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They »er© warm perwiml friends, and yet were led ; j#n by roughs and thieves to the contest which , made one a murderer and a faaritivej and Jaid the other in a dishonorable grave. • A TEAIN on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad '//ton off the track near Harper's Ferry, a few •• .• '-"(Jays ago, and rolled down an embankment into the canal. Strange to say, none of the passen­ gers were seriously injured. The only death Was that of Joseph ft. Shipley, the heroic en­ gineer, who wan found in five feet of water wedged in his cab, with both hands grasping the throttle of the locomotive . John 8. Waring & Co., o? Yomkers, the heaviest bat manufacturing firm in the United States, have failed, with liabilities amounting to about •400,000, of which 6198,000 is due to New York banks. They employed 700 operatives... .The Chm Rock House, at Hingham, Mass., a well- known summer resort, was burned last week. The loss is $150,000. A FATAL explosion occurred at the Govern­ ment works at Hell Gate, in New Tork harbor, a few days ago, by which three men were killed outright and a number of others more or less grounded, some quite seriously.... A Philadel­ phia dispatch says "the cool weather is having a decided influence on the attendance at the Exposition, and hundreds of excursionists, who were waiting for the end of the heated term, are now visiting the grounds." THE unveiling of the statue of Lafayette, presented by the French Government as a token of its fervent friendship for the Amer­ ican Republic, occurred in New York, on the •th iniit., with appropriate ceremonies. The atatue stands in Union Square, where also are located the statues of Washington and Lincoln. THI WEST. THREE men were instantly killed and six more seriously injured--one of them fatally-- by the explosion of a steam engine which was running a threshing-machine on the farm of C. B. Jones, four miles Bouth of Dover, Minn., one day last week A courier who left the camp of Crook and Terry on the 20th of Au- fust, at the mouth of Powder river, arrived at ort Fetterman last week. The command was . .then on a trail which was estimated at 10.000 fconies. Camp-fires indicated seven distinct •' There- • is reason to believe that tho Indians are almost destitute of food, and traces left in the deserted camps indicate that they are reduced to the extremitv of using raw hides for food. All the Snake allies have gone home, the Crows remaining. Gen. Crook fully expected to strike Sitting Bull in a few days.... Advices from the Black Hills state that the Indians raided the road between Custer and Deadwood on the 20th of August and killed Weston Smith, a minister, and three miners named Ike Brown, Polling, and Mason, carrying off their stock. On the 22d Indians made a raid on a party five miles south of Custer City and killed Jamee Kidd, Samuel Wallace, Jacob Weilly,and Thompson. The Indians are supposed to be Northern Sioux from the hostile camp on the toad to the Agencies. Jones says the country Is full of Indiana Four miners, Fred Hene- kauff, Sr., John Cox, August Shankerkauff, and Frederick Shankerkauff, Jr., were suffocated by foul air, in a shaft near Central City, Col., a few days ago. Shankerkauff descended into the shaft to prospect, with a view to resuming work on it. His protracted absence led hie father to follow him, and the other victims fol­ lowed the father. All were dead before relief could be brought. ACCORDING to the recent census taken at the Red Cloud Agency, it appears that there are but 5,000 Indians, all told, at that point, the number of growing males being but 1,000. This census will be used as a basis in the issue of rations in the future, and the many bucks who now had rather fight than eat will very likely go with empty stomachs when the win­ ter season approaches. CHICAGO reports three murders in one day, and it wasn't a good day for killing people either. Mike O'Leary called upon his wife, from whom lis had been separated, and in­ cited har to tRko a stroll. While promenading . " a public thoroughfare he drew a yazor sad cat har throat. She is liot expected to recover. A negro named Smith, in a disreputable saloon, ahot at a colored brother named Perry Hersey. The ball mis3ed the Intended victim and perforated an African named Lynn, killing him almost instantly. Matthew Gallaghan, after an absence from his wife of a year, returned and found her co­ habiting with a colored gentleman. He armed himself with a pistol and went to the house where they were living. Foroing an entrance he reached the bed-room just in time to see the black Lothario scudding through the window. He walked to the bed and fired a pistol ball into the face of the woman. The bullet entered her mouth and lodged in the back of her neck, inflicting a death