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VOL XXI NO. 303. WEATHER REPORT. Indications for this afternoon For the Middle Atlantic States, increasing winds, mostly from tJie northeast, increasing cloudiness and rain, lower temperature and fall ixg "barometer. ED1TOBUL ESSENCE.

Austria mil remain neutral. Ohio Republicans are hopeful. Pennsylvania Republicans, ditto. Mehemet Ali is growing cautious." Erie Democrats are not very Noyesy, The French socialist manifesto was a fraud. The English pound sterling at par is worth $4,86.63635 iu American gold coin.

The New York Times favors federal supervision of at least all inter State railways. Dubinu tho year ending June 30th, 1877, 81,113 passengers departed frpm the port of for foreign countries. The total exports of species since January 1st this year, were $29,443,987, against $40,094,307 for the same period last and $02,500,517 in 1875. There are seventeen, counties in Ohio in which the County Trcrsurers have lately proved defaulters, and the defaulter' in every instance; is a Democrat. The two schools of homeopathy in Chicago are.

at War the older institution hav ing undertaken to "freeze out" its young rival," with but small show of success. The Cincinnati Times is of opinion that M'Clellan, having accepted the New Jer sey Democratic nomination for Governor, will telegraph to New York for reinforcements. The Cincinnati Gazette believes there is something in the air which indicates that the result in that State will disappoint a great many people. And tho disappointed fellows won't be Republicans. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette A careful look over the political field in Pennsylvania leads us to think that while the vote will not be large, the Republican candidates are safe, and will como out with a fair ma jority.

United States Marshal Wallace, of South Carolina, declares that the cordial reception given the President at the South is of the nature of a conspiracy, to secure the good win. of the President, and thus the offices. The business outlook in California, and along the Pacific slope generally, is reported as much more encouraging at this moment than people have been led to believe by the unfavorable reports touching the leading grain crop in come sections The foreign commerce of New York for the past week was as follows General merchandise imports, including dry goods, produce exports, specie exports, $221,911. 1 Total exports, $7,429,911, or one of the highest figures ever reached. The Atlanta Constitution headed the President's reception in that city: "De 'Lenium's Come;" this followed by: "The "White and the Black, the Blue and the Gray, Defer their Jangles to Another Day Nevertheless, Mr.

Hayes Talks Like Democrat, and that Covers Many Faults. The Surrogate of New York has allowed the lawyers who got up a contest on the Danser will the sum of $6,500, and to those who sustained the will $15,525. The estate is thus made to pay $23,025 to lawyers who got up this contest for the sole purpose of bagging a good fee from it. The proper course would have been to have allowed them nothing. The warmth of the receptions extended General Grant, by theworkingmenin Eng land, are as appropriate as agreeable The ex President and General was a working man, in the plainest sense of the term, before he rose to the dignities and honors of his later life.

In spirit and manner he never ignored his modest early career, and was never ashamed of his humble origin Hon. Wm. A. Newell, Republican can didate for Governor of New Jersey, is one of the most popular man in that State, thoroughly versed in politics and of inde fatigable industry. Those whose sound ness of judgment give their opinions great weight express perfect confidence of his election, as against M'Clellan.

If the lat ter succeeds in the contest it will be the first decided victory of magnitude of his life and even that will not be due to his skill or energy. The story having obtained currency that E. L. Davenport's death was the direct ef fect of medicine administered by a quack, the aforesaid "quack," who turns out to be one of the best known medical practitioners of Boston, contends that his prescriptions were in strict conformity with medical prac tice, the pills which are said to have done for Davenport having consisted chiefly of salacylic acid, being intended for rheumatism. Tho physician is angry at the injurious reports, and threatens to set the machinery of the law in operation against those who circulate them.

This threat will probably have the effect of silencing his de tractors. There are those whose courage is equal to a contest with doctor or lawyer alone; but he is indeed a bold man who bids defiance to these two powers when acting in conjunction with each other. AGRICULTURAL NOTES. Mercer county farms bring ninety dol lars per acre. The York countv fair will open on Tuesday, the 2d day of October.

r. Zimmerman, whose' farm is about six miles north of Frederick city, has on his place a pear tree one hundred years old, which is still bearing fruit. Recently Charles Shultz, of Mummas burg, killed a lamb on the farm of Henry Deardorff, Franklin township, two months and ten days old, which weighed fifty seven pounds. The West Pennsylvania Agricultural Society paid nearly $3,200 of their debt on Tuesday last a note of $2,700 in the First rJank and balance to 'Mr. Young, This only leaves about $500 of a floating ueoi.

mercer ress. In 1873, Mr. Deckar, of Centre county, louna a grain oi wncat in a package of cof fee that he had bought at his village store He planted that single grain and this fall he threshed twenty nine bushels. It is a white wheat, very large in the grain, and weighs sixty six pounds to the bushel. Mr Deckar calls it the coffee wheat.

He will sow sixteen acres this fall all from a sin gle grain in four years ago. is is ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE. THE DEMOCRATIC BOCK SHIVERED. The Ancient Order of Hibernians Determined to Split "Old What the Chief of the Order Has to Say. Pittsburg Telegraph, Sept.

