General Summary of European and American Telegrams to March 28.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2585, 20 April 1877, Page 2

General Summary of European and American Telegrams to March 28.

, Lee, author of the Mountain Meadow massacre, has been executed. He made a confession implicating Brigham Young. He said he only did as he was ordered, and was promised celestial rewards. The confession ha 3 caused a great sensation at Salt Lake. > The Bashi Bazouks plundered and burned two Herzegovinian villages, and murdered a number of inhabitants. , ; : - A resolution in favor of the union of Jtfew Brunswick and Prince Edward Island was carried by the Nova .Scotia Legislature. An Amsterdam banker -has offered Russia a loan of twenty-fire million roubles at 8 per cent., but insisted on disarmament, and no further loan for years. The matter was declined. The Times cites this as a proof of the bad state of Eussian credit. : It is said that recent Socialist trials reveal unexpected ramification of the movement in higher classes and- the army.; -,■.■■;■, '•.■... ,• ■■ ■•.-,-.?■■ *> Eussia has sent twelve months' provisions. Small pox is still raging in London. Great public excitement in Jamaica over the prosecution' cf the press for sedition. A committee are collecting subscriptions for the defence.. Trade depression in Germany has as-; sumed serious proportions. Labor riots have occurred, and a famine is feared in Silesia. The newspapers coupled their loyal greeting with a wish that the Emperor may see the speedy recovery of the nation from its financial crisis. In Pensylvania four hundred colleries and sixty thousand men are idle. The Cretans refused to send an embassy to the Turkish Parliament. ■ A British war steamer destroyed seven villages on the Congo river, "West Africa, killing three natives, as a punishment for plundering an American schooner. The Court of Queen's Bench at Halifax decided that no evils arc likely to arise from the seal difficulty. Chinese troops captured the City of Manas and slaughtered a. large number of the Dangani insurgents. This is expected virtually to end the outbreak. Outrages have been committed by citizens of Chicago and California on Chinese. Earl Derby.idefvjnded Sir Henry Elliott, ' andfchallenged hij9 opponents to. bring ,a t motion raising the question before Parliament; He- said war would create greater horrors than those of, Bulgaria. A new revolution is expected in Mexico. President Diaz's ■ friends are forsaking him." ' The fortification of Brent in Austria has been carried'out 'in consequence of a * rumored alliance between Italy and Austria, involving Seigne part of the Tyrol. Outrages equalling those of Bulgaria are reported m connection- with the new rising in Bosnia. The Bashi Bazouks are burning villages and massacreing refugees. Six hours' fighting between a large body of Bosinian insurgents resulted in great l«sses on both sides, the Turks retiring. . Active preparations are being made by Turkey to fortify Kars and other positions on the Asiatic frontier. One hundred and twenty thousand' troops will be sent there; The Eussiau forces on , the Asiatic frontier are estimated at a hundred thousand. " -' - The number of famine stricken men employed on the Madras works has dacreased eighteen hundred thousand ; on the Bombay works the decrease is thirtyI seven thousand. ; Violent scenes at the Transvaal Eepublic in opposition to President 1 Burgers' proposal for annexation to Britain. The life of British forces in Cuba is despaired of.