Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1884 — Page 7

THE WITTIEST YET.

Address of Mr. J. P. Dolliver on Taking the Chair in the lowa ConyentioHT r ' L; ' : Aiuiual “Elegy or Grier” for the Hawkeye Democrats—An Eminent Man Who Is Dead and Doesn’t Know It. Consciences with Alum in 'Em—Tight Pants and Hay-Fever—Deserting a Learned Profession to Become a Hangman. iFrdm the Chicago Tribune.] Below sire liberal extracts fi-om a speech of noticeable merit which was delivered in the Republican convention of \ lowa last week, which is attracting much attention. The speaker, Mr, J. P. Dolliver, is a young man of 26, who was notified of his selection as Temporary Chairman only a few minutes before he was called to the chair. It was delivered with such telling effect that it carried the convention by storm. It is filled with effective shots. Mr. Dolliver has rapidly developed great popularity as a speaker, and is now recognized in lowa as the leader of the young Republicans. He has been-invited to go into the national campaign, and in a few days will take the stump in West Virginia and later in the canvass will speak in Ohio and Indiana: Gentlemen of the lowa Republican Convention: Out of the abundance of my heart I thank you for the honor winch yeur favor has conferred upon me. It builds up a man’s political constitution to take a front view of the fighting strength of the Republican party of lowa. If any of you have friends that are bothered with political dyspepsia, who find trouble in selecting irom the 'printed bill of fare of Republican politics, I advise you to bring them here and let them look in the face of this magnificent assembly. Your conventions have always been deliberative, your nominations representative, vour campaigns popular, and your ballot-boxes too full for utterance of straight Republican tickets. Consequently, a Democrat has not been seen on the streets of an lowa city after 9 o’clock on election night lor a quarter of a century. The music of the telegraph office has been their annual elegy of grief. They look upon a bulle-tin-board as an enemy of free government, and accept the first half of Franklin's maxim, "early to bed,” when the returns are coming in. DEMOCK ATI C BANKRUPTCY.

The first act of the Democratic party is to file a schedule in bankruptcy. Already their property is out of their own name. Their national standard is in the hands.of a man whose name is not disclosed by the Democratic national record. Four years ago his name could have prudently been used as an alias under which to travel incognito all over the known world outside of Buffalo. To elect him President would be like lending money to a stranger on the train. It takes the cheek of the Democratic managers to plav the whole American people for suckers. I thank God that we belong to a party that saves the crown of its public honor for the brow of Its actual leadership. With the Democratic party nominations are made not so much to represent the party as to disguise it. In its long struggle for existence the men who have made the history of the party go to the wall. It is the only party that ever existed whose candidates and platform never throw any light whatever either on its management or its faith. In fact, modern Democrats of the practical school have no creed extent the oath of office. All the important Democratic principles are unfit for use. They have been left out in the field just where they were used last, with not even a bunch of swamp grass thrown over them—in sun and rain, until rot and rust have done their f&tsil work It is true they talk piously of the need of reform, and with an inexcusable libel accuse the integrity of the Republican civil service. They work their favorite classical allusion to the Augean scabies for all there is in it. These, they assert, must be cleaned out. Yet from the general appearance of the crowd that is on hand to do the business, the average citizen is likely to conclude that their intention is to steal the fork rather than clean out the bran. It is true they pre-empt all sides of the tariff question. They profess to settle that issue by a jargon of words without precedent in tne annals of nonsense and confusion. Yon might as well try to fit the hundred-headed dog of the ancient fable with a straw hat as to place a candid and Tfifemgßißr tariff -platform under the feet of the Democratic party. They approach that question and nearly every other like a man emptying hard-coal ashes in a high wind, with their eyes shut and their backs to the subject. AN “EMINENT DEMOCRAT." What must be the thoughts of a man like Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks as he sits In his law office and looks at the top shelf of his library, and counts the long row of dusty Congressional Globes from 1850 to 1880, from the fugitive slave law to the resumption of specie payments? Dean Swift used to say that censure is a tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. It is not the fault of Mr. Hendricks that the Congressional record connects him with all the blunders and treasons of recent politics. It is the tax a man pays to his gener < tion for the luxurv of having been an eminent Democrat. Victor Hugo, somewhere in the mastespiece of prose fiction, relates a singular dream of Jean Valjean, in which the unfortunate man is carried back m Ids vision to the streets of his native village, and there, in the midst of the gloom and ashes and dust of things, interviewed by a gentleman, who solemnly asks him: ‘ Where are you going? Do you not know you have been dead a long time? I have sometimes thought that it Mr. Hendricks could once get himself enlightened by an appropriate vision and wander back in his dreams to the familiar scenes of his public career, he would need no assistance to enable him to hear more than ono voice solemnly asking the same questions: “Where are you going? Do you not know you have been dead a long time?” THE FRAUD ISSUE. Mr. Hendricks is placed upon the Democratic ticket —not to recall the history of the Democratic party. No thoughtful Democrat wants that remembered. He Is on the ticket for the avowed purpose of reviving the superstition that surrounds the electoral count of 1877. With characteristic stupidity the Democratic managers still think that the American people have never slept well since that celebrated question of mathematics was up for settlement. They seem to be afflicted with a sort of intellectual shiftlessness that keeps them from the understanding that the fraud Issue died at Cincinnati in 1880 by the hand of Thomas A. Hendricks. The indictment of an alleged momentous outrage cannot be dismissed lor want of prosecution and the papers in the case left under the dußt of eight years without losing interest to the traveling public. With all due respect to Cob Vil s, of Wisconsin, I say the statute of limitations does run. Tho descendants of Cleopatra might as well bring suit against tho estate of Antony as for the Democratic managers t o para'de the venerable gentlemen who were caught between the wheels of the Electoral Commission. In truth, the American people, remembering the long years of political rapine that have given the South to the Democratic party, and finding Mr. Tilden and Mr. Hendricks the immediate and responsible beneficiaries of, these vears of felony against the ballot-box in the South, have never, to any visible decree, bewailed their memorable failure to catch the rail of the hind car in 1877. For one I thank the Democratic party for the fraud issue. Miserable and useless in itself, it affords the country a proper occasion to recall that strange decade from 1889.t0 1876, during which the Democ atic party, upon the ruins of the rebellion, contrived their infamous conspiracy against the civil rights of the people that in ten States has left the ballot-box a fraud and the election-day a farce. Laboulaye, the great French Liberal, now dead, just after the civil war in the United States, took occasion to sav that “the Republican party of America holds In its hands the-futur ;of civilization." That was true then. It is true now. It is more certain that the Republican party shall have a future than that it has ha d a history. THE KICKERS. Now and then yon find a Republican who enjoys the momentary importance that belongs to the kicker and the scratcher. The shortest road to celebrity nowadays is to advertise your conscience in the newspapers. There are Republicans who treat their conscience as if it were the stock in trade of a baking-powder factory. They solemnly protest that everybody’s conscience has alum in it except theirs. They adopt the doctrine of Matthew Arnold and insist that in order to be safe the nation mnst furnish the remnant with complimentary tickets and a front seat. They would have the country govern itself by the advice of persons whose names, if I may borrow a phrase from vonr godd friend Gov. Carpenter, are written in the herd-book of high political grades. ' Only last month a convention was held in a New York parlor, in which the only credentials called for bv the compUtt 'e were a written pretense of holiness, and the only creed required of the membership was •“I believe ~fn the com-

