The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1877-06-21

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In the jail of Rockwell County, Texas,
George W. Garner, a prisoner under sentence
Of death for murder, committed suicide,
recently, by taking morphine and also BY
sirangulatiOn. His wife carried the NOR
phine into the cell in her mouth, aud COM
mtted suicide with her husband. Both
were found dead in the cell by the jsiler.......
John Il. Barrett, saloon-keeper Of Auburn,
n. Y, was shot dead a few days since, By his
mistress, Cora Young, who then shot herself
twice in the head.
A special from LOgansport announces the
death Of ex-senator Daniel D. Pratt. Mr.,
Pratt entered the Senate in 1868 as the sue
cessor Of Thomas A. Hendricks. He had
Just been elected member Of the FOrty-frst
Congress when chosen Senator. At the con-
clusiOn of his Senatorial term he was ap-
pointed by President Grant Commissioner
Of Internal Revenue, and held that impOr-
tsnt Office during the BristOw crusade upon
the whisky ring. The death of judge
Petit, also an eXUnited States
Senator, is reported from Lafayette......
Senator ConkIing sailed for Europe Sat
urday, June Is, on a tour Of recreatOn......
Archbishop Williams sailed from Boston
June l6, in the China, for Rome. He car
ries a large present Of money and two ad-
dresses to the Holy Father. Fred. Hen
bricks, q wealthy farmer Of Mclean County,
Illinois, shot his wife, and tken suicided.
Domestic trouble about another Woman,.....
Several Mollie Maguires, under sentence Of
death on Thursday, June p, at POttsTille,
Pennsylvania, have had their sentences
cOmmuted to imprisonment for life st Har-
risburg. Rev. John S. c. Abbott, the his
JOrian, died at his home at Fair Haven,
June II, aged seventy-one years.
Notes ErOm AbrOad.
A letter from Paraguay saysi President
Gill and his brother William were murdered
in the most barbarous manner. The Presi-
dent was at home with his family, when he
was surprised and killed by a band of assas-
sins headed by Colonel GOibura, and COM
manders Morales and GOderg. In a subse-
uuent engagement with the troops GOibura
and Morales were made prisOners.........
Private accounts received in ConstantinOple
from ErzeroUm represent the Turkish army
in Armenia as being in a sad cOndisiOn. 1t
is i'll clothed, III fed, and badly commanded,
and the only thing TO make up for these
very important deficiencies is the fact thst
It is well armed. The Turks are rapidly re-
treating before the Russians in Armenia,
and are evidently determined not to risk a
general engagement, if possible, under such
Instantaneous conditiOns....... Orders have
been issued by the Russian Government to
accelerate as much as possible the levy Of
two hundred and eighteen thousand men.
Despite this the opinion continues to prevail
in Berlin that Russia wishes to settle with
Turkey on the basis Of the nominal integrity
of Turkey in Europe, and that some such
settlement will be advocated BY powerful
persons at COnstantinople if the Russians
succeed in crossing the Danube and assum-
ing an energetic offensive in Bulgaria.
A Bucharest dispatch reports that the
ROumsnian Government has addressed a
note to the powers, protesting against the
baTbarOus acts Of the Turks, and stating that
if the powers do not intervene to prevent
these depredatiOns, ROUmauia will be COM
PEELED to carry war into Turkey.
An official telegram from Constantinople,
dated June 13, says: Suleiman Pasha has
forced the entrance Of the Duga Pass after
a ssnguinary battle, and is advancing on
Nicsics. The MOntenegrins are in full re-
treat. Suleiman's junction with two other
Turkish CORPS is expected immediately.
Accounts from TripOli and Barbary state
that an area of one hundred miles have been
devastated by the locusts. The crops are
entirely destroyed and famine is believed to
be imminent. Severe distress already pre-
vails.....It mas become understood in diplO-
matte circles that England is negotiating
with Turkey for the purchase Of the island of
Crete. By this Turkey viii acquire large
sum for war purposes, and England viii ac-
quire another important maritime position
in the Mediterranean. Engineers and
scientists are now exploring the island, with
q view Of reporting to an English company
upOnits mines and other resources, This
H-s
the British Government a large sum for
lands and rights..... The New York H5raJd's
in COnstantinOple kilograms
that there is great excitement in tha. city
The Sultan has issued an trade which literally
drafting for military service in !
It's worst form. All Turkish subjects, Of
whatever creed, living within the domains
Of the empire, are informed that his Majesty
has the need Of all males capable of bearing
arms to resist the enemy and preserve the |
Ottoman institutions, a PoUtrance. They
are therefore called upon to prepare immedl-
ltely for the field.
In a second battle before Kars, on Satur-
lay, June g, in which the Turkish
and Russian armies both displayed
desperate valor, the Russians were
repulsed with great slaughter. 10000.
The Turkish Government proposes to give a
practical turn 70 the Suez Canal controversy
by occupying each end with troops so as to
prevent the entrance Of Russian ships. The
Porte desires to have it understood that the
canal is Turkish property The New
7 YOTk HerGld's London correspondent says:
Minister Washburne wrote Gen. Grant few
lays ago inviting him to visit Paris, and
lsking him when it would be convenient
or him to 60 there. In replying to this note,
Zen. Grant stated thathe would be unable to
De in the French capital until September, as
lis engagements were very numerous in
England and Ireland, and that, moreover,
lis tour of Switzerland, Norway and Sweden
rad been already planned d......... The Earl Of
Derby, Sir Stafford NorthcOte, Lord Abenare, |
ViscOunt Cardwel, Lord TentsTden, and the
Right Honorable Mr.. Forster, with their
wives, we're present at Guild Hall, in Lon
Ion, when the freedom of the city was pre-
ented to Gen. Grant,
The Canadian pilgrims had an audience
With the Pope on June Is, and asked his
)enedictiOn for their cOuutrymen and the /
people of Liverpool aud New York who had !
yiven them a friendly reception. The pill |
yrims presented the Pope with a magnificent |
inter, studied with gems, silver vase, and 1
10000. The Pope expressed his Joy at the |
Escape Of the pilgrims from the great perils |
# their voyage on the City of Brussels, and |
It the many signs Of devotion from their |
country, whose faith, after surmounting so |
many dangers, still remained so strong and |
-igorous. He concluded by giving his bless |
ng to the pilgrims.
The Turkish force, ten thousand strong,
stacked the MOntenegrins, few days since,
n Montenegro, near the Albanian line, at
title town called, Hama, on the main road |
eadlng from Spuz to Nicsics. The MOntene- |
rims had taken up their quarters at Seana,
. very small village on the route Of the
turkish advance, and three thousand strong
waited the invaders, who finally attacked
hem in their chosen position. The battle |
sst from ten q. m, till nighfall. -Four de- /
ermined attacks were made by the Turks, |
Who in each instance were repulsed by the |
lOntene egrins; and finally after eight hours |
errible fighting, the Montenegrins drove |
heir enemy back, and followed them |
nercileEsly in their retreat The Turkish |
lead in the line Of the retreat is reported at /
WO thousand. The losses by the tidal /
wave on the South America coast, are fully /.
Ip to the first reports. The government is |
heavy loser from forty to fifty thousand |
iOns guanO have been lost The Chilian |
Times Of May 16 reports that south of Val I
osraiso there was no loss Of life or destruc- |
ion Of property by the earthquake. Between |
Valparaiso and the Bolivian frontier the |
hooks we're more severe. At Ante Fra |
pasta, in Bolivia, no lives we're lost, but the /
iamage to property is estimated at half a