Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1884 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Several memorials were presented in the Senate, on the 6th Inst., in favor of suspending the coinage of the silver dollar. A bill for a free bridge across the Potomac was passed. Mr. Vance made an argument in support of the freeship bill. Mr. Vest made a favorable report on a bill to erect a public building at Detroit, limiting the cost of the site to $900,000. Shortly after the House met the tariff bill was taken up for the last day's debate. Mr. Oibson (Dem.of Louisiana, led off with a speech in favor of the measure, after which Mr. Randall (Dem.), of Pennsylvania, took the floor in opposition to the bill. He held that in the nice adjustment of business affairs there was nothing so conducive to success as stability. Judging from the intemperate language of the friends of the bill, those engaged in industrial pursuits were robbers and outlaws. As a matter of fact they were nothing of the sort. They were entitled to the protection of the law. He then went on to argue against the policy of unsettling business Interests by constant tinkering with the tariff. Mr. Blackburn (Dem.) of Kentucky advocated the bill. He said the time was not far distant when the people would repudiate the political hypocrisy of the protectionists. Protection for the sake of protection was the battle cry of the Republicans. He asked the Democrats to make taxation for revenue theirs. The advocates of the principles contained in the bill were ready for the fray, armed in a cause which they knew to be just. He protested against the current Idea that the advocates of the bill desired to exile from the rarty any Democrats who might differ from them. He had no power of expulsion. It rested with each man to determ ne his party affiliation. Let him who would strike down his party, show by his record upon whose hand the blood was to be found. In conclusion, he hoped that enough enlightenment might soon be brought to the House to repudiate the bigotiy which disgraced4>o!i:lcs in the shape of protection. Mr. Kasson (Rep.), of lowa, closed the debate In opposition to the bill. He declared that It was impossible to administer It and it would require a special catechism to answer the questions which would be asked before any goods could be imported. He then proceeded to detail the benefits the country had derived from protection. Mr. Morrison (Dem.), of Illinois, the author of the bill, made the closing debate in its favor. He made a rapid review of the objections to the measure. He then said that the Democratic members from lowa, Wisoonsin, Michigan, and California had been elected on the tariff platform, and feared that if the bill should be defeated they would be succeeded by Page and Burrows and Hazelton and “My Dear Hubbcll." Turning to Randall, Mr. Morrison said: “Yon Rave the power to strike out the enacting clause of the bill. It you nave that power, you have the power to amend this bill and make it what it should be." Mr. Converse (Dem.), of Ohio, moved to strike out the enacting clause of the bill. This was the signal for a volley of hisses and groans from the Democratic side, this demonstration being met by round* of applause from,the Republicans. The motion prevailed by a vote of 159 yeas to 155 nays. When the result was announced the victorious combination gave ronnd after round of cheers. Forty-one Democrats and 118 Republicans voted against the bill, and 4 Republicans and 161 Democrats in favor of it. Of the 41 Democratic votes in favor of killing the bill, Pennsylvania gave 12, New York 6, Ohio 10, California 4, New Jersey 3, and Maryland, Louisiana, Illinois, Virginia, West Virginia, and Connecticut 1 each. The names are as follows: Arnot, Boyle, Budd, Connolly, Converse, Curtin, Duncan, Eaton, KUiott, Krmentrout, Ferrell, Fiedler, Findlay, Finerty, Foran, Geddes, Glascock, Hopkins, Hunt, Hutchins, Jordan, Le Fevre, McAdoo, Muller, Murray, Mutchler, Paige, Patton, Post, Pandall, ficney, Bnvder, Spriggs, Storm, C. A. Sumner. Tully, Van Alstyne, A. J. Warner, Wemple, Wilkins. G. D. Wise. The four Republican tariff reformers are Ne’son, Strait, Wakefield, and White, all from Minnesota. The shipping bi.l was again debated in the Senate on the 7th lost. An amendment by Senator Vest was adopted in a modified form. As adopted it provides that there shall be no tonnage duties on United States vessels or on the vessels of nations which do not impose duties on the shirs cf this country. The “subsidy section” of the bill was attacked by Senators Beck and Maxey. The latter said that free ships and tariff reform would be the great political issues of the future, to be decided by the tribunal of the peop'e. Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill to place the name of U. S. Grant on the retired list of the army, adding that everybody understood the reason. Mr. Blair presented a measure for the adjustment of accounts of laborers and mechanics under the eight-hour law. Mr. Hill addressed the Senate In favor of the forfeiture of lands granted to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company. The House of Representatives refused io concur In the Senate amendments to the bill for the relief of Fits John Porter, which cut off pay and allowances from the date of d smlssal, and a conference committer was ordered. When the shipping bill came up in the Senate, on the Bth inst., Mr. McPherson’s amendment cutting off compensation for return trips of mail vessels was rejected, Mr. Vest's amendxnendment for shipping commissioners was agreed to, and motion to strike out the section for foreign mail pay was lost. The House bill was then taken up, amended as above, and passed without debate. Mr. Logan refused to serve on a conference committee on the Fitz John Porter bill, and Messrs. Sewell, Hawley, and Cockrell were appointed. Mr. Mitcheil made a favorable report on the bill granting pensions to soldiers of the Mexioan war, with an amendment that only dependent persons can enjoy its benefits. Mr. Dawes secured the passage of a resolution of inquiry as to whether any steps had been taken to prosecute a cowboy named Halferino for shooting an Indian named B'ack Wolf. The House of Representatives passed the bill to appropriate $1,000,000 to the World’s Industrial Exposition at New Orleans, the amount to be returned irom the gate receipts. A communication from the Secretary of the Interior contained an estimate of $272,620 for additional clerical help in the Pension Bureau. The Indian appropriation bill was debated In the Senate on the 9th inst. The committee having the measure in charge recommended an addition of $757,413 to the amount recommended by the House, which favored an appropriation of $5,4*6,330. Mr. Dawes explained that the increase was mainly In the interest of increased educational facilities for the In liana The greater part of the debate was directed to an item for the increase of the appropriation for the education of the Alaska Indians. Mr. Dolph introduced a bill for the construction of a harbor of refuge at Port Orford, on the Pacific coast. The House of Representatives passed a bill giving the widow of Gen. Frank P. Blair $5,000 for his services in organizing troops, and increasing her pension to SSO per monili. A remonstrance from the Louisville Board of Trade against the enactment of a bankruptcy law was presented. Some hours were consumed in debate on war claims from Henderson, Tenn., growing out of a levy on disloyal citizens to pay for depredations committed by Confederate soldiers. Both houses adjourned to the 12th.

