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FRIDAY, HKITEMUEH 7, 1877.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THIS WAR IN THE EAST
Dispatches from London on Ang. 30 eUte
that after the dosjrate but unsuccessful t
emit of th Turks to drive the Russians out
of Hchipka paw the attack was not renewed,
and up to Tuesday the opposing forces confined
themselves to outpost HkinniHhiug. Tho Turks
appear to have wcured possession of somo
height which threatt-n the Russian flanks and
are beyond reach of the Russian batteries,
lladetzky had been heavily reinforced, and ex
pected t be able to hold his position, whilo
the Turks were taking advantage of tho sus
pension of actual fighting to conHtruct strong
earthworks in tho valley of the Tundja.
A telegram from Tern, dated Ang. 31, says :
" The preliminary useless and bloody assaults
on the front of the Russian positions have boen
abandoued, and tho investment of the Russian
right flank commenced. The uatural obstacles
encountered by the Turks aro of tremendous
magnitude. Guns have been dragged by hand
up heights almost Impassable by unencumbered
footmen. In the charges and counter-charges
at the position gained by the Turks on the
Russian flank the results were murderous.
On the slope- in front of tho Turkish guns de
fending tho line of the rifle-pits 210 Russian
Isxlies wero left within a space seventy-five
yards square Quarter was rarely given or
taken in this attack. From the beginning of
the assault on Schipka, the fighting has been
often hand-to-hand, and tho dead outnumber
tho wounded."
An estimate. of the losses at the battle of
hchipka pass places thoso of the Russians at
8,000 and those of the Turks at 22,000.
The Russians continue their advance in Asia
Minor. Russian accounts report some fighting,
in which they claim to have defeated tho Turks.
A telegram from Erzerom Bays the Russians
bave changed their position, and are now be
tween the Turkish army and AlexandropoL
C-onstantinople dispatches report a severo
battle in Bulgaria, on the 30th ult, between
tho Russians and Mehemet Ali's forces. The
Turks made an attack in force along tho line of
the River Lorn, and there was some hard fight
ing throughout the entire day, resulting, ac
cording to Turkish accounts, advantageously to
their arms. They admit a loss of 3,000 in killed
and wonnded, and claim that the Russian loss
was much heavier.
A London dispatch says : " From accounts
reaching hero it would seem that the Russians
have fared better in recent engagements than
has lx-en supposed. Tho battlo at Felisat has
resulted in the defeat of Osman Pasha, with a
loss of 2,500 in killed and wounded, while the
Russians only lost 500. The fighting was for
tho possession, of a formidable rodoubt
held by tho Russians. The Turks
fought with tho most desperate valor,
and were mowed down by hundreds by the
galling fire of tho Russians, and were finally
compelled to retire, leaving tho coveted posi
tion in the hands of tho enemy."
Suleiman Pasha has abandoned the attempt
on tho Russian position in Schipka pass.
It is stated that Grand Duke Michael, Commander-in-Chief
of the Russian array in Asia
Minor, has assumed command of Gen. Meli
koffs army in person, that ofticer having been
removod for exceeding his orders.
Tho Grand Duko Nicholas' long-expected at
tack upon the forces under Osman Pasha, by
which he expected to retrieve the Plevna dis
aster, began at 10 o'clock onthe morning of
Tuesday, Sept. 4. The assault was made along
tho whole line, and was irresistible. Tho fight
ing that ensued as soon as the entire move
ment had been fairly unmasked by the Russians
was of tho most terrific character, both on
the part of tho Turks and their assailants. Al
most every strategic point along the whole line
of operations was the scene of desperate
charges by the Russians. In nearly every in
stance when the Russians reached the Turkish
positions they succeeded in carrying them de
spito all the irregularity of the ground. The
defense of tho Turks was determined and des
perate, but they were unablo to withstand the
onslaught of their opponents, and were com
polled to retiro sullenly from position after po
sition.
Advices from Aia Minor report that the
Turks have evacuated and the Russians reoo
cupied the Black sea port of Bookgoom Kale ;
that the Abschasian coast is now clear of
Turks, and that tho insurrection in the interior
ha-s boon suppressed.
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.
Tho editor of a Paris paper has boen sum
moned before tho Correctional Tribunal for
publishing an - insulting remark about Gen.
Grant About tho samo hour the ex-President
was in the city of Edinburgh, undergoing tho
coremony of having the freedom of tho Hootch
capital presented to him.
A cable dispatch announces tho death of
Louis Adolph Thiers, the celebrated French
statesman, in the BOLh year of his ago.
