Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1884 — Page 2

The Republican. —«*-—i RENSSELAER. INDIANA. O. & MARSHALL, - - Poßiaana.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. I • Several memorials were presented In the Senate, on the 6th Inst., in fsvor of suspending the coinage of the silver dollar. A bill for a free bridge across the J’otomac was passed. Mr. Vance made an argument in support of the freeKhip bill. Mr.-Vest made a favorable report bn a bill to erect a public building at Detroit, limiting the cost of the site to SOOO,OOO. Shortly after the House met. the tariff bill was taken up for the last day’s debate. Mr. Gibson (Dem.>, of Louisiana, led off with a speech in favor of the measure, after which Mr. Randall (Dem.),'of Pennsylvania, took the floor in opposition to the bill. He held that in the nice adjustment of business affairs there was nothing so condncive to success as stability. Judging from the intemperate language of the friends of the bill, those engaged'in industrial pursuits wero robbers and outlaws. As a matter of fact they were nothing of the sort. They were entitled to the protection of the law. He then went on to argue against the policy of unsettling business interests by constant tinkering with the tariff. Mr. Blackburn (Dem.) of Kentucky advocated the bill. He said the time was not far distant when the people would repudiate the political hypocilsy of the protectionists. Protection for the sake ot protection was the battle cry of the Republicans. He asked the Democrats to make taxation for revenue theirs. The advocates of the principles contained in the bill were readv for the fray, armed In a cause which they knew to be just He protested against the current idea that the advocates of the bill desired to exile from the rarty any Democrats who might differ from them. He had no power ot expulsion. It rested with esch man to determine his party affiliation. Let him who would strike down his party, show by his record upon whose hand the blood was to be found. In conclusion, lie hoped that enough enlightenment might soon be brought to the House to repudiate the bigotry which disgraced politics in the shape of protection. Mr. Kasson (Rep.), of lowa, closed the debate in opposition to the bill. He declared that it was impossible to, administer it and it would require a special catechisrf to answer the questions which would be tusked before any goads could.be imported. He then proceeded to detail the benefits the country had derived from protection. Mr. Morrison (Dem.), of Illinois, the author of the bill, made the closing debate in its favor. He mado a rapid review of the objections to the measure. He then sa*d that the Democratic members from lowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, anrd California had been elected on the tariff

platform, and feared that If the bill should bo defeated they would be succeeded by Page and Borrows and Uazelton and “My Dear Habbell." Turning to Randall, Mr. Morrison said: “You have the power to strike cut the enacting clause of the bill. If you have that power, yon have the power to amend this bill and make it what it should be." Mr. Converse (Dem.), of Ohio, moved to strike out the enacting clause of the bill. This was the signal for a volley of hisses and groans from the Democratic side, this demonstration being met by rounds of applause from the Republicans. 'The motion prevailed by-a yote of 15!) yeas to 155 nays. When? the result was announced the victorious combination gave round r'tcr round of cheers. Forty-one Democrats and 118 Republicans voted against the bill, and 4 Republicans and 151 Democrats in favor of it. Of the 41 Democratic votes in favor of killing the bill, Pennsylvania gave 12, New York 6. Ohio 10, California 4, New Jersey 3, and Maryland, Louisiana, Illinois, Virginia, West Virginia, and Connecticut 1 each. The names are as follows: Arnot, Boyle, Budd, Connolly, Converse, Curtin, Duncan, Fafon, Elliott, Ermentrout. Ferrell, Fiedler. Findlay, Finerty, Foran. Geddes, Glascock, Hopkins, Hunt, Hutchins, Jordan, Be Fevre, McAdoo, Muller, Murray, Mutchler, Paige, Patton, Post, Randall, Seney, Snvder, Spriggs, Storm, C. A. Sumner. Tully, Van Alstyne, A. J. Warner, Wemple, Wilkins, G. D. Wise. The four Republican tariff reformers are Ne’son, Strait, Wakefield, and White, all from Minnesota. The shipping bill was again debatod in the 6enate on the 7th irst. An amendment by Senator Vest was adopted in a modified form. As adopted it provides that there shall be np tonnage duties on United States vessels or On the vessels of nations which do not impose duties 1 on the shirs of this country. The “subsidy section" of the bill was attacked by Senators Beck and Maxey. The latter said that free ships and' tantf relorm would be the great political Issues of the future, to be decided by the tribunal of the peop'e. Mr. Edmonds introduced a hill to place the name of U. S. Grant on the retired list of the army, adding that everybody understood the reason. Mr. Blair presented a measure for the adjustment of accounts of laborers and mechanics under the eight-hour law. Mr. Hill addressed the Senate in favor of the forfeiture Of lands granted to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company. The House of Representatives refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the bill far the relief of Fit* John Porter, which cut off pay and allowances from the date of dismissal and a conference committee was ordered

