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, -- * F £ * 1^ ^7V * * * ' '^^Q^.^JGS^SGP' *• . wU'.t':-/ V *% * , •^-i. -:Vv' P. „ £ Jl *1» wrr. * : .&-">&• r " V . V *w?r # **#• She 3$ttl)fnr$ flaittdcalfr. J. VAN SLYKE, rtTBLIBHKR. HaHENEY, ILLINOIS. appeuranoe at States Court," |HE SEWS CONDENSED. Ck . THK EAST. Two wwoBiors forgers, Hasted and Connor, %ave been arrested in Now York. They had negotiated several thousand dollars' worth of fcogus St. Louis and Quiney bonds There ' are over 40,000 coal-miners on a strike in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania. They de­ mand a restoration of the wages that were paid ^MaylaBt THE WEST. OK the afternoon of Aug. SB two spans of ffce Union Pacific railroad bridge at Omaha Were swept away by a tornado, causing a break of about 500 feet at the Iowa end of the Structure. The catastrophe will prove a seri- ons detriment to business througnout the en­ tire trans-Missouri country. The bridge is Mid to have cost something over $2,000,000. It la 2,750 feat long, divided into eleven spans of £50 feet each. Two spans, therefore, represent two-elevenths of the bridge. It is estimated that $300,000 will be required to replace the broken spans Indianapolis reports that there is everv indication of a renewal of busi­ ness there this fall Last week Chicago •lone, of all the large cities, showed a gain in her clearing-house report... .Chicago mer­ chants predict for that city the most prosperous fall trade it has experienced since the panic Three members of a notorious band of horse- thieves were recently found hanging to a tree between Holden and Lexington, Mo., with bits of paper pinned to their bodies labeled " Horse- thieves. " A Camp Robinson (Neb.,) telegram gay8: '-The Sidney coach, from Deadwood, was stopped last night above Buffalo gap by five road agents, who fired into the coach be­ fore a word was given to halt. Ed Cook, Divis­ ion Superintendent of the stage line, was shot through the ear. The robbers secured $12 out of about $1,000 in the possession of the pass­ engers." THE leading merchants of St. Louis hare been interviewed by a newspaper reporter, and fliey Bay the prospects for a heavy fall trade in that city are good A sensational tragedy was enacted in Chicago a few days ago. A young man named 0'3ullivan became enam­ ored of a girl named Kate Brannock, the daughter of respectable parents. She refused to marry him, which so incensed him that he killed her by shooting her through the head with a pistol, and then ended his own misera­ ble existence in the same manner. No LITTLE excitement has been caused in Ghicago by the failure of the State Savings In­ stitution, the leading savings bank in the city, and at one time considered one of the soundest financial concerns in the Northwest. Bad as­ sets, injudicious management, and a slight run on the bank, consequent upon the recent failures in St. Louis, are said to nave been the causes that brought about the smash- up. The total deposits amounted to S931,576, the bulk of which was ie hard earnings of industrious poor peo­ ple, who are illy prepared to bear the loss. The affairs of the concern have been placed in the hands of an assignee. It is claimed by the officers of the bank that the dividends for de­ positors will realize 80 or 90 per cent St. Louis papers record the death of Ben DeBar, 6 well-known actor and theatrical manager.... Chicago elevators contain 306,831 bushels of Wheat, 1,412,463 bushels of corn, 307,370 bush of oats, 117,127 bushels of rye, and 90,633 bushels of barley, making a grand total of & 234,424 bushels, against 3,227,099 bushels at thin period last year The Knights Templar of the United States held their triennial con­ clave at Cleveland a few days ago. The parade was one of the finest ever witnessed in the country, over 8,000 plumed Knights being in line. Some difficult and beautiful maneuvers were executed during the march. BETOHAM YOUNG, the Mormon saint, died at Salt Lake City, on the 29th of August, of chol- cra morbus, at the age of 76 years. He had goffered but a short time, but his demise was Sol altogether unexpected, as his years Weighed heavily upon him, and he was not in noal condition to withstand the ravages of •Mlady. ? A TKBRIBI.E. aoddent occurred on the Chica- gp-s, • • "||0j Bocjj island and Pacific railroad, near Des * Moines, on the morning of Aug. 29. He Scene of the calamity is eight miles east of Des Moines and two miles west of the village of Jlltcona. Leaving the latter place the road curves down and around the Bmall branches so tto cross Four-Mile creek. At the crossing of e creek there was a stone-arched culvert, Urith the ordinary wooden superstructure. The fains of two days had culminated in a deluge, Continuing almost incessantly during Monday fght. The train was composed of three coaches, deeper, baggage and mail car, and Barnum's leveraging car, the latter being next to the Engine. The train left Altoona nearly on time,, tod ran at about the usual speed toward Des lloines. Approaching the Little Feur-Mile culvert, the engineer, Billy Rakestran, discov­ ered the washout and applied the air brake,but it was too late to avert a disaster. The engine Irent through, followed by Barnum's car, which was so completely wrccked as to cause surprise that all die twelve persons therein wero not in­ stantly killed. The baggage car was thrown entirely across the creek, the smoking car fol­ lowed, but, while a number were hurt, one per- ton only--the peanut boy--was killed. Thin is recounted for by the fact that the second coach -^ent into and under the first, while the third was also forced