The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-04-03

isiana Savings Bank; Metropolitan Bank;
New Orleans Canal and Banking Company
Peoples Bank and Workingmen's Bank.
In a speech at Santa Anna, Southern
California, on the Goth, Dennis Kearney viii.
lied man who was in the audience. After
the speech was finished, the abused party
gave the orator an unmerciful beating.
THE National Executive Committee
of the National Greenback party has issued
another address to the people of the United
is to be placed on the professions Of the
avowed friends to the cause; that the hope
for financial relief within old party lines has
been extinguished, and that they have been.
in several instances. misled by nominees of
the party and others who obtained its sup
port. 1t is only possible through q new
organization to found party which shall &C
complish the desired end. To succeed, uni
form effort must be made, and q position
bold, aggressive, Independent and uncom-
promising must be taken.
| ANNOUNCEMENT was made, on the
Goth, that the Treasury Department would at
once redeem the called bonds embraced in
the seventy-eighth to eightieth calls, inclu-
sive, paying interest to date of redemption,
| or it would redeem at once the bonds included
in said calls, with interest to date of maturity,
and apply the proceeds to the payment Of
| any subscriptions for 4-per-cent. consols.
The President, on the goth, nomi-
mated Gen. F. A. Walker as Superintendent
Of the forthcoming Census.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL, of the Diocese
| of Cincinnati, has addressed letter to the
| public, in which he narrates the causes which
led to his present pecunfary- embarrassment,
and gives in detail his expenditures on be-
half of the Diocese, which he says should have
been borne by the members Of the churches.
He declares but for the generous sympathy of
| Catholics and Protestants alike he would
have sunk under the weight of his troubles.
He makes an appeal to all Catholics and
others, who feel for others woes, to help
him out of his embarrassments.
In Brooklyn, N. Y, few evenings
ago, Bartholomew O'Donnell, eighty years of
age, finished an eighty-mile mile walk in
twenty-six hours.
ABOUT 100 Democrats and thirty
four Republicans aud Independents have been
elected to the Louisiana Constitutional Con-
vention.
THE joint Democratic Caucus Com
mittee of both houses of Congress met, on the
22d, ard voted in favor of the " modification"
of the Election laws, by repeating the law
creating the Office of Chief Supervisor and
that relating to the appointment of Deputy
Marshals. The modification further contem-
plated the appointment of an officer on the
part of each party, who shall have no authori-
~, but who shall be allowed to inspect and
scrutiniz, the voting lists, challenge
voters, ETC., and to have only powers
of inspection and observation. 1t was
also decided to repeal SIC. 5,533, which pre-
scribes penalties for interfering with Super
visors, etc, on election day. 1t was also voted
not to send to the President these measures
in separate bills, but attach them to the yari-
Gus app, Ooriation bills. No decision was
reached in respect to general legislation.
The Memphis (Tenn.) cotton snd
wooden mills were struck by lightning, on the
morning of the 22d, and utterly consumed.
Loss, $4,000. By this disaster $50 persons
are thrown out of employment.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Illinois House Of Representatives to annex
the City of St. Louis, Mo-, to the State of
Illinois.
A LETTER received by the War De-
part,nent in Washington, on the 22i, from
Col. Walsh, who is in command of the mount
ed police on the Dakota frontier, reports that
Sitting Bull and his warriors were showing q
very ugly and insubordinate disposition. They
had as yet made no movement toward the
boundary line, but serious trouble was ap-
pretended as soon as spring should open.
Col. Walsh estimated the strength of Sitting
Bulls band at 1000, all told, of whom 2, 500
were warriors, we'll armed and equipped.
Gen. Sherman decided to take active meas
s.-as, BY tho ~. r.rai-a OF troops, ete., ~
guard against the apprehended raid Of the
Indians across the frontier, and possible at
tack upon Forts Stephenson, Buford and
Totten.
A BURGLAR who was caught robbing
a store at jamestown, KY, few nights ago,
was shot dead by the proprietor, who had been
aroused by the noise made by the robber. Fiji
teen buckshot penetrated the body of the
burglar.
AaUsTE HUARD, paying-teller of the
Mechanics & Traders Bank of New Orleans,
committed suicide by shooting himself with q
revolver on the morning of the Dist. The
money in the vaults of the bank was about
being counted by a. civil officer, and Huard
being defaulter in large amount, it is
thought he committed self-destruction to
avoid the consequences of detection.
NATHAN P. PRATT, Treasurer of the
Reading (Mass.) Savings Bank, was arrested,
on the oath, for the embezzlement of the
greater part Of the securities belonging to the
institution. The amount taken is variously
estimated at from So. 900 to 100000.
THE lower House of the Rhode Island
Legislature voted, on the oath, in favor of
comforting the right of suffrage upon women
-25 to 21--but the majority fell short of what
is required for the presentation of Constitu-
tional Amendments to the people
PRESIDENT HAYES, on the oath, NOM
mated John B. Hamilton, of Illinois, to he
Supervising Surgeon-G General of the United
States Marine Hospital Service; John NJ. Will
son, of Ohio, Consul at Panama, and George
Scroggs, of Illinois, Consul at Hamburg.
THE Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage ap-
peared for trial before the Brooklyn Presby-
terry, on the afternoon of the gath. The prin-
cipal charges were falsehood and deceit. He
pleaded not guilty, and demanded an investi-
cation, waving all technicalities in his favor.
1t was finally decided to try him on all the
specifications.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.-The Forty.sixth Congress
assembled in special session ON the 18th. At
noon the Vice-President called the Senate to or
der, and. after prayer, the President Proclama-
ton converting the extra session was read.
The &enatOn-elect were then sHorn in after