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BUSINESS MEN AND BLAINE

The Big Banquet Given Last Night in New York to Mr. Blaine.

He Speaks at Length on the Great IMUO Now Before the People.

Burin# the Pay He Was Called Upon by Clergymen aid Made a Speech.

Notwithstanding the Bain 25,000 Business Men Parade the Streets in His Honor.

THE BANQUET.

Mr. Blaine Delivers tbe Longest Speech at tbe Campaign. NEW YORK, N. Y., October 29.—

When Mr. Blaine was in Chicago hst Saturday he received a letter from Wm. M. Evarts and 200 other gentlemen, in which he was invited to dine at Delmonico's some night this week. Mr. Blaine replied to tbe invitation, fixing to-day as the day. Such is the origin of the dinner given Blaine this evening. It was something of an undertaking for the committee of arrangements to prepare for that reception within the short space of time at their disposal, but they succeeded in completing every detail. The hour set for the dinner was 7 o'clock. At that time long lines of carriages had left their occupants at the doors, and 200 gentlemen were engaged in handshaking and preparing for the banquet. It was 7:20 when Mr. Blaine reached the roomB, and a few minutes later when he entered the ball room, where covers were laid. He was greeted by hand-clapping by the others of the company who had preceded him, and stood at their respective places at the table. Mr. Blaine was conducted to the post of honor, by Mr. Wm. Mr Evarts and Mr. Gyrus W. Field, as the room sounded with "three cheers for James G. BlaiDe," proposed by Mr. A. R. Whitney. The room was elaborately decorated. The tables were laden with rare plants, intermingled with delicate and artistic examples.of the confectioners art. The handsome chandeliers were tastefully trimmed with smilax and the air was filled with the perfume of roses. A monster bed of flowers, bearing the initials "J. G. B." in artistic floral lettering rested ou the table where Mr. Blaine was seated. A handsome banner bearing the national shield and representing the American eagle holding a green garl and was suspended behind the presiding officer, Mr. Wm, M. Evarts. The distinguished guest of the evening, Mr. Blaine, sat immediately on the right of the presinent Levi P. Morton United States minister to France sat on the immediate left of Mr. Evarts. The other gueifa at the principal table and in order of sitting were Judge Noah Davis, presiding justice of the supreme court of New York, Ex-Governor A. B. Carnell of New York, Governor Hoyt of Pennsylvania, Cyrus W. Field and Ohas. E. Coon, assistance secretary of the treasury, the Rev. Henry M. Field D. D., Ex-Senator

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Thos. C. Piatt, Ex-Judge

John F. Dillon, Wm. Dowd and Addison Brown. The more prominent of the others forming the company were Whitelaw Reid, Henry Clews, Cornelius N. Bliss, Jacob D. Vermilye, L. M. Bates, J. M. Bundy, Sinclair Tuusev, D. A. Hawkins, Jesse Seligman, Brayton

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Kountee, Clarence h.

Seward, David Dows, Wm. II. Roberteon, D. S. Babcock, Cyrus Field, Jr., Robert Sewell, Hoyt, Jas. H. Brown, O. Mills, John Jay Knox, Aspinwall, Horace Porter, Walls, Thos. McElrath, A. G. McCook, Parke Godwin, E. T. Window, Russell Sage and Jay &ould. Cyrus W. Field, Tfyfi from whose office tickets of admission had been sent out, read letters expressing regret from John Jay, who is out of the city in connection with business of the civil service commission John Sherman, who is Bpeaking at Springfield, and from John G. Whither* who hopes the coming election "will call our honored guest to the high place he is fitted so well to flu. Eugene Hale was also

Jesse D. Lloyd

Salem H.

away

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to campaign engagements. Various tables were supplied with dainty designs intended to illustrate the charac

of the industries of the country, and in which citizens were for the most part engaged. One table

was

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to sculpture and to arts, letters and

g£wrl3d S'ft. SSd/TS 9-40 when ex-Secretary Evarts rapped lor order with his gavel and bef-an his address. As he rose his place loud applause greeted him, closed there were more cheers. Inree cheers for James G. Blaine" were called for and given with great enthusiasm, and were repeated in

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the spokesman for the present—I venture to remind you men of New York, with your wealth and your just influence and your magnificent prestige, that 70 per cent, of the entire property of this city has been acquired since Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated, on the 4th of March, 1861. I should not mention here a fact of percentage and of statistics if it did not carry with it an argument and a meraL The common apprehension in regard to New York is that it is simply a great commercial city, so great in its exports and imports as to represent largely the major part of all that is exported from or imported into the United States. That we all know, but we are often prone to forget that New York is the largest manufacturing city is the world with perhaps a single exception. Of the six thousand millions of manufactures annually prodnced in the United States this great empire state furnishes one-fifth, $1,200,000,000—of which this great empire city produces $600,000,000 and from these facto that great sympathy, that greet identity of interest which has removed previously existing conflicts between what has been kuown as the manufacturing and commercial interests, and has taught us that there can be no prosperity in the country unless the three great interests, comprehended under agriculture, manufacture and commerce, are acting in harmony, the one with the other, and joining together for a common end and for the common good. (Cheers.) It is usually thought that a change of government means but little, that we come together with our votes on a given day, and count them as the sun goes down and one party goes out and another comes in, but, gentlemen, it is worth your while to remember that the United States is proceeding today upon a given basis of public policy, I might even say upon a given series of public policies. We have a great financial system, we have a great currency system, we have an important national credit, we have a levying of dutiee, as has been so well described by your distinguished president of the evening, so adjusted that the industries of the country are fostered and encouraged thereby. We have three constitutional amendments that grew out of the war, upon which, in this hour and in the hours and the days and the weeks and the years to follow, great issues hang in this country, or if we should be invited to step down and out and our opponents to step up and in, [laughter are we to understand that these policies are to be reversed? [Cries of'yes," "yes.'j Then if we -are te understand that they are to be reversed, we should, one and all, prepare for a grand disaster. ["Hear," "hear," and cheers. For a single illustration, let me recall to your minds that the repeal of ten lines in the National banking act would restore to vitality and to vigor the old state bank system, from which we had happily escaped, as we thought, for all the remainder of our lives, [Applause. If these policies are to be reversed, yen will have to recast yonr accounts and review your ledgers, and prepare for a new, and 1 may say, a dangerous departure and if these policies are not to be reversed, they will oertainly be better maintained by the great party which originated them and has thus far sustained th?m with vigor mid success. [Applause.] As I have already said, we speak of New York as the great exporting and importing city, and from that perhaps we often give an exaggerated importance, relatively speaking, to our foreign trade, because this magnificent metropolis never would have attained its grandeur and wealth upon the foreign trade alone. We should never forget, important as that trade is, representee enormous sum of fifteen

