The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-06
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

EIGHTEEN Catholic Bishops of Ire
land met at Maynooth, on the 18th, and
adopted resolutions strongly censuring the
Government for it's conduct in regard to the
university education question.
THE official residences of the Egyp.
tian President of the Council and Minister OF
Finance were surrounded, on the 18th, by q
large number Of disbanded officers who loudly
demanded their arrears of pay. The Min
lister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister OF
Finance and even the Khedive himself were
grossly insulted by the clamorous crowd. AT
last the Khedive's body guard arrived, fired
upon and dispersed the rioters.
In the German Reichstag, on the
10Th, the propositions contesting the correct
ness of the Governments Interpretation of
the Reichstag to the proposed arrest Of two Of
ties.
NUBAR PAsHA, the Egyptian Premier.
has rendered his resignation on the personal
demand of the Khedive.
THE Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia,
has been exiled to Orenburg, for writing q
pamphlet favoring the immediate construction
of railway from Orenburg to Tsshkend, in
order to force England to abandon her resist
auce to the Russian Eastern policy.
THOMAS SUTTON, a large ship-owner
and merchant, of Shields and Newcastle,
Eng, failed, on the Goth. Liabilities over
S6sN,OOO.
The Porte has appointed Commits
sioners to superintend the proposed reforms
in Asia Minor.
A CALCUTTA telegram of the Goth
says it was reported from Mandalay that the
King of Burmah had murdered all the Royal
Princes and their families, and replaced the
Ministers with those formerly in office, thus
restoring a despot'c Government.
ANUMBER of Swiss citizens have left
for the United States to establish colony In
Georgia.
SEVERAL British and Scottish mer-
chants failed, on the 2lst, with liabilities ag.
gregating about 81, $4,000.
News was received, on the 21st, to
the effect that the Astrakhan plague had
abated.
THE st. Petersburg Ruski MIR had
been forced to suspend publication for COM
mentiny upon the deplorablc condition of the
country and the despotic manner in which it
is governed.
THE Greek Archbishop of Adriano.
pie has been beaten to death by some Bulga-
rians.
THE Italian Government has prohib-
tied the importation of American swine, OF
any preparation of their flesh, as q precau-
ton against trichinosis.
PRINCE kRAPOTKINE, Governor of
Charkoff, in Russia, while returning from a
ball, on the evening of the 3d. was fired at by
some Nihilist assassin, and MORALLY wounded.
In consequence of the representations
of the United States Consul at Constantinople,
the Porte has abandoned the proposition to
replace the Turkish Minister at Washington
by Charge d'Affaires.
THE Bulgarian Assembly was for
mally opened by Prince Korsakoff on the
a2d.
A DISPATCH from Allahabad of the
23d announced the arrival of ex-President
Gran. He was the guest Of the Lieutenant
Governor and had been invited to visit Calcut-
ia as the guest of the Viceroy.
A NANTES (France) telegram of the
oath says the River Loire had overlooked ito
banks, causing disastrous inundation of the
surrounding country.
A WARSAW (Poland) dispatch of the
Gath says dam had burst above the city and
caused great destruction of property.
A DEFINITE peace has been arranged
between the Khedive of Egypt and the King
of Abyssinia, by the terms of which the latter
is to receive a pension in exchange for the
disputed territory.
The native forces in South Africa,
allies of the British, have been disbanded, in
obedience to orders from the Home Govern.
ment.