Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1884 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. * ' - - ■ - - <L E. MARSHALL, - - Publishes.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

COHORESSIOXH PROCEEDINGS. A raxniOM from citizens of Californio, praying for an Increase of the duty on raisins was presented in the Senate April 31. A resolution was adopted that the Secretary of War inquire and report the value of all grants to the State of Michigan for the Portaue hake Ship Canal, and on what conditions that work can be purchased by the Government for a free waterway. Bills were passed authorizing a bridire over the Cumberland River at Nashville, grant-' ing a pension to the widow of Rear Admiral McDouga.ll, and to ratify agreements with the Sioux Indians for right of way for the Dakota Central and the CHioago.Milwaukee * St. Paul Roads. In the House, Mr. Weller objected to consideration of the bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to invest lawful money deposited by national banks to retire their circulating notes. An order was tnade that evening sessions be held for general debate on the tariff bilL The pension appropriation bill was passed, the amendment oy Mr. ltosecrana to transfer the duties of Pension Agents to the Pay Department of the army being lost. The House then went into committee on the tariff bill. Mr. Wellborn said the mea-ure was a step in the direction of adjusting all duties to a reyenue standard. Protection was a monopoly of the worst form, and was an Illegitimate and pernicious exercise of the rights of taxation. This great issue should not be evaded, and Could not be postponed. The Democracy would ultimately triumph. Mr. McKinley said it was gi atifying to know the real purposes of the Democracy to destroy the present system of taxation and protection. He congratulated the i>arty that under the leadership of the honest statesman from Illinois it had announced Its true platform. The real great is*ue between the parties was whether there should be free trade or a revenue tariff which would at the same time care for the great industries of this country. He would not support the hill under any circumstanoes, because a reduction of JO per cent, would destroy some great industries. The horizontal bill bore on Its very face the highest evidence of absolute incapacity. It was the invention of idleness. The only persons who demanded a reduction of the tariff were the wealthy members of the tree-trade clubs of Brooklyn and New York. He held that the bill would reduce the price of labor, and appealed to the Democratic party not to take a leap in the dark bv passing the hill. It should first discipline its mutineers. Mr. Herbert made an elaborate argum'-nt in favor of the bill. A resolution by the Legislatin'.? of Ohio, reoommending the granting of pensions to prisoners of the late war, was presented to the Senate, April 2S. A message from the President was received, transmitting a report by the Secretary of State to the effect that the demands of foreign countries upon the United States for wheat •hould naturally be as great as last year. Bills were passed to provide for Government control of the Sault Ste. Marie Falls Canal in Michigan, and to protect Indian reservations from the unlawful cutting of timber. While the pleuropneumonia bill was under discussion, Mr. Coke taid 11 the Agricultural Department would Btop libeling American cattle there would be no more trouble with the business. Mr. Williams declared that,, of his own knowledge, plenro-pneumonia existed to the District or Oo.umbia and adjacent States, tn the House of Representatives, a resolution was adopted to the Kansas contested election sase giving a seat to Sir. Peters. While in committee of the whole on the navy appropriation bill, Mr. Kasson urged that armam >nts be given to vessels now in process of construction, and Ur. Randall argue l against accepting the Senite n 'me-'t to the u>e-’s - ’r.r There wai a lively debate on the pleuropneumonia bill in the Senate April 24, but no action was taken. A petition was presented from the State officers of Maine, asking that an' appropriation be made to aid of the World’s Exposition at New Orleans. A joint resolution was passed that the two houses attend the ceremony of nnveiling a statue of Chief Justice Marshall cn May 1<). Bills were passed relating to trespass on Indian lands, and to provide for disposing of abandoned military reservations. The House of Representatives passed a joint resolution authorizing the lease to the Michigan Fish Commissioners of a strip of land adjacent to the Sault Ste. Marie Canal. An adverse' report was made on the bill to compel residents of one State to attend as witnesses to the courts of another State. Favorable action was taken by committees on bills for bridges across the Mississippi at Bock Island and the Falls of St Anthony, and over the Missouri in Douglas County, Nebraska. The Reuse voted not to concur in the Senate amendments to the naval appropriation bill, except the item of $600,000 to provide an armaitnent for the new cruisers. Messrs, Reed, E. B. Taylor, T. M. Prowne, and McCold submitted a minority report from the Committee on Jndtoi* ary in favor of female suffrage. > bfii. Wilson, of lowo, made an elaborate speech in tho Senate, on the 25:h of April, in favor of the principle of national regulation of Interstate commerce Mr. Jones, of Florida, delivered a long speeeh against the pleuro-pnen-monia bill. He took extreme State-rights grounds, and held that the National Legislature had no constitutional power to adopt the proposed measure. A resolution was passed to deposit to the Smithsonian Institution a ting made of American silk, presented by Joseph Newman, of California. The House of Representatives, in committee of the whole, made a favorable recommendation on the bill to give Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines patents for 38.467 acres of land claimed by her, or pay $1.25 per acre for so much thereof as has been sold. There was no session of the Senate on April 26. The House of Representatives passe d the free-ship bill, with an amendment providing that any American citizen may import free of duty iron or steel steamships of not less than four thousand tons measurment.

THE EAST.

