The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-20
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

THE OLD WORLD.
The Berlin National Gazette of the
18th stated that papers had been discovered at
Cabul that seriously compromise the Russian
Government in connection with recent Afghan
troubles.
1T is stated that great improvement
has recently become manifest in the mental
condition of Carlotta, the widow of the EN-
peror Maximilan, of Mexico, and complete
restoration OF her sanity is considered possi-
bic.
The marriage of King Alfonso with
the Austrian Archduchess has been postponed
until the LIST of December. A bill has been
introduced in the Chamber of Deputies grant
ing to the future Queen an annual subsidy of
$4,000, and $4,000 annually in case of her
widowhood.
THE Russian Government has been
requested to withdraw the q, 600 cavalry sta
toned in Poland, on the borders of German
territory.
A LONDON dispatch of the 9th says
Lord Salisbury had countermanded the order
for the dispatch of the British squadron to
Nourah on the promise that certain specific
reforms should be brought about by the
Porte bya specified date.
PHILLrrrART, Paris banker, has
abscondcd leaving enormous liabilities.
InE icN~..> -;..L;,,s uf railway en-
eanknent in India i'll consequence of heavy
ram overturned passenger train, and a num-
Der of persons, including three Europeans,
were killed and forty-five wounded.
1T was reported from Madrid on the
5th that royal decree had been promulgated,
raising the state of siege in the Basque prov
inces and Navarro.
UrrER SlLEsIA and Schwarzburg are
threatened by famine in consequence of the
bad harvest.
A RECENT Berlin telegram says the
appearance of the English squadron in Syrian
waters would be succeeded by the dispatch
OF German and Austrian vessels of war to the
Eastern Mediterranean.
AN envoy recently sent to the Vice.
roy of India by the King Of Burmah was or
dered by the Viceroy to be detained until
some settlement of the difficulties between
the two Governments could be reached He
was still in custody on the 9th.
1T has been decided by Prussia, on
the death of the Duke of Brunswick, to trans
fer the principality of els to the Crown
Prince of Germany.
THE municipality of Paris has decided
to deepen the river Seine, at cost of 36,
100000 francs.
The extreme distress in Turkish
financial matters is evidenced by statement
recently made that even the pilgrimage to
Mecca, which has hitherto been provisioned
at the expense of the Government, is unable
to get any assistance, an event which has new
or before occurred since the establishment of
the Ottoman Empire.
The Catholic Bishops of Ireland have
adopted resolutions appealing to the Govern
ment and all public bodies and private indi-
viduals to help the poor, as the POor-law act
is insufficient to meet the necessities of the
impending crisis. The bishops at the same
time cxhort their flocks to bear their trials
patiently, to respect the rights of others, to
pay their just debts as fully as they are able
and to obey the laws, while using all peaceful
and constitutional means to reform the Land
laws, which are the main cause of the coun-
try's poverty and helplessness.
The St. Petersburg Golos of the 9th
says Russia would consider the entry of the
British fleet into the Euxine Sea as a casus
beHi
A LONDON telegram of the 9th saws
the departure of Mr.. Parnell for America in
the interest CT the Irish renters had been
postponed, in consequence of the uncertain
aspect of political affairs.
CONSTANTINOPLE advices of the 9Th
state that the Turkish newspapers were very
violent against England They declared her
demands were more unjust than the attempts
of Russia to interfere in Turkish administra-
ton, in resistance to which Turkey waged
the great war; 1t was reported from Vienna
on the same day that it was expected there
that the increase of the English influence in
Constantinople would be used to introduce
financial reforms, which would facilitate
other promised reforms. The Porte and Sui
tan were spending their whole time over the
reform question and the demands of En-
gland.
1T was reported from Calcutta on
the 9th that there seemed to be little doubt
OF the Ameer's treachery. The genera,
opinion was that he would be sent as a state
prisoner to India.
1HE Director of the Press at Con-
stantinople has recently ordered Turkish
newspapers to desist from attacking En-
gland under penalty Of suppression.
A VIENNA dispatch of the 10th SAYS
the oft lrumored resignation of Prince Gorts-
chakoff had become fact. The Russian
Foreign Department would be conducted by
DE Giers until successor to the Prince is an
pointed
A CABUL dispatch received on the
10th says conspiracy to release the Ameer
had been discovered. He was kept closely
guarded at the British headquarters.
In recent dispatch to the State De-
partment Mr.. Bailey, United States Consul
at Shanghai, China, reports that the cotton
crop in that district will not be more than
haif the average yield. The Consul at
Odessa, Russia, reports that the wheat crop
OF that country will fall far short of the usual
harvest.