Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1877, Page 1

VOLUME XXXI. “SCREENED LACKAWANNA COAL, Of tho best quality, for salo at tho following prices in yard: LARGE EGG snfiLL EGG, RANGE, NOTICE! TO PARENTS. The Special Attention of Parenta fx elled to onr and Chifldren's Department, @ bren Antlcipated 1 accomind 3 weil assorted, the dlehi iy Instructed 16 ba poiite PRICES ARE DOWN NUTTING' 184 & 186 State-st. Children's and Doys' Sults wero never sold for leay fueney than they are o i tca It Boys’ Children’s Suits CHILDREN'S SUITS, A Cauimere Fult. THE WAR. Artillery Firing Still Kept Up Along the Danube. Russians Moving in Strong Force Toward Oltenitza. ery arrangement 7 IaTie 8 ample, ssleamen sre apec Two Hundred Russian Grain- Vessels Seized by the 50 cents per ton added to the sbove prices for city delivery, snd 80 conts per ton added for dolivery on tho cars of any railroad coming into the city. Cosl by oargo, frop on board at Buffalo, at ourront rates. ). L. HATHAWAY. GENERAL OFFICE, Corner Market and Randolph.sts, OFFICE AND DOCK, Foot North Market-st, 207 Archer-nv. " Tovered Coal-—Clean and Dry. goom-Kalo Murdered by Cirosssians, The Garmison ab Sook; 'I‘nrk;)y ‘Will Attempt the Draft- ing of Christians into Her Armies. Roumania Declared to Be in a State of War with Turkey. Immenee Quantities of Arms Purchased by the Belligerents in This CI11ICAGO, FRIDAY, MAY 18, Satllng of the Russian Fleet from New A gond Casimers ity 83,73 €4.00 PENNSYLVANIA COAL CO. York Yesterday. £ LAND AND BEA. Loxpox, May 17.—The Times* Bucharest dise patch eays: **Constantinople telograms, which reported that fighting had been going on in the No engagomonts liave occarred betseen the Rusalons and Tarks In ‘Buropo, excopt on he Jine of the batteries be- GENTS FURNISHING GOODS Retailed at Jobbers' Prices, NUTTING, PITTSTON COAL SINGLE TON. Range and Nut, - $6.00 Dobrudschs, were unfonnded, tween Ibrail and Ismail,” ‘Tho question now being discussed hore i whether tho Roumsnian army shall cross the Danube with tho Rusalans or slmply remaln on thelr own eoll to protect tho lines of communication, althougha majority of tho members of the Government areat C. 0. D. CLOTHIER FOR MEN AND BOYS, - 184 & 186 STATEST., Large & Small Eeg, 5.76 TERMS OABH. cees--92 WASTIINGTON-ST. present oppased to the passags of the river. It s extremely probabla that the more sctive and do- termined membors of the war party will finally .. .INDIANA-ST. DRIDGE. 1, 8. VAN INGEN, Bup't. OPPOSITE PALMER 1OUSE, FURNITURE. IN ASIA MINOM. Loxnox, May 17,—Tho Telegraph's special from ‘*The Russiane have COAL. Erzeronm Moriday says: advanced to Kara Ralisa In great force. The Turks will confront them at Topenak Eals., Both The Delaware, Lackawanna & Westorn Tailroad Company, the Delaware & lludson Cansl Co., and nrmice aro preparing for a pitched battle. " J. Langdon & Co., will eoll their Lackawanna Coal TRAXSPORTATION DIFPICULTIES. IMPORTANT Loxpoy, May 17.—~Tho Rustianssecm tobe in groat dificattics about tranapostation. Tha small *Hussian country carta ara scarcoly suited to mill- Al throngh tho winter the work of ' supplying the Russian military tralns with carts ono of the fit things dono by the Rusalans aftor enter- fng Toumania was to apply to the Cor- Commenoing To-Morrow Morning, For Cashi and immedlato dellvery.r FURNIT@UYERS. THE TOBLY FURNITURE C0. Having detormined to close out for cash its entire stock of Furnlture, the largest, finest, and hest assorted in the West, will offer its ontiro stock at prices below any thing cver before hoard of, Most of these goods are of tho most fashionablo styles, recently manufactured by this Company, and many of them will he sold at less than half thelr former prices, and at less than they can ho manufactared for to.day. Such an opporianity for purchasing Furniture has never, occurred hefore in Chlcago, and probably never will agaln, Purchasers can havo their goods stored 30 days free of charge. The attontion of Dealers s particularly invited to this sale. State and Adams-st_s_. MEAL ESTATE. Smslters of Ore, Large and Smnall Egg for Range and Chestnut, Maln office—2R0 Fast Madison-at,, closs to o weat end of Eighteenth. . Agent for (he Miners. and wagons has been going on. Dridae; 300 Lumber- by rallway, too, sacms to be giviog ratber more trouble then was anticipated. The moving mate- rial fs fonnd very insafMefont, and what littls can ‘e spared from Russia fs not availadls on acconnt of a difforence of gauge. AGAINST NRNZEQOVINA. 'The Turkish troops purpose a movement against tho Merzegovina insurgents. * TURKISU RETORT. Loxpox, May 17.