Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1883 — Page 2

e gcniocnituSentincl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. T, W. McEWEN, - - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. During a fireman’s parade at Patereon, N. J., the silk-mill of It A S. Adams was damaged to the extent of $45,000 by flames. Flames broke out in the basement of Noa 537 and 539 Broadway, New York, and soon destroyed the building. It cost $500,000 some years ago, and the mercantile firms occupying it report losses aggregating $700,000. Jay-Eye-See trotted a mile in Boston in 2:11% and showed no signs of exhaustion. On a bet of SI,OOO, on Cayuga lake, Charles E. Courtney, the oarsman, made three miles in 20:05, beating the record by nine seconds. The will of Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, bequeaths property amounting to $16,000,000. In the bicycle tournament at Springfield, Mass, Higham made twenty miles in 66 minutes 2% seconds, beating the record by 72% seconds, takings purse of SI,OOO and the championship of the world. A boiler in the Sligo Iron Works, Pittsburgh, exploded with great violence, killing three men and seriously injuring eight The shops of the Lake Erie road and several dwelling-houses were set on fire. The largest fragment of the exploded boiler flew to the center of the Monongahela river. The loss is $13,000. There were 177 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’s New York Commercial Agency during the week ending Sept 22, forty-one more than the preceding week, thirty-six more than the corresponding week of 1882, and eighty-one more than the same week of 1881. Dunn’s Commercial Agency reports that trade generally is in a healthy condition, notwithstanding the fact that the clearing-house exchanges are reduced in volume. Speculation, they assert, is not so rampant as at this time last year, but legitimate business is fully as large and more satisfactory. Country collections are good, money is abundant, and rates to borrowers are low. The great drought in New Hampshire has compelled the closing of the saw and grist miMs, and cattle are driven long distances to water. The Pittsburgh members of the Knights of Labor threatened to withdraw because a free-trader of Massachusetts was placed at the head of the Executive Committee. Rev. Dr. E. F. Hatfield, who was Moderator of the last Presbyterian Assembly, died the other day in New York. While six men were timbering the Woodward mine shaft at Kingston, Pa, a heavy block of timber fell on the platform supporting them, and four of the ifien tumbled sixty feet to the bottom and were drowned. The other two saved their lives by hanging to a beam until rescued.

WESTERN.

Christopher Mann, of Independence, Mo., had the aid of eighty-five descendants in celebrating his 109th birthday. Of seventeen living children, one is 12 and another 17. Charles McComas, the boy whose parents were slaughtered, and who was taken into captivity by the Apaches, has been rescued -according to a report from Mexlca Two belligerent cowboys were slain by a plucky Mexican at Ute Creek, CoL He was promptly filled with lead by the victims’ companions J. B. Pruden, a mailcarrier of Deadwood and Miles City, his stocktender Jack Harris and two cowboys, while playing cards at Little Missouri, Dak., became involved in a quarrel, when all agreed to settle it by fighting. A man named O'Neil, Pruden, and Harris started out in advance, when the cowboys began firing, whereupon Pruden and Harris turned and fired, killing one cowboy instantly and mortally wounding the other. Thomas Hayes, a Texas cattle-king, was killed at Coleman, in that State, by a saloon-keeper named Pendleton. Jesus Mason, a rich cattle-raiser, was killed at his ranch in the Zuni mountains, without provocation, by a Navajo Indian. Friends of the dead man promptly dispatched his murderer. The Piegan Indians, after a conference with Senator Vest and Delegate Maginnis, agreed to cede to the Government a large tract frqm their reservation, and requested to be furnished with cattle and farming implements. The brewing firm of Anthony & Kuhn, of St. Louis, has suspended, with liabilities of nearly $400,000, the chief creditors being two banks. The Northern Pacific road reports gross earnings of $7,855,459 for the year and expenses of $5,336,929. Two men at Camp Point, 111., procured at a drug-store a quart bottle of bitters, and, after drinking freely, both dropped dead. A third man was seized with spasms. In a dispute over cards in a Lockland Ohio) saloon Philip Kuhn struck Ezekeil Lee (cdlored) with his fist, killing him instantly Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of England, was banqueted by the Hon. E. B. Washburna, in Chicago. A correspondent who recently visited Kelley’s Island, reports that the grape crop this year will be nearly as bad a failure as that of 1875. The administrators of seven of the girls who were rested alive in the rag warehouse at Cincinnati have filed suits for SIO,OOO each against the owners of the building, alleging that they knew the danger and neglected to provide exits.

