Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. Michigan wheat fields are Buffering from the ravages of the midge. —— Maria Mitchell, the noted astronomer, died at Lynn, Maes., at 8:30 Friday morning. , A disastrous fey clone visited Albany, Mo., Friday and killed and injured several people. Contracts were Bigned Monday at St. Paul, Minn., for an electric railway, ten miles long. Sam Coleman, a worthless negro, was called to his door, at H jpkinsville, Kv., Tuesday, and killed. * . The Manhattan Brass Company, New York, was completely destroyed by fire, Tuesday. Loss $300,00. >. Four young ladies and two voting men were drowned at Bath, N. Y., Tuesday. A tug capized their boat According to the figures of the justcompleted directories, the population of St. Paul and Minneapolis is now close to half a million.

A cyclone swept a path .two miles wide and thirty miles Tong, in Winona and Huston counties. Mum., Friday, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. A wealthy English syndicate announce that they have gained control of the paper product oi that country and by a trust will be enabled to control the price. Fire destroyed a part of the Benton Block, Chicago, Friday. Loss on building and stock $290,000. The building was occupied by several manufacturing firms. Rev. Dr. B. W. Bashford, of the Delaware avenue M. E. Church, Buffalo, N. Y. t has been unanimously elected President of the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, 0. Over one hundred square miles of forest and prairie have been burned over in northwestern Montana. Several ranchmen have been burned out, but no lives were lost A telegram was received at Rochester Tuesday, announcing the discovery by Professor Barnard, of the Lick Observatory, of a new comet located in Andromeda. It is very faint. Michael Rizello, known as “Red Nosed Mike,” was hanged at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Tuesday, for the murder of Paymaster J. B. McClure, Oct. 19th, last. He with two other Italians waylaid the paymaster. Mrs, WhiteliDg was hanged at Philadelphia,J Tuesday, for the deliberate poisoning rtf her husband and. twn children with arsenic for the purpose of securing the small insurance which she , carried oa their lives. The New York Yacht Club has received official information from the Royal Yacht Club of England declining to accept the challenge for the American cup. The Valkyrie, however, will come over and enter various club contests. The Lehigh Valley Railway Company of Newark, N. J., is purchasing property in order to connect with the main line at Roselle and run through Newark on the bed of the Morris Canal. Thiß "will give the company a through line from New York to the West. The seventh annual convention of the Bureau of Statistics on Labor opened its annual session at Hartford, Conn., Tuesday. Senator Hawley made the opening speech. President Wright spake encouragingly of the work of the Bureau and the outlook for the coming year.

John Rvan, of Joliet, 111., Friday, won the international prize of SSOO offered by a boot and shoe jonrnal of Boston for the best essay on boot, and sboemaking in all its branches. Every State in the Union contested for the Srize, together with Canada, New rnnswick and Nova Scotia. Mrs. George H. Maxwell, of Detroit, who keeps a large hound in her room during the absence of her husband, awoke Sunday morning to find the animal on her bed. She ordered him down. The dog jumped At her, biting her several times in the face. Her nose was half bitten oflf, and one side of the [acftdsas badly torn. A band of White Caps, so called, took Eve Byrd, a blacksmith, from his house at Onancock, Va., several nights ago, and whipped him so severely that he has not been able to leave his room since. Byrd, it is gave bi« wife an unmerciful beating some time ago; hence the visitation. He was once beiore whipped by White Caps. A freight train went over an embankment at Latrobe,Pa., at 3o’clock Wednesday morning. Five trainmen were killed and a number injured. The engineer and firemen were at 9:30 still in the creek. It is now stated that thirty persons were killed in the wreck at Latrobe. Some were tramps stealing rides.

