The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-01
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches
From Washington.
THE Postmaster General has issued thu
following order on the subject of annoying
and libelous postal-cards. ''When any on,
is annoyed or expects to be annoyed BY
postal-cards sent from any particular place
or from any known persons, he may direc
the Postmaster at the point named to de.
stroy all postal cards addressed to him o.
cards from any persons named so addressed
and, SO far as the discharge of the duties o
the Office permit sufficient examination, tn,
Postmaster should comply with the request
The same request may be made Of the re-
ceiving Postmaster. The direction to tn,
Postmaster should be in writing, and should
be tiled for preservation"
NATIONAL BANK NOTES were received fol
redemption, during the week ended on tn,
eCth. amounting TO $l.051 200, agains
sos, 900 for the corresponding week las
wear. National Bank notes outstanding
Currency, 1886, 49, $40; gold notes, 81, OS7,
6s5; total, $751;, 575,615. United States bonds
held to secure National Bank circulation
Currency skies, $3.50, 900; six-per-cents
$4,000; five-per-cents. SS,7l5,45O; four
-half-per-cents. S., 265 900; four
per-cents, SOL, 800; three-and-a half
per-cents, S2S2. $50, $50. Total, 1868, 3aO, 900
THE Attorney General decides that, al
though the law gives preference to ex-sol
diers rs candidates for Government posi-
tions, the right for preference cannot be OBJ
served until they have passed the examina
ton prescribed for other candidates in tn,
civil service.
In a report to Secretary Window, received
on the ed, Captain Hooper, of the steamer
Corwin, which was sent in search of the Jean.
nette and the missing Arctic whalers, an
nounces that he arrived at st. Michael.
July from the Arctic Ocean, where thu
Corwin party discovered relics of one of the
missing whalers, probably the Viglant; thai
nothing was known Of any one belonging t.
the Jeanette along the Siberian coast. Cap.
tain Hooper also reports the discovery of al
island near Cape Serdze.
CAPTAIN HOwGATE was rearrested on the
23d, upon the order of the Attorney Gener.
81, and the amount of his bail was increased
to $4,000. His embezzlement of Govern
ment funds was said to then foot up tt
$4,000, and, in the opinion of the investi.
eating officer, would aggregate about $500,
600.
SECRETARY BLAINE, in his telegram tt
Minister Lowell, at London, on the night OF
the I'D, stated that the President sis weak
exhausted and emaciated, not weighing u.
pounds. His weight when wounded was
from 2O5 to 2l0pounds. His failure to gain
strength is the one feature which gives
special uneasiness and apprehension.
GEORGE W. RIGGS, of the old banking
firm of Corcoran 4 Riggs, of Washington,
died on the morning of the oath.
THE First Comptroller of the Treasur,
has decided that, if contract with tn,
Government is sold BY the contracting party
the contract itself is annulled, and that any
person or party selling such contract run.
the risk of obtaining no pay. The Comp
troller SAYS the original contractor in sucf
an event does not perform the service. and
tuC pulCudStl VI tuC COutIdCI tlOllltS cAlSG'
ing law.
On the oath Colonel Cook, on behalf Of
the Government, entered civil suit against
Captain H W. Howgate to recover SOL ,2577.
Writs Of attachment were issued and placed
in the Marshal's hands, aud his Deputies
seized all the real and personal property
belonging to the defendant. The suit is
based upon affidavits which state that inves.
tigation had developed that the defendant
had unlawfuly drawn from the United
States Treasury on check and appropriated
to his own use the sum mentioned above.
THE wretch Guiteau was reported on the
18th to be crouching in his cell in the Jail,
in mortal fear. He would not come out.
He was afraid to pass the cells of the other
prisoners, for fear that in some way they
might manage to kill him. He even feared
personal violence at the hands of the guards.
In some manner the news of the Presi-
dents extreme danger had reached him,
and he fully expected in some way to meet
violent death at the hands of some one
who would avenge the shooting of the
President. He had no thought but for his
personal safety. and dreaded the approach
even Of the harmless attendant who brought
him his meals.
THE Yorktown Centennial Commission
and the citizens of Washington and Balti-
more have, it is said, decided to entertain
the invited guests of the Nation in Baltimore
on the 10th, 18th and 18th of October, and
in Washington on the 18th, 14th and 18th OF
the same month. 1t is expected that twenty
distinguished guests from France will be
present on the occasions. 1t is also expected
that the French Government will send over
two large war-vessels with troops. The
ships will arrive about the 9Th of October,
and the Centennial Commissioners have de.
termined to invite the officers to attend the
various entertainments.
In report made on the 18th the Chief OF
the Bureau Of Statistics states that the value
Of the exports for the year ended July 81,
last, exceeded the value of the imports by
$3.50, 691 ,597. The excess for the previous
year was $171, 80, 80. The excess during
the last year of the imports over the exports
Of gold was 500, 666,977; during the previ-
Gus year the excess was SIG, 156, 500. The
total values of imports of merchandise dur
ing the twelve months ended July 81, last,
were $685., IA AS, and during the previous
twelve months, $6S3, 972, 22l. The total
values of exports Of merchandise for the
twelve months ended July 81, 1880, were
$3.50, 722. 81; twelve months ended July 30.
last, 1894, 416,066.
The East.
MRS. WILLARD FILLMORE, widow of the
late President Fillmore, of Buffalo, dis
posed by will of an estate of $500, 900, OF
which amount public charities are to receive
$4,000.
A FEW days ago Buffalo rag dealer was
arrested and held in $1,000 bail for smug-
Cling wooden rags from Canada. His plan
was to cover the goods up with putrid bones,
which the customs officers would not care to
investigate too closely.
The railroad operatives who lately struck
for higher wages ut Salamanca and Hor.
nellsville, n. Y, returned to work on the
23d at the old rates. The striking molders
at Reading and Rogersford, Pa, have secured
IN increase Of pay Of five per cent, and the
promise Of an additional five per cent. on the
LIST of October.