EASTERN.

The Marine National Bank of New York closed Its doors last week, owing to inability to meet its debt of 8500,000 at the clearing house in the morning. The cause of the failure is said to be the real-estate investments of the President, Mr. J. D. Fish. ExPresident Grant and his youngest son are badly hurt by the failure. The firm of Grant & Ward, in which both nre concerned, collapsed on account of the failure. An interviewer in New York caught Gen. Grant in his office just before the failure of his firm, and secured his views on various subjects. The ex-President thinks the United States will have a population of at the end of the century; that the Southern States may then take the lead in manufactures; that the development of Mexico will be as rapid as that of California; and that New York will soon become the financial center of the world. Daniel G. Tucker, a prominent cittectt of Lockport, N. Y., for thirty years a

Deputy Federal Marshal, hanged himself because of Intense suffering from asthma. The liabilities of the firm of Grant & Ward, of New York, are estimated at $8,000,000. Ward and Gen. Grant and his two sons, Fred and Jesse, have all made assignments of their property for the benefltof their creditors, and they have been enjoined against disposing of their assets. It is one of the heaviest as well as one of the worst failures in the history of Wall street, and was brought about by reckless speculation by Ward. The household effects of Ward were seized In Brooklyn, and his wife and family were compelled to depart for his mother-in-law’s house. Mr. George Jones, of the New York Times, who was mainly instrumental in getting up the testimonial fund for Gen. Grant some time ago, says that $250,003 of that Is absolutely safe. Gen. Grant has hitherto been paid $15,140, the interest on the fund, th« Ist of May of each year. Hereafter he will be paid quarterly. Mr. Jones says It Is the Intention of the trustees that the fund shall not be diverted from the purpose for which It was subscribed.

WESTERN.

