The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-09

Dcs Moines, was chosen President of the
Convention. Reports of the different socie-
ties were read, aud were generally of favor
able character. The resolutions adopted de-
clare against taxation and laws without rep
resentation; against the laws governing mar
rage and property wherein the husband, in
the event of the wife's death, has the dis
posal Of all the property, whereas the wife
has only portion; in favor of petitioning
the coming Legislature for the ballot; in
favor of temperance and of equality Of wages
for similarity of work.
A HEARTY and enthusiastic greeting
was extended to General Grant at Oakland,
Cal, on the 25th, by the city authorities and
citizens generally. In the afternoon the ex-
President and party attended campfire of
the Federal and Confederate soldiers of Ala
media County. Tables were spread, covered
with tin plates, cups, knives and forks, and
supplied with bareback, pork and beans, cof-
fee and tobacco. When General Grant had
been introduced to the surrounding throng he
addressed them as follows:
| GENTLEMEN OF THE Two ARMIES AND Ma
vlEs: l am very proud of the welcome
ticularly happy. to see good will and
cor,iiality existing between the soldiers
u l
that this good feeling will always exist. Thus
united, we have nothing to fear from any ma
ton in the world. I am satisfied, from my
travels in foreign lands. that no country will
| be perfectly willing to do us justice without
an appeal to arms, and as that is all that
country has long career of peace and pros
! perity before her.
PRESIDENT HAYES and party visited
the State Fair at Neosho, Ram, on the 25th.
He was warmly received. Both he and Gem
eral Sherman briefly addressed the multitude.
Mr.. AND Mrs. FREDERICK LONG,
living about thirteen miles northeast of Grand
Rapids, Mich, few nights ago put their
three children to bed early in the evening and
went to a prayer-meeting. Soon after they
left neighbor discovered the house to be on
fire, and the neighbors around soon arrived on
the scene. One of them broke in the front
door, but was unable to enter the building be-
cause of the intense heat. He succeeded,
however, in getting out one of the children,
but the other two-little boys seven and two
years old, espectively-perishcd in the fire.
A SAN Francisco telegram says
Dennis Kearney called at the Palace Hotel on
the 25th and sent up his card to General
Grant, but the latter declined to receive him.
General Grant and wife. accompanied by the
Mayor of San Francisco and other city Off
cials, and several eminent gentlemen and
ladies, made visit to San Jose on the 26th
where they were met and heartily welcomed
by the Mayor and City Council of San Jose
and a vast throng of people.
A FIRE at Deadwood, d. t., almost
entirely destroyed that city on the Goth.
About one hundred and twenty-five business
buildings and large number of residences
were burned, and two thousand people were
rendered homeless. The loss was estimated
at from 81, 500, 600 to s2,OOO,O0O. The work of
rebuilding would begin at once, and buildings
of more substantial character than those
destroyed would be erected
INFORMATION was received in Wash
ington few days ago of the arrest in New
York of man named George Brown, who
was said to be implicated in frauds on the
Pension Bureau amounting to thousands of
dollars. 1t was stated that for a number of
years he had had possession of pension certii-
Gates upon which he had regularly collected
money in Philadelphia, Baltimore and WASH
ington by procuring persons to personate the
pensioners.
THE Dominion Government has for
hidden the importation of American cattle
into Canada.
A YOUNG man named Wentworth
Rawlins left New York in July last, Oh q
pleasure trip to the West on bicycle. He
arrived at Chicago on the 9th of September,
having made the entire distance on the two
wheeled velocipede. He was received and
banqueted by the Chicago Bicycle Club.
ALARGE bowlder of white quartz rock,
from near the Wilderness, in Virginia, has
been placed to mark the spot where Stonewall
jackson received his death wound. A simple
inscription will be put on the stone.
The President was rendered re-
ception at the Capitol building at Topeka,
Kan, on the 9th, by the Governor and State
officers. A large number of ladies and gen.
tlemen were presented to him and General
Sherman, after which short speeches were
made by the two distinguished guests.
A New YORK dispatch of the 9th
says the Bank of Commerce had the day be-
fore made its last payment to the Treasury
on account of the United States four-per-cent
bonds, and the First National Bank made its
last payment on the same account on the
9th. The latter was said to be the final set
Element of all transactions in United States
four-per-cents on domestic accounts.
THE grain-dealers in New York have
adopted a resolution changing the time of
buying and selling grain by the GENITAL from
October l to January l.
The international pedestrian contest
for the Ashley belt ended on the night of the
9th. The official score of the nine contest
ants who remained on the track to the close
of the walk is as follows: Rowell, $50 miles;
Merritt, SIS; Hazael, 5OO1s; Hart, 1927:
Guyon, Al; Weston, As; Ennis, 1904
Krohne, 1905; Taylor, 25O]s.
The Providence (R. L. Club, having
won fifty-three games up to the 9th, have Sc
cured the baseball championship for the en-
suing year. Boston was second; Chicago,
third; Buffalo, fourth; Cincinnati, fifth;
Cleveland, sixth; Troy, seventh; Syracuse,
eighth.
HUGO PREYER, as Chairman of the
Union Greenback Labor party of the United
States, has issued call for Union National
Convention, to be held at st. Louis on the Sth
OF next January, for the purpose of nomi-
mating candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency Of the United States, and to trans
act such other business as may come before
the Convention. The chartered Greenback
Clubs in each county or parish are called upon
to hold County Convention on the 25th of
December to elect one delegate to the Ma
tional Convention. The Chairman says, in
the call, "there will be no fusion with either
of the old parties at any time or under any
circumstances"
GENERAL GRANT gave reception to
the public school children of San Francisco
at the Woodward Gardens on the 18th ult
1t was estimated that not less than thirty
thousand children participated in the demon
stration.
ONE THOUSAND men, mostly cabinet
makers, were out on strike in Cincinnati
| on the 18th ult. The demand was for an ad-
! vance OF fifteen per cent. in wages.
Mrs. SPRAGUE's trustee was refused
admission to the residence at Canonchet ON
the 18th ult., by Ex-Governor Sprague, al
though he was accompanied by Mr. Chaffec,
the trustee of the Sprague estate. The OBJ
icct of the visit was IN ms 10 a., ;pyor%<,. - e