The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-09-19


New Hampshire met in State Convention at
Manchester. on the 5th, and adopted resolu-
tions demanding the repeal of the National
Bank act; the issue of full legal. tender money;
the immediate repeal of the Resumption act !;
that no subsidies be granted to individuals OF
corporations; that the public lands be reserved
for actual settlers, and that a modification be
made of the iron-clad Tramp law enacted at
the last session Of the State Legislature.
Warren q. Brown was nominated for Gov
ernor.
The Kansas Democratic State Con-
vention, held at Leavenworth, on the 4th,
nominated: For Secretary of State, L. w.
Barton: Treasurer, {. c. Black; Attorney
General, j. F. Cox; Superintendent Public
Instruction, j. F. McKein; Chief Justice Su-
preme Court, II. NJ. Ruggles; Auditor, o.
Shannon. The resolutions adopted declare
that Congress should provide paper curren-
CIV in such volume rs may be necessary for
the convenient transaction of business at all
times. to stimulate enterprise, ETC.; favor the
unconditional repeal of the Resumption act,
the full reconciliation of silver, and the re-
tirement Of National Bank notes, and the sub
stitutiou therefor of Grecnbacks, to be made
legal tender for all purposes.
There was great rejoicing in Dublin,
on the 9th, over the release Of Condor, the
American Fenian convict.
A strike of the car-drivers, on the
Third Avenue Street Railroad, New York City,
was ended on the 9th, hy the company agree
ing to pay the men el.9O per day. A strike
was in progress on the Second Avenue line.
The Austrians entered Trebinje, in
Herzegovina, on the 9TH, the Turks evacuating
the citadel and retiring.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 7th
says the Albanian insurgents had assassnated
the Governor of Ipaka and ten other officials,
including Pasha Mehemet Ali.
THE YELLOw-FEvER sCOURlsE.
During the forty-eight hours ending
on the Sth. there were in New Orleans As
new cases of fever reported, and l5s deaths.
The fever was increasing at Vicksburg, and
there was no abatement of the spread Of the
disease at Grenada and several other points
The worst was said to be over ut Hickman,
Ky, and the physicians there had the disease
under control.
The total number of cases of yellow
fever in the various infected points, up to the
9TH, is re, ,orted at 1908; deaths, 1894.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion, Of New Orleans, published a statement,
on the 9TH, to the effect that while they were
in full sympathy and cordially co-operated
with the Howard and Peabody Associations,
they were an independent and responsible or
ganization for the dispensing of funds COM
mittcd to their hands. They had so far done
their work efficiently, economically and faith
fully, aud would continue SO doing. They
ask the fullest recognition throughout the
country as an effective channel through which
the benevolence OF the charitable can be dis
pensed.
A lengthy appeal was issued, on the
Sth, in behalf of the stricken regions of the
South, signed by Congressman Ellis and Glib
sou, of Louisiana; Senator Morgan, OF Ala
bama; VIM. II. McArdle, OF Mississippi. aud
Cyrus Bussey, President of the New Orleans
Chamber OF Commerce. After abiding to
the generous contributions already made. in
the different cities and sections of the Union,
the appeal goes on to say that great rs has
been the charity, the necessity is yet greater
At New Orleans, Vicksburg and Memphis, as
well as in the smaller Towns of Holly
Springs, Grenada, Port Gibson, Canton,
Greenville, Brownsville, Baton Rouge and
Delhi, all business was suspended, and large
numbers of poor employees were deprived Of
the labor necessary for the support of them
selves and families. OF these unemployed
poor there We're in New Orleans about $1,000;
Memphis, 5000; Nicksburg, 1000 and in the
smaller towns 2,00O-21. 900 in almost Of
whom are heads OF families, and represent u
total population Of not less than los, 900 in
actual and desolatc want These people have
no means of getting away from the pest-rdden
cities. and for them there is no labor, no
wages. no bread. And this condition would
probably continue for at least fifty
days, for there W Il b. no stay of the pesti-
lence and no resumption OF business until
frost. The cost for subsistence alone for these
people for fifty days will aggregate over $1,-
OoO,O0O, saying nothing for medicines cloth
ing and prof er sustenapce for the sick and
the burial of the dead. 1t is suggested that
central depots be established in the great
cities Of the Union for the RECEPTION of further
supplies for the needy and suffering regions,
where all contributions may be sent as fast as
raised, and that they be forwarded to New
Orleans as central point, to be sent from
there, under the auspices of the Howard and
Peabody Associations, to their final destina-
ton. Free transportation by land and
water is offered for all supplies
for the stricken cities. The appeal
concludes as follows: "In the cause of COM
mon country and kindred humanity, we in
woke for our stricken, dying and starving peo-
pie the charity of those whose homes and
Lowell ones are secure from the pestilence that
walketh in darkness, and the destruction that
wasteth at MONDAY"
Gov. Cullom, of Illinois, issued a
proclamation, OH the 9TH, calling for further
designated the 18th as day of united prayer
throughout OHIO, for Divine interposition in
behalf of the stricken regions.
The condition of affairs in Memphis,
on the 9th, was desperate in the extreme, and
continually growing worse. The new cases
reported for the previous twenty-four hours
numbered All, the undertakers reporting liz
1uctC Wdo uO VI
the plague, the only seeming remedy being
the compulsory driving OF the people from
the city. To this end no rations were issued
except to persons who had sick ones in the
family. Camps will be formed outside the
infected section, and those expecting ratiOns
would be compelled to take up their residence
there until the disease should be dissipated.
The call for nurses was greater than could be
supplied.
There were ia new cases and eighty
seven deaths in New Orleans, ON the 9th. The
Peabody Association issued over 5000 rations
on that day.
A jackson (Miss.) telegram of the
9th says the fever had broken out at severa
new points in that State, and that there wal
no abatement ut Vicksburg, Holly Springs
Port Gibson or Greenville.
Five members of Thorn IA Porter, fam