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The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-05-11

The sublime Porte has proclaimed
. holy war. and hiss summoned all
Mshomedans TO his aid.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-05-11

THE TRoTTIHG RACES. As will he
seen by another column, the June
meeting of the Kentucky Trotting
Horse Breeders Association at Lex.
ington will he one Of unprecedented
interest. The races will I've continued
for four days, commencing Tuesday,
June 10Th, and there will he two races
each day. Entries will close on June
9Th, and must he addressed to =. b.
Hunt, Secretary, Lexington, Ky.
The money to be distributed among
the winners aggregates $1,000. The
entries already made indicate that the
contests will lie exciting, and the
managers expect the meeting 10 be the
most brilliant ever held by the Asso-
citation.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-05-11

ABssYsIA has declared war against
Egypt for violating the frontier.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-05-11

STATS Oh vIRGIsiA,
Piiisylvsnis, County,
]. Henry =. Jones. Clerk Of the County
Court In and for the county and State
aforesaid. do certify that the foregoing
names signed 10 the above certificate are
gentlemen Of rsspectabili,y and VI good
standing in my county.
Given under my hand and ssAl Of said
Court, this 2Oth day Of April. 1877.
II. y. JoSns, Clerk.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-05-11

CHATHAM, Va, April II. 1877.
We. the citiseas Of Chatham, Va, do
hereby certify that each Of Us have bs~n
cured Of cancer by DIR. Moses a Son,
method. and without any surgical opera.
ton, and We eheerfully recommend then,
to all Who are afflicted likewise.
JAS. 4. wooDISo, {. II. THOMPSON.
q. q. GILEs, b. h. MuNYoaD.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-05-11

BRIEFLY ToLD.-Col. Crittenden,
the Door Keeper Of the Virginia
House Of Delegates, has been scluit-
tel Of the charge Of raising certificates
for the pay Of members. .Crazy
Horse, with thirteen hundred Indians
asd about $500 ponies. surrendered
to Gen. Croote, in Nebraska, q few
days ago. This makes nearly $500
Indians that have surrendered to him
since March last. Ut Is said that the
Mormops are organizing q REBELLION in
Utah. II this Is the case, Mormonisn'
has seen its best days...Three Lowndes'
vile murders were hanged at Ashby.
vile, South Carolina, last Friday.
The remaining seven also condemned
to be hung. have had their sentences
committed to imprisonment for life.
They are ell negroes. 80. Blaise's broth.
er Bob. has been appointed to Assis-
tsnt Superintendent Of the Docket
Room in the Capitol. This little
truce on The part Of Hayes will hard
y sppease the ire Of old Jim......A
girl niuetesn year, Of age. died recent.
ly, ct Pisttski!l, New York, Of genital
hydrocspalus. Her head measured
four feet and half in circumference.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-05-11

fIk>r DAY eaI-Old class. Pur-r, 500
$40 To nrst titO to ssond aud ESQ to third horse
No. ~ clss-. Psr-e, 500; 500 to hrSt, 800 u
sessud aud $50 to third horse
SECOND DAl.-No. s. a-year-Old elias. Purs.
etoe $50 to nrst 500 to secOnd and 50 TO third
horSe. Ne. T. 80 class. Purse sea; $50 10 hT.t
ei00 TO -esond ani ESQ .. third hors-.
THIRD DAf.-SO !. s-yrar-Old class Purss
ssco $50 10 Ant, 800 to s.eond and $50 To third
hsrs. No. 8. s.A elass. Purse. stOo; sgj0 to mt
800 10 syond aud ESQ to third h"rss.
FOURTH DAf.-No. :. Ssiinuie elias. Purss
ttoo; tlJo to hrst tiO0 u ~sond aud $50 To third
horse. No. :. 2.J class Purse $40 $50 10 hTsi,
eiso 10 secOnd aud 80 To third Lurse.
khtrsn'e lee ten no. Ier cent, and must iDvaTi-
ably aetotspsny the nomination.
Association may postpons on sccount VI u.atLsr
Heats may be troiied alternately:
horse disiancing the held will receive only hrsi
pfsmium.
who're eight OF more horses start In heats, the
distance vii ~ iso yards
All races In To harness.
Five OF NOR. entries 10 hll, aud three 10 start
Particular attention Il called To National Ruiz.
Nc. ., SO ], and s.
Trotting To he governed by National Rslss
ELtriss close June 5th, aud must h. Addres.,d To
r. u. Hunt, Secretary, Lexington, Ky.
r. J. MEdIBbEN, President
Chester Dnyiss Park, Cincinnati, gives o. 90 In
eight purse, divided into 81 40 zach for four aud
nvs-y-ar olis sud under, aud classes ai5 287, 2Sg
22s, 2:2i aud AIS. They will Gloss June 18th.
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CAxDipirEs.

