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New-York tribune., 1877-03-07
THE BATEMAN HOUSE FIRE.
FIVE BODIES IECOvERED-DEATH OF THE RESCUED

son.
PITTsBURGu, Penn, March Ga telegram
from Karns City gives the following additional partcu
lars Of the fire at the Bateman House yesterday Upt
O'Clock this morning five bodies had been taken from
the ruins The remains of \. Brown, ir.. OF No. go
Chesnut-s PHILADELPHIA have been identified by Key
check Charlie Bateman age II years, who was rcscued
from tho flames by s father, died Of his injuries TINS
morning Mr. Batcman, the father and only remaining
member of the family lies in very critical condition.
New-York tribune., 1877-03-07
PRESIDENT HAYEs's ADDRESS ABROAD.

LONDON Tuesday, March O. Is77.
The inaugural address OF President Hayes,
which is published in fall tLs morIIs, has created
very favorable impression here
New-York tribune., 1877-03-07

the side ~ Rondst opposite the fire was estimated at
81 800 The building occupied by the Wilcox q Glbos
Sewing Machine Company took Ore severai unes ou'
was saved from destruction by the efforts Of the remcn
The loss upon this property is estimated at $1,000
The building occupied by /. Deter Il Co.. at No 726
Broadway caught fire the roof. but the fames were
extinguished before much damage was done.
Moreys gallery at No. 707 Broadway next to Hellers
Wonder Theater caught fire. and the roof was almost m
medatey ablaze The entire roof was torn on Deiore
the fire was stopped. The damage at this place was
about $500 As could be ascertaned it was fully
insured
AMERICAN WATCH COMPANY'S HISTORY.
The American Watch Company OF Waltham,
Mass was established with a capital Of 100000, soon
after the failure Of the Boston Watch Company the hs'
venture OF the kind in this country, In 1856 Ihs cap
tai soon proved insufficient and just before the outbreak
ing OF the rebellion 1t increased to S3ooooo lhc
wa, which ruined many enterprises proved sVi'iu
is TO this The business advanced at bound IhuS i'll
1860 900 watches produced; three years iater
100000 were turned out. In 1868 the capitai
was increased to S75O,OOO, and the operations OF
the company grew In like proportions To-day
the company employs 900 warkmen, and makes ABOUT
4c5 movements daily Its capital now amounts 10
81 100000, with reserve fund OF S3oo,ooo Inc yoy
production OF watches s now estimated at 2oo'ooo,
though this number could be doubled II the demahd
should warrant the increase. In May, 1876, the Egn
Company the most powerful OF the halfScorc or ri'as
OF the American Watch Company made redictoh On he
price Of their of from 10 to 80 per cont Ihe
Watham Company at once announced reduction OF
from 40 to 80 per cent prices, which were alreay
lower than OF the Ein and at the same time maze
the reduction back the beginning OF the year.
Thus n dealer in Watches by indicating the
stock of waltham watches on hand, secured rebate
OF 40 or so per cent This device cost the company
$4,000 The company has not rested satisfied WIN the
abundant of success in this country demand
for the Waltham watch was first created IN the Eist
Indies and Australia then 1t became popular IN the
English market, bids fair it is claimed, to drive from
it both the English and Swiss watches.
New-York tribune., 1877-03-07

MONTENEGRO CLAIMING TOO MUCn-MoRE RUSSIAN
ARMY CORPS ogGASIZiNG-GEN. IGNATIEFF AT
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PRINTED ON NEW TYPE,

