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. <«*,' , j I ?*-f' ilfS ' '•Up < ' * ! < % *• . p *•. • jA •-Srrt ante Pr| enrg pam&ata J. YAN SLTTKE, Potubhkr. IfoHENBY, ILLINOia TOE NEWS CONDENSED. THE KAST.J iv tnormom copper lode has been dtooov- and at MI»", N. H The offioe of T. B, Frothingham, of Boston, was recently robbed of a trunk containing §18,000 worth of bonds. A TEKKILVLE boiler explosion occurred in an one mill near Allentown Pa., one day last week, resulting in the killing of three men and the fatal wounding of five, while three others received sericur. injuries There tras a notable gath­ ering of literary men in Boston, the other day, to say good-bv to James Russell Lowell, on the occasion of his departure for hie post of duty as Minister to Spain. Among those pres­ ent were the poets Longfellow and Qliver Wen­ dell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the President and professors of Harvard College, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and a number of Massachusetts Congressmen. Lightning struck a shed during % thunder­ storm near North Bergen, N. J., the other day, killing Mrs. S&ndow and a babe 10 months old, and Frederick Muller, a boy of 14 years. Mrs. Sandow and Muller had been weeding in a field, and took shelter from the rain m the died The extensive fouadry and machine Bhopp of A. Hartupee, in Pittsburgh, Pa., have been destroyed by fire. The total loss is esti­ mated at $300,000 New York claims to have h«H a genuine case of Asiatic cholera. THE Hartford Courant advises the public that it will be very foolish for any one who holds a policy in the Charter Oak Life Insurance Com­ pany to sacrifice it. The lowest estimate yet made by any one of the value of the assets of the company puts them at $6,000,000. Even at thut a policy is worth saving, and as soon as a receiver is appointed the necessity for making payment ceases, and at some time each policy­ holder will receive his dividend on the present valve of the policy Forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Fort Fairfield. Vast areas of limber-land are burned over, and many build­ ings destroyed Ex-Gov. Tilden sailed from New York for Europe last week. THE WEST. FBOK the scene of the Indian war in Idaho Territory Gen. O. O. Howard telegraphs an ac­ count of a battle with Chief Joseph's band. From the meager particulars furnished we glean that, after making a forced march, be struck the enemy. 300 strong, at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of July 11, in a deep canon, a the mouth of the Cottonwood ; opened fire at once with a howitzer, and succeeded in driving the savages from their position. The fighting then began in earnest, the troops firing from behind rocks and barricades, and continued till nightfall. The soldiers slept on their arms, and, early on the morning on the 12th the at­ tack was renewed, and, after some se­ vere fighting the Indians were driv­ en from their position. The pursuit was kept up for some time, and the retreat of the hostiles was accelerated by a number of shells that were sent after them by the artil­ lery. Gen. Howard claims a victory as the re­ sult of this engagement, but the casualties show it to have been a dearly-purchased one, If such it can be conceded. Thirteen Indians were killed (the number of wounded is not given), while exactly the same number of sol­ diers, by a singular coincidence, were slain, and twenty-four wounded. Among the killed were Oapt. Bancroft and Lieut. Williams Another BL Louis bank, the Butchers' and Drovers', has closed its doors lie porta of rich gold discov­ eries in the Big Horn country have produced an immense excitement at Deadwood, from which place large parties have set out in the expectation of finding a fortune in this latest Dorado. LIEUT. Cot,. M. V. SH^KIDAN returned to Chi- aafo a few days ago from the fcuaie-grouud the bcjtve CasMr and hia t*®ops were slain. The bodieB of some of the dead were found to be decomposed beyond recognition. The bodies of the privates which could be identified were properly buried and the graves marked. The rema'ns of twelve officers were boxed and brought to Fort Lincoln. The bones of the gallant Custer will be taken to West Point for interment. Those of Col. Custer, Capt. Yates, and Lieuts. Smith, Calhoun and Melntosh will be removed to the National Cemetery at Leavenworth. The re­ mains of the other officers await the action of their friends. Those of Lieut. Crittenden wore fliven permanent burial on the spot where he ell, in obedience to the wishes of his father, who objected to their removal. THE failure of the Second National and Batchers' and Drovers' banks, in St. Louis, caused quite a run the savings banks of that city, and two or three of the weaker of there