Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. £AST£RII. The remains of Lient Kislingbury, of the Greely exhibition, were disinterred at Rochester by friends and physicians, and it was found that the body had been mutilated. The surmise Is that the missing portions had been devoured by the starving explorers. Lieut Greely was officially welcomed to his old home, Newburyport, Mass., by a procession and reception. At the grand stand Mayor Johnson welcomed Greely, the latter replying in a fitting manner. Gov. Robinson welcomed the explorer on behalf of Massachusetts, and the exercises closed by the band playing “Home Again” and “Hall to the Chief.” Dr. Claybome states that all the survivors will soon be in perfect health, but under strict orders from Secretary Chandler no interviews are allowed. New York telegram: “Third Officer Kelly, of the steamer Bear, says the reports of eating the flesh of Lieut. Kislingbury and Private Henry were true, as the survivors, when brought on board, were all but delirious, and admitted that they had to eat the dead bodies to preserve their own lives. The cook of the Bear said that all the survivors said that they had to eat the flesh of the dead, as all tbelr food, except a little leather or eealslcin, had given out. All the men on board the Bear knew that the bodies had been eaten, but were told not to speak about it when they got into port.” In attempting to lower their records at Belmont Park, Philadelphia, Jay-Eye-See made the mile in 2:lo}i and Phailas in 2:14*4. The Rev. Dr. John Brown, the oldest Episcopal minister of New York State, died last week at Newbnrg. He delivered an address of welcome to Lafayette in 1824. A lightning and rain storm visited Pittsburgh and Allegheny City, cellrrs being flooded and buildings blown down or wrecked by lightning. Water in some places was two feet deep in the streets, and the -damage will be heavy.

WESTERN.

Three children were burned to death In a barn near Circle vllle, Ohio. They went to the barn to emoke, and get fire to the structure. A skiff containing four men capsized opposite Bellaire, Ohio, and Walter Tunney and Patrick Dixon were drowned. In Mayfield Township, near Sycamore, 111., Louis Taylor, a hired man, shot and killed Florence Mitchell, 17 years old, and then set Are to her clothing. The murderer then went to a creek near by, plunged in, and then shot himself through the heart. The theory is that he made improper advances, was repulsed, and In his rage killed the girl, and then, fearing lynching, he committed suicide. Near lowa City, lowa, two brewers were on trial for violating the liquor law, when the mob, inflamed by whisky, seized the Prosecuting Attorney, stripped him of his clothing, and tarred and feathered him. A Constable who interfered was seriously cut. The rioters then went to lowa City, awed the town officers, and attempted to kill the principal prosecuting witness and his brother. Reports received from various points In Dakota and Minnesota indicate that harvesting is progressing very satisfactorily. The weather is quite favorable. The wheat and rye crops are good. Wheat will yield an average of sixteen bushels per acre, and in iseme places the yield will be about twentyfive bushels. Rye yields about thirty bushels to the acre. The barley crop is excellent. Several head of cattle, infected with Texas fever, have been killed by the authorities a± Clinton, 111. A fire in the eastern part of Cincinnati destroyed the saw-mill of Hinton & Cole, the cattle-sheds of the Miami Road, and ten frame dwellings, the losses aggregating $75,000. Oliver Dalrymple, the noted Dakota farmer, says he will harvest 32,000 acres of wheat this year, and that the average yield will be about nineteen bushels per acre. Recent rains have greatly improved the Kansas eorn crop, and It is now predicted that the yield will be large beyond precedent. Gov. Murray, of Utah, has asked that troops Ibe used to drive back from San Juan County Utes from Colorado, who have killed two men, burned and destroyed property, and threaten other outrages. All the whites in the valley have been expelled by the marauding Indians. A fine broke out in the city of Anoka, Minn., about twenty miles from Minneapolis, and before the tissues were subdued the entire business portion of the city, the High School building, three banks, two flouring mills, an elevator, and several other important structures were destroyed. The fire spread with extraordinary rapidity, and defied every effort to stop its progress. The heat was intense, ana many were prostrated while trying .to subdwe the flames. The losses ane estimated at 51, 030,000. w. D. Washburn ,& Co., are the heaviest sufferers.

SOUTHERN.

