BATTLES IN ASIA-CONTRADICTORY. REPORTS. •• RUSSIAN TERRITORY CLEARED OF TTJEKISH TROOPS. Constantinople, Monday. ♦LL men in Asia Minor fapable of kiearing arms have been called together. Preparations for continuing the war are being made on an immense scale. In view of Servia's

WANTED, a LAD well educated, of 14 or 15 years of age, R.C., of respectable parents, as Apprentice to the General Drapery Trade, in a Town in the County Monaghan. Apply by letter, giving reference to " B. C., Advocate Office." NEW ZEALAND. FREE PASSAGES. 6 VESSELS WILL SAIL FOR

Tam tnirriage of the Duke of Norfolk with Lady Flora Hastings was celebrated at the Brampton Oratory on Wednesday with unusual splendour. The crowd surrounding the church was enormous, and the appealable were lined with carriages for mil. ie - Marquis of Lorne, Earl Beaconstlel

CHURCH SQUARE, MONAGHAN, BEGS to annonnos his return from London and the Manufacturing District, Cl England. where be his l o n gt lrgest sad cheapest Um* of GOODS he bad for many Fears, In consequeeme of the og ezistilig depression in trade, be has purchased for Cu many lots of

For strengthening a debilitated constitution. these Pill. we mon efficacious than any other medicine. Persons of a nen ous habit of body, and all who ate surecring frets weak digestive organs. or whose health has become deranged fro= whatever cause, should lose no time in giving

London, Monday. Ix the Lenten Pastoral of the Cardinal A rchbishop of Paris, road in all the churches in that city yesterday, his Eminence says : " The Vicar of Jesus Christ has not yet arrived at the conclusion of his long trials. The temporal sovereignty of the Holy See, the o

t hat the following articles can be obtained at in perfect purity, in excel- I nt order, and at the lowest possible prices: WHISKIES :- PORTERS AND .1. JAMESON & SON'S Gum:ma's X and XX EORGE ROE & CO:11 ONLY IN WOOD AND WILLIAN Luassotes BI7IITON PALE ALE IN JOHN POWICE & SON'S

BEGS leave to aanounce to his numer. ous Friends and the Public generally, that he has commenced the above bnsi. nese in that house lately in occupation of Mr. B. Bort.s, and he hopes, by his giving value in every department of same that will compare favourably with any in Town,

MOT NEW CATHOLIC CEMETERY, HIS GRACE THE PRIMATE, WILL TAKE PLACE On SUNDAY, the 19th day of AUGUST, 1877. SOLEMN HIGH AT TWiLTZ O'CLOCK. SERMON BY The Very Rev. Henry Harbison, C .S .S. R. After which a Collection will be made to pay off a large Parochial Debt. Reserved Seats a

Subscriptions will be thankfully received by Rev. MICHAYL COTNI, P.P., filo:. A CHARITY SERMON, IN AID OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS. WILL BE PREACHED Ili T HE PARISH CHURCH, MONAGHAN, Sunday, 19th day of August, 1877, BY THE MONAGHAN: AUGUST 18, 1877. REV. R. OWENS, ADM. Pontifical