The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-04-13
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.


One set of dispatches says the bona fde return |
home OF the Russian troops has commenced, |
while another says that only the depleted regl- |
ments are sent homo to recruit, and their posi- |
lions are Immediately filled by fresh troops |
from the north. However, the general impress |
sion of the news seems less pro Russian than of
late, and there is feeling here and in the Eu |
ropean colony at Constantinople that the dis |
like Of The Turkish people to Russia is so great
that the Porte would not dare n.ure in a Rus
sian alliance even if they wished.
1t is claimed on all hands, except in purely
partzsn discussions, that the abinet is sin.
cerely DESTROYS t, avoid war. Tho withdrawal
of the treaty of San Stefano its unconditional
submission to the judgment of Europe is re-
garded as the only alternative Of war. Lord
Lyons. the British ambassador at Paris, dasig.
tied to represent Great Britain at the congress
returned to Paris on Saturday, which is con-
sidered to indicate that no great hope is felt Of
| speedy meeting of the congress.
The news from the Cape Of Good Hope be-
| tokens renewal Of serious troubles. tele.
gram dated Cape Town, March 18th, says severe
| fighting occurred in the Pirie bush yesterday,
| and is still proceeding. 1t is reported that
| Secocoen has declared himself openly hostile
and besieged two forts in Transvoal. This most
| serious news has just reached hero. Secocoeni
| is powerful chief with whom Transvoal was
at war prior to its annexation. His intervention
would spread war to a wholly new quarter, and
very possibly cause complications with Zeulu,
king Of whom he Is d feudatory, and who Is
still abls to place well armed and organized
force Of several thousand in the field.
| NEW YORK, April 8.
The Herald has an account Of an acrimonious
interview between ]. Madison Wells and Secre-
| tary Sherman: "Did we not give you moral
sympathy and the support of the letter which
General Garfield, stanley Matthews and Gen.
eral White united with me in writing to your"
asked Sherman. "Oh hang your letter writing
There were half dozen better things you could
| have done for US, and as fer your moral SYM
pathy, If 1t was deep enough to reach to hell
and back. it would not have taken General
Anderson and ME out Of jail" "But what else
could we have done in the matter?" queried
Sherman. ooh, if the President had said but
word to Nichols, it would have saved us
from all the misery of staying in prison, line
from Hayes would have done the business. AS
for writing letters, you might have written Ave
hundred OF them, and they would not have been
worth any more than so much waste paper.
The interview continued in this vein for quite q
while, and was conducted at times in so loud =
key that the voice penetrated to adjoining
chambers, the language of Wells being, as one
| - ;pta
"cuss words"
The World says Colonel Mercer, of the Oregon
Granger, delivered an address before the New
York press club Saturday evening, in which he
described the climate aud industrial advantages
OF Oregon and Washington Territory. He made
the startling statement that west Of the Rocky
Mountains there are 25o,OO0 bachelors, and he
declared that money was plenty, but that man.
ual labor was all the country needed.
The Sun has this on Colonel MERGERS lecture
The wonderful fertility of the sagebrush lands
has not been set forth until recently. These
lands have been supposed to be valueless. Set
tiers can get farm there for nothing. Two
classes of people, the speaker said, are needed
in Oregon, farmers to develop the rich produc
i've country, and capitalists to open the minei
of coal, lead and iron in the Cascade mountains
The men there also want wives. Ten Thousand
single women can earn "a week and theil
board, and when they are married there will b,
room left for 10000 more
I WASHINGTON. April 8.
. To-days Daily Republican will publish twt
column letter from George c. Gorham, anslyz
ing the polit al situation etc 1t is in reply t,