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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-16
The Only Senators Absent Are
Morton, Of Indiana, and Nc
MILAN, Of Minnesota.
The House Organized Ona Vote OF One
Hundred and FOrty.Nlne Demo.
Gratis TO one Hundred and
Thlrty-TwO Republicans.
The Louisiana and South Carolina Senate.
rial Representation to DO Considered
In Caucus The Nichols Creden-
tlaIs to be Attacked In the
Lower House.
Further Action In Appointments VIII
BE Reserved until The PUlso 81 the
Senate ~ Felt,

Further Action In Appointments Wiil
he Reserved until The PHIso Of the
Senate IL FeIt,
WASHINGTON, October l5.--Louisi.
ana is very heavily represented.
No important southern decisions in
supreme court to-day.
General Polk telegraphed their
chiefs and one hundred and eighty.
seven Apsches have surrendered.
Further action in the matter of ap.
pointments will be held reserved until
the pulse of the senate is felt.
1t is understood the secretary of war
will estimate two millions Of dollars
for Notifications, and thirteen millions
for rivers and harbors.
In these two estimates for the fiscal
year, ending 1878, the secretary mere
ly submits these figures without re-
commentator.
The indications are that the execu-
tive will adhere to its al interim ac.
ton, and will face the senate with all
of its appointments and suspensions,
good, bad or Indifferent.
The president has recognized Juan
de Alminuna consul, and Alberto Goe.
ceoechea vice.consul at Savannah,
Georgia, and Luis de Zaboedamaz
consul at Charleston.
The cabinet held an extra session
to-day to consider appointments. AZ
No new ones have been made, but il
il stated the changes already made
would be sent to the senate for confir-
nation.
The galleries are crowded in the sen.
ate.
1t is intimated Senator Spencer will
act with ConkliHg.
Huge bouquets are on Senators Conk-
ling's and Blaine's desks.
s. X. Donovan, OF Ohio, was ap.
pointed assistant door-keeper of the
senate.
1t is whispered that ex.President pro
tenn. Ferry. and Senator Christiancy
will not support Judge King for col.
lector at New Orleans.
Mr.. McMillan's nomination rs pen
sion agent of Louisiana, will be among
the first to go in. There will be no
to him. His commission
was signed Saturday, and If the presi>
dents intentions have been carried out
he has relieved the special agent in
charge of the office.
Judge j. j. Noah was made clerk of
the senate committee on military af-
fairs, whereof Spencer is chairman.
The only senators absent are Morton
and Mcmillan, of Minnesota. ADJ
journed until tomorrow.
A republican caucus will be held to-
morrow, to consider the Louisiana and
South Carolina senatorial representa-
ton. The democratic senators also
had preliminary caucus. No action.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-13
WASHINGTON.

SHOULD Mexico succeed in preventing
boarder raids, of which complaint is made,
our government will recognize Mr. Mata as
representative of that Republic, thus resum-
ing diplomatic relations between the two
governments.
The case of the vessel Edward Lee,
supposed to have been fired upon by Span
ish war vessel near the southern coast of
Cuba, has been brought to the attention of
the department of State. Inquiry thus far
has not shown any foundation for the alle-
CATION in the case of the Lee.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that in cases where steamers desire to
change the business for which they were
originally inspected during the year for
which said inspection was made, reinspec-
ton and examination made necessary by
such change will be made free of expense to
the owners of such steamers.
AFTER full consideration it has been
determined by the President that public in
terests will be better served by the appoint
ment of officers for the three leading posi-
tions in the New York custom house.
KENNETH RAYNoR, solicitor of the
treasury, was fined 500 for assaulting Sotel-
do, editor of the National Republican.
The department OF state is informed
that the Jewish residents of Symrna, headed
by their Grand Rabbi, waited upon the
United States minister to Turkey during
his recent visit to that city, and thanked the
government of the United States for its
solicituae for the Jewish people in the Otto
man empire as evinced in the recent instruc-
ton from the department of state.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-13
POLITICAL.