The death of Thiers has created a profound
impression throughout all Europe, and more
especially in France, where it is regarded as a
national calamity. Manifestions of public
grief are noticeablo to an extent which recalls
the stato of feeling in the United States pro
duced by the intelligence of the sudden Inking
off of Trcsi lent Lincoln in 18C5. The Repnb-
licans are dismayed at the sudden loss of the
man upon whom they had centered tlwir hopes
and desires as the successor of MacMahon,
while the Conservatives regard the circum
stanoo as certain to operate in their favor at
the ensuing elections.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
A shocking accident is reported from Salem,
Mass. A railway train ran down a crowded
pier, killing four persons and wounding several
more. Several ladles, in their fright, leaped
off the pier into the water, but were rescued.
Three railway strikers were tried at Iitta
borgh, last week, for interfering with the run
ning of trains on a road that had passed into
the hands of a receiver. They were flued 1100
and Hontenoed to ninety days' imprisonment.
A little boy Bupposod to be the missing
Charles Ross was taken by the Sheriff of Clarke
county, Ohio, to Oermantown, Fa. There was
much excitement In the town over the arrival
of the child, and a great crowd gathered at the
Ross mansion to get a view of him. Many of
the neighbors who remembered Charley were
firmly of the opinion that the lost boy had at
last len recovered, but Mr. and Mrs. Ross,
while admitting that the Ohio lad boro a strong
rwemblance of their child, were positive that
he was not Char by.
Alvin Adams, founder of the Adams Express
Company, died tho other day at his home in
Watcrtowu, Mass.
A fire in New York last week destroyed J. P.
Halo's piano factory and about eighty other
buildings, mostly factorios and tenement
houses. The flames spread so rapidly that the
occupants barely escaped with their lives.
Two or three persons are missing, and it is
leared they perished. Los estimated at
f350,000.
New York city has had a genuine case of yel
low fever.
WOMt
Tho most disastrous railway accident Uiat
has happened in the West nince the Ashtabula
calamity occurred on the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railroad on the morning of Aug. 29.
A passenger train bound west, and consisting
of Barnum's nhow car, one express, three
coaches and a sleeper, was passing over what is
knows aa Littlo Four-Mile creek, nine miles
east of Des Moines, Iowa, when tho bridge gave
way, precipitating the entire train into the
stream, which was greatly swollen at
the time by heavy rains that had
fallen during the night. Tho train was
running at the ordinary speed. Tho bridge
rested on a stone arch twelve feet in the clear,
supported in turn by walls five feet thick. The
bridge is approached from tho cast round a
curve, and down grade. It is thought the rails
were standing alone as the train approached,
and the engineer, who had slackened his speed
till he came in sight of tho bridge, supposing
that all was right, dashed upon it. Tho chan
nel of the stream was forty or fifty feet wide.
and tho banks about twenty feet high.' The
locomotive, in its wild dash, landed at tho foot
of the western side, and half buried itself in
the earth. Barnum's car was next to the en
gine. It dropped into the channel; the bag
gage and mail car followed, passed directly
over it, mashing it to pieces, and went to tho
bottom, a bar of Iron running clear through
it. fho men in that car escaped alive.
Even the lamps wore not put out. The first
passenger car pitched headlorg Into the chan
nel, whero the water was at least fifteen feet
deep. Tne next car was plunged under thi,
telescoping with it, and tho next telescoped
half through both of tho two preceding it.
The sleeping car did not go Into the wreck,
simrily because there was not enough room for
it. Its occupants were jarred, but none of
thorn seriously hurt. The most of the killed
wero in the car In front of tho sleeper. Tho
Kccio at the time of the accident is described as
having been torrine. Rain was falling in tor
rents, accompanied by wind, lightning and vio
lent thunder. Tho crash put out the lights, aud
tho scene of terror ensuing may well be Imag
ined. The men who wero not injured and
could get out went to work at once to
rescue the living and tho wounded. They
had to go a milo to a farm-house to get
axes to chop them out, but they worked hero
ically, and, by daylight, had tho most of tho
wounded rescued. There wero many pitiful
scenes and tender incidents. One mother was
killed sitting between two children who escaped
unhurt. One little girl, who had lain in tho
water for four hours with a heavy man lying
dead beneath her body, was discovered to bo
breathing, and was rescued and restored, aud
now shows no signs of injury. Twenty dead
bodies were taken out of the wreck, and it is
thought the death-roll will be still further in
creased, as many of tho wounded, numbering
upward of fifty, are injured to such an extent
that they can hardly recover.
A Salt Lake dispatch announces tho death of
Brigham Young, tho Mormon saint, after an
illness of six days. Hid disease was cholera
morbus. Young was born at Whittington, Vt.,
on the 1st of June, 1801, and was therefore a
little over 7G years old.
