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Tuesday, July 31.—At Keyser, West Virginia, 
50 men took possession of a train In the afternoon, 
hut were expelled and 20 of them arrested by a 
couple of the seven batteries of artillery stationed 
there under Gen. Getty. The Balt imore and Ohio 
Company, on whose line the strike began, claims 
that their road Is now open, and many of their 
old hands return luff to work. The authorities at 
Washington decline to compromise in any way 
with the strikers. Slier) Jan’s arrival In Chicago 
Is considered fatal to any more disorder In that 
quarter. The coal miners about Pitts ton, Pa,, 
demaud an Increase of 25 per cent, on ihelr pres¬ 
ent wages. At Pittsburg, the troops with uov. 
Hartranrt, as wen aa the Home Guards and regu¬ 
lars, arc still under arms, and numerous arrests 
of rioters are being made. Trains are running on 
tho Pennsylvania Road, except where the torn- 
up track still remains unrepaired. In St. Johns- 
vlile, disorder Is thoroughly quelled. On tho 
Scranton and Lackawanna Road, the men have 
resumed work, on condition of immunity for past 
action. The miners arc still turbulent in the dis¬ 
trict about Scranton, and 500 of them stopped a 
train to-day. Iu New Orleans, an attempted meet¬ 
ing of Bhoemaksrs was prevented by the police, 
aud all danger ot disturbance Is considered over. 
A strike on the Texas Pacific Road was ended by 
a compromise. 
At Kingston, N. Y., 30,000 men assembled to cel¬ 
ebrate the Centennial of the State. Speeches, con¬ 
gratulatory messages, and general good feeling. 
Near swarihmore, I'a., a dam gave way, and the 
llood Inflicted much damage on farming property 
along the Big Crutu river. 
Iu Europe Rouher, leader of the Bonapartism, 
proclaims the adherence of the party to President 
McMahon. The Russians claim a victory at liust- 
chuk and another at Plevna. At the rormer place, 
the Ozarovltch Is reported to have; defeated Eyoub 
1’asha with a loss of 8,000 prisoners, 30 guns, and 
10 standards. Austria Is mobilizing three divis¬ 
ions of the army as a precaution. 
Wednesday, Aug. l. The railroad strike Is re¬ 
ported to he nearly over throughout the country, 
and all the main lines are now running, except 
where the tracks have been destroyed or bridges 
burnt by the strikers or sympathetic mob. In 
New York, all the militia regiments have been 
dismissed to their homes. New Jersey has greatly 
distinguished herself during the troubles by the 
ability and vigor with which her authorities have 
prevented all threatened excesses and protected 
those who were willing to continue work, or re¬ 
place those who bad Joined tho strike. In Pitts¬ 
burg, the st rikers arc still out, but oiler no re¬ 
sistances to the movements of trains. The Lehigh 
Valley and Northern Central roads are still block¬ 
ed. Around Scranton, the trouble from striking 
miners Is growing more serious. Among the roads 
partly or wholly blocked as yet, are the Pan-Han¬ 
dle; St. Louis and Southern; Chicago, Alton and 
Vandalla; Illinois Central, uud Delaware and 
Lackawanna. 
Chief Joseph has not been whipped as badly as 
was reported, or else he Is resolved not, to stay 
whipped, lie is still said to have too or r,oo braves 
with him, and professes to be able to whip Gen. 
Howard, and that he intends to do ft. By last 
accounts, he la still in the neighborhood of Cama’s 
Prairie, and there Is some apprehension In Wash¬ 
ington that he and Sitting Bull may Join forces 
and Inaugurate a general Indian war. 
In Europe, the reports are very conllletlng with 
regard to the Turkish war. The Russians claim 
two victories, which their opponents stoutly deny, 
while Insisting on their own successful resistance 
to the Muscovite advance. 
Thursday, Aug. 2.—The lawlessness In Scran¬ 
ton, I*a., culminated to-day. A large body of 
riotous strikers rroia the railroads and mines 
called round to all the rolling mills and factories 
In the city and forced the operatives to q ult work. 
As many of these Joined the turbulent element, 
their ranks soon swelled to at least 5,ono men. 
