Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1884 — Page 6

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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

the: east. Some citizens of Trenton, N. J., who favor cremation, have purchased a potterykiln at Pennington, and will transform it into an oven for burning bodies.... The Rev. John W. Straub, of the Bloomfield Catholic Church, Pittsburg, while crazed with disease, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. On the Charter Oak track at Hartford, while the pacers Princess and George G. were being exercised in different directions for the 2:17 race, both drivers pulled the same way. The animals went into the air and fell flat. George G. died almost instantly, and was buried in view of the assemblage. Princess; received fatal injuries. The horses were valued at $5,000 each.... This year’s hop crop in this country is estimated to be about one-fourth short of the average. - - The business portion of the village of Adams, Jefferson County, N. ¥., was burned, involving a loss of $200,000. Hog cholera has appeared at Shoemakersville, Pa. Many swine are dying... .A sailor found unconscious in a street in New York, died at the Marine Hospital of yellow fever. The Board of Aldermen at-New York, at a secret meeting, passed the ordinance giving a company the right to lay a surface railway on Broadway over the Mayor’s veto. ....The postoffice at Williamsport, Pa., was robbed of $3,500 of stamps.

THE WEST.

Michael Griffin, of Des Moines, lowa, who was fined SIOO and costs, to be committed to jail until paid, was brought into court on a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that the Justice could not imprison beyond thirty days, and that he had no jurisdiction. Judge Given decided that the Justice had jurisdiction, and that the costs were no part of the penalty. An appeal will be had to the Supreme Court. Capt. Payne, the Oklahoma adventurer, and seven of his associates were arrested at Rock Falls, Indian Territory, a few days ago by a United States officer. They- were taken to Fort Scott, Kas., where they will probably be tried by court martial for disobeying the instructions of the military authorities... .A coachman at Minneapolis, named Peter Johnson, after taking a lady to visit a friend, walked out on the lawn and shot himself through the heart. Ten head of cattle were killed at Elmhurst, HI., under the instructions of the State Veterinarian, Dr. Paaren. The post-mortem examination showed that the disease was pleuro-pneumonia of the most virulent type.... The Second National Bank at Xenia, Ohio, has closed its doors. The cashier, Mr. J. Ankeny, engaged in grain transactions with a friend named Smart, and induced the bank to make large advances to his friend. Both lost. Mrs. Crowdher and Mrs. Cormaek had a dispute about some work at O’Fallon, near Belleville, 111, Mrs. Crowdher struck Mrs. Cormaek with a steel file, inflicting a fatal wound. The murderess then retired to her home, where she committed suicide by cutting her throat... .The savings bank of Adrian, Mich., with SBO,OOO due to depositors, has suspended payment. A JURY in the Cook County Probate Court at Chicago, after listening to the medical and other testimony produced regarding Mr. Wilbur F. Storey, proprietor of the Chicago Times , pronounced that gentleman insane. The court appointed Mr. Austin L. Patterson, the present business manager of the Times, conservator of Mr. Storey’s property’. A railroad car attached to a circus train caught fire near Greeley, Colo. Seven-ty-five men were sleeping in the car at the time. Ten men perished, and several others were badly scorched. 'A dispatch from Denver gives the following particulars of the accident: “At 11 o’clock last night the train belonging to the Anglo-American circus, Mr. Ortdn proprietor, left Fort Collins for Golden via the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Road. Forty minutes later, when near Greeley, the sleeping-car, in which seventy-five men, employed as roustabouts in the circus, were asleep, caught fire and was wholly consumed. Ten men perished and two more were seriously and five slightly burned. The fire was communicated from an open torch with which the car was lighted to a quantity of gasoline which was being carried in the same car, causing an explosion.”.... Evansville, Ind., was visited by a terrific wind, rain, and hail storm, lasting over an hour. The steamer Silverthome, with steam up, had her ehimneys blown overboard. The Josiah Throop was badly wrecked. Many houses o were demolished, and roofs and chimneys blown off. The steamer Belmont was lost in the hurricane below Evansville, and ten or fifteen persons were drowned. Among the lost are Capt. John Smith, E. C. Roach and son, Miss Laura Lyon and sister, Sallie Bryant and mother, and others unknown. «The boat was valued at $15,000. The Chicago Tribune prints extensive reports of the condition of the com crop in Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. The reports indicate a magnificent com crop for 1884. The reports are especially gratifying from Kansas and Nebraska, where tiie acreage in com has been largely increased, while the prospects are of the brightest. According to the returns, nothing bat early frosts can interfere with a bountiful harvest..... The Governor of Montana sent a special agent to investigate the reports of starvation among the Piegans. It was found that in a band of 2,000 the deaths for lack of food averaged one per day. The Governor has u/ged the Secretary of the Interior ,to issue full rations to the sufferers until Congress can take action. Striking miners at Snake Hollow, Ohio, commenced a riot at 2 o’clock on Sunday morning, Aug. 31, by firing several hundred shots at the guards. William Hare was killed and two others received serious wounds. A hopper worth $4,000 was burned, and the telegraph wires were cut In response to a call by tbe Sheriff, Gov. Hoadly ordered the militia companies at Lancaster and Lexington to be in readiness to march. Ohio’s wheat crop of this year will yield 43,982,969 bushels, of excellent quality. This is the largest crop of the State, except that of 1880, when the yield was 48,540,000 bushels. The oat crop will produce 23,893,663 bushels, or about 31.2 bushels to the acre. The barley

