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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-21

l'RAMps. living 30 the many dcprc1ationS
aud ouragea committee! by lr.mps, Mayor
kemper bag dcti,lci to rid the city Of them
rs far az possible during the coming winter,
lilo will instruct the polio: 10 .rlcst the tramps
wherever found within tho city limits, aud send
them out Of town. L f5uat' usiio the city
after having been thus sent out, they will be
put on The chain gang as va yrants and be re-
ouired to clean the streets tor their board. This
action or the yart OF the Mayor will, no doubt
be commended by all good ci:izans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-21

\ WARRENroH AEry.-'!'iic Warrenioa
S,.'ia South says: "i'hHrn was 4 charming iittle
pal;y at Miss Gaines eli Wr!ocal:y night, ard
as the c,u:p*ny Rss ike rare oil VIM. very
cho;c. an! ,:l.ct--j course She hours flew by
as swiftly as--as -vg2i a; FAST rs time always
does wnan music, wine IN onnght, sly, passion.
alto eyes, waving trr. ca, mingliGg hair, sway
iag forms a:,2:kio: eyes ruby lips, arc all COM
inelel 1t ,7ruit heinp3.s;hla to inavliuallze
perfection cannot b: adorned airy more than
gold ean be ei!ca, y swector perfume be
gives to the violet 't'I.c charming hostess did
the llonors i! her aga i:iiinitabe graceful way.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-09-21

LYNCIBURa MARKET. Sept. 20 -Tho market
is 9 little moro active, with an sdva lcing tend
cncy in prices Wheat l35sl1o for fair to COED
Corn $3.50 for rixoi ard white; Rye 51a''o !;
Oats 2ia"u.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-10-25

RUSSIAN promptness in besieging Kars
indicates Russian hope of achieving such
further early success in Asia Minor as must
vastly improve Russia'a position in any
negotiations for peace during the coming
winter, The key to Armenia is again ap-
parently within the grasp of the Cars
forces, who, few months ago, after the
victory at Kurrukdere, near the field re
Gently won, were turned back from a
triumphal march to Erzeroum only by the
CIrcassian insurrection in the rear. That
danger being no longer present, the Arme-
nlan campaign now bids fair to finally re-
suit in the complete overthrow of the Turks,
and give their foe a hold upon territory
from which diplomacy viii not easily dis,
/ lodge them.
THERE are 10000 men in Plevna
who can only be made to surrender by hun
ger
RUSSIAN bulletins from Plevna says:
" Siege operations are progressing. A fire
is concentrated upon one point and appears
to have considerable effect. Suleiman
Pasha is concentrating on the LON in front
OF Czarwitch's left wing, with the intention
OF attacking as the weather permits.
The Car, addressing his staff on the
18th, said: al, myself, will care for the
needs OF the army, and, if necessary, all
Russia will at once take up arms"
The Russians are moving on Kars
| The garrisons of Rion and Ardahan have
been ordered 10 cooperate in the genera
/ advance.
/ IT is estimated that the Russians cap
tured in the battle on the 18th inst, 80 bat
talions OF Turks, four brigades of artillery
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-10-25
WASHINGTON.

THE bill introduced in the senate by
Matthews, for the distribution of the balance
Of the Geneva award, provides for the revival
of the court of commissioners of Alabama
claims, its members to be selected by the
President and confirmed by the senate, and
makes it their duty to receive and examine
all claims presented within six months from
their first meeting, which shall have directly
resulted from the damage done on the high
seas by any confederate cruisers during the
late rebellion, except such claims as were
provided for by the law of 1874.
THERE being no export demand at
present for trade dollars, the secretary of
the treasury has ordered the director of the
mint to discontinue the receipt or the de-
posit therefor at the several mints and a gen
eral order to that effect was issued on the
Goth inst.
MATT. CARPENTER applied for a
mandamus against the secretary of war; on
the 20th inst, to compel the payment of
Judgment in favor of Pompellv Il GRAY for
$4,000 for damages awarded them on ac-
count of the overflow of a dam at the outlet
of Winnebago lake, Wisconsin, the dam
being built by the United States.
FOLLOWING is the text of the bill in
troduced by Senator ingalls,, authorizing the
coming of standard silver dollar and re-
storing its legal tender character:
Be 1t ENACTED, ETC., That there shall be from
time to time coined at the mints of the
United States a silver dollar of the weight of
412R grains, standard silver, to the dollar, as
provided for in the act of Jannary Is, 1887;
and that said dollar shall be legal tender for
all debts, public and private, except where
the payment of gold coin is required by law.
THE president has pardoned James
White, OF Cincinnati, undergoing sentence
in the Ohio penitentiary for completely in
election frauds in October, 1876.
SECRETARY MCCRARY has decided
that the captured Nez Perces shall be quar-
tered during the winter near the white set
Elements and kept under military guard
until spring, when a final disposition
will be made of them.
THE report of the committee to inves
tigate the operations and conduct of the
San Francisco mint and custom house i:
made public. The committee unanimously
report as the result of the einvestigation, tha
the customs service at the port of San Fran.
cisco is intelligently and efficiently per
formed, and on the whole the revenue hon
estly and economically collected.
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ABROAD.

