Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-04
COMMUNICATIONS CUT
THE BRITISH ADVANCE ON CABUL
.'. IMPERLLLED. g.
Native Tribes Get Between the Column
and Their Base-The Force at Cabul Pre-
pairing to Meet the British Outside the
City-General and Political Old World
BRITISH COMMUNICATIONS CUT.

S1MLA Oct. 3.-Authentio information ha.
been received here that communication with
the British was cut off to-day on both sides oil
shutargardan Pass by the tribes. Reinforce
ments are being sent up Kuram valley. ~
~ - TO MEET THE BRITISH. ~
LONDON, Oct. 3.-A dispatch from Zarguu
Shahr says the preponderance of native opinion
is that tho Afghans will make stand this side
Cabul. The Ameer is anxious to return to
Cabul. The general opinion is he was allowed
to leave ON his engagement to arrest the British
advance, and he fears tho troops will avenge
themselves by attacking his palace. -
r Il THE ADVANCE ON UABuL. s,-.. .
s1M1A, Oct. S.-Gen. Hughes brigade reached
Khelat Ighilzae on the 30th of Sept. The
Governor of that place furnished him with
supplies. The tribes profess friendship for
Khan. szs8z~ g,sGase
r,a agz CHILL AND PERU. 81. r.t s555F.
LONDON, Oct. ga dispatch from Valparaiso,
fore evacuating Calama, sacked and burned the
place. The Chilians have made raids into Bo-
ivia, beyond Oonchas, destroying commissary
and ordnance supplies, and selling horses ar
carts. 1t is reported Peru has suspended pay
ments from the treasury and prohibited the
expectation of silver. -.-.,. ~. ...
-s-.'. CONSUL APPOINTED. ~. IL.
LONDON, Oct. 3.-Captain Robert Chas
Chipperton. the present British consul at
Nantes, has been appointed consul for Great
Britain in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michi-
gan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, to reside in Phila-
delphia. ~
PRUss1AN ELECTIONS. go
LONDON, Oct. 3.-A Paris correspondent has
good reasons to believe that by this time the
Prussian elections are finished. The Liberals
and Progressists will have lost about fifty seats
in the diet. A Berlin dispatch says Emperor
William is endeavoring to reconcile Bismarck
and Gortschakeff.
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA.
A dispatch from Constantinople reports dis
content general in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The population is unanimous in it's dislike of
Austrian rule. The Duke of Wurtemburg has
demanded reinforcements to suppress the in
surrection which is spreading in herzegovina
s.asze ..s e-a cETEwAYo.
CAPE Town, Oct. 3.-Cetewayo has arrived
here and been conducted to the castle.
DEAD. o.
PARIS, Oct. 3.-Guillaume Alphonse Deuer-
gle, an eminent French physician and medical
writer, is dead.
MISCELLANEOUS.
LONDON, Oct. 3.-The butcher Arctic expe-
dition has returned to Hammerfest, Norway,
after penetrating as far as Francis Joseph land.
The situation in Syria is alarming. The
Arabs have joined the Kurds to oppose Midhat
Pasha's reforms, and the porte seems to have
decided to send forty battalions of regulars to
maintain order.
The lords of the admiralty have given in
structions for making handsome piece of fur
niture from timbers of the old Arctic explor-
ing ship Resolute for presentation to Mrs.
Grinnell, widow of Henry Grinnell, who fitted
out two expeditions for the search after Sir
John Franklin.
The greater portion of the cotton operatives
at Aligan have resumed work at five per cent
reduction in wages. 1t ia expected the re-
mainder will return to work Monday. All the
mills are working. s.. .......-
BERLIN, Oct. 3.-The weekly statement of
the imperial bank of Germany shows a de-
crease of 25, 462 600 marks in specie.