munion of the saints of Beacon Hill and Franklin Square ” Let the.m commune. I trust they will stick together till they get thoroughly acquainted with each other,: I- have a curiesityio see the effect of a genuine Democratic candidate on an nfinsually sanctified nostril. This campaign will last long enough to show to every sensible man s eye that no possible combination of tight pants and hay fever can defeat the anxious wlli of the real conscience of this country—the Republican millions of America. UNDER THE BOOTS OF THE HAiR. The people of this conntrv like brains -nervous matter under the roots of the hair. In James G. Blaine they find a man the scope of whose faculties is a perfect horizon — a man who knows the size of this na-tion-a man’ who knows the history of this nation—a man who knows the strength of this na'ion—a man who knows the rights of this nation—a man who comprehends with a serene faith the mission of the Republic and its sublime destiny in the midst of the nations and the ages. Not in vain has this great State—correct in its opinion, upright in its con-science-laid at the feet of Blaine the royal tribute of its affection. He stands to-day, at the very opening of ihe campaign,at once a standardbearer and a victor. Mr. Cleveland, as his letter this morning informs us. believes in Providence, and has the grace to say in his opinion, “the Supreme Being will always bless holiest human endeavors in the conscientious discharge of public duty.” lowa believed that before Mr. Cleveland thought of such a thing. God’s providence, you may be certain, never identified the names of Blaine and Logan in eternal’reputation with the most splendid pages of American history—the one as a statesman, the other as a soldier — only to see them defeated by a person who at the age Of 34 deserted a learned profession to become the hangman of a back county in New York.

GEN. LOGAN.

