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was on duty, and exerted themselves to keep tbe public thoroughfares clear, but the work was almost superhuman. Inside the hotel the main lobby presented the spectacle of a solid mass of people, whose predominant headgear was the high white hat. Among the great crowd was a liberal sprinkling of stylishly attired ladies, who, with their escorts, fought as sturdily as any one In making their way up and down the wide stairways to reach the haadquarters rooms, in the hope, apparently of .itching a glimpse of some of the great lights of ’he convention. Brass bands at the bead of inarching organisations toiled through the vast crowds, increasing the din and general confusion. In the main parlors, however, the leaders were hidden behind closed doors,pursuing their cancusiag and preparing for the battle which must be fought on the floor of the convention. Mr. Bristow Would Support Justice Field. New York, July 7. —General Bristow, exSecretary of the Treasury, was asked to-day if he would support Justice Field, of the Supreme Court, if nominated for President by the Democratic convention. Ex-Secretary Bristow replied promptly and emphatically: ‘‘Certainly; 1 would support Justice Field cordially.” Justice Field as a Candidate. Chicago, July 7.—A strong point is being made for Justice Field that his opinions in cases involving constitutional questions present sound Democratic doctrine as to the limitation of the powers of the Government, and that his nom ■ ’.nation would attract strong Republican support Kelly Will Nominate Widen. Chicago. July 7.—A rumor iB current late tonight that when the time for the nominating speeches arrives John Kelly will present the name of Tilden. Owing to the lateness of the hour it is impossible to get confirmation or denial. Butler Will Support the Nomine*. Chicago, July 7.—The Massachusetts delegation held a meeting this afternoon, which was addressed by General Butler, in which he said: “I will support the nominee of this convention, no matter who he may be.” Illinois Preferences. Chicago, July 7.—lllinois took a test vote today. and stood forty for Cleveland and two for McDonald. GOSSIP OF THE CORRESPONDENTS.

Using Money to Secure Votes—A Belief that Cleveland Will Be Defeated, “Ostk’s” TeFegrsm. No doubt seme money is being used here. Mr. Flower beat the richest man in New York for Congress, and he is now the richest man in this (invention, and there are some poor men here, three days before the convention met I fonnd beggars asking for money from the delegates. The most expert politicians on the spot believe Cleveland wilt be defeated. The newspaper reporters generally think he will be nominated. The former argue from Mb chances to be elected, and the latter from the votes they see on the spot. The situation seems pretty bad if Cleveland is taken; but if anybody else is taken it seems worse. Bayard is the next candidate in importance, and the only one besides appealing to the Republican kickers. But the Democrats are aghast at his peace speeches, and the papers here to day contain interviews from men as £ar as Missouri who were in the Delaware line, showing that Bayard said and omitted to do all sorts of injurious things. McDonald is privately regarded as a foo-foo. . old, and bald, and voluptuous, ami hardly up to the vice-presidency in force of character, and is new dreadfully afraid that Hendricks is not going to nominate him. Randall, by taking one side of the tariff light, has killed himself as much as Morrison on the other. The convention might in this desperation leap into tlie dark and take liold of some scarcely mentioned man—like Slocum, or McPherson, or Thurman. Yet. after taking the round of the candidates, and finding at every point some objection, they come back to Cleveland again, and say perhaps it must be. I was in the Palmer House when Butler arrived. He presented a strikinglikeness to HenryWard Beecher, especially about, the mouth and chin, and in the complexion; and with his breath made short by being pushed and hustled, and a kind of enjoying look around (jie face, he looked like the well-fed Beecher of to-day, so much, that if I had not known who he was. and had only seen his head, I should have thought it was Plymouth pulpit He wore a straw hat with a black band, and his old black swallow-tail suit Scattering cheers were raised for him. the stairways were crowded, and women rushed to the verandas in the entresol. Among these women was Anna Dickinson. Butler is the most remarkable quantity here. Cool its a May moraine, and he never opens his mouth but he savs something. I talked to Bookwaiter and others who came part way with Butler, yesterday, from New York. He was very iffable and talkative, and as they came through Canada, on the Canada Southern route, with its backward agriculture and old, overgrown fields, hitler looked to the map and said: “All this is t mistake. Tba boundaries ought to have been irawn here;” and he showed by his finger that he space to the north of Lake Erie was the most ;aluable part of Canada, and projected far into our boundaries. Thus Butler demonstrated the popularity of jingoism. Hendricks, at dinner yesterday, was asked if he had liis speech prepared for McDonald, and he said: “On, no! these speeches are not of much consequence.” “Yon are going to nominate McDonald?" “Oh, yes.” said he. “I suppose so.” Judge Niblack. of Indiana, is here looking out for tho Vice-presidency for himself. Thus McDonald is receiving the medicine he endeavored to administer to Hendricks four years ago, and Hendricks is receiving the medicine he administered to Tilden. This seems to be a great medi- , cine pow-wow. • Southern Hatred of Butler. Chicago Special. It seems very certain that the managers will save the convention the supreme blunder of nominating Ben Butler. There was an immense amount of disg'ist before he came at the bare idea of his being able to claim a seat as a delegate. This feeling was more than disgust with the .Southern men here. When he arrived and at once took the stump in his own behalf, surrounded by a choice crowd of street hoodlums, und in front of the very headquarters of the national Democratic committep. there was a feeling of indignation which can not well be expressed outside of a paper devoted to scientific profanity. HtitU the utter collapse of his much-hcralded demonstration the managers here were possessed vUh a certain wholesome fear leat it might prove that the old pirate, as he was affectionately called, might have a hold on the delegates of v.-juth thuy knew nothing. But when the result showed that the preparations for a great demonstration were chiefly in bogus newspaper announcements, And the affair did not rise to the dignity of a respectable lore*, they at once took courage, and to-day nothing has been too severe to leave unsaid of the cuau they have feared. It was announced with a great flourish that ten bands would escort him from the train to the hotel. Aa a matter of fact, he arrived alone, and was not recegi.iaed by anybody till he was in the act of registering bis name. The miles of marching veterans, labor organi /attorns and kindred bodies which were to escort him, dwindled into a very slim show of a few real workingmen, a lot of boys and the worst set- of street loafers that could be selected by the police in all of Carter Harrison's dominions. To make a roaring farce of this part of the socalled demonstration, it was only necessary for “Old Spoons” to appear in a swallow tailed coat, white tie and button-hole bouquet, in the character of the anti-monopoly millionaire and workingman's champion. As soon as the Demo .-ratio 1 red sea saw this failure, they consoled ch other with the diaoovey that after all Ben

