The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-25
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

1T is stated that the crops in Ireland
have been virtually lost this year, In conse-
quence of the recent heavy rains.
g. The Egyptian Government has &C.
ceded to the demand of the United States to
be represented on the Commission for the
liquidation of the Egyptian debt.
SOME of the principal points in Novi
Bazaar were occupied by the Austrians on the
Sh and 9th. They met with a friendly re.
ception.
A GREAT fire occurred in the Town
Of Viazama, in Russia, on the 9th. The
latest dispatch was to the effect that 200
houses had been destroyed, and that the
flames were still raging.
ST. PETERSBURG papers recommend
the partition of Afghanistan between Great
Britain and Russia.
The foot and mouth disease has
broken out among the cattle in Switzerland.
and pleuropueumonia has made its appear
ancc in Alsace-Lorraine.
A LONDON dispatch of the 18th says
that King Mtesa, ruling near Lake Victoria
Nyanza. in Africa, had abolished slavery
throughout his dominions.
REPORTS from India received on the
18th state that Herat. Badaskan and the Balkh
provinces in AfghaniStan had all revolted
against the Ameer. A holy war against
England was being preached throughout the
country.
AN explosion occurred in the Crewe
coliery at Leycett, England, on the 18th.
Five persons are known to have been killed
ALL the Directors of the West Of
England and South Wales District Bank,
but ONO, have been committed for trial for
publishing a false balance sheet
\ MEETING has been called in Rus
STA to consider the proprietv of abandoning
the Russian method of reckoning time.
THE English Embassy has fled from
Mandalay. Fears were entertained on the
10Th that King Theebaw would follow the cx-
ample set at Cabul and massacre the menu
berS of the Legation.
SEVERAL heavy failures among the
iron-workcrs of Great Britain were announced
on the l4th.
ADvICEs received at Constantinople
on the 18th and 18th represent that Eastern
Roumela was in a state of complete anarchy.
Sclav committees multiplied daily and openly
preached the determination of the Mussul-
mans and the union of Eastern Roumelia,
Macedonia and Thrace with Bulgaria, forming
one Sclav Kingdom.
THE Geological institute connected
with the Kial (Denmark) University was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th.
AN Ali kheyl dispatch received on
the l4th gives the following account of the
massacre of the British Legation at Cabul
-Four thousand men attacked the rcsidency
where the Embassy was CHARTERED, and
brought up artillery to bear upon it. Major
Cavagnari was stabbed in several places and
all the bodies of the dead were mutiiated.
The British made vigorous defense, and
over 800 Afhans were killed. The Amecr did
not interfere, being intimidatc,l by tho priests,
except TO beg for the lives of the members of
the Embassy"
\ LONDON dispatch of the 18th says
a treaty had been signed by the terms of which
Russia agrees to cvacuatc the kuldja within
three years, and China agrees to pay Russia
100000 roublcs, the latter rel aiming sufficient
territory for 4 military road TO kashgar.
II was reported from India on the
18th that the Afghan insurgents had arrived
in front Of Jelalabad. The opinion prevailed
in Candahar that the Ameer had declared
against the British. At all events he had
issued orders for the stoppage Of all direct
communication with them.
FIFTY-FOUR iron furnaces in Scotland
have been blown out, because of the unwil-
ingness of the owners to accede to demand
for better wages, and 5000 men are idle. The
cotton operatives at Ashton, England, have
also struck for better pay, the idle number
ing l., 900 on the 18th.