When the shipping bill came up in the Senate, on the Bth Inst, Mr. McPherson's amendment entting off compensation for return trips of mail vessels was rejected, Mr. Vest’s amendmendment for shipping commissioners was agreed to, and motion to strike out the section for foreign mail pay was lost. The House hill was then taken np, amended as above, and passed without debate. Mr. ? Logan refused to serve on a conference committee on the Fitz John Porter bill, and. Messrs. Sewell, Hawley, and Cockrell were appointed. Mr. Mitchell made a favorable report on the bill granting pensions to soldiers of the Mexican war, with an amendment that only dependent persons can enjoy its benefits. Mr. Dawes secured the passage of a resolution of inquiry as to whether any steps had been taken to prosecute a cowboy na'med Halferino for shooting- an Indian named Back Wolf. The Houss of Representatives passed the bill to appropriate $1,000,000 to the World’s Industrial Exposition, at New Orleans, the amount to be returned from the gate receipts. A communication from the Secretary of the Interior contained an estimate of $272,620 for additional clerical help in the Pebsion. Bureau. _ The Indian appropriation bill was debated In the Senate on the 9th Inst. The committee having the measnre in charge recommended an addition of $767,413 to the amount recommended by the House, which favored an appropriation tot $5,456,389. Mr. Dawes explained that /the increase was mainly in the interest /of increased educational facilities for / the Indiana The greater part of the debate was directed to.an item for the increase ot the appropriation'for the education of llnAlaska Indians. Mr. Dolph introduced a bill for the construction of a harbot of refuge at Port Orford, on the Pacific coast. The House of ,Rci resentatives passed a bill giving the widow of Gen. Frank P. Blair $5,000 for his services in organizing troops, and increasing her pension to S6O per month. A remonstrance from the Louisville Board of Ti-ade against the enactment of a bankruptcy law was S resented. Some hours were consumed in deate on war claims from Henderson, Tenn., growing out of a levy on disloyal citizens to pay for depredations committed by Confederate soldiers. Both houses adjourned to the 12th. I THE EAST. I A New York paper publishes an inter- ' viewwifh Gen. Grant, had before the failure of the Marine National Bank. The ex-« President said he thought the condition of the country outside of Wall street was on whole prosperous. Producers were contented and manufacturers were busy. At the end df the present century he thought the United States would have a population of 100,000,000. New York will become the financial centre of the world, and the Southern States may be the leading manufacturing section, probably in cotton fabrics and r. The prosperity of the United States, thinks, will favorably affect Mexico. Utah should be deprived of its Territorial Government and ruled hy Commissioners, like the District of Columbia ../President Pish, of the burst’ Marine Bank of New York, is reported to have said that Ferdinand Warn betrayed his confidence, and that be (Ward; is a defaulter for $750,000. *•' The failure of the Arm of Grant & Ward, of, New York, is a very bad one, and the Grants, father and sons, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. An enormous amount of unsecured liability of the firm exists, comprising oUtes and simple receipts for money

received for speculation. The liabilities of the house are estimated at $8,000,000. In the Supreme Court of New York Judge Donohue grouted an order requiring the partners iti the house of Grout A Ward to showcati&e why a receiver should not be appointed, ami enjoining them against disposing of their assets. Ward’s career furnishes astonishing proof of the capacity of the young high roller to make a fool of himself. Eight years ago he was a clerk at a salary Of SI,OOO a year. He made money in one way and another, and on the day before Iris bubble burst he had a brown stone palace in Brooklyn and a magnificent country seat at Sheepsliead Bay. He kept a French cook, a French-butler, a French vfllet, and his wife had two French maids. He had twenty-four horses in his stables, a tally-ho coach, two landaus, one English cart, and a pony pliaeton for. his wife, to sav nothing of spider buggies and the like, in which to speed his trotters. From SI,OOO a year in 1876 ho had grown so in alleged wealth that his household expenses alone were SI,OOO a week. Investigation into the conduct of the Marshal’s office of Western Pennsylvania seems to show, it is said, that there is adefnleation of $300,000 extending over a period of nine years. The last Marshal resigned the office because he did not think it profitable. THE WEST. Ham Patterson, a negro, was taken from bed, near Fulton, Mo., and killed by a mob. It appears that Patterson and his brother Julius circulated scandalous reports about nearly all of the women in that neighborhood, which greatly exasperated the men, and some twenty or more reputable citizens took the matter in their own hands with the above result. The condition of wheat" in Ohio at present averoges 85 per cent., and the probable yield, with good weather till harvest, is placed at 34,531,832 bushels ..,Charles Ford, one of the brothers who killed Jesse Jaiiw-s, slew himself with h revolver at Richmond, Mo. He was 26 years of age, and for a long time had shown consumptive tendencies. The Tea Inspector at Chicago recently condemned 100,000 pounds of tea siftings which arrived from Japan. As protest was made, an examining committee was appointed by the Customs Collector-and the importer, in accordance with the statutes, and the stuff was pronounced unfit for use A Wahasli train struck a broken rail near Boody, 111., and three coaches were overturned. J. M. Vincent, a sleeping-car conductor, Was fatally injured, and thirty-five others received wounds more or less serious. A passenger found his little son hanging head down from a hat-rack, uninjured. Most of the unfortunates were taken to Blue Mound and cared for by the railroad company... .James Clark, confidential clerk of Rudolph Hochkotter, Austrian Consul at San Francisco, embezzled $30,000, and lost it in speculation. In the Sharon divorce case at San Francisco, a colored witness, named Martha Wilson, swore that in testifying for the plaintiff she had perjured herself, Mi6s Hill having promised to pay her $5,000 to swear that she saw the marriage contract in 1880. The McCaull Opera Comique Company, in their latest success from the New York Casino, “The Merry War,” constitutes the attraction at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, this week. The opera embraces some excellent music, and is presented by a superior company of singers.