—The Telegraph's Pera corro- spondent sont the following additional particunlars a1 {0 tho success of tho Turks ana Circasslan in- surgenta at Bookgoom-Kale. covite gacrison and road-gusrds all over the dis- trict, chasing them to QGnngars, which theyaho d When these auccesses ware reported, Hasenn Pasha landed rldges to equip the Clrcassians, force was organized 1o warch upon the raliway 1ine to Tiflls, ajming at tho destruction of Kutals, Another largo band waa dispatched to ralso the country In tlie reaY of the Ru are altacking Batoum. Tho foregoing nows, huw- ever, was sent to Constantinople by the Turkish Chicago, May 10, ENERAL NO' - Lok Ontfor Fram, nformed that 1. C. 13 thd Patentees faring for ral=, at ke Ce id h They drove the Mus- the same reapansibla 7, ¢ the dave name t 10 Chi Automatlg Tinel; Iistead of dolog so they have auempt to defraud ma rany. lc of my itec] 10 tha W erai Azent, Mr. B, K. DAV to set thinga right.” Me, 0 clieek th TT, FENTON & LYON, soil rlnil . NERACHE] tentes of Autornatic Hoss Recl, Clsveland, o All Whom It May Concern. Notico {a herehy given that the namo of the ** Baltl- more, Pitisburg & Chicago Ttaliway Company, Ilil- Bols Divislon," has been changed to that of the ** Baltl- more & Oblo & Chicago Raflrosd Company," and Which ts fta preseut name, pursusst to an act ef the unply of rifies and cart- with DEWKTT In ay A formldable local his., Ciev oo wiil s6on Ba 1 Chicaco lan columns which BRITIST SQUADROK. Porr Sa1d, May 17.—The British squadron will leave hiero May 10, for the Pirzus, CANNOXADING. CoxstanTiNOrLE, May 17.~The cannonade be- tween Oltenttza and Turtukal continues, TIE VICTORIOUS Sheik ul [slam haa conferred tho title of **Victo- port rlous" upon the Bultan, In honor of the captaro of Fomndrymen, Hannfacturers, Look at the spacioun buildings and grounds coraer Tlark apd Forty-second-sts., on tho Houthern & H.1L R, neoted by side-track, Th formerly used for smeltin, adaptad to the above businoas. » GREAT BARGAIN, D. W. KEAN, Room 15 Maetropolitan Block. RIS HOTSk, from A.T. Stewart & Co.'s Dry Goods ouse, and McVicker's Theatro, $2.00 PER DAY. New Hnuse—Elegontly Furnished. OPEN ALL NIGHT, Our Sate and Madison.st. Stere is now opea night and day, BOCK & RAYNER, Druguists, Makers of the ‘' Blars? Ooclogne. _FINANCIAL, I HAVE $50,000 TO LOAN on first-olass Ohicago improved property, at 8 per o,nn Genera] Amembly of the Stata of Nilnols, epproved and in fores March Je, 1873, BALYIKORE &-0J0 &°CHICACO RAIEROAD COMPANY. UINCY, Presldent. ALTISTIC TAILORING. FOR GENTLEMEN STYLE, AT LOW PRICES AT EDWARD BLY & €0.S, Wabash-av,, cor, Monroe-st, ' English and French Trouserings from 12 to §18. Buits from 60 to ) 1n ‘large varlety; 5 por cent “if paid” within fivo days from redeipt of goods. LARGE BASEMEN' FOR REINT. 0 Double Basoment for rent, & 120 Washin, 0 large ontrances, OHARLES GOODMAM, om 43 Exchango Building, ORTGAGE LOANS, with Maohinery, in WALTER It MATTOCKS, ——iOU MISOELLANEOUS, Five Cents’ Worth of Coal ‘Pudu 0u can do the cooking of & famlly on the Nouo of the (urues 00DEY 0ok The Wallace Hoist p(s: IAND ELEVATOR. J. WALLAUE, 60 Micbigan-st. WIRE SCREENS, 2Y'S PATENT CORNER. 15, darsbitey unsurpassed. 83 Madison+ Bookgoom-Kale, MOVING FORWARD. Lownoy, May 17,—A dispatch from Jass, Ruselan infantry corps, numbering 62, 000, accom- panfed by a proportionate force of cavalry and a1~ thilery, Is marching in thedlroction of Slmnitza, 1t is belioved that the maln body of the Itusalans will attempt to cross the Danube thero, TURK18M APTOINTMENT. Loxnon, May 17.—It & tated that the encrgetic Aris Poshe has beon appointed Abdul-Kerim Fasha's Chief of Eiafl, vice Neslb Pasha, ORDERED BACK, Along the Dannbe the Commandors ¢f Turklsh forirosses have published a manifesto and urging tha inhabitants to withdeaw farthor lnlsnd to the buildings wore ore, but are WAITING AX OFPORTUMITT. Opposite Galatz cnormous masses of Turklah An attempt to cross by sailiog-vaseels will Lo made by Tarks towards cavalry aze sald to b, conru. Extensive military proparations are making in Keports bave beon recelved of thoe massacre of feturned Ravahe at Durbend on & more fusrful scale than any that has yet hiappened in Bosnla, Pers!a has declared her Intention nob to joln TUR CAPTURR OF S00KQOOM-KALE, and the rising of tho Clecasslany, who ma ihe garrison and burned the town, is oficially an. An fronclad has left Sookgoom-Kale for Batoum to obtaln ayma for the Circssslans, VESSHLS CAFTURED. ‘The Turks bave captared 200 Russian vessels fn the Danube contalning over 130,000 hectolitres of on-st,, with A HOT RECEPTION, expedition of 500 Russlag infantry croasea the Danube n a boat & litle be- ‘The Tarks allowed them to come well hen they opened such a heavy fire that the Kusslans were compelled to retreat to {beir boats with serious loss. LITTLE WALLACHIA The Rusaians have crosaed the Aluta and entered Little Wallachbis, which it was expected would be occapled solely by the Roumanlans, RUSHAN FLOATING-BATTERIXS mall but {ngeniously made, conalsating of three pontoons jolned togethor. Each battery carrics one gun. The poatoons were floated down the Prath and joined. Tbe Nusslans hare «omo larger steamers srmed. CIACAZSIAX COSSACKS. Gon. Bkobelefl's division of Clrca iotended to head the adrance of passing through Bucharest, ea route for tha A reconuoltering LOUR MIL hicago, ta renl’.:" t, MEB J. HOYT, _____ 160 LaBalle-st, 7 AND 7 18 PBR OBNT. 818 preparad lomaks on the Danube & Y ersof oil. TOVE CO., 100 Lake-st. BANKING HOUSE o EAZERUS SLVERUAN Chamnber of Comunerce, Chicago, toloanon Real Estal ify and County Orders, iing Exchangd on ell b COMIC PLAYING CARDS, AyInE-Cands d ety Ry BRIDOR QOXE. Msy 17.