The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-24

mcnt; reduction of salaries to the extent that
no fund can be raised for political PURPOSES
from officc-holdcrs; that political opinion
should not be a reason for appointment to
Office nor ground for removal; prohibition OF
recommendation to Office by any Senator or
representative In Congress, and the election
OF all Federal officers by the people, speedy
return to hard money, all banking, State and
National, should be free; tariff for revenue;
Just and equitable system Of taxation.
At their recent convention the Democrats
of Arkansas nominated Elish" BAXTER, trcs-
ent incumbent, for Governor. He pcrcmptorily
refused to run, and A. II. Garland
WAC subsequently nominated in his stead.
The resolutions adopted recommend
the adoption of the Constitution formed by
the State Constitutional Conventions; invite
all persons in the State, regardless of pust is.
sues and differences, to unite to secure the
equality of all men before the lawi hphesty
and capability in the administration of every
public duty; the speedy and just punishment
of every crime; the purity and freedom of the
ballot; the advancement and preservation of
the public credit; economy in every depart
ment of the Government, and the rishtful
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| that the protection of the rights Of the whole
| people shall be complete.
The Iowa Woman Suffrage Association met
| at Dies Moines on the 9th and elected officers
for the ensuing year, Lizzie Boynton Harbert,
| of Des Moines, being chosen President, Mrs.
| Landess. of Davis County, Recording Secrc-
| tary, and Mrs. Orwig, of Des Moines, Core
| spending Secretary. Resolutions were adopt
cd setting forth that the Temperance question
| would never be solved until woman had the
| ballot.
| The Nebraska Independent Convention, at
Lincoln Oh the 9th, nominated j. F. Gardner
for Governor, Henry Webb for Secretary of
State and J, W. Davis for Congressman. The
platform adopted favors the resumption of
specie payments as soon as possible, as also
cheap transportation; opposes further land
grants to railroads; favors reduction of
taxes and tariff for revenue; is against the
patent monopoly and in favor of a uniform
| license law.
Alexander Mitchell, President of the Chi.
| ca@o, Milwaukee Il st. Paul Railroad, has
written letter to the Wisconsin Railroad
Commissioners similar in import to the one
previously sent by President Keep, of the
| Chicago \ Northwestern Railway.
Thomas NJ. Patterson Democrat) has been
elected Delegate to Congress from Colorado
| by between 1000 and 1000 majority over
Jerome B. Chattee, present Delegate.
The wife OF VIM. StOnehousc, of Grand Rap.
ids, Ohio, on the sth attempted to hurry up a
| stnoderinS fire with dose of kerosene She
| survived the experiment two hours.
Rose Dennis, of Sterling, ILL.,, on the Sth was
kindling fire with kerosene, when the can
exploded and the unfortunate girl was soon
cnvclopcd in a mass of flames. Mrs. Dennis
tried to assist her daughter, and was herself
frightfully burned. The girl lived only two
hours. Mrs. Dennis died few hours after.
The Chicago Interstate Exposition was
opened on the evening Of the 9th. The OPEN
ing was attended by an immense throny of
people, it being estimated that 10000 persons
were i'll attendance. The Chicago dailics
pronounce the display as being excellent, and
predict great success for the enterprise.
Dispatches received at the Executive office
in New Orleans on the 9th stated that the
parish officers of Bicnvillc Parish had been
waited upon by the White League and had re-
signed in consequence.
Congressional nominations on the 9th:
Democratic-Gen. John B.. Clark, Eleventh
Missouri District, renominatcd; Hon. Milton
Saylcr, First Ohio District, rcnominated; Gen.
Henry b. Banning, Second Ohio District, re-
nominated; Col. II. Casey Young, Tenth
tennessee District. Reform and Liberal-E.
st. Julien Cox, Second Minnesota District;
Prof d. G. Pinckney, Fifth Illinois District;
Freeman Kelly, Seventh Indiana District.
The Nebraska Democrats have nominated
n. Iuxbury for Governor; John Atherly for
Secretary Of State; r. c. Jordan for Attorney.
General, and J. W. Savage for Congressman
The resolutions favor the adoption of gold
and silver as the basis of currency, and the re-
sumption OF specie payments as soon as pos
sibc without disaster to the business interests
OF the country, by steadily opposing imitation
and by the payment of the national indebted.
ness in the money of the civilized world: the
right and duty of the State to protect its citi-
zcns from extortion and unjust discrimination
by chartered monopolies, etc.
Prof. Winchell, State Geologist of Mime
sofa, who accompanied the Custer expedition
to the Black Hills, in his official report saws:
" In respect to the economical products of the
rocks of the Black Hills, the following min
erals exist in considerable quantities, and
will ultimately be found very useful: Gypsum
in unlimited quantities; variegated marble
from the carboniferous iron ore, in
the southern portion of the hills;
muscovite, talcose slate, useful for
whetstones. There may be found also other
products of the granite rocks. Indeed, the
miners that accompanied the expedition re-
q of ell
the gulches in the southeastern portion of the
hills, though saw none of the gold nor did
see any Of the auriferous quartz 1 have
taken the gold reports with large grain of
allowance" Prof. Donaldson, who also ac-
companied the expedition, entirely comedies
with Prof. Winchell on the gold question.
A Memphis dispatch of the 10th says that
squad of United States troops had captured
seven of the men said to have been engaged
in the recent massacre of prisoners at Trenton,
Tenn.
Congressional nominations on the 10th: Re-
publican-lloyd Lowndcs, Sixth Maryland
District, renominated; VIM. 8. King, Third
Minnesota District; H. B. Strait, Second Min
ncsota District, renominated; Hon. s. A.
Hurlbut, Fourth Illinois District, renomi.
mated. Democratic Henry Boyle, Sixteenth
Ohio District; W. A. J. Sparks, Sixteenth ILL.,
nois District. Reform and Independent-Co
jeff. A. Seay, Fifth Missouri District; A. V.
Pendleton, Sixth Indiana District; A. G. Cook,
Second Wisconsin District; Alexander Camp.
bell, Seventh Illinois District.
The Michigan Democratic State Convcn-
ton met at Kalamazoo ON the 10th and made
the following nominations: For Governor,
Henry Chamberlain; Lieutenant Governor,
Frederick Hall; Secretary of State, George
H. House; State Treasurer, Joseph NJ. Ster-
ling; Auditor-General, John II. Graus; CON-
missioner State Land Office, Chauncy w.
Green; Attorney General, Martin v. Mont
gomcry; Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, Duane Doty; Member of the
State Board of Education, E. w. Andrews.
The resolutions adopted demand the "aban-
donment of all efforts to rule States, for cor
r,,pf RI p,,rposoc INV m, inf ons,roo