institutions have suspended. CBOP item from the Springfield (111.) Reg­ ister : " Crops in Iowa were never so good as this season. It is said by persons who have examined the matter in that State that 'Iowa will be able to revictual the world.' This may be true as to Iowa, but Illinois crops we:t never so promising as this season, and Illinois will not only be able to revictual this world, but the world to come, from the crops this year." A dispatch from Walla Walla, Oregon, says the Indians have massacred three men and one girl on Crow Cieek The Cheyenne and Dead wood stage was again stopped by road agents near Chey- •nne river, a few days ago. All the passen­ gers were relieved of their money and valu­ ables. THE SOUTH. A NEGRO named Wilson was hanged at Nash­ ville, Tenn., last week, for the murder of a policeman. Over 5,000 witnessed the execution, which was conducted in a shockingly bungling manner. The noose slipped, and the culprit died slowly of strangulation, suffering intolera­ ble agonies. THE New Orleans School Board has decided to establish separate schools for the two races. ...The whole body of troops now stationed in Southern 8tates, with the exception of those in Texas to operate against the Mexican marauders, does not exceed 1,000 or 1,200 men. WASHINGTON. A MEETING of white and black citizens of the region in South Carolina known as the scene of the Elleuton riot last fall has been held with a view to restore peace and harmony. Resolu­ tions were unanimously adopted looking to a cessation of race trouble and to a dropping of pending prosecutions in the State and Federal courts. THE Secretary of the Navy has addressed letter to Capt Howgate, the originator of the plan to establish a colony for Arctic exploration In the far north, declining to detail a civil . officer to accompany the expedition. The Sec­ retary does not consider himself authorized to detail a civil officer for such service, and for the same reason, he regrets that he cannot comply with the request for a loan of instru­ ments belonging to the n avy for the use of the xpedition. THE Treasury Department has issued the fifty-first call for the redemption of 5-20 bonds of 1865, consols of 1865. The call is for $10,- 000,000, of. which $7,000,000 are coupon and $3,000,000 registered bonds, principal and in­ terest to be paid at the treasury on and after the 16th of October next, intere>t to cease on that day... .The Treasury Department bas re­ ceived from Barnstable, Mass., the official re­ port of the seizure of the whaling ship Rising fjniii, of that port, by a Spanish armed vessel off Cuba. The Department has also been made officially acquainted with the arrest and con­ finement of Capt Dunham, of the schooner Ellen Rizo&h. These matters will b« looked into, and'Spain held to a strict accountability the outrages. A WAiJHUftfXON telegram says "it upon high official authority that, before any stepc toward a recognition of the Government, the United States Government will Wrut the promised reparation for actual invasion ahd oo&JUot by the Mexiean troop# upon the soil of the United 8tates." fOUTIOAL. THK Mississippi Republican Btate Committee announce that, in their belief, it is inexpedient to hold a State convention and nominate a Re­ publican State ticket this year. THE President has decided that, inasmuch as the National Republican Committee will have- no political duty to perform for some three years, the members of it do not come within the scope of the recent order forbidding offi­ cials to take an active part in poliif t, and con­ sequently there is no objection to Federal offi­ cials retaining their membership on the com­ mittee. BEN. WADE, of Ohio, has written a letter denying the published report thst he had be­ come reconciled to the President's Southern policy. He fears that this policy " is but an ignominious surrender of the principles of nationality for which our armies fought, and for which thousands upon thousands of brave men died, and without which the W: J was a failure, and our boasted Government a myth." THE question recently raised by members of the National Republican Committee touching the application of the President's late civil- service order to their cases was discussed at much length in a Cabinet meeting at Washing­ ton last week. It seems that the opinion pre­ viously reported as having been given by tha President, that it would not be necessary for members of this committee to consider that or­ der as applying to their cases, was given as his first impression in the matter. A further and more careful consideration of the subject has convinced the President and the members of his Cabinet that it is best to make no exception to the rule, and a com- Elete understanding was arrived at, that mem-era of the