The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

tiers OF paramount cOnMderatlOn 10 IN
great Power would, under similar circun
stances, fail to assert rlghtful control over
work 40 closely and vitality affecting its inter
Without urging furth.r grounds Of m
opinion, I repeat, in conclusion, that it is tn
right and duty of the United states to asser
and maintain such supervision and authorit
mus that connects North and South Americ
as will protect our National interests. This,
am quite sure. will be found not only CON
most permanent advantage to commerce an
civilization. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the St
says it was reported that De Lesseps had e,
pressed himself rs being satisfied with tn
Presidents message on the subject of tn
Interoceanic Canal, "because it would Gel
tainly be advantageous to have the prote'
ton of the United States during the worl
and after the opening of the canal" H
had sent message to his son at Paris, say
ing the Presidents message assured tn
safety of the canal.
By the terms of the act creating
the Southern Claims Commission expired O.
the 10th. Its last report to Congress, showe
that since the organization of the commission
III 1CSls SS,SOS ClolkuSs dluOuuVAuS W ONC
5000, 0OO, 900, had been filed, of which all bu
about one-twelfth had been rejected.
On the 10th a Louisiana colored maj
testified before the Voorhees, Exodus Com
mittee that about 5000 colored people ha,
left that State for Kansas.
The United States Senate has reject.
ed the nomination of William r. Brown a.
Census Supervisor for the Eighth District O
Illinois, by party vote, on the ground, it il
said, that at least one of the eight Illinois
Supervisors should have been selected from
the Democracy.
The Post-office Department has con
cluded contract for the "star' mail service
for four years in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, North Carolina, South Carolina
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi
The total amount of the awards i.
about $SS5,OO0. Among those receiving the
largest contracts are Sawyers Il Wyatt, Ken
tucky;J. H, Wilson, Kentucky, and ]. d
Colegrove, Missouri.
The East.
On the 9TH DR.. George w. Kittridge,
member of the Thirty-third an1 Thirty.
fourth Congresses. died at his home in New
market, N. II.
The body of DR.. Hahn, late New
York physician, was successfully cremated in
the lie Moyne crematory at Washington, Pa.
on the night of the 9th.
On the 9th five women were elected
of the Board of Education at Mid
N. T., their opponents being men
Over one hundred women voted.
DURING the month of February last
nearly 14s,OOO emigrants arrived at the por
of New York, against s2,OOOin the same month
in 1879.
E. J. PErRoFF was found guilty by a
Harrisburg (Pa.) jury on the 18th of having
bribed members of the Legislature to vote fol
the appropriation of money to pay for alleged
losses and damages by the railroad riots OF
1876. On the preceding day w. H. Kemble
and three others, indicted for like offense,
pleaded guilty.
Mr.. PARNELL sailed for Europe on
the 18th.
West and South.
The center and west wings of the
Kansas State Insane Asylum at Osawatomie
were burned on the evening Of the Sth
Cause supposed to be spontaneous combus-
ton.
The Nebraska Democratic State
Convention for the selection of delegates to
the Cincinnati Convention will be held at
Columbus on the 3lst Ct March.
The New Jersey State Democratic
to choose delegates to the Ma
tional Democratic Convention has been
called to meet at Trenton on the 10Th of May.
The Ute Chief Douglass made an
other attempt to escape from Fort Leaven-
worth on the 9th, but was discovered before
he had gone far.
A CITIZENS ticket defeated the
ticket at the Oakland (Cal.
election on the 9th.
On the 9th Detroit steamer entered
Harbor, being the earliest arrival on
record by more than a week.
On the morning of the 9th the Grand
Central Hotel and several adjoining buildings
at Oakland, CAL, were destroyed by fire.
The Louisiana Democratic State Con-
vention for the selection of delegates to the
Cincinnati Convention has been called to meet
on the 18th of April.
THERE was something of panic on
'Change at Chicago on the 9th. The Keene
crowd unloaded their April wheat at de-
cline of from three to four cents per bushel,
and bought May options at corresponding
rates. A large quantity of wheat changed
hands.
The San Francisco Vigilance Com
mittee, otherwise known as the Citizens
Protective Association, issued manifesto OF
the 9th declaring that the objects which it
had in view are the "preservation of peace,
the protection of life and property, the res
toration of confidence, and the revival OF
legitimate commerce, industry and business
that the time has come when the man.
hood of San Francisco should be as
serted, and that all good citizene who
agree with it and approve its purposes are
invited to join themselves to the organization
by signing the roll" Kearney denounced the
of the Committee as assassins, and
warned all his followers to note well the men
who gave it their support.
The Directors report that the surplus
of the Union Pacific Railway during
1879 were 81, 725,574.
In the Chicago Times of the 18th re-
ports from the winter-wheat district were
printed showing that the condition of the crop
was generally favorable and the prospects
In Illinois there had been com
plants of wet weather, and in Kansas and
Iowa of drouth, but it was the opinion OF
good judges that there would be an unusually
heavy yield.
MAYOR KALLOCH, of San Francisco,
issued proclamation on the 10th declaring
that there was no danger of trouble from the
working classes of that city, and that the
excitement caused by the formation of q
Citizens Protective organization and certain
military precautions was the work of "de.
signing men,
AT Sidney, Neb., while the express
agent was at dinner on the 10th, his office
was entered by gang of plunderers, who
made of with about $9OO, 900 in gold bullion
Just in from the Black Hills. A few hours
later all but $13, 600 worth of the metal wal
the thieves having hidden it in
coal pile not far away.
THERE were packed at Milwaukee