The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-07-01

threatened active hostilities II China refused
to apologize and pay for alleged interference
with legitimate coolie emigration to Cuba,
and had declared . determination to occupy
ports In Formosa with troops and to blockade
the Chinese coast 1t was stated that the
Picking Government insisted that the at
tempted expectation OF coolies was contrary
to the treaty and in violation Of integrity and
humanity. Public opinion declined to credit
extreme Spanish menaces. Spain was en-.
couraged BY the moral support of Portugal
and Peru.
RoME (1taly) dispatches of the 22d
say the triumph Of the Clcricais In the mu.
tons. For fourteen vacancies they returned
thirteen candidates. The severity Of the
contest was altogether unprecedented. Of
the Provincial Counselors they had returned
four out of Ave.
ACCORDING to Swiss papers of late
date the St. Gothard tunnel was in great
danger of caving in. Land-slides continued
to threaten the masonry, and engineers
thought the only way to avert the danger
was TO modify the line traced out for the
tunnel
THE man Bennett, who shot Hon.
George Brown, Of Toronto, Can, several
months ago, was on the 22d convicted Of will
full murder and sentenced to be hanged on
the ED of July. Bennett heard his sentence
without apparent concern, and said that an
earlier day would have suited him better.
AFEw days ago five and a half inches
of rain fell in less than two hours near Nepa.
nee, Ont. The storm was accompanied by
hailstones as large as butternuts, and caused
much damage to the grain crops.
AN Imperial ukase was published at
st. Petersburg on the 23d fixing the number
of men to be enrolled in 1850 for the compile
ton OF the army at 235,OOO.
THE army of the Argentine Republic
maze eaSss 70 sspi SgSt,Rg Was
obliged to retreat ON the evening Of the gid.
The Egyptian obelisk, en- route for
New York, arrived at Gibra altar on the 2Sd.
IT was reported on the 23d that the
Russian troops had been defeated with heavy
loss in q recent engagement with the Turco-
mans.
The crop prospects in France this
year are reported not very good. In the
south, center and west the yield will not be
Is per cent. of the average, and in no place
Is full crop looked for.
A DUBLIN Oreland) dispatch of tho
sd says there were then go cases of small
pox in the various hospitals in that city.
ON the 23d Mr.. Bradlaugh appeared
at the bar of the House of Commons and
insisted on his right to take his seat Sir
Stafford Northcote objected, whereupon La
bouchere, who represents Nottingham, the
seat from which Bradlaugh also had been
elected, moved that he be permitted to ad-
dress the House, which he accordingly did
at some length. He eloquently combated
the resolution against him; he said it was un-
precedented to condemn any one unheard, and
argued against being accused of atheism; he
would not forego his opinions or claims to
seat; the House might expel him, but until
he had taken his seat 1t had no jurisdiction;
the House could not override the law which
permits him to take the oath; il an appeal
should be necessary, as be hoped Il would not
be, 1t must be made; he asked the House to
give him justice. which the Judges would
give him II appealed to. He was loudly
cheered. Having been subsequently called
to the table and informed BY the Speaker of
the decision of the House, he was requested
to withdraw, which he twice respectfully re-
fused to do. A motion was offered by Mr..
Northcote aud adopted-326 to 3S-authoriz-
ing the Speaker to enforce Mr.. Bradlaugh's
Withdrawal. Bradlaugh still refusing to obey
the orders Of the Chair, a motion was adopted
-214 to THAT he be given into the custody
of the Sergeant-at-Arms, which was accord.
ingly done, and he was confined in the clock
tower of the building. He was there visited
by Mr.. Parnell and others, who rendered him
their sympathy. Mr.. Bradaugh stated to an
that he did not yet contemplate
legal proceedings.
On the evening of the Path the
British House Of Commons, on motion Of Sir
Mr. "4sfa uHREsh: SIX "ri6Geduth .fsdaisf met
At Northampton on the night OF the 2sd to
protest against the exclusion of Bradlaugh
from the House.
AT a recent press banquet in London
Sir Alexander Calf, in replying to the toast
OF 1.-THE American Press" warned the press
OF the United Kingdom to look well to their
laure's, as they would run q good chance of
losing them to their competitors in the United
States and the colonies, where the press
enterprise was couquering an empire wider
than that which now owned the sway of En-
glands beloved sovereign.
AT the Berlin Conference Italy ener-
getically protests against the extension of
Austrian control in the Adriatic, and Austria
and Russia are reported unwilling to 20 as
far as England and France would desire, for
fear OF reopentug in an unpleasant manner
the bothersome and bloody Eastern question.
The cholera has made its appearance
at several japanese ports.
The famine fever has made its an
pearance at various places in ireland.
KING THEEBAw, the besotted ruler |
Of Burmah, recently sent fifty of his soldiers |
to arrest some OF his revoltcd subjects. There |
were too many of the latter, and the fiftv |
we're annihilated.
AFTER,
ON Bradlaugh's release from impris-
onment on the 18th, he took a seat outside |
the bar of the House Of Commons. A notice |
was given that motion would be made to
reconsider the vote excluding him.
HE German Bundesrath has refused
20 entertain the proposition to restore the
double CON standard.
HE steamer Dessouk, with the
Egyptian obelisk on board, sailed from Gibral
tar for New York on the 18th.
The British House of Commons has
voted, by 153 ayes to III noes, to close all 81
looms on the Sabbath.
HE Secretary Of War ON the 25th
suspended the recommendation of the West
Point Academy Board that Cadet Whitaker
be dropped on account of deficiency in his
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