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New-York tribune., 1877-07-10
STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.

WHEELING, West Va, July 9.-Steamer j. n.
Camden en- route from Rarhersburg to Pittsburg, ex
uloled both her boilers aud sank at the head Of sh
Creek Ripple. about O'Clock this afternoon. william
Barnard the pilot, and three cOoied men or the ere
were instantly killed ThcliOOwing were injured. T. II.
Wiley srriousy; Samuel RbgeIs slightly scaled; James
Coudlaton, head cut III two places but not seriously
Thomas Jennings, slighty.
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Capt. Foley, of the Tenth Precinct, made an
descent last night upon the houses OF bad charac-
ter in his precinct and stod about forty persons
The houses closed with the number arrested at each are
rs follows: No 20 Forsythit, eleven persons No lOo
Porsyth Ave persons No l3s9 Forsyth three persons:
No 40 FORSYTH five persons No. lOl Canal SIX lor'
sons No 1913 Canal, persons The prisoners ana not
a,sed Themselves by singing ribaid songs aud shouting
,n cach other from cell To cell.
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rhe drcclors purehased the eapItaI sLoc Of themsel
Total. slg77i9 90

The bonds which the books claim were bought lust
before close of each year, aud sold after tue opening
OF the following year. amounted To 9-1 Tue mort
og.s and bonds given for property afterwards returned
and estimated To- be almost WORTHLESS, uade totl oi
I oOo The Grand OF all these sums is $50 %
Th ohove facts are the result Of brief examination
into the American Popnar's books The receiver thinks
c ba only beun discover the numerous evidences OF
rscty on the part the officers and directors OF the
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MARINE DIsAsrBRs DURING MAY.

The Direction of the Bureau Veritas of Brussels
has inst ubshed the following statistics Of maritime
tiers during May 1871 conc nng ali nags 1t reports that
l4 calling vessels lost teiunE 10 That were reported
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poRpIyG HIS DIVORCED WIFE.

Lewis Berge, of No. 139 Third-av, was
arrested yesterday afternoon. on the charge OF entering
the room of his divorced wife, Martha A. Berge at NO.
aAo East seventeeuts. during her absence on sunday
L., and stealing a quantity of valuable jewelry and
Iii", C,ntaii, Clinchy and Officer Noble found about
~ 900 worth OF the property IN Bcrge's ROOM
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ARREST OF KENTUCKY OUTLAWS.

CINCINNATI, ONO, july 9.-Ihe GdeeHeS
specal dispatch says that the military from COvngton
ho were sent to Ky, to the Underwood
gang reached Iind rwOOdls house early tns morning
and captured George W. 4nd John Underwood and
negro Tnc remainder OF the gang had fed Both the
UnderwOOds had been wOutded one II Is Thought NOR
tally
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issdg OF these there 40 English vessels 33 Amer
ican. French ~ Norwegian. German italian Dan
sh Creek Austrian Spanish, Portuguese. Niears
guan Dutch swedish and Of which the nat Onaliy was
unknown. The reported lost are EDgsh, Nor
WeRian / Portuguese
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GEN. GRANT CoMMENDs MR.. HAYES.
THE NEW MILITARY POSTS.

A dispatch received at the War Office to-day,
reports that Gen Sherman left Bismarck this afternoon
on the steamer Rosebud for the purpose ofnspecng the
now military posts now building at the mouth OF
Tongue River and the Little Big Horn. When these posts
are completed and properly garrsoned it is thought that
the effect will be prevent any future serious Indian
troubles in that locality. II is believed that had Congress
promptly made appropriations for the construction OF
these posts when they first recommended the war
with Sitting Bull would have occurred at least
would never assumed the proportions that 1t did
New-York tribune., 1877-07-10
A FEED sTOkE DAMAGED.

A fire occurred last might in the feed-stOre
of Nung & Brother at I'D i03 East Tenth-st, causing
loss of ~ 900 10 stock anl building The entire loss
vas roN erred by insurance Daring the nre the police
rescued destruction lP horses, which were stabbed
In the rear Of the building
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WASHINGTON.
A RIDE INTO MEXICO.

