The News Condensed

J. II. bcaENcK & Son, the well-known manufacturera of patent medicines (Philadolphia), have failcd Jacob and Jolm Huutzegcr, lato Prerident and Cashier of tlio Miners' Trust Company, at Pottsville, Pa., have been senteaccd to tno yenrs' BOlitary confinëment and to pay a fino of $500, and to refund to Thomas Kermt, proseoutor, 821,000, with costs. William H. Vanderbilt, the railway milliouairc, while driving one of his fa.st teams, last November, ran over and knockod down one ilutthew Eiley. Tho latter has just diod of hiH injuries, and Vanderbilt ha been held in $2,000 bail. The family of tho deccased internis to brtng suit for heavy damages against Vanderbilt. It is said that several prominent New York bankers are rcady to placo their business on the basis of specie paynients, gold and greonbacks beingacceptedaflinterco'nvfcrtiblo. Thete paities are members of tho Clearing House, and only await the general concurrenco of that body to put their plan iuto effect. The New York eigar-makers' strike is virtually at an end, tho strikers having agreed to return to work at the best ratos they can obtaiu, and the manufacturera agreeiug tliat they would not inquire wbother a man was a unionist or nou-unionit. . . . Five of tho Rcading (Pa.) railroad rioters of last July have pleaded gnilty and received a senteneê of ix months' imprisonment each Tho Finance Coinmittee of the Massachusetts House of representativos has reported a bül making tho State debt payablo in gold. The officials of the New Jersey State Prison aro charged with the most inhuman trearment of the convicts nnder tneir charge, and the Legislatiro is about to instituto an investigatiou iuto tho matter. Among of.hor tortures intlictcd aro tho following : First, the bootheel gag- a very painfnl instrument. Seoond, the paddie - an instrument used to beat prisoners on the bare flesh, iuflictiug intense tarifering. Third, the ntretcher, which is equal to tho raok of olden times. Tho man's feet are fastened to tho floor, ho is handenffed, and is then stretehod by a ropo drawn up to the ceiling as tight as posaiblo. Froin fivo to twenty minutes of this would make anyone wcaken. Fourth, alcohcl is poured on the prisoner's back and set on flro. In one case a man was burned twico in succession, so that the hair on his body crackled, and ho was twice put in the stretcher, rif th, tho douche, which consista n throwing cold wator from a hose upon the naked body of a priaouer. This causes the most agoniziug pain, and is very apt to prouuce insanity. THE WEST. At the Adelphi Theater, Chicago, Mr. F. S. Chaufran, the popular end versatilo comedian and character actor, is playing aa engagement this week in his celebrated play of "Kit, the Arkansas Traveler," which is being produeed with new scenery and mechanical effects, and with a selected compauy. A coebesposdext of the Chicago Tribune telegraphs from Bismarck, D. T.: "A communicatiou from Gen. Milos, at Post Fort Keogh, this evening, siys : ' We have received Indian new3 which is rcally of the most startling character,' and accompanying is a private to vour '■onespondeHt which says this news is official. it comea from an oflicer of Gen. Miles' command, and is as follows : ' Sitting Buil is now camped on Prenchman's creelt with overa thousand lodges, including the escaped Nez Perces and the recent deerters from the agencie? numberiDg 280 lodges, with S00 warriors. Sitting Bull's own camp numbers 2,000 waniors and 5,000 women and chüdreu. They are spleudidly mountcd and anaed? " Gen". Vugust Willicb, who entered the war as a private in tbo Kinth Ohio regiment, and served with distinction in a nnmber of battles, died at Ht. Mary's, Ohio, last week, aged C8 years. Look out for counteifcit 85 notes on the Farmers' National Bank of Virginia, 111. They are woll executed and caleulated to deceive the unwary. LAuarrrr.R agrees with tho Chicago public, jndging fron the midienrea tiiat have attended MeVicker'a Thoatre for tho past week to witness tho four comediacs, Dillon, Reed McViclier and Pcareon, in one casto. The 'play, toAÍÍ,UÍ? S0" is a cew product ion of Mr. W. D. Eaton, a youug journalist, and is called a farcical coniedy. Nobodv can help lati"hmjr at il, as it lüerally bubbles with pure fiw. The annual report of the Indianapolis Board of Trade ehows a falling off of the total business of tho city, but, on tho whole, makes a very encimraging exhibit, especial! v in tho gram trade. The receipts and shipments of wheat are