An examination of tho assets of tho broken
State Savings Institution, of Chicago, shows
the assets of the concern to be worthless to a
degreo far beyond the first rough estimates.
It is not likely that more than $000,000, or in
the neighborhood of 20 per cent, of tho liabili
ties to depositors, will be realized from all
sources. Spencer, tho lYesident, and nearly
all tho other oflicerB of the bank have disap
peared, and their whereabouts at last accounts
was unknown.
Gen. Miles telegraphs tho War Department
at Washington that Sitting Bull has recrossed
the Canadian border, and is again on American
soil,
Ex-Gov. Shannon, of Kansas, is dead.
Tho citizens of Osawatomie, Kan., have
erected a monument to the memory of John
Brown.
It is announced from Salt Lake that the
question of a successor to Brigham Young will
be held in abeyance for some time, and that
the church will bo governed by tho Twelve
Apostles during the interval.
The following has been received at army
headquarters in Chicago : " Howard, purauing
Nez Perces, has crossed to east bank of Yel
lowstone, at head of Yellowstone canon, and u
following trail towards east fork of Yellowstone.
Lieut Daam, with one company and 100 Crows,
at Borowell's bridge, below canon Sturges has
moved down from Crow agency to trail on
Clark's fork. Hart is moving by way of Fort
C. F. Smith, and will go up Stinking Water trail
toward Yellowstono park. Morritt, moving out
from Brown, will go up Jones trail on Wind
river. Indians last reported to bo on east f urk,
half way Isjtwteu canon and Clark's fork iniue."
A building on Logworth street, Cincinnati,
fell, the other day, with a tremendous crash,
burying a number of people in the ruins. Ono
womau was killed, throe men fatally injured,
and some half a dozen other perrvous badly
hurt
The obseauies of Brigham Young, at Salt
Lake City, were remarkably common-place,
considering the eminence of the man in tho
community where he livod and died. Tho
body was inclosed in a plain redwood coffin,
and was borne to the grave by the employes of
the late President The cortege was preceded
by a band and followed by the family, the dif
ferent orders of the priosthood and tne ad
herents, all on foot
Prof. Watson, of the Michigan University,
has discovered another asteroid. It is de
scribed as 44 a planet of the eleventh magni
tude its right ascension is twenty-three hours
aud ten minutes, and its declination zero de
grees, forty-five minutes. ' Daily motion, retro
grade fifty-five seconds of time in right ascen
sion, and south one minute of aro in declina
tion." Private Dalzell's reunion of ex-Fedural and
ex-Confederate soldiers at Marietta, O , was at
tended by several thousand volanteer soldiers
of both sides in the late war, and everything
Ihhhv4 oil satisfactorily to the participants in
the gathering.
Chief Joseph's baud are still roaming about
Montana, confiscating stock and occasionally
capturing a scalp. At last accounts they were
in the vicinity of the Yellowstone, having
burned the bridge across that stream. Gen.
Howard's command was far In tho rear, with
every prospect of the relative positions being
maintained.
Advices from Camp Robinson report that
Shedding Bear's band, who have been robbing
and murdering in the Black Hills, have sur
rendered and promised to be good Indians
hereafter.
Moiitll.
Mobile papers announce the death of Ad
miral Semmcs, the famous Confederate cruiser.
It is announced In a dispatch from Colum
bia, S. C, that Indictments have been re
turned by tho Grand Jury against ex-Gov.
Moses, ex-Lieut Gov. G leaves, ex-Treasurers
Parker and Cardozo, ex-Comptrollers Dunn
and Hoge, ex-Speaker Lee, the ex-Clerks of
the General Assembly Woodruff and Jones,
ex-Senator Owens, and a number of others,
on charges of fraud In connection with their
official duties. United States Senator Patter
son was also indicted for bribery.
Ten blocks of buildings in the business part
of tho town of Paris, Tex., were recently de
stroyed by fire. Tho loss is estimated at over
a million dollars.
Four murderers confined in the jail at New
castle, Ky , were taken out tho other night and
hung by a mvb.
POLITICAL POINTS.
i The Iowa Democratio State Convention met
at Marshalltown on the 20th of August and
organized by tho election of Daniel O. Fitch as
permanent Chairman. Sixty-four counties
were represented by 3CJ delegates. Jolin P.
Irish was nominated for Oovernor; C C.
