Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 12, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 July 1880 — Page 2

1, y e w Che Zigonier Banner, J. B. STOLL, Editor and Prop’r. " LIGONIER, : —+-: INDIANA . 2 Ty e -~ NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts, _ Domestie. THE Sny levee, between Quincy and Alton, 111., on the Mississippi River, gave way on the night of the 28th ult., and the water poured in with great_ rapidity, flooding the bottom lands in the vicinity, destroying thousands of deres of wheat and corn lands, and devasting a strip of territory forty miles long by ten miles wide. The people had to flee for their lives, and many took refuge on the embankments, not having time' to make their way to the high grounds. One family, named Freemer, consisting of five persons, was drowned. : - ~

THE census enumerators give Louisville, Ky., a population of 126,556. Omaha’s (Neb.) population - foots up 80,605, a gain of 14,000 in ten years. It was thought on the 30th ult. that the census returns for Chicago would show a total population in the city of over 490,000. L . THE National Board of Health expresses the opinion that there is no reason to fear a recurrence of the yellow fever in the Bouth this year. ; '

THE public-debt statement for June makes the following exhibit: Total debt (including dinterest), '52,143,260,917. Cash in Treasury, $201,088,622. Debt, less amount in ‘Treasury, $1,942,172,295. = Decrease during the month, $10,214,424. . Decrease since June 30, 1879, $85,034,961. A .

¥IFTEEN HUNDRED emigrants from Germany, Swedemyand Norway :reached Bal‘timore on the Ist, dyd left by spetial train for the West. X N A BOY at Pittsburgh, Pa., named Oskins saved a man namdd Finnan from, drowning. - As soon as the ladter recovered from the effects of his adventuye he _deedeﬁi{ the lad a half interest iﬁ"‘twg\h uses and lofs at McKeesport. R e - THE boiler of the excursion steamér ‘Maty on Lake Minnetonka exploded on the, Ist, killing three persons ' and ‘injuring one: fatally and several "others painfully. The boat was lying at a dock at the time of the accident, - N

‘THE coinage executed at: the United States mints fdr the fscal year ended Jtne 80 was valued at $84,370,144, Lkwhich 307 933,750 weres standard silver. Tlli\S\exceeds the coinage of-any previous year. \\V . THE boat race between the Harvard ‘and Yale crews at New Londou on the Ist resulted in an-easy victory forthe latter by ten Jonotha, 1 S

~ THERE were two hundred deaths from sunstroke in New York, during the six days ending on the Ist.. The heat had been intense. - ol e NN R

- -At the recent Yale-Harvard “boat- | race F- W. Lincoln, President of the\Boston, & Albany Railroad, and Mrs. Dn V?mx Appleton, of Boston, who were viewing the coritest from a railroad car, were accidentall thrown from the platform and aWst instantly killed. S

Two peaTns. from yellow fever ¢ccurred at the New York quarantine station qon the 2d. S . .

‘DURING the night of the Ist Mary O’Connors, of Jersey City, N. Y., kifled her three children. She was sick and -unable to care for them, and thought if they died they would go direct to- Heaven. « - ' bir g - s Sl ~ Personal and Political. '

JOHN A. KAssoN has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Seventh and M. E. Cutts by the Republicans of the Sixth, Jowa Districts. The Republicans of the Nineteenth Illinois District have nominatedGeneral C. W. Pavey.- Joseph Jorgenson ‘has been renominated by the Republicans of the Fourth Virginia District. The Greenbackers of the Thirteenth Illinois District on. the 30th ult. nominated -A. E. Stévenson (present incumbent) for Congress. '

THE Democrats of the Twenty-first Pennsylvania District on "the 80th ult. remominated Morgan R. Wise for« Congress, and ‘on the same day Charles H. Joyce was re!‘nominated by the Republicans of the First Vermont District. . ¢ Al

SENATOR CAMERON, in a letter written from White Sulphur Springs, Va., has formally declined to act as Chairman of the National Republican Committee, giving the condition of his health as the reason for the declination. He adds that as soon as he is well enougli he shall' give his energy, as a member of the Committee, to the great work of the campaign. il ' GENERAL GRANT left ' Galena on the Ist for the far West. o ;

CoNGRESSMAN W, G. THOMPSON has been renominated by the Republicans of the Fifth lowd District, ‘ :

» THE Republicans -of the Third Vermont District have nominated General W. W. * 'Grant for Congress. R %

TaE New York Supreme Court has decided that Mayor Cooper had no authority to remove General ‘‘Baldy” Smith from the office of Police Commissioner, and has ordered his (Smith’s) restoration. = i

YALECOLLEGE has recently conferred the honorary degree .of Doctor of Laws on President Hayes. Sy S CoNGRESSMAN DE LA MATYR was recently married to a widow at Friendship, N. Y. They were engaged in youth, but quarreled and separated. :

