Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1885 — CENTRAL ASIA. [ARTICLE]

CENTRAL ASIA.

Russia's Warlike Preparations. A dispatch from Teheran states that one thousand persons are at work constructing the Transcaspian Railway. Warlike preparations are still being continued by Russia. Rumors are in circulation in the bazaars of Teheran that war will probably occur after the Transcaspian Railway is completed to Merv, in Turcomania. The Russians are bridging the River Murghab, on the confined of Afghanistan. Eight hundred Russian soldiers are at Old Sarakhs. The Persians are fortifying Persian Sarakhs and building barracks there for troops. A foundry has been started at Herat for the casting of heavy guns. A young lady teacher near Mitchell, D. T., on the approach of a storm last week dismissed her school in a body to a neighboring tree claim and stationed each pupil aba stout cottonwood, with instructions to hold on in case of a blow. A Cincinnati wife asked her husband to min 4 the baby for half an hour while she went to the store. That was three months ago, and she has not returned home yet. Dr. Oliver WatDELL Holmes is passing ihesummenhs usual, at Beverly, Mass. ■» Prince Edward of Wales has been raised to the degree of a Master Mason.