Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1884 — Page 7

IN THE RIGHT SPIRIT.

Enthusiastic Republican Ratification Meeting at the National Capital. Ringing Speeches by Senators Sherman, Hawley, Mahone, Harrison, and Others. Mr. Blaine Officially Informed of His Nomination for*the Presidency.

(“Washington telegram.] The Republican ratification meeting to-night fully met in all respects the most ardent expetations. The crowd was enormous, completely filling the great space in front of the City Hall. It might be placed anywhere from 15,000 to 30,000, according to the enthusiasm of the person making the estimate. It will be sufficient to say that there were a multitude of people, many more than were able to hear any of the three speakers who occupied three different stands at the same time. The statue of Abraham Lincoln, immediately in front of the bnilding, was draped with flags, and about it were arranged shields with patriotic mottoes. From the stand to the roof of the building there were stretched strings of flags, and in the center, at the apex of the main entrance, surmounting the columns, was a shield with a rising sun, on which, between the portraits of the candidates, was inscribed, ‘‘The People’s Choice for 1885." There were twenty-five men among the list of speaxers. and three speakers spoke at once from the different stands. At one time three men were speaking who, twenty years ago, the most enthusiastic friend of American liberty and nnion would not have thought it possible could have been speaking at the National Capital together in behalf of a common cause. At the center stand, beneath the statue of Lincoln, stood Senator Mahone, of Virginia, Major General of the Confederacy, one of Lee’s most gallant adjutants, addressing the vast throng in behalf of an honest ballot, the success of Republican principles, and the election of Blaine and Logan. At his leit, sixty feet away, stood Congressman Pettibone, of Tennessee, addressing a similar crowd, who, as the leader of a band of Union soldiers, harassed Gen. Mahone's Confederate forces. At the right stand at the same time stood Frederick Douglass, a slave in Maryland when Mahone was a master in Virginia, ail pleading for the one cause. * Judge Shellabarger presided. The crowd insisted upon hearing Gen. Hawley. He came forward, and with the voice of a commander shouted, “Attention.” Shellabarger extolledthe nominees. Mr. Blaine he had known for years, and he considered that a purer or more exalted man does not live in the republic, but Blaine, he admitted, is not a good man in the. sense that Mr. Surface or Mr. Pecksniff were good men, nor a good man in the sense that those who participated in the Chicago convention and have bolted axe good men. Fortunately there are but one or two such men in a million. Judge 'WllHam Lawrence, of Ohio, read a series of resolutions indorsing and ratifying the Republican nominations for President and Vice President, and setting forth the reasons why Blaine and Logan should be supported and sleeted by those who had at heart the best Interests of the oountry. The resolutions were adopted with choers. Judge Shellabarger introduced the Hon. John Sherman as the first speaker. Mr. Sherman said in part: I will support the nomination of Blaine and Logan as heartily as I have done those of Fremont, and Lincoln, and Grant, and Hayes, and Garfield, and this I would do, fellowcitizens, even if they were less worthy than I know them to be of the dfetingished honor proposed for them. I would do it tor my own honor. I tave no patience with any man who for himself Or any other person would take his chances for success in- a political convention and when disappointed would seek to thwart the action of the convention. Blaine and Logan have been selected from among millions of their countrymen to represent—not themselves but the Republican party of the United States. They represent the American Union, one and indivisible, snatched by war from the perils of secession and disunion. After the speech of Sherman the Marine Band struck up and the glee club sang, “Well follow where the white plume waves,” a campaign song by Messrs. Taber and Sousa. The refrain is: Then hurrah for the emblem white, And hurrah for the Plumed Knight, For victory and Blaine, ‘ From Oregon to Maine, We'll follow where the white plume wavea Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, was then introduced, and began by calling for three cheers for James Gillespie Blaine (heartily responded to), then for three more for John Alexander Logan (a like response), then some ope in the crowd shouted "Three cheers for Hawley.” (Loud oheers. l The Republican party, he said, was not made up of 1,000 or 1,50 u "good men of Boston” any more than 1,500 drops of water made the Mississippi River. These “good men” might try to establish the new party of the future; but the Republican party had the “good-will of the business,” and had the name, and did not propose to discontinue. [Cheers.] After Hawley’s speech, there were loud shouts for Mahone. Mahone responded, and was heartdy cheered. He said that he came to in - terchange greetings with those gathered around on the choice of the Chicago convention. “I make no venture," he said, “when I assnre you that in the old Mother Commonwealth (Virginia) every Republican heart beats with you. We have a tender feeling there for the great statesman whose ' administration of public affairs has been broad and unsectionai and benign. It has been under bis auspices that Virginia and the South realize that the National Government is the common heritage of Americans, and that ail are entitled to equal rights, immunities, and burdens. Horr, of Michigan, made a bright spech, which was well received. He dwelt upon the records of Blaine and Logan, and the manner in which they had been nominate®. “When we selected our men," he said, “we selected those who for twenty-five years have almost been the Republican pai ty itself. Now, when the Democrats choose their man, if they can find one who has been In the party twefity-five years, they first ask what he has said in the past. If he has ever said anything, he won’t do. Then they inquire what he has done, and if be has doiie anything, he won’t suit. Now, I like to belong to a party with a record. I can go to bed at night and sleep well, thinking of the good deeds of the Republican party. If I was a Democrat I " Would not dare to blow out the light.” Senator Frye rid cnled the idea that the Republicans would have to fight a defensive battle. He eulogized Blaine and Logan, and predicted their triumphant election in November. Senator Harrison commenced by saying that wherever a thriving population was to be found throughout the Lind, thero Blaine was the strongest. He was strong among the people who did not seek office, but helped -the cause with their votes. “What," asked Harrison, “is the matter with Blaine? Bring forward the best and ablest men of the nations, assemble the greatest men not only in our land bat in others, let asu mmons go out to the nations of Europe, let Bismarck and Gladstone be in company, and we will not fear to have their measure applied to our candidate. [“Good, good.”] “I think that if it gets to be well understood In this country that any foreign coun.riL does not want James G. Blaine elected President of the United Sta es, the American people will be just obstinate enough to elect him.” [Laughter and applaase.il • Fred Douglass presided at one of the stands, and made a short sp ech. The other spe.kers were Representatives Bayne, Dingley, Pe kins, Goff, O'Hara, Belford, Miller of Pennsylvania. Smalls (colored), Milllken, and Boutelle. A letter was read from Secretary Lincoln. In New York, expressing hearty concurrence in the object of the meeting, and hoping that all who wish the success of Republican principles will unite in earnest and vigorous support of Blaine and Logan.

OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION. [Augusta (He.) telegram.] Early this morning the streets began to assume a lively appearance, and long before the time for the committee appQftpfeed by the. national convention to notify James G. Blaine of his nomination teethe Presidential candidacy of the'Kepublicaii party to perform that duty, a considerable crowd/ had collected around the Augusta House to gaze with curiosity upon the members of the committee. Promptly at 11 o'clock the National Committee proceeded in a body to Mr. Blaine’s residence, and were received by Mrs. Blaine. As the day was oppressively hot, and the rooms of the mansion'crowed almost to suffocation, it was suggested that the presentation address be made upon .the lawn. Accordingly the committee and guests proceeded to a well-shaded portion of the grounds, where a semi-circle was loomed and all stood with uncovered heads, making an Impressive scene. The rustling of the spreading branches of the great elms and the buzzing of bisects were the only sounds to disturb the stillness. Wh n all was in readiness Mr Blaine was escorted to ibe lawn, where he stood within (he arc of the Bemi-circle. Gen. Henderson then stepped forward and presented the address of 4 • . ~ L

the committee. Beading from a manuscript, he spoke as follows: Mb. Blaine: Your nomination for the office of President of the United States by the National Republican Convention, recently assembled at Chicago, is already known to you. The gentlemen before you, constituting the committee, composed of one member from each State and Terri rory of the country, and* one from the District of Colombia, now come as the accredited organ of that convention, to give yon formal notice of the nomination and to request . your acceptance thereof. It is, of course, known to you that, besides your own, several other names among the most honored in the oouneils of the Republican party were presented by their friends as candidates for the nomination. Between your friends and the lriends of. the gentlemen so justly entitled to the respect and confidence of their political associates, the contest was one of generous rivalry, free from any taint of bitterness, and equally, free from the reproach of injustice. At an early stage of the proceedings of the convention, it became manifest that the Republican States, whose aid must be invoked at last to insure success to the ticket, earnestly desired your nomination. It was equally manifest that the desire so earnestly expressed by the delegates from those States was bat the truthful reflection df the irresistible popular demand. It Is not thought, nor pretended, that this demand had its origin in any ambitious desires of your own or in the organized work of “your friends, but it was recognized to be what it trathfully is, the spontaneous expression by a free people of love and admiration of a chosen loader. No nomination wou d have given satisfaction to every member of the party. This was not to be expected in a. country so extended in area and so varied in interests. The nomination of Mr. Lincoln in 1860 disappointed so many hopes and overthrew so many cherished ambitions that for a short time the disaffection threatened to ripen into an open revolt. In 1872 the discontent was so pronounced as to impel large masses of the party to organize opposition to its nominees. For many Weeks after the nomination of Mr. Garfield in 1880, defeat seemed inevitable. In each case the shock of disappointment was followed by the “sober second thought.” Individual preferences gradually yielded to convictions of puhlic duty*. The promptings of patriotism finally rose superior to the irritations and animosities of the hour. Tne party in every trial has grown stronger in the face of threatened danger. In tendering yon the nomination, it gives ns pleasure to remember those great measures which furnished cause for party congratulations by the late convention at Chicago, and which are now orystalized into the legislation of the country—measures which have strengthened and dignified the nation, and, while they elevated and advanced the people, have at all times and on all proper occasions received yonr earnest and valuable support. It was yonr good fortune to aid in protecting the nation against the assaults of armed treason; you were present and helped to unloose the shackles of the slave; you assisted in placing a new guarantee of freedom in the Federal Constitution; your voice was potent in preserving the national faith when false theories of finance would have blasted the national and individual prosperity. We kindly remember you as a fast friend of honest money, of commerciaMntegrlty In all that pertains to the security and repose of capital, the dignity of labor, the manhood, elevation and freedom of the people, the right of the oppressed to demand, and the duty of the Government to afford protection, your public acts have received unqualified indorsement and popular approval. But we are not unmindful of the fact that parties, like individuals, cannot entirely live on the past, however splendid the record. The present; fa ever charged with immediate cares, and the future presses on with its new duties and its perplexing responsibilities. Parties, like individuals, however, that are free from stain of violated faith in the past, are fairly entitled to the presumption of sincerity in their promises for the future. Among the. promises made by the party, in its late convention at Chicago, are: Economy in the party administration: protection of citizens, native and naturalized, at 'homeland abroad; prompt restoration of the riavy; a wise reduction of the surplus revenues, relieving the taxpayer without, injuring the laborer; the preservation of the public lands for actual settlers; export duties, when necessary at all. to be levied not for revenue only, but for the double purpose of revenue and protection; the regulation of internal commerce; the settlement of international differences by peaceful arbitration, but coupled with the reassersion and maintenance of the Monroe doctrine as interpreted by the fathers of the republio; perseverance of the good work of civil service reiorm, to the end that dangers to free institutions which lurk in the power of official patronage be wisely and effectively avoided; and an honest currency based on coin of intrinsic value, adding strength to the public credit and giving renewed vitality to every branch of American industry. During the last twenty-three years the Republican party has builded a new republic-, a republio far more splendid than that originally designed by our fathers. As its proportions are already grand, they may yet be enlarged; its foundations may be strengthened, and its columns adorned with beauty more resplendent still. To you, as its architect-in-chief, will soon be assigned this grateful work.” Mr. Blaine listened to Gen. Henderson’s adjtdress, standing under an elm tree, with his ’’arms folded on his chest, and his eyes usually cast down, but at times wandering about and. • scanning the faces of the audience. When Gen. Henderson had concluded speaking, Mr. Walker Blaine, the candidate's son, stepped forward and handed his father the manuscript of the address in reply to that of the committee. Mr. Blaine then read as follows: Mb. Chairman and Gentlemen of the National Committee: I receive, not without deep sensibility, your official notice of the action of the national convention already brought to my knowledge through the public press. I appreciate. more profoundly than I can express, the honor which is implied in the nomination for the Presidency by the Republican party of the nation, speaking; through the authoritative voice of its duly accredited, delegates. To be selected as a candidate by such an assemblage, from the list of eminent statesmen whose names were presented, fills me with embarrassment. I can only express my gratitude for so signal an honor, and my desire to prove worthy of the great trust reposed in me. In accepting the nomination, as 1 now do, I am Impressed and I am oppressed with a sense of the labor and responsibility which attaches to my position. The burden is lightened, however, by the host of earnest men who support my candidacy, many of whom add, as does yonr honorable committee, the cheer of personal friendship to the pledge of political fealty. A more formal acceptance will naturally be expected, and “will in due season be communicated. It may, however, not be inappropriate at this time to say that I have already made a careful study of the principles announced by the national convention, and in whole and In detail they have my heartieat sympathy and meet my unqualified approval. Apart from your official errand, gentlemen, I am extremely happy to welcome you all to my house. With many of you I have already shared the duties of public service, and have enjoyed most cordial friendship. I trust your journey from all parts of the great republic has been agreeable, and during your stay in Maine you will feel that you are not among strangers, but among friends. Invoking the blessing of God upon the great cause which we jointly represent, let ns torn to the future without fear and with manly \ At the conclusion of Mr. Blaine’s reply, the' members of the committee were introduced to him Individually; and an hour was spent In social and informal converse. The members of the committee then repaired to the residence of Col. Osgood, where they were entertained at lunch. How Darid Davis Led Lincoln’s Forces to Victory in ’56. The second National Republican Convention was called to meet at Chicago on Wednesday, the 16th of May, 1860, and Mr. Seward’s friends regarded his nomination for President as certain. The Illinois State Republican Convention met at Decatur a fortnight previous. It was attended by the political friends of Abraham Lincoln, who had written urging them to come, as he thought that if supported by the Illinois delegation he might secure the nomination. Few of them agreed with him, but they worked zealously for him, and elected three Lincoln delegates-at-large David Davis, Norman B. Judd, and Stephen T. Logan. The other delegate, Orville H. Browning, was b Bates man, but Lincoln approved of his election, saying that Bates would have no show, and that when Browning saw this, he would not only go over to'him but would take some of his fnends with him. Jnflge Davis had never attended a primary meeting or a caucus, much lees a convention, but Lincoln prevailed upon him to go to Chicago and conduct his campaign- The Judge arrived on the Saturday night previous to the meeting of the convention. He found that the parlors of the hotels had all been engaged, and he had to establish* his headquarters in two small, cemecfjbg rooms in the third story of the-Trembht Honqe. The ontlookfwae not encouraging, as the only Lhjjbolnfdmen on the ground were a few. of“tlu£.deJti&tes from Illinois and Indiana] Thuriow Weed had thoroughly organized the Seward cohorts, and the streets were filled with thousands who were