James, of Pottawattamie, for Lieutenant Gov
ernor; N. E. J. Boardman, of Marshall, for
Supremo Judge; and O. D. Culleson, of Wayne,
for Superintendent of Public Instruction. All
the nominations were made by acclamation,
The platform as adopted by ' tho convention is
as follows:
1. Thd Democracy of tho State of Iowa, In con
vention aascmbled, hereby declare in favor of a
tariff for revenue only ; honest, economic home
rule ; the supremacy of civil over military power ;
tho separation of church and utatc; equality of all
citlaeus before the law ; opposition to the granting
by the Ocueral Government of subsidies to any cor
poration whatever ; aud we believe,
2. The destruction of the industry of the coun
try and the pauperism of labor are the inevitable
fruit of vicious laws enacted by the Republican
party.
3. That, as a means of relieving tho distrensed
portion of the community and removing the great
stringency complained of in business circlet), we
drinnd tho iuuuudlate repeal of the Hpccie Resump
tion act.
4. That we denounce as an outrage upon the
rights of the peoplo the enactment of the Repub
lican measure demonetizing silver, and demand the
paasigo of a law which shall restore to silver its
monetary power.
5. That we f avor the retention of a greenback cur
rency, and declare against any further contraction,
and we are in favor of the substitution of green
backs for national-bank bills.
6. We congratulate the country upon the accept
ance by the present administration of the constitu
tional and pacific policy of local ielf -government in
tho States Houth so long advocated by the Demo
cratic party, aud which has brought peace and har
mony to that soction. and, in regard to the future
financial policy, in the language of our national
platform adopted in the New York Convention in
18C8, we urge,
7. Payment of the public debt of the United
HUt ; as rapidly aa practicable, all money drawn
frou the people by taxation, except so much as is
reo'iaite for the necessities of the Government
economically administered, being honestly applied
to such payment when due.
8. Equal taxation of every species of property, ac
cording to its value.
9. One currency for the Government and the peo
ple, the laborer and the officeholder, the pensioner
and the soldier, the producer and the bondholder.
10. The right of the Mate to regulato railroad
corporations having bora established by the higher
courts of the country, we now declare that this
right must be exercised with due regard to justice.
As there is no necessary antagonism between the
people and these corporations, the common inter
ests of both demand a speedy restoration of the
former friendly relations through just legislation on
the one tilde and a cheerful submishion thereto on
the other.
11. The rights of capital and labor are equally
sacred, and aliVe entitled to legal protection. They
have no just cause of quarrel, and their proper
relation to each other are adjustable by natural
laws, and should not be hampered by legislative in
terference. 12. That we favor the repeal of the present Pro
hibitory Liquor law of this State, and the enactment
of a Judicious and well-regulated License law in
stead, all money derived from licenses to go to tho
coiuuion-school fund of the Hut.
General elections are to bo held In fourteen
States this fall, as follows :
Daft. Stats. To be Chon.
September 5 ..... California . .... ..LcgiHlaturo.
September 10 .. . Maine Gov. aud Legis.
Octobers Ohio Gov. and Lcgis.
Octobers Iowa ..Gov. aud Legls.
November 6 Connecticut Legislature.
November 6 Maryland Compi'r and Leg.
November 6 MaHachnsett. ..Gov. and Legis.
November 6 Minnesota Gov. end Legis.
November 6.. ...Mississippi Gov. aud Legis.
November 0 New Jersey Gov. and Levis.
November C... New Vork Sec. HUt and Leg.
November fl Pennsylvania.... Auditor General.
NovrinlxT 6 Virginia Gov. aud Legis.
November 6 Wisconsin Gov. and Legis.
The Iowa Prohibitionists held a State Con
vention at Orkaloosa last week, and nominated
Hon. Elias Jessup for Governor. Steps were
taken to raiso a fund to canvass the State.
A Wacbington telegram states that at a
meeting of the Cabinet, the other day, it was
decided that A. B. Cornell, Naval Officer at
New York, should be removed as soon as a sat
isfactory person could bo found to fill the
racancy.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The following is the programme of the Presi
dent's Western and Southern trip; Sept. 8 and
9 he will attend the National Encampment of
Volunteer Soldiers at Marietta, Ohio; thence he
will risit his home at Fremont, remaining two
days; Sept. 11 goes to Dayton to attend the
meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Sol
diers' Home; 12ih unveils a soldiers' monu
ment at the Home; 13th, returns to Fremont to
participate in the reunion of his old regiment,
23d Ohio; 16th loaves for the South; 17ih, will
be present at the opening of the Industrial Ex
position at Loui-vdle, Ky.j 19Ui, will vb.it
Nashville, Tenn,- 2oth, Chattauooga 2M,
Knoxville; thence retondng to Washington
through "Virginia, visiting Lynchburg, Bich
mond and other prominent citlos.
Washington papers "hromcle the death of
E. L. Stanton, a son of Edwin M. Stanton, late
Hocretary of War. .
