The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04

ure about It IL its color, which is consid-
erably darker than that Of the genuine. The
paper crumples with snap when handled,
and tho dark fiber lines, instead of being
worked into the paper, Is in genuine bill,
are simply printed on the face in imitation of
the correct thing. There are . number of
minor discrepancies which are readily detect
ed ON closer examination. The word
"series," for instance, in the lower center Of
the bill, is made up Of letters fully . third
larger than those in the genuine, while the
words At the top, Engraved and Printed at
Bureau Engraving and Printing" tip over
until they almost assume the italic character;
whereas in the genuine they are very clearly
Roman. The number, too, is even, when on
the note with this letter it should be odd.
FOREIaN INTELLIGENCE.
IT was reported from St. Petersburg
on the 2sd that, since November last, over
1900 persons had died in Central Russia from
diphtheria.
NOTIFICATIONS have been sent to
General Gourko at St. Petersburg that they
| need not trouble themselves about an illumi-
nation on the twenty-ffth anniversary of the
Cars coronation, as the Nihilists are prepar-
ing for such an illumination on that occasion
as has not been equaled since the burning of
Rome.
RECENT floods in Tripoli have de-
stroyed l. 500 houses and many lives.
The explosion at the Winter Palace,
st. Petersburg, so affected the mind of Baron
Won Schell, one of the Cars privy counsel
| hot ho hoc c3n cd ov,io{
General Trepoff has been appointed Military
Governor of the Palace, vice General Delsalle,
who was paralyzed by the explosion.
On the oath the German Reichstag
adopted, by large majority, resolution d.
recting the suspension of proceedings against
the Socialist Deputies.
LIBERIA has annexed the Kingdom
Of Medina, which lies on its interior frontier.
ACCORDING to st. Petersburg tele-
gram Of the oath three hundred persons had
been arrested ON suspicion of completely in
the Winter Palace conspiracy.
The French Government has finally
declined to extraditc Hartmann, unless his
| completely in the Moscow outrage be fullys
proven.
A BERLIN telegram of the oath says
| the announcement of the revival of trade in
| the United States had caused very sensible
increase of emigration to the latter country.
AN Alexandria (Egypt) dispatch, re-
ceived in London on the oath, says that utter
anarchy prevailed in Abyssinia.
A DUBLIN dispatch of the 25th says
that, at Pontadoan, in County Armagh, Ire
land, tenant-right meeting had been at
<onI bad h~v e
armed with bludgeons, who stormed the plat
| form and swept from it the speakers and Of
ficers of the meeting, and afterward assailed
the tenant-righters. A number of the latter
were seriously wounded.
ON the 25th a Greek was arrested at
Constantinople for having in his possession
| an Internal machine" designed to annihil-
ate the Sultan.
ACCORDING to a Lahore Qndia) tele-
gram of the 25th another battle had been
fought at Herat between the Cabul and He
rat troops, in which the former were worsted.
AV1ENNA dispatch of the Goth say a
rising of the Mussulman population had &C.
Cured in the Kirdualy district in Roumelia.
On the Goth the Dublin Freeman's
journal, which had been silent regarding Par
nell's course In America, published a leader
denouncing that agitator in the most singing
| terms. The Journal denies Parnells state
| ment concerning the Duchess of Marlbor-
ough's Committee, and characterizes his at
tack upon the Mansion House Committee as
an outrage on decency and gross and shame
less libel on an assembly of gentlemen. The
Journal further states that the Mansion House
had secured $400, 1000 for relief, the Duchess
of Marlborough 1854, 900, and Parnen only
$4,000. The article further states that Par
nell had estranged every respectable sympa-
thizer from his cause, and that there would
be formidable row when he returned.
ON the evening Of the 26th an Inn
perial ukase was published at st. Petersburg
decreeing the establishment of Supreme
Executive Commission to preserve order and
social tranquility, under the Presidency of
General Melikoff, who is to appoint other
members of the commission, with the Cars
approval. The commission is to have su-
preme authority in all matters throughout
Russia, and is empowered to punish any dis
regard of its ORDERS which can only be abro-
gated by Imperial decree.
A PARIS telegram of the Goth says
the students of the University of St. Peters,
burg were generally held responsible by citi-
zens of that capital for the crimes recently
committed there. Threats had been made
that if any violence occurs on the ami
versarv of the Cars coronation every stu
dent would be lynched and the university
burned to the ground. In. consequence of
the bitterness of the populace the Govern
ment had been compelled to take measures
for tho prOt action of tho echOO1
The bark Stratnaira, bound to Mel
bourne, from London, has been sunk by q
collision. Sixteen persons were drowned.
GREECE has recognized the indie
pendence of Roumania.
The Pope is said to have sent in
structions to Catholic Bishops in Russia, call
ing upon them to urge the clergy not to mix
in political agitations.
LATER.
A PANIC prevailed in st. Petersburg
on the 9th ult., in consequence of the an
nouncement by the Berlin police authorities
that three of the principal streets in the Rus
sian Capital were to be blown up on the I'd
of March.
The famine in Persia has assumed
frightful proportions. The people are said
to be parting with everything portable to
procure food and shelter, and many, despair
ing Of outside aid, have sought surcease of
suffering by committing suicide.
VERASAssULlTCH, the female Nihilist
who in 1873 attempted the assassination of
the Project Of st. Petersburg, and who was
acquitted by jury, to the amazement of the
AnthOritipa haa hoov ID
The President on the 9th ult. sent
to the Senate the nomination Of P. B. e.
Pinchback to be Naval Officer at New Or
leans.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 9th
ult. says the Senate Committee on Indian
Affairs was unanimous in favor of the con-
frmation Of ex-Congressman Trowbridge rs
Commissioner of Indian Affairs.