A dispatch from Yankton, Dak., sav6: The liquor dealers of South Dakota have perfected an active organization to operate against the adoption of the prohibition clause of the Sioux Falls Consitution at the October election. An active contest will be made, and as the Prohitionists are also engaged in a canvass it 1b expected that the sentiments of every one will be expressed at the police election Saturday. Saturday afternoon Mrs. Lucy Hayes, the wife of ex-President Hayes, was stricken with apoplexy at her home in Fremont, Ohio. The attack came between 3 and 4 o’clock in the afternoon, while Mrs. Hayes was sitting in her room sewing. Paralysis of the tight side resulted, rendering her Bpeechleaa. Medical help was at once summoned, bnt efforts to restore the lady to consciousness failed. Monday night Chevalier Erazm Josef Jerzmanowski, of JSew York city, was presented with the of the Order of the Golden Spur in the presence of a distinguished gathering of Catholic citizens. Accompanyirg the gift was a parchment brova conferring tne title of Commander in the Order upon the Chevalier. Pope Leo Xflf. presented the decoration. Tnis is the first decoration of the kind ever conferred in America. A dispatch from Ishpeming, Mich., Monday says: One hundred and fifty pounds of quartz, carrying gold at the rate of $50,h00 a too, were brought in from the Michigan mine Monday. A new shaft was started Thursday, and at depth of fonr feet a pocket of quarti carrying gold was struck. The vein at the point where the find was made is three feet wide, double the width of the vein at points previously worked. The discovery has caused much excitement

and is regarded as the most important yet made in the lahpeming%old region. Judge Gresham, Tuesday, made an order (the counsel of all parties in interest agreeing) allowing Receiver John McNnlta of the Wabash tailway $25,000 per annum for services as receiver, add his Attorneys, Isham, Lincoln A Beale, $12,000 per annnfaa. This remnnatafran i* for the period ht-twaen April 1, 1887 and (about) Julj 1, 1889, and the date of ibe . delivery of the property to the purchasers. The rate of compensation for services after delivery is matter for farther consideration.

A special from Waterloo, la., says: Farmers from different parts of this county report that a strange insect has been found at work in the cornfields. It is a small green bag, which works at the roots of the corn and .seems to destroy its vitality. The ground in some fields appears to be fairly alive with these pestß. Under a magnifying glass they are found to have heads armed with pinchers, between which is a sort of 1 proboscis that is ÜBed to puncture the Btaik. Corn attacked by these pests turns yellow and ceases to grow, and a large number of fields have been attacked. /

The peculiar contest for the mayoralty of El Paso, which has been raging over two months, was petted at the lolls, Friday, by the election of Wm. Caples, a Democrat. At the April election Krakauer (Republican) received a majority of thirty-seven. The election was charged to be fradulent and was investigated by the City Council. The Republicans on the recount got a majority of four. It was discovered in the meantime that he was an alien, a subject of Bavaria. He was declared ineligible by the Council and a new election was ordered, in' which Caples (Demorrat) was elected by fifteen majority. A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., says: Friday morning, S. C. Morgan, Cashier ot the State Bank of Sidney, was found lying in bed with the top of his head blown off and a 45-caliber revolver in his hand. The bank, it is said, was not making money. Six years ago Morgan eloped with the daughter of H. W. Yates, President of the Nebraska National Bank of Omaha. He was the son

of a wholesale groceryman, and is a young man of excellent habits, bat the lady’s j-arents opposed the union. On the same day Frank Johnson eloped with the daughter of Byion Reed, an Omaha millionaire, and married her, Johnson and Morgan shortly afterward started the State Bank of Sidney, of which Johnson is now President. The largest contract for the drainage for many years was brought to a successful termination this week in Indiana. Eighteen thousand acres of laqd, which was continually covered with water, and was absolutely worthless, has been reclaimed. Seventeen thousand acres more that could be utilized only in the very driest seasons has been made arable, and fifty thousand acres of iarm land have been likewise affected and substantially benefitted. The immense tract referred to lies in Allen and Huntington counties between the eities of Fort Wayne afcd Huntington. It is a vast swamp, and is crossed by the main line of the Wabash railway, and extends for nearly a mile on either side of the tracx for a distance of perhaps seven miles. Its dismal appearance is familar to travelers. In flood seasons the water frequently submerges the track, and trainmen have often been stationed on the engine pilots with" pike-poles in their hands to clear the rails of floating driftwood. Oftentimes the locomotive fires have been extinguished and the railroad has been obstructed for hours. The swamp is known as the Little River prairie, and it is the principle source of supply for the upper branch of the Wabash river.

