Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-08-23
ders for the supply of great quantities
of clothing and stores.
SISTOVA.

SlSIONA.
Rain. of less than twelve hours dura-
ton. has rendered the roads at Sistova
over which the Russian supplies are
transported a sea of mud, with gaping
holes ut frequent intervals. 1t will be
very difficult for the Russians even to
maintain their armies between the Bal
kans and the Danube when the summer
weather breaks up.
HOW THE BAsHI-BAZOUKs PUNISH LYING.
Three Bashi-Bazouks in their wan
derings came across the body of Rus
sian soldier. They determined to bury
it, and were on the point Of placingit in
hurriedly dug grave. when the Rus
sian came to his senses, and observing
their intention, remarked that he was
not dead. They looked at him for few
seconds, when one of them remarked,
Really, you Russians are such hOrrid
liars that it is impossible to believe any
thing you say. We found you here dead
SO you must be buried" and they buried
him.
AN ENTERPRISING RUSSIAN CORRESPONDENT.
The Russian journals are exceedingly
enterprising One of them has special
correspondent at Constantinople. Dis
guised as a Polish deserter, he has pene-
trated as far as Pera, and sends two let
ters a week to st. Petersburg To keep
up his character he has taken the oath
Of allegiance to the sultan, joined in the
worship of Mohammed, and cursed his
country. His dialogues with the Turks
are racily written, particularly one
which he had with an old priest, who
compared Turkey to ball tossed be-
land for her shabby treatment Of the
porte.
SOME HOPE FOR RUSSIA.
In London we hear nothing but ru-
mors of the southwark passage of the
Balkans by Suleiman Pasha. 1t is said
he is descending upon Bulgaria by
Elena, but there remains the fact that
Gen. GOurko has not been dislOdged
from Shipka pass The latest report is
that Osman Pasha, leaving his main
body at Plevna, has advanced with con-
siderable force upon Tirnova, but it is
very doubtful whether Osman Pasha
would at such q time as this, divide his
forces. The correspondent Of the Daily
Meas, writing from Sistova, discusses the
SITUATION OF THE ARMIES
now confronting each other in Bulgaria.
The great desire of the Russians, he OBJ
serves, is for a pitched battle, in which
their superior organization would give
them advantages which their enemy is
determined to deny them. OF course
the Russians are waiting reinforcements
but when the latter have arrived, if the
Turks are attacked in their positions,
the Plevna contest will be between sol
diers and soldiers plus earthwOrks. The
correspondent thinks
THERE CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT,
when the seven divisions now on
their way to reinforce the Russian az
mics arrive, that the Grand Duke Mich
olas will have men enough at his dispo-
sal to clear Bulgaria north of the Bal
before winter. Before the time comes
for going into winter quarters, Rustchuk
will almost certainly have fallen, proba-
bly, Silistria and Widden also, and there
will remain only Shumla in Turkish oc-
cupatiOn north of the Balkans.
AT THE SAME TINE
he perceives that the maintenance of
an army in Turkey during the winter
will involve a strain upon Russian re-
sources more serious than many imag-
ine There must be a long period of
unbroken weather, when communion
tions all over the country from the Rus
sian base up to the army will be wholly
ialpracticable If the winter is an open
one, like the last, the Danube will not
be wholly frozen over so as to admit Of
traffic on the ice, but the floating ice
will necessitate the removal of bridges.