John Coyle -was banged fit Gettysburg, Pa., for the murder of Emily Myers. He bore up well until be heard the carpenters erecting his scaffold, when he passed Into an excited condition, which lasted until the drop fe11.... While boating on the Hudson Elver, near Sing Sing, N, V., five persons were run down by a steamer and drowned. 0, H. Deane, a New York lawyer, has been rendered bankrupt by real-estate operations. His liabilities are stated at over $500,' 000, and he has given preferences to two banks, lho Rochester University, and two religious societies. An English syndicate, controlling $25,000,000 capital, has offered $8,000,000 for the Trinity Church Block in New York, desiring to erect thereon a mammoth structure for brokers’ offices, but the prodosition has been rejected. '* “l. ”■ Gainswobth Pettis, a mill owner residing in Lockport Township, near Erie, Pa., who has been a Spiritualist for,some time, was conveyed to an asylum. He be- ' lieved the spirit of Nebuchadnezzar controlled him, and began to feed on herbs and roots Mrs Amelia Barnet cut the throats of her two children, aged 2 years, and 5 months, respectively, at Pittsburgh, Pa., and then, giving the alarm, cut her own throat, and threw herself beside the bleeding babies. All are mortally wounded.

THE WEST.

Complaints come from Dayton, Ohio, of tyrannical treatment of disabled veterans by Gen. M. R. Patrick. Governor of the National Soldiers’ Home, and the citizens are clamorous for bis removal....An Indiana court has decided that the establishment of arbitrary rates by the Underwriters’ Association of Indianapolis is contrary to the freedom of trade and prejudicial to the common good. Gen. Patrick, Governor of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, Ohio, is charged with being unnecessarily harsh to The Board of Management of the Home say there is r o foundation for the Charges, and that they have originated In the- imaginaton Of some of the inmates. It is probable that' a committee of investigation will be appointed. Several unknown persons stoned and partially wrecked the residence of L M. Lynn, editor of tbo Oreenbaclt Herald, at Ebelbyville, 111. The inmates escaped unhurt. Recent attacks of the paper on the bad ele-

ments of the plnoe resulted in the outrage. ....Amos Baokentros, a farmer of Boone County, Indiana, was shot through tho heart by burglars who broke into his house. Near Audubon, lowa, an «]d manbj the name of Hiram Jefferson was taken out of his bed by three men, at»d, after being dragged by the men about 300 feet, was hung to the limb of a tree. Dispatches from Fort Wingate report an uprising of Indians at Mitchell's ranch, in the Ute Reservation. The Ules attacked the ranchmen of that section and a desperate battle ensued, but tho Indians were repulsed with n loss of two Indians killed and two wounded, 1 The Ute Reservation, the scene of the trouble. Is located in the corners of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and news from there cannot bo readily obtained.... The. postofllies at Minneapolis and St. Paul have been added to the list of those which come under the civil-sorvice

rules.

THE SOUTH.

Near Cockeysville, Md., Joshua Gill and Charles Brown, brothers-in-law, fought what may be termed a duel, at the third shot Brown falling wounded, his wife at the moment rushing from the house and falling prostrate and unconscious on her husband's body. Earlier in the day Brown attempted to assassinate Gill, and for years a feud has existed among tho families! Gill surrendered himself to the authorities. The Supreme Lodge of the World of the Knights of Pythias, at its thirteenth annual session, held at New Orleans, elected the following officers: Grand Chancellor, John Van Valkcnburg, Fort Madison, Iowa; Supreme Vice Chancellor, Howard Douglas, Ohio; Supreme Keeper of Records and Seals, Judge R. EL Cowen. of Missouri; Supreme Master-at-Arms, G. B. Shaw, Wisconsin; Past Supreme Chancellor. John R. Linton, Johnstown, Pa Near Monroe, Ga., Willis Gunn, a widower, went to the house of his son Jesse to kill him, as Jesse hadjustwon and married the girl whom both father and son had been courting. Jesse was warned, and fired upon and killed his father as the latter was taking aim. Several thousand Kentuckians at* tended the unvejling, at Frankfort, of a monument to tho memory of the late Judge John M. Elliott, who was shot dead by Col. Thomas Buford for muking a decision distasteful to the latter. In Bolivar County, Miss., a negro named John Henderson, who was caught In the act of brutally assaulting Miss Ida Davis, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy planter, was pursued by bloodhounds and brought to bay in the branches of a tree, from which he was mado to descend at the point of a shotgun. He was then securely bound, and, a rope being placed around his neck, was slowly strangled to death. Several times he was hoisted Into the air and kept there until life was almost extinct, and then lowered and revived, i nly to be hoisted again. This was repeated until life was extiuet, after which his body was riddled with bullets and left in the woods. Miss Davis is in a very critical condition, and is not expected to live Five thousand farmers assembled at Centre Point, Ark., to witness the execution of Charles Wright for participation in the Howard County riots, in which Thomas Wyatt was killed... .Henry Curry, colored, was executed at Monroe, Ga., for the murder of a negro who had aroused his jealousy. Frank James, the bandit, was acquitted by the United States jury at Huntsville, Ala., but was immediately arrested by the Sheriff 6f Cooper County, Mo., for complicity in the Otterville train robbery. At Hot Springs, Ark, a verdict of not guilty was returned in the case of S. A. Doran and five allies for murder in the first degree, in the killing of Frank Hall in the bloody butchery enacted there Feb. 9. Hall was an innocent victim, the driver of the hack containing the three Flynn brothers during the shooting. Doran and party will again be tried under indictments of murder in the first degree in the killing of John Flynn. ... .John Hogan, an aged bachelor living on a plantation across the Georgia lino from Columbia. South Carolina, recently died of epilepsy on a pallet of straw. In a leather pouch on his persun was found $7,000 in currency, and in his trunk lay $585 in gold. He could neither read nor write....ln Western Texas cattle are reported dying for want of water and grass, while myriads of caterpillars are destroying vegetation,

