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Cambridge News (Newspaper) - August 16, 1877, Cambridge, Ohio The Cambridge news. Published very thursday a at Cambridge Guernsey county Ohio. I. Or. Haines publisher. Terms of subscription. For one year if paid within the year is of if not paid until after the year expires. 2 so Dick Nti Ned until All the arrearage Are paid except at the option of the publisher. A very Large circulation. Cambridge news. Vol. . To. Cambridge Ohio thursday August 16, 1877. $2.00 per annul business cards. News of tiie week. The Cambridge news. A u. Advertising rates. Space. 8 in. S in. I year one Quarter column. One third column one half column. $12 to 17 50 20 of 40 00 $18 75 25 of 31 50 60 of $30 00 40 of one column. Too of fifteen cents per line for local in Reading matter ten cents per line for local notices first insertion and five cents per line each subsequent insertion ten cents per line Lor special notices first insertion and 3>�c. Per line each subsequent insertion. Marriage and death notices free. Obituaries fire cents per line. A. Coom. M. Bronson. Ors. Cooper it Jefferson dentists Cambridge Ohio. Is office on West Market Street Orer Shaffner a Beymer a store. Teeth extracted without pain by the Nee of nitrous oxide or laughing Gas. Mar4-�?T75-tf Thompson s. Crow proprietor of Farmers hotel 2 on Mill Street one Square South of we. Rained amp songs dry goods store. May 3d, �?T77-tf j. Ferbrache livery and Sale stable in the rear of times building. A Quot patronage solicited. Accommodations Good. Act Cambridge Ohio. Morton House of Mierly Starr hotel Joseph Morton. Proprietor West Side Public Square Cambridge Ohio. New pleasant and convenient. Net 29-71 Washington. Secretary Mccrary has received a request from the committee of safety of Pittsburgh that a permanent Garrison As Large As the condition of the army will admit be stationed at the Allegheny Arsenal. President Hayes has remitted the Fine of col. Des Anges of new York convicted two years since of defrauding the Revenue and sentenced to two years imprisonment and a Fine of $10,000. The postmaster general publicly commends the employees of the postal service who were in the midst of the recent troubles for the faithful manner in which they performed their duties. Capt. H. Corbin u. S. A., recently on duty at the executive mansion has been ordered to Columbus. Secretary Mccrary approves the action of maj. Buffington commandant of the Pitts Burgh Arsenal in refusing admittance to the Philadelphia soldiers when retreating from the mob. A general order has been issued by the president prohibiting the Sale of arms and ammunition to the indians and revoking All licenses to Trade with them in such articles. The returns of exports and imports for the fiscal year ending june 30,1877, show exports specie value $602,474,581, imports $457,307,459 excess of exports $151,167,032. Last feet ovation from his friends. He was serenaded at his hotel in the evening and delivered a Brief speech but made no allusion to politics. Year the excess was $79,643,481. Exports of Coin and Bullion for the fiscal year St. Lawrence hotel i Essex St f i8"�?T 5 i $40, n 4,414. Last year the exports were $56,506,302 imports $15,936,681. The u. S. Consul at Winnipeg writes that besides sitting bulls band there is an Corner of main and third streets. Lon. B. Cook proprietor late of the Zane House Zanesville Ohio. In jew Fine William Boot and factory. A. Carry shoe maker Cambridge. Ohio. T fax a shop in Rainey a building on making and repairing sewed work a Mill St specially iy-22-tf j. Woodford feed and Sale stable livery on Pine Street North of main. Person arriving on the ear or any others taken to All Points of Guernsey county on the shortest notice. Apt-�?T75-tf j. D. Taylor. T. H. Anderson it Anderson attorneys at Law Taylor feb20 76 office adjoining the Taylor Block. Equal number of Sioux refugees there from the Minnesota massacre of 1862-3, Over whom sitting Bull exercises much influence. Secretary Sherman left Washington on the 9th for Ohio to be absent during the month. The total amount paid into the Treasury from the customs collections for the fiscal year ending june 30,1877, was $130,945,238. The Canadian minister of the Interior was in Washington on the 9th, and had a conference with the president and Secretary Schurz concerning the return of sitting Bull and his people to the United states. The Cabinet meeting on the 10th determined to appoint a commission of three to act with a similar commission on the part of Canada and arrange for the return of sitting Bull and his followers to the United states. One member will be an army officer another represent the Indian department and the third will be selected after conference with the president. The Cabinet on the 10th considered a claim of the Baltimore amp Ohio Railroad company for payment for transporting u. S. Troops from Washington to different Points along its lines to protect the Road from strikers and it was decided to await the action of other roads and then submit the matter to the attorney general for his opinion. We. M. Siens attorney at Law and notary Mablie. Will practice in Guernsey and adjoining counties. Collections promptly attended to. Post office address Cambridge Ohio june 15-74 t. O. Mann Carpenter and Joiner Cumberland Ohio. Quot persons wishing work in this line will be comply accommodated by calling on or addressing Tim above named. Jane 15-74 d. K. Kyles Mabb Leand Granite works Cambridge Ohio. Keeps on band a Fine lot of the celebrated red and Gray scotch Granite monuments at the lowest prices. Italian and american Marble monuments of the Best style and Quality. Marble and Blate Mantles._Mayh-75-tf at Mackey Sart Callery Cambridge. A specially is made of Fine photographs. Also copying and enlarging old pictures and finishing them in India Ink water and Oil colors oct 29-74 we. Ogler Boot so shoe Maher. In the Davie Block opposite the Public Square Cambridge Ohio. He in prepared to do All kinds of work on Short notice Ana on reasonable terms a Call. Give him nov. 30, 1876-tf mrs. Sarah Jane Moss la prepared to clean and co lob clothing for ladles and gentlemen braid hair and Bsat switches to order. Combines straightened. Jan �?T7d_ambridge, o. Or. To Sweet d e hot t i s t Cumberland Ohio. Is Teeth