Welcomed to His Home by More than Half a Hundred Thousand Citizens. A Magnificent Tribute to tlie Re* publican Candidate for Vice President. [From the Chicago Daily News, Independent.] The reception given Gen. John A. Logan by the Republicans of Chicago Saturday evening was remarkably successful in all its features. It was an auspicious opening of tlie Republican campaign in Illinois. A committee of more than one hundred prominent gentlemen, under the direction of Gen. O. L. Mann, met Gen. Logan at Pullman about 6 o’clock. Gen. Logan had reached that city with Gen. Torrence from the residence of Mr. Edward Hendricks, of Wildwood, a few moments before. Gov. Hamilton made a short address of welcome to Gen. Logan upofi the arrival of the Chicago party, after which a few of the gentlemen sat down to dinner with their guest at the Hotel Florence. After the meal a train bore the party to the Twenty-second street depot, which was reached at 8:30 o'clock. Here Gen. Logan and a portion of the committee left the tram and entered carriages which hore them to Lake Park. They were met at Twenty-second street bv thousands of men and boys in uniform and with torches, composing the many marching clubs of the city and surrounding towns. Escorted by this glittering procession,' the distinguished guest and the committee proceeded slowly up Michigan avenue. The sides of this thoroughfare were’solidly packed pith people In Lake Park a throng of 30,000 or more people had gathered about tlie platform impatiently awaiting the arrival of the guest of the evening. Cannon and skyrockets were being touched off every instant, but they dlci not appear particularly interesting to the waiting people. D. W. Mima and P. T. Barry made speeches to fill in the time. While the latter gentleman still occupied the stand and struggled to make himself heard above the uproar, the processiou arrived at tlie park. It was about xo o'clock when Gen. Logan was assisted to mount the platform, and the crowd broke forth in cheers at the sight of him. Col James A. Sexton called the crowd to order. Judge Cary then made an address of welcome to the guest, after which Gen. Logan came to the front and was received with great applause. He delivered a very long address, reading from manuscript by the light of two or three flickering torchlights. His voice was full and strong, but not half the tremendous throng could get near enough to hear what he said. In his speech he discussed at length the main political questions of the day. Speaking of the comparative honesty of the two parties he said: In all the reforms of the civil service which have been instituted by the Republican party, opposition has ever been shown by a great portion of the Democracy: and. with all their professions for a reform of the civtt-Bervie@,-we find their candidate for Vice President—a gentleman from whom the people ought to have expected better things—declaring in a speech made by him July 12, 1884, and since his nomination, that the only remedy for dishonesty of administration in the Government is to turn out the 120,000 Republican officeholders and supply their places —I suppose he means—with "honest” Democrats. The basis of this declaration of Gov. Hendricks is that $03,000 has been lost In one branch of the Navy Department, and therefore he charges the whole Republican party—the millions of men constituting It—with wholesale dishonesty! It will not profit Gov. Hendricks If he challenges comparison of administration as between the Republican and Democratic parties. We need only call his attention to the many millions of dollars of defalcations by public officers under Democratic adminlstratiohs— of which Gov. Hendricks certainly must have information. Or wc might mention to-him the suggestive fact, also of record, that while thl losses under Democratic administrations prior to XB6l averaged $5.17 on every SI,OOO collected and disbursed by them, the average losses on every SI,OOO collected and disbursed by Republican administrations since the Democracy lost power have been only 56 cents; and the loss on every SI,OOO has decreased under Republican administrations until it has reached less than 1 cent per SI,OOO. On the subject of the currency he said: Under the system of currency established by the Republican party, covering equally all parts of the Union, the evils heretofore experienced under the Democratic system have entirely disappeared. The perpetuation of this admirable system of currency is a matter that greatly concerns the public, and in order that it may be upheld and continued it should be left in the hands of Its friends rather than committed to its enemies. It cannot be truthfully denied that the opponents of the Republican party fiercely opposed this system In the outset, and have never since shown any friendship for it. Hence it is not unfair to assume that, were they intrusted with power, they would devise some means by which its destruction would soon be. accomplished. The speaker said of the tariff: The history of the Democratic party during its continuance in power and up to the present rims’ on the subject of the tariff is full of suggestions of danger. The theory of the Democratic party that the market price of products of this county should be governed by the cost of like products in other countries must inevitably bring us to the conclusion that, were that party to come into power, it would be only a question of time when the business of manufacturing In this country must come to an end. In other words, the Democratic proposition is that the Ame ican manufacturer and laborer shall be put in ruinous competition with the foreign manufacture.- and the underpaid pauper laborer. Since President Lincoln was inaugurated in 1861, and the American protectivetariff system adopted by the Republican party, the country has developed in prosperity and wealth until the aggregated value of all the property of the United States and Territories lias reached the enormous sum of $44,0'0,000,000, an increase of $30,000,000,000 in twenty years under the Republic n-American tariff policy, as contradistinguished from the English-Demo-cratic ’free trade” or “tariff-for-revenue” policy. In answer to the charge that commerce had suffered greatly since tlie war, Gen. Logan said that the export trade of the nation had* aggregated over one-third more under Republican rule than Its entire volume during the previous life of the republic and of the colonies that preceded it. Summing up the matter of the tariff he said: Under the Republican party’s American protective system agricultural products are higher, while manufactures and fuel are 30 percent, lower. Labor is 25 per cent, higher, and what the laborer purchases of manufactured articles is 26 per cent, lower. Our annual accumulated wealth under our American protective system amounts to 35 per cent, of the profits of the whole world. England Is anxious to-day, more than any other nation, for the’ success of the Democratic party with that party ascendant she knows that onr jports would be practically open to free trade, which would enable her to supply bar enormous home markets and destroy our prosperous manufactures at one and the same fell blow.vßut it is srid there must be a reduction of the present protective tariff because it produces a great surplus of revenue. There are various ways, JJowever, by which, if it is necessary, that surplus can be reduced. Certainly we have a great national debt to pay. That is one way in which this surplus can'in part be disposed of, while a portion of it should be used for improving onr navy, and a portion might well be used for educational purposes. We can reduce that revenue surplus

