Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Boston's debt lias increased $1,485,677 during tbo fiscal year. The Waltham Watch Company, of Massachusetts, has decided to run only four days each week in July, and to suspend entirely for half of August. A collision of freight cars caused a petroleum fire at Driftwood, Pa., which consumed fifteen buildings, including the Postoffice and Gazette office, causing a loss of $75,000. Five cotton-duck mills in Maryland, owned by William E. Hooper & Sons, in which 1,200 men are employed, have shut down for the summer on account of a glut of goods. Mr. Blaine attended the commencement dinner of Colby Cniverslty at Waterville, Me., was enthusiastically received, and made a short address, remarking that although he had been opposed to coeducation the work of Colby had almost convinced him of its wisdom. The Revere Rubber Company’s works Bt Bevere, near Boston, were destroyed by lire. Spontaneous combustion was the cause of the fire. The Joss is placed at $ >OO,OOO and the insurance is said to be 8400,000. A New York dispatch states Tilden • valks daily with friends about Graystone, and shows even more than usual health. The steamship Gulf of Vincent, !rom Calcutta, went ashore on Long Island. The life saving crew took off forty persons, but the vessel will probably be lost.

WESTERN.

In tho wreck of a construction train of the Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City Qailway, by falling through Grand River bridge, near Sumner, Mo., from twenty to twenty-five men were precipitated into the stream, the fall being from forty to fifty feet, and from ten to fifteen men were more or less injured. Several of these may die. Fred Young, of Milan, Mo., and John Long, ot Sumner, were killed. Allan Pinkerton, the celebrated detective, died in Chicago last week, in his 65th year. Ho was a native of Olasgow, Scotland. The Citizens’ League has decided to begin a struggle at Milwaukee for the closing of all saloons on Sunday, according to law. A number of brewing companies and 1,000 saloon-keepers will make a determined resistance. While laborers were digging a well near Silox, Lincoln County, Mo., they struck oil, the gushing fluid compelling them to quit work. Eobert E. Cherrie, of Chicago, a dealer in pig-iron and railway supplies, has made an assignment. His assets are placed at $650,000, including three iron furnaces, . and his liabilities are about $350,000. By an explosion of gas and oil at South Olive, Ohio, three men lost their lives. At the works of the Calumet Iron and Steel Company, near Chicago, four men were suffocated by the escaping gas while cleaning a chimney. Thomas Stevens, a young Englishman, who left San Francisco on April £2 on a bicycle, arrived in Chicago. He found the journey through the Nevada desert a hard one, and sometimes had to travel a day without food. He will roll onward to New York by way of Cleveland, Buffalo and Albany, and intends to start afresh from Liverpool for the eastern boundary of Europe. On the ground of ineradicable prejudice, James Dacey, the murderer of Aldei> man Gaynor, of Chicago, secured a change of venue to McHenry i County, and will lie tried in September. Southwest of Decatur, 111., the other night, a cyclone ravaged the district, thirty houses and barns being leveled, horses and orchards and crops ruined. Near fioody the Cumberland Presbyterian Chureh and parsonage were wrecked, entailing a loss of $25,000. Two children were fatally hurt, and some families were rendered homeless. The Sheriff at Dodge City, Kan., was compelled to place a special guard at the jail, to prevent the lynohing of a gambler named David St. Clair, who killed a cattledealer named K. B. Schoat. The grand-stand on the raoe track at Butte, M. T., collapsed under a crowd of 500 persons. A boy was killed, the Mayor was Seriously hurt, and two persons fatally wounded. Others had legs and arms fractured. Caleb Perry, a fanner living eight miles from Pierre, Dakota, was shot and killed by a German named Albert Lanker. William E. Buggies, Treasurer of Carroll County, lowa, is missing, and the Supervisors have found a shortage in his accounts of nearly $25,000. “Buck” McKinney, of Shelbyville, Ind., an ex-convict pardoned out by Gov. Hendricks, fatally stabbed John Miller a few days ago. McKinney has been a noted desperado. He has murdered several men besides Miller.

WASHINGTON.