A company of Texan rangers had a llvelj .battle with four mounted men, caught cutting fences in Edwards County. The offenders opened fire with rifles. Two of them were shot through the heart, and the others escaped. One of the latter was a nephew of Chief Justice Hemphill. A desperate attempt was made by the convicts la the Frankfort (Ky.) Penitentiary to escape. A prisoner named Wolff led the would-be jail-breakers. They struck down the guard, and possessed themselves of firearms, which they used freely. James Cunningham, who is serving a fourteen years' term, rendered effective service in suppressing the outbreak. One prisoner, a murderer named Alsopp, escaped. On gross earnings of $14,351,092 for the past year, the Louisville and Nashville Road reports a surplus of $81,595 by abstaining from the payment of dividends. Alsop and Graves, the ringleaders of the gang that broke Jail at Frankfort, hy., recently, were discovered about nine miles

from Lexington. ATeputy Sheriff and posse went in pursuit. The convicts resisted, and killed George Cassela, a farmer, in whose field they were found, and who had but just joined the posse. Both the scoundrels were then shot dead, the members of the pursuing party evidently not earing to capture them alive. A duel at Emory Gap, Tenn., between a cripple named Staples and a drummer from Cleveland named William H. Hogerson, resulted in the death of both. Tom Griffin, a notorious Cherokee outlaw, was shot dead at Eufaula while perpetrating burglary. The cotton counties of Arkansas surprised the statisticians by reporting an aggregate yield of 1,000,000 bales. Ex-Senator John Pool, of North Carolina, died suddenly at Washington, D. C., of apoplexy. He was Senator from 1868 to 1873. Seventy-eight buildings, comprising two-thirds of the business portion of Grenada, Miss., were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $300,000. The insurance is about $65,000.

WASHINGTON.

Gen. Hazen was interviewed at Washington concerning the stories of cannibalism in connection with the Greely expedition. Although the repo#* were somewhat exaggerated, he said, there was no doubt that there is considerable foundation for them. He said that it is not true that Capt. Schley told himself and Secretary Chandler that the survivors had eaten the bodies of their associates; he refused, however, to say that the stories already puli|hed were not true. He had heard rumors at Portsmouth that Private Henry had been killed and that the survivors had eaten his body, but declined to give such facts in the case as came within his knowledge. The 6tories find credence among the army and navy officers, and some of the latter, and even Gen. Hazen, think that cannibalism was almost unavoidable under the circumstances. There is no doubt that there will be a Congressional Investigation. Mr. Hiram Price has tendered his resignation as Indian Commissioner. He does not care to live at Washington, where he would be separated from his family.

POLITICAL.

James O’Donnell, editor of the Jackson Citizen, was nominated for Congress from the Third Michigan District by the Republicans by acclamation. James S. Eckles, of Princeton, has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Eleventh Illinois District. Republican Congressional conventions have nominated W. E. Fullei in the Fourth lowa District, Col. Ralph Plumb in the Sixth Illinois, E. H. Conger and H. Y. Smith in the Seventh lowa, and A. J. Holmes in the Tenth lowa. The Democrats placed In the field Preston Stevenson in the Fifth District of New Jersey, and the Greenbackers of the Second Maine District nomnated W. W. Berry. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Prohibition State Central Committee of Indiana was held at Indianapolis last week. It was decided to put an electoral ticket in the field. Albany (N. Y.) dispatch: A letter received from Upper Saranac Lake to-day announces the safe arrival of Gov. Cleveland and Dr. Ward at the Prospect Hotel. Stops were made on the way at Loon Lake and Paul Smith's, and, although the Governor desired no demonstration, his friends at each place tendered him a reception in which all the guests at the hotel joined. The Democratic State Convention of Georgia met at Atlanta and made the following nominations: Governor, H. D. McDaniel: Secretary of State, N. C. Barnett; Controller, W. A. Wright; Treasurer, R. A. Hardman; Attorney General, Clifford Anderson. The nominees, with the exception of Hardman, are the present incumbents. The Republicans of Michigan,, in convention at Detroit, nominated Gen. R. A. Alger for Governor, and C. A. Luce for Lieutenant Governor. The rest of the ticket stands as follows, the Incumbents being renominated in each case; Harry A. Conant, Secretary of State; Edward H. Butler, State Treasurer; William C. Stevens, Auditor; Gen. Minor S. Newell, Commissioner of State land office; Moses Taggart, Attorney General; Herschel Gass, Superintendent of Public Instruction; James M. Ballou, Eember of State Board of Education. The Democratic State Convention cf Missouri, in session at Jefferson City, made the following nominations: For Governor, J. S. Marmaduke, of St. Louis; for Auditor, John Walker, the present incumbent; for Register of Lands, Robert McCullough, present incumbent; for Judge of Supreme Court, Judge F. Black. The Republican State Central Committee of Arkansas has nominated a full State ticket, as follows: Governor, Thomas Boles; Secretary of State, Paul Graham; Auditor, J. U. Berry; Treasurer, S. A. Duke; Land Commissioner, J. A. Barnes; Attorney General, Jacob Triebar; Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. B. Ward. James G. Blaine has ordered a suit for libel to be brought against the Indianapolis Sentinel for stating that he betrayed a girl ■and married her at the muzzle of a shot-gun. John L. Routt has announced himself as a candidate for the United States Senatorship from Colorado, now held by Senator Hill. Fx-Senator Chaffee is also a candidate. The Prohibitionists of the Thirteenth Illinois District nominated George Herrington for Congress. Louis B. Gunckel was nominated by the Fourth Ohio District Republicans. The Ninth Texas District Democrats renominated R. Q. Mills, and In the Fifth Tennessee District the Democrats named James D. Riehardsoa. The Tenth Texas District Democrats nominated Joseph D. Sayers. Boston dispatch: “Gtem Butler’s letter of acceptance, or address to the people of the United States, has been praetleallv completed, and, contrary to general expectation, it may see the light before the production of the anticipated epistle from Cleveland. The Butler manifesto is said to be a document of great length. The General takes in the whole vocabulary of national questions, from Mormonism down to the preservation of the Mississippi levees.” Thomas G. Skinner has been renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the First North Carolina District. Ex-Congressman J. C. Burrows, of

