The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-02-24

Parnell would return to his seat in Parlia-
ment to fight the Coercion bill, and thence
proceed to ireland to keep alive the agita-
ton. A Dublin dispatch Of the same date
announce that the League would send about
$3.50 900 70 the United States for investment
A REPORT has reached Paris that Henri
Lexeret. the French explorer In Africa, and
ill his suite have been murdered by the Gol
| les tribes.
ACCORDING to London telegram of the
18th the rumor prevailed that the Beers had
made overtures for peace, that their propos-
ais had been considered by the Cabinet, and
that q reply had been telegraphed to General
Colley.
A FEW days since the cotton mill of Taylor
& Brothers, of Bolton, Eng, was burned,
involving loss Of 500, 900. and throwing 200
operatives out Of employm ent.
A 81. PETERSBURG dispatch Of the 18th
says the Russian police had discovered plot
to blow up the arsenal at Kieff, and had made
several arrests In connection with the con-
| spiracy.
The Lord Lieutenant of ireland announced
| on the 18th an increase In the number Of per
sons receiving outdoor relief.
In his speech at the opening Of the Reich
stag ON the 18th the Emperor Wilhelm an
nounced that the Powers were united as to
the essential objects Of the negotiations with
Turkey.
PARSEL1 has written . long letter I'm reply
| to the Land-Leaxue resolution asking him to
| 60 to America, In which he expresses belief
| that he can do more good to the cause by
remaining at his post in Parliament. There
is much uphill work for the Irish members
| to do, and he thinks it would be unfair
for him to desert them and shirk his por-
ton of It. He intimates that should the pro-
posed Land bill fail to offer an adequate
solution OF the land question. the Land
League will widen its area of agitation, aud
appeal to the workingmen and agricultural Ia
borers Of England and Ireland who have NO
interest In the oppression Of the Irish tenant
farmers, aud who have the power, II they had
| the will, to compel their representatives in
Parliament to do justice to Ireland In con-
clusion, he urges the Land Leaguers to stand
firm, and assures them Of victory in the end.
A DUBLIN dispatch of the 10Th says an at
tempt to ignite q large dynamite mine under
the wall of the Beggar's Bush barracks had
been frustrated by q person passing by
chance.
The murder of Christian by Turk in
Beyrout, Syria, recently, led to several en-
counters in the neighboring villages. In one
Of these fights ten persons were killed. There
was great excitement, and business was almost
at stand-still.
A GRANT Of ], 500 leagues of land in Sonora
has been made bv President Gonzalez, of
Mexico, to Samuel Bannan, formerly of Cali
fornia, on which to colonize 600 families who
are understood to te ready to move into the
country from the Eastern and Western States.
On the 18th Parnell, O'Kelly, Brennan aud
Sexton, Land-League members OF Parlia.
ment, returned to London from Paris.
IT is stated that in consequence of the &C
ton of the Government ON the subject of
coercion, the Land Leaguers in the House Of
Commons have resolved to vote with the Con-
servatives on all questions not relating to
Ireland.
ACCORDING to London telegram of the
18th it was proposed on the part of the Gov
ernment that that part of the Transvaal to
which the Beers have fair claim be declared
independent. the remaining and larger part
to continue to be governed by the British au-
thorities, and that . British Resident be APP
pointed at the Capital of the Beers.
LATER
Mr. ELLIOT F. SHEPPARD was nominated
on the 18th, By President Hayes, for United
States Attorney Of the Southern Dictrict of
New York, in place of General Stewart L.
Woodford.
AToUB KHAN has declared war against the
Ameer of Afghanistan.
| On the 18th William Shaw, Home-Rule
member of Parliament from County Cork,
| issued manifesto. in which he denounced
the course Of MIR. Parnell aud his associates.
| THE remains of Fernando Wood arrived At
Washington on the 18th, In charge of his son
and the Committee of the House appointed
Mas met az aspot Oy tSs es
on Ways and Means and the Sergeant-at-
Arms of the House, and were taken directly
to the late residence of the deceased.
The thirty-frst ballot for United States
Senator in the Pennsylvania Legislature on
the 18th resulted as follows: Wallace, 81;
Beaver, 20; Bayne, IS; Henry, 6; scattering,
Z. No choice.
BosToN telegram of the 18th says the
smallpox had made its appearance in the
Massachusetts, States Prison, and that Prison
Officer Robbins was down with the disease.
/ THE Emergency Committee of the Grand
Lodge of Orangemen met in Dublin on the 18th
and decided to send dispatch to the Grand
Master of Canada, requesting the aid of the
| Orangemen and the other Protestaats of the
Dominion to enable the Committee to oppose
the Land League and ssist the persecuted
Protestanta
In the British House Of Commons on the
18th the first clause of the Coercion b:ll-that
giving the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland author
| ity to cause the arrest Of any person on the
island and to imprison him without bail for
certain specified offenses-was passed-SS2
to A.
! LIEUTENANT ScHwArKA has offered to
place at the disposal of her Majesty's Gov
eminent the Franklin relics recently discov-
cred.
A BILL was introduced in the United States
Senate on the 18th, by Mr.. Vest, to incorpo-
rate an 1nteroceanic Railway Company. The
Funding bill was taken up, and all the amend
ments made in Committee of the Whole were
finally agreed to, and the amendments re-
ported by the Finance Committee and reject
ed in Committee of the Whole were voted
upon and rejected, the vote on the PROPOSE
ton for three and one-half, instead of three,
per cent interest ON the bond, being Is to 3D.
The vote on the final passage Of the bill was 43
to 90 The amendments to be passed upon by
the House are A hve-twenty, instead
of q fve-ten, bond, q compensation of
one-half instead of one-fourth of one per
cent for placing the loan; . provision for
popularizing the loan in the sense of having
It taken by the people, and several verbal
alterations. In the House . motion to pro-
| &c ed to business on the calendar, for the
purpose of taking up the Fitx John Porter
bill, was defeated-ll4 70 III. The Agricult-
ural Appropriation bill was taken up in Com
| mittee Of the Whole and read by sections.
An Indians Boast.
Your correspondent was the witness Of IN
incident which happened here to-day that
brings to mind the memorable events of the
campaign which was opened against the In
dams in Montana by General Terry ON the 3lst
Of June, 1876, and eliminated in the death of
General Custer and the humiliation Of his
brave little band on the 18th.
While the Sentinel correspondent was in the