wound. A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Tribune, who left Gen. Terry's camp on the Slat of August, reports the columns of Crook and Terry as having separated and moving inde­ pendently, neither commander having muoh expectation of meeting or overtaking any con­ siderable body of hostile*. In fact, Sitting Bull seems to have given his pursuers the slip, and the campaign against the Sioux to- have completely fizzled for this year. Where the main body of the Indians now is, or where and when they may be expected to be heard from again, is a conundrum which may as well _ be given up for the "present.... A painful and Bickening tragedy was re­ cently enacted in Green countv, Wis. Mr. Jacob Ten Eyck, an old and highlv-respected citizen, left his house in the forenoon, the fumly supposing that he had gone to one of the neighbors. In crossing one of the fields on his farm, in which was a herd of cattle and LSwnS!8 £ ' h,e was« atta*ked by the latter and killed. The hogs in the field began the sickening work of eating the human body, and when search was made for him in the evening the animals had devoured all of it but a part of his head and one foot. ..One man was killed, BIX injured, and the machine shops verv much wrecked in Jeffersonville, Ind the other day, by the explosion of a boiler in the yard of tiie Louisville and rail­ road. DAVID SEGUE, an old and prominent citizen of Toledo, Ohio, committed suicide the other day, by blowing the top of his head off with a shot-gun. Despondency, caused by financial reverses, led to the fatal act At Fairmount, Neb., a few days ago, a farmer named Brewer took a grist to mill, accompanied by his little boy said girl. In drawing his gun from wagon the weapon was discharged, the con­ tent e striking both children, killing one anil mortally wounding the other St. Joseph, Mo., papers record the death, in that place, of Gen. M. Jeff Thompson, of New Orleans, *ha acquired some reputation by bis exploits in Southeast Missouri as a Confederate General during the late war. a long time merchants through­ out the State of Minnesota have been chafing under, irregularity in busi­ ness remittances, and complaints hava been showered upon the authorities. Instituting a rigorous searoh, two clerks in the St. Paul postoffiee have been en­ trapped in the very act of despoiling letters. The culprits are Charles C. Kellv, registry clerk, and John C. Terry, Jr., distributing clerk and superintendent of city carriers. Their arrest has caused a genuine sensation in St. Paul. THERE were 1,120 deaths in Chicago daring the month of August....The Wabash railway delivered over 2,000,000 bushels of grain at To­ ledo during the month of August The Mis­ souri Pacific railroad was sold at public auction, under the Sheriff's hammer, at St. Louis, last week. The price paid was $3,000,000, Andrew Pieroe, Jr., being the successful bidder. THE SOUTH. ADVICES from Decatur, Tex., say: "Rev. W. G. England, a Methodist minister, his wife, a step-daughter, and four sons were murdered at their home, six miles from Montague, last Saturday night, by a party of disguised men. The particulars of the fiendish a£Tak have not been received, but it is supposed that the butchery was committed for money, as the family is rich." THE yellow fever is epidemic at Savannah, Ga., and many deaths are reported. WASHINGTON. Tms following is the public statement for the month of August: Blx per oent. bonds.......$ 964,999,680 Five per cent, bond* 712,320,440 Total ootn bonds. 7fl,097,830,10(1 Lawful money debt.....14,000.000 ( Matured debt.. .. 3,021,210 Legal tenders ,. 869,401,336 . Certificates of deposit.... 81,880,090 Fractional currency...... 81,855,311 Coin certificates $9,969,80® Total without Interest.... 462,606,447 Total debt $2,176,947,758 Total Interest 34,292,944 Cash in Treasury: Coin $62,511,91® Currency. 11,666,80® Special deposits held for re­ demption of certiftoatea of deposit 81,880,000 Total in treasury..... ............ 106,088,762 Debt less cash in the treasury $2,098,301,311 Decrease of debt during August 8,111.936 Decrease since June 30,'76. ^ 4,267,408 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money: Principal outstanding 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid.. .. 646,235 Interest paid by the United States.... 