SOUTHERN.

The Kentucky Methodist Conference indorsed the withdrawal of Sunday trains by the Louisville road, and resolved that camp-meetings shall be abolished unless unnecessary traffic on the grounds is stopped during the Sabbath H. A. Ramsey, of the Vulcan Iron

Works, at Baltimore, Md., has made an assignment. In Sumter county, 8. C., citizens took a negro who had assaulted a 12-year-old girl, tied him to a tree, shot him, and then beat the corpse into a jelly. Five men were killed by the explosion of a steamboat boiler at Shreveport, La. , Fire destroyed the Oxmoor iron furnaces at Birmingham, Ala., causing a loss of $500,000. Miss . Bailie Johnson, a handsome Baltimore girl, hanged herself on the staircase by rope, from grief at the insanity of a companion. CoL R. 8. Strader, a leading horseman of Lexington, Ky., had an affray with a colored employe, killing him with a shotgun.

WASHINGTON.

Mr. Hill, Supervising Architect, has tendered his resignation. The pension appropriations are holding out far beyond the expectations of the experts Postmaster General Gresham has ordered the Postmaster at New Orleans to deliver no more registered letters or moneyorders, to the New Orleans National Bank until it shall have discontinued receiving the lottery-man Dauphin’s mails. Secretary Folger has made a call for $15,000,060 in 3-per-cents, the interest to cease Dec. 1. Although polar explorers have volunteered their services, Secretaries Chandler and Lincoln perceive no feasible way to relieve Lieut. Greely this fall The requisitions upon the Postoffice Department by the Postmasters for the new 2-cent stamps are so large that the contractors are unable to supply the demand, and the Department consequently is reducing the amounts called for in the requisitions. The announcement comes from Washington that the Pension Office is unable to expend the money appropriated at the last session. Commissioner Dudley called for $170,000,000, and now finds that $75,000,000 will suffice. As a result, a large amount of* bonds will doubtless be called in. The decision of the Secretary of the Treasury in regard to the construction of the “charcoal iron” and ‘round iron” provisions of the last Tariff act is adverse to the claims of manufacturers on both points.

POLITICAL.

The New Jersey Republican State Convention met at Trenton and nominated Judge Jonathan Dixon for Governor. Among other things, the resolutions indorse President Arthur’s administration, oppose monopolies, call for the protection of American industries, and demand an equitable system of State taxation. The New York Republican State Convention was called to order at Richfie d Springs by John F. Smyth. Senator Lapham presided. Among the delegates who failed to appear were George William Curtis, Whitelaw Reid, Thomas C. Platt and Gen. Sharpe. Senator Lapham was called to the chair, and made a few remarks which evoked hearty cheers. A platform was adopted, eulogizing President Arthur and calling for a moderate protective tariff and the taxation of corporations. The following ticket was placed in n6mination: Secretary of State, Gen. Joseph B. Carr; Comptroller, Ira Davenport; State Treasurer, Pliny J. Sexton; State Engineer and Surveyor, Silas Seymour; Attorney General, Leslie W. Russell. Col. Charles R. Codman was chosen to preside over the Massachusetts Republican Convention, at Boston, an.l in taking the chair said there was no room in that Commonwealth for a cheap and vulgar dictatorship, but there was a necessity for a Governor of decent manners and seemly behavior. On the first ballot for Governor Hon. George D. Robinson received 996 votes and Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 117. Mr. Adams at once caused the nomination of Mr. Robinson to be made unanimous. The remaining State officers were renominated. Mr. Dawes presented the platform, which was unanimously adopted, and which, after indorsing Arthur’s administration, favoring civil-service reform, a currency based on specie and a higher standard of temperance legislation, arraigns and denounces the administration of Gov. Butler.