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Lincoln, -with a full appreciation of the character required by the Judge Advocate General of the Army, addressed a letter to President Arthur, reciting the circumstances of the affair between A. E. Bateman and Gen. Swaim, and urging a court of inquiry for the vindication of the latter officer. The President coincided, and Gens. Pope, Augur, and Sackett have been appointed to investigate the case.... The Greely expedition, consisting of three vessels, has been ordered to sea by the Secretary of tbq. Navy, under command of Commander Schley, who goes uninstructed.... Hon. J. W. Foster, United States Minister to Spain, has returned to Washington to confer with the administration in regard to the proposed commercial treaty. Gen. D. S. Stanley has been assigned to command in the Department of Texas, with headquarters at San Antonio. Gen Stanley was at San Antonio when Gen. Sheridan was in command of tbeDepartrnentof tlieGulr.... The collections Of internal revenue for the , first nine months of the fiscal year were as follows: Spirits, $55,497,893, an Increase of $2,102,440 over the corresponding period of the previous year; tobacco, $13,854,535, a decrease of I $13,755,393; fermented liquors, $12.658,fe59.ian increase of $895,778; banks and bankers, $2,392, a decrease of $3,741,534; miscellaneous sources, $440,904, a decrease of $6,008,539. The aggregate receipts were $87,454,084, which are $20,505,253 less than the collections of the last fiscal year. John A. "Walsh, the noted star route witness, has written to Mr. Springer, Chairman of the House Committee on Expenditures of the Department of Justice, urging that Secretary chandler be summoned before the corinnittee to give evidence in reference to a letter which he is alleged to have written to Attorney General Brewster Ju connection with the star route cases.... Senator George; of Missi-sippi, from the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, will soon report a bill proposing to prohibit thp Importation or immigration of foreign laborers under contract to work in this country. ... .Senator Cullom’s bill for the regulation of interstate commerce has been adopted by the Sens e Committee on Railroads as the basis for legislation on that sub ect..].. Postmaster General Gresham, with his wife, left Washington last week for Jacksonville, F1a.... The House* Committee on Fostofflces has ordered the preparation tof a bill for a contract system of postal telegraphy. Holman, Carlisle, Hurd, arid other advanced free-traders on the Democratic side assert that the Morrison bill will pass the House. .They say they have reliable information which justifies . their prediction tnat they will secure a majority for the measure. Mr. Morrison Is also confident,... The value of Imports for the year ending March 31 were S6B ',258,64% against $742,50 ,- 875 for the preceding year; and*tbe exports were $761,733,431, against $103,727,802 for

1883.

POLITICAL.

New York ,telegram: A 'party of leading Democrats and friends of Tilden, who have Just visited Greystohe, say that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for'the Presidency, and under no circumstances wilt, be s accept If nominated. They regard this, his last refusal, as Anal, and say that the field is now lett, so - far as Democratic candidates from this State aro. concerned, to Flower and Cleveland..... The Republicans of. Mississippi met at Jackson and selected fourteen* delegates to Chicago, of whom twelve are for Arthur. The Democratic State Convention of

I lowu adopted a resolution declaring for revenue reform, and appointed a unanimous TRdcu delegation to the national body at Chicago. v The Republican Convention ot Ohio adopted resolutions demanding the restoration of the wool tariff of 1876, appointed one Blaine !knd three Sherman deie-gates-ttt-large to the Chicago convention, and nominated J. S. Robinson for Secretary of State and W. W. Johnson for’Supreme Judge.... The Michigan Republican State Contention chose de.egates, wlio favor Blaine first and Edmunds second, with Lincoln os the unanimous choice for Vioe President... .The Maine Greenback Convention nominated Dr. H. B. Eaton for Governor. and indorsed (Jen. Benj. F. Butler for the Presidency... .The Republican Siate Convention of Connecticut left its delegates to Chicago uninstructed, but passed,, a resolution commending Joseph R. Hawley as a candidate for President. Tho New York Republican State Convention was organized in the interest of Arthur and Edmunds, despite the hostility of Thomas C. Platt and Senator Miller, and the delcgates-at large to Chicago are Andrew D. White, Edwto Packard, Thecdore Roosevelt, and John J. Gil bert. The Virginia Republican Convention adopted the unit 1 rule,' and instructed the delegates to Chicago to vote for Arthur.... The Dakota Republicans elected N. E. Nelson and Col. J. L. Jolly as delegates to Chicago, and instructed them to vote for Blaine and Lincoln while a probability of nomination remains. The Arizona Republican Convention met at Phoenix and appointed delegates to Chicago. The convention instructed for Blaine.,..Tho Massachusetts Greenbnckers held their convention at Lynn, indorsed Gen. Butler for President, and appointed delegates to the Indianapolis convention. <ir At the Greenback State Convention of Massachusetts, held at Lynn, the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in reference to. the power of Congress to issue legal-tender money was indorsed; governmental regulation of railroads and corporations of alike character was recommended, and tho employment of young childdren in factories was condemned. Gen. B. F. Butler was indorsed lor President. The National Chairman of the Greenback Labor party thinks Gov. Begole, of Michigan, and ex-Congressman Jones, of Texas, will be the national ticket, and that Butler cannot get the nomination because of his Democratic affiliations. It is thought in Washington among Republican politicians that Congressman Calkins, of the Valparaiso District, will be the Republican nominee lor Governor of Indiana..... The Arizona Republican Convention instructed its delegates to Chicago to support Blaine. A New Orleans dispatch says that returns of tho recent State election in Louisiana, mainly official, from all the .parishes but five, with estimates for these, give the total vpte of tho State as 139,038, being the largest cast since the exciting campaign of 187 G. It stands divided, between the two parties as follows: L’emocrais, 86,107; Republicans, 42,931 —a Democratic majority of 13,270. The Legislature will stand: Senate—Democrats, 30; Independent, 1; Republicans, 5; a Democratic loss of 2. House—Democrats, 82; Independent Democrats, 6; Ropubii. ana, 16; the Republicans losing 1 scat. The first amendment to the i tate Constitution is carried. This amendment provides that the interest on the State bonds, which had been fixed by the constitution at 3 per cent, for fifteen years, from Jan. 1,1885, and thereafter, shall be raised to 4 per cent, from Jan. 1, 1885, for the whole term of thirty years. This is believed to be the first instance in which a State, by tbe vote of the people, raised the interest on its public debt.

