Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-08-17

toned the Electoral Commission plan wi
endeavor to show that Mr.. Tilden was either
non-committal, or tacitly favored the plaT
adopted.
! The National Association of Bankers, re-
Gently in session in New York, adopted reso-
lutions pledging the Association to aid and
support the Government in returning tC
specie payments, which is to be hailed as al
event of the highest significance to the pros
perity and welfare OF the whole county. A
number of Western delegates opposed the
adoption of the resolutions on the ground
Of eXpediency, although approving theiI
character.
Gen. Howard telegraphs that he considers
the Indian war rs practically ended. His
headquarters have been established at Boise
! City, and his pursuit will be directed from
that city, as the Indians are scattered in
several directions. The main trail has been
| given to Maj. Green, who will pursue the
enemy with vigor.
Prof. Swift, of Rochester, N. Y, states
that he also discovered Vulcan at the recent
eclipse of the sun, and his account of its ap-
pearance agrees with Prof. Watson's.
Additional Congressional nominations:
Illinois-Fifth District, r. NJ. Hank, Repub-
! lean; Eighth District, c. C. Straun, Ma
tional- -Greenback; Ninth District, Thos.
A. Boyd, Republican (renominated). Indi-
ana-Ninth District. Godlove S. Orth, Re-
publican. Ohio-First District, Milton Say
Ter, Democrat (renominated); Second Dis
trict, l.. w. Goss, Democrat; Sixth
District J. l.. Price, Republican
Tenth District, Thos. Ewing, DEM
ocrat; Fifteenth District, Rev. Geo.
w. Pepper, National Greenback; Six
teenth District, VIM. Mckinley, Republican.
Kansas-Second District, d. C. Haskell, Re
publican (renominated). Iowa-Ninth Dis
E. C. Carpenter, Republican. Texas-Fifth
District, John Hancock, Democrat. Louis
iana-First District, Randall Gibson, Demo-
crat (renominated); Second District, f.
John Ellis, Democrat (renominated); Third
District, j. II. Acklin, Democrat (renomi-
nated); Sixth District, L. w. Robertson,
Democrat (renominated).
FOREIGN.
The Paris cabmen are on a strike, causing
great inconvenience to Exhibition visitors
and the public generally.
The belligerent attitude OF the Bosnians
and Herzegovinians causes great indigna-
tion at Vienna The opinion is gaining
ground that the Turkish authorities are pro-
noting insurrection, but it is more proba-
BILE that the Porte has lost all prestige or
power of control, not only with the inhabit-
ants but with the troops, many of whom
have joined the insurgents. The Austrian
army of occupation has been harassed and
attacked continually on the march, and has
really suffered serious losses.
There were 504 deaths from yellow fever
and 63 from smallpox in Havana in July.
Cardinal De Luca has declined the ap-
pointment of Pontifcal Secretary of State,
and Cardinal Lorenzo Nina has been ap-
pointed and accepted.
By the explosion of a Russian powder
magazine at Fratezi. on the 7th, 55 persons
were killed and 81 injured.
An explosion has occurred in the mines
of the fertilization of Kars, resulting in a
fire which destroyed the best part of the
city.
The International Monetary Congress or
ganized at Paris on the 10th, by the election
of NJ. Say as President.
Reports from Berlin, apparently authen-
tic, are that an agreement with Rome has
been reached, by which the exiled and de-
posed Bishops are to return TO their sees
and the vacant parishes are TO be filled. The
Holy See is to appoint no Bishop to office
who is Objectionable to the Government, and
the Bishops are not to appoint Priests who
are Objectionable to the civil superior officer
of the diocese; but the Church is not to be
bound in any way to appoint as Bishops and
Priests persons designated by the Govern
ment. The question of the return Of the eX-
lied religious men and women has not been
decided. but it is said that probably an un-
derstanding will be reached under which the
religious houses will be permitted to restore
themselves without molestation.
The most serious resistance so far en-
countered by the Austrian army of occupa-
tion was at Jarize, in Bosnia, where, on the
Sth inst, a battle was fought lasting eight
hours, in which the Bosnians are reported
to lave lost 500 killed and wounded and 200
prisoners, their force engaged numbering
6,0O0 men, with four cannons. The latest re-
ports are that IL 900 insurgents are concen-
trated near the difficult pass of Vranduk to
oppose the further advance of Gen. Phillip
ovitch. One estimate places the number of
armed men opposed to the invaders at 100,-
600.
The German Parliament is convoked for
Sept. Z.
A Russian torpedo cutter exploded in
the harbor Of Nicolaieff, killing "a persons.