OTHER TOPICS.
Prince Eugene of Leichtenberg, who commanded s force of dragoons and Bulgarians under General Gourka, when compelled to evacuate Eski Saghr*, had to cut his way out, with a lois of 800 men.
Adrianople is full of Mussulman refugees. Kalafat is reported as having been destroyed by the acoidental explosion of a powder magazine. The Egyptians under Prince Hassan began an offensive movement from Varna to Trajan's Wall. The Turkish legation complains of the Russians near Ears firing upon a flag of truce and wounding Osman Effendi. Responding to the appeal of the Russian Government to the Queen of Wurtemberg, an ambulance corps it beingformedatStutgardtandgoeg promptly to Bucharest. Asjimi Pasha, one of the best Turkish officers, was killed in a skirmish at Sbumla. A despatch from Constantinople says that in a naval engagement in Sulina River a Turkish ironclad attacked seven Russian gunboats and destroyed two of them. The Servian Parliament before prorogation deoided to continue the payment of its iributo to the Jrorte.— Post's corretpondent.
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Colonist, Volume XIX, Issue 2283, 13 September 1877, Page 4
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168OTHER TOPICS. Colonist, Volume XIX, Issue 2283, 13 September 1877, Page 4
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