TELEGRAPHIC ! PiuiAT)ELPnrA, May 10. The exposition was opened in the itaiii Building to-day noon, with ap propriate ceremonies. Gov. Ilartranft and other state officials were present. President Hayes, and his cabinet were present, also President Grant, and Gov ernor Ilartranft and other State offi cials. Philadelphia, May 11. As a testimony of respect and esteem of Hon. A. G. Goshorn, director gener al of the centennial exhibition, for his valuable services during four years of the exhibition in this city, a number of citizens have subscribed to purchase him a handsome library, consisting of 5,000 volumes, which wa3 presented to him to-day. Constantinople, May 10. The journals report that the Rus Bians before Kars and Ardahan have retreated toward the frontier. A Ilagusa dispatch says thai the de lay in the Turkish attack on Montene grin positions is explained by the great want of supplies, and the ravages of ty phus, scurvy, and other diseases. The Turks try to conceal this, but there is good authority for stating that three thousand troops are sick in Mostar alone. The same epidemics rage in the camp at Scutari. LoxDO.t, May 11. The Standard reports that medical inspection of the army service corps was ordered yesterday. This unusual event is taken as an indication that the corps are to be in readiness for spe cial service. Horses also have been in spected and assorted, so that the best may be at any time selected for partic ular duty if required. The "War Office has ordered various regiments to train their regimental transports in the same manner as when preparing for the au tumn maneuvers. Washington', May 10. Secretary Evarts said yesterday that he has watched with absorbing interest the new phase assumed by the wai in the East in consequence of the attitude of the British Government as set forth in the diplomatic note of Lord Derby to Lord Loftus, and the antagonistic attitude of the opposition as indicated in the position taken by Gladstone. He intimated that although the Uni ted States has up to this time apparen tly very little concern in the struggle, the hostile attitude threatened by the course of Lord Derby might probably result in complications affecting Amer ican interests. ube a short distance above Galatz. Op posite the latter point the Bashi-Ba-zouks are at their old tricks, village burning, accompanied, no doubt, by the usual quantity of beheadings and other outrages. The Russians have taken possession of a little island in the Dan ube between Braila and Galatz, with the intention of crossing. The Danube has been again blockadfed, this time by the Turks, and there are threats of a blockade of the Black Sea, also, and British grain ships are being laid up i consequence. Reports of Turkish de feats in Armenia are rife, but lack point and confirmation. The Russians have advanced to Batoum, in Armenia, but are likely to meet with a vigorous resistance from the Ottoman garrison there. Good authorities say that fe vers have broken out among the Rus sian troops on the Danube, as in 1828 and 1834, and the summer outlook is unpromising. The news from the oth er powers ii unimportant. The maps of Europe may all be roll ed up and put away. The Russians have crossed the Pruth, and before they recross it some tracts of country that now belong to Turkey will have been joined to Russia, others to Austria, others to Persia, others to Egypt, and others to England. The chances are that the present maps will never again be needed. Globe Democrat. Ohio In Peace and War. Ohio may not be a mother of Presi dents, but she is a mother of officehold ers, and a mother of remarkable fecun dity. She has at present the Presiden cy and the Treasury Department, two of the seats on the Supreme Court Bench, including the Chief Justiceship, the Chief Justiceship of the District Supreme Court and the Japanese Mis sion, with Mr. Noyes gazetted for France. Of other civil positions filled by children of Ohio the official lists mention the First Comptroller, the Sixth Auditor and Deputy Third and Fourth Auditors of the Treasury De paitment, the Chief Clerk of the Post Office Department and of its contract branch, the Chief Clerk to the Solicitor of the Treasury, tho Census Clerk of Interior Department, etc. In the army Ohio owns the General and Lieutenant General, one of the three Major Gener als, one of the five active Brigadier Generals, and another on the retirto list, 11 Colonels, 10 Lieutenant Colonel J. 18 Majors, 43 Captains and 93 Lieuten auts. In the navy she has the Vice Admiral, 5 Rear Admirals, 2 Commo dores, 5 Captains, 8 Commanders, a Medical Inspector, a Pay 'Director, a Pay Inspector, a Chaplain, 8 Lieuten ant commanders, 24 Lieutenants, 9 Mas ters, 3 Ensigns, 5 Midshipmen, 2 Medic al Officers, 