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THE WEST.

PETER GILCHER, one of the oldest
and most respected lumbermen of the Sagi
nav Valley, died at Sandusky, O., on the
31st ult.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by Gen
J. S. Reynolds, Commander of the Depart
ment of Illinois, G. A. r., to the member,
of his department, notifying them that th,
semi-anuual encampment of that state vii
be held at Crystal Lake, MeHenry::County
during Aug. ii, 15, 16, and II. Many post.
will attend in body, and 20 into camp OF
the lake shore. Invitations have been ex
tended to the militia regiments of Illnoi,
and Wisconsin to join the veterans in this
encampment General Sheridan, Gov
Cullom, and others have already accepted
invitations to be present.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Comas
Prairie, Idaho, dated June 9th, says that
Gen. Howard made reconnaissance in force
to the scene of Col Perry's late battle with
the Indians They found and buried
twenty-seven of the dead soldiers, viii ch
leaves six bodies yet to be found. Those
buried were in suchan advanced stage of de-
composition as to be unrecognizable. The
Indians were discovered encamped across
Salmon river, about 200 strong.
A MEETING of trunk lines wac held at
Cleveland, o., on the Doth ult The busi.
ness transacted was as follows: 4 pooling
OF the live stock earnings on lines leading
out of St Louis was agreed upon, and the
percentage of divisions between the roads
agreed upon. Itwas arranged that the rates
from st. Louis, Louisiana, Mo-, Hannibal
and Quincy, to all common points east of
Cleveland, shall be five cents per hundred
pounds above the Chicago rates.
Mrs. SARAH NJ. VICTOR was convicted
of murder in the first degree at Cuyahoga
County, o., some years ago, having poisoned
her brother, and sentenced to be hanged
The governor commuted her sentence TO
Imprisonment for life The prisoner has
grown tired of a life eofconfnement, spending
many hours in constant weeping, and has
petitioned the governor to have her death
sentence carried out.
RIGHT REV. MAURICE DE ST. PALsEs.
d. D., died at ST. Mary of the Woods, Terre
Haute, Ind, on the 2Sth.
On and after July 1st a reduction of
10 per cent. will be made in the compensa-
ton of all employees of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern railroad.
The St. Louis Grand Jury has called
for re-enactment of the sociaI-evillaw
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WASHINGTON.

The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
arranged the special agency districts as fol-
lows:
The First District shall embrace the Gus
toms collection districts in Maine, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island,
and the districts of Stonington and New
London, Conn, with the station at Boston.
The Second District, the customs eollec-
ton districts of Fairfield, Middletown, and
New Haven, Conn, district of Sag Harbor,
New York, district of the city OF New York
and districts of Perth-Amboy and Newark,
\. j., station at New York city.
The Third District, the customs collection
district OF Vermont and districts OF Cham
plain, Oswegatchie, Cape Vincent, and
Oswego, \. Y; station at 0gdensburg, \. y.
The Fourth District, the customs collec-
ton districts of Great Egg Harbor, Little
Egg Harbor, Bridgeton, Burlington, n. Y,
district of Philadelphia, and district of Del
aware; station at Philadelphia.
The Fifth District, the customs collection
districts in Maryland and Virginia, and ihe
district of Columbia; station at Baltimore.
The Sixth District, the customs collection
districts i'll North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, and Florida, except the districts OF
Pensacola and Apalachieola; station at
Charleston.
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ABDUL KERN, replying to a telegraph
sent him on the 2lst inst, by council of
Ministers, reports that up to the present
$4,000 Russians have crossed the Danube.
\ battle is imminent at Bjela, which is ex-
pected TO last several days.
FAzTI PAsHA telegraphs from Sukum
kaleh that the Turks, having landed at
Tchadj jari and commenced to erect intrench-
ments, were on June 9th attacked by 15,-
600 Russians. Both sides were subsequently
reinforced, the Turkish reinforcements ar
irving by sea from Batoum. The Turks
with the assistance of an ironclad, routed
the Russians with a loss of 1900 killed and
1000 wounded. Ninety Turks were killed
and 80 wounded.
\ MONITOR from Widin sunk a large
Russian steamer which was endeavoring to
ambush troops and ammunition near Rap
cave.
\ SPECIAL cable dispatch dated June
10Th, states that bloody fighting is going on
Pyrgos, on the Danube. The Russian troops
are crossing en- masse and engaging the
Turks, who are making a terrible resistance.
The slaughter on both sides has been terri
BILE. The Turkish gunboats are also engaged
in the battle
IHE Russians attempted TO cross the
river at Nicopolis on the 2Sth in fifty
lighters. Ten of the lighters were sunk by
shells and the attempt failed. The slaughter
was frightful.
A RUSSIAN official dispatch claims
slight advantages and the capture of some
outworks before Zcwia on the c5th. The
dispatch says nothing about killed and
wounded
The Grand Duke Nicholas telegraphed
the following, June IS: 1.-The difficult and
complicated task of crossing the Danube is
achieved. Sistova and the surrounding
heights are in our hands Gen. Dragomi-
roff7s division with cavalry was the first to
cross. There ese now on the evening of the
9th, on the other side, the Fifth army corps
and the Fourth rife brigade. The Thirty.
! nth division is now crossing"
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CASUALTIES.

