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FOREIGN.

A SPECIAL from Bucharest states that
about 10000 Russians entered Roumanian
territory. 1t is estimated 10000 have so far
crossed the Pruth.
A PROCLAMATION has been issued by
Queen Victoria stating that she is determin-
ell to maintain strict and impartial neu-
trality in the war between Russia and
Turkey, and commanding her subjects to
abstain from violating the laws relating
thereto. Then follows the English statute in
stituted to regulate her majesty's subjects
during the existence of hostilitIes between
foreign states with which her majesty is at
peace. The proclamation concludes with
admonitiOn to British subjects not to disobey
the command at their peril.
A TELEGRAM from Ibrail announces
that the Russians are building bridge over
the Danube there.
THE Porte has issued another mani
| festo, which declares that the Bosnian, Bu.
garian and Herzegovinian instructions, and
the Servian and Montenegrin declarations
of war, were instgated by the Russian man
/ ifesto, and concludes with the declaration that
Turkey is ready to fight to the death for her
independence.
/ REPORTS of unfrendlihess between
! Turkey and Persia are denied. Hassan
Pasha telegraphs from Batoun that the
second days fighting resulted in favor of the
Turks who were well under shelter and i'll.
tiicted considerable losses on the Russians
/ A TELEGRAM from Erzeroum says the
Russians are invading Turkish territory be-
tween Batottm and Bayazid, and have seized
SIX thousand bushels OF grain at Ad jGkOoly.
The following proclamation was is
sued by the Sultan: Russia has declared
war. We are forced to take up arms. We
/ have always wished for peace, listening to
! the advice of the powers i'll this respect but
/ Russia wants to destroy our independence,
aad SO, if Russia attacks MS, God, who pro-
! tects right and justice, will grant us victory
Our soldiers will defend with their blood
our country gained by their ancestors. and
/ with the help of God, maintain the indie
! pendence of Osmanli. The nation will pro-
1 tect the wives and children of the soldiers
! Should II be necessary, the sultan will 90 to
/ the army aud raise the standard of the khal-
! fiat and the sultan. The siiltan is ready to
sacrifice his life for the honor and indie
pendence of the country.
/ SAFvET PAsHA telegraphs that the
Turks have defeated the Russians at Teh-
winkson near Batbum. Russian loss, 800.
THE Turkish preparations for the de-
fense of the Danube by means of gunboats,
irOn-clads, etc, are most formidable. The
Turkish troops are well armed and clothed,
and are in good spirits although dysentery
has appeared among them.
THE Grand Duke Nicholas issued a
proclamation to the inhabitants of Rou-
mania announcing the passage of the Rus.
sian army under his command toward the
Danube. Roumania, having received no
preliminary notification, has declared it
yields to force, and has directed it's troops
to fall back to avoid conflict
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MISCELLANEOUS.

VIRGINIA has won in the oyster war,
and cah prohibit citizens of other states
from planting oysters within her boundaries.
THE Missouri Legislature adjourned
sine die on Monday, April 80.
EX-SENATOR w. G. BRowNLow died
at Knoxville, Tenn, Monday, April 80.
HENRY WATTERSON will make an
Grafton over the graves of Union soldiers
near Nashville, Tenn, on Decoration day.
WALLACE Ross, of st. Johns, has
challenged Warren Smith, of Halifax, to row
a three or four nile face for from $500 to
500 during June
A COLUMBIA, S. c., dispatch of the
18th inst, says: In the house to-day the
democrats passed preamble and resolutions
declaring all members of the late Mackey
house in contempt of the legal house of
representatives and referring their credent-
ials to a Joint committee of the judiciary
and privileges and elections to pass upon
their legality and title to seats. The COM
mittee will report, probably, that all the
members of the late Mackey house with the
exception of five or six will be admitted.
Col. S. ID. HARRIS, for a number of
years editor of the Ohio Farmer, of Cleve-
land, and prominent contributor to agricul-
tural literature, died suddenly, at his res
idence in Hudson, Ohio, on Thursday, April
Goth.
MAY 30th is designated by the COM
mander-in-chief of the grand army of the
republic as decoration day.
Gov. HAMPTON, of South Carolina,
suggests the appointment of a commission
to prepare plan for the settlement of the
states financial troubles
ACCORDING to dispatches from South
Carolina, NJ. c. Butler, pre:ent Senator-eleet
under the Hampton Legislature, will not
/ risk another election by the re-organized
I legislature until his case has been acted upon
by the L. S. Senate.
! THE South Carolina Senate now stands
fifteen Democrats to eight Republicans; but
one Republican usually votes with the Dem
ocrats, and another is in Jail under criminal
charges awaiting trial. so that the vote vir-
/ tually stands sixteen TO sixteen, the Lieu
+ tenant-Governor having he casting vote.
THE Louisiana Commission arrived at
/ Washington on the oath inst, and have spent
considerable part of the day and evening
/ with the President and Cabinet. There is
very great satisfaction felt by the authorities
/ over the work performed by the Com
mission. Its members have entire confidence
that quiet will continue, and that Nichols
and the leading officers of his government
VIII exert themselves 20 maintain order and
enforce all laws regarding the protection OF
HE and other rights OF citizens.
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THE WEST.

