Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-28
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

EX-PREsIDENT GRANT was, on the 18th,
duly presented with the freedom of the City
of London, at Guildhall, in the presence of
about 500 dignitaries of the Corporation and
Government. The gold casket containing
the parchmentwas elaborately engraved and
ornamented. - -
LADY STERLING Maxwell, better known
as Hon. Mrs Norton, a distinguished British
authoress, died at her husbands estate in
Perthshire, England, on the 18th
a CORRESPONDENT of a London paper tel
egraphed from COnstantinople, on the 18th,
that the advance of the Russian right wing
in Asia Minor, had been Withdrawn, and
Kars and Batoum were closely invested.
: ACCORDING to Ragusa dispatches Of the
10th, Nicsics had been finally revictualed.
On the southern frontier, however, the Turks
had been signa'ly defeated by the Montene-
grins under Gen. PetroVich.
THE Egyptian contingent reached Con-
stantinople on the 10Th.
On the 10Th, a sanguinary battle was
fought between the Turks and Montenegrins,
at RasnOglarika which resulted in the de-
feat of the former, who left 1000 dead on
the field.
ACCORDING to an Athens telegam of the
nth, 10000 Arab horsemen had revolted in
Syria, in the district between Damascus and
Aleppo.
On the 18th, the Porte demanded of Servia
an explanation of the object of Prince
Mlan's late visit to the Car.
ACCORDING to Calcutta dispatches of the
18th, proclamations had been circulated there
calling upon all true believers to come to the
aid of the Sultan.
On the 18th, the Turkish Chamber of Dep
uties voted an internal loan of 5,OOO,OUO
Turkish pounds, and were Immediately
thereafter dissolved. e. F -.-sase~-s
ACCORDING to a Constantinople dispatch
of the 18th, the late battle near Kars proved
to be a serious defeat of the Turks. Seven
Russian spies had been arrested in the Turk
ish ranks and shot They claimed to be
| newspaper correspondents.
THE engineers who made the geological
explorations and soundings for a submarine
| tunnel between England and France report
ed, on the 18th, that the enterprise was en-
tirelY practicable, as there was a continuous
| chalk-bed between the two shores.
On the evening of the 18th, the Reform
Club of Great Britain gave an elaborate din
ner to eX-President Grant. 1t was attended
by the notdbilities of England. ~
On the 18th, President MacMahon sent
communication to the French Senate an
nouncipg that he intended to dissolve the
Assembly. provided the proposition was sane
toned by the Senate
A PERA telegram of the 10Th says that, at
the late capture of Ardahan, several Russian
soldiers were guilty of outrages upon the in
habiLants. When the reports of their law
| lessness reached the Russian commander, he
caused an investigation to be made, the up
shot of which was that the whole battalion
10 which the men belonged was ordered out
and shot.
ACCORDING to Cettinje dispatch of the
Goth, the Montenegrins had, on that day, de
feated the Turks, after a sanguinarY enga ge-
ment near Spaz.
| LONDON telegrams of the Goth report that
! the Russians had been guilty of terrible out
RACES upon the Circassian population of Ar
menia. They had burned The military hos
| pital in AIdahan, and 500 inmates had per-
| ished in the flames,