National Republican Committee who hold Federal offices will be required at no diatnnt day to choose which they will relin­ quish. GENERAL. THE city of Montreal, Canada, was th'e eo6ne of a most disgraceful riot on the 12th inst., the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne. A ruffian assaulted a woman wearing an orange lily, and a young man interfered to protect her. The latter was set upon by a crowd and roughly handled. He fled from his assailants, and while attempting to escape into a building was shot down, pierced by three or four bullets. During the melee upward of twenty shots were fired, and, in addition to the killing of the man noted, four other men and one woman were wounded. The wildest excitement pre­ vailed in the city, and the wonder is that the riot did not assume more formidable propor­ tions, for the police were utterly impotent, and did nothing toward suppressing the emeute. In the other cities and towns of Canada and throughout the United States the day was cele­ brated by the Orangemen without serious dis­ turbance • there were also extensive celebrations throughout Ireland, unattended by violence or disorder. THE Washington authorities having become satisfied that tfie military foroe now operating against the Nez Perces Indians in Idaho and Oregon is totally inadequate for an offensive campaign, it was decided, at a Cabinet meeting the other day, to authorize the Governor of Washington Territory to enlist and equip 500 volunteers and 'dispatch them to the front as speedily as possible. A skeleton regiment re­ cently stationed at Atlanta, Ga., has also been sent to reinforce Gen. Howard's command. Gen. McDowell, the commander of the Department of the Pacific, in his dispatches to the War Department, represents the situation as exceed­ ingly grave The Mexican President Diaz has instructed his commanding officer on the Rio Grande to oo-operate with the American troops in suppressing thieving incursions into Texas, and in apprehending the brigands, AT Martinsburg, W. Va., last week, striking firemen and brakemen on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad came in collision with a body of seventy-five militia. The STOkers fired tlpon and wounded one of the soldiers. The latter returned the fire, and one rioter was instantly killed and several wounded. For several days the road was almost entirely blockaded, the strikers, to the number of 1,000, keeping strict watch on the seventy freight trains detained at Martinsburg, and threatening death to any en­ gineer who essayed to run a train out. DIBPATCHES of the 18th from Martinsburg, Grafton, and other points al^ng the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in West Virginia, announce the striking firemen and brakemen in quiet but determined possession of the company's prop­ erty. At Martinsburg the strikers numbered over 500. At the Sand House station, a little further west, 450 or 500 strikers had • fortified themselves. At Keyser the strikers, several hundred in number, received information that a com­ pany of militia would probably reach that place on the train east for Martinsburg, and resolved that if this company attempted to board any train they would be torn to pieces. At Grafton there was a mob of several hundred, who threatened death to any one that attempted to run a train out of the place. This was the alarming aspect of affairs when Gov. Matthews, of West Virginia, telegraphed to President Hayes he was unable to quell tv e d ' tvrbanco with the force at his command, and requesting that Unites Stated troops be placcd at his dis­ posal to put down tho mob. The President thereupon issued a formidable proclamation, in the usual form, commanding the rioters to " disperse and retire peaceably to their re­ spective abodes," etc. An order was also is­ sued from the War Department directing two companies of infantry and one of artillery, un­ der command of Gen. French, to proceed im­ mediately to Gov. Matthews' assistance. ns an and have killed r'.JSi'A'ifijP tans are in ftali rebellion, thousand Russians. FOE the purpose's# facilitating the discovery and arrest of that desperate conspirator against the public peace, the American potato-bug, the German Government has had his life-size photograph added to the rogues' gallery of the police department, and oopies of it distributed in all the ports and harbors of the empire. AH Ibrail correspondent telegraphs that the Turkish position at Medjidie was attacked by Gen. Zimmerman's army. The Turks, number­ ing 9,000, acted vm* badly. After a short re­ sistance they precipitately retreated, and their retreat was turned Into a complete rout. GENERAL FOREIGN MEWS. Tmtnew United States 4-per-oents.are selling in London at a price equivalent to par in gold in this country. r