The Secretary of the Interior, in compliance with the request of cattle-men at Dodgro, Kan., has sent an Inspector to tear down the wire fences In Indian Territory closing: the established trails between Texas and Kansas. Judge O. S. Zane, of Springfield, 111., has been nominated as Chief Justice of Utah. The Senate has confirmed Henry 8. Neal, of Ohio, as Solicitor of the Treasury; Watson C. Squire as Governor of Washington Territory, and Gilbert A. Pierce as Governor of Dakota. An explosion in the Wellington colHery at Nanaimo, British Columbia, killed twenty-four miners and injured a number of John Jarrett, well known in connecttoa with the Amalgamated Association, has twm named by the President as head of the lafeer harem recently formed by Congress. Attorney General Brewster was ex-

amined before the Springer Committee. H< thought all the star-route prosecuting attorneys performed their duties, and said tbs President had materially assisted him in pushing the cases. He attempted to explain away some differences between Merrick and Bliss. Following is the last regular monthly statement of the public debt: interest-heart rut debt— Foot and one-half per cents 8 250,000.000 Four per cents 737,651, .0) Three per cents 224.612,150 Refunding certificates. 990,c0a Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt $1,226,533,850 Matured debt $ 19,656,205 Debt oaring no interest — Legal-tender notes 546,739.456 Certificates of deposit 12,385,000 Gold and silver certificates 218,204,351 Fractional currency 6,380.061 Total without Interest t 584,308,868 Total debt (principal).... sl,>-30.528,923 Total interest 11,507,240 Total cash in 1 reasurv 391.9a6.928 Debt, less cash in i reasurv 1,450,050,233 Decrease during Juue 9,217,256 Decrease of debt since June 30, 18*1 101,040.971 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $ 1,505,718 Debt on which Interest has ceased... 19,656,205 Interest thereon 317,214 Gold and silver certificates 218,204,351 U ni ted Slates notes held for redemption 12,385,000 Cash balance available 139.887,430 Total $ 391,985,928 Available assets— Cash in Treasury $ 59i;98\928 Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable by United Biases— Principal outstanding... $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid. 1,338,705 Interest paid by United States 61,160,798 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. $ 18,148,923 By cash payments, 6 per cent, net earnings.. 655,193 Balanoe of interest paid by United States 42.356,676 President Arthur has appointed Judge Alphonso Taft, of Ohio, United States Minister to Russia; John M. Francis, of New York, Minister to Austria; Louis Richmond, of Rhode Island, Minister to Portugal; Samuel H. M. Byers Consul-General at Romo, Ramon C. Williams Consul-General at Havana, and John A. Kasson, of lowa, United States Minister to Germany.

POLITICAL.

The Illinois Democratic State Convention, In session at Peoria, nominated Carter H. Harrison for Governor, Henry Seiter for Lieutenant Governor, Michael J. Dougherty for Secretary of State, and Alfred Orendorff for Treasurer. John M. Palmer, Will iam R. Morrison, John C. Black, and Lambert Tree were chosen as delegates-at-large to the Chicago convention. The platform denounces the present high protective tariff as a masterpiece of injustice and false pretense, favors a tariff for revenue only, and heartily approves of the course of William R. Morrison in his earnest efforts to reduce the tariff taxation.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Independence Day was celebrated throughout the country in the usual manner and with about the usual spirit. There were the usual number of speeches in eulogy of Washington, Jefferson, and the fathers of the Republic, and of the Republic Itself. Gon. McClellan presided at Henry C. Bowen’s celebration at Woodstock, Conn., tho Rev. Henry Ward Boecher opening the proceedings with prayer, and Dr. Franklin Fisk, of Chicago, closing with the bened ction. Addresses were made by Gen. McClellan, the historian Lossing. ex-Gov. St John, of Kansas; Joseph Cook, of Boston, and others. A hymn by George H. Boker, of Philadelphia, was sung by the whole audience.

The formal presentation of Bartholdi’s statue, “Liberty Enlightening the World,’’by the French Government to the United States took place in Paris. The festivities of tho day were attended by the customary gunpowder accidents and fatalities. At Grand Haven, Mich., a twelve-pound gun t elonging to the Grand Rapids heavy artillery company was prematurely discharged. Louis Smith lost his right arm and Edward Lohrlftg had a thumb blown off. At Clarendon, Pa., while attempting to fill a shell with nitroglycerine, Patrick Connelly was blown Into fragments, Near Mobile, Ala., a party of Democrats returning from a political meeting In a wagon, were fired upon by two negroes, armed with shotguns. One man died In an hour, and six others were wounded. The negroes escaped. A fire which broke out in a saddlery shop at Port Barry, Ontario, destroyed the whole business portion of that town. Tho loss Is estimated at $200,000. Eecent deaths: The wife of Eear Admiral Ammon at Washington; at Indianapolis, Rev. J. D. Jones, Presb ,-tcrian, who during the war was Chaplain of the One Hundred and Seventeenth New York Regiment Infantry; at Saratoga, N. Y., James P. Dennison, proprietor of the Arlington Hotel. A royal commission is sitting at Montreal to inquire into the alle red bribery of Judge Moussea by the contrastor for building the new Parliament House at Quebeo—a structure which cost $300,000. Fire destroyed the works of the Machine Company at Newark, Ohio, valued at $350,000, and forty dwellings at Lachlne, Quebeo, driving their occupants into tents.

