1913, sol, 945; one-year notes of 1868, ~, 945;
two-year notes of 1853 $13, 400; two-year
coupon notes Of 1863, $2S. $50; compound-in-
terest notes, $235, 2S); fractional currency,
second issue, %, los, 16a05; do. third issue,
$2,99l, 9l37O; do. fourth issue, first series,
q, 5S, $50 Is; do. fourth issue, second series,
$615, 1850; do. fourth issue, third series,
$685.. 9l5; do. fifth issue, 81, So, 50S.60 Total,
$685., 54S, 63625
The six-per cent. bonds received at the
Treasury Department in Washington for con-
version into three-and.a-half per cents az
gregated SO, 500, $50 up to the Sd
ANOTHER caucus OF Republican United
States Senators was held on the Sd, at
which the Caucus Committees report rel
received. A resolution was adopted provid-
ing that executive sessions should be held,
beginning on the 4th, to refer the nomina-
saOhS VII WIZ e0oAV w oPpAVP SOAAlAAeICOOS
to consider the Chinese treaties, and to dis
pose of suoh nominations as are not objected
to by one Republican Senator from the State
towhich the Office appertains. When the I'M
contested cases shall have been disposed of,
another caucus to be held for the purpose of
determining the next business to be taken up.
ELLIOT Z. JEwErr, Of Missouri, has been
nominated by the President to be Superin-
~ ho =
The President on the 5th nominated George
P. Pomeroy, of New Jersey, for Secretary of
the American Legation at Paris. He with
drew the nominations of Stewart L. Wood
ford, Asa W. Tenney, Lewis F. Payne, Clin-
ton d. McDougall and John Tyler to Federal
offices in the State of New York. This latter
action caused considerable excitement it
being understood that these Withdrawals were
made as retaliation upon Senator Conkling
for his well-known opposition to the nomina-
ton of Judge Robertson.
UNITED STATES SENATOR DAWES on the
5th telegraphed to New England paper de-
nying that he, or any committee of which he
was a member, had advised the President to
withdraw the nomination Of Judge Robert
son, or recommended to him or to the caucus
that action on the nomination be postponed
until another session.
The East.
A FEW days ago Prof. Lewis Swift, of
Rochester, N. Y, discovered bright comet
in the constellation of Andromeda, and
thereby won 500 prize offered BY H. H.
Warner.
JOHN B. CAHILL, New York horse-shoer,
recently hanged his wife to the door in his
apartments. The corpse was cut down by the
neighbors on the appeals of her children.
A New York Grand Jury has recently in
dicted the Police Board for misdemeanor in
not cleaning the streets.
DURING April sixty thousand immigrants
arrived at New York.
ACCORDING to New York dispatch of the
Goth ult the Committee for the Revision of
the New Testament, having finished its work,
had disbanded.
On the 3Oth ult. one of the noted shipping
merchants of New York City, John w. Min
turn, killed himself with . revolver in his
private Office. As he was wealthy and happy
in his domestic relations, the deed is attrib-
uted to temporary insanity.
TIE announcement is made that the thir-
teenth anniversary of the National Woman
Suffrage Association will be held in Boston,
Thursday and Friday, May % and q. All
persons interested in the movement are in.
vited to be present
A FEW days ago Mr.. David Reese and his
son were engaged in endeavoring to preserve
some..of the contents of their burning house
near New Providence, Pa, when the build
ing suddenly collapsed, and father and son
were burned to death. Mrs. Reese was also
severely burned.
A LOCOMOTIVE and tender recently went
through trestle. work at Ringwood, N. j.,
which was being repaired, and the engineer
and fireman were killed.
Rev. John c. EDGAR, one of the six hun.
dred who made the famous charge 1T Bala-
klava, died few days ago. At Hubbardton, Vt
PETROLEUM was recently discovered in the
vicinity of Honesdale, Pa.
Miss ELLA LUDWIG, Of Canaan, Pa, who
had suffered for years from an apparently in.
durable hip disease, was recently made able
to walk. 1t is stated, by the combined prayers
Of her friends at her bedside.
A FEW days ago Miss Fanny J. Blanchett
ofNew York. twenty-four years Of age, died
from the effects Of lead poisoning caused by
the use Of cosmetics.
PROF. CHANDLER has recently reported to
the New York Board OF Health that oleomar-
garine is superior in al respects to the poor
er grades Of dairy butter; that there is moth
ing Objectionable in its material or manufact-
Ore, and that there 10 no need Of legislation
10 protect public health.
On the Sd Captain Paul Boyton returned to
New York, having escaped from the Chilians,
by whom he was held a. . prisoner Of war,
and swan out to an English steamer.
On the 4th Prof Piper; Of Chicago, testi-
lied before the Whitaker court martial. By
the use of magniaed photographs he claimed
to show that the note Of warning could not
have been written ON . piece Of paper torn
from the sheet on which Whitaker had writ
ten letter to his mother, and declared that
the two pieces could never have been Joined
together, because they were of different
chemical competition. He also testified that
II the note Of warning hsd been rubbed over