The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-27

THE OLD WORLD.

On the 18th, the Pail Mall Gazette
published . letter from . high official in
India, in which it was stated that the people
Of Cashmere were dying like flies Of famine,
and that, at the present rate Of mortality, the
Province would be nearly depopulated by the
end of the year.
In the British House of Commons,
on the 18th, . motion for the adoption of .
resolution favoring local option in respect to
the license question was defeated by . vote
of 164 ayes to 252 noes.
Two FATAL cases of Siberian plague
are reported at St. Petersburg.
SULINA, at one of the mouths of the
Danube. has been gazetted q free port.
THE catastrophe anticipated for some
days at the City of Szegedin, in Hungary, &C.
CURED ON the morning of the 18th. The
Thiess broke its banks and swept in broad
volume through the center of the city. The
devastation, terror, suffering and death
which followed is said to be almost indie
scrihable. The largest buildings were under
mind and the inmates borne away on the
tide to destruction. Over $1,000 people are
reported to be homeless, and thousands of
lives have been lost. Up to midnight of the
18th, two-thirds of the city was under water,
and 100 square miles in the immediate neigh.
hood were also flooded.
The Duke Of Connaught, son of
Castle, on the 18th, to Princess Louisa NJ rga-
ret daughter of Prince Frederick Charles Of
Prussia
The French Chambers of Deputies,
on the 18th, after an animated debate, rejected
the clause Of the committees report recon-
mending the impeachment of the Ministers
of the 10th of May. by vote of 81 to 159.
DAN REDEEM, one of the lately re-
leased Fenian prisoners, died, at Kingstown,
Ireland, on the 18th. OF paralysis.
A SzEGEDIN dispatch of the 14th
says the River Naros was rising rapidly and
threatened New Szegedin. Anarchy aud
confusion reigned. On the night of that day,
the dykes protecting Csongrad gave way, and
the town, containing 5000 Inhabitants, was
partially inundated. Szentes, a town of
26. 600 inhabitants, was engaged in q similar
struggle with the waters. Over 400 corpses
were recovered in Szegedin on the preced-
ing day.
DENNEHY & Co., distillers. of Dub
lin, failed, on the 18th, for s75O.OO0.
ACCORDING to accounts from Sofia,
received on the 14th, preparations for another
insurrection in Macedonia were in active prog
ress. The leaders are stated to be the Bishops
of Sofia and Ochrida.
SEVERAL of the French cotton mills
in the department OF the Nord, have stopped
on account of trade depression
GEN. KAUFMAN, the Russian COM
mander in Central Asia, has resigned in con.
sequence of the failure of his Afghan policy.
VIENNA dispatches of the 10th say
that, of the 9, 100 houses in Szegedin. all ex-
cept 26l have been destroyed. 1t was thought
that 5000 persons had been drowned. The
bodies Of 400 had already been recovered.
Over l6, 600 horses and cattle and *, 900 sheep
had persisted.
A LONDON telegram of the 10th
states that the Portuguese explorer Pinto
had arrived at Prcto rio, South Africa, with
eight followers, all that remained Of AGO with
whom he set out on his expedition.
IT was reported in Berlin, on the
18th, that the Government contemplated de-
claring state Of siege there in consequence of
the Socialistic agitation and the violent de-
bates In the Reichstag Count Won Eulenburg
stated in the Reichstag that Bismarck and the
Emperor had lately received many letters
threatening assassination, and internal ma
chimes had been discovered in Berlin.
THE Village of Vernet, near Vichy,
France, containing 100 he uses, was totally de-
stroyed by fire, on the 18th.
The reported defeat of the Zulus at
Ekowe, in South Africa, was denied in a
London dispatch Of the 18th. The Orange
Free State Government had refused to aid or
to permit its citizens to aid the British
against the Zulus.
A BERLIN telegram of the 18th de-
clares positively that 10000 Russians were
being conveyed across the Caspian Sea, des-
tined, it was believed, for Merv.