FOREIGN.

Earl Granville has received a dispatch from Gen. Gordon at Khartoum, giving assurances of his health and safety. Gen. Francis Todleben, the famous Russian engineer, is dead. France, it is reported, will demand an indemnity of 600,000,000 francs from China for the violation of the reoent FrancoChinese treaty at Langson. In the Spanish Senate, the other day, the Prime Minister stated that there was absolutely no Intention of selling Cuba. In an interview with leading members of the Cabinet at Madrid Minister Foster gave assurance that the United States had no desire to annex Cuba, now or hereafter, not wishing to assume further political responsibilities. But he urged that Spain should do something to aid Cuba In keeping her sugar market. A bill waß recently introduced in the Chamber of Deputies to authorize new treaties of commerce with foreign nations, Involving a reduction of the export duties on sugar. The Czar has given SIOO,OOO for the relief of the flood sufferers of Poland. Five cases of cholera at Toulon,

France, are said to have been cured by inhaling pure oxygen. Physicians at Toulon and Marseilles say that many deaths attributed to cholera are really due to other causes. They say there is no need for alarm, as the disease in a virulent form has not yet appeared. The French Government has decided to release theMontceau-les-Mlnes anarchists, but will not pardon Prince Krapotkine or Louise MicheL The Communists of Paris propose to march to the City Hall on July 14, with a red flag bearing the word “amnesty.”

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

In a four-oared combat on Saratoga Lake, the crew of the University of Pennsylvania defeated those of Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, and Bowdoin, The assignee of the firm of Grant & Ward has filed an Inventory at New York, showing nominal assets of $27,139,098; actual assets, $37,174, and liabilities of $16,792,647. It has been Impossible to determine the owners of the securities in the hands of the firm at the time of the failure, the firm never having kept a cash book or journal, and a balance sheet was never taken. A new counterfeit $lO silver certificate has made its appearance in the West. On the back of the note whore it should read “And all public dues, and when so received,” the word “all” is entirely omitted. Messrs. Frew and Hart, editors of the Wheeling (W. Va.) Daily IntefHyencer, have been fined for contempt of court. In having charged in their journal that three of the Supreme Court Judges attended a Democratic Legislative caucus and advised the pissage of certain pernicious laws. One of the Judges wanted the editors Imprisoned. A letter, from Cuba, has been received from Navln, the absconding Mayor cf Adrian, Mich., desiring a compromise of the claims against him of the Clark estate, which he mulcted out of $20,000. The French Minister at Pekin has been instructed to demand from China a war indemnity of 270,000,000 francs, and Admiral Courbet has orders to seize the Foucheon arsenal as a guaranty. In the Chamber of Deputies, Premier Ferry charged the Chinese with foul treachery in attacking the French troops near Lang-tou. A person named Joseph Gratton was arrested at Henley, England. Dynamite cartridges and fuses were found in his possession. He is supposed to be an Irish dynam.ter. John O’Connor, a Nationalist, has been elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. He is a liquor dealer. Advices from Snakin report that Gen. Gordon has been murdered by his soldiers, and that the Mahdi has occupied Khartoum. A dispatch to the London Times from Dongola, says: “The Mudir of Dongola achieved a brilliant victory over the rebels at Debbah. The enemy was routed with a loss of 2,000 killed. We now consider ourselves saved.” Work has been suspended at the Washington Navy Yard owing to the failure of Congress to make an appropriation for its continuance. In pursuance of the provision in the legislative, judicial, and executive appropriation bill reducing the number of internal revenue agents from thirty-five to twenty, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue ordered the discharge of the follow-ing-named agents: A. J. McKusick, California; John Young, Tennessee; John M. Burns, Kentucky; J. B. McCoy, Wisconsin; James A. Ray, Kentucky; C. B. Harrison, Tennessee; John M. Raum, Illinois; Jasper Packard, Indiana; W. L. Hollister, Minnesota; A. M. Crane, California; J. L. Trumbull, Indiana.