THE Greek Parliament has adjourned with­ out making any provisions for war with Tur­ key. This action is attributed to British in­ fluence .... A Berlin dispatch reports Bismarck as saying that any attempt to mediate between Russia and Turkey at present is impossible News comes from Havana that the Ctzb&nirhave assumed the offensive: that a ba'.tle has been fought and the Spanish troops defeated with the loss of over 600kffled; that the yellow fever is decimating the ranlp of the Spaniards; that discontent is rampant among all classes of peo­ ple, and that the financial stringency is grow­ ing desperate. > THE German settlers in Bulgaria are seriously suffering from the war, and the German Gov­ ernment has complained to Russia and Turkey of their ill-treatment by the soldiers of both countries.... Gen. Grant was cor­ dially received ana hospitably entertained in Frankfort and other German cities.... The fertile valleys of Chilo and Tumbaoo", in Ecuador, have been devastated by a terrible volcanic eruption, followed by a flood which lapped up what the volcano left. The city of Lutacuiiga was almost swept ot?t of existence, many lives being lost by the sudden inunda­ tion Accounts from the famine-inflicted dis­ tricts of India are worse, and there is grave cause for apprehensldh unless abundant rain falls soon. THE rinderpest lias broken out among the cattle in the environs of London... .Theyoung man Hackett, who was killed in Montreal on Orangeman's day, was buried with great pomp on the 16th, a procession of 5,000 Orangemen and 900 soldiers following the remains to the grave. AHKENIA has been"utterlv devastated by the hostile armies, the Russians having destroyed or carried off everything eatable that the Turks had left to the people. Large districts are threatened with famine, and some are already suffering its horrors Tho Russians captured a large number of prisoners at Nikopolis. The Turks who surrendered included Achmet Pasha and Hassan Pasha and 6,000 men. Forty cannon, twelve heavf^ialiber guns, and two monitors fell into the Russian hands. The attacking force consisted of three di­ visions of infantry, and the -fighting was of the most desperate character. Whole ranks of Russians were mowed down by the terrible fire of the Turks, but the Russians, it seems, were too many for them, and, after a stubborn resistance of several hours, they final­ ly capitulated. The Turkish authorities charge that the two Pashas who surrendered were bribed... .The reported passage of the Balkans by the Russians is confirmed. The force now south of the mountain is said to number 22,000, consisting of infantry, artillery and cavalry. Some fighting is reported, in which the Russians were the Victors. PARIS dispatches state that an active alliance between Italy and Riwsia will be effected, in case Austria, should interfere in the present THE TURKO-RU SSIAN WAR. SHIPS filled with stones have been sunk by the Russians at the mouth of the Danube, to prevent the Turkish iron-clads from forcing Eassage up the river.... An attempt was made y the Russians the other day to take Rust- chuk by storm, under cover of a heavy bom­ bardment, but, after two hours of hard* fight­ ing, the assaulting party was repulsed The Turkish commanders of Sistova, Tirnova and Osman-Bazar, who were successively surprised by the Russians, have been summoned to Con­ stantinople, where they will be tried by court- martial ana probably ehot. THE reported abandonment of the siege of Kars and the precipitate retreat of the besieg­ ing forces from Asia turns out, as might have been suspected, to be a canard. The Russians are still investing the place, and dropping shells into it at the rate of 2,000 a day After a desperate fight the Russians have succeeded in relieving the besieged and half-starved gar­ rison of Bayazid. THE reports from the seat of war in Asia are not of much interest at present Melikoff re­ mains not far from Kars, with 35,000 men, strong in cavalry and artillery. Mukhtar is at Kars, his entire force, including the garrison, numbering about 40,000. The Russians still hold Ardalian, which is about all that remains to them of the conquests with which they so brilliantly opened the campaign Constanti­ nople dispatches announce that the Russian advance guard, consisting of 10,000 Cossacks, has appeared between Jauiboli and Adrianople, having traversed Heion pass through the Bal­ kan mountains. SEBIODS fighting has at last begun in Bul­ garia. On the 16th the Russians made a deter­ mined attack on the fortified town of Nikopo­ lis, and captured it in gallant style. Nikopolis has hitherto been considered one of the strong­ holds of the Danube. From Gabrova, Aidos and other points comes news of Rus­ sian victories which threaten the pecond line of the