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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-10-29
M A RTIN,S
CAPITAL RESTAURANT.

~ Co.,, We AONR
80. ileo MAEKEr ST., & the only hrIieIau PeI.
sa nv n ne city, It The only Restaurant that
thst SaISt foEs Ios ladies' or where you can nd
MN NE best eIiliae that can 10 found IN ths sity
r. nse!s On hand the very best the market affords
~ NeaetAoies hsh, oysters, game, and eyeryihinF
~ s = and serves II up In manner unexselea
En.nI Ky e"antry. ne can 10 relied upon GlWays %
.-.-.a WEI tnIn6 hst-elass. augI0
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", H. sTAHLRAN, f.

This House has been thoroughly renovated md
Eeatied, with all the modern Improvement die;i.
every way 10 their wants. 50
Private entrance, Parlors, DC.
u Is located In OneOi tho most prominent streets
tilated throughout. 'N'' ''"-
IN table y supplied with tho best the marks.
utes for all paris Of the city, Allegheny.
and South Side. .-',- S''ei
The proprietor has serVed long time In The buv.
ness, and knows we'll the wants Of euesiS esuecSi.
" those Of our farmers. Rates very m0derats only
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GheqntelEiqeucer.
MONDAY. OCT. go, 1877.


New Advertisements.
Wall Paper-A. W. PAUL & Bro.
Hamilton & McGranahan, Bricklayers
and Contractors.
Thompson & Hibberd-Plumbers.
Observation-Disclosures Gallery.
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Goa Rent.

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EoR RENT
Two Of those small fancy Store Rooms
with good Dwellings attached, on Eleventh
street.
Possession to be had Immediately.
ju !. IRWIN, Agent.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-06-02

aNHOICE LOT OF WINES. LIQUORS AND
u Cigars. Private card rooms for the &c.
comnodstion of guests.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-06-02

TUVHIS house is situated beside the Railroad
IL track; and IL Is but step from the
building to the Cars Of the @. P. R. r. on one
side and those Of the v. b T. r. R. for Steam
boat. All the attachments Of First-class
Hotel are supplied. All the Passenger trains
stop in front OF shs H6fst
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-06-02
BARBER SHOP.

vN ZACHARlAH, With Assistants
il can always be found at his Shop.
MAIN STREET, SILVER CITY, prepared to
do HAIR CUTTING, SHANPOOINa and
SHAVING in the most tasteful manner pos
stble. shop open all day Sunday Give Inns
call.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-12
THE ICE FIhND.
From the Detroit Free Press, August 9. !

From the Detroit Free Press, August
The other morning, as the driver Of an Ice wagon
halted his team IN Of house COLUMBIA street
at nalf-past Tour, ami was making ready to hurl
twenty live pounds OF ice against the with tho
usual crash. the owner OF the place came around the
corner oil the house and gcrtly said:-
'Mlgnt as we'll drop that on the grass fling IL
q rough win iow, Just suits you And after
this you snout at your horses as you STOP you
needn't utter q word. You can also exercise your
own discretion ABOUT yelling to other drivers mile
on.n
"why, wha IS the matterp' asked the driver
'My wife has left me, I've sont the children away
the furniture mortg ged and I've reached tnst point
where nothing annoy me | used 10 want to kill
you Tor waking up the whole family at dwight aud
once DID try 10 get your range with my revolver, but
that's all passed anu gone You can now come NJ the
street gu gallop, yc like an indian smash the front
door 10 and oreak window OF two, or you eau creep
softly up aud let me sleep on. This a sad, cold
world and want you TO TAX, all the comfort you can -
The nriver has been thinking over 1t. Before that
morning ne was figuring to borrow base drum pair
OF cymb,s, hand organ, dinner horn and shotgun
10 help along tue good cause, he down
aIted and discouraged.
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rKrruxa LOSSES OF THE TURKS.

