The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-03-08
sEPIToME OF THE WEEK,
CONDENSED reiEeRAPHic NEWS,

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On the 10th, Mayor stokely (Rep.) was re.
elected Mayor of Philadelphia by about
5000 majority. On the same day the Pitts
burgh Ta.) Democrats elected their candi-
! dates for Mayor aud ComptrollSr, and the
Republicans their candidate for Treasurer.
On the 21st, the Grand Jury Of the Dis.
trict of Columbia inflicted Dom Piatt, editor
Of the Washington Capital, for having,
oh the 18th, uttered scditious language,
which was interpreted to advise the assas.
sination of Gov. Hayes. The following was
the language used: "1f man thus re.
turned to power can ride in safety from the
Executive Mansion to the Capital to be in
augurated, VIC are fitted for the slavery that
will follow the Inauguration. We do not
| believe the people of the United States are
| of this servile sort. We do not believe that
they are prepared, without blow, to part
| with their hard-earned, blood-stalncd pos
| sessions. If there Is law for fraud,
there Is reason for violence, and to that we
make Our last appeal" On the day preccd-
Ing the indictment Piatt published card in
which he stated that "nothing was further
from my thought in penning the editorial of
last Sunday than the horrible crime of assas-
sination. Open resistance to revolutionary
wrong, to which there seems no other re-
sistance, is one thing; assassination is an
other" Piatt was arrested on the afternoon
of the 21st by the United States Marshal,
aud gave bail in the sum of 5000.
A CoNsTANTINopLE dispatch of the 21st
says that anarchy prevailed in Government
| circles in consequence of reports of the Sui
tan's illness. The Porte had denied that the
Sultan was indisposcd.
A ST.. PETERSBURG telegram of the 2lst
says the war party was in the ascendant
in Russia, and that the date Of her attack
depends on the progress of events in Tur-
key.
A BELGRADE telegram of the 2lst says the
result of the late election for members of
the Skuptchina showed large majority in
favor of peace.
A LONDON special of the 2lst states that
thirty vessels, many of them with their en-
tire crews, were lost in the gale along the
English coast, on the night of the 10Th.
THE Canadian oil ricg collapsed, on the
2lst, and a fall of forty per cent. in values
followed.
A DUBLIN telegram of the 22d says Cardi-
nal Cullen had refused to allow the remains
ofJohn O'Mahoney, the dead Fenian, to lie
in state in the Cathedral.
THE Russian Consulate at Constantinople
has warned shipping merchants that torpe-
does have been placed on the Black Sea coast
between Sookgoom, Kale and Fort ST. Nicho-
las.
THE remains of John O'Mahoney have
reached Ireland. The letter of Cardinal
Cullen refusing to allow them to lie in state
in the Cathedral created intense excitement
throughout Ireland.
THE Mexican Gen. Cortina was arrested at
Matamoras, on the afternoon of the 24th,
and placed in the military prison. 1t was
believed that he would be court martialed
and shot for not reporting to President Diaz
at the City of Mexico, as he was directed.
A RESOLUTION was adopted in the Louisi-
ana Nichols Legislature, on the oath, de-
claring that the people of the 8. late will in no
event pay taxes except to the Government
at the head Of which is Gov. Nichols, and
that an attempt, by any other authority. to
collect taxes will lead to civil strife, if not
W oAoOuSASu "uu aSludi wal. "A w
ton dispatch of the following day
says the President had said that
neither of the State Governments in
louisiana or South Carolina would be
recognized by him, as he thought it would
be improper for him to embarrass his sue
cessor by fixing Southern policy for him.
He said the people were tired of employ ing
the military to sustain a State Government,
and added: If a Republican State Govern
ment cannot sustain itself, it will have to
give way. If remedy is required, let Con
gress, and not the President, provide it,"
A bucharest dispatch of the Goth says
the Roumanian railways had been instruct
ed to prepare for the speedy transportation
of Russian troops to the Danube.
ACCORDING to the Berlin correspondent of
the London Times of the Goth, the Russian
Government had given the most pacific assur-
ances, and frankly stated she had no wish
for war, and would be glad to desist from
hostilities were some regard paid 70 her
feelings and the position in which she was
placed.
A DIsPArCH from New iberia, La, of the
Goth, addressed to Gov. Packard, says a col.
lisiOn had occurred the day before at Jean.
erett between the whites and blacks. Both
parties were under arms, aud great excite
ment prevailed.