The Dakota Constitutional Convention, which met at Sioux Falls, has adjourned, leaving the final arrangement of the constitution in the hands of the Committee of Arrangement and Phraseology. Very stringent safeguards will be made against the monopolies of banking and railroads. The convention defeated an amendment to the article on corporations, assessing railroads upon their gross earnings. The question of salaries to be allowed State officers, was decided as follows: The Governor, $2,000; the Treassurer, Auditor and Attorney General, SI,OOO each; the Secretary and Superintendent of Public Instruction, $1,500. The Legislature will fix other salaries. A provision was adopted to submit tj a popular vote any prohibitory measures upon the petition of 5,0.0 legal voters, and upon a majority vote itsha’l become a part of the State constitution. A mass convention ofj colored voters of Ohio was held at Columbus, Sept. 20. The Democrats took control at the outset, but the Republicans reorganized the affair after • recess. Then a split took place. One convention refused to send delegates to the Louisville convocation; the other appointed a full set. The Civil Service Commissioners have been informed by Congressman Dezendorf, of Virginia, that Mahones agent last week assessed all employes of the Norfolk Navy Yard 5 per cent, on their salaries, the third levy this year. The Prohibitionists held a State Convention at Boston. Resolutions were adopted declaring for equal political rights for both sexes, civil-service reform, protection to American industries, and, in, consequence, as an aid to these, the suppression of the liquor traffic. The following ticket was placed in nomination; For Governor, j Charles Almy, of New Bedford; Lieutenant Governor, John Blackmer; Secretary of State, Solon F. Root; Treasurer and Receiver, Thomas J. Lathrop; Auditor, Jonathan Brick; Attorney General, Samuel M. Fairfield.

John Bigelow, ex-Minister to France in war times, was interviewed at Chicago He believes Blaine, Conkling and Arthur can settle their differences satisfactorily, with the result of the re-election of Arthur. Mr. Bigelow states that Tilden told him six weeks ago that if every man, woman and child in America (thus including Rutherford B. Hayes) were to sign a petition that he should ran for President he would still refuse. -

MISCELLANEOUS. F. B. Thurber, of the New York Anti-Monopoly League, was before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor. In the opinion of the witness the use of steam and electricity had revolutionized labor and commerce within a few years, and had much to do with the present unsatisfactory relations of labor and capital Corporations had grown to tremendous propor. tions, and had conferred benefits on humanity as a whole, but the attending evils had likewise made their appearance, and proper regulation had come to be a necessity. There were numerous monopolies, such as those in land, currency, transportation, tariff,combination in trade,and taxation,and all had a bearing on the problem under discussion. Intemperance and ignorance were also vital factors. The carrying trade on land could be centered in a few hands, but on the sea competitors would prevent undue exactions by carriers. Legislation was enacted in the interest of corporations, and offenders in this direction could only be reached with gr6at difficulty. If the State constructed railroads and directed other public works it would not have watered stocks, discriminated against persons and places, corrupted elections and Legislatures, and debauched courts. Witness asserted that in the last Congress there were 264 lawyer's, the majority of whom were retained by corporations, or were directly or indirectly influenced by others in legislation in the interest of corporations. The Chicago Christian Convention, led by Moody and Sankey, opened at Farwell Hall, in that city, in the presence of an immense audience. Many noted evangelical workers were in attendance, and during the series of meetings the best methods of Christian work were elaborately discussed. Interest in the meetings did not flag as they progressed, but there was a great rash and packed houses each day Telegraphic communication with Brazil is now given to the public, via Galveston and Valparaiso. President Arthur, upon the opening of the line, sent a dispatch of congratulation to the Emperor Don Pedro. Nordenksjold, the Arctic explorer, has been heard from. He reports that his expedition penetrated Greenland a distance of 360 kilometers, and found the whole region an ice desert They attained a height of 7,000 feet above the sea • C. T. Meade & Co., fur manufacturers, at Toronto, Ontario, have failed for $60,000. * The steamer Alaska, which arrived at New York the other day, made the trip across the Atlantic in six days, two hours and forty minutes. Prof. Nordenskjold states that Dr. Nathorst, while traveling inland last July, was told by an Esquimau interpreter that fifteen Esauimaux told him that the commander of the American expedition, whose name they pronounced “Kasleyh,” and another member of the party were dead, and that the rest of the explorers had returned southward on sledges. The ships Pauline and Shirley, which sailed from New York on Nov. 19 and March 8 last, respectively, are now given up as lost The new Brook’s comet is rapidly approaching the earth and sun, and will be visible to the naked eye before Christmas.

