Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1884 — Page 2

f tjc JlemocraticSentinel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWljl, - - PPBUSHgB.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Ferdinand Ward, of the firm of Grant t Ward, was arrested in New York on the application of City Chamberlain J. Nelson Tappan, who claims that the firm owes him $535,000. Bail was fixed at $300,000. The Fifth Avenue Hotel at New York has been mortgaged by Amos R. Eno, for $1,250,000. The Penn Bank of Pittsburgh, after a suspension of twenty-four hours, reopened its doors with $600,000 cash on the counters. Charles A. Hinckley, paying teller of the West Side Bank, of Now York, has embezzled $96,000 and disappeared. The Trustees of the Le Moyne Crematory, at Washington, Pa., announce that after Aug. 1 the bodies of none but residents of the county will be received for incineration, the furnace having already served its purpose of educating public sentiment. Joseph B. McDonald, a lumberman of Woburn, Mass., has assigned. The liabilities are placed at $125,000. It is stated that $8,000,000 in gold was senffby the Bank of Montreal, Canada, to New York during the recent financial troubles. By a railroad collision at Savannah, N. Y., four persons were killed and a number seriously wounded. The African Methodist Episcopal Conference at New York fixed the salarios of Bishops at $1,500 per annum. H. A. Collier, a prominent Pittsburgh attorney, has disappeared, and with him $4,000 received as assignee. He leaves numerous private debts. Adam Bravender, the President of the suspended Irie Savings Bunk, is now an inmate of the county jail. An angry mob surrounded Bravender’s house and threatened to lynch him. As a measure of safety he requested the authorities to put him in jail. Thomas P. Grinnell, a New York merchant, killed himself by a pistol shot.

WESTERN.

The balance sheet of the Cincinnat dramatic festival shows a deficiency of $42, 700, and an assessment of 60 per cent, has been made on the guarantors. In licensing a saloon at Watseka, 111., after a drought of seven years, the authorities provided that there should be no tables or chairs in the room, and no screens or curtains to obstruct the view front the street. Cheyenne (Wyo.) dispatch: “Two men arrive# here from Sabille County, eighty-five miles north of here, with the body of George Metcalf in their possession. Metcalf, while at dinner, had got into a dispute with William Maloney, when the latter shot him dead. Maloney was arrested, and on the way was captured by a mob, who lynched him.” At a hospital in Kansas City an insane negro attacked two patients with a knife and made an attempt to burn the building. He then assaulted Steward -Winfrey, who killed him in self defense. Floyd L. Majors, convicted of complicity in the murder of W. P. Renowden and Archibald Mclntyre, In Santa Clara County, Cal., over a year ago, was hanged at San Francisco last week. President Endicott, of the Oregon and Transcontinental Company, has resigned. Elijah Smith has been elected his successor. Crop reports from various points in Dakota indicate a very encouraging condition of things for the farmers. The seedingtime was most favorable and was largely availed of. A large acreago has been seeded, and all the to ab untlful harvests' Kaufmann, Cohn & Co., wholesale milliners at St. Louis, are financially embarrassed. Liabilities about $76,000. In a farm house eight miles from Portsmouth, Ohio, Samuel Ockerman, his wife, and eldest daughter were burned to death after six 6mall children had been rescued.

The vault of the City Clerk of East St. Louis was entered by amateur burglars, who broke a hole through a brick wall twenty inches thick. About $20,000 worth of city scrip and SI,OOO or more in cash were taken. The Yandalia Road, having bnilt an extension to Plymouth, Ind., has arranged to run into Michigan City ovor the Wabash track. The Rev. Dr. Worthington, of Detroit, was elected Episcopal Bishop of Nebraska by the council of that diocese. About 100 fine specimens of Southern birds were captured In two night 3 at Winona, Minn., after being dozed by the electric light. Nicholas Pauley’s frame house in Clyde, near Port Huron, Mich., was destroyed by fire. Two children, aged 11 and 8, perished in the flames. A freight train on the Burlington Road, each car of which Is supplied with air brakes, passed through Nebraska at the rati of twenty-seven miles an hour, and tho officials pronounce the experiment a successful one. The body of Lulla Dyke, a 6-year-old girl residing near Hillsdale, Mich., was found on the roadway, the head having been crushed to a jelly with 6tones. David Stone, her uncle, has been arrested for rape and murder. The Dakota Supreme Court has decided that the Capital Commission was validly organized, reversing Judm Edsrorton’s decision in the District Court. An appeal was taken to the Cnitod States Supreme Court, and until the latter's decree is entered the capital will remain at Yankton. Major Dewees telegraphs from Fort Reno that he has arrested thirty-five Intruder! in Indian Territory, and many more arc on tbeir way. He has asked for two troops of cavalry from Fort Sill, as the invaders made serious resistance to Lieut. Day. Jack Hanley was convicted in Saunders County, Nebraska, of prize-fighting, and giren a term in the penitentiary. Aldemun Gaynor, of Chicago, died

