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ABROAD.

THE steamship Frigorifque, built for
preserving fresh meat on long voyages, ar
rived at Rouen, France, on the 18th inst,
from the river Platte, with a cargo ofmeat in
fine condition, 112 days having elapsed since
she began loading. -...-. 30
ADvICEs from Buenos Ayres state that
fearful flood has occurred IN the far south.
Millions of sheep and cattle perished and
hundreds of families are rendered homeless.
CLYDE shipwrights have agreed to re-
fer the disputes with the shipmasters to arb-
tration. A speedy end to the great strike is
anticipated.
ADVICES by steamer from China of
July 18th and 18th, states that the first tele-
graph line is in operation III that country.
1t is private line six miles long. Several
lines are now contemplated by the govern
ment of the island of Formosa.
EX-PREsIDENT GRANT was at Lake
Maggiore, Italy, on the 9th inst.
ADYICEs from Kingston, Jamaica, of
date of August 1, say some horrible disclos-
ures have been made as to the treatment of
boys in the government reformatory. They
were so ill-fed (only getting bread on
Sunday, and one salt herring to eight
youthS) th3t according to the testimony of
DIR. Campbell, the medical officer, whenever
they got liberty, they rushed IL the pigs
troughs, and rayenously ate the putrid otfal
and food that had been thrown there for the
swine.
THE Bosnian insurrection is ct an end.
The insurgents are crossing irto Dalmatia
and are being interned on Islands in the
Adriatic.
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WASHINGTON.


VIM. j. MURTAGH, proprietor of the
Ndtiond Republican, was cowhided on the
18th inst, in front of his Office at Washing
ton, by JOS. X. Wheatley, of Harrodsburg,
KY, on account of articles which appeared
in that paper rejecting on Wheatley's char
acter.
The cabinet was in session on the 10th
inst, about two hours and determined that
a commission of three be appointed to act
with similar commission on the part of
Canada and arrange for the return of Sitting
Bull AID his followers to the United States.
One rlember will be an army officer, another
represent the Indian department and third
20 be selected after conference with the
president. The cabinet also discussed the
question of pending danger to the inhabi-
tants in the vicinity of Pugets sound on ac-
count of threatened Indian outbreaks, and
decided to send man or war to that place
from San Francisco.
JOHN +. WINTER, of Illinois, was ap-
pointed consul at Rotterdam, on the Sth inst.
THERE was fine review of sailors and
marines at the Washington navy yard on
the Sth inst, which was attended by the
President and cabinet, and many persons
of prominence in military and naval circles.
The President was greeted with salute by
the Swatara.
IMMEDIATELY after the session of the
cabinet on the eth inst, President Hayes is
sued general order prohibiting the sale of
arms or ammunition to Indians, and revOk-
ing all licenses to trade with them in such
articles. Military commandants are charged
with the duty of assisting in the execution
of this order.
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WHOLE NO. 991.
SPORTING.
BASE BALL.

D<hSI DALI.
MILWAUKEE, August 11.-Milwau.
KEGS. 5; Indianapolis, 2.
BosToN, August l0.-Hartfords, 4;
Bostons, 2. ssr 3.
PITTsBURG, August 10.-Alleghenys,
4 Auburns, 6. .-t
LONDON, August 10.-The fourth
game of base bail between the Tecum-
sehs, of London, and the Maple Leafs,
of Guelph, the last of the international
series between these clubs, took place to-
day. At the finish the score stood: Te-
cumsehs, 6; Maple Leafs, 2. a
MINIATURES, Aug. 10.-Milwaukees,
4; Louisville, s. ~. a+est
LATE EASTERN GAMES.
Our BOYS, of Boston, 4; Dirigos, of
Portland, Me-, 81 Rhode Islands, 6;
Fall Rivers, 5; at Providence. Syracuse
Stars, 8; Auburns, 2; at Auburn. Crick-
cts, s. Rochesters, 4; at Binghampton.
Hudsons, of Brooklyn, 1; Volunteers,
0; at Poughkeepsie.
THE LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP.
Including all games that could pos
sibly count in settling up the League
championship when the association
meets, the Louisville club are ahead to
date. The Bostons stand second, with
St. Louis good third, with the Chicagos
and Hartfords close together in the race
for fourth. The Cincinnatis are last, as
will be seen by the following record:
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THE WEST.

