The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01

". B. Hallett for Secretary Of State; b.
Carroll for Attorney General; D. q. Pond TO
Treasurer. nlden delegates were chosen I,
the Cincinnati Convention. Resolutions wer,
adopted denouncing the provision Of the Stat
Constitution requiring real-estate qualilca
ton for foreign-born citizens; the employ
the polls; the alleged Electoral Commission
fraud of 1876 and the third-term policy declar
ing that the men elected in 1850 shall be inaugu
rated; for the honest payment Of public debt.
in such currency - its terms imply, and pres
ervation Of public faith; opposing . third
term, etc., etc.
The Pennsylvania State Greenback
Convention met At Harrisburg on the sd and
elected delegates to the National Convention
to be held in Chicago on the 9th of June. The
delegates were instructed to vote for Hen.
drick B. Wright for President. The resolu.
tions adopted regard nationality, currency re-
form, aad rights of labor - one and insepara-
BILE; 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
patty 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 be made to soldiers
for depreciation Of the money in which they
were paid.
A NEW YORK dispatch of the 23d
says the total arrival there of immigrants 90
far during the month reached II, 720, more
than double the number for the same time
last year. Between 5000 and 4, 00Omore were
known to be on the way. A majority of the
newcomers are Germans.
ARCHBISHOP WoOD, of Philadelphia,
has issued q circular condemning secret
societies as dangerous to civil society and
injurious to the intere SITS of religion.
The prosecutor Of Rev. DR.. Dix, of
New York. was discovered and arrested in
Baltimore on the Oath. 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 the oath the first coal charter of
the season was made at Buffalo, at seventy
five cents per ton to Chicago.
THERE were heavy snow storms
throughout the Eastern States ON the night of
the oath.
A FEW days ago the family of Edward
Westlake, six persons, residing in Brooklyn,
N. T., were poisoned by an infusion of jim
son weed, drank by mistake for tea. All had
recovered except one on the oath.
On the oath DR.. Cable, a prominent
Pittsburgh (Pa.) physician, fatally poisoned
his ten-year-old son by giving him teaspoon
full of morphine by mistake for some Group
remedy.
The New York State Convention of
the National Decentralization party met at
Albany on the oath. Patrick E. Ford, George
o. Jones, James E. Wright and Samuel Lowell
were chosen as delegates-at-large to the
Chicago Convention. Resolutions were adopt
ed substantially like those adopted by the
Convention.
ACCORDING to New York telegram
of the 25th Edison claimed he had ascer-
tanned the cause of the cracking of some of
the globes containing the incandescent car
This, he said, would obviate the necessity of
annealing the globes, and keep their cost at
twenty-five cents apiece.
On the 25th Rev. DR.. Dix had an in
terview with "Gentleman 10" Williamson,
in the course of which the latter expressed
great contrition and protested his innocence
of an intention to levy blackmail. Mr.. Gay
Ter, of the post-ofice, believed the culprit
was "guided in his work by some insane i'm
pulse" DR.. Dix thought he should be
brought to punishment for the sake Of ex-
ample.