New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-09-10

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30, $2,55s,94s.
THE official vote for Governor in
Kentucky at the late election was as follows:
Blackburn, Democrat, 125,799; Evans, Re
publican. 1852; Cook, Greenbacker, 10, 94.
Blackburn's majority. 1858.
lJP to and including the LIST of this
month the receipts by the Government Of re-
funding certificates for conversion into four
percent. bonds aggregated 335, zoo. 900. The
total Issues OF the four-per-cent. loan by the
Treasury Department amounted to $40, 975,
800, leaving SIZE, 700 not yet disposed of.
DURING August the silver payments
from the United States Treasury and the
minis amounted to 81, $50, 600, exclusive Of the
amount returned for silver certificates. The
aggregate weight of the coin thus distributed
is fxty-six tons. The number of standard sill
yer dollars coined during August was 2, 49,
$50; total number coined up to the LIST instant,
40, 237,05O
GovERNOR-ELECT LUKE p. BLACK
BURN was duly inaugurated Governor of Ken
lucky, at Frankfort on the I'd. A very large
crowd was present. ...zr
On the afternoon of the LIST severe
tornado visited New Orleans, Morgan City,
La, and the sections bordering on the Gulf
and the Atchafalaya. Walls and buildings
were blown down, vessels sunk and sugar
houses destroyed. Scarcely place between
Morgan City and New Iberia escaped.
The Minnesota Republican State
Convention met at st. Paul on the I'd. John
8. Pillsbury, the present Governor, was re-.
nominated on the first ballot. C..
A. Gilman was nominated for Lieutenant
Governor. The resolutions adopted indorse
the financial policy of the present National
Administration, which is claimed to be vindi-
Gated by the 'eminent success which has at
tended the resumption Of specie paYments;"
demand that ''every Constitutional means be
exerted to maintain that liberty and security
throughout the South which al citizens are
entitled to under the Government;' favor
Civil-Servicc Reform enactment by Congress-;
demand retrenchment In every department of
the National and State Governments, and
declare that ''the Republican party sets its
face absolutely against everything that savors
of monopoly" and will use all Constitutional
means to protect the people against unjust
determinations and combinations by railroad
or other corporations.
THE New York Prohibition State
Convention met at Syracuse on the 81 and
nominated State ticket as follows: Gov.
crDor, Professor John w. Mears; Lieuten-
ant-Governor, James II. Bronson; Secretary
Of State, A. II. Hopkins; Comptroller, Z. w.
ALI; Treasurer, Stephen Merritt; State En-.
ginecr, John F. Hooder; Attorney. General,
Walter harrington.
A RECENT Washington dispatch
says the Postmaster General had ordered IN
actual daily count in all postoffices, from the
LIST to the 9TH of November, of all letters,
packages, postalcards, etc. The publishers
Vt newspapers are requested to furnish post
masters with the number of papers mailed
Turing the same time.
A NARRAGANsETT PIER special to
the New York Times of the I'd says Governor
Sprague had stated that his wife certainly
dill not leave in consequence of any threat or
act Of violence on his part; that no act of
violence was committed by him then or at any
other time.
The New York Republican State
Convention was held at Saratoga on the Sd.
ecnator Conkling was unanimously chosen
temporary chairman, and Vice-President
Wheeler was subsequently elected permanent
presiding officer. A. B. Cornell was nomi.
mated OH the first ballot for Governor, recciv
ing 234 OF the $50 votes cast. A motion to
make the nomination unanimous was adopted
with single objection. The rest Of the
ticket nominated is as follows: For Lienten.
antGoyernor, George G. Hoskins; Secretary
| of State, Joseph B. Carr; Comptroller,
James W. Wadsworth; Treasurer, Nathan
D. Wendell; Attorney General, Hamilton
| Ward; State Engineer and Surveyor,
Howard soule The platform adopted
| declares the United States to be q
| nation, and not league. and to be supreme
| within its own Constitutional sphere; de-
nounces the doctrine of State sovereignty as
being the baleful mother of notification,
| secession aud anarchy; arraigns the Demo-
cratic party for It's policy during and since
the war; declares that the Republican party
neither justiies nor tolerates military inter-
ference with elections, but seeks only to pro-
tect the ballot-box from the interference of
force and fraud; that the successful resump.
ton of specie payment is the browning ele-
ment of Republican financial policy; that it
lie the province and plain duty of the State to
supervise and regulate moneyed and transpor-
tatfon corporations so as to secure just and
impartial treatment of all interested; ETC., etc.
The Chicago Interstate Exposition
was formally opened on the night of the Sd.
It will continue six weeks.
The st. Louis Colored Refugee Board
held meeting on the night of the 4th, at
which reports were made going to show that
there had been little falling off in the negro
emigration northward, and that the number
might be expected to increase after the crop
was gathered. It was stated that better
class Of people was coming, and that the de-
mand for assistance was not so pressing and
general as it had been. ~a .-
AT q Smith family reunion held in
Peapack, N. j., on the 4th, there were present
$500 Smiths from various sections of thu
Union, East, West and South.
| CHARLES DEMoND, late Treasurer o.
the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society
was arrested in Boston on the 4th, charged
with embezzlement. The amount of his de
falcatton was placed at over $4,000.
UP to the evening of the 5th, three
fourths of the vote cast In California at tn,
late election had been counted. At that tim,
Perkins, the Republican candidate for Gov
ernOr, was leading Glenn, the Democratic can
didate, about II, 500 votes. The indication
were that Perkins plurality would be abou
$4,000. The Republicans had apparently cleo
ted all the Congressman, although the vot
in the San Francisco district was close Kal
loch is elected Mayor of San Francisco beyont
doubt, and the Workingmen have probabl!
elected the Sheriff and some other of tn
municipal officers Of San Francisco.
The excursion-steamer Alaska ex
ploded the dome of her boiler in Lake Erie
on the 5th. Both engineers and one deck
hand were killed, and ten deck-hands ser
ously scalded-some fatally. Only one 9
the passengers was scalded, and be slightly
IT was reported from Utica, N. Y.
on the 5th, that Ex-Governor Seymour ha
declined being candidate for Governor b,
fore the Democratic State Convention, an