26. The widespread disaffection and the effort on the part of certain leaders of the Democratic party in this county to organize an opposition to Col. Noyes, the candidate of the "unterrified" for State Treasurer, has been duly recorded in the columns of the Telegraph, and om readers are already well aware that the "jolly lumberman of the Susquehanna" is far from being a strong candidate in this locality however popular he may be in the pine woods of the West Branch. The muttcrings of malcontents do not become weaker as election day approaches; on the contrary sthe defection from Square Timber" is growing and spreading daily, and "at its present rate "of progress there no telling where it may stop, It is stated that many of the workingmen in the mills during their diurnal discussions of their dinners and political subjects, take occasion to ventilate the record that Noyes is supposed to have made in favor of corporations while in tho Legislatureand urge npon their fellow, laborers theadvisability of casting their, votes in the other direction. These men cite the fact that the charges which have been brought against Noyes have not been controverted or denied by the Post or other organs of Democracy here, and argue from this that they are unanswerable.

That workirigmen'and 6thers are concentrating iu opposition ttf Noyes there can be no doubt in the mind of any close observer of political events. The following of Mr. Patrick Foley among the workingmen of Temperanceville is quite formidable, and his influence is greatly feared by those who are interested in bringing out a solid support for the Democratic ticket. Other delegates to the State Convention are no less hostile to Noyes, and their influence in the aggregate will probably take several hundred voters from Noyes who in times past could have been' counted on as reliable through evil as well as good report. But a greater defection than the one led by Foley, Larkin et al.

has just been brought to light, and if the movement now projected carried out according to the programme it cannot fai "to result disastrously to Noyes and defeat hiim beyond peradventure. This is the revolt of the Ancient Order of Hibernians in a body. The statement that this order would oppose Noyes having" been made in certain quarters, although not currently, reported, a representative of the Telegraph this morning called on State Delegate James Moran, tho head of the A. O. H.

of Pennsylvania, to learn the facts respecting this new source of alarm and danger to the Democratic applicant for the monev bags of the Treasury. Mr." Moran stated that in all probability the strength of the Hibernians in Allegheny county would be diverted from Noyes. The order numbered 2,500 in this county, of which number about 1,500 were voters. He was opposed to Noyes individually and should endeavor to prevail upon all members of the order to take a similar position. The religious issue had been brought out in Conventions before but never so boldly as in the one, and the Hibernians had made up their minds to cut; off.

their con nection with the party witli wmch they had heretofore acted. In his opinion all of the Hibernians in this county would oppose Noyes, and the probability was that they would vote fort Hart, although they might support tne candidate oi the party. In tho State there were about 30,000 Hibernians and so far as Mr. Moran knew the same feeling existed in regard to Noyes all over the State as in Pittsburg. Judg ing from the expressions of Mr.

Moran, there will be, a vigorous and determined op, position? on the part of the. Order to Mr; Noyes, with a probability that their entire voting membership will be transferred to the support of Hart. No matter how much theDemocratic papers may seek to ignore the fact, it is patent to all who are iosted, that Noyes' campaign in this vneck oi timber is in a very bad way. DAUPHIN county 'republican mittee; COM The following named gentlemen consti tute the Dauphin County Com mittee I Harrisburg lirst ward, 1st precinct, Herman Backus. First ward, 2d precinct, Wm.

Sheesley. Second ward, Rob' W. Crawford. Third ward, W. S.

Cornman. Fourth ward, W. O. Fox. Fifth ward, A.

B. Tack. Sixth ward, 1st precinct, Wm. Weeber. Sixth ward, 2d precinct, A.

L. Thomas. Seventh ward, J. B. Fioyd.

Eighth ward, 1st precinct, C. W. Jiighth ward, 2d precinct, Simpson. ward, John Beatty. Middletown 10 North ward, Wm.

A. Cioll. Middle ward, D. J.fBoynton. South ward, Isaiah Willis.

Townships Conewago, Alfred Felty. 1 East Londonderry, John J. Lbngnecker est Londonderry, Jacob R. Nissley. Lower Swatara, Isaac Mumma.

Highspire, Samuel Poorman. Upper Swatara, H. Shope. Baldwin, Frank Ai Smith. Derry, Christopher Moyer and Jeremiah Balsbaugh.

Hummelstown, K. Burkholder. South Hanover, Albert Hoerner. East Hanover, A. G.

Rider. West Hanover, Christian Cassel. LingleBtown, U. Mr Feeser, Lower Paxton, David C. Cassel.

Susquehanna, East precinct, Sam'l Long necker. Susquehanna, West precinct, Enos M. Russell. Dauphin, Henry D. Greenawalt.

Middle Paxton, Dr. P. Snyder. Halifax borough, A. Fortcnbaugh.

Halifax, Paul J. Ryland. 7 Reed, Jacques Rauch. Jefferson, Hiram Y. Lenker.

Jackson, Isaiah T. Enders. Millersburg borough, W. Upper Paxton, John H. Fetterholf, 1 Washington, Jonas Rowe.

Mifflin, John W. Hoffman. Berrysburg borough, Wellington Swab, Uniontown borough, Jeremiah Swab. Lykens, Preston Artz. 1 Gratz borough, John B.

Gise. Lykens borough, A. F. Thompson. Wiconisco, Lewis N.

Morgan. Williams, J. C. Holwig. i Rush, Tobias Shadel.

i John H. Weiss, Chairman. Secretaries John H. Harmburg. H.

