The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-31
THE NEW WORLD.

HE pennsylvania Greenback-LabOr
party held State Convention at Altoona on
the 18th, and adopted platform declaring in
favor OF the payment of the National debt
strictly in accordance with the terms of the
contract, and that no more interest-bearing
bonds be issued; that the Federal Govern
ment only shall issue money, such money to
be full legal tender, and that full legal-tender
greenbacks shall be substituted for National
Bank notes; favoring . graduated income
tax law; declaring that all debt due for labor
performed should take precedence of all 9TH
er claims; favoring the establishment of Ma
tional and State Labor Bureaus; etc., etc.
Henry Carey Baird was nominated for State
Treasurer, but declined, and Peter Sutton, q
farmer of Indiana County, was nominated in
his stead.
The Greenbackers of Wisconsin met
in State Convention at Watertown on the 18th,
and nominated Colonel Reuben May for
Governor; Colonel William L. Utley for
Acknowledgement; George w. Lee for
Secretary of State; Peter A. Griffith for State
Treasurer; Colonel George Goodwin for
Attoney-General, and DR.. w. H. Searles for
Superintendent of Public Instruction. The
platform calls for the immediate payment of
all United States bonds in legal tenders; the
abolition of the National Banking system:
the issue of greenbacks to meet the just obi
cations of the Government; the unlimited
coinage of gold and silver; the fixing of the
rate of interest by National law; etc., etc.
Two VESSELS ON the Eastern coast,
one at New Orleans and q fourth ON the
lakes are enlisting boys for the United States
Navy.
AT Cabinet meeting held in WASH
ington on the 18th, the question of the i'm
portation of cattle from abroad was consid-
cred. and it was decided that such importa-
tions heretofore prohibited should be allowed
under certain conditions, such conditions to
be contained in q circular soon to be prepared
by the Acting Secretary Of the Treasury.
INFORMATION has recently been re-
ceived at the Treasury Department that fine
cod-fshery banks lie along the coast of
Alaska, from the peninsula of Unalaska,
through Nortou's and Kotzebue's Sounds into
Behring Straits, and that the fish in quality
and size are equal to those caught of the
Banks Of Newfoundland.
PITTs' AGRICULTURAL WORKS at
Buffalo, N. Y, were burned on the morning
of the 10th. Loss shout 100000.
The Iowa Prohibitionists met in State
Convention at Cedar Rapids on the 10th and
passed series of resolutions recognizing the
traffic in intoxicating liquors as the great
moral. financial, social and political evil Of
the present age; expressing the belief that
the prohibition of such traffic Is the only
sound legislative theory upon which this
vexed question can be solved and the Nation
s,ved from bankruptcy and Generalization;
insisting upon the enforcement of the pres
ent Prohibitory law Of the State, and upon
such amendments by the next Legislature -
will place ale, wine and beer under the
same condemnation as other intoxicat-
ing liquors; favoring the right of females
to vote on the question of temper
ance; indorsing tho effort to amend
the State Constitution 90 Is to prohibit the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic LIQUORS ex
cept for mechanical and medicinal purposes,
including malt and wine LIQUORS. After q
spirited discussion . resolution was aaopted-
Al to S2-declaring It fnexpedient and unwise
1t this time 70 nominate etats Prohibitory
ticket. After the adjournment Of the regular