THE fifteenth annual session of the
supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias of the
world, commenced their session at Cleve-
land, o., on the 18th inst. About 500
knights were in attendance.
A DISPATCH from Davenport, Iowa,
dated the 1Ith inst, says that over 90 faml-
lies in that city are dependant on charity. 1t
is estimated that over one thousand day labor
ers, have been idle all summer. The Rock
Island Arsenal heretofore employed 500
men, but now the number is only $50.
A MINNEAPOLIs special of the 10th
inst, estimates the new crop in Minnesota
at from 25,o00,000 to 35,OO0,0OO bushels.
The acreage is about 1000, 900; an average
OF Is bushels would give SO ZOO, 600; loss by
grasshoppers, 100000 bushels, would leave
$4,000, COO; required for seed and bread, g.
100000 bushels, would leave 24,oO0,000
bushels for export.
!. The Probate Court at Detroit, on the
10th inst, denie! the petition of the Mer-
chants Bank, of New Bedford, to reopen
the verdict of the Commission of Claims
against the estate of Captain E. B. Ward, TO
allow their claim of over $500, 900 to come in
for considerations. The decision is final.
The Kansas Pacific and Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe railroads formed a
pool on the 9th inst. Each road will be al
lowed 40 per cent. OF its gross earnings for
expensesand the remainder is to be eq uaily
divided.
A LETTER from the United States
consul at Winnepeg says "Near Sitting
Buifs eneampment War party of twenty
seven Sioux robbed traders of three kegs of
powder and one bag of bullets. Besides
Sitting Bulls band there is an equal num-
Der Of Sioux refugees from the Minnesota
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THE EAST.

DARWIN A. SHERMAN, the most eX.
tensive merchant of Warren County, n. Y,
failed on the 18th inst. Liabilities $15O,OOO
assets unknown. Many persons are thrown
out of employment by this failure.
New YORK bank statement for the
week ending August II: Loans, decrease
81 ,39O, 600; specie increase, $780,, 900; legal
tenders, decrease, 81 ,167 ,300 deposits, de.
crease, S., 135, 900; circulation, increase
$40, 200; reserve, increase, $661 $50.
. SENATOR Roscoe CoNKLING, arrived
home at New York from Europe on the 10th
inst.
4 ODoNoYAN Rosa, the Irish patriot,
has been dispossessed of his hotel in
Chatham square, New York, by the sheriff
ORLANDO w. JosLYN, a New York
banker, failed on the 10th inst. Liabilities
81 5000; assets nothing.
ADvICEs of the 9th inst, state that
there is glut in the sugar market at New
York city. The market is greatly over
stocked. One firm is carrying 25,OOO hogs
heads, which if sold at present rates would
cause loss of 100000.
THE striking silk weavers of Paterson
n. j., met on the Sth inst, and agreed to
complete the unfinished warps at Stringe's
mill, and afterwards to receive the wages
before the reduction. This ends the strike
A FATAL case of genuine Asiatic
cholera was reported by a physician at police
headquarters in Lowell, Mass, on the 9TH
inst. Precautionary measures will at once
be taken by the authorities.
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CASUALTIES.

II. III. Cooks saw mill at Midland,
Toronto, burned on the 18th inst. Loss $780,
600. Two hundred and fifty men were
thrown out of employment.
FIVE persons lost their lives by the cap
sizing of the yacht Pamlico at Chicago, on
the 18th inst
The Star and Herald of Panama, Just
received, announces the total losses of the
Pacific Steam Navigation eompany's steam
er Ellen, Capt. Coathupe on the morning of
the 18th OF July, at Los Villas, about 20 miles
north OF Valparaiso. About 100 persons
were lost.
GRAND HAVEN, Mich, lost SIS, 900 by
fire on the 10th inst Nine buildings were
destroyed.
JAMES OWEN, switchman, was killed
at Jackson, Mich, on the 9th inst, BY being
run over by an engine.
A FIRE at San Francisco on the 9th
inst, destroyed about a square and a half of
wooden buildings. A large number of
horses and cattle perished. Loss about
Sa5o,o00.
A FIRE at Aylmer, Ont, On the Sth
inst, destroyed several buildings in the bus
mess portion of the'town. Loss $40 ,0e0.
A TRAIN on the Missouri Pacific road
Mo-, on the sth inst, by broken rail.
Twelve persons were injured, not, however,
seriously.
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THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR.