last week in great gony, from a bullet wound In the head Inflicted by Jame 3 Dacey on May 12. The murderer was tiken to the Joliet Penitentiary for safe keeping. The Union Pacific Boad, having suffered a stinging defeat in its attempt to reduce wages, is credited with an intention to discharge 40 per cent of its employes and endeavor to reengage them at lower rates. Mrs. Alexander Edmunds, living at No 1410 South Compton avenue, while laboring under a temporary fit of Insanity, cut the throats of her three little children, with a razor, and then deliberately drew the weapon across her own throat George Anderson, an aged farmer residing at Bowling Green, Oh o, was killed by his Wife. She beat his bead to a pulp with a hickory cane. The murderess Is believed to be insane. 6be was twice an in. mate of an asylum. Her brother, who is now in the asylum at Columbus, killed a man several years ago. Three boilers in the sash factory of Carr, Byder & Wheeler, at Dubuque, exploded the other day, killing five persons and seriously wounding several others. The engineer is said to have been running with but little water.

SOUTHERN.

A cattle-raiser of Texas, who has just made a tour of the stock region, estimates the drive for the season at half a million head. Mr. E. G. Peyton, Chancellor of the Ninth District of Mississippi, has decided that the railroad law in the ca:e of the Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad vs. The State recently passed by tho Legislature of Mississippi is unconstitutional. The law sought to interfere with the assumed right of tho company to fix passenger and freight rates. MrPeyton thinks that this is contrary to tho law as laid down in the celebrated Dartmouth College case. The legislative charter to the railroad, he says, is a contract which cannot be abrogated or amended by subsequent leg islation. Thomas H. Smith, 72 years old, deacon in tho Faca Street Christian Church at Baltimore, has been expelled from membership for filching a dollar from tho contribution tox. H. C. Blanchard, of Kichmond, Va., a coffee merchant, has failed. The failure is due to heavy dealings in futures. Tho liabilities aro placed at $223,(4)0. Col, Wm. Spence, formerly United States Marshal for the middle district of Tennessee, who shot and killed his son-in-law, Col. Edward S. Wheat, his successor, in Nashville, March 11 last, was recently convicted of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new trial was overruled, last week, Judge Allen sentencing Spcnco to be hanged in the jail-yard, July 18.

WASHINGTON.

The House Committee on Naval Affairs Is considering a bill appropriaring $400,000 for the relief of the officers and men of the Cumberland and Monitor, for heroic services in tho battle with the Morrimac in Hampton Roads. The friends of the land-grant forfeiture bills are a good deal worked up over tho action of tho Judiciary Committee declaring against the forfeiture of the grant to the Backbone Railroad Company in Louisiana. A statue of Martin Luther was unveiled in front of the Memorial Lutheran Church at Washington. About 2,000 persons witnessed the ceremonies. Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme CourtVorcsided. Senator Conger, of Michigan, delivered tho address of the day. Ex-Speaker Randall thinks Congress will be ready to adjourn June 15. Secretary Folger has called in for redemption $10,000,000 in 3 per oent. bonds, maturing June 30. Senator Hill, of Colorado, from the Senate Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads, has completed his report In favor of the Senate postal-telegraph bill. Tne report enters very largely Into tho management of tho Western Union Company, which, it is held, makes excessive charges, and which makes enormous dividends on watered stock. Complaint is made of the refusal of the company to furnish trustworthy information to the committee. The surplus in the Treasury now is about $165,000,000. Of this sum about $20,000,000 wiirbe needed to meet bond calls, but it is expected that at the end of tho fiscal year, June 30, the surplus will be at least equal to what it is at present. The receipts at the Treasury Department exceed the expenditures of the Go. ernment now by an average Of $1,000,000 daily.

POLITICAL.