hundred million of dollars annually that it sinks into insignificance and is dwarfed out-of sight when we think of those vast domestic exchanges of which New York is the admitted centre, and which annually exoeed thirt) -fire hundred millions of dollars. [Applause.] Our foreign trade naturally brings to our consideration the foreign relations of this country so well described by my distinguished friend as always simple and sincere. It is the safeguard of republics that they are not adapted to war. (Cheers.) I mean aggressive war. (Cheers.) And it is the safeguard of this republic that in a defensive war we can defy the world. [Loud cheers.] This nation to-day is in profound peace with the world. [Cheers.] But in my judgment it has before it a great duty which will not only make that profound peace permanent, but shall set Buch an example as will absolutely abolish war on this continent and by a groat example and a lofty moral precedent, shall ultimately abolish it on other continents. [Great and long continued cheering.] I am justified in saying that everyone of the seventeen independent powers of North and South America is not only willing, but is ready, it is not only ready, but eager, to enter into a solemn compact, in a congress that may be called in the name of peace, to agree that if unhappy differences shall arise, as differences will arise between men and nations, they shall be settled upon the peaceful and Christian basis of arbitration. [Great cheers.] And, as I have often said before, I am glad to repeat in this great center of civilization and power, that in my judgment, no national spectacle, no international spectacle, no continental spectacle could be more grand than that the republics of the western world should meet together and solemnly agree that neither the soil of North nor that of South America shall be stained by brothers' blood. (Prolonged cheers.) The Republican party, gentleman, cannot be said to be on trial. (Cheers.) To be on trial implies something to be tried for. ("Bight," "That's so," and cheers.) The Republican party in its twenty-three years of rulership has advanced the interests of this oountry far beyond that of any of its predecessors in power. It has elevated the standard of Amerioa it has increased its wealth in a ratio never before realized, and, I may add, never before dreamed of. [Cheers.] Statistics I know, are dry, and I have dwelt so much upon them in the last six weeks that they might be supposed to be especially dry to me, and yet I never oan forget the eloquence of the figures which tell us that the wealth of this great empire state, when the Republican party took the reins of government, was estimated at $1,800,000,000, and that twenty years afterwards under the influence of an industrial and financial system for which that party is proudly responsible—(Great applause.) Under the influence of that industrial and financial system the same tests which rare you $1,800,000,000 of property in 1860, jare you $6,300,000,000 in 1880. [Loud nnd ong continued cheering.) There has never beeu in all the history of financial progress there has never been in all the history of the world any paralell to this, and 1 am suro, gentlemen, that the Republican party is not arrogant nor over confident when it olaims to itself the credit of organizing and maintaining the industrial system which gave to you and yonr associates in enterprise the equal and just laws which enabled you to make this marvellous progress. [Cheers.] As

a voice from the lower end of the hall shouting, "three more. When Mr. Blaine arose he was greeted with a •whirlwind of applause. He said:

It iu a ureat reTersal of positions Mr. Preei (JdrSsing Mr. Evarts) that makes me hear you ascribe leadership to roe, forit has been my duty and my

these Ion* years to follow

you,

I applause and

iwT tolearn from you wisdom public Strand to Join with my countrymen in ascribing to you Hot merely the great merit of Sderehip in the noblest of professions, but to yield our admiration for the Binplar which has giTei to you the opportunity to lead in the three moet important oases ever by a member of the American bar. fvopUnsell First in resisting your own party in what you regard the

cruel war.

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tha madness of impeaching a president. jCnee of "(rood," "good" and cheerJ.] Second in maintaining before the greatest interzonal tribunal that has assembled in "j^^mee the rights of your country, and obtaining reS^for wrongs to her that grew out of the drew for And third perhaps

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between parties in the

United States. [Applause and ehwrs.] I turn now from you, Mr. President, to thank you merchants and professional men, leaders the great and complex society of New York fat receiving me, not merely at this (total board, but also in that far more lmpresSwTreceirtion which the close of this rainy day broad and_^tiW avenue.