Turkish defense. The capture Failure of the Rwsian Campaign in Alia. The Busman retrejat to the Caucasus, says the Chicago IHrne.i, is attributable to three causes, fflfr discovery that the Ottoman forces JMMhat quarter were greatly in excesi dOfteir supposed ntita- ber ; the fear that Persia would supply an additional army, whose strength, com­ bined with that of the Turks in Asia Minor, would overmatch the columns of the Grand Duke, and the apprehension that, with the aid of the Turkish fleet at Batoum, the Bussiaas would be cut off from their base of supplies. From Persia, on the southeast, and Batoum, on the northwest, a Turkish road might be cut which would leave the Bussians at the mercy of their enemies on the plains of Ardahan, convenient victims for the guns of the relieved garrison of Kars. The retreat, therefore, was inspired by the plainest discretion. Grand Duke Michael could not have held the moun­ tain fastnesses and the arid slopes east of the Black sea with less than twice the force under his command; while still another division would have been re­ quired to maintain the siege of Kars. There have been no reports from either Constantinople or St. Petersburg, Ueging that the Pm -iian guns made any imprc ion of note upon the fortifica­ tions of the historic citadel. The only method by which the invaders could have hoped to obtain possession of its walls was by the slow process of cutting off supplies and letting starvation repeat the dismal experiments of 1829. The total abandonment of the Asiatic cam­ paign will give the Turks an opportuni­ ty fully to repair whatever slight damage has been done, to revictual the fortress, and make ampler preparations for a re­ turn of the enemy should the results of the recent advance south of the Danube require the Bussians to throw another army below the Caucasus. ILLINOIS ITEMS. of Nikopolis is of great advantage to the Rus­ sians. Another bridge will be constructed at that point, and across it will pass immense 1 stores of provisions and war material that have been awaiting transportation for some time From Asia oomes a report that the Abchaaians, President Hayes Challenged. The President recently received the following letter from a Baltimore lunatic: BALTIMORE, MD., Thursday. MB. HAYES--Honored kir: Tho fact of my being a staunch Democrat and the result of the Presidential election going against all my feel­ ings on the subject, I see no other way of get­ ting satisfaction than by challenging you to fight in a twenty-four-foot ring, ana may the best man win; and, besides, I have got a twenty-four pound bull-pup'that can lick any dog in Washington, give or take a half a pound. If any of the above arrangement* fail to meet your acceptance, I've got a benefit at the Cen­ tral Theater on the 7tn of April, »nd I'd just as soon sell you twenty tickets for #10 as any other good American citizen. Well, anyhow, I must congratulate your Highness on the success you have met with and the long engagement you have to play. Hoping you will make a big hit, I remain yours, patriotically, D. JN COIXYKB. Twelve Years After the War. Twelve years ago Richmond, with 45,000 inhabitants, lay half in ruins. Now she has rebuilt, the whole of the burnt district, has established 200 fac­ tories, and with a population of 70,000 people is the handsomest city in the world. Norfolk ships near 1,000,000 bales of cotton this year, and has devel­ oped a trade in vegetables, fruit and fish which has extended through our great Northern cities, across the Atlantic, and has increased the value of lands in the adjacent counties many hundred fold.-- Danville ( Va.) News. DIAZ is said to desire the ceding of five Northern Mexican States to the United States. WttiMESOTOW has two flue cream­ eries. NTTICBROCS oases of sunstroke in Al­ ton. THE Chicago Picket Fence Company was incorporated last week. ELEVEN women are County Superin­ tendents of Schools in Illinois. TOTAL school census of ehildien in Qumcy, 12,789. Under 6 years of age, 4,228. THE Illinois Central railroad has made a $1,500 subscription for the State Pair at Freeport. THE National Cigar Company, of Chi cago, capital $15,000, has Seen licensed to incorporate. GEORGE WASHINGTON GAW, an old maiyof 80, married a girl of 14, at Old Town, near Bloomington. THE next session of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows will be held at Belle­ ville on the 9th of October next. ' A BOARDING-HOUSE, known as the Bock Island House, at Johet, was nearly destroyed by fire last week; no insur­ ance. OSCAR and John Ganz, aged 9 and 14 years, while swimming the other day in ,a_ creek near Camp Point, AdamSxI&unty were drowned. AN unknown man employed in the harvest field of H. C. Massey, at Jersey- ville, died one day last week from the effects