A mass meeting of citizens and business men of New York, called to express approval of the administration of President Arthur and urge his nomination for a second term, was held at Cooper Union, In that city. Many notable New Yorkers were presont.Frcderlck 8. Winston presided. A long listof Vice Presidents, including the names of prominent business men, was read, and resolutions in the heartiest spirit of the meeting adopted. Parke Godwin, editor of tho Commercial Advertiser, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and H. Bristow wore the principal speakers. The Ohio Democratic State Committee met at Columbus, and decided upon holding the State convention In that city the 24th and 25th of June. Every member of tho oommitteo present was In favor of the nomination of the old ticket. John A. Anderson has been renominated for Congress by tho Republicans of the Fifth Kansas District; E. N. Morrill by the Republicans of tho First Kansas District, and C. 0. Matson by the Democrats of the Fifth Indiana District. The New Hampshire Democratic Convention, which met at Concord, commended tho action of tho Democratic party In the House lor tholr efforts to reduce the tariff, and urged agitation of tho question until the revonuo system is established on an honest basis and the war tariff is reduced. Tho delegates-at-large favor tho old ticket— Tilden and Hendricks. A State convention favoring equal suffrago, at Flint, Mich., elected Mary L. Doe President, and Gov. Begole Vice President. A Constitution and by-laws were also adopted. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar was one of the prominent speakers. To his nomination for the Presiden-

cy, made by the students of Washington and Jefferson College, in mock Republican National Convention assembled. Senator Edmunds says that be much prefers It to tho real thing, as he dislikes to assume the embarrassments of the highest officer of the nation. The West Virginia Green backers have nominated Judge E. C. Maxwell for Governor. Gen. B. F. Butler, In accepting the nomination for President by the AntiMonopolists, expresses his assent to each measure of policy sot forth in the resolutions. William 8. Holman, of the Fourtl Indiana District, who has served twenty yean In Congress, was renominated last week over five competitors. An exciting election took place in Bapides Parish, Louisiana, turning on the question of license or no license. The nolicense forces were marshaled by the women of the Christian Temperance Union, who distributed tickets at the polls, pleadod with the voters, and prayed for victory. The result was a victory for the no-license party. Lamb, the Republican candidate, was elected Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The annual convention of the brewers of the United States was held at Buffalo. The attendance was largo. President Scharmann delivered an address, referring to the separation of the malt and distilled liquor tradlcs, prohibition, restrictive legislation, and party politics. In the United States the past week there were 187 business failures, acainst 155 In the corresponding period of 18- 3. Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, arrived in New York from Europe the other day. His health has been vastly improved by his two years' residence In Europe. The National Convention of Woolgrowers, in session at Chicago lost week, with 134 delegates in attendance, adopted resolutions declaring that the reduction of duties in 1883 seriously Injured the sheep and wool interest, and agreeing to sustain at the polls only such men and such organizations as favor a restoration of the tariff of 1867. About sixty gentlemen, representing the sugar, wool, rice, and other industrial interests of the country, met in Chicago in mass convention. T. D. Curtis, of Syracuse, was called to the chair. A platform was adopted claiming protection as the true policy of the United States until other nations shall pay equally high wages to workmen as we do. Laban Stephens, the accomplice of the Jones brothers in the murder of Anderson Lackey, was hanged at Waverly, Ohio, on the same scaffold used at tho execution of the Jones brothers. The condemned man remained firm to the last. Leonidas Johnson, colored, was banged at McDonough, Ga., for a cowardly assault committed upon an old lady in the fall ol 1883. He professed repentance, and declared that he was going straight to heaven. He sold his body to a physician for $5. A large crowd wit' nessed the execution. John McKetchem, a colored murderer, was hanged at Waycross, Ga., in the presence of an immenso crowd, In which women were thickly scattered. He refused spiritual consolation, and met his fate without flinching. Charles B. Clarke was hanged at Little Valley, N. Y. His crime was the murder of his wife. He protested his innocence to the last, and died with groat fortitude.

