The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-03-18
Foreign Intelligence,

Paul 10 defend himself against the suit of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
Foreign Intelligence.
London dispatches Of the Sd report the
alarming illness of John Mitchell, the lately
elected memberf from Tipperary.
The European troops had been withdrawn
from Yokohama, according to late Shanghai
kilograms.
BY railway accident near Litchfcld,
England, on the I'd, thirty persons were in
jured.
The steamer Gothenburg has recently been
wrecked on one of the Forneaux Islands, in
Bass Strait, between Van Deman's Land and
Australia. She had on board eiyhty-fiye
passengers and crew Of as many more. OF
these only four are known to be saved. Three
boats filled with passengers and crew were
yet to be heard from at the date of the dis
patch.
The Goth of June mkt has been fixed upon
by the Irish Rifle Association as the date of
the return match between the American and
Irish rihemen.
\ St. Petersbtg dispatch of the 4th saws
there was great Indignation in Government
circles over certain allegations OF Russian
misgovernment and exactions in Turkestan
contained in the report made by Mr. Schuy-
Ter, the United States Charge d -46aires, and it
was reported that Prince Gortschakoff had
demanded his recall
john Mitchell was renominatcd in Tippe-
rary, for Parliament, on the 4th
A dispatch from Berlin Of the 5th saws Bis
marck has demanded the dismissal of the
Papal Nuncio at Munich, and the cessation of
relations between the Vatican and Bavaria.
4 decree had been issued prohibiting the i'm
portation of American potatoes and also the
expectation Of horses.
Havana dispatches of the 9th report several
engagements with the insurgents, in which
the losses on each side had been about equal
The Spanish troops on Mora River, near
Guantanamo, had been recently attacked bv
insurgents clad in Spanish uniform. The
official dispatch from Spanish sources says
both sides lost heavily.
Lieut.-Gcn. Sir James Hope Grant and
Arthur Helps died in London on the 7th.
The famine in Asia Minor has decimated
some districts to the extent of two-fifths Of
their population.
The convention between Spain and the
United States for the settlement of the Viz
ginius affair has been signed.
Advices from Figueras, on the Spanish
frontier, of the Sth report that an enga cement
had taken place between the Carlists and
Alphonsists near Figueras which lasted six
hours and resulted in the substantial defeat
OF the latter, whose loss was said to be over
300 killed. At last accounts the Carlists
had commenced the bombardment of Oria,
1t was reported that Alphonso desired to alb
dleate in favor of the Duke de Montpenseir,
The Carlsts had entered the province of San
lander in strong force, and the Government
had forwarded large number of troops from
BllbOa to oppose them.
A Paris dispatch Of the sth announces the
completion of the new Cabinet under the
auspices of NJ. Buffet
recent dispatch from st. Johns, New
foundland, says the bodies of forty persons
who died at that place during the past winter
had been temporarily inferred in the snow,
which lay in such immense quantities in the
cemeteries as to prevent the opening of the
graves.
The East.
Mr.. Edward J. Ovington, Rufus E. Holmes
and Mrs. Ovington were called as witnesses
for the defense in the Beecher suit on the I'd.
Their testimony was designed principally to
reflect on the character of Mr. Tilton.
Stephen w. Kellogg has been unanimously
renominated for Congress by the Republicans
of the Second Connecticut District. The
Democrats of the First District have renomi.
mated Geo. NJ. Sanders.
In the Beecher trial, on the Sd, Mr.. Owing
ton was recalled and testified further as to the
money placed in his hands by Mr.. s:orrs
for the benefit of Mrs Tilton. He
had found on looking over his books
that he had made mistake, the
amount being sl,245 in all. Mrs. Ovington
continued her evidence, but nothing of lead
ing importance was elected. Mrs. Putnam, a
personal friend Of Mrs. Tilton, was called to
the stand, and soon after the beginning of
her testimony one of the jurors was taken
with sudden faintness, and the court ad-
journed for the day. She continued her evi.
dence on the 18th, and testified to the
great love and devotion Mrs. Triton
had evinced, in her presence, for her husband,
ana said she never seemed to have the
power OF living out her own life in opposition
70 his wishes. Mrs. Tilton had often made
statements to witness which the latter did
mol beileve, when endeavoring to hide her
nusDands faults. While the witness was
giving her testimony Mr.. Jeffreys, the Juror
VINO naa been taking sick the day before, sent
word TO the Judge that he was again unwell,
and the court adjourned to the 9Th.
The Pennsylvania Republican State Con.
vention is to be held at Lancaster ON the 18th
of May. The Democracy wiz hold their State
Convention on the Sth Of September, in Erie.
It is reported that persons arriving in New
York city on the 5th for the purpose Of serv.
papers on Congressman-elects Schumacher,
elating to the Pacific Mail subsidy, found
that he had just sailed for Europe, where his
family now are.