The Portland daily press., 1877-08-10
Gould was assaulted on the street. last Thursday

Gould was assaulted on the street last thursday
| by Major A. Selover and thrown into an area
1 way The trouble originated in some stock
| gambling operations. Gould was not much
hurt.-Prof. s. Emmons Brown of the Roch-
4 ester. N. Y, Theological Seminary, died in
Lowell last week. BE was native of Portland,
Maine--W. Fl. 81. Stiles, who testified SO
positively and pointedly against Senator Grov-
er upon the Congressional Committee, has
been indicted for perjury. from the
Arctic whaling feet gives favorable account
of the catch.
THE TURKo RUSSIAN WAR.
The defeat of the Russians at Plevna has
administered to them a severe check and the
week has been spent in bringing up reinforce
ments for another assault in hopes Of retriev-
ing their disaster. The most Trustworthy re-
ports give the number engaged at Perna on
each side at about $1,000. The Russian losses
were very heavy, and their retreat to Sistova
was as dsorderly as the retreat of the loyal
army after Bull Run. The Turks made no
attempt to follow, but were satisfied with
simply holding the positions they took during
the days fighting. The Russian check is said
to have greatly depressed the Gear and he is
wishing that he was back at St. Petersburg.
To reinforce the army at Plevna the Russian
force in the Dobrudscha has been withdrawn,
and the Imperial Guard has been modified
and $4,000 of Landwehr called out. Russia
evidently sees the need of great effort and is
preparing for it.
On the last day OF July Russian column
attacked the Turks at Esk-Saghra and drove
them from their entertainments. Later in the
day however Suleiman Pasha arrived with re-
Inducements, recaptured the lost positions and
drove back tie Russians.
On the other side of the Balkans Suleiman
Pasha has captured Kansanlik, and Gen.
Gourko's position at Shipka Pass is seriously
threatened. 1t is even said that his troops
have been ordered to fall back. but it is not
probable that the Russians will abandon SO
important a position without desperate
struggle
Bulgaria seems to have been thrown into
fearful panic by the Russian evacuation of
their villages, and the inhabitants are fleeing
in terror before the victorious Turks, fearing a
repetition of the horrible massacres of last
year. There seems to be little doubt but both
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of determination, and neither give any quarter.
After Plevna the latter murdered the Russian
wounded on the battlefield.
In Asia the Russians have resumed the
offensive A column in advancing from Ar
dahan have pushed their outposts as far as
Bennek. Another division is marching to
Ardanusch which commands the road from
Batoum to Olti. A third column of appare ntly
fresh forces is occupying the line of the Adjara
river south of Batoum. The movement may
result in enveloping Kars or may be turned
into an advance on Erzeroum. kilograms
rom Constan tinople report that portion of
the Turkish Batoum army is embarking for
Varna to reinforce Mehemet ALL SO that the
Porte must feel confidence in the strength of
Mukhtar Pasha's central column and position
to throw upon it the entire burden of resisting
Melikoff's second invasion.
The Gear and the Grand Duke Nicholas are
at loggerheads. The former is eager to return
to Moscow and has resigned the conduct of the
war to the Grand Duke, who asserts that the
failures of the army are due to making the
war political instead of military.
The Porte has is ued circular re-
counting various horrible massacres which it
alleges were perpetrated by the Co.'S
sacks and Bulgarians. These included the
burning alive of 20 Mussulmans of the village
of Ayuklemi and the massacre of forty others,
as well as women and children. The circular
declares that military attache has ascertained
the truth of the foregoing.
OTHER FOREIGN NEWS.
Serious electoral riots took place as Grimsby,
England, last Thursday night A mob of 5000
attacked hotel and tried to burn it. Troops
suppressed the rioters.
Italy is more directly concerned in what is
going on in western Europe than in the East.
ern difficulty. She has a joint interest with
Germany in the result of approaching French
elections and will follow Germany on the
Eastern question.
A cable despatch says a new international
Roman Catholic league has beeen formed, the
object to restore the papal temporal power if
necessary, and all bishops, priests and Catholic
organizations in the world are commanded to
work in harmony to that end. Catholic news
papers are to be established in all principal
cities, and all 'calumnies' of opposition pa
pers to be met by prosecution.
The President of Peru has issued procla-
nation of general amnesty.
General Grant is in Switzerland.
A convention between England and Egypt
for the suppression of the slave trade has been
signed.
1t appears that certain amicable arrange
ments, at least outwardly, have been effected
between the opposing sections of the French
Imperalst party, the adversares of M. Rouher
having submitted to his control and direction
of affairs for the present.
The village of Gamsee in Prussia has been
destroyed by fire and 500 persons are homeless
The town of Lundsnell, Sweden, has suffered a
similar fate.
Lieutenant Bulls has returned from
Mexico with five recaptured American
horses. The forces under Valdez at
Eagle pass have been entirely broken up.
Colonel Schofeld with 200 soldiers under in
structions from the United States Marshal
captured AZ filibusters, half of whom are
Americans, and Valdez fled. Tkis winds I'D
the Lerdo movement on the Rio Grande.
A Halifax correspondent of the New York
Times says the American course before the
fishery commission has staggered the British
counsel Americans claim that throwing open
the American market. to Canadian fisherme ha 9
profted the latter as much as the open Canada
fisheries profted Americans. The American
case rests principally upon the evidence of the
Canadian ministers. Sir John McDonald's
species on his return from Washington as
Canadian representative at the Joint High
Commission are sQuo.ed in support of the
American cause,