A dispatch from St. Johns, N. F., says the French brig Senorlne with fifty-three passengers and nine of her crew, sunk to the eastward of the Great Banks. All perished. She left St. Malo, France, on the 25th of March, laden with a general cargo, bound for Saint Pierre, and succumbed to the gale on the sth of May. A number of Congressman who were recently induced to speculate In oil by a broker named Lewis are reported to have ost heavily. At Pittsburgh, Judge Acheson, with the concurrence of Justice Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, decided that whisky In bond cannot be levied upon. The Railway Mail Bureatf has completed a schedule for dally service between New York and the City of Mexico, 3,749 miles, the average time being seven days. The Postmaster of Chicago has received orders to forward all mall for Mexico by way of El Paso. During April 36,800 immigrants landed in this country, of whom 9,061 were from Ireland. A rumor from the City of Mexico is to the effect that I resident Gonzalez will next month ask Congress to allow him to resign. The Baptist Missionary Union, at its session in Detroit, voted to commence Chrlstlani. i ig work on the Congo River with the expenditure of $30,00Q per annum. There were thirteen deaths from yellow fever in Havana last week. A Cuban residing in New Orleans has advices that Aguero has burned tho crops and sugar-houses on seven largo plantations, and has been victorious in encounters with the Spanish troops.

FOREIGN.

The bill amending the Irish laborers act passod last year was rejected In the British Commons last week by a vote of 133 to 75. During the dobate Parnell made a bitter attack on Trevelyan, the Irish Chief Secretary. He said the Government should not complain If tho Irish members retaliated lor their obstruction to necessary Irish legislation. He asked significantly whether tho Government would delay such legislation until the laborers burned the roofs ovor tbeir landlords’ beads. A memorial window, the gift of an American citizen, has been placed In a church at Haworth, England, “to tho glory of God, and in memory of Charlotte Bronte.” The Rev. Henry Thomas Eduards, Dean of Bangor, England, has committed suicide, and it Is thought that he was insane at the time. He hung himself to his bedpost. Miss Mary Anderson’s success in Manchester, England, has been without precedent. Her reoeipis last week amounted to $10,760. William O'Brien, member of the English Parl'ament, renews his obarges against French, the Chief of Government Inspectors In Ireland, and Secretary Cornwall, of the Postoffice Department: Ho has filed an affidavit detailing some of their al-

leged bestial crimes, and proposes to bring them to justice, he rays, at any cost. Michael Davitt is being prevailed upon to abandon his lecture-tour around the world, and to remain at home for service In the Irish cause. It is stated by the Pall Mall Gazette that tho Briti-h Government has suggested to the Sultan to send 12,000 troops to the Soudan, landing them atSuakin. from whence they should march to Khartoum to the relief of Gordon. After accomplishing so much. It is provided that they should withdraw with the Anglo-Egyptian garrisons in the Soudan.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The banking-Louse of Henry Strong, at Grc jn Bay, Wis., with a capital of $30,000, has closed its doors. New York special to Chicago Times: “Your correspondent calio 1 at Greystone for the purpose of verifying a sensational report printed in a morning paper regarding tho health of Hr. Tilden. Alter waiting u few minutes in a reception-room, Mr. Titdcn himself came in unannounced. He said that the report of his failing health was a pure fabrication, and utterly without foundation; that his health at present was better than it had been at any time during the past year, and that he had mere y run down to Greystone for a few days to personally oversee some improvements that he is making on the place. Mr. Tildon shook hands warmly with the correspondent, excusing himself with the remark that he was just about to take a cfalk through his grounds and make a visit to some pet anima's.'’ —Hiram Sibley & Co.’s extensive warehouse at the foot of Dearborn street, In Chicago, was entirely destroyed by fire The building was used as a seed storehouse by tho firm. The flames spread with extraordinary rapidity, and the efforts of the firemen to save the building wero utterly unavailing. The conflagration was witnessed by a great mass of people, probably 80,000. The loss is est mated at $230,000* about two-thirds of which Is covered by insurance. A fire In the works of the Atlantic Oil Refining Company, Fbiladelphia, raged for many hours, causing a loss of $600,000. The handsome building of the Toronto Mail was damaged by fire to the extent of SIOO,000. The central telephone office was destroyed, and every wire was torn down. Other fires:

Losses. Chicago, hide and tallow warehouse $40,000 Manhattan, Kan., hotel 15,000 Cannon Falls, Minn., stores 35,000 Sioux Frjls, Dakota, hotel 15,000 Brockton, Mass., plow works 23,000 Cleveland, Ohio, oil tank 15,000 Dec tur, 111., t.le works 10,000 Holiidaysburg, Pa., na 1 works 10,000 Stone Bridge, N. Y., hotel 25,0 0 Long Island, N. Y., canning works 100,000 Avena, 111., business houses 15,000 Waupaca, Wis , basket factory 10,000 Henry, 111., five stores 15,000 Menasha, W s., bedstead factory 15,000 New Orleans, warehouse and contents... 150,000 Caro, Mich., business block 35,001 Chattanooga, Tt rn., business property.. 75,000 Fort Yates, Dakota, store 10,000 Lancaster. Pa., tobacco factory 15,000 Ironton, Ohio, nail mill 23,ii00 Buffalo, N. Y., paper mill 40,000 Oshkosh, Wls., shingle-m 11 10,000 Sheboygan, Wi“., tannery 10,000 Carroll, lowa, seven buddings 15,000 Reading Mass., rubber factory 20u,000 An alleged joke in a Norwalk (Conn.) paper, that there was a steady run on one of the oldest banks in the city (meaning a gravel bank), resulted in $30,000 being withdrawn from the Norwa'k Savings Bank before the humorist explained. Mn. Ingalls reported to the Senate from the Committee on Judiciary, on May 26. a substitute for the joint resolution Inti oduced by Senator Jackson, proposing an amendment to the Constitution relative to terms of office of the President and Vice President. Favorable reports were made on bills for two additional Associate Justices for the Supreme Court of Dakota; for a commission to run and mark the b f.ndary line between Indian Territory and Texas, and to forfeit the unearned land giants of the Atlantic and Pacific Road. A bi 1 was introduced to authorize the enlargement of the barracks at Newport, Ky. In the House of Representarlves, bUls were introduced to appropriate $50,000 for a home for disabled soldiers of the Confederate army at Fredericksburg, Va.; to abolish license taxes on dealers in tobacco; to open overland c mmunicatlon with Alaska and develop her commercial resources; to pension all honorably discharged soldiers of the rebellion at the age of 46 years, and lor the fining and imprisonment of any national bank official who shall bring loss on the institution by loans made for his own benefit. The contested e ection case of Wallace vs. McKinley, from the Eighteenth Ohio District, was taken up. The majority report unseats McKinley and declares Wallace entitled to the seat. The minority resolution confirms the right of the sitting member. Speeches were delivered by Messrs. Turner, of Georgia, and Adamof New York, in support of the contestant’s case, and by Messrs. Hepburn and Robertson, of Kentucky, and E. B Taylor, of Ohio, in sui port of the contestee. Mr. Robertson is the only Democratic member of the Committee on Elections who slgmed the minority report, and he appealed to his side of the House not to vote to unseat McKinley.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $ e. 25 @ t.so Hogs 6.25 & 6.00 Flour—Extra. 6.76 @6.50 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 95 @ .07 No. 2 Red 1.02 @ 1.03(6 Corn—No. 2 62 @ ,63ft Oats—White 40 @ .44 Pork—Mess 17.60 @IB.OO CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 @ 7.25 Fair to Good 6.25 @ 6.75 Butchers’ 6.00 @ 5.75 Hogs ... 5.50 @ 6.00 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.50 @ 6.75 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 @ 5.2.5 Wheat—No. 2 Borina 90 @ .91 No. 2 Red Winter 1.06 & 1.03 Corn—No. 2 53 @ ,54ft Oats—No. 2 31 @ .32 Rye—No. 2 62 @ .63 Barley—No. 2. 54 @ .56 Butter—Choice Creamery 18 @ .20 Fine Dairy 15 @ .17 Cheese—Full Cream. 11 @ .12 Skimmed Flat 06 @ .07 Eggs—Fresh. 13 @ .14 Potatoes—Peachbiows 34 & .36 J Pork—Mess 18.50 @18.75 Lard 08 @ .08 J 4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 90 @ .92 Corn—No. 2 ... .54 @ .55 Oats—No. 2 33 @ .35 Barley—No. 2 65 @ .66 Pork—Mess 18.00 @18.50 Lard 8.00 @ 8.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.12 & l.n Corn—Mixed. 61 @ .52 Oats—No. 2 .31 @ .33 Rye 00 @ .62 Pork—Mess 17.00 @17.50 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.08 @ 1.12 Corn 68 @ .59 Oats—Mixed. 36 @ .37 Pork—Mess 17.75 @18.25 Lard 08 @ .osft TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 98 @ 1.02 Corn—No. 2 58 @ .co Oats—No. 2 36 @ .39 DETROIT. Flour e. 50 @ 7.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.07 @ 1.08(4 Corn—Mixed. 68 @ .oo Oats—No. 2 Mixed. 37 @ .40 Pork—Mess 20.00 @20.50 „ INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—Na 2 Red l.oi @1.03 Corn—Mixod 64 @ .56 Oats—Mixed 34 @ .35 „ „ east LIBERTY. Cattle—Best...... 6.00 & 6.50 Fair. 6.60 6.25 Common 3.75 @4.25 Hoos ; 5.60 @5.75 Sheep 4.50 @ s.oo

BUTLER IS WILLING.