Congress reached a final adjournment at 3 o’clock on the afternoon of July 7. During the morning all differences between the House and Senate on the appropriation bills, with the exception of the navy bill, were settled by mutual concessions. The Honse refused to recede from its position on the navy bill, and the Senate refused to yield. The measure did not pass. The last hours of the session were tame, comparatively speaking. President Arthur spent several hours in the Capitol signing the appropriation bills. It is said that if yon will measure three times around an elephant’s foot yon will have its exact height. By that rule a St. Louis girl is about sixteen feet high. As reasonably expect oaks from a mushroom bed as great and durable profits from small and hasty efforts.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $ 8.00 & 9.60 Hoas 6.50 @ 7.00 PLOUB—llxtra. 4.00 & 6.60 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 92 @ .98 No. 2 Red 95 @ .96)4 CORN—No. 2 57 @ .59 OATS—White 86 @ .39 Poke—Mess 16.50 @17.00 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.50 @7.00 Fair to Good 6.00 @6.50 Butchers’., 5.00 @ 5.50 Hogs 6.00 @ 5.50 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 6.25 @ 5.75 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Soring 82 @ .83 No. 2 Red Winter 93 @ .94 COBN—No. 2 50 @ .61 Oats—No. 2 ~.. .29 @ .30 Rye-No. 2 60 @ .61 BARLEY—No. 2. 60 @ .62 Butteb—Choioe Creamery 17)4@ .19 Fine Dairy 13 @ .15 Cheese—Full Cream. 08 @ .09 Skimmed Flat 04 @ .06 Eggs—Fresh. 14 @ .15 Potatoes—New, per brl 3.00 @ 3.50 POBK—Mess 19.25 @19.75 Labd 07 @ .07)4 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 87 @ .83)4 COBN—No. 2 62 @ .54 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .33 MILWAUKEE Wheat—No. 2 : 82 @ .83 COBN—No. 2 64 @ .56 Oats—No. 2 82 @ .34 BABBEY—No. 2 57 @ .59 POBK—Mess 15.00 @15.60 Lard 7.00 @7.25 ST. LOUia Wheat—No. 2 Red .98 @I.OO Cobn—Mixed. 48 @ .49 Oats—No. 2 26 @ .28 Rye. so @ .57 mmm- **”• Wheat—No. 2 Red 89 @ 91 Corn 56 @ .58 OATS-Mtxed 82 @ .33 POBK—Mess 15.76 @l6 25 L “° DETEoft:Floub 6.00 @ 6.75 Wheat—No. Ivs hite 1.00 @ 1.01 Cobn—Mixed 54 @ .53 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 31 @ .33 Pork—Mess 18.50 @19.00 INDIAN APOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 86 @ .88 Corn—Mixed 60 @ .52 Oats—Mixed 30 @ , 32 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE—Best 6.25 (ft 6.75 ..'Fair. 6.75 @6.51 Common. 4.00 @ 4.59 Hogs. 5.26 @ 5.75 Sheep 4.25 @4.73

THE WORK OF CONGRESS.