James Clark, confidential clerk of Rudolph Hochkofler, a large commission merchant at San Francisco, Is “short” $30,000, which he spent In speculation, Ham Patterson, a negro, was taken from bed, near Fulton, Mo., and killed by a mob. It appears that Patterson and his brother Julius circulated scandalous reports about nearly all of the women In the neighborhood, which greatly exasperated the men, and some twenty or more reputable citizens took the matter in their own hands with the above result. A dreadful wreck occurred on the St. Louis division of the Wabash Railroad, ten miles from Decatur, 111. The two rear coaches aud a sleeper were thrown from the track and forty people Injured, two fatally. Chicago detectives recently learned that Joe Clough, the leader of a gang of burglars, would arrive In that city by a Lake Shore train, In a huge trunk. The baggage came promptly on time, and was oonsigned to a brother of the crook. The officers followed It to Its destination, where they broke the look and took out their man. The Vanderbilt party made the trip from Detroit to Cincinnati in five and onehalf hours, the distance being 263 miles. Barbed-wire manufacturers, in session at St. Louis, decided to advance the price of wire a quarter of a cent. Reports of the wheat crop from various parts of Michigan indicate that in the northern counties If will be 87 per cent, of an average and In the southern tier about 87 per cent. Clover Is rather backward, and will average 90 per cent. Apples will be about the same, while peaches will scarcely exceed half of a full crop. Reports from various parts of Dakota and Minnesota regarding the condition of the spring wheat crop are very encouraging. There Is an increased acreage, and from present appearances there will be an abundant harvest. The oat crop is also looking very well. The Illinois Department of Agriculture finds the prospects not encouraging for over 84 per cent- of an average yield of winter wheat. The crop outlook in lowa is of a most cheering character. Ten persons were seriously and about forty slightly injured by the falling of the grand stand at the base-ball park in Chilli cothe, Ohio, during the progress of a game. A sanguine inventor has secured permission to lay a seventeen-inch pneumatic tube along the canal from Chicago to La Salle, Illinois, for the transmission of grain and small packages by compressed air at the rate of a mile a minute. S. P. Burt, Vice President of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, dropped dead In a hotel in Northern Michigan. Two months ago, in Milwaukee, he married a woman who had been a domestic in his family, to whom he leaves a costly mansion and $500,000 in mining property. The Northwestern Manufacturing and Car Company, of Stillwater, Minn., of which United States Senator Sabin is President, has failed, with liabilities of about $1,000,000 and assets that will aggregate $4,000,000. J. H. Townsend & Co., millers, also suspended, their liabilities being estimated at $500,000. Serious riots occurred at Quincy, 111., growing out of the strike of the union stovemolders there and the attempt of the manufacturers to supply their places with nonunion men. One of the non-unionists was 3hot through the hand. The driver of the wagon in which he rode was also woundod by a pistol-ball.

SOUTHERN.

At Winston, N. C., a mob took Henry Swaim, who murdered a woman, from jail and hanged him. William W. Massey, paying teller of the Baltimore Bank of Commerce, appropriated to his own account $40,000 of the money of that concern. He lost it in speculation. He has confessed. James S. Coleman, colored, was executed at Columbia, S. C., for the murder of Sarah Willis, his wife's sister. Masked men at Elizabethtown, Ky., took from jail a negro who had committed an outrage on a white woman, and hanged him to a tree outside the city, with a placard ordering no one to touch the corpse. Miles Patty, a negro, in jail at Elizabethtown, Ky., for outraging a young lady, was taken out by a mob and hanged. Dr. A. B. Pettis refused to testify in tbo trial of “Has” Wheeler at Hazleburst, Miss., and the Judge fined him SIOO, and ordered that he be kept in closo confinement. Before being taken to jail, Pettis, accompanied by a deputy, was permitted to visit bis residence, whence he departed secretly and cannot be found. C. A. Van Norden, a business man of Atlanta, Ga., who was indicted for carrying concealed weapons, forfeited his bona and hid beneath his house. When he grew tired of his position, he killed himself with a revolver.

WASHINGTON.

The Senate Finance Committee has agreed to make an adveise report on the trade-dollar bill.A strong effort will be made by the Southern democrats this session to secure the repeal of the tax on tobacco and fruit spirits and brandies. It is thought Mr. Kas-

eon’s bill to abolish the tax on tobacco may become a law before adjournment. Judge Hagner, of Washington, has asked Hallett Kilbourn to consent to a reduction of the judgment against ex-Ser-geant-at-Arms Thompson to $20,000; Otherwise a new trial will be granted. The returns to the Department of Agriculture estimate the wheat crop at 350,000,000 bushels. The May average is 91 against 8314 fog the same month a year ago. A bronze statue of Chief Justice Marshall, resting on a terraced stairway on the west front of the Capitol at Washington, was unveiled by Chief Justice Waite, in presence of a large assemblage. Ex-Senator Spencer, of Alabama, has brought suit against Attorney General Brewster for false arrest. The action arises out of the arrest of Spencor in Nevada on the charge of contempt of court during the starroute trials. The damages are placed at $20,000. Spencer modestly claims that his arrest was for the purpose of magnifying the importance of the star-route cases.

POLITICAL.

The Kentucky Democratic Convention indorsed Speaker Carlisle as a Democratic Presidential candidate. The Massachusetts Prohibition State Convention was held at Boston, the resolu. tlons declaring for the suppression of the liquor traffic by constitutional and statutory measures. Gen. Grant favors a constitutional amendment making the Presidential term seven years and the occupant ineligible to re-election. Congressman Blackburn said, in an Interview at Washington, that all tariff legislation Is dead beyond a hope of resurrection so far as this Congress is concerned, and that the hope of the reformers is In the National Democratic Convention. “There,” said Mr. Blackburn, “the issue will be made and fought We shall appeal from the combination of renegade Democrats and Republicans In the House to the National Democratic Convention, and from It to the people. This session will bo brought to a close before the meeting of the Democratic convention. All that the country expects us to do is to hurry up the appropriation bills and go home.” The Greenbackers of the Twelfth District of Missouri, renominated W. 8. Haseltine for Congress and elected A. W. St. John and E. L. Bentley delegates to the national convention.