of sunstroke. A SPECIAL Grand Jury is to be called in McLean county to take action on the the cases of the prisoners who now fill the jail at Bloomington. THE City Council at Moline has passed an ordinance creating a Board of Health, with rules and regiilations similar to those used in Chicago. -JOHN MCGTTIRE has been found guilty oT forgery at Decatur, and sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. A mo­ tion for a new trial was overruled. THE member of the Board of Equal­ ization for the First District having re­ signed, the Governor has appointed James P. Boot, of Chicago, to fill the vancy. THE strawberry crop of Centralia, in former years, yielded $30,000. This year, only $15,000. The late frost did it--bringing the berries too late into market. A MAN named Hayes, living at Hey- worth, was scalded in a horrible manner a few days since. A kettle of boiling water was knocked from the cook stove upon his back. THE Alliance Fire Insurance Company of Boston, and Hecla Fire, of Madison, Wis., having complied with the law, having been admitted by the Auditor to business in this State. SHERIFF NOBLE succeeded in arresting two pickpockets on the Chicago-bound express, at Joliet, the other day. They gave their names as McGannon and Blake. ® A LITTLE girl 12 years old was shot, at Chicago, on the Fourth of July, by a boy named Alexander Huhn. He says he was shooting at a laundry sign, and hit little Alice Coles by mistake. THE Natural History expedition in the interests of the Normal Museuih and Laboratory and the State Museum at Springfield have departed for their ex­ cursion through the wilds of Egypt. THE body of James Smith, a young man about 18 years of age, was discov­ ered in Halter's pond, about two miles from Bloomington, a few days ago. It is supposed that he was seized with a cramp. GEORGE BOBBINS, a tramp chair-maker hailing from New York, was detected in the act of piling ties on the track of the Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western railroad, near Bloomington, and* was run down and captured by train men. THE Centralia Industrial says: "It is not a very great exaggeration to say that hardly since the settlement of South­ ern Illinois has the promise for big crops, and the consequent outlook for the future, been so good as at the present time." IN the United States Court at Spring­ field, last week, the Hon. John T. Stu­ art, in presenting the bar resolutions, made an address highly eulogistic of the judicial services of Judge David Davis. The same, with the resolutions, was or­ dered spread on the records of the court. THE Centralia Sentinel says : "Sev­ eral of our fanners have gone into cheese-making extensively. They find ready sale for all they can make. In fact, we learn that the only drawback they find in this new enterprise, is their in­ ability to fill alll their orders." AFTER an exciting trial of two days at Decatur, John McCall was convicted of assault upon Douglas Morris with intent to murder, and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. It appeared that in January last McCall 'out Morris with a knite in the left breast, of which wound Morris recovered. JOHN WHITE, of Quincy, haa made a claim to over half a million dollars' worth of property in Springfield, this State. The olaim is mad#under a will executed by his grandfather, named Graves, of Springfield, which came into his posses­ sion with a lot of old papers several years siiice, but had never been examined un­ til recently. Hon. John M. Palmer has been retained in his interest. JUDGE DRUMMOND, in the United States Circuit Court, at Springfield, last week granted the application of the Attorney General for a rule upon the re­ ceivers of various delinquent railroads, requiring them to pay the taxes due the State, the court holding the taxes to be a paramount lien, which it was the duty of receivers to pay. Time, however, was allowed the companies to set up irregularities in the assessments, if any existed. THE following postoffice changes oc­ curred in Illinois during the week end­ ing July i4,1877: Established--Kum- ler, McLean county, John E. Bawlings, Postmaster; Old DuQuoin, Perry county, J. B. Adams, Postmaster. Postmasters Appointed--Wm. T. Beynolds, Alpha, Henry county; James A. Gray, Attilla, Williamson county; M. M. Alford, Dun­ can, Stark county; Morgan L. Davis, El Dora, Pike county; F. M. Cary, Glen- dale, Pope county; E. H. Frazer, Man- lius, Bureau county. IN the United States Court Jud^e Drummond rendered a decision in the railroad-tax eases. The decree di­ rects the receivers to pay the State taxes within ninety days, and permits County Collectors to proceed against the property of the roads. In case the taxes are not paid the exception is made in the cases where the railroad