The Portland daily press., 1877-11-23

York has been formed to assist Boston ladies
in saving the Old South Church. S.
Bangs, late superintendent of railway mail
service, is dead.--Moody and Sankey are
laboring in Manchester, N. H.--Since Sept
IA the astronomical class at Vassar College
have sighted over 200 meteors, some very bril-
liant and of different color5--Judge Flour
neri, in a suit at Danville, Va, on an election
bet has decided that Hayes was recognized as
President by the decision of the electoral COM
mission.-Forty-thre distinct shocks of
earthquake were felt at Omaha last Thursday,
Full bench of the Supreme Court of Massachu-
setts has sustained the verdict rendered June
s, 1876 awarding Mrs. Julia Weston, the vo-
calst $1,000. for injuries received by falling
into the hatchway of the store belonging to
William w. Churchill & Co.--Emmons
Raymond, President Of the Passumpsic rail-
road, has again been arrested at Newport, VT,
on an action brought by the Southeastern rail.
road. He was bailed in $10,O OOO.-The bank
ing house of w. w. Smith, the largest in
southwestern Iowa, has made an assignment.
There is considerable excitement. Liabilities
100000; assets $45,OO0.--Robert Browning
has declined the candidacy for the Lord Rector
ship of st. Andrews.--Julus Sircher Gre
mated his infant child in his paint factory in
New York to prevent family difficulty as to its
burial, he being Lutheran and she Jewess.
The liabilities of Mulholland s. Baker, Mon
treal hardware merchants, are $750,000.--
Editor Wattersop, of the Louisville Courier
Journal says the South is solid for the Democ-
racy and that President Hayes efforts to divide
them is failure. He believes Gen. Grant
will be the next Republican candidate for
President.--The Cincinnati Commercial ad-
vocates the appointment of Gen. Grant for
Minister to Berlin.
TURco-RUssIAN WAR.
The report of the fall of Kars is confirmed
by late dispatches giving details of the cap
ture. For several weeks the invaders have
pressed the siege with all the power at their
command. Three hundred cannon, immense
stores of ammunition, money belonging to the
garrison and other things fell into the hands
of the Russians. The Turks lost five thousand
killed and ten thousand prisoners. in the last
and decisive battle, which lasted twelve hours
The Russian loss is stated to be about 2, 700.
The Grand Duke Michael was present, though
Gen. Melikoff directed the battle. The fall of
this great fortress is fatal blow TO the Turks
in Armenia. Erzeroum can now hold out but
short time, and with its capture the Russians
will practically have undisputed possession Of
the whole province. The effect upon the Bull
garian campaign must be exhlarating to the
invaders and very depressing to the Turks.
1t is semi-oficially stated that the Russian
forces in Bulgaria and the Dobrudscha num-
ber 2SO,OOO men, and the Turkish forces 240 600.
The Moscow Gazette states that the Rus
sian main army is advancing on Erzeroum.
The Russians have summoned Mukhtar Pasha
to surrender Erzeroum but the place will
be held tO the last extremity by order of the
Sultan.
OTHER FOREIGN NEWS.
The situation in France is alarming The
Deputies are very hostile to the President and
Government majority in the Senate is small
The Senate is at issue with the Deputies on the
question of inquiry as to the government meth
cd of conducting elections. An official Journal
announces the resignation of the Cabinet, which
MacMahoh has accepted. The ministers will
serve until their successors have been ap.
pointed. The President is urged by the more vio-
lent of his supporters to select an energetic
q
few days be called upon to play preponder
ating part in the new cabinet
The commander-in-chief of the Spanish
forces in Cuba. General Martinez Cam
pos, has just issued a private or
der among the commanders ordering all Cuban
prisoners to be killed and reported as having
been killed in battle. Campos promised the
Spanish government that he would end the rev.
olution in Cuba by the end of January, 1873.
Mexico is in a troubled state. There
is dissension in the Cabinet, and the
church party favors war with the United
States.
In Peru the Congressional elections have re-
suited in favor of the government.
The Pope seems to have got better of bis i'll
turn, and his immediate death is not appre-
handad