The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-05
THE NEW WORLD.

IHE United States Senate, on the
Goth, passed the Legislative, Executive and
Judicial Appropriation bill, slightly amend
cd, by a vote of thirty.seven yeas to twenty
seven nays. The bill would go to the House
for action on the Senate amendments. The
vote in the Senate was:
Ieas-Bailey, Bayard, Beck, Call, Cockrell,
Coke. Davis ". Val, Eaton, Garland. Gordon
Groome, Grover. Hampton. Harris, Hereford,
lamar Mcponsid McPherson some Ma1ey M Meapsn.
y ,.ms N HsSghse; Walker wallace whyss VIII
Allison. Anthony. Bell, Blaine Booth,
Chandler, Conk!ing, Edmunds, Ferry, Hill (Coi.S
ders. Teller. Win dS' 'A''' '0'nn'' S""n'
MesSrs. Hill (Ga.l. Farley. Pendleton. Butler
paired. respectively, with Meesrs: Dawes, Jones
would have voted no.
AT a State Convention of colored
men. held in Richmond, Va, on the Goth,
resolution was adopted recommending the
Republican National Convention of 1880 to
nominate ex-President Grant for the Presi-
dency.
The Chairman of the Ohio State
Central Republican Committee published, on
the 2lst, letter from sec'y Sherman, declin.
ing to be candidate for Governor of Ohio.
THE Iowa State Democratic Conven.
ton met at Council Bluffs, on the 2lst, aud
placed in nomination the following: For Gov
ernor, II. II. Trimble; for Lieutenant Gov
ernOr, }. U. YtOman; for Supreme Judge,
Reuben f. Noble; for State Superintendent,
Irwin Baker. The platform demands the
strict construction and observance of the
Constitution and its amendments; declares
that the State and the General Government
should be restrained to their respective
spheres. and allowed to exercise only their
Constitutional powers; condemns the policy
and purposes of the Republican rarty; in
dorses the attitude of Congress; favors the
substitution of legal tenders for National
Bank notes, unlimited coinage of silver dol
lars, etc, etc.
THE business portion of the Town of
Washington, La, was burned on the 2lst.
Loss, about $10OCO
On the 21st, H. p. Peer jumped from
the Suspension Bridge across Niagara River.
$50 feet to the water below. The time of the
descent was announced to be four seconds,
The jumper was picked up none the worse for
the fall.
A CONVENTION was held at Indian
apolis, Ind. on the 2lst, for the purpose of
nominating Prohibition State ticket. Ry-
land I. Brown was nominated for Governor;
Rev. j. V. X. Milder, for Lieutenant-Goy-
ernor; Abraham Spainhawer, for Secretary of
State; William s. Hubbard, for Treasurer.
and jeremiah Letter, for Auditor. An ad-
dress to the people of the State was adopted,
arguing the necessity of independent
political action II Temperance men ever
expect to accomplish anything. Resolu-
tions were adopted to make q complete can
vass of the State for Prohibition, and to de-
mand Prohibitory law of the next and all
succeeding Legislatures, but in the meantime
to accept the best Constitutional measures
that can be obtained for abridging the liquor
traffic.
The Biennial Convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association Of the
United States met in Baltimore, on the 2lst.
Dwight L. Moody was elected President The
Treasurer's report showed the receirts for
1878 to havs been $l6,S75, and the expendf-
lures 6l6.S73 leaving a balance OF two dol
lars. Four hundred and eighty associations
report membership Of &, 40.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 2lst
says the surReou-Geueral of the Marine Hos
pital Service had been Instructed to transmit