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IJ* A. MTILL, Editor and FrofirtAt*r. 1
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
Till: NKWSOF THE TWO STATES
TOM) IN PARAGRAPHS.
Some of the Cow panic* which Will
Attend the Rome Encampment— Bain
bridge at a Freight Point—Tisit or the
Board of Vialtor* to the State Uni
versity.
UEOKCIA.
The maos meeting of the Baldwin Countv
-Sunday school Association fixed f or to-mor
row ha* been indefinitely postpone).
Elaeh of iheettrut militia district- in Tattnall
county will elect one delegate to the Senato
rial convention on Saturday, the 21st inst.
I he convention will probably be called earlv
m Jlitv. *
At Augusta Tawltv Judge Konev rendered
a decision, holding that a judgment rendered
l. a Notary Public and ex-officio Justice of the
Peace at a time and place other than that
l* ve* 1 for the court ae-eions of the regular Jus
tice of the Peace was void.
In a six hour go-as-you-please walking
match at Dalton Saturday, commencing at 12
m. and ending at p. in., notwithstanding
a heavy rain, which came up about 4 o’clock
and ladled some twenty minutes, the follow
ing is the record made: tV. N. Harlien, 2ti‘.
rn'les; it. J. 1 r.nr mell. 2) miles; lieorge
Macauley, -Jr., 2*’£ miles: T. I-. Tibbs. 27
miles.
Monroe Advertiser: Darling A. Bennett, of
Company D, forty-fifth Georgia Kegiment,
was severely wounded at the battle of Chau
cellorsville on the ?d of May, Ds.:{, was ca p.
tureil, and not lieing heard from, was sup
po■ii*#l lo lie dead. A letter from his Captain,
Judge T. O. Jacob, informs us that Mr. Ben
nett is still living, ami that his home is Bap
panhannoek. Ke*ex county. Va. When lie en
listed his home was near lligh Kails, in Mon
roe county.
It has been recently discovered that Mrs.
S. C. Foreman’* family, in Wilkes countv,
own the mineral right in some land in North
Georgia that contain* a valuable mire. When
Mrs. foreman’s grandfather sold the land
some seventy-five rears ago he reserved the
mineral right; ami recently, when the mine
was discovered, the man who owns the land
said that th** mineral right had been reserved,
but he did not know who owned il. A search
of the records disclosed tile above fact.
Another murder has been committed in
btewart. A negro direct from the scene re
port- that on the plantation of Mrs. Aim* ]
Ward, in the lower par! of the county, a lie- j
gro named Peter liar: -field, was *la"iu by a j
negro boy aged lrt years. It ap|*ear* they i
were engage t in friendly play when the boy
became angry ami drew his knife. At this
point they were separated, and deceased had
turned away when the hoy, whose name is
not known, seized a hoe and buried the eye
of the hoe in his victim’s head, lie died‘in
u*n minutes. The youthful murderer w::
then permitted lu esi ajif.
Mnj. J. J. Wldle, at one time a leading fac
tor in the agricultural implement trade of
Atlanta. i now occupying a cell in the Fulton
county jail. There are two warrants for the
Major, ami his retention will he easily accom
plished until his trial occur* or until he suc
ceed* in giving gilt edge bonds for liis appear
ance when wanted. One of the warrants
charges Maj. White with larceny after trust,
and was issued after the recent grand jury had
returned a true bill against him. The other
warrant is for hail trover, and the particular
property which it is desired to secure bv the
writ is claimed by T. K. Frierson, c. P.'Wil
lard A < ~ of Chicago, secured the first war
rant. They* consigned nu engine to the Major
to sell, Inch he did, lint failed to remit to the
firm. They allege larceny after trust, lie
claim* it to be only a case of debt.
Athens Renner- Watchman: The* Southern
Mutual Insurance Company’s case was
called in the .supreme Court Monday,
ami Hon. Pope Barrow, representing Hie
company, state*! that they were not ready f**r
trial, and wished to continue the case until
the next regular term m November. Capt.
11. 11. Carlton, representing the past and
present policy holders, fluted that whilst they
would not fight against a continuance, they
were ready, willing ami anxious for atrial,
and hoped that His Honor would not grant a
continuance. The case was, however, put off
and court adjourned. About the only ques
tion for a jury t deeide in this moneyed affair
is what amount is it necessary for the compa
ny to withhold as a reserve fund to meet the
probable losses of the company. The amount
over and above this fund is. as has been de
cided by the Supreme Court, to lie divided
pro rata among the policy holders.
The executive committee of the military en
campment. to open nt Koine on the 2d of next
month, held a inci ting at the encampment
headquarters Monday. Capt. Printup r>-
fwrted that the following named companies
md already secured quarters, and would re
main throughout the encampment. Rifles,
Adairsville; Guard*. Abbeville, S. C.; Kenne
saw Bides, Atlanta: Spaulding Greis and
Cight Guard*, Griffin. Ga.; Guards. Cave
Spring; Chickamauga Guards anti Cadets,
Chattanooga. Teun.; I.ight Infantry. Ameri
cas; online rn Cadets, Macon; Quitman
Guard-. Forsyth; Clinch Rifles, Augu>tx:
I.ight Guards anil llilK :tyCadets, Rome; Sa
vannah, Charleston, Henderson, Kentucky,
Montgomery, and Gadsden, Ala., and proba
bly New Orleans will send companies and are
at present negotiating w ith General Manager
l’rintup as to rules of drill and cost of trio.
Atlanta Constituti-m i; The Board of Visi
tors to the state University have in pre
paration their report, ’which will be
submitted to the Governor in a day or
two. The board have had an unusually in
dustrious and attentive session, and have
made, so they consider, the closest examina
tion of pai*ers that has ever been made. They
have changed the system of reports. Hereto
fore it has ncen customary to have the reports
cover every thing connected with the manage
ment of the institution, but this board, upon
looking into the law, found that they were re
stricted to an examination of the "scholastic
standing among the student*. In consequence
they devoted their entire time to that work.
They found the institution in a very flourish
ing condition. They found, however, that the
faculty are overworked and w ill recommend
the enlargement of the faculty. - Some of the
papers submitted to the board were pro
uounced of a remarkably fine order, hut the
board discovered a lack of attention to minor
matters, such as p pel ling, icnminstiip anil
grammar, and in consequence the board could
not accent as high a general average in scliol
irahip as they would have liked to *lo. This
■defect they considered due to the crowded
labors of ilie professors. The work of Prof.
White and the laboratory of Prof. Charbon
nier were greatly praised.
Bainbridge Democrat: Bainbridge has al
ways been a competitive freight point, in
which respect she has had the advantage over
ail other towns along the line of the savan
nah. Florida and Western Railway. A retro
spective* glance over the commercial history
of the tow n will fully bear us out in this state
ment. Not only has she always been a com
petitive point, but she is now. and we see no
good reason hy she may not always continue
tola*. Next fall will w ; it ness any amount of
competition for the carrying trade of onr
town and that of the Kitut river valley, for
the reason that we can ship our cotton to
Savannah, to New York via Savannah, to
New Yotk via Chattahoochee and Jackson
ville, to Columbus, to New Orleans via Apa*
laebicola, and to New Orleans via Pensa
-ol and Atlantic Railroad. Mr. J. M.