—The nilway-bridge st between Barboschi asd Jessy, is washod away by the freabet. It will require aeveraldays 10 erect & tompoary structure. Helinss Gomig Pl NOVELS oree QRIGINALL ENT YOIt OLD, AN rugaisis, EBRE, Sole Man GHATES AND MANTELS, e~ e Plalg, fial':. flI‘afl Nickel SLATE MANTELS. PROBASCO ,‘lllfl!l! ‘The Sultan bas determied on the admission of Cbristlana into the army. A dzads of 20,000 48 0 be cqually levied among red la Ottoman subjects without distinction of race or | Ilonto has been discovered by the Natlonsl Losn Sacfety, who receire tho revennes. Comaticho 8ad othera employed aro under atrest. agreeing to sabmit (ton written or «Jdnage Lawrence handed his brief o Mr, Storra s few days aftar, a8 he agreed, hat koon after that he Adispatch from Washing was jostponed indefinitely, goderstood that his connectian wit! then terminsted, and that it had heen reforred to n inatead of heving it heand by him, wrence alao had the same nnderstanding on the subjeet, and no bricts were submitted unt yesterday, TIE RECEST SKIZCRE. The Deputy Collectors, charced with makinz'an fnventory of the property captured In the Tiiiools completed thelr wark. huehels malt, 2,500 hushels corn, 3,000 bashels meal, 230,000 mflf gallons of donblers, nn alcohnl stiil and column complete, twenty-scven formenting-tabe, hirty rectifices, yeast 12 of a firat-clasy 1l the spirita shall MORR COXING. A column of Rusefan jnfantry Is expected to resch Ducharest to-morrow. The Hot Hate of the Furies Falls upon Noxe, May17.—A dnel with swords has been Another Gty of the Provinces. fonght between Deputy Picrantont, mon-in-law of the Minfeter of Justice, and Big. Albsnez, writer ‘Tne latter was somcwhat seri- Rain ferl heavlly ail day and continnes thus In consequence of the alluvial forma- tions In the Jower Danabe, the weather Is the most tmportant ftem of the campaign. b n army corpa st Odesss have been o+ Crimen to prevent tho spread of the Tartar Insurrection. Sixty of the Best Buildings of Woode stock, N. By, Tarned to Ashe onthe Fanfulla, ously wounded in the erm. offended at some remarks in the Fan, 812, Alpanex In the face in the reporiers* whiting. room of the Chamber of Deputicr, bers ', the proes rent a profest to the President of ORRMAN PILORINS, Toxr, May 17.—Tha Pope recewved including aix Hishope, ie mes paises np Attilan to awak iny has at present bes Attila. GREAT BRITAIN, Loxpox, May 17. adjourn to the 3Lst inst. THE BURIALS RILL. Loxpox, May 18—3 s, m,—In the Monte of Lords to-night an amendment to the Burialx bill roposed by tho Archhiahop of Canterbar; ng the reading of other servl Church of England In churchyaride was passed by & vote of 05 against 60 despite the opposition of fhe i 'n;a Hotso of Lords has adjoaraed 11l the 4th of Diatiilery, have near] wiil ahow abuut 1, ‘Tho report that the Tarka Intend to seize chureh property In Bolgaria canses much excitement there, Many monks are accompanying the Turks to the Cancana to Incite & holy war. A STAND-STILL. The Nussian movement of concentration upon Bars trom Potl, Akhaitzlk, Alezandropo), snd Irwan has come toa stand-stlll a few marches from the frontier, parily from the neceseity of ea- tablishing storas for victualing the troops on Tark- ish soll, and partly by the Rousrlan Genorals recognizing the change effecied in the condition of warfare by the universal sdoption of the necdic Attacks in massed colamns ate outof tho Natrow Escape from Another Great T fony manh-tnbs, ot Oshkosh, Wis,—~At Winon: (e i et ing ! en drawn off and zauged, Jndze Danzaseill e the customary Information. ‘be called in and the property app! CINCINNATI. CRICAGO V8. CINCINKATS, Diepated ts Qincinnatl Enquirer. Wasnirearox, D, C.. May 16.—The {aterviews In tho Enguirer of yesterday, wherein the Cincin- nat! distillers endeavor to explaln why they are ab- eolutely honest, snd why whitky can besold ro cheap by them, has attracted tho sttention of In- ternal Revenuo experts here, the Department was called to the Interview to.day by aChicago distiller, who makes the following pertinent alatoments: Mr. Flobart eays WOODSTOCK. ANOTIIER VAST CONPLAGRATION, Apectal Dispateh to The Trituma. Waonsrock, N. B., May 17,.—~The fire fend e millon the march, and this time the beantifal ‘Town of Woodstock has again felt the dire effects - of fis banefal bresth, o'clock fire broks out in a thickly-scttled port of this tawn, and, spreading with lightning rapldity, in leas than two hours the largest part of the bual- ness portion of the town wan in ashes. in which the conflagration swept Is abaut the ssmo 08 in the fire of 1860, but the amonnt of property destroyed largely oxceeds that, Of the Iatter AT LEABT SBIXTY RUILDINGS, exclusive of ontbulildings, are burned. These In- clude the ltarge brick Connell Block and Connell wooden hlock, having ninestores in them; Allsu's - brick bailding, McCoy's brick bullding, D. P. Brown's brick ballding, the*American House, for- merly tho Cable Honse; Donaldson's Exchange, and Dr. C. P. Connell's house; every dry goods etoro in the town, two livery stablos, the Connell Iron Foundry warerooms, tha drug storea of Col. Balrd, Dr, $mith, Dibble, and fl. R, Balrd; Lindaay & Dibtlo's hardware store, Bass & Jowett's jewelry stores, and many other places of- business—groce- riesand provieion dealorn liquors, clothing, and boot snd shoo stores. Maduxenkeag bridge, ‘Tho Tlouse of Commons will ‘This mornisg about 3 Breuarssr, May 17.