THE Natignal Republican Committee, at ifs session in New York on the 2d, elected ex-GGovernor Marshall Jewell, of Connecti- * cut, Chairman, and ex-Senator 8. W. Dorsey, of Arkansas, Secretary. A resolution was passed calling for a meeting of the National Committee on the 15th of October. The following Executive Committee was chosen, of which Messrs. Jewell and Dorsey: were ‘declared, ex-officio, Chairman and Secretary, respectively: Horace Davis (Cal.), James Debeaux (Ga.), John A. Logan (Iil.), John C. New - (Ind.), Jobn 8. Runnells (Iowa), John A. Martin ' (Kan.), Henry C. Warmouth (La.), John 'M. Forbes (Mass.), _ Chauncey I. Filley (Mo.), Wm. E. Chandler (N. H.), George A. Halsey (N. J.), Thomas - C. Platt-(N. Y.), W. P, Canady (N. C.), Will- . iam K. Cooper (0.), J. D. Cameron (Pa.), George W. Hooker (Vt.),, John W. Mason (W. Va,) Elihu Enos (Wis.), R. C. MeCormick (Arizona), Stephen B. Elkins (N. Mexico.) The following were named mem}érs of, the Western Division Executive Committee,. ~ headquarters at Chicago: John A. Logan (I1L.), John C. New (Ind.), John J. Runnells .(la.), Elihu Enos (Wis.), William E. Cooper. - (0.), Chauncey L Filley (Mo.), John A. Mar- ' tin (Kan:) This division will be under the

charge of General Logan. August 5, September 9 and October 14 were fixed as the

times for the next meeting of the Executive Committee. A /motion was passed that Senator Blaine should be formally invited to visit the Pacific Coast in the interest of the party. The Western branch of the committee subsequently met and appointed John C. New Secretary and adjourned to meet at Chicago the 22d of July. | ¢ A

GENERAL WEAVER, the Greenback candidate for President, has written his letter of aceeptance. | He favors the abolition of National Banks of issue; opposes the refunding bills now pending in Congress, claiming that the bonds should be paid with surplus revenues; warns the people against the railroad and banking monopolies; condemns the prodigality of the Government in disposing of the public domain, the immigration of ‘Chinese, etc., and promises to take the stump in all parts of {the country. AFTER atwo days’ session and on the 263 d ballot the Eleventh Illinois District Democratic Convention has renominated General James W. Singleton for Congress. e , > : ~ ~ | Foreign. : A PROCESS-SERVER in County Mayo, Ireland, was shot and killed by unknown persons on the 30th ult. L -~ ORDERS have been issued by,Bulgaria for the immedijate démolition of the Danubian fortresses. . | | - | . AN -English court has decided that a man who receive(l £2,804 as compensation for meré ise destroyed by the pirate Alabama.wa the ‘amount 'to an underwriter, the plaintiff in the case, with whom e goods had-been insured and who had paid upon them as a totalloss. = 5 - A Bussian war vessel has left Cronstadt for Vladivostbck, with’ 1,276 men on board, a number of torpedo boats and a large quantity of war material. -k

THE resolution offered by Mr. Gladstone in the Bradlaugh case permitting all members-elect of the British House of Commons to affirm, when they prefer to do so, instead of taking an oath, was adopted in the House and made a standing ordér on the evening of the Ist. L L :

— THIRTY-NINE religious establishments, containing 475 members, were broken up in Paris on the 30th ult:" The remaining thirty, being educational establishments, were allowed to remain until August 25. o

~ A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of -the st says-the Sultan had ordered the prepara~ tion-of ﬁlaﬁs\angl estimates for rendering the. Dardanelles impregnable by torpedoes and e vl ¢t A RoME dispatch of “the Ist says tl\é\e_ ope had finally concluded to accept the Prusn ‘(Jl‘mrch laws, and would atw Céglsistory nominate Bishops to fill the va-} caht Sees.— N : ‘ Mi. BRADLAUGH m}:\(kinc affirmation in the Brit-is;kx House of Cowmmons .on the 2d After lea'{ing the House fq the evening he was served with a writ at the suit of .ene Clark to recover the penally of £soo.for .affirming instead of taking the ath. = - THE American Team weréyagain successful in the shooting at Dollym§unt on the 2d, winning the highest money priges. ~ TeHE Internatjonal Confere ilce met in Berlin for the last time on the 2d, adopted a vote-of thanks to Prince Hohenlohe, their chairman, and adjourned. =

- THE Grand Jury at Richmord, Va., $ indicted one of tﬁé»sngdes engaged in a ent duel in that State. g !

A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram _of t?e 2d says the Porte was inciting the Albanians to resist the surrender of Duleigno to/MéaiF tenegro. e

. 'ON the 2d Captain Bogardis, the American Champion shot, defeated George Rimel}, the -British champion, in the pigeon shoo‘ta;g match at Brighton Beach, E\n{l{imd, killing ninety-nine out-of-a-possible ~one¢ hundred, at thirty yards rise.: : P . . FRANCOIS AUGUST BONHEUR, the painter and younger brother of Rbsafl}gn\heur, is dead. S ey

'THE Siamese Embassy visited Wind-sor-Castle on the 2d, and presented the Queen with the-Quder of the White Elephant. LATER NEWS,

~ LORD SHAERTESBURY, the well-known evangelical Englistr Peer, unveiled a statue of Robert Raikes, the ‘foum{er of Sunday-schools, in London on the 3@. §everal American clergymen were present. | iy o

. A YOUN®& LADY named Susan Remsen, aged twenty years, recently died in New York City of pullﬁnary apoplexy, produced by tight lacing. The ribs of the girl’s corset had been so tightly drawn in that tﬁéy had almost sunk into the flosh. 7

RECENT reports received at the Agricultural Bureau indicate that the condition of oats, rye and barley was better than last year. Clover was not doing very well, except in New England. - o ‘ :

WHEN the recent outrages on American vessels in West Indian waters were reported at Washington Secretary Evarts notified the Spanish Minister, and that official at once laid the facts before the Captain General, The latter has replied that there is no Spanish gunboat named Nuncio, and that the United States schooners-must have been overhauled by an insurgent craft for the purpose of creating a difficulty between the Republic and Spain. An American man-of-war has gone to Cuba to investigate the matter. ==

THE Connecticut Greenbuackers met in State, Convention at New Haven on the sth and nominated a State- ticket, headed by Henry €. Baldwin for Governor. - ' Tmil Republican National Committee have ej gageph\mems'a;t 241 Fifth avenue, New York City, where they will be located till after election. , £

AT a meeting in New Yorkon the 4th of the United Labor League of America, a committee was appointed to arrange a call for a convention of delegates of the organization, to be held in New York September 1, for the purpose of declaring formally infavor of the Republican or Democratic nominee for President of the United States.