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day next by the American p«» And I venture, nut that £w so well as you but that I am

I have said, that party is not on trial. If it has made mistakes they have been merged and forgotten in the greater success which has corrected them. (Cheers.) If it has had internal differences they are aside. (Cheers.) If it has had factional strife I answer that has ceased. (Cheers.) And 1 am equally sure that, looking to the history of the past and looking to that great future which we are justified in prophesying this imperial state cannot afford to reverse, therefore will not reverse, these great policies upon which it has grown and advanced from glory to glory. [Enthusiaseic cheering.] 1 thank you, gentlemen, I thank that large number with whom I have already had the pleasure of exchanging greetings to-day, I thank the ministers, the merchants, the lawyers, the professional men, the mechanics, the laboring men of New York [applause] for a cordial reception, an over-generous welcome, which in all the mutations of my future life will be to me among the proudest and most precious of my memories.

Mr. Blaine here took his seat amid loud applause and enthusiastic cheering for "the next president of the United States." Mr. Evarts here read letters received by Mr. Field from the gentlemen named above and said ''and now gentlemen it has been arranged by those who have cousulted comfort that the speait-

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I hold LD^commorUouolm'K the*, GREAT SsJtowMSSliet as we believe the pros-

at the tables shall cease and that we leave these seats and meet in the ample parlors that surround us, so that you may personally greet, and talk with your guest.' Without further speeches or

delay

the company

left the room and proceeded to the parlors, where for an hour Mr. Blaine was surrounded by his friends engaged in friendly conversation.

The Democratic Campaign in Indiana. New Albany Special to the Enquirer.

The Democracy in Indiana are thoroughly aroused, and have the bulge on the Republicans. The former have

the sinews of war, while the Republicans have no soap. Ten thousand dollars was raised in Louisville last Saturday to be spent in this district, and the Republicans are becoming alarired. They do not feel that the State is safe for the Republicans, and are getting disheartened. A boodle is a prominent factor in elections in this State, and the Republicans are not feeling well, as the prospect of loot from the east is very slim. MR. BLAINE AND THE CLERGY

Rev. Dr. Burchard named as a committee to address Mr. Blaine, when he should be brought before them, the following gentlemen: Rev. Dr. James King, of the M. E. church Rev. Dr. Spear, of the Presbyterian church Rev. Dr. McArthur, of the Baptist church Rabbi Browne, of Temple of Gates of Hope Rev. Dr. J. E. Roberts, of the Brooklyn Congregationalist and Richard Lawrence, of the Friends meeting house. They repaired to the corridor of the Fifth Avenue where Mr. and Mrs. Blaine, their daughter and son Walker Blaine with others were in waiting. Dr. Burchard addressed Mr. Blaine as follows: "We are very happy to welcome you to this circle. You see here" a representative of all the denominations of this city. You see the large number that are represented. We are your friends, Mr. Blaine, notwithstanding all the calummiee that have been urged in the papers against you. We stand by your side. [Shouts of "amen."] We expect to vote for yon next Tuesday. We have a higher expectation, which is that you will bo the president of the United States, and that you do honor to our name, to the United States and to the high office you will occupy. We are Republicans and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves wiih the party whose antecendents have been rum, Romanism and rebellion. We are loyal to our flag, we are loyal to you."

As Dr. Burchard spoke his voice at times trembled, and his whole manner showed the earnestness of all he said. His speech visibly effected Mr. Biaine, and moisture glistened in his eyes. A number of other ministers then spoke, when Mr. Blaine responded as follows:

MB. CHAIKMAN AND RBVBUBND GENTLEMEN: This iB altogether a very remarkable assemblage, remarkable beyond any of which I have known in the history of political contests in the United States, and it does not need any personal assurance that you should know I am very deeply impressed by it. I do not feel that I am speaking to these hundreds of men merely. I am speaking to the great congregations and the great religious opinion which are behind them, and as they represent the christian bodies I know, and 1 realize the full weight of that whioh you say to me and of the influence which you tender me. Were it to me personally, I confess that I should be overcome by the compliment and weight of confidence which it carries, but I know that it is extended to me as the representative of the party whose creed and whose practice are in harmony with the churches. The Republican party from its very outset stood upon the impregnable platform of opposion to the extension of huslavery, and it stood on that platform

till it was drifted by the hostility it provoked into the larger assertion of national sovereignty, and thence into a bloody conflict to maintain it. From that onward I defy any man to to point to a single measure of the Republican party which oould not challenge the approval of Christian ministers and the approval of God. They can no more seperate a party from its history than you can seperate a man from his character, and when the great makeup of public opinion is ready it takes into account the origin, the progress, the measures, the character of the party, and the character of the public men. What I mean by saying that the tariff was the conclusive issue was that it steps to the front, not to the exclusion of a thousand other important issues, but for this critical occasion, and nt the close of this campaign, it stands forth as the issue which represents bread to the hungry, and clothing to the naked, and prosperity to on entire people, and the tariff is, therefore, mostly aB a material issue distinct and separate from the great moral issue. The cause, as I have- said before to western audiences, I say here. Yon cannot impress a man, if he is hungry, with any other thought than that he shall be fed, you cannot impress a man if he is naked, with any other thought than that he shall be clothed and therefore, that public policy and that statesmanship is highest and best that attends to the primal needs of human nature first, and says, here is bread for the hungry, here is clothing for the naked, and the tariff whioh protects the American laborer in his wages, the American capitalist in his investment, the inventive talent of the country in its enterprise is the issue which lies at the very foundation of the prosperity of the American people and the very foundation of the success of the Christian religion. When you send out your missions to destitute places you clothe the little naked children and give them food at the first step. Therefore I repeat that the great conflict of 1884 closes with the people of the United States standing face to face in two parties saying whether they will adhere to that policy of protection which has trebled the wealth of the United States in twenty years or whether they will abandon it and return once more to the theory of free trade. ['"Never." "Never."] It involves other issues too. No nation can grow so powerful as the United States has grown and is growing without continually enlarging its relations with other nations. As the relations become enlarged they become complicated, and therefore the foreign policy of the United States goes right along with its domestic policy. Now, gentlemen of the church, I address an earnest word to you. The policy of the United States in the past and in the future must be of broad, liberal Christian principles, and in that policy it must be one, in my judgment, whioh draws nearer within the circle of the sympathies of the United

