The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

gliSh soldier in Zululand are deducted
from arrears in the mans pay.
HUMAN beings in Africa are said to
be more afraid of gorillas than Of
lions.
under sixteen are now forbidden to
smoke in the street, the offense being
punishable by fine or imprisonment.
In Central Africa lives King,
who, according to Commander Cam
eron, demands divine praise for HIM
self, and proclaims the DEGREES of the
Deity or Deities which reach him from
the mouth of an idol which he con-
suits, and which nobody but himself
and single priestess is ever allowed
to see.
Don CARLOS said recently to a
French reporter: 81 affirm in the most
precise manner that l have not re-
nOunced, and shall never renOunce. my
rights to the crown of Spain. When 1
was on the field of battle 1 protested
through the mouths of my cannon. l
cannot do so now, but from my con-
science l protest and shall always pro-
test"
IMPR1sON1NG for eight days little
boy nine years old because he ''will-
fully damaged a tree growing in Batter
sea park, the property of her Majesty's
Board of Works. is the latest piece of
judicial atrocity in London. The police
justice who inflicted the sentence said
that 1.-the prisoner was old enough to
do mischief which must be stopped. He
was little fellow, but it was necessary
to make an example of him.
A REMARKABLE freak of lightning is
recorded in a Fgench newspaper. A
farm-laborer, running for shelter, was
suddenly thrown to the ground, the fork
he carried on his shoulder being
wrenched from his grasp and carried
through the air a distance of fifty or
sixty yards. The prongs were bent and
twisted with well-nigh Mathematical &C
curacy into the shape of corkscrews,
the steel being burnt, and formed, on
it's exterior surface, into small lamin1
which emitted slightly sulphurous
odor. The laborer escaped without in
jury.
A BOY born to n great fortune has
just met with a sad fate. He was the
oldest son of Mr.. Treffry, of Fowey, in
Cornwall, and jumping on a coal tram
wagon while in motion he fell from the
grease-box. His legs were caught in
the spokes of the wheel and he was
whirled round and fatally injured; in
deed, he never regained consciousness
and died in an hour. He was twelve
years old, and would on attaining his
majority have come into possession of a
large property which has for many
years been held by the Trefry Trustees
"for an heir who shall be born in the
name of Treffry." The poor boy leaves
two brothers, the elder of whom now
stands in his place.
OFFICIAL details now published serve
to confirm the establishment at the ter
rible severity of the sentences on the
Odessa political convicts. The official
publication states that all twenty-eight
prisoners were found guilty of having
belonged to an illegal society, which
called itself the social revolutionary
party, and aspired by means of revolu-
ton to overthrow the Government es-
tablished in Russia. The girl, Goukoff-
ski, aged fifteen, and condemned to
Punishment in Siberia without term, is
especially charged with having, on July
"a, 1873, on the condemnation of Ko-
valski, cried out, "Kovalski is con-
demned to DEATH" For these words,
so natural under the circumstances to
an excitable child of fifteen, this unfor-
tunate little girl has already spent thir-
teen months in the common criminal
Jail, and is now to join the chained
gangs of thieves and murderers, and
drag her weary footsteps over the Sibe-
rian wastes, with the cruel knout of
the Cossack escort ever ready to de-
scend on her frail shoulders and urge
her forward to her living grave.