FOREIGN.

A box of dynamite was discovered recently in the precincts of the Sultan’s residence at Constantinople, resulting in a Circassian guard being exiled. When O’Donnell, the slayer of Carey, the informer, was marched from Millbank prison to Bow street, large crowds gathered at every point, and gave vent to cheers and hisses. The prisoner was formally charged with murder on the high sea The hearing was adjourned to Tuesday, Sept 25, to await the arrival of witnesses from Australia It is stated hy the London Times that Avenger O’Donnell is 45 years of age, served in the American rebellion, lived for some time in Philadelphia, and kept a public house on the Canadian border. He lost his money by investment in silver mines and Fenian bonds. Col. Clibborn, of the Salvation army, has been expelled from Geneva; and Miss Booth is imprisoned at Neufchatel for holding army meetings contrary to law. In closing the military maneuvers at Merseburg, Emperor William informed the troops that he would probably never again review them He created Gen. Blumenthal a Count. Attention is drawn toward the estimates of the Russian authorities for their army expenses the coming year. The amount is 7,(00,0C0 rubles in excess of that required in 1883. Antoine Ferdinand Joseph Plateau, an eminent and aged French scientist, is dead. O’Donnell, who removed Informer Carey, feels bitterly against the Dublin Irishmen, whb have taken no steps to raise funds for his defense. A cable dispatch from Agram reports that 600 peasants assembled at Farkaswtnch, armed with guns and axes, and defied the military, but when the latter were reinforced ten of the rioters were killed. A cable dispatch says that France, on the China question, is torn up. M. Ferry has the portfolio, but it is generally understood that the French Cabinet will have to settle the Tonquin question before the Chamber meets, or the Chamber will settle the Cabinet Ferry's proposition is that the zone be limited to a narrow belt between the Chine e frontier and the Red river, but the Chinese insist that the zone shall include the whole delta of the river, and also that the Government shall be administered by* them. They are willing to open the river, however, to general European traffic. Lord Granville favors the Chinese proposals, and, in the event of arbitration, it is thought that Ferry will try to join Russia with England in mediating with Pekin, The Irish National League is arrang-

Ing for a series of mass meetings in the United States, to be addressed by John Redmond and others. Vienna dispatches accuse Russii of massing troops and making military preparations along -the German and Austrian frontiers. It is stated that all the Russian railways have been ordered to have military cars in readiness, and that the Black sea Captains have been instructed to hold themselves prepared to transport ammunition and arms to any port directed. Enormous provision depots, it is said, are being established along the frontier.

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

It was said that Postmaster General Gresham, in his forthcoming report, wi.l strongly advocate the adoption of the postaltelegraph system He will also advocate the establishment of postal savings banka The famous mill in Menard county, HL, erected in 1829 by William G. Greene* who afterward took Abraham Lincoln as a partner in running it, has been destroyed by tire. • Mr. George S. Barnes, known in Dakota and Minnesota as a great wheat farmer, tays of the wheat outlook in the Red River valley that the average yield will be fully eighteen bushels, while the grade will be very good on the whole. Throughout Northern Minnesota he estimates that the yield will average less than eighteen bushels, but will be of very good grade, all things considered. The Kansas corn yield is estimated by the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture at 206,010,030 bushels, or 50,000,000 bushels more than last year. Samuel J. Randall expresses himself confident of securing the Speakership of the next House. An attempt to hold a Republican Senatorial Convention at Pulaski, N. Y, resulted in a split and the nomination of two candidates. David Dudley Field presided over a “harmony” Democratic gathering in Cooper Union Hall, New York. The transactions at twenty-eight clearing-houses last week, show a decrease of 21X per cent from the same period last year. The general outlook is far from being as favorable as a month ago, and failures are increasing. Justice Field, of the United States Supreme Court, has decided that Chinese born in Hong Kong are excluded from immigration to the United States by the restriction act, as well as laborers from other sections of China. The failure is announced of Seidenbach, Schwab & Co., clothiers of New York, whose liabilities are nearly $400,000. Capt. Brackett, of the New York Custom House, is determined to stop smuggling by dressmakers. Last week he arrested women from Chicago, St Louis and Philadelphia, and sent twenty-seven trunks from the steamship Alaska to the Custom House seizure-room with goods valued at $50,000. The widow ■of the dead informer Carey and other witnesses against O’Donnell arrived at Plymouth, England. A Roman journal publishes the fact that cordial relations now exist between the Vatican and France, the latter Government having restored the stipends to the clergy. The Tonquin question is thus summarized by the London Times: France can only obtain Tonquin through war with China; she may have Annam and make commercial settlements in Tonquin without further trouble. Notwithstanding the proclamation of the Government forbidding the holding of meetings in the Counties Clare and Limerick, Ireland, several thousand persons, headed by a priest, gathered in Milltown, Malbay, County Clare, Sunday, and attempted to hold an Irish National League meeting. A large police force was present and prevented the organization of the meeting. The magistrate read the prohibitory proclamation and the crowd dispersed, uttering groans for the Queen and shouting “God save Ireland.’*