L. Lark, Berrysburg. DISCOVERY OF THE REMAINS LCMBUS. OP CO Havana, Sept. 27.

The Havana papers to day publish particulars of the discovery of what are alleged to be the remains of Columbus, ban uomingo. winlo they do not deny that it is, possible that the re mains may tnose ai. ine grea discoverer, they consider it to be highly improbable. QUICKLY DISPOSED OF. Denver, Sept.

27. Two of the highwaymen who recently robbed the ex press car on the Union Pacific railroad were overtaken yasterdav near Wallace, Kansas, by a posse. The robbers made a stand, and were both killed and sixteen thousand dol lars in gold coin recovered. It is expected man oinerswiu be captured to day. of in HARRISBURG, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1877.

PRICE, TWO CENTS. A UTTLE PLAIN TALE. Harrisburg, Sept. 28, 1877. Editor of Evening Telegraph: Please permit me to correct a statement which appeared in this morning's Patriot in reference to my late visit to Allegheny county.

The Patriot's charge that I have no better employment than traveling around visiting lodges of Mollie Maguires, is utterly and maliciously false. My mission was not to lodges of Mollie Maguires, but to my countrymen and co religionists in general, for the purpose of proving to them the truth the assertions so prevalent in this section, namely: That the editor of the Patriot, and ther leaders of the Demacratic party, did raise the issue of Mr. Barr's Catholicism before and during their late Convention, and that it was owing to the untiring efforts of said editor and leaders that Mr. Barr was "politically murdered" the, house of kis treacherous friends. Such, Mr.

Editor, was my mission, and that it will bring forth bitter fruit on the sixth of next Mr. Meyers and his chief, "Sitting Bull," will learne to their cost. It is time that Catholics learn the hvoocrisv of the leaders they have so blindly followed, and I assure these hypocrites that I shall leave nothing undone to show my countrymen how rotten and false are the feelings of the leaders of this party of reform. I wish to say, for the better enlightenment of the editor and his chief, "Sitting Bull," that my late visit to Allegheny was not of the mysterious kind, as was that of one of its followers, who arrived in the Smoky City about the same time your correspondent did. What I did was done in open daylight in the work shops, blast furnaces, rolling mills, while the Mysterious Pilgrim, Tom Badger, done up in white kids, white vest and with his hair parted in the middle, danced around the Monongahela House, while his cards were being conveyed around to prominent Catholics to call on his dan dyship.

and be persuaded that there was no truth in the story of Mr. D. O. Barr being slaughtered on account of his religion. But the only success the pilgrim met with was in silencing a certain newspaper.

For the amount of the consideration, I refer to Sitting BulL the chief of the Mysterious Pilgrims of Philadelphia. I am also charged with making public the contents of a private letter written by Mr. I). O. Barr, prior, to the late Democratic Convention.

That I brand as a lie cut from the whole cloth, and I challenge the editor and his chief, "Sitting Bull," to prove their assertion. No so with a certain letter which the editor of the Patriot is aware is in existence, and which will see daylight to his utter disgust. In conclusion, let me again assure the editor of thePatriot and his chief, 4 'Sitting Bull, thatT my efforts will be as untiring for the benefit of my party and its candidates as have been his to draw money out of the State Treasury to which he had no lawful claim. Catholics will resent the insults so flaunt ingly thrown in their face, as the returns of November 6th will show! Very respectfully, J. C.

DeLANEY. PHILADELPHIA NOTES. From the Papers of To day. The total patients treated at the Episcopal Hospital during the past three months was 410. The current expenses were $311, 533 03.

Mrs. Sarah S. Hale, who still writes for Godcy's Lady's Book, is in her eighty ninth year, and owes her physical and men tal preservation to constant occupation. Yesterday noon there was a meeting of the stockholders of the reorganized Philadelphia, Newton and New York railroad ompany who voted in favor of the issuance of 700,000 for the completion ot the road. Health Officer Addicks notifies consign ees, captains ana pilots oi vessels arriving at this port that quarantine will be continued until further notice on vessels arriving from southern ports.

The Union Home for Old at Forty eighth and Lancaster avenue, was lormally opened yesterday. I he new Home, in which there are accommodations for 150 persons, was purchased for $15,000. The new insane asylum commission visited yesterday afternoon the site selected upon which to erect the buildings. The commission have established headquarters in the Baptist Publication Buildings, No. 1420 Chestnut street.

William Henderson had a hearing yes terday before Magistrate Collins, charged with being the leader of a gang of roughs, who tried to intimidate some workmen em ployed in building a culvert in Mayland ville, Twenty seventh ward, on Wednesday evening. He was held in $2,000 bail for trial. Early yesterday morning a package containing plaster of paris moulds, with impressions of twenty five, ten and five cent pieces, was found by Officer Haggerty lying on a pench in the park, in the vicinity of the Fairmount Park Art Association Building, at Green street entrance. The moulds are now in possession of United States Marshal Kerns. NEW YORK NOTES.

From the Papers of To day. Six foreign steamers, which sailed yes terday, carried foreign mails consisting of letters and bags ot papers. The six free baths of the city have been patronized since their opening in June by 2,218,023 persons, one seventh ot whom were women. Three sailing vessels left this port yes terday with cargoes of over 500,000 brick to be used in building the burnt district of St. John, N.