Butler was only a sawdust tiger, and they had nothing to fear from his claws. The fact has also leaked out that a bolt is being organised in his own delegation. Nine of the Massachusetts men are bitterly opposed to bis rule, and they hope to have three more who will bolt with them after the first ballot Their motive is to end him. They are restive under his lead, and if they can decide who is likely to win. so that they can be sure of a control of patronage enough to protect themselves against him, they will help elect the coming man and force Butler overboard. To his disgust and surprise, though this is thought to be affected, the Southern men are more outspoken against him to-day than yesterday. They do not disguise their contempt and disgust Even Kentuckians protest that he could not carry that State with its somewhat reliable Bourbon majority. In short, throughout the South the cry so far as heard is “Any one but Butler." The Lousianians vary this by adding the endearing local title “Beast” An Advance in McDonald Stock. Chicago Tribune McDonald's chances improved a great deal yesterday. Hendricks has been pretty well lectured by some of the Indiana people, and it is now said that he will stand up and act in good faith in pushing McDonald, and will make the presentation speech to the convention. If he does act in good faith throughout, it will probably be tho first time in hie eventful career. As one of the Indiana delegates put it yester- < day: “If Hendricks does not do his fnll duty ! by McDonald, he will show himself to be a dog and a traitor.” Rather than fill this role His presumed that Mr. Hendricks will do the full duty which appears to he required of him. There was a meeting of the Indiana delegation yesterday, and there was a practical unanimity among them to support McDonald solidly And stand by him to the end. The moment McDonald has begun to advance as a candidate, reasons appear as thick as black berries in season to show why he should not be selected. Indeed, such good reasons are given by Democrats against tne selection of any one of the candidates that it is really surprising that they should care to put up a ticket at all. In addition to the talk that McDonald is unpopular on account of his marriage, it is now said that he could not carry the State of Indiana because of bis unpopularity with the farmers of that State. It appears that nearly all of them are being persecuted or prosecuted for Infringement of the drive-well patents, and McDonald has incurred much personal odium through his law firm being employed upon the part of the owners of the patents which the farmers have innocently infringed. The friends of McDonald point with pride to the fact that the millionaire Bill English actually walked on foot In the McDonald procession yesterday, something the millionaire never did before. It is also said that Bill English will spend great sums of money for McDonald. and that, while he is not a free spender of money upon himself, he win bleed freely for McDonald, because the congressional fortunes of his son, the idol of his heart, will be involved in McDonald's failure or success.

