The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-24

THE OLD WORLD.

THE OLD WORLD.
THE British House of Common.
voted, on the evening of the Sth, to appoint
Minister Of Agriculture. The Government
opposed the resolution, but were defeated BY
majority Of twenty.
THE Manchester (England) money
market was greatly disturbed on the Sth by
reports Of impending monetary difficulties
There were several minor failures.
THE St. Petersburg Golos estimates
that the cost to Russia of the late war with
Turkey was $75O, 00O, 600, and that 10000
Russians lost their lives.
The contributions of Peter-penoe
for the first half of the current year were
$4,000 greater than the corresponding period
last year.
In consequence Of the delay of the
Porte in appointing Commissioners for the
ratification Of the Greek frontier, the Greek
Deputies have been ordered TO meet in extra.
ordinary session to take aggressive action.
The French Chamber of Deputies
passed Jules Ferry's Educational bill on the
9th, by vote of $50 to 159.
THE Gar has issued an ukase recog-
nizing dissenters from the orthodox church,
and giving to his subjects entire liberty of
worship.
IT was stated from Paris on the 10th
that Prince Jerome Bonaparte had assumed
the position of Chief of the 1mperialists, and
that he had become assured that his hour
would speedily come.
In Paris on the 10th, during the ses-
sion Of the Council of State, four shots were
fired from a revolver at the members, by .
man named verdalet. No one was hurt.
PRINCE ALEXANDER took the oath of
fidelity to the Constitution of Bulgaria al
Tirnova on the 10th.
A FIRE destroying one hundred and
fifty houses occurred at Tirnova on the 10th.
A BERLIN correspondence letter to y
London newspaper, published on the 10th,
says there were marked symptoms Of estrange-
ment between Russia and Germany.
A SECOND fire has occurred in Irkutsk,
which destroyed all the public buildings left
unconsumed by the first fire.
A TORPEDO boat at Cronstadt was
blown UP the other day, while engaged in
practice. Five men were killed outright, and
fourteen wounded.
The funeral services over the re-
mains of the late Prince Imperial were OBJ
served at Chiselhurst, Eng. on the 18th. The
Queen of England, the Prince of Wales, the
Duke of Edinburgh, the Dukes Of Cambridge
and Connaught, and the Prince of Sweden
were in attendance, and large number of
distinguished Bonapartists from France.
Among the latter were Prince Jerome, the
Pretender, and his two sons.
The German Parliament finally
voted for the Bismarckian Protection Tariff
bill on the 18th, the vote standing ayes, 2l7;
noes, III. The Prince then read q decree
closing the session. The new elections will
be held in October.
A BOMBAY telegram of the 18th says
the Province of Deccan was being overrun
with rats, and that great distress was result
ing therefrom.
A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the
18th says Herr Stunt, First Secretary of the
Prussian Embassy in that city, had embraced
Catholicism for the purpose of marrying an
American heiress.
The Egyptian steamer Samanoot re-
Gently foundered on the way home from
Mauritius. Twenty-three natives and two
Europeans persisted.
The Orange celebrations in Ireland
on the 18th passed of with less than the usual
number Of cases of shooting and stoning.
Only one case Of fatal shooting was reported
up to the 14th.
On the l4th the British Parliament
was assured by Lord Salisbury that the entire
Russian force would evacuate Turkish terri
tory, within the time prescribed by the treaty
Of Berlin.
HERR Won GEssLER has been APP
pointed German Minister Of Education and
Ecclesiastical Affairs, to succeed DR.. Falk.
CHOLERA has made its appearance
at Smolensk and other places in Russia.
A CoNsTANT1NoPLE telegram of the
14th says the Circassians were numbering and
plundering on the east coast of the Sea of
MarmOra.