GENERAL.

The steamer Oregon, of the Guion Line, has Just accomplished the ocean voyage from Queenstown to New York in six days and ten hours, eclipsing the fastest time on record. The twenty-four-hour runs of the Oregon were as follows: Miles. I Miles. April 14 ....44i»LAprll 17 470 April 15 460 April 18 469 April 16 455 1 April 19 472 The latter run—the best—was during very fair weather. It eclipses the best run over made in twenty-four hours, that of the Alaska, by thirty-two miles. The entire distance run was 2,861 miles, or seventy-six miles farther than the Alaska when she made her best record of six days twenty-one hours and forty minutes. The average speed per day of the Oregon was 461 miles, or nearly twenty miles an hour. The Mexican Government is seriously considering and will probably grant the prayer of the merchants to repeal the stamp tax and to substitute a tax of from 1 to 2 per cent, on sales. The merchants promise to advance $1,500,000 to the Government if their request shall be complied with.... A rebellion against tbo Mexican Government in one of Pacific Coast States of the republic has been put down. John W. Ayers, representing a powerful combination of Boston capital, has petitioned the Massachusetts Senate to sell him four railways connected with the Hoosao tunnel, together with 200 acres on South Boston fiats, for all which he offers $4,000,000, with the promise of extending the system to Chicago, to connect with the Boston roads leading to the Pacific coast and the Mexican capital. Bunting, Wilkinson, Meek, and Kirkland, the parties charged with trying to secure a vote of want of confidence in the Ontario Ministry, have been indicted for bribery... .In an official report, Capt, Schoenhoven, of the steamer Daniel Steinmann, re-, cently wrecked on the Nova Scotia coast, re-j suiting In the drowning of 124 persons. Is charged with being the direct cause of the disaster. Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Chicago, has passed away in his 69th year. He was the earliest City Clerk of Chicago, and served two terms in the Illinois Legislature and in Congress. He was an intimate friend • of Abraham Linco'n. Of late years he has devoted himself closely to literary work. Marie Taglioni, the famous dancer, died In Marseilles, France. She was born in Stock holm in 1804, and won renown in the larger cities of Europe, retiring with a fortune In 1817. Other deaths: H. C. Atkias, of Milwaukee, and George A. Leete. of Providence, K. 1., both prominent railroad men; Henry J. Hutfcbinson, of the famous family of singers; James T. Todd, the oldest Free Mason In Maine: Col. Charles G. Hammond, a wealthv philanthropist of Chicago; Samuel J, Walker, at one time the most extensive real-estate operator In Chicago; Rev. Dr. Bickersteth, Episcopal Bishop of Rlpon, Eng.; Conut Ribbing, a noted French dramatic author; Hon. Dwight Foster, ex-Supreme Judge of Massachusetts.

FOREIGN.

At a council of the Egyptian Cabinet, over which the Khedive presided, it was resolved to inform the British Government that the immediate dispatch of troops .to Upper Egypt is imperatively necessary. Great Britain has 6ent to all the powers which signed tho treaty of Berlin invitations to a conference on Egyptiau affairs, to devise Eome means of negotiating a loan of £SOOO,OOO for the' imperiled country. The Paris journals deradnd lor France a fair share of influence and authority on the banks of the Nile. It has been announced for the hundredth time at least that Mr. John O’Connor Power has withdrawn from the Irish Parnellite party. The fact is that ha has been expelled from that organization. It is said that he wl 1 hot again seek election from anIrish constituency, but that he will be an independent Lateral candidate in some English borough. O'Connpr Power was once a leading Fenian, and, it is said, was commissioned by a lodge of Fenian conspirato s In' Cleveland at one time to, kidnap the Prince of Wales. Up did not deliver the goods. The King of Abyssinia has accepted a proposition,from the English to invade the Soudan, relieve the Egyptian garrisons, and aid them in escape. A friend of Gen. Gordon

at Caird charges that Zebebr Pasha is responsible for the recent uprising north of Khartoum.... A bridge utCiudad Real, Spain, was cut by some malicious parties. A passenger train passing over was precipitated Into the river. Many persons were killed and twenty we e severely injured.... Tbe report that Bismarck had decided to oppose u British protectorate over Egypt is semi officially confirmed, it Is also reported that Minister Ferry has r«eel.ed overtures from Berlin looking to an alliance between France and Germany, which ho Is sa dto be advocating... .The Grand Master of Orangemen at Belfast lias roceived a letter of warning from tho Jnvincibies... ..John Daly, the susrected dynamiter, has been transferred from Liverpool to Birkenhead. r r