Humphreys has just returned from Colum
bus. and lie informs us that there is no doubt
but that an independent line of first class
freight and passenger steamers will be put ou
the rivers at an early day. The steamer
Amos Hayes will resume her trips in about
two weeks, having tied up temporarily for
repairs, and will continue on the river imleti
nue ’v. Mr. Humphreys will be the agent of
the line in Bainbridge and will open a regular
steambo.it office here. It is needless to add
that the lice will get the. undivided support of
tin* businc** communities of Mobile and New
Orleans; actl the support that these two
cities will give it will be liberal, enterprising
and progressive. H lili sgrh facilities Bain
bridge on got to tie the best cotton market in
Soutnwi st Georgia. Last season our mer
chants paid more f**r cotton than did any in
terior town in the -State, and it is reasonable
to suppose the prices will improve this season.
Bainbridge. too. ought to supply this section
of country entirely with heavy groceries and
plantation supplies, because rates of freight
are so low between hero and New Orleans,
the great grocery centre of the Northwest,
where these goods can be bought at a margin
under which no Kastern ci’y can afford to
sell. The outlook it indeed promising for our
town. The new steamer i-erill. from Ap
alachicola- we hear, will soon begin seml
weeklv tribe from Apalachicola to Bain
bridge". ana carry the United States mail*.
FLORIDA,
Fig trees around Tallahassee are laden with
fruit.
The streets in Del-and are being covered
with sawdust by the town authorities.
There were atiout $30,000 worth of railroad
lands recently sold in Sumter county.
There is a good prospect of a fair crop of
pomegranates this season in Leon county.
Oliver Lovergreen is the firs: Floridian re
ported to have succumbed to the sun this
seasou.
Joseph K. Hawley intends to erect twelve
cottages tor rent on his lots near the St. James
Hotel at Tampa.
Another large hotel is being erected oppo
site the freight depot of the South Florida
Railroad at Tampa.
■The new freight steamer Lake Apopka has
been completed. She will run between Apop
ka and points on Lakes Dora, Beanclalr and
Vurleton.
A telephone line is to be erected between
Tampa and Tarpon Springs, via Keystone
Bark. Governor A. P. K. Salford is one of
the projectors.
Mr. George Stewart contemplates manu
facturing artificial stone at the old Oil Still, on
the fit. Marks Railroad, about twelve miles
south of Tallahassee.
The trustees of the Presbyterian Chnreh of
St. Augustine hare extended a call to Dr.
Milton Waldo for a year, dating from the ex
piration of his present term, August 1.
The Lire Stock Company of Messrs. Van
Houghton. Boardman A Co."have bought sev
eral hundred acres of land near Stratford,
which they will soon fence and stock with
cattle.
A petition praving for the establishment of
a post office on the St. Marks Railroad, six
mites from Oil Still, has been forwarded to
\t ashmgtnn. The office would accommodate
about forty families.
In obedience with an order issued from Na
tional Headquarters Grand Army of the Re-*
public, the seven or eight post* of’Flarida met
at Pensacola yesterday for the purpose of
■organizing a State department.
Tampa Tribune-. Last week, while cruising
In little Sarasota bay. near Mr. Webb's plans,
Burr Cosby caught with a cast net a genuine
cuule fish. It measured about two feet and a
<half across. It answered in eTery particular
the descriptions given of these marine mon
sters, though small in size. This is the onlv
one of the kind that we ever heard of being
caught on this coast.
The Democratic Convention of Brevard
coonty met at Titusville Mav 3L pnrsu at to
call. Capt. W. H Sharpe was chosen Chair
man, and E. B. Wager Secretary. The com
mittee was instructed to vote for Capt. W. H.
Sharpe for Lieu tenant-trover *or. and Charles
Dougherty for Senator from the Twenlv-first
Senatorial district, J. M. binder* and W. S.
Norwood delegates. The same delegates were
also chosen for the State convention. G. S.
Hardee aud M. S. Joucs were chosen a* alter
nates.
Jacksonville will have another walking
match July 4. The Jacksonville 3cm bi says
the Ashmeads w ill enter the lists against the
Bowden brother*, J. E. T. an l Tat. the latter
of whom can find a hundred men to back him
against anybody on another race. With this
redoubtable quartette will enter Mr. Lilil
bridge, the tail athlete of East Bav, and two
chosen representatives of the three great dry
goods houses. Asa crowning attraction, it u
pro|iosed to have the journalistic winners of
the gr. at Atlanta ami Macon matches to com
plete the ii.-t. This is now made up, and no
further entries will lie received. .
Lake City correspondence News, June 17:
Ttie Democratic Con vention came off on la-t
Saturday, 14th. Hon. J. F. Hava, Messrs. L.
Harrison. W. W. King, J. J. Knowles, J. L.
Parish, W. K. Moore, h, L. Morgan, J. W.
Chiles, J. 11. Weeks and J. W. Jferrv were
elected members of the Columbia County
Democratic Executive Committee. The fol
lowing were elected delegates to Pensacola:
•1.1. Bays. M . T. Baeoti. W. If. Ogden, K.
Brown, J. L. Parish, T. W. Getzen. M. M. T.
Hucbiuvv.il. W. A. .Sheffield, W. T. Henrv
and S. !'. Bowie. The following were elected
delegates to attend the convention at Palatka:
J. K. Bays. J. K. Andrews. IT. B. Williams,
A. s. Ooodbred, T. J. bumerall, J. H. Weeks,
A. G. Bigelow, W. If. Moore, .le.**e Turn**r
and J. W. Chiles.—Shower* are falling to ad
vantage in different parts of the conntv. No
storms have visited us to the injury of crops
yet.—lt is greatly hoped that there will be a
unison of feeling throughout the Democratic
ranks.
WKSI.EYAYS COMMENCEMENT.
The Exercises It rout* lit to a Close Uuder
Most Brilliant Circumstances.
Macon, Ga., June 18.—An immense au
dience attended the exercises of com
mencement day at Wesleyan Female
College to-day.
The programme was as follows, the
third division of the senior class partici
pating:
Salutatory address, Miss Ella Granbery,
Richmond. Va. Essays—“ Old Sight* with
New Eves,’’ Miss Mattie I.ou Hatelier, Craw
ford county, Ga.; “Ladv Macbeth,’’ a criti
cism, M's Ida Singleton. Macon, Ga; “If I
Wore You." M - Alice Todd, Wilkinson
county, Ga.; “The Heir of all the Age*,’’ Mis*
Rosa \. Turnbull. Miccosukic, Fla.; “A
Grandmother’s Soliloquy,” Miss Agnes C.
Walker, Richmond countv. Ga.; “Rings,”
Mi-., Nellie Lou Wilkin, Colquitt, Ga.; “Self-
Advertising,” Miss Clara Dunlap. Macon, Ga.
Valedictory addresses, Miss Hannah S.
llincs, Macon, Ga.
