Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-11
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Good Weafher

LONDON, August 1.-THE weather in England
continues fine
LONDON, Aug ust LA vlerna d'suatch to the
1,fh6S eayS:-The statement that the reply of
the oweIS TO the poi teS note rel's'pg ID e1opt
the GIoek frontier decidcd upon by the Berl'7
cor 'ereLce, IS oing draWn up at Eer''1 by the
t-epch aud German Secretei ieS at the conc.
enlt, Is Utterly unfornded.
The Afghan War.
LONDON, August Ia c'sp!tch from Quetta
large numbers OF Ii lbesmen, who DO their utmost
TO intercept lette,s, rende. rg communication
with the gal.,son vely t'fficu,t. it IS -sible
that an aUtPck is mcdttated on Oh npi Cnol,
as Ayoob Khan 's repol. ID - have dolacned
troops who are going ~ that 81 : :cn
The Meeting Of the EmperOrs Peace
sign.
Ihe correspondent or the Times at Vienna
SayS:-''The meet 'ug at Ischt OF the Empero, of
Austria and Germany is interpret I'D by all the
Vienna Journals as et ldence of new consoHda-
ton OF the AuStro- Gel man srHance and Ps a
sign OF the maintenance OF peace"
An Imperial Banquet.
lsCPL, August l1.-At the NJ Il ng or the En-
perors, which wes veiy cordal, the Emperor
Ere nc1S Joseph wore a russian r"'foi ,n end
The Emperor Wiluam an AUsiliau untfo,.n. At
the banquet at the Impe.4al villa, lost night
t1e Empress OF Aust. "a Joinc1 the two Empr
the 7 nee Of RerSS, German ambaSsador to
Austria. In the ever'ug the Empe' obs Visited
the theater.
HE PGrtesS intentions in Albania.
The NIerra CORE SpondenU OF the 1i,f IS says
he hears 0m Scutara. on gccd autho.lty, that
the Po ,e I'M 2rds - 'nyite The two Pasha of
Alb'n'a under one goveinor genera, and that
this no doubt VII IpUy answer the desires OF
one p?tt Of the Albanisn population.
Bulgaria and KOumeIia.
LONDON, August ia dispatch from Bu-
chf,est ID the Times says: NJ. Zankon, the Bull
gatian premier, he's recently declared Officially
that there would be no Using in that p, 1c-
pality in favor Of a union with RoUmelia uule~s
the movement began in ROumeJia, aud its
spreaolng 10 Bulgatla should become too strory
for bis control, but he pledged himself that Bull
gafia should not take the Initiative.
Austrian rOOps Going up the Dan.
ube.
LONDON, August n.-A dispatch from Kus.
tendji TO the Times, dat I'd yesterday SAYS: Six
pontoons ard two propellerS heavily laken with
austrian troops, muptt1on end artillery, pass
larly laden, but tearing no f1ag have also been
passing up. 1t Is EVIDENT tnat an impol ta-a
movement is ia progress
Turkish Troops on the Move.
graph says: The Turlish Minister OF war N
take mIh pun TO Dulclgno 10 reg iments OF IT,
1anty and artillery. They are Inder orders to
proce'd Immediately.
Prof. Bastian's Collection.
LokroN, August 11.--A Berlin dispatch TO the
A0fntn9 Posi- says: Prof. Bastian, a Leading
Gelman ethnographer, has return from Inota
and Amel lea ichly laden with rare collcctio
over One ThOusRn nd People Drowned
LONDON, August ia dispatch 70 Lloyd's
from AGen says:-"Upwsrds OF one thousand
passengers and crew were drowned by the
TCundeliBg OF the steamer Jeddah, on the Sth
inst, On Cape Guardafui. The ve-sel was
bound from Singapore ID Jeddah. The j 1dsa
belonged to the Singapore ST eemship Co. She
WIS built at Dumbal tor, Scotland, aud was an
iron screw steamer $50 ct long With q net
tonnage OF 993 and gross 1,541."
The Chincse.Ru usSian Question.
LONDON, August 1.-THE correspondent OF the
Dohp Ntrs at st. Petersburg says: He heals
that Prince GOrrschakof hes Niitten letter 70
tne powers advising that before sending pleni-
potent,ary 70 Pekfu there should be prelimta-
aIy stipulation that the Marquis TsiDg, the Chi
Dese ambas sador, should formulate hts COM
pls1nfs and claims, and that until these arerf
eelFed the plentpotentiaTy Wiu not proceed 10
PeEin.
Armament Of the Bulgarian Troops.
A Bucharest dispatch 20 the Times says:
"Bulgalia has decided TO change the armament
OF her troops and for that purpose 10000 Ber-
dan rifles have been ordered from Russia ID
replace worthless Krspka muskets."
Minister Maynard Coming.
LIVERPOOL. August n.-Mr. Horace May nal d,
lafe %. s. minister resident at Constantinople
sailed jn the British steamer Aleppo, Captain
Mckay, which left this polt tc day for Boston.
The Saratoga At Gibraltar.
GIBRALTAR, August 1.-THE U. s. steamer
Saratoga has arrived from Vile Franche.