B. A peanut stand, on Chambers street, closely locked and deserted by its owner, bore the following legend, yesterday, on a card "Closed on account of a death in the family." More than 700,000 bushels of grain were brought to the city yesterday. The canal freights were unusually heavy, lorty canal boats bringing 330,021 bushels of com alone. During the present season 11,912 docs have been licensed, bringing to the city a revenue of $23,824. The dog catchers' harvest yielded 8,501 canines, of which number 8,231 were drowned.

The catchers received $2,550, and $525 were paid to ran som dogs. The Flower Mission, under the care of the young ladies of the New York churches, will be continued until the middle of October. Yesterday the gifts of cut flowers were abundant and beautiful. One of the fair missionaries took 1,027 small bouquets to Ward's Island, for distribution among the sick people in the hospitals. While Patrolman James Mulligan, of the Eighth Precinct, was arresting Lizzie Sheridan for disorderly conduct, the woman turned on the officer and stabbed him in the forehead with a pair of scissors, inflicting a slight wound.

The woman was locked up at the Prince Street Police Sta tion.J'v't ('What can sufferers with Kidney, Bladder or Urinary Diseases, require more than prompt relief and speedy cure? HUNT'S REMEDY promptly relieves and is a sure cure. Pain in the Side, Loins and Back, Gravel, Diabetes, Dropsy, and Blight's Disease, are cured by HUNT'S REMEDY. Family Physicians prescribe HUNT'S REMEDY in their practice. Clarke's Tooth stantlyj Ache Dbpb cure in FIRST EDITION. S.

30 O'CLOCK. THE MORTON FRAUDS. Hearing of tlie Case Yesterday in Court. Philadelphia, Sept. 27.

There has been a decided turn in public opinion since the arrest of President John Morton and his associates in the management of the West Philadelphia passenger railway company, and now that they have been held for trial there is a general feeling of satisfac tion that justice is to be allowed to take its course. When the guilty parties were arrested last evenings Morton promptly 'repaired to the office of Magistrate Smith and bail was ready. George Vickers, late private secretary to the President, was held in $10,000, which was raised before midnight, but Samuel P. Huhn, the Treasurer, went to jail, being able to secure only half of the $50,000 required. At the same time a warrant had been issued for John R.

Nagle, who had been present at a two hours' meeting of his creditors in the Ledger building that afternoon. An hour after he left Con stable Jamison started after him with a warrant. He, found him at a farm house of his at Chestnut Hill, which is just outside the city limits, at 2 o'clock this morning, and reached the city about daylight with him. The hearing was fixed for 11 o'clock. The charge in the warrant sworn to by Samuel Baugh, the new President of the Market Street Road," was that John S.

Morton, Samuel P. Huhn and B. P. Stokes, respec tively President, Secretary and Treasurer of the road, had fraudulently issued about eleven thousand shares of stock with intent to defraud the company and the persons to whom this stock was delivered that the proceeds of this stock were converted to the use of these parties and to Samuel P. Huhn and John R.

Nagle, trading as John R. Nagle Co. also, that the funds of the company had been fraudulently drawn out of the banks 'where; they were deposited and delivered to parties unknown to the plaintiff. Mr. Morton looked carworn and weary as he took the stand, and, though he showed no disposition to prevaricate or conceal tho facts, he spoke in a low tone of voice, which was quite inaudible much of the time.

He testified that there had been an over issue of about eleven thousand shares of stock, the certificates' of which were signed by himself and Huhn and Stokes, though some were not signed by the latter. These shares were delivered to James R. Nagle Co. The partners in this firm came to him in 1873 and told him that they should be compelled to make an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. They were then largely in debt to the company for money taken without his knowledge.

They said they could tide over the trouble if they could get an over issued certificate for 800 shares of stock, which they could use as collateral. After this they kept on calling for more and more stock until the 14th instant. In all they had received 2,500 shares, which they had pledged at $100 a share. They said that if they did not get this money, they would make an immediate assignment, and they had things: so arranged that their creditors could not get anything. Vickers had been a conductor and a detective before he became Morton's private secretary, and, though he knew of the overissue, had nothing to do with it.

Samuel Baugh, the President, then testified that the cash balance of $181,492 29 reported in the treasury January 1 had been made up by checks for $108,181, which were deposited one day and taken out the next. There was some attempt to reduce the amount of bail, but the sums were contin ued as before, with Nagle held in Bondsmen were forthcoming for all but Huhn, who goes to jail. Curiosity is growing more intense every day to know what has been done with the money. It is evident that over a million was raised by these overissues, and yet only $100,000 is accounted for $75,000 by Reading speculation and $25,000 in the Centennial Catalogue. It is now believed that Morton had an interest in the Ransom Steam car works, which had put six cars on the road but had never built any for any other line.

THE RUSS AND THE TURK. Mehemet Ali Ke treats Unsuccessful Assault on Plevna Sickness Among the Kussiaus Operations of the Montenegrins Reinforcement of rievna IJattle Imminent in Armenia. Vienna, Sept. 27. Newspapers here announce that in consequence of a large con centration of Russian troops and the difficulty of supplies, on account of bad weather, Mehemet Ali on the 24th inst.

commencea retreating to nis lormer position on the Kara Lom. London, Sept. 28. The Daily News'1 lately, before Plevna, telegraphs from Bucharest, Wednesday night, as follows "The Roumanians have been unsuccessful in their attempt to capture the second Qrivica redoubt, after having sapped close up to it. They displayed great gallantry and suffered severely.

