The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-24
FOREIGN NOTES.

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tioss for war -Typhus Fever Hasiss
IA ssisn,inopie aad threashaa,
tho Iarhish Provinces EsEiish La,
ber Trsabies.
A London correspondent NJ the Man.
chester Guardian telegraphs tho gov.
ernment has purchased from Sir WI,
liam Armstrong, four 0ne.hnndred
ton guns, At u COST Of eighty thousand
dollars each, aud negotiations are pro,
oeedlng for u number of small.
or weapons, identical with those al.
ready In the service, The same firm,
~ well au Whlleworth a Co, have NO
oepted contracts toa large extent for
the supply OF iron gun carriages, 10 b.,
completed ut an early date, Great ex>
ertlons are being male Ia the carriage
department ~ the WoOlwioh araena
In the preparation OF wagons for pans'
port service, Several other contracts
for army stores are IN course OF CON.
pletion, notably one for large mum.
Der Of packsaddles. Messrs, Defries 4
Co. are executing m order for hospital
ware 10 the amount Of about hfty thou.
sand dollars.
The London correspondent OF the
Edinburg Scotsman, says; The land.
Ing Of force on the Asiatic side OF the
sea Of Marmora has unquestIonably
been considered by the government
Railway material, TO be laid on par
allel line with the Bosphorus, has been
purchased,
The mortality among the Russians
In Bulgaria Is very great, principally
from fever.
A Paris dispatch says that the prln.
ter's strike Ia expected to terminate
to-day.
A Constantinople telegram says that
typeus Ia increasing there.
Bucharest aGvices state that typhus
Is very prevalent there, and at Turn
Magunely,
The Times correspondent announ-
ces the death OF the widow OF Rosseni,
the celebrated musical composer, II
Ia understood, says the Times dispatch,
that she bequeathed the fortune In.
herited from Rosslni to an asylum for
aged and disabled singers.
The Times, In leading editorial
this morning, says the treaty proposes
the creation Of u new state In the Balk-
an peninsular, which would dwarf oil
the others, and which, supported by
external influences, would inevitably
straugle all other interests. The new
Bulgaria would extend considerably
beyond the limits within which the
Slavonic population Is In preponder.
ance. Wherever 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 is that the new principality
would occupy the whole central
mass OF the peninsula, forming state
in comparison with which Servia and
Montenegro would be Insignificant,
and reducing the remaining posses.
sions Of Turkey to All absurdity.
Europe can not avoid very grave
doubts whether such an arrangement
would be either just or exempt from
the danger Of great future disturb
ance.
A great meeting OF cotton operatives
was held In the exchange at Black
burn. Two thousand were present,
besides delegates from the mahufac.
turing towns and villages of northeast
Lancashire -Four resolutions we're
carried unanimously. The first was
regarding the action of employers In
proposing ten percentage reduction
the second pledging the workmen to
accept rate of wages equal to that in
towns where reduction was recently
accepted; the third declares II the em-
ployers persist, the workmen will re-
sist to the utmost any reduction, ex-
cent with a COrrespODdinQ reduction
in working hours, and the fourth adj
journs the meeting to April 3Oth. In
the meantime Populations will urge
the masters to resort to short time In
preference to a reduction OF wages.
A Vienna dispatch says the lower
house adopted the whole budget.
Hanging ofThree Negroes In Alabama.
ABBEvILLE, Ala, March 22.-Jerry,
Isaac and Jacob Childes, negroes, and