—The Ronmanian Govern- ‘ment has published a note stating it can no longer doudt It Ia at war with Turkey by the fault of ‘Turkey, and it must take measures accordingly, ‘The sttention of he Chicago diatiilers uae re- Jected ‘grain, and therefore do not get aslargea yield. Tho anawer is, this rejecied grain costa from five to to 10 cents per bushel Jess than No, 2 grsin, and the records of the Interns] Revenus Do partment ehaw that the yiold from ffty-nix pounds ruch s le used in Chicago, I8 2 greatas from the same numbes higher-priced grain ured in Clncinnati: and yet the iatilier cannot affora to sell th 8 low by five to alx cor @ states that wines temperatare of {2 deg a tewmpetatare, efc., which, for s cer- r of wine yallons, giver a galn of one Now this {s simply abeurd, if any notice is takenof the regnlations, Wwhich seerms ‘The tegulations forbid & Gauger from filing & barrel when be finds npon Inspection a difference between the temperature of the apirite raturo of the stmosphere of 1. greca, in which czac a correction of care cited would not be greater than one- I 3 l‘l;iel'l Mtfl:g diatille umping Gauger at the re m”fim’fz It also, If FORCED PAYMENT, Nzw Yorx, May 17.~Advices from Haytl atate that a French flect has been ordered there toen- orce seftlement of the Iaytlen debt, which s repadisted by the Hlaytion ot iammonych At S7. Prrenssune, May 17.—An oficial telegram dated at Achaikalaki, 15th inst., *ays tho Ras. &lann have thrown a bridgs over the Kor. detachment of Kaspasantabls Tarks remalned pas- len Government. "WHISKY. CHICAGO, CINCINNATI DISTILLERS. TYoesterday's Trinuxe contalned a long srticle from the Cincinnatl Enquirer purporting to give Interviows with ecreral Cincinnatl distillers rela- tive to tho whisky trade {n that city as contrasted ames W, Gaff, one of the largest distiflers in Clncinnatl, is given as the principal authority, although Meesrs. Hobart, Flelachman, Green, and others, ara quoted, Mr, Gafl eays that ‘whisky is eold in his city by commercial gauge, no correction for cither ex- pansion or contraction of volumb, as cansed by temperstore. of 02 degrees gallon to tho barref, and the selling the benefitof it, Let us sce how this claim works. A barrel contalning forty-four gal. lons proof goods i sold, according to the Gavern. ment gauge, at $1.08 per gatlon; the same i Ala- sed of on the Cinclnnatl plan For the former th $47.621 tho lattor brings § therefore, pays 18 cents more for bin e Gaff plan than he would be ablige werc thoy sold sa in this city, rectifiers ench atupld fools as 10 pr goode than they are wortn? It dor ; bat then they do very egree-temperatare clalm s what the 1ata Androw Johnson wonld call **toa thia.* Ti rezulations prescribo that, in all cuses whero the rature isover 00 degrees, the whisky must nged ehould there bea surrounding atmospliere. Below 00 dezrcen thero i+ no limitation. Under tho Cin- lan of ecliing highwines the goods would mn off st atemperature of V2 degrees, 20 aa 1o give the distilier an opportunity to get the Dent of it on the fractions cansed by the expansion of volume. - This wonld necessitato s atnre of not less GENERAL. CHIRISTIAN REFUGERS STARVING. loxnox, May 17,—Thoasands of Christian refa- ro expected across the frontier to angment the number already in Dalmatis, and who already are actually dying of stazvation. GONX TO CAIRO. ‘The ke of Edinburg and the Dritleh Consul. General bave gone to Calro. ANRIVAL OF AMDASSADORS, May 18.—The r of pounds of R ro ganged by the nded . £ , which wes saved with difi- culty, north tothe engine-house, or three entire blocks on each side of Maln atroet, went from Maln street onc block on each aide of Connell streot, and cast from Main strect one block, or #1X' DLOCKS according {o the street boundaries, {n all, Dut a small portion of the contents of any of the storos Mach property was burned after te- 1t 18 Impoasibla 1o crtimate the aggregats d fn A harness-maker's At the corner of Quecn and Main streets, and ita et mere conjectare. ose provented the early effectual pl of the rteam-engine, which sgrrarated Ismity, Thafollowing Seegessh CoxsTANTIXOPLE, Austrian, and Italian Arbassadors bave arrived. RUSBIAN DUTY ON TOBACCO. Loxnox, May 17.~It {s atated that Rusala ine tends to increave tho duty on fmported tobnm | which now yiolde aboat 10,000,000, rubles ycarly, sufliclontly to Increaso the yield several millions. ! Slmultanconsly the tax on Russlan growth will be redaced to encourage home cultivation. TAE DECLARATION OF PARLS, Tho Becretary of the Cobden Club has recelved peveral replies to hin letier saking for America's fecling abont adhering to tho deciaration of Paris. Charles Francis Adama express Government did not adhere to the declaration, and believes America will ultimately regard the policy embodied in that document as bost for her as well a8 for the rest of the world. ARMS POR TRE DELLIGERENTS. Nrw Yonx, May 17.