The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-02

AMONG the congressional nominal
tions made on the 26th were the following
Third California District, Stephen j. May
bell, Workingmen; First Tennessee, Con.
gresham P. Dunn, Democrat; Tenth Ten
nessee, Casey Young, Democrat; Eleventh
Missouri, DR.. j. C. Heberting, Greenback;
Fourth Missouri, L. w. Davis, Democrat;
Fourth Georgia, Hugh Buchanan, Democrat
Fourth Wisconsin, Casper NJ. Sanger, Re-
publican; Eighth Michigan, William Smith,
Greenback; Sixth Michigan, Edward B.
Winaus, Democrat; Seventh Georgia, j. e.
Clements, Democrat
Foreign Intelligence.
BoNDAc & Co., Montreal commission
merchants. have failed. Liabilities, $4,000.
A REPORT of the condition of crops
in England on the 23d showed wheat to be
| below the average, barley above, oats and
beans a little above, and pease little below.
The yield of potatoes promised to be unu-
sually heavy.
In the British House of Commons on
the 23d Chief-Secretary Forster stated that,
! though the condition Of Ireland was source
| OF great anxiety to the Ministers, and
defiance of the law was rife in that country,
yet the Government did not feel that it
would be justified in asking for special legis-
lation, but he added that, if at any time dur
ing the coming fall or winter the necessities
of the case should require it, the Govern
ment would have no hesitation in summon
ing an extra session of Parliament to give the
Irish law officers sue h additional powers as
the occasion might demand.
THIRTY Turkish officers, who de-
serted their flag and joined the Greek army
on the 23d, claimed that whole battalions of
Ottoman troops would do likewise if their
pay should be guaranteed.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of a re-.
cent date says the Russian harvest this year
is the worst since 1873.
THE Albanian chiefs have resolved
to resist the cession of Epirus and Thessaly
The Government in Cuba issued a
proclamation on the oath declaring that the
Chinese shall enjoy the same rights as other
individuals belonging to a friendly nation.
ACCORDING to Bucharest dispatch
of the 25th there had been further severe
fighting in the Dobrudja between Roumanian
and Bulgarian insurgents. Many of the latter
had been killed or captured while pillaging
villages.
CROPS of all kinds in Jamaica Island
were disastrously injured by violent hurri.
cane on the night of the 25th. Trees were
uprooted, houses lcveled with the ground
and thousands of people rendered homeless.
The military barracks at Kingston and many
churches there and elsewhere were dcmol-
ished. Three wharves were torn away, and
eight large and thirty-two small vessels were
wrecked in the harbor.
IRON huts are being constructed on
some estates in the west of ireland, whe:e
policemen may be stationed so as to be on
hand to assist the landlords in e7icting ten
ants.
TRAUGOPULo, AGLEsTo & Co.,
London mercantile firm, who had large branch
establishments at Liverpool, Alexandra and
Aboukir, suspended on the 26th, in conse.
quence of irregularities in the Alexandra
branch. The liabilities were stated at eo50
600.
LATTER.
AN Atlanta (Ga.) telegram of the
9th says that few nights before four Young
white men, disguised, went to negro's cabin
near Cochran, broke down the door and fired
into the cabin. The occupant, John Brown,
seized his gun, fired both barrels, and killed
two brothers named Dykes. The tons of
their heads were blown off, The negro made
his escape. A Coroner's jury returned yer.
dict of justifiable homicide
OURAY, the Ute Chief, was living dam
gerously i'll of Bright's disease at the South
Ute Agency, on the 9th, and was not ex-
pected to live. He had not yet signed the |
treaty presented by the Indian Commission |
ers, and it was feared he would not Much |
trouble was anticipated in consequence of his |
refusal.
The Colorado Republicans have re.
nominated Judge Belford for Congress.
COLONEL JOHN S. BARLOW has been
nominated for Congress by the Democrats of
the Alexandra District.
A RAGUsA telegram of the 9th says
the inhabitants of Dulcigno had threatened
to burn the town rather than cede it to
Montenegro. Great excitement prevailed in
Scutari.
AN attempt was recently made to as
sassinate King Theebaw. The attempt was
and the would-be assassin and
several Of his co-conspirators were put to
death. /
A BoMBAY dispatch of the 9th an
nounces the prevalence of the cholera at
Peshawur.
The New York Democratic State
Committee decided on the 9th, by a vote of
"A to z, to hold State Convention at sarato.
90. September 2Sth, to nominate q candidate
Tor Chief Judge Of the Court Of Appeals
AT Hartford, Conn, on the 9th the
horse St Julien trotted against his own pre-
7ious record of 2:1l% and beat it by half a
second, making the mile in 2:l11. He made
he first quarter at 2:ll gait, the half mile
It 2:10 gait, and reached the end of the
bird quarter in 1854.
OVER 800, 900 ounces of standard pold
bullion was ordered from the Assay Once in
New York on the 9th to the mint 1T Philar
ielphia, for coinage
A COMMITTEE of citizens of Norton
county, Kansas, was in st. Louis ON the
9TH, soliciting contributions for the starving
'eople in their vicinity. They claimed that
NO thousand families were absolutely desti-
ute, owing to the failure Of crops, and that
must be done ut once to meet
heir necessities.
A DETROIT dispatch of the 9th saws
leven suits had been commenced in the
United States District Court against the
teamer Garland BY parents OF children WIN
oet their lives in the recent collision between
er and the yacht Mamie. Nine of these
u ults are Tor $3,WO damages each, and two