crop will yield about 1,000,000 bushels. Com has suffered from drouth, and is about 79 per cent, of an average crop. Reports of the corn crop in Illinois, says a Chicago paper, are not quite as encouraging as previous reports.' There is little change to note in lowa reports. The prospects are very good. In Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Kansas an immense yield is promised.

THE SOUTH.

The City Marshal of Sharp6bnrg, Ky., killed Dr. Daniel Henry for resisting arrest. A Deputy Sheriff at Hot Springs was compelled to shoot a horse-thief whom he was conveying to the State Penitentiary, and the Coroner’s jury indorsed the act. A Louisville policeman fatally wounded a notorions footpad named John Lynch, who was caught in the act of robbing a citizen. Samuel Bowman attempted to beat his wife at Knoxville, Ky., with a broomstick because his breakfast was not ready in time. She seized a knife and stabbed him seven times, inflicting fatal wounds. Berry Johnson (colored) for the murder of his wife was hanged at Shreveport, La. Scliip Holly, a negro who murdered Luther Seely, a young White man, in January, was hanged at Tuscola, Ala. The local military were at the jail. Josh Berryman (colored) was hanged at Natchitoches, La., for the murder of Scott Carter (colored). Willie Williams, alias French, Was hanged at Franklin, La., for the murder of William Burgess Feb. 3. Ah the black cap was drawn Williams shonted: “O, God! save me! O, God! save me!” The four villains who last May wrecked an Illinois Central train at Duck Hill, Miss., have been captured by Pinkerton detectives. The motive was revenge on the engineer, who was killed by the plot. The offenders are in jail.

WASHINGTON.

The Treasury Department has issued orders to Collectors of Customs that hereafter when a vessel carrying rags arrives at any port it shall be the duty of the importer to produce positive evidence that the cargo is from a non-infected port, and is free from the germ of disease. The difficulty of producing such evidence" virtually prevents the introduction of rags.... John B. Dawson, a clerk in the Pension Bureau at Washington, died Last . week. He weighed 438 pounds, and his body had to be placed in a grape arbor until a coffin could be made. The experiment of illuminating Pennsylvania avenue with electric light has not proved entirely satisfactory. The middle of the street is brilliantly lighted. The sidewalks are left in almost total darkness;

POLITICAL.

