The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11

The Grand Duke Nicholas, accompa-
visit to the Sultan at his palace in Constanti-
noplc, on the 26th. The latter received the
Grand Duke with great cordially.
A fire in New York City, on the
morning of the Goth, on Canal street, de-
stroyed property valued at over s5N,OOO.
George Bannistcr, Il grain-mcrchant,
at Retford, Eng, failed, on the 9th, for
.l,NO,OtO.
An explosion occurred in q cOlliery
at North Staffordshire, Eng, on the 9th.
There were thirty persons in the pit, and
it was believed that all had persisted.
The recent report of the death Of the
En- .,eror of Morocco is pronounced untrue, in
a Madrid dispatch of the 2sth.
The Illinois State Convention of the
new National party met at Springfield, on the
2.th. Gen. E n. Bates, Of Chicago, was
nominated for State Treasurer and Frank II.
Hall, of Kane County. for Superintendent of
Public Instruction. The Toledo platform was
indorscd, the resolutions adopted declaring
it to be the exclusive function of the General
Government to coin and create money and reg
ulatc its value; that the coinage of silver
he placed on the same footing as that OF
gold: favor the donation of public lands
to actual settlers in limited quantities;
declare that the Government should, BY gen.
eral enactment, encourage the development of
o;lr agricultural, mineral, mechanical, manu-
featuring and commercial resources; favor
the reduction of the number of hours of daily
toll: demand the immediate issue Of a full
legal-teuder paper currency by the Govern
ment to the full limit, at least, of 500. O0O,OOO
lcgal-tcnder United States Treasury notes,
etc, etc.
\ Consistory was held at the Vatican
in Rome on the 2,th. The Scottish Papal
Hierarchy wasde,initively established, and DR..
Strain appointed Metropolitan Archbishop OF
st. Andrews, at Edinburg; Chas Eyre, Arch
bishop of Glasgow; Macdonald, Bishop of
Aberdeen: MacLachlan, Bishop of Galloway
Macdonald, Bishop Of Argyle, and Rigg,
Bishop of Dunkcld. Father Chatard was also
appointed Bishop of vincenncs, Ind, and
Father Reeve, Bishop of Richmond, Va.
1t was semi-officially announced in
the London papers Of the 3Oth ult. that Lord
Salisbury had been selected to succeed Lord
Derby.
1t was stated from Rome. on the 29th
ul,.. that the Pope desired to establish diplo-
matte relations with Great Britain, and has
taken steps to that end.
a Philadelphia telegram to the New
York Times Of the 3Oth uio. says J. B. Knight,
Secretary of the Franklin Institute. and a
wel-known scientific engineer, had just con-
l.,l tor
and in Il long report denounced it as hum
bug and fraud. They state that the so-called
vapor was simply compressed air, and that
probably no more pressure than 500 pounds to
the square inch could be obtained. keely
was said to be angry at these revelations and
the stockholders who had spent $l,OiOOOO
were greatly astonished.
1t was stated, on the 29th ult., that
the friends at Cincinnati of ex-Congressman
Vance, who mysterously disappeared few
days before, had about given up the idea of
foul play, AID intimated that his absence was
voluntary, and caused by financial difficult
ties
An Athens dispatch of the LIST says
that Mr.. Ogle. the London Times correspond
ent at Maerinitza. had been assassinated by
the Turks.
Joseph Foulks Il Sons, shipping and
commits ion merchants, Of New York City, and
Booth 4 Edgar. retiners. of the same
place, tailed on the 1st. The liabilities of the
former are stated to be S4oO,0OO and of the
latter from $50, 900 to S150,OoO.
The Louisiana State Supreme Court,
on the lst, refused to grant the petition for a
rehearing in the case of Gen. Anderson, of
the Returning Board and ordered his immedi-
ate release from custody.