His Letter Acceptor the Anti-Monopoly Nomination for the Presidency. Tilden indorsed by Hew Hampshire and Nebraska Democrats—Other Political Conventions. Nebraska Democratic Convention. The Democrats of Nebraska met in convention at Linooln and selected the following delegates-at-large to the Chicago convention: James E. Boyd, J. Sterling Morton, W. H. Monger, and Tobias Castor. They are all for Tilden. No other name was mentioned dnring the convention except Tilden’s. The following platform was adopted: We, the delegates of the Democratic party of the State of Nebraska, in convention assembled, snbmit the following platform of reforms and measures: 1. We demand a vigorous frngrality in every department and from every officer of the Government, and we heartily concur in the sentiment that no reform of administration is possible so long as the Government is directed by a party which is nnder the dominion of false doctrine and animated by enormous pecuniary interests in the perpetuation of existing abuses; that the first effectual step in the reform of our Government must be a fundamental change in the policy of its administration. 2. That, in view of the unequal and discriminating operation of the existing tariff and the nnjust and excessive burdens imposed upon the people, we are in favor of a revision which shall limit it to the production of the necessary revenues of the Government economically administered; that it should be so adjusted as to prevent, as far as possible, unequal burdens upon labor, and to bear most heavily on articles of luxury, and lightly on articles of necessity. We believe such a revision of the tariff laws, simplified in their operation and administration, will result in decreasing the growth of monopolies, prevent the oppression and spoliation of labor, and the unequal distribution of wealth, and abolish special and class legislation. Resolved, That as our fathers, under the lead of Thomas Jefferson, rescued our republic from the control of Federalism, and the alien and sedition laws of the elder Adams, so will the Democratic party of 1884, if united, hurl the Republican party from power, and re-elect Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks President and Vice President of the United States of America.

New Hampshire Democratic Convention* The Democratic State Convention of New Hampshire assembled at Concord and accomplished its work in three hours. It was unanimously for Tilden and Hendricks and generally in favor of the Morrison bill, Frank Jones, Henry O. Kent, Frank A. Mac Kean, and Alva Sulloway were chosen delegates-at-large. No instructions were given, but, as the unanimous sentiment of the convention preferred the "old ticket,” they will support it at the national convention. Chairman H. W. Parker denounced !>rotection,and said that tariff for revenue ony would be the issue in the campaign. Resolutions were adopted declaring against all laws tending to the centralization of power, wealth, and political inflnenoe; demanding a reduction of the war tariff; commending the Democratic majority of the House in their recent efforts for tariff reform, and insisting on no cessation of their efforts until the revenue system is re-established on an honest basis, and calling for a thorough reform of tariff, financial, and administrative affairs. The resolutions also arraign the Republican party as false to the interests of the people, and assert their condemnation of "the great orime of 1876, a wrong we propose to right and make impossible hereafter."

Gen. Butler's Acceptance.

Gen. Butler acoepts the nomination of the National Anti-Monopoly organization for President of the United States. The following is his letter of acceptance: > Lowell, Mass,, May 21, 1884. Gentlemen: I have the honor to receive your courteous note giving me the action of the convention at Chicago on the 14th inst. pf the representatives of anti-monopoly. The honor of the designation by such a body as tbeir candidate for the Presidency of the republic can not be too highly appreciated. Concurring with each measure of public policy set forth in the resolutions, I need only to add that if the votes of the electors shall intrust me with the executive powers of that high office, each of them will be fully, justly, and energetically used to make every measure of relief to the people and reform in the Government pointed out by your platform the principles characterizing the administration. Accept for yourselves, personally, my most grateful consideration, Benjamin F. Butler. West Virginia Greenbackers. The West Virginia Greenback State Convention met at Buckhannon and nominated Judge Edwin C. Maxwell, of Harrison County, for Governor; J. T. Burtt, Auditor; Speucer W. Surm, of Marion County, Treasurer; and J. N. Kendall, of Ritchie County, Superintendent of the Free Schools. Judge Maxwell is a Republican. The rest of the State ticket is left for the Republicans to name, and the two parties wili fuse in the October election as well as November. The nominatinn of electors was left to the Executive Committee. Tennessee Prohibition Convention. The Tennessee State Prohibition Convention, with four hundred delegates, convened at NashviDe. Enthusiastic speeches were made, and the temperance cause in Tennessee reported in a satisfactory condition. The convention declined to put forth a separate ticket or to mix politics and temperance in any way. The delegates, however, pledged themselves to vote for candidates who favored submitting the question of a constitutional prohibition amendment to the people.

