The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
amendment, and taking such other action as
the delegates may deem expedient"
Foreign intelligence,

Foreign Intelligence.
A CAPE Town (South Africa) dis
patch received in London on the 23d, says
another great diamond robbery had been
committed in the Post-ofice there. Diamonds
valued at $500, 900 had been distracted from
the Poetmaster's safe, besides great num-
Der of bankers drafts.
ON the Esd Walter, a London forger,
who had previously distinguished himself in
betting frauds, was sentenced to twenty
years. penal servitude.
ON the oath the British Parliament
was prorogued and announcement made of
the issue of writs for a general election. In
the Queens speech, which was read by the
Lord High Chancellor, she said her foreign
relations were favorable to the maintenance
| Of peace in Europe, and she expressed conf
dence in the speedy settlement of affairs in
Afghanistan. Referring to the measures for
the relief Of the distress In Ireland, she said
she hoped they would be accepted by her Irish
subjects ~ proof Of the ready sympathy Of
Parliament.
| ACCORDING to a Constantinople dis
patch of the Oath the Turkish Government
had refused to pay for Gusinje the sum de-
manded by Montenegro. Another dispatch
of the same date says the sum paid to the
Greek brigands for the ransom of Colonel
Synge was CSC, 1000, instead of $4,000 as be-
fore reported.
The greater part of the business por-
ton of the City of SANTANA, San Domingo,
was recently destroyed by fire. At the height
of the conAagration party of pillagers quar-
relied over their booty, and several of them
were killed. The value of the property de-
stroyed was 81, 500, OOO.
MONTREAL (Canada) dispatches of
the 25th say French Canadians were leaving
that city at the rate of sixty or seventy day
for Michigan or Colorado, while q few were
destined for California. A large number of
mechanics were being engaged to go to Colo
RADIO and other places to prepare lumber, ETC.,
for new railways.
ON the afternoon of the 18th q dis
charged employee entered the room of Hon.
George Brown, editor of the Toronto Globe
and attempted to assassinate him. After one
shot, the ball striking the old gentleman in
the thigh, the would be murderer was seized,
disarmed and conveyed to prison.
ACCORDING to St. Petersburg special
of the 25th the Gear had, on the night pre-
vious, shot and MORALLY wounded his conf
Dental servant, who entered his bed room
during the night, thinking the Car had called
him.
IT is stated that the Emperor of Rus
STA has presented Prince Alexander, of Bulga-
ria, with a war steamer, 10000 rifles and sew
eral Krupp cannon.
RUSSIAN newspapers have been in
structed to refrain from publishing anything
concerning the expedition against the Turco-
mans.
On the 25th the ex-Empress Eugene
embarked at Southampton for South Africa,
to visit the locality where the Prince I'm
perial was killed.
LATER.
A LONDON dispatch of the 26th says
Prince Leopold, the youngest son Of Queen
Victoria, would sail for Canada on the Goth Of
April. He would afterward make tour of
the Western States and cities.
A MUTINY of miners at place called
Anguero, in Mexico. recently resulted in the
killing of two Americans and one Canadian.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
18th says defalcations had been discovered in
the overland custom-house in that city,
amounting to $50, 900.
A LONDON telegram of the Goth says
China had decided to risk war with Russia
rather than accept the result of the recent
negotiations.
The United States Senate was not in
session on the 18th. In the House the morn
ing hour was consumed in the consideration
of private bills, and long debate then took
place upon the question whether two thirds
vote was requisite under the rules to lay aside
private business and proceed to the consider
alton Of public bills; without determining the
point, the House went into Committee of
the Whole on the pirate calen6a,.
The New York Democratic State
Committee met in New York City on the
9th. A form of call was adopted for sun
dry delegates to the State Convention, but
the time and place were left vacant
The call sets forth that the object of
the State Convention is to choose
delegates to represent the State in the
Democratic National Convention at Cincin-
natl. A substitute offered, designating
Utica and the 9th of June as the place and
time, was defeated. A sub committee of
five was appointed to fill the blanks on the
adopted call, the time to be between the
10th Of April and the LIST of May.
AT Richmond, Va, on the Goth, Judge
G. L. Christian, of the Hastings Court, order
ed the summoning of two colored men on the
venire for the next term of his court. This
will be the first time colored people ever had
representation on the juries of any courts in
that State, outside the Federal Courts.
The Supreme Court of the State of
Illinois has recently decided that the usual
practice by building associations of loaning
money at more than legal rates of interest is
usuriOus.
Count DE LEssEPs, the eminent
French engineer, arrived in Chicago from
San Francisco on the Goth. He was banqueted
in the evening by the Civil Engineers Club
of the Northwest.
GENERAL GRANT visited San Antonio,
Tex. on the 26th, where he received an en-
thusiastic reception.
On the 26th the Secretary of the San
Francisco Vigilance Committee published
card denying that negotiations were going
on'or that communications were being had
between that organization and the sand
Int.prs
Arrest Of stGentleman Jo.''