The Wolverhampton and Midland Counties Advertiser. — 1876-06-17 (Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England)

WAR IN THE UNITED STATES.  The United States appears to have got a new and serious Indian war on hand. The whole force of the Sioux nation is rallying round the Sitting Bull, and that warlike redskin is already actively at work interrupting communications and attacking half-protected settlements. On the 29th May, according to the Public Ledger of Philadelphia, Captain Egan returned to Fort Laramie, after scouring the country to Custer over a travelled road, and returning by the agency road. He found 600 Indians attacking an ox train on Sage Creek, and drove them off. He says that fully 1,000 young warriors have left the two agencies. A citizen who arrived at Omaha on the 29th from Custer City reports that on the night of the 19th that place was attacked by Indians. They set fire to the ammunition house in the centre of the town, which blew up and destroyed several houses. Additional murders and robberies by Indians in that region are reported. Among the bodies found was that of T. P. Hermann, of Carlisle, Pa., which has been forwarded to his home. Twenty-four out of one party. of Black Hills miners were killed and soalped.  SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE RARDWARES The general course of business in the hardware productions nf this district is, on the whole, quieter, although, as last reported, there are to this rule some rather remarkable exceptions. The improved aspect of the political horizon on the Continent will, it is hoped, tend to remove the languor which prevails in most leading branches of trade, at least so far as the Continental markets are concerned. On Colonial account the demand is steady for various descriptions of hardware, but with the United States and some of the South American markets there is next to nothing doing. The home trade is moderately steady for the season. The Wolverhampton ironfounders are fairly well supplied with orders for tinned and enamelled hollow-wares, builders' castings, and other leading descriptions of produce. The lock and latch trades are well supported in all the principal branches, had the manufacturers of fireproof safes and deed boxes are, on the whole, fairly supplied with orders. Cabinet brassfoundry is in tolerably sustained request. The cut-nail and washer trades are quiet, and there is, on the whole, a less active business doing in galvanised roofing-sheets. In tin-plate goods a moderately steady demand is experienced for season requisites. The Willenhall lock trade is buoyant in all the principal branches, and the increasing cost of production caused by the constant labour demands points to a further advance in the prices of several descriptions. The bolt trade is steady. Currycombs are only in quiet demand. At Wedneebury the wrought-iron tube trade is fiat; and there is sot much business of importance doing at the engineering ironwork establishments in the neighbourhood. The heavy ironfoundries around West Bromwich and Bilston are in moderately-sustained operation. The Walsall saddlery and harness trades are somewhat steadier than recently reported, but there is still plenty of room for further improvement. The fender, fire. iron, wrought-nail, and kindred industries on the East Worcestershire side of the Black Country are tolerably well supported.  George Walter Thornbury, the well-known author, died on Sunday at the age of forty-eight. Mr. Thomas Halliday, formerly president of the Amalgamated Association of Miners, having been appointed secretary of the National Miners Association, has resigned his position as a member of the South Wales Conciliation Board.  The Times Calcutta correspondent says that though Mr. Grosvenor and his party were kindly treated by the Burmese and Chinese, the mission itself is said to have been a failure. The inquiry into Mr. Margary's murder was futile, and no results were obtained.  As the Rev. G. H. Davies, rector of Compton, near Guildford, was pronouncing the benediction at the evening service on Sunday night, he mid: denly fell back in the pulpit, and expired within a few minutes. The deceased, who was forty years of age, was only presented to the living in December last.  A return issued by the Board of Trade shows that during the month of January, February, and March, 315 persons were killed, and 1,583 injured by railway accidents. Of the number killed 30 were passengers and 185 servants, while of the injured 382 were passengers and 1,152 servants, of the companies. Sixty-two trespassers (including suicides) were killed, and 27 injured. The Scotsman says :—"During the past week a large-sized horn has been found oa the shore of • Broad Bay, in Lewes, quite full of silver coins, most of them of the reign of James VI. of Scotland, but some bearing an older date. Broad Bay has always been a great resort for windbound vessels. It is conjectured that this horn may• have been stolen from some ship, and deposited,' in the spot where it was found, with the future I lintention of returning for it when search in the district had been given up, and that the intention of the depositor must in some way have been frustrated. The coins have been taken possession of by the sheriff of Stornoway, on behalf of her Majesty.  _