MISCELLANEOUS. At a meeting of the American Medical Association, in Washington, Dr. Atwood of St. Louis, Dr. Benjamin of Maryland, and Dr. Henry of New York forcibly condemned the methods of education in some medical colleges, and the manner In which diplomas are granted. A resolution offered by Dr. Benjamin urging upon all medical colleges the necessity of elevating the standard of education was adopted after a spirited debate. The steamers Nevada and Romano collided when the former was four days out from New York. The Romano sunk In less than an hour, but all on board were saved. She was valued at $200,000. The American Tract Society held its fifty-ninth annual meeting at New York. The donations and legacies for the year were $102,869, and the expenditures $354,082. Sixty-three missionaries distributed 133,463 volumes. The steamer City of Portland, plying between Portland, Me., and St. John, N. 8., struck on a ledge off Rockland, Me., and Is a total wreck. The passengers and officers kept cool, and no lives were lost, a sloop and a steamer taking them all on board. The Canadian steamer Argyle, bound from Sault Ste. Marie to Port Arthur, with a cargo of supplies for a Canadian Pacific Railway contractor, was lost on Lake Superior during a gale. The crew escaped. The arctic steamer Alert, which was presented to the United States by the British Government for use in the Greely expedition, has sailed from New York for the frozen north. Barna S. Snow & Co., wholesale fish-dealers, Boston, have failed, with liabilities from $150,000 to $300,000. Hon. Butler B. Strong, a Republican politician of Westfield, Pennsylvania, killed himself with a revolver because of illhealth. The steamship Titania arrived at Quebec having on board twenty-five of the crew of the steamship State of Florida. The latter collided with a bark in mid-ocean, and went right down. Out of 167 souls only forty-four were saved. The bark also went do wn w ith twelve souls.

FOREIGN.

British imports decreased in April compared with April last year, £8,300,000. The exports increased £308,000, compared with April last year. The Paris municipal elections resulted in a signal victory for the Revolutionists, and the Paris press takes a gloomy view of the future of the republic. By an explosion of dynamite in a factory In Ayrshire, England, ten women were blown to pieces and two others were wounded. Gen. Gordon refuses to accept.escape from Khartoum through bribery of the Soudanese. Subscriptions for this purpose have therefore been abandoned* M. Portevin, recently Secretary of tho French Consulate at New York, on his return voyage across tho Atlantic, ex pressed sympathy with the German people and insulted an American gentleman. He excuses himself on the ground that he was “full,” and is especially contrite on account of his behavior toward Americans. Italy will support the demands of France in the Egyptian conference as to the question of international control. Advices have been received at Cairo showing that El Mahdi has sent envoys to Osman Digna directing him to capture Dongo'a and then march Into .Upper Egypt. It is reported that an Anglo-Egyp-tian expedition for the relief of Gen. Gordon Will start for Khartoum about the middle of . uiy. Present indications point to tbo possibility of Gordon's speedy surrender, in which case the proposed expedition would bo useless. . ') The friction bel ween the German and English fishermen in the North Sea is becoming serious. Both powers have gunboats

