Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1878 — FORKING INRELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

FORKING INRELLIGENCE.

X Bombay (India) telegram of the 6th says tribes numbering 156,00 P fighting men had joined the Ameer In opposition to Orest Bril ain, and that tribe* with 50,000 warriors remained neutral. , l A »t. PcTEKsnuHO dispatch at tbe 6th days If Great Britafn occupied Afghanistan, Russia would occupy Turkistan. Tun Emperor of Austria h»* accepted the resignation of the Hungarian Ministers. Field-Marshal Count Von Mot. the, Com-mander-lu-Chlef of the German Army, has resigned In consequence of old sgc and itfrreas Ing Infirmity. It was reported from London, on the 7th, that the Government had decided to leave the conduct of the war with Afghanistan mainly,ln the hands' of the Indian znentAcuokdino to Vienna dispatches of tho ,7th, war between Turkey and Austria was a near probability. On the Bth, the Colonial Trust Corporation, of London, defaulted In the payment of Ita debentures, and decided to go Into liquidation. Collin, Dunlap A Co., of Glasgow, Scotland, manufacturers of sewing cotton, have failed for *7SWXX>. The German Socialist newspapers advise their followers to emigrate to the United fitates or Asia Minor, in the event of the pas Mge aLt,he.Aatl-Borial bill now pending titfore Parliament. On the 9th, the Russian Charge d’Alfalres at Constantinople notified the Porte that 4,000 wagons filled with Christian refugees were .following the retiring Russians toward Adrianuple, attdesked t hat a Commissioner and a suitable military force be sent to reassure the people. A Vienna telegram of the morning of the 10tli says the Russian evacuation of Turkey had been stopped, in consequence of the murder of Christians in the districts evacuated. Germany has notified the Porte that its recent note la relation to the Austrian occupation of Bosnia was offensive to all the Powers. A Berlin paper of the 10th publishes a dispatch from Moscow, announcing the beginning of an agitation having for its object the forced abdication of the Czar and the creation of a Constitutional Government.

On the 10th, at Riazin, near Moscow, Russia, twenty-three stone houses, thirty-one wooden ones and seventy warehouses were destroyed by fire. The value of the burned buildings was 2.000.000 roubles. A Turkish force of 150,000 men has been placed at Novi Bazar to oppose the Austrian movement in that direction. Osman Pasha commands. Acuokdixo to a Constantinople telegram of the lltb, Austria had notified the Porte that she did not intend to occupy Novi-Bazar. The Russian Minister has Informed the Turkish Government that the Russians would retain Adrlanonle until a supplementary treaty is signed confirming those portions of the San Stefano Treaty not affected by the decisions of the Berlin Congress, and that until such signature a condition Of war would exist. The Cashier of the Bank of Commerce, at Odessa, Russia, is a defaulter in the sum of £116,000. Following the announcement, on the 11th, a run was made on the bank, and on that day 91,500,000 were disbursed. According to a Lahore (India) dispatch of the 11th, 35,000 British troops had gathered at Peshawur, preparatory to an attempt to capture the Khyber Pass. Hugh Balfour A Co., the oldest shipping firm in Manchester, Eng., have failed for ■£1.500.000. - t During a performance at the Coliseum Theater, in Liverpool, on the night of toe 11th, a fight occurred In the gallery and some idiot raised the cry of fire. A terrible panic ensued, and during the stampede which folJowed thirty-five men and boys and two women were suffocated. A large number were also seriously injured.