The saiutatorian was decided by lot. Misses
Granbery and Hatcher having the same re
cord of merit.
The programme was brilliantly executed.
President Bass’ baccalaureate address was
very excellent. He strongly appealed to ail
members of the graduating class to adopt
virtue a* their guiding star—let modestv
crown aud beautify all their actions through
life, lie hail read, with tears in his eyes,
senator Brown’s recent Mornron speech, and
he had resolved to impress upon this gradu
ating class that virtue was woman’s highest
attribute. President Bass conferred diplo
mas and the degree of A. B. on thirtv-six
graduates.
WHERE THE MEDALS WENT.
The following medals were awarded:
Senior Class —Solomon medal for English
Composition, Miss Mattie C. Moover. St.
George’*, S. c. Burke medal for elocution.
Miss Mattie C. Moover. It was decided bv lot.
Maggie Lad*on. of Savannah, and Fannie
Manghan, of Macon, tied Miss Moover.
Trustees’ medal. In painting. Miss Cornelia
Smith; in drawing. Miss Carrie Belle Johnson,
of Macon; penmanship, Mis* Maggie Ladson,
of Savannah; vocal music. Miss Agues
Walker, of Richmond county. Misses Tillie
Morton, of Athens, and Agnes Walker each
received a medal for instrumental music.
President’s medal, vocal music, MissAclisah
Freer, of Columbus.
President Bass announced that he
received yesterday a letter from
a daughter of Her. John W. Taller,
90 years old, now living in Texas, one of the
original trustees of the college, appointed in
INIS, endowing anew medal. This medal was
awarded to-day to Miss Annie Bushin, of
Tallassee, Ala., for vocal music.
Rev. Warren A. Candler, of Augusta, ile
llvcred the annual address on the chaste ami
beautiful subject “Art.” President Bass an
nounced that the* next session of the college
would begin on the first Wednesday in Oc
tober instead of jho third Wednesday fn Srn
tember, as formerly, and close the third
Wednesday invlutie, as usual.
THE RECEPTION.
The forty-sixth annual commencement of
Wesleyan Female College was brought to a
brilliant close to-night by the triennial re
union of the Alummean Association. The
college parlors were thronged with alumna*
an*l invited guests. A splendid supper was
serve*!.
Heretofore the Board of Trustees have leased
the college to President NY. C. Bass & Cos.
at a certain sum per annum. They now
give notice that one year hence they will
assume control of all the college assets arising
from tuition, etc., abolishing the lease plan.
Prof. Harrison has resigned his position in
tin* college, where he received a salary of
$1,500 per annum, ami accepted the chair of
physic* in the state University at Austin,
Texas, at a salary of $3,000 per annum, guaran
tee* 1 for five years.
The Executive Committee of Wesleyan will
fill his place during the summer.
BISHOP SIMPSON DEAD.
A Brief Biography of the Aged Gentle
tuuu’a Honorable Career.
Philadelphia, Pa., June 18.—Bishop
Mathew Simpson, the Senior Bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, North,
died in tliis city this morning. Mathew
Simpson was born in Ohio, June 10,
1810. He graduated at Alleghany Col
lege, Meadviile, Pa„ in 1832, and re
ceived the degree of M. D. in 1833, hut in
the same year entered the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1837 he
was elected professor oi natural sciences
in Alleghany College, and two years later
President ol Indiana Asbury University,
at Greencastle, Ind. In 1848 he was ap
pointed editor of the Western Christian
Advocate, Cincinnati, and in 1852 was
elected Bishop. He had been especially
active in the promotion of educational anil
missionary enterprises. During the civil
war he was employed on important com
missions. and delivered many addresses
in support of the Union. In 1863-’64 be
made an extended tour, studying tbe
missionary status, and wants of his
church in’Syria, European Turkey, Switz
erland, Germany and Scandinavia. He
had been three "times a member of the
general conference, aud a fraternal dele
gate to the British YVesleyan Conference,
and to various ecclesiastical bodies. In
1875 he was appointed to visit again the
mission conferences in Europe. ’
CRIMINAL ITEMS IN MACON.
James Weit Fires at Win. Hill—Tiie
Burnett Trial.
Macon, June 18.—YVtn. Hill lives near
Windsor Hill, near this city. To-day
James West called Hill to his front door
and deliberately fired at him with a pis
tol. YVest was drunk. Hill’s and West's
wives had quarrelled. This was the
cause of the shooting. The case will be
carried betore the grand jury now sitting.
The trial of "Burnett Bros., who killed
H. C. Turpin, is attracting great interest,
YY'hen the clothes Turpin wore at the time
of the killing were exhibited in court
to-day a dramatic scene occurred.
Mrs. Turpin seized the clothes, clasped
them to her bosom, and cried bitterly.
During the trial this morning Samuel
Cook, a member of the jury," suddenly
fainted and fell out of his seat. The court
was suspended for nearly half an hour
while Mr. Cook revived. The faint caused
considerable excitement. Near midnight
the case was given to the jury. A mis
trial or acquittal is generally predicted.
THE NEWS AT EUFAULA.
A Joker Without Judgment Throws
the City into Excitement.
Eufaula, Ala., June IS.- A graceless
scamp, whose name is withheld on ac
count of his parents, had the city in a
fever of excitement this afternoon by the
report ot the sinking ot the steamer
Thronateeska below Columbus, with all
on board. The rumor being traced, it
was discovered that the party had started
it to play a joke on a young married man
whose wife was returning on the boat.
The husband, on this discovery, recovered
from the shock,* took a double barreled
gun and searched lor the perpetrator of the
alleged joke, but be got wind of it and
fled "to Georgia.
Alonzo Brooker, while coupling cars on
the Montgomery and Eufaula road at
Georgetown, yesterday afternoon, wa9
caught between them and mashed to
death, living only fifteen minutes after
the accident.
Miles Orr was awarded $1,500 damages
against the Central Railroad this after
noon in a suit for $25,000 for injuries re
ceived in the Georgetown accident eight
een months ago.
Harvard Outrowg Columbia.
Neyv London. Conn., June 18.—Har
vard won the inter-cullegiate boat raee.
Harvard's time was 24 minutes and 22
seconds. Columbia's time was 24 minutes
and 29 seconds.
HARMONY IN' SEW YORK.
THE COUNTY DEMOCRACY CON
CILUTE KELLY.
Both Enter tbe Convention on an Equal
Footing—The Delegation to Vote as a
Unit at Chicago—Two-thirds of the
Men Claimed to he for Cleveland-
Politic* in Other States.
Saratoga, X. Y., June is, 11a. m.—Mr.
F lower denounces Mr. Magone's charges
in the State Committee last night as de
void of truth. The caucus of the county
Democracy and State Democracy this
morning at 10 o'clock adopted the follow
ing resolution:
NN HERE as. The New York county Democ
racy, meeting witli tiie Democracy of the
State to name candidates who shall receive
tiie vote of eFery Democrat ami a majority of
the people for President and Vice President
of the l nited states, i* prepared to make all
necessary effort* and concessions to assure
the Democracy of tiie State and nation that
the regular organization in the ci'y of New
N ork has at heart the true and large inter
ests of the party everywhere.
