The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-03-26
FOREIGN Gossip,

The mother of the Turkish Sultan has
ordered, at her own expense, sixty rided
six-pOunders, with iron carriages and
caissons, for the Turkish artillery service.
I'm the market place of Coomassie
stands monstrous basin of brass, wherein
q pebble is solemnly deposited whenever
the Ashantees 60 to fight. This basin is
now 30 full that the stone commemorative
their invasion of Fsnteeland had to be
placed with the greatest care to avoid
overthrowing the pile.
"A special dispatch to the London
Daily Tsls0raph from Central Asia says:
The Yamud TurkOmans recently made an
attack on the Russian Notifications. They
were defeated; and while crossing the
frozen river during their retreat the ice
broke and large number were drowned.
Gen. Kaufman is to return to Khiva in
April.
Senior Albania, agent of the Cuban
Republic, says the patriot forces far more
than hold their own. They number about
$4,000 armed men, and they could put
three times that number in the field if
they could procure arms AMI ammunition.
The native Cubans were all on their side,
and nearly half the area of the island is in
their possession. The Spanish troops in
the field number q, 600 regulars and
q, 600 volunteers.
DIR. Schmidt Professor of Astronomy
In the University of Athens, has just com.
pleted his great map Of the moon. 1t ie
two meters in diameter, and is . marvel
manship. The shading 10 90 exquisite
hnS IF en
by lens without the appearance Of
SCENTS the labor of thirty-four year,, and Is
without doubt one of the greatest astro.
nomical results of the century.
Marriage, says the Reilroad Gasette
would not seem to have any close con-
nection with railroad traffic, but we find
an officer Of IN East India railroad com
pany explaining falling of in the pas.
senger receipts of the year by the fact that
it was " twelfth year." which 10 regarded
by the HindOOs % 90 unfavOrable to mar.
rfage that NO one, or scarcely any one, ID
married. And a. weddings are the grea,
occasion in Hindoo life when there il
great pomp and . general gathering TO-
gether Of friends they cause great deal
Of travelling.
"A correspondent of the London 1s1s
grapA, writing from the Gold Coast, saya
that when Sal Tooti, the founder Of the
Ashantee Empire, fixed upon Coomaseie q
his capital, he rested under tree whilst
his temporary palace was building hence
the name, which signifies .under . tree. ;!
| The trunk thus ho1ored has become o.
most sacred in Ashantee eyes, and strong
superstition had grown up concerning it
On Jan. 8, having long been decayed, il
fell, and dire progn0stication were whis
pered. No one dares to touch it. and tits
still lying across the street.
The Australian butchers have invent
ed an improved method of slaughtering
bullocks, At Sydney the animals ore
driven, five at time, into the slaughter
house, where there 10 no person to be seen
While they are quietly staring around the
strange, quiet apartment . man silently
passes ABOVE them, walking along the
open beams which closely cross the house
He 10 armed with lance with point
like . mortising chisel One by one the
beasts IRE pierced with the weapon just
behind the horns. They drop Instantly,
and, a soon q al are down, the other
men, waiting in the next apartment, enter
and bleed and dress the Cafcasoeo,