The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-19

| under discipline or command OF the United
States or the State to parade with arms in
populous communities. In other words, the
State may provide for the maintenance of in
| ternal peace affirmatively by enrolling as
many in the active militia as may be deemed
necessary, and negatively for forbidding bod
les of men threatening the public peace to
| parade with arms.
General.
A CALCUTTA telegram of the 9th says
Looshki Aim and Mohamed Jams had issued
fresh appeal to their tribes to renew the at
| tack upon the British.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
9th announces the prevalence of famine in
the trans-C Caucasus Russian provinces.
The ashes of Dolly Hartman's body,
which was cremated in DR.. LIE Moyne's oven
on the 9TH, weighed four pounds and fourteen
| ounces. The cremation took two hours and
| fifteen minutes. 1t was said to be the most
successful yet.
ON the morning of the 9th at Corwin
Center, a small railroad station near Brad
ford, Pa, two men were driving q team at
| tached to a sleigh which contained, besides
themselves, one hundred pounds of nitro
glycerine. The cutter overturned and the
stuff exploded, killing the two men and the
horses, and demolishing several barns and
houses.
ACCORDING to Dublin dispatches of
| the 9th, though there were still heart-rending
accounts Of suffering from some districts,
| the general feeling among the Irish people
was more hopeful. Parnell's attacks on re-
lief fund committees were condemned even
by some of his most ardent admirers. The
I,sshnaan strongly deprecated his language
about the Mansion House fund.
In the British House of Commons on
the evening of the 10th an amendment to the
address in reply to the Queens speech CEN
surfing the Government for its neglect of the
famine-stricken people of Ireland was mega
tived by vote of ZIG to e.
A DUBLIN dispatch of the 10th says
the police had seized large quantity of arms
at farmers house in Galway.
On the 10th H. V. Boynton sent a
note to the Secretary of War stating that,
on the 18th of January, he had sent letter
to the Secretary inclosing a charge, with the
specifications, against General w. T. Sherman
for 'conduct unbecoming an officer and a
gentleman" and asking if such papers had
been received at the Department. To this
the Secretary of War directed reply to be
made that such papers had been duly re-
ceived on the date named.
ACCORDING to a London dispatch of
the 10th there was no longer doubt that a
league had been formed in Central Asia under
the auspices of Russia against English domi-
nation, and that its most influential member
is the Ameer of Bokhara, whose daughter is
the wife of the Afghan pretender.
In reply to an inquiry IN the House
of Commons on the evening of the 10th the
Chancellor of the Exchequer said the Govern
ment had the matter of its intentions with
regard to Herat under consideration, but, as
no understanding had been arrived at, an ex.
PLANTATION would be inconvenient and injurious.
Lord Beaconsfield made similar statement
in the House of Lords.
OVER 5000 men employed in the
Connellsville (Pa) coke region struck for
higher pay on the 10th.
EARLY on the morning of the 10th
the California State Normal School at San
Jose was destroyed by fire, involving a loss
ineendiary, and was started by placing COM
bustibles saturated with coal oil in the ele-
vator fue.
The Pope, in replying to request of
the English Catholics for the establishment
of diplomatic relations with Great Britain,
has stated that the Church enjoyed such lib
erty in England that diplomatic relations
were unnecessary.
A LARGE crowd of men and boys
marched to the Office of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company in San Francisco on the
namen employed by that corporation. The
Company took the demand under advise
ment.
On the 18th the French Ministry
formally declared, in the Chamber of Depu-
ties, its opposion to plenary amnesty.
TIE session of the German Reichstag
was opened on the 18th by a speech from the
throne. ~.
A CABuL dispatch of the 18th says
that the rebels at Ghuzni had sustained
reverse at the hands of the British troops
A COLLISION occurred on the Govern
ment Railway at Tantah, Egypt. on the 18th.
Several persons were killed and many pas
sengers injured.
AT San Francisco on the 18th large
crowd of men and boys visited several manu-
featuring establishments employing Chinese
laborers, and demanded their immediate dis
missal. 1t was believed that this demonstra-
ton, as well as that of the day before directed
against the Central Pacific Railroad Company,
was intended to influence the State Legisla-
ture in its action on the anti Chinese bills
pending before it. a,
The motion of Louis Blanc in the
French Chamber of Deputies for full plenary
amnesty was rejected on the 18th by a vote
OF lis ayes to 313 noes.
A WASHINGTON Associated Press dis
patch of the 18th says the House Committee
on Ways and Means had disposed of the re-
funding question. The rate of interest was
decided in favor OF three-and-a-half per cent
by vote Of eleven to two. The question of
time was settled by the decisive vote of
twelve to one in favor of 20-4O bond. The
interest on these bonds is to be paid
quarterly, and they will be used
in funding the fives and skies, amount
ing to about e5Oa, 600, 600. The commit
tee decided also to recommend that
authority be given the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue $2Oo 600, 600 of four-per-cent.
Treasury notes, redeemable at pleasure, to
assist the reduction of an annual interest
burden in the manner proposed by Repre-
sentative Kelley.
Later News.
The Secretary of the United States
Treasury has given notice that, until further
notice, proposals for the sale of $1,000, 200
worth Of bonds to the Government on sinking
fund account win be received on Wednesday
Of each week 1T the Sub-Treasury in New
York City.
A LARGE number Of ladies presented
petition signed by Thousands of their sex
tn the Mavor NJ RufFa1o N Y IN thu 1Qte