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oncial from Gen. Merritt.

CHICAGO, October 13.-Col. Merritt tele'
graphs military headquarters, date october
Ii, Substantially as follows: This morning
moved down the river to a point near White
River Agency. Cavalry have been out all day
In different directions, looking for Indians;
report that the trails lead southerly to Grand
River. have little doubt the Indians have
gone to the Uncompagna Agency. Expect
Gilbert and Henry tomorrow, and will then
move toward Grand River, leaving a guard
behind 1 have buried seven bodies here, in
Guiding Agent Meeker, and three on the road.
Am entirely in doubt respecting the force the
hosties can muster. 1t is clearly ascertained
that all the Unita Indians joined the Utes be-
fore Thornburghs fight. If orders are to go to
Southern Agency and fight what we meet,
shall be glad to carry them out, but hope in
structions will not be delayed.
Col Merritt regrets exceedingly the great
amount of military supplies sold these Indians
by ranchmen.
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FOREIGN.

Two Of London's famous beauties, Mrs.
CORVALLIS West and Mrs. Langtry, have had
the proprietor of gossipy journal named
Torn Talk arrested on charges of libel.
The paper stated Mrs. West bargained with
photographers for commission on the sale
of her portraits, and that Mrs. LangtTy had
been sued by her husband for divorce. The
husbands of the two ladies accompanied
them in Court and declared the respect
i've statements to be untrue in every partic-
ular.
Gen. Roberts public entry into Cabul took
place at noon on the 18th. He was accom-
panied by the Ameer and his suite. British
troops of all arms lined the road, and the
artillery fired a salute when the British
standard was hoisted at the entrance of the
city. The Afghan troops were COM
pletely routed in the last fight, and
the victory of the British arms is
complete. No quarter was given to any one
found firing upon the British, and prisoners
taken in the fight were shot. The leaders Of
the mutineers are said to be the Ameer's
most trusted friends, and it is declared i'm
possible that the latter could be ignorant Of
the fact that his army had taken position to
oppose the entry of the British troops into
Cabul.
Five hundred tenants of the Marquis Of
Sligo and Earl of Lucan met on the 14th
near Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, and
solemnly pledged themselves to pay no rem
until a reduction should be granted proper
tiOnate to the great fall of prices of all kinds
of agricultural produce. Notice was posted
at Warren Point, County Down, that any
man coming into the county to pay more than
pound an acre for land may bring his coffin
with him.
1t is reported from chihuahua, Mexico,
that the Government troops have whipped
the insurrectionists at st. Andres, killing IL,
wounding many and taking 60 prisoners.
An inundation in Spain has swept the val
leys of the rivers Mundoo and Lequera, de-
stroying number of cities and villages and
much other property. One hundred and
nineteen corpses had been recovered. The
Spanish Cabinet had been convened to decide
upon measures for relief.
A Vienna dispatch of the 18th says that
snow was falling there rapidly and was al
ready six inches in depth. At Gratz the
snow was several feet deep. Such weather
was unprecedented for this time of year.
A conference of delegates representing
140, 900 miners was held at Leeds, England,
recently, at which n resolution was passed
in favor of a national emigration scheme
to lessen the competition among miners.
The scheme consists of system
of small weekly subscriptions, subscribers,
"a I'LL f.. 30
emigrate. Those going to America viii re-
ceive f6 and passage money; to Australia or
New Zealand, fi2 and passage money.
Capt. James B. Eads has gone to Egypt to
study the Suez Canal.
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Foreign Notes.


