The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-25
Hon. ALEXANDER MITCHELL, who

Hon. ALEXANDER MITCHELL, who
was nominated for Governor by the recent
Wisconsin State Democratic Convention, has
cabled from London his absolute declination
Of the candidacy, and says he will not serve
II elected.
ACCORDING to Washington special
of the 18th it had been decided to appoint ex-
Governor Fenton, of New York, as Minister
to the Court of st. James.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made that the
promoters of the negro exodus will hold
convention in Philadelphia on the 18th Of
October.
THE New York Democracy held
their State Convention at Syracuse on the
10th and nth platform was adopted de-
handing honest elections and an honest
count of votes; opposing all favoritism,
and declaring that no single interest or class
of persons should be protected at the ex-
pense OF any other; declaring belief in
gold and silver as the Constitutional money
of the country, and condemning the specu.
lativc methods of he present Secretary of
the Treasury, and the questionable favor
itism he has shown to particular monetary
Institutions and so-called syndicates, and the
extravaganza he has permitted in his
Department in connection with his re-
funding scheme; looking "with shame
and sorrow on the disgraceful reputation
of the professions of Civil-Service reform by
the Executive and his supporters" and &C.
claring that the 10y, 600 Federal officers consti
tute an army which is being used to keep the
Republican party in power; etc. After the
platform vas read and adopted nominations
for Governor were made amid considerable
excitement, the Anti Tammanyites nominat-
ina Governor Robinson and the Tammany
men General II. w. Slocum. A motion was
then made to nominate State Senator John G.
Jacobs (the Chairman of the Convention) by
reclamation, which motion was amid much con-
fusion, declared by the Secretary to have been
carried As soon as order could be restored Mr..
Jacobs said If he had been consulted concern
ing the nomination which had been made he
would have declined it. A motion was sub
sequently made and carried to cali the roll
for nominations for Governor, pending which
the Tammany delegation, headed by Messrs.
Dorsheimer and Schell-whO emphatically de-
clared that under no circumstances would the
Democracy support Governor Rob!nson-re-
tired from the hall. The vote on the nomina-
tion for Governor was then taken and resulted
as follows: Robinson, 243; Slocum, S.;
scattering, 2. The nomination of Mr.. Robin
son was then made unanimous. Clarkson N.
Potter was nominated for Lieutenant-G Govern
or; Allen c. Beach, for Secretary of State;
James Mackin, for State Treasurer.
The Tammany Hall boilers from the
New York State Democratic Convention met
in Shakespeare Hall on the afternoon of the
| 18th and organized State Convention by the
choice of David Dudley Field as Chairman.
John Kelly was nominated for Governor,
and accepted in a speech in which he declared
that he would defeat Robinson, If he was not
himself elected. A committee Of fifteen was
! raised to decide as to the remainder of the
ticket, after which the Convention adjourned
sine die.
SECRETARY SHERMAN'S attention
having been called to a published statement
that he had directed that the silver dollar
should not be received by the Treasury in
certain cases. he says, according to recent
Washington dispatch, that the statement is
absolutely false, and without shadow of
foundation; that the law makes the silver co..
lar legal tender for ali purposes, and il has
| always been received by the Treasury in pay
ment of demands of every kind, and as fully
and freely as gold coin.
ARGENT Jersey City IN. J.) dis
patch says the improvement in the iron trade
had induced the owners Of one OF the largest
furnace, in the State to put it in blast, after
six years idicncss. A large force of men
were preparing to work. When in operation
the furnace gives employment to many hun
bred hands.
The Maryland State Republican Con-
vention met at Baltimore on the 18th, and
nominated x-Postmaster-General Creswell
for Governor. Mr.. Creswell declined, and
James A. Gray was nominated A platform
was adopted favoring the purity of the ballot
box; condemning the Democracy for their
disorganizing efforts at the extra session of
Congress; etc, etc.
THE Massachusetts Greenbackers met
in State Convention at Boston on the 18th
and nominated General B. F. Butler for Gov
ernor and Wendell Phillips for Lieutenant
Governor. The usual Greenback resolutions
were adopted.
THE trial of Henry J. Gully for the
murder Of Cornelia Chisholm closed at De
kalb, Miss, on the 18th, the jury, after DELHI
Grating for less than half an hour, bringing in
verdict of not guilty. The theory of the
defense was that the parties who came armed
to the town had done so simply to assist the
Sheriff in the arrest of the parties charged
with the murder of John Gully, in case they
should resist, and that there was no premedi-
tated design or conspiracy to take the life of
any one; that the defendant had himself no
gun at the time of the shooting of Miss
Chisholm, and that he invoked the crowd who
were just about to shoot at Judge Chisholm,
to leave the Jail and go away.
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
Gently directed the sale of Kansas trust and
diminished reserve lands to actual settlers.
Mr.. BURCHARD, Director of the
United States MINIS, has issued a circular
with view to preparing statistics relative to
the production and consumption of gold and
silver, asking those who are employed in the
arts and manufactures to furnish statements
showing their yearly or monthly average con-
sumption of United States coin, native bullion
and metals obtained from old manufactured
articles. The fullest specific information on
these points is regarded of vast Importance in
its bearing upon the economic history of the
metallic currency of the country.
A NEW YORK dispatch of the 18th
says Ex-Governor John T. Hoffman had re-
signed the Office of Sachem of the Tammany
Society, and announced that he would sup
port Robinson for Governor.
The New York Produce Exchange
has issued o circular to manufacturers of
flour throughout the country recommending
that all flour intended for that market shall
weigh 200 pounds to the barrel, and that the
number of pounds be marked on each package.
WILLIAM KEENE, Assistant Cashier of
the Minneapolis (Minn.) Northwestern Ma
tional Bank, was arrested on the 18th for en-
bezzling $685. of the funds of the bank.
He says he lost his money in Chicago wheat
deals.
A REUNION of the prisoners Of war
during the rebellion will be held at Toledo,
Ohio, on the LIST and I'd of October next.
AMRs. BoNEsrEEL, of Fort Scott, Kan,
gave her two children morphine on the 18th