doublé thoso of 1876. Tho receipts of corn and flour wero 25 per cent. more thaa in 1876. Clement, Morton & Co., wholexale clothing merchant of Chicago, wbose rfcent ffiilure threw overSOy peojile out of employmeut, have effected a sottiement with tlu-ir "creditors at 75 oenta on the doliar, and will continuo business. A daiung attemptto rob a train on tho Atchison, ïopek and Santa JFo railroad ïvaa mado and fiustratcd at Kinsley, Kar., test week. Five armed and nmked men entered the etation and captured A. Kincard, tho night tolegraph operator, who was ordcred to open the cafe. Ho refused to do BO, althongh lis Hf wg throatened. Ihe west-bound expross tram arnved by thia time, and the operator, by a denperate eífort, broke loóse and ran t a hotel near b.v, arodsing the iumates. A volley of piütol shots was lired into it, and, as the tram stoppej, Conductor J. W. Mullory was met l;y two of the robbers, who rretented pistoJs to his head and ordcred him iuto the buggage car. He stepped in aud closcd the door, instantly Ftarting the train by pnlling the bollcord. Malloryand the baggagu marter then armed themselveu with carbinew earrted in th car, aud thon stopped tho traiu, after running about. a mile from tho station. They went into the back coaches with arma, bul found tbe robbers not on the train, and that tbe passeugors had not been disturbed. The Chicago papers report that the retail merchanis of that city aro btginniug to pay out gold as " chango ■' for greenbacks ; and at Denver, Col., greeubacks are held at a premium for gold. THE SODTH. A kecent dispatch from Naahville, Tenn., eays : " Coüector Woodcock is systcmatically weeding out iMicit distilleries in this district of forty countics, having since Nov. 20 snpprei-sed iwenly-four, destroying all their contents, and had forty men bound over to tho federal court. Legalized concerns are now starting m tho doplotel districts, distillers aoscrting tuat it is chenper to opérate them than wildcat concernp." A geeat panic was produced in the Holliday Btreot Theater, Baltimoro, tlie other evening, by the explosión of a gas cylinder. Several persons wero injured by thé explosión A decisión of the South Carolina Supremo Court, to tho effect that Ciicuit Judgea must bo tlected by ballot, inrtèad of viva voce, ousts all Circuit Judges electcd m that State, prior to 1S77, by the Hepublican Lugii-latiue, and retains Kershaw and Wallace elected last year by the Deuiocrats. It was a constituí ïonal que.tion involviug tho coustruction of tho word "ballot." Depüty Betcnve Collector Davis has just returued to Nashvillo, Teiui., from a sucocKsful raid on illicit distiüers in Smitb, Putnam and Buoimer counties, dentroyiug threo distüleries and arresting twelvemen ougaged in the trnffic. Iney wcre shot into at oue point, and returned tne ore, Phooling It. 8. Jtoody througli tho wriRt and through the fide, producing perhaps a fatal woniid. Jüüoe Whittakek, of the Superior Criminal Conrt of New Orleana, has overruled tbc niotion for the trausferof tho case of theraeinbcrs of the Louisiiaia Retnrning Board to tho Uuited States .Circuit Court. The applioation aud tguments üf couns.1 wero bastd chiotlv upou tne fact that thire was undue prejudice"a"ainst the accueed, and that they could not obtain juatice in a State cc-urt, tho fact that in the composition of the jury negroes had boon Btudiously cxcluded beiug etronglv dwelt iiiwn m support of this claim. The impressible Myra Clark Gaines is preparing for moro legal conquesta. She is now in Washington ongaged in hnnting up titles to between 16,000 and 17,000 acres of land Iving within ijcventy-thrce milea of St. Loma, which, as shc ouinw, was gruuted to hor father over seventv years ngo by the Government Board of J_.and Cortmnssioners. The mmbers of the late Louisiana Keturning Board have been stin'ing up some excitcment in Now O -kana. They took refuge in the United Stato.s Custom Hone in ordir to et-capo trroit, United Sta'.es Marshal Wurzburger und Depnty Oollectoi Tomlinson Mummiog the rBsponsibilitv of protccting them, a detachmcni of ma"ne? b;-'ns sumnioned from a revenuc t % ,? Bheriff Honatou went o the ( -nslom Jfou,;. and attempt-d to r.m t tüwn, au-1 was lumbclf nrrested i,y the Uti-ted States omeorï. Ho nu taken befare Judge Bilhngs, sitnng i„ the Dnited State Circuit Court, but the latter dmdedt ha thfh.vl inthine to do with the matter. District Attornev Okden telegraphed tho fact to Washington, and mstructions wero sent to the United