COL J. H. BRUCE T. the Dcmocr-iic noaiuec
10 rrprcsent the counties Ut Hpvle, Iincnin. tar
rsrd and tassy, In the S~nate. Election hr-t A"n-
day In August next
JOHN SAN OwSLEY, E-l.. l. the Democratic
nominee ssr the legislature tG the county II Iin-
eoln. Election hrsi Monday In August
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-05-11

Last month, there came To my farm, q small hay
horsr, .lout u bands high, Of the Canadian breed
Tue o~n.' can get hinl by proving prOIerty and
ray ling all charges Including the cusi Of this mo-
tiee LEWIS Il. JONES,
by-u StxnGDrd, Ky.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1877-05-11

TuE first battle Of Turko- Russian
war has been fought at Ksrs. but ~
yet the news concerning tho results CT
ccedingly contradictory. One Dispatch
says that the Turks suffered defeat he
fore Ksrs, and heavy losses; that the
city was taken, that All Pscha was
taken prisoner, and that there is great.
uneasiness in Coustantinaple. Apoth.
err dispatch declares that the news VI
the unsuccessful attempt Of the Rus.
slams to carry Kars by coup dc main
!. confirmed by the Russian bulletins,
which speak even Of two attempts to
storm the citadel. In consequence Of
this, the spprehensions entertained at
Constantinople about the fate Of Kars
are set at rest.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINas.

Recent deaths At Mobile, Ala, John For
syth, for many years editor Of the Mobile Reg
iaer at New York. w. w. Newcomb, the we'll
known negro minstrel at Milwaukee, Charles
A. Keller leading merchant.
A terrible accident recently occurred on the
river Veillat, in Canada, occasioned by land
slide OF about an acre and half in length by
200 feet in depth, and height OF eighty feet.
mill built on the banks of the river was COM
pletely crushed in. Ten persons were buried
under the landslide. The landslide completely
blocked the river and changed its course, caus-
ing great damage to farmers in the environs.
The bodies were scarcely recognizable owing to
suffocation.
A public and formal apology and complete
reparation is to be required by the United States
Government of Mexico in consequence of the
imprisonment Of the American Consul at AGA.
puloo.
There will be great rejoicing at the downfall
of the gigantic sewing-machine monopolies.
All attempts of the sewing-machine patentees
to secure combinations of their patents at
Washington have failed, and num-
Der of the most valuable of these
patents come to an end this month.
The sewing-machine corporations have
worked faithfully for the prolongation of their
restrictive rights, but the renewal of the pa
tent of the last and one of the most important
inventions extant-the four-motion feed--has
| been denied
The boilers of the Anchor steamer ST.
DOMAIN exploded when three days from
Queenstown, on her last trip from New York.
The Captain, three engineers, two firemen and
trimmer were killed by the explosion, their
bodies being terribly mangled and disfgured.
Ex-Mayor A. Oakley Hall, of New York, has
neither communicated with his family nor any
of his friends since his departure from this
country. The family are well-to-do. Hall took
but little money away with him, 30 far as is
known, and will probably attempt to support
himself in London.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Senator Edmunds expresses the opinion that
the extra session of Congress will be very
long one, unless the leaders on both sides agree
to pass the Appropriation bills and adjourn.
The President contemplates Southern trip
Immediately after the adjournment Of the ex-
ira session of Congress.
The President, finding that the exigencies of
the War Department are not so great az had
been expected, has concluded not to call the
extra session of Congress until October next.
The decrease in our import trade for the past
nine months has been S9s, 900. OOO as compared
with the same period of 1856.
Secretary Schurz announces that he has de-
termined to reduce the expenditure for advcr-
Using in the Interior Department from the sum
of $4,000 year, which was the rate two years
ago, to 49, 900, which is all he proposes to spend
This year.
The President has issued his proclamation
calling upon Congress to commence in extra
session on Monday, the 18th Of October.
An official statement issued by the Treasury
Department shows that the decrease of the
United States debt from March 1, 1869, to April
80 1877, was 1856, 1O4,642.
Secretary Schurz has carried out his prom
Used retrenchment movement in the Pension
Bureau, by abolishing forty of the Pension
Agencies, leaving only eighteen in existence.
This reduction, il is claimed, will save the Gov
eminent at least s150,OO0 per annum.
Secretary Sherman says that American securi-
ties no stand above any in Europe.
The Cabinet has had under consideration the
Mexican border troubles, and has come to the
conclusion that the time has about arrived
when the bad state of affairs on the Rio Grande
should cease. In other words, IL there is any
more cattle-raiding into Texas, the United
States troops are to be authorized TO follow the
thieves across the river and capture them
wherever found
Secretary Sherman has notice that 81, 100000
OF the Centennial fund, which the Supreme
Court decided should be returned TO the Gov
ornment has been paid into the treasury, half
at New York and tho rest at Philadelphia. The
remaining 100000 will be paid in a few days.
The finding and sentence Of the court-martial
which lately tried Major Reno for ungentle-
manly conduct toward the wife of a subordinate
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
Sheridan,s Steed,