82,080,218 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc 6,924,652 Balance of interest paid by the United States 25,155,666 A WASHINGTON dispatch says that during the week ending Saturday, Sept. 2, the following changes of stations of troops were made: Company A, Fifteenth infantry, from Fort Wingate, N. M.. to Fort Craig, N. M.; Company B, Fifteenth infantry, from Fort Craig, N. M., to Fort Garland, Col.; Company D, from Fort Garland to Fort Wingaie; headquarters Six­ teenth infantry from Newport barracks, Ky., to 5It. Vernon barracks, Ala.; Companies F, G and I, Eleventh infantry, to Cheyenne agency, Dakota; Company H, Eleventh infant­ ry, to Standing Bock agency, Dakota... .Gen. Sheridan telegraphs Gen. Sherman that he has suspended Agent Burke, of Standing Rock, who, it is believed, has been supplying the hostile Indians with beef intended for the military on the frontier. EX-SECRETARY BRISTOW has renewed the lease of his house in Washington The in­ structions of the Attorney General to United States Marshals, regarding the coming elec­ tions, have been issued. They charge mar­ shals that protection must be afforded to all citizens while registering or voting, and from violence or outrage on account of their votes. In cities of more than 20,000 inhabitants, special deputy marshals are to be appointed to carry out these orders, and soldiers or civilians may be summoned as a posse to assist marshals in the performance of their duties, which is not to be impeded by State laws or officers. THE Secretary of the Treasury has called for the redemption of $10,000,000 of 5-20 bonds cf 18C5, May and November, upon which the in­ terest will cease on the 6th of December. Three millions are registered, and $7,000,000 coupon-bonds, as follows: Coupon bonds--$500, Nos. 551 to 600, both inclusive ; $100, Nos. 851 to 2,500, both inclusive ; $500, ITos. 3,351 to 9 700, beth inclusive; $1,000, Nos. 14,551 to 26,000, botn inclusive ; $15 (?), Nos 201 to 650, both inclusive ; $100, Nos. 201 to 650, both inclusive; $500, Nos. 801 to 1,050, both inclusive; $1,000, Nos. 501 to ,1,800, both inclusive; $5,000, Nos. 1,101 to 1,550, both inclusive; $10,000, Nos. 1,151 to 2,100, both inclusive.... The official report of the proceedings of the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress is now ready. This roport makes eight bulky volumes of the Congressional Record. These, taken in connection with the hundreds of vol­ umes of testimony of the investigating com­ mittees and their reports will make the weightiest addition to political libraries com­ pleted in any one year since the war. GENEBAL •A GOVIES JIENT couimiHskm, composed of officsia of-^the, E'^'^cer" Corps 'Iie-CklLnl1 States army, left Washington for Omaha the other day, to enter upon the work of re-sur- yeying the Union and Central Pacific railroad lines from Omaha to 8acremento. This is in accordance with a joint resolution recently passed by Congress, and is for the purpose of re-measuring tlie entire line of both roads, it being asserted that the roads are not as long as has been claimed. As Government bonds were issued in construction at the rate of from $14.- 000 to ^48,000 per mile, the question of length becomes important. POLITICAL. * THE New York Democratic State Convention was held at Saratoga on the 30th and 31st ult. Horatio Seymour was nominated bv acclama­ tion for Governor. Lieut. Gov. Dorslieimer was also nominated by acclamation for re-elec­ tion. The remainder of the ticket is made up as follows: Judge of the Court of Appeals; Robert C. Earle; Canal Commissioner, Darius A. Ogden; State Prison Inspector, Rob­ ert H. Anderson The Connecticut Re­ publicans, in convention at New Ha­ ven last week, nominated the following ticket for State officers: Governor, Henry C. Robinson, of Hartford ; Lieutenant Governorj F. J. KingBbury, of Waterbury; Secretary of State, Gen. F. A. Walker, of New Haven ; Treasurer, Jefemiah Olney, of Thompson • Comptroller, EH Curtis, of Watertown. Ex- President Theodore D. Woolsey, of Yale col­ lege, and Kon. Marshall Jewell, were nomin­ ated for Presidential eleetors-at-large The Democrats of Iowa held their State convention at Des Moines on the 30th ult. The nominations are as follows : Secretary of State, John Stube- rauch, Marion county; Treasurer, Wesley Jones, Des Moines county ; Auditor, William Groncneg, of Pottawattamie ; Judges of the Supreme Court, Walter J. Hayes, Clinton; William Graham, Dubuque ; Attorney General, J. C. Cook, Jasper county; Register of the State Land Office, Capt. N. C. Ridenour, Page county The Democrats of the First and Second Ohio Districts (Cincinnati) have re­ nominated Messrs. Sayler and Banning for Congress Hon. Bela M. Hughes has been nominated for Governor of Colorado by the Democrats. Gov. JACOB, of West Virginia, has appointed Samuel Price United States Senator, in place of Allen T. Caperton, deceased. THE Massachusetts Republican Kate Con­ vention assembled at Worcester on the 5th inst., and was presided over by Senator Bout- well. The following ticket was selected by acclamation: For Governor, Alexander H. "ice, present incumbent; Lieutenant Governor, Horatio G. Knight: Secretary of State, H. B. 1 lerce ; Auditor, Julius L. Clark ; State Treas- nrer, Charles Endicott; Attorney General, Charles R.p rain Congressman Sarn Randall, of Pfciiimylvama, has been nominated by the Democrats of his district for