THE principal buildings on the Champ
de Mars and Trocaders for the Paris exhibit
ton of 1873 has been completed and the
interior arrangement commenced. Great
progress has been made in the foreign de-
partment, particularly the British, where
immense buildings for agricultural machin-
cry are finished. The United States minister
has had an interview with the director of the
exhibition relative to American departments
The Shah of Persia intends visiting
London and Paris next spring.
ALTHOUGH the pope likes to receive
visitors, and is chatty with them, he seems to
have ceased to take interest in the affairs of
the church, and almost invariable dismisses
any one who comes TO talk TO him on busl-
ness. Jealousy reigns among the various
departments, and as each does as it suits its
chief, the papal government is threatened
with division and anarchy.
SEVEN MILLION seven hundred and
ninety-three thousand persons voted in
France on Sunday, the 14th inst. This IS
the largest number known since 1S4S, when
1898, 900 votes were cast.
THE Pope's health remains good.
Several cardinals are to be appointed at the
consistory to be held about Christmas.
THE steamer Knapton Hall, of Lon
don, has been sunk at sea by collision.
Twelve lives lost.
THE announcement is made from
Rome that Cardinal Annibal Capalte is
J dead.
THE Spanish government intends to
demonstrate with the United States against
/ the duty OF fifty cents per ton 10 Spanish
shipping entering the United States ports.
THE steamer Olga has arrived at Fal.
mouth and reports that she was compelled
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-10-25
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR,

AN Albany, n. Y, commission mer-
chant, named William S Taylor, has been
detected in a series of forgeries, aggregating
$4,000. The cause of his downfall is said
to be speculations in stocks
A DIABOLICAL attempt was made on
the morning of the 22d, to wreck train on
the Ohio and Mississippi road, near Noble,
Ill. An oyster car, mail, express, two pas.
senger and three sleeping coaches were
thrown from the track. No lives lost
HORACE ID. BABCOCK, medical student,
OF Syracuse, n. y. University was arrested
for robbing grave at Janesville on the 10Th
inst. The body was restored to friends
L. Z. NEGLEY, eX-postm aster of Pitts
burg, Pa, has been indicted for embezzling
money order funds.
GEO. w. WHEELER, of w. Bailey,
Land Il Co., iroa merchants, New York, is
un Ter arrest on a charge of fraudulent bank,
IN ptcy
UNITED STATES bonds amounting to
$4,000 and a large amount of town and rail.
road bonds were stolen at Cambridgeport
Mass, on the 18th inst. 4 reward is offered
for their recovery.
A MOB made another attempt to take
Jerry Anderson from the Jail at Louisville
on the 18th inst. They were induced by the
mayor to leave him to the law. His crime
was poisoning his wife.
DETECTIVES have discovered crooked.
ness in the st. Louis postofice, by which
the government has been swindled out of a
large amount of money by an employe
named O'Brien, in connivance with others
Over $4,000 have been recovered.
JAMES BERRY the Pacific railroad rob
Der, died at Mexico on the 10th, from wound!
received from the sheriff while attempting tc
escape. He confessed all, and said that Col
lins, who was killed in Kansas, planned the
robbery.
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THE WEST.

