The News Condensed

At a conference held tho other day botwecn tho directorH of the Pennsylvania railroad and a eommitteo ropresonting the mercantilo interests of Philadolphia wbich suffered by tho destruction in Pittsburgh, it wa. agroed tliat snit shall be brought agaiust Allegheny connty for all damages to pnvate property au well as to the railroad. The morchants whose goods were delayed or destroyed are making out thoir bilis, whioh are to bo first presented, the railroad compauy aasisting in whatever litigation may follow, and afterward pronecutiug ita own claim for the f till amount of Iosb and injury. Donahue, the labor agitator, who ia serving a term in the jail of Ne-w York city for inciting the Erie railroad strikers, has startod a workingmen's daily paper, called ThcStrihr The cadetship in the West Poiut Military Academy for the First Congrcssional Districtof New York bas been won by a colored boy namcd Charles A. Mimu'o, sim of a blackamith. Two uoroRiors forgors, Hnsted and Connor, havo' been arrested in Now York. ïhey had negotiated several thousand dolíais' worth of bogus St. Louis and Quincy bonds There are over 40,000 coal-miners on a strike in tho anthracite regions of Fcnnsylvania. ïhoy demand a restoration of tho wnges that were paid in May last. THE WJ5ST. A brutal nmrdcr was lately committed on the farm of Augustus Pope, near Fort Wayne, Ind. A young son of Mr. Pope was shot and instantly killed by a tramp whoio he ordored away f rom tho farm Chicago elevators, as per official returns, contain 251,500 bushels of wheat; 1,885,206 bushels of corn: 327,709 bnshol of oatM ; 122,615 bnshels of rye, and 89,267 bnshels of barley, making a grand total of 2,176,306 buBhelp, against 2,171, (DB btwhels one weck ago, aud 3,225,742 bushcls at this perfod last ycar. Milwaukcc warehouses are stored with 107,824 bushels of win ;;t. On the aftcmoou of Aug. 25 two spans of the Union Pacific railrnad bridge at Omaha were swept away by a tornado, causing a break of about 500 feet at tho lowa. end of the, structure. The catastroplip will ove a serious detriment to business tliroughout tho cntiro trans-Missmiri country. The bridge is said to ha-ve cost something over $2,000,000. It is 2,750 fest long, divided into eleven spans of 250 feet each. Two spans, therefore, represent two-clevenths of the bridge. It is estiinutrd that $300,000 will be required to replace the broken spans Indianapolis reporta that there is even' indication of a renewal of business there thi f all Laat week Chicago alono, of all the largo citie, showed a gain in her clearing-house report Chicago mcrchantspredict for that city tho most prosiKToua f all trade it ha experiencied since thepanic. Threc members of a notorious band of horsethieves were recently found hanging to a tree between Holden and Lexingtou, Mc, with bits of paperpinned totheirtiodies labeleü "Horsethieves." A Camp Robinson (Neb.,) telegram says: '"The Sidney coach, f rom Deadwood, was stopped last night above BufTalo gap by flvo road agenta, who fired into tho coach before a ivord was giveu to halt. Ed Cook. División Superintendent of the stage line, was shot through the ear. The robbers socured $12 ont of about tl, 000 in the possession of the passengors." The leading merchants of St, Louis have been iuterviewed by a newspaper reporter, and they say tho prospects for a heavy fall trado in that city are good....A scnsational tragcdy was enactcd in Chicago a few days ago. A young man naraed Oullivan bccame enamorcd of a gilí named Kate Brannock, the dangbter of respectablo parents. She refnsed to marry him, which so incensed him that he killed her by shooting her through the hcad with a pistol, and tben ended his own miserable existence in the same manner. WASHINGTON. A Washington dispatcli says it is not true, as has been stated in various quarter, that the Cabinet has discussed the propriety of recomïiiciiding an inerease of the regular army. The War Department officials say that the army conld be made large enough" with the ofncêrs already in conimission if the niaximum standard of the companies should be placed at 100 men. On that basis thero are now ofticers enough to command 50,000 men. The President and Secretarios Evarts, Devens and Key returned to Washington from thoir New England tour on the 25th of August. Secretary Sherman roturned from his Ohio iait on the same day. It is stated in a Washington dispatch that Postmaster General Key, on his return to the capital, "found a bagful of letters from the South about his 'erring brethren' speech. Key says bc used the words as a quotation, and that the phraso was taken as a joke all around." J. Madison Weijls called at the White Honse tho other day to pay his respects to the