Count William Bismarck, son of
the great Prince, resembles his father
in appearance, and is very popular in
Berlin.
q have searched for truth, and no.
where could find it, not even in my
self; therefore | de- This singular
note was found on the body of a Russian
nobleman who recently committed sui
eide with pistol.
DIR. Falk has been nominated as
candidate for the Prussian Landtag in
more than dozen constituencies, the
people not having forgotten that while
he was Education Minister the teachers
increased by 1900 and the pupils by
100000.
Much interest has been felt in Flor
ence at the discovery of over 600 paint
ings belonging to the masters of the six
teenth century, laid away to rot and
perish in Government buildings; the au-
thOrities intend placing them in the roy
al gallery of the Ufizi. .'.-
Eastern Siberia is menaced by fam
inc; the prices of grain are higher than
were ever known before, and the poorer
classes are suffering severely. The har-
vest is extremely poor and the cattle
plague has increased the evil, there
being in many villages not one beast left
alive.
The French ambassador 10 Ger
many had long private conversation
with Emperor William at BadenBaden.
The circumstance is much remarked
upon and is regarded as special and
striking evidence of the good relations
existing between France and Germany.
"A young Nihilist girl, named GObie-
slawska, made her escape from the po-
lice of Moscow in novel way The Of
ficers had discovered the house in which
she was concealed, and were about to
make the arrest, when to their surprise
they saw balloon rising from the gar
den. 1t was soon ascertained that 1t
contained the object of their search and
two men, who rapidly disappeared,
leaving the officers to gaze helplessly and
disconsolately after them.
The Hungarians are exceedingly
jealous of their identity as a distinct and
sovereign people, and carefully preserve
their national usages and language.
With the latter, however, they have
much trouble, the tendency being to its
gradual extirpation before that of the
more numerous and powerful Teetonic
race, with which they are so joined that
one or the other must give way. Ger
man is the official and judicial language
of Hungary, and some of the schools are
not only not conducted in Hungarian,
but that language is not even taught in
them. An effort in the Hungarian Par
lament to make instruction in the ma
tive tongue compulsory in the schools
was under discussion some time ago, and
was finally defeated because it was feared
that it might create trouble with the rest
of the empire.
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Miss Thicker, the author of Sig
nor Monaldini's Niece" upon the death
of her father, her mother being already
dead, fell to writing for her livelihood,
and some of her early stories were pub
Gshed in Harper>s and Putnam's maya
zines. Much of her work appeared I'M
der pseudonym. During the war she
was sent to Washington by Gov. An
drew, and there she nursed the soldiers
in the Columbia Hospital, and at the
barracks in Judiciary Square. Several
of her other works have appeared in
book form, among which are The
House of Yorke,' "Grapes and
Thorns," and " Six Sunny Months
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On the same day Iowa elected State
officers, and also Congressman in the Fifth
District to I'LL the vacancy caused by the
death of Rush Clark.
For State officers there were three tickets
in the tield-Repubican, Democratic and
Greenback. The Prohibitionists nominated
a full ticket, but it was practically out of the
contest, all the original members having de-
clncd.
The Republican ticket was headed by John
II. Gear for Governor; the Democratic by
Henry II. Trimble: the Grecnback by Dam
iel II. Campbell. The candidates for Con-
gress were-Republican, VIM. G. Thompson
Greenback, William III. Calhoun. The reg
ular Democratic candidate declined to run,
in consequence Of which Legrand ByinSton
announced himself rs an Independent Dem
ocratic candidate.
The vote of Iowa in recent years has been
as follows;
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CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

The Chief of the Bureau Of Statistics re-
ports the value of exports from the United
States Of live animals Of ali kinds has in
creased from 1874, 653 during the fiscal year
of 1878 TO L, 4s7, 754 during 1879; of total ex-
ports of live animals last fiscal year, II per
cent. were sent to Great Britain. The value
of exports Of cattle increased from So, SOC, SIS
during 1873 to SS,379, 200 in 1879.
Major J. D. DeRussey, formerly Captain in
the First Infantry, has been promoted to the
Maiorship Of the Fourth Infantry, made va
cart by the death of Major Thornburgh.
DeRussey is an old and experienced Indian
fighter.
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sr.NrEy,s COMMUNICATIONS
Letter from Rose Meeker-A Daughters
Awful Wrath and Sorrow.