1 Tho correspondent of the Daily News with the Czarewitch's army, telegraphs from Caikoi: Fever is prevalent and dysentery has iucreased much with the bad weather. The spirit of the troops is unchanged. They are always cheerful, and undergo hardships without a murmur. Cettinje, Sept. 27.

At Goransko the Montenegrins took 300 regular prisoners, and captured three cannon and 500. rifles. The Montenegrins have also occupied Piva, captured Fort Cikvica, and now hold tho whole territory as far as Fotscha. They have totally bumed Bilek and the sur rounding villages, after sending the sick, wounded and non combatants to Trebinge. London, Sept.

27. A Russian official dispatch issued at Gorny Studen says: On the 22d about 10,000 Turkish infantry from Sofia, supported by artillery, forced their way through our cavalry, posted to intercept them, and entered Plevna. Further details aro wanting. All is quiet around Rustchuk and in tho Balkans. The Daily News has the following special, dated Erzeroum, Thursday: "Twenty two thousand Russians have arrived opposite Mukhtar Pacha centre, and a battle imminent." is THE COAL QUESTION.

Reduction of Prices by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Company. Yokk. Sept. 27. The afternoon papers say the sales department of the Lehigh and Wilksbarre Coal Company in this city have issued a circular marking their prices from 45 to 70 cents per ton lower than the Reading company, delivered alongside in New York, and from 25 to 50 cents lower than the Lehigh region producers delivered the same.

Refusal of Operators to Advance Wages. IIazlkton, Sept. 27. A demand having been made by the miners of certain collieries for an advance in wages, the operators of this region met to day to consider the question. They decided that the price of coal did not warrant the advance asked for, and declined to entertain the proposition of the miners.

Resumption at Warrior Run. WiLKESBAiiiiE, Sept. 27. The miners employed at Dun mines, near Sugar Notch, resumed work to day. SUICIDE OF A LAWYER.

Richmond, Sept. 27. S. Travels Phillips, a prominent lawyer of Staunton, and formerly Commonwealth's attorney, was found dead in bod to night shot through the head, and a pistol still in his hand, lie was the son of the Rev. R.

H. Phillips, of in or so of I the Episcopal Church. WASHINGTON NEWS. Tbe Patent Office Fire. Washington, Sept.

27. The Commissioner of Patents having received reports from all the chiefs of divisions in his bureau in regard to losses by the recent fire that building, makes the following official announcement Apart from the damage done to the building, the pecuniaryloss occasioned by the fire of the 24th inst. is not very srreat. No files of pending applications or of patents of rejected applications were lost or damaged, and no original drawings except in very few cases, were destroyed by the fire. Those drawings destroyed were only of one issue (September 4, 1877), and of those, photo Uthographic copies had been made, that no inconvenience will arise from their destruction.

A considerable number photo lithographic copies were burned, but of these in no case were all the copies burned of any one patent, a part of the copies having been preserved by storage in another room of the building, which was uninjured by the fire. The library was uninjured. There was no disturbance of the original files of the record room, which contained the bound volumes, specifications and drawings, and none of the assignment records. Some of the examiners' rooms were damaged by water and temporarily disturbed by the removal of the papers, but the examiners are all at wortk and all other employees, with the exception of some of the copyists, whose rooms were damaged by water. There will be no interruption of the business of the office.

The examina tion of applications will go on as usual and patentswill be issued without delay.But very little trouble is anticipated practically from the loss, since examinations are made almost wholly from the drawing and speci cations. The force is at work rescuing from the debris all the unconsumed portions of the models, and wherever they were of metal models will be preserved, blackened by the fire, but not destroyed. Examining the Public Tlie Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War, the committee appointed by the Cabinet yesterday to examine into the fire proof condition of the several public buildings, commenced operations to day by making a thorough examination of the Treasury Department. They will continue their observations in the other buildings with a view of making as early a report as possible. The subject will be one of the important points of the President's message to Congress.

THE DIVORCE BUSINESS IN UTAH. Salt Lake City, Sept. 27. The committee appointed by the grand jury to investigate the records of the Probate Court of Salt Lake county, reports that from Sep tember, 1876, to September, 1877, upwards of three hundred divorces were granted. Eighty per ceut.

of that number were applied for when both parties to the suit were non residents and beyond the jurisdiction of the court. There is reason to believe that other county probate courts of the Territory are likewise engaged in this class of divorce business to an equal if not to a greater ex, tent. One hundred and fifty cases are complete in detail, giving the residences of "the plaintiffs and defendants, the date of the complaint and tho name of the attorney when given. This last shows that attorneys have appeared in only sixty five cases, as follows George A. Webster, 27 George C.

Bates, 19 M. M. Bane, 16, and S. S. Smith, 1.

KOAD AGENTS FOILED. Cheyenne, W. Sept. 25. The regular weekly treasure coach from Deadwood was stopped by: two masked men near Cheyenne river, on Wednesday night last.

Resistance was made and scout Davis, one of the messengers, was wounded in; the leg, disabling him. The robbers i then got possession of arms in the coach, but were unable to force the iron safe. GENERAL GRANT AT SHEFFIELD. London, Sept. 27.