A PARTY OF MARAUDERs PURSUED AND THEIR PLUN-
DER OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES N wAsHlNGToN.
WASHINGTON, July 9.-The following telegram
from Gen. Ord, commanding the Department of
Texas in regard to American troops following Indian
horse-thievcs INTO Mexico, has been received at the
War Department:
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the directors swore. in their annual st ate
ment were in the Salem bank. The amount claimed to
have been paid thcm and the conditional certificate
given by themselves for capital stock sold by themselves
10 themselves were couuted SS7725 of the amount
rsauired as leash surplus" There is an entry on the
hooks that the Company in April of the following year.
ls75 sold the bonds and stock for S33925, the exact
amount paid for them
When became necessary TO show the condition. Of the
eompany for s7j the close OF business, in December
the directors again issued to themselves capital stock
this time to the amount of $1,000, ana with due pune
aity purchas from themselves upon opening the
new Years work They also claimed shown by the
books where bought in December, 1873, $4,000 OF
National Bank stock which they again swore was in the
hank and which was sold the following January. The
directors also presented among the assets for that year
bond and mortgages given by W. W. Sharpe, one Of the
directors OF the company TO the amount of $4,000
These bonds and mortgages were given for
" ",roperty" sold TO Mr. Sharpe by the company
consisting of accounts" states, and other traps
which Receiver Lawrence estimated as worth only
trining sum- From these securities the company showed
ON its hooks certificates bonds and mortgages calling
for SO 200 Mr Sharpe however, returned dnlng the
foowing wear the following property which he pur
chased or at such arrangements were effected tha
his bonds and mortgages were cancelled and the ac
counts plates and otler articles purchased were again
in the lOss tssOn of tho company -, A., ,....
I'm Decemhrr 1876, the company sofa the directors
81 Ol9 90 Of capital stock, and reported the conuoa
certificates received therefore a tash surplus III le
following April the stock was bought back.
Duupg the five years thus gone over the DOCKS snow
that tie directors their several Statements swore tha
they had III cash, or wnat was eqVaehl 10 ets' oNGI
reality consisted their own conditional cethcates IL
sued by themselves themselves anu bonds ana mort
ihe directors capital stock to themselves were as io
lows:
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Tho saIe d Sarsaparas blood and liver medicines IS al
most iry supers bed bv tie introduction Of DR. PkRcEs
G0IpFH MEDICAL Discovery, which far surpasses tn eacscy
these od.tme medicines
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SAN ANTONIO. Texas. July Z, 1877.

Adjtttant Gen. TOWNSEND. Washington u. O.:
The following has just been cciNed III accorus WIN
my reply to TrevinOs letter ecgrapncd TO the military
division Yesterday. teicgrapled Shafler; " No neces
sty of following the trail of Indans TO the place where
they have ALREADY been punished by Bulls, but look
close for that made by the party that raided ON the
Neuces." ORD, BflgGcn.
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EoUAI To THE OCcAsIoN.-Lady. al want
some tea Mary suppose mamma did not leave the tea
taddy unlocked ~ Mary No, Miss But know where
hsss keeps the key II under the CLOCK IN tne suuy
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SUGAR FRAUDS.
RFFINERs TAKING AN INDIRECT ADVANTAGE OF
THE SYSTEM or DRAWBACKS.
rBY TELEGRAPH TO THR TR;BuNRI

WAsuINGToN, July 9-Seyeral weeks ago mem
her of the New-York Custom House Commission
reported verbally the Treasury Department some
discoveries in regard TO losses sustained by the Gov
eminent through drawbacks paid on refined sugars
entered for export The law requires that when raw
sugar is imported 10 be refined in this country and
afterwards TO be sold in fOreigp countries the I'M
porter OF rener shall when it is resbpped receive
. drawhaak enuiyalent to the duty paid on
New-York tribune., 1877-07-10
VALUABLE METALS IN NEw-HAMPsHIRE

BosToN, July "a lbde oi copper, lead, gold
and silver, twenty feet i4 width and extending for
miles has recently been discovered IN Mau New-lsmp
shire. The lode crosses the Grand Trunk Railroad one
hundred miles west Ot PortBmd.
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"a Brooklyn dealer" says The Tribune, e" has
two miles and half Of books for sale" TO travel
through all that distance In literature, ~ sIh.s US
man would have TO by way of the hehuns raiuoau-
INew-York Commercial Advertiser.
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MIRRIED.

York, July g. by the Rev. " G
Swertser H. Iotten, of Green fahs Nohi 10 MAJ
garet j. Park, Of Westport Conn.,
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MIDNIGHT WFATHER REPORT.
GOVERNMENT INDICATIONS.

GOV EKNNENI INIII IVNN'
For the lowe, lake req nd Middle Allan
tc states higher pressure, stationary ur lower tcinperd
tr wind, veering TO northwest partly cloudy weather
and rain areas.
TRIBIrNE LOCAL OBSERVATIONS.
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CURRENT TOPICS AT THE CAPITAL.
LIBERATION OF NAVY PRISONERS.


