Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-12-03
Eastern Dispatchss.

New YORK, Dec. Patrick Toney
last night saturated the clothes of his
wife with kerosene and set them on fire.
The screams of the woman brought the
inmates of the house to her rescue, and
the flames were extinguished. She was
terribly burned. however, and is not ex-
pected to live.
A private letter from Ragusa, in Dali
matea. province OF Austria, from a
lady who is an eye witness of the suffer-
ings OF the Herzegovina refugees, con-
tains the following: Very many of the
children had only one garment tied to-
gether, and principally composed of
patches but one mass of rpgs,
which seemed to make their naked
ness more pitiful, and yet of all the
refugees those at Ragusa are most fortu-
nate, the best fed and clothed. There
are now present in the District of Ragusa
alone about twelve thousand refugees,
Ii.
In Montenegro there are $4,000; in
Crotia and Servia many thousands, the
whole number of fugitives amounting to
nearly one hundred and fifty thousand.
With the means received mp to the pres.
ent time 10000 or $4,000 people might
be protected to the extent of blanket
apiece from the Winters cold, but the
remaining one hundred thousand or
more, and their food and the roof to
cover them, to say nothing of wounded
men brought in from battle. The sick
and dying. the child bearing women and
the pest stricken people are not pro-
vided for" The lady makes an earnest
appeal for help, to keep from death by
cold and starvation whole population
whose sin is they are Christians, Chris
tian dogs and raj ahs, and adds: my hus-
band Was on the frontiers of Bosnia
where the river Save divides Turkey
from Austria. He was entreated by the
| people of Austrian villages not to cross
the river and enter Turkish town, as
he would certainly lose his life; but by
allowing himself to be introduced az
merchant from Trieste, he was unmo-
Tested aud walked through the streets
constantly There headless bodies of
Christians lay all about the streets. On
the river he had seen boats full of refu-
gees striving for dear life to reach the
Austrian shore. The Turks fired into
them, and one of the boats sunk; the
other reached the shore covered with
blood from the wounds of the fugitives.
Headless bodies of women we're floating
on the water, and in the streets of the
town the swine were feeding on the
corpses of Christian women"
CHICAGO, Dec. g. The President s
message this year will bs much longer
than usual. 1t will contain upward of
eighteen thousand words, and on ac-
count of its great length will not be
ready to send into Congress until Tues
day. even il the House should elect @
Speaker on Monday.
A Washington special says 1t seems to
be an apprehension that the country is tt
be plunged into war with Spain by al
unsatisfactory termination of the nego
tiations which Secretary Fish and Cush
ing have been considering with th,
Spanish government during the past tw'
months. All the information that car
be obtained leads to the belief these ne
gotiatlons are proceeding favorably an,
the result more likely than not to b
gratifying to our Government. At tn
| same time our relations with every othe
foreign power are of the most friendl
character. our most serious troubles bein
upon the Rio Grande at point inaoces
sible to our navy. Naval officers ar
therefore convinced that Robeson's o,
tensive preparations must be in view
something likely to happen in regard I
our attitude towards Spain and they yer
naturally look towards Cuba for an Q,
PLANTATION, but there has been no recer
9 occurrence in Cuba to call for nav,
, demonstration. On the island the Anne
leans may have been i'll treated, but u
0 very aggravated case Of this kind has r,
r Gently occurred, 30 that the present sta
y of affairs in that island considered i
connection with the favorable progress
! our negotiation at Madrid seem to
3 making, the theory Of war wit
Spain arising out Of the existing state
: affairs should be promptly dimissed. Or
!. theory alone remains and that is that ii
President intends either to recognize Il
r beligerency of the Cuban insurgents ,
: recommend Congress to take special a
ton in the matter and this is the theol
y held by many naval officers. If this we,
n the purpose of the President they 81
the present extraordinary naval prepar
8 tons might be easily explained; suppo
n ing the treaty with Spain remain unmot
!. lied such recognition would give
/. chance for cruisers right under the 12l
y article Of the treaty to visit and examil
all vessels bearing the American flag.