Congressional nominations: J. C. Fitzgerald, Republican, Fifth Michigan District; I. L. Struble, Republican, Eleventh Iowa; W. J. Stone, Democrat, Twelfth Missouri; Isaac Stephenson, Republican, Ninth Wisconsin; Thomas Rhoddes, Prohibitionist. Twentieth Ohio; H. G. Thayer (for long term), John W. Reynolds (for short term), Republicans* Thirteenth Indiana; N. B. Eldredge, Greeubacker, Second Michigan; E. Barksdale, Seventh, and O.R. Singleton, Democrats, Fifth Mississippi; W. C. Oates, Democrat, Third Alabama; Joseph A. Scranton, Republican, Twelfth Pennsylvania. Prof. Kirk, Superintendent of Schools of Woodford County, was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the North Illinois District. Judge W. H. McHenry was nominated by the Greenbackers and Democrats in the Seventh lowa District (Kasson’s) for the long term. E. R. Kreidler was named for the short term, to fill the vacancy caused by Kasson’s resignation. Congressman Yaple was renominated by the Democrats and Greenbackers of the Fourth Michigan District. The Republicans nominated ex-Congressman Julius C. Burrows in the same district. B. F. Hall, of Burlington, w r as nominated by the Democrats of the First lowa District, and W. H. Neece was nominated by the Democrats of the Eleventh Hlinois District. Edwin D. Bailey, Secretary of the National Committee of the Ammerican party, announces that Senator S. C. Pomeroy, nominated for President, will withdraw in favor of St John... .The Hlinois Greenback Convention, at Bioomington, nominated Jesse Harper, of Danville, for Governor, and adopted a resolution authorizing the State Central Committee of the party to fuse with any of the old parties which would give them seven Presidential electors.... The Greenbackers and Anti-Monopolists of Wisconsin met in convention at Milwaukee, nominated W. L. Utley for Governor, and placecka full electoral ticket in the field.... The Michigan Prohibitionists, in session at Detroit, nominated David Preston, a wealthy Detroit banker, for Governor. The Republicans of the First North Carolina District have nominated J. B. Respess for Congress. Richard Bishop was nominated by the Democrats of the Fifth Illinois District; E. H. Braddus was named by the Prohibitionists of the Eleventh Illinois District; and James Keigwin was placed in the field by the Republicans of the Third Indiana District. The lowa Greenback State Convention was held at Des Moines, sixty-six counties being represented by 310 delegates, and performed one-half of the proposed fusion act mapped out in advance by the Democratic and Greenback State Central Committees. The following Presidential electors were nominated: At large, Daniel Campbell; First District, ? A. S. Hunter; Fifth District, George Carter; Seventh District, H. S. Wilcox; Ninth District, J. P. Halton, leaving thS Eighth to be filled. The remainder, seven in number, they left for the Democrats to nominate when they meet in State convention. Judge E. L. Burton, a Democrat, was nominated for Supreme Judge; George Derr, of Union County, for State Treasurer; and James Dooley, of Keokuk, for Secretary of State. The last two are Greenbackers. A lengthy platform was adopted The Kansas Greenbackers met in convention at Topeka, and nominated the following ticket: Governor, H. L. Phillips; Lieutenant Governor, John W. Breidenthal;, Chief Justice, H. P. Yrooman; Associate, J. D. Mcßryan; Treasurer, H. F. Hefelboum; Auditor, W. T. Wakefield; Attorney General, H„ L. Brush, Secretary of State, J. C. Hibbard; Superintendent of Pnblic Instruction, Miss Fannie Randolph. Electors and a State Central Committee were also chosen. George Ford, of South Bend, was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Thirteenth Indiana District. Congressman Starry Libbey has been renominated by the Republicans of the Second Virginia District. Duff Green, was nominated by the Republicans of the Eighth Virginia District R. Pi A. Morris was nominated by the Republicans of the Sixth Virginia District and R. M. Mayo by the Republicans of the First Virginia District... .Gov. Waller, of

Connecticut, has written to the Chairman of the State Democratic Committee declining to be a candidate for re-election.

GENERAL.