AT Fall River, Mass, on the 18th
inst, while intoxicated, Thomas Fitzgerald
stabbed his wife in the left breast, causing
her death in an hour. The murderer was
arrested.
A YOUNG man named Braden, travel
ing for Bidwell & Farwell, of Freeport, ILL.,,
was attacked by tramps near Waterloo,
Iowa, few days since, robbed of $3.50, and
received injuries which caused his death
next day. s... a-.
SOME time since negro named VIM.
Thompson committed brutal assault on a
little white girl at MitchelPs station, Cul-
pepper, w. Va. He was arrested and lodged
in jail and on the night of the 10th inst, he
was forcibiy taken from the Jail by about 90
masked men and hung.
In an alteration concerning a dog at
Boston, Clermont Co., Ohio, on the 9th inst.
Samuel Raudebust shot and killed Daniel
,Harrigan.
AT TIPTONvILLE, Tenn, few days
since Gen. Henry Darnell, who was on trial
in the court was ordered remanded to
Jail in default of sufficient bonds. The
sheriff refused to act and Darnell and an
armed mob walked out of the courtroom
denouneing the court and defying the
authorities. The sheriff refusing to obey an
order to summon a posse, Gov. Porter was
telegraphed to send the Chickasaw Guards of
Memphis to his relief.
WILLIAM III. WoLCoTT, an extensive
brick manufacturer, was arrested at Boston,
on the Sth inst, charged with forgery.
Wolcott acknowledged the forgery. The
amount is thought to be $4,000.
JOHN w. STUGLEMAN committed sui
eide by taking chloroform at the CONNER
cial hotel at Chicago on the Sth inst. In his
pocket was found letter requesting that his
body be sent to Shermantown, Pa.
JOHN E. DAILY, a stock broker, was
shot and killed at San Francisco, on the 7th
inst, by Leslie A. Hanks, consul general for
Guatemala in San Francisco. The trouble
grew out of a slight disagreement between
Hanks and Dai,y's partner. Both parties
occupied high social positions
The coroner's jury on the Sth inst. brought
in a verdict of murder. About one o'clock
on the Sth inst, Hanks, by some unknown
means, obtained possession of rifle and
shot himself dead in the prison.
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ANOTHER INDIAN FIGHT.
The NeZ Perces Overtaken and At
tackled by Gen. GibbOn-Heavy Loss
on Both Sides.

Oh ftOtn SlUeS.
DEER LODGE, August 11-9 A. NV.
H. Edwards has just arrived from Big
Hole, bringing accounts of a terrible bat
tie between Gibbons command and the
Nez Perces ON the Big Hole river, on
August 9th. Gibbons command con
sisted of 1S2 men-17 officers, 1873 regu-
lars and 80 citizens. The volunteers
crossed over from Ross Hole on Wednes-
day, starting at IL o'clock. On the same
night they moved down all the troops,
with the exception of few left to guard
close to the Indian camp, which was
made on the Big Hole, about three
miles below where the Bitter Root and
Bannock trail crosses. At daylight this
morning the fight opened by the volun-
teers firing on and killing an Indian go
ing after horses. A charge was then
made on the camp, and hard fighting oc-
CURED for the next twenty-one hours,
during which time large numbers of
men and Indians were killed The sol
diers then charged on the lodges, but
were repulsed in the attempt. The In
dians then attempted to cut them of
from high wooded point, but the sol
diers charged, and, driving the Indian
advance from it, held it, and at once for
titled it.
The fight continued all day, and was
still progressing ftfully when the courier
left. At IL o'clock the fighting was des-
perate on both sides, the full force of
the Indians being in the fight.
Capt Logan and Lieut. Bradley were
killed Gen. Gibbon, Capt. Williams and
Lieuts. Coolidge, English and Woodruff
were wounded, Gen. Gibbon only slight
ly. Bradley was the first man killed.
HELENA, Montana, August ia
courier from Gen. Gibbon arrived at
Deer Lodge, Montana, at 3 80 p. NJ. to-
day with dates to the 11th. Gibbons
supply train and camp was not captured,
as first reported. There was no fighting
after the first days battle ON the 9th;
Gibbons losses are killed: Capt. Logan,
Lieuts. Bradley and Bostwick, and seven
teen men and five citizens. The wound
ed are Gen. Gibbon, Capt. Williams,
Lieuts. Coolidge, Woodruff and English,
the latter seriously, besides thirty-six men
and four citizens. The Indians suffered
severely, as forty dead Indians were
counted ON about one-half the battle field.
Gen. Howard had arrived and would
pursue the Indians as soon as his COM
mand arrived. Gen. Gibbon would
move to Deer Lodge and take his wound
ed to Fort Shaw as soon as medical aid
and transportation arrived. The Indians
had disappeared, in which direction is
not yet learned.
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Fly CATCHES.