Sad, indeed, is the spectacle of the youth idling away the spring-time of his existence, and, not only “losing the sweet benefit of time,” but wasting, in the formation of evil habits, those. hours in which he might “clothe himself with angel-like perfection. ”—Landon.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beevess 4.60 @ 6.4 n Hogs 5.30 @ 5.70 Flour—-Supertin? 3.85 @ 4.30 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.09 & 1.69% No. 2 Bed I.l2££<s3* 1.13 Corn—No. 262 & .62% Oats—No. 234 @ .75 Pork—Mess 12.00 M 12.25 Lard 08%@ .08% CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.00 @ 6.30 Common to Fair 4.35 & 4.95 Medium to Fair 5.00 @ 5.5.5 Hogs 4.75 & 5.45 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex. 5.50 @ 5.60 Good to Choice Spr’g Ex. 4.75 @5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 93 @ .93% No. 2 Red Winterlol @ .181% Corn—No. 2 .50%@ .50% Oats—No. 2 27 @ .27 % Rye—No. 255 @ .55% Barley—No. 2 69%@ .60 Butter—Choice Creamery2s @ .27 Eggs—Fresh2l @ .22 Pork—Mess 10.70 @IO.BO Lard 05%@ .06 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2.93 @ .93% Corn—No. 250 @ .51 Oats—No. 227 @ .27% Rye—No. 254 @ .55 Barley—No. 2 62 %@ .63 Pork—Mess 10.50 @10.75 Lardo7%@ .08 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red I.OGJ£@ LOl% Corn—Mixed 46 @ .46% Oats—No. 2 25 @ .25% Ryes2%@ .53 Pork—Mess 1L37%@11.50 Lard 07%@ .07% CINCINNATI. Wheat—Na 2 Red.. 1.04 @1.05 Corns 2 @ .52% Oats 29%@ .30 Ryes 6 @ .56% Pork—Mess.ll.so @11.75 Lard v .... t .07%@ .08 TOLEDO. Wheat—Na 2 Red LO3 @ 1.04 Corns 4 @ .55 Oath—No. 227 & .27% DETROIT. Flour > 4.00 @ 6.75 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.06%@ 1.97% Corn—No. 253%@ .54 Oats—Mixed29 @ .29% Pork—Mess 13.00 @13.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—Na 2 Red 1.01 @1.01% Corn—No. 247 & .48 Oats—Mixed27 @ .27% EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattlb—Best 6X» @ 6.35 Fair 4.75 @ 5.50 Common 4.00 @ 5.25 Hogs 5.10 @ 5.35 Sheep Al 9@A 75