Forming in fact a new Cyclopiedia, wtSh
the same plan and compass rs It's preas-
cessor, hut with a far greater pocuniary
expenditure, and with such improuements
in its composition as have been suggested
by longer experience and enlarged knowJ-
edge
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A Boston millionaire who appeared
in public place recently wearing a
preternaturally brilliant pair of boots,
was asked who blacked them, and
proudly respoded that he did it him
self. A wealthy acquaintance at once
offered twenty cents for the pro-
duction of like result on his boots ;
the offer was accepted, the job was
done and the quarter was paid.
A woman recently entered a store
in Connecticut and sat down in front
of an iron safe to warm her feet. After
sitting some twenty or thirty minutes,
she remarked that she never did like
them kind of stoves. They don't throw
out scarcely any heat, those gas bur
ners don't.
A Lancaster county farmer, who
claimed he was too poor to take a
newspaper, sold his wheat recently for
sI.30 per bushel, when the market
price was over 50. The loss sustained
BY him in this transaction would have
aid for a paper for forty years.
A SGT of thieves in Mexico have
trained to steal handkerehiefs in
the cathedral aud other churches
from the kneeling worshippers.
The difficulty in shelling peas is
bow not to throw the peas among the
pods and the pods among the peas.
"The kurds," says an Asiatic dis.
patch, "are heartening the khan.
fhe milk-khan, probably.
A little girl, deep in the mysteries
of natural history, asked: as a frog
an anonymous animal? ?"
A lonely Keokuk batchelOr wants
10 adopt a girl baby, not less than
eighteen years old.
A bouquet at a Georgia fair con,
aimed $50 varieties of flowers.
4 Patterson On. j. sign announces
ner beens."
fida people are gnawing green
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ton i'm literature, and Of the newest inven-
tions in the practical arts, as well as to
give a succinct and original record OF Hse
progrCsS OF
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1lood in the dusty road for some
me, apparently reconnoitering, with
view to ascertaiuing whether the
slight hedge which enclosed Mr.. Jones'
place concealed any lurking bulldog
or spring guns. lie was a tramp, and
having satisfied himself that there
were no death nor damage dealing en-.
gines concealed in tho shrubbery, he
opened the gate and proceeded to the
back door, on which knocked he as
ono having authority. Mrs. Jones re-
sponded.
"Please'm, could you give a poor
man who has walked seventy eight
miles since breakfast something to
eatp / amt particular, so long as it
ain't cold; and can't a. bear my cof.
fee with more than two Jumps Of sugar
in it and too much cream. 1t makes
me bilious. I'll sit here in the stoop
while you're getting the things ready"
Now Mrs. Jones is q very nice little
woman, but she was alone and natur-
ally lacking in nerve, and presently
the tramp was discussing bountiful
repast, while she took up a position of
strategic importance, to defend the
spoons, if necessary. But the peri.
patio was not pugnacious; far from
it.
"You don't know" queried the un-
welcome visitor, as he munched a
doughnut, "you don't know of any
man round here who would like to
hire a gentleman to look after his
horse or take care of a garden or act
as private secretary, do your"
Mrs. Jones shook her head.
81 should like, remarked the gentle
man "to find some nice oil man who
would want gentleman to read the
papers to him. know all about the
war, do. can wrestle with the
Turkish names and throw 'em every
time. I'm horseshoer by trade, but
Lor' bless yer, what can man DO in
these times of general depression and
business stagnation. tell yer 1 can
just sling them Turkish names been
there r1yseIf." :"
Have you ?" said the unfortunate
woman. beginning to look upon the
tramp as a possibly mertori Gus trav-
eler down on his luck, or a Russian
grand duke taking pedestrian tour
ineog.
"Y es. was in the Crimea. / fit all
through it, and was twice mortally
wounded. 'Spose you've heard about
the six hundred Well, was one of
'em. Saved Lord Cardigan's life. Tell
you how it was. When we rode into
the Russian battery fourteen of the
Cossacks made straight for Cardigan.
Me an him were great friends
brought up from childhood together,
an when seed the Cossacks going for
him went for them. They was alto
gether in heap. I was lancer, an
/ run my lance clean through seven of
them strung EN- like herrin'. Lord
Cardigan, says to me, says he: "Tom,
we've saved my life, God bless YER"
He and me called each other Dick
aud Tom. Well, yer never see a m an
so grateful. He wanted me to marry
his oldest daughter, but l told him l
was married already. "Get divorce"
says he. "No / can't do that says 1.
Yer never see a man So mad as Car
d:gan was then. He thought was
slitin him. Fust he raved, then he
wept like a child. But l see a man
coming, and l may he in the way"
And he lodged round the corner of
the house and was off just as Jones and
the dog entered it. Jones subsequent-
ly remarked that you could make q
woman believe most anything.--Bos-
ton Traveller.
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SQUARE GRAND PIANOS
Retailed at Wholesale Prices.
5000 for $3.50.
$3.50 for $500.
500 for $500.
$500 for $3.50.
TIE
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We look to the People, who want afirst-
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as any agent can buy equally good Pianos
OF any other manufacturer, giving the
People, in reduced price, what is usually
expended in commissions, rent, freight,
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The 'Medelssohn' Piano Co. can sell
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which only accompany the best Pianos of
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The "NIendelssdfn' Piano is manufac-
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Our Piano is unsurpassed by any in the
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Send for our Illustrated and pescrip-
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SHDD ALL
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The Cheapest Soap that can be used for
the following reasons;
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2d.-Only half tho usual rubbing being
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ed. There is a saving in fuel and
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prietor TO engage in an extensive system
of advertising and claim such decided
merit for his Soap unless he knew from
positive experience that it would prove to
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This is also a superior Soap tor Toilet
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WARNER, RHODES & CO.,
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General Agents,
eli PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
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THE AMERICAN CYCLOpkDIA.