SMALL TALK.

Mark Twain is learning to ride a bicycle. Look out for a new book. Mr. Story, the sculptor, is at work on a new bust of Gen. Washington. J. J. Ray, Davis, Mo., inventor of a selffeeding water trough, went crazy over it last week. The total number of separate farms in the United States is 4,000,000, and their aggregate value is $19,000,000,000. At Madison, Ky., Thomas Gentry’s dog caught a twelve-pound pike in the river, and brought it ashore in his teeth. A COLORED preacher in Buffalo gave notice to his congregation that he wanted less shouting and more money in the future.’ A son of Patrick Finnell, of Danbury, Conn., only G years of age, helped himself to three drinks of whisky and died two dayß later. Utica, N. Y., has started a reading-room exclusively for girls.

THE WORK OF CONGRESS.

What Is Being Done by the Nation*! Legislature. A resolution was offered in the Senate. May 90, asking by what authority Commissioners had examined sections of the Northern Pacific Road constructed subsequent to the time specified by law. The Senate passed the agricultural appropriation kill, with clauses setting aside s2u,oou to sink artesian wells on the plains and $15,000 to encourage silk culture. Bills were also passed to bridze the Missouri River from Douglas County, Nebraska, and lor the construction ol a public building at Detroit at a cost of $900,000: Tbe House debated the report ol the Elections Committee In the contested election case ol English vs. Peelle, ol the Indianapolis district. Mr. Converse (Ohio) and Mr.'Lowry, Chairman of the Elections Commi tee, spoke in favor of the adoption of the report. In the coarse-of bis remarks Lowry reflected seriously on Congressman J. 8. Wise (Readjuster), from Virginia, intimating that he was a lower animal than a mule. Mr. Rosecrans offered a resolution for an inquiry by the Judiciary Committee into the facts of the survey of public lands belonging to Ban Francisco. Mr. Hewitt made a statement that a published letter on the tariff bill to Henry W. Oliver, Jr., bearing his signature, was a fabrication by a Pittsburgh journalist. The House refused to ooncnr in the Senate amendments to the Dingley shipping bill. Messrs. Ellis, Holman, and Ryan were appointed a committee of the House to confer wi h » committee of the Senate on the Indian appropriation bill in tbe matter of the Senate amendments to the House bill. Bills for tbe erection of publio buildings at Portland, Oregon, to cost $250,000, at Sacramento, Cal., to cost SIOO,OOO, at Dayton, Ohio, to cost $150,000, were passed by the Senate, May 21. and also bills for public buildings at ’Washington, D. 0., and Opelousas La. Bills w re passed to authorize the bridging of the Mississippi at Sibley, Missouri, and at some point between St Paul and Natchez; to bridge the Missouri at Rulo and White Cloud, Kan., and at the mouth of t e Dacotah, unci to bridge the Illinois between its month and Peoria. Mr. Wheeler was confirmed as Internal Revenue Collector for North Carolina. There w?s an exciting time in the House over the Engllsh-Peelle contested seat from the Indianapolis district The minority report declaring that Peelle (Rep.) was elected and entl--tied io retain the seat was adopted by a vote of 121 to 117. Mr. Springer, of Illinois, changed his vote, In the nick of time, in order to move a reconsideration, and pending a division on the motion an adjournment was carr ed by a majority of one. The Democrats who voted with the Republicans to retain Peelle in his seat were: Aiken, Beach, B-yle, Budd, Connolly, Dargan, Findlay, Greenleaf, Hardeman, Herbert, Hewdtt (Ala.), Hunt, Jones (Wis.), Lore, Mills, Morgan, Neese, Peel (Ark.), Potter, Stevens, Bumner (Cal.), Throckmorton, Tillman, Turner (Ga), Woodward, Worthington, and Yaple.

