The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-10

nian capital, thus virtually completing the
pacifcation Of that country.
The Athens journals announce that
500 Turkish troops recently attacked body
Of insurgents at Apidia, and were repulsed
with heavy loss.
A London dispatch of the Goth says
Lord Lotus, the British Minister, had left
Berlin for st. Petersburg, to demand the
withdrawal of the Cars agent from Afghan
istan.
A Belgrade dispatch of the Goth says
81 600 Bosnians, mostly armed, had entered
Scrvian territory, near Lonnitza.
A Ragusa dispatch, received on the
18th, says Is, 600 Albanians were approaching
the Montenegro frontier to resist the ccssion
Of territory to Montenegro promised by the
Porte.
The New York Republican State
Convention met ut Saratoga. on the 18th, and
organized by the choice of Hon. Roscoe Conk-
ling as Permanent President. Hon. George
+. Danforth was nominated for Judge of the
Court of Appeals. The platform adopted de-
mands that the pledge in respect to the pay
ment Of the National debt, ETC., shall be sa-
credly observed; favors specie resumption
and making grecnbacks equal to coin; de-
clares that all parties are bound to abide by
the decision of the Electoral Commission;
warns the people to be vigilant to oppose
Southern claims; insists upon free and unin-
undated elections in the South; favors ra-
tional Civil-Scrvice reform; arraigns the dom
inant forces of the Democratic party as con-
slant disturbers of public tranquility and
peace, ETC., etc.
The New York State Democratic
Convention met in Syracuse, on the 18th, and,
after some contention over the question of
delegates from New York and Kings County,
Committees on Credentials and Resolutions
were appointed, aud an adjournment was had
to the next day. After reasscmbling, on the
18th, Erastus Brooks was chosen Permanent
Chairman. q. u. Bradley was nominated for
Judge of the Court Of Appeals, on a platform
reaifirming the principles set forth in the
platforms of 1874 and 1877, that gold and sill
vcr coin, and a paper currency convertible
into coin at the will Of the holder, should be
the only currency of the country, and that
steady steps be taken toward specie payments
and the honest payment of the public debt;
declaring in favor of tariff for revenue; 70
Government partnership with political monop-
Olies, ETC., etc.
Hon. Thomas Harland, Mr.. Tilden's
attorney in the incOme-tax case, was arrested
on his arrival at Detroit, on the 18th, upon
the charge of being privy to the recent lar
ceny of certain important account books
which were being used before United States
at Marquette. He was ar
raigned before Detroit United States Com
sum of elO, 600 to appear Oct. 5 for examina-
ton.
The Nebraska Democratic State Con-
vcntion, held at Lincoln, on the 18th, adopted
a sOft-mOney platform, and nominated John
ID. Howe (alsO on the Greenback ticket) for
Supreme Judge; Alex e. Bear for Congress,
short term; J. w. Davis ION Greenback tick
ETY. for Congress, long term; ]. r. Webster
for Governor; F. j. Mead for Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor; Benz Parmerton for Secretary of State;
E. H. Benton for Auditor; +. H. Cummings
for Treasurer; s. H. Calhoun ION Greenback
ticket) for Attorneys General.
Telegraphic dispatches from India,
received in London on the 29th, left little
room for hope that the Afghan difficulty
could be amicably arranged.
On the 18th, after five days bonn
the last refuge of the Herzegovinan insur-
gents.
A mass meeting of Hungarians was
held at Pesth, on the 29th, at which resolu-
lions were adopted violently denouncing the
Government for the occupation of Bosnia, and
demanding the withdrawal of the Austrian
Army.
Early on the morning Of the 2Sth,
the steamer Adelphi left her docks in Nor
walk, Conn.,, for New York. When about a
mile out her boiler exploded, tearing a hole
about twenty feet square in her port sidc
There were about 200 passengers aboard, of
whom ten were killed and twenty more or less
injured.
A Constantinople telegram of the
Goth ult. says u special envoy from the Amecr
Of Afghanistan had reached that place, charged
with the duty Of claiming the Sultan's inter-
vcntion to prevent England from declaring
war.
There is crisis in the Hungarian
Cabinet, brought about by the opposition to
the Bosnian occupation. Won Sell, the Fl
nance Minister, has announced his intention
of resigning.
The pedestrian O'Leary, of Chicago,
and John Hughes, Of Newark, N. j.. started
on six days walking contest in New York
City, on the night of the 29th ult, for $50
and the champion belt.