A REPORT was freely circulated on the
Both ult., i'll St. Louis in insurance circles
and on 'change, that the heavy commission
house of Shrek 4 Rowland had failed, with
liabilities in the neighborhood of 100000.
Four hundred coal miners have struck
at Straitsville, O. The miners at Shawnee
and Nelsonville are also likely to go out,
and trouble is expected.
THE bill to fix the salary of Ohio as
semblymen ut 5000 per year, with deduc-
ton of s. for each days absence, failed to
pass.
I1EUT.-GEN. 7. III. SHERIDAN received
the following dispatch on the 9th from
General Crook, dated at Camp Robinson ::
Couriers from Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud
have just arrived, with positive information
that Crazy Horse and his people with few
northern Indians, will be here in eight or
nine days. II. c. DRUM,
Assistant Ad djutant General.
JUDGE SCHAEFER at Salt Lake City
has decided that Ann Eliza could only re-
cover from Brigham as q menial, and that
she has already received more than she was
worth.
TELEGRAMs received from Camp
Brown, Wy, dated the 9th, say Barney
Hall, prospector, had just got IN that fort
badly wounded. He and two others were
attacked near the head of Badwater on the
9th, and after a sharp fight the Indians
killed his partner and he escaped There
are three others of the same party not heard
from.
THE grain crops throughout California
are not as encouraging as preyieus reports,
although fruit will yield excellently. Ore
gon will produce an abundant harvest and
good Judges estimate that Oregon and the
eastern portion of Washington territory will
have 100000 bushels for export.
A SAN DIEGO press dispatch says Gov.
Stafford, of Arizona, has organized two more
companies of militia to operate against the
Apachae, who continue their stock-stealine q
operations. Two more companies will be
organized within week
A VERY large and enthusiastic adj
journed meeting of citizens was held at the
Court House at Yankton, d. T., on the 9th
inst, addressed by Gov. Pennington and
others, to take necessary steps towards Sc
curing state organization. The movement
meets with the approval of all, without re-
gard to party, and is being taken up by the
people in other parts of the Territory 4
committee was appointed to further the
movement, and provision made for further
meetings,
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Spring Safety Valves.