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

Republican Conventions in New York and Massachusetts. State Convention of the Maryland Democracy. The Candidates Nominated and the Platforms Adopted. Maryland Democrats. The Democrats of Maryland, in convention at Baltimore, nominated Robert R. McLane for Governor, and adopted the following platform of principles: The Democratic party of Maryland, in State Convention assembled, resolves as follows: The election for executive officers of the State, to bo held in November this year, is of momentous importance, because it wid determine the policy and control of the Legislature of the State until 1888, and will exert a decisive Influence upon the vote of the State at the Presidential election Of 188*. The declaration of the election of Hayes and ■Wheeler, in 1878, to the offices of President and Vice President of the United States was brougnt about by frand consummated under the forms of law; and the methods used in the election of Garfield and Arthur, in 1880, have been proved by the creatures who did the evil work to have been, if possible, more discreditable than those adopted by their fellows in 1876. The National Republican party of the country has, during its tenure of sower, made public lands the spoil of favored corporations. It has squandered the money of the country by maintaining a horde of idle, profligate and incapable placemen. It has not, during its tenure of power in its tariff legislation, given that just and equal protection to the industries of the country which it ought to have afforded, but has, on the contrary, made the masses of the people pay from their earnings enormous bounties to favored monopolies. It has broken up the commerce of the United States in vessels carrying the national flag. It has permitted the unworthy men who planned and evented the frauds pert etrated in the Presidential elections of 1876 and 1880 to deal with the patronage of the Government and with the public money in the tre«sury as if these great trusts were spoils of an enemy's camp. The Democratic Conservative party of this State will enter into the State and national campaigns of this and ensuing years with its whole heart, resting its opinions on national politics as heretofore upon the express words of the tenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, adopted in 1795: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.” It will demanddhat national taxation, in all its forms, shall be limited to such amounts as are necessary for the economical administration of Government, for the payment of interest upon the public debt, and for the redemption in each year of a fixed and reasonable proportion of that debt; it will demand such revision and amendment of the Federal laws relating to the shipping and carying of ocean freights as will restore our merchant marine to its former prosperity. Massachusetts Republicans. The Republicans of the Bay State met In convention at Boston, nominated George D. Robinson, a Chicopee lawyer and Harvard graduate, for Governor on the first ballot, and unanimously adopted the following resolutions: In presenting to Massachusetts its candidates for State officers the Republican party does not deem it necessary to this year offer any formal statement of its political principles. Those principles have been often declared. In national affairs we believe in equal rights and a fairlycounted vote; a thoroughly pure and reformed civil service, beyond the reach of party conflicts; a sound currency, based on an honest specie dollar: a liberal but in no wise extravagant or wasteful expenditure; a largely-reduced taxation, and wise and well-matured laws to promote and develop American industry ana enterprise both at home and on the ocean; we indorse the administration of President Arthur as wise, conservative and patriotic. As regards State affairs, we believe in widelydefiused education, even a higher standard of temperance legislation, pure and estended suffrage, equal taxation, intelligent recognition of the rights of labor as well as capital, and we would take no step backward in regard to those philanthropic, charitable, and educational institutions in the constant development of which our beloved Commonwealth has been ever forenfost. All these things we have many times asserted, and we appeal to the gradual and steady progress unmistakably apparent through the reccrds of the last quarter of a century, both in the State and nation, as pt oof that we have not asserted in vain. We stand ready to assert them now, and to maintain them also, While we do not believe in that political charlatanry. which makes a business of sham reform, indiscriminately treating great moral and humanitarian questions, public offices, and public issues as counters in a game, the sole end of which Is one man’s pohti al preferment, neither can we patiently see methods of political corruption, unknown here before, introduced into our State and Municipal Governments. Unless checked here.and now, these methods will surely Bring the politics of Massachusetts to a level which we have seen elsewhere and have not been slow to vigorously denounce. This year, therefore, the work of reform for us begins at home. The issue is well understood. We propose to blot out, in so far as we may, the record of the most discreditable year in the history of the State. It is time, not for many words, but for decisive action. We present, therefore, our candidates as men simply pledged, if elected, te carry the administration of affairs back to those better days when our public men were not first to traduce the State, but, if the State were traduced by others, were ready to stand up, as did Webster once, saying, with honest pride: “Massachussetts—there she is! Behold herl Judge for yourselves."