The Treasurer of the United States has forwarded to the Governor of Louisiana free-school bonds of that State to the amount of $21,(100, which were captured at Baton Rouge by Gen. Sheridan. Lieut Greely received and accepted an invitation from Capt. Bedford Pim to be present at the meeting of the British Association at Montreal. M. de Lesseps the French engineer, in a letter from the French Geographical Society, congratulates Lieut Greely on his success, and expresses sympathy at the loss of his comrades. Commander Cheyne, of the British navy, has sent a eongrutnbitory dispatch direct to Greely. S. W. Tallmadge, the crop statistician of Milwaukee, has issued his final estimate of the wheat crop of the United States for 1884, as follows: Winter wheat, 380,000,000 bushels; spring wheat, 150,000,000, or 130,000,000 bushels more than the crop of 1883... .Cacereo, the Peruvian rebel chief, with his followers, entered Lima arid occupied the cathedral and one of the public buildings, from which they opened fire ou the inliubitihts indiscriminately, killing 150 people. The Canada Pacific Hoad has laid its racks to a point seven miles west of the Rocky Mountains, and hopes to reach the highest point of the Selkirk range this season. The California Board of Equalization reports the Central Pacific Road at $24,000,000 and the Southern Pacific at $17,000,000... .It is now understood that Capt. Howgate, of the Signal-Service Department, of malfeasance, and for whose apprehension a reward has been offered, is sojourning in the Bermudas.* In the race for the championship in the National League base-ball contest, the Providence has won G 4 games, Boston 58, Buffalo and New York 50 each, Chicago 41, Cleveland 31, Philadelphia ,27, and Detroit 19. In the American Association games, the Metroplitan has won 56 games, Columbus 53, Louisville 51, Cincinnati 50, St. Louis 48, Baltimore 44, Athletic 43, and Brooklyn 32. In ;he Union League games, St Louis has won 53, Boston 34, Pittsburgh 31, Baltimore and Cincinnati 30 each, and Washington 23.

FOREIGN.

The Parisian journals of all shades of opinion angrily resent the strictures of the London press on Admiral Courbet’s conduct at Foo Chow, and remind them that they approved of Admiral Seymour’s shelling Alexandria after the Egyptians had shown the white flag. Paul de Cassagnac advocates a withdrawal from any and every alliance with England and the adoption of friendly relations with Germany.... Paris dispatches state that after Admiral Courbet has destroyed the forts on the Nin River, between the arsenal and the river’s mouth, he will join Admiral Lespes before Ke Lung, and arrange for the occupation of that place... .An earthquake shock lasting thirty seconds was felt in the Island of Jersey, in the English Channel. There was no damage. The British Government has decide to increase the Khartoum expedition to 7,000 men. Seven hundred Royal Scots will be sent from the West Indies, the remainder from Gibraltar, Malta, and Cyprus. Gen. Wolseley proposes to reach Dongola by Nov. 7, as he has but six cataracts to pass. Alderman Denison, of Toronto, will command the Canadian voyageurs. It is repoif ed that Germany and France have entered into a secret alliance. The terms are understood to be that Germany will let France have her own way in China, and that France will not put any obstacle in the way of Germany if (he .latter nation should think proper to annex a portion of Holland. Both nations agree to help each other in pushing their colonial designs. The report of the alliance causes uneasiness in England..,. Reports come from Sontay that a Chinese army 80,000 strong annihilated the French in Tonquin. It is semi-officially announced from Paris that Admiral Courbet will hold the island of Formosa until China pays the indemnity demanded... .Gen. Wolseley has been appointed to the command of the expedition for the relief of Khartoum. The appointment was considered necessary owing to the report of Gen. Stephenson that the plan of campaign thus far pursued would end in disaster.... Richard Tweed* eldest son of the bite William M. Tweed, of New York, died in a Paris mad-house. It is understood he left little or no property A private letter to a gentleman in Des Moines from Ireland states that the crops in that country are the most promising since 1879, but that thousands of ncres are lying in waste for want of labor to cultivate them..... The courts in Paris have imposed long terms of imprisonment and heavy fines upon the officers of the wrecked Bank of Lyons and Loire. —k dispatch from Foo- Chow states that the Frenoh iron-clads resumed the attacks on the forts on the Min River, between its mouth and the arsenal, at an early hour on the morning of Ang. 28. The forts at the Kinpai Pass offered a determined resistance, bnt the superiority of the French gunners soon began to tell on the works. Gun after gun was dislodged, until finally the Chinese became demoralized at the sight of the destruction going on and fled from the fortresses, leaving everything behind them. Admiral Courbet then directed his attack on the forts higher up and made short work of them, as the garrisons had become panic-stricken at the sight and fire of the fleet, and hastily abandoned the defenses, leaving the French masters of the whole line of fortifications en the Min River up to the arsenal. When the French had descended the river after the attack upon the forts the Chinese looted and burned the foreign quarter. It now appears that there was no foundation for the report of the defeat of the French forces in Tonquin. Gen. Millot, the French commander in that province, has telegraphed to Paris that he awaits the advance of the Celestials with impatience. ... .A corps of veteran soldiers is being organized in Germany for service abroad, This is in accordance with the policy of Bismarck’s colonial extension.... A movement has been inaugurated in Spaiu in favor of the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope, .. . .Frauds amounting to £BO,OOO have been discovered in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance. Foreign officials of high 6tand ng are implicated A steamer from Marseilles, with two cholera cases on board, arrived off Cardiff, Wales. It was quarantined.... Jndge Taft, the American Minister to Russia, has arrived at St Petersburg. He succeeds the late Jndge Hunt * Admiral Courbet officially reports the complete Buccees of the operations against the foTts along the Min River, The French loss, he says, was ten killed, thirteen seri-