The advantages of springs for loading
safety valves upon marine boilers, in
stead of dead weights, are strongly urged
by Mr.. Robson upon English engineers.
From the results of experiments, it ap-
peared that the accumulation of pressure
was nearly the same in both forms of
loading. In one experiment, where the
adjusted pressure was in both instances
thirty-fve pounds, the accumulated
pressure with the dead weight was forty,
six pounds, and, with the spring balance
just one pound more. Having applied
the spring-loaded valve to large mum
Der of sea-going vessels, fitted with sew
enty-six valves, and found them in
every case to give satisfaction, Mr.. r. de
clares himself altogether in favor of that
kind of arrangement, "a, among othel
good points that may be mentioned, i
does away with the escape of steam
which takes place with the weighted
valve, in sea-way, due to the roll of the
vessel.
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insane wife killed their son, aged ten years
and hanged herself.
AN old feud eliminated in terrible
tragedy on the 30th ult., at Dekalb, Kempei
county, Mississippi. Recently John W
Gully. a prominent democratic citizen, was
waylaid and assassinated. Upon the athda
Wits OF two negroes several alleged c0nspir-
ators i'll the assassination were arrested ON
the 30th ult-, a large party of men fired upon
the prisoners, killing j. L. Gilmer, \. Ne
Clelland, John Chisholm, David RoSser, aud
mertally wounding VIM. W. Chisholm.
A C0wier-,I0urAdl special from Eliza
bethtown, Ky, reports that Fielding Swee-
ney cut the threats of Hayden English and
his son Horace. Hayden shot and killed
Sweeney. Horace is dead.
IT has transpired that D. r. Watson,
Treasurer of the Board of Education OF
Pera, Ohio, and of the firm of ID. r. Watson
4 Co, dry goods, etc, of the same place,
has absconded with 5000 % school funds.
By the explosion of a boiler in the
Longen colliery, New Toronto, on the 9th,
three men were killed.
Ina conflict in Brooklyn, on the even
ing of the 25th inst, between wife-beater
named Antoine Lsx and Policeman Murtha,
each fired upon the other. LoX was fatally
shot and the officer was wounded.
AT Brattleburg, VT, on the 26th inst,
VIM. A. Arling, on whose testimony Jesse
III. Lewis was recently convicted of the MUIR
der of Albert w. Deming, made full con-
fession. His story was pure fabrication
devised by detectives, who frightened him
into testifying against Lewis, saving f he
did not, Lewis would turn state evidence
against him.
A FIRE at Loogootee, Ind, on the Goth
inst, destroyed j. Ackermans hotel and
stable, together with 10 horses. Loss, Sl0,-
600; insurance, $1,000. Ten dwellings were
also destroyed.
A KEROSENE lamp in the house of
Joseph Crook, in Milwaukee, Wis, explod-
ed on the oath inst, throwing burning oil on
Mrs. Crook. Her clothes were burned off
and her entire body terribly burned from
neck to heels, from which it is thought she
cannot recover,
A VERY severe gale, accompanied by
rain and hail, visited the Texas coast on the
oath inst. 1t lasted only ten or fifteen min
utes, but during that time the wind blew at
the rate of sixty-three miles per hour. Con-
siderable damage was done to the buildings
in the city and shipping in the harbor Of
Galveston.
THE accounts of Dr. f. T. Baird, Sec
retary and Manager of the PRESBYTERIAN
Committee of Publication of the Southern
States, with other offices are complicated to
the amount of So, ,000. Baird has resigned
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The Goddess of the DishclOth.

But let us come down to modern times,
and speak of the hired girl of the nine
teenth century. The queen of Sheba
would have died of envy if she had at
tempted to show off around the modern
goddess of the dishcloth. Years of ex-
perience has given us a thorough under
standing of her. Our family has had the
honor of entertaining 1916 of her. As
we close our eyes We can see them come
and go in mighty caravan, laden with
bandboxes, and what silverware they
could carry away.
There was Betsy. She was the one
that forgot to pick the chicken before
she fricaseed it. Betsy was the one with
blue eyes and red hair. Betsy's hair was
rather coarse, but when it was well but
tered it did not taste bad. We have
eaten great deal of Betsy's hair, and it
never hurt us any yet.
Then there was Marier. The way that
Marier used to bang the dishes around
when any of the household were impu-
dent enough to ask her if dinner was
most ready, was a caution. Marier had
a beau, and over there in the corner is
the bears oil grease spot frescoed on the
wall, where they used to lean their heads
when they used to spark, before the beau
knot of holy wedlock was tied between
them.
Julia was one that always skinned the
cream off the pans and ate it, but her
conscience didn't seem to smitc her. In
deed Julia was very poor and couldn't
afford a conscience.
Helen was one of the seven sleepers.
We seldom called her by her surname,
but the old man who used to stand At
I the foot of the stairs and spend half an
hour each morning III calling her was al,
ways particular about addressing her by
her full name, and he used to call her
Dambnashun. Even now we can imag-
/ inc we hear him saying to her imploring-
4 iv, "Helen Dambnaahun why don't you
get up?'
Then there was Sary Ann. She hac
but one favorable popularity. She
could fry potatoes to perfection. Matrl
mony carried Sary Ann off very sudden
", and she now has a little family o.
seven girls and they are all children OF
the old block, slices off the old potato a
it were. They are all talented, cultured
potato fryers.
These are some of them. The name
the rest are legion. A row OF their ol'
shoes in the garret stand as monument
to them, and we shall never forget them
They were 2 race of tyrants but still W
revere their memory, and occasionally
when the wife is not around, we kiss tn
present hired girl for their sakes.
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made to heads of families; increase of sal
aries TO Indian agents.
THE secretary of the navy now has
under consideration the question of asking
congress TO appropriate $4,000 at the ap-
preaching extra session for the purpose of
fitting out eight vessels TO be held in read
mess for service in case of an emergency.
1t is feared the Eastern troubles may possi-
bly, jeopardize American interests, and 1T is
proposed to have these vessels ready 10 join
the European and Asiatic stations.
THE appointment of Hon. Edward Nc
Pherson as chief of the bureau of engraving
and printing was made on the Goth inst.
SECRETARY SCHURZ has issued q cir
rular assigning two hours in every week
which he will devote to interviews with
clerks and other employees of the interior
department.
AMONG the callers at the White
House on the oath inst, was Mrs. Sarah Da-
Wis who has shaken hands with every Pres
ident from Washington down.
WAYNE M'VEAGH, Simon Cameron 5
son-in-law, who has been a member of the
louisiana Commission, and was once him.
self Minister to Turkey, is an applicant for
the vacant mission at ST. Petersburg, the late
incumbent having returned on leave. 1t
has not been expected that Boxer would re-
tain the place.
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WHOLE NO. 976.
THE BALL AND BAT.