Kalamazoo, was nominated for Congress by the Republican convention of the Fourth Michigan District. C. R. Breckenridge received a renomination for Congress by the Democrats or the Second Arkansas District. Chairman Cooper, of the Pennsylvania State Republican Committee, 'announces that J. I*on Cameron is not a candidate for r3-election to the United States Senate. The Executive Committee of the AntiMonopoly party assembled In Chicago last week and nominated Gen. A. M. West, of j Mississippi, for Vice President. It was resolved to Issue an address urging vigorous efforts in close Con rressional districts, and a | union of all the Butler forces, under the title of the Peop'e's party, was advocated. Roscoe Conkling, in a letter refusing an election as honorary member of the Albany Plumed Knights, says: “W. R. Nichols, Secretary: Noting yours, and thanking yon for the offer of an honorary mem- j bership of the political organization referred to, I must ask yon to excuse me. lam quite out of politics, and don’t wish in any way to be drawn into the pending canvas-*. Your obedient servant, Roscoe Cokkuno."

MISCELLANEOUS.

The annual reunion of the -Army of the Tennessee was held at Lake Minnetonka, Minn. The members of the society were called to order by Gen. W. T. Sherman, who read a brief letter from Gen. Grant expressing regret at his inability to be present. Before reading the letter Gen. Sherman feelingly referred to Gen. Grant's present feeble physical condition and to the recent financia. troubles in Wall street. The peaker saifi no one bedeved Gen. Grant was in the remotest degree personally responsive for the trouble, and said the respect and love he had won on the battle-field would survive long after Wall street was a name held to be synonymous with gambling in gold and credit. Gov. Hubbard, of Minnesota, delivered the address of welcome, to which Gen. Sherman responded. At the banquet speeches were made by Gov. Hubbard of Minnesota, Gen. Chetlain of Chicago, Bishop Ireland, ex-Senator Ramsey, Ignatius Donnelly, and Col. Jqcobgon of Chicago. Gon. Sherman was re-elected President, and the society adjourned to meet at Chicago on the second Wednesday of September next year. At the meeting of the Irish National League at Boston, the Treasurer reported receipts of $42,529, of which $29,762 had been remitted to Ireland, leaving a balance of $12,767. The resolutions indorse Parnell; protest against England’s usurpation of power; and deeply regret the death of Wendell Phillips. Alexander Sullivan was elected President, but declined, when Patrick Egan was choEen. Father O’Reilly wns re-elected Treasurer,and Father Roger Walsh Secretary. There were 220 business failures in the United States and Canada during the week. There were 232 failures the previous week.