President. "The interview," says a correspondent, ' ' was quite short. Wells assurod the President that his Southern policy was working well, and that there are at present no tronbles in Louisiana. Gov. Wells says that, no matter what President Hayea wishes iu regard to the indictment against him and Gen. Anderson in New Orlcaus, he would bo powerless, according to a recent decisión of tho Supreme Court of the United States. They are to bc tried in October, and, if convicted, will undergo sentence immediately." GENERAL. The official statement of the receipts of the Government for the fiscal year euding June 3C, 1877, ha been published. Tho total receipts were 269,0OO.OO0, as follows : From customs revenuo, íll8,500,000 ; sales of land, $1.000,000, and from miscellaneous sonrees, $18,500,000. The total expenditures were : Civil, $56,250,000 ; war, $37,000,000 ; navy, $15,000,000; Indiano and pensions, S33,250,"OO0: interest on the public dcb(, 97,000,000 Tho Mexican Gen. Beuavides, commanding at Matemoras, telegraphs Gen. Ord that he has captnred one of the bandit priuoners recently releasod by a band of Mexican outlaws at Kio Grande City, Texas, and that ho thinks Inwijl be able to capture tho rescuers. Gen. Ord thinks that this shows a disposition on the part f the Diaz Government to put a good face on the border matters for the present at least The National Board of Trade held its niuth tanual session in MUwaukeo last week. There was a moager attendance. New regnlation8 for traiumen have been introducoi on the Baltimore and Ohio road, which, it is believed, will woik more to the satisfaction of the employés. Each engine is to have a regular crew of hands that opérate it when used; the company propose to cuiplov a forcé Bufficient to do tho work of the road, nú no more, thus avoiding in the future tho complaints mado by tho trikerK. that thoy could not make a living becavue they wero not allowed timo enough to do bo. The Federal troops aloog the Baltimoro and Ohio railroad have been withdrawn, tho Governore of Maryland and West Virginia having uotificd the War Department that they were no longer necded. The Cuban Leaguo, which has its headquarters in New York, has issucd an address to the peoplo of tho Unitod States nrging the inhabitants of large cities to form Cuban Leagues, for the pnrposo of exercising moral infiuence upon our own and other civilized governments in favor of the suppression of the inhuman war waged against Cuba tho last eight years, aud asking the aid of the press to demand Cuba's recognition as a beUigerent The new season at McVicker's Chicago Theater opened with the first prodnotion in Amorica of Kardou's "Seraphine, which hasproved.hiuhly Biiccossful. Tho company is tho best ever gottcn together in the twèuty years' carecr of the theater under Mr. McVicker's management. Edwiu Booth will appear for an engagemen', of soveral weeks' duration during the term of the ExpoBition. The National Board of Trado has jnst held an interesting, and it is hoped a profltable, four days' session at Milwaukei. The attendance wasmeager in numbors, but seems to have more than made up in quality what was lacking in quantity. The discussions took a wide range, embracing nearly every important topic relating to the commercial, finaucial and industrial interests of the counh'y. Among other important qnostiona passed upon was the propositiou looking to tho adoption of a standard weight of tlie bushei thronghout the United States ; a request to the President to recommend to Congrese tho creation of a commission for the purposo of reising the tariff rates ; the adoption of a memorial toCongress for the remoyal of the present unjnst discrimination against the West in the matter of direct importation ; the panage of resolutions in favor of a rociprocity treaty with Canada the adoption of a rosoluaion reoommending the funding of greenbaeksin bonds of the United States hearing 4 per cent. interest and running 40 years, and expressing the opinión that the present law for the resumption of specie payments is insuflicicnt to accomphsh that purpose ; the denouncing of the Bankrupt law aa unjust and oppressivo iu itg operations ; tho adoption of resolutions nrging tho repeal by Congress of the navigation laws of tho United States, which were characterizod as unjuut and destructivo to tho American ship-owning interest; and calling upon Congress to take steps to Becure an international monctary convention for tho purpose of ostabüshing a permanent relativo valuation between gold and silyor. A reaolution in favor of the remonetization of süver was voted down. The Chicago Inier-Ocean recently addressed a circular letter to nearly all the members of the present Congresn soliciting theirview