Born the Harvards and Yales will
have strong mines this season.
THE recent Cincinnati meeting the
League Association ordered Mann to put
a little more livelinesSs into his balls.
"THE umpire did it" is the babyish
howl raised 10y the professional clubs
when they are cleaned out by the 'semis."
JEROME, the change pitcher and right
fielder of the St Paul club, has been re-
leased at his own request He returns to
st. Louis.
CUMMINGS team, the Live Oaks, of
Lynn, Mass, will start on their " western
trip" May 10. They will go as far west
as Columbus, O.
The Alleghenys have completed nego-
tiations for playing with the Athletics a
series of seven games for the champion
ship of Pennsylvania.
SECRETARY YOUNG states that the
league umpires for Brooklyn are Joshua
Bunce, f. Dochrane, and John Kenny;
For Boston, James Sumner, NJ. f.
Chandler, and G. f. White.
THE secretary of the league, has sent
out blanks to official scorers with in
structions. Among the notes is this as
to scoring for bases on called balls:
Bases on called balls should be charged
as an error against the pitcher"
THE average height, weight, and age
of all the players engaged by the Boston
Red Stockings this season is as follows:
Height, 5 feet 81 inches; weight l59
pounds; age %! years.
THE Standards, of Wheeling, w. Va,
have joined the international associa-
ton, and announced as its players, Geo.
NJ. Lane, JOS. Hogan, S. 5. Wilkinson,
r. Matfat, r. c. Robinson.
THE Crickets, of Binghampton, n. V,
have joined the league, and announced
as players, John Richmond, Nicholas
Alcott, j. j. McGuiness, Charles NJ.
Smith, S. H. Richardson, Jerry Turbady,
James Roche, Edmond Kennedy, Robt.
5. ClacE.
OFFICIAL notices have been received
from Secretary Young, that the Lowells
have engaged Alonzo Knight for the
present season. Andy Cummins has
been released from the Red Stockings,
of Memphis; John Morrissey has signed
with the Mutuals, of Janesville; the
Athletics have engaged ID. Eggler, j. J.
Ryan, John Shetzline.
THE new uniform of the Maple Leafs
professionally of Guelph, Ont, are ex
tremely pretty, being make of gray
cloth, with tasteful trimmings of green
silk. The breast is ornamented with
maple leaf of fine green silk, which
shows the natural 'ribbing' of the leaf,
and is artistically done, The belt is
made of a dark shade of green The
stockings were imported from Hawick,
Scotland. The cap is of gray mate
rial with a green edge.
The National League met at Cincin-
matt, April 26, and arranged a schedule
of the league games to be played this
season, which is as follows:
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A oNE-LEGGED Welsh orator named
Jones was pretty successful in bantering
an Irishman, when the latter asked him,
" How did you come to lose your leg%'
Well, said Jones, "on examining my
pedigree and looking up my descent l
found there was some Irish blood in me,
and becoming convinced it was all
settled in that leg, had it cut off. ''Be
the powers" said Pat, ii 'ud av been a
deuced good thing if it lad only settled
in yer head"
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MANITOWOC
DRY DOCK.
u. y. MANU-,
HENRY BER GER.