What Is Being Done by the National Legislature. The river and harbor bill passed the Senate on the Ist Inst. The bill as passed by the Senate appropriates $13,584,700. As It left the House it provided for an appropriation of $12,'086,200. Bills were also passed to provide for a branch of the Soldiers' Home west of the Mississippi; for the relief of soldiers improperly chat tted with deser i Jon, and to grant a pension of SSO per month to the widow of Gen. James B. Steed man. It was t greed to refer to the Committee on Finance resolutions for the redemption of 10,000,000 trade dollgrs, and for an investigation into the condition of the banks m New York. In the House of Representatives, the Conference Committee on the naval appropriation bill announced its inability to agree, objection bei g made to the items for the new cruisers and to continne work on the monitors. The House voted to insist on its disagreement on both of these questions, and new conferrees were appointed. The Conference Committee on the postoffice appropriation bill reported a failure to agree on the items of railway mail clerks and for compensation to land-grant roads, but the House voted to recede and accept the Senate’s decision. The fortification bill was discussed in the House again, Mr. Randall offered a bill embodying the views of the minority, and pending a vote to substitute this for the bill reported by the majority. the House adjourned. The Senate passed the suudry civil appropriation bill on the 2d Inst., after striking out the clause providing salaries instead of fees for United States Marshals. The House, by a vote of 150 to 91. adopted the fortifications bill recommended by the minority of the committee which considered the measure. It appropriates $595,000. The majority recommended a bill appropriating $4,500,000. The President sent to the House a message vetoing the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter, the Attorney General having pronounced it unconstitutional. The House, on motion of Mr. Slocum, of New York, immediately passed the measure over the President’s veto by 168 to 78. The President, in his veto message, takes the same view as the Attorney General regarding the constitutionality of the bill, and says: There are other causes that deter me from giving this bill the sanction pf my approval. The judgment of the court-martial dv which more than twenty years since Gen. Fitz John Porter was tried and convicted, was pronounced by a tribunal composed of nine general officers of distinguished character and ability. Its investigation of the charges of whieh’it found the accused guilty, was thorough and conscientious, and its findings and sentence in due course of law approved by Abraham Lincoln, th n President ot the United States. Its legal competency, its jurisdiction of the accused and of the subjects ot accusation, the substantial regularity of all its proceedings, are matters which have never been brought in question. Its judgment, therefore, is final and conclusive In its character. The Supreme Court of the United States has recently declared that a ccurt-martial such as this was, “is the organism provided by law and clothed with the duty of administering justice in this class of cases. Its judgments, when approved, rest on the same basis ahd are surrounded by the same considerations which give conclusiveness to the judgments of other tribunals, including as well the lowest as the highest.” It follows accordingly that when a lawfully constituted-court martial has duly declared Its findings and i s sentence and the same has been duly approved, neither the President nor Congress has any power to set them aside. The existence of such a power is not openlv asserted nor perhaps is it necessarily implied in the provisions of the bill which is before me, but when its enacting clauses are read in the ligfit of the recitals of its preamble, it will be seen that it seeks in effect a practical annulment of the findings and sentence of a competent courtmartial. A conclusion at variance with these findings has been reached after investigation by a board consisting of three officers of the army. This board was not created in pursuance of any statutory authority, and was powerless to compel the attendance of witnesses or to pronounce judgment which could be lawfully enforced. The officers who composed it, in their report to the Secretary of War, dated March 19, 1879, state that In their opinion “Justice requires * * * such action as may be necessary to annul and set aside the findings and sentence ol the court-martial in the case of Maj. Gen. FitzjJolm Porter, and to restore him to the position of which their sentence deprived him, such restoration to take effect from the date of his dismissal from office. The provisions of the bill now under consideration are avowedly based on the assumption that the findings of the court-martial are found to be erroneous. But it will be borne in mind that the inves igation which is claimed to have resulted in this discovery was made many years after the event to which these findings related and under circumstances that made it impossible to reproduce the evidence on which they were based. It seems to me that the proposed legislation would establish a dangerous precedent, calculated to imperil In no small measure the binding force and effect of the judgments of the various tribunals established under our Constitution and laws. I have already, in the exercise of the pardoning power with which the President is vested, remitted the continuing penalty that made it impossible for Fitz John Porter to hold an office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States. But lam unwilling to give my sanction to any legislation which shall practically annul and set at naught the solemn and deliberate conclusions of the tribunal by which he was convicted, and of the President by whom the findings were examined and approved. The anti-Chinese bill passed the Senate on the 3d inst., by a vote of 43 to 12. The Senate, by a vote of 27 to 27, failed to doss the Fitz John Porter bill over the President’s veto. A resolution was adopted for an inquiry into the capa- ' olt.y of the steel-producing works in the United States and the tools In the navy-yards to furnish outfits for new vessels or guns for seacoast defenses. The bill to forfeit unearned lands granted to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was passed, with an amendment to refer to the courts the question of title after forfeiture. In the House of Representatives, the select commit tee made a report that William H. English was not guilty of a breach of privilege, while a minority declare that he lobbied on the floor in the Interest of his son. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the fortification appropriation bill, and appointed new conferrees. An attempt to pass the Mexican pension hill was followed by the loss of a quorum.

