The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington,
THE exports of domestic provisions. tai.
low and dairy products from the United
States during the five months ended Nav
81, last, amounted in value to $50, 525, 500,
against $S6, 109,67S during the same months
in 1880. The total values of exports of pro-
visions and tallow for the seven months
ended May 81 were ISL 1873, 400; same period
in 1850, S6s,S95,2lO.
SECRETARY WINDOW is reported to have
said on the Goth that he knew of no reason
why Assistant Secretary Upton should re-
sign, or his resignation should be requested.
1T was stated on the 2lst that it had been
determined not to present the Star-route
cases to the present Grand Jury of the
Washington Criminal Court. The Attor-
ney-General and General did
not want to move in the matter until they
hal clear case, and then the prosecutions
would be pushed vigorously. The cases will
doubtless be presented to the Grand Jury at
the fall term of the court.
W. H. TURNER, clerk in the Contract
Office Of the Post-office Department, and
who had charge of the Star-routes in most of
the Territories, was dismissed on the 21st,
and George W. Sweeney was appointed in
his stead.
SECRETARY KIRKwOOD has appointed
Charles H. Howard. brother Of General o.
o. Howard, to be Indian Inspector, rice j.
l.. Mahon, resigned.
JOHN A. WALSH has brought suit in the
Supreme Court of the District Of Columbia
against Thomas J. Brady, to recover SIS, O5s
for money loaned the latter when he was
Second Assistant Postmaster General.
LIEUTENANT D. PRATT MANNING, of the
United States Marine Corps, has been Sc
lected at the request of the Chinese Govern.
ment to proceed to China and organize q
similar cops there.
A RECENT decision by the United States
Court Of Claims declares George Taylor, ex.
Member of Congress from New York, guilty
OF subornation of perjury, in having manu-
featured claim before the Franco American
Commission upon which he was paid nearly
5 800. 900.
SEVERAL representative white Republic
ans from Virginia assembled at Washington
on the 2Sd to express to the Administration
their desire for a coalition with Malone.
Ex-ASsISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL
BRADY made application in the Criminal
Court of Washington on the 23d to have the
charges Of fraud pending against him tried
at once. Colonel Cook, the special counsel
for the Government, stated to the Court
that no case was yet ready for submission to
the Grand Jury, and that failure would re-
suit from using the testimony in its present
condition. The Court, therefore, ordered
that the cases go over until September, to
which date the Grand Jury has recess.
The East.
A TELEGRAPH COMPANY is about being
organized in New York City to send fac
s,,niles of handwriting by telegraph.
THE suit to restrain the Western Union
Telegraph Company from issuing SIS, 900, =
600 Of additional stock was dismissed by q
New York City Court on the Goth.
THE boiler Of a dummy engine exploded
on the wharf at Medford, Mass, on the 2lst,
SCATTERING a schooner and several buildings,
and killing two men and injuring four
others.
A TRAIN Of cars was thrown into creek
near Freeport, Pa, the other day, by strik-
ing cow. The engineer, fireman and
passenger were instantly killed.
AT Albany, n. Y, on the 2lst E. A.
al nf no1 Inf ~,
Bribery Investigating Committee. He
stated that he had a conversation with
Bradley June 5, in which
witness told him bradley he was pretty
fellow to vote for COnkling and Platt, when
all his constituents were opposed to their
return. Bradley responded by stating that
would turn up in few days
which would surprise everybody.
THE New York brewers and saloon keep
basis Of twelve hours work weekdays.
and one to three hours Sunday, without ex-
ira pay.
New YORK agricultural paper has re-
Gently concluded, judging from 1000 crop
reports, that the next harvest will show
twenty per cent. less wheat than last year,
and fifteen per cent. less corn, an increase
in rye and barley, and the largest crop Of
oats ever produced.
THE Temperance Convention at Saratoga,
n. T., on the 21st, was addressed by Miss
Frances E. Willard, who gave an account
OF her recent tour in the South in the inter-
est Of the temperance cause. She met with
a most cordial reception from the Southern
people wherever she went from Virginia to
Texas. She also visited the Indian Terri.
tory.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused at
Batavia, n. Y, and vicinity on the 2lst be-
cause of the supposed discovery Of the re-
mains of William Morgan, the man who
was alleged to have exposed Free Mason
ry, and was said to have been drowned
by members of the Masonic Order in the
Niagara River fifty-five years ago. The re.
mains were dug up in the town of Penn
broke, Genesee County, and with them
were found ring marked "W. M and q
box containing manuscript, the writing of
which was scarcely legible, although some
OF the words could be read by the unaided
eye. The crumpled paper was taken to the
office of DR.. Phillips, where it was placed
under q microscope. Under the glass the
words " Masons,'' "liar,' "prison,o
skill" and the full name "Henry Brown"
were plainly visible.
IT is announced that DR.. Henry McCrack-
en-, pastor Of the First Presbyterian Church
of Toledo, has been elected Chancellor of
the Western University of Pennsylvania at
Pittsburgh.
SOME Bohemian gypsies left Castle Gar.
den few mornings ago for New Jersey in
an antique wagon brought from home. They
returned on the I'D, stating that they had
ridden thirty seven miles through boots and
yells, the people stoning them, and calling
them child-stealers. They would return to
Europe by the next steamer.
THE Democratic members Of the New
York Legislature met in caucus on the ed.
Senator Jacobs announced that he had
been informed that the Governor would de.
clare the votes cast for him for United
States Senator - void, and that he had de.
termined to withdraw his name from the
canvass. The effect, he said, of declaring
his vote void would be the election of some