—According to current re- ports among manufactarers of arme and ammuni- tion the foreign beiligerents aza active hoseabout, 'The Rosslans have loaded threo barks with the usual aseortment of deadly weapons and ox. 18 is linted that one vessel went out the same timo with tho Rusefan sgnadron, and was undor convoy, Tho cargocs of theee moveral crafta aro similar, comprising obont 200 000 to 5,000,000 car- which makes . how does the ctifylng honee avold does, an fbe law and regulstions require he shall do, where is theze any galn o either distiller or rectifer? 1f ho doca not, how does tho rectifier get rid of an inevitsble and 1llfcls sarplus? If the Jocal Revenne oficers do thelr duty, us they clearly do not. this matter ) a bornia of contention, and n this reapect will ba put When Mr, Gafl states Whisky at a An accldent to upen an equal looting, tliat the rectifiers in Cincionati are willing to pay him for spirits on an juepection which cives them froin one-half to one they pay for, he makes the than the public are ready to believe them to be, INSURANCE companies are Interested, but to what extent Is "Tho Queen, Liverpool & London & Globe, North Dritish’ Morcantilo, Royal Cauadian, Stadacons, Western, Cltize; Natlonal, Imperisl, snd Ha not detnitely known: sy Aro Cincinnail Tv the Western Associatedt Press. Woopsrock, N. B., May 17, —The lors {s esti- mnted at $100,000; 'tnaurance, $120,000, The fincst residences and’ business places were awopt A CAUSTIC LETTER FROM A CORRESPONDENT. v tAe Bditor of The Tridune. Errixanietp, 1., May 10.—Tuesday's Triny: contains & commanication from ** Ex-Rectifile: Fekin, wherein he expreascs the fear that ** Your (Tux Trusexc's) reporter at Springficld has been impoted upon by somc one of the Pekin gaog." Allow an assursnce to tho contrary, Tho known to this- cor- fncluding the crooks whom *'Ex. Rectifier " menttons, and Including those mem- bers whom **Ex-R." now says don't intend to tako 1le stated sy onca before Ex-Rectifier ' knows MISCELLANEOUS, Specia} Dispaich 1o The Tribuna, Riroy, Wis., May 17.—Dy the timely Interfere ence of a light raln abont 1 o'clock this morning, # dieaatrons conflagration at Oshkosh was avertod, after the destruction of Doo'’s saw-mill, warchouse, snd lumber-yard, together with a row of Lonsca on. Pearl street, occupled by mill-hands. All attens tention was concentrated in saving Clark's match- wvorks, on tho oppoaite eide of the stroet, was accomplished by snperhuman efforts of tho citizens and firemen, with tho ald of the raln, which wet things down somowhat, therafore confined almost exclusively to the prop- orty of W, H. Doe and abont ten acres of piled fumber. Loss about $60,000~-§20,000 on the mill, $30,000 on lumber, and £10,000 on dwelling. ‘houses and damage o planing-mill house; insured for §45,000—-812,000 on the mills, $30,000 on lumber, and $3,000 on dwellinge, etc. WINONA, MINN, Bpecial Dispatch o The Tribune. Winoxa, Minn., May 17.—About 8 o'clock this evcalng the frofght-house and olevator of tho (ireon Bay & Minpesots Raflroad, opposite this city, were destroyed by fire, Lozethier with ton cars of frelght, 500 barrels of flour Jelt by tho steamce Minneapolls last night, snd 1,200 bushols of wheat clovatud ta-day, Tho capacity of the elovator Dushels; it war otic of the best elevators on the The frelght-houso was new and well built, A wmall hones owned by Mathew ili; fower part of the city, was partiall; marnlngs fully Insire vafled, and the firemen ting out the dre. ater difference hwrines and the & temperature of “Pekin gang" is well tons of brass metal, <3, 000, tridges, and 5,000 barrels of gunpowder. value of each lot is supposcd to bo $350,000. Tho vearcls cleared for the Baltic. Itis understuod this Turkish powder contract was stipnlated for the delivery of £5,000 barrels. Tho Ruesians aro Ancrenaing thelr orders for platois. Upto the pres- ont time the total ablpments aggrezate 200,000, Manufactarers an Tarkish sccount are doing thelr ususl amount of work, but no vessel will bo dis- patched nnth July 1. BAILING OF TIIE RUBSIAN PLRET. Nzw Yonk, May 17,—Two frigstcs of the Rus- slanficet weighed anchor at 10:30 this morning, and steamed down the river, On nesring the bay at the Dattery, the United States frigate Minncsota tholsted bior flags, hereailors manned e yards, and she opened hor patteries and aalute] the Nasalans, On proceeding ‘down the bay to the sea, the differcnt forts on the routo salnted, to oll of which the Ruselans responded gust for gun. At 11:30 Loth versels had passed out fo rea. ‘The third vesscl of the Russian fleet 1s now(avon) passing out to sea, TIIE BLACK SEA. A TURKISIL BCHEME OF DEVASTATION. Dispatch to New York lerald, Loxvoy, May 15.