The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-02

happened WlLnln historic times, ana
certainly will not happen for many CEN
turtles to come"
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
THERE was recently ordained in
Rome colored priest who was former
ly a slave. He had suffered many in
dignities, and an Italian lady, learning
his condition and character, purchased
him and gave him his freedom. He
was then sent to the Propaganda, and
his ordination is the result. His field
of work is Abyssinia, where he has
been sent to labor among his own
people.
The Moscow journals relate an ex-
traordinary escape of a young Nihilist
girl named Gobieslawska from the
hands Of the police. They had dis
covered the house in which she was
concealed, and were about to make the
arrest, when, to their surprise, they
saw balloon rising from the garden
containing the object of their search
and two men. The balloon rapidly
disappeared.
The Portuguese explorer in Africa,
Major Serpa Pinto, told the British As
ISOLATION that when journeying between
the rivers Cuando and Zambesi he met
with ''great difficulty and distress;''
and the King Of Cushibe gave him six
hundred men under the command of his
daughter, young person of seventeen
years, who desired to marry him, Sc
that he was very nearly becoming a
King in Africa by marriage.
DIVINE service in the English Parish
Church of Chatteris was strangely in.
terrupted a fortnight ago. A boy who
was sharing birds in a garden near by
saw a cat run up tree with young
rabbit in his mouth. Having a loaded
gun, the lad, on the impulse of the mo-
ment, fired at the cat, in a straight di-
rection for the chancel of the church.
He missed his aim, but not the church
window, for upward of twenty shot
alarmed the worshipers. Fortunately,
no one was sitting in the chancel. The
vicar stopped the service, sent for the
police, and scolded the offender.
The number of imprudent persons
who have been killed since the Franco
Prussian war in trying to empty the
German shells that have been found un-
exploded in the fields round Paris is ex-
traordinary. At St. Denis, a few weeks
ago, charcoal dealer,' an old man of
sixty-eight, who had earned some celeb
rity in the neighborhood by his collec-
ton of German shells, was trying to
empty another, when it exploded and
blew him and his shop to pieces. The
remnants of his body were found scat
tered in all directions. A similar acct
dent is also reported from the arsenal
of Belfort, where one artilleryman was
killed and five wounded.
The conflict in Bulgaria and Roume-
liza between kalpak and fez is anxiously
watched in Austria, where the fez is
manufactured, and the houses that de-
vote their energies to this branch of
commerce are becoming seriously
alarmed. The annual expectation has
already diminished to the extent of six
hundred thousand fezzes, and it is
feared that the falling off will be even
greater next year. This head-dress has
totally disappeared in Bulgaria, the
Dobrudscha and New Servia, and is
rapidly going out of fashion in Bosnia,
Eastern Roumelia, Thessaly and Epirus.
On the other hand, the makers of kali
paks are driving good trade.
The architects of the city of Paris
were surprised, on taking possession OF
the palace of the Tuileries, to find it in
habited in every nook and corner. MI
merous families were found living in the
wing by the river side. Many of them
could not say by what right they were
there some dated back their residence
to the time of the restoration, in 1880
and at the time of the fire in 1871 they
took refuge in the wing from which
they have just now been elected to
make room for the municipal council.
But the most extraordinary thing was
that, in the imperial stables, with theil
marble troughs and mahogany managers
and racks, were found a numerous COM
pany of horses, who have for many
years been gratuitously stabbed there.
AMONG the consequences of the Glas-
Cow bank failure has been a breach OF
promise case. The lady belongs to
Glasgow, the gentleman to Greenock,
both of them being people of some
wealth. The lady held some of the
stock of the bank, and when the
crash came, although the marriage
invitations had actually been issued,
the gentleman cried off until it was
ascertained how far he would be
affected as her husband. After the de-
cision of the House of Lords that no liza
bility would extend to him, it was ex-
pected that he would at once complete
his engagement, but for some reason or
other he had changed his mind, and
positively refused to do so. After all
persuasion had failed an action claim
ing 5000 was raised, which he COM
promised by paying E1,OOO.