extracted without pain by the use of a harmless dec. 28, 1876-tf Lambert Thomas. K. Harper Teferi. Lambert Thomas a co., produce us Wool commission malts 139 North water Street and 146 Delaware wharf Philadelphia a. June 15-7 Kirk House formerly Grant House Corner of Market and fourth Street. W. A. B. M. Kirk proprietors. Jane 15-74_ Zanesville Ohio. W. Lippincott proprietor of the Beecher House Cor. Broadway and South streets. Quaker City Ohio. It Quot this is one of the Best arranged houses in Eastern Ohio. Guests will receive every attention necessary to their Comfort. April 12, �?T77-tf Fairview House Fairview Ohio. F. Dubois a proprietor. This House is newly fitted up and kept in modern style. Good stabling. May 18-tf Mccollum a Mckinney a prepared to attend to All the want of their customers in their line of halting and repairing wagons of All sizes and patterns. They also invite attention to the facilities for Ascosi Szuca it and the other thousand and one things made at the Blacksmith s shop. Mccollum a Mckinney �jar23-�?T75tf Booth end Mill Street the East. The annual Chautauqua National Assembly opened at Fairport n. Y., on the 4th, with an attendance estimated at 14,000. Rev. H. Vincent Rev. P. Newman Frank Murphy Anthony Comstock and Emily h. Miller were among the speakers present. Frank h. Walworth sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of his father in new York in 1873, has been pardoned by gov. Robinson. Jay Gould and forty seven others were each fined $250 at new York on the 6th for failing to answer when called on the list of Petit jurors. A temporary injunction was granted at Newark n. J., on the 6th, to prevent the citizens fire insurance company of that City from doing further business. I he company a liabilities exceed its assets about $60,000. The Centennial of the Battle of Oriskany was celebrated at the town of that name near Utica n. Y., on the 6th. The regular sessions of the Chautauqua National sunday school Assembly opened at Fairpoint n. Y., on the 7th. Notice is Given to the friends of the Greenback party in new York to meet on the 23d at Rochester. F. G. Otis sex City collector of Meridian conn., is a defaulter in the sum of $3,555. He had no Bondsmen and owns no property. Ba8e-Ball on the 7th Boston 4, Hartford i Louisville 4, St. Louis 2 Chicago 23, St. Louis 7. Thomas Campbell who was to have been hanged at Wilkes Barre pa., on the 9th, for the murder of mcnulty7, was respite until sept. To. W. H. Kemble published a card in the Philadelphia papers on the 8th, saying that in 1868 Carl Schurz was paid $500 per week for his services in the political Campaign in Pennsylvania. Rams won the 2 19 race at Buffalo on the 8th in 2 17 2 17 and 2 16. The returns received up to the 9th from the election on the capital question in West Virginia indicated that no Point had received a majority and that a second election would have to take place in october 1878. The striking silk weavers at Paterson n. J., have returned to work at the old wages. The Maine state Republican convention was held at Augusta on the 9th. Joseph Drummond presided. Gov. Connor was re nominated unanimously. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the republicans of Maine View with alarm the consolidation of All political Power in the South in the hands of those who precipitated rebellion while Union men Are persecuted into silence and the coloured race so disfranchised that in districts where they have two thirds of the votes they Are unable to elect a Man in sympathy with their interests that the action of the democratic House in refusing appropriations to the army except conditionally was unjustifiable and revolutionary demanding that no backward or sideway step he taken in the matter of specie resumption opposing further land Grants and subsidies. A Resolution expressing unshaken Confidence in president Hayes and a Resolution declaring that Packard and Chamberlain were entitled to their offices by the same votes As those which elected the president and the failure to recognize them placed the government in an humiliating attitude of surrendering to rebels were on motion of senator Blaine Laid on the table. A reunion of the founders of the free soil party was held at Downers Point mass., on the 9th, the anniversary of its formation. Many of the leaders of the old party were present. An Accident occurred at Oceanport draw on the Central Railroad of new Jersey on the 9th, three ears loaded with passengers being thrown into the water. The persons in the ears who could stand were Waist deep in water while the others Clung to scats Etc. They were All taken out of the car windows. Forty persons were injured four dangerously. In a letter to president Garrett of the b. Amp o. Railroad postmaster Gen. Key thanks him for the Energy activity and promptness with which the mails were transported Over his line during the late troubles. Base Hall on the 10th Hartford 4, Boston 2. The annual session of the Pennsylvania teachers association at Erie closed on the 10th. A. N. Akin was elected president for the ensuing year. The next Annie he meeting will be held at Reading. Senator Conkling returned to new York from Europe on the 10th and received a per we8t and South. Base Hall on the 4th Louisville 15, Chicago 9 St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 3. The indians made a raid on puerto Springs tex., on the 31st ult., killing Henry Dill a Driver and driving off a number of mules. In the u. S. Court at Indianapolis on the 4th, Jude re Drummond sentenced thirteen rioters to three months imprisonment each. Basc Ball on the 6th Chicago 7, Louisville 2 St. Louis 8, Cincinnati 2. The u. S. Government has commenced a civil suit for damages in the u. S. Circuit court at 8t. Louis against William Mckee. The action embraces 1,653 counts for $1,400 each aggregating $2,314,200. These counts arc alike in form except that the name of a different distiller is inserted in each charging unlawful removal of distilled spirits and also charging the defendant with aiding and abetting in the removal of said spirits which act rendered him liable to the above penalty of $1,400. This suit will probably reopen the entire proceedings of the whisky ring from 1871. The state election was held in Kentucky on the 6th. In Louisville the workingmen elected five out