Meeting the Mayor in one of the principal streets 
along w hich they were parading, they attacked 
him, and would have killed him were It not for the 
Interposition or a Catholic priest. They next en¬ 
countered a squad of forty Vigilantes, armed with j 
repeating rifles, and assailed them with yells, re¬ 
proaches and stones. The Vlgllant.es might have 
borne patiently the two rormer, but exasperated i 
by the latter, they fired among the rabble and 
killed live, besides wounding a large number of 
others. The Are was returned, and live of the 
volunteer; soldiers wounded. All busines splaees 
w ere closed. The respectable citizens are arm¬ 
ing, and troops are being pushed rapidly from 
all directions towards tho city. At WUksbarre 
several trains were stopped by a crowd of LOGO 
men, and many of the officials ot the different 
roads maltreated. The trouble now seems con¬ 
fined to the mining districts of Pennsylvania, 
where the miners have Joined the railroaders, and 
threaten general dLsordcr and destruction. On 
several of the othor roads there Is a show* of gue¬ 
rilla warfare, especially In mountainous districts, 
but. the general outlook Is peaceful. 
From Europe we learn that the Turks claim a 
great victory at Plevna, where the Russian loss Is 
variously stated. In different telegrams, to have 
amounted to 8,000 killed and from lC.ouo to 24,000 
wounded. The Turks acting on the defensive— 
their strongest point—suffered but little. There 
seems to be no doubt ot the fact t hat a great dis¬ 
aster has befallen the Muscovite arras In Europe, 
while from Asia there are no news. 
Friday, AUg. 3 Fully 2,500 troops, State and 
regulars, have been concentrated at Scranton. 
At Plymouth, twenty odd miles from Scranton, 
the tracks were found torn up by one division of 
the advancing forces, and by diverging Into tho 
country and pushing ahead, they came upon a 
mob busily engaged In a like pastime. Of these, 
sixty men and boys were captured. All through 
the districts where riots have occurred, numerous 
arrests or ringleaders and other participants are 
being made, Inquests are being held on those 
slain, the roads are being put In running order, 
and all traces of lawlessness are being removed. 
On the withdrawal of the troops rrom Bellalre, on 
the Baltimore and Ohio road, the strikers and 
their friends returned In large numbers aDd 
stopped trains, capt uring the men running them. 
The Military were at once recalled and the rab¬ 
ble dispersed. Trouble Is still expected from the 
miners of Pennsylvania. 
From Vienna, Berlin, Paris, London and Bu¬ 
charest confirmations of the severe defeat of the 
Russian forces have arrived, but details are still 
wanting. Greece seems determined to take a part 
m the struggle on the side of Russia, and is de¬ 
spatching forces to the Turkish frontiers, while In 
England public opinion is becoming strong In fa¬ 
vor of the Turks, and Austria Is preparing to 
change her policy to that of an armed neut rality. 
Saturday, August 4.—In Pennsylvania a gen¬ 
eral strike throughout the coal regions now ex¬ 
ists, and about 45,000 men are said to have Joined 
It. The dissatisfaction has spread through all the 
mines In the Wyoming, Schuylkill, Shamokln. 
Lehigh and Shenandoah districts. Blacklegs,— 
or men ready to work—are receiving the usual 
threatening not ices from the Molly Maguires and 
Other lawless organizations. Gov. Hartranft has 
2.500 troops with him at Kingston, but Is reported 
too iu to make any vigorous movements himself. 
Gen-Hancock Is bringing 1,000 regulars into Lu¬ 
zerne Co., and the MUltla are concentrating from 
all parts of the State Into the disaffected regions. 
L. s, troops are also on their way thither from as 
tar South tts Florida, North as Maine, and West 
as Nebraska, and the movement seems to have 
reached the proportions of a rebellion. In Scran¬ 
ton few ha ve returned to work, aud despite the 
large force now stationed in the town and 
the enrollment of Vigilantes, much terror 
Is still experienced by quiet citizens. As 
there is In Pittsburg a large turbulent ele¬ 
ment, and the city is close to the districts where 
disorder prevails, a large number et soldiers are 
converging to It. The miners are doggedly deter¬ 
mined In their demand of an advance of 25 per 
cent, on their present wages. The Companies, on 
tho other hand, are resolute not to make any con¬ 
cessions. Grave disturbances are pretty sure to 
result from this deadlock, unless an overwhelm¬ 
ing concentration of military forces can be made 
to overawe those- disposed to riot and luecudiar- 
Isra. 