George Horn’ and - William Gibbons, under sentence, took morphine in the Ashland (Ohio) Jail, but medical aid thwarted their suicidal purpose.... The grand-stand on the Chillicothe (Ohio) base-ball grounds collapsed during a game, twenty persons receiving injuries.... The boiler of a locomotive in the Missouri Pacific shops at Parsons, Kan/, exploded the other day. Two men were instantly killed and four others were seriously hurt. The pecuniary loss is $20,000. The Northwestern Manufacturing and ■Car Company, of Stillwater, Minn., of which United States Senator D. M. Sabin is President, has suspended and a receiver has been appointed. The capital stock of the company is $5,000,000, of which $4,000,000 have been paid in. Nine hundred men, of whom 300 were convicts, were employed by the concern. The cause of the suspension, it is said, was the loss of a large amount in Wall street (New York) speculation. The liabilities of the company are placed at about $1,100,000, while the assets are estimated at $4,000,000. The work of the company will proceed as usual... .Twenty masked men at Quincy, 111., believed to he striking molders, attached a wagon containing nonunion molders, shooting two men through their arms. Another party of non-unionists arrived by a Wabash train and were showered with 6tones and bullets, one of them receiving serious injuries. THE SOUTH. At Winston, N. C., a mob took Henry Swaim, who murdered a woman, from the jail and hanged him. James S. Coleman, colored, was executed at Columbia, S. C., for the murder of Sarah Willis, liis wife’s sister Masked men at Elizabethtown, Ky., took from jail a negro who had committed an outrage on a white woman, and hanged him to a tree outside the city, with a placard ordering no “one to touch the corpse. Near Mt. Sterling, Kj-, while a guard was conveying convicts to prison, one of the latter, on the. plea that his handcuffs fitted too closely, secured the guard's gun and killed him, when three of the prisoners escaped, and five others surrendered themselves. .. .More than half of Madison and Tensas Parishes, in Louisiana, are under water, and cattle are dying in great numbers from starvation and the stings of buffalognats. Dr. A. B. Pitts refused to testify in the case of E. B. Wheeler, indicted for the murder of Prent Matthews at Hazlehurst, Miss., and was committed for contempt of court. He was taken to his home to take leave of his wife. He escaped from custody through the window of his wife’s apartment. It is thought that the deputy who had him in charge .was not sorry... .Four masked robbers entered the Louse of a planter named Kite, near Bed Fork, Ark., fired six charges from a revolver into his body, and escaped with SB4O which they found under the floor.

WASHINGTON. At a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee it was agreed that the trade-dollar Bill should tosreported adversely.' ■ Senator Sherman will write the report Reports of the wheat crop from various parts of Michigan indicate that in the northern counties it will he 87 per cent. of an average and in the southern tier abont 97 per cent Clover is rather backward, and will average 90 per cent Apples will be about the same, peaches will scarcely exceed half of a full crop. Reports from various parte of Dakota and Minnesota regarding the condition of the

