New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-03-31
Personal and Political.

The Rhode Island Democrats met in
State Convention at Providence on the I'D
and nominated Horace A. Kimball for Gov
ernor; 8. P. Slocum for Lieutenant Governor;
w. B. Hallett for Secretary of State; H. J.
Carroll for Attorney General; ID. B. Pond for
Treasurer. Tilden delegates were chosen to
the Cincinnati Convention. Resolutions were
adopted denouncing the provision Of the State
Constitution requiring real-estate qualiaca-
ton for foreign-born citizens; the employ
ment of United States Marshals and soldiers
at the polls; the alleged Electoral Commission
fraud !, and the third-term policy; declaring
that the men elected in 1880 shall be inaugu-
rated; for the honest payment of public debts
in such currency as its terms imply, and pres
ervation Of public faith; opposing a third
term, etc, etc.
The law forbidding the employment
of Chinese by corporations in California has
been pronounced unconstitutional by the
United States Circuit Court at San Francisco
An appeal will be taken to the Supreme
Court.
The State National Greenback Con-
yention OF Tennessee has been called to meet
at Nashville, May %, to choose delegates to
the Chicago Convention.
AT noon on the 23d the steamer City
of Mexico, with Generals Grant and Sheridan
on board, reached Galveston, Texas, after q
somewhat stormy passage from Vera Cruz.
The party was enthusiastically received by the
citizens of Galveston.
In executive session on the Esd, the
Senate rejected the Presidents nominations
for Census Supervisors in the First, Second
and Eleventh Ohio Districts.
The Pennsylvania State Greenback
Convention met at Harrisburg on the 23d and
elected delegates to the National Convention
to be held in Chicago on the 9th of June. The
delegates were instructed to vote for Hem
drick B. Wright for President The resolutions
adopted regard nationality, currency reform,
and rights Of labor as one and inseparable;
declare that the United States shall issue all
currency, gold and silver and paper, all to be
free legal tender for all purposes, public and
private, and that there shall be no banks Of
issue, State or National; extend party sym
pathy and active cooperation to the working
men Of California in their efforts to combat
the evils Of Chinese cheap labor, and declare
that full restitution should he made to soldiers
for depreciation Of the money in which they
were paid. n
The Minnesota State Democratic Con-
vention to choose delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention has been called to meet in st.
Paul on the 10th Of May.
GENTLEMAN Jo," the prosecutor Of
Rev. DR.. Dix, Of New York, was discovered
and arrested In Baltimore on the oath. He
confessed his guilt. His name is Eugene
Fairfax Williamson; his age, forty, and his
place Of residence, Pittsburgh. He said he
did not know what prompted him to send the
letters, postal cards, etc. as his victim never
injured him in any manner.
On t}n24th the President nominated
A. Newton Pettis, Of Pennsylvania, to be AS
sociate Justice Of the Supreme Court Of. New
Mexico; James B. Angel, President Of the
Michigan University, to be Envoy Extraordin-
ary and Minister Plenip otentiary Of the United
States to China, vice George +. Seward, re-
called; and John +. Swift, OF California, and
Vim. H. PRESCOTT, Of South Carolina, to be
Commissioners to China to negotiate treaty.
GENERAL HALBERr E. PAINE, Com
missioner Of Patents, has rendered bis resig-.
nation. ss
[ The New York State Convention Of
the National Greenback- Labor party was held
at Albany on the oath. Patrick E. Ford,
George .. Jones, James e. Wright and
Samuel Lowell were chosen as delegates-at:
large to the Chicago Convention. The reso-
lutions adopted were substantially those