ously and twenty-eight slightly wounded. The Admiral commends the gallantry of his officers and men. The French missionaries have been officially expelled from Hong Kong. All of the French residents have left Canton, and the military commanders have all received orders to attack all French war ships and merchant vessels which attempt to enter the leading treaty ports, and those in port have been ordered to depart at once The British Government has ordered 250,000 pounds of Chicago Compressed beef for the use of the troops of the proposed Soudan expedition.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The clearing-house exchanges for last week ($650,169,105) were $50,082 less than the preceding week, and when compared with the corresponding period in 1883 show a decrease 24.7 per cent. The Hotel Newport at Asbury Park, N. J., was burned. All the guests, 125 in number, escaped. Some had to abandon their trunks Over 20,000 persons participated in the annual labor demonstration in New York, the procession filling Broadway from the City Hall to Union Square. Each body of workmen wore a distinctive badge, and many of the trades unions illustrated their vocation by practical work on the wagons. The printers carried a banner urging the boycotting of the New York Tribune. A call has been issued for a State convention of the People’s (Butler’s) party for Massachusetts, to be held at Worcester the 24th inst. Since Jan. 1 the Lynchburg Tobacco Association has sold 20,000,000 pounds of tobacco, and during August the sales reached 1.225. OOdpounds. The leaves of the plant are unusually small this year, thus changing the type of Virginia tobacco. China is not yet disposed to submit to French dictation. An order has been issued encouraging the Chinese troops to fight bravely, and warning the local authorities to protect French non-combatants.... The German ship Marco Polo, from Bremen for New York, struck a rock off the Scottish coast and was wrecked. Part of her crew were rescued, but in a very exhausted condition. Arkansas voted for State and county officers and members of the Legislature on Monday, Sept 1. The returns indicate the election of Simon P. Hughes, the Democratic candidate for Governor, by a majority of 40,000 or more. The Legislature will be largely Democratic. The constitutional amendment repudiating the disputed State debt is believed to have been carried. Notwithstanding a very large vote was polled, the election was a peaceable and quiet one... .The National Executive Committee of the National Lsfbor party decided at New York to hold no convention, but issued a “declaration” indorsing the principles of the People’s party and its candidate, General Butler. Following is the official statement of the public debt for August: Interest-bearing debt— Four and one-half per cents $250,000,000 Four per cents. 737,683,150 Three per cents.. 214,571,350 Refunding certificate 5............... 271,900 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt...... $1,216,526,490 Matured debt $14,188,585 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes 846,739.376 Certificates of deposit..... ',... 14,420,000 Gold and silver certificates 242,851,841 Fractional currency 6,978,001 Total without interest. $610,989,218 Total debt (principa1)...............51,841,704,203 Total interest 10,351,844 Total cash in Debt less cash in Treasury. $1,437,514,094 Decrease during August 8,542,852 Decrease since June 30, 1881 12,536,141 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid $1,686,574 Debt on which interest has ceased, 14,188,585 Interest thereon 322,410 Gold and silver certificates 242,851,841 United States notes held for redemption certificates 14,420,000 Casq balance avai1ab1e.............. 141,072,511 Total $114,541,952 Available assets— Cash in Treasury . $414,541,952 Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable by United States — Principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid....... 646,235 Interest paid by United States 63,099,504 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. $ 18,148,923 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings. 665,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 44.295,381 When a woman becomes flurried she feels for a fan; when a man becomes flurried he feels for a cigar.