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The Address Presented to Him and His Response. NEW YORK, N. Y., October 29—At 10

o'clock this morning the gentleman's parloi of the Fifth Avenue hotel was filled with clergymen of various denominations, who had gathered to meet James G. Blaine. Five minutes later the Rev. James King called the assembly te order and the Rev. Dr. Burchard was chosen chairman and the Rev. Dr. McArthnr secretary. A series of resolutions warmly feommending the Republican candidates and denouncing the nomination of Cleveland and Hendricks as an ingult to Christian civilization and a premium on disloyalty, were presented by Dr. King and adopted.

States those other struggling republics of North and South America which brings them first into trade relations and then into closer personal and moral relations, and I believe that we shall not only have that great gain that comes from intercourse, but we shall enlarge with the civilization of the Anglo-Saxon until. its limits shall include the utmost southern point of the lower continent. I did not intend, in accepting and acknowledging the great sense of obligation I feel for this honor, to go into a prolonged political speech. I hare but indicated two leading points which I think are involved in the pending election. It only remains for me to say to you that I recognize at its full worth, and its full worth is very great, the meaningof this assemblage. We have no union of church and state, but we have proved that the church is stronger without the state, and that no state /.an be strong without the church. Let us go forward as we have gone, the state growing and strengthening by the example of the church, and the church growing and strengthening by liberal co-operation with all the great reforms which it is the immediate province of the government to forward and improve. Gentlemen,

I thnnb you again, and bid you a very cordial good-morning.

Mr. Blaine was then greeted with thre6 ringing cheers, and the Rev. Dr. McArthur called for and led in three equally hearty cheers for Mrs. Blaine, Mr. Blaine then descended to the foot of the staire, and for some time remained shaking hands with the clergymen who had visited him.

BUSINESS MEN'S PARADE.

In the Darkness, Bain and Bind 28,000 Men March by Mr. Blaine. NEW YOBK, N. Y., October 29.—

Notwithstanding the rain the parade of the business men here in honor of James G. Blaine is pronounced by the promoters all they desired. Twentyfive thousand is about the number of men in line and the procession occupied two hours and forty minutes passing tbe reviewing stand. The line begun to from at Bowling Green about 3 o'clock and at 3:30 the procession began its march up Broadway. At the Worth monument a stand had been erected, and despite the rain it became filled. Mr. Blaiqe arrived on the stand at 3:30. Soon after Col. C. B. Mitchell, grand marshal, and his aides, rode past and saluted. Then followed the Twentythird Regiment band, with the Produce and Maritime exchanges, 1,600 strong. Next came the Bankers' and Brokers' club, with many hundreds of men and the Sixty-ninth Regiment band, followed by two ranks of colored men, with the Seventyfirst Regiment band. The Petroleum Exchange club came next with the Fourteenth regiment b&nd, and then the Mining and Cotton exchange fol lowed, the cotton men carrying canes with tnfts of- cotton on the ends. A great white banner and a band heralded the members of the bar, who wore silk hats and large white badges. The students of the University, Medical College, and Blaine and Logan students of Columbia College passed, followed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Then came a thousand merchants of lower Wall street and the Insurance Blaine and Logan men, having umbrellas of white cloth with "Protection" printed on them. The next to pass were the jewelers with the Seventh regiment band and the Rocky mountain club followed by the boot and shoe men. The millinery trade was represented by a truck bearing a large cannon labeled "Protection to American industries." Then came two ranks of men with lamps in their hats, blackened faces with shovels and pick axes. This was the Engineers' club. The hardware trade, the west side merchants and the paper trade followed, and then the carpet men came next, having a banner with the words "The man good enough for Garfield, good enough for us." The dry goods men, between 4,000 and 5,000 strong, followed. A truck load of dry goods boxes decorated with pictures of Blaine, and following them the porters and drivers of the dry goods trade bearing a board mounted on a staff with a crow, and top the

words

"Democratic

food." In the darkness, rain and mud the marching continued until 6:20 p.m. Broadway was lined with people from Bowling Green to and beyond the Worth monument, the reviewing ground, while here and at other special points on the line of march the people were massed in great force and-cheered those in the procesmost heartily. Mr. Blaine was

most enthusiastically cheered on the way to and from the reviewing stand, and while there it seemed one continuous roar.

CAUSED BY JOHN KELLIY.

Prediction Based on the Tammany Deal Gives New York to Blaine. Special to the Chicago Daily News.

NEW YORK, N. Y., October 28.— The Mail and Express prints an elaborate review of New York state politics to-night, showing that Blaine will carry the state by a plurality of from 30,000 to 40,000. The full vote of the state will be 1,300,000, according to the ratio of increase prevalent for twenty years past. Butler's vote is placed at 45,000, which the Republicans say will be drawn exclusively from Democratic Bource8j12,000 votes being accorded him in this city. The Mail and Express is certain that the prohibition vote will not held together until election day. The paper goes on to say that Tammany hall is in desperate straits, and mustelectGrant mayor, which means that trading and swapping of every sort will be resorted_ to, Cleveland receiving the knifing without exception. The Mail and Express is presumed to speak by the card o£ the John Kelly deal with the Republicans.