THE following is list of the injured
by the steamboat explosion on Silver
Lake, Mass, on the 9th ult: AL
fred Maybury, Plymouth, engineer
Mrs. j. F. Orne, Harrison square,
and two Children, Harrison square, one
child very seriously burned; Fanny Rrown
Chelsea, little girl, cannot recover; Miss
Fanny Merrill, Highland dangerously
scalded and burned; John Buckley, Iarri-
son square; George A. Brooks, aged {
years; Frank Gale, Boston; Cora Lemon
Charlestown; Rosa Lehan, Willie Davis,
Somerville; Susie lIosmer and Alice Clark,
Harrison square.
STATISTICS compiled at Washington
show that three million sheep and lambs
were destroyed during the past year by dogs
and wolves and various diseases; money
value nearly $S,000,000.
The steamer Lady of the Lake ex-
ploded her boiler at Silver Lake, Mass, on
the 18th. Six persons seriously and perhaps
fatally scalded, and II less dangerously. The
engineer was scalded. He reports he had
so pounds f steam and plenty of water.
A PARTY of three men with thresh,
ing macine, were precipitated through a rot
ten bridge over the Anglisce river near
Lima, O., on the 2Sth. James Jasper and
VIM. IIoag were fatally injured by the ma.
chine falling on them.
JOHN DOUGLASS and wife, of Porter
were killed by being brown from their ear
riagc, at Biddeford, Me-, on the 26th inst.
By the explosion of boiler of the tug
Herbert, at Boston, Mass, June Goth, VIM
Farrell, engineer, and VIM. Haul, a deck
hand, were killed.
A VICTORIA press dispatch of the 26tl
says: Robert Williams, chief factor of the
Hudson Bay company, on tour of inspec
tion of the company's posts on the northwes
coast was drowned while crossing Queen
Charlotte's sound in Il canoe with five In
dians, one of whom was saved.
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SEVERAL attempts have been made at
crossing the Danube, at Flamunda, near
Turna Magurelli, where furious battle was
rought, a Russian division succeeding in OBJ
tanning a firm footing and at Fariecot,
Turna and Magurelli. There were so many
wounded from this engagement fhat ambu-
lances were full and they had to come back
afterwards for more.
A DELIBABA special says that both
sides being reinforced, there has been three
days lighting on the Esd, and the Russians
again fell back.
THE entire population of Rutschuk are
flying into the neighboring villages. The
Governor General of the province has de-
clared that he holds the authorities respon-
sible for the lives of the fugitives who are
mostly Christians. Twelve shells have fallen
upon military hospitals, five upon the civil
hospitals, and two upon the orphan asylum.
The patients were seized with panic and have
left their beds. The Turks in return partly
DESTROYED Giurgevo. Seven hundred shells
fell there on the 25th, and 500 on the Goth.
One Russian battery has been dismounted.
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A Brave POlander.

