Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-09
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. RlllnbIings of War. The Eastern Nations Preparing
 For Hostilities. Activity Among the Turks. The Signal Expected from
 the Powers. A Hungry Mans Diet. Tanner GOrging His Long
 Empty Stomach.
 THE OLD WORLD.
 Great Britain.
A Hungry Mans Diet.
Tanner GOrging His Long
 Empty Stomach.
THE OLD WORLD. Great Britain.

Signs of War-The Nations Prepar1ng-A General Tendency to Get Ready. LONDON, August 8.-A Berlin correspond ent says: Military preparations are the order of the day in the Balkan peninsula. The
 Turks repair and arm the Notifications of Salonica. Troops continually arrive from Galipolis, some being sent north, while oth-
 CTS remain to protect the important harbors
 The Montenegrins have called on every able
 bodied man. The Antivari forts are being
 constructed under the superintendence of the
 Russian colonel, Count Soluhub a resident
 for some time at the exposed post The
 Greek Government has invited volunteers
 from Thessaly and Epirus, but as yet few
 have come. The signal for war being expect
 ed from the powers, orders have been given
 to the border brigands to stop operations
 until further notice. Accordingly the iron tier has never enjoyed state of more abso- lute order and quiet than upon the eve of war. Neither are the Bulgarians behindhand in their warlike movements The leaders of the secret committees of Bulgaria and East Roum ella have met at Tirnova to concert the details of the joint action to begin as soon as the order is given at St. Petersburg. All the leaders as well as the members of these committees being civil and military officers, it is by courtesy that they are called secret and that their action is represented as dis tinct from that of their respective govern ments cooperating with the central Bull garian committee at Sophia. There are many fraternities in the Rhodope hills and other localities in Macedonia provided with money and arms by Russian patrons through the agency of their East Roumelian compatr1ots The troubles of the Turks are not limited to Europe. 1t is well known that apart from the religious hostility common to the East the Armenians who speak Turkish as second mother tongue until recently did not belong to the enemies of the Ottoman empire, whose trade and finance they largely conduct. Things however, have changed lately. The hope for political ascendency on the Bos- phorus and for the busting of their commer- cial competitors, the Greeks. having been aroused among the Constantinople Armen- ians, numbers of them are now Russian to the core. No endeavors of the Porte to bring them back to their ancient allegiance IS Of any avail. The other day the Porte, to cur " favor with these now recusants, appointed Arten Dadian Boy, ,one of the richest Stamboul Armenians, Under Secretary of State 1n the bOarO or 1raQe. NO SOOn0r O1O Gl1S etpkJO1uG- ment transpire than the Armenians, who two years ago congratulated themselves upon the elevation of their co-nationalist, assembled ln front of his house and denounced him as traitor to their cause. To obviate the worst consequence Arten the following day sol emnly assured the Armenian patriarch that though he might be rendering commercial services he had no hand in refuting the argu- ments of the powers.
 Among the many strange features of the present crisis it is of the strangest that par ties endeavoring to keep Russia from Constan- tinople should be seconding her action in be- half of the people she has selected as her agent and representative on the Bosphoruss. When the Mussulmans are gone the Armeni- ans, both numerically and in point of wealth, will be the rulers at Constantinople.
 A dispatch from Bombay says it is again rumored that Chaman has been captured. The tribes are occupying the hills above Chaman Fort, and several skirmishes have occurred.
 A Cabul dispatch says the Ameer will re- ceive his frsta anual subsidy from the Brit ish before they leave. The Ameer's party is strengthening.