States olucialu at Nbw Orlcans not to interfere with t he exuoutiou of Die writs of (hu Ötate courts. Iha Eeturning Board men then quietly surreodere-J and wera held to bail in tho fum of $5,000 each. Advices by y of Galventon froni Presidio, I'oxas, report that a party of Toxans woro surrouudcd by a baud of Iudians in the Cópate mountains, and loBt neven men killed aud sevjral wotthded. The Indiana wcre from Stanton reservation, New Mexico, and wcro anned with Winchester rifios. The people are all Secing. In the extremo western part of Texas tlio Indiana are pillaging t-tockranches, which are being abandoncd, and crocfl moet of their booty into Mexico, and Bell it opeuly for what they can get Threo meinbers of tlio Rcturning Board- Anderson, Casanave, and Kenner - were brought into court in Now Orleans on the 29th uit., and tbc trial of the iirst-named person was formally commenced, a motion for a cliange of venuo haviug first been denied. The Attorney General said that the Stato had wiihed to try the case of Wells firsl, bul, as he had disappoared, he agreed to proceed with the caao of Auderson. GENERAL. Thk "gtone man" recontly unearthod in Colorado, like its prototype the "Cardiff giant," proves to be no stone man at all, bnt a grand fraud, conccived and executed by a man namod Hall, of Tioga county, Pa. According to the statement of a citizen of that couuty, Huil, in Fübruary, 1877, molded the figure out of different kinds of dunt, priucipally bone. and aked it in a lime-kiln. It is stated that he sent 10,000 or $12,000, and exhausted his niouoy. Then Barnum saw that it was good, and catne forward and breathed the broath of life into the onterprise, tho giant being immediately shipped to Colorado, and its age set back several millions of years by plenary iudulgeuce. Huil is the "samo genius that perpetratod tho " Cardiff giant" hoax BusinetiB failures : Rhodcs & Server, produce, New York, liabilities $100,000; J. M. Brainard, notions, Cleveland, Ohio, liabilities, unknown; Wood & Co., brass founders, Philadelphia, liabilities, $70,000, assets $45,000 ; J. J. Wrightmsn & Co., Wholesale liquors, Cleveland, Ohio; Dovall & Co., general shipping business, South street, New York, liabilities, $150,000. At a largely-atteuded meeting of tho Western Iron Association, held at Pittsburgh last week, it was resolved to immediately curtail the production af iroD. A United States ship will sail from New York on tho lGth of Februaiy with a cargo of exMbits for the Paris Exhibition. About 400 applications for space have been granted, and these will nearly represent tho number of Iota exhibited. WASHINGTON. It haa been agreed by the House Conimittee on Iudian Affairs to report a bilí for the abolitiou of tbe Indian Bureau, and the transfer of the business to the War Department Capt. A. K. Long, Commissary of Subsistenco at Washington, committed suicide last week. The President, it is reporteil, will soon commnnicato to Congross a special message on Chinese immigration. He will urge, it is represented, that the treaty obligations of the Govermnent toward the Chinese must be strictly obeyed, but will recommend that authority be givon to open negotiatione with China looking to a limitation of the importation of Chiuei-, or a discontinuanco of imniigration altogether Tho President entertained ex-Secretary Bristow and a numbor of distinguished acquaintances at the Executive Mansión one night last week. Tue Secretary of tho Treasury decides that tho department cannot receive for collcction and deposit draf t6 issued by bankers and others in paymont of subscriptions to the 4 per cent. loan An examination of tho quarterly account of tho United States Treasurer, which is the general cash account of tho United States, shows the following figures of receipts and exponditurus : BECFIPTS. Balance dno United .States July 1, 1859, unavailable $ 28,507,62S AvaiJable 4,635,625 Money receivcd by tho Treaeurer Krom July 1, 1S59, to June 30, 1877. 