GREELEY. Oct. 81, as the eldest daugh-
ter of the martyred Agent Meeker of the White
River Agency, wish to express my feelings in
limited way about this horrible massacre
Had there been half as much expedition and
force put in operation from the time OF my IA
theirs calling for troops until the battle as
there has been since the battle, this horrible
massacre would never have occurred. The
Government with its slow movements has let
my father be murdered when it could have
been prevented. My father wrote Gov. Pitk1n
on September 10, that his and all the lives at
the Agency were in peril, and requested
troops. After three weeks delay so small
detachment was sent that it was overcome,
giving the Indians more power than they had
before. Had the COW boys of Colorado been
called out on September 10, they would have
reached there in time TO save the lives at the
Agency, and they would have made so clear
work of the red devils that it would have been
hard to find one alive to-day.
The life of one common white man Is worth
more than all the Indians from the beginning
of their creation until the present time, and
yet such man as my father, with brains, in
tellect and power to move the thoughts OF
men-his life is now ANONYMOUSLY put out by
the hand of a savage foe whose life or soul is
not worthy of a dog, and no power in the land
10 stay the deed What magnanimous Gov
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eminent we have to pamper a set of creatures
whose existence should have been a thing of
the past long agoi
Oh, my father Could have but died in your
stead My protector, my hope and joy Oh,
the broken hearts of widows, daughters and
sisters who day at this hour mourn the loss
of their dear martyred ones who were their
support, love, life and their all They are now
gone from their sides forever, with only sor-
row and desolation fortheir comforter through
lie. Who can pay the price of this mighty
woe? Truly, the blood of the martyred ones
cries out for vengeance, and shall the voice of
anguish be hushed?
BOSE MEEKER
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GENERAL.

Returns to the Department of Agriculture
for October show an average condition for
the cotton crop of 81 per cent, a decline
since September l of 4 per cent. Com
pared with October, 1878, there is a decline
of 9 per cent. in the condition, which
was then 80. Storms Of great severity
visited Louisiana and Mississippi, causing
crest damage. Insect injuries are not re-
ported TO any great extent. The drought in
Texas has shortened the prospects of that
State nearly % per cent. Arkansas and Ten
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"A striking illustration of the COM
mercial changes that have taken place
during the last few years is afforded by
the leather trade. Formerly the best
grades of leather used in this country
were imported from abroad. Now there
is strong foreign demand for Ameri-
can red sole leather, and it is developed
by our commercial reports, to-day, that
oak tanned leather is being exported to
Europe from Allegheny County tan
neries.
"A new oil region has been discov-
cred in Trumbull County, o., and one of
Its peculiaritieS is 4 well of the finest
lubrlcating oil, near West Mecca, flow
ing five barrels day, refined and ready
Tor use on the incest machinery. Specu-
lators have leased 1900 acres in the vi
cinity at enormous prices, for the oil
brings SIC barrel, while that of the
Pennsylvania oil region brings less than
20 cents.
Firearms frequently burst when the
muzzle has been accidentally closed
with earth, snow, etc. Prof. Forbes's
explanation of this fact is very simple.
If the charge moved slowly very slight
pressure of air in the barrel would be
sufficient to clear the muZzle. but, as the
charge actually. travels with 4 speed
more than the velocity of sound, the re-
sistance offered by the obstacle becomes
excessive and the gun bursts. 1t has
been demonstrated mathematically that
the pressure generated by plug of the
density of air is seven and half tons.
Before the advent of cheap cotton
the production and manufacture of flax
were important industries in this cOun-
try. In 1910, when the population of the
country was but little more than ,0O0,-
600, there were produced in the United
States over 21,000,O00 yards of iaxen
cloth made in families. At the present
time, when the population of the cOun-
/ try is believed to be $4,000, 900, the to-
tai annual production of flax and linen
fabrics is probably not over 100000
/ yards, and not yard of fine linen is
made in the country.
An English newspaper, the Liver
1 pool Daily Nelcs, has for year past
used four type-setting and seven distrib-
uting machines, at saving of about
| $4,000 per annum, as compared with
the same amount of work by hand The
compOsitOrs working the machine earn
better wages than their fellows at the
case, while the saving to the establish
ment is over 30 per cent. The machines
are used for every kind of composition
except tabulated and displayed work,
the matter being set, spaced and justi-
/ fled with greater accuracy than by hand
labor. Each machine costs $3.50. and
the average speed is 5000 ems per hour.
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RETURNS FROM THE LAST ELECTION.

