Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-24
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ACCORDING to a Constantin ople dispatch
of the 18th, the Porte was very uneasy about
the safety of the steamers laden with arms
and ammunition still to come from New
York, and was angry with the United States
for permitting the Russian squadron to re-
main so long in American waters.
AFTER a spirited debate in the British
House of Commons, on the 18th, the resolu-
tions of Mr.. Gladstone, condemnatory of the
course Of the Government In respect to the
Eastern question, were defeated-354 to 223
A ST.. PETERSBURG telegram of the 14th
says the Russian army, under Gen. Kauf-
mann, will cross the Pamir into India in the
event of England taking part in the Turkish
war.
A LATE Bagdad dispatch says the Tigris
had ovcrhowed its banks, completely block
aiding the city of Bagdad and sweeping away
200 houses in Kiamizie.
ACCORDING to Bucharest kilograms of the
18th, the Russian troops passing through
ROumania had exchanged their ordinary
colors for flags bearing the double Greek
Cross, carried only when the war is a re-
ligious one.
sERvIA has prohibited the expectation of
corn.
TIE Roumanians captured Turkish gun
boat, on the 18TH below Widdin. She was
en- route for Rustchuk for her armament.
VIENNA telegram of the 18th says the
NIiridites had driven the Turks from Oroschi
after sanguinary fight, in which an entire
Turkish battalion was destroyed.
AS THE French squadron was weighing
anchor at Vile France, on the 18th, one of
the boilers of the fri@ate La Ravauche burst,
killing two men and wounding sixty, twenty
mortally.
A FIRE at st. stephens, N B., on the 18th,
destroyed about 100 houses, eleven wharves
| and two schooners, in volume amounting to
about S500,10O Nearly a hundred families
were rendered homeless.
ACCORDING to London kilograms of the
10th, extraordinary preparations in the arma-
ment of the land and naval forces were max
ing in all parts of the Kingdom, and En-
| glands participation in the Turkish war was
considered foregone conclusion. 1t was
| believed that England's interests would be
made the preteXt, and the first Russian
victory of any magnitude the time, for British
| Intervention.
| A BRITISH fleet has been stationed at Port
Said, opposite the entrance of the Suez
Canal, with the avowed intention of protect
| ing that thoroughfare from an anticipated
Russian attack.
THE Manager of the London Aquarium,
| on the strength of letter from his CORE
| spondent at Oban, Scotland, says the re-
por,ed capture of the sea-serpent at that
| ,,Iaoa 1yaS q Sb pf,1l h0ay
| IT was reported in Alexandria, on the 10th,
| tnat the American officers in the khedive's
service had refused to bear arms against
| Russia.
| THE Turks were fortifying the passes OF
the Balkan range on the 10th.
THE Austrian and German Ambassadors
| at Constantinople were instructed, on the
10th, to demonstrate respecting the forma-
| tion of Polish legions, such as would include
Polish subjects of Austria and Germany.
| The Turkish manifesto was addressed indis-
criminately to Poles inhabiting Russian and
Austrian territory.
A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the 10th
says the Russian vessels at San Francisco had
been ordered to the Persian Gulf.
On the 10th, the proclaim ton of Rouma.
nian independence was definitely fixed fol
May D. The Roumanian Chamber of Dep
uties has voted a credit of 81 ,000, 900 for the
maintenance of the army.
/. On the 18th, the entire French Cabinet
rendered their resignation. These were ae