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A dispatch from Monroe, La., states that Mullican and Clarke, who were convicted of the murder of old man Rogers and wife, last menth, wire taken from jail and banged by a m0b.... Samuel T. Wilson, a white- man, who was acting as guard over convicts, was lynched by a inob composed of colored men, at Skipworth’6 Landing, Miss., tor tbe brutal murder of a negro. Moses Fraley, the St. Louis speculator, has failed, losing on the Chicago Board about $400,000, while he is said to be short for a large amount of wheat at New York, besides dropping recently $190,000 in Union and Texas Pacific stocks. A combination formed against him in Chicago is said to have brought about the crash. Mr. Fraley states that his liabilities are about $1,000,000.... A confession has been mado by Cicero Jellereon, of Audubon, lowa, that ne and his brother-in-law hanged his rather for incest. They traveled twenty miles and back alter dark, taking the rope with them. A fire at Panama destroyed two blocks of houses and the public market building. The loss is estimated at $500,000. During the progress of the flames a mob began to rob the stores. The soldiers were called out, and many of the plundering party were shot. One soldier was shot for diso bey Ing orders. 'lheC hinese suffered heavily. Little' s Opera House, the Glens Falls Opera House, the Presbyterian Church, and the Union Hall building at Glens Falls, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. Thirty business firms who occupied stores under the opera houses and the Cnion Hall were burned out. The loss is estimated at $.50,000. Other fires reported during the week, where a loss of SIO,OOO and upward was involved, are shown in the annexed table: Losses. Trenton Falls, Ont., seventeen buildings.s 30,000 Alton, 111., dry goods 5t0re...... 35,000 Pittsburgh v Pa., planing mill. .tvrr-TJR .. 25,000 WBson, Kansas, flouring mill 30,000 Cincinnati,tannery........ 400,000 Greenville, Texas, business houses 15,000 South Coventry, Conn., flannel mill 135,000 Fitchville, Conn., cotton mill 100,000 Elkport, lowa, warehouse and contents.. 10,000 Fall River, Mass., cotton mill 600,000 Attica, Ind., two brick stores 15,000 Morris, 18., grain elevator. 15,000 New York City, business property 150,000 New Orleans, saddlery store 50,000 LeClaire, owa, hotel 10,000 Jackson, Mich, carriage factory 10.000 West Salem, O , twenty business houses 100,000 Devil’s Lake, Dak., store.. 15,000 Lindsay, Ont., convent. 20,000 Akron, 0., clothing store. . 45,000 Williamsport, Pa., sawmill 40,000 Bath, N. Y., planing mill 10,Ojo Pekin, 111., two grain e1evat0r5,..,,.,.™ 60,000 Menominee, Mich., saw mill 100,000 Marysville, Kan., business property 10,000 New York City, hotel 20,000 Cedar Springs, Mich., lumber 45,000 Fillmore City, Mich., sawmill 10,000 Pr.. irieburg, lowa, four stores 15,000 Dpumlaines, Til., business property.... —10,000 Coleman, Wis., saw-mill 10,boo Selins Grove, Pa., 5t0re5................. 15,000 Petersburg, Va., hotel 10,000 Halifax, N. S., tobacco factory 60,000 Kingston, Ont..tannery 40,000 Buchanan, Mich., lurniture factory 25,000 Brooklyn, N. Y., coffee-mill 165,000 The indictment against Gov, Ordway, of Dakota, charges the asking and reception of bribes. The accused, by his attorney, gave bail, at Yankton, in SIO,OOO. The Grand Jury, in a senes of resolutions, deny that Judge Edgerton or United States Attorney Campbell acted maliciously in promoting tho investigation. In voting for members of the Cortes throughout Spain the Liberals accuse Government officials of using their positions to Be ure tho return of ministerial candidates. Tin) Republicans will present a petition against the scandalous suppression of electoral rights.... Thirty convicts were injured at Portsmouth, England, by the fall of a cavqlry barracks which they were engaged in building ~. It is announced that a new planet has been discovered by a Viennese astronomer. When the pleuro-pDeumonla bill came up in the Senate, April 28, Mr. Coke secured the adoption of an amendment exempting Texas fever from the diseases included in the act, and Mr. Plumb succeeded to having the appropriation cut down so $150,00(1. Mr. Cullom reported an original b.U to establish a commission to regulate interstate commerce. The House of Representatives passed a bill for the sale of a portion of the Fort Hayes Military Reservation in Kansas, and adopted a resolution to attend the unveiling of the statue of Chief Justice Marshall Bills were Introduced for the enlargement of the Court House at Jackson, Tenn.; to authorize the lighting of navigable rivers by electricity; to prohibit the importation of articles falsly bearing an American brand, and to provide lor tbe World’s Exposition atNcw Orleans. Mr. Hewitt explained his charge that the Secretary of the Navy had failed to cover into the Treasury $200,000 received for condemned vessels, but deposited it subject to his check. ... , . _.

THE MARKET.