npon the question uf Qm ninoiiotizatioii of süver. Tho nnmbcr of replies roccivcd was 1!)7, with the following ïvsult: In favor of romouptization, 146 ; against remonetization, 18 ; undecided, 31; declined to answer, 2. The premium On gold in New York lias juat touchcd the lowest point it ha x'eached since 1872, namoly, 104 Manchan been dintinctly traiiKinitted from New York to Hartford, a ilistanco of 240 miles, by tbc Edson telephone. rOLITIOAL. Mk. Blaixe iuvited the President to extend his New England tour to Maine and enjoy the hospitality of his house, to which Mr. Hayes replied : "I greatly regret that my inability to accept at present Gov. Connor's kind invittition to vicit the State of Maine wil] deprive nio of the pleasnre of enjoying the hospitality you havo 60 cordially prbffered." .... A State convcution of the Gieenback party of Pennsylvania has been oailed to meet at Williamsport on the 19th of September The Pennnylvania Democratie State Convontion was held at Harrisburg, Ang. 22. John Trunkcy, of Venango county, was nomiuated for Sapréme Judge, and Wiltíam P. Schell, of Bedford, for Auditor General. The following platform was adopted : The Democratie party of Pennsylvania and it dclegates in convention assenibled do declare : 1. Thaf Oio Induction of Rutherford B. Hayos into the office of President, notwithstanding the electiou of Samuel J. Tilden thcreto, was a high crime ngaiust frro govermnent which bas not been condoned and will not ba forgotton. - The same spirit of patriotiem wlm-h foreboro a cootest opon the iirst oft'euso will reeist and punish any attempt at n Hccoud. 2. That the iuuuediatc happy effect of the application by the Federal aduúnistration of the Democratie policy of non-interventitm in the internal affairs of the Southern Statos amply vfndicatea our frequent protests against previons violatiou of the reservad righte of the Beveral State to exercise aU power not dclegatcd to the General Government by oxxress constitulional provisión. 3. That the purpose to reform tlio civil service which has bren proclairued by tbe present ndiiiiiiistration in, like its adopted Bouthern polioy, a confesslon of the f atluro of radicalism and a just tribute to the Deuiocracy, which hafl long and earnestiy (l'.'in'tmlit tlie ovcrtlirow and puuishment of corruiit olüeials. 4. That capital combinad in corporate nn::mi:ition has been too !n;;hly favored by both State and Federal legialatiou, and its demaods for l:tn: returns are inconsistent with the depreftsed condition of thr luboriug and business interoHts of the country. We oppose furthor ciiactments for its special benefit at thoexpense of other iuterests. Labor and capita] should have no cause of autagouisin, and they should be left free to adjust thelr own relations. The right to contract frecly exists for both particH, 5. That we accept the admonition of Jackson in s&ying, concerning standing arniiee as dangerous to free governmente in time of peace : " I ahaU not seek to enlarge our present establishment, nor disrefïard the ealutary lesson of polilical expo-ienee which teaches that the military should bc held subordínate to the civil power ; " accordingly incivaseof the Federal army andany attenipt to cmploy it :is au agent of Federal authority, or for interference with the sovereign righta of States, will receive eonlinued earuest opposition of the Deuiocracy of rennsylvania. 6. Xhat mauy of our rich men havo not bron content with equal protection and [ii:i! benefits, but lijivc bcHought U8 to inake them richer by act of Cougress ; and, by attemptlng to gratify thelr dehívíís, we have in tbc resulta of our lcgislation arrayod sectioji aKainst section, interest against interest, man against man, ín fearfiü eoumioüon, and therefore the grant by the Legislatures of Statrjj or by Congress of exclusive privileges, anc the establishment of odious monopolies, undor pretext of public benefit or of justice to eertain sectlons of the country, are a direct assanlt upon the equal rights of the pcople, and, au these monopolies have been contrived to enrich a few, whilo a large number of pcople are redneed to want, the Democracy of Pennsylvania protest against subsidies land-granto, loans of the public credit, and appropriatiouR of tha pcople's money to any corporation is légalized plunder of the taxpaying industrice of the country. 