. TeE headquarters of the National Committee of the Greenback-Labor party have been located at No. 903 Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, D. C. :

PRESIDENT AND MRs. HAYEs visited Coney Island: on the Bd, and returned to Washington in the evening. A StATE CONVENTION of the Democratic wing ‘of the Workingmen’s party of California, held in SBan Francisco on the evening of the 2d, deposed Kearney as President of the party, declared the offices of VicePresident, Secretary and Treasurer vacant, elected a State Central Committee, and indorsed Hancock and English and the Democratic Presidential Electors. On the 4th a stormy mecting was held at the Sand-Lot. The Greenback an&Demd‘cratic wings of the workingmen assembling in close proximity, a crose-fire of cheers and groans ensued, and at the close the Democratic faction made a rush for Kearney, amid cries of ** Hang him !”? ete. ‘He was protected by the police, hustled into a hack and driven off. ¢ :

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A 7 a picnic in the northern part éf Crawford County, James Murray and William Me¢Burnie, who had been partners in a saw-mill, met and renewed an old quarrel, and Mr. MeBurnie was shot dead. ; X

IN a fracas neiar Mount Vernom, a stray shot from the pistol of ‘Nat Monroe hit a young lady, also named Monroe, inflicting a probably. fatal wound. _ £ i :

Tag Circuit Court 'of Vanderbugh County has issued a restraining order against Rev. George Craney, prohibiting his preaching in the Church of the Unity,and enjoining him and his adherents from appropriating said church to the furtherance and advancement of ‘“atheism and infidelity.” Mr. Craney has been preaching doctrines, it is stated, objectionable to the . Unitarians, who own the church. L | i

SENATOR JoHN BENz, of Leavenworth, Crawford County, was recently struck over the head by Clifton Long, a young man whose .father died some weeks ago, and concerning whom Mr. Benz had spoken with great bitterness. It was thought that Benz could not recover. £ o S i

TuE endowment fund of Asbury University has been increased §40,000 during the last year. ! Pl N

AT about -two ‘o’clock on the morning of the 27th, George Hunter, of Indianapolis, while out walking with the wife of ?i,lbert Heath, was attacked by the husband and knocked down with an ice prong., Rec¢overing, Hunter pursued Heath several squares and badly injured him with the same wedapon. Mr. Hunter and the woman were subseqiiently arrested. ’ i Sl

DURING an examination at Indfanapolis the other day one B. Scholard, an inmate 'éjf the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, Ohio, was arrested on an indictment charging him with swearing that he had lost a leg at Shiloh,.on the sb{(;ngth of which he had received a pension and a berth in the Home. He pleaded guilty on arraignment, and said| he had nevelt: been near that famous battlefield. 1 " A FEW weeks ago Joshua Cantres, sixty years old, disappeared from his h'oifne, in Williamsport. ~A few days since :hié dead body was found submerged in a pond of \water near his home. There \were no traces—of a struggle, but-the . ami\xﬁtion of the body revealed a bullet-hole “in the“head abowe the left ear, and also one ixi‘»ﬂle\vl%de lof the neck. A seven-chambered revolver was found near the spot. The aumtes',‘ think he wasmnrdered. - | ~ {

A YOoUNG man named Bailey was struck by lightning on the 25th ult. while at work in the harvest-field near Economy, in Wayne County, and “instantly killed. His k‘gther, who was working bés‘i&e}-llim,"di'd"“noft know he had been ‘struck until people from—the house who saw the accident went out and toldbigs e

DuriNG a Democratic ratification njeetirlg at Decatur on the night of &the 26th" ult., a cannon was' prematurely~discharged and ‘Timothy Frayer received tha entire charge inhis face. Both eyes were put out and his face and body were terribly. Jacer:itedL : THE wife of Governor Williaths died on the night of the 27th ult. | ARI A FIRE in the old Eastep buildir}g&m Liberty omrthe night of the 25th ult. destroyed Thomas Powell’s saloon, George Mitchell’s barber-shop and W. R. Weer’s grocery store. Loss, $3,500. . - : L o Box. R. B. F. PiERcE has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Eighth DPistiict: - <

~ WuILE bathing in_Eel River, near Adamsboro, Cass County, a few days ago, Dora Teal, twenty-three years old; was drowned.

