Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-08-29

The Montenegrin force, utterly made
quate to oppose them, will fall back for
the protection Of the inha Sitants until
reinforcements arrive.
PREPARATIONS FOR 4 LONG WAR.
Every detail of preparations shows
hat the Russians have made up their
minds for a long war, and are preparing
great deposits Of iirewood. The Rou-
manian government is also asking ten
ders for the supply of great quantities
Of clothing and stores.
sISTovA.
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 at 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.
0 THE BAsII-BAZOUKS PUNISH LYING.
Three Bashi- Bazouks in their wan
behring's came across the body of a Rus
sian soldier. They determined to bury
it, and were on the point of placingi it in
"A hurriedly dug grave. when the Rus
sian anne to his senses, and observing
their intention, remarked that he was
not dead. They looked at him for q 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 E~NTERPRISING 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 rs far as Pera, and sends two let
tiers 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
which he had with an old priest, who
compared Turkey to a ball tossed be-
tween two kittens, and denounced Eng
land for her shabby treatment Of the
porte.
SOME HOP Fol 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 a time as this, divide his
forces. The correspondent Of the Daily
Meas, writing from Sistova, discusses the
SITUATION OF III 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 ar
mics arrive, that the Grand Duke Mich
olas will have men enough at his dispo-
sal to clear Bulgaria north of the Bal
kan, of the Turkish armies in the field
before winter. Before the time comes
for going into winter quarters, Rustchuk
will almost certainly have fallen, proba-
bly, Silistria and Widen also, and there
will remain only Shumla in Turkish oc-
cupation north ofthe Balkans.
AT THE SAME TIM
he perceives that the maintenance of
an army il Turkey during the winter
will involve a strain upon Russian re-
sources more serious than many mag
inc. There must be a long period of
unbroken weather, when communica-
tons all over the country from the Rus
sian base up to the army will be wholly
iMpracticable. 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 nectssitate the removal Of bridges.
ACCORDING to a Hamilton (Ont.) tele-
gram, Mr.. Hope, late of the firm of