HARTFORD will have a professional
nine next year.
THE tourney at Allegheny will COM
mence Monday, September 10.
The Brooklyn nine has yet to be
"Chicagoed" by any League Club team.
WAIT, of the Chicago nine of May last,
has joined the Athletics, of Philadelphia.
F WALKER, of the Red Caps of ST.
Paul, has been expelled for violation of
contract.
THE Louisville club have won eleven
out of their last thirteen games with
league mines.
MANAGER MCMANUs, of the ST. Louis
club, will not be allowed on the Louis
vile ball ground in the future.
In the series of contests for the state
championship of New York, Albany
leads, the Stars being second and the
Rochesters third.
THE indianapolis club have defeated
the Louisvilles four out of five games,
the st. Louis three out of four, the Gin
cinnatis three out of four and the Chi
cagos but two out of six.
THE League rules require that the
names of three umpires shall be included
in the list drawn for at each match. In
st. Louis only the name of Burton is
given, and in Louisville only that of
Devinney. On this there is just basis
for telling protests by clubs, which have
lost games under such a regulation.
SARATOGA RACES.
SARATOGA, August 11.-The first race,
Kentucky stakes for 2-year-olds, three
quarters of a mile, was won by Pride of
the Village in isl. Duke of Magenta
was awarded the second place, although
three horses came in in line, and Bram-
BILE was given the third place.
Summer handicap for all ages, one
mile and three-quarters, Parole, the
favorite, Won easily; Vera Cruz second,
George the Fourth third. Time, 3:0S.
Handicap for all ages, one mile and
one-quarter, was won by Major Baker;
Bombast second, Cardinal Woolsey third
Time, 2:124.
The free handicap steeplechase, q
miles, brought to a close the excellent
days sport. The race was won by Red
ding, by head, Trouble second, Doubt
1ul thlrd. lime, 0:4o. Inc little Jockey
of Walling had his collar-bone broken.
NEWPORT YACHT CLUB.
NEWPORT, August S.-The race to-day
by the yachts of the Newport Club was
quite an exciting one. The Dart, which
was considered the fastest boat, won the
race, although she had to allow fifteen
minutes to one of the other boats
The yachts continued in the same Or
der as they started until the Lillian had
about reached Gould's island, when the
Dart passed her. The Fidget passed the
Lillian at the north end of the island,
the Dove getting past the latter when
near the south end of the island On the
return home.
START AND ARRIVAL.
The following is the time of the start
and arrival:
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MORE INDIAN DEVILTRY.

the military headquarters in Chicago on the
Sth inst, confirming the rumor received
few days since, regarding a fight be-
tween Indians and L. S. troops in Texas. 1t
is ascertained that disastrous encounter
was had on the Stuffed plains in which
there were two officers and 26 enlisted
soldiers killed. The remnant of the party
continued its march after having suffered
this loss and has since reached Fort Conder
with an additional loss of five privates, and
40 horses and mules. The unfortunate COM
mand was withoutwa for SO hours and the
suffering they endured in consequence was
terrible. Further particulars concerning
the disaster are wanting, the dispatch being
very brief, but it is thought that full details
will be received in the course of few days,
when the names of the killed will be learned.
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MANITOWOC
DRY DOCK

CHARLES F. LOCKE, a native of Boo
ton, shot himself at his residence in San
Francisco few days ago, after repeat
edly and affectionately kissing his wife
He left note addressed to his brother,
as follows: 81 am sick of life. and am
going to make away with myself; 50 kiss
your children and your wife and sister
in-law tor me, and so forth. What is
the use of hvings Life is failure,
especially with me, and always was since
l have been eight years old. We were
raised well, and had all that money
could procure. We had too much then
and too little now; but, nevertheless, by
night this ninth day of July, | will be
either in heaven or the other place.
Good.by, Ed"
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THE WEEK.