~ FIIrTY of the seventy deaths reported in InMpplis during the first half of June were those of “children under five years of age. THE recent rains wrought great damage to the corn crop in the Wabash bottoms. -~ —

EVANSVILLE thought she had a population of 40,000, but the enumerators-say they can findno more than 28,000. Mad is no name for it in that town. i 2

WHILE the day and night gangs were changing in Kendall, Barnes & Co.’s oil mill at Richmond the other day, the boiler exploded with terrible force, demolishing the enginehouses. John Staley, walking across the street in front of the building, was hurled seventy-five feet acainst the pavement, and picked up dead.. Four employes, Carrington, Austersholtz, and the Bchroder brothers, were buried in the ruins, and were dug out by firemen in a mutilated condition. -

DuriNG an evening ride at Indianapolis on the 28th ult., Kate Hagarty was thrown from the wagon and had her back broken.

IN a saloon fight at Bhelbyville on the evening of the 28th, William Stoddard was fatally cut by Moses Ganf. : : M=s. JAocOB RoOLLINS committed suicide at Indianapolis on the 30th by hanging herself with a bed-cord. Insanity is supposed to have been the cause. S \.‘ - THE supervisor of the census gives the exact figures of the Indianapolis census,as 75,077. 1 i s

THE planing-mill of James Hook, at Terre Haute, was set on fire on the morning-of the 30th ult. and iotally: destroyed. Loss $5,000.

James Torr, aged seventy-two, while drivIng across the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad track at Greencastle on the 30th ult., was struck by the engine and fatally hurt. MicHAEL BUCKLEY, a passenger conductor on the Peru Railroad, went crazy while on his train on the 20th ult., and had to be taken to his home in. Michigan City. His mind was unhinged by political matters.

WORK on the new State House at Indianapolis has now advanced so far that the Commissioners will soon be able to name the day of laying the corner-stone.© The ceremonies will probably be beld during August. - M. L. BuxDy, Receiver of the Monticello (White County) Natioral Bank, which was ruined by the depredations of its President, Joseph Wilson, who fled to Canada, reports having paid a dividend of thirty per- cent. on total liabilities of $40,000, - ¥ lTHE general store of A. W, Bower, at Francisville, on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad, was entered by burglars on he night of the 2ith ult., and effectually cleaned out. Over $1,500 worth of goods were taken.

TeE Indianapolis grain quotations are: Whegt, No. 2 Red, H@9s¢; Corn, 344 @3s¢; Oats, 25@30c. The Cincinnati quotationsare ; ggl}lgeat,o Nto. gbé!z%%,g | !941}14@97555(%& Corn, 39% ¢; Oats, 29@29%c; Rye 7534 c; Barley, New, Fall, 85@8tige. ks

CHOWDER got a good dinner at home a few days ago by telling his wife that he was going to bring a judge home withhimto that meal. When he arrived alone,and Mrs. Chowder asked him where thejudge was, he triumphantly pointed to himself, remarkh}llg:——“‘ I'm:a %ood judge of a dinner.”” He will be obliged to get a dinner in some other way hereafter. -

“FATHER,” said an inquisitive boy, ‘“what is meant by close relationsg’ *¢ Close relations, my son,’? réplied the: father, ‘ are relations that newer give you a cent.”” The boy said étherld man, then, was the ‘‘closest!™ relation he’d got. i ;

Letter of Acceptance of General Pl Weaver. S

Bl BLOOMFIELD, lowa, July 2. General J. B. Weaver, the Green-back-Labor nominee for the Presidency, has addressed the following letter to the committee which was appointed to notify him of his nomination: .

Hons. 8. F. Norton. E. H. Gillette, Solon Chase, 8. D. Dillaye and E. P. Allis, Committee: GENTLEMEN: It is my pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23d of June formally notifyx"ing me of my nomination to the office of President of the United States by the unit?d Greenback-Labor party, whose representatives convened at Chicago June 9,

I am profoundly grateful for the honor conferred. Fnlly realizing tke high responsibility to which I have been- called, gndJ conscious that the position was unsought by me, I accept the nomination as a solemn. duty. The convention is to be congratulated upon the great work accomplished in tHe unification of the yarious Greenbuack #nd Lébor elements into one compact organization. This was of first importance, and thoroughly preparecs our forces to strike a decisive blow for indxl‘!trial‘ emancipation during the impending struggle. Our party hath this gignificance: It is a great labor movement, composed of earmest people, who -earn their bread by honest toil, whether of hand, head or heart; and as the world depends for the comforts of life upon the varipus departments of human-toil, so will every part of society feel the .vivifying influence of the grand acdievements of our organization that lie just—in' the. future; for when -labor i prosperous every other eleﬁlfelft of society feels the impulse of vigorous e. :