THE MARKET.

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STATE CONVENTIONS.

The Illinois Greenbackers and Anti-Monopolists Decidb in Favor of Fusion. Michigan Prohibitionists Nominate a i Ticket—Nebraska Republicans Do Likewise. State Conventions of the Greenback- — ers in Texas and Wisconsin. The Greenback Anti-Monopoly State Convention of Illinois was held at Bloomington on the 27th of August. A. J. Streeter was elected Chairman, and EEaton was made Secretary. At the outset a Committee on Resolutions was appointed and reported the following: Resolved , That the People’s party of the State of Illinois, in convention assembled, do indorse and reaffirm the platform of principles adopted in national convention at Indianapolis, May 29, 1884, and pledge ourselves to use eyery honorable endeavor to elect our standardbearers, Butler and West, for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. A motion was made to proceed to the nomination of candidates for State officers. To this an amendment was offered by Ful-. lenwider that the question be referred to the State Central Committee. This produced a good deal of confusion, during which a proposition was made for a fusion with either of the old parties on the electoral ticket, but all the motions were laid upon the table, and the electoral ticket was nominated. Then the old question of fusion was brought up again by E. H. Baldwin, who moved to refer the question of withdrawing a portion of the electors and fusion with the Democratic party to the State Central Committed An amendment was offered, demanding not less than eleven Butler electors on the fusion ticket. After further discussion Judge Barber offered an amendment to the motion providing for fusion which declared that no_ less than seven electors be accepted as the basis of a trade, and that was adopted by a vote of 52 to 35. The effect of this amendment is to allow the State Committee to withdraw all the electors except seven and put on Democratic electors* provided the Democratic committee will place the seven Butler electors on their ticket.

This question having been settled, another effort was made to refer the matter of putting a State People’s party ticket in the field to the State Central Committee, but that was defeated, and the following were put in nomination: Governor, Jesse Harper, of Danville; Lieutenant Governor, H. C. Vanderwater, of Shelbyville; Secretary of State, E. H- Baldwin, of Joliet; State Auditor, E. F. Reeves, of Elgin; Attorney General, John M. Given, of Effingham; State Treasurer, J. B. Clark, of Chicago.

Wisconsin Greenbackers.

The Greenbackers and" 1 Anti-Monopolists of Wisconsin met in joint convention at Milwaukee, about 100 delegates being in attendance. “The People’s party of Wisconsin” was the name adopted for the fusion. A resolution pledging hearty support to Butler andJWest was adopted. Full State and electoral tickets were nominated. The former was as follows: Governor, W. L. Utley, Racine; Lieutenant Governor, Milan Ford, Oshkosh; Secretary of State, G. W. Jones, West Bepd; Treasurer, Theodore Shuman, Prairie du Chien; Attorney General, M. W. Stevens, Green Lake County; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. H. S. Browne, Milwaukee; Railroad Commissioner, John Kiefer, Wausau; Insurance Commissioner, J. B. Russell, Neenah. The following were chosen electors: At large, Reuben May, of Vernon County, and Henry Smith, of Milwaukee; First-District, Allen Stetson; Second, Lorenzo Merrill; Third, E. W. Dwight; Fourth, Theodore Fritz; Fifth, Edward McGraw; Seventh, John Wilcox; Eighth, George Will; Ninth, R. E. Pareher.

Nebraska Republicans.

There were 436 delegates in attendance at the Republican State Convention, which met at Omaha. C. H. Gere, of the Lincoln Journal, was chosen Chairman. Presidential electors were nominated as follows: Charles H. Dewey, of Douglas; Henry Sprick, of Washington; S. O. Smith, of Gage; A. L. Burr, of Harlan; and John Mackin, of Greeley—five in all. The following State ticket was chosen: Governor, James E. Dawes (renominated); Lieutenant Governor, H. H. Shedd; Secretary of State, Ed Roggen; Treasurer, Charles H. Willard; Auditor, H. H. Babcock; Superintendent of Education, W. W. Jones; Attorney General, W. Leese; Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, James Scott; Chairman State Central Committee. Caspar E. Yost.