Kelly on Cleveland. Interview in Chicago Times. “The determination of Kings county to vote far Cleveland gives him the N6W York delegation, does it not!” the reporter asked John Kelly. “1 do not know as it dons." “Will he not have & majority of the delegation!” “Perhaps.” “Under the unit rule that gives him the entire vote!” „ “We are going to have a convention here next week, are we not?” asked Mr. Kelly. “What do you mean!” “I mean that the unit rule is undemocratic, - and Tammany will contest it in the convention. Under the unit rule a handful of politicians who happen to obtain control of a delegation can throw all the votes of that delegation in favor of their man, regardless of tbe wishes of the men who chose the delegation. Wa expect to overthrow the unit rule in the convention.” "Will you support Governor Cleveland if he is, nominated?” “I will not lift a hand for him.” “Will you oppose him?” “You can print this as coming from me; 1 would not oppose any Democratic candidate, but I will not lift a hand to aid the election of Grover Cleveland, if he is nominated. I could not afford to. If he thinks he can be elected without me let him go ahead, but I will never help him. If I were to do so I would break up the Tammany organisation, and that I cannot and will not do. Tammany's strength is based on labor votes, and they will not support Cleveland. I could not swing them for Cleveland if I would, and if I were to try I would disrupt the society. I will not do it” “Whom do you prefer for President?” "Senator Bayard, of Delaware.” “But you are credited to Flower!” “Tammany will support Mr. Flower because he is the mast available man to beat Mr. Cleveland with, and we think he would be a preferable man to Cleveland. My personal preference, how ever, is Bayard.” Butler and the Alleged Workingmen. Special to Cleveland Leader. I stood last night and watched the scum of Chicago pay homage to Butler, who is simply a woTm, and a homely one at that I could not help but think how much more appropriate it would have been had the poor deluded fools remained at home and thanked God for having spared their lives. The same element has been, abroad to-day, following tbe band and the sacrilegious delegates on their parades about town. This fall it will vote the Democratic ticket In the meantime it will loiter about the saloonsand curse capital. It styled itself a labor organization last night, when fully nine-tenths of the men in line were loafers. Laboring men are too sensible to lend themselves to such a demonstration. The thousands of honest mechanics and working men of Chicago were at home while the ragtag and bob tail of the community, with a Bmell of bad beer and a draw at a cheap cigar, sold themselves to the managers of the Butler boom and tramped through the streets under the laboring men’s colors. Butler sat in his room like a great toad and rubbed his paunch with a gleeful hand as the disturbance without Increased. He lives on the fat of the land, drinks the most costly wines, rides in his carriages behind high-priced flesh and yells at the damnable oppression of the rich. This kind of thing may suit the fellows who don't work, but it won’t wash with those who da

. Bayard’s Secession Speech. Philadelphia Pre.s, At high noon, the other day, a dapper little gentleman, -with a keen, shrewd face, entered one of the'largest job-printing offices in Philadelphia with a sealed parcel under his am. Inquiring for the managing partner of the firm, he was closeted with him until they left in company to take dinner at the Hotel Lafayette. Later in the day it was the talk among the men employed in the establishment that they are to be immediately p&t on a big job of work, and that ten thousand pamphlets ware to be got out during the present week, “What is it all about!" was asked of one of the printers. “The belief in our composing-room," he answered, 4 fie that the pamphlets are to be a reprint of the report which the New York Sms printed in 1880 of Mr. Bayard’s secession speech at Dover, In 1861." It will be remembered that in MO the Sun did publish what purported to be an authentic report of that speech, for the purpose of knifing whatever chances the Delaware senator might have had of the presidential nomination In that year. If that report was correct, Mr. Bayard's war views ware better suited far the latitude of Richmond than for anywhere within the loyal States. ' Cleveland Is Tilden’e Choice. Chicago Special. Said one Democrat of national reputation, in the office of the Grand Pacific Hotel: “I believe in the nomination of Grover Cleveland. He is a Democrat, an honert man, and I believe in spurning Tammany, and John Kelly, and the

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political harlotry he has been practicing for years between Republicans and Democrats for his price. If John Kelly can beat us, I believe .in being beaten every year. I don’t believe in having a man without political or other principles play between the parties, and use the groat T)emoc ratio organization simply to aggrandize himself and line his own pockets. The convention might as well understand that Cleveland is Tilden’s choice, and he should be nominated, and Tammany told to go to the devil." . The Heroes the Occasion. Chicago Special. Governor Benjamin F. Butter and John Kelly are the heroes of the occasion, the great men of the convention; and the sight of the face of eHher is greeted with frantic manifestations of approval and delight, while meu like Hendricks, ana others like him, walk the streets hardly noticed. This is the kind of element that is striving for tbe central of this eountry, and yet there is not a Democrat who does not know that John Kelly is no Democrat. He has no •use for a Democratic President Sneh a thing would beth 9 worst thing that coiihl happen to him, and he and his Tammany are always found opposing the candidate that stands the best chance of winning. Sunday Desecration. Special to Cleveland Leader. I have never seen Sunday so badly desecrated, even in Europe, as here to-day. Bands have been playing, and processsions of the different candidates are now inarching out through the streets. The saloons have been filled with a mob of convontion-goers, and the lobbies of the hotels have been file scenes of discussions in which the names of tho candidates have been mingled with profanity and vulgarity. There is no sign of Sabbath any place. Sodom in its last days could not have been worse than Chicago is to-day. How Missouri Stands. Chicago Nows. “How do you Missourians stand, anyhow* -1 ' “Oh, we're for tho Ohio man, every time." “The Ohio man! Ah, yes, I see—old Thurman!” “No; Cleveland.” “Cleveland?” “Yes; Cleveland, of Ohio." The I.language of Kelly’S Mouth. New Turk Truth. On the way to Chicago town The Tammany leader hies. “I’m going to do tbe thing up brown," Is the language of his eyes. “Whether from Bast or from the West, Whether from North or South. The man may come, there is this I know, Cleveland hain't got a living show,” Is the language of his month.

DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. Wa* Dkpaktarnt, f Omci or thk Chief Signal OrrioEß. [ Washington. July 8, ta. u. j For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley—Slightly warmer, fair weather, winds shifting to easterly, lower barometer. For the Upper Lake Region—Slightly warmer, partly cloudy weather, local rains, winds shifting to easterly in the northern portion, and to southeasterly in the southern portion; lower barometer. Local Observations. Time. Bar. Ther Hum. Wind. Weather. R’n. 6:24, a. M.. kmO&fiAO 63 NE - Clear. T 77. 10:24 a. K.. 30.09 71,5 50 N Clear 2:24 P. 11.. 30.04 76.4 47 N Fair 6:24 r. *..30.0177.© 45 NW Fair 10:24r. M.. 30.03 72.01 62 N Cloudy Maximum temperature, 79.0; minimum temperature, 58-4. General Observations. War Department, ! Washington, July 7, 10:24 P. w. J Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. ' Hill m i ? Ii r V : ; 7 ; j r j Bismarck, Dak..... 29.62 72 E .....Clear. Cairo. HI ... - -. , Chattanooga, Tenn. 30.03 75 E Clear. Chicago, m ~. 80.03 62 E ..... Cloudy. Cincinnati. 0 30.05 73 NE Clear. Columbus, O Davenport, 1a...29.96 69 SE ....Clear. Deadwood, Dak.... 29.69 75 S Fair. Denver. Col 29. <9, 74 S .03 Fair. Des Moines, la 29.86 72 SE ... . Clear. Dodge City, Kaa Ft. Assiniboine, Mta Fort Buford, Dak . 29.75 71 W Hazy. Fort Coster, Mont.. 29.68 73 8E . . . TbrVg. Fort Elliott, Tex... 29.85 80 S dear. Port Gibson. Ind. T. , : ..... Fort BUI, Ind. T.... .... Galveston. Tex 29.98 87 S Clear. Indianapolis, Ind... 29 03 72 N Cloudy. Indianola, Tex Clear. Keokuk, la 129.95 67 SE La Crosse. Wis... I.’ 29,97 65 BE .... Fair. Leavenworth, Kan.. 29 32 85 8 .Clear. Little Bock, Ark. ..-129.99 83 SE Clear. Louisville, Ky 30.03 73, NW Fair. Memphis. Tenn— 29.99 89 NE Fair. Moorehead, Minn... 29.76 66 BE Cloudy. NashvUle. Tenn North Platte, Keb. 29.71 82 N Cloudy. Omaha, Neb 29.74 84 8 |Otear. Pittsburg. Pa 30.00 61 NW dear. Ban Antonio, Tex.. Shreveport. La..29.98 88 NW .....Clear. Springfield. 11l 30.00 70 SE Clear. Bt. Louis, Mo SO.OO 1 72 SE .17 Clear. Stockton, Tex...... 29.91 84 SE Clear. St. Paul, Minn .. ... ..... ....... ~. .... ... Vicksburg, Miss ... 30.01 84 NE dear. Yankton, D. T. 29.63 79 E dear. New Orleans, La... 29.94 88 N .... Clear. Las Animas, C 01.... 29.65 86 W .16 Clear. Fort Smith, Aik—■ Salt Lake City, U. T. 29.78, 70 NE ... _ dear. El Paso,Tex ...129.82 83 NW ..... Thr't’g.