The Popular Science Monthly for November, 1884. A topic of great and ever-increasing interest, "The Relations between Mind and the Nervous System," occupies the leading place in the November "Popular Science Monthly." In this article Dr. W. A. Hammond defines mind as a force developed by gray nerve-tissue, and maintains that this force is generated wherever in the living organism gray nerve-tissue is found, citing many striking cases in support of this view. He denies that either the absolute or the proportionate weight of the brain indicates a definite rank of intelligence. This number contains also Herbert Spencer's replies to rerecent statements made by Fxederic Harrison as to the "Origin of the Synthetic Philosophy." Two thoughtful addresses delivered at the recent meeting of tbe American association are given in full—"Pending Problems of

Astronomy," by Professor C. A. Young, and "What is Electricity?" by Professor John Trowbridge. Mr. F. A. Fernald

Bhows

that "German Testi

mony on the Classics Question" is not all on one side, and outlines the course of study demanded by the modernists. "The Future of the Negro in the South" is treated in a witty but convincing manner by J. B. Craighead, who evidently knowB the Southern negro well. "Drowning the Torrent in Vegetation" is an account by S. W. Powell of the havoc wrought by deforesting steep slopes, and of the successful employment of the natural remedy. There is a brief account of Karl Ochsenins of "Chilian Volcanoes, Active and Extinct," and W. Mattieu Williams con tinnes his review of Count Rumford's cookery in the "Chemistry of Cookery" series. "Domestic Arts in Damaraland," by the Rev. C. G. Buttner, The "Oil Supply of the World," and a "Sketch of Professor James Hall," complete the body of the magazine.

The editor comments on the Philadelphia meeting of the American Association, the Spencer-Harrison controversary, and the contrast between words and things in education, the reality of which has recently been denied by President Porter. The number is a promising opening for volume XXVI.

Taken ro the Hospital. Yesterday afternoon Dr. Link brought Jesse Peterson from Coal Bluff, to the city and placed him in St Anthony's hospital. Peterson was shot in the leg in a row in that town several months ago.

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l'ERRE HAUTE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1884.

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FIRE'S FEARFUL WORK,

A. Steamer Burned at Sea With Tjro Hundred Persons on Board.

Hep* Held Oat That All Lives Were Saved by Passing 1 Vessels.

The rafateoi in Chleago Causes the Los| of Lives of Heroic Firemen.

New Orleans in Danger of IunndaIion—The Knowledge Some Boys Gained Abont

Powder.

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BURNED AT SEA.

The Steamer Maasdam With 800 Per sons 9ft Board Dettrojed—All fu* Lost. ...

NEW YOBK, N. Y., Oetober 29.—Mr. Lewis W. Morris, general passenger agent of the Royal Netherlands Steam ship company (Rotterdam line)

Btates

that he has been notified from Rotterdam of-Aie reported loss of the steamer Maasdaih. He had no list of tbe passengers she carried, but it was safe to say that there were very few, probably not a dozen, on board,

the

steamers are less patronized for passengers thab for freight business. NEW YORK, N. Y., October 29.— No information further than that received last night has been received about the burned steamer Maasdam, of the Netherlands Steam Navigation company. There were on board a crew of ftity men and 150 passengers. The ssengvr list is expected to be received here Saturday. The Maasdam was built in 1872, atRenfour, Scotland, she was a three-decked, barkrigged screw Bteamer of 1,735 tons measurement.

NEW YOBK, N. Y., October 29.— The general agent of the Netherlands Steam Navigation company, to which the Maasdam belonged, to-day received the following: "ROTTBBDAM, October 29.

The Oder passed the Maasdam. Captain Sanders supposes that all lives were savsd by outward bound vessels."

CHICAGO FIRES.

THREE PERSONS L&ilied ID A $100,000 Blaze—A Fireman's Heroism Costs Him His LU«,

CHICAGO,

111., October 29.—The large

brick building situated at the southeast corner of l^aSalle and Michigan streets, the lower floors of which were occupied by hide dealers, and the upper portion by Fisher's cigar box factory, caught fire about noon, and is at this hour completely gutted. One man WQB killed by jumping, and two others smothered on the stairs. The faetor^Slrls on the upper floors escaped' with the greatest difficulty, but it is believed all are safe. The loss will reach $100,000.

The building was owned by. Mr. Culver, of Culver Page & Hoyne, and was a five-story structure occupied by Schnabel & Co., barbed wire manufacturers the Campbell Printing Press Co. Danheizer Bros, chewing gum manufacturers and W. E. Fisher's cigar box factory.

James Carr, foreman of Fisher's shop, fell to the ground and was instantly killed. He had gone back to the top floor to see if any were left, and remained too late. He attempted to descend by a rope which either broke or was burned in two.

New Orleans Fears Inundation. NEW ORLEANS, La., October 29.—

The prevailing eastern winds have backed up the waters of LakePontchartrain in the' rear of the city,

But It Did.

WILMINGTON, 111., October 29.—An explosion of a keg of powder near the Wilmington tile works, yesterday, fatally injured three boys named Carroll Keeney. George Strathdee, and Doughtery, and a man named George Chambers. The boys were playing with the powder, some one haying asserted that flame would not ignite it.

A Cause of Defective Eyesight, The colors of paper and ink, says a writer in the Scientific Monthly, are far more responsible for defective eyesight than cross-lights from oppo site windows, light shining directly in the face, insufficient light or small type. If these were remedied the principal cause of the mischief would still remain, the real root of the evil being the universally used black ink and white paper. These, says the writer in question, are ruining the sight of all the reading nations. He argues that the rays of the sun are reflected by a white body and absorbed by a black one, and that we print our newspapers and books in direct opposition to the plainest correct principles of optical science.