FOREIGN. The report that Mary Anderson was confined in an asylum is denied. The Berlin Council has decided to borrow the sum of 16,000,000 francs, with which to purchase repeating riftes lor the army. ’the Bombay Gazette says that a Brigadier General of the British armv, stationed in Madras, has been attacked by leprosy. The name of the officer is not given. A dispatch from Toronto says: Canadian millers have called a mass meeting here to protest against the action of Parliament in refusing to protect them against American millers. The duty on flonr is fifty cents a barrel, while the duty on the amount of wheat necessary to make a barrel of flour is abont sixtyseven cents, a discrimination in favor of the American millers of about se\ enteen cents a barrel. One cause of Legitime’s overthrow is said to have been his thieving officials. The Clyde steamer Ozama was captured by the Haytian gunboats and held three hours. A demand for her release was refused. Captain Kellogg, of the U. S. steamship Ossippee, then notified Legitime that, if the vessel was not released and $5,900 paid over to the commander, he would bombard the city. The demand was promptly complied with. Princess Louise, of Wales, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, has been betrothed to the Earl of Fife. The Earl iB an intimate friend of the Prince of Wales, and is a neighbor ot the Queen at Balmoral. He is in his fortieth year. Princess Louise is twentyyears old. The Prince of Wale’s daughters are visiting the Queen, at Windsor. Her majesty has fully consented to the betrothal. It is said to be strictly a love match.

Phtlpa Will Return to Germany. Wm. Walter Phelps, was Wednesday appointed Minister to Germany by President Harrison. He received his appointment from the President’s own hands, with the remark that it was his reward, which naturally was highly gratifying to the recipient. Going over to the Department of State bis commission was immediately made out and he qualified as United States Minister to Germany; Mr. Phelps will not proceed to his new post for some time, but feeling that be has earned a rest and needing time for the adjustment of his private business, will (to to his home in New Jereey in a day or two.

A Commercial Paradox. Customer—Say, Rothstein, who’s that man doing all that yelling, and Screaming, and swearing at the clerks in the rear of the store?” Rothstein—Oh, dot vos Rosenberg, der silent pardner.

FRIENDSHIP.

MOW FRIENDS CAN BE MADE AND RETAINED. Do Not Accept Everything Said as Gospel Truth—The Friendship ol God Through Christ the Best of all. Ray. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn tabernacle last Sunday subject, “How to make Friends.” Text Prov. xviii., 24. He said: About the sacred and divine art of making and keeping friends I speak—a ! subject on which I never heard of any ! one preaching—and yjt God thought it■ o. enough importance to put it in the middle of the Bible, these writings of Solomon, bounded on one side by the popular Psalms of David, and on the j other bv the writings of Isaiah, the I greatest of the prophets. It seems all a ; matter of haphazard how many friends we have, or whether we have any friends at all, but there is nothing accidental about it.