Not the Beal Charlie Ross. Philadelphia Special. The identity of the boy who visited police headquarters, and claimed to be the long-lost Charlie Ross, has been established. His name is Charlie Ross, and his mother, who was a loose character, and who was known in St. Louis as Mamie Ross. Mary Vereensus and Laura Duboski, died in the Sisters’ Hospital in that city in 1879. In July, 1875, the boy was placed in the St. Louis House of Refuge, and on Oct. 19, of the same year, he was indentured to a man named Feckertree, with whom he remained until April 14, 1877, when be was returned to the institution on account of being incorrigible. He was afterward placed with Abraham 8. Wolf, of Mount Vernon, HI., but he proved unmanageable, and was returned in than a year. On Get n, 1878, he was indpntqrfd to E. P, WiVwi, tosiding at Eagle Falls, Lincgln counti, Misapim, with whom he remained until Dec. 2ff, 1880, when he ran away. Nothing further was hoard of hitn until be arrived at Quinsy. IP., and prevailed o* tlie people there to believe that was the ahducted " Mb. J. R. wtbwajw l . of Manon, Go., a well known nd trustworthy gentleman makes the following statement “My son, who was between three and four years old, was all drawn pp with rheumatism. His bones were twisted, and he woe all doubled out of shape, He suffered intense pain, hod lost his appetite, was crossand fretful. He was reduced to a mere skeleton, and had to be carried about on a pillow. As three eases of rheumatism, where the bones wens twisted and the iointe were all crooked, bad for years baffled the skill of tho most eminent physicians, I determined to use Swift's Specific, ss I Usd nee# testimonials from men whom I know to be trustworthy, of similar cmbs it had Cured. I used two large size bottles of 8. 8. 8. according to directions, with tbe moat satisfactory results My son commenced improvise with the first dose of the medicine. His suffer lugs diminished daily and hM appetite increased; he became cheerful and In good spirits. Orndu- 1 ally he regained use of his limbo, the twisted bones and joints straightened out and in less, than two months he was entirely cured, and could walk and get about as wed as any cMM of 1 his age . v Treatise on Blood sad tikin Diseases mailed free. Tsra Hwrrr 3rßoan Go-, Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga., 159 W. 23d street. K ¥., and <JlH*tnut street, Philadelphia.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS A Furious Wind-Storm Causes Serious Damage in Montgomery County. The Recent Shooting in Wells County—Hon. William Williams Beelines the Race for Congress in the Thirteenth District. INDIANA. A Violent Wind-Storm Does Great Damage In Montgomery County. Special ta the Indiana#ode Journal. Crawfords vibLE, July 7.—A cyclone visited the northern part of thiß county at an early hour on Saturday morning, the particulars of which were aot received until yesterday. The stem was first noticed northwest of this city, about two miles, where it destroyed about 32,000 worth of timber,ou tho farm of Charles Fuller. From Fuller's the storm moved southeast, and in its route took in the barn of Mr. Jackson, tearing it all to pieces and killing a horse. The house and bairn of Tice Liter was blown away, and a part of the barn roof was fonnd two miles away. Forty acres of shocked wheat was scattered for miles. The bara of Samuel Hutton was blown down and one horse killed. Flannogan’s school-bouse was moved about forty feet from its foundation. George Francis's barn was blown down and six horses killed. Three hundred trees in the five sugar orchards of A1 McDaniel, near Darlington, were destroyed. From Liter's the storm changed its course and went northeast A tenement house on Liter's farm was totally destroyed, but the ocoupants were uninjured. Bedding and funiture were blown out of the house and every window glass was broken and scattered over the occupants of the house. The loss in this county will exoeed 6100,000. No lives were lost as far as we have learned. The heavy rains which have fallen in the past few days have washed out numerous small bridges and damaged new gravel roads in the county. Considerable damage has bean done to wheat not yet cut, much of it being blown down, and will have to be cut with cradles. A Worthless Check. Special to tho Ii ianapolla Journal. Riuhmond, July 7.—G. Grothans, a wellknown furniture manufacturer and dealer of this town, is searching for a liberal buyer be had this morning The liberal buyer gave his name as Jacob Hildebrandt- He easily selected from Mr. GrotUanss stock furniture to the amount of 9195, and then he gave Mr. Grothans in payment a check for $l2O on the Richmond National Bank, and told him where to deliver the goods. The check bore an air of especial worth because of aa attest upon it from C. H. Hadley to the genuineness of Hildebraudt’s signature. Hadley is well known to Grothans, as to most everybody else in the town, and consequently Grothans. accepted tbe check and paid bis customer a difference of sls in currency. On delivering the furniture at the appointed house Grothans fonnd it occnpied by people who knew nothing aboutit, and on presenting the check at the bank be found themanHildehrandt unknown to them. It seems that he had seeured Hadley’s . attest by pretending to be uuahle to write and getting Hadley to write the check for him.

The Wells County Shooting. Special to the Indianapolia Journal. Hartford City, July 7. —Weller, who wns shot ou the Ist Inst. by George R. Bell, is still alive. Bell is the owner of a farm consisting of about 700 acres, and John I. Weller, having sown a field of wheat on this place, proceeded to harvest It, together with another man and a small boy. Bril came to the field on horseback, and seeing the parties harvesting the wheat, retraced his course to the house, about one mile distant, procured a revolver and returned to the field on foot. Weller, upon seeing him enter the field with revolver in hand, started to run. Bell commanded him to halt, and at ones commenced firing. Five shots were fired, the last of which took effect in tbe nook. Weller is still in a critical condition. Bell is now in jail, and strong efforts are being made to-day to procure bail, Fire at Jasper. Special ta tba Indianapolis Journal. Jasper, July 7.—At 3 o’clock this morning it was discovered that the poetofllce 'was on fire. Before a sufficient crowd could gather the flames spread, nod the postoffice and Mrs. Deinderfer’s dwelling-house -were burned. By hard work the fire was prevented from spreading further. Dr. T. Wertze’s office was tern down and P. M. Gramrifachera dwelling was damaged. Loss probably $3,000; partially insured. Fatally Injured by a FaH. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Wabash, July 7. — A well-known gentleman, named Michael Garber, living near Somerset, thri eounty, was engaged in picking cherries in his yard, yesterday afternoon, when he made a misstep and fell a distance of several feet, alighting on his head, producing concussion of the brain. His physicians say he cannot recover. Billy William* Declines the Nomination. Special to the I ndiauapalfa Journal. Warsaw, July 7.—Dr. J, H Davisson, aoa-in-la..' of Wm. Williams, who is minister to Uruguay and Paraguay, received a cablegram from him to-day, dated at Montevideo, South America declining the nomination for Congress tendered him by the Republicans of the Thirteenth CQns r espioqal District of Indiana.