Michigan Prohibitionists.

The Michigan State Prohibition Conventioh met at Lansing, Aug. 27. The morning was taken up in effecting a temporary « organization and In appointing committees. In the afternoon ’resolutions were- a dopted declaring against fusion, favoring woman suffrage, and claiming that the Republicans were unable to grapple with the,liquor question. Candidates were then nominated as follows: Governor, David Preston; Lieutenant Governor, Alonzo Sherwood; Treasurer, A. B. CheJly; Secretary of State, Zachariah Chase; Auditor General, O, E. Downing; Commissioner State Land Office, Barcus; Attorney General, J. H. Fatem; Superintendent Publio Instruction, Joseph B. Steeve; member Board of Education, Isaac W. Mackeever; electors-at-large, the Rev. John Russell and Prof. Samuel Dickie. 4

Texas Greenbackers.

The State Greenback Convention of Texas met at Waco. It was decided that a full Butler-West electoral ticket be put in the field. The platform opposes leases of public or school lands in larger tracts than 640 acres; faVors the policy of selling school lands in small tracts on long time; and advocates! the regulation of railroad freights. Nominations for State officers were made. It is generally understood that the Greenbackers will support G. Washington Jones, e Independent candidate for Governor. __

Teh: fire of London exterminated the plague of London. Paris, in June, 1819, was killing 800 people a day with cholera. A great storm washed all the filth out of the city and the cholera subsided. The London Standard has discovered that “divorce is now so common in the United States that married people begin to look at the matter very much as servants regard a change of place. ” ; Leopold Morse, of Boston, has declined*! fourth nomination for Congress. One young dnde at Long Branch buys a new cane every morning.

THEY ACCEPT.