A YANKEE, having patented device
for making the tops of fences impaSsa-
bic by cats, advertised as follows:
Practical tests of the invention have
shown that it is discouraging to cats in a
high degree. Tom cats of exceptional
intelligence, who have long treated with
contempt such trivial obstacles as spikes
and broken glass, have retreated baffied
before the teaser.n
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FARMER MGRAB: Dochter, all gle
We hummer pown if yell keep me livin
anither twalmonth. Amiable NJ D. /:
I'm afraid, Mr.. NJ Grab, l couldn't do it
for that. | might try if you made it FIVE
hundred. Farmer n Grab (emphatical-
lyl; I'd rather die.-Judy.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

JAS. F. WHITNEY, six years old, in
squared with playmate, Lewis Shatuctk,
al Nashua, y. H, was stabbed by the latter,
probably fatally, three times.
DURING the temporary absence of
James Hurd, OF North Weare, \. H.. his
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The undersigned offer the following articles to
the public at the Remarkably LOW Prices given be-
lor
, 1877-01-17
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THE CoCHT.liOUsA sToEk.
~ IA Editor n TAa Tribune,


CHICAGO. ian. ia LETTER .n,c.+, I, TINS
TuIut.xr t',.[1,v ,,r.r ~. ,a,,'a ~ 1,.. ~
1t'.',."s -. 49,, v'ut -, 1"e na1'c " 'smes =:
Morrison, m winch tue writer states that IL will
lIe necessary 10 reduce Cuttor.lluuse stonc-
cu,tcrs' wages oue-third In order 10 iutiuco
awaken ;, mi IN rn,n,ov cnpri,, l,Ior t,, ct.
,lut, thc cm,r,. Hou.r .t;v. lt.,rar" ~ ~ 81.
.t .."s .ns eous''.'ouse stoae' ue 'aakee tac us'
Is "the only Way tu keen the Court House out
uf the Fcnftrntiary." 1nusmch ns tho con-
tract for thu taurt-llouse sto,,c-wnrk contains
no reference to the wages ii workncn, being
stipulation that uone. of the s.o,ic sllail
be cut !iy convict lahur, Mr.. Mort!sun's )
proposition appenss decidedly cool, amI H.
a-nlugh ~ the CotlEt.Eouse contract was made
VII; Wil'Mn McSeat 4 Sun, utter rejecting
right Mr. Walker, Or anybody else, las to vary
iii terms.
Mr. Morrison says 1.-THE uniouists c]aIn, that
80 is The standard wages ia Chtrueo, but tlle
fact Is there arc no standard wages" hit he
afterwards s.atrs that "thr surtcnt rates VI
Chicago arc only e." Tlrse statements can
not br rcconci1el with each other, and the fact
y thry arc both incorrect. It III true thrrc ts
lttle OF no EtUne-suttur lust now
being lone In Chicago outsI,lu the
Government tob, hut 1t is equally true
that the 'tstantlnnl wages II 1T first-yluss stone.
cutters In Chicago have not bccn less thu So
~ the last fifteen years, us,d during co,,tlrra
bic portion VI that ptrtou tile rate has been 81,
-ard during one season it was 81.
AsI WAS n,c.n,,cr OF t,t. 'dp,ccutIou of I'M.
iontsts" that interviewed Nir. Walker, 1 can sav
FROM pcreonal knowledge that Mr, MorTisonjs
statement ol thu tsdetnasls" made by US Is
false. We expressly tilsciattned a,,y plrpos,. NJ
debating or Interfering in tue matter uf wares.
and simply contcnled fur the rr,uyiplr III
"eient hours for q tluf's work. rulr
which has prevailed FIJI our trade III this city iur
tuauy wears a,l,I which VIC telirye hn. h,.,, l,,.
elriaI 10 both employers aud men.
Mr.. Morrison seems tu he strongly onnoar.f IL.
tra4es' unious although he antuy,1,rns hiu,srJf