The Labor Bureau bill was debated ha the Senate May 22. It was supported by Messrs* Van Wyck and Blair, and opposed by Mr. Ingalls, of Kansas. The Senate sent to the foot of the calendar the bill prohibiting the mailing of newspapers containing lottery advertisements. Bi Is were passed to permit the bridging of the Mississippi at St. Paul; to provide for holding terms of court at El Paso, Texas, and to appropriate $25,000 to compensate the officers and men of the Government steamer J. Don Cameron for damages Incurred by her loss in the Mi-sours River seven years ago. The House of Representatives reconsidered its action giving the contested seat to Mr. Peelle, and voted to seat William English, who appeared and took the oath of office. Mr. Horr ma e the charge that the father of the newly admitted member had abused the privileges of the House by attempting to influence votes in the case. A special debate ensued, and a resolution was adopted that the charge be Investigated by a select committee of seven members. Bills were passed authorizing the construction of bridges across the Missouri at Rulo and Decatur, Neb. The Speaker presented a draft of a bill by the Secretary of the Treasury to permit the exportation of spirits to adjacent foreign territory, with a drawback for internal revenue taxes paid thereon. A bill authorizing - the construction of a lailroad from Sioux City, lowa, westward via the Nebraska Valley to some point on the Union Pacific west of the 100th meridian, and not west of Granger, Wyo., was reported to the Home by the Committee on Pacific Railroads. The new road, it is said, would open upa territory as large as Illinois and Indiana together, would shorten the rente to San Francisco 300 miles, and it is claimed that its cons ruction would benefit Northern Illinois, lowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Southern Dakota. The bill proposes to confer advantages on the new r ad similar to those conferred on the Union Pacific, with the important exception that* there shall be no land-grant. Mr. Aldrich's substitute for the House labor bnreau bill was passed by the Senate, May 23. It provides for the establishment of a labor bureau In the Department of the Interior, which shall be under charge of a Commissioner, to hold office fonr years, who shall collect data relating to capital and labor, and make an annu 1 report to the Secretary of the Interior. Senator Harrison reported lavor.ibly from the Committee on Territories the bill which provide! that the Dakota Legislature shall consist of forty-four members of the Connell and eightyeight members of the House, and that at the next general election there shall be elected twomembers of the Council and four member! of the House in each legislative district. In a debate on the bill to provide for protecting; the interests of the United States in respect to incumbrances, Mr. Beck said that under tho letter of the act the President could pay off the Union Pacific Railroad mortgage. Mr. Slater stated that on the maturity of the Union Bnd Central Pacific mortgages, in 1835, these roads would owe the Government SIBB,000,000. The pension appropriation bill was passed. In the Hou e, Mr. Weller denied that he had been solicited byWilliam H. English to absent himself on the occasion of the unseating of Mr. Peelle, and he expressed the hope that the investigating committee would Inquire into the matter. Mr. Kellogg; called for an inquiry into his alleged connection with the star-route frauds, and the matter was r ferred to the Judiciary Committee. A bill was passed appropriating $300,000 to Day certain quartermaster claims, one-half of which is due to citizens of Ten- essee. In committee of the whole, a favorable recommendation was made on the bill to retire Henry J. Hunt as a Major General. At the evening session forty-two pension bills were pass ;d. Including one giving SSO per month to the widow of Gen. Ord. The bill restoring Alfred Hopkins to the rank of captain in the navy gave rise to a long debate in the House on May 24. Hopkins is the officer who left Pensacola without leave when the yellow fever prevailed there, and was dismissed from the service. The bill was finally passed. Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, presented the conference report on the bill to establ.sh a Bnreau of Animal Industry—the House conferrees recommend concurrence In ali the Senateamendments. The amount of the appropriation is SIOO,OOO, and the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Agiicnlture is limited to such investigation and such disinfection and quavantne measures as may be necessary to prevent the spread of contagions and infectious disease! from one State or Territory Into another. The Commissioner is prohibited from ap lying any money toward paying for the animals it was found necessary to slaughter in order to prevent the spread of disease. The report was agreed to. A bill was passed to permit Lieut. Reynolds, of the navy, to accept a decoration, from the Emperor of Austria for saving eleven lives. The Senate was not in sessi n.

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