The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-07-07

THE special election for seventeen mem
bers of the legislature to represent Charles
ton county, S. c., occurred on the Goth inst.
The Democratic tieket, containing the names
|sof fourteen white and three colored citizens
was elected without opposition, the repub-
licans having run no ticket.
xsssakT Memphis, Tenn,~o the Esd inst,
|gudge. Trigg, of the United States district
court, took the case of William Butter, Dun-
can etal VS.. the Mobile and Ohio railroad,
Hhderadyiseinent, and adjourned the court
until next September. This case has attract
ed considerable attention from the fact that
the whole line of that road and its franchises,
valued at $l5, 900, 900 is involved.
u WAR NOTES.
FIFTEEN hundred Russian cavalry who
endeavored to relieve Bayazid have been
beaten by the Kurds, with a loss of sixty
killed and two hundred wounded. The Rus
sian garrison still holds the citadel.
LATE advices from turkish sources state
that the Turkish forces claim a victory in a
battle near levin, Asia, on the 26th inst,
and that the Russians lost three thousand
men.
GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS has received the
grand cross of ST. George of the second class
for the passage of the Danube, his son the
military cross, and Gen. Nepokoitschitzky,
chief of staff, the grand cross OF st. George
of the third class
A SPECIAL. cable dispatch of the Goth
states that bloody fighting is going on at
Pyrgos, on the Danube. The Russian troops
are crossing en- masse, and engaging the
Turks, who are making desperate resist
ance. The slaughter on both sides has been
terrible. The Turkish gunboats are also en-
gagged in the battle.
| THE whole bank of the Danube from Hir-
sova, to Tultscha is occupied by Russians.
1t is rumored that the Russians are also
crossing near Sistoya.
! THE object of the Russians in lombard
/ ing Rustchuk is to reduce the town and com
| pei it to capitulate, and thus save a long and
regular siege.
ONE hundred and twenty Russians have
been killedby the bombardment of Giurgevo.
MEHEMET ALI confirms the reports of the
occupation of the Heights of Tchileke, Mon
tenegro. The Turks have advanced to the
River Moratscha and burned $40 houses on
the Upper and Lower Moratscha, but spared
the churches and monasteries. They en-
countered 5000 Montenegrins, and after six
hours fighting defeated them with loss of
1900. Thi Turkish loss was eighty-nine
killed and seventy-nine wounded.
! A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch dated June
26th says advices from Erzeroum state that
Mukhtar Pasha has won great victory and
has taken 200 Russian prisoners.
THE agitation in Constantinople against
Redif Pasha, minister of war, and all the
military authorities is on the increase. The
Turkish success in Montenegro has rather
increased the excitement, it being deemed
downright folly, almost treason, that to gain
successes at 4 comparatively trifing point
Asia should have been so woefully neglected
MONTENEGRIN official accounts admit
that Sulieman Pasha and Ali Saib's forces
have effected a junction and say it was after
six days continuous fighting, iii which the
Turks lost 1000.
THE Russians on landing on the Turkish
bank Of the Danube, penetrated directly
into the interior behind the hills, gaining
possession of the heights near Matchin,
after obstinate fighting with body of Bashi
/ BaZouks.