Close Vote on Evolution.

CHARLESTON, S. C., October 29.—The Presbyterian synod of South Carolina, at Greensville, has been engaged for several days in a discussion of the Darwinian theory of evolution. The issue arose from the fact that Dr. Woodrow, one of the professors in the Columbia Theological seminary, with the avowed purpose of fortifying young ministers in scientific knowledge, had set forth the theory of evolution in a lecture.

A settlement of the question was reached last evening by the adoption of the following resolution:

Besolved, That in the judgment of this synod the teaching of evolution in the theological seminary at Colombia, except in purely expository manner with no intention of inculcating its truth, is hereby disapproved.

The vote by which the resolution waB carried was yeas, 50 nayB, 48.

Four Girts at a Time.

WATKRFORD, N. Y., October 28.— The wife of George McCreary, of the Hudson river knitting mills, presented him with four children at a birth on Sunday. They are all girls and weigh seven pounds apiece.

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MURDER IN KNOX COUNTY.

A Coal Miner Killed by Another Miner at a Political Fleeting. Special Dispatch to the Express.

VINCENNKS, Ind., Oct. 29.—A deliberate murder was committed at Edwardsport, this county, to-night just after dark, at a Democratic meeting. The particulars, as your correspondent learned then from the officers, are as follows Several men were quarreling on the streets, when a coal miner named Thomas Atkinson rushed up to the crowd and fired his revolver, hitting Frank Murphy, an other coal miner, in the forehead and killing him instant,ly. The affair created intense excitement. Atkinson was arrested and hurried off to the depot, and brought to Vincennes on the 10 o'clock train. Your correspondent could not learn whether the shooting grew out of a political qnarrel or not, but the supposition is that it did not, and that the murderer was intoxicated and ugly and shot promiscuously in the crowd in a spirit of deviltry.

American liabor tbe Best in Mie World. London Times.

A comparison has been instituted between the woik of a European employe and one in the United States. It appears that employes of the cotton mills in England work up 2,914 pounds per annum, and those in Germany from 1,200 pounds to 1,500 pounds, while the operatives of the United States work up no less than 4,350 pounds. The amount of wool worked up in England by each operative averages 1,375 pounds in the United States 1,640 pounds and in Germany 1,000 pounds. In flax the average is 2,080 rounds for England, and 715 pounds or Germany in silk, 71 pounds for England, 87 in the United States, and 59 pounds in Germany.

It will thus be seen that the operative in the United States works up 100 pounds of cotton to 67 pounds worked up by the English operative, and 27$ pounds in Germany 100 pounds of wool against 77 pounds by the English operative and 60 poundB by the German 100 pounds of silk against 81| pounds by the English and 60 pounds by the German operative. It is conpequently claimed that, as the American artisan furnishes more work in a given time than the foreigner, he is entitled to the* highest wages he receives.

The Business Situation.

Oath.

This country just now is remarkable in respect to its accumulation. All the banks seem to have more money than they can lend on such securities as are brought to them. It is not only in the treasury at Washington that money lies in excess, but among all the

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of New York. That is one reason why the brokers are for Cleveland they cannot go, as they used to do, -ud borrow money from the bauks ou superfluous stocks, which have proved by experience to

flimsy security. I

have never seen a more remarkable transformation of business habits than in New York city during the past six months. The banks were hand and love with the speculators they now Save nothing to do with speculation. A huge excess of our former activity was in these wildcat operations since they cannot now borrow money there Beems to be a shrinkage, but it is the shrinkage of common sense and of reformation.

Snail Farming.

that the lake is overflowing its banks and the marshes surrounding it. The canals are high, and the shell .roads to the West End and Spanish Fort are under water. Fears are entertained of a northwestern wind, as the levees on the back canals are weak, and a strong wind would be apt to bring about an inundation of the rear of the city, such as occurred several years ago, and which would cause great loss and suffering.

Tbe example of the great snail industry in Burgundy, which is acquiring greater development year by year owing to the quality of the flesh of the vine-leaf fed mollusk, has stimulated the Swiss to efforts in the same direction. A number of gardens between Davos and Landquara, in the Canton of Grisons, have lately been transformed by their owners into snail farms. During the summer time the children are employed to gather the snails from field and hedge and bring them to the farms, where they are placed in busheB and fed upon refuse vegetable leaves.

Rumors That KhartounBas Fallen. CAIRO, October 29.—The greatest

anxiety exists here, at Wada Helfa, and at Dongola over persistent rumors from native sources that Khartoum has at last succumbed to the repeated attackB of the rebels. Early in the morning they made a sudden onslaught onjKhartoum, and notwithstanding that Gordon's followers fought desperately, the town was soon at the mercy of the enemy, who swarmed into the place from the surrounding country. Another report says Gondon was surprised through treachery.

Sbakspeare'a Daughter. Boston Journal. Mr.Black's novel having aroused some interest in Judith Shakspeare, it is well to know the very little that is known about the real daughter of Shakspeare. She and her twin brother Hamnet were born in 1584, and a few months before her father's death in 1616 she married Thomas Quiney and had three children. She died in 1661. The mention of her in her father's will seems to indicate a good deal of affection on his part, and we know that she could not write her name, but signed with a cross. These are the only reliable facts about Judith Shakspeare.

A Historic Grave.

Boston Jonrnal.