The Standard- Bearers of the Prohibitionists Formally Notified of Their Nomination. St. John Says His Party Works for the Nation’s Welfare Through the People’s Homes. [Cuba (N. Y.) special.] A Prohibition camp meeting, to last five days, is in progress at the circuit grounds, a grove two miles from this village. The principal leaders and speakers of the Prohibition movement are in attendance. An audience of 3,000 is in attendance. " The exercises this morning opened with mnsic and prayer, after which Prof. Dickey, Chairman of the Notification Committee, addressed the candidates, John P. St. John and William Daniel, as follows: Gentlemen : I am to speak for the committee representing here to-day the national convention of the Prohibition party, recently in session at Pittsburgh. In harmony with political usages, and in keeping with the dignity and importance of the high position in which we shall endeavor to place you, we are here for the purpose of notifying you, in this official and formal manner, of your selection as candidates of the National Prohibition party for the positions respectively of President and Vice President of the United States. The convention which thus honored itself •by so wise selections was no ordinary gathering. Men were there bowed under the weight of many years, who a generation ago met in the same hall to organize for victory in whaA seemed to some a hopeless cause, the battle against that other slavery. Young men were there with the ardor of youth and the devotion of heroes; women were there—Frances Wiilard and Mary Woodbridge, and Mrs. Burt and Mary Lathrop and Esther Hugh—representatives of the best brain and heart of American womanhood. It was a convention of earnest men and pure women, who were there to express the opinion that the Government ought to be a government of the people and by the people, and not a government of the saloon and by the saloon and for the saloon. It was a convention representing a powerful constituency from all parts pf our land, a constituency composed of citizens grown tired of the spectacle of two old political parties rivaling each other in their eagerness to serve the liquor traffic, going down upon their faces in the dust before the Moloch of men, and crying out, in the language of Scripture: “Am I not thine ass upon which thou hast ridden?” I need not assure you the Prohibition party will give you a most ardent support. We may not succeed in electing you to the high positions for which you have been named, but we shall enjoy the proud satisfaction of knowing that our candidates were the only candidates, and our party was the only party, that ought to have succeeded. And now, gentlemen, iH the name of the noblest manhood and the purest womanhood of America, I Invoke the blessing of Almighty God to rest upon you, and may that divine power which rules and overrules in the affairs of nations and of men vouchsafe unto you such measure of strength, and oourage, and wisdom as shall enable you to bear well the burdens which the National Prohibition party, with supreme confidence, now lays upon you. Gov. St. John replied as follows: Mr Chairman and Members of Committee: In receiving this formal notice of my nomination for the highest office within the gift of the people by the national convention of the Prohibition party, permit me, notwithstanding the distinction was neither sought nor desired by me, to assure yon, in view of the unanimity with which it was given, of my high appreciation of the great honor iff confers. There are more political parties in the field to-day than there, are political Issues. Upon the great question as to what shall be done with the traffic of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, both the Democratic and Republican parries are united in favor of making the traffic permanent, while the Prohibitibnisis demand that it be forever placed under the condemnation of the laws of the land. Thus an issue is clearly made, and I.think it the only one to-day that really reaches the heart and conscience of the citizens. Upon this issue we go to the people, the source of ail political power. Let us appeal to reason rather than to prejudice. Let those resort to personal abuse and scandal who have nothing better to uphold their cause. The Prohibition party is not organizing as a mere threat or menace. It is the outgrowth of a rapidly increasing crystallized sentiment against the great evil of the age; an evil that the old parties dare not attack, but against whicn the young party of the people, in defense of the homes of the nation, has entered upon a warfare that shall never cease so long as the flag of our country wavqs its protecting folds over legalized dram-shops. In this struggle let us ever remember we are accountable to God; that our dutv to Him is paramount to our allegiance to any political party; that political ties will never in His sight excuse a ballot for any party that does not stand up fearlessly for the right. The home will have nothing to fear if the people vote as they pray. Mr. Daniel followed, and said: Mr. Chairman and members of the oemmittee: lam profoundly gratified for the honor conferred upon me by selecting ine as one of the standard bearers of this great reform movement. I accept the nomination for the office of Vice President, and expect to do so more formally by letter hereafter, knowing well that it is one of responsibility and Involving no little of personal sacrifice; and I appreciate this honor not merely as a personal one but as a token of the appreciation by the convention of the earnest, solid prohibition work that, has been done in „ my native State of Maryland within the few years past. I also appreciate it as an indication and desire of our brethren of the great North and West to obliterate all sectional party lines and build up a grand Union party composed of the best elements on both sides of the line in array against the worst, the representatives of protection to homes warring against the saloons. This disposition is the more clearly evinced from the fact that I am the first person selected since the war from a Southern State as a candidate for a national position, and I trust this action will be the harbinger of that reign of harmony, good-will, and unity throughout the land which a poet has described as The union of lakes, the union of lands. The union of States none can sever; The union of hearts, the union of hands. And the flag of our Union forever. Whatever may be the result-of this effort, so far as the precise number of votes polled is concerned, I believe the agitatidh will be of immense advantage to the cause and the country; I believfe the result will be to rivet the earnest, thoughtful attention of the American people upon this liquor traffic, this gigantic crime of crimes, so as to cause the speedy adoption of such measures as will greatly hasten its overthrow. The duty of the hour is to crystallize and organize prohibition sentiment. We have already entered into political action, and thus having a standard to which we can rally, we shall more rapidly form whatever else of sentiment that may be needed than in any other way. I have to say in conclusion that I shall do all in my power now and henceforth to bear onward this Prohibition standard. The following was the Committee of Notification : Prof. Samuel Dickey, of Michigan, Chairman; Judge James Black, Pennsylvania; Prof. A. A. Hopkins, New York; D. Shelton, Kansas; the Rev. John Russell, Michigan; Miss Frances Willard, Illinois; the Hon. S. D. Hastings, Wisconsin; George R. Scott, New York; Miss Mary Woodbridge, Ohio; the Hon. J. T. Turner, of Alabama.

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Norway is the only place in Europe where ice water is placed in the railway cars. It has been discovered that many of London’s famous meat pies are made of the flesh of dead horses. A Georgia man killed his sweetheart and then poisoned the melon patch in order to get rid of the rest of the family. A shark eight and a half feet long and weighing 408 pounds was caught in the North River at New York recently. Combination salads are the latest. They are made of a “little of everything,” and nobody wants to be helped a second time. Sharks are reported to be ascending the Hudson River in unusual numbers. An Albany paper thinks they are after the small boys who bathe from the wharves of that city. . The Mormons are systematically 00Ionizing Oneida County, Idaho Territory.