Resolved, That the fonr member* of this
organization upon the State Committee lx*,
an*i they are hereby, appointed a committee
witli full power to use all reasonable efforts
to secure harmonious representation for the
city of New York.
Tin; members are William C-Whitney, Ed
ward Cooper, iiughodore Thompson and John
Keenan.
The adjourned meeting of the State Com
mittee met 11 o'clock at the United States Ho
tel. The doors and windows leading*to the
room where the committee held its session
were thronged with crowds of delegates anx
ious to hear the proceedings. At the roll call
of the delegates all the members were present
save live.
Judge Daniel O’Reilly, of New York, on mo
tion of Mr. Bnell, of Saratoga, was made
Sergeant-at-Anns of the convention.
The committee then adjourned to distribute
ticket*.
The Tammany delegation held a meeting at
the Grand Union Hotel at 10:30 o’clock. John
Kelly presided. Credentials were presented
an*l Gen. Spinola announced that at a confer
ence letween the Chairman of the County
Democracy, Tammany ami Irving Halls re
spectively, it was decided that the represen
tation of New York county should lx* as fol
lows: New York county Democracy 3x dele
gates, Tammany 31, Irving Hall 10.
THE CONVENTION MEETS.
Saratoga, June 18, 12:10 p. m.—The Demo
eratic State Convention was called to onler
by Daniel Manning, of Albany. William E.
Smith, of Clinton county, was elected tempo
rary Chairman, and addressed theconvention.
The roll of delegates was then called. The
names of s. J. Tildcn and John Kelly were re
ceived with applause.
THE CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS.
Mr. Smith, on taking the chair, said:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: We have
met to-day uuder circumstances which can
not but be encouraging to every person wlm
desires the success of the Democratic candi
dates at tbe next election. The Republican
party by its abandonment of those prin
ciples which secured it the confidence
of a majority of the neople in the past
has lost many of its former adherents, while
the facts which have been published during
the past four years as to the meaning and
methods bv which the Republican success in
the la*t National Convention was sccom
p ished have convinced the people. But for
bribery and corruption Gen. Hancock would
to-day bo our President. The Democratic
party, by its earnest advocacy of retrench
ment and reform in the national and State
government, has retained all its former
strength and gained many recruits from
the ranks of its opponents. The im
jMirtance of the political issues of
the present cannot be overestimated, and
the position which the Democratic party
will assume in the coming canvass may be. to
a great extent, determined by your action to
day. Reports from all parts of the country
show that thousands of Demorrats in every
State of the Union are anxiously waiting the
result of tliis convention. Trusting, gentle
men. that wise counsels may prevail in your
deliberations, I thank you for the honor you
have conferred upon me.
THE ROLL CALL AND RULES.
The roll was then called, and the necessiirv
substitution* made. The rules of tbe State
Assembly were adopted as the rules or the
convention. A resolution was adopted, pro
viding that the Committee on Creden’ials be
constituted of one delegate from each Con
gressisnal district, and that no member of
said committee shall vote upon any ciueation
affecting his own seat.
William C. Whitney, of New York, offered
a resolution to the effect that a committee,
composed of a member from each Congres
sional district be appointed to select dele
gates to the National Convention, four dele
gates and four alternates from the State-at
large. two Presidential electors-at-large and
one elector from each Congressional district.
SATISFYING THE NEW YORKERS.
Ex-Senator Grady, .of New York, offered an
amendment that of the New York representa
tion the County Democracy have 4 Presiden
tial electors and 7 national delegates, Tam
many i electors and 7 delegates, and Irving
llall'] elector aud 2 delegates.
Mr.Whitney accepted the amendment, and
the resolution was adopted.
CONCILIATING TAMMANY.
The following resolution was offered hy
Col. John it. Fellows:
Whereas, Contests .have arisen concern
ing the representation of the city of New
York in this convention; and,
Whereas, The New York County Democ
racy, heretofore recognized as entitled to a
preponderance of representation, expresses a
willingness to concede soraethinK from what it
considers its just rights to secure uniform and
efficient action of the Democracy of the State;
it is hereby—
Revolted, That the sgrcementot representa
tion from the city of New York be rati fled by
lhi convention itself and there be admilteit
from the city of New Yorl; 31 delegates to be
named by representatives of Tammany Hall
and 10 delegates to be named by the represen
tatives of Irving Hall, and that the clerk
place such names on the permanent roll of
the convention when made.
The resolution was adopted.
At 2:la o’clock an adjournment was taken
until 7 o’clock. The members from all the
districts except New York were asked to re
main to hand up the names ot their represen
tatives from the Congressional districts. As
the convention adjourned there was a call of
someone for three cheers for Flower, and it
met with considerable response, but the
Chairman promptly restored order.
THE EVENING SESSION.
Sakatoua, June 18, 11 P. M. —The conven
tion met again at 7 o’clock, but as the Com
mittee on Credential* and Resolutions were
not ready to report,a further recess was taken
to"8:30 o’clock ami a second one to 0 o'clock.
At i>:ls o’clock Chairman Smith called the
convention to order. Mr. Herrick, of Albany,
said that he had been requested by the Com
mittee on Contested Seats to present the fol
lowing resolutions:
Revolved, That in the District of Kings we
recognize the sitting delegates as the regu
larly elected delegates. In the Second dis
trict of Monroe we recognize the delega
tion headed by Wm. Purcell [loud ap
plause] as the'regularly elected delegates.
In the Second and Third Assembly districts
of St. Lawrence county we recognize the dele
gation from the Second district headed by
Thomas L. Harrison, and in the Third district
that headed by John O. liridgers as the regu
larly elected’delegates to this convention.
The'report was adopted.
The Committee ou Permanent Organi
zation reported in favor of the con
tinuation of the temporary officers of
the convention. Mr. Smith’s name was
greeted with applause. A delegate from each
congressional district was named as Vice
President and one as a Secretary. The re
port was adopted.
In introducing the platform and resolutions,
Nelson J. Waterbury said that the candidate
of the Democratic party for President must be
what the candidate of the Republican party is
not. and floud applause] that he mast em
phatically lie what the candidates of the Demo
cratic party have been in the past. We have
seen and we all know, as a matter of fart, the
political history of our country, and that
during a period of more than 50years the gov
ernment of this country was administered
with honesty and with wonderful success till
it fell under"the control of the Republicans.
After referring to the misgovernment of
the Republican party and the opportunity
now offered to the Democratic partv,
Mr. Waterbury read the following resolu
tions:
THE PLATFORM.
Revolved, That the Democracy of the State
of New York, assembled to appoint its dele
gation to the national convention of the partv,
commits to those delegates in association will!
the representatives of the party from other
States a general declaration of Democratic
principles on national issues, at the same time
recognizing that no issue can be more impor
tant than the election of a President of the
United States whose character and public
reputation .shall give to the whole people
assurance of an honest, impartial and efficient
administration of the laws, without a sus
picion of personal ends or private interests.
Revolved, That this convention heartily
commends anew the efficient and upright ad
ministration of Gov. Cleveland.