of seven candidates to the legislature Over the regular democratic nominees. The main building of the Wesleyan female College at Murfreesboro n. C., was burned on the 5th. Loss $75,000. The auditor of Illinois has ordered the agent of the charter Oak life insurance company to cease doing business in that state on account of impairment of the com Panyk a capital. On the 3d two Deputy u. S. Marshals who had seized a tobacco factory in Henry county tenn., were driven off by a mob of armed men. A fire on the 5th totally destroyed the Vil Lage of Eaton wi6., some Twenty five families losing All their possessions. A severe drought has prevailed in that Section of country recently and Forest fires have destroyed the Homes of Many settlers. In a settlement of colanders twelve Miles from Green Bay about thirty families were Ren dered homeless their crops farming tools Etc., also being destroyed. No lives Are known to have been lost. The trial of Pike the murderer of s. 8. Jones of the Chicago a Eliqio philosophical journal resulted in his acquittal on the ground of insanity. The american association of Amalani fated Iron and steel workers met at Columbus Ohio on the 7th, a Large number of delegates being present. Lieut. Bulies with a Small Force of regulars crossed the Rio Grande at san Antonio tex., on the 4th, recaptured some stolen horses and returned to the Texas Side on the 5th. A receiver has been appointed for the Protection life insurance company of Chicago base Hall on the 8th Boston 5, Hartford 3 Louisville to St. Louis 3. The Virginia conservative convention met at Richmond on the 8th, appointed committees elected marshal Hanger permanent chairman and adjourned to the 9th. Seventy nine car loads of Tea arrived at Chicago on the 8th from san Francisco. The Iron and steel workers convention at Columbus on the 8th adopted resolutions expressing their belief that the strike of the Railroad employees against the to per cent reduction and for the modification of tyrannical rules and orders was just and proper and the companies should accede to the same denouncing acts tending to the violation of Law and favouring a policy of arbitration in disagreements Between employer and employed. John e. Daily a stockbroker was shot and killed at san Francisco on the 7th, by Leslie c. Hanks Consul general for Gaute Mala at that City. The trouble grew out of a trifling disagreement Between Hanks and daily a partner. Hanks was committed to jail by the Coroner and on the morning of the 8th was found dead in his cell. He in some Way became possessed of a Rifle and shot himself through the heart. A receiver has been appointed for the Columbia life insurance company of St. Louis that institution having been declared insolvent. A serious Accident occurred at Troy kan., on the St. To. Amp Western Railroad on the 9th. A coach filled with passengers jumped the track and went Down the embankment fifteen feet High. Twenty five persons were wounded and several of them Are believed to be fatally injured. Baseball on the 9th Chicago 13, Cincinnati 9. On the 10th the Virginia conservative convention nominated Hon. F. W. Holliday for governor James a. Walker lieutenant governor r. T. Daniels attorney general. The platform adopted recognizes the obligation of the Public debt and recommends the general Assembly to Endeavor to readjust the same in a manner just to creditors and honorable to the state. The charter Oak life insurance company is allowed to continue business in Indiana. The Iron and 8tcel workers convention will meet next year at Wheeling w. A. Interests were not imperilled. Russia s answer was Friendly and conciliatory and the government has no reason to doubt that Russia will observe the conditions. The maintenance of those conditions is the policy of the British government. Meh met Ali and Sulieman Pasha Are endeavouring to effect a Junction by 81evno pass so As to dislodge the russians from Tirnovan. The turks intend acting with Energy and decision and Are building More defensive works. Achmet Pasha who surrendered Nicopolis to the russians and was afterwards interned at Orel has committed suicide. The French government is daily becoming More Active and oppressive in conducting the electoral Campaign. Republican papers Are suppressed for trivial causes and the publishers fined clubs Are closed and persons Are arrested for speaking insulting of president Macmahon. The Sale of Thierse photographs Are forbidden in the streets of Paris. War notes. A St. Petersburg Telegram of the 3d says Russia has ordered the whole Imperial guard to prepare to proceed to Bulgaria. Reinforcements Are being sent to Adria Nople daily from constantinople. The Czar has issued an Mukase ordering a Levy of 188,090 of the Landwehr. He is reported to he visibly affected by the recent disasters. Sclavi and Kazar Lik were occupied by the turks on the 5th. The russians had pushed their outposts As far As Pennek in Asia minor on tile 4th. A division was marching on Arda Nudsen and a third occupied the line of the Djara River. A russian official dispatch admits the loss of upward of 5,000 men at Plevna including one colonel killed. The president of the turkish Council of stale is said to have intimated to the austrian ambassador in a recent interview that the Porte was convinced that the War was really a misfortune for the whole world. The Porte would agree to make peace if Russia Only demanded bulgarian autonomy under Christian governors. The russian army in Asia minor now numbers sixty eight battalions of infantry sixteen batteries and 8,500 cavalry. There is appalling misery among the bulgarian and turkish fugitives from Eski Aglira and neighbourhood. Many have died on the Road from exhaustion and starvation and All Are destitute of every necessary of life. Two russian battalions were Defeated near Arahan on the 5th. The russians attacked Lorantz on the 7th and were repulsed with a loss of 300 killed and 600 wounded. Five thousand turkish cavalry attacked a russian Force near Plevna on the 6th, and were easily repulsed. Large numbers of russians were crossing the Danube near Turt Ukai on the 8th. Two russian attacks on Voslar South of Ras Grad on the 7th were repulsed. The Battle was bloody on both sides. According to an official statement the russian losses up to july 27 were 9,395. The russian