more under than over. In these two last occurred the greatest loss of life. The sleeper was stopped on the very edge of the chasm, and none of the passengers in it were injured. The scene at the time can be better imagined than described. The t-teady pour of rain, the flashing lightning above, the rushing waters below, the crushing of wood and iron, the frantic Bhrieke of imprisoned passengers, the groans of the wounded--all these and more combined to make a scene of terror sickening to contemplate. As soon as possible help was summoned from Altoona and Des Moines. The officers and employes of the road did all they could to recover the bodies of the dead and add to the comfort of the wounded. Twenty dead bodies were taken from the wreck.and about fifty persons were wounded, some of them so badly that they can scarcely recover. The scene at the time of the accident is described as having oeen Iftrnfic ; rain was fulling in torrent© ao• companied by wind, lightning and violent thunder. The crash put out the lights, and the scene of terror ensuing may well be imag­ ined. The men who were not Injured and could get out went to work at once to rescue the living and the wounded. They had to go a mile to a farm-house to get axes to chop them oat; but they worked heroically, and by day- , light had the most of the wounded rescued There were many pitiful scenes and touching incident-. One mother was killed, sitting be­ tween two children, who escaped unhurt. One little giil, who had lain in the water for four hours, with a heavy man lying dead beneath her body, was discovered to be breathing, and was rescued and restored, and now shows no signs of injury. THE SOUTH. A MEMPHIS telegram of a recent date says: "For several years the revenue officers have had great trouble in trying to break up illicit distilling in Henry county, Tenn., and in nu­ merous instances the revenue officers have been confronted with armed bodies of men and forced to leave. Various means have been re­ sorted to in order to put a stop to it. Last Sat­ urday the better portion of the citizens there, after consulting with the Revenue Collector and other officials, gave a grand barbecue. All the 'moonshiners' were,invited, and United States Senator Harris made a lengthy speech to them, showing tuem the disgrace brought upon the 8tate by their course, and that vigorous meas­ ures would be enforced to put a stop to their illicit work. Finally an agreement was made - that all of them would, within two weekB, sur- muder fchear stills, etc., and give bond for their the next term offckelluited • . . , V - . WASHINGTON. THE President and SecreUiwT' Evarfe, J>evens and Key returned to Washington from their New England tour on the 25th of Au­ gust. Secretary Sherman returned from his Ohio visit on the same day. IT is stated in a Washington dispatch that Postmaster General Key, on his return to the oapital, "found a bagful of letters from the Bouth about his • erring brethren' speech. Key says he used the words as a quotation, and that the phrase was taken as a joke all around." J. MADISON WELLS called at the White House the other day to pay his respects to the Presi­ dent. " The interview," says a correspondent, 4 • was quit© short. Wells assured the President that his Southern policy was working well, and that there are at present no troubles in Louisi­ ana. Gov. Wells says that, no matter what President Hayes wishes in regard to the indict- tnent. umimt Mm. and Sen. Anderson in Now Orleans, he would be powerless, according to a recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. They are to be tried in Octo­ ber, and, if oonvicted, will undergo sentence mmediately." UKITED STATES DIBTBIOT ATTOBMST STOWE, of South Carolina, has sent in his resignation.... It is asserted that the President will shortly re­ move J. Russell Jones, Collector of the Port of Chicago The amount of national-bank cmr rencv issued during August was about •1,400,000. GENERAL. THE Federal troops along the Baltimore and Ohio railroad have been withdrawn, the Gov­ ernors of Maryland and West Virginia having notified the War Department that they were no longer needed. THE Cuban League, which has its headquar­ ters in New York, has issued an address to the people of the United States urging the inhabitants of large cities to form Cuban Leagues, for the purpose of exercising moral influence upon our own and other civilized governments in favor of the suppression of the inhuman war waged against Cuba the Jast eight years, and asking the aid of the press to demand Cuba's recognition as a belligerent.... The new season at McVicker's Chicago Theater opened with the first production in America of Sard oil's " Serapliine, which has proved highly successful. The company is the best ever gotten together in the twenty years' career of the theater under Mr. McVicker's management. Edwin Booth will appear for an engagement of several weeks' duration during the term of the Exposition. THE National Board of Trade has . just held an interesting, and it is hoped a profitable, four days' session at Milwaukee. The attendance was meager in numbers, but seems to have more than made up in quality what was lack­ ing in quantity. The discussions took a wide range, embracing nearly every important topic relating to the commercial, financial and in­ dustrial interests of the country. Among other important questions passed upon was the proposition looking to the adoption of a standard weight of the bushel throughout the United States; a request to the Presi­ dent to recommend to Congress the creation of a commission for the purpose of revising the tariff rates; the