The three great political parties. have each gelected their candidates, and made formal ‘declavations of their princigles. It is now the high duty of every ¢itizen of the United States to judge between them, and, after ‘careful inSuiry into the aims and. purposes of each, to etermine the ’or{a;nizationj with which duty calls him to act. ~. e N The admirable platform adopted by the Convention meets my cordial approval. It is com= “prehensive, reasonable and progressive, eantaining those principles of economic reform essenthqgg»j:he Freservation of the liberty and gros erity-of the whole people. X It being the duty of man to earn his bread in the sweat of his face, it becomes the first duty of civil government to foster industry. _All laws, therefore, which place a premium upon idleness, whether of men or money, unjustly discriminate in favor of capital, or withhold from honest men‘the full and just reward of their labor, are simply monstrous. Capital should be the servant of labor rather than its master. This great truth can never be realized until there is an adequate circulats ing medium. Tlnasmuch as this ¢irculating medium is for the -benefit of all, its issue and _volunme should be ‘sacredly kept under the weﬂggtof the General Government, without the intervention of banking corporations. All money, whether gold, silver or paper, should be issued by the supreme authority of the Nation, and be made a full legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private. . The system. which’now prevails gives into the hands of banking corporations absolute cbntrol over.the volume of the currency, and through this ‘they have the power to fix the price of the labor and profperty of 50,000,000 of people. By provigion of law the method is clearly defined: whereby they may, without limit, infiate orcontract the currency at will. Cognate to this; and a part of the same scheme, stands the system of fundiug the public debt. Like National Banking, this was -borrowed from the English ' monarchy. By this system an enormous non-taxéble, interestbearing debt is to be perpetuated. The bonds support the-banks, and the banks foster the pubiic debt. If you pay oft the bonds the banks must ¢ease to exist. Hence, if the National Banks are fo continue, we must have a _perpctual bonded debt. Both patriotism and *sonnd statesmanship loudly eall for the dbo--lition of banks of issue, and the substitution of Tegal-tender Treasury notes for their circu= lation. Pay the bonds according to contract, and as rapidly a?ms@le. : o Seven hundred millioxﬁﬁf\t%qblic?dobt become redeemable at the optio the Government during this and the ensuing year.’ Two Funding bills are now pending before Congress—one introduced by the Democratic, and the other by the Republican leader of the Heouge—whereby it is_proposed to'deprive the people for twent d thirty years of the lawful right to pay said ds. This is a crime }gainst' the laborer and the tax-payer, and sxlm\t;;d _cause widespread’ alarm among all classes. ; .

The annual surplus_revenues, and the idle coin now in the Treasury,and that which must continue to accumulate, if the silver lew approved February 28, 1878, shall be honestly enforced, are ample to pay every dollar of the séven hundred millions, both principal and interest, within the next six years. There isnot the slightest excuse for funding these bonds, except: to perpetuate the debt as-the basis of an_iniquitous banking monopoly. It ‘must be;apparent to all that the great moneyed institutions and other corg;o,rations now have control of nearly every department of ‘the Government, and are fast swallowing up the profits of labor and reducing the people to a condition of vassalage and dependence. These monopolies, of whatever class, headed by the associated: banks, are interlocked in purpose, and always act in closest sympathy. There are threée great industrial classes in America: 1. The producers; 2. Those who manufacture our raw materials and prepare them for use; 3. The distributors of these products. Each should be protected in the legitimate fruits and profits of their labor, but should not be permitted to extort from and enslave the others. e

The great problem of our civilization is, how to bring the producer and the consumer together. This can only be done by Xl‘()\v'idi!lg an adequate circulating medium, an b({ rigid regulation of inter-State commerce and transportation. This was wisely foreseen by the iramers of the Constitution, and, accordingly, by the eighth section of article first. €ongress &clothed with power ‘¢ to regulate commerce ith foreign Nations and among the States.” This power impeses a corresponding duty upon .Congress to see that it is enforced. The two great agents of commerce are money and vransportation. It is undeniable that both of these agents are under the absolute control of monopolies. By controlling the wvolume of money, the banks fix the price of all labor and | property; and'the railroads, by combination, render. competition impossible, and control absolutely the price of transportation. This places the people” between the upper and. nether millstones, and grinds them to poverty. and ruin. It resultsin the wholesale robbery | of both producer and consumer, Who is able | to controvert this stupendous fact? Farmers, fl'unrers and laboring men ot the United States, heseech you to open your eyes at once to this alarming condition of things. I am esspecially thankful that the platform of the party which placed me in nomination is open, bold and unmistakble on these great questions. The Republican and Democratie platforms are either silent with regard to. these vital issues, or they have pronounced in favor of the monopolies and against the people. With 50,000,000 of people looking thém . in the face and pleading for relief, they utter not one word of promise or hope.. Their leaders and platform-makers are.in the toils of the syndicate, gigantic bank corporations and rail--road monopolies, and have mneither the disposition nor the courage to strike one generous blow for industrial emancipation. ' . An area'of our public domain larger than the territory occupied by the great German Empire has been w,uxttonl{ donated to wealthy corporations, while a bill introduced by the Hon. Hendrick B. Wri%ht. of - Pennsylvania, to enable our poor people to reac hand occupg' the few acres remaining has been Scouted, ridiculed and defeated in Congress. ‘ln consequence of this stupendous system of landgrabbing, millions of the young men of AmerAca, and millions more of ‘industrious agople from abroad seeking homes in the New World, are left homeless and destitute. The public domain must be sacredly reserved to actual settlers, and wheré corporations have not: complied strictly . -with the terms of their _grants, the lands should be at once reclaimed. %ge immigration of persons from foreign countries, seeking homes, and desiring to become citizens of the United States, should be encouraged, but the importation of Chinese iservile laborers should be prohibitéd: by strinREBEIAWB: o ol f U 0 gy faise ' While the bondholder has been paid gold in | return for his depreciated curreire:%\thef ‘soldiers and sailors, who saved our Union;-oar | homes, our money and our altars, and whoseblood.énnsecrated‘ every battlefield from Bel-. mont and Donelson to Gettysburg and Apé)omattox, are denied the pittance justly due them under their contract’ with the Government—as though soldiers and-sailors could re-OR. titude alone. By the answer of Secretary Sherman of: neém, 1830, to the Senate resolution ot-in%ui\x‘y* it appears that the “Government paid the mﬂdiéﬁmﬂreenbaoks, ; ‘ durigg the < the reb 1i0n,~\51,6249,-‘.519,- | 185.16. The total inter: aid in gold on the ' publie debt from July 1 1&61,%.1@&&%{:} | was 51LE09,301455,19. ‘The soldier has I taxed to pay thls intere&t while the bondholder has.gohe freéy’ ©~ 7 '.. (HLUIHWS O o Wﬁ Congress it has been im-, possible to induce the cemmittees to regort a sinéle bill to remedy exiétiﬁg ‘evils. The im* ’pgt at.:g eonamﬂi'tt%opaﬁ ‘ii:gg onse:‘?ggt‘go. congti % the despotic rules of ‘body sB¢ Inte}:'§l‘etgg,‘as to’ réﬁdeﬂeligg’ imgdyhdﬁam“ tliUni :tr ge?t gﬂest:: Speatkher is=h much e bator e coun as though he were | an '%mpgtor and _ruHﬁd‘% the mgot ‘ges‘poﬂc government onthéglobe.: -~ ' o