army is daily receiving reinforcements from Russia. The main Force is at Kian Bogaz. A Force of 10,000 men Are employed on the Gallipoli fortifications. A Biela correspondent says the russians Are thankful that they have not been assailed in their defensive positions. The recent defeats have altered the whole plan of the Campaign. They have abandoned the expectation of pressing the War across the Balkans and orders Hae been issued to withdraw from All trans Balkan positions. The russians Are beginning to suffer severely in health and As the season advances sickness increases. The Czar remains at Biela. The russians were repulsed at Daillak on the 9th with the loss of 60 killed and 120 wounded. Mates lost All control of themselves and Ware As helpless As infants. The Blind Man forced five or six out of the windows above and worked until the flames and smoke compelled him to seek safety in flight. Notwithstanding his efforts seven of the males perished in the flames. Meantime some one in the crowd forced an Entrance from the outside to the female depart ment and succeeded in Awakening All the inmates. They were if possible More excited than the men and although Many jumped out of the windows at a distance of twelve feet others could not be in Ducco to leave. Owing to the rapidity with which the flames spread the time was very Short not exceeding from the first Twenty five minutes before the greater part of the building was in flames. Meanwhile the grounds surrounding the building were in a state of great confusion. Men and women were running like mad people some half dressed and some with nothing on but a Nightshirt crying and uttering the most pitiful shrieks. During this time the crowd were witnessing a sad and heart rending scene. Men and women could be seen through the open windows seated on their Beds and the flames rapidly Licking the bed clothes and their own scanty clothing. One woman went downstairs and when she found All Retreat Cut off in that direction she Sank on the stairs and perished. She was plainly visible through the open door and Many a Brave heart sickened and turned from this most horrible spectacle. Another woman threw two of her children out of the window and then jumped herself. Fortunately some men underneath caught both Mother and children. After a lapse of fifteen or Twenty minutes the floors and Walls gave Way and left nothing standing but the Frame. Then the victims could plainly be seen in the ruins burning. This was the most sickening scene that the crowd had to withstand. Soon the Frame fell and in a very Short time All was buried in smoke and ashes. There were seven men eight women and two boys Burnt to death and four men who escaped were badly burned and one Man had his leg broken in jumping from the window. These unfortunates received All possible attention. They were conveyed at once to the county jail in this town and received medical Aid from the poor House surgeon and tender care from the wife of the Jailer. It is feared that one Man will not recover. Those who escaped were Well cared for. They were temporarily housed in the barn and a Small House on the premises and attended to by the Matron of the poor House. There were forty inmates Twenty three of whom escaped and seventeen perished in the flames. The dead Are Jane Mcbride Sarah Green Sarah Sinclair William Houck James Corbett Charles Corner John Brand j. P. Noult George Hunt Lancev Parker Ormand Vespro Elizabeth Barley Dolten Pettit Hugh Baley Marion Brasley Benjamin Southwick and Ellen chatting on. Ohio hews items. A singular and fatal Accident occurred at Zanesville on the 5th. Will Tracy and will Cunningham two Small boys while leaping in opposite directions from an open drawbridge struck each other resulting in both falling into the canal. Tracy never Rose and Cunningham was saved after he had sunk the third time. Aba n. Ridenour was arrested at Lima on the 3d by the special agent of the Post office department for robbing the mails at that Point. He had been employed As messenger carrying the mail Between the depot and the Post office. He confessed to the crime and gave up part of the Money he had abstracted from letters. He was taken to Cleveland and committed in default of $1,000 bail. The Cleveland amp Ohio River Railroad company has filed a certificate of incorporation at Columbus. Capital Stock $500,000, in shares of $50. The proposed line will run from Cleveland to Gallipolis. Charles f. Wager of Columbus was killed at Logan on the 6th by a Coal train. The entire train of thirty cars passed Over his body. The trial of William s. Bergin for the murder of Thomas j. Mcbride in the Bergin House at it. Vernon june 15, was commenced in the common pleas court at it. Vernon on the 6th. The indians. The strikers. Foreign intelligence. A convention Between England and Egypt for the suppression of the slave Trade has been signed. The losses to insurance companies by the St. John fire aggregate $6,736,000. Havana advices say Gen. Campos in dispatches to the Home government explaining the situation states that the insurgents Are so Well supplied with information by spics and their facilities for disbanding when pursued Are such that it takes 500 soldiers to look after ten of them. Campos requires 50,000 More soldiers to crush the insurrection. He says the cubans will Only surrender upon receiving their Independence and recommends the Spanish government to adopt one or the other proposition. Biggar an american has been arrested in the South of France for saying at the table do Hote that president Macmahon was an ass. Lord Salisbury in a speech at a conservative meeting at Hatfield eng., on the 6th, said a let us earnestly Hope that we shall be Able to conduct this country through All difficulties without trenching in the faintest degree on its interests or Honor and without losing for a single moment the priceless Blessing of lord Sandon a a trusted when the moment of settlement comes we shall All Bear in mind that it is to the greatest interest of England that every country in the world should be prosperous and that if any country runs the ask of being humiliated we should try to prevent William h. Smith succeeds it. Hon. George w. Hunt deceased As first lord of the British admiralty. Late Hytien advices state that a revolution has again broken out. Port a