LATEST regarding the election in
Maine In 144 towns Conner's majority is
1885, against 9,S73 last year. Connor 3d.
904, Talbot 81 522 scattering 254. If these
towns come in like others, allowing for the
fact that the greenback ticket is limited to
localities the aggregate vote will be about
9S,500, of which Conner should have $1,000;
Williams, $4,000; Munson, $500, and Con-
nor's majority will run up to 800 against
14,911 last year.
THE Republican and Democratic
state committees of Ohio have arranged for
a Joint discussion between Stanley Matthews
and Thomas Ewing.
The Minnesota greenbackers and work
ingmen joined hands on the 9Th inst, and
nominated the following ticket: L. Ban
ming for governor; VIM. Meigher, for lieu
tenant governor; Isaac Staples for treasurer
A. f. Rice, for secretary oil state; S. l..
Pierce, for attorney general.
THE following ticket was nominated
by the Pennsylvania Republican state con-
vention on the 9th inst: Supreme Judge,
J. B. Sterret, by acclamation; state treas
urer, VIM. b. Hart by acclamation auditor
general, J. A. NJ. Passmore.
THE greenback party of Massachusetts,
held a meeting on the 9TH inst at Boston,
and nominated Wendell Phillips for govern
or, Dyer ID. Lum for lieutenant governor,
Nathan Clarke, Jr. for secretary of state, w.
w. Whitney for treasurer, II. NJ. Bearse for
auditor, Israel W. Andrews for attorney gen.
eral
THE election in San Francisco on the 9Th
inst. passed off quietly. About $4,000 votes
were polled, and the impression is that the
Democrats carry majority of the ticket.
The tickets were very much scratched, and
counting will occupy several days.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-13
CASUALTIES.

CONDUCTOR Thomas Luckett was
fatally injured on the 9th in collision on
the Virginia side of Potomac, near Long
Bride, between a cattle train on the Balti-
more x Ohio road, and a freight train on the
Midland road. Both engines were badly
damaged, the caboose of the freight train
burned and IL head of cattle killed.
THE boiler of steam thresher belonging
exploded on the 9TH, killing George Peter
Kline and Thos. Richardson. The separator
and wheat stacks were burned.
A HEAVY rainstorm was experienced
at Atlantic City, N. j., on the sth inst The
tide is higher than ever before, doing great
damage to property. An excursion house
was carried out to sea, railroads were COW
cred with two or three feet of water, ex-
tinguishing the fires in the locomotives.
By gas explosion at the Phoenix
Park Mine, Pottsville, Pa, near Minersville,
Pa, on the 9th inst, eight miners were
burned, three seriously. john Jenkins, one
of the injured, died soon after.
A FREIGHT train ran off the track at
Steubenville, o., ON the 9th inst, killing
Robert Davis, of indianapolis, and wounding
two others, all circus men.
Two oil trains collided near Newburg,
Ohio, on the 5th inst. Fifteen ears contain
ing merchandise and 1000 barrels of oil,
together with locomotive, were burned.
Loss $4,000.
A sCAFFOLD on building in process
of construction in Cincinnati, fell on the 5th
inst, killing Chas. Dago and injuring Tom.
Martin and Nat. Silver.
THE Eagle flour mill at Okawville, H.,
together with $4,000 bushels of wheat, burn
ed on the 4th inst. Loss 100000.
SAMUEL REYNOLDS, prominent citi-
zen of Allegheny City, Pa, died on the Sd
inst, of injuries received by falling through
misplaced grating in a sidewalk in that
city.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-13
What Women Owe to Men.

The success of women upon the
modern forum and in the bureaus of
journalistic correspondence leads us to
wonder why it is that in all the domestic
where woman has had such
a fine opportunity to acquaint herself
with its wants and methods, that she has
never inaugurated any improvement,
and left it to men. Yes, to these inferior
men to invent and perfect them. Our
modern commodious, self-rocking cradles,
fine cooking-stoves, sewing-machines,
knitting-machines and washing machines
have been invented and improved by
men. The modern baking powder, SO
much used in cooking, aye, even the ap-
pliances which quiet the little ones, viz,
the soothing milk bottle, with all its
modern rubber patent attachments, are
the inventions of men. In the face of
all this, how women can claim superiority
we cannot comprehend. Considering
that Eve was such remarkable talker,
it is strange that even the automation
talking machines which have been in
vented at times have been done by men.
There is only one department which men,
to their credit be it said have not i'm
proved upon-that is, Ewes extensive
patent of story telling"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-13
A Brave Russian General.