adoption of a memorial to Congress for the removal of the present un­ just discrimination Against the West in the matter of direct importation; the passage of resolutions in favor of a reciprocity treaty with Canada; the adoption of a resoluaion recommending the funding of greenbacks in bonds of the United SUtes bearing 4 per cent, interest and running 40 years, ana expressing the opinion that the present law for the resumption of specie payments is insufficient to accomplish that purpose ; the denouncing of the Bankrupt law as unjust and oppressive in its operations; the adoption of resolutions urging the repeal by Congress of the naviga­ tion laws of the United States, which were characterized as unjust and destructive to the American ship-owning interest; and calling upon Congress to take steps to secure an inter­ national monetary convention for the purpose of establishing a permanent relative valuation between gold and Bilver. A resolution in favor of the remonetization of silver was voted down. THE Chicago Inter-Ocean recently addressed a circular letter to nearly all the members of Die present Congress soliciting their views upon the question of the remonetization of silver. "The number of replies received was 197, with the following result: In favor of remonetiza­ tion, 146 ; against remonetization, 18; unde­ cided, 31; declined to answer, 2. THE premium on gold in New York has just touched the lowest point it has reached Bince 1872, namely, 104. Music has been distinctly transmitted from New York to Hartford, a distance of 240 miles, by the Edson telephone. ONLY twelve Governors responded to the call for a reunion at Philadelphia, namely: Hartranft, Pennsylvania ; Porter, Tennessee ; Anthony, Kansas; Young, Ohio; Newbold, Iowa; Yarber, Nebraska ; Hampton, South Carolina; Stone, Mississippi; Axtell, New Mexico; Prescott, New Hampshire; Bedle, New Jersey; Cochran, Delaware. After "doing" Philadelphia for three days, the dis­ tinguished party made an excursion to Cape Mav, thence visited New York, Boston, and the White mountains. POLITICAL. IT is said Senator Sherman hanker* after his old seat in the United States Senate, and that in case Ohio goes Republican he will be a can­ didate for the position. THE Republicans of Virginia have declined to nominate a State ticket....The Connecticut State Greenback Convention was held at New Haven last week, over 1,500 delegates being m attendance. Resolutions were adopted de­ manding the unconditional repeal of the Resumption act, the full remone­ tization of Bilver, bonds interchangeable with greenbacks, the latter to be full legal tender, equitable taxes, abolition of monopolies, the stoppage of all subsidies, and the removal of Secretary Sherman. THE New York Republican 8tate Convention has been called to meet at Rochester Sept. 26. The New Jersey Republican Convention will meet at Trenton Sept. 25 Senator Conkling is reported as saying that he is opposed to the President's officeholders order, and that the officeholders of New York will neither resign nor go out of politics. It is said he has ad­ vised A. B. Cornell, Naval Officer at New York, and Chairman of the New York Republican Committee, to " stick" until removed by the President. THE Democrats of Iowa met in State Con­ vention at Marshall on Wednesday, Aug. 29, and nominated by acclamation the following ticket for State offices: Governor, John P. Irish; Lieutenant Governor, C. C. James, of Pottawattamie county ; Supreme Judge, N. E. J. Board man, of Marshall; Superintendent of Public Instruction, G. D. Culleson, of Wayne. The following platform was adopted : 1. The Democracy of the State of Iowa In con­ vention assembled hereby declare in favor of a tariff for revenue only, bouent economic home rule, the supremacy of the civil over the military power, the separation of church and state, equality of til citizens before the law, opposition to the granting by the General Government of subsidies to any cor­ poration whatever ; and we believe 2. That the destruction of the industry of the country and the pauperism of labor are the inevit­ able fruitri of the vicious lawB enacted by the Re­ publican party 3. That, as a means of relieving the distressed por­ tion of the community and removing the great stringency complained of in business circles, we de- Uon act repeal of the Specie Resump- ,*-,Th®t.,we denounce as an outrage upon the rightB of the people the enactment of the Repub- Ucan measure demonetizing silver, and demand the passage of a law which shall restore silver to its monetary power. 0. ihat wa favor t'le retention of a greenback cur- rencj, and declare against any further contraction, ana we are in favor of the substitution of green­ backs lor national-bank bills. 6. We congratulate t! e country upon the accept­ ance by the present administration of the oonstitu- uonal and pacific policy of local self-government in the States South, so long advocated by the cratic party, and which baa brooffht peas* and har­ mony to that section. And in regard to the future financial policy, In the language at oar national platform, adoptea in the New York Contention in JfMW, we urge, 7 . The payment of the public debts of the United States as rapidly as practicable, all money drawn from the people by taxation, except *o much as is requisite for the necessities of the Government, economically administered, being honestly applied to such payments, when due. 8. Bqnal taxation of every species of property ac­ cording to its value. ». One currency for the Government and the peo­ ple, the laborer and the officeholder, pensioner and •oidier, the producer and the bondholder. 