Up TO the presen, the damage done in battle has
boon comparatively 81 ght Leaving Sistria and W,d
din out OF count the number Of Turkish soldiers
wounded does exceed 800 The hospitals IN
Shumla are, however encountered with SICK diers.
They number LOCO at present. Mr. harrington
Kennctt, Commissioner OF the Stafford House Commit
lee, who Is treated wIh great poenrss ana con-
sidcrat on, taking the invads down irom Shumia to
Warm, and will send about i've hundred OF them to
the hospitals he Bosphorus The wounded will he
taken to Varua and placed in tho stafford House Hos
pital when has been established there. Yesterday
Namyk Pacha, senator visited the SICK at Shumla and
gave each man u rupee, ut the same time making an
appropriate speech about the sympathy shus prac
tcaiy dispiayed by the Nohammedan subjects
Of tue Queen oil England for their brethren
who are nghting here for their religion
and their country. Tho recipients OF these offerings
OF Indian Mohammcdans were very curious 10 know
whose portrait portrayed on the CONS, ana seemed
very pleased when they heard was that OF the Queen.
To their simple MINDS IL seemed more Ike metal or
pledge OF alliance than conn but fear the pleasing
illusion was dts lied when IL announced them
that these coius simply legal tender Tor many
turkish piaslers
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Greece, as the Russian movements come to be known
the OF the people There will instructions
in the Turkish provinces, and probably between
Greece and Turkey at the last of the Russo
Turkish struggle HIS Majesty King George ia
not the man to lot his people rush over
the frontier in wild. irregular bands at the
risk of everything the country holds most DEAR
without himself sharing the risk and leading the
i've force We may see an insufficient army taking
the held-ndecd, must such sight If they iake
the neId at all But the Greeks In 1871 will try to
maintain the aspect Of a regular army. They Will
come a recognized military organization, aud Of
fer the Turkish provincias OF every creed safety and
project under the Greek fg. THIS 10 the feeling
witch know possesses those IN power II the need
should this Is how they will act
A KING WHO CAN FIGHT
At any rate the Greeks nave the advantage over the
Turks IN that their sovereign mount q horse and
draw "A sword 1t Is not nowadays TO be able to
act soldier, wnen half the world armed and
drilled from It's youth up. But compared with the
poor feeble creatures who have lately sat upon the
iurAish throne is great thing to be able take
the field. And this King George sill do, you may do
peno, should the arse He would ask nothing
better unless report strangely errs than to lead his
hastily trained levies to the war.
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A the crisis Of the campsign in Bulgaria at hand
md the begerent armies being rapidly marshalsd
Tor decisive battle great attaches the dis
position Of the forces engaged. The above map has
been carefully prepared to illustrate the present rela
live positions Of the Russian and Turkish forces and
indicate the points threatened by either army. In
gancins At the plan Of this great battle neld Bull
gars what will nrst STRIFE the readers eye the
nearly parallel lines Of the River Danube and the
Balkan Mountains These constitute Al present the
limits between which the war Is being fought out
Next In interest to these the Black Sea- which
present represents Turkish defensive line,
which Russia 10 not In position to dispute Then
looked for the railroads. and rivers ntersectnR
the district. and which important lines Of
communication and supply as part OF tho deiences
OF the country. Lastly. the chief towns and places
whore the operations Of the have made the
Of obscure villages famous in military history and
familiar 70 oil who read the from the Of war;
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GREECE AND HE WAR.