shouting the New York war cry. Lincoln’s E levies were scattered tar and wide and at the mercy of disciplined politicians, y had no organization. They were even without headquarters. The hotels were, packed with the noisy friends of Bates and Seward. L i > David Davis proved himself a political Cannot, and threw the railsplitter’s dag to the breeze. The raw levies were gathered and disciplined. Night and day was he busy, forming combinations and visiting delegations. Horace Greeley, under .the guise of a delegate from Oregon, appeared as the leader of the Bates men, and Thuriow Weed tooted defiance from his Seward bngle. Davis visited both leaders, and was showered with chaflfc But his raw levies were not without backing. On Saturday night he telegraphed to the lawyers of the Eighth Circuit, assuring them that Old Abe’s stock was rising, and that its value would be greatly enhanced By the presence of his friends in force. It was an electric 6hock. The State was aroused. On Monday and Tuesday trains pourfid into the city overflowing with Lincoln shooters. They were enthusiastic friends, who gladly paid their own way out of love for Lincoln. They massed themselves in the streets, and raised a din that astonished the noisy retainers of Seward. They thronged the corridors of the hotels and awoke the echoes of the night with their cheers. Hourly their number increased. They poured into the wigwam as soon as the doors were opened, and the very atmosphere of the convention seemed surcharged with their enthusiasm. The two small rooms on the third floor of the Tremont House were the scene of unwonted activity. Every order was promptly executed. Lawyers acted as messenger* and judges watched the cars for belated delegates. Tinder Davis’ guidance the work was thoroughly done, When he entered the city on Saturday night barely fifty weakkneed delegates stood under the Lincoln flag. On tiie first ballot the rail-splitter polled 102 votes, to 173 J for Seward and 48 for Bates. The lanky cohorts in the galleries nearly lifted the roof with their cheers. The second ballot gave Lincoln 181, Seward 184£, and Bates 35. Again the brawny friends of Old Abe roared with delight. The Seward men turned pale, and Thurlow’s knees smote together as he saw the writing on the wall. Lincoln was nominated on the next ballot by a vote of 354 to 110 J for Seward, and the whole State of Illinois was thrown into ecstasy. That night Judge Davis went to bed for the first time in six days, having conquered at a total cost, all told, of S7OO.

POLITICAL ELOQUENCE.