Miner Notes. The sen es August Rose, of Jeffersonville, Struck tiro weeks Sgo by lightning while fishing, died sb SundayAhout 2.0Q0 persons were at Lake Matinkuckee pn Sunday, Logansport furnishing the largest quota of visitors. Charter Gnrekir, * farmer living i* miles north of Now Haven, vse killed on Saturday by falling from his wagon while going bonje from town. Rev, Edmond H. Swem, for two years poster of the Baptist Tabor now to at Mew Albany, has gone to Washington, D. C-. to epter upon pastoral duties in that eity. Two boys, John Winstandley and Charles Beil, are under arrest at Mew Albany for the shooting pf the twe year oW child, Ethel La Duke, on Saturday, the shot being an accidental One. The boys claim that the rniot must have keen fired by someone else, re they were not shooting in that direction, bt a fight at Clifford, op Friday night, Buck McKinney, who has served a term in the penitentiary for murder, attacked John Miller with S club, because be refused to let McKinney have s knife to tab a man on the train coming hack from Columbus. When the train stepped, McKinney caught Miller by the throat and was about to strike him, when Miller wrested the club from hire. Be then drew a knife and stabbed McKinney three time*, inflicting wounds which will probably prove fatal. Tbomas Stevens, an Englishman, twenty-seven years old, left Ban Fuanoiecu on April 22, on a fifty-inch bicycle, and is expected to arrive at Fort Wayne to nwjrow (Wednesday) evening, en his way to New York. The Fort Wayne Bieyole Club will tender him a reception, and accompany him a part of the way an his journey to Toledo, O. Mr. Stovens is taking notes of travel

as he gore, to be embodied in * book. He carries only a water-proof coat, and Wtsars an army helmet; and averages about flftip miles of travel a day. After a two weoks’ rest in Itew’Yortc, he will return by steamer to Liverpool: - ! ;r *' . Ulluols Items. 5 John Thomas, a merchant tailor of Hoopeston, was drowned in the Vermillion river while bathing. Patrick Nugent, twelve years old, while jumping on a freight train at Litchfield, was run over and killed. Mark Devaoey was shot on. Sunday at a German picnic, two miles east of Name cut 1, by David Gliss. He will probably die. Charles and Fred. Eichorst, Julius and August Blackie, Charles and Fred Hall, August Lawrence, Albert Reubens and Albert Noffltz. all Germans, living near Champaign, went to the residence of Philip Gorman, on the night of the Fourth, and assaulted him so that his life is despaired of, and also beat his wife. They are under arrest, charged with intent to commit murder. SPORTING MATTERS. The Extra Meeting at Washington Park— Baees and Base Ball Elsewhere. Chicago, July 7.—The first extra day at Washington Park had warm weather, a fast track, and a large attendance. The first race, for maiden two-year-olds, five furlongs, was won by Doubt; Mary Hamilton second. Tornado third. Time, 1:04J. The selling race, for horses that have run and not woiy at this meeting, one and one-quarter mile. Vjtrgie Hearn won; Chili second, Eulalie third. \Time, 2:12 The winner was not sold. The mile and a quarter race, for all ages, Mattie Rapture won; Saunterer second, Rosaline third. Time, 2:llj. One mile and an eighth, for three-year-olds that have not won this year. Laura Gould won; Slipaway second. Eros third. Time. 2:01. In the three-quarter-mile heats race, the first heat was wan by Chance; Jocose second. Ascender third. Time, 1:181. The second heat Chance won; Ascender second, Jocose third. Time, 1:18*.

