The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-14

preparing Tor ultimate hOetilities.
A resolution was offered in the low
er house Of the Hungarian Diet, on the 90th
ult., proposing the Impeachment of the Min
istrv.
A Copenhagen (Denmark) dispatch
of the 30th ult. announces the formal be-
throthal of Princess Thyra to the Duke of
Cumberland.
The Philadelphia Press of the 31st
ult. publishes sworn statement of James E.
Anderson. of Louisiana. declaring that E. L.
Weber was bribed to testify before the Potter
Committee, and that the sum paid him for
such testimony was $1O. 600.
From the monthly statement of the
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics to the Secre-
tary of the United States Treasury the excess
Of exports over imports of merchandise ap-
pears to have been AZ follows: Month ending
Sept 30, 1877, $l5, sos, S39; month ending Sept.
80. 1878, &2O, So, 26S; nine months ending
Sept. 30, 1877, &54, 46O, 1884; same time, 1878,
$3O9, $50, 49,. The excess of imports over ex-
ports of gold and silver (coin and bullion)
were rs follows: Month ending Sept. 30, 1877.
$s56, III; do, 1873, eos, 0S. The excess of
exports over imports of gold and silver (cOin
and bullion) during the nine months ending
Sept. 10, 1877. was 81, 7O6, 80; the excess of
imports over exports OF the same comrnodi-
ties during the same time in 1878 amounted
| to 1921. $50.
A Washington telegram of the 31st
ult says Mr.. Gibson declares that statements
made BY James f. Anderson in his recent
affidavit affecting him (Gibson) are false; he
never heard Of the things of which Anderson
I speaks. Maddox and Syphcr also pronounce
the statement made by Anderson relating to
them to be false.
The Prophetic Conference, called in
the interest of those of all religious ienomi-
nations who believe in the pre-millennial COM
ing of Christ, assembled at the Church of the
Holy Trinity, in New York. on the Both ult.
| William Reynolds, of Peoria, presided. Pa
pers were read relative to the future advent
of the Savior. by Stephen H. Tying, Jr., Prof.
| Kellogg, of Allegheny, Pa, and from Rev. DR..
Tying, Sr., who was unable to be present in
| person, because of illness. In the evening
the church was crowded to its utmost capaci-
ty. There was a large increase Of delegates
on the 3lst. Several papers were read, and, in
the evening, Rev. Dr. Goodwin, of Chicago,
addressed a vast congregation, expressing his
firm conviction that the -millennal coming
Of Christ was the clear and unmistaka5le
teaching of the Word of God.
A st. Petersburg dispatch of the 31st
ult. says the Russian Army in Turkey is to be
increased to 2OO, 900 men.
On the 31st ult., the British revenue
cutter Fanny was run into off Tuskar and
sunk by the steamer Helvetia. Seventeen of
the Fanny's crew persisted.
The German-American National and
the German-Amertcan Savings Banks of
Washington, d. c.. failed on the 3lst ult
The Merchants and Mechanics State Bank of
Troy, n. T., also suspended.
A Simla telegram of the Sd says that
England's ultimatum required that the
Ameers reply should reach. Peshawur by Nov.
20. Otherwise the British forces would imme-
dately invade Afghanistan.
A Pesth hungary telegram of the
ID says the British note, protesting against the
Russian movement in Turkey, was presented
at st. Petersburg, on the oath ult. The note
expresses the hope that Russia would soon be
able to resume the withdrawal of her troops,
and that they would not pass the line which
they had then reoccupied, as such a step
would compel England to take precautions.
The majority of the Reichsrath Com
mittee. in reply to q speech of the Emperor,
on the LIST, adopted an address, in which Count
Andrassy is censured for not consulting the
Reichsrath on his Eastern policy.
A Paris telegram of the 4th says Rus
sia and Germany had consented to act as me-
diators between Greece and the Porte.
A Simla telegram of the 4th says the
British ultimatum was placed in the hands of
the commander of the Ameer's forces, on the
I'd. It was reported there that Shere Ali was
at Jellalabad, determined to attack the British
troops near the Khyber Pass and Quettah, un-
less the latter took the initiative.
THE YELLOw-FEvER sCOUR6E.
The relief-boat Chambers arrived at
st. Louis, on the 18th. The officers and crew
were all we'll. Lieut.. Hall, commander of the
boat since the death of Lieut.. Benner, says
the suffering of the people in the little towns
on the river bank, and few miles back, was
very great, and demanded immediate atten-
ton. In some places the people were almost
starving, food being scarce and the crops there
very scant.
A Cairo telegram of the 3lst ult. says
nearly all the absentees from that city had re-
turned, and business was resuming its wonted
activity. The epidemic was unquestionably
dying out at nearly all the infected points in
the South, the weather continuing cool.
There were eight yellow-fever deaths
in Memphis. during the twenty -four hours
ending at six O'Clock, on the evening of the
Sd, and five the day before. One of the vic
tins was a returned refugee who had been
home only one week. and was sick only three
days. Considerable uneasness was felt by
other refugees in the city.
The deaths in New Orleans, on the
81, numbered nine; cases reported, forty
seven; total cases to date, 1929; deaths,
1884. 1t was not yet deemed safe for abscn.
tees to return to the city.
One death in Vicksburg and two in
the country adjoining occurred on the Sd.
There were several new cases in the city. 1t
was announced that the fever as an epidemic
was practically at an end, and business was
being rapidly resumed.
Five new cases were reported in
Jackson, Miss. on the Sd. The Mobile (Ala.)
Board of Health considered 1t safe for refu-
gees to return to that city. Two new cases
were reported at Cha ttanooga, Tenn, Oh the
2d. Refugees were rapidly returning.
Up to the I'd, the total number of
deaths from yellow fever during the recent
epidemic was set down at 12,617. OF these,
1917 occurred at New Orleans; 3, 1O8 at Mem
phis: ,llS at Vicksburg; S27 at Grenada; 3l4
at Holly Springs; 80 at Cairo; 81 at st. Louis;
80 near Gallipolis. Ohio. and 16 ut Cincinnati.
Four deaths and one new case were
reported in Memphis. on the 4th, and three
deaths beyond the corporate limits. Two
deaths occurred at Cairo. and there were six
cases in the infected district; the weather was
mild and unfavorable. Thirty-one cases aud
four deaths in New Orleans. Nine cases and
two deaths I'm jackson, Miss, and three deaths
in vicksburx, and three in the adjoining
country.
-H0rQ ia ROfhop IL.