Gen. Sheridan, soon after Sheridan's
Ride" was written, said to friend :
eff the writer had seen the horse he
never would have written the poetry"
1t was young, gaunt and ugly animal,
with a gait which nobody but Sheridan
could endure. Visitors often came to
camp with letters to the General, insist
ing upon seeing things" greatly to his
annoyance, and he would for mount"
sometimes give them this horse, and, af-
ter enjoying their agony, would quietly
say, "That animal does not seem to
agree with you suppose we change sad
dies" The Generals Chief of Staff said
that there was something in the humor
OF the horse which specially pleased its
owner, and added, but you should
have seen Sheridan ride him one day
when he had the toothache."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Austria declines to answer the Russian and
Turkish circulars, ON the ground that her
opinion would have no influence upon either Of
the belligerents.
Austria has recalled all Austrian officers in
the Turkish service.
Count Andrassy has positively assured the
Turkish Ambassador of the pacific intentions of
Austria, and has declared that Austria is not
mobilizing her troops
A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt, says !:
"There is no fanahcal feeling here whatever.
The people are neither willing to fight nor pay
special tax for the support of the troops prom
Used Turkey"
The English declaration of neutrality has
plunged the Greeks into despair. They say If
Turkey is victorious they will gain nothing, and
il Russia, they lose all chance Of gaining Mace
donna and Thrace.
The Archbishop of Quito, South America,
was recently poisoned while saying mass, by
means Of strychnine introduced into the wine
used for the ceremony.
Special taxes have been voted by the Egyp-
tan Legislature for the purpose of equipping
An army TO be sent to the sultan's assistance.
Late cable advices intimate that there is seri-
Gus dissension in the English Cabinet on the
Eastern question.
Great Britain has gobbled up the infant re-
public Of Transvaal, on the South African coast.
The cable repeats the rumor that Austria has
determined 10 occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina
The King Of Abyssinia has declared war
against the Khedive of Egypt, and the latter
acting upon the maxim that " self-Preservation
is the first law of nature" is obliged to deny
Turkey any 1rther aid, either in men or
money.
The British Government, in reply to the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
New Paris.

At the end of this century there will
probably not be half dozen buildings
left in Paris which are associated with
the history of France before the rev.
olution of 1889. The work of improv-
ing them off the face of the earth shows
no abatement, whether under the rule Of
Louis Napoleon or of President Mac
Mahon. Dozens of interesting edifces
have fallen during the past year, and it is
now more than twenty years since Victor
Hugo burst into an eloquent lamentation
over the disappearance of the Paris of
his Quarter Latin days. One of the
most extraordinary circumstances about
Paris is that, large though it be, it does
not grow larger. 1t is to France infin-
itely more than London is to England,
and, besides, is the home of thousands
of foreigners from all parts of the
world, and yet it never gets near the
great city on the Thames in point OF
population, or even in the extent OF It's
first-class residentiary streets.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
AntidOte for Poison.