constantly cruising to keep the aggressive fishermen in order, but the English bare become so bold in their deflanoe of the existing regulations that the Germans are asking for additional protection. Notwithstanding the success of the Conservative Monarchist party in the recent elections In Spain, It is thought that the rer. olutlooary spirit is spreading. This is particularly the case In Northern Bpain, where the conduct of Captain General Quesada has given great offense to the soldiery and the people, who have muoh sympathy with each other.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A week’s death record: Hon. Truman Smith, of Connecticut, who served in Congress from 1839 to 1847, and in the Senate from 1849 to 1864; Prof. Samuel D. Gross, an eminent surgeon of Philadelphia; Col. Thomas H. Hunt, Treasurer of the World’s Exposition organization at New Orleans; William F. Clogg, a celebrated naturalist, of Boston; Judah P. Benjamin, formerly United Slates Senator from Louisiana and Confederate Secretary of War, at Paris, France; John T. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., who gave $1,000,000 to the cause of education in the Southern States: Lemuel Shaw, President of the Great Eoott Mills, in Massachusetts; Midhat Pasha, the exiled Turkish statesman; Giovanni Prati, Italian poet and statesman; Faris C. Dunning, of Bloomington, Ind., who was Governor of Indiana In 1846; Charles Adolph Wartz, distinguished French chemist. The fire losses of the week were as recorded below: LOBS6B Shelburne, Ont., Royal Block $ ;to,uoo St. John, Quebec, china ware factory 15,000 Houester. Mass., hotel 10,000 Detroit, M ch., sawmill 60,000 Cleveland, Ohio, flourm ll 25,000 Pittsburg, Pa., glass factory 20,000 Oswego, N. Y., steam tug 20,000 Florence, Wls., mine machinery 15,000 Metamora, Ind., business dock 15,000 Boston, business block 50,000 Cloquette, Wis., planing mill 20,090 Columbiana, Ohio, flouring mill 30,000 Norwalk, Conn., fur factory 70,000 Duluth, Minn., machine shop 20,000 Vincennes, Ind., hotel 15,000 Big Rapids, Mich., 8,000,000 shingles 10,000 Oswego, N. Y., Arcade Block. 100,000 Cleveland, oil and paint works 80,000 Canton, Mass., suspender works 100,00 1 Moberly, Mo., hay-rake factory 30,000 Sharon, Wls., business property 20,000 Baltimore, tin-can factory 15,000 Epi lng, N. H., Stearns Block 20,000 Wallingford, Conn., manufacturing property 40,000 Breedsville, Mich., business houses 15,000 Oconomowoc, Wis., grange store 10,000 Saginaw City, Mich., grain barns 10,000 Dallas, Tex., block of stores 75,000 Williamsburg, Ky., saw-mills 60,0u0 Harlem, N. Y., brewery 100,030 In a game of three-ball billiards, balk-line, for the championship of the world and SI,OOO, between Jacob Schaefer and George Slosson, played at Central Music Hall, Chicago, in the presence of an Immense audience, Schaefer won by the jug-handle score of 800 to 384. His average was a little more than 38. Schaefer’s highest run was 211; Slosson’s 200 even. The same players meet again on the 30th of May. The aggregate of the clearances of the twenty-seven leading clearing-houses of the United States last week showed an increase of 8.9 per cent, over the corresponding week of last year. The special Grand Jury to investigate the riot reported at Cincinnati, returning fifty-four indictments, including one against T. C. Campbell, the criminal lawyer, and another against a deputy sheriff for playing cards for money with members of the Berner jury. The Grand Jury highly commends the action of the Fourteenth Regiment. The remaining survivors of the wrecked State of Florida reached Quebec on the bark Theresa. Capt. Hansen, of. the latter craft, avers that the City of Rome, which passed them within'' three ship lengths, refused to answer their signal of distress. Capt. Monroe, of the City of Rome, states that he passed a ship about three miles off; that a signal was hung out to the effect that she carried a shipwrecked crew, but that no ensign of distress was exposed. A debate on the proposition to educate the Indians of Alaska constituted th 3 day’s work of the Senate on the 12th inst. ’ In the House of Representatives bills were Introduced to place Gen. Grant on the retired list, and to restrict to American citizens the ownership of real estate in the Territo les. Mr. Hewitt presented a new tariff measure. A Senate bill was passed to punish the counterfeiting of securlities of foreign governments. A report was made that the petition of William Webster, claiming to have been unlawfully deprived of a tract of land in New Zealand, be transferred to President Arthur for investigation. Bills were passed to increase the water supply of Washington and to complete the sewerage system of the District of Columbia. Mr. O’Neill introduced a bill to exempt from duty raw sugar, rice, and various other articles of food.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $ 6.80 @ T.so HOOS 5.50 @ 6.00 FLOUR—Extra ASO @7.00 ■Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 1.01 @ 1.02 No. 2 Red 1.09 @l.ll Corn—No. 2 64 @ .66% Oats —White 43 @ .46 Pork—Mess 17.50 @IB.OO Lard 08%@ .09 CHICAGO. Beeves -Choice to Prime Steers. CJSO @ 7.00 Fair to Good 6.60 @6.00 Common to Medium... 5.25 @ 6.75 Hogs 6.60 @ 6.0« Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 6.50 @ 6.T5 Good to Choice Spring... 4.60 @ 5.25 Whhat—No. 2 Spring 03 @ .94 No. 2 Winter 1.03 @1.05 Corn—No. 2 56 @ .57 OATS—No. 2 33 @ .36 Rye—No. 2 62 @ .64 Barley—No. x .... .72 @ .74 Butter—Choice Creamery 21 @ .22 Fine Dairv 18 @ .20 Potatoes—Peachblows 88 @ .4« Egos—Fresh 13 @ .14 Fork—Mess 17.25 @17.75 Lard 08%@ .08% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 94 @ .05 Corn—No. 2.. ... .68 @ .64 Oats—No. s 86 @ .39 Barley—No. 2 70 @ .71 Pork—Mess 17.25 @17.50 Lard 9.25 @9.75 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.15 @ 1.17 Corn—Mixed. 52 @ .63 Oats—No. 2 33 @ .35 Rye. 61 @ .62 Pork—Mess 17.00 @17.25 Lard 08%@ .08% CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.07 @ 1.09 Corn 68 @ .59 Oats—Mixed 37 @ .86 Pork—Mess 17.25 @17.76 Lard 08 @ .08% TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red l.oi @1.02 Corn—No. 2 58 @ .59 Oats—No. 2 37 @ .39 DETROIT*. Flour 6.60 @ 700 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.07 @ i.es CORN—Mixed 66 @ .67 Oats—No. 2 White 38 @ .40 Pork—Mess 20.00 @20.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.04 @ 1.05 Corn—Mixed 54 @ .56 Oats—Mixed 34 @ .36 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle--Best 4.50 @ 5.60 Fair. 4.00 0 4.76 Common 3.76 @4.26 HOOS 6.75 @6.25 Sheep 3.25 @ 4.50

AN OCEAN GRAVE.