BiLLSto pension the widow of Gen. Ord, to increase the allowance to Mrs. Frank P. Blair, and to authorize the retirement of Gen. Averill with the rank of Colonel passed the Senate on the 4th inst. The conferrees on the deficiency appropriation bill were reappointed, as the Senate insisted on its amendments. The postal telegraph bill was postponed for the session. The House of Representatives resumed consideration of the Mexican pension bill, and as a quorum was not present a call of the House was ordered. A motion to recede from disagreement to the amendments made by the Senate to .the general deficiency appropriation bill was lost, and the conferrees were reappointed. The conference report on the river and harbor appropriation was agreed to. In the Senate, July 5, Mr. Logan made a fresh denial of the charge that he was interested in a large tract of land in New Mexico, unlawfully taken from the Zuni Indians. The interstate commerce bill vas postponed until December. The Senate insisted on its amendment to the legislative appropriation bill reducing the number of customs and revenue collectors. A new conference was ordered, and the House finally surrendered. The report of the conference committee on the fortification bill wa u agreed to. The House of Representatives refused to postpone for the session consideration of the Mexican pensions bill, by a vote of i>s to 135, and much time was consumed by filibustering. The conference committee on the consular appropriation bill reported disagreement on the item of $250,000 for the Nicaragua project, and a motion to recede therefrom was lost. At the evening session Mr. Browne proposed to lav aside the Mexican pensions bill, but Mr. Townshend objected. Both houses held sessions on Sunday, the 6th inst. Conference committees disposed of the fortification and sundry civil-“ervice appropriation bills. The Senate finally yielded to the elimination of the item ot s26* ,000 for the purchase of canal rights in Nicaragua, and the House receded from its disagreement to the salary system for court officials. Something wrong in Ohio again. A man refused to take S9OO back-ponsion money. Taking Ohio as a whole, she makes some of the most unexpected breaks of any section in the universe.— reek’s Sun. No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man js pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.— Johnson. New York’s various prisons now have 15,690 convicts in custody.

ILLINOIS DEMOCRATS.

They Meet in State Convention at Peoria. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, Nominated for Governor. The Illinois Democratic State Convention , which met at Peoria on the 2d of June, was the largest ever held in the State. Nearly all the 1,400 delegates were in attendance, and 100 contestants were knocking at the doors for admission. John H. Oberly, Chairman of the State Central Committee, called the convention to order. Henry C. Connelly, of Bock Island, was made Temporary Chairman, and Monroe C. Crawford, of Union Connty, was chosen as permanent presiding officer. The folio-wing were chosen as Presidential electors: At large, O. B. Ficklin, of Coles, and William G. Ewing, of Cook. First District, J. W. Doane; Second, James T. Healy; Third, James H. Ward; Fourth, Harvey D. Colvin; Fifth, James Moran, of Lake; Sixth, John F. Smith, of Stephenson; Seventh. James K. BHsh; Eighth, M. W. Shnrtz; Ninth, George B. Harrington, of Iroquois; Tenth, George J. Wilson, of Peoria; Eleventh,William Prentiss; Twelfth, Henry Phillips, of Cass; Thirteenth, H. P. Shumway, of Christian; Fourteenth, W. T. Kirk; Fifteenth, James R. Cunningham, of Coles; Sixteenth, J. C. Allen, of Bichlaud; Seventeenth; E. B. Buck; Eighteenth, G. W. Aiken, of Washington; Nineteenth, F. M. Youngblood, of Franklin; Twentieth, W. K. Murphy, of Perry. 8. Coming Judd, of the committee to select delegates-at-large to the national convention and committeemen-at-large of the State Central Committee, reported as follows: Delegates-at-large—W. B. Morrison, John M. Palmer, J. C. Black, and Lambert Tree. Alternates —Thomas Merritt, M. C. McDonald, Thomas McNeely, and G. D. Henning. Members of the State Central Commit-tee-at-large—John H. Oberly and Joseph C. Mackin. The district committees reported the members of the State Central Committee as follows: First District, A. W. Green, of Cook; Second, Frank Lawler, of Cook; Third, Patrick McCarthy, of Cook; Fourth, S. B. Chase, of Cook; Fifth, S. L. Bignal, of Kane; Sixth, Mr. Frazier, of Carroll; Seventh, W. C. Green, of Whiteside; Eighth, J. C. Campbell, of La Salle; Ninth, B. S. Mclldifff, of Livingston; Tenth, no appointment made; Eleventh, C. R. Whittaker, of McDonough; Twelfth, Maurice Kelly, of Adams; Thirteenth, W. H. Clendennin, of Sangamon; Fourteenth, Wm. Fuller, of DeWitt; Fifteenth, A. J. Fryer, of Coles; Sixteenth, Judge Boggs, of Wayne; Seventeenth, W. Crouch, of Montgomery; Eighteenth, H. G. Wheeler, of St. Clair; Nineteenth, 6. L. Dwight, of Marion; Twentieth, R. J. Goddard, of Williamson. The Committee on Resolutions presented a lengthy platform, the reading of which was frequently interrupted by applause. It denounces protection, advocates a tariff for revenue only, and instructs the delegates to the national convention to vote as a unit on this question. It commends the work of Mr. Morrison in his efforts for horizontal reduction, and indorses the investigations of Springer. It advocates pensions for soldiers and sailors, opposes land-grabbing by foreigners or others for speculative purposes, and that forfeited grants should revert to the Government. It opposes competition between honest and convict labor, and favors an eight-hour law. While willing to punish the sale of intoxicants to minors or inebriates, the platform decrees that sumptuary legislation on the enactment of the prohibitory law is fanatical, “destructive of the rights of freemen, and fraught with manifold evils.” At the conclusion of the reading Mr. Judd moved the adoption of the resolutions and called for the previous question. Mayor Harrison, rose and said that he desired to be heard before the question was put to a vote. He asked that the convention pause before adopting the resolutions as presented. He would move that the tariff question be referred to the national convention, which he had no doubt, would act wisely. He believed that taxation for protection was robbery. The only kind of tariff which was defensible was tariff for revenue. There were various shades of opinion on the tariff question in the Democratic party, and the Democrats of Illinois should not undertake to anticipate the wisdom of the assembled Democracy of the nation. The passage of this tariff plank at this time would endanger the success of the Democracy, State and national. He closed by moving to strikq out nil that part of the platform referring to the tariff. The Hon. W. R. Morrison opposed the motion. He hoped the gentleman who had preceded him would be nominated and elected Governor, but that his motion would be defeated.