Within the last ten years the progress Of
discovery i'm every department or Lnowl-
edge has made q new work OF refete iiee ~
imperative want.
Tho movement Of political afIairs has
kept pace with the discoveries of science.
and their fruitful application to tho indus
trial and useful arts and the convenience
and refinement of social life Great wars
and consequent revolutions have occurred.
involving national changes of peculiar
moment. Tho civil war of our own coun-
try, which was at its height when the last
volume of the old work appeared, has hap
PLY been ended, and now course of com
mercial and industrial activity has been
commenced. Large accessions to our
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GEOGRAPHICAL ENOWLEDCR

Have been made by the indeiatigable ox-
plorers of Africa.
Tho great political revolutions of tho
last decade. with the natural result OF tho
lapse of time, have brought into public
view a multitude of new men, whose
names are in every ones mouth, and Of
whose lives every ono is curious to know
the particulars. Great battles havo been
fought and important siegcs maintained,
of which the details are "a yet preserved
only in the newspapers or in tho transient
publications of the day, but which ought
now to take their place in
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NEW REVISED EDITION,

Tho work original V published under the
title of THE NEW AM ERlCAN CYCLIC.
PAfDIA WIS completed i'm 1863, since
which time, the wide circulation which IL
has attained In all parts of the United
States, and tho signal developments which
have taken place in eyory branch Of
science, literature, and art, have induced
the editors and publishers TO submit II 10
an exact and thorough revision, and t0
issue new edition entitled
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POLITICAL AyD HISTORICAL ETENrg.

The work has becn begun after leE md
careful preliminary labor, and wiu lSSo
most ample resources for carrying Il on W
n successful termination.
Mono of :he original stereotype places
have been used, but every nage hse bpean
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m Fancy Cards, no . alike, any name, 10
0o cts. c. Smith, Green Brook, Col. Go.
y. y. 81
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JOB WORK neatly executed al the RI,
- PUBLICAN Ofice
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-07-26
WAR NEWS.

Dispatches via st. Petersburg, to the
10th, claim that the advance guard of the
Russian army had crossed the Balkan range
of mountains without firing a shot. Great
excitement existed at Constantinople, and
fresh efforts were being made to strengthen
the Notifications. On the other hand,
the Turks claim that Eyoub Pasha
attacked the Russians under Grand
Duke Nicholas, north of Tirnova,
and defeated them with the loss of 1900,
and the Grand Duke surrounded. Two
Turkish monitors destroyed the bridge al
Sistova. One monitor was subsequently
sunk by torpedoes. The Porte officially de-
cares that the Russians have burned alive
the Inhabitants of Jonis near Tirnoya who
had taken refuge in mosque.
( The following is the husband official
account of the crossing of the Balkans:
"Gen. GOurko, with an advance guard OF
cavalry, infantry ane artillery, has crossed
the Balkans. On July IA he surprised and
defeated Turkish battalion which guarded
the outlet of the pass near the village OF
Khankhoi. Gen. Gourko is now marching
upon Kasanlik, in rear of the enemy. who
occupies the fortified Shipka defile." The
reported attack by Turkish monitors on Sis
tova bridge is untrue. i'A sili7@iiz "4'l --
News of the 18th confirms the report
ed capture of Nikopolis by the Russians
The surrender seems to have been brought
about by encircling Nikopolis with an over.
whelming artillery fire, to which the Rus
sian and Roumanian batteries at Turna,
Magurelli contributed. A correspondent al
Nikopolis telegraphs: ] am told there were
5000 Turks killed and wounded in the
engagement which preceded the capture o.
this town. Four or five acres were devas'
tated by conflagration which occurred be-
fore the surrender" Another account says
that the Russians captured $500 Turks ant
40 pieces of artillery, besides two monitors
The Russian loss in killed and wounded wa;
very large.
The disposition of the Russian forces
on the 18th, was stated to be about as fol.
lows: Five divisions, comprising "a 900 men
are in the Dobrudscha; 10000 are operating
against the quadrilateral, 10000 are in thu
Balkans, $4,000 at NikopOlis and Plevna, ant
$4,000 in Roumania. 1t is officially announc'
ed from Constantinople that Abdul KERN
has been dismissed, and Mehemet Ali ap.
pointed to succeed him as COMMANDMENTS
Chief of the Turkish army. The dismissa
of Redif Pasha, Minister of War, is reported
probable, but not yet officially confirmed
Mehemet Ali is said to be a Prussian, whose
real name is Chuleberg.
1t was reported on the 10th that the
Turks had ordered levy of troops en- mass
in. the province. of Adrianople. Hobart
Pasha has been ordered to lombard al
places of Importance on the Russian coast
of the Black Sea. ... -
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The Superannuated o. G..