Revolved, That the delegates fo the Demo
cratic National Convention to l>e appointed
are hereby instructed to enter that conven
tion as a unit, and act as a unit in accordance
with the w ill of a majority of the members
thereof, every delegate or alternate occupying
the place of delegates to be bound bv this rule,
and m case of the absence of both delegate
and alternate from any district the vacancy
to l>e filled by a vote of the majority of the
delegation. ■*
The reading of the resolution was inter
rupted by frequent applause and cheers for
Cleveland, and counter cheers for Flower.
The resolutions were adopted unanimously.
THE DISTRICT DELEGATES.
The reading ot the list of delegates to Chi
cago was next taken up and when concluded
it was found that two districts were unrepre
sented. This led to a long discussion in an
attempt to till them. The delegates are as
follows:
First district, 15. W. Downing and J. H.
Sntta; Second. Felix Campbell and John Y.
McKaue: Third, W. C. Kingsley, A. V. White;
Fourth, 11. J. Cullen and 'James Kane;
Fifth, Michael O’Keefe and Archi
bald M. Bliss; Sixth. Michael C.
Murphy and Luke F. Cozzens; Seventh,
Abram S. Hewitt and August Belmont;
Eighth, Micha 1 Norton and Thos. F. Gradv;
Ninth, John Keenan and John M. Power;
Tenth, Hubert O. Thompson and William R.
Travers; Eleventh. John Kelly and John R.
Fellows; Twelfth, Wm. C. Whitney and Jis.
J. O’Donohue; Thirteenth, Andrew J. White
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1884.
and John McQnaid; Fourteenth, not in re
port; Fifteenth, Peter Ward and Andrew
Jackman; Sixteenth, Samuel J. Tilden. Jr.,
and George Williams; Seventeenth, Francis
R. Gilbert and O. B. Parker; Eighteenth, Ed
ward Murphy. Jr., and Robert Hamilton;
Nineteenth. Erastus Corning and A. Bleecker
Banks; Twentieth. Ja*ne W. Green and F.
W:n*!ow Page; Twenty-first, Smith M. Weed
an*! Henrv E. Gray; Twenty-second, not vet
decided; Twenty-third, Janies Stephens and
Charles D. Moore: Twenty-fourth, Robert
Townsend and Mahon; Twentv-flfth,
nenry J. Mowry and Lawrence J. Fitzgerald;
Twenty-sixth, John C.Seer and Elliott;
Twenty-seventh, Henry 1). Brewster ami
Silas N. Gallet; Twenty-eighth, David B.
Hill and Edward K. Afgar: Twenty-ninth.
John Flanagan and M. A. Learv: Thirtieth,
not yet decided; Thirty-first. James Ilanlan
and Jonathan D. Lane; Thirty-second, S.
Child and Daniel Lockwood; Thirty-third,
John M. Wiley and David Miiler: Thirty
fnnrth. Charles D. Murray and James YV.
McMahon.
VACANCIES FILLED.
After the list of delegates had been read ex-
Seuator Grady proposed that in case Mr.
Dorsheimer declined to act Gen. Spinola be
appointed to fill hi* place. It was carried.
After a long discussion the Fourteenth,
Twenty-second and Thirtieth district Uele
gn’es wore agreed on, a* follows:
Fourteenth District —Win. G. Stalilnecker
and George D. Sanford.
Twenty-Second District— Daniel Magone and
John Lansing.
Thirtieth District —Wm. Purcell and Jacob
Geriing.
The delegates at large are Daniel Man
ning, Edward Cooper, Lester B. Faulkner
and John C. -Jacobs. Their alternates are
William Dorsheimer, Robert A. Titus. C. A.
Parsons and IV. A. Poulier, respectively. The
electors at largo are Oswald Ottendorfer. of
New York, and \Villiam Purcell, of Rochester.
Judge Samuel Hand,of Albany, nominated
the present incumlicnts of the Court of Ap
peal*. Charles Andrews and Charles R. Itap
allo, for re-election.
Surrogate Calvin made a speech favoring
Judge Hand’s nomination. He eulogized
Judge Andrews, and said that the time had
come to forget that “we are Democrats, and
rise above party faction.” He took his scat
amid groans and hisses.
Mr. Bacchus, of Green county, spoke of the
mantle of charity that Surrogate Calvin
want ed to put around the Republicans, but
that he, as a Democrat, opposed the nomina
tion.
Gad H. Lee.of Saratoga,nominated RufnsW.
Beckham for Judge of the Court of Appeals.
Mr. Peckham's name was withdrawn.
.Judges Andrews and Rapallo were noini
na'ed amid loud applause.
Mr. Whitney, of New York, offered the fol
lowing resolution;
Resolved, That the State Committee be au
thorized to fill any vacancies which may occur
in said committee, or any electoral or other
ticket.
This was carried.
Senator Grady moved that the convention
adjourn sine die. This was promptly carried
at 11:15 o’clock, and in ten minutea’the ball
was empty.
THREE TO ONE FOR CLEVELAND.
A canvass of the Cleveland men here show's
their claim to be that the delegation from
this convention goes to Chicago three to one
in favor of Cleveland. Many of the Flower
men concede Cleveland’s majority, but do not
even a* i mi t that it is two to one.
Before the adjournment of the convention
the following names of the state Central
Committee were handed in by the Chairman
of the Stale Central Committee:
First. District, C. Meyer, Jr.; Second,
Michael J. Coffer, of Brooklyn; Third, James
W. Ridgeway, of Brooklyn: Fourth, James
Kane, of Kings; Fifth. Patrick 11. MoCarvar,
of Kings; Sixth, A. li. Davidson, of New
York; Seventh, Sidney P. Nichols, of New
Y ork; Eighth, Edward Hooper, of New YorJc;
Ninth,John ileinan, of New York; Tenth. H.
O. Thompson, of New Y'ork; Eleventh, Ed
uard Cahill, of New Y ork; Twelfth, Thomas
F. Grady, of New Y ork; Thirteenth, John E.
Develin, of New York; Fourteenth,
Edward T. Wood, of New Y'ork;
Fifteenth, John A. Mason, of Grange; Six
teenth, John O’Brien, of Dutchess;
Seventeenth, Isaac W. Cox, of
Westchester; Eighteenth, Edward Mur
phy. of Rensselaer; Nineteenth,
teenth. Daniel Manning, of Albany: Twen
tieth, Samuel W. Buell, of Saratoga; Twenty
first, Conant Sawyer, of Essex; Twenty
second, Thomas ‘ Spratt; Twenty-third,
Charles 11. Grannlo. of Oneida; Twenty
fourth, Clinton Beckwith, of Herkimer;
Twenty-fifth, William B. Kirk, Jr., of Onon
daga; Twenty-sixth, William N. West:
Twenty-seventh, William A. Poucher, of
Oswego: Twenty-eiglitli, Samuel D. Hallida,
of Tompkins: Twenty-ninth, C. C. Walker, of
Steuben; Thirtieth, John W. Martin; Thirty
first, Daniel W. Tomlinson,of Genessee;Thir
ty-second, Charles YV. McCune, of Erie;
Thirty-third, John M. Wiley; Thirty-fourth,
Hudson Ainslie, of Cattaraugus.
