Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-10-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

A Rangoon special to the London Times,
published on the I'd, says China and Bur-
NAH had formed an alliance, offensive and
defensive, to oppose the demands OF Great
Britain. Lord Napier, it was reported, had
resigned his position as commander Of the
British forces in India
Belgrade dispatches Of the Sd say the in
surgents had been defeated in an engage
ment in the northern part of Bosnia. The
Turks were reported to have burned the
town Of Mischkovac.
A San Sebastian telegram Of the Sd says
the Carlists had on the preceding day thrown
$50 hot shot into that city, a railroad train
between Saragossa and Barcelona had been
stopped by brigands and all the passengers
robbed Among them were seventeen officers
and seamen of United States war vessel.
A Cape steamer reached London on the
Sd, bringing intelligence Of the recent find.
ing Of a 150.carat diamond in the South Alr-
can diamond fields.
According to a San Sebastian telegram Of
the 4th the Carists had offered to discontinue
the bombardment Of the town provided the
citizens would pay them 100000.
The steamer h. j. Bager, running on the
Baltic between Lubbock and Copenhagen, was
burned on the night Of the Sd. Twenty four
passengers and eleven seamen persisted.
On the afternoon of Sunday, the 3D., mob
attacked u religious procession on the streets
of Toronto, Canada, and when the police at
tempted to dispense the assailants the rioters
turned upon them and firing ensucd,
several persons being wounded. The police
then guarded the procession through the
streets and were fred upon at the crossings,
and several other persons were wounded,
some Of them fatally.
Peaches have at last been successfully
shipped to England by steamer, those sent by
the Canada arriving in London on the 9TH in
good order, and meeting with ready purchas-
ers at large prices.
Glasgow dispatch of the 9Th says an i'm.
mense meeting had just been held there TO
protest against Vaticanism.
Vienna telegram of the 9TH says the taxes
RENTED 10y Turkey since the beginning OF
the trouble with its Christian provinces had
amounted to over s3O,000,00O
A dispatch from Bagncres de Luchon, pub.
lished in the London Times of the III. re.
htfie lHAl l1t III hNulbuUis Oh aTfun Ndiiet
had inaugurated general rising against the
Carists on account Of the cxactious OF the
soldiery, and that the latter had been com
PEELED to take refuge in The mountains
Brown, Stevens 4 Williamson, heavy sugar
reilners of Glasgow, Scotland, failed for a
large amount on the 9TH. 1t was stated that
several other establishments were involved.
Owing TO popular outcry the British Ad-
miraliy on the 7th suspended the circular of
July 81, directing the surrender OF fugitive
slaves found on British vessels
The "Garden House" belonging to Henry
Alters llankey, located uear Westminster,
England valued with It's contents at over
81, 100000 was totally destroyed by fire on
the night of the It'll.
The Ecclesiastical Court has deposed the
Bishop OF Berlin.
The Sublime Porte had dccreed according
TO a Constantiuople dispatch Of the 9TH, that
during five years from Jan. /, 1876, the in
terest on and the redemption of the public
debt viii be paid oue-half IN cash aud the
other half in per cent bonds