The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-17


sage of the Danube by the Russians in the vicin-
| ity Of Silestria and Rustchuk. In Asia the Rus
sian forces were advancing in semicir to-
ward Erzcroum. A heavy battle was mo-
mcntarily expected in the vicinity Of Kan. The
Russians were strongly intrenchins themselves
between 1bfail and Reni
An Alexandria telegram of the 9th says
the Russian Consul General and staff had left
Egypt.
The body of John T. Daily, proprietor
| of the Windsor Hotel, in New York City, was
found suspended in an old house in the village
of WOodside, l.. l., ON the morning of tho 9Th.
He had been missing since the LIST He ID be-
lieved to have been insane over his financial en-
bormssments.
By the bursting of a boiler on the
steamship Sidonian, Of the Anchor Line, ON
late trip, the Captain, three engineers, two fire.
men and trimmer were killed, and the cook
wounded. The accident occurred ON the 18th
ult
Crazy Horse surrendered to the Unit ed
States forces at Camp Robinson. Neb., on the
9Th. Over 100 ponies and several hundred
| rifles were recovered.
The President, on the 9Th, issued the
following proclamation converting Congress on
the 18th of October next:
WHEREAS, the final adjounmentof the Forty
fourth Congress without making the usual ap-
preparations for the support of the army for the
taordinary occasion, requiring the President to
exercise the power vested in him by the COnsti-
tuition, to convene the Houses Of Congress in
anticipation of the day fixed by law for their
next meeting, now, therefore, !, rutherford B.
Hayes, President of the United States, do, by
| virtue of the power to this end in me vested by
the Constitution, convene both Houses of Con-
gress to assemble at their respective chambers, at
twelve o'clock, noon, on Monday, the 18th day
of October next, then and there to consider and
determine such measures as in their wisdom
their duty and the welfare of the people may
seem to demand. In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Warrington this 5th day of
May. in the year of our Lord 1877, and the in
hundred and first r. B. HAYES.
By Il President
WIN. NJ. EvARrs, Secretary of State
A Salt Lake dispatch of the 5th says
that the feeling aroused throughout the United
States by the testimony at John d. Lees trial,
relative to the Mountain Meadow massacre. had
led the Latter Day Saints to apprehend the
arrest of Brigham Young and other heads of the
church, accused of sanctioning the commission
of that horrible crime. The Saints had deter
mined to resist any movement against Brigham
Young by the Federal authority, and to that end
they were secretly arming and drilling.
An extraordinary debate occurred in the
British Parliament on the 7th. Gladstone ar
raigned the Government for the pusillanimity of
its diplomacy, and declared that British interests
must, for once, give way to the demands Of hui
mainly. The Home Secretary replied with great
energy, defining the attitude and programme of
the Cabinet in the Eastern affairs. The debate
was continued until the following day. The re-
cent letter of Lord Derby to Russia was conaid-
cred, London telegram of the 7th says,
throughout the continent as an essentially war
like document.
A Constantinople telegram of the eth
says Turkey was endeavoring to secure British
Intervention in return for the cession of har-
Dor in Crete for naval station commanding the
Suez Canal. There were rumors that Kars had
fallen and that II, 900 Turkish soldiers had sur
rendered. Similar intelligence was telegraphed
from St. Petersburg.
"A lCuuo Va SuC stu IAlC
Sultan had resolved to proclaim holy war. The
Russians had commenced the bombardment of
Widin from Kalafat.
The roof of the Cathedral at Metz was
burned, on the morning of the 7th. It caught
from fireworks exhibited in honor of the EN-
perors visit.
At twelve O'Clock, on the 9Th, all really
vital points in all classes of ewing-machines
became common property in consequence of the
expiration Of the patents thereon. The expira-
ton is expected to work very important changes
in the trade and largely -reduce the price of ma
chimes.
The Secretary OF the Treasury, on the
$40, la, $50 Of $40 bonds of 1865, May and No
vember interest and principal to be paid on the
Sth of August.
On the It'll, the President discontinued
forty Pension Agencies in various parts of the
country, leaving only eighteen agencies to do the
work formerly done by ifty-eight. 1t is esti-
mated that this will save the Government $780,
600 per annum.