—The policy of the Turkish navy now secms to bo to dovastato tho northern and oastern coast of tho Dlack Bes, good caro being taken, however, to glve Eebastopol, Odesea, and 1t {a officially annoanced from Bt, Poteraburg that on May 12 a Turkish squadron boinbarded a villago near Sookgoom-Kale, & Dlack foa port, to the northward of Totl, in Abkark Near this polnt, it ia reported, 1,000 Circassia; wete landod, and that the commander of the Rus- slan fortrees at Bookgoom-Kala sont a detachment of Cosascks and militia in purenit. The Turkish Ironclads, aix in number, ceased bombarding the adjacent village, and took up their position off the fortsess of Sookgoom-Kalo on May 14, with the evident ntentlon of attempting its destructio The commander I8 well boate, and the fort: i and ammuniffon for of some Importance, o3 ing out thie echeme, {onstantine Polnt. bo Navaginakoe, wi 8 tripfor thelr health, 1 stated to the contrary. Itwas right that time—that tho Hocky Mountains ds the became health-resorts for . Hristow was after them. ntimatea tint Wosterman rehearsod poich—possibly be did, with **Ex-It." man rever **rehearsed ™ with mo excapt to caro nd _to damn it Spri all (ke Pekin crooka sald ¢ vor Purdle, preferring the aesocistion 01 and “more intimately than ‘‘Ez-Rectifier” can 1 0 i mlam focts " nrre known it wrill not be through the ald of Pekin crooked rectifiers, or ex- sectifiors, far of them it was written, ** some ppir. They are harmirex -however, with Collector Merriam, alded by Diatrict-Attornay mmhl«mglu. to keep an oys pretending to bave sbandoned It, nixayieLD Reronten. " g NuTELTY the_wine.room, ddle of winter and in carly enring can Mr. Qaff orother dintiliers keep up tho cmperatute of 78 degrees in hls wine.room to come within the regulations, when ho and they are harin ihelr goode gavged £ 2 Fahrenhelty imp * Cincinnati whisky bo cneonater outsidoof that city? Cineinnsti ** rectifier’s viamp not ecarce, The latier enterinto compe- h Chicago two-stamp goods thiro o, and Pennaylvania. Why de nnat! dlstiilersdect!: i tivo.stamp goods " in thet city ud the expurt dealers davo not ot succeeded in naving any- onlers fliled in that Why is there such an unwil comon the liera to divereo tholr o fro1n the rectifiers? Fi in competing pointeon tho basls of value of highwiuca fn_ Cincinoatl, ‘& cont {n thatcity tho *gniked-gonds ™ manufacturors beroand In Peora aro obdliged to fallow ewit, or clsa the ordera will bu-sentto th The closy conncction bo- fween tho rectifying bouses and_dletilicries of Cin. clnna’t has glven rise to many susplcions. Without tho ald of ‘the former Then how {n iko mi ine to put their Ret? £ cannot purchase ¢ 1nlacge quantitics Connolly and b; they responding. — AT THE SOUTI. REVENUN OPPICERS MURDERED, Wartxarox, I €., May 17,—The Attorney- Cieneral has rocelved a letter from United States Marshal Emyth, of Grorgia, emphatically denying tho statements of the published roport made by Col. Willlame to the Governor uf Georgia to the effect that his and persecated of Innocent men, Insulted womon, privste property not aubject to solzure under tbeRevenae laws, and inaugursted ageneral rolgn varinas illezal and oppressive pro- o says there han been no reign of tee- st Ony one exce e L Cineinuatl rectitiers, laller conld not defraud tho Government, Ing the barrols with expanded highwines creates wantago when the temperature reaches the normal 1] of (0 decrees or below, This wantage fs 1t has been cxtablished cxceedingly dificult feat for dletiliers to 21l barrels stored in the bonded warchouse. cult maiter to pump out this extra gallon when tha oods get to the rectifying housc +dumping " Gay, will find things cndful_gale pre- did ncrvice i pat- A Committce from the Board of Trade of La~ Crosso vislted Winoua to-day to fnepect the ays‘am of Water-Works in usg sbont the eity by M. tee on Water-Works, Depaty Marshais that it is not an Itin not o dini- here, and werc shown Potf a wide berth. or Slmpsou and the Commit. Tho Fito Department ga exhibition of the value of tho worka for re-proe ust us they were. contalns no moro whisky than Is caliea for by tho taz-pald stamp which ornaments ita head. The surretitionaiy obtained gallon from eteh bar: ufactare of *icase good; cordliale, bitters, etc, ness of ‘dumpin; of whisky whic] rofil. 1t represents §0 that {n soma Instances the roct! }lhtlller ud a montlly division of ‘the net profits MR. GAYF'S THEORY by weight would open up more ave- sounds well, but cannot be barno ont, that 1o two Gaagers will take a lot of 500 barrels of whisky sud gauge them alike, ng-7odd Is not absoluto, nch in the ncusurement by tho ifference of nearly half a allon on A pound of_whisky or alcohol s o pound at all temporaturca, It makes no aiffer- nded of contracted, it is there moro Almple than welghing the empty barrel, and_cutting its welght on the bung-stave ;and head? than weighing the fllled barrel and substracting its th & rod which costs pounds for testing the a n 810, It s not Ma- blo to get out of order, cannot break, and will last Weighing {s always conatant; gauging 1s. flobart, & Cincipnat! distiller, eago distillers do not got 50 larzu a ylel Figures will tell, tho Chicago District is 15.00 quarts to tho bushel. disilllers Lcre have had a yiold of nearly scventeen quarle, and tnoy did not make an; t Cincinuati can beat this, the Chlcago distlilers would ba pleased 10 learn how, The ofal question Is too small an itewmn to dlsc S fico to say tho