The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18

out the Russians will seize Herat
before England can turn around II have the
best authority says the correspondent "for
saying that General Komaroff acted in accord
ance with orders from the Governor of the
Caucasus, and General Komaroffs telegram to
St Petersburg expressly stated this.
A dispatch to the Standard, dated Torpul,
says that the Russian troops have stopped ad-
1ancing and are retiring to their former posi-
tion. General Komaroff, the dispatch states,
has left Penjdeh.
The Ameer, before departing from Jamerod,
to-day. said that he had ordered the tribes to re-
pair the road from Cabul to Herat, and
that reinforcements had left Candahar for
Herat He believed Russia might yield
to remonstrances only when all arguments nave
failed, and then the Afghans will arise as one
man to repel the invaders His pol
not be changed. His people must accept
it as he had, and must trust him as he had been
trusted by England The Afghans would never
surrender an inch of territory, or allow their
country to be a highway for the Russian army.
Earl Dufferin. Viceroy of India, in dispatch
to the home government regarding the Russo
Afghan boundary question, says that, in his
opinion, Penjdeh was not worth fighting for, as
the Ameer has had for long time very little
control over the tribes in it's vicinity; that they
were in continual state of revolt and source
OF mucn uneasiness to the Ameer. The latter,
he believed, would willingly concede Penjdeh to
Russia in the interest of peace, as it would also
likely prevent cattle-raiding on the border. It
10 Al ~
cussing Earl Dufferin's message, has adopted the
same view of the matter.
1T appears that the above item originated in the
central News Agency. This the agency referred
to in Earl Granville's statement in the House of
Lords, last night in which he characterized the news
as unauthorized and always inaccurate reports
A Firmer Feeling in the Money Markets.
LONDON, April 1.-THE stock market closed
buoyant The rebuying Oil the part of the bears
acted with powerful effect upon a sensitive mar
ket
The Paris Bourse to-day was animated, in sym
pathy with the improved condition of the Lon
don market. Russian securities advanced dur
ing the day Al points
At Berlin there was a very firm feeling on the
Bourse, as result of the more favorable aspect
of the Afghan question
AT Frankfortro Main an important ad-
vance in prices took place, on the strength Of
peaceful news from London.
At Vienna the cheerful character of the ad-
vices from London had marked effect on the
Bourse, and there was an important rise in
prices.
The feeling that the political situation has i'm
proved Is shown to-day by an advance in the
price of consols and Russian securities in Lon
don, and decline in wheat at Liverpool. Con-
soils opened at 964, and, except in two instances,
advanced steadily until 4:30 P. NJ, when they
the wheat market was quiet and the demand
had fallen off. Holders were offering freely, and
California No. had declined from rs Sd a Is lid,
the closing price yesterday, to rs I'd 07s 3d. Cali
red Western spring, from rs 7d07s Cd to rs Cd a
Is Sd, and req Western winter from Is 1Od IS
Sd to rs 9d0Ss I'd. AT $3.50 P. M. the demand was
Door.