The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-06
FOREIGN.

The Turkish minister Of foreign affairs
informs his diplomatic agents abroad that the
Russians, on entering Eski Saghra, disarmed
the Mussulmen and employee Mokdars to
fetch them out Of their houses, and that
eleven hundred were put to death. When
the Russians entered Lovatz fifteen women
and children, who were fleeing from the in.
vaders, were put to death. Others, to escape
outrage or death, had to abandon everything,
even their children. Every Mussuman
house in Lovatz was pillaged, After the re-
capture OF the town the Russians carried de-
vaStatlon and carnage into the neighborDe
districts. The Russians drove out all Mus'
suIman inhabitants OF the village of lIerste,
and burned all the men and some of the
women Only one woman escaped. Seventy
MusSumen and the imaum of Guklem were
shut up in a barn, which was fired.
forty.four other Mussulmen were mas
sacred aud the Mussulman women out
ragged. Eight ycung girls who re-
sisted were killed, and two were burned
with the men. The greater part of the other
women and children were taken outside the
village, and with their children at their side
were slaughtered. Twenty won en- and chill
dren who escaped the massacre were rescued
by Ottoman troops. The English military
attache himself witnessed all these horrors.
The Russians diSarmed the Mussulmen of
Eski Saghra Kezanlik and the neighboring
villages, and distributed the arms among the
Bulgarans, who drove down four hundred
Mussulmen to the river Tundia and massa.
cred them. At E,ki Saghra and its neigh.
borhood the Bnlgarians continue to massacre
the Mussulman population. The atrocities
are committed by the Cossacks and Bulga.
riaus The women and children who had
sought refuge at Khidir Keni were massa.
cred, and other families shut upin granary
were delivered by our troops among them
several women and children who were
wounded. The Bul.arians put to fire and
the sword the Mussulman village of Safedja
and several Others after having carried of
the women and girls whom they outraged;
killed and mutilated horribly. One woman
and her two sonswere the only persons saved.
A Moscow correspondent writes of the
war in Russia, that the peasants are bsing
called off to join the imperial army from all
directions. Wherever one goes the families
are mourning, because either the father or
brother are under orders to start withn,per.
chance, only few hours. Families are
broken up on all sides, and the wives are sell.
ing their household furniture. The streets
Of Moscow are thronged,i jim many places, with
household goods. The price OF provisions
is ri.ing proportionately; among the upper
classes homes are in the same state of change
those who have retired from the army or
navy arc, in many cases, recalled all will,it
ia nre,umel, he summoned in the course Of
time While write a general call is being
made for all to serve in the militia, and no.
tees to this effect have been served on all
those residing in number one of the six
divisions Of Moscow. fIouse.to-house vista.
,ion is also going on relative to the number Of
rsu servants and horses kept by every
householder. 4 quota Of each must now be
r,rted with for the public service; a substi.
tu,e on the part of the former is not accepted
r,,ds are rolling in for the sick from al
siI,s and the peasants are even urging the
,rseptancc Of their mite.