The State of Florida Lost Off the Irish Coast in Collision with a Bark. Immediate Sinking of Both Vessels—--135 Persons Drowned and 44 Rescued. * Starving in Ocean Beats Thrilling Stories of the Survivors of the Wreck. AH doubts as to the fate of the steamship State of Florida are ended, says a Quebec dispatch. The vessel was sunk April 18 in a collision in mid-ooean with the bark Ponema of Chatham, N. B. Out of 167 persons on board the State of Florida, only forty-four were saved, while of the bark’s crew of fifteen only the captain and two men were rescued. One hundred and twen-ty-throe souls went down with the steamer and twelve with the bark, making a total loss of 135. Those saved were picked up by the bark Theresa of Norway. liter twenty-four of them were put on the bark Louisa and brought as far as the month of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the Titania, bound from Glasgow to Montreal, was met. The Titania took off twenty-four of the passenfsrs and crew rescued from the State of lorida, leaviDg twenty on the bark, which is now on its way to this port. The following is the official report of the third officer of the State of Florida: “ Left New York April 12, with about 167 passengers and crew, and a full general cargo. All went well until the night of the 18th. At 11:30 o’clock we came in collision with the bark Ponema, of Chatham, N. 8., Capt. Hetbura. Both ships went down almost instantly, and out of the steamer’s passengers and crew only forty-four, including the stewardess, managed to escape in the boat, and out of the bark’s crew of fifteen only the captain and two seamen were saved. The next morning the bark was observed bottom up. The survivors, after being thirty-five hours in the boats without food or water, were rescued by the Norwegian bark Theresa, of Christiania, bound from that port for Quebec. On the 23d, twenty-four of them were transferred on board the ship Louisa, of and from Cardiff for Quebec, where they remained until May 5, when they were taken on board the Titania for Quebec. It is believed that 135 lives were lost.” The third officer (James Allen) says that the night on which the disaster occurred was clear, though moonless, and the sea as smooth as glass. He retired to his bunk at 8 o’clock, leaving the chief officer (Thompson) in charge of the deck. About 11:10 he heard a signal suddenly given to stop the steamer's engines, followed by a fearful crash. He rushed immediately on deck, and the first thing he noticed was a red light pretty close to their starboard bow. At the same moment he heard the chief officer’s voice and the cry “Collision." He then saw the bark which had run into them go down. This bark, he afterward learned from its captain and two of its crew who were saved, was the Ponema, ol Chatham. N. Br, bound from Liverpool to Mirimichi. Running to the side of his own vessel, he endeavored to ascertain the damage done, and perceiving an immense gaping hole into which the sea was fast pouring, and feeling the steamer was lost, he at once hurried to the captain, who immediately gave orders to get out the boats, four of which were down in fifteen minutes, when the State of Florida just keeled over to port and went down stem foremost Fai as he could calculate, the disaster occurred about 120 miles off the Irish coast. As the vessel went down, all on deck, including the captain, were washed off by the sea. The captain was exceedingly cool—too cool, in fact, as he did not seem to look upon the danger as serious or pressing; and this, together with the fact that he appeared in no hurry to save himself, was probably the cause why more of the passengers were not saved. They would not take to the boats, as they supposed,when they saw him so cool, that the danger was not so great. Of the eight boats carried, four were safely launched, and two were smashed by the collision. Of the other two Allen knew nothing, but believed they were washed away when the steamer went down. He did not believe any one had escaped in them. However, if they bad he did not want to raise any false hopes, his opinion being they would never be heard from again. When No. 2 boat was being lowered the tackle was cut too quickly and its occupants, all passengers, were upset into the sea. A number, including Bennett, of London, Canada, clung to the boat’s bottom during the remainder of the night, and were picked up in the morning by the other boats. James Bennett, of London, Ontario, the only first-class passenger saved, says that when the order was given a rush was made for the boats, and a number of persons, including himself, got into boat No. 2. The panic on board the doomed ship was frightful. The lady passengers, of whom there were only three or four, refused to go in the boat. Jane McFarlane, the stewardess, was only saved from herself and the terrible fate impending by the Belf-sacrifioe and gallantry of James Bain, the chief engineer, who lost his life in saving hers. He had to use all his strength to tear her from the deck of the vessel and force her into the boat. At that moment the ship careened to starboard and went down, carrying with her the brave engineer and all the others remaining on board. Bennett was standing so near the side when the collision took place tkat had not a friend pulled him away he would have been killed on the spot. The ship’s doctor, alongside of him, was injured by a broken spar. The crew all rushed for the boats. The passengers seemed paralyzed, as did also the.captain, who was washed from the deck just before the vessel went down, .within twelve minutes of the time she was struck 1 Allan, the third officer, was the first to give the alarm that the vessel was sinking. Bennett says he pushed a number of friends into one of the boats and jumped iu himsel. He complains that the boat had no water-casks containing water. He added that the City of Rome ignored all the Theresa’s signals, although they were seen quite well, but went on her way unconcernedly, .offering no assistance.