Chicago distillors manage ol it al prices ranging from @vo Lo 12 cents por Lushel,—a barrel of slop to tho bushel of All well-fuformed whis lective finger dublousty at ror Inauguratod agal illers, snd that al i sl the March term of coort. demands a full investigation. UIDEROUS DISTILLERS, a Collertor of Intornal Hevenuo in rict” of Virginta, telegrapha to the Commissioner of Internal Hevenue as follows **Collector Joslynand Deput; hroe others have been ahot in tho discharge of thoir duty. 1 trnat you will tako atepis 10 secure the unishment of the marderers, Kemper, requesting hieald. ™ Alclegram from Revea giving an acconnt of the shoot!ng of the United States officers in dlschas of their dnty, creates s profound sensstion at Internal Revenue Ofce, and the subject will in all robability be considered at tlie next Cabinet meet- with & view 10 ths employent of 11oopsio t the revenue authoritics, —— BPRINGFIELD, COLLECTOR MERRIAN, Bpecial Dispatch 10 The Tribu sy 17,—~Collector Merriam retorned to-day from Washington, and ie confident of retalning his oftice, o result which gives grest Measrs, Mitchcll and Shriever, Tovenus Agenls, trade* of in tha man. ttied gine, whiski When & house does a busl- 100 barrols per da have evaded the tax ‘Two Concorts Yesterday at the Handol nod | in Boston---Comments upon the I'rogrmmmes and Thelr Perform=~ Maraha) Auatin and Lee Connty, while One was mortally Special Dispatch to The Tridune. Dosroy, 3ay 17, —Tho concert this aftornoon drew out another audience hardly smatlcr than that Tho seats for tbo choras were tho ouly once in the hall not filled, The programmo was miscellaneous, and called {nto requisition or- cheatra, chorue, and ali the soloists, notable feature was the ainging of an aria from Veridl's Manzon! lequlom Mass by Mr, Chazles R. Adams, Mr. Adams' volce {a a tsnor of great come pasa and purity, sud good, bat perhaps not great, Ilia method, too, la excallent, cspectations bad been ralsed, and the enthuslasm his singing excited showed that no disappointment tad been experionced. The only other ngpbers on the programme that especially deeerved Dotice were tho new choral worl fea pleasing composltio: ough quated ln formand atyle. An alto’solo s followed by & short trio for male voices, and tho alrs s given out aro thea repested by & chorus of sltos, Orst and second tenors, and basses, thero Lelng no a0+ prano part In the selection sung. quaint enough, sacred music red with torped Th‘lllfll'n 1 & place of last evening. It {s well known e lofticat of the Caucaslan d with enow nearly a ear, ‘The nexi foria will be Fort Dolovin ai Lazarer, under Mount Gocthe, & low o * ence whether it ho will be bombarded, after which lnl\h‘m’llgwlll une doubtedly bo made on the port Ghelenjik, s shel. r near the northwestern extiemity of e, southeastira: l, however, bo woll protected with the rocks at Lke eptrance will aford ample protection for tho anding can be sftected coast village 10 the southeastward, whonce (ihel {ik ean bo aporoached und the helghts southeast of the town occupled. T will then bo_attacked, rizo, aa it is tho What moro almple 8rmivorieLy, 11, by torpedoes, whicl Ies can be made for sstiefaciion lere, v, % quite slck, and Mr. Jietr, of the Secrut Servico, remaing to care for him. TUB FILLIN Mr, Horr states that in proceas of Alling u| rtant town of Ana; dced would bo'a o ort of the entlre terrl- ‘The average of ding cannot bo effuct. 40 the garrisons of thres strony po from Anapa. can be readily con- corla was discovared s at racently discoy- As an illusteation of Itallsu was intereating, greatly incrensing tho proof, whils not eaaing tha btk o REIIM'S CASE, CHICAGO FHOTRSTS. Wasnixatox, D. C., May 17,—Secretary Bher- man recelved about twenty dispatches to-day, from persons in Chicsgo, projesting aginst his taking fuoal action in Kehm's case until Mr, Storre could ‘be heard and an oplnton rendered by Judze Deum- mond, City-Attorney Tuthill telegraphed that the Bar of Chicago is almoat salid in opposition to any actlon belng takon by the Becretary in ad t Judge Drunimoad's deciaion. of course, hear all that Mr. S{orrs has to say be- fore taking action on Judge French's report. S ———— THREATENING LETTERS, Davsxron, 1a., May 17,—Tbere bas been & di pute Letween the two German churches of Musca- tine ou the queston of Traity, sad much evil focling has been engendered. On Tuesday, the Mr. Starcke, ono of the pastors who denled tho Trinlty, received several anouymons thresten- ing lettors, which- wers published this moraing. fsone of them: B. Starcke, of tie German Churc: sufer severely from bombardment, because, from {ta position oul & promontory, the western stdo of the town {soxposcd (o the fra of heavy guns, ¢ of devastation will pi y 0 the forcing of lertch Stralt into 1t s not imorobable that tha I eratoly leave tho pas bored by it 4¢ 1t found a place froquently on snint Saena' Christmas Oratorio , incinnatl, and r oflicials hery and fn other districts do’ ot her tosay that there i3 a leakaze which might ped were thero a are rigorous enforcuinent of the 1t 14 bad cnough to have the Governinent petty-larceny way, but it Is