A banquet was given in honor of General Grant by the Mayor and corporation of Sheffield to night. The proceedings were very enthusiastic. Mr. Mundella, M. in a cordial speech, proposed the health of General Grant, who, in reply, referred to his constant aim during his Presidency to establish a good under standing with England.

COAL SENT TO MARKET. Amount of coal sent to market for the week ending September 22, 1877 FROM THE SCHUYLKILL 11KGION. Week. Anthracite. 1877.

1876. 113,682 20,599 134,281 By rail 120,288 By canal. 21,653 Total. 147,941 134,281 13,060 4,131,023 2,877,398 2,877,397 Increase. .1,253,625 FROM ALIj THE REOIOKS.

Week. 1877. 1876. Anthracite 364,016 507,860 Bituminous 84,053 69,402 448,069 577,262 Decrease Anthracite 143,854 Increase Bituminous 14,631 Year. Anthracite 13,994,350 12,065,9 76 Bituminous 2,269,744 2,520,750 Total 14.586,726 Increase Anthracite 1,928,374 Decrease Bituminous 251,006 Miners' Journal.

STATE NEWS. Berks county has a four eared pig. Bears are plenty in Forest county. Pittsburg has about twice as many lawyers practicing at its bar as in 1872. There were nineteen deaths in Reading last week.

Smallpox, typhoid pneumonia, diphtheria and croup prevail in Reading. Philadelphia complains of a superabundance of silver coin. There were 84 deaths in Pittsburg last week. Of these thirty were caused by diphtheria alone. "We are in receipt of a historical sketch of the Bethlehem water works by Robert Rau.

It is claimed that Titusville is one of the prettiest cities in Western Pennsylvania. The Pittsburg Exposition proves to be a grand success, as thousands visit the show daily. A cat in Allegheny City attacked two young men, and inflicted such severe inju ries that a physician naa to be called in. A green rose is one of the attractions in the floral establishments of Mrs. Davis' garden, Third street above Franklin, Read, ing.

Of G06 persons committed to the county jail in Pottsville last year, 25 were incarcerated for murder and 24 for conspiracy to murder. A lay delegate to tho Methodist Conference at Johnstown was swindled into exchanging good greenbacks for three ten dollar counterfeit coins. A Pottsville beau showed the object of his affections how to use a revolver, and gave a practical illustration by lodging a a bullet in her foot. A wrestling match between a Millers town man and a Vermonter, came off at Millerstown a few days ago, and was won by the Millerstown man. The baby show at New Castle, which took place on the 27th, was largely attended.

The managers have made calculations for over one hundred babies. A observant gentleman counted no less than thigy fivo tramps passing eastward on ot along the railroad, at the Johnstown depot, within a brief space of time the other even ing There is some talk of a footrace of fifty yards to be run in the course of a few days the "ten acre," below Minersville, between several of the heavy weights of Johnstown and vicinity. It is stated by a Pittsburcr nhvsician that diphtheria is not a contagious disease, and that it never attacks a child whose system is not depressed by bad health or by exposure to cold or dampness. There is, in the mill of Henry Keener, in Tulpehocken townshin. Berks coun ty, a rope scale bearing the date of 1772, which has been in constant use since that date, or for a period of more than a century.

The preacher in this city who says prepatory for preparatory, on Sunday told his congregation to remember the language Christ, "United we stand, divided we fall." Allentown Chronicle. Owing to the prevalence of a malignant cattle disease in some parts of the west and as near as northern Ohio, the butchers of Meadville have asked that a meat inspector be appointed for that city. A good idea. A new bank has been established at Somerset by a number of well known citizens, of that place, which has had no banking facilities since the suspension of the house of M. A.

Sanner some weeks since. Charles J. Harrison is cashier. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Reported by 'White, Poweix Bankers and Brokers, 42 South Third street, Philadel Pa.

mxADXLFHU, Sept. 28. Stocks are weak; Pennsylvania 6s, 3d issue, 112; Philadelphia and Erie railroad, 9: Reading railroad, 15J4; Pennsylvania railroad, 2 Northern Central railway, 15 Lehigh Navigation, 18 Lehigh Valley railroad. 3sXi: Norristown railroad, 100; Central Transportation, 30; Oil Creek railroad, 8k United Companies of New Jersey, 127 Little Schuylkill rail road. 38.

Nkw York, Sept. 28. Stocks opened firm, and afterwards fell off a fraction money. 4 rold, 103: 5 20s. new.

105VS: 67. 10116: 10 40s. 10996 New York Central and Hudson Kiver Railroad, 100 Erie Railway, 11; A ress, 96V; Michigan Central. 68U: Adams Ex Michigan 1 Southern, 63V; Illinois Central. 71 Cleveland and Pittsbm 82; Chicago and Rock Island, un; msDurg ana ort wayne, 90; western Union Telegraph, 78.

Baltimore, Sept. 28. Flour is dull and unchanged. Wheat Southern is steady and the demand fair; Western spot is quiet and steady; Southern red, good to prime, $1 301 45; do. amber, $1 48i 50; do.

white, $1 401 50; Western, steamer, $1 29; do. No. 2 winter red, spot, $1 471 48; October, $1 40; November, 91 ct5 diu; no. sso. a winter rea, sji si.

tjorn Southern Is quiet and firm; Western is quiet and firm; Southern white, 7071c; d. yellow, 6162c Western mixed, spot and October, 57c; November, 59c bid; steamer, 54c. Oats are scarce and firm; Southern, 3338c; Western white, 3536c; do. mixed, 3335c. Rye is quiet and easier at 6568c.