14,835,289,660 Total f 14,868,482,909 ÏXFENDITUHES. Money paid by tlie UnitPd States Treasnrer from July 1, Í859, to June 30, 1K77, and cliarged out by anthority of law $H 653,017,213 Balance due Unitrd Stiltes, unavailable, June 30, 1877 29,585.805 Avuilable at Bauic date 186,819,889 Total expenditures $14,868,482,909 The attorueys for Koelie, J imker t Co., and ot hor whisky fiims iu Chicago involved in tho ring frauda, who havo been in Washington for some time pressing on the President an application for a pardon, have signally failed to accomplish their purpono. Tho consideration of tho pardon is mdefinitely pohtponed, to givo time for tho hearing of tño civil cases agaiust these aud other partios, involving large soms for damages, f orf eitures and taxes. The Commifsioner of the General Land Otüce has reeoiv&d a dwp&tch from Special Aent Héctor, in Florida, stating that the Grand Jury' in Jacksonville found indictments in seventeen caes agaiust alleged timberdepredators in that State, involviDg an immense valuo in lumber, tiniber, tar, turpentino and resin Senator I)avi, of Weat Virginia, who is investigating the alleged di?crepancies in the treasury accounts, claims to havo discovered that, in 1870, tho treasury officials under Gov. Boutwfcll made a forced balauce of $200,000,000 to 8traighten old acconnta. Senator Davis claims tiiat this is a deficit. FOLJTiaax. Pemsidunt Haïes has nddressed a note to Congiossman Glover, who introduced the investigation re?o!utions in the House, in which he naya he will be glad to operato with the cjmmittees in tho proposed invostigations, and to tbat end promises to issue uch directions to tho heads of dejiartmcnts as may be required to secure an effecüve ay.'istancn in the conduct of the investigations Tho United States Senate, in executive sesnion, has rejected tbe nomination of 51. J. Waldron to bo Marshal for tho District of Wei-t Tennessee. Senator Plkjuí, of Kansas, has addresned a letter to tho President on the Bubjtct of civil service. Tho Senator believes that the terms of eervieo of all employés, except of the judicial y, should bc limited to föur years ; that telections should be governed by character and efficiency and that apportionnients should bo mado according to populatiou. Mr. Plumb thinks that members of Cungress should not bo permitttd to díctalo appointments to the Executive or heads of departments.. . . A resolution has been introuuced in the MasKachuöttts Legislature approving the course of Senators Hoar and Dawes in dofendiog the commonwealth against the attack of Jlr. Blaine Hon. WUIiam B. Allison has been ic-elected to tho United States Senate by the Iowa Legislattuc. FedhiiaJj appointments : Benjamin B. Muiray, United States Marshal for Maino ; Nathan Webb, United States Attorney, Maine ; PhiUp T. Van File, United States Attorney, Utah ; John II. Hammond, of Ilh'nois, Indian Inspector ; Thomas Boles, Recorrer of Public Mouoys at Dardanelle, Ark. In the case of Congressman Smalls (oolored), of South Carolina, who bas boon t ried and convicied of corrupt prácticos by a South Carolina court, the Judiciary Committoe of the lawer hoiise oí Cougress decides that hia privilegeê as a member of the House of Representativos do DOt fhield lihn from the custody of his Stato under the charge of felony The resolution introduced in the lower houóoof the Massachn8etts Legislatnre condemning Senator Blaine's attack upon, aud apjilauding Me6rs. Dawes' and Hoar'e defene of tho Biy State, was incuntinently kicked out of tho upper house, every Senator votinic against té auoption. In short, tho MasHachusetts Hcnato affect to ignore the existenco of the Senator from Mainc, and dou't propose to give him any free advertising. Maj. E. A. BnBKE, of Louisiana, having stated in an interview with a correspondent of the Chicago Trilnme that Senator Conkliug had a speech ready last winter oppoëiu tho counting of the vote of Lbnlilana foï Haven, the New York Senator autborize the statement that such charge is abfohitcly false. THK TUKKO-KCSSlAJi WAK. Cable dlispatches of Jan. 23 report that Gourko attacked Suleiman on the 15th, and kopt up a continuous battlo until tho 18th, killing 4,000 Turks and takiug 8,000 prisoners aud a number of cannon. The renmant of the defer.teil army oscapod into tho deflles of the llhodope monntaiiiR. Thk ñight of the Turks fn.m Northeni Ronmelia bas been the caue of Inoaloolable mlaary to themselvos. Open cattle-trucl:s wcre the only mtans of transportation nvallable on the railroad, and into thoRo tho fugitivos Í)ac.ked themselves in huudreds. Snow foll ïcavily, theoold v.rs intenso, and the warma on tho trucks were tar ving. One nightfif.een poor wretohe died on the car from cold and hunger. Multiludes of the refugees at Constontinople are wholly without shelter, whüe tho weathor is ficyere almost beyoná precedent. The English relief agent.s aiJd tlie Tuiki-h Government are doin;; Bomethiug forthi viatiqn of the terrible )!■-.