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SELECTING DELEGATES

The Three Parties Busy Preparing for the National Presidential Race. State Conventions in Hew Tork, Ohio, Michigan, lowa, and Elsewhere. STATE CONVENTIONS. lowa Democratic. Every county but one (Pocahontas) was represented to the lowa Democratic Convention, at Burlington. It was the largest convention ever held by the party in the State. Hon. Benj. J. Hall, of Burlington, was selected to wield tbe gavel, and his men: ion of Samuel J. Tilden’s name was cheered till the building shook. The following were chosen delegates-at-large to the national convention at Chicago: L. G. Kinne. of lowa County; H. H. Trimble, of Lee; E. H. Thayer, of Clinton: and D. M. Harris, of Harrison. Alternates-at-large: John Duncombe, of Webster County; Chas. Voelker, of Dubuque; H. C. Bowman, of Plymouth; W. H. Butler, of Fayette. The delegates are unanimous for Tilden, but have no instructions. The Committee on Resolutions reported the following, which were adopted: Resolved, That the Democracy of lowa, recognizing the duty we owe to the Union soldiers of our late war, favor tbe passage of the bill now pending before Congress to grant to them a warrant of 163 acres of land to be taken from the public domain. Resolved, That we reaffirm the principles of the Democratic party as expressed in the platforms of the national convention of 1876 and 1880. Resolved, That in view of the late prohibitory legislation in the State we hereby emphasize the utterances of the platform of the National Democratic Convention of 1875; that we are in favor of the liberty of individual conduct unvexed by sumptuary laws. Resolved, That the Democracy of lowa reaffirm the resolution of our last State convention in favor of a tariff for revenue—a gradual and persistent reduction of tariff duties. Resolved, That in Samuel J. Tilden and his official record we recognize a man and platform combined, and one who represents more than any ether Democrat the principles of the Democracy, and whose name is a guaranty of victory. The allusion to Tilden was the occasion of intense enthusiasm and repeated cheat 8. A more emphatic resolution on tbe prohibition question was offered as a minority report,.but was finally disposed of by referring it to the next State Convention. Col. Keatley offered appropriate resolutions upon the recent death of Gen. A. C. Dodge, the plc.-ieer statesman of lowa, which were passed with a rising vote. The district conventions met and elected the following delegates and alternates to the national convention: First District—Delegates: George R. Smith, Van Buren County; Jchn Walbank, Henry County. Alternates: George Jamison, Louisa County, and E. A. County. Second—Delegates: W. F. Branuan, Muscatine; L. B. Wadleigh, Clinton. Alternates; H. G. Locart, Jones County Dr. N. B. Cotton, Cedar County, - .. . 2 : Third—Delegates: F. Schroeder, Dubuque; P. C. Dithiefsen, Grundy County. Alternates: E. M. Carr, Delaware; Lowery, Bremer. Fourth —Delegates; F. D. Bay less, Clayton; A. O. Doolittle, Floyd County. Alternates: M. B. Headrick, Allamakee County; S. B. Chase, Mitchell. ‘ - Fifth—Delegates: George J. Boal, Johnson County: John Ryder, Benton. Alternates: A. J. Morrison, lowa County; J. W. Terry, Lton County. Sixth —Delegates: L. B. Perry, Monroe County; E. H. Gibbs. Mahaska. Alternates: W. T. Dari, Jasper County; A. C. Evans, Davis County. Seventh—Delegates: L. W. Goixje, Polk; J. R. North, Dallas. Alternates: J. O. Mahanna, Polk; J. E. An irew, Adair County. . Eighth-Delegates: J. H. Duggan, Union County; William Bardley, Appanoose County. Alternates: N. C. Ridenour, Page County; F. 8. Gardner, Decatur County. Ninth—Delegates; DanFgrrell, Mills County; Dr. J. M. Emmert, Cass County. Altemat s: A. B. Keith, Crawford; J. B. Ratkin, Fremont County. Tenth—Delegates: N. B. Hyatt, Hamilton County; John Cleggett, Cerro Gordo County, Alternates: Dr. H. i. McCoy, Kossuth County; J. L. Buttolph, Hardin County. Eleventh—Delegates: R. M, Guthrie, Carroll County; P. O. Cassidy, Palo Alto County. Alternates: E. C. Palmer, Woodbury; F. D. Higgs, Buena Vista.