7. That we look with alarm and apprehension u])on the ]iretcnsions of the great transportation coihpiinies to be above the funlnmcutal law of this Commonwealth, which governs all elso within oiu borders, and, untl thcy accept the constitution o] 1873 in gootl faith, they should remain objects o! the utmost vigilauce and jealousy by both liie Legislature and people. Jtemlved, That we hereby reafllrm and adopt the financial resolutions of the national Democratie platform adopted at St. Louis in 1876. It is said Senator Sherman haiikers af ter his old seat ia the United States Senate, and thal in case Ohio goes Itepublican ho will be a candidate for the position. The Republicans of Virginia have declined to nomínate a State ticket The Connecticut State Greenback Convention wa held at New Haven last week, over 1,500 delégate beinfe in attendaueo. Resolutions wero adopted demanding the uuconditional reieal o: the Eesumption act, the full remone tization of süver, bonds interchangeable with greeubacks, the latter to bo full legal tender equitable taxe, abolition of monopolies, the stoppage of all subnidieu, and the removal of Socretary Sherman. INDIAN NEWS. A disi'atch from Salt Lake, Utah, reorts that Gen. Howard had a slight skirmish with the Xez Perces Indiana Aug. 21, in which one man was killed and Heven wounded. The In diana tho ame night stole 200 of Howard's horsc. Tle Montana volunteers werO return ing home disgusted. A Salt Lake dispatch of Ang. 25 reporta the Nez Perces Indiaus on Henry's lake. Gen Howard wa one day bohind them, bút, as he had halted to await suppliea, there was a pros peet of tho distance betwoen them being widoned. A msPATcn from Deadwood, Dakota, says "The party of twenty persons who left here about two weeks ago for the Little ïiï.s Kouri river returned to-day. They repor that last Tuesday afternoon the party disoov ered Indians cloRe to them. Tney selectet high Rioiind, and dug rifle-pit. Tliey hac been digging abont twenty minutes whennearh 500 Indians appeared on a bluff opposite ahou 400 yards off and eommenced firing at them. Tlie iight lasted ncarly four hours. Thomas H. Carr Quartz Eecorder of the Deadwood Mining Dis trict, wa shot through the head and killed Twenty-seven horses Ixïlonging to the minors were also killed. After dark the Indians with drew, and the miners eHCapcd, being oblieed to walk 150 miles to reach this city." A late Washington dispatoh says: "The dispatcheh to the Oovernnient indícate that there is no apprclienöioii of a gent-ral hostilo combination o Indians against the whites in the Northwest The antagimism betweon the wild tribes is snel as to prevent this, were an effort made. The Sioux esjiecially are feared and hated by all the other tribes." From Fort EUis, Mont., tmder date of Aug 27, Capt. Benham, of the Seventh Infantry ttolograph as follows to Gen. Gibbon, a Helena: "The Indians appeared in Grise basin on the 24th inst. Thay uüilck a Helena and Radersburg party, killing neven men anc taking two women and one man prisoner. Jus as he left Slount Wasiibvirn yesterday the In dians attacked another party, killing nine o them. One of them escapea. Tho Indians released Mrs. Cowau, her siste and brother, who reached Sohofiek yostorday. Tho main camp crosset the Yellowstone on tho 25th. Tho warrior went back to fight Howard. AVhitebird am Looking-Glass remained with the camp. Josepl went with tho warriors. They ay they are go ing to Wind river and Camp Brown to gei supplies. Schofield thinks they are going to tho Lower Yellowstone, via Clark's Fork They crossed the river between Moun Washburn and tho lakca. Schofield doe not say jnst wherohe will send his courier.".. . Gen. Lew Wallace bas projiosod to the Secre tary of War his plan for putting down Indiai wars. He rocommends the omployment of a corps of frontiersmen for border duty, who aro to livo upon the country. Ho would, ii Bhort, créate a lot of predatóry whito bands to offset the thicving savages. THE TUKKO-KUSSIAN WAK. Rt'fisiAN official reporta adniit a loss of 8,000 or 10,000 men in the fighting at Plevnn, hal the number being killed outright or seriously wounded. One-fifth of the 200 poreons accompanying tho red-cross ambulances wero killed while attending the wounded on the ■Held. The desperate character of the battlc i shown in the excGHsively large proportion o canualtios in tho liniited forco engaged. There han been a sanguinary struggle fo the possession of the Schipka pas, the mos feasible route through the Balkan monntain into Roumelia. Suleinian Pasha began the attack on the Russian poeitiou on Tuesday mom ing, Aug. 21, and kopt it up until late ftt night lrmging forward fresh troop as ote body after another was repnlsod. The attac] was renewed onWednesday, and the day, like its predecessor, was spent in hard fighting, the Tnrks being foiled in every attempt to dislodge the enemy from his strongly fortified position Tho losaos of the assailants were severo There ha boen om severo fighting between the Turks and Montenogrins. The Turks aro advancing toward Nicsios. Mk. Fawcett, sent by Layard,. the SBMMti Minister, to