The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-05-21


The Illinois State Farmers Association met
in Bloomington on the morning Of the 5th,
and organized temporarily by the selection of
w. c. Flagg as President and 8. NJ. Smith as
Secretary. Committees were appointed on
Credentials and Permanent Organization. The
interval between the appointment and report
of the former committee was spent in speeches
from different delegates, the general tenor of
which was in favor of political party. In
the afternoon the Committee on Permanent
Organization reported, recommending that the
temporary officers be made the permanent off,
GERS Of the Association, which recommendation
was adopted. Mr.. Flagg spoke, taking the
affirmative of the question " Shall this asso-
citation take political action ?" Other delegates
followed. In the evening Mr.. Flagg, Chair
man of the Conference Committee, submitted
a report arranging the details for the calling
and meeting of the State Convention at SPRING
field on Wednesday, June 10, and also reaf-
firming the platform of the Decatur Farmers
Convention of December last. Several resolu.
tions were offered and tabled, and the conven-
tion adjourned sine die.
The Indiana farmers are to hold q State
convention at Indianapolis on the 10th of
June.
The Iowa State Republican Convention has
been called to meet at Des Moines on Wednes-
day, July 1. The basis of representation will
be the vote cast for Hon. James Beck, Su-
preme Judge, at the last general election, to.
wit: one delegate for every 200 votes and
one for each fraction over 100 votes.
A correspondent of the New Orleans Plea
yune, in letter published on the 9Th, says the
country adjacent to the lower Mississippi was
submerged deeper than it was in 1867, and
that at the present time nearly 15O, 900 people
are without food and shelter.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention has
adopted plan for legislative apportionment,
including provision for cumulative voting
in all counties where more than two Repre-
sentatives or two Senators are to be elected, in
which cases all the votes of any voter may be
concentrated on a single candidate.
News from the South on the 7th was to the
effect that the floods we're subsiding. A Mem
phis dispatch says planter just arrived from
Chicot County, Ark, brought distressing
accounts of the suffering among the laborers
and their families in that vicinity. Many of
tlcLl, NC says, uAO 6uDelStcu 1OF DcV0l8l Gays
upon the carcasses of cattle that had died from
starvation or been drowned in the overflow.
From mass of correspondence received by
the Governor of Louisiana and the
Relief Committee of that State the follow
ing is selected as showing substantially the
purport Of the whole: Mr.. Reddock, writing
from Cuba, Ouachita Parish, says: Gan the
country for miles around 10 submerged.
Twelve farms are almost entirely under water
within three miles of this place, with popu.
latlon OF 100 persons, from the breaking Of the
Cuba ievee. The levee broke April 8, and the
current OF water was so strong that It washed
away everything on my lot except nv
dwelling-house-a stone house. Nv corn.
horses and oxen are all gone. The
water in my dwelling ID four fest dean.
and PUSHES through in such . current - 10
make 1t tremble like . leaf But do not look
to me alone. There are 600 or 100 other,
similarly situated within three miles. W. ].
Ellis has lost everything. The water On the
floor OF his dwelling is i've feet deep, and he
has not one pound Of provisions On hand for