The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-05


Welsh, on the 2lst, paid to Lord Salisbury for
the British Government, the q, 500, 900 award
cd that Government by the Halifax Fishery
Commission. Mr.. Welsh accompanied the
tender with a lengthy letter stating that such
payment was made upon the grounds that
the United States desired to place the main
tenance of good faith iu treaties, and the Sc
curity and value of arbitration between Ma
tions, above all questions in its relations
with Her Britannia Majesty's Government, as
with all other Governments; but that it was
deemed importan: that Great Britain should
be "distinctly advised that the Government Of
the United States cannot accept the result
of the Halifax Commission as furnishing
any just measure of the value of the participa-
ton Nv our citizens in the in-shorc fisheries OF
the British Provinces, and protests against the
actual payment, now made, being considered
by Her Majesty's Government as in any sense
an acquiesence in such measure, or as warrant
ing any inference to that effect.''
Gambetta and De Fourton, Members
Of the French Chamber of Deputies fought a
duel, on the 2lst, with pistols. at thirty live
PAGES. Neither was hurt.
An explosion of gas occurred in a
coal mine at Sullivan, Ind, on the afternoon
of the 2lst, and of the twenty-seven miners at
work in the pit, eight were killed. 1t seems
that two entries or rooms were being exca-
waited toward each other. The gas had &C.
cumulated in the roof of one, and the miners
in the other had been warned that they were
nearly through, and that any more blasting
before the gas was famed out might cause an
explosion. One of them took the risk, and
the explosion followed. Twelve men
in an upper vein were badly stunned
but not otherwise injured. Seven OF
the fifteen in the lower vein were
saved after the lapse of over an hour, but how
they managed to survive in the dense fumes
and damp is a mystery. The eight deaths
were caused by the shock, or the men soon
died of suffocation. A dozen kegs of powder
had been stored in magazine in the upper
vein, but fortunately it was not ignited
Four or five courageous men entered the
lower vein (a66 feet deep, the upper one be-
ing POI feet) and rescued the seven survivors,
and worked until the aftern DON of the 222d,
taking out the bodies of the dead. Two of
killed
A London telegram of the 22d an
nounces the capture by the British forces of
Fort Ali Musjid, all Afghan stronghold, dom-
mating khyber Pass. The British loss in
killed and wounded was 800. The Afghan
troops made a spirited resistance for time
and then abandoned the fort in body, leav-
ing behind them many cannon, and large
quantity of military stores.
Tho CD,,,,,;co;opor of Tr<o,.,,o1 Dox-,
nue. received dispatch from Columbia, s. G.,
on the 23d, notifying him that the detach-
ment of the revenue forces had been sur
rounded by band of armed men in Abbcville
County, two nights before, and ordered to
leave the county. The force was compelled
to withdraw to Abbeville Courthouse to
await help. The Commissioner has forward
ed achievements to overcome all opposition,
and has directed that the county be thorough
ly policed, and says he shall oppose any fur
Their amnesty in that State.
A Rome (Italy) dispatch Of the oath
says the Government had proof of the exist
ence of vast association, whose object is the
assassination of King Humbert.
A Sophia turkey dispatch of the
oath says information had just been received
there that the Turkish redifs had recently
massacred 800 of the Christian inhabitants of
Chresnitra in Macedonia.
On the 23d, the British column adj
vancing into Afghanistan by way of Quettah
occupied without resistance the fort known
as Sibi, due east of Dazar.
On the oath, the capture of the great
er part of the garrison lately occupying Fort
Ali Musjid was announced.
The Pittsburgh pressed-glass work.
ers were locked out on the 23d, because they
declined to submit to reduction of wages.
About l,5OO men and boys connected with this
industry are without employment.
On the 23d, Sec'y Sherman, in an
interview, indicated the points relied upon to
relieve the difficulties connected with resump-
ton, as follows: The present exchange of
coin for greenbacks; the receipt of United
States notes for customs dues; the mainte-
nance of notes at par throughout the coun-
try, after resumption, by receiving them for
customs and bonds.
The Grand Jury of the United States
District Court at Chicago, on the 23d, found
indictments against ex-Supervising Architect
of the United States Treasury William A.
Potter; the present Architect, James G.. Hill:
Edward Burling, ex-Superintcndent of the
Custom-House Building of Chicago; G. C.
Prussing, Assistant do; Mueller & Mills,
contractors, and other parties, on a charge of
conspiracy to defraud the Government of
large sums of moneys by furnishing an in
farior NV IF Tor ;o1f fho
of the Government buildings in Chicago.
THE YELLOw-FEvER sCOUkGE.
There were three yellow-fever deaths
in New Orleans, on the 10Th.
The American Public Health Associa-
ton held meeting in Richmond, Va, on the
Goth. DR.. Bemis read the regular report of the
Yellow-Fever Commission, which says the
fever was imported into New Orleans, by the
steamship Emily Souder, in May last. The
Commission visited various infected points in
the Mississippi Valley, and found, as the re-
suit OF their investig alton, sad neglect and
violation of the laws of health in regard to
drainage, inattention to deposits of fetid mat;
ter, and inattention to purity of drinking
water. The Commission had reached the con-
victions: That no case had been found which
could be considered indigenous to the locality
in most cases the importation was direct and
convincing in its character; the transmission
of the fever between distant points appeared
to be wholly due to human inter-
course, sometimes the poison being carried
in clothing, and at other times in cotton bag
ging or similar goods; disinfectants are use
less agents to arrest the spread of the disease,
and their use was thought by many phi ysi
clans to be injurious to the sick; quininc in
small doses is thought by some physicians to
be of some use as preventive; strictly-en.
forced quarantine, to the extent that inter.
course was absolutely prevented, has been en-.
tirely successful in guarding otherwise ex.
posed localities and protecting their inhabitr
ants from the scourge.
DIR. Taylor, of the New Orleans