The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-24

the friends of Mr.. Hayes and certain men,
bers OF the opposition in Congress, whereby
the Electoral vote in the disputed States was
fraudulently and corruptly counted for Mr..
Hayes for certain political consider
atoms, and praying "that needful legis
lation may be adopted by Congress to
ascertain judicially who was elected President
at the recent election, and to give effect to the
will of the people," The memorial was &C.
companied bv a resolution instructtng the
Maryland Representatives in Congress tofavor
the object of the memorial.
The New Hampshire State Republican
Convention met at Concord, on the 9th. and
renominated Gov. B. F. Prescott for Governor,
and David +. Willard for Railroad Commits
sioner. Resolutions were adoptcd-reaiiirnl-
ing the Cincinnati platform of 1876, and reit-
Grating the following principles: The full pro.
lection of all citizens in the full enjoyment of
all their rights; the permanent paciiication OF
the South: continuous progress toward
specie payments; deprecating sectional
feeling and tendencies: recognizing the
paramount duty Of the President to
render these high and solemn professions actual
and living realities, and welcoming and ap.
proving ''his patriotic and sincere efforts to
keep faith with the people and secure to the
whole country the blessings of just. efficient
and honest Republican National Administra-
tom opposin. the attempt to repeal the
Resumption act. and disappearing any legis-
lation tending to repudiate the public debt in
whole or in part; denouncinS the attempt to
make the deprecated silver dollar a legal
tender. and calling on the President to veto
any measure which may he adopted by Con-
gress TO that end: condemning as factious and
mischievious all attempt to reopen the Presi-
idential controversy or to question the title of
the President to his high office.
A London dispatch of the 10th says
the revolution In Crete had been formally Or
ganiZed. There was great excitement through
out Greece, and it was thought like revol,l-
ton would be started in Thessaly aud Epirus
On the 10th. NJ. Grevy was reelected
President of the French Chamber of Deputies,
and Duke d'Audiffret-P asquier, Pre- ,ident of
the Senate.
The Woman's Suffrage National Con-
vention, in session in Washington on the 9th
adopted a series Of resolutions setting forth
the duty OF the National Government in MAIN
tanning the equal rights of all its citizens.
without regard to sex: the injustice of re-
handing women from hearing before the high
est tribunal of the Nation to State legisla-
lion: the right of the educated. tax-paying
women Of the Nation to have precedence over
the Chinese and Indians in reference to Con-
gres>ional action on their civil aud political
status: a condemnation of the proposed Six.
;tarian idea Of God into the Constitution: the
INJUSTICE If taxing the property of widows and
spinstcrs to its full value while the clergy are
largely exempt: that education should be com
puisory. and that after 1sS5 there should be an
educational qualification to the right of suf-
frase.
Over 100000 persons attended the
funeral of NJ. Raspail at Paris on the 18th
According to Washington dispatch
of the 18th. an Executive order would shortly
be issued discontiuuins the Central Superin-
tendency Of Indian Affairs. Two of the prin-
cipal clerks of the Indian Bureau were dis
charged, on the 18th, and similar action was
expected in the case of other officers connect
ed with the service. Various other reforma-
tory measures had been determined upon. but
were temporarily delayed in order to make
them more effective by the institution of civil
suits or criminal proceedings against the
parties implicated.
The Crispins at Lynn. Mass. in
augurated a strike. on the 18th. which threat
ened to become general among the working
men i'll the shoe factories in that place.
A London dispatch of the 18th saws
the marriage of King Alfonso, of Spain. will
take place on the 22d of January. The Span
ish Government has given orders which will
render eN, Queen Isabella liable to most rigor-
Gus treatment should she endeavor to cross
the frontier to be present at the wedding.
Hon. John Buehler. a State Senator
OF Cook County, Ill.,, was dangerously stall bed,
at Chicago. bya Bohemian, named Marso, on
the morning of the 14th.
1t was reported from Annapolis,
Md. on the 14th, that members of the Com
mittee on Federal Relations in the House of
Delegates. to whom was referred Mr.. B!air's
memorial relative to the Electoral Commits
sion, were individually opposed to reopening
or disturbing the question of the Presidency.