Bob IngersolTs Nomination of Blaine in the Republican Convention Eight Tears Ago. THE "PLUMED KNIGHT.” [Speech of Robert G. -fhgersoll In presenting the name of James G. Blaine for the Presidential nomination at Cincinnati in June, 1876.] Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: Massachusetts may be satisfied with the loyalty of Benjamin H. Bristow; so am I; but if any man can not carry the State of Massachusetts I am not satisfied with the loyalty of that State. If the nominee of this convention can not carry the grand old Commonwealth of Massachusetts by seventy-five thousand majority, I would advise them to sell out Faneuii Hall as a Democratic headquarters. I wmld advise them to take from Bunker Hill that old monument of glory. The Republicans of the United States demand as their leader in the great contest of 1876 a man of intelligence, a man of well known and approved political op.nions. They demand a statesman; they demand a reformer after as well as before the election. They demand a politician in the highest, broadest, and best sense— A MAN OF SUPERB MORAL COURAGE. They demand a man acquainted with public affairs, with the wants of the people; with not only the requirements of thh hour, but with the demands of the future. [Applause.] They demand a man broad enough to comprehend the relations of the Government to the other nations of the earth. They demand a man well versed in the powers, duties, and prerogatives of each and every department of this Government. They demand a man who wiU sacredly preserve the financial honor of the United States; one who knows enough to know that the national debt must be paid through the prosperity of. this people; one who knows enough to know that aU the financial theories in the world cannot redeem a single dollar; one who knows enough to know that ail the money must be made, not by law, but by labor; one who knows enough to know that the people of the United States have the industry to make the money, and the honor to pay it over just as fast as they make it. [Applause.] The Republicans of the United States demand a man who knows that prosperity and resumption, when they come, must come together; that when they come they will come hand in hand through the golden harvest fields; hand in hand by t'he whirling spindles and the turning wheels; hand in hand past the open furnace doors; hand in hand by the chimneys filled with eager fire, greeted and grasped by the countless sons of toil. This money has to be dug out of the earth. You cannot make it by passing resolutions in a political convention. lApplause.] The Republicans of the United States want a man who knows that this "Government should protect every citizen, at home and abroad: who knows that any Government that will not defend its defenders and protect its protectors is a disgrace to the map of the world. They demand a man who believes in the eternal separation and divorcement of church and school. The; demand a man whose political reputation is as spotless as a star; but they do not demand that their candidate shall have a certificate of moral character signed by a Confederate Congress. The mkn who has IN FULL-HEAPED AND ROUNDED MEASURE all these splendid qualifications Is the present grand and gallant leader of the Republican party—James G. Blaine. Our country, crowned with the vast and marvelous achievements of its first century, asks for a man worthy of the past and prophetic of her future; asks for a man who has the audacity of genius; asks for a man who is the grandst combination of heart, conscience, and brain ben ath her Hag—such a man is James G. Blaine. [Applause.] For the Republican host, led by this intrepid man, there can be no defeat. This is a grand year—a year filled with recollections of the revolution; filled with the proud and tender memories of the past; with the sacred legends of liberty—a year in which the sons of lreedom will drink from the fountains of enthosia m; a year in which the people call for a man who has preserved in Congress what our soldiers won upon the field; a year in wh ch they call for a man who has torn from the throat of treason the tongue of slander—for the man who has snatched the mask of Democracy from the hideous face of rebellion; for the man who, like an intellectual athlete, has stood in the arena of debate and challenged all comers, and who is still a total stranger to defeat. [Applause.] Like an armed warrior, LIKE A PLUMED KNIGHT, James G. Blaine nlarched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance fuil and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the maligners of its honor. For the Republican party to desert this gallant leader now is as though an army should desert their general upon the field of ba tie. [Applause.] James G. Blaine is now and has been for years the bearer of the sacred standard of the Republican party, I call it sacred because no human being can stand beneath its folds without becoming and without r maining free. Gentlemen of the convention, in the name of the great Republic, the only Republic that ever existed upon this earth; in the name of all her defenders and of all her supporters; in the name of all her soldiers living: in the name of all her soldiers dead upon the field of battle, and in the name of those who perished in the skeleton clutch of famine at Ande eonville and Libby, wbos > sufferings be so vividly remembers, Illinois—lllinois nominates for the next President , of this country that prince of parliammtaiians A-that leader oi leaders—James G. Blaine. ■*' Blaine has already accomplished what no other man in this country could possibly hare done—he has forced the sphinx of Gramercy Park to lay aside his to speak out plainly for once in his life.—Providence Press. .

THE. BAD BOY.

“Say, what is this I hear about yotn pa and the new minister quarreling, and your pa ordering him out of the door, and hie refusing to go; and hitting your pa in the ear?" said the groceryman to the bad boy, as he showed up at his usual hour. ; rrnrr T^y — “Well, it tfas partly true, but it was all a joke,” said the’ bad boy, as he looked out the door to see if his parent was in the vicinity. “You see, it was a new minister that came here to exchange works with our preaqhsr. You know when they exchange works it is as good as a vacation, ’cause both ministers can preach an old sermon that has been laying’around and got moth-eaten. The next day after the visiting preacher preached he came to our house to stay a day or two, at ma’s invitation. Pa hasn’t been feeling very well lately, and ma said he wanted some excitement, and I thought of an old story I read once, about some students at a theological seminary making two professors believe that each other was deaf, aud how they talked loud to each other; and I thought if such a joke was all right in a college where they turned out young preachers, it would do at our house; so I told ma she better tell pa to talk loud enough, or the preacher couldn’t hear him. You see I didn’t lie; but ma went and told pa the minister was deaf as a post and he would have to yell bloody gnnrder to make him hear. X don’t think it was right ior ma to say that, ’cause I didn’t tell her the minister was deaf; but pa sa'd he hadn’t spoken at ward caucuses for nothing, and he would make the preacher hear or talk the top of his head off. I brought the minister’s satchel over from the house where he had been stopping, and he came along with me, and I asked him how his voice was, and he said it was all right, and I told him he would have use for it if he talked with pa much. He asked me if pa was deaf, but I ‘wouldn’t lie, and all I said was if the minister would veil as loud as he did when he got excited in preaching, pa would hear the most of what he said. O, he said he guessed he, wouldn’t have any trouble making pa hear. Well, I ushered him in the parlor, and they shook hands and I skipped up stairs, just As pa swelled out his chest and took a long breath and shouted, ‘Glad to see you!’ Well, you’d a dide. It seemed as though his voice would knock the new minister’s ear. off, but the minister braced himself, inflated his lungs, and shouted, ‘The happiness is mutual, I assnre yon,’ and then they both coughed, ’cause I guess it strained their lungs some. Ma was leaning over the banister, and when pa would roar at the minister, ma would laugh, and when the minister would roar back at pa, I would laugh. Pa seemed to think the minister talked loud, cause all deaf people talk loud, and the minister thought the same, and they was a having it pretty loud, you bet. They talked about relidgin, and politics, and every thing, and pa mopped his bald head with his handkerchief, and the minister got red in the face; and finally pa told the minister he needn't yell loud enough to loosen the shingles, as he wasn’t deaf, and the minis ter,:, said he wasn’t deaf, and pa needn’t yell like a maniac, and then pa: said he was another, and the minister said pa was a worldly minded son of Belial, and then ma she see it was time to stop it, and she went down stairs otf a hop, skip, and jump, and told them both that there was a mistake, and that nobody was deaf, and then the minister said he understood from pa’s little boy that his pa was hard of hearing, and pa sent for me, but I was scarce. Don’t you think a boy shows good sense, sometimes, in not being very plenty around when they yearn for him? Sometimes I am numerous, and then again lam about as few as any of the boys. Well, there was no harm done, but pa and the minister have their opinion of each other. Say, what do you think of the nominations?” and the boy began to husk some strawberries in a box.