also, If It is advisable, by reducing our internal revenue tax. After declaring that polygamy must be sup-pre-sedfAnd aXree ballot and a fair count secured for the Southern States, Gen. Logan concluded his address as follows: If the people of this country want a. man to guide this-nation in the direction of peace, prosperity, and happiness; if they want the man who has been faithful to his country in the time of its trials: the man who stood by it loyally through all Its misfortunes and adversities; the man who has grown in wisdom drawn from a vast experience; the man who is known in diplomacy and, statecraft wherever our flag floats or the name of our country is mentioned; the man of generous heart as well as brilliant intellect; the man in whose hands every American interest will be absolutely safe and undeniably secure—this man, my fellow-citizens, the people will find in the nominee of the Republican party for President of the United States — the Hon' James G. Blaine. The address was frequently applauded. At its close the Hon. Clark E-. Carr, of Galesburg. paid> an eloquent tribute to the character and public services of Gen. Logan. He also spoke in high terms of Blaine and Oglesby. Ex-Gov. Oglesby followed him with a speech, in which he said it was nonsense for the Democrats to think that they could carry Illinois at the coming election. The crowd received the speech with greaf favor, and applauded it heartily. Neir the close of it Gen. Oglesby said: This great outpouring, this majestic display—the first of the campaign of 1884 of any of the States of the Union —will mark an epoch in the history of your city, as it will in onr State, of unusual significance and unusual dignity. And it will do another thing. It will send a pang—a deep, long, lasting pang—through every candidate on the Democratic ticket in every State of the Union. And if any candidate has any idle dream in his head that he is going to lie elected in this State to any big office this demonstration to-night will cook that goose. Senator Cullom and Gov. Hamilton also made short speeches. The meeting broke up about midnight with a display of fireworks and a round of cheers for the Republican candidate.

Irishmen in America.

f [From the Cincinnati Celtic-American.] From the first day the Republic came into existence, Irish-Americans have, in a thousand different ways. proved their devotion to it. From Bunker Hill down to Appomattox there has not been an .American battle-field that has not been with Irish blood. Great as have been the services rendered iq the past by the Irish-Americans to the Republic, greater still are the services they are rendering to It at this moment by refusing to help the Democratic party and the independent Republicans in the work of reducing the United States to a state of industrial dependence on England. We feel confident that when the smoke of the present political battle will have rolled away, and when the American people will have examined with something of a judicial spirit the character of the issues that will” be settled at the coming election, there will be a general feeling of thankfulness to Irish-Americans for the position they have taken in opposing Cleveland and his freetrade supporters. Some letters have been addressed to the National Republican Committee in reference to Mr. Blaine’s views on the question of prohibition. The answer to those letters has beeu that in the event of Mr. Blaine’s election to the Presidency he would have nothing whatsoever to do with the question of prohibition. That would be a matter entirely for the different States. Even if the majority of American voters were in favor of prohibition, it would take about twenty-five years to embody their views in a constitutional amendment. Advices received at Washington and New York indicate that Erie County, in which is Buffalo, Cleveland’s home, will give a large majority against Cleveland in November. Two years ago Erie County gave a majority of 3,000 for Cleveland for Governor.

Automata.

In mechanical curiosities there have been many wonderful exhibits in the prest day. The piping bullfinch in the great exhibition of 1862 drew crowds to it; but we remember during tlie sale of Week’s mechanical collection, half a century ago, a similar graceful little warbler, and we saw two other mechanical songsters which the French troops brought back as part of the spoils from the Emperor’s summer palace at Pekin. We regret that we missed the machine for making Latin verses, which was exhibited in our day at the Egyptian Hall—a real blessing to schoolboys; nor have we seen the squalling baby which a modern man of science constructed—surely a bringing of coals to Newcastle; but we remember well, about the year 1833, seeing a very wonderful collection of automata which had beeu originally designed as presents to the Emperor of China. There was a young lady, life-size, that played tunes upon a spinet; another that wrote lines with the beauty of copperplate; while surpassing all was the figure of a magician with a tiny! wand in his hand. It was mounted i upon a small movable frame, which j could be wheeled about at the pleasure ; of the spectator, so that there was no place for a confederate himself. On putting into an orifice in the frame any one of the numerous metallic cards which lay about with questions inscribed on them, the figure, after making you a bow, struck with his rod a little door, which opened, and there i was the answer, printed on another card. The reply given was always strictly appropriate to the question, and not of a mere general character, like the answers on conversation-cards. Then, when we asked, “Mr. Conjurer, are you not troubled with the inquiries ! of your numerous visitors ?” the answer j was: “I should be ungrateful to say : so.” Our next question was of an en- \ tirely different kind. It was, we being young: “What is the sweetest passion 1 in nature?” The conjurer bowed, knocked at the gate, and lo! appeared 1 Cupid with his bow and arrow! Sir David Brewster, who noticed this toy in his volume on “Natural Magic,” conjectures that the cards, though seemingly alike to the eye, differed in weight, and passed through the orifice j we have named until they fell into the proper groove, and touched a spring ; which moved forward the answer. The j machinery employed must have, at all events, been of the most delicate order. Still these things were but the trifles of mechanical skill. W’hat wonders have | we sinoe seen of pieces of machinery ; which, you might almost say, thought. With much interest we looked in the great exhibition of 1852 on the jacquard loom, and, ten years later, on the marvel of marvels, Babbage’s calefilating machine.—Leisure Hours.