One of the grand missions of our party is to banish forever from American politics that -deplorable spirst,of sectienal hatred, which, for base purposes, has been fostered by the leaders of the. old parties. This has gr.eat’}iy deceived and embittered the public mind, both ' North and South. Our .civilization. demands ‘a new party. dedicated to the pursuits of peace, and which will not auog ‘the war issues ever to be reopened, gnd will render the military strictly subservient ‘to the eivil power. The war i 8 over, and the sweet'voice of peace, long negléected, calls us to worghip at her altars; letus crowd hertemBles wi?x willing votaries. Let us have a free allot, & fair count and equal rights for all 'classes—for the laboring man in Northern manufactories, mines and workshopsyand for the struggling poor, both black a‘nd_,&'hite; in the coi;ton-ﬁefds of the South. < ¥ mﬁpt earnestly and solemnly invokeunited _act.ioniof all industrial classes, irregpective of 'party, that we may make a manly struggle for the independence of labor, and tg re-establish : in the adndinistration of ﬂpublic giluirs the oldtim¢ democracy. of Jefferson /and Jdackson, .and/the pure republicanism of/ Abraham Lincoln and Thaddeus Stevens. s S ' _Jn consequénge of the great avenues.to publi¢ opinion—the press, the bar and the pulpit—being mainly under the controlof the enemies ~of our movement,your Convention thought - proper to request it\e candidates to visit the - various sections of the Union and talk to the people. . Itis my intention to comply with this request to the-extent of my ability. ¢ ' And now, esehewm@ew;iolence and tumult as unworthy the caus¢ we represent, and reiying upon Divine Providence Tmnd the justice of our cause, let us go forth\in the grez%ﬁt‘x'ugglé for humun rights; With high regurd:fam -your obedient servant, J. B. WEAVER. ; B ’ —————e ' % A Singular History Which Was Told ‘ to a Census Enumerator.

A REMARKABLE case was noted by a city enumerator,. in Louisville) says the Courier-Journal, in collecting the death statistics for the twelve months preceding the enumeration. After get--ting all the facts from a widow as to the number, age, sex, ete., of her family, he inquired if any deaths had occurred within the past year. She replied that she had lost her mother and two husbands within that time, and made -the following statement: She had been magried twice, had separated from her first husband, obtained a divorce and married again.' Several months ago her husband went to Texas’ and a short time afterhis departure she received a telegram informing her of: his death from the effects of a fall from \%lsc:tﬁ'o]‘d on ‘which he was working. Jer mother was suffering from heart disease, and she decided to send her to" the house of a_friend before the.arrival of her husband's remains and impart the news to her gradually. But the body arrived sooner than she expected it to, and was sent directly to the house before she was notified - of its arrival. Her mother was sweeping when the hearse backed up to the.door, ard on seeing her daughter making arrangements -to receive it, she Kknew that something -had happened which had been kept/from her, and, going to her daughter, she asked what had happened. She was told of the death of her son-in-law, and, without utfering a, word, she fell to the floor a corpse, and the remains of mother and husband were placed. side by side in the I‘OOT until the hour arrived for ‘the funeral, when they were conveyed to the ce me--tery and buried close together. About an hour after she returned home from the double funeral, a messenger came to her from her first hﬂ{b‘and, saying that he was dying in the City Hospitaﬁ and desired to see her befor?:xhe\died. She hurried to the hospital, but before. she reached his bedside his spirit had flown, and he, too, was dead. _She had his remains removed from the hospital to her house, ordered another grave to be prepared, and on the'next day followed him to the cemetery and buried him by the side of her mother and second husband. B 1

A Watch for Realw - ~THE only men 'who really enjoy life are those who carry cheap silyer watches, warranted never to tell the éxact time. .- He who owns a watch of this kind always assumes that it is five minutes, out \oi.\tg;n::my, and ' takes his measures accordingly. He does’ not attempt to delude himself with the belief that railway time differs from all other time, but, by frankly assuming that his watch is untrustworthy, he arrives at the station at the same moment as the man with the infallible watch who believes in the myth of railway time. He never is betrayed through boasting of the accuracy of his watch, and is not compelled to indulge in wholesale attacks on the veracity of all other time-pieces. The only danger te which he isiex];osed is that his wafch may occasionally keep altogether too accurate time, thus rendering unnecessary the five minutes’ allowance which he habitually makes when keeping an appointment or traveling. In these circumstances the best thinf; to do'is to dip the watch into a bowl of water. This seldom fails to induce it to resume its customary irregularities, and to wipe from it the reproach of suspected accuracy. . Much good mais]7 also be done by occasionally moving the regulat(ll_f.__gver' the entire arc from ‘‘slow’” to ‘fast.™ In fact, with a very little effort, the cheap silver watch can be mdde to run as ‘it was designed to. run, and its owner can thus secure himself against the misery of having the exact time.—= N. Y. Times. sl

The Equator.