IHE bank of Bunker Hill, at Bunker
Hill, Ind, suspended on the 22d inst. Liza,
bilities $1,000. The officers say that deposi.
tcrs will be paid in full
Gov. NEwBOLD, of Iowa, has par
doned P. II. Egglesht, whose real name is
W. II. Schroeder, a notorious forger who
was serving a ten years term in the peni.
tentiary.
\. ID. EMERSON, assistant superintend-
ent of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad, at Qnincy, H., has been made gen.
eral manager of the Hannibal and St Joe
road.
PETER ODLIN, one of the oldest prac-
tlcIng lawyers in the west, died at DAYTON,
o., on the 10th inst. He was in his 18th
year, but still an active and hard worker.
A VICTORIA dispatch says the parties
held in custody charged with the murder of
the captain and crew OF the steamer Geo. NJ.
Wright, have been discharged, owing to
lack OF testimony to corroborate that of the
Indian who professed to have been witness
to the bloody deed.
The San Francisco Board of Water
Commissioners, on the 18th inst, formally
accepted the proposition of the Blue Lakes
Water Company to bring water to the city
for 13 = million dollars
AN advance of five cents on grain and
fourth-class freights bound east goes into
effect at Chicago, on the 18th inst This
makes the rate to New York 40 cents, Bos-
ton 45, Philadelphia 3S, Baltimore 81. These
rates include boxed meats and -four.
IHE returns of the election in San
Francisco show that Londerbach, taxpayer
for police judge beats Bradford, democrat,
about $500. Terral democrat, for city
criminal judge beats Cary, tax payer, about
|. 900
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CASUALTIES.

JOHN WILKINSON, 90 years old, pro-
prietor of the Commercial House. Urbana,
ILL.,, was run over by switch engine at that
place on the I'D inst, and killed.
A PARTY of emigrants from Hamilton,
H., floating down the Mississippi in skitfs,
was run down by a tow-boat on the 22d inst.
A Mrs. Crowley and two infants and Martin
Crowley were drowned.
JOHN GEARHART, eight years of age,
was drowned at Columbus, o., on the 2Oth
inst, while playing in a skiff with two COM
panions.
THE steamer George Appold, cotton
laden, took fire at Savanna, Ga, on the 20th
inst The vessel was scuttled.
The Oswego, n. Y, woolen mills were
partially destroyed by fire on the 10th inst
Loss 100000; fully insured.
GEO. ANDERSON was killed while
jumping from a freight train at Arena, Wis,
on the 18th inst.
A FIRE at Whitby, Ont, on the 10th
inst, destroyed about 100000 worth of
property.
THE house of Hal Anderson (colored)
at Braden station, Haywood county, Tenn,
was burned on the night of the 9th inst
Three of his children perished in the flames;
a fourth child was dangerously burned.
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THE EAST.

Mrs. GILMAN, wife of the convicted
forger of insurance scrip, has been removed
to the insane asylum at Hartford, Conn.
The children-two little girls and boy
have been placed in the care of Gilman s
sisters at Norwich, Conn.
GILMAN, the forger, left Sing Sing on
the goth inst, for the Auburn prison. He
had trunk and satcheI, and a lunch from
Delmonico's.
The strike of the cigar-makers is
spreading. 1t continued in New York, now
having lasted for two weeks
ALL the booksellers in Hoboken, n.
j., were arrested on the 10Th inst, charged
with violating the laws against gambling.
The jury at Reading, Pa, has declared
SIX of the seven July rioters not guilty.
The seventh, Geo. f. Goodhardt, was found
guilty of melting the populace TO riot.
THREE directors and the treasurer of
the collapsed Merchants Loan and Trust
Company, Paterson, n. j., have been indict-
ed for conspiracy to embezzle the assets.
ABOUT 10000 people were present at
Schuylerville, n. Y, on the 18th inst, to
witness the celebration of the centennial
anniversary of the surrender of Burgoyne
salute of 100 guns was fired at sunrise and
the procession was an imposing affair, the
officers of the day wearing palmetto badges
sent by the state of South Carolina.
The widow of the late Hiram Grams
ton, of the New York Hotel, has offered his
will for probate. The estate is valued at
S150,000.
A. w. FLETCHER has been reinstated
as superintendent of The folding-room.
The Indian Bureau received advices
on the 10th inst, of the safe removal of the
Sioux to the Missouri river.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

BEFORE entering Auburn prison, the
convict Gilman spoke of his recent position
as treasurer of the prison association, and
said in his peesent condition he could gain
practical experience for improving the
prison system. He said he could have been
in Europe now, but he scorned the role of a
fugitive from justice.
CLINTON VILE, \. Y, is devastated
with small pox; twenty persons died within
a few days. Travellers are prohibited from
entering the place. All highways are
blocked.
A DISPATCH from Boston says that
Tenbroeck, Tom Ochiltree and Parole are
entered for the extra race, $1,000, $500
entrance, two and a half miles, TO be run
the first day of the meeting of the Maryland
jockey club.
THE Tanners, in convention at New
York on the 10th inst, adopted rules for the
better government of the trade and ad journ-
ed sine die.
THE steamer Teutonia drawing 20 feet
9 inches went TO sea through the Southwest
Pass, New Orleans, on the 10th inst, without
detention.
ONE steamer is nearly ready to sail
from New Haven, Conn, for Constantine
pie, with 2, $50 tons of ammunition, valued at
100000, and another is preparing to load
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-10-25
A Wide-AWake Dog.