A Washington dispatch says Secretary Sher
man is in favur of the Government issuing 4
per cent, savings bonds. He also favors a
postal savings-bank system, like that existing
in England.
The reports upou the. subject of the move
ments of Sitting ; Bull are so conflicting that
Secretary McCrary has made op Lis mind to
send a commission to meet him, wherever ho
may bo found. A O. Lawrence, of Rhodo
laiand, has consented to serve on the commis
sion, in place of Gen. McNeill, of St. Louis,
who declined the honor.
The lTesident has appointed Thomas W.
Hunt United States Marshal for tho Southern
District of Mississippi, vice J. L. Lake, Jr., re
signed ; Lewis E. Parsons, Unitod States At
torney for the Northern and Middlo Districts
of Alabama, vice Charles E. Mayer, removed :
Samuel O. Reld, United States Marshal for the
Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama, vice
George Turner, removed.
The public-debt statement for Sept. 1 shows
a decrease in the national indebtedness during
tho month of August of $.1,8J9,M8. Following
are tho official figures :
Six per cent, bonds $ 814.341,050
Five per rent, bonds 7OH,2tie,650
Four aud a half per cent, bonds lH5,ooo,UOO
Total coin bonds $l,7M.fi07,700
Lawful money debt $ 14,000,000
Matured debt , 19,357,BfiO
Iegal tenders 3AH.040 (MHJ
Certificates of deposit 60,430,000
Fractional currency 1,172.114
Coin certificates , 3H,525,400
Total without interest .$ M 167,10
Total debt $2,202,132,971
ToUl interest 2f,2J.V'.4
Cash in treasury -oin $ loc.i04,9:5
Cash in tressur) currency.. Il,8i.a;i7
Currency htld lor redemption of frac
tional currency j S,2C5,412
Special deposit held for redemption of
certificates of deposit 50,430,000
Total in treasury 172,!i2H,H8o'
Debt less rash in treasury. .. $2,055,46(,779
Decrease of dobt during August S.Htiit.Mrt
Decrease since June ao 7,746,8H4.43
Don i is hunted to Pacific lUilroad Compa
nies, intercut payable in lawful money;
principal outstanding 64,fi2:i,M2
Iutorest accrued and not yet paid r4,2:w
luterest paid by the United State 33,957,629
Interest repaid by trausporUtion of
mails, etc 8,r,7,2To
Balance of Uiterest paid by United '. f ":
States. . j ; . - 27,21,37
A Washington dispatch announces the ap
pointment of Mr.' William Henry Smith, at
present General Agent of tho Western Asso
ciated Press, as Collector of Customs at Chi
cago, vice J. BusHell' Jonos. ' suspended. 'The
resignation of tho latter was not forthcouung
at the request of President Hayes, and honce
tho suspension and appointment ni stated. :'
The New Vork Republican Association, at
Washington, has disbanded iu consequence of
the President's civil-service order.
Hon. J. B. MoCormick,.. Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, has resigned. .
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.
Only twelve of the Governors of the States
and Territories accepted invitations to be
present at Philadelphia as tho guests of the
city and the Permanent Exposition.
The annual meeting o the American Associ
ation for tho Advancement of Science was held
at Nashvillo, Tenn., last week. Thero was a
large attendance, and a number of interesting
papers wero read. One huudred and fifty new
members were elected.
Dr. V. N. Hurlbert, of Chicago, was elected
Eminent Grand Commander of the Knights
Templar of tho Uuited States, at the recent
conclave in Cleveland. The next triennial
meeting will bo held in Chicago in 1S80.
As a result of the amalgamation of the lend
ing telegraph companies of the country, the
tariff on all messages of ten words tx twecu the
East and the West has been advanced from 25
cents to 40 cents.
Brigham Young leaves a family of seventeen
wives and hfty-six children (Mxteon sons and
twenty-eight daughters) to mourn his -loath.
Tho doath of E. L. Davenport, for many
years recognized as ono of the most accom
plished actors on tho American stage, occurred
last week at his summer residence in Canton,
Pa. Mr. Davenport was 61 years old.
In the mouth of May, 1876, Hon. 8. S. Bnr
dette, Commissioner of the General Land Oilice
at Washington, and an ex-member of Con
gress from Missouri, mysteriously disapieared.
Ho was last seen at a hotel in New York, whero
he had considerable money on his erson, and
it was supposed he had been murdered and
robbed. Tho other day ho suddenly reappeared
in riedalia, M ). The unfortunate man's mind
is clouded, and he is unablo to tell whero he
has been or what he has been doing all these
months.