It has been proved by repeated expert
ments that sweet oil will cure the bite of
a rattlesnake. The sufferer must take a
tablespoonful of it internally, and also
battle the wound with it carefully. To
cure horse it requires eight times as
much as for man. A person who was
apparently dying from snake-bite, and
had been given up by the doctors, was
cured by taking one spoonful of oil.
Sweet or olive oil (both names are used
for the same thing) is also an antidote
for poisoning by arsenic or strychnine.
1t viii cure bloat in cattle, the stings or
bites of insects, etc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
Reform In the Pension Service.

II is stated from Washington that Sec
rotary Schurz has under consideration
n plan for the entire reorganization OF
the pension service, which would effect
a great economy. The scheme contem-
plates the abolition of more than one
half of the present pension Offices, the
consolidation of the districts, and re-
duction in the amount OF fees. There
are appropriated annually for pensions
about $50, 000, 900, more than the yearly
expenditures of the whole Government
to 1916; yet, Notwithstanding this enor-
nous increase in the pension business,
the old system, which was established
when the Government first voted pen
sions for Revolutionary soldiers, is MAIN
tanned.
Secretary Schurz, it appears, has final
ly thought that some new method more
economical and efficient could be reached
with legislation, or probably without
legislation. There are now some sixty
eight Pension Agents, drawing salaries OF
! SO, 900 to 81, 900 each, and receiving
fee OF % or 30 cents each time pension
is paid or voucher sent to the pension
er. This fee increases the compensation
OF the Pension Agents more than two
fold. Before the law was modified some
of the Pension Agents received as high
as SIS, 900 in year-more than twice as
much as a Cabinet officer. These sixty
eight Pension Agents cost the Govern
ment nearly 100000 annually. The
pension office furnishes them quarterly
with pension-roll made in Washington.
The work of the Agents consists III send
ing from the local Office to the residence
of the pensioner voucher by mail, who
sends it back by mail. Then check is
drawn on the sub-treasury and sent by
mail to the pensioner. 1t has been sug-
gested that the entire service could as
well be done from Washington, but the
plan now under contemplation is to re-
duce these sixty-eight Agents to twenty
two, consolidate their districts, and re-
duce the fee system.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
A Family Quarrel.

A woman being counted out, the other
morning, after debate on the question,
"Who shall rise and build The fire p
got up and split her husbands wooden
leg into kindling wood, and broiled the
steak with it. 1t made him so mad that
he got hold of her false teeth and bit the
dog with them. She cried until she had
a fit of Mysteries, and then tipped out
his glass eye, and climbed upon the bed
post and waxed the glaring eye to the
ceiling with bit of chewing gum. Then
he took her wisp of false hair and tied it
to stick and began whitewashing the
kitchen with it. Then she started off to
obtain divorce, but the Judge decided
that he couldn't grant divorce unless
there were two parties to the suit, and
there was hardly enough Of them left to
make one.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
A BulIet.PrOOf Car.

There has Just been completed at the
car-shops ut York, Pa, the first bullet
proof car ever manufactured in the Unit
ed States. The car is thirty-one feet
long, eight feet high, and furnished with
all the latest improvements in ventlia-
ton, etc. The body below the windows
is covered with three-eighths inch iron,
and the panels between the windows and
the body above them are covered with
three sixteenths inch steel. The WIN
dows can be closed with steel slides, and
when they are down the whole car IS
bullet proof. The interior is richly or
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
A Remarkable Bridge.

The finest structure of its kind in the
world is the swing bridge over the Tyne,
at Newcastle, England, the construction
of which has just been completed after
eight years labor. The bridge is des-
cribed as of extraordinary strength, both
in masonry and in the immense iron
superstructure, and is the largest and
most imposing work of the kind in En-
gland. The center pier, which supports
the massive swing girder, weighs 1900
tons, and is said to be unequaled in
Europe. The gigantic fabric has total
length, between the abutments, of $50
feet, and total width of forty eight feet
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
Personal Art Criticism.

