The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-04
General News Summary.


EOREI0Ns
ACCORDING to Calcutta Qndia) dis
patches of the 24th and 25th, plenteous rain.
bad fallen in the worst famine districts, ani
agricultural work was active and crops grow
ing rapidly. It was believed that the tide Of
The great famine had turned, although many
would be forced to yield to the disease which
was inevitable, as consequence of their en-
fcebled condition.
THE radical Socialists of Paris have
issued a manifesto, attacking the administra-
tion of President MacMahon and the support
crs of Gambetta. The manifesto demands
amnesty for the Commune, the abolition OF
ali expenditures for public worship; the ex-
pulsion Of the Jesuits; the exchange Of q
standing army for universal armament; the
Substitution Of a single progressive tax for ex-
isting taxes, and the abolition Of the Presi-
dency and the Senate. 49,
GEN. GRANT was received by the
Mayor and Corporation Of Sheffield, Eng, on
the 26th. Various addresses were made, to
which the ex-President made appropriate re-
sponse.
ACCORDING to q report made by
Osman Pasha to the Porte, on the 18th, there
had been fought at Plcvna three considerable
battles since Sept. II, in all of which the Turks
had been successful. 1T i re
4 SERvIA has demanded that Turkey
4 withdraw her troops from the Servian frontier.
/ A similar demand preceded the declaration of
war last year.
Il GoRANsKo surrendered to the Monte
negrfns on the 26th.
The Vienna papers of the 9th unite
in reporting the retreat of Mehemet Ali from
his advanced position to his former position on
the banks of the River Lom. Military opera
tions on both sides were greatly retarded on
account of the prevalence of the fall rains.
There were rumors of Russian attack and de-
feat at Plevna, but they came from Constanti-
nople and were looked upon with suspicion.
ACCORDING to Constantinople dis.
patches Of the 2Sth, snow had fallen in Schip-
ka Pass since the 24th and it was then ten
centimeters deep at the foot of the Balkans.
A LARGE quantity of arms and am
munition have been seized at the Pesth Hun
gary Custom-House. They were sent from
England TO bring on a conflict between Russia
and Hungary, and were consigned to promi-
nent Magyar agitators.
LONDON dispatches of the 28tf re-
port that sickness to an alarming extent pre-
vailed in the Russian Army before Plevna.
The spirit Of the men remained unchanged,
and the operations for the reduction of the
stronghold were being prosecuted with great
vigor. The rains interfercd greatly with the
transportation OF supplies for the investing
army. F
THE residence OF man named
Gouzie, in ST. Gregoire, in the Province Of
Quebec, was destroyed by fire, on the night of
the 9th, and seven children and serving
woman perished in the flames, Mrs Gouzie
and male servant barely escaping with their
lives. Mr.. Gouzie was in California at the
time of the fire. "a 1855 Az
A ScHIPKA dispatch of the 30th ult.
says Suleiman Pas ha was fortifying his camp
and evidently intended to go into winter
quarters there.
A SHUMLA telegram of the 30th ult.
says the Russian outposts had been advanced
to Popkoi, and that an engagement had re-
suited with the usual accompaniment Of Rus
sian defeat.
The Turkish troops in Bosnia have |
been withdrawn in the direction of Mostar,
Herzegovina, and the Servian frontier.
A LONDON telegram of the 30th ult.
says that Hungarian legion of 5000 men was
being formed in Pennsylvania, by Gen. Klapka,
whose object is the destruction of the Rou-
Manian railways in the interest of Turkey.
ACCORDING to dispatches of the 30th |
ut., Gen. Todleben, the distinguished Russian
Engineer, had just completeda survey of the |
Turkish fortiflcations at Pleyna, and pro- |
nounced them practically impregnable. He |
declared that nothing but the most stupendous
siege operations would suffice for their reduc-
tion. St& rst2 M
A WASHINGTON special of the 30th
ult. states that information had been received
there from Brownsville, Tex, to the effect |
that Mexican force was coming to the Rio
Grande, to compel the authorities to execute
the Extradition Treaty. Local opinion in Mex
leo was said to be against surrendering the re-
cent jail raiders Gen.Diaz had become very
among the Mexicans along the bor-
the United States Some even declared that he
had denationalized himself The local author
tiles at Tamaulipas would refuse to surrender
another Mexican to the Americans.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from the
Russian headquarters at Bucharest to the
London Times, on the LIST, declares emphati-
cally that Russia would regard an unaskel |
offer of mediation as a National insult, and
resist it accordingly The correspondent de- |
elares that the battlefield alone nl,st settle the