A war correspondent writes: "In the
dead of night that extraordinary fellow,
Gen. Skobeloff, the younger, turned up
in Prince Schackosky's headquarters.
He is the stormy petrol of the Russian
army. If | were riding along road in
a given direction in expectation of see
ing fight, and if | chanced to meet the
General riding in an opposite direction,
without any inquiry or any hesitation l
would wheel my horse and ride in the
Generals tracks, in the full assurance
that / was doing the best thing for my
self and your readers. He is in the
thick of everything. In the gray dawn
of the morning of the crossing | shook
hands with him on the edge of the Dan
ube, after the bayonet charge in which
he had taken part. His face was black
with powder, and he, General as he is,
carried soldiers rife with the bayonet
fixed. He was in the fighting at the
Sc ipka, and led the first column which
traversed that pass. There seemed some
prospect of quietude for some days on
the other side of the Balkans, and the
Plevna expedition offered prospect of
fighting. The General is unattached,
and can roam from flower to flower,
from one fighting ground to another.
He is, | sometimes think, little mad,
but man of real value in warfare such
as this. 1t would be embarrassing if
every General was Skobeloff; but a
few Skobeloffs scattered up and down
through great army have their uses.
They generally end by getting shot, and
earn a short memoir and good many
decorations. But | hope it will be a
long time before Skobeloff meets his in
evitable doom, for he is a right good
fellow, and a staunch cOmrade. He
came to us from Baron Krudender's
headquarters, with instructions that he
should assume temporary command of
Col. Tutolmin's brigade of Circassian
CnSsaoks. who have also been attached
to this expedition, and execute a recon-
noissance in the direction of Lovca. He
rode off in the darkness, and after riding
fifty miles, returned with the tidings
that Lovca was held by five battalions
of Turkish infantry, and its rayon in
tested by Circassians and Bashi-Ba-
ZOukSf
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

FIFTEEN hundred regular Mexican
troops are about to embark in the steam
ship City of Merida from Vera Cruz to the
mouth of the Rio Grande, for service on the
Rio Grande frontier, to replace the local
military.
THE men at Nesquihoning, Lehigh &
Wilkesbarre coal company, went to work on
the 10th. The men on Summit Hill voted to
go to work. Thesa mines have been idle
since July.
THE assignment of Frank Leslie, news
paper publisher, to Isaac w. England, was
filed in the office of the county clerk on the
Sth inst The San says the liabilities amount
1896, 900. The assets are represented by
numerous publications. Arrangements have
been made by which the publication of his
illustrated newspaper will continue.
THE silk manufacturing establishment
of Soleliac & Sons, Paterson, N. j., has sus-
pended. Liabilities 100000 mostly due
importers.
SCANDALOUs neglect in the matter of
digging out of the ruins of the Thirty fifth
street New York fire the bodies known to
be there, has attracted the attention of
Mayor Ely, and he sent an order to the fire
commissioners to go to work at once and
expend 81 900 if necessary in getting out the
bodies.
DURING the closing proceedings of the
Social Science Association, at Saratoga,
N. Y, Judge Peabody, of New York, pre-
sided. Hamilton A. Hill of Boston, read a
paper on the navigation laws of Great
Britain and the United States. Horace
White read a paper on the tariff question.
Henry ID. Hyde, of Boston, read paper on
customs laws and their administration. A
vote of thanks to the citizens of Saratoga for
hosptalities was moved, and the association
adjourned sine die.
THE noted Sioux chief, Crazy Horse,
died at Camp Robinson, Neb., on the 9th
inst, from wounds received from the guards
when he attempted to escape, a day or two
since.
THE President has pardoned number
of persons convicted of violating the revenue
law, tampering with mails, etc.
DIR. BLISS expresses the opinion that
Senator Morton will be able to attend the
regular session of congress.
JUSTICE BRADLEY, in a letter to the
Newark Adrertiser, denies the SUMS charges
throughout, and says he did not read or ex-
press an opinion; decided the electoral vote
honestly, and free from political or other ex-
traneous considerations.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-13
THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

