Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-06

port that Gen. Kravehen had q hot en-.
naRement with 5000 OF the enemy in
passing over q bridge of the Boyada.
From this it would seem he has been
obliged to have his position above
Sukum Kaleh and fall back behind
the river Modar, where a force IS be-
ing assembled to prevent the TURKS
from invading Mincreba.
CALCUTTA, June ..
News from the famine districts Is
more cheerful. The rainfall has great.
ly improved the prospects.
LONDON, June s..
The trains of the different railroads
were much delayed this morning by
catierpillers. The tracks are covered
with millions of them.
The news received at Russian head
quarters at Ploejesti, from Asia, Is very
meagre. 1t i. announced that heavy
fighting has taken place at Ottora, on
the lower Bador river, but no details
are given. The fighting arose from an
attempt of Abchasians to pass the
river.
A Berlin correspondent of the Times
says it is asserted that Count Won
Moltke regards Russis's chances as
steadily improving, In consequence of
the extraordinary negligence and lack
of foresight Of the Turks.
Dispatches from Lima state that Don
Nicholas de Pierola, revolutionist, and
his suit surrendered themselves to the
Peruvian authorities, with ironclad
turret ship Huascar, which his parti-
sans had seized. The British and
African Steam Navigation Co.'S steamer
Gambia was wrecked on the 18th OF
May at Cape Palmos. The crew and
passengers were saved.
MANCHESTER, June, 5.
A Vienna dispatch says the Turks
exaggerate their troubles. 1t is be.
lieved that the main body of the Rus.
sian center is still near Kars and that
the recent panic at Erzeroum was
provoked by flying corps of Cossacks
and irregulars.
LONDON, June s..
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
Prince Gortschakoff's note to Lord
Derby, Of which Count Schouvaloff is
the bearer, states that the Gar don't
want any territorial increase in Eu-
rope, but only desires autonomy for
Bulgaria, and the independence Of
Roumania and Servia. He also de-
mands the cession of Armenia from
Bayazid to the Coast, but moi including
Err eroum.
In the House of Commons this after
noon a dispatch was laid on the table
addressed by Lord Derby to Lord
Lyons, British ambassador at Paris.
The dispatch is dated May 10Th: Lord
Derby informs Lord Lyons that Great
Britain has declined the proposal Of
Nj Dn VnCGnHn0 m EAnn oman tho
SueZ canal to all nations. and had init
mated to Russia that an attempt to
blockade or otherwise interfere with
regarded by England as a to
India, and a grave injury to the COM
MERGE of the world, incompatible with
the maintenance of the British attitude
of passive neutrality. At the same
time it was intimated tn the Porte and
the Khedive that England was firmly
determined not to permit the canal 60
be made the scene of any comba or
other warlike operations.
A special from Rustchuk says the
Turks took possession of the heights
in the rear of Ginrgev, and opened
fire on the enemy this forenoon. The
aim and accuracy Of the Turkish fire
was iciidI hdoie. luo OpdlS WcIo uoS-
troyed by it, and 1t seems evident that
they have some gunners other than
OF Turkish extraction directing their
n No Russian response was
made.
ATTI>JE, June s..
There was a battle to-day hear NAL
jat, lasting several hours. The Turks
were defeated and lost 500 men. The
Montenegran losses are not known.