Mile. d., a good and worthy lady,
who lived in country house in the
neighborhood of Columbier, had a dog
of special intelligence. He was of the
race of poodles, which, everybody
knows, is very sagacious. When Mile.
ID. passed the evening with ladies of her
acquaintance in Columbier, as often hap
pened, the dog lighted her home by car
rying two little lanterns, which were fas
tened on each end of a stick which he
carried in his mouth. If she went to
promenade during the day the faithful
dog carried her work-basket. On beau
tiful autumn day, as Mile. ID. was going
by vineyard on her way back from
Columbier, hare sprang out into the
road. The dog set out after him, for
sock his mistress and sowed part of the
contents of the basket at every turn in
the field. When he came home with the
empty basket Mile. d. scolded him well.
Wholly ashamed, with dropping ears and
tail, he did not wait for the end of the
lecture, but scampered off. Scarcely had
half an hour passed when he came gayly
back, bringing a pair of shears; then he
hurried off again and brought the knit
ting; then some thread, and at evening
all the articles, which the basket con-
tanned, except the thimble, were together
again.-ErOn Paris Letter.
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other nations, the necessity of immediate
action is apparent.
To enable the United States to CO.
operate in the International exhibition
which was held at Vienna in 1878, Con-
gress then passed joint resolution
making ali appropriation of 100000
and authorizing the President to APP
point certain number of practical
artisans and scientific men who should
attend the exhibition and report their
proceedings and observations to him.
Provision was also made for the appoint
ment of number of honorary commits
sioners.
/ have felt that prompt action by Con-
| gress in accepting the invitation of the
government of France is of so much in
| terest to the people of this country and
| so suitable to the cordial relations be
tween the governments OF the two coun-
tries that the subject might properly be
presented for attention at your present
session.
THE PRISON CONGRESS
The government of Sweden and Nor
way has addressed an official invitation
to this government to take part in the
International Prison Congress, to be held
at Stockholm, next year The problem
which the congress proposes to study,
Glow to Diminish Crime is one in
which all civiziled nations have an in
terest in common, and the congress of
Stockholm seems likely to prove the
most important convention ever held for
the study of this grave question. Under
authority of a Joint resolution
LfoH-
/ 1879, commission was appointed
/ by my predecessor TO represent the
! United States upon that occasion, and
| the Prison Congress, having been by the
earnest desire of the Swedish govern
ment postponed to 1878, his commission
was renewed by me. An appropriation
of $4,000 was made in the sundry civil
service act of 1875, to meet the expenses
of the commissioner. | recommend
the re-appropriation of that sum
for the same purpose, the for
mer appropriation having been covered
into the treasury and being no longer
available for thepurpose without further
action by congress. The subject is
brought to your attention at this time
in view of circumstances which render
it highly desirable that the commissioner
should proceed to the discharge of his
important duties Immediately.
POSTPONE OTHER SUBJECTS.
As the several acts of congress provid-
ing for detailed reports from the differ
ent departments of the governments re-
Quire their submission at the beginning
of the regular annual session, defer,
until that time, any further reference to
subjects of public interest.
(Signed) II. b, HAYES.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., October 10, 1877.
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to abandon Cleopatra's Obelisk off Cape
Finesterre the night of the 14th inst, during
tremendous gale. The crew on the craft
which contained the Obelisk were transfer.
red to the Olga, but not until the Olga had
lost her second mate and five hands in the
endeavor TO rescue them. LATER-A dis
patch received on the afternoon of The 18th
INST, says that the steamer Fitzmaurice re-
covered the caisson containing the ObeliSk
about ninety miles off the coast of Spain.
ACCURACY of official returns from the
French elections, which report Ala republi-
cans and POI conservatives elected, is con-
hrmed from the republican side.
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4 Suicides Letter.