Fredericksburg, Va., lays claim to the distinction of being the burial place of Edward Heldon, a con temporary and one of the pall bearers of the immortal Shakspeare1 A red sandstone slab marked the grave in St. George's churchyard until it was misplaced Burnside, who cut a road through the burial ground and removed the stone to the Masonic cemetery? where it now lies under a locuet tree. It was in FrederickBburg that the mother of Washington lived after she became a widow and reared her family

An Illinois Hardware Firm Falls. BLOOMINGTOX,

111., October 29.—

Heavy judgments were taken by con fession last evening against the hardware house of Harwood Bros., & Co.. and the sheriff took possession. The liabilities are about $100,000 assets, $50,000 to §60,000. The members of the firm are D. B. Harwood, Daniel Harwood, and Horace S. McCurdy.

Ball.

The ball given by the Knights of Erin at Oriental hall last evening waB 7ery pleasant affair.

Mr. Blaine is six years older than Governor Cleveland,

CAPTURED CONVENTION.

The Lamb Workers Paek the Greenback Convention Yesterday.

They Prevent the Nomination of a Candidate for Congress Being Made.

Tbe State Committeeman Resigns and There Is To Be Hard Work Against Lamb.

Ijooal Politics—The Meeting Last Night—Movements and Sayings of Politicians.

A call was issued a short time ago by Mr. J. H. Allen, of this city, for the holding of amass convention at Crawfordsville for the purpose of putting a candidate for congress in the field on the Greenback ticket. There has been much comment in political circles in regard to the outcome and effect of this convention. The Democrats have been charged with an intention of capturing the convention for their candidate, Mr. John E. Lamb. The Democrats on the other hand have accused the step as one in the interest of the Republican party. There has been much wild speculation in regard to it. It will be remembered that about a month ago Mr. Trinkle,. a prominent Greenbacker of Veedersburg, issued a call for a convention for a similar purpose. When the day arrived for the convention it was decided that it should not be held as the call had not been issued by the proper person. It has been vigorously asserted that Mr. Lamb's friends were instrumental in bringing about this result. A call was then issued by Mr. J. H. Allen, member of the state committee, for a convention at Crawfordsville yesterday. From the first it was evident that there was trouble brewing.

Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock the delegates from the different counties assembled in the Craw fordsville court liouse. There were fifty-five delegates present. The meeting waa called to order by Mr. Allen who stated its object. Mr. T. C. Marshall, of Parke county, woo chosen chairman, and H. Hiatt, of Montgomery county, secretary. A motion was made tharti congressional committee consisting of one member from each county be appointed to make a permanent organization which should call a convention two years hence to nominate a candidate. Jhe following were appointed Vigo, Geo. H. Purdy: Clay, W. P. Stunkard Montgomery, W. B: Gill Parke, T. C. Marshall Vermillion, W. P. Andrews Fountain, F. M. Helms Warren, A. Bowles. A committee on ressolutions was appointed as follows: FiBher Dougherty, Montgomery James J. Morrison, Clay M. C. Rankin, Vigo

L. Boyd, Parke, Dr. E. T. Spottswood, Vermillion Cale W. Waterman, Fountain. AH adjournment was taken until 1 o'clock p. m., when the committees were to report.

In the afternoon after some preliminary skirmishing the report of the committee on resolutions was ordered read. After an extended preamble the following were the resolves:

Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that it is not expedient at this late hour to nominate a candidate for congress, that such a nomination, if madej would have a tendency to injure our cause in the future as no time now exists for making a canvass, which would be unjust to the nominee and our cause by not showing the real strength of the party.

That we do not recognize either of the old parties as representing the views of the National party, and we therefore do not endorse either, but urge all who hold our views to preserve and strengthen our organization, by casting their votes for our national and state tickets and for county tickets wherever such have been placed in nomination, and thus make our aggregate vote imposing.

Mr. Allen arose and said that the call required the nomination of a candidate for congress. He said he would tender his resignation as a member of the state committee if a nomination was not made. He made reference to the talk that there had been about the Democrats and Republicans attempting to control the convention. The joliticians did not want a candidate jut the people did. Mr. Allen was replied to by several other gentlemen. The debate became very bitter, both sides refusing to yield. Finally as a compromise Mr. Allen offered a resolution that each delegate pledge himself to vote for neither Mr. Lamb or Mr. Johnston. This was speedily laid on the table. A report of the committee was then taken up and carried by about a two-thirds vote. "I tender my resignation as a member of the state central committee," said Mr. Allen. Another war of words followed. The chairman of the meeting was instructed to notify the central committee of the resignation. With a bad feeling prevailing, the meeting adjourned.

Said one of the delegates who desired a nomination to be made: "Instead of its being a Greenback it is a Lamb convention. The first mistake was made in selecting a chairman, who, I am reliably informed, is pledged to support Lamb. Lamb did not desire a nomination to be made, as it would better his election, and he found willing tools to carry out his plane. Of course Lauib will gain a few votes, but he will also lose others. I, for one, would have supported him in prefeience to Johnston, but the tactics resorted to to-day have driven me and all who stood with me over to the Republican ranks. I expect to vote aeainst Lamb, and will work as bara as 1 can to defeat him. I do not think the convention to-day has improved hiB chance of election one vote."

lOCAIi POLITICS.

The Democrats.

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hoarse. The Senator has a very had cold, and looks half worn oat. He will speak at the Democratic wigwam Monday night.

Voorhees and Lamb.

Senator Veorhees and Congressman Lamb spoke at Veedersburg yesterday. They had an audience of about 5,0ft).

The Boa. R. B. F. Pelrce.

