The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
West and South.

STAGE-COACH on the San Antonio &
Laredo line was stopped few nights ago
near Rice Station, Texas, about twenty five
miles from San Antonio, by q highwayman,
who compelled the two passengers to alight
and assist him to rob the mail bags. The
bold outlaw was magnanimous enough not
to take anything from the passengers or the
driver. He was thought to be the same
person who had previously committed sew
eral robberies Of the same character in that
region.
A SAN FRANCISCO telegram of the 10th
says the only original Sir Roger Tichborne
had turned up in California.
j. H. WADE, of Cleveland, has presented
to that city tract of land on the eastern
boundary valued at 500, 900, which for some
years he has been engaged in identifying.
RECENTLY published census statistics
show that 1G, AS persons, 6,547 boats and So
vessels are employed in the Pacific coast
fisheries of the United States. OF the per-
sons employed, 265 are credited to cod fish,
cry, ITO to fur seal, over 5000 to salmon
fishery, 249 to seal fishery, and ia to whale
fishery. The total amount Of capital en-
ployed in the fisheries is $2,74s,3s3. OF the
products, the value of fresh fish is put at
So, 649,S $40; crabs and shrimps, $86, 35s;
oysters, ETC., $103, $50; whale oil, $50, $50;
fish and seal oil, 1890; whalebone, $l22,-
600. The products of forty.five canneries
are valued at -, 3S9, 1884,.
WALTER Q. SCOTT, of Easton, Pa. has
been recently chosen President Of the Ohio
State University, and Rev. DR.. Cummings,
<Nf -
University at Evanston, III.
THE Virginia Republican State Central
Committee has decided to call . State Con.
vention to meet at Staunton on the oath of
August, to nominate State officers.
The Government has recently purchased
10000 acres of land of the Winnebago and
Omaha tribes, to make . reservation for the
Poncas.
AT the recent Commencement of the Vir.
gfnia Theological Seminary, near Alexan-
dria, Bishop Lee, of Delaware, who was
one Of the American revisers Of the New
Testament, denied the story that the Amer.
leans were not properly treated by the En-
glish revisers. He said the American Com
mittee claimed that they were co-revisers,
not mere advisers, and this was recognized,
and that, In many instances, the views and
decisions Of the Americans were accepted
by the English revisers. Bishop Lee said
the revisers had no apology to make for
their work; that they had done 1t faithfully.
and are satisfied that in time the revised
New Testament will be generally approved
by all Episcopalians.
A NEW ORLEANS dispatch of the 22d saws
the four barges Of wheat recently shipped
from st. Paul for New Orleans, thence to
be sent to Glasgow, were found to have
been badly heated on the voyage down the
river, owing to insufficient ventilation.
A FEW days ago over seven thousand
acres Of wheat and many farm. houses were
burned near MERGED, Cal.
COLONEL CASH, of South Carolina, who
killed Shannon in duel some months ago,
has been acquitted.
1T is reported that the bondholders of the
st. Louis bridge have leased that structure
in perpetuity to the Wabash and Missouri
Pacific Roads, at an annual rental of $3.50, 900.
The net income Of the bridge last year was
$453, O4O.
PROF. SAMUEL A. KING has secured
funds for an experimental balloon voyage
next fall from the Mississippi River to the
Atlantic seaboard.
THE streets of St. Louis are to be lighted
with electricity.
NINE HUNDRED Cinnamon recently ar.
rived at San Francisco by the British steam
er Naples.
DURING the recent session of the Missouri
River Improvement Convention at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, resolutions were adopted de-
manding 100000 from the public Treasury
for the improvement Of that stream. $780,
600 to be expended in 1882 in extracting
snags. The policy was urged that no vote
be given by Western men in Congress to any
River and Harbor bill which did not contain
the above appropriation.
On the 23d the Maryland Democratic State
Convention met at Baltimore and nominated
Thomas J. Heating for Comptroller.
ANOTHER check has been given by John
Il. Buchtel, Of Akron, Ohio, to the college
bearing his name. His gifts to the institu-
ton have been 500, 900.
On the ed Tombstone, Arizona, was Wis.
tied by conaagration which destroyed 100
buildings, rendering 800 people homeless,
The losses aggregated about $3.50, 900.
THERE were eleven cases Of sunstroke In
New Orleans on the 23d, Of which seven
proved fatal.