CLIPPINGS.

A Washington girl suicided because her lover made his own clam chowder when she wanted to make it for him. Gould says that no extensive operator can get on in Wall street without some fixed purpose. That is the secret of success in most every walk of life. About every third-rate literary man in England is now busily engaged trying 'to prove with his pen that Charles Beade was not a man of genius. Lady Duffus-Hardy found tho true American republic in Salt Lake City*

IN THE WHITE HOUSE

That Is Where the Kentucky Demo crats Want to Place Ms. Speaker Carlisle. Kentucky Democrat*. Hon. Boyd Winchester, of Lomsvflh presided over the Kentucky Democrat! Convention, which met at Frankfort Henry Wattereon, J. Stoddard Johnsej James A. McKenzie, and Thomas I Jones were elected delegates-at-large to tfa National Democratic Convention at Chi cago. Henry Watterson was made Chan man of the Committee on Resolutions, an reported the following platform, which wa unanimously adopted amid great applausi The Democracy of Kentucky, in oonveatt* assembled, declare: 1. We pledge ourselves anew to the oonstttu tional doctrines and traditions of the Demt cratic party as illustrated by the teachings as example of a long line es Democratic 8 tales me aud patriots as embodied In the, platforms of til National Democratic Conventions of 187$ an 1880. 2. We do especially renew our declarations « hostility to centralization, as that dangerou spirit of encroachment whic-i teuds to oonso idate the powers of government and thus t create, whatever the form, a real despotism with all subsidies to corporations and grant without consideration of the publtc property and we again express our conviction of tn urgent necessity of the general aud thoroug reform of the civil service; and 3. We do especially deny the right of tl Government to surrender its taxing power t corporations or individuals, which is the resu of both the theory and practice oi the Republ can party; and we denounce the present tarli which burdens the peqple with excessive w* taxes in time of peace, as a masterpiece of fJ justioe, inequality, and false pretenses. .5 arraign the Republican party as the creator an defender of a system which has impoverish* many industries to subsidize a few; hi prohibited imports that might purchase the pro< nets of American labor, and degrade! Amex can commerce from the first to an inferi< rank on the high Begs; which has cut dow the sales of athon and abroad and depleted the returns of Amet can agriculture, an industry followed by ha onr people. It costs the taxpayers five tim< more than it yields to the Treasury; it promote fraud, fosters smuggling, corrupts officials, el riches the few by forcing bounties from tl many, and favors the dishonest to banknt] honest merchants. We assert the doctrine the Constitution that all taxation shall be e clusively for revenue, and demand that no mo revenue shall be collected than 'is required xpeet the expenses and obligations of the Got ernment economically administered. Resolved, That believing that no geographic line should exist in this country as a test < eligibility to any office in the gift of the who people, but that the standard of honesty, com pefency, fidelity, and constitutional citizenshl alone should prevail, Kentucky recommends the Democracy of the Union for the President! of the United States him whose elevation to tl third office in the nation was the first step the obliteration of the seam left by the late civ war, who was the first to lead his party back 1 its own national platform of steady approat toward the removal of obstructions to t ade, tl foremost exponent of all the living Democrat principles of to-day, the Hon. John G. Carlisl

THE RECORD.