From Europe we learn that the gravity of the 
catastrophe that, has befallen the Russians at 
Plevna, In Bulgaria, has been underrated. The 
battle, of which details are already reaching us, 
took place July 31. The Turkish force Is esti¬ 
mated to have amounted to 50,000, while that of 
the Russians, who might easily have eoucenlra- 
ted at that, point three times that number, was 
actually ouly from 32,ooo to 40,000. The former 
ware under Osman l’ascha, the latter under Gen¬ 
erals Sehackoskoy and Krudner. Schaekoskoy 
advanced on the Turkish right, and at first drove 
them a trtile, but as the lett of their forces offered 
an insurmountable obstacle to the advance of 
Krudner, at the head of the Russian light, Sehar- 
koskoy, llist halted, and then was overwhelmed 
by reinforcements sent forward by the Turks. 
The Muscovites had rashly attacked a superior 
force, sheltered by entrenchments and favored by 
the nature of the ground, and had already lost 
heavily, but In the retreat that followed the 
slaughter was terrible. The Russian communica¬ 
tions were now threatened. All the country south 
of the Balkans is being abandoned by them. They 
are withdrawing from Koumanla and Bulgaria, 
while the elated Turks arc pushing vigorously on 
the heels ol' the defeated Muscovites. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The riot Is not right. 
It Is a strike, but not a “ hit.” 
No need to go West to fight Indian nature. 
It costs about $7 to send a ton of wheat from 
Chicago to Liverpool. 
The eighth annual cattle show, at Lancaster, 
Mass., wlU occur Sept. 27. 
There were 33 failures In New York during July. 
Liabilities, $2,000,000 ; assets, $930,000. 
Three acres of cucumbers on the vines near 
Savannah, Ga., sold, this year for $l,250. 
It, costs $ 50,000 a year for the support of the In¬ 
sane paupers of Rensselaer county, N. Y. 
A Kentucky gentleman who owns a Longfellow 
colt thinks of calling him Poems—by Longfellow. 
In the fourteen years ending In 1876 the number 
of visitors to New York Central Park was 125,945,- 
6T0. 
The railroad strikers have seen that It Is not 
the way to make board cheaper to burn flour and 
hams. 
Of the four leaders of the mob in Philadelphia, 
who were arrested, not one had ever worked upon 
a railroad. 
John Morrissey sells pools In the face of the 
legislature at Saratoga, who passed a law against 
It last winter. 
W. H. West was nominated on August 1st. for 
Governor of Ohio by the Republican convention 
at Cleveland. 
The total popular subscriptions to the new four- 
per-ccnt. loan aggregate $76,519,700, and $10,000,- 
000 more were subscribed in Europe. 
A Durham steer, weighing 331 o pounds, from 
Michigan, was received at the Brighton cattle 
yards near Boston, on August 1st. 
The United States occupies the third place in 
the list of hop-growtng countries. Germany tak¬ 
ing the lead, and England ranking second. 
The Cunard company propose to withdraw 
some of their steamers from Boston, of which 
due notice will he given. Lack of paying freight 
Is the cause. 
The wood of the white birch is now exported 
from Massachusetts to England, to be made Into 
thread spools. A million feet were thus con¬ 
sumed last year. 
An overseer In the Hampden mills at Holyoke 
came near bleeding to death the other day, an 
artery in IBs mouth having been severed by the 
extraction of a tooth. 
It has been discovered that the Introduction of 
black bass Into the Delaware river has nearly 
driven the shad away. The bass consume large 
numbers of the young shad. 
There Is a factory at Davenport, Iowa, the 11 ret 
In this country, for making sugar from corn. It 
Is called starch sugar, particularly appropriate 
for the use of confectioners. 
Cincinnati advices state that the quality of 
the new wheat coming forward is so excellent 
that millers do not require old wheat to mix with 
it. This is an unusual occurrence. 
The first slaughter of the season by theshlng 
machines Is reported from Lock port, N. Y. Leo¬ 
pold N'elberger fell into the cylinder and was 
fatally Injured. ’TwlH soon become epidemic. 