A niau named Wickliffe writes to tho Louis
ville Courier Journal that Osman Pasha, the
hero of Plevna, is not Mar-dial Bazaiuo, but
that ho is Col. It. Clay Crawford, a native of
Hawkins county. Tenn. He was Colonel of an
artillery regiment in the rebellion; afterward
served under Juarez in Mexico; then lived in
retirement at a country Beat near Philadelphia;
became weary of idleness and went to Egypt,
and was transferred from the Bervico of the
Khedivo to that of the Sultan. The story is
circumstantially told, the narrator claiming to
have been in correspondence with Osman for
several years.
In disposing of his property, Brigham Young
endeavored to make an equitable, division be
tween his seventet n wives, sixteen sous and
twenty-eight daughters. The estate is valued
at (2,01)0,000, and the will divides it so that all
ths legatees will have, with such other proper
ty as ho lias from time to time convened them,
an equ U proportion of the old man's goods.
Gold continues to tumble. The price fell
last week, in the Nnw York market, to 103,Yt
the lowest since tho war.
fuesh nnunui'Hs.
A kill is to be presented ill Congress
next session to secure a pension to Lla
Lewis, tho American Grace Darling,
who, though still faithful to her duties
as keeper of tho light, is in very bad
heal tli.
The Government paper-mills nt Glenn
Falls, Fa., have been closed. The stock
now on hand for bank-note and internal
revenue purposes is so large that an ad
ditional supply will not be needed for a
year.
The New York Sunday Mercury pub
lishes a lull list of the dramatic com
panies formed for tho entire country. A
few good names are enlisted in each of
the New Yoik theaters, but tho com
panies are by no means 41 full and com
plete." In this respect the West is
ahead of tho East, and McVicker's The
aer, Chicago, is entitled to the ribbon
There is no better company formed than
the one engaged for this iopultr house.
The Mtrcury deserves credit for its en
terprise in not only giving a full list of
all the companies, but also o! all tho
' combinations " which aro to be inflict
ed on the country towns as "great at
tractions." They are good, bad and in
differentgenerally the latter and un
less the times improvo we shall henr of
bad news from tho 41 dramatic combina
tions." Tiik estate of tho late Brigham Youn,
says a Bait Lake correspondent, is esti
mated at from $(5,000,000 to $7,000,000,
but it would bo difficult to place any ap
proximate value upon it, as it is very
widely scattered. He owns large tracts
of real estate in many of tho settlement,
and mills, buildings, live stock and' a
great variety of improvements. He
owns nearly all the stock in the street
railroads in this city, and large amounts
of Utah Central and Utah Southern
railroad londs, is a large owner in the
Deseret Bank, the DeBeret Telegraph
Company, the controlling proprietor of
the great Zion's Co-operative Mercantila
Institution, etc.
Later accounts of the famine in India
present a most horrible picture of suffer
ing among the natives. In Southern
India, tho district most affected by tho
famine, there are some 21,000,000 peo
ple, of whom, according to authoritative
statements, ono-sixth, or 4,000,000, must
die of actual want. The distance to be
traversed between this afllicted district
and the productive portions of India is
so great that, with the utter absence of
means of transportation, except wagon
teams (which cannot carry enough for
their own subsistence), the task of re
lieving the starving millions would be
impossible. Some fearful instances of
suffering in the streets of Madras aro re
counted, where infants are abandoned by
their mothers and left to perish by the
roadside. The most horrible phase of
the visitation yet made known is given
in a report from tho province of Mysore,
whero two cases of - cannibalism are said
to have occurred. A member of the re
lief committee in ' that quarter fears that
this practice must, under the circum
stances, become widespread. " " -
Several of the I'osts of the Grand
Army of the Republic have drawn up a
series of resolutions embodying a plan
for frontier protection very much alter
the manner in which Austria, a cent
ury ago, protocted herself ngaiust Turk
ish invasion. The object is to guard
the frontier by a cordon cf posts, garri
soned by veterans of tho late war, occu
pying the country as actual colonists.
Tlie Government is to give each actual
settler who served in' the lata war 100
acres of the public lands, furnish a saw
mill and grist-mill for each district, and
also establish a QuartennasterVDeport
nient for tho purpose of issuing all nec
essary supplies of lumber and materials
to build a house and to furnish grain
and vegetables for planting, with farm
ing utensils and one horse aud cow to
each man. The colonies ure to consist
of 1,000 men in each district, divided
into companies of 100 men each, who
will choose their own officers, receive
arms aud ammunition, transportation
and subsistence in time of war, and pay
for three years. At the end of this time
a perfect title shall be given to all real
and personal property issued to each
settler. The bill is now in the hands of
Secretary Schurz for examination, and
will be brought up in Congress at the
next session.
TK.VDE AM) INDUSTRY.