re-election. THB Democrats of Massachusetts met in Htate Convention at Worcester on the 5th inst. Charles Francis Adams was nominated for Goverqpr by acclamation. The remainder of the ticket is constituted as follows: Lieuten­ ant Governor, Wiliam B. Plunkett; Secretary •fState, Edwin H. Lathrop ; Treasurer, WestoSi Howl and; Auditor, John E. Fitagera'd ; Attor­ ney General, Richard Olney. Ex-Gov. Gaston heads the electoral ticket The Nebraska Democrats have nominated Paren England for Governor Alexander H, Stephens, of Georgia, has been renominated for Congress by the Democrats of his district... .The Con­ necticut Democratic State Convention, which met at Hartford last week, nominated the fol­ lowing ticket: Governor, Richard D. Hubbard; Lieutenant Governor, Francis B. Loomis, both by acclamation; Secretary of State, Dwight L. Morris ; Treasurer, Edwin A. Buck ; Comp­ troller, Charles C. Hafebard; Electors at Large, Charles R. Ingersoll abd Gen. William B. Gov. Franklin. . FOREIGN. A COUNCIL of ministers and great dignitaries of the Turkish Empire, held on the 31st ult, proclaimed Abdul Hamid Saltan, victt Murad, deposed. A BELGRADE dispatch says the Servian army is being rapidly reinforced and reorganized by Russians, who are crossing Roumania and Hun­ gary in large numbers, and that since this influx the*Servians have fought better and seem more likely to hold their ground against the Turks. ... .A London dispatch says " the hop harvest is progressing everywhere. Estimates based ppon trustworthy information give the prob­ able crop as follows : lu England, two-thirds of the quantity grown in 1875 ; Germany, one-quarter; and Belgium one-half.' The new 4>£ per cent. United States Govern­ ment funding lean ia reported to bo popular in London, causing a decline there in consols. ^, THE town of St. Hyacinthe, a suburb of Mon­ treal, has been almost obliterated by fire. On he 3d inst. a conflagration broke out, and, fanned by a furious wind, spread with such rapidity that in three or four hours six hun­ dred houses were destroyed. The flames ceased only when there was nothing more for them to devour. A great many people are rendered houseless, and there is much suffering in consequence. The loss is estimated at upward of $2,000,000.... A general engagement, prob­ ably the heaviest of the war, was fought be­ tween the Turks and Servian* around Alexinatz on Monday, Sept. 1. The Servians, according to all reports, were defeated with severe loss. A London dispatch of the 4th says: "The Turks, after beating the right wing of the Servians, made a dank movement in the direc­ tion of Krusevatz, their object being to reach Deligrade. The entire military position is changed. Tchernayeff is marching with the bulk of his army toward Krusevatz. He has telegraphed to Belgrade for reinforcements, and the Servian Minister of War has ordered Gen. Antitch to march to Krusevatz with 12,000 men."... .There is (treat depression in the iron trade of England and Scotland, and an unusual number of failures are announced, throwing a great many people oat of employ­ ment. A THIRD of the business part of Seaforth, Canada, has been destroyed by fire... .An ac­ count of the fighting around Alexinatz on the 1st inst., as given by a London Times corres­ pondent with the Turkish army, indicates that the most severe battle of the war was fought on that day, and that the Servian army under Tchernayeff was badly defeated and disorgan­ ized. It appears that the fighting was almost exclusively carried on by the ar­ tillery of the opposing forces, and that the Turks, being better supplied with formidable batteries, approached slowly but surely, silenc­ ing one after another of the batteries of the besieged, until, thinking further resistance useless, the Servian soldiery, panic-stricken, began a hasty and disorderly retreat toward Deligrad. According to this correspondent the Servian losses were very heavy. RECENT reports of the inhuman conduct of the Turks in Bulgaria have aroused a strong feeling of resentment among the British people, which is constantly seeking expres­ sion through the press and other channels. Gladstone and Bright, in letters to public meetings on the subject, comment strongly upon the course pursued by the English Government, and the Bishop of Manchester declares that England must withdraw her protection from a nation the deeds of whose people have startled and shocked the conscience of the whole civilized world. The Times calls upon Lord Derby to "cease from vain repetitions of the language of tradition, and to come to some agreement with Russia whereby the two powers can press with irresist­ ible authority on the Sultan and his Ministers." George Smith, the well known and inde­ fatigable Assyrian explorer, iB dead. THE recent burning of the town of St. Hya­ cinthe, Canada, is believed to have been the result