At Cincinnati, on Aug. 3d, a manufactory of 
cigar boxes was burnt, and three letn.ile and as 
many male employes are known to have perished, 
and It la supposed the ruins stlU cover many 
more. 
The street vendor now tries to sell lumps of 
condensed cholera morbus at the rate of two for 
a penny. He calls them apples, but they look 
very much like premature specimens of black 
walnuts. 
The gold mine whose discovery startled the In¬ 
habitants of Oldtown, Me., the other day, proves 
to be nothing hut a hit or two of California ore 
put In and dug out again by parties who wanted 
a little fun. 
Three persons In Jersey City were poisoned on 
August 1st, by eating canned beef. They arc re¬ 
covering, however, and win be more cautious 
doubtless in future about where they make tlieir 
purchases of the article. 
We are creditably Informed that the Depart- 
incut of State, at Washington, lias official Intelli¬ 
gence ort.he recent discovery In Egypt of apeeu- 
Uar species of cotton plant that produces double 
the crop of the ordinary kind now in use. 
The Pennsylvania state Collego has three full 
courses of study, agricultural, classical and scien¬ 
tific, and a thoroughly organized military depart¬ 
ment ; faculty of twelve professors; .las. Colder, 
President- The location Is near Beliefonte, cen¬ 
ter Co., Pa. 
The sort of skeleton army which we have was 
conspicuously illustrated when the five compan¬ 
ies ordered from California to Oregon marched 
out with an Imposing array of exactly loo men, 
which Included thirty rereults Just picked up. 
When they went, Fort Yuma was left garrisoned 
by a force or one corporal and two men. 
The product of beeswax in the United States is 
stated to be 20 f OOO,UOd pouuds annually and in¬ 
creasing—worili In money at least $0,000,000, or 
this about $700,000 worth are exported, and about 
$ 1 , 200,000 worth of honey also goes abroad. The 
total product of honey aud wax Is worth at pres¬ 
ent in the United States nearly $ 10 , 000 , 000 . 
The startling fact Is announced that thirty-two 
railways In this country have been sold under 
foreclosure since the 1st of January last; that 
sixteen roads have passed Into the hands of re¬ 
ceivers during the same time, and fifteen are 
under orders to be sold—making a total of sixty- 
three roads, of 7,225 miles, with a total debt of 
$125,142,606. 
A few days ago a young man named Tuttle and 
a couple of small hoys went Into the tleldo in the 
north part of Goshea, Conn., alter berries. A 
shower coming on, they took refuge In a collier’s 
cabin. While there they fouud an old axe, and 
whfie fooling with It struck the post In the center 
that held up the roof. Being decayed, it snapped 
off with the blow, and the roof fell upon and 
killed young Tuttle. 
Frank Walworth, who shot and killed his father 
in June 1873, at the SturtevantHouse In this city, 
and was tried tor the murder and sentenced to 
imprisonment for life, has been pardoned by Gov. 
Robinson. The young man is afflicted with epi¬ 
lepsy and has become of unsound mind, and this, 
together with the great provocation to the mur¬ 
der offered by the rather’a brutal threats to his 
wife, secured tho pardon. It Is said he will start 
to Europe accompanied by his mother. 
In this city on August 2 , Jay Gould, the great 
railroad speculator and stock manipulator, was 
attacked, beaten and dropped into the area of a 
building near Wall street, by a late friend and 
Joint speculator of his In many Investments, 
named Selover. Gould squeezed him and he re¬ 
taliated, like a blackguard, with blows, cowardly 
because he Is very large and Gould rather diminu¬ 
tive. The fight has been carried Into the stock 
market where Selover will probably receive se¬ 
verer punishment than he inflicted. 
Ground was broken this week for the new chem¬ 
ical building of the Illinois Industrial University, 
at Urbana, ill. The legislative appropriation for 
this building and Its furniture, is $40, 000 . The di¬ 
mensions are to be 124 feet long by 74 feet wide, 
with a total hlght of four stories. Including fin¬ 
ished basement and mansard. It will Include five 
distinct laboratories; one for qualitative, and »ne 
for quantitative analysis, one tor agricultural 
chemistry, a metallurlcal and a pharmaceutical 
laboratory, besides rooms for gas analysis, balance 
rooms, photographic rooms, and ample lecture 
rooms, and the Professors' private laboratory. It 
will be fitted up in the best modern style, and 
furnished with the most Improved apparatus. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
southern France will have only half a wheat 
crop. 