TJIE NEW COMMITTEE MEETS.
Saratoga, June 19, 2 A. M.— The new State
Central Committee met at the. United States
Hotel at midnight. William C. Whitney, of
New Y'ork. moved that Daniel Manning be
re-elected Chairman of the committee, and his
motion was unanimously carried.
John O’Brien, of Dutchess, was re-elected
Secretary, and Edward Ainrphy, Jr., was
chosen Treasurer.
Ex-Senator Grady moved (hat the Chairman
lie empowered to appoint an Executive Com
inittec of the number that ttie Chairman con
siders be-t. Waiter I.*. Burr was made clerk,
and the committee adjourned subject to the
call of the chair.
HOYV THE PLATFORM WAS BUILT.
The Committee on Resolutions, which drew
up the platform, met at 4 o’clock at the Uni
ted States Hotel. Nelson J. Waterbury was
elected Chairman. The two labor parties
presented resolutions and made speeches
praying that the Democratic party insert in
tlteir platform those principles of reform in
the prison contract system and cheap labor
question which would insure the vote of the
labor party for a Democratic President.
The following sub-committee of live were
appointed to draw up the platform: Francis
E. Stetson, Chairman, Judge D. C. Calvin. J.
8. Ross, E. Ambrose and R. R. Grant. They
remained out until6:3oo’clock, when Mr. Stet
son read the resolutions. Objection was made
by Edward Cooper to the tariff plank, which
he asserted was a touchy subject, and one that
should he left io the Chicago Convention. A
general debate then followed as to
whether this tariff plank should
be incorporated and adopted. The
hour for the meeting of the convention
—7 o'clock—passed, and still the Committee
on Resolutions were hotly, but good liumor
edly, discussing the tariff plank in the plat
form.
The convention, in view of this state of
affairs, adjourned till 8:30 o'clock.
Ex-Mayor Cooper, Judge Waterburv, Mr.
Stetson and Mr. Ross, who was the author of
the tariff plank iu the sub-committee, each in
turn spoke for and against the clause.
Finally the yeas and nays were taken, and
resulted in a decided majority against putting
the tariff clause iu the platform.
Each clause of the platform was then taken
up and adopted.
FLOWER STILL HOPEFUL.
Mr. Flower was undisturbed, apparently,
by any thought that the result of to-dav's con
vention is unfavorable to bis chances 'at Chi
cago. He claims that fortv-two members of
the delegation are against Cleveland. He de
clined to name the specific number of dele
gates m his interest, but asserted that Chicago
was yet needed to decide the probable failure.
The opinions of leading editors here given to
night are: Joseph l’nlitzer of the New York
World-. “I believe that Gov. Cleveland will
have ihe full New York delegation at Chicago.
I think that he will get the nomination.
I think that he ought to have it. I believe if
lie get* it he will be elected.”
Charles McC'une. of the Buffalo Courier,
said: “After all the apparent opposition to
Cleveland two davs ago the result or the con
vention shows that Cleveland has 3 to 1 as far
as Flower is concerned, and is at present the
most prominent candidate before the Chicago
Convention. He will have a large majority of
the New Y'ork delegation there.
Jerome Parnienter, of the Troy Press, which
has been in favor of Flower, thought that
Cleveland had 42 delegates as the result of to
day’s convention, but thought the result, so
far as the outlook at Chicago is concerned, is
no nearer than when the New Y'ork State
Convention liegan.
William Purcell, of the Rochester Democrat
and Chronicle, claims that a majority of the
delegates are anti-Cleveland.
MICHIGAN’S DEMOCRACY.
Eist of the Delegates Who Will Repre
sent the Districts.
Detroit, June 18.—The Democratic
Stale Convention met here this morning.
Dan Dickinson, of Detroit, was chosen
temporary Chairman.
After the appointment of the usual commit
tees the convention took a recess until this
eveniug. The delegates to Chicago have been
chosen from the different districts, and are as
follows: First district, Daniel J. Campan and
John Harrison; Second district. Col. F. M.
Holloway and John Strong; Third district"
Col. Michael Shoemaker and Devillo Hub
bard; Fourth district, Chas. H. Kunmarlo
ami Y. E. Stevens; Fifth district, Horace B
Peck and John H. Withey; Sixth district, m!
L. Bogg and Arthur J. Eddy; Seventh dis
trict, Elliot G. Stevenson and M. J. Brabb-
Eighth district. J. K. Wright and .Jerome W.’
Turner; Ninth district, R. Black and D.'E
Soper; Tenth district, S. O. Fisher and C. II
Black; Eleventh district, William P. Preston
and John W. Powers.
The convention is folly attended and is very
enthusiastic. Ihe preference of the body is
unmistakably for Cleveland as the Presi
dential candidate.
CLEVELAND THE CHOICE.
Detroit, June 18,11:45 r. k.—The Demo
cratic State Convention, upon reassembling
this afternoon, made the temporary officers
permanent and at once proceeded to bnsiness.
A resolution was introduced instructing the
Chairman of the State Central Committee to
telegraph to the New Y’ork State Democratic
Convention that Grover Cleveland was the
first choice of the Michigan Democracy This
created an uproar and was debated at con
siderable length. While the preponderating
sentiment of the convention is accurately
reflected by the sentiment of the
resolution, it was argued that the New Y'ork
Convention was divided upon the subject, and
this might seem like officious meddliDg with
other people’s business This view caused the
tabling ot the resolution by a decisive ma
jority. The following were then appointed
delegates to Chicago:
O. M. Barnes, of Lansing; Timothy E
Farmer, of Saginaw; O. M. Powers, of Kala
mazoo. and A. P. Swineford, of Marquette
The resolutions, which were adopted, de
clare In favor of home rule, and insist on
clearly defined lines bounding the State and
rational authority; regret Tilden's declina
tion, and affirm faith in the sentiments con
tained in his letter on the subject of the tariff
Thu resolutions declare: “We believe in com-
I mereial freedom, the right of every man to
boy where he can buv the cheapest, aud sell
| where he can sell the dearest, and we de
! notince the present tariff levied upon over
i 2.000 articles as a master-piece of injustice,
i inequity and false pretense, impoverishing
1 the many to subsidize the few.”
We instruct the delegates to Chicaga elected
by this convention to insist on the reaffirma
tion of tbe policy of tariff reform, a3 essen
tial to the consistency and success of th**
party.
GEORGIA’S CONVENTION.
Messrs. Lawton, H**well, Walsh and
Baron the Delegate*-at Large to
Chicago.
Atlanta, Juno 18.— The Democratic
Convention assembled in the hall of tbe
House of Representatives to-day, for the
purpose of electing delegates to the Na
tional Democratic Convention, it was a
perfect love feast in every particular, har
mony and good feelingappearing in every
quarter.
At 12 o’clock the convention was called to
order l>y Col. J. H. Estili, Chairman of the
State Democratic Committee, who. after
stating briefly the object for which the body
had mot, announced the convention readv for
business.
