The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-05-24

james ManQeVllle Odrllsle, Tor many years
a leading member of the bar of the District
of Columbia and the Supreme Court, died
May 20, aged siZty-fve.
F0ret0n Items
A dispatch from Bagdad describes a food
which has overwhelmed both banks of the
Tigris. A food has hitherto been unknown.
The river threw out a new branch COM
pletely bic ckading Bagdad, and swept away
two hundred houses in Kiamizie. The worst
evil which the overflow may bring is the
premature invasion of cholera.
The London Tinsess Bucharest correspon-
dent says it is stated in official circles that
the Turkish vessel built in Pesth was COM
pleted and had arrived in the Danube above
kalafat, and the Turks commenced violent
bombardment Of that place on the 18th to
distract the attention OF the Roumanians.
After the lring ceased the vessel passed the
Roumanian batteries unframed. Extensive
movements of the Turkish calvary were OBJ
served from the Rouuanian side of the
Danube. The Turks threaten to lombard
Simnitza, to cross the river afterwari and
plunder the town.
The result of tie great debate in the
Eoglish Parliament on the Eastern question
is a triumph for the anti-Russian party by a
majority of over one hundred votes. The
fact, however, that Gladstone was able to
rally over two hundred and twenty votes to
the support of his resolutions is evidence
that popular sentiment in England does not
altogether approve the course OF the govern.
ment.
Captain Henry Small, his sister, Chief
Officer Dyer, and three seamen of the
American bark Edmond Phinney, died of
cholera at Akyab, in India, on the 25th Of
March last. The cholera prevailed to an
alarming extent about Chittagopg, and the
islands were inundated by the great storm
wave of the 31st of October. Fifty thousand
deaths have been reported from cholera. In
addition to these there have been large
numbers from pestilential fevers, attributed
to the decomposition of human beings and
ca tie which perished at that time.
The London Standards Constantinople
special telegraphs: l am glad to report a
great success of the Turks in Asia Monday
the 14th May. Admiral Hassan Pasha, after
bombarding the Notifications of Sukum
Ksleh, landed a number of soldiers, who
were Immediately joined by three thousand
natives. A violent combat ensued, and the
Russians were driven out of Sukum Kaleh
Upward of ten thousand natives joined the
Turkish forces, who hold the Notifications
The town is in flames. All the surrounding
country is rising in favor of the Turks.
The Galveston NeUs' special from Eagle
Pass, says General Pa Valdez, with a follow
ing of six hundred soldiers, in the District o.
Rio Grande, State of Coahuila, Mexico, pro
nounced for the Lerdo Government Sunday
morning, May 13, and is now in possession
of the whole district of the Rio Grande, ex
cept the town of Piedras Negrar, and it wa
understood would attack that town in fou
or fse days. Public buildings there ar
heavily barricaded.
According to news from Constantinople
sixteen Bulgarian villages have been pillage'
and burnt by the Turkish soldiers.
The first collision between the Greek in
surgents and the Turkish troops has oe
CURED near Armyros, Thessaly. The pres
of Athens unanimously demand war.
The Russian Telegraphic Agency says
The American officers in the service of tn
} Khedive have refused to bear arms agains
|
Reliable information has reached Frank
fort that the insurrection in the Caucasus
) daily gaining ground.
The sudden displacement of M. Simo
from the head of the French Cabinet, an
the consequent resignation of the entil
Ministry, is the latest surprise in Frenc
politics. The immediate cause of the cris
, was the failure of NJ. Simon and NJ. Mart
to oppose the repeal of the press law as W,
e agreed upon in the Cabinet.
e Great excitement prevailed in Paris ov,
:. the breaking up of the Cabinet. NJ. Gar
s beta, in speech, declared, that the dissol
S ton of the Chambers meant war. A ne
i Cabinet has been formed, constituted as fl
n lows: Due de Broglie, President of Il
e Council and Minister Of Justice; De Fo
r, ton, Minister OF the Interior; Eugene Ca
is laux, Minister of Finance: Augusti Par
d Minister of Public Works; Vlscount
If Meaux, Minister of Agriculture; NJ. Brun
D. Minister of Public Instruction.
is The Turks have captured two hundr
Is Russian vessels in the Danul
s. containing over thirteen thousand hectolitl
n of wheat. A accommodating expedition
'r FIVE hundred Russian infantry crossed t
Danube in boats little below Reni. T
n Turks allowed them to come well with
% range, when they opened such heavy
that the Russians were compelled to retr
TX to their boat with serious loss.
The capture of Sookgoom-Kale and I
rs rising of the Circassians, who massacred
lie garrison and burned the town, is otficia
nt announced. An ironclad has left Sookgoo
Kale for Batoum, to obtain arms for Giro
C. slams.
's' The Roumanian Government published
w note On the 18th, stating that it can no Ion
p doubt that it is at war with Turkey by
fault of Turkey, and it must take measu
Ia accordingly.
.ai The British House of Lords adjourn
10 May 18th till the 4th of June.
te, 1t is now said that the delay in crcss
ST. the Danube is partly due to political c'
OF plications. The Russians do not wish
VS.. make a forward movement until the dis
'as sition of Austria and England is more de
ed itely known.
ne There was turbulent scene in the Free
ler Assembly on the 18th of May. The W
no of every orator who strove to speak
ny drowned by the shouts and tumult CT
ne members. Duke de Broglie, the head of
lat new Ministry, was permitted to read
'n' Mahon's message, at the con clusion of VIII
te, he abruptly adjourned the sitting. j.
OF Simon endeayored to speak, but was
MS vented by Duke de Broglie. The sess
no broke up in great disorder. There
as stormy outlook for the Republic of Fra
mo The slaughter of Christians in Bulg
ef- has begun again. A horrible story
murder and outrage comes from the vii
at of Turtokai, where the Christians wer'
der unfortunate as to be inferior in number
)m. the Turks.
ian While General Komaroff was reconno
the ing before Kars on the 10th inst, the tt
I'D. attacked the irregular cavalry. The Tt
nth left sixty-four dead on the field, and
ear. prisoners were captured; the nun
9TH of wounded is not reported. The Rus
pie loss was one officer and twenty men XII
the and five officers and fifty-four men woun