The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-20
LATEST NEWS.
TIE OLD WORLD.

TROUBLE has arisen between Russia
and Roumania over the possession OF Arab
tabia, small frontier post of the DObrud
scha. Both Governments claim 1t, and tn.
Roumanian General has been ordered to hole
it by force if necessary. 1t was rumored, OF
the 4th, that Russia was moving up her forces
and would fight for its possession.
STEELE 4 CRAIG, grain merchants
at Glasgow, have failed for $40J, 100.
DRURY LANE THEATER. in London,
was closed, on the 5th, in consequence of the
actors refusing to submit to . reduction in
salary.
ENGLAND and Portugal have agreed
to joint operations against the slave trade be
tween Mozambique and Madagascar.
ABOUT $4,000 persons are supported
by charity in Glasgow. .,.
LATE reports from Afghanistan are
to the effect that the inhabitants of Cabul
were fighting among themselves, and that
utter anarchy prevailed.
On the 9th, Mgr. Guibert, Arch.
bishop of Paris, replying to letter from Pere
Hyacinthe, notifying him of the opening Of a
!
CARDS his correspondent as deranged and q
dreadful example of Divine chastisement fol
intidelity.
EX-PREsIDENr GRANT and party left
Alden, in Arabia, for Bombay, on the 9th.
IT was estimated that from 80, 900 to
$4,000 sailors and dock laborers were on a
strike in Liverpool on the eth. There had
bean ron hla " bo v,.,l;o.,
compelled to call for achievements.
JUCHANBoEF, the former Treasurer
OF the Mutual Credit Foncier Company, of
Russia, convicted of embezzing A2UO, 900 has
been sentenced to sixteen years. imprisonment
in Siberia.
ALL British troops in Afghanistan
have been ordered to return to Candahar.
On the Sth, the de6nitive treaty of
peace between Turkey and Russia was signed
by the representatives of the two Govern
n.euts. Next day the Russian troops began
the evacuation of Turkish territory.
THE Montenegrins occupied Pod
goritza, Spuz and Veliberdo, on the Sth.
ENGLAND concluded a convention
with Turkey, on the Sth, for the purchase of
the State domains in Cyl rus, with the excep-
ton of the Sultan's private estates.
In a village near Astrakhan, recently,
the inhabitants massacreG all the doctors, be-
l'eving that they had poisoned all their pa
tients.
A CAFE Town (South Africa) tele-
gram, published on the 10th, reports that a
British column, consisting of a portion of the
Twenty-fourth Regiment, battery of artil-
lery aud 60 native auxiliaries, had been utter
ly annihilated near the Zugela River by 90 900
Luus. The latter captured 1O2 wagons, 1000
oxen, two cannon, 400 shot and shell, 1000
rifles, 250,0O rounds of ammunition and a
large quantity of provisions. 1t was estimated
that 5000 Zulus were killed or wounded dur
ing the II hit. Among the killed were forty
eight British officers. In consequence of this
disaster, the British forces had been compelled
to recross the border.
ADvICEs from the interior of Russia,
received in st. Petersburg on the 10th. sta e
that general unhealthiness and predisposition
to epidemic existed. The plague, typhus
fever and smallpox had appeared at Tver,
Orsk, keitf, Tambov and Rostov. The cattle
plague had also appeared at Ekatermosav
and twenty-seven adjacent villages. OF 2, 500
head attacked more than half had persisted.
DELBECQUE, the Director of the
French Mint, has been sentenced to six years.
Imprisonment and to pay a fine of 125, 900
francs for embezzling 10000 in bullion
lodged in the mint by the Rothschilds. Del
becque substituted galvanized copper bars for
the silver distracted.