Evidence tending to prove the charges of cannibalism made against the survivors of the Greely expedition continues to accumulate. There seems to be no doubt now of their truth, hut it is pleaded that under the circumstances cannibalism was Inevitable. Lieut. Powell, of the signal service, who was at the funeral of the dead at New York, and who talked with all the survivors, said in a conversation at Washington: Now, I have talked with Greely and the rest of the survivors and with officers of the recruiting party, and I’ll tell you my opinion regarding that story. There is no doubt about its truth, and there is no doubt about Greely’s honesty when he- says if there was cannibalism he did not know of it. When these men were rescued they were not responsible beings. They had undoubtedly subsisted on human flesh for some time. I have no doubt that, driven to despair by hunger, they would go out and cut some flesh off bodies of their dead comrandes and partake of it. Greely was in mighty bad condition. He was confined to the tent by extreme weakness. He was very popular with a majority of the party, and when the men obtained something to eat it was their nattral impulse to share It with their commander. He partook of human flesh without knowing what he was eating. His mental and bodily strength were too fat gone to know or care. There Is no doubt in my mind but some of those who died also partook of human flesh. I tell you it will be a long time before the horrors of Cape Clay are known thoroughly. The American Board of Foreign Missions makes an appeal for SIOO,OCO during August, to keep up its work. Sixteen deaths from yellow fever have occurred at Hermosillo, Mexico, and cases are reported at live adjacent cities. The disease apparently originated in germs remaining dormant since last year. Warren P. Sutton, Consul General to Mexico, reports a large emigration across the Rio Grande, and states that $50,000,000 of American capital has been invested in railroads, ranches, and mining in Northern Mexico within a few years.

FOREIGN.

The British Parliament was prorogued Aug. 14. The Queen’B speech announces the resumption of diplomatic relations with Mexico and the conclusion of an agreement for a treaty of commerce. The claim is made that agrarian crime in Ireland has diminished, and that there has been a substantial improvement in the condition oi the people of that country. The second Duke of Wellington, Arthur Richard Wellesley, dropped dead a Brighton, while entering a railway-coach. The cholera seems to be extending in the small towns of Southern France, but is dying out at Toulon and Marseilles. By the bursting of a gas-engine in an envelope factory In London the building was set on Are. Escape being cut off, many women were injured by leaping from the windows. The British expedition for the rebel of Khartoum and the rescue of Gordon will be half military and half naval. The sailors will be required to do most of the work. Gen. Wolseley is the author of the plan of the cam paign, and will get the full credit If It succeeds. If ltfails Mr. Gladstone will, no doubt, be held responsible. English journals are eloquent in theii expression of disgust at the alleged cannibalism of the Greely arctic expedition. The English arctic explorers, with the exception of Benjamin Leigh Smith, however, express neither disgust nor astonishment, and seem

to think that cannibalism under the circumstances could hardly be prevented. Hanlan, the oarsman, met defeat in Australia, in a contest with Beach for the championship of the world and £SOO a side. Lord Dufferin has assured the Sultan that Lord Northbrook’s mission to Egypt does not indicate any change in England's Egyptian policy. Visitors to London from India are said to have recently Imported in tbe.’r haggage large numbers of mosquitoes of a very poisonous character. They are causing much annoyance to the Londoners.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

At Tobias, Neb., Wiley Farris killed his wife and himself with a revolver. Eight prisoners escaped from the jail at St. Joseph, Mo., by way of the sewer-pipe. Texas fever is raging among a herd of cattle owned by the brothers Hughes, near Osborne, Mo. They were recently purl chased at the Kansas City stock-yards, Henry Ten Eyce, a farmer living near Broadhead, Wis., became enraged at his wife and stabbed her three times, inflicting fatal wounds. Ten Evce left the house, and the next day his body was found swinging from the limb of a tree, he having committed suicide. The total loss caused by the fire at Anoka, Minn., is placed at $700,000, and the insurance is about $300,000. The sufferers are not despondent. Many merchants burned out have resumed business. It is felt that if the Washburne Mills are rebuilt all the losses will be made good in two years. Dr. J. J. Woodward, one of the physicians who attended Gen. Garfield during his last illness, died last week at Philadelphia. Hugh J. Jewett has formally tendered his resignation as President of the Erie Road, and John King, Jr., is said to have definitely accepted the position. Thieves entered the residence of Father Mollinger, a Roman Catholic priest, at Allegheny City, Pa. They made off with $2,000 in money and a diamond-mounted chalice valued at $1,500. Qlara Louise Kellogg, who has just returned from a foreign tour, expresses the opinion that Italian opera is doomed, and that Albani is soon to sing in English. The Frewen brothers, nephews of Earl Dufferin, have caused a statement to be sent out from Montreal that they will hereafter ship 1,000,000 Montana cattle annually to England by way of the Canadian Pacific Road, loading three steamships daily at Montreal during the open season of navigation. Locusts have almost ruined the crops of Central Spain. The damage in the Ciudad Real district is estimated at ten million dollars. Mary Clemmer Ames, well known as a newspaper correspondent at Washington, died last week in that city.