AN excellent instance of the way in which the children in the average public school learn without learning is related' by Barnes’ EducatioMal Mont_hl%/’. A teacher in one of our public schools has been accustomed to require her pupils to say: < The equator is an imaginary line passing around the earth,’ etc. It never occurred to her that the boys and girls of her school had no idea what an imaginary line meant, until one day a visitor asked them how wide they thought the equator -is. Some thought it was 5,000 miles wide, others 2,000, and others said ,&hgy-eoul@a_jgmp over it. The visizor then asked how they thought ships got. over it. One Expil said he thought they got out and rew them over, and another said ‘he had read that a canal hadsbeen dug thro'ugh it!" ¢ What is the name of this canal?’’ was asked. ‘“The Suez Canal!l? was the answer. : i

+ AMERICAN oysters are taken to Europe now, notialone for immediate but for. prospective -consumption.. . The Schleswig owners of oyster beds have. ?aireaady‘_ﬁ.idio_wg a good many Ameri-' -can oysters, and a new. company has just been formed for doing the same thing on a vastly increased scale. ‘So, -with each year, America becomes more and more the food supplier of the old ‘world, as well as on an augmenting sgale the recipient of her surplus popu-, P LA v §

-vhairman Hoadley’s Remarks Before ~_the National Convention. Hon. G§ol;ge Hoadley, the Temporary Chairman of the Democratic National Convention, on ;mummg the ohair, delivered the following spirited and interesting addcess:, /' i MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEX OF THE NaATIONAL EXRCUTIVE GoMmrrrse: I obey this call to the chair of this Convention with grateful acknowledgement of the oanfidence reposed in me. It shall be my sedulous care to - prove worthy of your nomination. : Fellow~delegates, fellow-Democrats, thanks for ,vour,weﬁx)nw. your. generous weloome, my best response to whieéh will be, and my | only adequate response oan be. the strictest impartiality in the. exercise of power dmﬁ;ﬁ ' the brief period it is eommitted to me. Ish make mistakes. I trust you will forgive them. I am sure you will,.as soon ‘as I satisfy you that, although as a .delegate I am thezexlows friend, even the partisan, of my favorite can- - didate, as yvour—efficer—l shall know neither friend nor foe of any candidate, but discharge my duty with .absolute fairness and tidelity of purpose.. Of this you have my pledge. : Gentlemen of the Convention: Our fathers, distrusting populat chgjce, ¢stablished in each State an Eléctaral Coll¢ge, to whose unpledged action they sought to intrust the election of ! the Chief Magistrates of the Republic.. Their children, taught by experi¢nce, hase wisely modified the Constitutional scheme Ly an unitten amendment which combines the ad- | vantages of the Electorpl system with the direct popular vote, while it preserves to each (‘Smte its just weight of influence upon the result. Conventions of-delegates chosen by the ’peuple of two or moreparties have already presented candidates for Papular acceptance, at the coming election, and aitether great college of electors is’ now assembledin this hall. ' The office yownow fill, though not {d<fined by law, is of transcendent legal c¢onsequelree. I need: not say that in this assembly it will not 'be doubted that you. are not delegates from Congressional: distri¢ts, but representatives of those indestructible units of our indestructible Union—the States. ‘Custom has defined your duties. They. are, to construct a platform and to nominate candidates. . You are not, however, called together to create a creed, but to apply: a 2 known principle to present publie affairs. The Democratic principle does not date its birth from your assem“bling, and will not - perish with the success or defeat of the candidates you nominate, It is eternal—a Divine fire burning in the hearts of men. It quickéns the thought -of the statesman, nerves' the arm of . the, soldier, and " doubles the energies of ‘the toiler. It-is found in ~ the Roman précefpt, S Suunt cuique l tribuere,” and in the. seif-evident truth of the American patriot, that all men are created l equal. Itis the unrelenting foe ot despotism - and of communism, whether open or sought ’ to be hidden under the disguise of paternal . Governments, _lts beneficent office in political affairs is to séeure 10 every man the utmost, possible liberty of action consistent with equal “liberty to every uther. : i Yours ismot, therefore, the office of invention,but of promulgation; not to dis¢over, but to deelare and to applyv the Democritic principle to the changing affairs. of human society, - and that 'this principle may have jiving force in public concerns, you,; will- nominatre candidates whose election will insure its tull fraition during the next Presidential term. These duties no Democrat doubts that.you wiil worthJily perform. LR e But you are. called to their discharge this day under cirecumstances of. no. COMENON Mo~ ment, circumstances ;which, may Gud in his mercy grant, Bhallin the history ‘of out Republic' never recur,” Four years ago .the Democratic party in Convention assembied at-St. Louis, announced to-the country its platform,, and nominated as its cuandidates. two' ‘of the foremost statesmen of the Nation. Borh then and now'they are worthy of the most énthusiastic devotion, and the most ardent private friendship. And Samiel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks were elécted President and VicePresident of the