“Oh, I don’t know anything about it. What I am thinking of is, where you will fetch up,” and the grocery man looked hard. “Here you have played a mean joke on a truly good preacher, and your own father, and I am ashamed of you. Bnt, by the way, what has become of the colored family you adopted, the sick boy and his sick mother ? Yon haven’t gone back on them and let them starve, have you?” “Starve nothin’,” said the bad boy. *'Our doctor attended to them until they were both well, and didn’t charge a cent, and ma and I went around aad collected money enough from the neighbors to set the old colored lady up in a laundry, with regular washing machines, and wringers and everything, and she hires three women to help her, and the colored boy is the cashier, and collects the clothes and delivers them in a nice little hand-cart that I borrowed from a printing office for them, and they are making money hand over fist, doing washing for about forty families. But the meanest thing was they wanted to pay me for my kindness to them. Gosh, it hurts me for anybody to want to pay me for helping ’em out of a serape. I get enough fun just thinking about it, and when anybody calls me bad I just whistle ‘Wajt Tifi the Clouds 801 l Bv,’ and think of the different ones I have made happy, and who think I am all right, and don’t pay no attention to the mean things people say about me. Sh-sh! Here comes the colored woman with new clothes on, looking healthy as anybody, and I must get ont the back door or she will wan: to ling me. Darned if I want to be hugged by everybody, ’specially colored wimmin,” and the boy went ont the back door and wandered off down the alley, as contented with himself as though he had never done a wrong thing in all his life.— Peck’s Sun. A strange flower, that white it the morning and red at night, has been named the “Confederate Bose,” on account of its blending these two beautiful colors. 'The plant is odorless. If grows in great bunches, and is su» eeptible of a high degree of cultivation “Bear a Hiy in thv band: Gates of brans cannot withstand One touch of that .magic wand.” —Longfellow. *

IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT.

