The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-01-14
West and South.

Vi GAc COlOICN pCOplc. 1tESOuAk CHARGES
If an offensive character were made
and Jewett, editor of the Bulletin, challenged
Warmoth to a duel, and the latter promptly
accepted. The next day C96th) the street fra
cas- occurred, Byerly, who had been character
lied as a liar, ETC., by Wsrmoth, making the
attack, Warnoth apparently acting in self
defense.
The report of the Election Returning Board
of Louisiana shows the following result for
State Treasurer: Dubuclet, 69,544; Moncure,
6S,5S6; majority for Dubuclet (Republicanl
95S. The five constitutional amendments
recommended by Kellogg and adopted by his
Legislature are all carried, according to the
count of both parties. g.
Gov Beveridge, oflllinois, received informa
ton on the 2Sth that G. w. L. Smith, who was
kidnapped in Massac County, ILL.,, some months
ago, and taken to Tennessee, where, it was
alleged, he had committed a murder, had
been released.
According to the report of the State Treas
urer and State Auditor of Minnesota the re-
ceipts Of the year have been $1,112,Sl2.52
and the expenditures $1,14 s,O5996. Balance
in the Treasury S1S3, 1874, against $21s, $685.
IS at the end of the year 1878.
In dispatch dated New Orleans, Dec. Is,
McEnery says: The wrong just perpetrated
by the Returning Board against the people
of Louisiana is more browning infamy
than the action of the Lynch Returning
Board. He adds that PERSISTENCE to the ma
tional authority, represented by large por-
ton Of the army and naval feet sustaining
the usurpation and sitting the voice of the
people, has never been meditated"
A report on the 2sth that Gen. Emory had
been superseded by Gen. Terry was not con-
firmed on the 10Th and is probably incorrect
Gen. Sheridan left Chicago on the evening of
the 9th for New Orleans, under instructions
to hold himself in readiness, in the event of
an uprising against the Kellogg Government,
to assume immediate command of the Gov
eminent forces and carry out instructions
confdentially sent him.
The Mississippi Democratic State Conven.
ton has been postponed from Jan. s to
April Z.
The opcra-house and other buildings in
Ottawa, ILL.,, we're destroyed by fire on the
morning of the Goth. Loss nearly 100000.
John Goodman was hanged at Ottawa,
Ohio, on the 3Oth ult., for the murder in April
last of Mr.. and Mrs. John Haywood, an aged
couple living on farm near Columbus
Grove.
A party of Indians belonging to Spotted
Tails band have reported gang Of twenty
one miners encamped in the Black Hills
They were not molested, but the fact of their
intrusion reported to Indian Agent Howard
NM L.
tigate Louisiana affairs held its first session
in New Orleans on the 3Oth ult. The Vicks-
burg committee reached that place on the
3Oth.
Ex-Gov. Warmoth had preliminary ex-
animation on the 3Oth ult. on the charge Of
murder for killing D. c. Byerly, in New
Orleans, and was discharged from custody.
Great excitement was caused at Vinita, 1.
T., on the list, by report that 200 we'll
armed Ross, or Piu, Indians were march,
ing on that place with view of attacking
the town. The cause of the disturbance is
said to have grown out Of party feeling, the
Ross party not favoring Territorial govern
ment, while the Downing, or opposition, party
were in favor Of the Territorial organization.
Nearly all the white people had left Vinita on
the 1st .,--5 "a. . E.. 80,
While walking on the streets in New Or
leans on the night of the 31st ult. in company
with friend, Fabius Mckay Dunn (colored),
Assistant United States Appraiser, was shot
in the side and almost instantly killed Con-
servatives say the shooting was accidental.
Capt. E. B. Ward, prominent and wealthy
citizen Of Detroit, died of apoplexy in that
city on the I'd, aged sixtz-four. His estate ia
estimated at $4,000, 600. - a2si p J..
New Orleans dispatches Of the Sd Say two
Republican members of the Lopisiana Legs.
lature had been kidnapped by the Conserve.
tives to prevent their being present at the
organization of that bsdy on the 4th. Gov
Kellogg had submitted a letter to the Con.
gressional Invest eating Committee proposing
that they decide the question Of the disputed
election of 1872, and Offering to submit to
whatever verdict they might render
Under da te Of the 4th at nine p. m. Gen. sheri
dan issued an order at New Orleans stating
that under instructions from the President
he assumed control of the Department Of the
Gull, consisting of the States Of Louisiana
Arkansas and Mississippi and the Gulf posts
as far eastward and embracing Fort Jeffer
son and Key West, Fla, excluding the
posts In Mobile Bay, which would hereafter
constitute one Of the departments Of the Mill
tary Division Of the Missouri. The General
also sent dispatch to Secretary Belknap q
Washington, announcing "the existenc,
in this State Of a spirit Z Of de
aance to all lawful authority, ani
an +. uncertainty of life which Il