EVENTS IN BULGARIA MARCH TOO FAST For
THE HELLENEs--ENTHUsIAsM FOR WAR, BUT
NO PRRPARATIoNs--A King WAC CAN FIGHT.
From the London Daily News, July 2s.l
ATHENS, July le 1871
This news of Cossacks in Thrace about as pleasant
for the Greeks US IL would be for jockey to hear the
bell ring before he has donned his neither garments.
Here come the terrible men 0I the lance over every
obstacle and every barrier and poor little Greece Is
wouliy uuready she has got rid Tor the time OF her
BouI6 It IL true; but that IS not enough. The laws
have been voted the money is IN hand, out that VII
not suffice You cannot face oashi-bazouks with laws
ana loans You must Kill them with rifles
Tho Greeks fo OF energy, but their
pouches are empty OF ammunition. They burn to be
al work, yet they shrink from running the
terrible risk which q might entail. IL Is sad 10
sec so many hopes bhghied oy tue SELF same success
for " ncn every one has been praying. The complete
and nna overthrow Of the Turks has boon the object
oil all patriotic aspirations in Greece during tho last
hall century Yet here are tho Greeks shuddsrIns
one may say, AZ The rapid ia OF their nersd-
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extended line stretching o the Danube to the Black
Sea, and covering the KustendJe Railroad the Four
tscn,h Russian corps under General Zimmerman, is
posted This force covers the coast limo of the Dob
rudscha n ON sulna To ManRaia, and thus prevents
the landing Of Turkish force, such a. that which
sent 10 the Caucasus, that might seriously
sndanger the Russian communications at Gaatz 1t
thus compes Turks to concentrate all their defen
sive energy Bulgaria and in front OF the Russian
lines. When, at the proper time. it becomes necessary
to make serious attack silisris the Fourteenth
corps is ready for that purpose. But at pres
ent, owing to \ forced inactivity apd the
healthy character Of the district In which IL is
posted much sickness prevails which thns the ranks
considerably. Recent reports from Oten,tza
another crossing Of the Danube al Turtugai by the
Russians, and that the passage Of the
opposed. The Roumanians have crossed Nicopolis
and now form the extreme right OF the Russian line
near the mouth of the vd Heavy reintorcemeuts
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itary Toe They had intended to play the part which
Sweden played IN 1st3--to come in with the victors
and claim a snare Of the spoils--put events move
so fast that they see before them IN Greece rather
the position Of France in 1865. hey will be
politely told that all is over and that their good
Offices are not required This II Is which gives
sting to the te'egrams announcing Russian victories
The Sweden oil 1913 had, least, Napoleon tn Great
TO deal with, and could count his "aghtng II OUT"
TIL every hafhesrted ally Of his enemies was ready
TO move But Greece in 1877 has such comfort
The Turks are very nearly finished with. They have
played their game, and must expect 10 lose II within
a fsw weeks. Personally we may, many OF US, rejoice
to see bad men brought aud n wicked cause
dragged in the mud; but politically, we must
feel sorry Tor the trouble which this sudden col
lapse OF their ancient enemies will cause the
Offending Gre ks. They cannot hcip IT, If an
IRON clad feet ials TO defend broad river If
merous army fails 10 give battle 10 protect its line Of
retreat. They make TURKISH Pachas act ike
reasonable aud pay their game like human beings
possessed oil common sense. All that Greece can
40 Is TO mourn over the ''Osmani iactor' as minus
quantity and to prepare Tor the bitter consequences
winch this minus quantity may entail upon all con
ccrned Bernadolsc may only arrive y, Lcpsic TO find
the battle over and the opportunity lost
HURRIED PREPARATIONS WAR.
But you what the Greeks doing. and answer
that they ure preparing Ii 10 no slight matter to get
up amy when everything has 10 DO begun a, the
beginning these things should, Of course, have been
done ,ong SINCE small nation with great ambition
should, OF course armed and trained years ago.
every man capable OF bearing arms But Greece, free
ana commcrciai, has let her military forces sink
below the proper standard OF national strength
She Is only now arming herself at tho eleventh
hour she is only now buying ships and ordering
her need hardly say That II is too late
AS warm .rend OF tue GreeNs deeply dcpore thor
folly AS old paigner in Crete know reg.
uiar battalion would be worth any number OF brave
but III disciplined volunteers tor raising Turkish
province to the cry of liberty. The very regularity OF
INVASION would secure ITS success The Turkish
pro eincals would yield TO disciplined force with
peusurc--even the Mussulmans among ,Lem, while
they would puzzle and resist irregular bands at every
turn.
But again you press me to say what the Greeks are
gong to DO. ''Never prophesy," says famous Amer
lean poet, "uniess you know" Now, do not know,
will prophesy. But what events are bringing
