The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-04-17

THE OLD WORLD.

LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
On the 1st Gen. Kaufman tele-
graphed to the Russian Government that the
English Government had arranged to place
Vail Mohammed, cousin Of the late Ameer,
upon the Afghan throne, and would labor for
the reinforcement of Yakoob Khan. 1t was
further stated that an Afghan tribe had late
ly captured 100 British soldiers, near Jellala-
bad, whom the Viceroy ransomed by the pay
ment Of Gl5O,0O0.
A PARIS telegram of the LIST says .
battalion Of oOuaves in Algeria was caught
in snow-storm, on the 18th of March, be.
tween Sonaki and Sonkeltleta, and nineteen
men persisted. Fourteen men were In the
hospital.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch to the
London Telegraph of the "a says that Russia
had decided to subsidize Yakoob Khan, aud
was preparing to make diversion in his favor.
A VIENNA telegram of the I'd an
nounces the appearance of the rinderpest in
over hundred Bohemian villages.
AUSTRIA has discontinued her quar-
antine against the Russian plague.
ACCORDING to q Lahore Undia) dis
patch of the Sd. Capt. Cough, at the head of q
small British force, had lately defeated 5000
Afghans, killing 400. The British loss was
three officers and three men killed and thirty
two wounded.
In the British House of Commons, on
the Sd, the Chancellor Of the Exchequer an
nounced that the estimated revenue Of the
country for the current fiscal year would be
eS3,O55, 900, and the estimated expenditures
.ooa, ,so,svo, aua aauIIIUnxI taxes wOnId
be laid. This announcement to the House
caused surprise, and was received with ieafen-
ing cheers.
The latest advices from Russia give
alarming reports concerning the constant
spread Of revolutionary ideas and purposes
among the people, and the increasing audaci-
ty of the Nihilist conspirators. Among the
latter have been found large numbers of per-
sons of rank.
THE German Reichrath has ad-
journed until April g.
TROUBLE has arisen between France
and England over the occupation of the
Island of Matacony, of the coast of Africa.
The former claims that the island was coded
to it in 1878, and the latter that it has had
possession since 1926.
On the 4th, Isaac Fletcher, Member
of Parliament for Lockermouth, committed
suicide by shooting himself.
THE British Privy Council has re-
scinded its late order relative to the importa-
ton of American cattle.
AN Egyptian force, numbering 5000,
cccntly fought II QUO Arabs conveying 900
women who were being taken into Egypt as
slaves, and after sharp engagement defeated
them. The Arabs hed in disorder, leaving 1,0S7
of their number behind them dead.
A DISPATCH was received from South
Africa, on the 4th, stating that messengers
had arrived from King Cetewayo, asking for
the assumption of negotiations with view to
permanent settlement of all contested ques-
tions.
THE agent sent into Upper Egypt to
inquire concerning the famine has returned,
and reports that 10000 persons died by starv-
alton alone in Girgeh, Kena and Esna.
THE annual race between Cambridge
and Oxford Universities was rowed on the
victory of the former crew. The distance
was four miles and two furlongs, and the
winning time twenty-one minutes and
eighteen seconds.
AN Alexandria egypt dispatch
says that on the day after the battle previous
ly reported, 5000 deserters came into the
Egyptian camp The latter followed the re-
tir1ng enemy and killed ten Chiefs and n
600 more men, and we're still in pursuit at
last advices The capture of all the slave de-
pots was considered certain.
WORK on the st. Gothard Tunnel
has been partially suspended, the contractor
complaining that he is receiving 10000 less
per month than his contract calls for.
The Pope has sent an autograph
letter to Queen Victoria, welcoming her to
Italy.
The French Senate has adjourned
until the Sth, and the Chamber of Deputies
to the 18th, of May.
A LONDON telegram of the 9Th says
it was believed there that Catewayo's wish for
peace was q mere pretense to gain time until
the harvest was gathered. Only unconditional
surrender would be accepted.
THE Bulgarian Assembly has decided
that Sophia shall be the capital of the Princi-
pality.
A CAPE Town (South Africa) tele-
gram, received on the 9th, announces the
capture Of Cham, King Cetewayo's brother,
with 800 warriors. An insurrection had
broken out in the Transvaal.
SEVERAL extensive cotton brokers, in
Liverpool, have recently failed.
OVER $1,000 coal miners, in Durham,
Eng, struck, on the 5th.
The Roumanian Chambers have
passed, by large majorities, resolution af-
firming the necessity of revising the Consti-
tuition SO as to remove the disabilities of the
Jews.
THE Colonel of the. Seventeen Aus
TRAN Regiment was recently murdered by
brigands, in Bosnia.
A LONDON telegram of the 9TH says
the Khedive of Egypt had announced that he
had repudiated the Franco-EnRlish financial
scheme, and would hereafter manage his
finances to suit himself. The English Minis
ter, Wilson, and the French Minister, De
Blegnieres, had been dismissed, and a new
Cabinet formed, under the Presidency of
Cherif Pasha, composed exclusively of native
ministers.
EDWARD CLARK, the well.known
London civil engineer and contractor, failed,
on the 9TH, for q, 5000
The cattle plague has made its APP
pearance among the animals connected with
the British Army in Afghanistan, and threat
ems seriously to embarrass the commissariat.
THE Cardinal Vicar of Rome has
written letter complaining bitterly of the
establishment Of foreign Protestant schools
almost under the shadow of the Vatican, and
asking for contributions for the increase and
improvement of Catholic schools.
THE NEW WORLD.
The total coinage of the mints for
March was e5,577,O s6 The total coinage Of
standard silver dollars to April 1, 1879, was
Ap,s non