The Murderer es Mrs, Mollie Gherkin Suspended to ft TelegraphPole. He Was Taken from the Jail at Vincennes, Ind., by a Mob of Men. [Vincennes (Ind.) telegram.] The threats made last evening by angry citizens to summarily punish Oliver Canfield, the young miscreant who shot Mrs. Mollie Gherkin last Tuesday night, were not idle ones. As the horns went by the knots of men who stood talking quietly at the street corners were gradually re-en-forced until several hundred were gathered in the vicinity of the jail. There was no loud talking or noisy display of any kind, but the grim, set features of those who had assembled to avenge the murdered woman boded ill for the unhappy wretch who cowered in his coll, fully alive to all that was transpiring and to the dreadful hopelessness of his case. At midnight the avengers, a body some fifty strong, composed of tho best citizens, moved through the inky darkness toward the jail. The stout doors were quickly crashed open with a pieoe of railroad iron that had been brought from the track for the purpose. Meeting with no resistance, the avengers rushed on to Canfield's cell, the door of which was battered down with three or four blows of the ram. The prisoner, cowered down in a comer and attempted to pray, but was roughly hidden to prepare to come out. Trembling in every limb, and with features ghostlike in their sickly pallor, he complied, and was marched slowly between the two masked leaders out of the jail into the open air. The first proposition made on the outside of the jail yard being reached, was that Canfield should be strung up then aud there, but, with strange persistency, he pleaded to be pnt to death on the same spot where his hepless sweetheart met her fate at his hands. His proposition was received with deafening yells of approval by the crowd, and he was rushed off to a convenient telegraph pole within a stone’s throw of the murder. A stout rope was slung over the lower cross-ties, a noose made, and the victim placed in position. His aspect was pitiable but it called forth no expression of mercy or sympathy from the determined men around him, and he was told if he had anything to say to say it qnickly. He faltered forth that he was guilty, and was sorry he killed the woman. He begged that his mother be told that he tried to be reconciled to the Almighty, but that be should never go to heaven. He was given a minute to say his prayers, but he had by this time sunk so low that he could scarcely be roused. The rope was soon adjusted arouud his neck, and, amid the applause of the crowd, he was drawn to a height of ten feet and left to hang. Thero was scarcely a struggle perceptible, but the victim probably lived thirty minutes. A card was pinned to bis coat requesting the Coroner to leave the body hanging until 12 o’clock to-day. No resistance whatever was made by the jail officials. The Sheriff merely refused to deliver up the keys of the jail when requested quietly to do so, bnt after the doors had been battered down the lynchers were not interfered with. The crime for which Canfield suffered his terrible punishment was committed last Tuesday night. He had been paying marked attentions for a year past to Mrs. Mollie Gerkin.a beautiful widow. Canfield wished her to marry him, bnt as a divorce suit Was pending between the woman and her husband, she was unable to comply. A week ago last Friday Canfield and the woman came to Vincennes from Washington, Ind. She obtained work in a boarding-house, while he spent his time in idly loafing about. Tuesday evening he called at the house where she was staying and requested his sweetheart to take a walk with him. She compHed with apparent willingness, and the two strolled down Main street and turned in the direction of the bridge. Suddenly, without a moment’s warning, Canfield threw his arms around Mrs. Gherkin’s neck and kissed her. At the same moment he drew a revolver from his pocket and sent a ballet crashing into the marble forehead that rested lovingly and confidingly on his shoulder. His victim sank to the earth without a groan, but not satisfied with the result of his devilish work he fired four more shots at her as she lay prostrate on the ground. A great crowd gathered and in the excitement Canfield escaped. He fled to Washington and went to his sister’s house, telling hei what he had done, at the same time handing her a knife and revolver. These his sister threw into a vault. The murderer spent the night hidden in the woods near his mother’s house, and was captured early Thursday morning by the officers, who had foUowed closely on his heels. Brought back to Vincennes, be refused to give any motive for his deed, but declared that he was sober and rational at the time of its commission. Canfield was but 22 years of age. He was known as a hard character, and had spent most of his time working in coal mines. Mrs. Gherkin died yesterday morning, and the plans for lynching her murderer were immediately consummated.

Nihilists Assassinate a Russian Officer.

A cable dispatch from St. Petersburg says: At Odessa Capt. Gerdzey, a prominent officer of the gendarmes, has been assassinated. His body was found with a bullet hole in the temple and a dagger sticking in his heart. A note pinned to the coat left no doubt that the murder was the work of N hilisjs. Capt. Gerdzey was a capable, courageous official, and specially devoted himself to grappling with Nihilism. He thus incurred the bitterest hatred of the members of that body. The murder has produced a sensation in Russia equal to that occasioned “by the assassination of Lieut. Col. Sudeikin.

SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

Gov. Adams, of Nevada, is a “natural faster,” sometimes going a week without food. Congressman Seth L. Miluken, of Maine, employs as his private secretaiy his daughter, Miss Maud Milliken. The women in the smithy town of Lye Waste, England, work in the shops, and are often more muscular than the men. A# Mr. Jay Gould’s income is estimated to be $9 a minute, a statistician says that he lost $135 by the change from solar to standard time. Mrs. George Stoddard, of Newport, N. Y., while carriage riding, stopped to water her horse; when he backed into the creek and drowned her. In a recent document put forth by the Associated Charities of Boston, it is stated that the four causes of poverty are drunkenness, ignorance, laziness, and pride. ShawNEETown, 111., is the first place in the West to report wheat cutting.

PUTTING UP LEADERS.