- "f mimyin Constantiuoplo, bi:f, thnir mean are wholly iuadequiite. Dispatcues of Jan. 26 stato that tho Porto haa accepted the preliininories of peace proposed by Rus.-ia. which are aa followB : Servia, Itoumania and Motittncgro to be independent - tho latter to have more territory, but no i aport, as Austria objeots; Bosnia and Herzegovina to h;ive ('hiiatian Govcvnors and refuring n their Governn:c:i; ; Bulgaria, includino a portiou of the terVu rv south of (be Balkans, to have a feparatu ! Govflnmf!!ft, similar to that of Lebauon: Bius( to havo Batoum, Kars, Erzeroum and adjacent territory in Armenia, and part of Bessarabia ; Kussia to require a war indemnity, in money or torritory, or otherwise. Tbis last phrasc ia regarded as raeaning that the Turkiah fleot ia to be taken in part payment. The question of the DardanelleH is left open to bo settled by a Enropean conference. The terma of peaee were not comiminicated to the British Government until Jan. 25, although Austria and Germauy liad been aware of them for several days. When notice was given in Parliament of a domand foradditional appropriation, orders were sent to the British Mediterranoan fleet to occupy the Dardanclles and place sevoral ironclads at Constantinoplo, but, on recoiving information thal a trace bad boen agreed on, thoeo orders wore oouutermanded. In the British Houao of Commona on the 29th xilt., Sir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of tbe Eicheq-jer, expluined at longth England's position with reference to thoEastcrn question. Ho conlined himself almest exclusively to an (ilucijation of that sterootyped and well-worn phraro which has been the watchword of the British Cabiuot and people sinoo the brealung out of the war, to-wit : British interest. ït appears, according to the Chancellor, that the iudependeuco of Bulgaria, and especially if that province shonld be governed by a Princo of Iïussia's choosing, -wonld be most decidedly detrunental to British interests ; that even the temporary occupation of tho Turkiah capital would seriously undermine somo Important interests which her Majcaty's Government is disposed to guard jealouxly ; that the question of the freo navigation of the DardaneUes is one in which Eugland ia peculiarly interested, and also one which must not bo settled by a nep&ratü agreement. Addcd to this Hst of leading interests there are, according to Sir Stafford Northcote, many incidental questions which must bo pasaed upon by a Congross of the powern, in which England must have a commanding voice. To this end ho said it would bo necessary that the extra grant called for bo iminediately voted, in order that the Government might go into the conference with the proper backing, and be enabled to maintain any policy which she might bo called udou to asBume. (iKMíiai, FOKEIGN NEWS. The Vatican, replying to inquries of Nuncios abroad, states that the situation has not been changod by the accession of Prince Ilumbort to the throne of Italy The complete sub jugation of Kashgar by tho Chinese is roported in cable dispatches. The deposed Emircscaped f rom tho countiy, and has appeaJed to the Bussians for assistance in recovering h8 throne.... A dispatch from the City of Mexico saya the Mexican authorities wlll endeavor to learn what ofïicers of the Mexican army invited Lient, Ward, of tho United States forcos, to crossinto Mexico. The Governmont haa Af termined to oppose the crossing of tho boundaiy by American troops. Tiie great trial of the Itussian Nihilista, which commenced at St. Petersburg ou tho 30th of last October, has ended. Of tho 109 prisoners accused, the actual offense wrs proved only against twenty. The remaining eighty-nine were libcrated on bail The nuptials of King Alphonso of Spain and his cousin, PrincesB Mercedes, wero celebratod at Madrid on the 23d of Jauuary. The Duko do Montpensier, father of the bride, gave her 25,000,000 francs, in addition to a great quantity of diamonds. A dispatcu from the United States Yice Consul at Shanghai asking for funds, says: "An appalling famine is raging throughout the fonr provincea of Nortii China. Nine millions of peoplo are reported destitnte. Children are daily sold in tko markets for food." Diepatches from Havanareport that Spain is about to sign a troaty assuming a protectorate of the repnblic of Santo Domingo. Athexs, tho capital of the Greeks, bas been the sceno of violent demonatrations by the war party. Crowds of people besieged the residencea of the Ministers, and were dispersed by the soldiery firing into the mob.