The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-04
FOkEIGN GOSSIP.


Bank swihdle pine and die. and the
papers occasionally refef to those WHO
have gone to an untimely grave. b.
Caldwell, of Inverness. was year ago
worth three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. His thirty shares in the bank
made him penniless at seventy years OF
age, and he was lately found dead in
his bed.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
caused in Lyons by discovery which
purports to give to flax all the quail
tiles and appearance of silk. 1t has
long been known that silk is soluble,
not only in powerful acids, but also in
soda and chloride of zinc, and it is said
that these qualities are made use of in
the new process. A company is being
formed with a capital of 100000 for
the manufacture of the new textile.
A MAN climbed tree to the height
of seventy feet, at Offham, England,
and drew a crowd of spectators. among
whom was his wife and daughter, by
singing hymns. Then he took rope
from his pocket and said: Good
by; have made nice moose, and now
lam going to tie the knot. Marwood
says that drop of six feetis necessary.
but l am only going to give myself
three. have tied the knot, and am
going to jump" Then he hanged him.
| self.
THE ex-Empress Carlotta has inn
proved greatly in health since her re-
moval from Tervueren to Bonchant.
She has of late been absolutely free
from her former painful and Distress
ing attacks of illness. At Tervueren
she was under constant and vigorous
supervision, and she evidently knew
and felt it. The only walk she was at
liberty TO take there was through one
avenue of trees; at Bonchant she is
| permitted to roam about at pleasure
through the entire grounds, which are
large and beautifully laid out.
WHEN Mr.. Forbes brought tidings
of the decisive repulse of the Turkish
attack on Shipka Pass, ana, outstrip-
ping six aides de-camp of the Car. told
his story of Russian victory to the
Russian Emperor, he surpassed all
previous performances. l doubt wheth-
er he has not now surpassed himself.
He witnessed the battle of July 4 near
Ulundi. As soon as it was ended-as
soon as he saw the Zulu attack broken
and their forces breaking in pieces over
the country, he set out to carry the
news. The nearest telegraph station
was eighty miles away, and could only
be reached by lonely ride through g
country swarming with hostile savages,
where every ravine-and the ravines
are countless-might hide an ambush.
| l., 60 n%nL :~o 20
life in his hand, he rode those eighty
miles. He arrived at Landmarks Drift,
and thence telegraphed the sole narra-
tive of the battle first to Sir Garnet
Wolseley, then to Sir Bartle Frere.
Forbes covered his eighty miles over a
difficult country in fifteen hours. It
was on the 9Th of July at ght that his
dispatches reached the two high Com
missioners. Three days later, on the
9Th, they were still the only source Of
information at Cape Town.-Londo.s
Cor. ". Y. Tribune.
COMPANY UNIVERSAL of the Canal
Interoceanic for the Piercing of the
lsthmus American under the Presiden-
CIV and the Direction of M. Ferdinand
de Lesseps, President Director of the
l Sdubl Va OuCA, 10 tAV "a tlIO
, advertisement in the French newspa-
! pers for subscriptions for the eight
hundred thousand shares of one hun
: bred dollars each of the Panama Ca
nal stock. NJ. de Lesseps, swinging
{ around the circle of the French cities,
and haranguing his countrymen on the
project, has changed his keynote in
/ view of the opposition of American
: journals and the apathy of American
capitalists. Yesterday, for example,
at Beauvais he virtually dared the
United States to oppose his scheme.
elf you d." he said, in substance,
. "the energetic races of South America
will give you a trouncing." But few
: days ago, if we may believe Lie Globe
of Paris, he assured the citizens of
Angouleme that foreign opposition to
his enterprise was of no consequence
, whatever, that France alone would
| subscribe the whole amount needed,
, and that the satisfaction arising from
!, his success would be increased if it was
necessary to overcome certain obsta-
cles.-M. Y. Eveninq P0st.