- spring wheat crop are very encouraging. I There is an increased acreage, and t from present appearances there will p be n very abundant harvest. The E oat crop in also looking very well, r The Illinois Department or Agriculture • finds the prospects not encouraging for over 84 per cent, of an average yield of winter ! wheat. The crop outlook in lowa is of a > most cheering character. J Returns to thq Department of AgricultI ure for May make the prospect nearly as i favorable as in April. Then the general i average l was within 5 per cent, of the • stapdnrd full condition. The May average is 94. It was 834 in 1883. Barring changes 1 in the future, the winter wheat product will be about 350,000,000 bushels. Thetempera--1 ture in April has been lower than usual, and low lying lands have _been saturated with moisture, retarding the growth of the plant. Well-drained wheat soils nearly everywhere are bearing a vigorous and healthy growth. » live promises fully as well as wheat. The general average is 96. It is several points higher than wheat in the principal States of the West. The geneifd average for barley is 101. It is 100 iji New York, 100 in Pennsylvania, 98 in Michigan, and 103 in California. Meadows and pastures are generally promising, though failing to come up to the standard healthy growth and unimpaired condition.... The statue of Chief Justice Marshall by Storey was unveiled at Washington last week. Chief Justice Waite delivered the formal address on the occasion. I'OUHCAI. Congressman J. D. Long, of Massachusetts, who voted to strike out the enacting clause of the Morrison bill, says he favors; revenue reform, believes that the country demands it, but he could not vote for the Morrison measure because it was crude, imperfect, and incomprehensible.... The Kentucky Democratic §itate Convention declared John G. Carlisle its preference for President. The Massachusetts Prohibition State Convention was held at Boston, the resolutions declaring for the suppression of the liquor traffic by constitutional and statutory measures. The Democratic protectionists talk about introducing a bill in the House during the present session for a revision of the tariff. The bill, it is said, will propose to place a large number of dutiable articles on the free list. The California Legislature having adopted resolutions in favor of the organization of Alaska as a Territory, Gen. Roseerans and the other California members of Congress have decided to urge the passage of the Alaska bill now pending before the House. The well-known Philadelphia editor, M. P. Handy, who lived long in the South, has been interviewing Southern Democrats. He says: “ Carlisle steps to the front with a formal presentation of his name by Kentucky, and he receives favorable consideration by many who never seriously considered it before. It is claimed for him that while a Southern man he was a loyalist; that his character is clean, and his record good, and that, having been made Speaker of the House on the revenue-reform platform, he is already by circumstances- the leader of the regenerated Democracy, and will stand the ordeal of a popular election as well, if not better, than anybody else of his way of thinking.”

GENERAL. It is stated that the Canadian Pacific Boad has agreed to make Port Williams the chief point on Lake Superior, and erect there-a huge elevator. The announcement causes great indignation at the ambitious town of Port Arthur, twelve miles distant. The steamer City of Portland, with seventy passengers, was deceived by a buoy which wiis out of position, and went on a ledge of rocks near Owl’s Head, Maine. A sloop answered the signals of distress, and took off the women and children, and the steamer Bockland soon arrived to rescue the other passengers and their baggage. The vessel and cargo will be a total loss. The American Medical Association met at Washington last week with 600 delegates present. Dr. Austin Flint, the President, delivered the annual address, making pertinent references to the medical code, the overcrowding of the profession, and the granting of diplomas by doubtful institutions. V| .......... The steamers Nevada and Bomano collided when the former was four days out from New York. The Bomano sunk in less than an hour, but all on board were saved. She was valued at $200,000. .. .The Canadian steamer Argyle, hound from Sault Ste. Marie to Port Arthur with a Sos supplies for a Canadian Pacific •ay contractor, iyas lost on Lake Superior during a gale, The crew escaped. The steamship Titania, which arrived at Quebec from Glasgow, had on board twen-ty-four of the crew of the wrecked steamship State of Florida. Out of 167 persons on board the latter, only forty-four were saved: and of sixteen on the bark with which the ’collision occurred, none but the captain and two men were rescued, making the loss of life 135. The State of Florida collided with an unknown bark in mid-ocean. Both vessels were badly stove in, and sunk in a very few minutes.. The American Forestry congress met at the Agricultural Building, in Washington City, with Commissioner Loring in the chair. Senators Miller, pf New York, and Sawyer, of Wisconsin, gave their views on the preservation of our forests, especially the white pine forests of the North. The congress adopted resolutions to the es-i feet that the association has witnessed with great satisfaction the attempt of the Stata of New York to preserve, protect, and regu-j late the sale of lumber in the forests at the! headwaters of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, and that legislation in this be encouraged in all the ( States of the Union; that the establishment of experimental stations and forestry commissions by the States is earnestly recommended; that the aid of the Federal Government by appropriate legislation for the care and development of forests is earnestly recom-' mended. FOREIGN. ITALY is beginning to assert her right to interfere in the management of Egyptian affairs, and is supported by Austria and Germany, who think Italy should have an equal influence with France in the affairs of tiro land of the Pharaohs...... The offers of fnnds to bribe the natives to secure Gordon’s safety has been refused, ... .The Chinese Cabinet is not disposed to make peace with France, though Premier Chang recommends ft in a communication to the Chinese Emperor. It has been developed in.the preliminary examination of Daly and Egan, the alleged dynamiters, at Birmingham, that they and their friends, considered the parliamentary policy of Parnell and Healy entirely too tame, and' that Daly, who was a fierce revolutionist, in speech at least, was considered