us TO IS this: There will DO immense excitement
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ing pmrty 10 Terstenk, where finding the place oc-
cuped by Cosracks he made dashng charge with his
handful OF snds sebrred the village The enemy
was reinforced, add Fund Pacha arriving on the
OF action with his cavpiry u fierce combat en-
sued The numbers Of the enemy rapidly increased
aud the Turks we're Obliged to beat a retreat The
number lost on either side Ii unknown. II Is
believed that Fuids horse artillery di great
execution. This skirmish closed late in the day.
Since then nothing has happened in that quarter The
C.rcassIans displayed a weakness for horse flesh,
which somewhat initiated against their value
cavalry force AT part OF the fight Russun
airy horses TOOK fright Inc Crcassaus instead OF avail
ing themselves OF tns splendid chance Of SEEING the
enemy's guns, contened themselves by surrounding
the horses, OF which they captured $50 The Turkish
forces first rcrcated to point -four mile, from
TersteDik; but on Thursday morning. it being found
that the enemy was In much superior force
on the right, one division fell back In
the direction of RustchuK and the other
IN the direction OF Shumia THIS Of
prudence I'D not have been committed but for In
formation given by an English gen lcman, who, hap
pcning to look through his glasses the direclon OF
Balm, perceived the Russian camp about ten miles or
rhe CircassiaEs do not appear TO be flcient
wants oil an intelligence department The Russians,
the other hand, are well informed, for the Bull
cupIed by the Russians, the preext OF complaining
to the Turkish authorities of Russian atrocities and
having made their observations their nations
about the camp are allowed 10 return TO tueir villages
In the meanwhile correspondents here arc lea ousy
kept out OF the Turkish lines Information has 10
be Obtained indirectly. Even the British military
attachc, Colonel LenDox, was refused permis to
remain at headquarters with Eyoub Pacha Two or
three days ago had to return Snuma to yet an
order IRON the Scrdar Ekrem. The troops are very
much disappointed at having to fall back without
lighting, and everybody Is apxiousiy awaiting the
denouemcnt OF the Turkish plan, which has made
such puzzng acbut
The manager oil the railway and all the railroad en-
ployes lett here to-day for Rasgrsd which vii, be the
terminus OF the line until rher nouce Only one
correspondent remained at Ruslchuk, and no Is one
OF the special correspondents for the NEW YORK
HERALD Other correspondents did not see the pruc-
teal advantage OF having their communication with
the outside world shut of, and for the simple rea son
that with the exception oil London paper Journals
have only one correspondent this region OF tue
theatre Of war.
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Eighth and Fourteenth, occupy positions outside the
main army nes but Oil their parts in the general CON-
bluaton. will be remembered that the considerable
body Of troops under command OF General Gourkha
forced its way the Balkans by the Tvarditza
pass and subsequently, augmented by the pas
sage OF the Eighth corps alter tho capture
OF the sehpka de6le. After operating with
effect the line OF the Jambol and Adrianople Rail-
Roumelia and lighting several actions around
Eski saghra. this corps has retired from the plains
and occupied the schipka and Demir Kapu passes
since the Russian defeat at Plevna Securely in
trenched these bodies OF troops hang threat
eningy tho left flank of the Turk
ish eastern drmy of defence, and ass,s.
in preventing a junction between it and the
Turkish western army OF Defence which extends from
the northward OF Plevna the sou,heastward OF sev
Behind the passes that is IL Roumela. The Turks have
large number troops watching the Russian forces in
occupation Away In the Dobrudscha and occupying an
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A glance at the map shows that the main body
o; the Russian army is at present concentrated
around Bjela, which is the headquarters Of
the Gear. Tho lines representing the territory
actually in possession of this force can be
traced from tho Danube. near the mouth OF its
tributary, the vid, southwark between the vid
and The Osem and in front Of Plevna Then curving
eastward the Osem in front OF Lovatz and
Selvi to Tirnova the Jantra; thence east.
ward to the head OF the valley OF the Kara
LON Black Lom River and in front OF
Osmnn Bazaar; thence curving northeastward and
nOrthward IN front Of Rasgrad and into the
valley of the Ak LON or White LON River, and cross
ing the varna Railroad between Rasgrad and Rust
chuk The line ends with the force that partly invests
Rustchuk Thus, with It's right the Via, Its left at
Rustchuk and Its centre directed toward Trnovs and
Osman Bazaar the Russian army awaits the order
to ADVANCE.
Detached forces represented BY full army corps the
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Passes