Coroner Swan, of San Francisco, has
received the following letter: "Dear
Sir: Once / heard you express the opin-
ion that a gentleman would never COM
NIT suiside in a hasty manner, leaving
as legacy disgust and trouble to his
friends. | am one of those who hold
that my life is my own, and that | have
a right to dispose of it as / would any
other property Of mine. Being aware
that a certain odium attaches 10 the rela-
tives of suicide, | am determined that
if | can prevent it my body shall never
be found, and that my dropping out from
among the living will be simply one
more added to the list of mysterious
disappearances. 1t is my intention to
make use of a small boat and row out to
the Golden Gate, which has been any
thing but a golden gate to me. There |
shall weight my body in such manner
that l shall probably never rise again
when once / spring overheard. Should,
however, the changing currents bring
back my body to the bay, and it should
be found, money enough will be found
in a water-tight belt around me to de-
fray the expense of simple burial. |
look upon such contingency as this,
however, as among the bare possibilities.
My reasons for seeking death are my
own, as my life is, and carry them with
me. Please say nothing to any of the
newspapers. 1t is dead mans request,
and the last to the living"
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House.,
MONDAY, October 24.-The House. a

MUNDAY, Uctober 4.-Ihe House, as
the regular order OF business, proceeded the
sideration OF the Colorado case. After numerous
debates the matter went over without action ~ A
resolution was introduced for the appointment of
select committee Of eleven bers 10 consider the
subject OF civil service in the United States and
resolution TO appoint select committee OF eleven
members 20 take into consideration the state of the
law respecting the sseertanment and declaration of
the result OF the election of president AMI vice-pre
dent and to confer with like Committee oa the
part the senate, was adopted ..... Cox offered a
solution directing the secretary Of the navy 10 re-
port 10 the House what action was taken il any in
the navy yards OF the United States in regulating
the hours Of labor, and whether such action has
been IN derogation Of OF in compliance with sections
81 and 80, Revised Statutes which REQUIRES that
eight hours shall constitute DAYS work for al Ia
borers, workmen and mechanic. may he em-
pioyHd by onler or Oh behalf OF the government Of
the United States-Adjourned.
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DISASTROUS FIRE.

On the 20th inst. fire broke out in
Portland, populous suburb of st. j John, n.
B., and spread rapidly, consuming about
two hundred and thirty wooden structures.
over 1000 people were burned out, 700 of
whom were sufferers by the great fire of the
10th of June. The loss will reach $500, 900,
Insurance about $4,000. 4 foundation of
safe gave way while themen were working
in the ruins, burying half dozen boys and
men. A man named James Spinland was
taken out dead; also one of the boys, Alex
Gill, aud another fatally injured. The 9TH
ers sustained serious in iuries.
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MANITOWOC
DRY DOCK.

WILLIAM STEVENS, of Clay county,
Ala, has squatted on mountain tract
and built himself log cabin, where he
resides contentedly with his rifle, wife,
eight kids and 100 goats. The goats are
hardy and prolific; he shoots them when
he wants meat, or leather for shoes; has
their milk for food, butter and cheese !;
exchanges kids flesh for meal with a
miller at the foot OF the mountain,
and sells surplus animals yearly for
clothing, hats, etc. and claims that he il
the best fed, best clothed, best shod, and
best humored man in that county.
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THE MARKETS.
New York.

NEW YORK, October 22-3 80 z. Nj
Cotton-Quiet at IL 5-16c for middling up
lands. Flour-Dull; receipts 1000 bbls;
sales 1909 bbls. Wheat-Dall and 1@2c
lower; receipts 514, 600 bus; sales 10000 bus;
No. ? winter red seller October at $1.42A
Oils. Rye-Quiet; 75@S0c. Corn-2c
better; fairly active; receipts 100000 bus !;
sales 100000 bus at 6l@6l &c for mixed
western. Barley-Steady. Oats-Firmer !;
receipts 100000 bus; sales $4,000 bus at
34@342sc for mixed western; 35@44c for
white. Pork-Quiet at S14.20. Lard-Quiet
at SS.s5@S.S71&. Whisky-At $1.1S13. Pc
troeum-Crude at s 13c; refined at l419c.
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, october 22-3 p. M.-Wheat
Unsettled and lower at Sl.09 for cash and
$1.04A for seller November. Confirm
and higher at 444M443sc for cash; 43Ac for
seller November. Oats-Firm at 235sc for
cash and seller November. Rye-At $500
53$Ic. Barley-At 5912@59Ac. Pork
Weak and easy ut $14.00 for seller October;
at $3.50 for seller the year. Lard-Steady
at $S.45 for cash. Whisky-At S1.0S.
Hogs-Lght, $5.15@5.25; mixed heavy at
$5.o0@5.25; shipping at S5.25@5.50. Phila-
delphia at 1915. .