A good story of Prince Paskievitch,
father of the Princess Volkousky and
grandfather of the charming Princess
Kourakine: During the siege of Warsaw
he had ordered a certain Polish battery to
be silenced by his own artillery and became
perfectly wild with rage on observing
that the artillery fire produced no appre-
ciable effect. Galloping to the battery he
asked: "What idiot is in charge here?"
"I, sir" answered an officer. "Then
down you go to the ranks this very
day" said Paskievitch; " you don't begin
to know your trade; your shells do not
explode" "I know they don't" answer
ed the captain for the best of all rea-
sons, that they can't explode" That's
a lie," said the Prince. Is it? See for
yourself, then," replied the officer, coolly
picking up a shell from the pile and
lighting the fuse, he held it up between
himself and the Marshal. The Marshal
TRANQUILITY crossed his arms and watched
till the fuse sputtered and went out.
"There, sir" said the artilleryman,
triumphantly, as he threw the shell on
the ground. " You were right, after all, !"
growled the Marshal, and rode away to
another point of the line, but at night
the captain received at his tent the Cross
of st. Vladimir for bravery in the field.
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of rations for the Berlinites. When that
Berlin party returned for grub to eat,
there was none, and war was immediate
ly declared on Ripon.
A YOUNG man near Amherst, a few
nights ago, didn't wake up and find a
burglar in his room, but he staid asleep
and dreamed there was one. Springing
out of bed he seized chair and hurled
1t through the open door at his imaginary
foe, and then sprang through the window,
which was not open, taking sash and all
down to the ground with him. As his
room was in the second story, it is Won
der he was not killed. He probably would
have been had he been awake.
GEO. FINK and Geo. Brafield, while
on their way home from church, last
Sunday, in the town of Wheatland, were
run into by a team which had been
racing, and which upset the above-men-
toned wagons, the occupants of which
were all more or less injured. Mrs. Bra
field, mother of Geo. Brafield, had her
left leg broken in two placas, her right
arm broken, the left side of her face torn
of, and was badly injured internally.
She probably will not recover. The
wife of Geo. Brafield had her left leg
broken and spine injured. Geo. Fink,
F. Vanderbeck and Geo. Bratield were
all more or less injured
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MISCELLANEOUS.

THE blockade Of boats on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio canal assumed such proper
tions that on the 30th ult., the sheriff broke
it up. The blockading squadron comprised
from 80 to 10 boats which were moored
abreast to prevent ether boats from passing,
delaying about 200 boats. The object was
to prevent the boats from working for less
than 81 ton carrying coal from Cumber-
land to tide water.
THE New Orleans custom house COM
mission have completed their preliminary
report and on the 30th uIt, transmitted it to
the secretary of the treasury. 1t is under
stood the reductions they recommend
amount to nearly % per cent. both in cost
and numerical strength and will effect an
annual saving of over $50, 600.
By direction of the secretary of war
the board of engineers has been ordered TO
assemble at Vicksburg, Miss. on the 18th of
July, TO examine and report upon the most
advisable means OF preserving the water
front of Nicksburg, and of arresting the
danger which appears to be apprehended
from the cutoff opposite that city.
Mrs. MARION ADAMS, sister of the
late Mrs. President Andrew Jackson, died at
the hermitage, at Nashville; Tenn, on the
2Sth, at the age of -, from the effect of a
fall, which fractured her thigh about a
month ago.
MAJ. JOHN d. ADAMS has sold the
steamer Thompson Dean to Brown & Jones,
coal dealers of Memphis, Tenn, for $4,000
cash. The steamer cost SlS0,000 when built
some two years ago.
IT is understood that preparations are
being made for grand gubernatorial excur-
sion, in which executives of all the states
will unite with an interchange of official
courtesies and personal examination of the
great commercial and manufacturing centres.
The leading points to be visited are Boston,
New York and Philadelphia, the party re-
manning in each city three days.
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ABROAD.