The 4th Of July was made the occasion for
the exercise of cemency by the crotary OF the Navy
who Oh that day liberated all persons belonging to the
Naval service confined i'm the prisons OF Weathersheld
Conn., Mare Island CAL N-wYork City and other places,
as well as board of various yessesand on the morning
OF the 5th far the Navy concerned there
not a prisoner in custody. These prisoners, num-
bering about thirtys confined for various Offences
and some had served out greater portion OF their
sentences All who were sentenced 10 be dshonor-
ably discharged the service in addition to mprison
men were set free with the usual allowance OF $50 but
others who had been convicted OF trivial offences
restored To the Nvy The Secretary Of the Navy
of opinion that the sentences OF Naval Courts VI r
tia arc many instances too severe for the offences
committed has therefore appuintcd board consist
ing of Rear Admiral Rodgers Capt john ii. Russell, and
Surgeon Kndcberg,r 10 devise system or appropriate
and uniform punishmens. He selected the ith inst.
an appropriate time 10 berae those IN custody and
store them 10 their families and friends.
GEN. GRANT COMMENDS MR.. HAYES.
A private letter received here to-day from a
distinguished officer and personal friend OF Gen. Grant.
now abroad that the exPresident is taking deep
interest in present political situation IN this country
that his sympaihes with President Hayes and that
among his friends invariably speaks in support Of Mr.
Uaves approves and defends his policy These decart-
tiOns of Gn Gaut hS friends represented To be
OF a very earnest and cordial nature.
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Give il n Trial.

Headache biliOuSness, constipation, nervous
rass dulncss and melancholy Tie synport ~
Jyspeps ami Immediately reeyed by nsn8 VAN BIS
EiRK's' 'INyIGORANT, 81 cents Depot 10 Nosey-st'
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EdItT y.
Al Notices Of Marriages mast b. indorsed uih NJ"
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fra, diazran hsrenstca '-ua.nu ta' c rH.h
fi'ns VI time tor r - nour
pcrains TheirresaE whtcn presents the oscillations
the snercur during those hours
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Guecial Notices.

.dvert.euent- intended for the next issue of TIE
WtE Y II BI NE snOud be handed IN before T. NJ 10
day.
nroin CoodA Botanical Extract fr Strengthening no
Rr,In ana Positive Remedy for Weahtnel Forces anu u.-
rofrcy Price ~. DEPOT Aliens Pharmacy, corner lous-
and Flfstave New-Y0rk. send iOr cr'uar.
Rrain Food sold at IIudnurs Herald Buidng LtLs
Roadway cor 81 and at CriitentOn's sixth ave
Dummy ~ Co.. Ay.
FsrABlIsIHD SINCE 1874.
rbase sun,rlor CT amuagucs now offered Tor sale Dy
ANTHONY 0FCHs
Sole Agent tor the United states ana tahAlas.
Impure Breath.
,oro , The opsequences that follow tho 10
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Impure Breath.

Arono all the dsagreeabe sequences that follow te 10
, ~ teeth am Impure breath must be the most mOryng
& unueassnt its pOssess0T and IL J. the most ineGcus e
and Iuslve in society: and yet the cause ~ II may sy o
removed BY cleansing your teeth daily WIN that u7 Ppu
iar fiic, Fragrant ~OLOuoNE II purne. ami sNteths
the breath coos rereshes the mouth and RVes pear,
t anneauce 10 the teeth. Gentlemen Whondulge IN ,nok
in s1 Gle iuse teeth Ia SoIDNf a. u r'pF"s AL
nnneasan olOrs ~ the weed ASK your druggist lO IL
lxsan,. Custom shirts. xnndc TO mcasIreN cry best
i a. sg mo- obligat keep OF KEEPS SHIRTS un-
les. periectly satis 'actOry 623 Broadway.
Post-Ofcc Notce The ioreign ais LOT ths wees snins
iTIRDAY Inv H. 1871, will close at this once on
WEDNESDAY, at 400 for France direct by steamship
II Lament via IIayre AID at y. u. io EuLor ny Nran
aim Abyssina via Queenstown OF THU UInDAf az llsp
q ~ tor Eurone by steamship POmme ania. VIA Plymouth
..harbo"ry and Hamburg: SATUR RDAN al . a. N for
Enroue Dy steamship Adratic, via Queensto"n lcoIes
Z e Kr Germany and OF ireland 10 be forwarded
M HIS steamer be specially adiressel and Al a. nl
f scotland aud North Of Ireland b. steamship Ethopa
Via Noyi. and Glasgow. and ~ ll3O a. IN. Tor EunPe
ly steanship Main via southampton and Bremen = 70
;hins kDyssula and Adriatic DO Ho take mails oI Den
mar ,reden ava Norway. The mails for Nassau y Y,
viii leave NcN.NOrk JAY H. The hals iOf AusuA" e0'
win ieAyo san Francisco July II. ..-. . .-.-
Nev.Yurk. July Z. 1911 l. l. JA VIE roseIaNs.si
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LITTLE MABEL AT LONG BRANCH.
From Harper's Bazar.