There is a law which governs the accretion and dispersion of friendships. They did not ‘’just happen so” any more than the tides just happen to rise or set. It is a science, an art, a God given regulation. Tell me how friendly you are to others and I will tell you how friendly others are to you. Ido not say you will not nave enemies; indeed, the best way to get ardent friends is to have ardent enemies, if you got their enmity in doing the right .thing. Good men and women will always have enemies, because their goodness is a perpetual rebuke to evil; but this antagonism of foes will make more intense the love of your adherents. Your friends gather closer around you because of tub attacks of your assailants. The more your enemies abuse you the more your coadjutors will think of you. The best friends we ever had appeared at some juncture when we were especially bombarded. There have been times in my life when unjust assault multiplied my friends, as near as I could calculate, about fifty a minute. Yea Are,, bound to some people by many cords that neither time nor eternity can break,and I will warrant that many of those cords were twisted by hands malevolent. Human nature was ship-wrecked about fifty-nine centuries ago, the captain of that craft, one Adam, and his first mate, running the famous cargo aground on a Bnag in the River Hiddekel; but there was at least one good trait of human nature that waded Basely ashore, -from that ship wreck, and that is the disposition to take the part of those unfairly dealt with. When it is thorojgh.lv demonstrated that some one is being persecuted, although at the start slanderous tongues were busy enough, defenders finally gather around as thick as honey bees on a trellis of bruised honeysuckle. If, when set upon by the furies, you can have grace enough to keep your mouth shut, and preserve your equipoise, and let others fight your battles, you will find yourself after a while with a whole cordon of allies. Had not the world given to Christ on his arrival at Palestine a very cold shouldei there would not have b£en half as many angels chanting glory out of the hymn books of the sky bound in black lids of midnight. Had it not been for the heavy and jagged and torturous cro>j Christ would not have been the admired and loved of more people than any being who ever touched, foot on the Eastern or Western hemisphere. Instead, therefore, of giving up in despair because you have enemies, rejoice in the fact that they rally for you the most helpfuL and enthusiastic admirers. In other words, there is no virulence, human or diabolic, that can hinder my text from coming true. It is my ambition to project especially upon the young a thongnt which may benignly shape their destiny for the here and the hereafter. Before you show yourself friendly you must be friendly. I do not recommend a dramatized geniality. There is such a thing as preteading to be en rapport with others when we are their dire distruants, and talk against them and wish them calamity. Judas covered up hi« treachery by a resounding kiss, and caresses may be demoniacal. Better the myth jlogical Cerberus, the three headed dog ox hell, barking at us, than the wolf in sheep’s clothing, its brindled hide covered up by deceptive wool, and its dreadful howl cadenced into an innoceut bleatiafi’. D.sraeii writes of Lord Manfred, who, aLer committing many outrages upon the people, seerued suddenly to become friendly, and invited them to a banquet. After moit of the courses of foo 1 had been st*r»ted_he blew a horn, which was in Hi uptimes a signal for the servants to * r on the d°sßert, but in this case it the signal for assassins to enter and etie guests. His pretended friendliII was a cruel fraud; and there are *"-* * v People whose smile is a falsehood. B-lore you begin to show yonrself friendly you must be frieudly. Get your heart right with God and man, and this grace will become easy. You may by your own resolution get your nature into a semblance of this virtue, but the grace of God can sublimely lift you into it. Sailing on the River Thames two vessels ran aground. The owners of one got 100 horses and pulled ■ on the grounded ship and pulled it to pieces, rhe owners of the other waited till the i ides came in and easily floated the ship out of all trouble. So we may pull and haul at ottr grounded human nature, and try to get into better condition; bat «if not king like the oceanic tides if God s uplifting grace to hoist ns into -his kindliness I am eulogizing. If urban nndsr the Sash of the Iloly Ghost ve see our own fdi&les, and defects and depravities, we will be very lenient and rery easy with others. We will look nto their character for things commenlatory and not damaging If you would rub your own eye a little more vigorousy you would find a mote in it, the extraction of which would keep you so Miay you would not have much time to shoulder your broadax and go forth to tput no the beam in your neighbor’s ->'«• * Christian spirit keep on exploring the characters of those you meet *nd lam sure you will find something ' n delightful aud fit for a foundaf,,>Q of When we hear something bad about “ rao body whom we always supposed to good, take out your lead pencil and r ly ‘ u ‘f-® 1 , 111 ® see! Before I accept triat baleful story agaisnt that man’s c a meter I will take off from It 25 pei c m for the habit of exaggeration which