far superior to Parnell as a leader, and was to be set up against him, in the good <or bad) time coming. Daly and Egan were committed for trial. L.. Advices from Tientsin say that a treaty has been signed between France and China, wherein the French proteetdtate over Tonqnin is recognized, and that both parties shall together regulate the customs on the frontier..-. .The Irish Roman Catholic Bishops have been summoned to Rome for a conference in October.... Another/band of filibusters is preparing to leave Florida for Cuba, it is said, under the lead of one Castro.... The Swiss general elections resulted in a Conservative victory.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Mr. Gladstone made one of his characteristically eloquent speeches in the British Parliament, the other day, opposing Sir Michael Hicks-Beach’s proposition for a vote of censure on the Government on account of its Soudan policy. He denied that the Gqvemment had abandoned Gordon; every step taken had for one of its objects the safety of that gallant soldier. But Mr. Gladstone said the Opposition could not drive the Liberals to sanction a war of conquest in the Soudan. “The war which the Mahdi is waging,” said Mr. Gladstone, “is a Jwar for freedom.” This statement was greeted with loud Liberal cheers.... George Anderson, a Seotch Liberal, gave notice in the British House of Commons of a motion condemning the-existence of the House of Lords. Jacob Schaefer and George F. Slosson played a game of billiards at Central Music HaJJ, Chicago, for the championship of the world at the balk-line ganQipj Schaefer won the (ffiampionship, which he already held, defeating Slosson by a score of 800 to 384, with the remarkable average of 38 2-21. The statement is made that Vanderbilt, on the eve of his departure for Europe, placed $10,000,000 of his Government bonds in the hands of friends to protect his stocks during his absence. This, is a notice to the bears that Vanderbilt has not left his rear exposed while he is perambulating the European art galleries and his wife is being fitted by Worth for some new dresses. A week’s death reeord: Hon. Truman Smith, of Connecticut, who served in Congress from 1839 to 1847, and in the Senate from 1849 to 1854; Prof. Samuel D. Gross, an eminent surgeon of Philadelphia; Col. Thomas H. Hunt, Treasurer of the World’s Exposition organization at New Orleans; William F. Clogg, a celebrated naturalist, of, Boston; Judah P. Benjamin, formerly United States Senator from Louisiana and Confederte Secretary of War, at Paris, France; John F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., who gave $1,000,000 to the cause of education in the Southern States; Lemuel Shaw, President of the Great Boott Mills, in Massachusetts; Midhat Pasha, the exiled Turkish statesman; Giovanni Prati, Italian poet and statesman; Paris C. Dunning, of Bloomington, Ind., who was Governor of Indiana in 1846; Charles Adolph Wartz, distinguished French chemist.. - The fire losses of the week were as recorded below: Losses. Shelburne, Ont., Royal Block.. ..$ 30,000 St, John, Quebec, chinaware factory 15,000 Houester. Mass., hotel 10,000 Detroit, M ch., 5awmi11...... 60,000, Cleveland, Ohio, flourmill. 25,000 Pittsburg, Pa., glass factory 20,000 Oswego, N. Y., steam tug 20,000 Florence, Wis., mine machinery 15,000 Metamora, Ind., business block 15,000 Boston, business block 50,000 Cloquette, Wis., planing mill 20,000 Columbiana, Ohio, flouring mill 30,000 Norwalk, Conn., fur fact0ry........ 70,000 Duluth, Minn., machine shop 20,000 Vincennes, Ind, hotel 15,000 Big Rapids, Mich., 8,000,000 shingles 10,000 Oswego, N. Y., Arcade Block. 100,000 Cleveland, oil and paint works 80,000 Canton, Mass., suspender works 100,003 Moberly, Mo., hay-rake factory 30,000 Sharon, Wis., business property 20,000 Baltimore, tin-can factory 15,000 Epving, N. H., Stearns 810 ck... 20,000 Wallingford, Conn., manufacturing property 40,000 Breedsville, Mich., business houses 15,000 Ooonomowoc, Wis., grange 5t0re........ 10,000. Saginaw City, Mich., grain barns 10,000 Dallas, Tex., block of stores ;. 75,000 Wilßamsburg, Ky., saw-mills 00,000 Harlem, N. Y., brewery 100,000 A debate on the proposition to educate the Indians of Alaska constituted the* day’s ■work of the Senate on the 12th inst. In the House of Representatives bills were introduced to place Gen. Grant on the retired list, and to restrict to American citizens the ownership of real estate in the Territories. Mr. Hewitt presented a new tariff measure. A Senate bill was passed to punish the counterfeiting of seenriities of foreign governments. A report was made that the petition of William Webster, claiming to have been unlawfully deprived of a tract of land in New Zealand, be transferred to President Arthur for investigation. Bills were passed to increase the water supply of Washington and to complete the sewerage system of the District of Columbia. Mr. O’Neill introduced a bill to exempt from duty raw sugar, rice, and various other articles of food.

