Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-12
FOREIGN NEWS.
Startling RumOrs from the Afghan
Frontier.

Startling RumOrs from the Afghan
Frontier.
New YORK, January 10th.-A London dis
patch says: There is rumor about town to
the effect that the Government is in posses
sion of startling and alarming news from In
dia, which it is endeavoring to keep secret
until Cabinet council can be held to con-
slider it. Mohammed Jan is believed to have
been reinforced by several thousand of Shere
Ais regulars, from whom the cannon now
mounted at Ghuznai were probably obtained.
He has assumed political as well as military
authority, and is collecting revenues in the
name of Nova Khan, whom he pretends to
regard as the rightful and reigning Ameer,
though temporarily kept out of his capital
by forcible occupation by the British. He has
sent emissaries to Turkistan, commissioned to
stir the people up to engage in immediate
warfare upon the British, as the common
enemy; and the probabilities are said to
be that on account of his high repu-
tation as soldier and commander in
the wars with Turkistan, he will have no in
considerable success in raising men to Join
him in Ghuznai, or to begin hostilities on a
home basis. 1t is not believed that General
Roberts will hazard an advance on Ghuznai
before spring. The difficult nature of the
road between the capital and the fortress will
of itself preclude this during the winter, rem
from Cabul as from Candahar, from which
point the contemplated expedition is for the
present abandoned, although the distance is
only about one-third as great The rumor
that Abdul Karura is raising a force in Ko
histan for Mohammed, is regarded as well
authenticated. The fact that Ghuznai
is understood to be most important center
of the military operations of the insurgents,
and is the strongest fortress in the country,
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capture, is held here to be significant Of the
existing situation in British Afghanistan.
Bismarck ut the Point of Death.
NEW YORK, January 10th.-A dispatch
from Berlin says the Tribune of that city
states that Prince Bismarck is worse, and his
death is believed to be imminent. The EN-
peror is said to have displayed much anxiety
concerning the Chancellor during the last
twenty-fou hours. All the members of the
Princes family have been summoned to Var
zin.
Sensation in u Church.
LONDON, January 1Oth.-The most intense
excitement was occasioned to-day by a seDsa-
tional scene in the Halton Garden Italian
Church. While the priest was celebrating
mass, a man in the audience fred pistol at |
him. The church was crowded, and the noise |
caused semi-panic. The altar was struck |
by the bullet, and subsequently the flames |
started out from the sides of the altar, and |
the church was damaged 81, 600 The man |
was arrested after hard fight by the, police, |
and when taken into custody had long |
stiletto in his hand, with which he attempted |
to stab those who seized him.
AIbanians Defeated by Montenegrans.
LONDON, January 10th.-A Vienna corre-
spondent confirms the report that conflict |
has taken place near Giesinji, in which the |
Montenegrans defeated the Albanians, but |
places the strength of the force engaged at
:, 900 for the former, and 1000 of the latter |
The Albanians were commanded by the
chief of the Albanian league. The fight |
lasted FIVE hours.
strike Among Miners.
PARIS, January 10th.-A serious strike is in
progress among miners in the Basin of the
Loire. Somo disturbances occurred.
a Victory for the Rev0Iufionisfs.
GALVESTON, January 10th.-A NeaoS special
from Brownsville reports the defeat by the |
revolutionists under General Trevino, he be-
ing in uninterrupted communication with
Saltillo There is some slight disturbance
connected with the Governorship. General
Treas who is unpopular with large class of
people in the States on the Rio Grande, IA
vors General Gonzales for President. He will |
establish his headquarters at San Luis Potosi |
about the 10Th instant.