The Chicago Driving Park Races. Chicago, July 7.—At the trotting meeting at the Chicago Driving Park, to-day, the attendance was 25,000. The first race was for $2,500. divided, for five-year-olds or under. Summary: Eva....: 4 2 33 1 1 1 Lynwood 3 3 112 2 2 Keeath 1 1 2 2 4 33 Eudymion 2 4 4 4 3 ro. Time—2:24hi, 2:23, 2:2<Pa, 2:22ti, 2:25, 2:25%, 2:27%. Second race, for $2,500, divided, 2:30 class, summary: Butterfly.. ~...1 1 1 Mambrian Sparkle 2 2 3 Belle F 4,3 2 Coupon 3 6 6 Jersey Lily ...7 4 4 Mars... ’ 5 5 5 Lady Wilkes 6 7 7 Time—2.-23%, 2;23ie. 2:23. Third race, for $2,500, for lie 2:27 pacing class, summary: Minnie R 1 1 X Nellie Shaw 2 2 4 Frank W ...4 4 2 Juliet ...3 33 Time— 2:22*3, 2:22. 2:20. Brighton Beach Races. New York, July 7.—The eonßolation race, seven furlongs, King Lion won; Ten Strike second, Montauk third, Time, 1:32 j. The selling race, a mile and a furlong. Woodcraft won; Cathcart second, Mike’s Bride third. Time, 2:00.]. The mile and a furlong race for all ages Hilarity won: Little Buttercup second, Royal Arch third Time, 1:59. Tlie mile race Palinureous won; Australian second. Time. 1:50J. Tbe three-quarter mile race Shelbv Barnes won; Barney Aaron second, King Fan third. Time, 1:17]. The University Heat Race. Saratoga, July 7.—Pennsylvania woo the boat race; Cornell second, Princeton third. The single scull race was not rowed. Tho water was rough. The boats started at 10:52 a. M. Gradually the Cornell and Pennsylvania boats forged ahead, with Bowdoin third, and Priueeton and Columbia following. The Bowdoin boat collided with a barge and dropped out at the mile flag. The race was won by the Pennsylvania University crew; Cornell class second, Princeton third, Columbia fourth. Time. 8:39j. Owing to a dispute. Brown, of Bowdoin, pulled a single scull over the course, receiving the prize. Cornell would not row. The attendance was light. Teenier Wins a Boat Race. Sebac.o Lake, Me., July 7.—The flve-mile single-scull race, with a turn, for SI,OOO a side, between John Teemer, of Pittsburg, and C, H. Conley, of Portjand, Maine, took place ou Lake Sebago. this afternoon, and was won by Teemer in thirty-four minutes and ten seconds. Conley was two and a-half seconds behind. The attendance was small.

Base Ball. The clubs Os the American Association played the following games yesterday: At Toledo— Toledo 0 0020000 o—2 Metropolitan 0 0 0 1 0 6 4 0 *—ll Base Hits—Toledo, 5: Metropolitan, 13. Errors—Toledo, 6; Metropolitan, 2. At Columbut— Columbus 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 o—2 Athletic .....0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 6—5 Base Hits—Columbus, 3: Athletic, 9. Errors —Columbus, A Athletic, 1. Clubs of the National League played games as follows yesterday: At Chicago— Chicago 0 0 5 0 1 1 0 0 *—7 New York 0 0 O O O 0 0 O o—o Base Hits—Chicago, 9j New York, 3. Errors—Chicago, 3; New York, 7. At Bvffalo— Providence 0 0 2 5 2 2 0 3 0 14 8uffa10............. 20010013 2 9 Bass Hits—Providence, 18; Buffalo. 12. Error. —Providence, 4; Buffalo, 5. At IMtraitPhiladelphia ~.l 2 1 0 4 2 1 0 *—ll Detroit.. 2 00010 2 10—6 Base Hits—Philadelphia, 18; Detroit, 12. Errors—Philadelphia, 8; Detroit, 7. At Cleveland— Boston.. ~0 0 1 0 2 33 2 0-11 Cleveland O 0000 000 3.. 3 fasn Hits—Boston, 16, Cleveland, 7. erors—Boa too. 0; Cleveland, 8TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Three children belonging to a family named Harris, living near the Kingman wunly,. Kansas line, burned to death on Sunday. Two -Italians, Antonio Frezli and Luigi Papon ti, had a fight at McKeesport, Pa,, on Sunday night, in which the former fatally stabbed thp latter. F- L. Pillot and sixty years, the husband of Mmp.ldanauschek, the actress, was found dead yesterday from heart disease, in his apartments in Boston. Miss Clow, a reaped table young lady of North Frputemw, Out, was Wt#ag*4 by a tramp named Wager on Sunday. A party of men with Shotguns are searehingfor him. Reports from Berks, Lebanon and Montgomery ounee, Pa, state that Sunday's storm was a cloud-burst savers! miles wid; Poads ware submerged, bridges washed away, burns and houses unroofed, and acres of fields washed out as completely as if a orop had never been plantod. -* A Singular Kainatarin. * Dakota Dispatch In Boston Herald. Yesterday a phenomenon never before witnoaeed attracted tbs attention of many people. To the naked eye it had the appearance of a great square cloud. With Hie aid of a strong magnifying glass, the writer snw mi aerial shower—rain falling without touching the earth. Two olonds were visible, one exactly above the other. The rain cloud was above, and the light feathery