RETURNS FROM THE LAST ELECTION.
Returns received up to the night of the 10th
were conclusive that the Republican State
ticket was elected, by an estimated plurality
of from 1900 to $4,000. The Legislature
was claimed by the Republicans by - major
ity on Joint ballot, but the Democrats did not
cOncede so large n majority.
Hamilton County, which includes Cincin
natl, gives from 1000 to 5000 majority for the
Republican candidates.
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EAST AND SOUTHEAST.


Foster, on the night of the 18th.
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.
The O'Leary belt has been won by young
man named Nicholas Murphy, who made
score of sos miles. "Blower'' Brown, the
favOrite at the commencement of the race,
was obliged to withdraw from the track at
an early stage Of the proceedings, on account
of sickness. Young Murphy is an Irish lad
whose only training consisted in wheeling
bricks in a brick-yard at Haverstraw, n. Y.
In addition to the belt he gets well paid for
the walk, receiving $1,000 in cash.
The Governor of Georgia has been called
upon to furnish military assistance in sup
pressing band of outlaws in Baldwin Coun-
ty, known as the Georgia Tigers They
are said to hold possession of half the county
and to defy arrest. They have killed in the
past three years 20 men and women, mostly
negroes. The Governor sent one of his staff
and number of detectives down, and will
send military if needed.
Walter Paine, the defaulting Treasurer of
the American Linen Company of Fall River,
Mass, who absconded nearly two months
ago, has been arrested in Quebec as he was
about to sail for Europe.
The Gate City Guard of Atlanta, Ga, have
gone on visit to New York City, where they
are the guests of the Seventh Regiment.
They were reviewed by the Mayor and Al
dermen.
At the Front Street Theater, Baltimore, on
the night of the 18th, in the last act of the
play of Rowing Jack, in which discharge
of musketry takes place, ayOung man named
John Nelson, of Queen Anne's County, Md,
a medical student at the University of Mary
land, who was seated in the audience, was
fatally shot through the head, one of the
muskets being loaded with ball instead Of
blank cartridges.
Henry C. Carey, a well known writer upon
political economy, is dead.
Captain John +. Mason, a well known
shipmaster of Kennebunk, Me-, while de-
ranged, stabbed his wife's sister, Mrs. E. G.
Moody, then killed himself.
DIR. Francis Julius lie Moyne, the crema-
ZIONIST of Washington, Pa, died on the 18th.
His body was cremated in his own furnace.
The long-talked-of boat race between
Hanlan and Courtney, that was to have been
rowed on Chautauqua Lake, \. Y, on the
10Th, did not come off, some miscreant hav-
ing entered Courtney's bOat-house during
the previous night and sawed both of his
boats in two. The affair caused great eX-
element and indignation, and suspicious
were freely expressed that Courtney him
self knew something about the matter. The
affair is to be investigated.
The trial of the Rev. H. II. Hayden for the
murder of Mary Stannard began at New Ha-
ven, Conn, on the 14th. The prisoner plead
ed not guilty.
James Redpath, the missing lecture-bu-
reau man, who mysteriously disappeared
from his home in New York City some weeks
ago, has been heard from at Kingston, ia
maica. 1t seems that he boarded the steam
err in a somewhat dazed condition and sailed
without letting his friends know any thing
about it. The Captain of the vessel, upon
his return to New York, brought this in
formation, and said that Redpath had con-
Guided to stay abroad for awhile for the ben
eft of his health.
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The Victoria (Australia) Govern
ment propose to expend $4,000 in the
erection of new public schools. The
Sydney Government proposes spending
Sl5,000,0 900, principally on railroads.
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THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS.
Ohio.