report upon the condition of the fugitives sonth of the Balkans, and to diRtribute relief, writes : " Even all written gives no adequate idea of the extcat of the. miserv am doBtitution amoug the ref ngees or the barbar itios perpetratod on both sides. Tho British relief committee at Adrianople, after carefu investigation, have ascertainedthatl0,150fugi tive women and childrcn uoed relief at once Of these, 1,700 are Jews and 8,000 Turks. The flght for tho possession of the Schipk paBS provcB to have Deen one of the most stut born and well-contested on both sidos that th war has afforded. Tho Russians occupied numljer of intrenclimente originally coustructot by the Tturks in the defiles of the'Btillians, bu abnndoned by them soon after tho Russian Íienetrated into Roumania. The Turks hmicc hcnisclveK with desperate valor upon these de fenst, and wero ropeatedly repulsed with toi tlble blangliter. For six davs the contes raged with fary, the valorous Turks wifh grfMlually thumiiig ranks, reti;ntog tim ml again to rcncw the ans-anlt, always with .he name result. The Hussinns, Ou each aproaoh of the enemy, poured a valling iiro into lieir rank, mowing them down by hnndreds, iterally paving the mountain side with corpses. Dio numfoer of Turks who were killed and wounded is eRtimaM at not ess than 0,000 or 10,000. 'Die KiiHsian oss, owing to the fact tliat they fought ander cover of theirworks, was coinparativoly mnall. Che total lïuHsinn forco engaged was 13,000 iicn. Opposed to these was uiewholeof Suleiman Pasha's army, estimated at 00,000. A battle of Home magnitude was fonght near Kara, in Asia Minoi-, on Hnturday, Aug. 25, betweon the Huasians undor Tergukanso(T and Moukhtar Fasha's arniy. A correspondent, describing the engagement, saya: "The icights of Kiziltepe, which were eaptured by lic Turks, were only held by one Kusaian attalion. The Turk swarmcd opon he mountains, protecteíl by siege gun. vliieli thcy used with toriblo effect They mado a deflperate flank movement from the direction of Kars to capture Kurukdara. The Itussimis hd their ents loaded on wagons ready to move, but tho perfect discipline and admirable management of he ofticers, together with floree lighting, saved :ho dav. The infantry contest at tho Southa:on village and fort wan terrible, the TurkR roiring at sundown with heavy loase. Tho ïussiana lost beforc Kurukdara two General and eight ofiicers killed, 237 soldicrs Killed, and 712 wonnded. Deterters say tho Turk lost 3,000 men." GENEKAI. FOKKIGN NEWS. A London dispatch says that Gon. Grant has ent word to Garibaldi that he hould bo very glad to visit Caprera during tho autumn All the famou men in natatonal anual have been Burpassed by tho achievoment of ono Frwlerick Oavill, who, the ocean cable tells us, swam across tho English channel, from Cape Griznez, Franco, to Dovor, Eng., a dintanco of about twenty miloB. He made tho crossing in twulve hourti. A pktition from tho Chinese in Cuba, complaiiiing of the cruolty of Spanish planters, haa reached England Hon. E. B. IVashbunie, ex-Ministor to Franco, was in Berlin laat week, whcro lio was cordially tweived by Emperor William and mombers of the Germán Government. An infinrrection has broken ont in Crete. Two engagements have been fought, in which thirty-ix Turks and seventoon Christians wero killed. Thcssily is reported in a state of brigandage, which must end in innurrection. Ah adveuturous Colorado potato beetle was latoly found in a potato field near Schildau, Saxony. The population of that district imiüfldiately took precautions to stop bis fnrther progress.. . .The plague has brokon out in RnssiM) Pdliuid A French transport with 130 cases of cholera is quarantined at the mouth of the Suez canal It is currently reported and believed in England that the welliüiown Turkish General, Ounian Pasha, is thü ot'lebrated French exile, Mai'shal Bazaino. Soüth Amemcan adicos report another serions earthqaBko in Chili. Oning tothebieaking of the cable from Callao south we are without particulars of the.disastr At a cotmei of lrench miniwtera the other day, at whicl President MacMahon piesided, it was decide to prosecute Gambetta for the speech which lu dehvered at Lille. The journals which publi.-htd it will also be proseeutod. Cou Weij-eslev, the accredited represcntntive of the British Governmont at the headquarters of the Kussiau army operating from the Danube, has made a reixrt to tlie War Office. It has been published as a "Blue Book.' He says that, after a thorough examination oí English and other witnesses of the Kussian operations, he han coiné to tho conclusión thal the charges of Bussian cruelties are absolutelj without foundation Servia has íinally decidod to caat her fortunes with Bussia.