I belongs to the man who first told the I story; then I will take off 25 per cent, for the additions which the spirit of gossip in every community has put upon me orig nal story; then I will take off 125 per cent from the fact that the man may have been put into circumstances of overpowering temptation. So I have taken off 75 per cent” Excuse me, sir, l don’t believe a word of it --- so often quoted: “Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire.” Look at all the smoke for years around Jenner, the introdacer of vaccination; and the smoke around Columbus, the discoverer; and the smoke aronnd Martin Lather, and Savonarola, and Galileo, and Paul, and John, and Christ, and tell me where was the fire? That is one of the satanic arts to make smoke without lire. Slander, like the world, may be made out of notuing. If the Christian, fair common censical spirit in regard to others predominated in the world we should have the millennium in about six weeks; for would not that be lamb and lion, cow and leopard lying down together ? Nothing but the grace of God can ever put us into snch a nabit of mind and heart as that The whole tendency is in the opposite direction. This is the way the world talks: I put my name on the back of a man’s note, and I had to pay it, and I will never again put my name on the back of any man’s note. I gave a beggar ten cents, and five minutes after I Baw him entering a liquor store to spend it. I will never again give a cent to a beggar. I helped tdat young man start in business, end 10, after awhile, he came and opened a store almost next door to me, and stole my customers. I will never again nelp a young man start in business. I trusted in what my neighbor promised to do, and he broke his word, and the Psalmist was right before he corrected himself, for “all men are liars.” So men become suspicions and saturnine and selfish, and at every additional worng done them they put another layer on the want of their exclusiveness, and another bolt to the door that shuts them out from sympathy with the world. They get cheated out of SI,OOO, or misinterpreted, or disappointed, or betrayed, and higher goes the wall, and faster goes another bolt, not realizing that while they lock others out they they lock themselves in, and some day they wake up to find themselves imprisoned in a dastardly habit. No friends to others, others are no friends to them. Now, supposing that yon have, by a Divine regeneration, got right toward God and humanity, and you start ant to practice my text. “A man that hath friends must show Himself friendly.” Fulfill this by all forms of appropriate salutation. Have you noticed that the head is so poised that the easiest thing on earth is to give a nod of recognition ? To swing the head, from side to side, and when it is wagged in derision, is unnatural and unpleasant; to throw it back, invites vertigo; but to drop the chin in greeting is accompanied with so little exertion that all day long and every day you might practice it without the least semblance of fatigue. So also, the structure of the hand indicates handshaking: the knuckles not made so that the fingers can turn out, but so made that the fingers can turn in, as in clasping hands; and the thumb di* divided from and set alocf from the fingers, so that while the fingers take your neighbor’s hand on one side, the thumb takes it on the other, and pressed together, all the faculties of the hand give emphasis to the salutation. Five sermons in every healthy hand urge us to handshaking. Besides this, every day, when you start out, load yourself with kind thoughts, kind words, kind expressions and kind greetings. When a man or women does well, tell him so, tell her so. If you meet some one who is improved in health, and it is demonstrated in girth and color, say: “How well you look!” But if, on the other hand, under the wear and tear of life, he appears pale and exhausted, do not introduce sanitary subjects, or say any thing at all about physical conditions. In the case of improved health, you have by your words given another impulse toward the robust and the jocund; while in the case of the failing health you have arrested the decline by your silence, by which he concludes: “If I were really so badly off he would have said something about it We are all, especially those of a nervous temperament, susceptible to kind words snd discouraging words. Form a conspiracy against ns, and let ten meet us at certain points on our way over to business, and let each one say: “How sick you look!” though we shenld start out well, after meeting the first and hearing his depressing salute, we would begin to examine our symptoms. After meeting the second gloomy accosting, we would conclude we did not feel quite as well as usua'. After meeting the third, our sensations would be dreadful, and after meeting the fourth, unless we expected a conspiracy, we would go home and go to bed, and the other six pessimists would be a useless surplus of discouragement. My dear sir, my dear madame, what do you mean by going about this world with disheartenments? Is not the supply of gloom and trouble and misfortune enough to meet the deman without you running a factory of pins and spikes? Why should yon plant black and blue in the world when God so seldom plants them? Plenty of scarlet colors, plenty of yellow, plenty of green, plenty of pink, but very seldom a plant black or bine. I never saw a black flower, and there’s only here and there a blue bell or a violet; but the blue is for the most part reserved for the sky, and we have to look up to sec that, and when we look up no color can do os harm. Why not plant along the paths of others the brightness instead of the gloom? Do not prophesy misfortune. 0, what a glorious state of thingß to have the friendship of God! Why, We could afford to have all the world against us and all other worlds against us, if we had God for us. He could in a minute blot out this universe. I have no idea that God tried hard when be made all things. The most brilliant thing known to ns is light, and for the creation of that He only used a word of command. As out of a flint a frontiersman strikes' a spark, so out of one word God Btruck the noonday son. For the making of the present universe I do not retd that God lifted so tnnch as a finger. The Bible frequently speaks of God’s hand, and God’s arm and God’s shoulder, snd God’s foot; then suppose he should put hand and arm ana shoaland foot to utmost tension, what could he not make? That God, of such demonstrated and nndemonatrated strength, you msy have for yonr present and ev-

