Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1878 — NEWS SUMMARY [ARTICLE]

NEWS SUMMARY

THE WAR IN THE EAST. The Turks have bombarded the town of Theodosia, southeast of the Crimea. They filmed ten houses, killed one person and wounded twelve. They have also bombarded Anapa, on the Black sea, in Circassia, but did little daraago to the town. One person was killed there. A battle is reported between the Russians under Gourko and lladetsky and the Turks under Suleiman Pasha, at a point between TatarBazardjik and Philippopolis The fighting lasted two days. Buleiman Pasha afterward took up positions near Philippopolis, and ordered the inhabitants to leave that town, which was subsequently ordered to lie burned. A corro.?]X>ndent who left Erzeroum just before its investment telegraphs that the town is now little better than a huge hospital. Abont 100 soldiers die daily, and two or tlireo are frozen to death every night. Typhus fever is raging. As the corpses buried are barely covered with oarth, the consequences must be terrible when a thaw commences. The official account of the capture of Schipka pass states that four Pashas, 280 officers, 25,000 prisoners, and eighty-one guns were captured. The Russian loss in killed and wounded was 5,404 men. 1 lie Turkish delegates met tho Grand Duke Nicholas at Tirnova-Semenli, and preliminary notes were exchanged. The Grand Duke then announced that he had decided to treat only at Adrianople, which should bo immediately evacuated. The delegates having assented orders were tologrnphod to Djemil Pasha to evacuate Adrianople. Upon this decision being communicated to tho foreign Consuls, they telegraphed their Ambassadors for instructions, and were ordored to remain and protect tlieir countrymen. The London Times' Bucharest correspondent, telegraphs from Giurgevo as follows : “ The mortality among the Turkish prisoners at Frateshti is fearfnl. The station of Froteshti In * ♦«r»vw +/•» <waw*l«.w« tcWoon Bucharest and the Danube. Even if there is nothing worse than ordinary typhus, the mortality evidenced by the numerous graves in tho plain surrounding the prisoners’ camp justifies the apprehensions of travelers. I saw Russian soldiers digging huge graves, and noar them fifty Turkish corpses lying in confused heaps as they were emptied from deadcars. Tlieir ragged, half-starved forms, and the frost-bites visible on their naked limbs, gave ovidonee of the hardships they had suffered on tlieir dreadful march from Nikopolis.’’ It is reported from Constantinople' that, in consequence of decisions taken at the Great Council of t lie I7th, lzzod Bey was sent to tho Russian headquarters with fresh instructions to the Turkish Plenipotentiaries, giving them full . powers to sign, whereas they, at first, were in'structed to refer conditions to the Porte. It is said that this resolve was taken in consequence of the pacific tone of England at tlic opening of tho British Parliament, and also because Russia lias given notice that slie will insist on the immediate acceptance or rejection of tho terms. Mnkhtar Pasha, notwithstanding tlic defeats which he suffered in Armenia, has been appointed to tho chief command of tho Turkish forces at Constantinople. It is reported from Athens than an insurrection lias broken out in Thessaly. Five hundred insurgents are concentrated midway between the villages.of Vizitza and Pinacotes, near Yolo. The Turks have taken refuge in the fortress of Yolo. Two hundred Christian • families have arrived at Athens.