10. The right of the State to regulate railroad corporations having been established by the higher court of the country, we now declare this right must be exercised with due regard to Justice; and, as there is no necessary antagonism between the people and these corporations, theoonmaon interests of both demand a speedy restoration of former friendly relations, through just legislation on the one side and a cheerful submission thereto on tlia other. 11. The rights of capital and labor are equally sacred, and alike entitled to legal protection. They have no Just cause for quarrel, and their proper relations to each other are adjustable by natural laws, and should not be htuupe^ed 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 the common-school fund of the State. INDIAN NEWS. A "SALT LAIE dispatch of Aug. 25 reports the Ne* Perces Indians on Henry's lata. Gen. Howard was one day behind them, but. as he had halted to await supplies, there was a pros- peet of the distance between them being widened. A DISPATCH from Deadwood, Dakota, says : "The party of twenty persons who left here about two weeks ago for the Little Mis­ souri river returned to-day. They report that last Tuesday afternoon the party discov­ ered Indians close to them. TTiev selected high ground, and dug rifle-pits. ^They had been digging about twenty minutes when nearly 500 Indians appeared on a bluff opposite about 400 yards off and commenced firing at them. The fight lasted nearly four hours. Thomas H. Carr, Quartz Recorder of the Deadwood Mining Dis­ trict, was shot through the head and killed. Twenty-seven horses belonging to the miners were also killed. After dark the Indians with­ drew, and the miners escaped, being obliged to walk 150 miles to reach this city. A late Washington dispatch says: "The dispatches to the Government indicate that there is no ap- frehension of a general hostile combination of ndians against the whites in the Northwest. The antagonism between the wild tribes is such as to prevent this, were an effort made. The Sioux especially are feared and hated by all the other tribes." FBOH Fort Ellis, Mont, tinder date of Aug. 27, Capt. Benham, of the Seventh Infantry, telegraphs as follows to Oen. Gibbon, at Helena: " The Indians appeared in Griser basin on the 24th inst. Thay struck a Helena and Badersburg party, killing seven men and taking two women and one man prisoner. Just as he left Mount Washburn yesterday the In­ dians attacked another party, billing nine of them. One of them escaped. The Indians released Mrs. Cowan, her sister and brother, who reached ffchofield yesterday. The main camp crossed the Yellowstone on the 25th. TTio warriors went back to fight Howard. Whitebird and Looking-Glass remained with the camp. Joseph went with the warriors. They say they are go­ ing to Wind river and Camp Brown to get supplies. Schofield thinks thej are going to the Lower Yellowstone, via Clark's Fork. They crossed the river between Mount Washburn and the lakes. Schofield does not say just where he will send hie courier." Gen. Lew Wallace has proposed to the Secre­ tary of War his plan for putting down Indian wars. He recommends the employment of a corps of frontiersmen for border duty, who are to live upon the country. He would, in short, create a lot of predatory white bands to offset the thieving savages. THE TURKG-KUaSIAN W TBSBB has been a sanguinary struggle for the possession of the Schipka pass, the most feasible route through the Balkan mountains into Boumelia. Suleiman Pasha began the at­ tack on the Russian position on Tuesday morn­ ing, Aug. 21, and kept it up until late at night, bringing forward fresh troops as one body after another was repulsed. The attack was renewed on Wednesday, and the day, like its predecessor, was spent in hard figMPfr the Turks being foiled in even ittempt to dislodge the enemy from his strongvy fortified position. The losses of the assailants were severe.... There has been some severe fighting between the Turks and Montenegrins. The Turks are advancing toward Nicsics. MB. FAWCSTT, sent by Layard, the British Minister, to report upon the condition of the fugitives south of the Balkans, and to distrib­ ute relief, writes : "Even all written gives no adequate idea of the extent of the. misery and destitution among the refugees or the barbar­ ities perpetrated on both sides. The British relief committee at Adrianople, after careful investigation, have ascertained that 10,150 fugi­ tive women and children need relief at once. Of these, 1,700 are Jews and 8,000 Turks. THE fight for. the possession of the Schipka pass proves to have been one of the most stub­ born and well-contested on both sides that the war has afforded. The Russians occupied a number of intrenchments originally constructed by the Turku in the defiles of the Balkaiw, but abandoned by them soon after the Riwaiaaa penetrated into Komnania. The Turks hurled • themselves with desperate valor upon thesie de­ fenses, and were repeatedly repulsed with ter­ rible slaughter. For sax days the contest raged with fary, the valorous Turks, with gradually thinning ranks, returning ft*"" and again to renew the assault, always with the Bame result. The Russians, on each ap­ proach of the enemy, })oured a galling fire into their ranks, mowing them down by hundreds, literally paving the mountain side with corpses. The number of Turfy who were killed and wounded is estimated at not less than 9,000 or 10,000. The Russian loss, owing to the fact that they fought under cover of their works, was comparatively small. The total Russian force engaged was 13,000 men. Opposed to these