erlasting frieon. Bat a stately and re't C ot friend, bard to get <u. ou. *« approachable a* a country mansion on a summer day when all tne doors and wtndowsare wide open. Christ am the door.” And Ha is a wide door, a high door, a palace door, an always open door. My lour year-old child got hurt And did not err Until hanra after, thm her mother came homer and then t=he burst into weeping, and gome of the domestics, not understanding human nature, said to her: “ Why did you not cry before? ’ She answered: • Thermal) eo one to cry to.” NjW I nave to teli you that while hnmaa sympitov may be absent, divine sympathy is always accessible. Give God year love, aud get His love: your service, and secure H s help; your repentance, and bate Hit pardon. God- a friend? Why, that means all your wounds medicated, all your sorrows soothed, and if some sudden catastrophe should huri you out cl earth it would only hurl you into heaven. If God is your friend you can not go out of the World too quickly or suddenly, so far as your own happiness is 1 concerned. How refreshing is human friendship, and true friends, what priceless treasures! When sickness comes andtrouble comes and death comes, we send for our friends first of all, and, and their appearance in onr doorway in any crisis is reinforcement, and when they have entered, we say: “Now it is all right!” Oh, what would we do withofit friends, personal friends, business friends, family friends? But We want something mightier than human friendship in the great exße c ts. But the grandest, the mightiest, the tenderest friendship in all the universe is the friendship between Jesus Christ and a believing soul. Yet, after all I have said, I feel 1 have only done what James Marshall, the miner, did in 1848 in California, before its gold mines were known. He reached in and pat upon the table of his employer, Captain Sutton, a thimbleful of gold dust. “Where did you get that?” said his employer. The reply was: “I got it this morning from a mill race from which the water had been drawn off.” But that gold dust, which could have been picked up between the finger and thumb, was the prophecy and specim n that revealed California’s wealth to aa nations. And to-day I have only put before you a specimen of the value of divine friendship, only a thimbleful of mines inexhaustible and infinite,though all time aud all eternity go on with the exploration.

OHIO REPUBLICANS. The Ohio Republican State Conventidnmetat4 o’clock. Tuesday, at Columbus, and perfected preliminary organization. Hon. W. S. Cooper, was made temporary chairman. In taking the chair he made a speech highly eulogistic of the present administration. The platform reads:

First—We renew our adherence to all the principles so clearly and Htrongly enunciat-d by the Republican National Convention of 18-*, and (specially to t"e principles of protection in its two-fold meaning and operation; protection to every American eiiiaen at home, iu all parts of our country; protection to every American citizen abroad, in every land, on evtrr sea; protection to every American citizen in the exercise oL all his poHtieal rights und privileges; protection to American Industry and labor against the industry and labor of the world. Second—Wo heartily approve and iudorse the administration of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United 8 ates, and pledge him our cordial support in the discharge of the duties devolving upon him as chief mag.str-tie of the Nation; and especially do we oommend the just and liberal policy of the Pension Bureau in carrying out the pledges of the loyai people to the soidie s of the union. Third—That we favor the passage by Congress, at its next session, ol a proper and equitable service-pension bill for all.honorably discharged Union soldiers and seamen of the late war. Fourth—We d mand a full and adequate protection for tbe wool-growing industry, which will, in due time, give to tne American wool growers the American market for all the wool required by American wants. We indorse the provision of the bill on this subject passed by the Senate at the last session of congress. Fifth—We heartily indorse the decision of the Secretary of the Treasury whereby the duty on worsted is maac dutiable at the same rate as upon woolen goods, thereby benefitting our manufacturing and wool industry. Sixth—We congratulate tne people of Ireland on the progress of their struggle for home rule, and in this connection we indorse the course of President Harrison in selecting for honorable positions in the diplomatic service worthy and represents ive Irish-American cidzens. Seveath—Resolved, That we heartily Indorse the administration of our gallant and able (iorSfncr. J. B. Foraker, as wise, pure and patriotic. His promptness in responding to tbe call of suffering humanity has endeared him to the hearts of all geneums people. His splendid administration ot the finances of the State, so mismanaged by the last Democratic admlnistration.bringing order out of chaos, replenishing a depleted treasury, re-establishing the credit of the State, while at the same time reducing the rate of taxation to a figure lower than it has been for half a century, entitle him to the gratitude of tbe people, and mark, him as one of the most brilliant of our Governors. Eighth—Resolved, That we indorse tbe wise laws passed by the Republican Legislature in regard ts the liquor traffic, and pledge the party to keep abreast of public opinion upon that subject. Ninth—Resolved, That we send greeting to our honored Senator, John Sherman, visiting in foreign lands, and assure him of tbe great confidence we have in his wise and patriotic statesmanship, his loyulty and devotion to ihe high principles of Republicanism, the grand doctrine of protection of American industry, and honest ballot and a sound and equal currency, and assure him a hearty welcome to Ohio uoon his return to the United States.

The following gentlemen were placed in nomination for Governor: Kennedy, Davis, Morris, Jones, O’Neal, Samnson, Vance, Neil, Gibson, Bushel). The name of Foraker was not presented to tbe convention, his friends concluding to vote for him without a formal nomination. The first ballot resulted in no choice being made, and the second in tbe nomination of Mr.- Foraker. This is the fourth time he has been selected to head the Republican Btate ticket, the first time being defeated by Hon Geo. A. Hoadley. Mr. Foraker was born in Highland county, Ohio, Jnly 5, 1846. He entered the army when sixteen, and was breveted Captain before leaving tbe service. He attended Wesleyan University and afterward Cornell, where he graduated in 1869. Admitted to the bar in the same year, he was Judge of tbe Cincinnati Superior Court from 1879 to 1882. He was elected Governor in 1883 and again in 1886.

THREE TRAINS COLLIDE. And Are Thrown Down an Embankment— Mauy People Killed. Three freight trains collided on a bridge at Latrobe. Pa., Wednesday morning. Thirty-one cars fell from the bridge to the witter fifty feet below. The debris took fire from a car load of lime that was precipitated with tbe others. The loss of life is awful. Many workmen from Johnstown were on the trains, and all told, not less than thirty lives were lost. Not one of the Irain men escaped. Arms and legs of the victims could be seen protruding, from tbe debris. One of the three trains was standing on a side track.