Ohio Republican. Hon. William McKinley was made Chairman of the Ohio Republican Convention, at Cleveland. The various Congressional districts reported the names of their delegates to the Chicago convention, and their committeemen. Twenty-sis. of the delegates are pronounced Blaine men, fourteen are for Sherman, and two are without known preferences. There was a hot fight between the friends of Blaine and John Sherman over the delegates-at-iarue, the Sherman cohorts coming off victorious, by securing three of the four delegates. The delegates-at-large are Ms reus A. Hanna of Cleveland, Judge West of Bellefontalne, Hon. William McKinley of Canton, and Judge J. B. Foraker of Cincinnati. Four colored men were chosen as alternates. J. S. Robinson, of H rdin county, was nominated for Secret rv of State; Chief Justice W. W. Johnson was renominated for Justice of the Supreme Court; C. A. Flickinger, of Defiance, was nominated for member of the Board of Public Works. The following resolutions were adopted: The Republican party approves the policy of protection in all economic legislation, and It favors its aDplication without discrimination to American industries, thereby securing employment at reiminerative wages to American labor. That it is Tn favor of collecting an adequate revenue to defray the proper and economical expenses of the Government from duties upon foreign imports and proper internal taxation, and that It condemns the Democratic doctrine of tariff for revenue only as destructive to the business interests of the country, and that the do trine of the Democratic party favoring putting what is improperly called raw material, such as pig iron, wool, etc., on the free list is dangerous, and If carried out will be destructive of the best interests of the nation. —_ —- That the reduction of dufles on imported wools modaby the,, . lf(83 b.as seriously iTU„ jured the prosperity of an important agricultural pursuit In which more than a million of our citizens are engaged, and, unless this legislation be amended, the business of wool growing wUT he paralyzed If it be not transferred to foreign nations; therefore we demand restoration of the wool tariff of 1876, which gave the first and only substantial protection ever offered to the shsep husbandry in the United States. That the Republican paity having aided labor, liberating it when oppressed, giving to it homesteads in the j nblic domain, and supporting schools at public expense for its children of all classes, recognizes now more lully than ever the great interests of American labor, its claipn upon the care of the Government, and its rights to equal consideration with capital That the Republican parly stands by its legation known as the Scott law, and condemns the want of sincerity of the Democratic party in respect thereto. The position of the Republican party touching civil sendee, as repeatedly expressed through its conventions and exemplified by its legislation faithfully administered. Is heartily indorsed. The party is in favor of maintaining equal civil rights to ail classes of citizens under the guaranties of the law and Constitution In all parts of the United Slates, and it also demands that the elective franchise shall be respected to the end that every voter shall have a free ballot, which shall be honestly oounted. , That we heartily approve And indorse the administration of President Arthur, both in his foreign and domestic policy. Michigan Republican. The Mlohigan Republican State Convention was held at Grand Rapids, Congressman Roswell G. Horr acting as temporary Chairman. M. C. Burch, of Grand Rapids, was made permanent Chairman, while E. T. Bennett, of Bay City, discharged the dutiMi of Secretary. The roll call showed 610 dolega.. es in attendance. There was a vigor ns light on the nominations lor dele-gates-at-large. Roswell G. Hprr went through tinder suspension of the rules/by acclamation, and so did W. M.> Swift, of Marquette. Samuel C. Watson, 'of Detroit, and W. T. Atwood,' of Saginaw, both /colored, were then placed In nomi iat:on by representatives of the two col red factions of the State. A bal’ot was demanded, add the Detroit man carried the day. The las: fight vai between Julius C. Bui rows, of Kalamazoo, and Harry Conant, of Monroe. Joseph Moore, Ezra L. Koon, A. B. Turner, ,aujd George W. Robey were elected alternates. It is noteworthy# that Watson Is theft st colored I man ever sent trorn Michigan as a delegate to a I national convention. The political preterenees •of the delegation are between Blaine and Edmunds. No instructions were given. The Committee on resolutions reported the following, which was ad .i ted: t The Republicans of Michigan, in convention assembled to elect delegates to the na tona convention to be held at Chicago the third day of June next, hereby reaffirm the principles of . ... -■ . v"~ ■■ /; :::i

the party as enumerated hr Its p&fformn through ite history of a quarter'of acefntury. It reaffirms ito faith to the ability of tint Party to secure to the future, as it has to thil Past, such modification and reforms as ttrae ai*d experience shall prove to be for the growth f'* tbe nation and the general welfare of mb citizf-ns. 2. They have confidence that the wlsdotn and patriotism of the Chicago convenrion will formulate a platform and nominate a candidate that tbe people will approve, and that will nexfNpvemher call out from the State of Michigan its old-time RcpnbUcan majority. Judg; P. T. Vanzile, ot Charlotte,was elected Chairman of the State Central Committee by acclamation. . New York Republican. A combination of the Arthur-Edmunds men organized the New York Republican Oonvertion at Utica, Nathaniel C. Boynton defeating* V mund L. Pitts, the Miller-Blatoe-Cornell v idate for Chairman. They also elected Thl!S .ire Roosevelt, Andrew D. White, John L GL krt, and Edwin Packard delegates-at-large tr the Chicago convention, two of whom, it is said, are for Arthur. Judges Andrews anil Rapello, of the State Court of Appeals, were renominated. Senator Miller presented to the convention his plan for the liberalization of the Republican party, and providing for direct representation by the people in conventions. On motion of a colored delegate, it was decided that the colored voters should have a representative upon the electoral ticket. A resolution was also adopted that the next National Republican Convention should be requested to provide that in future national conventions’ representatives should bo proportionate to the number of Republican voters and Congressional districts, respectively. The resolutions indorse the President’s administration, call for the repeal of the silver coinage act, demand protection of national industries, and condemn the Democratic party for its proposed revision of the tariff laws. When the reference to President Arthur was read there was loud and long-continued applause, and, in response to a call for three cheers, they were given with a will and a tiger. Mississippi Republican. The Mississippi Republican Convention, at Jackson, selected the foUowiag deiegates-at-large to the Chicago convention: Branch K Brnce (colored). James Hill. J. M. Rvnnm. and K. T. "Beck, all for Arthur. Fourteen district delegates were chosen, thirteen of whom are for Arthur and one for Logan. Seven of the district delegates are negroes. Ex-Senalbr Bruce addressed the convention, and in a conservative speech advised against instructing the delegates to the Chicago convention. The resolutions urge the importance of the Mississippi as a highway and the necessity of ite improvement; express a beUef to the policy of protection as calculated to Increase the manufacturing industries, and enhance the value of products, and las conducive to the prosperity of the laboring classes; indorse Blair's educational bill; declare that, among the eminent Republicans named for President, the Mississippi Republicans have no first choice, bnt will heartily support any one of them that may be nominated; say that the delegates to Chicago should yield their preference for the general good, and. after careful inquiry, to cast their votes for the candidate most acceptable to the people of toe Republican States and the doubtful States ne essary to the election; and indorse the administration of President jfrthur. Judge Green C. Chandler in the First District, and Capt. J. R. Smith in the Fifth district, deputy internal revenue collectors, were nominated for Congress in their respective districts. The other districts will make Congressional nominations later. . ■ " r