6 Paymasters, 6 Engineers,, besides 4 Lieutenants of Marines, two Captains and 1 Lieutenant of the Rev enue Marine. This does not include children of Ohio appointed from other States. At this rate, it will notbelonj before the proverb will be, "Scratch an office-holder, and he will cry 'Ohio!'" N. Y. World. Terrible Disaster. The inner walls of the north side of the Court nouse, at Rockford 111., fell, on the 11th inst. About twenty work men were hurt, of whom eleven were killed outright. The building has two pavillions and a centre dome over the front entrance, the stone cornice of which was just being put on, prepara tory to putting on the roof. The weight of the dome crumbled the supporting walls like so much sand. The responsibility rests between the architect, Mr. II. L. Gay of Chicago, and the contractor, Mr. W. A. Richard son of Springfield, III. The following letter in regard to go ing on the excursion is so cute we take the liberty of publishing it. May 8th, 1877. Dear Mac With a heart so full of sadness, that it gushes over, I am com- j pelled to send my "regrets," instead of I bringing my prepossessing self, to join our proposed happy trip to the bracing air of the mountains, and the embrac ing associations of crazy editors. The fact id, dear Mac, besides the grave tin of being a Nebraska editor, I have com mitted another, equally as "owdacious I m a lawyer (as well as a liar) and therefore am compelled to be "argify- lng cases in our District Court, when I should like to be leaping from cliff to cliff, jumping down precipices, and playing leap frog with the mountains, in young, happy, youthful,-innocent abandon. Yours Regretfully, E. M. O. Wants to Try it on the Hog First. Alexis listened patiently to the tele phone yesterday, and then said, "And zis ozzer machinery zis vot you him all go by ze sunshine make by Mess- tali Meddil zis blue glass him shall I Bee go ? They explained it to hirn, and he said that his dog might sit under it. New York Graphic. The War. Having got away from the Russian batteries at Galatz, Hobart Pasha is letting himself be heard from at Odes sa, and according to the latest reports is bombarding that city. Odessa is the pincipal city of Southern Russia, is the seat of the Governor General of Bessa rabia, and has about 123,000 inhabit ants. It is the best Russian port on the Black Sou, has an inner harbor ca pable of containing 300 large sized ves sels, and from it most of the grain of the lower portion of the great empire is exported. It contains a number of theatres and museums, a university, 44 churches, and about 500 granaries. The latest trade reports we have from there are those of 1872, in which year 1,233 vessels arrived, and 1,286 departed; and in the same year the exports were val ued at 631,000,000, and imports at $40, 000,000. It was poorly defended by a fort and several land batteries. Rus sia will loose more by its destruction than she will gain by the acquisition of all Roumania. The Turks have al so begun the bombardment of Ibrail, Editorial Excursion Notices. The Nebraska Editorial Association will leave Omaha for Salt Lake on the 24th of this month If the patrons of the Times want to make "yo faber pusher" happy, and get the benefits of western observations, they must bring around the little spare cash. Sutton Times. The Nebraska Editorial Excursion will take place the latter part of May. Salt Lake CiLv, Denver, and all other western cities are tha objective points, and most of the pencil-pushers will at tend. Wont it be run to watch some of tho stiff-necked sort, after they leave their homes? Fairbury Times. The Nebrska editorial association will meet at Omaha on the 23d of May and start on an excursion to the moun tains over the union i'acihc xi. it. on the 24th, taking in Salt Lake and oth er points of interest on the trip. Courior. The Nebraska editorial excursion circular is out. The party will leave Omaha on the morning of the 24th in stant. The train will consist of ele gant coaches and Pullman parlor cars. Many ladies will grace the occasion. In the Pullman will be a fine organ. The Rocky Mountains, Salj; Lake City. Denver, and other western resorts of interest will be visited. The placid ami beautiful Green river will be the place for fishing and boat-riding. The excursion will be a grand affair. It will be a great opportunity for Nebras ka editors to acquaint themstles with one another, and pave the v. ay for a better and stronger brotherhood, so to speak. There will be a press on board and a paper will be printed as we slip along over the iron rails. We respec tively insist that old 24th instant be hurrying itself up a little. Come on, boys. Central City Courier. The members of the Editorial Asso ciation of Nebraska are called, by the President and Secretary, to meet at the parlors of the Grand Central hotel in Omaha on the 23d inst. to arrange preliminaries for the excursion, which leaves umana on ine z-ktn inst. over the Union Pacific railroad for atrip to Utah and other portions of the west.