The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-09
THE ADVANCE INTO THEssALY.

ATHENS. February 4.-The Greek
troops who entered Thessaly yester-
day, under General SoutzO, encoun-'
tered no resistance from the Turks
who withdrew to Domoco. The
Greeks will advance to-day on Do
moco. The garrison of that place
numbers two thousand men.
LONDON, February A despatch
to Reuters Telegram Company dated
Athens to-day announces that the
Greeks have captured Domoco at the
point of the bayonet. One hundred
and fifty Greeks were killed.
Five Turkish men.of war passed
the Dardanelles Sunday on their way
to the Greek coast. There are only
five hundred troops in ATHENS and a
small English gUriboat at the Pir@us.
Hundreds of yolunteerSare leaving
daily for the frontier.
A despatch from Athens dated
Sunday says: "On receipt of the news
of the signing of the Turco Russian
armistice an extra sitting of the
Chamber was held. The Ministry
and House agreed to continue the
present policy. Gen. Sapountzaky,'
with 1000 troops was ordered to en-
enter Epiras on Sunday morning.
4 inl TO IN NT/,1<IC,,,J frnt1Nl
Athens states that the port of Pir@us
is defended by torpedoes. The Bey
of Ep;rus has submitted TO Greece
Thirteen hundred Turks were taken
prisoners at Domoco.
A special to the Times from Athens
states that new torpedo boats from
London are manned and ready.
A TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN CHINA.
PARIS, February A telegram
dated Shanghai, China, yesterday
Feb, 81, published here, announces
that an asylum for women and chill
dren at the city of Tien Tsin has
been burned. Over two thousand
persons are stated to have persisted
in the fire.
n NOT CHARLIE ROSS.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 5.-Mr. C. K.
Ross, the father of Charlie Ross, ar
rived in this city this forenoon, and
proceeded TO the residence of Mrs.
Perat, where he met the Demerara
boy, who had been brought from the
Home of the Friendless. After in
specting and conversing with the
boy for several hours, Mr.. Ross
states personally to the agent of the
associated press that the boy is GER
tainly not his Son, the lost Charley,
and he was perfectly satisfied and
convinced the moment he saw him.
To satisfy others, he questioned the
child at length, and he had no re-
membrance whatever of any asSocia-
lions connected with his Mr.. Ross')
family. In reply to the question
whether he desired to make any state
ment through the associated press. Mr..
Ross replied. Nothing, except that
the boy is not my SON"
GIISIIMEN SELLING THEIR 4. S.
BONDS.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Phe Tribune
says that during the last three weeks
5000, 900 U. s.. bonds have been sold
in this city on English account,
3,M0,000 more are on their way, and
orders were received yesterday to-
dispose of 100000 additional gov
eminent binds. They are pfihci'-
paily 67S. S5S, AIS and rs. Nester-
day 1,000,000 in government bonds
were sold at Il fractional decline, on
account Of German holders ut Frank
fort. Most of these were 8ls.' "The'
cause of this strong desire of foreign
holders to- get rid of U. S. bonds is
the natural result of the proposed sill
yer legislation by Congress-" said a
hCpNJ oSoiVl All DOuuo ycStSTudN,
"and,' instead of our securities SEEK
ing@ foreign market, as hitherto, the
demand tas' altogether ceased, and
the bonds are being retur ned by
every steamer to be disposed of in
this country at a loss"
MILES TO MOVE ON SITTING BULL.
New YORK, Feb. "A dispatch
from Bismarck, dated yesterday, says
private advices from a trustworthy
source at Tongue River post report
the following Gen. Miles is getting
ready to move against Sitting Bull.
The expedition will move, in all
probability, about the 10th of Febru-
airy. Eight companies of cavalry.
six or eight Of infantry, with all the
Crow Indians that can be had for the
purpose, will form the column which
will march in search of the hostile
Sioux. The weather is highly favor
aEle for the execution of the plans of