was tne whole of Sulei­ man Pasna'B army, estimated at 60,000. A BATTLE of some magnitude was fought near Kars, in Asia Minor, on Saturday, Aug. 25, between the Russians under Tergukasaoff and Moukhtar Pasha's army. A correspond­ ent, describing the engagement, says: "The heights of Kiziltepe, which were captured by the Turks, were only held by one Russian battalion. The Turks swarmed upon the mountains, protected by siege guns, which they used with ter­ rible effect. They made a desperate Hank movement from the direction of Kars to capture Kurukdara. The Russians had their tents loaded on wagons ready to move, but the perfect discipline and admirable management c the officers, together with fierce fighting, saved the day. The infantry contest at the Southa- ton village and fort was terrible, the Turks re­ tiring at sundown with heavy losses. The Russians lost before Kurukdara two Generals and eight officers killed, 237 soldiers Killed, and 712 wounded. Deserters say the Turks lost 3,000 men." A LONDON correspondent telegraphs on Aug. 29: "Intelligence from Schipka is to the effeot that fighting is still going on. This is without doubt the greatest battle of the war, having now been in progress seven days. It is esti­ mated that the Turks lost not less than 10,000 men, while the Russians lost 3,000. During these successive fights in the Balkans the Rus­ sians have had a vastly inferior force even with Radetsky's reinforcements, and only naturally strong positions saved them from the furious charges of the Turkish infantry. The issue appears likely to turn upon the question which can bring up the greatest reinforcements in the shortest possible time. It, is obviously Suleiman's plan to wear out the defenders of the pass by using constant relays of fresh troops, and he would undoubtedly succeed in the end if the Russians were not also being ro- cruittd by fresh arrivals. The crisis in this ytar's campaign is now impending. Appear­ ances indicate that the tide, which has beeii favorable heretofore to the iSirks, is now turn­ ing and bearing the Russians to victory.".... Tne Csar has at length consented to the par­ ticipation of the Roumanians in the war, and their battalions have commenced crossing the Danube into Bulgaria. GKNKRAL FOREIGN HIW| AH insurrection has broken out In Two engagements have been fought, in which thirty-six Turks and seventeen Christians were killed. Thesstly is reported in a state of brigandage, which must end in insurrection. AN adventurous Colorado potato beetle was ifctely found in a potato field near Schildau, Saxony. The population of that district imme­ diately took precautions to stop his further progress.... The plague has broken out in Russian Poland A French transport with 130 oases of cholera is quarantined at the mouth of the Suez canal.... It is currently re- Krted and believed in England that the well-own Turkish General, Osman Pasha, is the wlebrated French exile, Marshal Bazaine. SOUTH AMERICAN advices report another seri­ ous earthquake in Chili. Owing to the break­ ing of the cable from Callao south we arc with­ out particulars of the disaster.... At a council of French ministers the other day, at which President MacMahon presided, it was decided to prosecute Gambetta for the speech which he delivered at Lille. The journals which pub­ lished it will also be prosecuted. COL. WELLES LEY, the accredited representa­ tive of the British Government at the head­ quarters of the Russian army operating from the Danube, has made a report to the War Of­ fice. It has been published as a "Blue Book." He says that, after a thorough examination of English and other witnesses of the Russian op­ erations, he has come to the conclusion that the charges of Russian cruelties are absolutely without foundation Servia has finally de­ cided to ease her fortunes with Russia. A CORRESPONDENT at Rome telegraphs: I have received from ordinarily trustworthy sources the information that the Pope is suf­ fering great prostration, and has barely strength to attend to any business.... A dis­ patch from PeBth announces that the Bosnian insurgents have been again totally defeated near Czernypotak, and driven over the Austrian frontier. DISPATCHES from London on Aug. 30 state that after the desperate bnt unsuccessful at­ tempt of the Turks to drive the Russians out of Schipka pass on Sunday the attack was not renewed, and up to Tuesday the opposing forces confined themselves to outpost skirmish­ ing. The Turks appear to have secured pos­ session of some heights which threaten the Russian flanks and are beyond reach of the Russian batteries. Radetzky had been heavily reinforced, and expected to be able to hold his position, while the Turks were taking advan­ tage of the suspension of actual fighting to construct strong, earthworks in the valley of theTundja. BUSINESS INTERESTS. Commercial and Trade Matters. SILKS will be cheaper than over, the cocoon crop in France being very large, BALTIMORE papers say the indications of an eariy fall trade are apparent in the business quarters of that city, the stocks accnmnlated largely exceeding those of previous years. THE New York Herald thinks the fall trade of that city will be the largest since 1873. The sale of merchandise is already unusually large and of a charac­ ter for every-day consumption. So MANY new vessels are building in England, especially steamers, that the English shipping brokers say that they begin to fear that the carrying trade of the world is being largely overdone. THE commerce af the country in 1872 and 1873 was the largest ever known. For the year ending June 30, 1877, it amounted to $1,149,550,662, very nearly the full aggregate of the. heaviest years. A BAI/TIMORE paper reports that the Baltimore and Ohio road is anticipating a greater demand for freight facilities this fall than for several seasons past. Additional freight oars are being con­ structed by the company, and the force of hands has been largely increased and the time extended. Mill, Shop, and Labor Notes. BOTH Burlington, Iowa, and Mon­ mouth, HI., are working to secure the location of rolling mills at those places. AN iron company has lately been or­ ganized in Hocking county, Ohio, with capital stock of $100,000, to work some of the coal and iron interests of that locality. THE Delaware and Hudson Canal Company have decided to mortgage all their Pennsylvania property, including coal lands, for $10,000,000, to meet forthcoming obligations. SEVERAL Indianapolis carpenters who wait to London, Eng., some time ago, are satisfied with their prospects. Wages they report at £2 a week, Bay $10, and work plentiful. STATE MINE INSPECTOR BOY ie ATMR in the Mahoning valley, Ohio, instituting suits against some of the mine-owners in that region for violation of the mining laws in not providing proper escapes for miners. THE wages paid to employes of the Michigan Central road have been ad­ justed and graduated upon a scale ap­ proved by the workmen themselves. In a very few instances a small percentage was taken from the salaries paid at pres­ ent and heretofore, but as a rule the pay was increased, the advance ranging from 4 to 12 per cent. The advance will probably average 6 per cent. The employes express themselves satisfied with the new scale. THE outlook in the coal and iron trades in Scotland is reported as far from en- oouraging, and a winter of severe trial and suffering is anticipated. The iron­ masters in the west of Scotland have re­ solved to reduce their productions by about one-third the usual supply, the reason for this step being alleged to be the prolonged dullness of trade and the very low prices at which pig-iron is be­ ing sold. The practical import of this will be that about one-third of all the furnaces in Scotland will be stopped. IN the Iron Age we find a statemen of the condition of the blast furnaces in the United States on the 1st of July, which we condense as follows: Charcoal furnaces in blast, eighty-seven, with a weekly capacity of 7,730 tons; anthra­ cite, eighty-seven, capacity, 17,442 tons, bituminous coal or coke, eighty-five, capacity, 20,660 tons; total number in blast, 259 furnaces, with a weekly capa­ city of 45,832 tons. Charcoal furnaces out of blast, 181, weekly capacity, 12,544 tons; anthracite, 139, capacity, 24,468 tons; bituminous coal or coke, 123, capa­ city, 26,455 tons; total number out of blast, 443 furnaces, with a weekly capa­ city of 63,467 tons. BURGLARS are going through snail Minnesota towns plundering and soaring women half to death. HATES' TALKS, of the PMittm OB Hla Jfew Bnglsnd Totar. AT CONCORD, N. H. GOT. PMMOOTT, LADIES AND Qmnxxrat: This custom of handshaking, which I have Just ?ot through with, comes down to us through several generations, and it is not an altogether satisfactory proceeding, and now, having shaken hands, we hardly feel acquainted with each other. We wish lo hear the voice, and I suppose it is as proper now as at any time to make mv acknowledgment to the authorities of the State of New Hampshire, Governor, and members of the Legislature, and to the author­ ities of the city of Concord, for their kindness in hringing me to New Hampshire. We en­ tered the State last Monday, and have bten making our way through it, visiting the re­ markable scenery of the mountain regions un­ der circumstances every way favorable. The weather is perfect, the sky clear, the air brao- ing, and when on top of Mt. Washington there seemed nothing lacking to improve that won­ derful spectacle that is as surprising as it is perfect. It is possible we have had few clouds in the sky. just enough to make the sky seem beautiful as ihe Bha.uov»» Uoatbu over the great mountains, and passing from that we came down to the region of lakes, that beauti­ ful part of New Hampshire where your great river, the great, Merrimac (that river that builds up such cities as Lowell, Law­ rence, and Manchester) takes its rise. So I came on down here under a somewhat hotter sun than is usual in your climate. My fellow- dtizens. I am triad to exchanco croat in<r« with you, and to be met by you. 1 thought it was not altogether proper in meeting this people that I should talk politico to them. Men of all parties have met me--Democrats, Republicans, and Independent Republicans; Republicans that are satisfied and Republicans that are dis­ satisfied [applause and laughter], and really I feel by the way that laugh comes in that there is a pretty large crowd here. But at any rate we are here not to talk politics, and it does not seem proper to me that one in my situation should argue as to measures he thinks proper to pursue. What you want in this country as an executive is one that shall execute. That I believe to be his duty, and all that I want of my countrymen is that charitable judgment that is proper to be given by men among men, looking each other in the face, who believe that upon the whole the man they are looking in the face, whether he is right or wrong, after all means to be right. It is not a good thing to say of a man that his intentions are good, and there is a proverb that a very bad place is paved with good intentions, and yet, after all, among this people the man that has the confi­ dence of the people that he has good inten­ tions has gained something. Perhaps