New York Republicans. The New York Republican State Convention disposed of its work at Richfield Springs rapidly and smoothly, renominating Gen, Carr for Secretary of State; Ira Davenport for Comptroller; Pliny T. Sexton for Treasurer; Silas Seymour for Engineer, and L W. Russell for Attorney General. The following platform was adopted without dissent: The Republicans of New York, in State Convention, held that the rec >rd of the Repnb.ican party in the past affords the best guaranty of the parly's purposes and acts in the future. The pr scrvation of the national life, the keeping of the national faith, the promotion of the national credit, the payment of the public debt, the reduction of taxation, the protection of home industries, the elevation of labor, the purification of the civil service—and, in fine, administrative policy based npon wise legislation, that has given unexampled prosperity to the country and promoted the happiness and progress of the people—are the achievements that commend the Republican to continued popular favor. W e rejoice in the wisdom and success of President Arthur's administration of the affairs of the Government, which commands universal respect throughout the country, and has the confidence and support of the Ro t üblicans of the State of New Aork. Onr Senators and Representatives in Congress have our thanks tor their part tn the reduction of internal taxation to the extent of While the national credit is kept unsullied, the public debt is being steadily reduced, and the defenders of national life are justly the recipients of a grateful republic's bounty. We appro e honesty and fidelity in the Government expenditures, the reduction of the interest on the public debt, and the payment of the debt as r.ipidlv as may be without unduly burdening the people, the bringing of taxation within tte lowest 1 racticable limits, the reduction of the force of public officials to the lowest number con latent with the requirements of the service, and tne adoption of eve’ y practicable means that will diminish the burdexs of taxation. We rejoice in the successful inauguration of c vil-servlce reform (a result of liepublican agitation) and national progress, and insist that the work thns auspiciously begun shall be prosecuted to complete success. We favor a system of tariff laws under which, while revenue for the Government is provided, American producers are justly protected. American labor elevated, and home markets are secured to home prodnets, for the advantage alike of producer and laborer, We favor the removal of all unjust burdens upon American shipping, and the awarding of ocean mail contracts to the lowest bidder among the owners of American vessels after open competition. We favor the establishment bv Congress of a National Bnrea* of Labor Statistics. with the object of promo Ing the Industrial, social and sane itary oondiiions of the people. We favor the surrounding of primary meetings, as well as popular elections, with the security of honesty and purity, as indispensable requisites to correct political action. The tendency to create monopolies requires checking by adequate legislation. Unjust discrimination in transportation should be pro-

hibited; and violation of chartered privileges ju- titles the intervention of the State to correct the evils thus engendered. 'J axation should be equalized and its burdens be borne proportionately by real and personal property; and the po icy of taxation of corporations is approved on the test of its practical operation. The free-canal policy of this State has in practice justified its adoption, by restoring canals to their usefulness, by bringing to the State increased commerce, by assuring to it a continuance of commercial supremacy. We approve the plan of party reorganization in the city of New York and recommend that it be persisted in, to the end that it shall embrace all Republicans in the city on equal terms and footing. We believe in the wisdom of the people in deciding all questions pertaining to tne public welfare, and would accede to the desire of a large body of our citizens ta submit to the voters of the State a constitutional amendment in regard to the sale of intoxicating liquors. Democratic incapacity and inability to administer the Government are demonstrated in the conduct of the late Legislature, where twothirds of the Democratic majority was false toils pledges and to public interests. The reckless partisanship and insatiate greed for officeof the Democratic party brought it into public contempt. Its special legislation to make places for partisans, and its increase of the salaried list to reward favorites, brought, upon it public execration. The utter disregard of important public interests and its increase of State taxation are offenses not to be condoned. The course pursued in its cowardly attempt to evade the responsibility of affirmative action on the contract-labor question, and to shirk the issue presented in the platform of the last Democratic State Convention, has earned the distrust of the taxpayer and the contempt of the workingmen. It is the duty of the people to rescue the Legislature from the control of an incompetent and faithless party, and from being the sport of place-hunters and spoilsmen, and to secure a continuance of an economical, efficient and satisfactory administration of the State departments, by the election of the ticketfor State officers this day placed in nomination.

GENERAL NOTES.