wnonstrous that the whisky trado of the countey ehauld be regulated on the basis of what is no bet- ter than (- tappiug, A TRIDUXE feporicr yesterday a distiiler in Salem, 0.y dated May that ho cannot run his houve, n 8t 47 fu 30 cent: it per day, with whisky at §1, vre the Salem gentleman tlon with a rectifylng estap| able to rut with & proit, TUB HEIM OASE. noou r. E. A. Storr a_Attaruey, Glcd bl T " C totlie plea msde by wrence for tho dlsmissal of the c! 8 850 Pue THIBUNE lisl the Argument. whica forms celved, and will be gladiy hesrd sgain, formance this afiernoon ‘was of less equal merit 1ban that of Iast cvening. ussians would delib: go open in order to tewpt o' & gil-de-sac, whero ihey would bo ||Wm]igy kldded to the 1 the south coast of the Crimea worth the ex- ture of coal and yuupowder to destroy, Con- scquently we may louk for a concontration of tho Turkish " flect in the The orchestrs was by Tlie chorus, contalning a swindled, evenina & it :u treading miliar had less confidonce 3ud stumbled more froquently, FA?M voice, and sang with ‘The audience was alightly smallur this evening, bat was inore plessed and entliusiastic thao either The opening nnmber was Varts 1a0d 2 of Bach's **Ciristmias Oratorio, ™ It1sa maznidcent work, full of delight- ful mylody snd grand hermony. - Thi the nomesous choral ‘S'he sololsts wero all escellent taste and apiri Mr. Sherman will, Turkish squadron is wxpected off the on account of symptoms of divaffection among tho Tartar Chicfs." SOUTH AMERICA, TUN EARTUQUAKN AT IQUIQUR. Loxpox, Msy 17.—A private telcgram says the ‘amount of prooerty destroyed at Iquique was con- atderahle, Including stores, quays, and about 10~ 000 tons of nitrate of sods ready for sbipment. ‘The barbor and railway coanections were so dame that it will requfre & month to repsir them, extended ““5 ihe Peruvia At Pabelion de Ri ibat has preceded i posscseed of & connece ishment b might by came as a_zonuin who ~ only_koow Bach In The_chlef pralss for the parformauce muwt be given fizst to the chorus, which suatatned 0 ]ast io & tanner that left Even {n the most difficult cise, cleanly-fg- e simpler choral Yeuterday after: nt United 8! 1 In Judge Drunwo fugal passages the same full, tshed tono camo forth a3 in 1d be mentioued the Lruly noble declamas tion of Mr. Winch, the fenor, who took the filive ‘portions. Mise phlet of 1 Judge Drummond pre 18—TAe Hon. Thon i Teply to the one hand 1 pursuance ol 10 A7ADXEBIEDL 1N + submiiting tho d! a ¥ i umiel &d that a5 application woul and Attoruey- o0 the gruund, Bmou otic iehm, at tha’ tline Jia b ‘ou coast snd to Dollvl 8. Yaur breath bz of veasels were ris, **they wore excusal e, e bila nuucuix lbow, eacouraged ber with penerous applause. Lcan only s nufimwur. Packer's hi 'ormed now for the first time. anort but fincly-concelved composition, and weil worked up. and boll weru heartily applau w U8 the threc-united God UNSUCCESSTUL XEGOTIATIONS. Havaxa, May 17.—The mysterious movements of an American Catholic priest, Dr. Pope, have It appears that Dr, Pope, whilo on bus way hence lo Hayts, bad sn Iaterviow with the Caplaln-Gencral and authorities. Tho 4 10 gain the copfdence of the Cuban 1t Ls aupposed be fn. ne Garmaa Zeiiugp o g, A Laors or UskXay CuRISTIANE. The following wes in Geruau. Parsan Barcke, d that you ean's 8nd th ‘The following was sent of lha'mlmb‘.nri of Mr. Btarcko's church: : 1t Mr. 6tarcka doos ibiok (¢ 4 fuo. ¥amsorry ol Ubost. Tou njust leave. A Falap. to Mr, J. G. Hochl, oze sttracted attention, nd compasct dainaad of th crrabn led Mr. Pasker 1o the pl form, wherc he was again loaded wi . al Diepaich 10 The Trits . 4 bcus. inate by o Bleat Furnanca mei pat, (3 ruund and snawer grietto, cuver the wlole re your Honor all t (oints made by Io! tho deparimunt st Weshingtou, 1 1o propafo s arkunicac wiich would Lo dp allowing argus 1 on bebaif of the Purposs alated, botls for tht 1500 that fore your Hopor lcaders, but waa suspected. 1endsd to act &8 & go-between. JacxsonviLrs, Iil.. May 17.~Uze of the most d entertainments of tho )8 wad 8 grand concest In b von by Miss Ottillio Klauczek, ass locul talent, for the beneds of 'tho ruom. 'The Opers-Honse was crowded by the beab people’of tho city sud : o Hieat whieh ar e, for your liunor sud the depsrtmen Aiokfon To dreuniss was pend ‘The Government has suspesded thesale of gold, a3 the expectatlons of the Treasury were not solling of gold in small quan- oF fi‘: abated llmupoqcuh- But Mr, Starcke does not intend (o be Intimi- dated in that way, and will remain (n Muscatide. e ———— ¥ frow surrounding Muus Klsucsek le one of the Ancat piantsts enjus—and she falrly charmed e cxquisite rendecing ol the wioaltioas, Judge Drummond does uot understand that the Rebm case {a referred to hlm except in this way: ‘Two of ihree wesks sgoJudye Lawrance snd K. Storre went (o blm and asked blia to hear the case, Nxw_Yomx, Msy 17.~August Belmont and E. Davies are of * the struck jury of forty- o; the trisl of the city's sult sgalust Petce B, fluu prompted ra in America-a rea} the audlcnce with 3MUGALING. s An extenslve smuggling fraud In the Custom. tasest and most dUBCUI co: