Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-08

other trades unions, fearing q gen.
eral attack on the nine hour move
ment, have resolved to support the
engineers against the employers.
London, Jan. 2.-The English
foreign office has issued additional
correspondence regarding reforms
in Asiatic Turkey, in which Secre-
tary Salisbury insisted upon i'm
mediate commencement, and to
which British Minister Layard, at
Constantinople, replied that the
principal difficulty was owing to
certain powers energetieally foster
ing Turkish jealousy and foreign
interference. On Dec. Sd Salisbury
accepted Safvet Pasha's programme
as an adequate installment of the
premises of tire Anglo-Turkish
convention.
ASIA.
Hong Kong, Dec. 27.-The fire
which broke out Christmas ragged
all day yesterday. The loss is very
great.
India, Dec. 31.-Tbe Quettah
column is said to be in the plains
of Candahar. The Standard cor
respondent with the Kurum col
umn telegraphs that Gen. Roberts
convoked the principal inhabitants
of the Kurum Valley at Peiwar
and Ali Kheyl and informed them
the Ameer's rule had passed away
forever, and henceforth they must
look to the Empress of India. A
large force of Afeeds attacked the
British troops at the Khyber Pass
but were repulsed with severe loss.
The London Times says, "that the
districts of Chittral, Swat and Ku-
mar will be incorporated into the
Indian Empire by the occupation
of this tract. An easy and direct
road will be opened from Punjaub
to York and Kashgar, presenting
far fewer difficulties than that fol-
lowed by the Central Asian Trad
ing Association, which traverses
the high mountain ranges of Cash
mere and Ladak, crosses the terri
BILE Karakora Pass at an altitude
of nearly 10000 feet in height, and
then, crossing another range over
10000 feet in height, it descends
to York and is barely 1000 feet
above the sea-" -Four mountain
GERS were publicly hanged for muir
dering the camp followers of the
Kurum column and two others
were logged for plundering. A
correspondent at Kurum says an
Afghan soldier in the British SER
vice was hanged for firing to warn |
his countrymen of the advance on
Peiwar Pass. Eighteen others
were sentenced to terms of from
seven to fourteen years penal SER
vitude for desertion. A proclama-
ton of the Amer of Afghanistan
has been discovered, dated Novem-
Der II. 1t showed that he had de-
clared a holy war against the
British.
A dispatch from Yokohama, Jan.
2, says the steamer Tokashina Mary,
running between Osaka and Diva,
was totally destroyed by the ex-
plosion of gunpowder among her
cargo, Oct. 2Sth, and SO persons
drowned.
AFRICA.
Cape Town, Dec. lot is stat
ed on good authority that Sir
Bartle Frere's communication to
the Zulu King demands the dis
bandment Of the Zulu army, the
cession of st, Lucia Bay, and the
reception of a British resident.
The message had not reached the
King at the date of the telegram.
A war is considered imminent.
Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 27.-Abden
Palace, the winter palace of the
Khedive, was half destroyed by
fire yesterday.
SOUTH AMERICA.
Rio Janeiro.-A telegram from
Cara North Brazil, Dec. 8, reports
the smallpox very fatal in that
province. The deaths in the cap
ital number six hundred daily.
The distress in the interior is ap-
palling. People devour carrion
and the bodies of the dead.
UNITED STATES.