Too Smart.

A young married man of this city discovered a freshly opened box of face powder on his wife’s toilet table. “To this complexion have we come at last,” he said, and flung it out of the open window. It alighted safely on the head of a gentleman who was going to church in his Sunday best, and enveloped him from head to foot like a spring snow storm. “Come down and be murdered,” he yelled up to the man in the window, shaking his fist and describing a war dance. “Come up and I’ll fight you,” shrieked the powder magazine above. The wife appeared as a pacificator; armed with a whisk-broom she descended to the sidewalk, and her husband had the satisfaction of seeing her carefully dust off the strange man, while she made soothing apologies in invisible tones. And the husband has concluded not to interfere with his wife’s toilet relations in the future.— Detroit Free Press. Fear is always a more potent factor than love or reason in impelling men to religious supplication. The good people of Colchester, in England, alarmed by the earthquake, have taken to praying, with great earnestness and energy, to be spared from further visitations of that sort. Our cable dispatch says the religious money contributions have also been largely increased.

THE MARKET.

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A HORRIBLE STORY.

The Suffering! of the Greely Party in the Frozen North bat Half Told, The Flesh of the Dead Eagerly Devoured by the Famishing Survivors. [New York special.] Written documents now in possession of the Navy Department at Washington add to the record of miserable human suffering, already published in connection with the finding of the Greely relief expedition, the most shocking stories of inhumanity and cannibalism. All the facto ha ve been in the possession of Secretary Chandler for nearly three weeks, but so closely have they been guarded, and so strictly have the naval officers and sailors maintained the silence imposed on them, that not even an inkling of the true and horrible condition of affairs has yet reached the public ear. The sufferings and privations of the men in their hut during the long bitter winter of 1884 have not half been told. It has been published that after game gave out early in February they lived principally on seal skins, lichens and shrimps. As a matter of fact they were kept alive on human flesh. When the rescuing party discovered the survivors, the first duty was to look to the two men who were insensible from cold and privation, even to the point of death. One of them, a German, was wild and delirious. “Oh,” he shrieked, as the sailors took hold of him to lift him tenderly, “don’t let them shoot me, as they did poor Henry. Must I be killed and eaten, as Henry was? Don’t let them do it. Don’t do it.*

The sailors were horrified, but at once reported the man’s words to Commander Schley, when the horrible reality was brought out before an investigating committee. Commander Schley instructed two or three gentlemen, among whom was Dr, Ames, the surgeon of the Bear, to make a careful examination and put their conclusions in writing. This was done, and the reports in the hands of the Navy Department. Lieut. Greely was decidedly averse to having the bodies of the buried dead disturbed, but the bodies were dug from their graves. Most of the blankets contained nothing but heaps of white bones, many of them picked clean. By inquiries Commander Schley discovered many of the seventeen men, who are said to have perished from starvation, had been eaten by their famishing comrades. It was the one last resort. It is reported that the only men who escaped the knife were three or four who died of scurvy. The amputated limbs of the men who afterward perished were eagerly devoured as food. Whether the four bodies that were swept out to sea and never recovered would have added further evidence to this story of horrible cannibalism cannot be learned now, though the papers in the possession of the Navy Department give all the particulars as told by the survivors. Charles B. Henry’s death was particularly tragic. Driven to despair by his frightful hunger, Henry saw an opportunity to steal a little more than his share of rations, and he made the attempt. He was found out and shot for his crime. In the pnblished official report, the death of this man is set down as having occurred on June 6. When the body was found his hands and face, though shrunken, were intact and recognizable, but nearly everywhere else the skin had been stripped from him, and the flesh picked from the bones. Even his heart and lungs were eaten by his comrades. The body was in this condition when it was interred last Saturday. The letter his friend, Mr. Robert S. Oberfelder. of Sidney, Neb., is daily looking for, will probably never come to light.