-Pilot. After the fashion of Nebraska, Kan sas is also to havu an editorial excur sion this season. The ink-daubers of that state will Hock to Leavenworth at call, whore they will be received by the large-hearted citizens, who will feed and bed them while in that city with out price. This is a goodly phase of the coming event. The Omaha people might do the same and the Nebraska edkors would not care a dime. After Leavenworth has been eaten out, oar Kansas brethren will take a westward course to the Rocky Mountains ar.d what wonderful feats are to be accuu- plished in that elevated region we have not yet learned. Central City Courier. The editorial associan meet.s at Omaha 23d. On the 24th, the frater nity, or those of them who can scrape together the necessary nickles, will away to the Rocky Mountains, in one of Pullman's palace coaches. We would like "awful" well to be one of the party, but the aforesaid lucre is not within our grasp, hence we must decline with thanks the honor of being one of the party. Republican Pres. American Inventive Progress. Under the above heading the Scien tific American of May 7th has a long and interesting article, from which we make the following extracts: To show with what rapidity invent ors made improvements on inventions embodying original principals, says the writer, it may be noted that in the ear ly days of the sewing machine 11G pat ents were granted for improvements thereon in a single year; and out of the 2,910 patents issued in the yearof1857, 152 were for improved cotton-gins and presses, 164 for improvements on steam engine, and 198 for novel devices relat ig to railroads and improvements in the rolling stock. In the year 1848, three years after the publication f this paper was commenced, but 6G0 patents were granted ; but under the stimulus of publishing those inventions as they were patented, ten years later in 1858, the number had increased six fold, reaching 3,710, while up to Janu ary 1, 1850, as already stated, the ag gregate of patents issued amounted to 17,467; since that time and up to the present the total is 181,015. And curiosity here leans U3 (adds the editor)to review our own work, extend ing back, say, twenty years, or to 1857, a period durin& which 170,745 patents have been issued. We find by actual count, that 62,063 applications have been made through the Scientific Amer ican Patent Agency for Patents in the United States and abroad. This aver ages almost ten application per day, Sundays excluded, over the entire peri od, and bears the relation of more than one quarter to the total number of pat ents issued in this country up to the time of writing. TL7 Fred. Gorder's Implement Emporium THIRI STREET, NORTII OF MAIN. Is the place to buy every kind of Agricultural Implement. GO TO THE Herald Office FOR YOUR sJO WOES, Fosest Tap, For Throat, Long. Asthma, and Kldaeys. Forest Tar Solution, or Inhalation for Catarrh, Consumption, roncniua, ana Aiinnia- F F orest Tar Troches- orBor Throat, Ho&raeneas, Tickling Cough and Purifying Uie Breath. orest Tar Salve, or Healing Indolent Sores, Ulcers, Cats. Barns, and for Pile. Forest Tar Soap, or Chapped Hands. Salt Kheum, Skin 1 ine i oiiei ana tiauj. Forest Tar Inhalers, or Inhaling for Catarrh, Consumption. Asthma, For Sal by mil Druggist. THERE IS MONEY IN IT! XXXXFT ntCM ZXEC7TIS2T, 1CT FXSIZHAELS. Special Inducements to the Trade. AGENTS WANTED Everywhere for the 8mi 3. IP 111 iH- SEWING MACHINES EetaQ Trus, (75.00. ran a&z tct Simplest, lightest Banning, Beet 3Iiic and Hu6l F'iVo Sewiag y.y-'iinaa. In tia wjrli. Cv4 tMs w T-xxstuaUrer it.) w F04 f.LT.I Z SULKY GANG PLOW, of the Chicago Plow Co.; STANDARD NEW HI DING CULTIVATOR, of Rod: ford, III.; NEW MONITOR, CJieckRow) CORN PLANTER; CHAMPION and other CELEBRATED HARROWS 'Harrison' and Pelte Wagons, SINGLE and COMBINED REAPERS and MOWERS, (New Manny, Champion, and others.) WOODS' REAPER, MOWER, AND HARVESTER, (with Self-Bindiivj attachment.) THE VIBRATOR THRESHING MACHINE, Nicholls, Sheppard cf- Co. Satisfaction Guaranteed or no Sale. Fit ED. G ORDER, Office In J. V. Weckbach's Store, coiner Jfaiu and Third Street. B UY THE BESTl THE NEW" AMERICAN SEWING MAOHIUE. ex '32 to This Machine is Offered to the Public Upon its Merits Alone. Its Liyht and Still Running Qualities, and its Stlf-TJireadiny Needle and Self-Regulating Tensions, make it the Most Desirable Machine in the wrrld. FRANK CARRUTH, JE WELER, AGENT, PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. fwcneral Western Office, D. A. KEN YON, Manager, 2'2, Douglas Street, Omalia, !Ycl. 4 ;;i 4 TH PARKER GUN. SEND STAMP FOR CIRCULAR PARKER BRtfS WEST MER1DEN.CT. mil" s I i Mmnmj & 2ilir?ini? mil mwwn iP mmmmmr m if 0sfiniiS3ntlCJlsiifflg lint i 4 ' - ' ? '.'