From Ha7per's Ba=ar.
WEDNESDAY. LONG BRANCH.
DEAR NEwsPApER:-I am little girl
just nine years old. My Mama is butiful
lady she is the loveliest woman in the world.
| heard gentleman tell her so and mama
sent me away to play on the beech. We
have got baby pretty big Baby two
years old he is dear little fellow. Marie
takes care of him Marie is the bonnie Marie
is pretty cross she slaps us both.
The Baby has great big blue eyes and
little cunnin yellow curls all over his head.
| have a big sash & blue shoes on every
afternoon but | love the baby best, his
name is Robby. Papa loves the baby too
Il he loves me. He comes here some times
on sunday. l have Pony here but l like
my papa best Bathing is good for children.
Mama sends Marie to bath me in the sea.
She undresses me Il the bathing man dips
me and l screagh. baby screaghes in a
little tub in the bath house.
l hate the sea. But love the Sand l
dig in it and make houses. 1t won't make
you dirty. My name is Mabel but the
children here at the hotel call me Runaway
dear. That is not because l am like a
horse but because my Mama who is most
butiful and wears butiful dresses and shiney
rings says to me all the time runaway dear.
And the gentleman with the black nous
fash that says my mama is the lovliest
woman in the world says runaway too, so l
runaway.
My Papa's moustash is gray like that
best. it is only five o'clock but mama is
out driving & Marie will slap me if don't
go to bed. 1t is very light. ! don't want
to go to bed. Marie says in french but |
cant write it down in French Your Mama
is out with him she says him hard so HIM.
And she wont be in till ten she never is.
Go to sleep.
Marie is cross Mama is butiful lady.
hate that gentleman with the black moust-
tash | wont go to sleep.
Your ailecshunate friend,
MABEL.
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GLEANINGS.

Texas laws no longer prohibit the
intermarriage of whites and blacks.
A nineteen years old boy was gullo-
tined for murder at Versailles recently.
-Herodias was not Fenian and yet
she was delighted with the head sent her.
The expectation Of American ingot
copper to England is gradually increasing.
Montgomery, Ala, reports four-year-
who chews tobacco and can roll cigarette.
Some one says the Russians sleep in
their clothes. We should thing it would
spoil the nap.
In San Jose, CAL, there is Chinese
cigar merchant who has white boy to
keep shop for him.
Since the 1st of January 110,357 lbs.
Of opium have been received at New York,
valued at $557, 1919.
Last year, in England, 1856 persons
were killed on the railroads, while 1923
were killed by carriages and wagons
"A letter was lately received at Chicago,
directed to An Honest Man." The chief
clerk sent it to the Dead Letter Depart
ment, with the candid admission that the
man did not live in Chicago.
-" We are going to have some taJlow
cecants," writes an illiterate young maiden
at Richfield Springs to friend in town,
$50 do kun up and bring some of the
klub felars, for its orful dull here What
"klub fellar" can resist this appeal Ed.
Two men have constructed peculiar
kind of raft or boat in which they intend
to go over Niagara Falls next month, for a
financial consideration. AS the men have
been out of employment for a long time it
is easy to conjecture what their motive is
in giving this exhibition.
I'm describing love scenes where the
hero and the heroine are standing on the
beach and looking out upon the oceans
waters, novelists always speak of the par
ties addressing each other in a deep voice
filled with emotion. The depth referred to
is generally the premonitory symptom of a
cold in the head, but it does not in the
least reduce the poetry or romance of the
situation.
"A Druggist of Philadelphia having
amassed fortune, determined recently to
erect in one of the surburbs a mansion
which should contain every possible COM
fort, and to which he would retire to enjoy
his honest means during the remainder of
his days. He had somehow heard that
over the entrance to retreat erected with
similar intentions were the words "otium
cum digritate." He knew the English of
this expressive phrase, but, as the sequel
shows, was not SO sure of the Latin, for
over his door was painted, in brave array,
"opium cum digitale.'
"A rascal was arraigned a few days
since, at the Paris Police Court, for steal
ing melon, The Judge said Prisoner,
do you confess you stole the melon"
"Judge, Judge, | have been punished
enough. Twas the worst melon you ever
saw; and it made me so i'll ?" $50 Ceies-
tian justice has anticipated mans JUSTICE
81 say, Judge, my luck is hard. l have
been stealing melons for going on five
years now, and l never before laid my
hands on bad, or SO much as poor melon
until this one; and for it l am nabbed.
Now, Judge, that's what call real, right
down hard luck. Don't you think so too"
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BUBBLES.

