The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-10-05

after short struggle resolutions endorsing
President Hayes were defeated.-Great pre-
parations are being made for laying the corner
sotne of the New York Seventh Armory on
Thursday. is threatened with. a
supply of water.
THE TURKo-RUssIAN WAR.
The war situation has not changed materially
from that of easy defiance between the en-
trenched armies in Bulgaria. The dispatch of
the London Times correspo ndent from Buchar-
est, taking the view that the Turkish defense
was ready to collapse, was delayed only four
days in transmission, but the interval suficed
to turn back the assault of the Roumenians on
the redoubts and to reinforce Plevna heavily,
showing that the Turkish hold on Plevna is
very strong. The Russian wounded are accu-
mulating immensely and the accommod atoms
for them south of the Danube are entirely in
sufficient. The health of the armies alone re-
quires cessation of fighting long enough to
clean up the battle-felds. The Roumanian
harvest is said to be abundant for the present
supply of the Russian armies, while in Turkey
the people, to whom bread is the real staff of
life, are making it ''spend" by intermixture of
beans, bran, millet and even straw. The SUBJ
stitution of Mustapha, governor of Trpoli, for
Damad Mahmoud, as minister of war, at Con-
stantinople is regarded there as concession to
English influence. However vigorously the
Russians may press things the reduction of
Plevna is an affair of months, and the failure
of the Asiatc, Dobrudscha and Bulgarian cam
paigns cannot be retrieved this season.
The News Athens correspondent says the
condition of Thessaly is terrible. The province
is a camping ground for bands of Turkish ir-
regulars, who plumber the men and outrage the
women. Although the Thessalians have re-
manned perfectly quiet, it seems as if Turkey is
resolved to drive the Greeks to despair.
The Russians have ordered contractors to
construct 300 kilometres (about 1856 miles) of
railroad in Bulgaria, to build. huts for 150, 900
men and hospitals for $1,000.
OTHER FOREIGN NEWS.
A Paris despatch says the list of the official
candidates for election to the deputies is now
all but complete, and placards have been issued
by the projects for the various ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
The placards are headed Candidate of the
government of Marshal Mac Mahon, President
of the Republic" An analysis Of these lists
shows that the Marshal's candidates are divid-
ed into 13l Legtimists, SO Orleanists and 29s
Bonapartists. The remaining 20 arrondisse-
ments being in and around Paris, are without
any official candidates. There may of course
be some slight errors in this classification, but
there can be no question as to the result, name.
ly, that the President of the Republic has been
nodn fr oSty oil 10 of nh hat
composed of three fifths Bonapartists and two
fifths Royalists.
The London Times Madras correspondent
says that the registered deaths the present year.
to the end of June are $4,000 above the aver
age. This is according to the opinion of the
district officers. 1t does not represent more
than two-thirds of the actual mortality, and we
have further to add the deaths which have &C.
occurred since, and which are not officially re-
fallen victims, and even these figures will pro
baby be increased when the famine and its at.
terwave of suffering have finally passed.
Some excitement has been caused in Mexico
by the appearance of several companies of
American cavalry under Lieut.. Bulls, who
crossed the Rio Grande in pursuit of thiev ing
Indians.
A despatch from Rome announces that Car
dinal Sforza is believed by many to have the
best chances of succeeding Plus TX, who is
dangerously ill and has received the last sacra-
ment
A Montreal despatch says that extensive
forgeries on Canadian banks have been dis
covered. A gang similar to that operating
in the Western States has settled in Que
bee, and opening accounts at the banks
has victimized the following: Bank of Mon
treal, Union Bank of Lower Canada, Ontario
and Merchants banks. The modus opera,ad1
has been to obtain drafts for small sums on the
head Office, then by use of chemicals erase the
amount and substitute sums ten or twenty
times as large. Only one draft for $4,000 has
come to the Bank of Montreal, $4,000 to Union
Bank, and $4,000 to either the Merchants or the
Ontario.
Gambetta, Tuesday, formally lodged an ap.
peal against the sentence passed upon him by
the correctional tribunal. The appeal will
probably be heard the beginning of next week.
Jules Simon is seriously i'll.
Hong Kong dates of the 30th of August
state that Canton river has broken through its
entertainments, flooded miles of country and
destroyed vast crops.
The Chinese government contemplate author
izing partial postal service to be organized.
The cholera is devastating many towns on
the coast and in the in terror of China.
A letter is published formally nominating
NJ. Grevy to the place filled by the late M.
Theirs, as head of the French Democratic party
and leader of the 1863.