of a conspiracy, and two men have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the diabolical work The foreign dispatches tell of a growing apprehension throughout Europe that the refusal of Turkey to agree to an armistice will precipitate the event so long dreaded--the active participation of Russia on the side of Servia, aud the outbreak of war be tween Russia and Turkey. Anthracite Coal. TLlC reociit lusinniotli oale of coal in New York resulted in a great reduction in prices. This is good news for con­ sumers and bad news for miners. The prices ranged from $2 to $3.90 per ton, according to quality. The coal oper­ ators in Pennsylvania say the prices brought will compel them to suspend operations unless toll and labor can be reduced to a much lower figure than at present, with the chances against them ev&n of great reductions, as the miners will hardly submit to lower prices than are now prevailing. The situation, from their standpoint, seems to have a gloomy outlook for the fall and winter trade. For three or four years the price of anthracite coal has been regulated and fixed beyond variation by the producers. They have had everything their own way. There is none found outside of Pennsylvania. Six companies own and operate the mines. They fixed the max­ imum production of each company at 10,000,000 tons a year. A year ago last January the combination which had been effected two years before was ren­ dered complete and permanent, as was supposed; but very soon disaffection began. Bad faith "was practiced, bad feeling engendered, and finally the ring has gone to pieces. Whether the break will be permanent or not is an open question. Where monopoly is possible, competition is rarely main* tained for any considerable length of time.--Chicago Journal. A Year's Business. All the returns for the last year, says a Washington dispatch, having been received from the Custom Houses, the chief of the bureau has just pub­ lished a statement showing in detail the quantities and values of articles import­ ed into and exported from the United States during the past year as compared with that immediately preceding. The figures are as follows: MEBC HAN DIKE. 1878. 1876. Exports, domestic, gold value $499,281,100 $525,582,217 Exports, foreign 14,158,61 f 14,802,424 A HOBKIBLE TALC. Wriok 6f a Japanese Jui of the Survivors. [From the San Francisco Alts.} arrived in port with two of the survivors of a wrecked Japanese bark. The story of the survivors is a horrible tale of misery. CAPT. mnaoir's STATEMENT. Capt. Nelson, of the Abbey Gowper, furnishes the following: On July 3, at 4 p. m., latitude 37 deg. 10 min, north, longitude 167 deg. 35 min. east, light west-northwest winds and heavy swell, sighted a vessel bearing south-southeast, apparently dismasted and with signals flying. Bore down upon her and sent the chief officer with ^ the second life­ boat, who returned with two men and their effects. Found it to be the Jap­ anese junk Coki Cuman, Tatsurua Saw- gura, late master, bound from Hakodadi to Yokohama ; had left the former port on the 9th of November, 1875j and had been dismasted, after which it had drifted helplessly about. The master and nine of the crew had died from four to six months ago of scurvy, and the two survivors had salted them down in the hold, the stencn from which was hor­ rible. They had thrown the cargo of salt fish overboard. The two survivors, Katsuma (mate) and Toma Kitchi (sailor), were in a most desperate condi­ tion from scurvy, the former being per­ fectly black and entirely helpless; the latter not being so bad, but both very much emaciated, having had nothing but dry rice, what fish they caught, no water but when it rained, and latterly no fire, having used everything available for burning. The junk was a complete wreck, her bottom being covered with sea weed and barnacles. THE SURVIVOBS' STATEMENT. On the 9th of November we sailed from Hakodadi to go to Comichi, and left the latter on the 12th for Yokohama, with a strong south wind. Hove the junk to for four days. On the 16th the wind changed to the northward, blowing very hard. Wore ship to attempt tc get back to Hakodadi As night came on the wind increased, and in a very heavy squall carried away the mast. Gut the end of the yard and fished the mast; but upon making sail the mast again broke and the yard was washed over­ board. A sea striking the rudder car­ ried it away also. The wind still blowing in a succession of gales we were entirely helpless. On the 21st of November, the junk making much water, and likely to founder, we came to the determination of throwing the cargo (salt fish) over­ board, which was accordingly done ; and from that date to th£ 20th of Decem­ ber we drifted about, not knowing whither, when our fresh water and fire­ wood were entirely gone, and then our misery commenced in reality. As