THE MARKET.

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AN OCEAN CRAVE.

The State of Florida Lost Off the with a Bark. Immediate Sinking of Both Vessels—--135 Persons Drowned and 44 Rescued. Starving in Ocean Boats Thrilling Stories of the Survivors of the Wreck. All doubts as to the fate of the steamship State of Florida are ended, says a Quebec dispatch. The vessel was sunk April 18 in a collision in mid-ocean with the bark Ponema of Chatham, N. B. Out of 167 persons qn hoard the State of Florida, only forty-four were saved, while of the bark’s crew of fifteen only the captain and two men were rescued. Ono hundred and twen-ty-three souls went down with the steamer and twelve with the bark, making a total loss of 135. Those saved were picked up by the bark Theresa of Norway. Later twenty-four of them were put on the bark Louisa and brought as far as the mouth of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the Titania, bound from Glasgow to Montreal, was met. The Titania took off twenty-four of the passengers and crew rescued from the State of Florida, leaving twenty on the bark, which «js nhw on its way to this port. ’'Wm following is the official report of the thnpfofficer of the State of Florida: “Left New York April 12, with about 167 passengers and crew, and a full general cargo. All went well until the night of .the 18th. At 11:30 o’clock we came in collision with the bark Ponema, of Chatham, N; 8., Capt. Hetbum. Both ships went down almost instantly, and out of the steamer’s passengers and crew only forty-four, including the stewardess, managed to escape in the boat, and out of the bark’s crew of fifteen only the captain and two seamen were saved. The next morning the bark was observed bottom up. The survivors, after being thirty-five hours in the boats without food or water, were rescued by the Norwegian hark Theresa, of Christiania, bound from that port for Quebec. On the 23d, twenty-four of them were transferred on board the ship Louisa, of and from Cardiff for Quebec, where they remained until May 5, when they were taken on board the Titania for Quebec. It is believed that 135 lives were lost." ——- - -

The third officer (James Allen) says that the night on which the disaster occurred was clear, though moonless, and the sea as smooth as glass. He retired to his bunk at 8 o’clock, leaving the chief officer (Thompson) in charge of the deck. About 11:10 he heard a signal suddenly given to stop the steamer’s engines, followed by a fearful crash. He rushed immediately on deck, and the first thing he noticed was a red light pretty close to their starboard bow. At the same moment he heard the chief officer’s voice and the ery “Collision.” He then saw the bark which had run into them go down. This bark, he afterward learned from its captain and two of its crew who were saved, was the Ponema, of Chatham, N. 8., hound from Liverpool to Mirimichi. Bunning to the side of has own vessel, he endeavored to ascertain the damage done, and perceiving an immense gaping hole into which the sea was fast pouring, and feeling the steamer was lost, he at once hurried to the captain, who immediately gave orders to get out the boats, four of which were down in fifteen minutes, when the State of Florida just keeled ov%r to port and went down stem foremost. Far as he could calculate, the disaster occurred about 120 miles off the Irish coast. As the vessel went down, all on deck, including the captain, were washed off hy the sea. The captain was exceedingly cool—too cool, in fact, as he did not seem to look upon the danger as serious or pressing; and this, together with the fact that he appeared in no hurry to save himself, was probably the cause why more of the passengers were not saved. They would not take to the boats, as they supposed,when they saw him so cool, that the danger was not so great. Of the eight boats carried, four were safely launched, and two were smashed by the collision. Of the other two Allen knew nothing, but believed they were washed away when the steamer went down. He did not believe any one had escaped in them. However, if they had he did not want to raise any false hopes, his opinion being they would never be heard from again. When No. 2 boat was being lowered the tackle was cut too quickly and its occupants, all passengers, were upset into the sea. A number, including Bennett, of London, ,Canada, clung to the boat’s bottom during the remainder of the night, and were picked up in the morning by the other boats. James Bennett, of London, Ontario, the only first-class passenger saved, says that when the order Was given a rush was made for the boats, and a number of persons, including himself, got into boat No. 2. The panic on board the doomed ship was frightful. The lady passengers, of whom there were only three or four, refused to go in the boat. Jane McFarlane, the stewardess, was only saved from herself and the terrible fate impending by the self-sacrifice and gallantry of James Bain, the chief engineer, who lost his life in saying hers. He had to use all his strength to tear her from the deck of the vessel and force her into the boat. At that moment the ship careened to starboard and went down, carrying with her the brave engineer and all the others refliaining on board. Bennett was standing so near the side when the collision took place that had not a friend palled him away he would have been killed on the spot. The ship’s doctor, alongside of him, was injured hy a broken spar. The crew all rushed for the boats. The passengers 6eemed paralyzed, as did also the captain, who was washed from the deck just before the vessel went down, within twelve minutes of the time she was struck. Allan, the third officer, was the first to give the alarm that the vessel was Sinking. Bennett says he pushed a number of friends into one of the boats and jumped in himsel. fie complains that the boat bad no water-casks containing water, fie added that the City of Borne ignored all the Theresa’s signals, although they were seen quite well, but went on her way unconcernedly, offering no assistance.

