The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-09-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


FOREIGN.
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON has reached
Belgium and located near the French FROM
tier, with view, it is stated, Of being con-
venient in case complication should arise
out of the result of the coming elections.
The London Times Of the 18th thinks coup
d'etat may confidently be expected.
A DESPERATE battle was fought in the
:, Valley Of the Lom, ON the 17th, between As
SAT Pasha's division of the Turkish Army
and thirty-two battalions of infantry and
eight batteries belonging to the Russian
Army. The latter are reported to have been
defeated with great slaughter.
A TIFLIs telegram, received in Vienna
on the 18th, denies the reported evacuation
Of Ardahan. in Asia Minor.
ACCORDING to Pera dispatch of the
18th, Suleiman Pasha had driven the Russians
entirely out of Schipka Pass. The report
was denied by the Russian authorities, and
the statement made that the Turks had been
forced to surrender Fort St. Nicholas, after
having held it for six hours. 1t was stated
that the officer in command had been large
ly reinforced and was prepared to hold the
position.
PRESIDENT D1As, of Mexico, having or
dered the surrender of the Rio Grande jail
breakers to the United States authorities,
Canales and the other Generals in the De-
partment of Matamoras have Indignantly
thrown up their commissions. 1t was be-
lieved, on the 10Th, that they meditated rev.
olution against the Administration Of Presi-
dent Diaz.
ACCORDING 10 London kilograms of The
10Th, the Russians had apparently abandoned
the idea of taking Plevna by assault, and
were besieging the place by sap and trench.
The Porte had sent $4,000 men to reinforce
Osman Pasha, but it was believed they could
not break through the Russian Gordon.
A BUCHAREST dispatch of the Goth says
Osman Pasha has declined the Russian re-
quest for an armisticc to enable them to
bury the dead who were lying unburied and
rotting in front of the fortifcations of
Plevna.
d. D. SPENCER, the defaulting Presi-
dent of the Chicago State Savings Institu-
ton, had not been arrested up to the morn
ing of the Goth. ALiverpool dispatch o. that
date thought it likely that he left the Circas-
sian at Moville, Ireland. 1t would be easy
to reach the continent from that point. and
he had twelve hours start of the officers.
CoNsTANTINoPLB dispatches of the Goth
say it was well understood that the Turkish
Government would not accept the mediation
of Great Britain, or any other Power, while
a single Russian soldier remained on Turk
ish soil, nor consent to an armistice even,
unless the bases Of subsequent peace pro-
posals were at the same time clearly defined.
ACCORDING TO correspondent of the
London Times of the 2lst, the Russians had
received $4,000 rcinforcemcnts since the
recent battles at Plcrna. Their losses, on
the 18th and 18th, were copper cent. of the
numbers engaged. The Russians were max
ing every preparation for winter campaign.
THE Montenegrins have captured 70
losto and Nosdre Forts, and are undisputed
masters of the Duga Pass. state of siege
has been proclaimed at Trebinie.
THE Greek Foreign Office announce, on
the 21st, that three days before, 1000 Bashi-
Bazouks had attacked the Greek Consulate
at Larissa, and had been repulsed by the
Consular Guards. The Greek Government
had addressed remonstrance to the Porte on
the subject.
WILLIAM HENRY Fox TALBOT, dis
tinguished British Photographic inventor,
is dead.
THE Republican candidates for the
French Assembly have issued manifesto in
reply to the recent manifesto of President
MacMahon.
AN assault was made upon the Russian
positions in schipka Pass, which continued
during the 2lst and 22d, and resulted in the
repulse Of the Turks with great loss.
The armies OF the Czarowitz and Me.
hemet Ali came together at Biela, on the
Dist, and battle ensued, which lasted until
dark. Both sides lost heavily, but neither
gained a substantial advantage.
A CORRESPONDENT telegraphed the Lon
don press, on the 2Sd, that every Turk had
been driven from Montenegro. The Prince
had established his headquarters at Nicsics.
OsMAN PAsHA, at Plevna, was, on the
23d, reinforced with 10000 men and large
quantity of ammunition.
A GREAT demonstration of workingmen
in honor of ex-President Grant occurred in
Newcastle, Eng. on the 22d.
LIE VERRIER, the celebrated French
astronomer, died ON the 23d.
THE schooner Newton Booth, which
arrived from the Arctic regions, at San
Francisco, on the 23d, reports that of seventy
men left by the abandoned whaling fleet last
year, only two, both Kanakas, had reached
Point Barrow. All the rest are supposed to
have pcrished in the ice packs.
THE Thiers manifesto was published
on the oath. 1t was addressed to his con-
stituents, the electors of the Ninth Arron-
disement In it the late President justiiies
the proceedings of the late Chamber of
Deputies ard praises its moderation and
wisdom insists that monarchy in France
is impossible and intolcrable; proclaims the
sovereignty of the Nation and its power to re-
buke the recent dissolution; demands free
dom OF elections and freedom of the press,
ETC., etc.