The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-08-18


eli',es 'h.ir enpipS nuns nur ef Russia
Under the present e.n the city .:
Moscow Is formings vai',ns.es legion
which i. proposes 10 suppors until the
end OF Csc war.
Marines continue TO nc seat south
ward from Coronstzdt TO Join the fight.
ing army.
a special edition Of the evening
Standard has Bucharest dispatch
which ssys il is stated that the chief
Of General kindoDers' staff has heen
cited before counsel o. war. To ex-
plain the failure at Plevns.
A special to the STANDARD from
Shumla, says Reouf pashs arrived there
last night.
Prince Hassap, commanding at
Warns, has come there to confer with
Lieatenant-General Mehmed Ali.
A st. Petersburg special has the fol>
lowing official dispatch, received here
from Alexdrianople, dated August Sth
The Turkish right assumed the often.
sive on the fifth instant along the
whole line, from Tschiug pass To Kar-
raaralavi pass A number of Bashi
Bazouks and knrds, supported by ak
infantry battslipns, coming from Ysri
and kuncdenehads. drove in the Rus
sian outposis, and there WAS skirmish-
ing along the picket line the whole
day.
| After occupying Alikatschatka tine
! Turks eudeaeored tn take Kahii, nat
were repuised by the Russians. Tie
losses We're four officers killed aud
| twelve officers and thirteen men
wounded. The Turks left twenty killed
en- the Held.
| The Turkish corps ia now coIceD-
! trating in the direction Of Andkur-
atschi. General Turkusafia's army has
been reinforced by column detached
from the main body, and is concen-
| trating towards Iydzer.
According To the latest Intelligence
from Batonm, Dervish pashs with four
battalions left Jicheds by sea, in 8
| norLheriy direction.
A Land of Poverty and Wee, whers
the niight of War viii Remain far.
| eyer-Is IL Rsmorea that England
| Has . sised Authority 10 Protect TN.
| Ghristians.
| LONDON, August 3.--The stand
ards Bucharest eorr-sp 5udent tels-
graphs all eminent parsonage here
| had al interview with the Grand
| Duke Nicholas, on Thursday. The lat,
| ter admitted that his troops were
somewhat demoralized, and sc i'll tina.
there was no possibility OF a resunp-
| ton OF operations for three weeks.
when he would have received rein.
! foreements of one hundred thousand
men.
The Constantinople correspondent 81
| the Stantiart: says: ait is runored that
cholera has appeared in the Russian
camp
Tho Daily News correspondent AT
Sistoya, concludes his statement of
the situation of Saturday: 1t Seems
doubtful! whether the Balkan passes
| viii continue 10 be held by the Rus.
SLAMS. Eight Thousand starving Bull
garian refugees are in Seivi The
! weather 10 day is broken; there are
| heavy and continuous rains. TIE ma
tives say wet weather may be expect.
ed for fortnight at this season
| which might conduce To the greatest
sickness la the army.
/ Times occasional correspondent
at Vienns, speaks very positively reia
tive to SeFyia's Don-intervnntion in
the immediate future.
The Times CoustaHtiHople CORE
spondent teiegrapis via Syria, as fol
lows:- The civil war of determination
Is being carried on ut present nj Eski-
Saghra. All Of the male caristiat
native population has been sentenced
by :he Turkish government. Til,
news has been brought by two Ameri
can missionaries, who were Protecte
by Turkish friends. They lost ever,
thing they had. This news Is con
firmed by consular dispatches. Every
male Bulgarian is accused of beinl
either spy or an open enemy.
LONDON, August ia CONSTANT
nople correspondent of the Times
who telegraphs by way of Syria, say.
it is stated on good authority, thai
Musuraes pasha, the Turkish ambas
sador at London, recently wrote to tn,
porte that he had resson to believ,
the British government would shortl,
ask authorization for their fleet L
enter the Bosphorus in certain contin
gencies in order to protect the chris
tians. The porte replied that she coult
only enter rs an avowed ally of Turkey
1t Is also asserted, though on doubt
ful authority, that this reply was with
drawn on account OF the remonstranc,
OF Mr.. Layfed, British minister Al
Constantinople.
/ A Constantinople dispatch to tn.
Times, by the way of Syria, says
your correspondent at Karsbunor
writes that appalling accounts confirm,
to come liz, OF the misery existing ii
1 the district devastated by the Bash
Bazonks and Bnigarisns. Thousand
Of women and children are homeless
and perishing for want Of shelter, med
ieal attendance and food. Immediat
| help In the largest possible scale i
most severely needed. The pasha Il
command here proposes to distribute
the fugitives about Constantinople
Adrianople and Phiiiopot, but no Al
Engagements have been made to reIiev
them. The correspondent suggests tn
formation Of . city ofrefugees on al
island near CenstAntinopIe, under tn
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