There aro seventy establishments in
the United States devoted to tho pro
duction of window glass. Ol the several
States New Jersey has the largest
number, twenty-seven.
The Sr ringfield JicpuOlican , says tho
Fall River manufacturers have been at
tempting to force up tlie prices of their
goods a little too fast, and, creating a
reaction in consequence, have been ac
cumulating heavy stocks. But they have
su h faith in the future of the market
that they refuse to reduce production,
and soveral new mills are in progress of
erection, while nearly all of them have
recommenced paying dividends to their
stockholders.
From all reports received it seems to
be an assured fact that the British har
vest tli is year will be a light one, the
wheat crop especially. The harvest in
France is also defective, and tlie Russian
fields are going to waste owing to insuf
ficient hands. The German crop is look
ing well. This is rather encouraging
newB for us. We have this year one of
tho finest crops evt r garnered, and it is
estimated on the London Exchange that
the importation of wheat from America
will exceed last year's supply by 2,000,-
000 quarters.
In spite of the recent sudden falling
off in the exports of fresh meat to Eu
rope, the business still survives, and gives
promise of permanence. Since January
1 we have sent to English ports C9, 145,
400 pounds fresh beef, worth 0,911,590,
against 19,990.895 pounds worth 81,755,
191 during tlie same period of 1870. Tho
butter and cheese exports are largo.
Since May 1, 0,031,353 pounds of but
ter have been sent over, against 1,816,
119 the samo period of 187G, 52,GG7,743
pounds of cheese, against 13,412, 179 last
year.
Thr great German capital, Berlin, is
going through a terrible real-estate col
lapHe. For three or four years before
1873 it seemed impossible to build
houses fast enough to supply tho in
creasing population, or to advance
prices beyond tho takers. But tho sup
ply was pushed beyond the demand,
prices have been so high that people
went away, aud now thero are 20,000
vacant apartments in the city. There
is a great deal of real estate that does
not yield income enough to pay taxes,
and a wide-spread distress and ruin
among real-estate men who have done
business on borrowed capital.
The farmers are enjoying a prosperity
which might well arouse the envy of all
other classes. Combining in themselves
tho interests of both capital and labor,
uiey nave, lortunately, escaped tlie ef
fects of tho recent conflicts which the
antagonism of such interests has pro
duced in various parts of tho country.
They have tilled their fertile acres in
peace, and have been bles- with an un
usually abundant harvest. Their bins
are bursting with the golden yield of the
grain fields. Plenty sits smiling at
their hearths. For the products of
their acres there is an active demand.
The granaries of the marts of Russia
have been exhausted. The war has
practically stopped Russinn agriculture.
The surplus of American crnin will flnl
a ready outlet thiough the channels of
exportation. Prices will rulo high and
farmers will be happy.
BATTLE OF THE LOM.
Furious and Invincible Valor of thm r.
natlc.l Mohammedan.
(War Cor. New York HeraU.J
Your correspondent has just witnessed
a victorious engagement for the Turkish
arms from tho heights opposite Popkoi,
on tho river Lorn. The battle com
menced in the morning with a forward
movement of tho Turkish divisions of
Med j id Pasha, who commanded the
Turkish right, and Fnad Pasha and
Sabid Pasha, whose divisions formed the
center and left The advance by tlie
forces under Medjid was made in gallant
style, the men taking open order and
skirmishing as they ncared the Russian
position. The advance was well covered
by the guns of the Turks, who took ad
vantage of the frequent elevations of the
country to rush their batteries forward
to points where they could not only ma
terially help the infantry but make hot
work for the Russian batteries on the
heights beyond. On VJi sides tho ar
tillery practico was excellent. Medjul
and his men pushed their way to the vil
lage of Karahassankoi, where the signal
to charge was given, and with a rush they
wero over the Russian intrenchments on
the hill. The slaughter was terrible on the
Turkish side during this port of the en
gagement, but the men stood it nobly.
The Russians, who at first met the in
coming rush of the Turks with great
bravery, wero soon forced to yield.
They wero driven precipitately down tne
heights commanding the valley of the
Lorn with great loss. Meanwhile Sabid
Pasha attacked tho Caschilsler, a lofty
hill Crowned by a throe-gun Russian
battery. It required a very brilliant
dash to carry this difficult position, but
it, was successfully accomplished, the
nns silenced ami captured,; and the
Russians killed or driven back f u head
long "haste. The attack, indeed, had
been successful at all points and the
troops shouted "A'laht" "Allah!"
with a fiery enthusiasm that told of theiri
elation. A general advance was now or
dered, ond in a short time the bridge
uii ) uiu xjuiu wan iriuuitu, nun
1. T . I. .l 1 l.
bank The villages on that side which
wero held by tho Russians wero soon
captured and were shortly after seen to
bo in flames. Tho Russians now evacu
ated Popkoi. As might bo expected, this
victory has created the wildest enthusiasm
throughout tho whole army 1 .
uesinicuve Morni in cum.