Indiana Democratic Delegation to Sop* < port McDonald for the Pnxi/laiiffv rremaenejr. Ohio Democrats Demand the Unanimous Nomination of Tllden. The Indiana Democratic State Convention was called to order at Indianapolis by the Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, Chairman of the State Central Committee, who was received with much applause. Prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. Allen. The platform was read by the Hon. W. H. English. It renewed the pledge of fidelity to the Constitution and to the doctrines taught by the men who were its founders, condemning the corrupt and extravagant of public zftonoy* advocated a tariff for revenue according to the necessities of the Government, and demanded the enforcement of the laws against Chinese immigration, and the redemption of public lands for the occupancy of citizens of the United States. A resolution to instruct the delegation to vote for McDonald at Chicago was carried amid applause. After the adoption of the platform. Isaac P. Gray, M. D. Munson, and David Turpie were placed in nomination for Governor. On the first ballot Gray was nominated, receiving 699 votes: and Manson, 181. Gen. Manson made a speech saying he had supposed the soldier of two wars would have received more consideration in the Democratic convention, bnt he was satisfied and saoved that the nomination be made unanimous. Col. Gray responded at some length, arraigning the Republican party and discussing the Chicago platform. Several nominations were made for Lieutenant Governor, but all withdrew in favor of Gen. Manson, who was nominated by acclamation. W. R Meyers, of Madison, was chosen for Secretary of State. James H. Rice, of Floyd, for Auditor, and John J. Cooper, of Marion, for Treasurer, were nominated by acclamation. Delegates to the Chicago convention were elected as follows: At-Larse —Thomas A. Hendrioks, Daniel W. Voorhces, Robert C. Bell, and Charles Danby. First District—G. V. Monties and F. Lowenstein. Second—J. M. Andrews and Samuel H. Taylor. Third—Jason B. Brown and Geo. H. D. Gibson. Fourth—E. D. Bannister and J. H. Woolford. Fifth—Thomas W. Woollen and P. H. McCormick. Sixth—W. A. liickle and Henry Wyger. Beventh—o> B. Hord and Peter Lieber. Eighth—Thomas F. Davidson and C. F. McNutt. Ninth—J. V. Brunt and 8. S. Daily. Tenth—Clinton Chamberlain and A. L. Jones. Eleventh—D. Yensrlingand Hugh Dousrherty Twelfth—Herman Freygang and Henry Colerick. Thirteenth —Hudson Reck and Daniel McDonald. After the convention adjourned the State Central Committee held a meeting, and organized bjr the election of Ebenezer Henderson as Chairman and J. L. Riley Secretary. The delegates to the national convention held a conference and determined to do everything possible to secure the nomination of McDonald. Ohio Democrats. • The Ohio Democratic State Convention was called to order at Columbus by Congressman D. R. Paige. There were very -few people present except the delegates. Gen. E. B. Finley was elected permanent Chairman. He reviewed the history of the party, and predicted that it would carry Ohio this feu. Elmer White presented the platform, which reaffirmed the principles set forth in 1883. It indorsed the principles of the party as in favor of personal liberty; demanded tho purification of the public service, and the equalization of public burdens; favored a tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the Govemmeu. aud so adjusted as to prevent unequal burdens; advocated the adjustment of the wool tariff; commended the action of the Democratic Legislature iu abolishing the contract-labor system, and its reform of prison management; and arraigned the Republican party. A radical free-trade plank, offered by Mr. RusseU, of Cleveland, was voted down unanimously. A resolution offered by Congressman Converse favoring the nomination of Tilden was unanimously adopted. An effort to force the unit rule on the Chicago delegation was defeated. The delegates at large were elected as follows: Gen. Durhin Ward, Allen G. Thurman. John R. McLean, and Lient. Gov. Mueller. The State ticket was named as follows: Secretary, James W. Newman; Supreme Jndge, C. D. Martin; Member of the Board of Public Works, John H. Benfer. North Carolina Democrats. The Democrats of North Carolina, in convention at Baleigh, nominated Gen. Alfred M. Scales for Governor and Charles M. Stedman for Lieutenant Governor. The delegates to the Chicago convention are divided between Bayard and Cleveland.

Devoured by Sharks.

While the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s steamship Chala, Capt. Hogg, now in this port, says the Panama Star and Herald, was leaving Bahia, one of her cooks, who was asleep on the rail, fell overboard. An alarm was immediately given, the ship was stopped and backed, life-buoys were thrown overboard, and, with amazing rapidity, a boat was in the water and in charge of Mr. Kellick, the first officer, [ pulling hard in the direction of the man, who was a splendid swimmer, and who, made good progress in the direction of the boat. Suddenly, however, the place became alive with sharks, and it at once became apparent the unfortunate man was doomed. Once be threw himself out of the water in an effort to escape the jaws of one of the monsters, but a few seconds afterward he was evidently seized and dragged under, as nothing more was seen of him. Other sharks, apparently disappointed in their hopes of prey, were then observed rushing through the water in all directions, and even,>ppeared to meditate an attack on the boat, which, after an ineffectual search, pulled back to the ship. The sharks were apparently ravenous, and the rapidity with which they swarmed around the unfortunate man amazed all who witnessed this striking proof of (he voraciousness of these denizens of the deep. At Thurles, Tipperary, six men have been committed for trial, charged with having carried away the daughter of a rich fanner. They intended to force her to marry one of them and thus gain her inheritance. . - , » V“\ *•- ' Patent benches, which can be closed and locked at night, are favored for public use in the down-town parks in New York, where the old benches were used as beds for tramps and loafers. Adrian HnJCi has started out to walk from New York to San Francisco for $2,000.