cloud below. A heavy shower poured for severl minutes from the upper cloud. The cloud below caught every drop of water, and absorbed R. Light clouds appeared to come from all directions to aid in cheating old earth of a rain. The color of the lower cloud changed rapidly, and it expanded from a small summer cloud to a massive rain-gatherer. In a few minutes the Tipper cloud had entirely' disappeared. Through tlie glass the aerial rain-fall nad all the appearance of a shower of pearla The sun shining through the drops formed prismatic hues of charming brilliancy. The cloud passed off to the southeast, gathering rain as it went. A Word Spoken in Season. Boston Transcript. A word spoken in due season often has its ready reward. Walking into a saloon where a man was just about tossing off a schooner of lager, a friend of temperance stepped up to tho bar. aud laying his hand on the mans arms, said: "My friend, do you know that yon are about putting an enemy in you mouth to steal away your brainel” The beer-bibber looked at the friead of temperance in stupid wonder as ho exclaimed, ’“Watsy'ergivin’s!" “Not only is beer an intoxicant,” continued the f. oft, “butit contains adulterants hurtful to health. It- is a fruitful cause of sickness and death.” The bearbibber deigned not a word in reply to this, but with a scornful gesture raised the glass to his lips. In another instant it would have . been drained to the bottom. The f. of t. made one more appeal. “Know you not.” he said, “that that beer is 95 per cent, water!" The glass came down with a crash oijto the marble bar and was shivered to atoms, the beer which it had contained flowing in an unnoticed stream upon the floor. “Great Caesar!” eried the beerbibber; “why didn’t you say that tho first thing?” And he wiped the beady perspiration from his brow as be added, “Stranger, but that was a mighty nnrrer escape! Ninety-live per cent, of water! ugh!” No Ascension Robes Prepared. L. L. Howard, Advent Minister. It is untrue that Adventists ever prepared ascension robes for the last day of the world, William Miller, the first great preacher of this doctrine in America, began his discourses in 1837, but it was not until 1843 that he fixed a time and that his preaching was much listened to. He prepared no white rohes. nor did any of his followers, and I defy' any one now living to say that he has seen one, or to produce documentary evidence that one ever existed. The Adventists who have separated from other churches are not very numerous, hut there are large numbers of them ia the orthodox folds, as was proved by the large attendance at the meetings in young Dr. Tyng’s church a few years ago. Sermons in Hats. Rew York Sun. A sober-faced man in a leather helmet hat, with "Prepare to meet your God” in red letters on the front, was drinking lemonade yesterday at a stand in the Bowery. An inebriated gentleman came unsteadily up, and said: “Give me a schooner of soda wter. “My good man," said the member of the Salvation Army, putting down his glass, ,l you risk 1 your soul wandering about in your condition on a hot day like this,” and he pointed significantly to the letters on his hat “If it’s a sunsthroke ye fear,* retorted the other, bringing hie empty’ schooner to anchor on the stand with a whack, “ye want to wear a sthraw hat wid tay leaves in it” j

Hay Fever aa American Affliction. T Philadelphia Pre9. One faet is certainly proved heyond doubt, J that Americans have a weakness of the nasal* organs predisposing them to catarrh, hay fever, etc., so general that ft might almost be called national. It accounts for tlie “nasal twang’ - to which our English cousins object. Being a local affection, and hereditary in almost every instance, the most direct means of cure of hay fever would be to consult a specialist at another , time of the year, and to directly treat the gland ; or membrane affected rather than to apply' all kinds'of quack applications and douches when it was inflamed by dust, pollen or summer heat Governor St. John’s Nearness. Bloomington (Ills.) Pantaxrapb. Mrs. Read discourseth on the exceeding nearness f Governor St John to the hearts of the people. He is exceedingly near to the hearts of tho people of Kansas. His “nearness” may be measured by the 50.000 votes that constituted (Slick’s majority over him. Fifty tbousaud is not much of a majority. It is neither as deep aa a well, nor ns wide as a ditch, but 'tia enough. Governor St John's “nearness to the hearts of tho people” must have been in the mind of the poet when he wrote “Thou art so near, and yet so far.” . Written “Before Taking.” Washington Post. Let the country take notice that there will be no buying, selling, trading and huckstering at the Democratic national convention. No “booms,” no “movements;” no “combinations," no “stampedes’ will be heard of during the entire session. Instead. 800 chosen representatives of a great political party will meet in quiet and dignified consultation, and as the only possible result present to the American people their best I and bravest as candidates for the highest posi-i tions in the people’s gift. Let the people look and see. The President's Brave Act M ilwuuVee Sentinel. On all accounts the President has deserved the admiration of the country. But the best and bravest act has been the interposition of bis veto between Congress and the most dangerous usurpation of executive functions by that body. It required a large-minded unselfishness to do this. Washington society, including the great mass of the President's personal friends, advocates the restoration of Porter, and it was no easy tiling to incur the hearty ill-will of Porter’s numerous and influential friends. Astronomical Politics. Pittsburg Dispatch. The fact that Venus is moving toward a conjunction with the sun, which will take place in the present month, may be held by astrologists to furnish a sufficient explanation of the enlarging boom of tbe Widow Butler.

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