Advices from South America report
that Valparaiso and Santiugo have suf
fered from fearful rains ond great inun
dations, with loss of life and property;
other ports of the republic have also
suffered from the unusually heavy rains.
In Valparaiso the rain fell heavily for
thirty hours consecutively, more than
enough to produce a general inundation,
ond convert the streets into navigable
canals. According to tlie rain gauge the
total fall of rain during thirty-six hours
was between five and six inches. The
otherwise dry and sandy ravines were
converted into veritable rivers, and the
rush of water was so terrific that the
sewers were unable to withstand the
pressure and burst ia every direction.
Tho water flowing through tho streets
found its way into the cellars and lower
Etories of tho houses and warehouses, in
flicting incalculable damage and loss on
their inmates and owners.
Many bridges have boen injured and
some have been entirely destroyed.
Thero have also been several landslips,
and the loose earth finding its way into
the sewers further impeded the passage
of tlie water and materially assisted in
forcing in out of its natural channels.
Many houses wero injured through the
same cause, and several wero completely
demolished, involving tho death of thcir
unfortunate inmates.
All communication was interrupted
between Valparaiso and Santiago, as tho
lino in many places was inundated and
t.thcrwiso injured. Street traffic was al
so temporarily suspended. In Santiago
and other parts of the country the rains
havrt been equally severe, and of course
the extent of tho damage in equal pro
portion. noN. T. C. Platt has been to the
Black Hills, and thinks that justice has
not been done them as a gold-producing
country. Ho ventures the prediction
that from $0,000,000 to $8,000,000 in gold
will be taken out this year.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.
Hkkvks $ft 50 (SI 2 CO
Hons S CO (Mo K5
Cotton n njt'
Flou b HuiKTflne Westrni 4 HO m 4 H5
Wheat No. 3 1 33 1 40
Corn WoHtcrn Mixed &A (4 68;
Oats Mixed 3'j (, 4t
Rye Western M w C7;w'
Pome New Mess 13 00 il3 lo'
Lakd $ 0
CHICAGO.
Reeves Choice Graded HU-ers 5 80 ( f. 2"
Choico Natives 5 35 t 5 7i
Cows and Hcifera 2 60 (.v. 3 75
(ood Scoonrt-class Steers. 3 75 (rf. 4 1"
' Mdimu to Fair 4 50 6 10
Hoos Live 4 75 W 6 45
Flocb Fancy Whito Winter 0 75 7 Oft
Good to Choke Hiring i. t W ( 0 25
Wheat No. 2 HriiiK 1 10 1 1'J
No. 3 Hriug 1 (Xi (4 1 07
Corn No. 2 4J (. 44
Oats No. 2 24 m 25
Rye No. 2 61 (. 55
IWrley No. 2 M m 07
Rctter Choice Creaiuc ry 23 ; 25
Eos Fretth U 12';
I'ORK-MettH 12 35 (a"!2 45
La HI) fciM jm;
MILWAUKEE.
Wheat No. 1 1 14 a 1 16
No. 2 1 05 (4 1 o
Corn No. 2 4 J 43
Oats No. 2 23 4 24
Ryu No. 1 64 ( 55
ItAHLEY No. 2 06 (j4 67
sr. Louis.
Wheat No. 7 Red Fall 1 25 c 1 27
Corn No. a Mixed 40 (4 41
Oats No. 2 25 (4 2l
Rye 61 63
Pork Mess 12 70 (13 M
Lard 8 9'
Hoos 4 76 4 5 20
Cattle 4 00 & S 75
CINCINNATI.
Wheat Red 1 13
Corn 47 (4
Oats M
Rye 64 4 M
Pork Meas 12 76 (.U 00
Lard 8,V4
TOLEDO.
Wheat No. 2 Red WlnWr 1 29 (4 1 31
No. 1 White Michigan 1 32 (4 1 34
Corn 48 (4 40
Oats No. 2 24 $ 2H
DETROIT.
Flocb Choice White Winter M 4 ....
Wheat No. 1 1 1 ( 1 83 V
Corn Mixed . 4Vjc4 49,v
Oath Mixed 2S 4
Rarlet (per cental) 1 19 04 1 40
Fobs Mem H WU 65
EAST LIBERTY, PA.
Cattle IWt W Q 6 25
Moriiuru to Good A 00 a 6 75
Common to Fair 4 00 4 75
Hoos.: 4 00 5 CO
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