EARTHQUAKES.

Incidents of the Recent Shake-up in the East. [New York telegram.] On Sunday during the'funeral of Lewis Ingler, Jr., the young man who committed suicide at Amityville, L. 1., an extraordinary scene occurred. As the minister was about to kneel in prayer the shock of the earthquake shook the house. A large mirror, which reached from the ceiling to the floor, was cracked. in two from the top to the bottom, and the walls of the room were cracked in two platees. The flowers were shaken from the coffin and the silver handles on the sides of the casket rattled. The minister and several of the mourners fainted. When the shock was first felt nearly every one in the parlors remained motionless. Then there was a stampede to get outside, and one lady jumped through an open window and sprained her leg so that she had to be carried to her home. The women who fainted were carried outside to the open air. The minister was unable to go on with the service, and the mourners and others remained outside while the pall-bearers re-entered the house and carried the coffin out to the hearse. A broom-handle can be laid into the cracks in the wall. The earthquake caused the brick chimneys of two houses to fall at East Norwich. The Presbyterian Sunday school at Jamaica had its walls serried by cracks, one to two inches in width, extending from its roof to its foundation. A colored campmeeting in Fleetwood was broken up by the shock, and all in attendance being on their knees at the time, jumped up shouting, and ran from the woods to their homes. Mrs. Charles Scheler, of Plainfield, N. J., was so affected by the earthquake that she died in a few hours.

CHIPS.

Fleetwood, Pa., claims a bull-frog measuring eighteen inches from nose to stem. It is said that one-quarter of the visitors to Saratoga are made ill by too much mineral water. Prof. Greener, the colored graduate of Harvard, threatens to write a novel, based on race distinctions. Florence Nightingale is 64, and is held in great reverence still wherever she goes in Europe. Smugglers have been carrying watches into Canada hidden in holes scooped in copies of the Bible. Yellow fever, which is now raging epidemio in some parts of Mexioo, has shown its eccentricity by attacking cattle. A California Indian recently took over $7,000 worth of gold from a “pocket” he found in the mountains of Shasta County. An insane inventor in Connecticut has invented a locomotive which will allow two trains to pass each other on the same track. Nervous Boston ladies, left without male protectors in the house at night, m»V« themselves secure by sprinkling the stairs with tacks. Paper money is 10 per cent, more valuable than coin in China.

PARTY CONVENTIONS.

