The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1878-05-05
EUROPEAN NEWS.


with exhibits for the Paris Exhibition,
and discharged their cargoes immediatn-
| ~. The goods will be in Paris this week.
| The American section OF the exhibition
is filling up rapidly. aud it is thought it
will be little IL any behind others on the
opening day.
The Russians have established tele-
| graph line between san Stciano and St.
George, which is few miles north, and
are now constructing roads.
The Turkish Sccraskierate has rcceiv-
od information that the instruction in
Ioriaelia Is spreading.
There has been another engagement.
in which thirty officers presumably Rus
slams, have been placed hors du COM
| bat.
Three thousanI prisoners OF war,
from Bucharest, landed at Constantine.
ple Wednesday.
The return Of prisoners from Russia
has been postponed until their main
;ggamcc j. paid for.
Captain Burton. the celebrated Afri-
can traveller, commanding the KAcdivai
expedition to the Turvey mines in the
land Of Midan, has returned, bringing
twenty five tons Of specimens cOmpris-
ing gold, silver. copper. tin and lead.
Capt. Burton found three sulphur beds,
three turquois mines, aud extensive de-
pOsites OF gypsum, saltpe,re and rock
salt. He goes TO England TO arrange
for working the mines for the khcd!ye
A special from Coustantinoplo an.
nouuces that in consequence of the
prc8Uro %: the Russians the Porto has
prcmpt0riiy o.lcTeI tie evacuation %
Baioum. Ii il stated the posanlry
near Butogm and Trcbizoni are ar
uvIng against the Russians. Fifteen
fresh Russiam battulious have been sent
against the Rputuvlinu insurgents.
Marty all the operatives Il; Burpley.
whose notices oZpircd last evening,
have Joined in tae strike. Thousands
pf iGicrs Of BLACKBURN arc wandering
the streets, somo Of tLcm becoming
very c!a.nordu3 for strike pay. The
employers in Lancashire dbtrct say
arbitration is out uf tho question.
The latest iTom London regarding
thr present aspect OF aGlirs affecting
tho relations between England auI
RussIu, shows no material change in
tho situation. The diplomatic game
still proceeds without amy particular
advantage 10 either side. Russia has
abandoned al! hope OF an alliance with
Austria, the latter having become con-
WINGED that in the event of open war
between the Lion and the Bear her OWE
Interests coUli be better conserved by
keeping clear Cf all cntauglcments.
Although Ia? dcva,tatious of war
have been avoided, tho effects Of the
uncertainty Us to the final result OF nc
gottations mrc particularly damaging;
1istrnst, aud consequent staguatiom i'll
business ana trade being very general.
The desire for war has become less
popular in England, aud feeling is
reported as growing, that tho ohjcc-
tionS to Russin's pruposuls OF tho par;
OF tho Ministry, are merely technical,
and tho sympathies Of the muss"s are
becoming allionS;,i from the ground
of warm advocacy OF tho course OF the
Ministry, recently held.
The apparent acceptance of tho view
That this IL now the position held by
England, has had the effect Of weaken.
in@ her moral power on tho continent,
aud II is now believed that the only
hope of peace is through tho intcryvn
ton Of Bismatul;.