Prince is in a state of siege. A Large portion of the City was fired and the conflagration continued for two Days and had not been extinguished when the Steamer left rioting was renewed at Belfast Ireland on the night of the 8th, and the military were called out to suppress it. The emperors of Austria and Germany had an interview at Asehel on the 8th. In the British House of lords on the 9th Beaconsfield said when the Eastern War commenced her majesty s government announced that it should adopt a policy of strict neutrality on condition that British Wilkes Barre pa., aug. 5. Twelve companies of regulars numbering 400, arrived to Day. The miners Are determined to stand out for an increase of 25 per cent., and there Are no prospects that they will give in for a Long time to come. Scranton pa., aug. 6. Two Hundred and eighty United states regulars arrived to Day relieving the National guard. The miners of the Delaware Lackawanna amp Western company show no 6igu of returning to work. Reading pa., aug. 7. The Coroner s jury in the Case of the recent riots rendered a verdict to Day acquitting the soldiers from any blame for firing on the rioters taking into consideration the fearful peril in which they were placed. The responsibility for the terrible tragedy is directly attributable to those who composed the Lawless body who were instigating the riotous proceedings and the mob is primarily responsible for All subsequent trouble and bloodshed. Scranton pa., aug. 8. Ald. Mahanes jury of inquest on those killed by the vigilance committee brought in a verdict of murder against the members of the committee whose names arc known. A Constable was Given warrants fort. F. Hunt and Charles e. Chittenden and they were arrested. They sent word to the militia and Gen. Hind Koper took them from the Constable. Pittsburgh aug. 8. A committee of the employees of the Pittsburgh fort Wayne Chicago Railroad yesterday visited j. D. Layng general manager of that Road to ascertain How soon the Pennsylvania company intended restoring their wages to the old rates. Or. Layng 6aid that As yet but Little had been done but he would guarantee that the wages would be restored to the same rates As in 1873 As soon As the Board of directors meet. The employees have agreed to allow the Railroad authorities two months to consider the matter when if the old rates have not been restored some further action will be pa., aug. 9. The indicted members of the vigilance committee escorted by two companies of militia went to Wilkes Barre this morning surrendered themselves on the charges of murder found against them by Ald. Malian a jury and gave bail for their appearance for trial. Baltimore Ang. 9. Gov. Carroll has issued a proclamation commanding All persons obstructing legitimate travel upon the Chesapeake amp Ohio canal to disperse at once. Regulars and militia went to sir Johns run to Day and raised the blockade of the canal arresting nine obstructionists including ringleaders. Chicago aug. 8 official information has been received at military Headquarters confirming the Rumor received Here a few Days since re gadding a fight Between indians and United states troops in Texas. It is ascertained that a disastrous encounter was had on the Stu thed Plains in which there were two officers and Twenty six enlisted soldiers killed. The remnant of the party continued its March after having suffered this loss and has since reached fort Conche with the additional loss of five privates and forty horses and mules. The unfortunate command was without water for mighty six hours and the suffering they endured in consequence was terrible. Further particulars concerning the disaster Are wanting the dispatch being very Brief and it is thought full details Mill be received in the course of a few Days when the names of the killed will be Learned. Missoula mont., Ang. 6. A courier arrived from Howard at six of clock this evening. He left him saturday morning last and thinks he will Camp for the summer Between the Lolland the Clear water. To night he is Distant about fifty Miles from the Mouth of the Lola. The courier reports that Joseph with Over one half of his fighting Force has gone to the head of bitter Root by the Elk City Trail and will form a Junction with looking Glass and White Bird near Ross Hole. He says that Howard has 750 men and 450 pack mules and is moving Forward As rapidly As possible. Advices from the upper bitter Root say the indians will Camp to night in Llos Shole. Gibbons is following rapidly. Other advices say the indians were still at Doolittle a sixteen Miles above Corvallis where Gibbons is expected to strike them. The Simcoe tragedy. A Simcoe ont., aug. 6. At 10 45 on saturday evening fire was discovered in the poor House on the Industrial farm of the county of Norfolk and about one mile from this town. The building was very old dry and built of Wood. The fire originated in the Center of the building Down stairs and spread so rapidly that before any alarm could be Given both staircases were in ruins thereby cutting off Retreat through the doors. The inmates were sleeping both on the ground floor and the first floor above the men on the one Side and the women on the other. Very few people were at the scene of the conflagration owing to the distance at which the poor House was situated from the town. The fire alarm was not sounded and no fire engines or firemen were present. The flames spread rapidly and notwithstanding the extreme exertions and Complete presence of mind of an old Blind Man an inmate of the building who went through room after room and awoke the men and boys and controlled them to the Best of his ability the in carpenters for Europe. Among the passengers in the steamship Montana yesterday were forty six skilled carpenters and joiners who had been engaged to work on r. Neill amp sons factories in Manchester England. Fifty men were to have sailed but four removed their chests and refused to go because they had heard that they were being imported into Manchester to take the places of carpenters striking there. The carpenters who sailed Are mostly Young men and Many Are of English birth. Although intelligent and skillful workmen sheer necessity in Many instances impelled them to accept the Manchester offer. One Middle aged Man said 44 i have lived thirty years in Paterson n. J., and