AT Baltimore on the 10th inst, Henry
Barlarge, aged 26, shot his brother John,
aged 80 killing him instantly after which he
attempted suicide and will probably die.
The Franklin, Louisiana postoffice
was robbed of $500 and registered letters
containing money on the night of the 9th.
negro has been arrested on suspicion.
SAMUEL HUMPHREY, alias John Leary,
a locomotive fireman, has been arrested on
a charge of firing the railroad bridge at
Reading, Pa, during the recent strikes.
CHAs. H. GOULD, bookkeeper to
James Parker, Main street, Cambridgeport,
Mass, while showing hay to an unknown
man who expressed an intention to become
a purchaser, on the Sth inst, was suddenly
and fatally attacked by the unknown man
who then robbed the money drawers and es-
capped.
w. n. GARDNER, charged with COM
mitting forgery in Grand Rapids, Mich, last
month, was handed over to Sheriff Whit
comb, of that city on the 9TH inst. He was
arrested by the police at Dayton, O., several
days ago.
AT Memphis, Tenn. on the 7th inst,
at o, clock in the morning, on the corner of
Main and Monroe streets, I'D. Murray,
sporting character, was shot and probably
fatally wounded, by julie Roster, of ST.
Louis, who was arrested, and held in the
sum of 81 900 to answer. Roster denies that
he shot Murray, but two men who were
present, assert that he did. All the parties
had been drinking.
1T is stated that detectives have traced
the 200 check forgery on the Union
Trust Company, New York city, and have
fastened the guilt upon two clerks, one in
the Union Trust Company and one in the
New York Life Insurance Company.
On the 5th inst, G. Tuttle, one of the
men who jumped Hidden Treasure Mine,
was shot and mortally wounded while try
ing to blow up the tunnel of Keet's mine.
Five men were seriously wounded by the
explosion of giant powder which Tuttle had
lowered into the tunnel through the shaft.
ROBERT JAMES, Samuel Goodrich and
Jas Semmons were taken from Jail and
hung by mob, at Newcastle, KY, on the
night of the Sd inst. They were charged
with numbering a number of persons in
Owen and Henry counties
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-13
THE SEAT OF WAR.

The Rasgrad army has, according to
slams to point beyond the upper LON and
now occupies Ablova. In consequence
Papokoi and the whole region between Kar-
asan and Osman Bazar, was hurriedly evacu-
ated by the Russians.
A CORRESPONDENT at Vienna says it is
not what occurs in front so much as what
occurs in the rear of Plevna which will give
to the fight there its significance. The Rus
SLAMS are preparing a Sedan for Osman
Pasha, and he will probably have to trust to
his own resources to extricate himself.
SULIEMAN PAsHA's entire army is re-
ported to have passed north of the Balkans
THE Turks were driven out of Plevna
in great disorder, on the 9th inst. The fight
was bloody one, the losses on both sides
being heavy.
NIcsICs Internationally surrendered
to the Russians on the sth inst.
News from the seat of war reports all
quiet in the Ralkans. Sulieman Pasha is or
ganizing his army at kazanlik. The Russians
lost 900 killed wounded at the capture of
Lovatz. The Turkish loss is great, including
100 prisoners.
THE battle of Kiziltepe, which result
ed in the Russians being completely driven
from their position at Hadelar, cost the
Turks 4S0 killed, and 1 400 wounded. KILL
tepe hill was attacked by two divisions under
Ali Pasha and MANNED Bey. They were
both wounded. The Russians were out
numbered ten to one. The Turks have
strongly intrencbed the hill.
THE Russians have entirely disman-
tied Ardahan, which is now an open town.
Gen. Comoroff has Withdrawn most of his
troops from there to the main body of the
army, leaving only nine battalions in the
place.
THE garrison of Widdin is being raised
to 5000 men in consequence OF the threaten
ing attitude of Servia.
THE battle at Lovetz was commenced
by the Turks who were disquieted by the
great increase of Russians before the town.
and attacke ed them fercely. The Russians
repulsed nine successive Turkish assaults,
and finally drove the Turks back into the
town, which they entered with them. The
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-13
ABROAD.