Provisions are firm and unchanged. Butter choice grades are scarce and nrm; low and medium grades are dull and nominal; choice Western, 2022c. Petroleum is easier, and not quotably lower. Whisky is quiet and easier at $1 12. Philadelphia.

September 28. Flour is linn; superfine, extras, $5 50: Pennsylvania family, $6 757 25; Minnesota $6 75750; patent and high grades, $8 009 50. Rye flour, $4 37iffi 4 50. Wheat is weak; amber, $1 441 52 red. $1 44I 46.

Corn meal, $3 25. Corn is steady; yellow, 60gg61c; mixed, 5960c. Oats are steady; Pennsylvania white, 3640c; Western do, 35 39c. Western 3235c. Rye is quiet at 6770c.

Provisions are quiet mess pork, $14 0014 60 beef hams held 18c India mess beef, $23 0025 00: hams, 1314c; pickled do. llllc; green do, 8c; smoked shoulders, 7c; shoulders In salt, 6J46c. Butter is firm: creamery, 2628c New York and Bradford county extras, 2426c; Western reserve, 22 24c Eggs are steady, Pennsylvania, 2021c; Western, 1920c. Cheese is steady; New York fancy, 1313c; Western do, Petroleum is nominal; refined, 1515c crude. W10c Wlusky is firm; Western, $1 12.

iNBW ions, September 28. lour state ana Western is in buyers' favor: Southern is dull and declining. Wheat spoil linn; futures l2c better; No. 2 spring, September, $1 37J4 1 38 do October, $1 29 bid, $1 31 asked do November, $1 27 bid, $1 30 asked No. 2 Northwest, September, $1 38I 39; No.

2 winter red, September, $1 50 bid; do. October, $1 40 bid, $1 45 asked do. November, $1 35 bid, $1 40 asked. Corn lc better; mixed Western, 55 for spot; 5658c for future. Oats are steady; mixed Western and State, 3237c white 3344c.

Beef is quiet and firm. Pork is firmer; new mesSj $14 1014 20. Lard is Ann; September, $9 25 for steam rendered October, 22 bid, 27 asked. Butter is firm. Whisky is quiet; Western, $1 13.

SECOND EDITION. 3:30 O'CLOCK. COLLISION ON A SWITCH. Wakren, Sept. 28.

The New York Express on the Boston and Albany railroad, due at 4:45 yesterday afternoon, ran off the main on to a side track by the misplacing of a switch, and came in collision with some freight cars. The engineer applied the air brake, but the distance was so short that the engine ran into the cars, throwing them off the track and demolishing three of them. The engine was also badly smashed and the mail car damaged. No one was hurt except the engineer and fireman, who were slightly bruised. MEHEMET ALI'S RETREAT.

London, Sept. 28. The retirement of Mehemet Ali behind the Kehara Lom seems to indicate that the Turks will be satisfied to maintain their present advantages and depend on the winter to force the Russians back across the Danube. The Times' Shumla special says the retrograde movement was partly because the recent rains rendered it difficult to bring up supplies, and partly on account of the Russians massing considerable forces on the Lom. THE TWEED INVESTIGATION.

New York, Sept. 28. Tho Tweed al dermanic investigating committee resumed its session to day, but neither the "Boss" nor the commissioners' counsel put in an appearance. Alderman Cowing took the opportunity to place himself straight on the records. He said the object of his cross examination of Tweed was to ascertain the truth, and not to suppress it, as had been charged.

The investigation was adjourned until to morrow morning. NATIONAL LIBERAL LEAGUE CON GRESS. Rochester, Sept. 28. A call is published for a National Liberal League Congress, to be held in this city October 26th, 27th and 28th.

The platform will be, total separation of church and state, national protection for national citizens, and universal education on the basis of universal suffrage. The question of nominating a president and vice president for 1880 will be considered. A LIGHT SENTENCE. New London, Sept. 28.

James E. Buddington, who killed Wm. Thompson at Greeton, September 10, and pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to ninety days in the county jail. THE NEWMARKET RACES. London, Sept.

28. At the Newmarket iirst October meeting to day, the race for the Newmarket October handicap was won by the three year old filly Rylston. JOURNALS AND JOURNALISTS. The Cambridge Index has been sold to Geo. Morgan, who, it is said, will remove it to Meadville.

E. K. Hart, formerly editor of the Pittsburg Evening Telegraph, is now night editor of the Philadelphia Record. Frank Millett, son of Dr. Asa Millott, of Bridgewater, is at the Russian front, reporting for the London Times.

Daniel Dechert, the old Pilgrim of the Valley Spirit, is now publishing a weekly paper, the Border Express, at Danville, Vir ginia. William C. Bryant will be 84 on the 3d of November. His paper, the New York Urenmgrost, is in its 70th year, and has nau uui two cmei euitors. ine iirst was William Coleman, who occupied the post for 26 years, and the sectnd is Mr.

Bryant. at of of to to in LATE NEWS. By Mail and Wire. There was one death from yellow fever Fernandina yesterday. Ten new cases were reported.

Bonnett, Schenck Earle, segar maim facturers, New York, have failed. Liabilities, $135,000. The American Health Association contiuued its session at Chicago yesterday. Dr. Elisha Harris, of York, was elected President.