A general election was held in Ohio
on Tuesday, Sept. IA, at which was chosen a
Governor and minor State officers, together
with members of the Legislature which will
elect United States Senator to succeed
Senator Thurman. Four proposed amend
ments to the Constitution of the State were
also voted upon. One of the amendments
reOrganizes the judiciary of the State;
the second is designed to extend the
tenure of Office of Township Trustees from
one 10 three years; the others provide for
biennial elections, and change the time Of
the elections to November.
For State officers there were five tickets in
the field, headed for Governor as follows:
Republican, Charles Foster; Democratic,
Thomas Ewing; Greenback, A. Saunders
Piatt; PrOhibitioniSt, Gideon :. Stewart.
There was a division in the Greenhack party
this year, the Cary wing Of the party having
decided in Convention that it was ineNpedient
to nominate 4 ticket, and therefore practi-
cally Endorsed The nomination Of Ewing.
The vote OF Ohio in recent years has been:
Year. OJce. Rep. Dem. GILt. Prob.
1873. Sec OF state. Pa, l2O 3IUHj5 $500 j.6c2
lSI6...scc. of state. .5lI SIS 81 go l,o2
1876. President e. .S50,6lS S23Is2 3O57 1885
The Legislature last chosen is thus const-
tuted:
Senate RoHse. Joint Balot
epubhcanS.......... 10 - 4S
Democrats. % 6S 20
Greenbackefs ........ 5
Dem. maiority...... 10 81 A.
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reached its highest point, S1.23. The market
then broke, however, and there was a sud-
den decline to S1.1s "a. Corn and provis-
ions also shared in the decline.
William Howard, late City Treasurer of
Madison, Ind, in an encounter with Major
John D.Simpson, editor of the Madison Star,
on the night Of the 10th, was shot and proba-
bly, fatally wounded by the latter. Simpson
claims that he shot him in elf-defense.
The Coroner's Jury in the Michigan Gen.
trial Railway disaster at Jackson find that
Calwell, yard-master, was criminally negli-
gent, and Sawyer, switchman, and Jones, en-
gineer, censurable for their part in causing
the accident.
A great jolliication and Jubilee was held at
Fostoria, Ohio, the home of Governor elect
Foster, on the night of the 18th.
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nessee are the only States showing an in
crease over the condition at this time in
1878.
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STRAIGHT Dem. q
Republican majority
RETURNS PROM THE last ELECT

Fusion candidate and 500 for the Straight
Democrat
RETURNS FROM THE LAST ELECTION.
Up to the night of the 10Th, returns showed
Republican gains in most localities. The
Republican State Committee estimated their
majority in the State at $4,000. The Legisla-
ture is largely Republican. Thompson, Re
publican, is elected to Congress in the Fifth
District
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At the Indian and War Departments.

WASHINGTON, October 13.-Secretary
Schurz, Immediately upon receiving the dis
patch stating that the hostile Utes had retired
through the influence of Ouray, called at the
War Department and consulted with Gen.
Sherman on the subject. The latter at once
sent the following telegram to Gen. Sheridan:
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-16

FARE to the Pier at Long Branch
and return, FIFTY CENTS
Pier Tickets 10 cents extra: sold on
the boat by the agents Of the Pier Co.
sssl.andings on the Ocean Pier will
be made when feasible.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-16
VALUATION OF SILKS.

number Of special Treasury agents have beex
busily engaged for several weeks past overhaulins
the invoices of leading silk importers and claim that
this class of importatons has been undervaued all
the way from twenty to forty per cent Considering
that the of duty this line of merchandise is
fixed ut sixty per cent the amount thus lost by the
government, If the allegations true, must be
enormous. 1t is matter of fact, however, that the
invoices Of certain firms have lately been advanced
to such extent that the aggregate foots up over
S3OO0O0. The importers by means quiet
under imputatious upon them by the special
agents of the Treasury. A number or reappraise.
nents have recently been held in quiet, tho result
OF which has not yet been made public. About
hundred and fifty of silk goods were recently
ordered into the appraisers department from the
fair that large of silks will be held
OF the government as was the case few years ago,
when 50, 100000 worth OF such goods were kept in
bond until a 'home value was ascertained and
tiles and the importers. Not only silks, but on
vclvets Also this raid of the special agents has been
made. They claim that in many cases the velvets
have been undervalued fully one-third Of their
importers have acquesced in the advance. paid
the additional duty under protest, and propose to
fight the government III the courts.
The labor in the silk division of the Appraisers
department has been exceedingly onerous Of late.
new machine to boil silk and disintegrate the
nbres, so as fully test the foundation Of the
teria has recently been introduced into the depart
mont. Besides this the various United States con-
posted as to the foreign price the silks in open
market. Owing to the failure of the silk crop In
France the price of this staple has recently ADVANCED
a great deal, that the lending importers ne
praisements before ordering full fall and winter
supply abroad.