Ex-Gov, Palmer said that if Mayor Harrison was not willing to run on this platform he should refuse the Gubernatorial nomination if tendered by this convention. Mayor Harrison interrupted the speaker to say that he was misrepresenting his position. The Mayor said his motion was not to strike out the tariff plank, but merely the instruction to the Illinois delegation to wofk iu a certain way in the national convention. Intense excitement and great confusion followed, numerous speakers struggling for recognition at the same time. Finally it was decided to call the roll of the counties on the question of striking out the instruction to the State delegation as moved by Harrison. This process was accompanied by cheers by the friends and opponents of the motion, as the chairmen announced the votes of their delegations for and against. At the opnclusion the result announced was: For striking out the instruction, 653; against, 623; majority in favor of striking out, 30. The platform, as amended, was then adopted by a viva-voce vote. Gen. J. C. Black presented the name of Carter H. Harrison, of Chicago, for the nomination for Governor, and the nomination was made by acclamation. The remainder of the ticket was then selected as follows: For Lieutenant Governor, Henry Seiter, of St Clair; Secretary of State, Michael J. Dougherty, of Knox; State Treasurer, Alfred Orendorff, of Sangamon; Auditor of State, Walter A. Carlin, of Jersey; Attorney General, Robert McKinley, of Edgar.

SMALL TALK.

' "Fiery Gizzard” is the name of a postoffice in Tennessee. Vermont school-teachers are prohibited by law from the use of tobacco. A man in Birmingham, England, proposes to live a month on cold tea. Baron Tennyson first made use of the phrase “Sweet girl graduates.” King Alfonso has the consumption. He has long been a cigarette smoker. A Virginia eat is reported to be rearing two foxes along with her litter of kittenß.

THE FISCAL TEAK.