!
81 have been called a superannuated
old GOOSE" remarked woman about
80 years of age, as she entered the Cen
trail Station yesterday. ...f
|. She sat down and looked at the Cap
tain for half minute, and then con-
tinued: ..r...
sc have been called an ignorant old
dodo, centennial parchment, relic
GUS old living pyramid, and several
other hard names, and want a certain
woman arrested right off,
cit was a woman, eh?" queried the
Captain.
%. &c 1t was a woman, sir; and when |
shut my eyes her image comes before
me as plain as a photograph. You can
find her on the market" $50
'You had a fuss, did you?" he asked.
:" We had a dispute;'' she replied, as
she unrolled white, handkerchief and
held up a banana. '@She had some of
these bandanas for sale, and when |
asked her how she sold bandanas, she
laughed in a mean way, and said she
hadn't bandana on her stand. There
they was right before my eyes, and yet
she said she hadn't any"
"You called them bandanas, while
you meant bananas" said the Captain.
"There you go, toO!" she exclaimed,
as she rose up. "Don't you s'pose l
know what bandana is?''
" Yes, ma Fam, but that"
.,. 90 This is bandana :" she shrieked, as
she waved it around.
'sThat is banana, ma'am!"
" It's bandana, or I'm a fOOl!''
cts banana, or I'm villain"
| She stepped back as if she meant to
throw it at his eye, but after little re-
Election she calmly remarked:
81 There's two of you against me, and
some of us are fools. I'm old enough
to be your mother, and I've called these
things bandanas for over 80 years, Now,
L want to find out if I'm living Egyp-
tan pyramid, or if you sit up behind
that desk to make fun of me. Where's
the City Directory" r.irai 1
1.-The Directory won't settle this dis
pute, - he replied, as he stepped down.
"Come to the door, and we'll see what
others say
She followed him out, and in half a
minute along came boy.
"Bub, whats that?" said the Captain,
pointing to the fruit.
She $ a banana answered the
boy.
Thirty feet behind was another boy,
/ and he said it was banana9S In the
course of five minutes three or four men
had passed by and each one had called
it banana. III.
"There-are you satisfied now?' ask
ed the Captain as he turned to 60 in.
81 hate to give in, but I've got to-"
she sighed. 'I've been called super
animated old goose, RELIGIOUS pyramid,
and a centennial parchment, and guess
| am. I've read of folks eating ban
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The River Danube.

The River Danube has figured largely
in history for 1900 years, and it again
becomes the object to which the eyes OF
the whole world have turned. 1t fur
nished highway for the Turks in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to
penetrate Europe as far as Vienna, and
in the days Of the Crusades it became
an outlet for the religious enthusiasm of
Europe to flow to the Holy Land. The
Danube, from its Source in Baden to the
Black Sea, is 1920 miles long, and it
drains, with its tributaries, an area of
over 100000 square miles. 1t passes
through Bavaria, Austria, Hungary and
Servia to the Carpathian Mountains,
where it separates Roumania and Bull
garia, and passes into the Black Sea
through several mouths, the principal
one being that of Sulina. The Danube
is navigable for steamboats, as far as
Ulm, in Bavaria At Nicopolis, in the
fourteenth century, 100000 Christians
were driven by the Turks into the Dan
,lbe, and, in the fifteenth century, 10000
Turks were slain on its shores at the
siege OF Belgrade.
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an order issued by the company increas-
ing the number of cars in train and
lengthening the trip for days work.
NJ freight trainsarriving IN theyard at
Pittsburgh were embalgoed by the
strikers, although passenger trains were
allowed to proceed without interference.
At meeting of the Train-men's Union,
held on the evening of the 10Th, gen.
eral strike was determined upon, the
issue to be the revocation of the obnoxi-
Gus train order, and also the re-
establishment of wages paid pri-
I-er Ito the reduction of june 4.
The Governor of Pennsylvania, on the
goth, issued a proclamation to the strik-
ers enjoining good behavior, and at the
same time ordered out an entire division
of the National Guard TO enforce his
commands. No collision occurred, but
the railroad company were unable to
move freight or stock trains during the
day The strike also extended to the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad, and to the Erie Railway al
Hornellsville.