The only way to effectually prevent
cramps while swimming is to keep your
feet dry.
They have grass thirty feet high in
Texas The only way they can cut it down
is to fire scythes at it out of a cannon.
"A man is known by the umbrella he
keeps-and so few men manage to keep
umbrellas that we are nearly all strangers.
-" When l die" said married man,
81 want to go where there is no snow to
shovel" His wife said she presumed he
would.
-" 1t is not loud praying" says an
Arkansas circuit rider, (Which counts
with the Lord so much as giving four full
quarts to the gallon
"A Whitehall disciple of Isaac Walton
arose before daylight yesterday morning
and secured an early bird, so that it will
catch worms for him to go fishing with.
An eccentric clergyman lately said in
one of his sermons that about the COM
monest proof we have that man is made of
clay is the bricks so often found in his hat.
-"Suppose we pass law" said severe
father to his daughters, "that no girl
eighteen years old who can't cook good
meal shall get married till she learnes how
to do -" Why, then we'd all get mar
ried at seventeen" responded the girls in
sweet chorus.
An old darby, fishing on a warf at
Galveston, was heard talking to the fish
he saw swimming around his line in this
fashion: "Give me bite, honey. De
children am a-crying down to my house,
and tell you it's fish or nothing in dat
establishment"
-"There's some mind in this boy of
yours" said the new pastor, stopping at
the roadside and stroking the curly pate of
youngster whose father, one of the
parishioners, was ploughing in the adjoin-
ing field. "And SO there be, too,' re-
pliod the rustic, greatly tickled: "and so
there be, sir; you'd Just ought to see how
he can mind sheep"
They had strike up at Mr.. Middlerib's
the other night. The baby struck for six
hours waking every night instead of four,
which it has been getting. The family
refused to accede to this preposterous and
unreasonable demand, but the baby being
a monopoly, there being no other to supply
the place of the striker, it was able to enforce
its demands, as all sleep was shut off until
settlement was effected. The only show
Of violence was the threat, on the part of
the baby, to make it warm for the house,
hold when it was about four years older
and green apple time came around.
An old gentleman in Franklin county
town who recently became the recipient of
his first postal card, placed his specs care
fully astride his nasal organ and eyed
the pasteboard closely. "What's this
thing, any way?" he finally demanded.
"Why, postal card, of course" was the
answer. GA post-hole card? What is
such thing good for, Ide like to know ?"
He was informed that cheap rate of post
age had come into vogue, and writing
paper was at a discount. /" Blast it all ?"
famed the old gentleman in a sudden
rage, while his nose described semcrcle,
with a sharp angle; "they've got to dull
iteration tea with weeds, terbacker with
licorice and copper, whiskey with pepper
and turphentine, an now they've got ter
dulteration envelopes tn save the paper!
| Condfound EN-
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COOP ADvICE.-Now is the time of the
year for Pneumonia, Lung Fever, &c.
Every family should have bottle of Bo-
sCEHE's GERMAN SYRUP. Don't allow for
one moment that cough to take hold of your
child, your family or yourself. Consump-
ton, Asthma, Pneumonia, Group, Hemor-
rhages, and other fatal diseases may set in.
Although it is true GERMAN SYRUP it
curing thousands of the dreaded diseases,
yet it is much better to have it at hand
when three doses will cure you. One Bot
tie will last your whole family Winter
and keep you safe from danger. If you
are consumptive, do not rest until you have
tried this remedy. Sample Bottle 10 cents.
Regular size rs cents Sold by H. H.
Mitchell, Elkton; E. b. Frazer, Port De.
post; and DIR. l.. r. Kirk, Rising Sun, and
Druggists generally.