State of the National Finances at It* Close— Some Interesting Figures. Seduction in Revenue for the Put Tear u Compared with Preoeding Twelve Months. [Washington telegram.} The Government fiscal year closed on tbo 30th nit., and the pnblio debt statement; shows a reduction of $101,000,000, against, a reduction of $138,000,000 during the previous year ending June 30, 1883. An examination of the interest-bearing debt shows,, however, that the actual naiu( lon daring the year has been nearly which represents a permanent annual saving, in the interest account of over $3,250,000-! The one hundred and twenty-eighth calk for 3 per cent, bonds matured June 30, and. the $10,000,000 thus called were taken from, the column of bonded debt, which will explain the apparent discrepancy between theaggregate reduction given in the debt statement and the actual amount of reduction, in bonded debt for the year as given in thesedispatches. The gold coin and bullion fund is now nearly $205,000,000, an increase since June--1 of about $3,000,000; while, however, thisfund shows an increase of $3,000,000 for the month, there has been a decrease in the* amount of gold owned by the Treasury off $4,300,000, the outstanding gold certificates having increased since June 1 $12,000,000. The amount of these certificatesnow outstanding is over $71,000,000, and. the amount of gold in the Treasury not covered by certificates, $133,729,914. The number of silver dollars now on. hand is $135,560,916, an increase of nearly* $3,000,000 for the month, and since July 1„ 1883, of $23,646,897. The amount of silver certificates outstanding is $96,420,000, thus leaving the* number of silver dollar's not covered by certificates over $39,000,000, an increase6inco June 1 of nearly $4,000,000. The available cash in the Treasury i 55139,887,439, $139,887,439, a falling off of $8,000,000* since June 1, 1883. During the month the national bankawithdrew $6,000,000 in 3 per cent, bondsfor redemption under the call, and deposited in their place $4,000,000 of higher ratebonds. The amount of bonds now held tosecure national bank circulation is $334,000,000, against $357,000,000 one year ago,, thus showing a withdrawal of bank circulation for the year of about $20,000,000. The* contraction, however, in this portion of the circulating medium is more than compensated for in the increase of outstanding gold and silver certificates, during the past twelve months the increase in silver certificateshaving been nearly $24,000,000 and gold. certificates over $11,000,000. The total receipts for the year were $348,000,000 against $398,000,000 for the preceding year, a difference of $50,000,000“ in round numbers. During the discussion of the tariff bill in. Congress it was estimated that the passage of the revenue bill then pending would. work a reduction of about $70,000,000 per* annum. The actual reduction in these twosources, as shown by figures reported to the Treasury Department, is a few thousand! short of $42,000,000, the reduction in customs having been $19,000,000 and internalrevenuo $23,000,000. The following table shows receipts from, all sources for the fiscal year compared witb. those for preceding fiscal year: 1884. 1883. Customs ..6195,627,291 $214,706,496Internal revenue 122,004,499 144,720,369 Miscellaneous 30,086,944 38,860,716IT Total .....$348,166,734 $398,287,689: Expenditures as follows: 1884. 1883. Ordinary $134,915,689 $140,236,43* Pensions 66,003,995 66,012,573Interest 64,578,894 69,160,131Total $246,498,578 $265,408,18F ,

THE TEMPERANCE ISSUE.

A Letter from Hon. Neal Don, [Freeport (Ill.) Dispatch.l It having been stated that the Hon. Nea® Dow, of Maine, who was a candidate for* the Presidency on the Prohibition ticketfour years ago, would refuse to support the* National Prohibition nominations this year, and work for the success of the Republican, ticket, Russell J. Hazlett, of this city, whois the Grand Worthy Secretary of the Illinois Good Templars Grand Lodge, wrote tohim for his yiews on the question of a third, party. The following reply was receivedthis afternoon; Portland, Me., June 27, 1884. R. J. Hazlett, Grand Worthy Secretary, Goo® Templars, Freeport, III.; Dear Sir; Your note of the 24th is received. The newspaper slip you send mer* correctly reports my views as to the wiseaction of the temperance men of Maine r Kansas and lowa. The Republican party ini, those States has steadily favored prohibition and has afforded the people an opportunity to put their will as to the liquor traffic* into the constitution. I think it up for the interest of the temperancecause to show the country that theparty has lost nothing in those States by such action. As to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois r Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut,, the temperance men owe the Republican party nothing, and it has no just claim whatever on them for help in any election. You ask me if it is really true that I look, on the third party action with disfavor. So* far from that, I am sure we can never win in any other way. The sooner we come to* that the sooner we shall accomplish our* purpose. Respectfully, Neal Dow.

CLIPPINGS.

Paper peach baskets are in use in Maryland. All the Presidents since Lincoln have worn full beards, except President whose whiskers have the English sideboard cut. David M. Stone, editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, has not been absent, from his editorial chair for recreation for more than thirty years. A lady in New York has just finished a. silk quilt composed of 14,000 pieces, each about the size of a 10-oent piece. It took her seven years to complete the work, and it is valued at S6OO. Weston Kent, of Peoria, deposited SSO to the credit of a new-born babe, upon the agreement of the parents that the child should bear his name. The boy was christened Weston Kent Keith, and, when 21 years old, he will draw the SSO, with interest. Mr. A. Van Wagner, an American and a protege of the late Judah P. Benjamin, succeeds to the rooms, and possibly to part of the practice of the great barrister, but at present Mr. Charles Russell leads the London bar with an income of $75,000 from his practice. The Emperor of China has ordered the destruction of $4,000,000 worth of opium