5j The President of the Board of Health Jacksonville, says there are no signs yellow fever there. Messrs. of New York, "who suspended some time ago, have been readmitted to the Stock Exchange. Two men and two women of the well do or 4 'middle class" have been sentenced be hanged in England for starving a woman to death. Pilot boat No.

7, which was engaged the recent attempt at segar smuggling, has been seized and lies at Boston, in charge of the, United States authorities. The case has not yet come up in court. A second meeting of sugar dealers was held at New York on Wednesday and a committee selected to visit Secretary Sher man and have the order revoked reducing drawbacks on refined sugar after October 1. Nat Pierce, who was implicated in killing Story and Kilpatrick in Pickens county, last month, was taken from the Carrolton, jail on Wednesday night by about twenty masked men and hanged. John Perry, residing three miles from Hydeville, after quarrelling' with his wife on Wednesday, and agreeing to leave her for two hundred dollars, returned at night, set fire to the house, and afterward shot himself through the heart.

The Minnesota Republican convention unreservedly approved the President's Southern and civil service policies, favor early resumption of specie payments, and remonetization ot silver, i ne present state officers were renominated. Company Twentieth Infantry, and twenty five men from Fort Snelling, have started for the ChippeWa Indian Agency at White Earth, on the Northern Pa cific railroad. The Indians of that agency are mostly farmers and very peaceable peo ple, but have been for months very much excited by a religious quarrel, to which the Catholic priest on the one side and Agent btowe on the other were the principal parties. The boiler of a locomotive attached to a freight train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad exploded on Wednesday night at Rocky Hill, Warren county, killing the engineer fireman and a brakeman, and sliirhtlv woundimr several others. The conductor was badly bruised, but he succeeded in crawling far enough forward to ircr thp.

Kniith hnunrf Ttassanpar train and avert a collision. There were a number of race horses on the train. Cardin's Morgan filly and Sazerac were killed, and Satinet and Bergamot were injured. A dispatch from Quincy, 111., says a prominent stock dealer named Johnson kept a balance in the Macomb Bank, drawing against it whenever necessary in his purchase of cattle. Some one had evidently became acquainted with the fact, and a telegram, dated at Quincy and signed Johnson, was sent to the rMacomb Bank, requesting that be iorwarded to Iia Prairie by express.

On Sunday a man falsely representing himself to be Johnson called on the express agent at La Prairie and received the cash. The swindler was not arrested. Bench warrants were issued at Tow sontown, yesterday, for the arrest of Judges Grason and YeUott, of the Baltimore fcounty circuit court. The warrants were based upon true bills founded upon indictments presented by the late Grand Jury for obstructing and hindering their investigations into alleged frauds of county officials by adjourning court in June last to September before their investigations were concluded. The present Grand Jury has also made an additional presentment against Judge YeUott, charging him with "drunkenness," rendering him unfit to maintain the dignity of the court.

On this presentment no indictment has yet been foundj The Prohibitionists' conference continued in session in New York yesterday, Rev. Dr. Cumming, "of Connecticut, presiding. A number of papers relating to the sup pression of liquor traffic were read, and a declaration of principles adopted to the effect that it is neither right nor politic for the State to afford legal protection or sanction miv traffic, nr Rvstem that tends tr in crease crime, to warp natural resources, to corrupt social hobits and to destroy the health and lives of the people. A resolution was adopted to vote for no person for public office who does not favor these principles.

Papers were read and speeches made by Mrs. Mattie M'Clellan Brown, Mrs. Lillian Devereux lilake, Mrs. blocum, Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, and others, after which conference adjourned. A mass meeting was held under the auspices of the conference at Cooper Institute last night.

Only some 500 persons were present. Judge Black presided. A number of addresses were delivered. THIRD EDITION. 4:00 O'CLOCK.

WASHINGTON NEWS. Progress of the Indian Conference. Washington, Sept. 28. The conference with the Indian delegation was resumed this morning at the Executive Mansion, in the east room.

There were present, as yesterday, President Hayes, Secretary Schurz and other members of the Cabinet, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Gen. Crook and other prominent gentlemen. Spotted Tail was the first speaker. The tenor of the remarks of Spotted TaiL Red Cloud and their friends to day was about the same as that expressed by the Indians yesterday. Gen.

Crook made a strong plea to the President in their behalf. The President then addressed the delegation, saying that he had their welfare sincerely at heart mat ne would be glad to gratify their wishes when it was in his power that he wanted them to go to the Missouri river for their supplies, and that in the spring they might select their land wherever they chose and live on it for all time. The President further said that if they would select their homesteads he would ask Congress to supply them with implements for farming. The Philadelphia Collectorship. Collector Tutton, of Philadelphia, was at the Treasury Department to day in consultation with the Secretary and Assistant Secretary M'Coimick with regard to the proposed reduction of the force in his office.

A JUST VERDICT. Brattleboro, Sept. 28. In Windham county court yesterday, Ophelia Snow recovered a verdict of 82.800 asrainst Daniel C. Carpenter Son, hotel proprietors and prominent citizens of Readsboro, on ac count of injuries received by being thrown from a wagon in consequence of her hus band being drunk.

The" liquor was pur chased of the defendants, and as the suit was a test case under the Vermont liquor law, it excited great interest..