The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-17

LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
A PLAcARD was placed on church
door in Hocken, Belgium, on the LIST, threat
ening the life Of the King.
The Paris Steele of the I'd says that
numerous groups Of Bonapartists had an
nounced their intenAion of bringing forward
Jerome Bonaparte Patterson, of Baltim ore,
Md, - q pretender to the Napolconic success
sion.
TIE Industrial Exhibition announced
to be held in Moscow this year has been post
poned until 1881, in consequence of the trade
depression in Russia.
A LONDON telegram of the Sd says
Rev. John Cummings, the Millennium writer.
had been ordered BY his physician to re-
nounce all mental work. He would retire
from the ministry.
An explosion occurred in the High
Blantyre coal-pit, near Glasgow, Scotland,
on the 81. There were thirty-one persons In
the mine at the time. Up to the evening Of
that day twenty-one corpses had been re-
covered.
ANEW Egyptian Ministry was con-
stituted and proclaimed on the Sd.
A CALCUTTA telegram of the Sd says
the butcheries in Burmah had been revived.
The British Government had telegraphed the
Viceroy to interpose between King Theebaw
and other probable victims.
PRINCE BISMARCK gave . dinner in
honor Of DR.. White, the American Minister,
The news received from Cape Town
on the Sd was to the effect that peace negotia-
tions were pending with Cetewayo, with the
prospect that they would soon be brought to
. successful issue.
The British troop-ship Orontes ar
rived at Madeira on the Sd, with the remains
of the Prince Imperial on board.
The Fourth of July was celebrated
in London by banquet at the Palace Hotel.
A large number of Americans participated.
A MEMBER of placards threatening
the lives of the Sultan and his Ministers were
seized at Constantinople on the 4th.
A NAPLES Qtaly) dispatch of the
4th reports the arrest of the ex-Khedive of
Egypt. Cause, not stated.
A CALCUTTA dispatch of the 9Th
says the cholera had broken out in British
Burmah, and that Europeans were dying in
large numbers.
REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE, of New
York, preached to two congregations Of 20,
600 each, in London on the 9th.
In consequence of hurricane on the
river Doubs, in France, steamer having fifty
five persons on board was capsized on the 9th.
Only five persons were saved.
A DISPATCH from Kapul, Asia, re-
ceived in London on the 9th, says the Chi
nese had retaken Kashgar, and massacred a
great number of the inhabitants.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the
5th announces the escape of ex-Sultan Murad.
All the ships in the Bosphorus and the Sea of
Marmora had been searched for him, but not
trace of his hiding-place had been discov-
cred.
A YOKOHAMA dispatch of the 5th an
nounces the arrival there of General Grant
and his party.
CAPE Town (South Africa) dispatch
es, received in London on the eth, say that
King Cetewayo had not accepted the terms of
peace offered him, and that an advance
woull immediately be made. A Court of In
quiry had censured Lieutenant Carey, who had
charge of the escort when the Prince Imperial
was killed.
In the British House of Commons on
the night of the 9TH, a motion to abolish
fogging in the army and navy was voted
down after an exciting debate.
THIRTEEN HUNDRED sheep from Bos-
ton, infected with foot and mouth disease,
were slaughtered at Liverpool on the 9TH.
PprNcE ALEXANDER, VI bulgaria,
reached Varna on the eth, and was most en-
Enthusiastically received by the populace.
THE walls of the fortresses at Widin,
Silistria, Rustchuk and Varna have been de.
stroyed in accordance with the provisions of
the Berlin treaty.
The person who supplied the pistol
to Alexander solovieff, with which to kill the
hanged.
A FIRE at Irkutsk on the 4th de-
stroyed 400 houses.
A MADRID dispatch of the 9TH says
the marriage of King Alfonso with the Arch
duchess of Austria had been definitely agreed
to.
THE NEW WORLD.
DURING the six months ending June
30, there were 366 failures in New York City,
the gross liabilities of which amounted to
$l1, 5S2,656, while the assets were valued at
1890. 346.
TIE Maine Democratic State Con-
vention met at Bangor on the LIST. and renomi-
mated Governor Garcelon by reclamation.