The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-19

recommend Governor Colquitt to the people
as . suitable candidate.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made on the llth as follows: First Califor-
pis District, Congressman Horace Davis, Re-
publican; Fourth California, Congressman r.
Pachcco, Republican; Nevada, Congressman
R. NJ. Daggett, Republican,; Third California,
George A. knight, Republican,; Second Ala
bama, Congressman H. A. Herbert, Demo-
crat; Ninth Ohio, General James B. Robin
son, Republican; Eighth Michigan, 7. TaTn-
seN Democrat; First West Virginia, Con-
gresham Wilson, Democrat; Seventh ILL.,
nois, William Cullen, Republican.
HEAtY rains in the neighborhood of
Wilmington, N. c., are said to have recently
damaged the cotton crop in that region fully
fifty per cent.
PRESIDENT HAYES, General Sherman
and other notables were present At the SOL
diers' reunion At Columbus, O., on the 18th.
NINE cars of freight-train on the
st. Paul 4 Duluth Railway were thrown off
the track and completely wrecked near Pine
City the other morning Three Minneapo-
were killed.
SILVER of great purity is said to have
beenirecently discovered at Silver tslet, near
Sarnia, Canada.
AFTER completing the revision of the
st. Louis census returns, Special Agent Saw
yer, Of the Census Bureau, makes out the
population of that city to he 333.57.
The National Liberal League will
hold its fourth annual convention in Chicago
on the 18th, 18th and 10th of September.
In the Henrico County (Va.) Court
on the 18th J. w. Hoenninger refused to serve
with q colored juror. The Judge imposed a
fine of $3.50 and ten days Imprisonment.
Hoennnger subsequently consented to serve,
| and the penalties were removed.
THE Michigan Democrats have NOM
mated Fred L. Holloway for Governor.
THE State Credit Democrats in the
Tennessee State Convention on the 18th NOM
mated Judge John V. Wright for Governor,
and the Rcpudiationists nominated 8. F. Will
son.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made on the 10Th as follows: Second Cali
fornia District, Congressman H. F. Page, Re-
publican; First Ohio, s. F. Hunt Democrat;
Second Ohio, General H. B. Banning, Dem
ocrat; Tenth Illinois, George Meaders, Green
back; First Iowa, Daniel P. Stubs, Green
back; Seventh Michigan, Congressman o. ID.
Conger, Republican; Sixth Ohio, Congress
man Frank IIurd, Democrat; Seventeenth
Ohio, Judge l.. d. Thoman, Democrat; Eight
eenth Ohio, Judge Ezra B. Taylor, Republi-
Fourth Virginia, Sam'l F. Coleman, Democrat;
Fifth Virginia, George c. Cabell, Democrat;
First Kansas, John c. Tomlinson, Democrat;
Sixth Michigan, j. w. Begole, Greenback;
Sixth Iowa, Judge J. c. Cook, Democrat;
Sixteenth Illinois, B. f. Hosmer, Republican.
Foreign Intelligence.
THE second son of the Crown Solic-
itor Of Tipperary County, ireland, shot by
masked men on the Sth, died on the 9th, and
the Solicitor himself was not expected to
live.
ACCORDING to a Rome dispatch of
the 10th new association for collecting mon
ey to meet the necessities OF the Pope had
been formed. A daily tribute of one centime
was to be demanded of all Catholics.
On the 10th frame building with
brick veneering, used for storage purposes,
collapsed at Montreal, burying one man and
twelve boys in the ruins. One of the boys
was suffocated and several others we're Sc
verely injured.
A CONVICT in an Italian prison has
starved himself to death in thirty days.
A BRUSSELS dispatch of the 10th says
Belgian Exploring Expedition, were reported
to have been murdered by the natives in Cen
trail Africa.
On the 10th the fast railway train
running between London and Edinburgh,
known as the Flying Scotsman" jumped
the track because Of the breaking of the en-
CINE axle. Two employees were killed and
several passengers more or less injured.
HORACE MAYNARD, ex-United States
Minister to Turkey, and recently appointed
Postmaster-General,sa sailed from Liverpool on 1
the 18th for this country.
By railroad accident on the Mid
land England Railway, between Leeds and
few days ago, seven persons
were killed and twenty others injured.
DISPATCHES from Dublin on the 18th
state that the peasants in the west of Ire
land were arming and drilling, and that Fe-
was rampant The news from other
parts of the island indicated that the rebell-
ious movement had assumed considerable
A NUMBER of disguised men boarded
the Norwegian bark Juno. lying in the harbor
at Cork. Ireland, on the 10th, bound the Cap
tain and crew, and carried off forty-seven
muskets. The Dublin newspapers ascribe
the outrage to American Fenians.
A SCUTAR1 telegram of the 18th says
the National Council of the Albanian League
had decided to throw off every vestige of Of
toman authority.
A FALL of earth on the 18th ut
Vieuxport. near Poitiers, France, crushed in
two houses and buried up twenty persons
Up to the evening of that day ten bodies had
been recovered.
LATR H.
A NEW YORK telegram of the 18th
says the great Keene wheat deal resulted in
a loss of several million dollars to the manip-
ulators.
The Washington authorities have di-
rected that Payne, the squatter recently cap
tured in Indian Territory, be turned over to
the Marshal of the Western District of Ar
kansas for trial at Fort Smith.
Ex-senator NORWOOD has an
that he will run as an independent
for Governor of Georgia against
Governor Colquitt.
IT WAS reported on the 18th that
Vanderbilt had purchased the horse st. Ju-
lien, which recently made the remarkable
time, for $50. 900.
The Georgia Republicans will meet
in State Convention on the eth of September
to decide whether they will support Colquit:
or Norwood, or whether they will run sepa-
rate ticket.