Cholera and Consumption.

The point is made that if cholera were as common as consumption it would attract as little notice. Its rare appearance and mysterious work cause people to regard it with fear. Consumption is more destructive than cholera, and is always with us, killing annually its tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands. Epidemics do not greatly raise the rate of mortality. About the same number of people die every,year, and during an epidemic, there is generally a decrease in the deaths from ordinary diseases. —Atlanta Constitution.

LOST IN A FIERCE GALE.

Awful Work of a Cyclone on the Ohio River, Near Hudson,. Ken* tuciy. A Passenger Boat Upset, and Seventeen ——— Passengers Find a Watery Grave. [Evansville (Ind.) special. , A tornado lasting fully an hour struck this city at 8:30 this morning. When the storm ceased and a view of the damage done was had it presented a terrible sight. The city had been raked from one end to the other. Not a manufactory in it entirely escaped injury. Most seriously damaged are the Evansville Cotton Mills, loss, $15,000; woolen mills, about $7,000; Rodker Plow Works, $10,000; Armstrong Furniture Company, about $4,000. A large school building in course of construct on, and which needed but a roof for completion collapsed totally. On every street cellars are flooded, trees and fences leveled, and telegraphic and telephonic communications almost entirely suspended. Hundreds of small dwellings and stables are razed to the ground, and families left without shelter: The scene on the river was awe-inspir-ing. Waves lashed themselves into unspeakable fury, and, dashing twenty and thirty feet Jttgh, small steameys and., tugs were broken from their moorings and grounded, or blown up river to sand- bars, where they were grounded. The Louisville and Nashville transfer barge, with six cars, was blown from the railway dock and went hard aground on a War two miles from where it started. The steamers Josh V. Throop and Silverthorn were caught by the wind, chimneys blown overboard, and boats otherwise badly riddled. The James Blackman was blown out in the river and swamped. But the most horrible and saddest news of all is the sinking of the transfer steamer Belmont and seventeen passengers who were on board. The Belmont left here at 7:30 this morning with a south-bound passenger train on a barge. About eight miles below ’ here the storm came up, and part of the passengers, horror-stricken, fled from the cars to the steamer for safety. The barge was torn from the steamer and driven in shore hard aground, while the cyclone seized the steamer and capsized it, the boat going down bottom upward. The pilot, cook, and engineer jumped on the barge as the steamer went down. All the others were in the cabin, and unable to escape. The only officer of the boat lost was John H. Smith, the captain. Those lost are as follows: Mrs. W. S. Lyon and daughters; Miss Laura Lyon; Mrs. Sarah Bryant; E. C. Roach and son; Capt. John Smith, of Evansville; Mrs. John Hay, of Owensboro, Ky.; Mrs. Addle Murray, baby, and niece; Mrs. Laura Morton, of Briarfield, Ala.; Mrs. Woodville, Henderson, Ky.; another white lady, name unknown; Mrs. Arthur Hamilton, colored; the 12-year-old daughter of Emma Bell, colored; a colored man, name unknown, with a boy and girl. Those who remained in the cars on the barge were compelled to sit down with idle hands and watch the death of their companions. In conversation with one of the survivors he said: “It was such a scene as 1 shall never forget. We were trying to get on the bank. The women were huddled in the cabin, some weeping, others sitting quietly, fearing the worst, yet prepared for the inevitable. Suddenly, without warning, the boat careened on her side, the guy ropes to the barge snapping. I jumped for the barge and just reached it when I hurd a gurgle, and looking around, the boat had gone down head first,and there was nothing visible but the bottom." The boat lies in fourteen feet of water and will be a total loss. She was built in Pittsburgh In 1881, cost $22,000, and was insured for $15,000. She has been running as a transfer packet abouta year and a half, and has weathered several gales.

APPALLING CATASTROPHE.

