Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-08-30

is inquiries; afesr.
Three r,ad agents were captured i
DeodMped Saturday.
Tho President and family are on
tour'le New Hampshire.
And now the Russians are ahead-N
B.-Thc Turks are after them.
Minnesota expects to harvest 10000
900 bushels of wheat this year.
-Twcnty-onc quartz mills are reported
in the Black Hills, and the quartz average
$50 per ton.
The Secretary Of War thinks Howard
is doing the utmost possible with the few
troops he has.
The General Grand Chapter Of X. A.
Masons elected their officers on the 2Iti
inst. in Buffalo.
Some horrible Russian atrocities are
reported. We are inclined to think they
are manufactured for effect.
The Superintendent of the railway
postal service states that not a letter or
newspaper was lost during the strike.
NIAGARA. August 22.-John and Eliza
beth Harvey. who were old and destitute.
were burned to death in their house last
night.
Secretary Sherman. in the coming
Ohio campaign. will come out as an avow-
cd candidate for the Senatorship. both
against Stanley Matthews and Gen. Gar
field.
-WAsnINGTOS. August 22.-The re-
moval Of Forsyth. Surveyor Of tie Dis
trict. will I've followed by other important
changes. owing to incompctcncy and dis
honesty. !
While at Brattlcbnro. Vermont the 4
other day. PrcSidcn, HAYES made speech. .
the purpose Of which was that his grand
father was the Blacksmith Of that place one
hundred years ago.
The dies for an experimental gold
coin, worth $50. are now nearly completed.
and are said 10 bc OF exquisite workman
ship rendering counterteiting a matter of
,hc greatest difficulty.
Great dcspondency is felt in Turkey
over the recent military movements. and
the Russians are almost as respondent. !
calling on the peasants to join the imperial
army from all directions. :
The details received regarding the bat ;.
tie in Shikpa pass state that the Russians
repulsed successfully ten vigorous attacks =
made by the Turks. the positions Of the ;,
Russians being very strong.
--CoNsTANTINoPLE. August %. - The
Governor of Tricala, Thcssaly, telegraphs
August 2lst: The Turks have carried by Il
\ assault some entertainments erected at Sig
ina by the Greek insurgents, IL Il
The town of Gayvile, two miles from :,
Deadwood. was burned on the 18th inst. :
Two hundred houses We're destroyed. The :
loss is estimated at 10000. But two or =
three houses were left standing. =.
Osnan Pasla. under date of August elst &c
reports encounters with Russian cavalry :,
at Ncrcinsk. west of Plevna. ana at An .,
teck, on the road to Archaric. In both
cases the Russians We're repulscd. :,
Senator Morton who has been i'll for r,
SUM- '',''. P'e' = ~ ia'hei CRITICAL cohui til
ton. His mind is perfectly clear and his vi
will strong. but his digestive functions are RI
impaired, indicating waning life. E,
Russian official dispatches Of the 2lst en-
say that forty battalions under Suleiman 90
Pasha renewed the attack this morning on of
Schikpa Pass and We're again repulsec. 40
The fighting continues, although darkness in,
has set in. he
Prof Pike. the murderer CT Jones the
rtligio philosophic editor, does not relish r.;
the idea Of being convicted of insanity. =,
lie says it is the jury, and not himself. who ro
are insane. and he is going TO write book f,,
to prove it. ca
1t has been definitely ascertained that sta
the Mexican bandtti who recently invaded rol
our soil, committing murders, driving off Sl'
stock, and finally rescuing from Jail a part On
Of their gang, who had been arrested, was up
composed about equally of Mexicans and bei
Texans. bel
-LOSDcS. August 23-Advices from :
[he Russian headquarters. dated yesterday. Mi
state that the battle in Shikpa pass is still WI
The enemy has renewed the to
attack many times with fresh troops. but ant
each time had been repulscd with heavy ab,
loss 10 tie Turks. lila
A Bucharest dispatch saws the Turks iOO
attacked IirRova yesterday. and they were the
'epulsed. The engagement; was RECON- In
nenced to-day. O~mian I'a,fla's troops wo
made an attack on Sei,i wit!, the intention ant
II advancing upon GatrSye. tut Prince ing
Nirskey repulsed them before the arrival dar
If division which he asked fer ~ REIN CSC
orccmcnt. rea
Capt. James Clark. an old Missouri =
~ ntnip hoe lnfS int.
Il mtti for the steamer Rankin. now three mes
eet above water on q bar in the Yellow mel
tone. The boat was deserted by the cap wild
ain and crew. and will hardly pay for the Pos
roubie and expense OF taking her of the beer
ar, having been condemned by the Gov ing
Enment inspectors three years ago. by
NEW HAVEN. Conn A,,,,,s, >, 4. Of
meeting Of the greenback men hast night Inc
solutions were passed calling for the un- "'e
repeal Of the resumption act: pers
III mone.izatjon az S;,vor. ~. ,,.,s..s - and
act making greenbacks full legal ten "or
er and interchangeable with bonds: OBJ -
Osing subsidies, and cOndemning Secre- men
Try sherman, and calling for his removal. in I
The new convention concluded be- oIHt
'een Great Britain and Egypt for the anu
,rrr~ssioo of the sl,vc trad. .,,+;ra,,, 49,, char
bits hic export or import Of negro ne ne"
ives. Eg,pt1sn slave traders will be- ne'
vi 81 court rria1.ial as assassins. The sr'''
se1ise eSgages 10 abolish all private 10"
lfiic In dawes in Egypt within seven OF
ars. and'wftidn Twelve years in Soudan arou
4 the ircn6tr provinces. 'ils'
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The two' telegraph companies have The
.N All, u-is"e- Inc con- cost
!1tentessd into provides for the pooling !, b,l