The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-27
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THE OLD WORLD.
A BUCHAREST telegram of the 18th
says the cattle plague had appeared at Mol
d2via.
THERE was great agitation in Bosnia
on the 10th and 18th, in consequence of
fears of rising against the Austrians, The
common cause.
The editors of all the principal
newspapers in St. Petersburg hare recently
been summoned to the Prees Bureau of the
Ministry of the Interior, and instructed with
reference to the conduct of their respective
papers. They were informed that frequent
complaints had been received from Livadia
that articles in the st. Petersburg press in
terfered with the Imperial policy, and there
fore they must not continue in the same
strain. Neither Germany nor Austro-Hun-
gary, nor the relations Of Russia with either
of these two powers, nor France, must be
discussed. England might DC discussed, but
judiciouslv. These rules would be continued
until the Empcror's return to St. Petersburg,
month hence.
The Gar has accepted the resigna-
ton of Count Schouvaloff as Ambassador to
England, and conferred upon him the order
of St. Vladimir, in recognition of his public
services. Schouvaloff will remain a member
of the Council of the Empire.
The steamer St. Louis recently left
Liverpool for New Orleans with one hundred
and twenty passengers, nearly all for Texas.
There are many farmers among them. some
with families, and a number of merchants.
The Vienna [Austria) Tagblat of the
10Th says the treaty of alliance recently con-
cluded between the Balkan principalitics,
ostcnsibly against foreign intervention in the
Balkan states, but really against the Austrian
treaty, stipuates that in the event of Austria
extending operations beyond Novi-Bazar,
Servia will furnish 10000 men, Montenegro
sO,0Ol, and Bulgaria 80 o, to form an allied
army, and that Servia will advance Monte
negro 5000 ducats for military expenses.
The appointment of a Russian General as
COMMANDMENTS Chief of the allied forces was
considered possible.
ACoNsTANTlNOPLE telegram of the
18th says the Porte had demanded of the
British Government an explanation of the
movements of the British fleet in Turkish wa
tiers. 1t was reported that Russia and Turkey
had formed an alliance. 'gr-
AN explosion of fire-damp in the
Shortheath colliery, near Northampton
Eng, on the 18th caused the death of six
miners.
CONSIDERABLE uneasiness has been
caused in Brussels by the recent action of
France in building number of first-class
forts on the Belgian frontier.
PRINCE ALAMYN, the son of King
Theodore, of Abyssinia, who was brought to
England to be educated after the death OF
his father and the surrender of his army at
Magdala in 1868, died at Leeds, England, on
the 18th, of consumption.
A MEETING of the Irish National
Convention Committee was held in Dublin
on the 14th, and resolutions were adopted to
reconstruct the Irish House Of Commons on
O'Connelrs plan-to consist of three hundred
members elected by manhood suffrage-and
to meetin 1882 at the latest.
THE Porte had, according to a Con-
stantinople telegram of the 10th, invited its
creditors to examine into the financial affairs
of Turkey.
A LONDON dispatch of the 10th says
disorders were increasing in Turkey. Even
within sixty miles of Constantinople Circas-
slams were robbing and murdering.the inhabit-
ants.
The Sultan has ratified the scheme
of reforms for the European provinces of
Turkey and Asia Minor, and consented To
recognize the principle of ministerial re-
sponsibility. He has also ordered the re-
equipment of the forts of the Dardanelles.
A CABuL dispatch of the 10th says
forty-nne Afghans had, up to that time,
been hanged for completely in the massacre
of the British Legation.
In Russia diphtheria has attained
such proportions that in some sections the
percentage of mortality far exceeds the
births.
On the 18th Paris correspondent
telegraphed that two French explorers had
discovered the source of the River Niger.
A PARIS dispatch of the 10th denies
the truth of the recent report of the death of
Abdel Kader, the Algerine chieftain.
The British authorities are construct
ing railway to Candahar, in Afghanistan.
A SEVERE snow-storm prevailed in
Vienna on the 10th.
A PEsTH (Hungary) dispatch of the
18th says one sixth of the inhabitants of
Montenegro were starving. There had been
severe fighting on the Turkish frontier, near
Bresovitza. The latter place had been plum |
dered by body of 500 Arnauts.
A GLASGOW dispatch of the 18th says
thirteen persons, returning from fair, were
that day drowned while crossing the Lochin-
daal of the Island of Islay.
AT Vienna on the 18th the Arch
duchess Marie Christine, the future Queen of
Spain, officially renowned her right to the
Austrian succession.
THE NEW WORLD.
A STRIKE among the longshoremen
at Boston, Mass, ended on the 18th by the