The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-25
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The Wellaeet Savings Bank, Of Mas
sachusetts, with deposits Of el22. 16S, and the
South Boston Savings Bank, Of Boston, with
deposits Of q, 565, 962, failed ON the 9Th.
Lord Leitrim, lately murdered in Ire
land, was buried, in Dublin, ON the 10th.
About 800 persons Kissed, hooted and cheered
outside the church. On the 10th, the Lord
Lieutenant proclaimed the district in which
the dead Earl's DONEGAL estates are situated to
be under the Peace Preservation act.
The Republican members of the Ma
met in caucus, on the evening Of the 10th, and
appointed q Congressional Committee, con-
sisting of one member from each State and
Territory represented in Congress by Re
publican. A resolution was offered requesting
the President to withdraw his order forbidding
officials to participate in politics. After de-
bate, this was referred to the Congressional
Committee with instructions to confer with
the President. The caucus was harmonious.
At Mesquite Station, on the Texas
Pacific Railroad, near Dallas, Tex, on the
night Of the 18th, party of robbers captured
q passenger train, plundered the mail and ex-
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conductor Of the train and two of the robbers
were wounded. The passengers were not
molested.
The Democratic State Convention, Of
Illinois, was held at Springfield, on the 18th,
and E. L. Cronkrite was nominated for State
Treasurer, and 8. NJ. Etter for Superintendent
of Public Instruction. The resolutions adopt
cd declare in favor of the taxation of United
States bonds and Treasury notes the same %
other property; the immediate and uncondi-
tiOnal repeal of the Specie Resumption act !;
the authorization of silver bullion certificates,
and the free coinage Of the silver dollar;
against the further contraction of legal
tender notes, aud that they should be received
for all public dues, and reissued ~ fast as re-
ceived; favor the substitution of Treasury
for National Bank notes, and the repeal of the
Bankrupt law, etc.
The Oregon Democrats have nomi-
mated John Whitaker for Congress, N. w.
Thaycr for Governor. Thomas G. Reems fol
Secretary of State, A. H. Brown for State
Treasurer, and Joseph Emory for Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction.
Zamocana, the Mexican Represents
tive in Washington, received telegram, on
the 18th, from the City of Mexico, announc-
ing the recognition of the Diax Government
by United States Minister Foster. The same
dispatch (frOm the Mexican Secretary of STATED
informs Zamocana that he had been appoint
ed and confirmed Minister from Mexico to this
Government.
An extensive fire occurred at Clarks-
,~s11o khov A<~RA1
out of q negro mob. Fifty-seven buildings in
the central part of the town, occupying fifteen
acres, were burned, involving the loss of about
100000. Insurance estimated at $4,000.
It was stated, in New York, on the
18th, that the Broadway Bank was paying out
gold in sums of $500 and under. The feature
Of the day in Wall street was the decline of
gold to 1904, the lowest point reached since
the issue of legal-tender notes.
On the 18th, Mrs. Theodore Tilton
called upon MIR. Ira B. Wheeler, . New York
lawyer, and requested him to furnish the
newspapers with the following card for publ
cation:
Mr.. Ira B. WHEE1ER--Ny Dear Sir: A few
guish, l told. rs you know, a few friends whom i
had bitterly deceived. that the charge brought
BY my husband of adultery between myself and
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was true, and that the
lie had lived 30 we'll the Last four yean had be-
come i1tolerable to me. That statement now
solemnly reaffirm, and leave the truth With God,
to whom also l commit myself. my children and
all who must suffer. know full we'll the ex-
PLANTATION that will be sought by many for the
acknowledgements desire 30 return to my hus-
band, insanity, malice. everythin save the true
and only one, my quickened conscience and
sense of what is due to the cause of truth and
Justice. During all the complications Of these
yoa1 you have been my confidential friend, and
therefore address this letter to you authorizing
and requesting you to secure its publication.
ELZABETH r. TuTON.
BRooKLYN. April Is. 1873.
The New York Tribune telegraphed
to Mr.. Beecher a copy of the foregoing and
received from him the following reply:
WAvERI.Y, N. Y, April Is, l678.
To the Editor of the Tribune:
] confront Mrs. Tilton's confession with an ex-
plicit and absolute denial. The testimony to her
own innocence and to mine, which for four yeara
she had made to hundreds in private and in
public, before the court, in writing, and orally,
declare t. be true. and the allegations now made
in contradiction of her uniform, solemn and un-
varying statements hitherto made, utterly DENY.
declare her to be innocent of the great trans
erosion. HENRY WARD BEECHER.