Virginia Republican. .The Republican State Convention of Virginia, which met at Richmond, was called to order by Senator Mahone, and Col. William Lamb was made Chairman. Four delegates-at-large—Ma-hone being one—and eighteen'district delegates were chosen. Four of them are colored and eighteen white men. A motion that delegates to Chicago be instructed to east -their votes in the national convention for Arthur was received with almost unanimous disapproval Each district delegation reported in favor of Gen. Mahone as Chairman of the delegation to Chicago, and the delegates were instructed to vote as a unit on all questions in the convention. The platform, which was read by Gen. Mahone, declares that the coalitionists of the State shall hereafter be known as the Republican party of Virginia, and tbat in the nation’s affairs they shall act with the national Republican party and support its nominees for President and vice President. The platform also declares in favor of free education and liberal appropriations of tne surplus Government revenue for educational purposes; demands a protective tariff in the interests of national industries; cordially indorses President Arthur’s policy, which is characterized as conspicuously conservative and entitled to the respect and confidenee of the nation, and conclndes with an emphatic preference for his nomination at Chicago.

Maine Greenback. Col. C. S. Emerson was called to preside over the Maine State Greenback Convention, which assembled at Lewiston. Three hundred and twelve delegates were in attendance. Ex-Gov. Plaisted left for home before the convention was called to order, having; failed in hiß efforts to bring about a fusion with the Democrats. Ex-Congressman Ladd, however, remained with the hope of being nominated for Governor, but in this he was worsted, the Rev. Dr. H. B. Eaton, of Camden, getting ttho honor. A resolution was introduced early in the session, pronouncing against fusion wito “either of the old parties, open or secret.” and after a lively debate was adopted. Tne platform points to the Supreme Court’s legal tender decision as .an unanswerable indorsement of the principles of the Greenback party, and indorses the national platform of 1880. Resolutions were also passed advocating the Government control of railroad and telegraph lines; advocating an Income tax; condemning the ertmloyment of children in manufactories, and deprecating the introduction of the prohibitory amendment question into party politics. A full set of nominations was made for Congress, for Presidential electors, and for national convention delegates, and all the delegates and electors were instructed to vote for Benjamin F. Butler. Dakota Republican. In the Dakota Republican Convention, at Huron, which was presided over by W. Q. Plummer, of Fargo, a resolution was adopted with three cheers favoring Blaine for President and Lincoln for Vice President, and the delegates were , instructed to vote lor them as long as.,,these, was a probability of their being nominated. N. E. Nelson, of Pembina, and Col. J. L. Jolly* of Clay, were elected delegates to- the Chicago convention. Bvron E. Pay, of Brookings, and Robert K. Wallace, of Stutsman, being chosen as alternates. Resolutions were adopted by a rising vote Indorsing Arthur’s administration, instructing the delegates for Blaine, favoring the division of Dakota and the admission of the south bait. There was a bitter fight between the delegates from the northern and southern sections Of the State for the organization and control of the convention, resulting in a viotory for the northern section by a bare majority of one. Connecticut Republican. Hon. Samuel Fessenden, who presided over the Republican Convention at Hartford, expressed no personal preference as to the Presidential aspirants, but briefly named those most prominently mentioned- President Arthur received a round of applause, and there was prolonged cheering when Gen. Hawley was mentioned. The del-egates-at-large John L. Houston, Samuel E. Merwin, Jr., Augustus lkandegee, and Frederick Mills—were kistrreted for Senator. Joseph R. Hawley. Eight-district delegates were appointed, all of whom are for Ha-wtey. The resolutions eulogize President Arthur and his administration, and pledge the Republicans of Connecticut to support the nojutnee of the Chicago convention. New Jersey Greenback. . Tne National party of New Jersey, called for the purpose of electing delegates-st-large to the Indianapolis convention, convened at Trenton, and was presided overby E.E.Potter. Benjaman F. McCallister, of Gloucester, R. W. Terlinde, of Union, D. A. Hopkins, of Esses, and Georite H. Larison, of Hunterdon, .wire chosen delegates. It was at first (determined to get up a platform, but it was finally concluded to adopt the.platform of the last national convention. 'lt was adopted without Iking read. All the delegates are for Ben Butler for President. Tennessee Greenback. The State convention of the Tennessee Greenbackers, at Nashville, was largely attended. N. J. Buchanan, of Fayetteville, was nominated for on £fie first ballot. „ The national platform of 1880 was re-affirmed, and delegates to the national/convention at Indianapolis were chosen. '1 hey were unins true ted, but are understood to be favorable to Gen. Butler as the Presidential standard-bearer. / v> , A good-looking, well-dresaol man was caught on Broadway, New Yoitk. squirting oil on people's clothes from a smalt can concealed la bis hand. .