THE New York HeraIGs Berlin CORE
spondent teiegraphs that L. S. Minister j..
Bancroft Davis has insisted on the acceptance
of his resignation, despite the refusal of the
state department at Washington TO accept it,
Davis viii soon return to America on Il
leave of absence.
The San Francisco Alta of the 1st
inst, prints copy of the petition of the
LEGISLATION of Samoa to Queen Victoria for
a British protectorate over the islands, dated
Aprll =. Inc -Ittu sIIuUs cui tvriollr that it
is informed by a trusted correspondent that
a petition was at the same time sent to the
government of the United States praying
that the Cabinet would use its influence in
favor of a British protectorate, or unite with
the British government in d joint protecto-
rate.
CAPT. EDWARD HARDING of the
royal navy, has been appointed commission
cr of fisheries, and is about proceeding to
Halifax, To undertake the duties of that
office.
a POTATO field at Mulheim on which
the Colorado beetle made its appearance, has
been covered with petroleum and tan-bark
and set on fire the government indemnify
ing the proprietor
iiisiti-AE En- tliN .ttlIlt A'ittll
for Australia will not touch at Honolulu in
consequence of the Hawaiian govrnment re-
fusing subsidy for carrying the mails.
NEWS per steamship Australia from
New South Wales, says that a series of tidal
waves reached the coast May II. They con-
tinued all day. the maximum height at New
Castle being 3 feet 8 inches. Similar waves
were reported by telegraph from the east
coast of New Zealand
CHAS. BRADLAUGH and Miss Annie
Besant, arrested and tried at London for
publishing pamphlet alleged to be immor-
al, have been condemned to six months i'm
prisonment; to pay fine of goo each and
to enter into an engagement to behave well
for two years, pending the argument of tech
nical point as to the Indictment before the
court of error. They were released on their
own recognizances on the promise of the de-
PENDANTS that they would not continue to
publish the work.
THE Russian Telegraphic Agency, con-
tradicting the rumored unfriend,y feeling
between Russia and the great powers, says:
"Russia will Loyalty keep her promises
The peace OF Europe is perfectly assured.
The results of the war, far from imperiling
it, viii but consolidate it,"
IT IS asserted that the English consul
at RuStchuk, who also acts for the United
States, unavailingly cndeavored TO avert the
Russian fire by hosting the American flag.
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| The Seventh District the customs colteC-
ton districts in Alabama, Mississippi, Louis
lana, and districts of Pensacola and Apa-
laehicola, Florida; station AZ New Orleans.
The Eighth District, the custom collection
districts in Texas and the Territory of New
Mexico; station at Brownsville, Texas.
The Ninth District the customs collection
districts of Detroit, Port Huron and Grand
Haven, Mich. Miami, Sandusky, and Cuya-
hago, Ohio; Erie, Pa; Dunkirk, Buffalo
/ Creek, and Genesee y. Y; station at Detroit.
The Tenth District, the customs collection
districts of Superior, Mich; Chicago, Mil
waukee, and two districts in Minnesota; sta
tion at Chicago
The Eleventh District, the several ports of
delivery upon the Mississippi, Missouri, and
Ohio Rivers; station at Cincinnati.
The Twelfth District, the customs collec-
ton districts in California and Oregon, and
the Territories. of Washington and Alaska !;
station at San Francisco.
The specific duties of special agents are
the examinations of books, papers, and ac-
counts OF collectors and other officers of
customs, and tho prevention and detection
OF frauds on the customs revenue. These
duties are to be performed under such regu-
latIons consistent with the law, as the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury may from time to time
prescribe. Special agents engaged in the
investigation of frauds or attempted frauds
upon the government, or misconduct on the
part of customs officers, are empowered to
administer oaths to witnesses, and are
authorized within defined limits TO make
searches and seizures of persons and property
III the prevention and detection of frauds
upon the revenue collectors.
BREyET MAJ. GEN. VIM. B. HAZEN,
in command of the Sixth infantry, has been
selected for the position of military attaehe
to the American legation at Vienna, for the
purpose OF witnessing the military opera
tons between the Turks and Russians.
IHE Spanish government assures Mr..
Evarts that Spain will make all honorable
amends for the seizure and detention of the
American schooner Rizpath and the i'm
prlsonment of Capt. Durham, as soon an
investigation of the facts can be had, and
promises that it will spare no effort to pre-
vent a repetition of similar outrages in the
/ future. Mr.. Evarts will hand i'll his bill of
damages against Spain when he receives
1 Capt. Dunham's sworn statement.
/ II is rumored that Judge T. NJ.
/ Cooley, chief justice of the Suprema Court
of Michigan, will be appointed United States
circuit judge for Tennessee, to fill the
/ vaeancy created by the death of Judge En-
mons
/ THE comptroller of currency declared
dividend of % per cent. i'll favor of the
creditors of the First National Bank of
/ Franklin, Ind The comptroller of currency
deposited S176,7S9 to his credit in trust for
creditors of the National Bank of the State
( OF Missouri, being the first remittance from
/ the receiyings of that bank.
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MANITOWOC
DRY DOCK.

Mr. BosTwICK dropped in on us yes
terday afternoon. He slid carefully
around the Middlerib welcome" and
dropped on the lounge. Dag gone my
funny buttons" he said, shaking with
merriment, p" but Eve got good one for
you. You know there's trouble in Greece
about Tarkey and all that kind of thing.
Well, now, says | to myself little while
ago-Duffee was there, he can tell You
how it came up-anyhow, says /, if this
Turkey-Greece is" (The soap fat man
has Just refused to give us more than So
for the corpse, and as our fine and costs
in the Justices court amount to S1l.S0
we fear the Ha,okeye viii go to press
without any dots, unless we can persuade
the justice to trust. ."-Hapkeye.
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Meeting OF State Teachers Association.