Ten Men Burned to Death in a Circus Train Near Greeley, Colorado. A Number of Others Terribly Injured —Many of the Victims from the Northwest. [Denver telegram.] The train belonging to the Anglo-American Circus, Miles Orton proprietor, left Fort Collins lor Golden, via the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Road. Forty minutes later, when near Greeley , the sleeping car, in which were seventyfive men, employed as roustabouts of the circus, asleep, caught fire and was wholly consumed. Ten men perished. Two 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. The blazing gasoline enveloped the sleeping men. One door of the car was blocked by baggage and the fire cut off retreat through the other. Before the train could be stopped men were dropping along the track from the car windows, many being badly bruised as well as burned. The absence of water rendered efforts to check the fire impossible. As soon as the fire permitted, search in the ruins was made and ten charred bodies found. The bodies were taken to Greeley and an inquest exonerated the railroad company, which had no control of the cars. It is impossible to get a complete list of the dead, as many were engaged but a day or two, and their names are unknown. The wounded men were brought to Denver and placed in a hospital as follows: E. E. Fairbanks, aged 22, arms, legs, and face badly burned, residence unknown; Albert Borden, aged 17, Logan, Kan., arms and face badly burned; Thomas Golden, aged 17, Detroit, Mich., very badly burned on the back and legs; N. J. Zimmerman, aged 18, St. Louis, Mich., terribly burned about the arms, legs, back, and face; Frank King, aged 22, Menominee, Mich., hands and feet badly burned; Michael McGlenn, aged 28, Holton, Mich., faco and bands badly burned; Hugh O’Donnell, aged 56, New Orleans, badly burned and in a critical condition. Alexander McLeod, Marinette, Wis.; Thomas McCarty, Independence, Iowa; John Kelly, New York City; Silverthora, residence unknown; others, called respectively Andy, George, Frank, Frenchy, and Smithy. Last named unknown. Frenchy was from Detroit. The men were in the habit of entering the car with torches and were culpably careless. The accident was dne solely to that cause.

SCIENTIFIC SURGERY.

A Nose Made Ont of Two Finger Joints. [New York special.] Fros. Sabine, of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the leading rhinoplastic or skin-grafting surgeon of the world, has dismissed as cured from Bellevue Hospital Thomas Colt, a scrofulous patient. Three months ago the disease ate away most of Colt’s nose, completely destroying the bone and leaving only portions of the nostrils. Dr. Sabine cut away the diseased portions and grafted upon the face the middle finger of the patient’s left hand, making a nose. The operation was successful, the patient gaining a nose and losing two joints of one finger. Medical men pronounce Dr. Sabine’s feat the most wonderful in the records of rhinoplastifc surgery.

ITEMS.

Somebody wants subscriptions for a monuinent to Artemus Ward. “Ottb Carter” is the name of a Postoffice in Kansas. A Chicago man is the Postmaster. The Republicans of Ohio have nominated three Taylors for Congress, and their districts adjoin. The Maharaja ‘Sir Runo-o-deeph Sing, Prime Minister of Nepaul, wears a ruby worth SIOQ,OOO. Louis Meter, a German bntcher at Winfield, L. 1., locked himself in his icebox and froze to death. Women and girls are nearly one-half of the depositors in the sawings banks of Massachusetts, having to their credit $117,932,390. Victor Hugo has a daughter, Adele, in a lhnatic asylum in France.

NATIONAL LABOR PARTY.

Its Members Given Leave to Choose Between the Republicans and , Democrats. [New York dlcpfctohj A meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Labor party waa held this afternoon at No. 42 Duane street Mr. Wilson S. Wolf presided. It was reported by the Committee on Legislation that the principles desired by the National Labor party had been incorporated in both the Republican and Democratic platforms, and the following resolution presented by it was adopted: Whereas, The Republican and Democratic National Conventions bare inserted In their platforms the principles and policy of the National Labor party as adopted at Philadelphia Jan. 12, 1884; and Whereas, This action insures to the working classes a fair consideration of the evils that affect their condition and needed legislation in their interests; and Whereas, The Greenback and Anti-Monopoly party refused to adopt a plank for the protection of American labor, and has now, as in the past, opposed all measures for the benefit of the workingmen that would increase their pay or shorten their hours of labor, and at heart arc for free trade, long hoars, cheap men and women, and low wages, .Resolved, That we repudiate, the. effort now being made to commit the Labor party to the support of a third-party candidate, and recommend all workingmen to cast their votes for the candidates ,of the regular party that in their opinion best represents, their Interests, as the surest and best method of securing speedy legislation in the interests of the working classes. Resolved, That we recommend co-operation in each and! every legislative district with one of the regular parties for the election of men pledged to legislate In the interests of working classes, and we will oppose all efforts made to make onr movement a class movement to wage war upon other classes of society or upon candidates of the Republican or Democratic party. W. R. A. Cabsey, W. 8. Wolf, == James A. Thompson, John Cavanagh, G. D. Lennon, Committee on Legislation. It was urged by members of the committee that these efforts should be put forward in district and county organizations.

ECONOMY IN THE CAMPAIGN.