CLIPPINGS.

A Washington girl suicided because her wanted to make it for him. ,1 Gould sayß that no extensive operator can get on in Wall street without some fixed purpose. That is the secret of success in most every walk of life. ■*' About every third-rate literary man in England is now busily engaged trying to prove with his pen that Charles Beade was not a man of genius. , Lady Duffus-Habdy found the true A-mgriran republic in Salt I@ke City.

IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

That I* Where the Kentucky Democrats Want to Place Mr. ■’ 1 Speaker Carlisle. • ii, ■ i , . Kentucky Democrats. Hon. Boyd Winchester, of Louisville, presided over the Kentucky Democratic Convention, which met *at Frankfort. Henry Watterson, J. Stoddard John&ey, James A. McKenzie, and Thomas L. Jones were elect ed delegatee-at-large to tlte National Democratic Convention at Chi- ■ engo. Henry Watterson was made Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, and reported the following platform, which was unanimously adopted amid great applause: The Democracy of Kentucky, in convention assembled, declare: 1. We pledge ourselves anew to the constitutional doctrines and traditions of the Democratic party as illustrated by the teachings and example of a long line of Democratic statesmen and patriots as embodied in the platforms of the National Democratic Conventions of 1876 and 1889. 2. We do especially renew onr declarations of hostility to centralization, as that dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate the powers of government and thus to create, whatever the form, a real despotism, with all subsidies to corporations and grants without consideration of the public property, and we again express our conviction of the urgent necessity of the general and thorough reform of the civil service; and 3. We do especially deny the right of the Government to surrender its taxing power to corporations "or individuals, which is the result of both the theory and practice of tho Republican party; and we denounce the present tariff, which burdens the people with excessive war taxes in time of peace, as a masterpiece of injustice, inequality, and false pretenses. We arraign the Republican party as the creator and defender of a system which has impoverished many industries to subsidize a few; which has prohibited imports that might purchase the products of American labor, and degraded American commerce from the first ip an inferior rank on the high seas; which has cut down the sales of American manufactures at home and abroad and depleted the returns of American agriculture, an industry followed by half our people. It costs the taxpayers five times more than it yields to the Treasury; It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling, corrupts officials, enriches the few by forcing bounties from the many, and favors the dishonest to bankrupt 1 honest merchants. We assert the doctrine of the Constitution that all taxation shall he exclusively for revenue, and demand that no more revenue shall be collected than is required to meet the expenses and obligations of the Government economically administered. Resolved, That believing that no geographical line should exist iii this country as a test of eligibility to any office in the gift of the whole people, but that the standard of honesty, competency, fidelity, and constitutional citizenship alone should prevail, Kentucky recommends to the Democracy of the Union for the Presidency of the United States him whose elevation to the third office in the nation was the first step to the obliteration of the seam left by the late civil war, who was the first to lead his party back to its own national platform of steady approach toward the removal of obstructions to Lade, the foremost exponent of all the living Democratic principles of to-day, the Hon. John G. Carlisle.

THE RECORD.