The New York tribune, after stating
that "Miss Anna NJ. LEAFS Peacock
Feather is painted with a full, rich
palette" adds the following seemingly
needless reference to the lady herself:
" Her flesh, painting, ripe and glowing
in light, has tendency to BROWNIES in
shadow, and is sometimes not properly
relieved by her backgrounds, but isneve
lacking in substance. She has some
points of resemblance TO Mr.. Porter, vet
with qualities distinctly her own"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
Gen. Snerman's Views Of the TurkO.
Russian War.

Gen. Sherman thinks that the Turko-
Russian war will eventually eliminate
in the greatest outbreak which has oc-
Cured for centuries past; that Austria
will soon be in it, and that before Con-
stantinople is taken England will prob
ably interfere, and thus. become in
volved. He says that a large army of
Russians will cross the Danube some
where between Rustchuk and Varna,
and that both of these cities, with Siles-
tria, will be the scenes of great fighting.
The Russians will push on into Media
via, and down to Galatz, if they can get
there. At that place, he thinks, ter
rife battle will be fought; but in his
opinion the great field-battle of the cam
paign will be fought at Schumia, the
immense fortified camp of the Turks
He thinks the Russians are moving with
an army of 100000 men in that direc-
ton. He is of opinion that, if the Rus
slams are paying gold for what they use
in the Moldavian and Wallachian pro-
vinces. the farmers will continue to go
on and raise their crops but, if they
take by force and devastate the country,
then the farmers business in that great
producing country will entirely suspend.
He says the Turks will make a more de-
termined resistance than they have ever
made before, and that their navy now in
the Black sea is far superior to the Rus
sian, and that it would not surprise him
if the Turks perpetrated bold flank
movement and captured Odessa in the
Black sea, the chief depot for supplies,
etc., for the marching armies of the
Gar. He believes that before the war
is over the map of the continent and of
Eastern Europe will be very much
chonoad
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
POLITICAL POINTS.

The Democratic Jackson Association, OF
Washington city, has unanimously passed reso-
buttons commendatory Of the Presidents
policy.
Washington dispatch says: Indications
show that the Southern Democrats will very
strongly insist that the Speaker shall come from
that section. Their programme apparently il
to defeat Randall il possible" "a
The Iowa Republican State Convention viii
meet at Des Moines June 81.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11

Russian circular, enters formal protest
against the assumption OF Russia that its
declaration of war against Turkey was justi-
fable, and in the interest OF the rest of
Europe The attitude Of England is exciting
much alarm In Russia The reply of Lord
Derby TO Prince Gortschakof's circular has
produced quite sensation in all the European
capitals. 1t is believed that Russia will not re-
ply, because the only possible reply would be a
declaration of war.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
NATIONAL FINANCES.

Condition of The Treas1y.-Both the treas
ury coin and note balances, after deducting the
necessary claims upon them, are reduced to
very low point. The number of legal tenders
decreased q, OOO, 900 last month, bringing them
to So, 500, 900, the lowest amount reached since
the issue was authorized. The condition Of the
treasury requires close economy.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11

namented, and in appearance inside and
out il resembles first-class passenger
coach. It weighs about 6, 800 pounds,
and was ordered by the Spanish Gov
ernment for use in Cuba.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS.

Government Directors of the Union Pacific
Railroad-John @. s. Harrison, of Indiana !;
Francis S. Brewer, Of New York. James f.
Wilson, of Iowa; Joseph ii. Willard, of Ne
braska, and Daniel Chadwick, of Connecticut.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11

officer have been approved by the War Depart
ment and the President, but the latter, in con-
sideration Of Reno'slong service, has committed
the penalty to suspension of rank and pay for
two years
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11

Mr.. WILLIAM j. REED, who had
charge of the Corliss engine i'll Ma
chinery Hall at the late Centennial Ex-
position, and who also superintended
the erection of the Rhode Island State
building on the Centennial grounds,
died at Providence, r. l., lately, from
the effects of morphine, which was given
him for quinine, through the mistake
of druggist.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11

THE Young Mems Christian Union OF
Boston has consented to assume all the
duties and expense Of sending poor chill
dren into the country for weeks vaca-
ton during the heated term.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11

THE fisheries of Iceland have failed for
third successive wear, and great dis
tress is thereby caused among the in
habitants.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-05-11

THE Dutch Government has officially
notified the Vatican that, as measure
OF policy, it has removed the Papal arms
which former Consuls to the Pontifical
states have been accustomed to display
on the doors or other portions of their
dwellings,.