The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-12-11

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THE NEWS.
Mr.. GLADSTONE made furious at
tack on Lord Beaconsfeld at Edinburgh,
Scotland, on the 25th, in which he character
lied the Premier as a veteran trickster and
political posturer, devoted to his own selfish
interests regardless of the true interests of
the realm.
DAv1TT, another of the alleged Sligo
agitators, was held to bail for tria9 N the sum
of $2,5OO on the 25th. Hrs.
A CONsTANTINOPLE telegram of the
18th says the Porte's financial affairs were
very much straitened, and the condition
was considered desperate. The palace pur-
veyors had stopped furnishing supplies, pend
ing the payment of their old bills.
The statement was made from St.
Petersburg on the 18th that England had de-
tached Persia from Russia, by giving her the
west half Of Afghanistan.
AN Alexandria egypt telegram of
the 18th says the mission of General Gordon
to the King of Abyssinia had been unsuccess-
full. The King insisted upon the payment of
his price for MassOwah, and threatened, if his
demand were not complied with, to detain
Gordon and declare war against Egypt.
The Swiss Federal Council, having
received pressing memorials from several
quarters urging it to stop the propaganda of
Mormon missionaries in divers parts Of Switz-
erland, has decided, in view of the powers
possessed by the Cantonal Government for
the punishment of polygamy, and in view OF
the efforts being made by the United States
Government to suppress the institution in
Utah, not to take any general action, but to
act only in special cases.
A DUBLIN dispatch of the 28th an
nounces the murder Of bailif who was exc
cutting some processes on a farmer near
Sheer, County Kerry. p.
KILLEN, the last of the three Sligo
agitators, has been also held to bail for trial.
INTELLIGENCE reached CONSTANT
nople on the 18th of the massacre of Ahmed
Mukhtar Pasha and almost the whole of his
command, by the Arnouts, at Gusingi.
A ROME telegram of the 18th says the
three new Bishoprics for the United States to
be under the Jurisdiction of Cardinal Nc
Closkey.
The following is the official vote of
Nebraska: Cobb, Supreme Judge, 25,2S6 plu-
rality; Carson, for Regent of the University,
q, 249 majority; Garrett, Regent, 20,265 ma
jority. These were the Republican candi-
dates. Weaver, Pound, Post, Barnes and
Gavin, Republicans, and Savage, Democrat,
were elected District Judges.
GENERAL FRANCIS WALKER, Superin-
tendent of the Census, in his annual report,
says the Census law enacted at the last rcgu.
lar session of Congress is found to be thor
| oughly satisfactory in its practical working,
and he recommends only two minor changes
that the franking privilege be extended to
communications addressed to the Census Of
fee, and that inquiry relating to holders Of the
public debt be omitted from the population
schedule as useless and aggravating.
AN alarm of fire in a st. Louis
school building on the 26th caused a
stampede among the teachers and pupils.
In the mad rush for the street, dozen
scholars were badly trampled upon and in
jured, and q very much larger number re-
ceived slight hurts.
On the Goth William H. Vanderbilt
sold to q syndicate, composed of Drexel.
Morgan & Co., of New York, and j. 8. Nor
gan, of London, S25,OOO,OOO of New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad stock at
12O. For this Mr.. Vanderbilt received
SIS, 100000 in Government bonds, and will
receive a like amount later. This is the
largest stock sale ever consummated in this
country. Mr.. Vanderbilt will retain the
management of the Central.
The Indictment against the persons
charged with attempting to bride members O.
the Pennsylvania Legislature was quashed OF
the 18th, because it was found by twenty-foul
persons, when only twenty-three of then
were qualified grand jurors.
The Assistant Attorney-G General fol
the Post Office Department has given al
opinion to the Third Assistant Postmaster
General to the effect that lottery letters
reaching the Dead-Letter Office may be re
turned to the senders, and that letter mus
be addressed to lottery agent as such, tx
warrant its detention. The Postmaster-Gen
eral, in accordance with this decision, has di
rected that lottery-letters be returned to thu
senders. The suit in the District of Columbis
against the Postmaster-G General was, on the
18th, certified to the Supreme Court of the
United States.
AT the municipal election in Provi.
dence, r. l., few days ago, Thomas A
Doyle, Republican, was elected Mayor for the
fifteenth time, receiving 1923 votes to 2,64<
for his opponent. The vote on granting
license to sell intoxicating liquors was 2,10l
in favor of, and $50 against, such license.
SEVERAL witnesses in Kellogg's be-
half were examined before the Kellogg Spot
ford Committee at New Orleans on the 26tl
and 9th. They denied that they were bribet
to vote for Senator Kellogg, and one of then
stated that he had not dared, for two years
on account of his politics, to visit the parish
where his family lived. On cross-examina
ton the same witness admitted that he hat
been accused of murder, but was sure it was
his Republicanism that led the people of hit
parish to threaten him should he return there
LATE advices from the Arctic regions
are not encouraging for the success OF the
expedition of the Jeanette. It was feared
the ship would freeze up in the pack-ice and
have to be abandoned. A whaling bark
which arrived at San Francisco on the 9th
from the Arctic Ocean brought the officers
and crew of bark abandoned in the ice or
the oath of October and another vessel Frozen
in near by.
BEFORE the Spofford-K Kellogg In.
vestigating Committee on the 2Sth, one Of
the Witnesses discharged employe of thu
Internal Revenue Office testified that Nor
ris Marks had told him that he "could not
take care of any of his own friends whilst
this fight was being made on Kellogg
that he had appointed ours to keep
them from 'squealing' on Kellogg" A
letter put in evidence on the 9th
denying that the writer Zone Milon)
had signed an affidavit against Kellogg, was
acknowledged by Milon, and a comparison o.
the signatures showed that he did not sigr
the affidavit. The Manager of the Western
Union Telegraph Company stated that the
demand on him for dispatches called fol
only those delivered to Mr.. Kellogg, and that
those from that gentleman had recently been