Vote of the House of Representatives on the Morrison Tariff Bill, Following is the vote cast in the National House of Representatives on Mr. Morrison’s tariff measnre: IN FAVOR OF THE BILL. Adams (N. Y.), Garrison, Potter, Aiken, Gibson, Pryor, Alexander, Graves, Pusey, Bagley, Green, Rankin, Ballentine, Greenleaf, Reagan, Barbour, Halsell, Reese, Barksdale, Hammond, Robertson, Bach, Hancock, Rogers (Ark.l, Belmont, Hardeman, Rogers (N. Y.j, Blackburn, Hardy, Roseerans, Blanchard, Hatch (Mo.), Scales, Bland, Hemphill, Seymour, Blount, Hanley, Shaw, Breckinridge, Herbert, Shelley, Broadhead, Hewitt (N.Y.), Singleton, Buchanan, Hewitt (Ala.), Skinner (N.C.), Buckner, Hill, Slocum, Burns, Hoblitzell, Springer, Cabell, Holman, Stevens, ( Caldwell, Houseman, Stewart (Tex.), Campbell (N.Y).Hnrd, Stockslager, Candler, Jones (Wis.), Strait, . CarletoH, .Tones (Tex,), Sumner (Wis.), Cassiday, Jones (Ark.), Talbot. Clardy, Jones (Ala.), Taylor (Tenn.), Clay, King, Thompson, Clements, Kleiner, Throckmorton, Cobb, Lamb, Tillman, Calkins, Lanliam, Townshond, Cook, Love, Tucker, Cosgrove, Lewis, Turner (Ga,), Covington, Lovering, Turner (Ky.), Cox (N. Y-), Lowry, Vance, Cox (N. C.), McMillin, Van Eaton, Crisp, Matson, Wakefield, Culberson (Tex)Maybury, Ward, Dargan, Miller (Tex.), Warner (Tenn.), Davidson, Mills, Wellborn, Davis (Mo.), - Mitchell, Weller, Deuster, Money, Whise (Minn.), Dibble (S. C.), Morgan, Williams, Dibrell (Tenn.), Morrison, ’Willis, fiockery, Morse, Wilson (W. Va.l, Dowd, Moulton, Winans (Mich.), Dorsheimer, Murphy. Winans (Wis.), Dunn, Neece, Woltord, Eldredge, Nelson, Woodward, Ellis, Oates. Worthington. Evins (8. C.), O’Ferrall, Yaple, Follett, O’Neill (Mo,), Young, Forney, Pierce, Carlisle—l66. Fyan, Peel (Ark.), AGAINST THE BILL. Adams (Ill.). fHaimer, Patton, Anderson, Hart, Payne, Arnot, Hatch (Mich.), Payson, —^6 Atkinson, Haynes, Peelle (Ind.), Bayne, Henderson (la.),Perkins, Belford, Henderson (Ill.), Peters, Bingham, Hepburn, Pettibone, Bisbee, r Hiscock, Phelps, Boutelle, Hitt, Poland, Bowen, Holmes, Post, Boyle, Holton, * Price, Bralnard, Hooper, Randall, Brcitnug. Hopkins, . Ranney, Brewer (N. Y.), Horr, Ray (N. Y.), Brewer (N. JI, Houk, Ray (N. H.) f . Browne (Ind.i, ’ Howey, Heed, Brown (Pa.), Hunt, Rice, Brumm, Hutchins, Robinson (O.), Budd. James. Rockwell, Burleigh, Jeffords, Rowell, Caldwell, Johnson, p Russell, Campbell (Pa.), Jordan, Ryan, / Cannon, Kasson, Seney, > Chace, Kean, Skinner (N. Y.), Connolly, Keifcr, Smalls, Converse, Kelley, Smith, Culbertson (Ky.)Kellogg, Snyder, Cnllen, Ketcliam, Spooner, Curtin, Lacev, Steele, Cutcheon. Laird, Stephenson, Davis (111.1, Lawrence, Stewart, Davis (Mast.), Le Fevre, Stone, Dingley, Libbey, Storm. Duncan, Long, Struble, Dnnbam, Lyman, Sumner (CaLl, Eaton, McAdoo, E. B. Taylor, Elliott, McCord, J. D. Taylor, Ellwood, McComas, Thomas, _ ErmontTont, McCormick, Tully, Evans (Pa.), McKinley, VanAlstyne, Everhart, Millard, Wadsworth, Ferrell, Mi ler (Pa.), Wait, Fiedler, Mllliken, Warner (Ohio) Findlay, Mcrev, Washburn, Finerty, Morrill, Weaver, Foran, Muller. Wemole, Funston, Murrey, Whiting, Geddes, Mutchler, Wilkins, George, Nuttin/, Wila n (Iowa), Glascock, O’Hara, O. D. Wise, Goff, O’Neill lPa.), J. 8. Wise, Guenther, Paige, York—l 69Hanback, Parker,

CHIPS.

Emma Bond is at Palmyra, W 13., fo® medical treatment. The lady nominated for bolle of port this year is Miss May, a voting lady ol unusual beauty and of unusual height ® At the New Orleans World’s Fair neiH winter Mexico will exhibit a garden o® tropical plants., overiug 2'2(t.01Nl square feel® Windsor, Conn., has a rogue detectiT® society, embracing iu its membership 15® of the most influential men of the town. H A Florida fisherman has seen a swam® snake over thirty feet ®