never till lately wanted for work. During the past year i have had almost nothing to do and the last work i did i was paid $1.25 a Day the men cannot return in less than seven months and it is doubtful whether they Ever will. Of 150 masons sent from new York to Glasgow last year Only six have returned. The in Manchester is $1.75 a Day equal or. Abbott says in purchasing Power to $3.50 a Day in this . Sun. Miss e. F. Burke of Cleveland committed suicide at Providence r. I., on the 8th, by drowning. For some two years she had been in poor health and subject to depression of spirits. The Ohio breeders stake for Colts foaled in 1874, to Trot for a purse of $1,600, mile heats two Best in three will be one of the new features of the state fair this year. There Are sixteen entries. The Board will not in any Way be held responsible for this race but have simply consented to manage it for the parties interested. The prisoners in the state Penitentiary on the 7th numbered 1,711. John b. Powell has resigned As a candidate for lieutenant governor on the Independent Greenback ticket and Hugo Reyes was substituted. Daniel Arr Hood a Farmer residing in Concord township Ross county was shot through the head while handling a gun in a careless manner on the 4th, and died almost instantly. Benjamin b. Cox living at Elliston station on the Cincinnati Hamilton amp Dayton Railroad was Cut in the Arm and Side by his son on the 8th, and bled to death in ten minutes. Cox had sharpened a Hatchet and threatened to kill All the members of the family. While Cox had his son Down on the floor with his hand on his Throat the Young Man Drew his knife and stabbed him. The parricide made no Effort to escape. Elder Moses Eastwood of water Vleit a Shaker Village near Dayton was brutally assaulted while in his bed on the night of the 7th, by burglars. He was beaten about the head face and body and choked so that no doubt he was left for dead. Although badly Hurt he is in a fair Way to recover. The burglars had secured Only two dollars when they were frightened away by a female member of the household. Near Boston Clermont county on the 9th, Daniel Harrigan owner of some vicious dogs one of which had been killed by Lowell Roudebush attacked the latter with a gun threatening to kill him. Roudebush who had heard the threats of Harrigan some Days before had armed himself with a revolver and when approached by Harrigan endeavoured to explain the matter. The latter would listen to nothing and pushing aside mrs. Roudebush who endeavoured to prevent trouble aimed his gun at her husband. Roudebush handled his revolver rapidly firing three shots and killing Harrigan instantly. Roudebush was arrested. The Ohio editors and publishers association will meet at Toledo sept. 20 and 21. The annual address will be delivered by Hon. Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune and William e. Gallagher esq., of Louisville will read a poem. A banquet excursion and other enjoyable exercises Are on the programme. The misery of the mines. Getting a heir dress. An Engineer on the Jeff. Road got a new dress for his wife last week by the use of a Little strategy Over the strike. He was approached by a merchant of Louisville who had been caught away from Home and was anxious to return. The Engineer was on his engine and waiting permission from the strikers to pull out when the merchant asked permission to get on with him so As to make the attempt to run the blockade and proposed to the Engineer that if he would help him and succeed in getting him out of the City he might bring his wife to his store and get a handsome suit of clothes for her. The Engineer told him All right exchanged his Cap for the a a plug of the merchant and took him away Safe and sound. That engineers wife will Wear one of the nicest suits to be seen on the journal. The results of my investigation into the condition of the miners and other workmen in this Region were Only partly Given in my last. Enough was then told in regard to the unfortunate circumstances of the mining population to convey an impression of the conviction in the minds of these men that they Are oppressed ground Down disregarded or if regarded at All that they Are treated with less consideration than a careful Man would give to his horses and cattle. One of the houses into which i entered at noon was an example of the sort of dwellings in which the Large majority of the people live who work in the mines and Mills. It had two rooms the larger being that in which the family lived while the other was the sleeping room. The hut was a Dingy one near a breaker and its Interior was scarcely More cheerful than its Sun burned and blackened outside. The floor was Bare and there were no other articles of furniture than a table and three or four chairs All of which were broken. The windows were Hung with tattered paper curtains. The place was not Over clean. At the table drawn up at one Side of the room sat the Miner and his family wife and two children girls with faces As Black As if they too had been at work in the mines. The miners face was hidden beneath a mask of Coal Black out of which his eyes stared with a wild look giving a really innocent and Pacific person an appearance of ferocity which he did not have. The woman was neater than her surroundings. All were eating potatoes which with soda crackers and water composed their dinner. There was no bread on the table. The Man Laid Down his Fork and knife made an ineffectual Effort to hide his Grimy hands and arms and then went on to talk. He had worked very regularly As often As there was work to do in the mount pleasant Shaft which has the reputation of making More time than any other mine in the neighbourhood. He had Seldom made More than eighteen dollars a month and thought that fifteen dollars would be nearer his average. His rent was four dollars but he had paid it irregularly. All his supplies were drawn from the truck store of the company which is a private corporation Selling its Coal at the breaker to the Delaware Lackawanna amp Western. He was obliged to get his supplies at this shop because he never could get Cash for his work. Since the strike no flour had been served out so he could have no bread. As with Many other families i met meat was a luxury Seldom enjoyed. Clothes were bought scarcely oftener than