The Hon. R. B. F. Peirce filled Mr. Johnston's appointment at Covington yesterday. Jf Mr. Johnston continues ill Mr. Peirce will fill the remainder of his appointments.

Notes.

The Republicans held a meeting at Sherburne's last evening, several of the county candidates being present.

There will be a meeting of Veterans at headquarters to-night to learn how many will go to Indianapolis to-mor-row.

The rates for organisations to the Logan meeting to-morrow at Indianapolis will be $1.50 on either road. The rates to ail other persons will be $2.2$ or one fare for the round trip.

The ralliers and challengers will meet in their respective wards to-night. In the First ward at Republican headquarters, Beach block in the Second ward at Henry & Early's office, in the Third ward at Jack Rupp's shop, in the Fourth ward at Burnett's shop, in the Fifth ward at Rockwell's stable and the Sixth ward at the nail works.

Companies A and B, Blaine and Logan escorts, will meet at headquarters to-night at 7 o'clock, shsrp, to make arrangements for the Logan reception at IndianapoliB to-morrow. A full attendance is desired.

By order of J. W. EBEL, CRABLBS FKLTUS.

Blaine and Logan Cadets: Yon are hereby notified to attend drill this evening. Business of importance will also be considered. As this is the lsst drill of the campaign every member is urgently requested to be present. By order of

IRA CALDSR,

Captain.

WAI.TER WILEY, Sargeant.

Campaign Subscriptions.

The following is a list of campaign subscriptions to the Democratic county committee: James Cox $ 700 John Cleary 600 William llack S00 Carlton Belt 76 Asa Black 76

Shaley 60 J.M.Phillips 60 Judge Allen 100 Andy Grimes 100 JohnE. Lamb 300 B. W. Voorhees 250 Philip Schloss 100 Eugene Debs 25 Reuben Bute 25

Brown 10

C. F. McNutt 100 J. P. Shelton 60 H. Hulman 600 Unknown 680

Total SS.760

The last subscription of $550 is understood to have been made by a party who had a contract in building the distillery, and was given to settle a point at issue in the contract.

THE GREATEST GUSHER.

Armstrong Well No. 3, in Bntter County, Pa., Does 3,000 Barrels In Twenty-fonr Hours.

BRADFORD, Penn., October 29.—The Armstrong well, in Butler county, was reported early this evening ss flowing at the rate of 3,000 barrels per day. It was gauged at 5 o'clock, and actually produced 336 barrels in sixty minutes. To-night it produced 374 barrels in aa hour, and some oil was lost. Tbe oil flowed twenty feet above the top of the derrick. It is believed that the first day's production of the well will exceed 8,000 barrels, far outstripping the famous Christie and Phillips wells, which produced respectively 6,000 and 5 000 barrels per day. The new strike created the greatest consternation in oil circles to-night. Friday the best scouts in the field reported it a dry hole, and the trade believed it to be such. It waB thirty five feet in tbe sand, which is believed to be only forty feet thick. The trade is very much depressed over the outlook.

Rum for the Nile Flotilla. It is stated that the "chief stimulant for ordinary use among the men engaged in the Nile flotilla will be rum, which is being sent out in large quantities from the royal victualing yard at Deptford, where by a special process the heavy portion of the alcohol is got rid of, and that of lighter specific gravity is retained, thereby rendering the rum light and exhilerating instead of stupefying and intoxicating. The scientific treatment to which the rum subjected removes, with the heavy spirit, all its irritating properties, ana renders tie troops who drink it cheerful, without being excited and quarrelsome."

MeCulloch and Ore sham.

WASHINGTON, D. C., October 29.— The commission of the Hon. Hogh McCullocb, ss secretary of the treasury, was signed by President Arthur yesterday afternoon and mailed to Raritan, N. J., to be conntersigned by the secretary of state. Consequently, it can hardly be received by McCulloch before t'his evening or to-morrow morning, and as he can not qualify before he receives his commission he will not enter upon the discharge of his duties as secretary before to-morrow. He paid a short visit to the treasury department this morning and conferred with Secretary Greaham. General Gresham will remain in Washington a few days to close up his private affairs and will take his seat upon the bench in Chicago about the middle of next week.

A Heary Defalcation.

AUGUSTA, Ga., October 29.—For several days past, there have been minors alloat of a heavy defalcation on the part of George T. Jackson, president of tiie Enterprise cotton factory, and a committee was appointed to investigate the books. Jackson confesses to a oefslcation, but can not give the amount. lie claims all responsibility for the deficit. The defalcation is over $i!),0n0, and may reach $100,000.

The Hon. M. A. Forau, member of congress from the Cleveland, Ohio district, spoke at the Democratic wig warn, last evening to a fair sized audience. Mr. Foran confined him self to what he called the labor record of the Republican party. He was fol lowed by Mr. Z. M. Heisley, of Cincinnati, a little nervous fellow who has habit of looking out of the corners of his eyes, and raising himself upon his toes and coming down on his heels. Both speakers made a plea for -Demecracy and purity." Senator Voorhees and Congressman Lamb were present. Sanator Voorhees was called for, but hver an address at the opening of a excused hims?lf, as he was very I skating tiok in Jamestown, D. T.

An Absconding Banker. I

DETROIT, October 29.—Fred D. Duvernees, an insurance agent and private banker of this city disappeared about two weeks ago. It is now alleged that he owes depositors from $2i),000 to $40,000 also, is indebted to nine insurance companies aggregating $4,000. The creditors of his "bank" are mostly poor people, whose claims, range from $60 to $2,000.

Governor Pierce is advertised to dethe