The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-03-30
FOREIGN NOTES.

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TIE Times had = dispsieh FROM
Valo-. saying that the village q
Olympus, RePSsrs. Csvis and Lite
hare, wer. sacked and burGed ~ the
Turks. The women, children and cid
men ~e-e massacTed. except some
who escaped To the mountains. which
are still covered with snow. Unless .
ship relieves them, they will probably
perish from cold and hunger. Toe in.
suIrection progress steadily.
A special dispatch from X me 10 the
Times, ssys e eonsistOry will he held
on the 18th instant. No eucyciio.I
will lie issued, the pope not si-hiug ~
commit himself 10 sby definite policy
ON the present complication Of Euro
Pean affairs. His holiness ~ili only
deliver an AllocutiOn, avoiding all
| political sllusions-
The Standard hiss n Rome Z -pstch,
saying that thu head Of the J-suiLs Tv-
Gently proposed To return IL Rome. hut
the pops received TIA. propo- ,ian cold
ly. The Jesuits, therefore, H., pos. the
pOpe's general policy.
A st. Petersburg dispAtrh has the
following: The Agence Rose says
England has not yet repl.- VA regard
to the congress She stii. insists upon
her demsud that all the conditions %
pesee be submitted, notwithstanding
the text Of the treaty hzs been COM
municsted TO the cabinet, aud Ra-sis
has agreed To n complete freedom Of
discussion 1T the coDgr.-s. Tue chance
OF the congress meeting have dimin-
ished.
A CoustAn;iBopl- dispatch -ay-
The police orgzniked la AdFiauegi-
have committed various eNceS-s--, and
| pillzgej, last week. houses containing
the property Of Turks and FrencLDl-B,
which he'd teen confided 90 the care
! Of the French consulate.
LONDON, March "a special 10 the
Time. from 81 Petersburg save "iia-
| mors are in circulation that RI-sia hu.
demanded that the British ileei quit
the sen Of Marmora Immediately. Tie
correspondent believes tina; the report.
although Exaggerated, l. hot entirely
uDfounded.n
A London correspondent Il the Man
chester Guardian telegraphs the gov
rrBment has purchased from Sir Wi
liam Armstrong, four one-hundred
ton guDs, At n cost OF eighty thou-Aud
dollars each, aud negotiations are pro
eeeding for number ~ small
er weapons. identical with those Al
ready in the service. The same firm
% well a. wbiteVOTth a Co, have 49,
cepted contracts 90 a large extent TOR
the supply of iron gun carriages, O. t.
completed st an early date. Great rX-
erticn- are being made In the carriage
department At the wOOiwich arsenal,
in the preparAticn OF wagons for trans
port service. Several other CONTRACTS
for army stores are IN course Of CON-
pletioD, notably one for large nuGl-
Der of pscksadile-. Me-srs. D-fries x
Co. are executing m order for hospital
ware TO the amount Of about iifly thou
sand dOllsrs.
The London correspondent Of the
Edinburg Scotsman, sEys: The land
ing of force on the AsIstic side Of tie
sea OF Harm0ra has uDguestionabiy
been considered by the government
Railway material, 20 be- laid on par
sllel line with the Bo-phoru-, ha- been
| purchased.
The mortality among the Russians
in Bulgaria Is very great, principally
from fever.
A Paris dispatch says tina; the prin-
ter's strike is expected 10 terminate
to-day.
A ConstantinOpIe telegram says that
typeus lie increasing there.
Bucharest aGyices state that typhu-
is very prevalent there, and nj Turn
Magunely.
The Times correspondent snnoun-
! ces the death of the widow of Ro-seni.
the celebrated musical composer IL
is understood. says the Times dispatch.
that she bequeaihed the fortune in
herited from Rossini TO sn asylum for
aged and disabled singers.
The Times, in 4 leading editorial
his.morniDg, says the treaty proposes
the creation OF "a new state in the Bslk.
an peDinsulsr, which would dwarf all
the Others, aud vhich, supported by
exterHAl IL haences. would inevitably
straugle all other Interests. The new
Bulgaria would extend Considerably
beyond the limits within which the
Slavonic population IL in preponder.
aDce. Whereverth the presumed limits
of such preponderance were not con
sistent with good geographical
boundary, the boundary line has been
pushed forward. to the injury Of other
population and states. The general
RESULT IL that the new principally
would occupy the whole central
mass Of the Peninsula, forming q state
In comparison with which Sersis and
Montenegro would be insignificant,
and g, ducing the remaining posses
sions Of Turkey to an absurdity.
Europe can not avoid very grave
doubts whether such an arrangement
wouin be either just or exeuip, from
the danger of a great future disturb
sDce.
A great meeting OF cotton operatives
was held In the exchange a, Black
burn. Two Thousand were present.
besides delegates from the mshufse.
turing towns and villages of north ess,
Lsncashire- -Four resolutions yer.
carried unanimously. The first was
regarding the action of employers in
proposing ten percentage reduction
the second pledging the workmen to
accept q rate of wages equal To thu; in
towns where = reduction was recently
l.