Democrats Poorer than Ever, and Republicans Holding Tight to Their Purses. [Washington telegram.] There has been no campaign since antebellum days that has been conducted on such rigorously economical principles as that upon which both parties are now entering. The Democratic party, always poor, seems poorer than ever, and a visit to their headquarters in this city woulA convince one of that fact after a brief chat with the attaches. It is difift cult even to secure money fer postage stamps and other incidental expenses. It is almost as bad at the Republican headquarters. The Government clerks, under the stimulus of public opinion, have become very independent, and in the majority of cases flatly refuse to contribute a cent The assessments from this source-alone in former years have netted the Republicans not less than SIOO,OOO. This year it will not equal one-tenth of that .sum. From all over the country come reports of indifference on the part of leading Republicans whose liberality hitherto has been the boast and pride of the party. Charles Foster is quoted as saying that he will not furnish a penny of aid. His is not the only case of this nature. In 1876, when the country was passing through a period of commercial depression far greater than that which exists at present, there were funds in abundance on both sides. Then money was counted out by the fifties and hundreds; to-day it is doled out in ones and twos. It is difficult to assign a reason for this cause, unless it be that the business men of the country feel satisfied that things will drift along in about the usual fashion, no matter whether the Republicans or Democrats are successful.

VAST THEFTS OF LAND.

Many Million Acre* of the Public Domain Stolen. A Commissioner of the General Land Office, who was sent to Colorado some time ago to investigate complaints made by sett’ers against cattle companies that they had illegally fenced in public lands and had obtained occupation of large tracts by fraudulent entry, has made a report fully sustaining the settlers. Eight charges have been made against the Prairie Cattle Company, composed of Scotchmen. Tracts of 100 square miles, twenty-five square miles, seventy-five square miles, and sixteen square miles have been illegally fenced in by that corporation. It is believed that the cattle companies have fraudulently possessed themselves of nearly 6.000,000 acres of public lands in Colorado alone within the last five years. In New Mexico it is asserted that 90 per cent, of the lands held by the cattlemen have been illegally inclosed; in Dakota 75 per cent, are fraudulent. ■’lnvestigation proves that in Arkansas there have been 10 fraudulent entries, in Dakota 460, in Colorado 280 (embracing 2,800,000 acres), in New Mexico 827 (embracing 1,500,000 acres), in Minnesota 311, in Washington Territory 109, in Idaho 92, in Nebraska 170 (embracing 300.000 acres), in Montana 24, in Wyoming 24 (embracing 250,000 acres), in Alabama 153, and in Kansas the fraudulent entries embrace 600,000 acres. Over 3,000 complaints remain to be investigated. A large percentage of those who have made fraudulent entries and who have illegally inclosed these large tracts of the public domain are English and Scotch capitalists.

Heavy Bank Robbery.

[St. Paul (Minn.) special.) The People’s Bank was most adroitly and successfully robbed some time between Saturday night and Monday morning. Eddie Mason, a young fellow of St. Paul, who has been in the bank hardly six weeks, and who went in to lt-am the business, has disappeared. He is but 16 years old. The robbery was not even suspected until Monday morning, when upon opening the vault and the inside safe it was discovered that between $5,000 and SIO,COO had been stolen, the exact sum not being learned. The out-er.vanlt-door and lock were all right, securely locked, and bearing no evidencee of interference. Mr. Rittenhouse, cashier of the bank, opened the vault, the inside doors, and finally the inside safe before discovering that there was anything wrong. Then the loss was apparent Nearly SIO,OOO was missing. This was the first and only clew. Nothing has yet been discovered of the whereabouts of young Mason.

<sver a hundred schools in Paris are now provided with workshops. At present they turn out articles of wood from planing benches ffnd lathes. It is proposed soon to add iron to the material to be operated on. has paid $227,000 for nine horses —Joe Elliot, Edwin Forrest, Lady Stuart, Edward Everett, Pocahontas, Dexter, Earns,, and Maud S. JoHn Bright says the present is a perilous crisis in the history of England. * Edison is still enthusiastic over the prospects for alec trie railroading. (W

HYDROPHOBIA IN ALABAMA.

Thirty-two Negroes, a Herd of Males, and Several Bogs Attached with the Bread Disease. i ( ■ [Eufaula (Ala.) telegram.] People are greatly excited in this section over the wholesale spread of pronouboed hydrophobia on the plantation of Punch Doughtie, the freaks of whose mad mole were telegraphed day before yesterday. Dr. E. B. Johnson has just returned from the Doughtie plantation, where he had been summoned to attend the sudden sickness. He found thirty-two persons suffering with a disease which he at once pronounced to he hydrophobia in a mild form. All axe negroes. Three of them are very sick — one in delirium and so low that the Doctor says he is liable to die at any time. Over three weeks ago a hog bitten by a dog died on Doughtie’s plantation and the carcass was given to the negroes to make soap-grease. Instead of usingutfor this purpose, however, thirty-two negroes on the place and in its vicinity ate fresh pork, with the result stated. Mr. Doughtie says that July 15 one of his dogs went mad and bit a mule and several hogs. Aug. 13 the first hog died and was eaten by the negroes as stated. Two more died Aug. 13, one on the 22dand one on the 27th, and all were eaten except the last, by which time the disease had appeared. The mule first exhibited symptoms of madness on the nineteenth day after being bitten. Eleven days after the first hog was eaten ten of the parties were taken sick. Two days ago another dog was discovered to be mad and was killed after having bitten another mule. The first dog that went mad disappeared, and the whole neighborhood is in terror lest be went among the stock—cattle and hogs—throughout the county before dying, if he is yet dead. A few days ago when the symptoms broke oat in a mule, Mr. Doughtie rode ont, at the request of a field hand, to inspect the condition of the animal. On reaching the pasture where a dozen males were the animal - Mr. fcoughtie was riding neighed,, which attracted the attention of the other animals, and the sick one particularly, which immediately rnshed on the mole and rider and seized the saddle of the animal with bis teeth. Mr. Doughtie dismounted and succeeded in loosening the mad mule’s bold, but no sooner was this done than the influriated beast turned upon his owner, who fled for his life, pursued by the mule. There was a desperate race of a quarter of a mile through undergrowth, and Mr. Doughtie only saved himself by dodging around saplings. A small stretch of clearing intervened between the woods and the honse, and the terrified man took a life and death chonce on making it. Before leaving the woods the mule had bitten a piece of Mr. Deughtie’s coat, and, while maneuvering around the tree, the animal bit himself savagely in several places, tearing out a mouthful of flesh each time. The race for the house was a close one, and just as Mr. Doughtie reached the top of the fence the mule overtook him on a dead run, but instead of reaching his victim, struck his head against a fence-post in a wild rush and was knocked senseless. The mule was afterward killed by Mr. Doughtie. It is now reported that the whole herd of mules are affected, and will doubtless spread the disease among other animals in the neighborhood. The community is at a loss how to arrest the disease.