has passed into the hands of tbird parties since the taxes of 1873 were due, and where a road in the hands of the receivers has been formed by the consolation of two or more roads situate in different States. The Spring­ field and Illinois Southeastern railroad comes under the former, and the Ohio and Mississippi under the latter. In these cases receivers are permitted to go into the State courts and resist payment with a view to settling the question of liability. As to further objection made in cases where the Collector's warrant is not to the railroad tax bpoks the court holds the neglect of the proper officers to affix the warrant to tUe books fatal to the enforcement of collection. Several counties interested have been guilty of such neglect, the warrant being affixed to the general book, not to the separate book, in which railway property is listed. WHAT in the light of subsequent events proved to have been a well-di­ gested plan of escape by certain of the prisoners in the Illinois penitentiary was nipped in the bud a few days ago, o,nd about twenty of the most desperate are lamenting their failure behind the walls of the prison solitary. From all that can be learned in the premises the plot nearly a month in the process of incubation, and, but for the warning furnished by one who wa ̂thought'to be implicated in the affair, a partial success of the scheme would have been obtained. So generally had the venture been agreed upon, that it is estimated that fully 300 men were enlisted as participants, 100 of whom could be entirely relied upon, un­ der the lead of twenty of the more no­ toriously desperate. The chief among the latter was a convict named Adam Clay, now serving his third term, sent for seventeen years for the crime of rape. It was arranged that the event should come to a focus during the Sunday serv­ ices in the chapel. The factor of the plan at work in the cooper shop was to fire the shavings therein, which would be communicated, it was thought, to the tinder in the alleyway, and, during the excitement incident to the conflagration that would be thus created, the east gate might be carried' and escape effected. The arrest of the ringleaders was quietly made and the plot nipped in the bud. Odd Occurrences. A rooster on a farm near Poughkeepsie accidentally had one of its drumsticks cut off, but now stumps about on wooden peg manufactured expressly for it by an ingenious young man. A photographer at Council Bluffs was astonished to see a woman, whose por­ trait he was about to take, cautiously and tenderly remove from a basket a snake six feet long and coil it around her neck: It was her own dear lit­ tle pet. A locomotive on the Lake Shore rail­ road struck a 2-year-old bullock. The animal bounded over the smoke-stack and fell across the boiler, the fore legs on one side and the hind legs on the other. The fireman went out on the en­ gine and held the animal until the train cofridh be stopped. The lively little bullock was scratched, nothing more. A pigeon perched on the minute hand of the clock in the tower of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, at a quarter of 11 Friday forenoon, and held its post until its body was securely fastened between the two hands. When it attempted to fly it could not stretch its wings, and in a few seconds was squeezed to death. The ponderous machinery was stopped by the sexton, and the dead biid could not be taken out until the hands were unscrewed. . A faithful hound followed the hearse containing his mistress' remains to Belle- vue Cemeterv, Wilmington, Del., and whined dismally at the grave. A negro woman, wife of Peter Mont­ gomery, of Carroll county, Miss., while at church the other day became very happy, and, after shouting herself hoarse, got into what the colored people call a "trance," and in this apparently happy condition passed from earth. A fight for Millions Ended. On yesterday expired the time for the defendants in the Gaines suits to file their bonds of appeal from the judg ments rendered against them by Judge Billings, and, as no bonds have been filed, the struggle of over forty years, so hero­ ically made by this remarkable woman, may'be said to have ended. In truth, the abandonment of the appeals by her opponents is an admission of the hope­ lessness of reversing the decision recog­ nizing the execution and validity of the will of Daniel Clark in 1813, declaring Myra to be his legitimate child and sole heiress, and, as such, entitled to the large amount of property held by the defendants. Believing that, in the happiness of her final victory, the generous elements of her character will lessen the misfortune of those who suffer by her success, we congratulate Mrs. Gaines on at last reacli- ing the goal of her life's struggle. Wonderful, indeed, must be her feel­ ings this Sabbath morning, as die enjoys, for the first time since she learned of her parentage, a day free of anxiety.