Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
FOREIGN INTELI.IGENCr.

The Cubans are going into another war for
Independence. The Tcyolutionists have estab-
lished a provincial government and General
Calixto has been placed in command Of the
army
BERLIN dispatch says that when all the new
formations, planned and worked out in their
minutest details by the German war ministry
are completed the total strength OF the army
will exceed two million men
The Turkish Grand Vizier insists upon i'm
mediate adoption Of measures for preventing
the threatened conflict between Albanians and
Montcnegrins. Disturbances have occurred
at Siros, in the yllayet of Salonica, and martial
law has been proclaimed.
ARGENT dispatch says there has been a great
revival Of the slave trade on the Red Sea since
the departure from Egypt Of Gordon Pasha
RUSSIAN authorities have decided to check
all emigration to America and have arrested
several emigrant agents.
The Rev. b. Larabee, the wcu-known Amer
lean missionary at Oroomiah, North Persia,
where the famine chiefly prevails, has written a
letter stating that the people there are living
largely on sCanty roots. REPORTS from the
mountains of HISTORIANS are equally distress
ing.
lblb llNlll l4OllNOIl ItttOE
ly that George Eliot, the noted authoress, had
married a Mr.. Cross, is contradicted The
person who has married NJ. Cross ia Mrs. G.
II. Lewes, the legal widow Of the philosopher,
whose separation from him took place many
years ago.
a CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch says after the
return of Maynard, the American Minister to
Constantinople, sarvas Pasha renewed his
protest against the jurisdiction which May
nard had assumed through orders from Wash
ington. Maynard has gone to Alexandria to
try another American accused Of numbering
an Egyptian.
MEXICO has only 5S5 miles of railway in op
Grafton.
AN Englishman named Burness and two
ladies while walking in the suburbs at Con.
stantinople, on the 18th, were attacked by
three Musselman robbers armed with knives
Burness was severely wounded Two Of the
assailants were arrested and will be ecourt-mar.
tailed.
A ROME telegram says that many Jesuits
VIII go to America when the DEGREES against
them are enforced.
A PEsTH dispatch says the famine I'm North
Hungary is increasing. Fourteen hu-dred
persons at Szinna, Comitat and Zemp.
lin have no other food but grass, nettes
and mushrooms. Troops Of emigrants are
leaving the country.
THERE is a serious drought in Jamaica.
Water is SO scarce that it is sold for six cents
a gallon Stock of all kinds are dying for
want of water
THE Russian Tekke-Turcomnn expedition
has been postponed until August.
A CoNsTANTINOPLE dispatch says fifty bri.
gands have been killed near salonica, Others
captured and their prisoners rescued.
THE Archbishop Of Quebec has issued a pas
toral letter against trade unions, threatening
to excomnunicate any Catholic who attacks
or conspires against persons willing to work
The British Parliament reassembled
on the goth. The Queens speech referred to
the cordial relations with all the powers and
hoped for speedy execution Of the whole
Treaty Of Berlin.
THIRTEEN of the men who wrecked
passenger train in Spain last year have been
sentenced to death and thirteen TO twenty
years imprisonment.
A HALIFAX dispatch, on the 21st,
stated that immense fields Of Ice extended from |
Two vessels were lost and some others were
in danger.
The steamer Prince Wilhelm, from
Barrow for Montreal, with railroad iron, had
both bows stove in by ice May 10Th and had
to throw overheard 25O tons of cargo to save
the vessel.