On motion, L. F. Livingston, of Newton
county, was made temporary chairman.
Mark Hardin. Henry Cuban is* and John
Campbell were elected secretaries,
T. J. Jourdan, of Hancock county, offered a
resolution, which was adopted, that the Sec
retary call the roll of counties and tli- chair
man of each delegation send up a list of the
delegates.
P. J. Brewster, of Coweta, asked for the
appointment of a Committee on e'edentiais.
YY’illiam Harris, of Worth county, opposed
the resolution, giving as his reason’ for doing
so that there were no contests, and that it was
presumable that all the delegates on the floor
were good Democrats amt had a right to be
there.
WILLIAM E. .SMITH MADE CHAIRMAN.
The resolution was withdrawn by the
mover, and immediately Robert Mitcuell, of
Thomas county, nominated as permanent
Chairman ex-Congressman YY r m. E. Smith, of
Dougherty county.
The nomination was seconded, and, amid
great cheering, the only man of the Georgia
delegation who voted “No" in Congress
against the eight-to-seven scheme by which
Tildcn lost his seat was escorted to the rliair
by Gen. Y oung, Mr. Mitchell, of Thomas
county, Mr. Harris, of Worth county, and
Col. Candler, of Dekalb county.
Col. Eivingston presented the one-legged
hero to the convention.
The Chairman made a few remark*, lu
which he noted his inexperience as a presiding
officer, asked for loniencv, and promised to
do the best he could.
Here a discussion took place as to the mode
of electing delegates and alternates from tiie
State-at-large. Matters for a few moments
looked mixed. Some delegates favored hav
ing a ballot, the four names receiving the
highest number of votes to be declared dele
gates and the next four alternates.
Another faction favored electing delegates
on one ballot and alternates on another.
This motion prevailed.
TIIE NOMINATIONS,
Milton Candler, of DeKalb, nominated li.
E. Lesler, of Chatham. 15. E. Russell, of De
catur, nominated Evan P. Howell, of Fulton.
This was seconded by F. G. Dußiguon, of
Chatham. W. H. Haralson nominated A. O.
Bacon, of Bibb. This was seconded by T. M.
Peeples, of Gwinnett. YV. R. Rankin, of Gor
don, placed before the convention Gen. Y'oung,
of Bartow, which was seconded by Thomas
Jones, of Bartow. Mr. Harris, of Worth,
nominated Patrick Walsh, of Richmond,
which was seconded bv C. L. Smith, of Ter
rell. A. L. Miller, of Houston, nominated
Mr. Kihbee. of Pulaski, but afterwards with
drew his name. Here Mr. Lester, of Chat
ham, gained the floor, anil after thanking his
friend Col. Candler for his kindness, stated that
Chatham had a son whom lie preferred to see
go lo Chicago, and whom he desired to with
draw’ in favor of. This man, he said, was
Gen. Lawton, a Democrat of the old school,
and a Georgian of prominence ar.d ability.
Col. Candler seconded the nomination. Bal
lotling was then commenced with Lawton,
Howell, YVaJsh, Bacon and Young in the field.
THE CHOSEN FOUR.
When the call hail progressed about half way
Gen. Y’oung, in a short speech, withdrew*
his name, and moved to make the election of
the first four named unanimous. This was
done amid much applause, and before the
echo died out Gen. Young, Col. Estili, C. C.
Kibbee and YV. A. Little were elected alter
nates hy acclamation. The districts then sent
forward the names of two delegates eacli as
their choice to the Chicago Convention. These
were read and elected unanimously. The dis
trict delegates and their alternates are as fol
lows:
First —Richard YV. Grubb, of Ylc-
Intosh, and J. L. Sweat, of Clinch, delegates;
E- Dart, of Glynn, and John V. Dill, of Striv
en, alternates.
Second District —John Triplett, x>f Thomas,
and Maston O’Neal, of Decatur, delegates;
James H.Guerry. of Terrell, and D. L. Gonhl
ing,of Brooks, alternates.
Third District —W. T. McArthur, of Mont
gomery, and C. C. Duncan, of Houston, dele
gates; YY'. 11. YVillis, of Macon, and J. I*'. YVat
son.of Lee, alternates.
Fourth District— F. M. Langley, of Troupe,
and J. H. Martin, ot Talbot, delegates: L. P.
Manderville, of Carroll, and G. M. Willis, of
Muscogee, alternates.
Fifth District —W. C. Parker, of Campbell,
and George Hillyer, of Fulton, delega'es; R.
A. Massey, of Douglass, and W. T. Dicken, of
Henry, alternates.
Sixth District —George W. Gurtori, of Bibb,
and J. E. F. Matthews, of Upson, delegates;
R. E. Park, of Bibb, and Frank Chambers, of
Wilkinsou. alternates.
Seventh District —E. S. Collier, of Dado, and
M. I). YVindell, of Flovd, delegates; T homas
Lyou, of Bartow, and J. D. Ponder, of Flovd,
alternates.
Eighth District —Halt Harris, of Greene, and
Milton P. Reese, of Washington, delegates;
R. D. Y'ow, of Franklin, and J. J. C. McMa
hon, of Oglethorpe, alternates.
Ninth District —W. I. Pike, of Jackson, amt
William E. Simmons,of Gwinnett, delegates;
W. I’. Price, of Dahlonega, and John I). Cobb,
of Gilmer, alternates.
Tenth District —W. 11. Parsons, of Johnson,
and E. Floyd I.awson, of Burke, delegates; C.
Henry Cohen, of Richmond, and J. W. Barks
dale, of Lincoln, alternates.
All of the delegates, with the exception of
Gen. Lawton, are for Cleveland and McDon
ald as the most available ticket. Gen. Law
ton is favorable to Bayard. The subject of
the tariff was not considered in electing the
delegates. On the tariff question the dele
gates are divided about equally. No plat
form was suggested further than a united
effort to oust the Republican purty.
LOUISIANA FOR TILDEN.
The Democratic Convention Declares
That His Nomination is Absolutely
Necessary.
Baton Rouge, June 18—The Demo
cratic State Convention reassembled at 8
o’clock last evening, received the report
of the Credentials Committee and took a
recess. The convention met again at II
o’clock at night. Ex-Gov. R. C. Wycklitte,
Chairman of the Committee on Platform,
submitted the resolutions.
The resolutions favor a tariff for revenue
limited to the necessities of the government
economically administered, and so adjusted in
its application as to prevent unequal burdens;
declare that the General Government should
care for and improve the great water ways of
the republic; resolve that the nomination of
Samuel J Tilden as the standard bearer of
the Democratic party in the coming campaign
is not only essential as a rebuke to fraud and
misgovernment, but is hereby declared to be
the duty of the Democratic party to itself and
the country, and the devotion of the party
which ho has served with such fidelity in the
past, and requests the delegates selected by
this convention to present and sustain the
views herein expressed. The platform was
adopted.
The convention elected E. A. Bnrke, B. F.
Jonas, A. A. Gumby and R. C. Wicklvfi'e del
egates for the State-at-large. After electing
the alternates, receiving a list of the district
delegates, and naming the electors, the con
vention adjourned sine die.