--New Orleans Picayune. Taxation in the City of Paris. The budget estimate for the city of Paris for the year 1878 has been pre­ pared and distributed to the members of the Municipal Council. The expend­ iture for the ensuing year is reckoned at the enormous sum of 254,837,732 francs, or upward of $50,000,000. There is, how­ ever, no lack of funds to meet it. The receipts from the octroi alone are esti­ mated at 121,000,000 francs. The gas company pays 8,500,000 francs, and the omnibus company--"for the right of circulation"--something over 4,000,000 francs. Of the total expenditure not far from one-half is incurred to meet the interest of the city debt and to pay off a portion of the principal. Among the appropriations asked for is $78,000 for "fine arts." The amount of local taxa­ tion for each inhabitant is averaged at $25. Of national taxes every French man, woman and child pays $15 yearly on the average. Beckoning each family at four persons, we find the average Parisian citizen and head of a household paying $60 to the State and $100 to the city, or $160 a year in all. : tma3AW$ will, MAT It It WM, md WTYE: Was Bnilt. [From the London Globe.] The events now transpiring in neighborhood of the Danube bring curiousprominence the name of the peror Trajan, the buttresses of wl bridge, we believe, still stand on o] site banks of the Danube, and wi famous wall seems to be the line a] which the tide of war is rapidly roll The bridge thrown over the Danube this great monarch was, in some reap at least, the most remarkable of all structures that successive belligex have erected for the passage of troops. It was not a mere floa bridge, but a permanent structure, ried on piers 150 feet high and 60 wide, and it comprised twenty arc extending altogether over a span of 4 Boman feet. This giant structure, which ancient history records notha the kind equal to it, seems to have 1 intended as a fortress as well as a bri Standing 80 feet above the water, ; supposed to have afforded the comnjl of the Danube navigation, a garif posted on it being, of course, abljl damage or destroy vessels passing ura while they would be above the reael retaliation. It was destroyed by H| an, and its precise locality has beetll subject of some dispute. Kuius, w evidently might have formed the tresses of a bridge, occurring on the of an old Boman road, however, i to leave little room for doubt. Tra wall is another relic of this terribl; ergetic old Boman. It is, strictly sj ing, a rampart of earth about 85 o miles long, and extends from Basit just at the bend in the Danube, fc<| shores of the Black sea. Though I an earthwork, it is a formidable lini defense. It is 8 or 10 feet high,! a fosse in front of it, while the wel {>ortion is still further fortified by akes and the swampy valley of Kart In addition to all this, another ran of a similar character lies just in the of it. This is known as the South the space between the two ramparts ing from 1,000 to 2,000 feet. ̂ Lively Scene in a Nevada Tlieal At the theater last evening, in orq give general eclat to the scene in Buffalo Bill scalps Yellow Hand, it determined to enact it on horse I Accordingly in the afternoon two gentle horses were brought on t§ stage from Mooney's livery stabl«J trained to familiarize themselves | the explosion of firearms. In an J they became so accustomed to if! pistol shots could be fired in rapid | cession under their very noses wi| giving them the slightest conk When the curtain rose for the f equestrian scene, Buffalo Bill, mouj on a snow-white charger, galloped af the stage. A moment later Caj? Jack (as Yellow Hand) trotted out p the wings, and then the trouble w« gun. Bill raised his Henry rifle? began firing, while Jack pulled lijj volver, firing one shot in doing so. fell he'avily on the stage, with IIM clinging for a moment to the stil The horse, relieved of its rider, ri« about wildly, confused by the siil fall and continued firing, and ati| time ran toward the footlights seemed about to jump into the au< um. Capt. Jack rose to his fi limped off the stage, but a mome ter made his appearance again hand-to-hand encounter with Bi Bill. He stood upon one leg with streaming down the other, and »e to be in great pain, all of which wa sidere<J by most of the audience only a part of the performance sight of the blood, Miss Granville, was in the box on the right, fai The curtain fell abruptly, and a actors rushed on the stage to see was the matter. They found hardly able to rise and bleeding the gro*n. He was taken to the ing-room, and physicians were im: ately summoned. 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