THE WHEAT YIELD.

A Pinal Estimate as to the Crop of the United States—A Total Production of 530,000,000 Bushels.

[Mllwankee dispatch.] S. W. Tallmadge presents the following figures as a final estimate of {he wheat crop of the United States for 1884. The figures are based on official reports made within a few days by the State Agricultural Departments and Statistical Agents of the different States and Territories. The report shows that the total production of winter wheat is 380,000,000 bushels, and the thlal of spring wheat is 150,000,000 bushels; total winter and spring, 530,000,000 bushels. This makes the total yield of the country fully 25,000,000 bushels more than ever before produced, 130,000,000 more than last year’s crop, and 80,000,000 more than the average crop for the last five years. The departments all agree in reporting the quality as superior, and, where it has been thrashed, they say the yield has more than jnet their calculations. This applies especially to the spring wheat sections of lowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The quality of spring wheat was never better. The spring wheat harvest has been late, but the weather has been most favorable, and grain is being cared for in excellent condition. The following figures are given as to spring wheat: State. Bushels.! State. Bushels. Minnesota.... 4',300,000 Wisconsin.... 21,000,000 lowa 32,000,000! Nebraska..... 31,000,000 Total spring Dakota 25,000,000 l wheat 150,000.000 The following is the winter-wheat estimate: S T - State. Bnshels.l State. Bushels. Kansas 48,000,00 u New. Jersey... 2,000,000 California.... 45,000,000]Utah 2,000,000 Ohio .J. 35,200,000 Arkansas 1,600,000 Indiana 35,000,000 Alabama. 1,500,000 Missouri 33,000,000 Delaware 1,000,000 Illinois 33,000,000, New Mexico.. 1.000,000 MichUan 22,500,000 Montana 1,000,000 Pennsylvania 22,500,000 Idaho ........ 1,000.000 Oregon 15,000.000 Maine. 600,000 New York.... 13,000,000 Arizona. 600,000 Kentucky.... 12,0 Xi.OOO Misslssipi.... 500,000 Maryland.... 9,ooo,oooVermont. 500,000 Tennessee.... 9,D00.000tN. Hampshire 200,000 Virginia 7,000,000 Nevada. 200,000 N. Carolina.. 6,000,000 Wyoming.... 200,000 Texas s,ooo,ooo.Connecticut.. 48,000 W. Virginia.. 4,000,900 Massachnsets 25,000 Georgia 4,000,000 Louisiana.... 25,000 Washington.. 4,ooo,oooFlorida 10,000 Colorado. 3,000,000 Rhode Island. 1,080 S. Carolina... 2,000,000, Total winter. 380,000,000 Total winter and spring 530,000,008

Train Robbers Foiled in Texas.

The Mexican Central pay-car, which arrived here, yesterday evening was attacked by robbers at Lerdo, 500 miles sonth. A stone was thrown into the train, supposedly to stop it, when a great number of horsemen were seen riding slowly on the track ahead. The train had a guard of twenty men armed with Winchesters, and they immediately prepared for an attack, but the robbers seeing them fled. The Pullman car neadquarters, at Paso del Norte, across the river from here, was robbed last night. The loss has not been ascertained. It consisted of money and Pullman supplies. T. C. Schnkidxb, of Baltimore, has just finished a new micrometer, to measure the wave length of light. It is said to be th* finest instrument of the kind in the world. The red flannel shirt which, tied to an oar, was used as a distress signal by the Greely party In the arctic regions, wifi be on exhibition at the Cincinnati Exposition. - Victob Hugo is such an ardent admirer of Khea that he is almost persuaded to come to this country to see her again. Theodobe Waxbond has arranged "to write the life of Dean Stanley, t i ■ /