. if" ', y. 7 , ' f a THE LARGEST AND BEST SELECTED STOCK OF Mia d PJ3 f H UM MM3 including the greatest variety of beautiful colored shoes for children ever brought to this market. To be closed out at I shall continue to keep the best of workmen in my man ufacturing department. PETER MERGES. IF wminriB has come home, And he has brought the finest line of Dress Goods, Staple Goods, Fancy Goods and Notions you ever saw. rJP say nfliiEig of groceries foy the acre, loo4 and'sBioes till yw easa54 ae4 Iaat and caps 4111 yosi must huy. Spring and Summer Goods eyer and ever so cheap, Now is your chance bound to sell and under sell mot anybody. Come quick. Hurry up. I want to go East again next month. GOODS SOLD WITHOUT ARBITRATION ! 7 to & or S to 7, jus t as yon like, and: Tlae eaIa always eoisiafed out foa tiiere is mo IiifiMiidatiioiii at tlae As it is generally our custom to give you our prices for goods so that you can calculate at homo what you can buy for your money, we will give you prices below which will be lower than ever ami 10 per cent, cheaper than you can any where in this City or State. We have the alvautasre of any merchant in this city buying direct from the manufacturers. We have opened a Wholestale Store in St. Joseph Mo., vhi ;h will bo attended by Mr. Salomon. LOOK AT OCJt PRICE LIST. 20 yards prints for one dollar. Summer Shaw Is, 75c up. " " Urown and bleach muslin, one dollar, Handkerchiefs, y for 2."e. 12 " Blue and brown denims, one dollar. J.adies Silk Handkerchier, 35c each. 10 lied ticking, one dollar. Ladies Hose, 3 pair for 25c. " " Cheviot, one dollar. Men's Socks oc up. " " (irass Cloth, one dollar. Oiffs and Collars, 25c a set, and up. Malt Shades, one dollar. lied Spreads, one dollar up. 4 " Table Linen, one dollar. Corsets, good, 50c up. 12 " Crash Toweling, one dollar. As it is impossible to give the prices of our enormous HIre Bood IBeparteset we will only state that it is the largest and iiuest stock ever brought to this city and consisting of the followin new styles Poplins, Double Silk Pongees Japanese Silks. Matelassc Zephyr Suitings, Lawns, Grenadines, and Percales, at prices ranging from 12J cts. up; also a fine line of HAMIJUIiG EMIJUOIDEKI RS from 5 cents up. LINEN EMBROIDERIES to match our LINEN DRESS GOODS. A full assortment of BUNDLE PRINTS and everything belonging to Jl. riBST CLASS Fancy Dry Goods Establishment. We also keep a full line of SSeadyBBfiadc Meia aed BSoys9 (DItlBiEsg9 from 6 1.50 up for whole suits. Jeans Pants from 1.00 up. An unexcelled line GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, line White Shirts SI up; Calico Shirts, 40 cts. up; Cheviot Shirts, 50 ets. up; Overalls. (JO cts. up; Paper Collars 10c. ME IN AND BOYS' 13 ATS AND CAPS. Hals, Toe up: Caps, 10c up; Boots, $2 per pair up; Shoes. per p lir up: TRUNKS aud VALISKS. ;i go.I i sortment. We do not keen n little of everything, from an Axe Ilaudle to a barrel of s:ilt. but wliat we do can v we : have in full and ccrupltte'stock. JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, CLOCKS. TABLE aud POCKET CUTLERY, ete. AVe would inform the ladies of Platlsinouth and vicinity tht we are iii receipt of the the finest Pattern Heads and Bonnets Direct from Paris. We have an Accomplished. Fashionble Lady Trimmer who '.inderstands the business thoroughly and can svit a:l youi tastes; also a full lino of SILK TRIMMINGS, Ribbons. Flowers and Ornaments. Sash Ribbons from 50e up; L elie Ti imiued Hats, $1 and up. We. have a large and co:nplv.-ta .stock Canvass, Perforated Card Board, Zeph rs. Zcphy--Needles, Moitoes, aud Silk Floss of all shades. An immense stock of Carpets. Oil Cloths, Rugs and Mats. Hunp Carpets 25r pe r yard ; Ingrain Carpets, V per yard. Standard Carpet Chain, 5 It. bundles only 81-25. We have- also, for the accommodation of our friends, added to our already extensive assortment a larfec t&,'. ': Oil Window Shades in all colors. Lace Window Curtains 25 cts per yard. We present our annual price list satisfied that our customers will see that we can do belter for them th:;n c. : beforeand thankful for past patronage we most respectfully ask a continuance of the same. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, March 22d, 1877. SOL'MON NAT1IA 'v. Staple 4 1311 H W DEALERS IN ALL AV-V7W ('' r I mm a I iw a f n a ii EZ: r v Joto D80F & C0.VM7 aM Gang Fir DAVKXrOUT ro.vs PLOWS, Veir Cultivators, Check Row And everything that a Farmer may r.eed. Repairs on hand for all Machinery sold by