to keep the family decently covered. A child died last Winter and charitable people in one of the City churches bad furnished de cent burial for it the Mother being unable to get Money or credit for the expense. There Are men among the Welsh miners Here who have lived in Hyde Park for Many years whose circumstances have been Good but who Are now sharing with the meanest labourer in the hardships common to All the population. One Man sober frugal industrious in Twenty one years had been Able to accumulate a Little property which was now slipping from his hands and he was $300 in debt. Yet he had practice Economy so severe that no Felon in a prison but would have Felt wronged if he were compelled to live on his fare. A leading member of the miners organization told me that he and his brother together were just Able to keep their House on their combined earnings. The brother had engaged to fifteen dollars a month Board but he had run behind ninety dollars in eighteen months although he never lost a Day by sickness never spent a cent for grog and was willing to do any sort of work. One Cabin that i visited was occupied by a woman Welsh who said that she had never known what hard times were until she came to Scranton. Her feet were Bare her children were fed irregularly and on poor food her husband had been sick and with nothing ahead nothing coming in and six Mouths to feed they were for months on the verge of starvation living on Charity. The miners Are All so poor that they cannot help each other and Many of them Are very proud even in their rags. It was hard to get them to admit that they were living on Mush alone when that was the Case but neighbors would Tell of privations suffered. The attempts to hide abject poverty were sometimes heroic. I was shown a Man who had been known to take his dinner pail into the Shaft Day after Day just As other men did when the form was an empty pretence and his pail did not contain so much even As a crust. Even the Mush the miners so largely subsist on is now had in Small quantities but with a Little bread they manage to appease hunger with the Aid of Garden stuff from patches which Are cultivated about Many of their huts where they raise Corn tomatoes Beans and a few potatoes. My guide was a welshman an Engineer in the mines and a Man of some education. He frequently was obliged to interpret the conversation which was carried on in Welsh by Many of the women. One of these women a widow with three sons said the oldest who is Twenty two years of age made Twenty dollars last month and the younger ones twelve dollars together. Most of this had been held by the store of the mount pleasant mine for an old debt and the family were out of provisions and without a Prospect of Relief. An Irish Miner with ten persons looking to him for support said he had not known such want As he Felt at present since 1863. Here again the expense of funerals was complained of. In an adjoining House lived a labourer with five children. The family of seven had lived on his earnings of less than six dollars a week As his daily wages were ninety six cents. A German labourer in a breaker said the largest amount he had made in two years during any month was fifteen dollars and it was usually ten dollars or twelve dollars. What astonished me greatly was the uniform cheerfulness of these people even when they were recalling and recounting their most painful experiences. I spent some time in conversation with one of the Catholic priests of this City and he fully corroborated All the reports of the destitution which had previously reached me and related others which had come under his personal notice. He was constantly relieving families some of whom had members at work but not earning enough to support them. Of the company stores he spoke As a great detriment to the workingmen holding them As they do in a sort of slavery which they cannot escape. It was said that the employees were not compelled to patronize them. But the labourers knew Well enough that they were expected to buy in them and the Small and infrequent payments of Cash made it absolutely necessary to obtain their supplies from the company. Another Clergyman who had abundant Opportunity to learn about the condition of the miners and who had studied the subject closely said he believed that it would be Safe to say the families in the Valley averaged six persons each and that they had maintained life on an average of seven dollars per month to each family for nine months past. It is not to be supposed for an instant that this condition of things ha3 not been known to Scranton people. It has been known to them and last Winter a Good Deal of assistance was extended to the poor by various societies through a Relief association. But the miners do not wish to live on the Charity of anybody. They Pray for work at living wages and Are willing to work even seven Days in the week to earn them. In a conference with the officers of the company one of the latter said to the miners 44 if you think the company is making so much Money perhaps you would undertake to work the mines for All above the expenses a to this the miners quickly replied 44 we will undertake to work the mines if you will support our a Cor. If. Times. All Borts. A to keep House done to put a mortgage thereon. A the Boston Public Library now contains 312,010 volumes. A pet Lap dogs in Paris have parasols attached to their collars. A Twenty six Yards of stuff can easily be lavished on a mohair costume. A the scythe has ten times As much poetry As a mowing machine. When is a Parson like a postman when his delivery pleases you. A a lawyer in Warsaw n. Y., has paid a neglected client $600 damages. Do not find fault with a boy because he throws stones at Birds. He never hits a Bird. A Burlington vt., is supplying tiles for the dome of san Francisco a City Hall. A and Why did no to Pleasanton think to bring out his Blue Glass and heal All these troubles a an old lady wants to know what is a meant by 44 mean our watch keeps courier. A the Young lady of society is now engaged in her annual frantic endeavours to eat Green Corn in a Graceful manner. A children that Are remarkable for what they know at five years old Are generally More remarkable at Twenty five for what they done to know. A in new York City on a hot Clear Day $15,000 is spent for soda water. Brooklyn spends half As much Boston $3,000, Philadelphia $1,500. A Auburn prison has forty lawyers and three printers. How did the latter get there it is a startling a solemn question. A now that the strike is virtually Over let the american people resume their customary intellectual avocation and see who can write the most words on a postal . A the misery of the Young Man who courts a sparkling fashionable Belle and loses her is Only excelled by the misery of the Man who courts her and wins her. A Pittsburgh begins to receive a number of Little Bills from different parts of the country which she is politely asked to Settle. One Boston firm request $17,-000, the value of Only two car loads. A the strike on James Street yesterday morning was promptly quelled. The old lady marched upon the scene with a Broom and the boy took the saw and returned to work on the Wood pile at old , Sentinel. A a Man who has practice twelve years with a revolver and who could drive a Nail at sixty feet with a Bullet was killed by a club in the hands of an Arkansas Man who shoot a barn. A the Easton free press gives the roster of the Delaware rifles a neighbor ing militia company by which we see that there Are twelve officers and fourteen privates. The free press does not explain the preponderance of privates. A or. Honore of Chicago the father in Law of Fred. Grant recently filed a voluntary petition to be adjudged a bankrupt. His secured debts amount to $1,554,089, and the unsecured debts to $973,146. A an Exchange says 14 Max Strakosch will manage miss Kellogg next before the season is Over miss Kellogg will be managing Max Strakosch. This is the Universal outcome of every attempt of a Man to manage a enquirer. A Hippopotamus is Are Down As Low As $5,000 apiece and a menagerie Man says this is dirt cheap. But until they come Down to $4.50 they will be classed among the luxuries in poor families who will continue to worry along with two or three dogs. Miss Corisande Sage. Miss Corisande was born Only two years earlier than her brother Tom. When Tom was ten years old she gloried because she was twelve. When Tom was known to be fourteen she confessed to Sweet sixteen. When Tom proudly boasted of eighteen she timidly acknowledged herself past Nineteen. When he came Home from College with a Mustache and a vote and had a party in Honor of his Twenty first birthday she said to her friends 44 what a Boyish Fudlow he is who would think he was Only a year younger than i a and when Tom declared he was Twenty five years and old enough to get married she said to a gentleman Friend 44 do you know i feel savagely jealous to think of Tom getting married. But then i suppose twins always Are More attached to each other than other Brothers and and two years later at Toms wedding she said with girlish vivacity to the wedding guests 44 dear old Tom to Sec him married to night and then think How when he was Only five years old they brought him in to see me his baby sister i wonder if he thinks of it you have met miss Corisande probably. She lives in your Hawk Eye. _ a the reckless Man thoughtless of the future and mindful Only of the present says 44 to Morrow May never come a which May do very Well for him but with a Man who has a note to on which to Day is the last Day of Grace but one to Morrow is pretty Apt to loom up with a grand and awful probability. This is a free country. The cob if you want to. Eat Corn off a the state of California is Over 700 Miles in length and averages about 200 Miles in Width. Its area according to late authority is 156,875 Square Miles or 101,400,000 acres being larger than the United kingdom Portugal Switzerland and Belgium. A Gilbert Gordon is the grandson of the late d. D. Tompkins at one time vice president of the United states but he was arrested at Long Branch and committed to jail just like any other Man for being drunk and disorderly and beating his wife. A people at watering places and summer resorts become acquainted in one week intimate in two and at the end of a month done to speak. Intimacy Breeds contempt in a very Short space of time where people have so much time to quarrel. �?44 some people a says the Galveston news 44 persist in going North every summer to Saratoga and other resorts a to the detriment of local institutions of Superior facilities for amusement. For instance the Mason county jail has not had an inmate for the past three a Horace Greeley died broken hearted because he was not permitted to edit the Tribune. We know lots of editors out West who Are nearly broken hearted because they Are compelled to edit their papers while their Rich subscribers go Oft to the mountains or the sea Hawk Eye. A she was sitting on a porch at Saratoga and her Buff Percale Over her bit of White Petticoat looked As Cool As a Winter Sunset Over a snowy horizon. Her Blue eyes were Large and Luminous roses had blushed on the Cream of hot Cheek her lips were the color of raspberries rare Ripe and when she was asked to go in to dinner she said 44 no it makes my jaws ache a Theodore Franklin a Sioux county Iowa Bachelor wanted a wife and he told Roger b. Young that in Case a woman was secured for him in twelve hours he Young should receive a cow. Young said that was easy set out on his tour of inspection and within the required time appeared before the love sick Franklin with miss Alice Traer. The cow was delivered after which Franklin and Alice were married. The most Liberal Man in new York City and on this continent and perhaps on the Globe is James Lenox. He has for nearly forty years Given away his surplus income and As the latter increased with the Advance in real estate his donations increased in a proportionate degree. It is said that they much exceed those of George Peabody a gifts though the latter made More noise in the Herald. A we have observed that the Banks Are always 44 perfectly sound until the notice 44 suspended is posted on the front door. You never knew of a Cashiers saying 44 we Are in a bad fix and will probably shut up shop he always says 44 suspend a a a that a pretty Good Why we never were in better and half an hour after Likely As not the doors of that Bank will be closed and the papers will Tell the old old Story liabilities $1,500,000 assets ten , Louis journal

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