The telegraph brings terrible tales of
butchery and outrage at the seat of war in
the East. A dispatch from Gobrova, dated
Aug, 18th, says the Turks burned the hos
pital at Esk Saghra, which contained 500
prisoners
A Bucharest correspondent telegraphs the
following: July 30th, the first day of the
Russian evacuation of Eski Saghra the Turks
ordered all Christian men, women and
children should be shot as they left their
houses. Those who remained within were
burnt alive. An order was given to burn
down and destroy every particle of Christian
property. Many leading Turkish merchants
took part in the affair.
The Tschirpan district is one of the
richest III that part of the country 1t con-
tains very large proportion OF Christians,
over thirty churches and five hundred
schools and colleges, all of which have been
burned. The destruction extended to the
villages of Boghdan Mahales, Rani, Mahalesi
and many others, in all about sixty, con-
tanning from 80 to 200 families each.
Scarcely fifty persons escaped alive. Bull
garian fugitives at Gabroya and Selvi esti-
mate that from $4,000 to $4,000 Christians
have been massacred in the Eski Saghraand
Tschirpan district alone. Soldiers were
posted along the road from Eski Saghra to
kazanlik with orders to shoot everybody
passing.
The Turkish legation sends the following
tale of outrages perpetrated by the Rus
sians Twelve unarmed Mussulmans of the
village of Soukoulou, near Eski Saghra, sur
rendered to Russians and seven of them
were massacred by Bulgarians and three by
Cossacks. At Batak village exclusively
MOhammedan, one hundred houses were
burned and 200 men and 800 women perish
ed. AT Balavian, Mussulman
village in the district of Tirnov
$50 houses were burned and
700 men and 200 women perished. One
person is believed to have escaped. At
Caba Bonnas 100 houses were burned and
200 men and 800 women perished. At Kes-
taurbal 80 houses were burned, 800 men and
600 women perished. At Chems, a mixed
village, 60 of the Mussulman houses were
destroyed, and 120 men and 200 women es-
capped. At Tundj, a mixed village, 100
houses were destroyed $50 men and 400
women perished. Villages abandoned upon
the approach of Russians verb given to the
flames, and nearly five thousand houses de-
stroyed.
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REVOLUTION IN NHAYTI.

ADv1CEs from Hayti by the mail
steamer which arrived at New York on the
Sth inst, states that the revolution has again
broke ont in that republic. The insurgents
are in force about 10 miles from Port Au
Prince. Port Au Prince is declared in a
state of siege. A large portion of the city
was fired and the cOnfagration continued
for two days and had not been extinguished
when the mail steamer left. At Jacmel the
newspapers are openly at variance with the
existing administration. Numerous arrests
have been made by the government, chiefly
among persons suspected of being secretly
engaged in revolutionary plots. A long and
important dispatch from Bassett, the L. S.
Minister, has been sent to the state depart
ment on the subject of American interests
in the present crisis.
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MiSCELLANEOUS

The Wheeling (Va.) btelligencer's to-
the state indicate that Charlestown has been
chosen as the permanent seat of government
by the terms oil the law submitting the queS-
ton to the people. The capitol remains at
Wheeling until May, 1885.
Col. FRED A. BEE, vel known in con-
nection with affairs of the Chinese on the
Pacific coast, will present claim against
the United States government for indemnity
in the case of Chinese subjects whose
property has been destroyed during the re-
cent disturbances Application win be
made through the British minister at Wash
ington, as China has no ministerial repre-
sentative there, and the parties injured emf
grated from the British part of Hong Kong.
The claims will aggregate about $4,000,
upwards of half of which is for actual and
the remainder for constructive damages.
Gov. MCCORMICK, who was secretary
of the national republican committee during
the campaign in 1876, being interviewed on
the subject states that Secretary Schurz
neither asked nor received from the COM
mittee single dollar for services in that
campaign. He told Schurz the committee
would pay his expenses, but Sehurz said he
preferred to bear his own expenses.
THE Maine Republican state conven-
ton denomination Gov. Connor, on the 9th
inst.
THE statement of the Wheeling, (Va.)
Intelligence, based on returns from the vote
east in the state on the capitol question, on
the 7th inst, is that no point has received
majority, and that, therefore, second
election will have to occur in October, 1878,
which is the date of the next general elec-
ton in West Virginia. The competing
points viii be Clarksburg and Charleston.
Ex-Gov. PACKARD, in an interview,
said his sudden return to New Orleans
might be accounted for in part by the fact
that Mrs. Packard presented him with twin
boys, weighing II pounds each, on the 9Th
inst. ....
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Kellogg.

Parties bearing the above name will
be interested to learn that a work is now
in preparation giving the genealogy of
the family IN this country from the mid
die of the seventeenth century to the
present time. All interested will confer
a favor by communicating with the pub
Usher, Rufus B. Kellogg, Green Bay,
Wisconsin, who will send, to any, circu-
lars with the outline of information
desired. Persons of other names. with
Kellogg ancestry, ARE particularly re-
quested to write.
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The real estate is valued at So, 800, ia,
as against $22, ia, ,40S fol last year, which
ig an increase of over 100000. The
Third ward contains the most taxable
property of any ward in the city, and
the Thirteenth the least.
There is personal property to the
amount of s14 4S5, 1877 .33; the number of
horses in the city is 1896, valued at
1868, ,625; neat cattle, 81 ,599, valued at
s46, ,295. The amount of property
exempt from taxation-owned by
churches, schools, and the various cor
porations-is valued at $4,726,69O.