Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-12
NEWS in BRIEF.
GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES.

GENERAL FOREIGN MOTIFS.
A DISPATCH from Coquimbo, Chill, say,
the Pacific steamship Navigation company
steamship Atacsnia has been lost. The
crew, numbering forty, and the passenger.
probably about fifty. Only eighteen per.
sons saved.
JEAN BAPTIsTE PHILIPPE BARTH, q
well-known French physician and medical
writer, 10 dead, aged 80.
A SPECIAL from Calcutta. dated the Sd
inst, says that Jamma, the chief stronghold
OF Jowakis, has been taken by the British.
ON the lst inst. United States Minister
Noyes obtained revocation of the order oi
expulsion Of Bedel, who used language dis,
pleasing 70. the French Government during
the elections, and informed him he may re.
turn to France.
SEVERAL hundred women, suffering in
consequence of the stoppage Of the iron
works in the Forest of Dean District, which
belongs to the crown, have petitioned the
queen for assistance.
A ROME correspondent says it is doubted
at the vatican whether the Pope will ever
move from his bed again. His rheumatic
pains are aggravated, and it is feared they
may attack his heart.
WHrTTAKER's cotton mill, one of the
largest in Oldham, Eng, containing $1,000
spindles, was destroyed by fire on the 2sth
ult. The loss is estimated at $lOO,
Many persons are thrown out of employ.
ment.
LORD DERBY was waited upon on the
2sth inst by deputation representing the
society for the protection of British inter.
ests, and three other political societies,
who presenteda a memorial urging active in
reference in behalf of Turkey. Lord Derby
replied that the government saw no reason
to depart from its neutrality, and when n
reasonable opportunity was offered it would
do what it could to bring about peace.
WAR NOTES.
THE Russians attacked Mehemet Alis left
wing at Kamarli, on the Sd inst, and were
repulsed with heavy loss.
HEAVY fighting, disastrous to the Russians
is reported in the neighborhood of Tirnova.
The Russian loss is said to have been 5000
men.
THE Russians on the 2sth and 29th ult.,
attempted to push on from Etropol and
sieze the southern junction of roads from
Orohanie and Etropol, ,,but were repulsed
with heavy loss.
A DISPATCH from Bogot, dated the I'd
inst, reports that Capt. Green, United States
military attache, has received official Russian
recognition for coolness in battles at Schipka
and Plevna.
CHIvET PAsHA is under arrest and will be
courtmartaled for not attempting to take
Teliche.
THE Turks having seized two Italian ves-
sells in the BosPhorus, although they had
passed the blockade, in the Black sea, Count
Corti, Italian ambassador, has formally de-
ing an inefficient blockade, Italy will pro.
ceed to extreme measures.
TURKISH prisoners assert that Osman
Pasha has supplies for many weeks and
that he has addressed his officers, announc-
ing his intention to hold Pevna to the last
In Russian official circles an emphatic
denial is given to rumors that an arm;stice
is to be concluded after the fall of Plevnp.
ACHMET EYoUB PAsHA has been appoint.
ed commander at Schipka. Reouff Pasha
goes to Adrianople to superintend the or.
ganization of new army.
THE EAST.
THE Wolfboro, N. H., saving bank closed
its doors on the 4th inst, pending examina.
ton. The deposits amount to 100000. The
loss to depositors is about Is per
cent.
In the suit against ex-Comptroller Con.
molly, of New York ring notoriety, judg.
ment of $S,OO0,OO0 was given on the 4th inst.
On the lst inst, Mr.. Samuel Bowles,
Of the Springfield, Mass, Republican, suf.
fered paralysis of the brain, and his case is
hopeless.
THE creditors Of Conrad Poppenhusen,
the owner of the Long Island railroad, have
chosen Herman Schwiskering assignee.
The liabilities are placed ut 5000, 900;
assets 81 100000,
The total receipts of grain at Buffalo,
N. T., from the opening OF navigation to
December l, exclusive of -four, were co.
)0O, ,524 bushels. Receipts of -four, ga, 900
barrels. Total shipments of grain by the
canals this season, A, ,000, ,632 bushels.
JOHN p. TRIBLE, wholesale provision
dealer at Buffalo, N. u, made an assignment
10 Phillip Becker, on the 2Sth ult. Liabili.
ties reported ~ largely in excess of assets.
FRAUDULENT audits of bills against Rens-
saeler county, New York, we've discovered
on the 2sth inst, and several supervisors
1t 10 thought the illegal bills for
last year will foot up $4,000.