LATEST news from India is cheering.
Rain has fallen in all the Madras districts
and also in Bengal, Scinde, Mysore and the
central provinces. The prospects in Pun
jaub has greatly improved, but the situation
in Dude and the northwest provinces is still
critical.
LAYARD, British representative has
received a fireman from the sultan author
lzlng excavations at Nineveh.
The Circassians have committed at
atrocities in eleven villages east of Bulgaria.
In the village of Suijuk, inhabited by Greeks
$50 houses were burned and 800 inhabitants
massacred. One hundred corpses of women
have been discovered at Samuela.
The condition of the Pope's health is
not so good as it has been for some time
past. His limbs are partially paralized, but
no immediate change is apprehended.
THE funeral ceremonies of the late Ex-
President Thiers took place at Paris on the
Sth inst.
q A LETTER from Isaac Butt, the home
indicates the idea that Parliament will never
grant home rule in order to get rid of any
annoyance or inconvenience the Irish men,
bers can cause.
The uneasy feeling in Europe is not at
all allayed, but rather increased, by the
news from the front, and the press comments
upon the death of Thiers, and its effect
upon French politics.
1T is said the Pope, who is improving
in health, has definitely resolved to restore
the Roman hierarchy in Scotland. Cardi-
nal Manning will shortly go to Rome on
confidential mission i'll that connection.
ADvICEs from the City of Mexico of
the Sth inst, state it is rumored that ex-
President Lerdo is to be tried for high
crimes against the constitution, committed
during his administration, and that Gen.
Escobedo will soon be tried for treason.
AUSTRIA and Germany have declared
that they do not deem the present state of
affairs between Russia and Turkey one to
induce them to offer their mediation to
either belligerent, yet they would support
vigorously an offer of mediation from any
other power.
THE London Times leaders of the I'd
and Sd inst, show the needlessness of the
present al, It's excessive cosJllness IN men
and money-far outweighing its possibilities
for good,-and the danger of the eventual
Russian failnre, from all of which the Times
concludes that the present moment is pro-
pitious for Intervention, and Germany and
England ought to take the initiative to bring
about a truce.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-13
A Singular Family.
From the Calvert Central Texan

From the Calvert Central Texan.
Living near Englewood, in this county,
is family of father, mother and twelve
children, and remarkable to state, they
count 32S fingers and toes as naturally
belonging to them. Each of the twelve
children has twenty-four, fully develop
ed, but the parents only have forty be-
tween them. Prof. Hungleford, formerly
of Calvert, but recently teaching at
Englewood, had several of these chill
dren as scholars. One day, during,
recitation, one of this family was told to
count his fingers with a view of impress
ing some number upon his mind. The
child announced that the number was
twelve. The teacher said the Returning
Board was endeavoring to practice fraud,
and bull-dozed the little fellow into
another count. The result was the same.
"Come here" said the now irate teach
er, "and let me count your fingers" F."
His numbering cOrresponded with the
child's for on each hand he found five
fingers and thumb. This freak is all
well enough to excite the curious to gaze
on, but it appears to us these extra digits
might have been placed on other hands
without additional trouble. The extra
ordinary family halls from Canada.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-09-13
A Singular Fact.

A correspondent of the London Notes
and Queries quotes from Burckhardt
curious fact in connection with Egyptian
art. The author says: Among the in
Vulnerable paintings and sculptures in
the temples and tombs of Egypt, l never
met with single representation of a
camel, At Thebes, in the highest of the
tombs, on the side of the Djebil Habow,
called Add ell Gorne, which has not, |
believe, been mentioned by former trav-
elers, or by the French in their great
work, found all the domestic animals
of the Egyptians represented together in
one large painting upon wall, forming
the most interesting work of the kind
which / saw in Egypt. A shepherd con-
duets the whole herd into the presence
of his master, who inspects them, while
a slave is noting them down. Yet even
here looked in vain for the camel