I had better stop here, and call upon some other. [Cries of '• Go on."] Well, then, there is only one other thing, and that is, up in New Hampshire, as in Ohio and every other State, you desire the Union to be a real Union--a real union of hearts, a union of friends. Yon would wish to have the entire union secure, not merely by force, but by all the affections of the people in all parts of the country. Now, while we have hid in the past distrust between the sections, alienation, the hostility of bad blood, I believe, nevertheless, that with the cause removed the old harmony and concord may return, and I believe it will return; and I believe in adopting measures that will make it return sjpeedily. Then 1 do not see but that in the main we agree as to the most needful thing to be done, and our only difference is upon the measures by which we are to accomplish that end, and this'l must de­ cline altogether to discuss. And so now let me introduce to you gentle­ men that are somewhat responsible for my blunders, and it is a great pleasure to have somebody to lay it on. In the first place, there is a gentleman from the South who is said to have captured the good-natured man from Ohio. Well, I can't say sure about that. There may be something to it, but I thought then that we captured him. He was very much in error durin four years, and his error con­ tinued up tc last November, for, as I have been telling the audiences, he made a bad mis­ take in voting against me in November last, and yet, upon the whole, he seems to be a very honest man, and that is one thing that seems to disturb men in politics. There are so many men who vote wrong. He has become better very fast. As I told the people up there, if you keep him among you a week or two he will be as good a Republican as yon can fur­ nish. So now I introduce to you Postmaster General Key. ON MOUNT WASHINGTON. FELLOW-CITIZENS: It will be impossible for us to stay long enough to have a general shaking of hands, for the audience is too large and the distance to be traveled by us too great to ad­ mit of it. You must be satisfied with having the same advantage I have--that of seeing. You came here to see me and I came to see you, and, to use the expression of the late President Lincoln, I have to say that we have altogether the best of the bargain. In making these ac­ knowledgments it is not my purpose to enter into a political discussion. We are gathered here of all political parties; and, while we may differ as to the ways and means, we all shall agree that the General Government must and should be administered for the common pros­ perity and common benefit of all the inhabitants in our country. We may make mistakes, but they will be from lack of judgment, but it will not be through or arise from lack of disposi­ tion. I must leave you now, but I take great pleasure in introducing to you Judge Key, a m*n that has been greatly wrong in the past, but is greatly right now. AT BETHLEHEM, N. H. FELLOW-CITIZENS : I thank you cordially, one and all, for this grouting, and I wish it were possible I could form the acquaintance of each of you, and take you by the hand, but our journey allows but a moment at each place. I am sure you don't desire me to make a political speech. You are too sensible a crowd for that, but I fcm sure we agree in a few things, how­ ever much we may differ in others. There are many things about which we can differ, such as business and secular affairs, without dis­ cussing our political differences. Now we are agreed as Americans, I think, that all pails of the constitution shall be obeyed, parts that are new as well as parts that are old ; that it will be a grand thing to dwell together in unity. We have disagreed in the past. Through the evils of war the country was borne ; but these things are past. Let us have a brief period, at least, of perfect harmony and unity. We have with us a few people who are associated with me in office--Secretary Evarts, Atty. Gen. Devens and Postmaster Gen. Key. I don't see that you make much difference in these peo­ ple, although the last had the bad taste to vote against me, and this is his first visit North ; but he is with us in the common interest. The results of the war are to be accepted by all the people of all parts of the country, both North and Bouth. I have now the pleasure of intro­ ducing to you Postmaster General Key. AT WEIRS STATION (N. H.) CAMP-MEETING. FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS : I wiBh to assure you that this kind welcome gives me very great gratification. We do not, I am sure, mistake its meaning. You are interested in me and those with me, because of the great trust which under the constitution and the laws has devolved upon me. You believe with Lin­ coln that in the performance of his duties the only safe reliance for your Magistrate is Divine aswstance, without which he cannot succeed, and with which he cannot fail. My earnest desire is, my earnest prayer is, that in every difficult and grave emergency I may be so guided that all good citizens can approve the measures that may be adopted, and that all may conscientiously pray for their complete success. It is not best for one bred to the law to attempt to quote scripture, but there is something like this: " There is more jov over the repenting one than over a hundred that have not gone astray." We have with us a friend that was for Tour years against us, and more recently made the mistake of voting against me, but now, on the question of the integrity and maintenance of the Union, and on the question of freedom and equality to all men, no man is before