a last resource we broke the sauce-pan up for fire-wood; then managed. to keep strength and spirits up till the begin­ ning of January, when, to increase our horrors, sickness made its appearance amongst us in the shape of scurvy. On the 11th of January the first death took place, namely, that of Ghogers, a sailor. On the 14th the captain, Sawgura, worn out and dispirited, and whose body was swollen to double its size, expired. On the the 23d another sailor, Otto Kitchi, died raving mad, and whose body was per­ fectly black. On the 28th Bung Kitchi, the cook ; Kidorza, Skidgro and Taslsi, three sailors, died raving mad, and their bodies swollen from drinking salt water. On the 29th of March, Thero Kitchi and and A. Itchi, two sailors, died also, rav­ ing mad. On * the 20th of May, Matoz Tara died, completing the list oi deaths and leaving us two survivors anticipating a similar death. But, fortunately, on the 24th, heavy rain came on, which en­ abled us to save a small quantity of water as a stand-by, any previous show­ ers having been so light as never to sup­ ply our immediate wants. This* re­ cruited our strength and enabled us to move about, and on the 4th of June we had the good fortune to eaten fifteen fisii, which supplied us with food. On the 2d of July we replenished our stock of water, and on the 3d we had the joy­ ful sight of seeing a vessel (tho first since our sailing), wliich bore down upon us and took us off our floating tomb, and which proved to be the English bark Abbey Cowper, and were most kindly treated by Capt. Nelson and the crew, by whose care and att intion we were both restored to health. (Signed) KATSUXA, Mate. TOMA KITCHI, Sailor. Total $5! 3,442,711 $640,384,671 Imports 533,005,434 400,741,190 Excess of exports over imports $70,643,481 Excess of Imports over export# 19,562,725 SPKOUt AND BULLION. Exports $ 92,132,142 $66,506,302 Imports 20.900,717 16,936,681 Exoess of exports over Im­ ports.... $ 71,381,435 $40,069,621 Curious Scene in an English Court. Excitement was created in Canter­ bury, England, by a freak of Capt. Lid- dell, of the Tenth Hussars. Attending court to testify against a deserter, he did not take off his cap. His attention was directed to this fact by the presid­ ing Justice, whereupon the Captain pointed to his sword, and explained that in accordance with the regulations of the service it was his duty while wearing arms to remain covered. He removed the offending headgear while being sworn, but immediately replaced it in order to testify against the deserter. On the following morning a similar scene took place when Capt. Liddell again at­ tended to watch the proceedings, and sat, as before, covered. He was asked by the presiding magistrate to remove his cap, and courteously reminded that apology was due to the Bench for his persistent refusal to do so on the pre­ vious day. Capt. Liddell refused either to apologize or uncover. The Chairman direoted him to retire, and Capt. Lid­ dell was informed that the course he had chosen to pursue would be commu­ nicated to the Horse Guards. But the next day after this the Captain thought better of it, and on entering the court removed his cap, and, addressing the Bench, sf-id that in the course he had adopted he meant no disrespect. The Town of Belgrade. Belgrade is a pleasant, homely little capita, of indifferent morals, but un­ usual charity. No one is rich, and very, very few so poor as to beg. Living is so cheap that sixpence a day will sup­ port a man comfortably. There is no aristocracy, and the Prince dwells very close to his subjects. They speak of him familiarly, as of a friend, elected by themselves to honor. He has a palace, an unpretending building of consider­ able size, but no court, for there are no courtiers nor officials of rank. Perhaps the money spent in building and decorating the theater might have been laid out to more advantage in pav­ ing the town anew or in lighting it. For its streets, Wide enough, are about as comfortable to walk over as a road newly macadamized; and the lamps, very few and far between, are filled with petro­ leum. There is not a railway in the country, as every one knows. Bat the Servians are anxious to learn, and they do their best.--Belgrade Letter. JiHOCKINe TRAGEDf* m Story of Extraordinary Affltlr In Ar­ kansas. [Kensett (Ark.) Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ] The subjoined are the sickening de­ tails of Oix6 of the Strxu^cat tuxu uxGSt extraordinary tragedies ever enacted in the history of the world. Before refer­ ring to the murder, a few curious facts byway of introduction are' necessary. About two and a half miles south of Searcy, the seat of White county, is a wild-looking place known as Gum Spring, the residents of which are known as Cobbites, because an old man named Cobb, who claims to be Christ, rules with an iron hand. His crazy followers claim to identify him by certain marks in the palms of his hands, and he has during the past year made a great many believe in Ins doctrine, the main point of which is that every one in his community should live in adultery- in order that the souls of the women might be purified. The principal rendezvous of the Cobb­ ites is an old log hut, in Gum Spring, which is on the main road leading from Searcy to Little Rook. During the last few days the attention of passers-by has been attracted by strange noises, and this fact being con­ veyed to the citizens of Searcy, they de­ termined to investigate the matter. On Tuesday last Mr. C. D. Humphreys, of Searcy, and a Mr. Blake, from El Paso in this county, determined to visit Gum Spring and see what was going on. The strange noises were heard as they reached the locality. On driving past the hut they were accosted by Mr. Dover, who claimed to be one of God's people. Mr. Humphreys proposed that they should turn back and see what was wanted. They did so, and were invited into the hut, Dover asserting that God was in there. Humphreys remarked, as he got out of the buggy, that if God was in there he wanted to see Him. As soon as they stepped from the vehicle Humphreys was seized by four men, and Blake by four women. The latter succeeded in breaking away, but the former was unable to do so. Blake ran about 100 yards, and, on looking back, saw the men cutting his companion to pieces with long knives. He at once started for town, but the buggy was up­ set and demolished. He then mounted his horse and rode at a breakneck speed, and reported the terrible occurrence to the citizens. A force was at once raised, and proceeded to the rescue. On ar­ riving at the spring a fearful sight met their gaze. The Cobbites had decapi­ tated Humphreys and placed his head on a paling. A boy who was riding by was compelled to get off his horse and bow to the head three times. He was also made to pray, and then told to hurry away or the bowels of the earth would open and swallow him. When the posse arrived, Mr. T. C. Black, the leader, shouted to Dover to come forward. The latter wanted to talk the matter over. He picked up Humphreys' head at intervals, caught it by the hair with both hands, shook it back and forth, and then replaced it on the fence, order­ ing the crowd, with a menacing gesture, to go away. The Cobbites then com­ menced to jabber, in their own peculiar way, at a furious rate. Mr. Black did everything in his power to calm them, without avail. Dover and his crowd then started toward Black with no good intent, and his posse fired, killing two men and wounding one. The remain­ der, four men, four women and two babies were arrested and taken to jail. While in custody they talked about their Jesus, meaning Cobb, asserting that he could turn the gates of hell at will, and would come and rescue them. There is no doubt that they are all crazy from tho combined effects of re­ ligion and starvation, Men, women, and children are as gaunt as a pack of famished wolves. Since the above was written they have all quieted somewhat, and apparently begin to realize their situation. They decline to talk at all, and will not no­ tice an outsider. This extraordinary affair has created unprecedented excite­ ment in the vicinity. How Electricity Travels. How long dpes it take to transmit a message through the Atlantic cable i The New York Journal of Commerce has been investigating this question, and, simple as it looks at first sight, there are many singular and interesting points in the answer. When the elec­ tricity is applied to the cable at one end, two-tenths of a second pass before any effect is felt at the other end, and three seconds are consumed before the full force of the current is in action. The first signal is felt in four-tenths of a second, but the following ones go through more rapidly. As many as sev­ enteen words have been sent over the Atlantic cable in one minute; fifteen can usually be sent under .pressure, and twelve words have been sent all the way from New York to London in two min­ utes. A fact not yet explained by the scientists is, that the electricity does not move as rapidly from New York to London as in the opposite direction. Took a CkaBge of Climate. McCail, the murderer of Wild Bill, has left the Black Hills. It is stated that, a few days after the mock trial, California Joe--who was not in the Hills at the time of the murder, and who was a warm friend of the murdered man-- called McCall from his cabin and in­ quired significantly whether the air of that region was not rather light for liim. McCall responded that he found it so, and thereupon took up his line of march foi the States. It is believed that if California Joe had been present at the " trial" McCall would have been hanged. The Irish Exodus. The whole number of Irish immigrants from May, 1851, when tne enumeration began, to June 30, 1876, was 2,397,995. For the six months of 1875, from Jan. 1 to June 30, the emigration from Ireland amounted to 31,095. For the same period for 1876 it was only 20,604.