The Michigan Republican* Nominate Candidate* and Adopt a Platform. Democratic State Conventions Held in Missouri and Georgia. Michigan Republicans. The Republican State Convention cA Michigan convened at Detroit, and chose E. S. Lacey, of Eaton County, Permanent Chairman. The following State ticket wai placed in nomination: Governor, Gen. R. A Alger; Lieutenant Governor, Archibald Butler, after C. A Lace had declined; Secretary of State, H. A Conaat; Treasurer, E. H. Butler; Auditor General, W. C. Stearns: Commissioner of Land, M. S. Newell ; Attorney General, Moses Taggart: Superintendent of Public Instruction, Herechel Glass; Member of the State Board of Education, James M. Ballou. The following platform was adopted: The Republicans'of Michigan, in State convention assembled, declare anew their devotion to the principles and organization of the National Republican Convention upon questions of national policy, and pledge their utmost efforts for the success of its principles and candidates. [Here followed the platform adopted by the National Republican Convention at Chicago.] The Republican party recognizes the need of more efficient laws to protect the rights of the laboring men of the State in obtaining Just reward for their labors, and it therefore promises that it will favoi the enactment of such lien laws and other measures as will carefully guard and promote the interest* of the laboring men. The Republican party pledges itself to resist the practice of importing into the State convict and contract laborers of other States, Territories, or countries to be employed in competition with the laboring men of this State. The Republican party always recognizes that the unrestrained manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors are productive of evils of the greatest magnitnde, and that it is the duty of the law-making power to adopt from time to time snch measures as are found most practicable and efficient for the restraint and removal of such evils; and it now reaffirms that its policy will be in the future to accomplish the same great result by enactments of such laws as experience will show to be best adapted for the purpose. We invite in this work the aid and co-operation of all who recognize the existence of such evils, whatever be their respective views upon the wisdom of particular measures, to the end that the best meth ods be found and the greatest good accomplished. The people are the sovereigns and sources of State power and authority, and when any considerable portion of them demand an amendment to the organic law of the State in regard to any general policy thereof, it becomes the duty of the legislative body to grant the people an opportunity for an expression upon such subject m a constitutional j manner. For thirty years the Republican party has administered the affairs of the State with f such wisdom, integrity, economy, and efficiency as to insure prosperity at home and honor and credit abroad. It has fostered and promoted educational and charitable institutions. It has stood for the integrity of the nation and the liberty of the individual. It has developed all the great resources and industries of the Stats. The history of its administration of the State in the past is its best pledge and promise for conduct in the future. Missouri Democrats. Ex-Gov. Charles H. Hardin presided over the Missouri Democratic Convention, at Jefferson City. The following platform was adopted by the convention without discussion : • 1. That the Democratic party of Missouri indorses the declaration of principles made by the Democratic convention recently held in Chicago, and pledges its earnest support to Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks, the nominees of that convention for President and Vice President of the United States. 2. We indorse the action of our United States Senators and members of the House of Representatives in the Forty-eighth Congress. 3. We indorse the economical administration of affairs by our present State Government in all its branches, and point with pride to the record of the Democratic party of Missouri in the administration of our State Government; that in every portion of Missouri the laws have been faithfully administered and all persons are alike protected in person and property; that the people enjoy peace, order, prosperity, and plenty, while honesty and economy have obtained in every department of the State Government since it passed into the hands of the Democratic party. 4. That the Democracy congratulates the people of the State on the reduction of our State debt about $10,000,000, or nearly one-half; in the enlargement of the public school fund, andl in the material reduction of the rate of taxation, and pledges itself to the same strict economy in future. 5. The Democratic party, which originated the public school system in Missouri, stands bledged to maintain popular education in the State. 6. That the Democracy is the especial champion of the people; reiterates its intense hostility to the monopolistic tendency of the times, and declares its purpose of battling for the masses in their struggle for supremacy. Candidates for State offices were nominated as follows: Governor, John S. Marmaduke; Lieutenant Governor, A. P. Morehouse; Secretary of State, Michael K. McGrath: Treasurer, James M. Siebert; Auditor, John Walker; Register of Lands, Robert McCullough. Georgia Democrats The Georgia Democratic Convention met at Atlanta to nominate a State ticket. The administration of Gov. H. D. McDaniel was indorsed by a renomination. The ticket was completed as follows: Secretary of State, N. C. Barnett: Comptroller, W. A Wright; Treasurer, R. A Hardman; Attorney General, Clifford Anderson.

Hanged by His Heels.

A dispatch from Cotulla, Texas, reports that “one hundred armed men surrounded the jail and invited the Sheriff to surrender Green McCullough, held on the charge of murder. After going through this littleformality the vigilantes proceeded to takethe man, and, escorting him to a neighboring tree, left him dangling, heels down, at the end of a rope. The occasion of the visiting of summary justice upon McCullough: was the murder yesterday evening of Charles Bragg, with whom McCullough had had a previous altercation, which at thetime was thought to be finally settled. McCullough, however, only went away to arm himself. Subsequently returning, hesought out his victim in a gambling-room and shot him through and through with at. rifle, killing him instantly. ”

Every Postoffice Will Signal Cold Waves.

A Washington special says: “In connection with the fanners’ bulletin published jointly by the War and Postoffice Departments, it was decided to-day to exhibit &. cold-wave flag from each postoffice in theUnited States when a cold wave is approaching. The flag will be of white, with a black: square in the center, and will be displayed from prominent places on the postofficesThe news of an approaching cold waves will bo telegraphed by the War Department to all the postoffices on telegraph lmes, and those offices will communicate the news tointerior postoffices. It is thought that the* news will be of material interest to farmers. ”* Michael McDonald, engineer in a boxmill at Milford, Mass., caught his sleeve i» the screw of a shaft, and for some time waswhirled at the rate of 400 revolutions per minute. Every stitch of clothing was tomfrom his body, but when he fell to the floor he was absolutely uninjured. Clement Bates, of Plymouth, Mass.,, has rung the church bells of the town for over fifty years, and has buried over 3,00 d dead. He is still the sexton. Senator Hale, of Maines, does not like newspapers, and rarely reads them.