/. WASHINGTON MOTES. Ex-Senator Bruce and Fourth Auditor Lynch headed a colored delegation of Republicans, who waited on the President Wednesday and presented an address adopted at the Jackson. Miss., conference on June 13 in regard to the political sitnation in the South, and expressing the in the President’s policy toward the colored people in that* region. The President thanked them foi- their confidence, and said they could rest assured that he would do the best he could toward all olaaees. He commended the conservative stand taken by them, and said they would have his assistance in every endeavor to improve thek political status. Chief Justice Fuller, of the Supreme Court, has leased the eld Leland castle at New Rochelle, N. Y., for the summer. Mr. Fuller and his family are expected there next week. It is said that ex-Presidept Cleveland will be Mr. Fuller's guest during the month of July. William Waller Phelps, one of the American Commissioners to tbe Samoan Conference, has arrived in Washington. He called upon Secretary Blaine, at the latter’s hotel, Tuesday morning, and half A Tong consultation. Mr. Phelps brought the Samoan treaty with him. Third Auditor J. 8. Williams, the only remaining Democratic Auditor of tbe Treasury, will be succeeded by M. M. Hurley, of New Albany, lnd., in about six weeks, when tbe business of his office will be in such a condition as to admit of a change being made. Superintendent Porter, of the Census Bureau, has divided the country into 173 census districts for the purpose of taking the next census, each one of which will be in charge of a supervisor. In 1880 the country was divided into 150 districts. Frederick Douglas was Friday appointed Minister Resident and Consul General to Hayti; Daniel M. Ransdell.of Indianapolis,to be U. S. Marshal for the District of Columbia, and Capt. W. M. Meredith, oi Chicago, to be Chief of the Bureau ol Engraving and Printing.

DEATH TO CHINCH-BUGS-The Farmers’ Pert Encounters an Enemy that Is Rapidly Thinning Its Ranks. Prof. J. H. Snow, of the Kansas State University, who has taken an active interest in the insects of Kansas, and has given the chinch-bug special attention, claims that a-diseas* has madir~it» "jcp= pearance among chinch-bugs which is thinning their ranks rapidly. Professor Snow says he has made a number of visite to fields of his county, and found the live and healthy bugs rather scarce. In many places the ground is almost white with dead bugs. They are dying very rapidly with a disease which he terms white fungus, but many entomologists call it chinch bng cholera. The disease is very contagious: Nothing is known of the cause of the disease nor of its symptoms, but it is doing a good work, to test whether it is contagious, Professor Snow, last Monday, shut up a number of healthy bugs with a few dead ones and Thursday they were all dead with the same disease, apparently. Ah entomologist of Minnesota claims to have sent over twenty boxes of dead bags last season with a view t« scattering the disease with the desired results. Professor Snow says that any field can be cleared of tbe bugs by scattering a few dead ones therein. The disease is prevalent, Prof. Snow says, all over the West this year.

D.athofSimou Cameron. Gen. Simon Cameron died at Lancaster, Pa., Wednesday. Simon Cameron was bora jn 1799. He learned the printer’s trade when 9 years of age, and in 1820 was editing a newspaper. He Soon accumulated some capital and became interested in banking and railroad construction. He was elected to tbe United States Senate in 1845, acting with the Democrats. he was again elected to the Senate. He was greatly in favor of peace. He waa atrongly supported for the Presidency and Vice Presidency in 1860, Lincoln made him Secretary of War. He resigned in 1862 and was appointed Minister to Russia. He resigned that position, also, the same year. In 1866 he was again elected to the Senate, and in 1873 for tbe fourth time. In 1873 he resigned in favor of his son. Daring the years of his active public life he was a powerful political leader, practically dictating the policy of the Republican party in Pennsylvania, and wielding a strong influence over its policy in the Nation at large.

Whisky for Kansas People.

A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kas., eaysc Some days ago the City Marshal seized fortv-three packages from the American Express Company that contained beer and whisky addressed to private residences in the city. The staff was taken from tbe express company’s office before an attempt made to deliver it, and Thursday notice was given that all soar express companies doivg business in tbe city would bring smt for $60,000 each against the City Marshal and Police Commissioners for poods that had been confiscated at various times by them.

THE MARKETS.

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