Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-28

| at Peshawur, daily increases in violence
The certainty of a severe loss among the re-
firing troops was one of the reasons most
| strongly urged against the policy of with
tirawal of troops during the hottest and most
unhealthy period of the year.
QUETrAH. August 27th.-General Roberts
arrived at khat Ghilzai on the 9th instant.
General Phayre will march from Chaman for
Candahar on the 30th. The army of Ayoob
Khan has retired TO Seenjivi, eight miles east
OF Candahar. All is well at Quettah and in
the Belan Pass. Troops are arriving here
1aily. The Murrer tribe is behaving well.
Ne further outrage has been reported since
the affair at Sibi, where the clansmen fell on
a retiring party of British troops, infieting
severe loss, as reported August 10Th. This
dispatch seems to disproye the report from
Cham an that the troops of the Khan of
Khelati had mutinied.
LONDON, August 27th.-A letter from Gen
eral Primrose, received st Killa Abdulla,
gives some particulars of the sortie from Can
dahar ON August 9th. The British attacked
the village of Dehkhwajee and got through
it, but finding it strongly occupied and rein
forced by contingents from neighboring vii
lagos, they bad to retire to the fortress. The
enem3's loss is heavy. The British cavalry
made two charges. cutting down many OF the
enemy.
SBLA, August 27sh.-The tnutiny among
the troops eff Khan Khelat is confined to IA
men. 4 detachment of tie Seventy-eighth
Highlanders mas gone to Khelat TO restore
confidence.
LONDON, August 2Tth.-In the House of
Lords to-day Earl Granville. Secretary of
State for the Foreign Department, officially
confirmed the report of the arrival of Gen
eral Roberts at Khat Ghilzai, and the with
drawal of Ayoob Khan's army TO Sunjeri.
Attempt TO AssassInate King Theebaw.
LONDON, August 27th.--A dispatch from
Thayetmayo says reports are received from
Mandalay of an attempt to assassinate King
Theebaw. A Pongee went to the Kings
apartment, where he was stopped and ques-
toned His replies were unsatisfactory, and
he was seized, when dagger dropped from
his garments. He had twelve associates.
The Poneee and one Of his associates were
put to death.
The Alliance Question Exaggerated Ee'
ports-fleir Adopted.
LONDON, August 27th-A dispatch from
Bucharest says Roumanian politicians are
somewhat excited over the alliance question,
and one faction, led by Forescoe, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, favors making common
cause with Austria. Another party, under
Tue VI Iluce
leans toward Russia, as the only Power which
has ever really befriended Roumania. A
third party is opposed to calling in foreign
allies desiring Roumania to become a part of
Bulgaria, or in case events prove too strong
for Roumania to remain neutral.
The capture by the Roumarian au-
thorities in Dobrudja of twenty or thirty
malefactors has given rise to the most exag
gerated reports, which have been telegraphed
TO European journals.
Prince Charles of Roumania has adopted
as his heir his nephew Ferdinand, son OF the
hereditary Prince of Hohenzollern, If the
Emperor Of Germany consents.
Unsuccessful Attempt nj Coercion.
RAGUsA, August 27th.-Riza Pasha assem-
bled the chiefs of the Albanian League at
Scutari on the 24th instant. As they refused
to yield to his demand in regard to the ces-
sion of territory to Montenegro, he sought to
detain them in arrest but the inhabitants
rescued them, and threatened Ria Pasha
with death. The League has sent 800 men
to Dulcigno The inhabitants there threaten
to burn the town rather than cede it to Non
tenegro. There is great excitement in
Scutari.
London Wool Market.
LONDON, August 27th.-As to-day's wool
sales there was no new feature. The bid
steady. Sixty-nine hundred bales were sold,
mostly New South Wales and Queensland.
To be Immediately Coded.
PERA, August 27th-The Porte has adj
dressed note TO the Powers, announcing that
Dulcigao will be Immediately coded.
That BLESSED Baby-What shall be Its
Title?
MADRID, August 27th.-An excited discus
sion is raging between the opposition papers
and the Ministerislist journals upon the title
of the Queens first born. The Cabinet holds
that Processes can only assume the title of
Asturias by act Of royal prerogative, contrary
to the opinion of the opposition leaders and
representatives of the province of Asturias,
who intend to lodge protest if the Queen
gives birth to daughter. Preparations for
the coming event are complete, The diplo-
matte corps and ministers and visitors are all
here.
Harvest Outlook in Ireland.
DUBLIN, August 27tn-The weather con-
tiDues all that could be desired for the har-
vest. Brilliant sunshine has been the rule
during the last three weeks. The larger per.
ton of the grain Is now cut, and half has al
ready been cleared from the fields.
MISCELLANEOUS.