London dally consumes the milk produced by 
406,250 cows. 
The use of seines for catching smelts Is prohib¬ 
ited in Canada. 
Tho average annual consumption of butchers 
meat In Parts, exclusive of pork, Is 150 pounds per 
head. 
Commander V, L. Cameron, C. B., the distin¬ 
guished African traveler, has been appointed to 
the screw frigate Narcissus, of the English de¬ 
tached squadron. 
At the present moment 4, 000,000 nindoo and 100 ,- 
000 Mohammedan children are attending school in 
India, and 50,ooo to co.ooo of them are receiving In¬ 
struction up to the English University standard. 
Carlyle wears such a shocking bad hat that 
everybody he passes turns round to get a second 
look at the fascinatingly-ugly thing. Tlsn’t al¬ 
ways a sure sign of genius, however, to wear a 
hat like a tramp’s. 
Everybody knows what, a terrible explosive 
dynamite is, but few know that 11 Is a powerful 
poison. A woman named Wollny, has just been 
sentenced to death at oppelu, Germany, for poi¬ 
soning two persons with it. 
Tho averecncss of the Hungarian people to the 
term Queen, led to t he custom among them that 
whenever a female succeeded to t he throne she 
should be called King. Thus it will be seen In the 
annals of Hungary that t he daughter of Louis I. 
reigned as King Mary In 1383. 
The production of beet, sugar In France, accord¬ 
ing to official returns, hits been as follows: In 
1840, 12,245,000 pounds; in 1S55, 30,780,000 pounds; 
In i860, 49 , 450,000 pounds; In 1865, 95,295,000 
pounds; In 1870, 126 , 240 ,wo pounds; and In 1874, 
196 , 320,000 pounds, it, docs not seem to have been 
a failure in France. 
A great cattle salesman lately told the Meat 
Committee of the House of Commons that Span¬ 
ish and Portuguese cattle are the* healthiest and 
most valuable Continental beasts that reach the 
English market. Their hides fetch double the 
price of others. Uenco probably the excellence 
of Spanish butter. 
In 1852 sir Roderick Murchison, reasoning from 
scanty data, concluded that the whole Interior or 
Africa would be found to consist of a vast water¬ 
ed plateau, somewhat elevated above the level of 
the sea, but bounded on the east and west by 
higher lands. Ten years had not passed before 
tills theory was proved to be correct. 
The ex-empress or France, once so handsome, 
Is now faded and worn In appearance, with false 
hair and painted face and lips. Probably she 
would regain her loveliness with her throne, for 
that is a pinnacle on which homely objects look 
attractive, while such misfortune as she has suf¬ 
fered dims the fairest beauty to the eyes of the 
unsympathetic. 
Lord Stratheden and Campbell, In the course of 
a debate on the Eastern question, said the atti¬ 
tude of Austria aud England reminded him of 
nothing so much as the lines: 
The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn, 
Stood waiting ror Sir Richard Stracban. 
Sir Richard, longing to he at ’em, 
Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham. 
A farm laborer near Scllhac, lu France, while 
plowing somewhat, deeper than usual, found his 
plow arrested by what he thought a stump. It 
proved to be an ox hide filled with gold pieces of 
the reign of Francis 1., worth $60,000 for their 
weight alone, without reckoning their special 
value as rave coins. ’Tls’nt the first time that 
deep plowing has enriched the farmer. 
Great Britain imported last year of livestock 
163,100 oxen and bulls, 36,217 cows, 43,toi calves, 
1,012,692 sheep and lambs. Of the 12,380 cargoes 
landed, one cargo was affected by eatllo plague, 
thirteen affected by pleuro-pneumonia, 1381 by 
foot aud mouth disease) two by sheep-pox, and 
alxty-one by sheep soaps, making a total of 1458 
cargoes having diseased animals aboard. It Is no 
wonder that it is proposed to prohibit the lmpor’ 
tatlonot livestock. 