-- New York Tribune. MSAKMlHe THE SAVAGES. r The War Department and the Indian Ques­ tion--Anticipated Trouble with the Agen­ cy Indians, [Washington Cor. New York Herald.] The War Department has resolved upon mustering all the available troops which can be spared from the field at the different agencies and reservations preparatory to a determined course of action looking to the subjection of the Indians to full compliance with t' e law» of Congress and the regulations of the Indian Department, when the eiperi- ment of disarming them, besides takincr away their ponies, and subsequent re- wio vai oi tue tribes to the Missouri or Indian Territory, will then be at­ tempted, which can only be done with the presence and assistance of a large force of troops at hand. There great apprehension felt here that it will be accompanied by positive resistance and an open outbreak. Those who know the Indians and have studied the situation say that there is great likelihood that the,re will be hard fighting then on the reservations and at the agencies, because the Indians will not submit without great resistance, if at all, to the sur­ render of their arms and ponies. When the probability of the transfer of the scene of hostilities thus from the Big Horn, Powder River and Rosebud sec­ tions to the agencies was discussed with an officer on the staff of a Generai of the army to-day, he said : " Well, I don't know but it would be a good thing for the United States troops if the field of operations were so changed. It would settle the thing which must soonet or later be decided, that the agency TmUnnn must submit to be deprived of their horses and arms as a guarantee of their future peaceful and harmless condition. The means of their going on the war- path and committing murders and other outrages must be taken from them." This will be done if it takes the whole army, and is now the branch of the Tndinir case which the War Department has un­ der consideretion for solution. People who are interested in the frontier con­ tinue to have fears that when the agency Indians are started up, as they will be, they »vill strike out in a stampede for- the open country and fall upon the set­ tlements for revenge and marauding purposes. The opinion is entertained, here with much apparent satisfaction, accompanied by a corresponding wish, that the Sioux under Sitting Bull may finally go into the British American pos­ sessions to relieve the frontier as well as the army for the time beings and show whether their boasted good will for the British government affects their better nature or will influenfig them to be less disturbing as an ele«fc of pop||^pn. How the Snow Falls in August at Rome*. [New York Times Rome Correspondence.j I went day before yesterday to Saikta Maria Maggiore to help keep the festa of the Madonna della Neve, which falls on the 5th of August. It is the most poetical of all the fetes of the year, for what romantic young lady of a devout turn could desire to see a prettier sight than that of a fall of snow in August, and this in the form of the pure white leaves of the jessamine flower, from openings in the ceiling of a beautiful church ? The illusion is perfect. Down, come the flakes, zigzagging slowly in the long descent, some finding a lodg­ ment upon the bonnets of worshipers of the gentler sex, some smiting the heads of penitents of advanced years, and covering at last the pavement with a thin, soft, fragrant carpet. The legend, in which this festa had its origin must- be repeated, and it is this: Many hun­ dred years ago, in fact, in the fourth century, a patrician convert to the Christian religion had a vision, in which he was told to build a church, and both the site and the dimensions would be in­ dicated by a fall of snow. The most elevated point of the Esquiline Hill was that pitched upon, and there the church was built, and received the title of Holy Maria of the Snows. Of course, the present is wholly different from the original structure, for it has been sev­ eral times rebuilt or altered, according to the changing conuitioiis of Iwino. It is now known as Maggiore, as it is the major of all the churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Here the body of the present Pope is to be laid. Only a few years after the accession of Pius IX. to office, he caused the foro to be made in the floor before the high altar, in the style of that of St. Peter s, with flights of steps leading down; the whole lined with rich marbles, the spoils of ancient Rome. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. 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