United States—eieécted ‘as fairly as was Geotrge Washington or James ‘Monroe, . That they were not. inaugurated; that the Chjief Magistrate of-the Nation has for more than three years been on¢ whom the- . people and electors rejected, is a'living mon- | unient, seen now of all men; and to be remembered in all generations, of the fraud of the Republican party; of its infidelity to republican principles; of its willingness to sacrifice the right of popular®elgction; that vital principal of republics, rathér.than: lax:its hold upon power, and of the loyalty of the Democratic party even to the forms of law, of the confidence that the will of the peopie must naly-prevail, “abiding -in which it patiently waits for the full fruition of its hopes: until March 1, 1881, but no longer—no longer, unless defeated at the polls, if beiaten fairly, we shall submit. I repeat, we shall submit and again wait; but if again sticcessful, no. cunning de- | vice of dishonest-arbitration shall deprive us : Qﬁ our rights. - The Democratic party will . lever again appear before; a tribunal falsely ‘ called of justice—a tribunal deaf to the appeal of testimony, but not blind: to the beckoning | finger of fraud. -But, though we failed to in~ -augurate our candidate, our cause "was. not, ' ‘even for the moment, wholly . lost. Retribu- | tive justice visited without-delay the immediate author of this infamy. Theé courts of [ Florida had thwarted the eonsgiramrs who ‘ proposed the theft of its State Government, _and the stern refusal of the Democratic House - of Representatives to appropriate a manor a dollar to continue the:subjugation of. South Carolina and Louisiana- soon forced theé op_pressor torelax his grasp. No trace now remained of the carpet-bag Governments of the -~ South, except the $170,000,000. increase lin the _public debt, which they contrived in the seven ({ears of misgovernment tO heap upon:itsim-. - poverished people. Yes, ;motheﬁ’ trace re- | mqéned. Louisiana, entitled by the Constita- . tion to two Senators, is /rcﬁresented by ome. : The seat of the otheris filled by a delegate - from a band of villains, never recognized as a - Government, and lon%since disposed of—some to fatten upon the Federal Treasury and some | to eat the bread of exile. s The vears that have passed since the theft of . the Presidency have been yedrs of plenteous ~ harvest. The labor of the husbandman has - reaped a rich reward. The earth haS been‘tickled wi‘h the hoe and has laughed with ac ~harvest.”” 'L7ie benison of the Most High has been upon us, and the opFormnities_otfered by His gracious favor wisely %!lEI’PW ~ economies of twWo s /¢ Democratic Con-: ~ gresses, have made possible that paFtial measure of resumed payment of the.National ioating debt;-and that equilization of values called by the Republican ;iii.rty the “resumption of specie-payment.” But the new p'rﬁeperiti'es awakened by foreign demand and the abundant domestic products were giftsto the American people from & higher source, than any ageney of the _Retpu‘blica.n party.” No soldiers kept the .(i;)ea,ce of the corn-fields; no Returne ing Boards canvassed the wheat-sheaves: na Supervisors or Deputy-Marshals assisted in . the gathering intothe %a.mars, andno Electoral Commission gave its b essm%_ to. the harvest. _They were the fruits of labor, the gracious _gifts to the laborer of Him who ;i.g)rh_e Jlargest - benefactor in society, the High Priest of the! Democratic hierarchy. “We have been‘sganed (l)glsg great.danger since the Bth day.oz\un:;\ - Tt has been certain that the usurper willn be immediately followed by thé monarch, but “the third term is postponed,;-not averted, and the real danger. ‘is' not it -the third term so much as in the Republican garty{wh-ig%%akes the third. term %ossible. -Bonaparte did: not. : ¢rown himself Emperor until Bonapartism had -~ corrupted France. When more than ' three-fifths of any political party invokes. ~ ‘*saviorof society,” that party is aiready so. | })oisoned with Imperialism that it has become ° _itself a menace to the republic far more for- ~ midable than aqu* m&s\cmef it professes to fear. or any danger it was organized to repel. “The remedy, gentlemen, for this and for all other ~illsjof Sté;lte is an etermal gglla,nce Tmu . Sde e, Didd agty tho poleaturiop Sehty. ' This ~ vigilance, already newly quickened amogg the people from whom you come, con~tinued here -and. hereafter, is sure to bring ~ vietory to the Democratic principles and the Democratic: candidates,—a. victory so-full of hope for the Rtﬁmhhc that éven the “melancholy days of November’ shall be radiant “with joy. and on'’ the Wi%s: of the stormy winds of Maxch shall be wa fﬁxblessings.- L ... ——lt is indeed ‘‘a strange coincidence” that the announcement of the ~death of ex-Senator Ba ‘ ! clined to accept any stocl jntgcgredlt | Mobilier because he thought he could not £r(:¥)erly vote Qu & question in which he had any pecunifiry-interest, should ; PR iy R ! e oy E}w%&%b y’4 s nomination fors £ o S G g T TR LA P the . Presidency efﬂgene ar 3 &,d: ‘who thought he coul pke a lqﬂg&f@e as an ady()wi”t "om p Ple ‘who were seeking to obtain contracts from an official committee of Which he wasthe official chairman.—Philadelphia ——-—G&eraleﬁeldWew clm,z upon public sup%@rtf It has been gmcovered that when ca young man'he 3 R oe, b oad Wt N g 4 St % bought a suit of clothes on time, and auhsegnentlf_t;,-‘ps.nd-:».;fqt,au@them.' ~ If that Soum it man o tho Prsidency ~what does? ‘Let thecampaign proceed? TS R TR e RSR eLR e T S