Vote of the House of Representatives oH the Morrison Tariff Bill. 9 Following is the vote cast in the Nation* House of Representatives on Mr. MoiH rison’s tariff measure: H IN FAVOR OF THE BILL. 9 Adams (N. T.), Garrison, Potter, 9 Aiken, Gibson, Pryor, * Alexander, Graves, Pusey, 9 Bagley, Green, Rankin, 9 Ballentine, Greenleaf, Reagan, 9 Barbour. Halsell, Reese, 9 Barksdale, Hammond, Robertson, 9 Bach, Hancock, Rogers (Ark.). 9 Belmont, Hardeman, Rogers (N. Y.),9 Blackburn, Hardy, Rosecrans, 9 Blanchard, Hatch (Mo.), Scales, 9 Bland, Hemphill, Seymour, 9 Blount, Hanley, Shaw, 9 Breckinridge, Herbert, Shelley, 9 Broadhead, Hewitt (N.Y.), Singleton, 9 Buchanan, Hewitt (Ala.), Skinner (N.CJ9^ Buckner, Hill, Slocum, 9 Burns, Hoblitzell, Springer, 9 Cabell, Holman, Stevens, 9 Caldwell, Houseman, Stewart (Tex.)9 Campb.ll (N.Y),Hurd, Stockslager, 9 Candler, Jones (Wis.), Strait, 9 Carleton, Jones (Tex.), Sumner (Wls.]9 Cassiday, Jones (Ark.), Talbot, 9 Clardy, Jones (Ala.), Taylor (Tenn.j9 Clay, King, Thompson, 9 Clements, Kleiner, Throckmortoi9 Cobb, Lamb, Tillman, 9 Cilkins, La n ham, Townshend, 9 Cook, Love, Tucker, 9 Cosgrove, Lewis, Turner (Ga,', 9 Covington, Lovering, Turner (Ky.l, 9 Cox (N. Y.), Lowry, Vano>, 9 Cox <N. C.), McMillin, Van Baton, 9 Crisp, Matson, Wakefield, 9 Culberson (Tex)Maybury, Ward, JP Dargan, Miller (Tex.), Warner (Tenn9^ Davidson, Mills, Wellborn, oWb Davis (Mo.), Mitchell, Weller, 9 Deuster, Money, White (Minn.)9 Dibble (S. C.), Morgan, Williams, 9 Dibrell (Tenn.), Morrison, Willis, 9 Pockery, Morse, Wilson (W. Va^H Dowd, Moulton, Winans (Mioh9j Dorsheimer, Murphy. Wiaans (Wis. 9 Dunn, Neece, Wolt'ord, 9 Eldredge, Nelson, Woodward, 9 Ellis, Oates. Worthington. 9 EvinH (S. C.), O’Ferrall,... Yaple, 9 Follett, O’NeilNMo.), Young, 9 Forney, Pierce, Carlisle—lss. 9 Fyan, Peel (Ark.), 9 AGAINST THE BILL. 11 Adams (Ill.), Haimer, Patton, 9 Anderson, Hart, Payne, 9 Amot, Hatoh (Mich.), Payson, 9 Atkinson, Haynes, Poelle (Ind.), 9 Bayne, Henderson (la.),P rkins, 9 Belford, HendersonCLll.),Peters, .9 Bingham, Hepburn, Pettibone, 9 Bisbee, Hiscock, Phelps, 9 Bontelle, Hitt, Poland, 9 Bowen, Holmes, Post, 9 Boyle, Holton, Price, 9 Brainard, Hooper, Randall, 9 Breitung. Hopkins, Rauney, Brewer (N. Y.), Horr, Ray (N. Y.), Brewer (N. J), Houk, Ray (N. HJ, 9 Browne (Ind.), Howey, Reed, M Brown (Pa.). Hunt, Riots 9 Brumm, Hutchins, Robinson (0-)>9 Budd, James, Burleigh, Jeffords, Roflrell, Caldwell, Johnson, Russell, Campbell (Pa.), Jordan, Ryan, 9 Canrion, Kasaon, Seney, 9 Chace, Kean, Skinner (N. Connolly, Keifer, Smalls, 9 Converse, Kelley, Smith, 9 Culbertson (Ky.)Kellogg, Knw ',er, « Cullen, Ketcham, Spobnor, 9 Curtin. Laoer, Steele, 9 Cutchepn, Laird, Stephenson, 9 Davis (Ill.), Lawrence, Stewart, 9 Davis (Maee.), Le Fervre, Stone, Dingley, Llbbey, Storm, 9 Duncan, Long, Sfrable, 9 Dunham, Lyman, Sumner (Cal.)9^ Eaton, McAdoo, E. B. Tailor, ■§ Elliott, MoCord, J. D. Taylor, 9 Ellwood, McComv, Thomas, 9 Ermontront, McCormick, Tully, Evans (Pa.), McKinley, VanAlstyne, 9| Everhart, Millard, Wadsworth, HI Ferrell, Mi.ler (Pa.), Walt, . i Fiedler, Milliken, Warner <Oni9j Findlay, Morey, Washburn, Finerty, Morrill, Weaver, 9 Foran, Mullar, Weihple, Funston, Murray, Whiting, ■§ Geddes, Mutchler, Wilkins, fIH George, Nutting, Wilson (lovsaJ^K Glascock, O’Hara, G. D. Wise, u 9 Goff, O’Neill (Pa.), J. S. Wise, 9 Guenther, Paige, York—ls - H Hanback, Parker, 9

CHIPS.

Emma Bond is at Palmyra, Wis., medical treatment. H The lady nominated for belle of Nfl: port this year is Miss May, a yonng ladjß? unusual beauty and of unusual height. | 5| At the New Orleans World’s Fair winter Mexico will exhibit a tropical plantn, covering 220,000 square Windsor, Conn., has a rogue detedHj| society, embracing in its membership® jji of the most influential men of the towjßß A Florida fisherman has seen a idHH snake over thirty feet long. |j