Shuma- Rustchuk Is cut of by the Russians from
railroad communication with Schumla. Rasgrad ID,
therefore, the advanced point readable by rail-
road north of the Balkans
The coming operations. will embrace an effort on
the part Of the Russians to crush tho Turkish
Army OF the West at Plevna Lova,s, and thus
remove serious menace to their communications
at Sistova and Nicopos also attempt force the
Turkish Army Of the East back Snumla or through
the mountains toward varna, clearing away all
distractions TO the advance OF their man army on
Adrianople As for the Turks, they will endeavor
to hold their present positions until the Russian Of
fensive has exhausted itself by series Of
reverses such al that at Pevna. Then the Turks
would quickly concentrate their whole army, and,
by a vigorous onslaught drive the Invaders
into the Danube. number OF heavy engagements
may therefore, be expected in the vcintles OF Psvna
selvi Osman Bazaar aud Rasgrad, which will probably
decide this years campaign In Bulgaria
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THE CAMPAIGN IN BULGARIA.
RUssIANs--ABDuL xxR1M CATCHING TAR

znE MussULMAN rUoITIvEs FLYING FROM THE
RUss1ANs-ABpuL xxR1M CATCHING A TAR
TCHERvExAvoDA, July 13, 1877.
Ny last letter closed with the statement that on
eur way TO rchervsnavods the engine driver was or
The engine driver obeyed tho injunctions OF his
periors with good will, and We ratified away through
the smiling country, looking anxiously 10 the les ap
pretending tho appearance Of troops of Cossacks gal
lop,ng over the breast Of the bills On this side Of
Torek lines Of tents could DO seen, but In all proba
bity they were Turkish, 80 the sight was rather re-
assuring here there passed long lines Of bui
lock wagons laden with goods and chattels
Of Turkish fuxitIvcs, who mostly followed on
foot In some cases they were guarded by
mounted Circassians and i-bazouka The country
in this neigh is covered with young Oak trees,
bushes whose rich various tinted green sets of 10
advantage the brilliant coOrs OF the Turkish womens
dresses and the white awnings OF the wagons Tho
very prsttness Of the made It all tho pa
thetic. There was. however, appearance Of weep
ing .r distress. Men, women and children trudged
along In matter-oi-iact, everyday sort Of fashion,
exempifying The material advantage of the Moharn-
medan religion, which cnJons absolute submission to
the will Of God. II is true that Mussulmans sin some
what this direction, accepting as kismet. ate
evils which It is within their power to cure; but
in oong they have the greatest Of all earthly salts
faction, the absence OF seli-reproach.
Notwithstanding the proximity OF the enemy ar
fivsd lchsrvsnavoda without any d,sagrseabls Incl
dent Everybody was astonishcd seeing DID
NOT We know the newsf DID not we know we
running into the jaws Of the enemy And The
station crowded with Turks and correspondents,
with their baggage ssrswn all place. waiting
patiently 10 get away from dangerous neighbor-
hood Tne train long, and it took long time 10
get IL togetbs. Al the end Of a long string OF car
rsagss dozen trucks were attached, and these were
laden with bedding ana all sorts OF furniture and upon
this famil,ss seated themselves with sto,cal indlner
cnce physical discomfort being forgotten nour
Of supreme danger
speedily obtained from my correspondent, who,
like the oshsss was gong back to shumla, the par
scuIars Of what had happened at the front. he had
esss letters 70 ne BY the Turkish post but they had
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are daily arriving at the bridges over the Danube at

are daily arriving at the bridges over the Danube at
Sistova and Nicopos from Bucharest
With regard to tho Turkish army II is safe to say
that wherever Russian force advances It is always
certain TO meet a Turkish before 1t travels far.
Thereorsthe Russian line really marks that ofth Turks
from Plevna to Rasgrad except the interval in front Of
Gouraos But in length the Turkish line excels, be-
cause It presents front toward the Dobrudscha-
The centre OF the Turkish army of the eastern
district Of Bulgaria is shumla, that OF the army
west Of the Osem is Lovatz, although, PERHAPS,
the larger numrer of the troops are Plevna.
Strong garrssns occupy Rustchuk, Silistra and Wild
din the Danube: Pevna, Lovatz and Selvi In West
Bulgaria; shumia. Osman Bazaar, varna, Pravadi and
Basardschyk in Eastern Bulgaria; Karnabad, Slivno
and Kasanlik south OF the Balkans IN Roumelia.
The Kustendje Railroad, which supplied silis,ra be
fore the Russian invasion of the Dobrudscha, Is
entirely the of tho Russians and supplies
for slstra must go by ordinary road from Rassrad or