The twenty-fifth annual session of the
Wisconsin Teachers Association will be
held at Green Bay, July l7-l9. The fol
lowing is the programme;
Music by the Singing Society of Green
Bay.
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 17TH.
S:00-Address of Welcome.
Lecture-Mdn's Place in the Universe, by
Rev. III. Nj. Simmons, of Kenosha.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 18TH.
9:o0-Openipg Exercises. Presidents Adj
dress. Business.
History of the Wisconsin Teachers Asso-
citation, by A. Salisbury, of Whitewater.
Paper-Daily Preparation of the Teacher,
by Hattie Clark, of the. La Crosse High
School.
Promotions in Graded Schools, by A. \.
Miller, of Waukesha.
TeutoniSm VS.. Romanism-Suh Lecture,
by Prof. II. b. Anderson, of Madison.
General Business.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
7:f5-Course of Study for Mixed Schools.
Report of Committee-R. Graham, S.
Shaw, w. B. Minaghan.
S:30-Lecture Mental Discipline - DR..
Walter kempster, Oshkosh.
THURSDAY MORNING, July 10
900-Opening Exercises. Business.
Paper-Relation of Parent and Teacher
Ellen c. Jones, Sheboygan High School
kindergarten instructions in Public
Schools-Prof. w. n. Hailman, Milwaukee,
A Woman's Experience as Superintend-
ent of Schools-Agnes Hosford, Superin-
tendent Eau Claire County.
The Education needed for the Citizen.
Report of Commttce-G. S. Albee, VIM.
F. Phelps, w. ii. Chandler.
General Business and Election of Officers.
THURSDAY EVENING
7:45-Business. Report of committees.
Lecture-Enemies of Scientific Progress
Prof. Edward Olney, University of Michigan.
HOTEL EATES.
First National $3.50 per day.
Beaumont, $l.50 per day.
Cooks, $500 per day.
Efforts will be made 70 secure board at
private houses for those preferring it.
The leading lines in the state have prom
sed to sell return tickets to members at one
fifth fare.
A steamboat excursion on the Bay is con-
templated for Thursday afternoon.
NJ. T. PARK, President.
III. c. Rowland, Chm Ex. Com.
L. ID. HARVEY Secretary.
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Oil On the Troubled Waters.


The effect of oil in stiIling troubled
waters has been SO long known, remarks
Iron, that it has constituted the basis of
proverbial phrase. A very small guam
tty of oil thus used has overcome very
powerful sea. Not many years ago a case
occurred in which ships crew was en-
abled, during a severe storm, to escape
on the shore by the help of a few gal
Ions of oil. A similar and equally sue
cessful employment of the same substance
is reported to have been made off the
"Cape of Storm" last summer. The
King Cenric, vessel of ,490 TONS left
Liverpool in June last, for Bombay.
When off the Cape of Good Hope she
encountered heavy gale from the
northwest, which continued for some
time. Tremendous seas broke over the
ship, bursting in the main hatch, wash
ing away the hatch houses and boats,
smashing in the front of the cabin, and
destroying the captains and officers
stores and clothing. The gale lasted
nearly five days, and though the vessel
stood it very well, it was impossible to
repair any of the damage, as the waves
were continually sweeping over her
decks. At length the chief officer sug-
gested the trial of throwing oil upon the
water. The two canvas clothes-bags
were obtained, and into each two gal
Ions of fine oil were poured, the bags be-
ing punctured slightly, and flung one
over each quarter in tow of the vessel.
The effect was magical; the waves no
longer broke over the poop and sides of
the ship, but several yards away, where
the oil had spread itself over the surface
and around the poop, in her wake, was
large circuit of calm water. The crew
were thus able to repair the damage with
greater ease, and the ship was relieved
from the tremendous shocks she had pre-
viously received. The two bags lasted
two days, after which-tho worst fury of
the gale having expended itself-no more
oil was l1epd
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Beet Sugar.

The Age Of Steel, an American journal,
ably advocates the development of the
beet sugar industry, and says:
The industry is practicable in every
state in the Union. A factory in Illinois
is now working up forty tons of beets
per day. Its machinery was put up
with too little knowledge of the require
ments of the business, and has, we be-
Iieve, for that reason alone been par
TALLY successful. A scientific test of
soils, of beets grown, and explicit di-
rections and proper care in their growth,
all learned from experiments made
directly to that end, and chemical
knowledge of the process, are necessary.
The rolling lands of Illinois, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, and especially Kansas are adapted
to this industry. Maine offers one cent
a pound premium up to 81 900 year for
the establishment of the industry.
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A GREAT deal of disappointment is felt
among Rome dealers because the Turks
and Russians do not eat more -four. Not
much fighting is going on, and it would
be no more than neighborly for the war
riors to eat an extra meal now and then,
and give lift to their friends on this
side of the water.-Rome Sentinel.