him. Judge Key, the Postmaster General, spoke as follows : It would not be expected that I should appear here without embarrassment. It is not without feelings of sadness that I view this scene. I am carried back to my boyhood days, when in that far-distant South, my sun­ ny home, I attended meetings like this, for the Methodists were found in that part of the Union, and my father was an humble minister in your church. He has been gone now ten years, and }ou have heard how I have wan- ft '4" Iwillnot attempt toquot« scripture, ft* 1 >B%ht fail more significantly than the FrajhfanS, bnt I have heard on old hymn that reads, " While the lamp holds oat to burn the Tilest sinner may return." The fact that Mr. *®d mywlf •re here together show that of religion h«ve a hold in the SJ™1*! ® not throughout the whole country. T~®P®9P|®°* New Hampshire need have no J* J*0!?6 of South, Both politi- /̂?n2,Jh®re indorsed the constitution i People have thrfr and his policy on - "HJ sure thoy will keep ̂yon sinoerely for this in* *00®I>t it not as a compliment to myself, but asa mark of the feeling of airily you have foe the people of the SoutL AT TILTON, N. 3, i f ^*I> FELLOW-CinzENS t The fiv» minutes that we are allowed to stop VBK does not permit me to make a speech to yon. neither do you desire it. You come to J°Ur P"**™*5 here ia evidence that, although you may not agret*|tt» me in party or in regard to p6Uqv of measSCv£l are interested to see me. So far asgood inten­ tions go, and so far as I shall "Reaves to uu jrhat .ou would have me do, you willJjJohari- table to mistakes, and I have no doubt we mav make many. You will, however, I hope, agree with me that in the nation, among all classes and colors, there should be peace. If -, vpu do we shall not differ angrily or violently about measures. It is in that desire and with that purpose that I hope, in four years, to do some-- thrng for the whole country and for all its in­ habitants. I am sure you would rather hear some one else, Judge Key, for instance. VICE PRESIDENT WHEELER AT CQNCORIW MR. MAYOR, LADIES, AND GENTLEMEN : A call upon the Vice President in the presence of the President of the United Suited seems to mo- hardly to be in order. The whole theory of the office of Vice President is, except in the mere matter of presiding over the Sonate of the United States while in session, that he is to act in the place of the President--[President Hayes, interrupting--"I wish you had Been in my place for the last hour."] lie needs no sub­ stitute, my friends, there or elsewhere. He- has already demonstrated to the satisfaction of" the people of the States his high capacity as- the officiaJ head of the nation. With firmness and patriotism faithfully meeting every duty devolving upon him, and with the simple ambi­ tion to make the American name throughout the world the representative of freedom,"hon­ esty, peace and unity. Sprung from New En­ gland loins, he inherited a patriotism which your John Stark took to the field of Benning­ ton with him 100 years ago, and its fruitagb shall be seen in the administration which Shall be marked in the future of the country as an epoch of high advancement in the art of true and just government. As for the Vice Presi­ dent, he is in full accord with the President in these purposes. His highest boast, too, is that- he is of good old New England stock. He trusts that he has inherited something of its patriotism, and something of the principles which have placed this nation in the van of na­ tions, and which, by the help of God, shall keep it there, until it shall lift up to the eyes of the world the standard of true, enlightened, and free Government. ':1 3 The New York Senators hip.,, A correspondent of the New York World writes from Albany : It is plain that the main contest in this State this fall is to be over the election for num­ bers of the State Senate. It is the only thing to which the Republicans are di­ recting their attention, so far as this- State is ooncemed, It is announced that George William Curtis and ex-64na- tor Fenton are candidates for the seat- now occupied by Senator Conkling. The election does not take place until Janu­ ary, 1879, but the State Senators elected this fall hold for two years; and take part in the election of United States Senator. This makes the selection of the members of the upper branch of the Legislature of great importance to Sena­ tor Conkling, or whoever may be his ri­ val for the Senatorship. The friends of Mr. Conkling are now busy canvassing- the districts and working for the nomi­ nation of men pledged to his re-election. They are claiming a majority in the State Senate, but make no claim of car­ rying either the State ticket or the As­ sembly. The Democrats are likewise- confident that the next Senate wiHf be Democratic. , " ' Scandal Denounced. In the Reveille reporter's wanderinga about town last night he heaid-a laay, talking across the street to a neighbor, thus deliver herself on the subject of scandal: "Of all things I do hate in this- world it's a scandalizing woman. Now, there's Mrs. Jingletongue, that every­ body knows isn't a bit better thai! 'she ought to be, and whose two daughters cut up so shameful that no decent worn- man ought to speak to them, and wh^se husband gets drunk, and they do sajr he owes for that grenadine she puts on so many airs in over her betters. If L was to say any mean things about peo­ ple like she does, I would pull' my tongue out by the roots, the nfcsty ̂ scandalizing, stuck-up old cat."--Au&tiu (Nev.) Reveille. r.2^... • • % < I "ill ii -r "THE MARKETS. 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