Minnie Smith, after having' been confined a quarter of a century on Blackwell’s island. New York, leaped from an upper ter or cells to the floor, and ended her wretched Ufa A mother only 13 years old, living in Rose, Wayne county, N. Y., recently gave birth to a female child weighing seven pounds. At last reports mother and child were doing well In a recent sermon, at Baltimore, B shopRyan advanced the doctrine that Catholic priests have not the power to forgive sins unless the sinner feels sorrow for what he has dona The Duke and Duchess of Teck have gone to live economically in Germanv, leaving their apartments in Kensington Palace at the disposal of Princess Louise and theMarquis of Lorna One of the stylish wraps this winter is going to be the Russian circular, fittifig close in the back, reaching to the feet, and hanging loose in front it will be principally made of silk, and bound with fur. Great satisfaction has been given to the friends of woman s advancement by the announcement that in the recent examinations of women students at Cambridge, England, five have obtained honors and two degrees. Rev. John Bueler, a colored Baptst preacher of Wyandotte, Kan., suddenly stopped in his sermon and placed his faceon the open Bibla After some minutes had. elapsed, a deacon went to the pulpit and found him dead. The best snake story of the day comes from an oat-field near Danville, HL A man with a reaper cut the head from a rattlesnake. After diligent search two other reptiles were found, and while the battle for their extermination was in progress twenty young rattlesnakes were born and kiUed. Two boys named»Dennls Shea And George Marshall engaged in a scuffle at Holyoke, Mass., and Marshall was thrown to the ground, dying almost instantly. The doctors say that his death w<s caused by asphyxia, the lungs being gorged with blood, while one ventricle of the heart was empty. The inhabitants of Rugby, Tenn., seem to have acquired the American power of invention. One of them says that he was out in a thunder-storm, wheeling brush-in a wheelbarrow, when there suddenly descended a ball of lira When his dazzled eyes could see there was nothing left of tne wheelbarrow or its load but a twisted tire. About eight months ago John Gouton, of Everson, Pa, while drinaing water from a spring at West Overton, swallowed a small lizard. It very often came up in his month and gave him much troubla He concluded to try a remedy to induce the unwelcome occupant of his stomach to come forth. He fasted for twenty-four hours, after which he ate a handful of sa t and laid down beside a pail of water. The lizard came up into his mouth. John closed his teeth on it, grasped it with his hand and threw it to the ground. It was four or five inches in length. Jim Haqeb was sitting in an easy position, with his feet on the mantel-piece, in his house in Heppner, reading the advertisements in the Gazette. He was having lots of fun at this, and expected to continue enjoying himself for at least ten minutes, when suddenly his old tom-cat came in and sprung up on his lap. Jim told him to Jay . down ana keep quiet, but Mr. Cat would not do it, and insisted on springing around, running toward the door, and trjing to bark. Finally Jim told him to lead on, and and where he lead he would follow. Tom took him around the house to a closet The door was closed and had a rock rolled up against it Tom-cat became excited and rubbed up against Jim’s legs. Jim opened the door, ana was greeted wi*h the peculiar sinring of a rattle-snake, which Tom-cat had corralled and then barricaded the door. The snake was soon killed Fifteen rattles and five buttons. The rock had hair on it, showing where the cat hod shouldered it— Heppner (Ga.) Gazette.

PERSONS AND THINGS.

Ellen M. Gitford, of Boston, has given ♦20,000 for a summer home for dogs, cats ana birds. Ex-Empress Eugenie is building a ♦ , 40,000 church at Flamborough, England, in memory of her son. The stately but uncomfortable fashion of powdering the hair has broken out in New York fashionable circles. Spurgeon, the famous London minister, has but two children—twin sons—and they are both Baptist clergymen. Bishop Gilmor of the Roman Catholic dioce* e of Ohio, has begun an agitation in favor of congregational singing. The mother of Bayard Taylor, still hale and hearty, is living in Philadelphia, on Spruce street, and loves to peruse her son’s books. Gen. Hickenlooper, of Cincinnati, has sued the lfew»-Journal of that city for ♦ 100,030 for falsely connecting his name with a social scandal The late William Wirt Sikes, United States Consul at Cardiff, was a native of Watertown, N. Y.. and at the age of 10 was a temperance lecturer and editor of a local newspaper. A phenomenal woman recently died at Pestb, aged 70 years The doctors who made a post-mortem examination of the body found that she was not only 'without the spleen, but had never had any. It is given out that Freddie Gebhardt acknowledges that his expenses on account of the Jersey Lilly were ti7.\ooa This is probably an exaggeration, but it proves the adage that a certain kind of young man and his money are soon parted. Col. George R. Perkins, of Norwich, is the oldest business man in Connecticut. He is in his 06th year, and is Treasurer of the Norwich and Wore as ter Railroad Company. * His recent order to ticket agents concerning trade dollars reads as follows: “The trade dollar, so-called, is generally refused in payment, and you will please not receive them. They were intended for China, and it is inexpedient to delay their departure for the place of destination.’’