The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-08-30
THE SITUATION MOSCOW.
Pressing Men into the Seryice-Fam.
HES Destitute.

Pressing Wen into the Sery,ce-Fam.
HES Destitute.
LONDON, August PA Moscow CORE
spondent writes of the war in Russia as
follows: "The peasants are being called
off to join the Imperial army from all di-
rections. Wherever one goes, families are
mourning, because either father or brother
are under orders to start, perchance, within
few hours. Families are broken up on
all sides, and wives are selling their house
hold furniture, while the streets of Moscow
are thronged in many places with house
hold goods. The price of provisions is ris-
ing proportionately. Among the upper
classes, homes are in the same state Of
change. Those who have
RETIRED FROM THE ARMY OR NAVY
is presumed, be summoned in the course
Of time. Whilst l write, general call is
being made for all to serve in the militia.
and notices to this effect have been served
on all those residing in
NUMBER ONE
OF the six divisions of Moscow. A house to
house visitation is also going on relative to
the number OF men servants and horses
kept by every householder A quota of
each must now be parted with for the pub
lie service. A substitute on the part of the
former is not accepted. Funds are rolling
in for the sick from all sides, the peasants
even urging the acceptance of their mite.
The Bulgarian Atrocities.
New YORK, August 24.-The Turkish
Minister OF foreign affairs informs his dip
lomatic agents abroad that the Russians
on entering Eski Saghra, disarmed the
Mussulmans and employed Makatars to
fetch the Mussulmans out of their houses,
and they were massacred. Eleven hundred
were thus put to death. When the Rus
slams entered Lova;z, fifteen women and
children fleeing from the invaders,
were killed, and Others, to escape outrage or
death, had to abandon everything,
EVEN THEIR CHILDREN.
Every Musselman's house. in Loyatz was
pillaged. After the recapture of the town,
the Russians carried the devastation and
carnage into the neighboring districts. The
Russians drove out all the Musselman in
habitants of the village of Herstil, and burn
ed all the men and some OF the women.
ONLY ONE WOMAN ESCAPED.
Seventy Musselmans and Imaura, of Yuk-
lum, were shutupin barn, which vast fired.
Forty-four other Mussulmans we're massa-
cred, and all the Mussulman women out
ragged. Eight young girls, who resisted, were
killed, and two buried with the men. A
greater part OF the other women and chill
dren were taken outside of the village and
with their children at their sides, slaugh-
tereds Twenty women and children, who es-
capped massacre, were rescued by the Otto
man troops. An English mill
tary attache himself witnessed.
ALL THESE HORRORS.
The Russians disarmed the Mussulmans of
Eski Saghra, kezarlik and neighboring vii
lagos, and distributed the arms among the
Bulgarians, who drove four hundred Mus
sulmans 10 the river Tundja and massacred
them. At Eski Saghra and its neighbor-
hood the Bulgarians continue the massacre
OF the Mussulman population. The afro
cities committed by the Cossacks and Bull
garians continue. The women and chill
dren who had sought refuge in Khidir
Kerr.
WERE MASsACRED.
Other families, shut up in granaries, were
delivered by our troops, among them sew
eral women and children. The Bulgarians
put to fire and sword the Mussulman village
OF Safedji and several Others, after having
carried off the women and girls, whom they
outraged, killed and mutilated in hor-
rible manner. One woman and her two
sons were the only persons saved.