The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-21

vealed the fact that he died from the inOrdi-
nate use Of Intoxicating liquors.
THE Exchange Bank of Montreal,
Can, suspended on the 9TH after sustaining
q run of heavy proportions. The liabilities
Of the inst tuition are about $90O,OO
The Maryland Democratic State
Convention met at Baltimore on the 9TH, and
nominated Hon. William T. Hamilton for
Governor; the present incumbents for Attor-
ney-General and Comptroller, and Spencer G.
Jones for Clerk Of Appeals. A platform was
adopted protesting against an increase of the
| National debt; denouncing the election of
Hayes as fraud; opposing Federal interior
ence in elections; etc., etc.
| AT Montreal on the 9Th the Vile
Marie Bank suspended after q run of one
hours duration. The managers subsequently
stated that its circulation was e275, 900, its de-
posts $3O0, 900, and its assets 81, OOO. 900. The
failure of this institution was followed by that
| of the Bank of Hochelaga. The liabilities of
this concern are stated to be $500, 900 and the
assets abundant to pay all debts. A frantic
run was then made upon the City and District
Savings Bank. At the hour of closing, all de-
mands had been met. The excitement
throughout the city was intense.
SECRETARY SCHURZ received letter
from the Indian Chief Spotted Tail on the
| 9Th, in which the latter says both he and his
| people want to be like the whites He says
he has had enough of the military; wants his
people to work; wants no more scouting;
since they hads been where they now are his
people had had no whisky; wherever the
military are there is always whisky, and that
makes trouble. He says he wants the Secre-
tary to visit him and stay a month, and see
how it is. The Secretary replied, thanking
Spotted Tail for his expressions OF good will,
and promising to visit him on the 30th of
August and to spend several days on the res
ervation.
RETURNS received on the 9Th from
question indicated that the proposition to
settle the debt at fifty cents and four per
cent. interest had been rejected by not less
than 1900 majority. Party lines were not
regarded in the contest.
THE story has been recently re-
newed in New York that the stolen body of
the late A. T. Stewart had been recovered
and deposited at night in the crypt at Stew
arts Memorial Cathedral. The crypt had
been carefully sealed, and several watchmen
we're said to be on duty day and night.
Rev. THEoPHILUs VAN DE MooRTEL,
Catholic priest of Chicago. who recently
announced his intention to renounce Roman
Catholicism and join the Episcopal Church,
has sent to the newspapers q notice that he
| retracts what he had said against the Church
| of Rome, and had "resolved to return to the
church that opens its arms to receive back an
erring child"
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 9th
says the President had decided to restore all
of the cadets recently dismissed from West
Point for hazing. as there was general i'm
preston among army officials that explosions
will not break up the practice.
A call has been issued for q Prohibi-
ton State Convention to be he, ID at Altoona,
Pa, on the 9th of September. 1t is expected
that a State ticket will be nominated and an
address issued.
RETURNS from fifty-eight counties in
Kentucky received up to the 10th give a ma
jority for Blackburn of 1854. Blackburn's
majority in the State would probably exceed
10000, Democratic gain of over 5000 over
the two preceding Gubernatorial elections.
The Republicans had gained three or four
Senators and ten or twelve Representatives.
The run upon the Montreal District
and City Savings Bank had spent its force by
noon on the 9th, and at that time many of
those who were SO eager the preceding day
brought back their money and begged the
bank to take it again. During the furry the
bank paid out $25O0O0.
A FEW days ago rencontre &C.
CURED at the residence of ex-senator
Sprague at Narragansett Pier, R. l., between
Mr.. Sprague and Roscoe Conkling, Senator
from New York, in which the former brought
shotgun to bear and threatened to use it.
unless the latter left his establishment. The
distinguished New Yorker left at once, and
it is stated that Mrs. Spraeue also left her
husbands house. The scandal arose from
the reported attentions of the New York
version Of the affair as published in the New
York papers on the 10th and 18th. Another
version is that the trouble was not between
Senator Conkling and ex-senator Sprague at
all, but between the latter and German pro-
lessor, and that Mr.. Sprague ordered the
latter to leave his house because he objected
to his methods of teaching, and that when
Mr.. Conkling interceded for the pedagogue,
MIR. sprague resented the interference.
RESOLUTIONS have recently been
adopted by the New York Tammany Commit
tee on Organization declaring that under no
circumstances would the Democracy of that
city vote for Lucius Robinson as candidate for
Governor.
THE number of immigrants arriving
at the port of New York during the year end
ing July 81 was ZOE, 245; during the previous
year, "a, 139.