PRIMARIES AT CHICAGO,
A Polling Place Assailed and the Bal
lot Boxes Broken Open.
Chicago, June 18.—The primaries for
the election of delegates to the First,
Second, Third and Fourth Congressional,
District Democratic Conventions were
held here last evening, and resulted in
the choice of men who will send delegates
to the State Democratic Convention fa
voring Mayor Harrison’s nomination for
Governor, and his choice as one of the
delegates-at-large to the National Con
vention.
The four district conventions will also
choose district delegates to the National Con
vention. but it cannot be said from the re
sults of the primaries what instructions these
conventions will give as to the Presidential
nominee. *
As the voting was about to begin at one of
the polls in the First district, where there are
two factions, several men of one faction
rushed into the room, seized the ballot box
and threw it to the fioor.tbe box bursting open.
At the same time four or five hundred tickets
were scattered on the floor. The attacking
party claim that the box was stuffed. The
judges claim that the tickets were thrown on
the floor by one of the intruders. The box
was taken to the station house. What gives a
sensational character is the lact that J. C.
Maokcm, the Democratic organizer of the
city, was one of the judges, and that the
leader of the invaders w.as Aidcrman Whel
lan, from the First ward.
The Fourth Maine District.
Bangor, Me., June 18.—The Democrats
of the Fourth District in convention to
day nominated John T. Lvneh for Repre
sentative to Congress and A. J. Chase
and John Donworth for delegates to Chi
cago.
California Delegates Resign.
San Francisco, June 18.—J. Campbell
Short and J. Martin, chosen Presidential
electors by the Democratic State Conven
tion lately held at Stockton, have re
signed. They refuse to accept the plat
form adopted.
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Arrangements Which are an Improve
ment on Those of the Republicans.
Chicago. June 18.—The local Connnit
| tee of Arrangements for the National
Democratic Convention, at a meeting to
day, decided to make a numberof changes
; in Convention Hall.
The stage will be removed from the north
eud to the west side, and will have no room
: back of it f* r rpeetators, a feature which
j c.iused considerable annoyance on account of
tiie noise at the Republican Convention. The
! p atforni will be occupied only by officers of
the convention, and the Associated Press
newspaper representatives will have a plat
firm to themselves, with an entrance for
them atone, aud the space will be railed off so
that they cannot lie encroached upon. The
sub-committee of the national committee will
meet to-morrow. Judge YY'.C. Goudy. Chair
man, ami it i* learned that the above plan yill
b * adopted. Applications by new-paper* lor
scat* should be made to Austin if. Brown.
Chairman of the Committee ou the Press and
Telegraph, at Indianapolis or Chicago.
The Tennessee Democrats
Nashville. Tknn., June 18. — The
Democratic State Convention met here at
noon to-day with lion. J. D. Calkins as
permanent chairman.
The delegates to the National Convention
from the State-at-large are: Albert J. Mc-
Neal, Thomas L. YVilliam*, S. A. Champion
and John F. House.
The delegates from the Congressional dis
trict are: First district, YV. D. Dickson and
John Slack: Second. T. YY. Henderson and J.
C. C a wood; Third. John 11. Savage and James
Johnson; Fifth. Thomas R. Myers and J. C.
New; Sixth, YY. A. Quarles "and George S.
Kinney; Seventh, Lucius K. Polk and Thomas
C. Haynes; Eighth, H. YY. McCorrv ar.dtH. C.
Towns; Ninth, Y. I*. Bond and T. E. Rich
ardson: Tenth, Luke E. YY’right and D. K.
Reddick.
The Independents’ Committee.
Neyv York, June 18.—The following
committee has been appointed in accord
ance with the resolutions adopted at the
conference of the Independents and Re
publicans last night to make arrange
ments for the organization of an Indepen
dent party:
George YVilliam Curtis, Carl Schurz, Stephen
P. Nash, Francis C. Barlow. Joseph W. Har
per. Jr.. Henry A. Oakley. Jackson S.ScliuUz,
E. T. Christensen, Edward Salomon, Ethan
Allan Doty, George Haven Putnam. Charles
Scribner, George YValton Green, Horace
E. Deming, R. R. Bowker, YY. A. White.
George YV. Hill, S. YV. Graerson, Hferman
Dowd, Felix Kaufman, Thomas C. Sloan.
Charles McY'eagh, Pereival Knautb, YV. C.
Sawyer, Arthur M. Sherwood, J. H. Y'anam
ringe, James stoKes, Frederick Cromwell, S.
s. Burnham. E. S. Watormand and C. Stewart
Davison. The committee has power to add to
its numbers.
Colorado for Cleveland.
Denver, Col., June 18.—At 2:30
o’clock this morning the Democrat ic State
Convention, held at Pueblo, elected as
delegates to Chicago Gov. Grant, M. S.
Waller, M. D. Crow, J. D.McGiloray, Den
nis Sullivan and J. R. Letcher. The dele
gatiou is uninstructed, but Cleveland is
its probable choice.
The Democratic Convention at I’ucblo
adopted resolutions demanding free and un
limited coinage of silver, favoring a strong
and efficient navy, and denouncing “the in
famy of 1870, when Tilden and Hendricks
were, by fraud and threats of civil war, de
prived of the offices to which they were
elected.” .
Florida Independents.
Jacksonville, Fla., June 18.—A special
from Live Oak says:
The State Convention of Independents was
held a Live Oak to-daj*, twenty-seven coun
ties being represented.
Resolutions were adopted denouncing the
Bourbon Democracy. T. YY r . Pope, a bolting
Democrat, was nominated for Governor, aud
J. C. Greclv. a Republican, for Lieutenant
Governor. This is the first organized Inde
pendent party in Florida.
Chicago Delegates.
Chicago, June 18.—In the First Dis
trict Democratic Convention to-day the
convention seated what is known as the
“Mackin crowd.” which was charged
with having stuffed the ballot boxes at
the primary elections. The Third Con
gressional district named Edward F. Cul
bertson and James H. Hildreth as dele
gates to the National Convention.
Vermont Republicans.
Burlington, June 18.—The Vermont
State Republican Convention met to-day
and nominated Lieut. Gov. Samuel E.
Pingree to be Governor, and E. J. Ornts
l>ee, of Brandon, Lieut. Governor; the
present incumbent, Wm. 11. Dubois, for
Treasurer and Cbaries AV. Porter lor Sec
retary of State.
Flnnerty Won’t Support Blaine.
A\ ashington, June IS.—Congressman
Finnerty, of Chicago, denies that his Irish-
American newspaper, published in Chi
cago, will support Blaine and Logan. On
the con tray, he considers these nomina
tions unlit, and will oppose them vigor
ously. He is an Independent Democrat.
Kutlor’g Acceptance.
New York, June 17.— The letter of the
Greenback Committee to notify Gov.
Butler of his nomination for the Presi
dency, and Mr. Butler’s letter of accept
ance of the nomination, are given to the
public to-day. Mr. Butler’s letter is very
long.
REV. DR. NEWMAN’S FOES.
The Pastor Restrained from Exercising
liis Functions Except In a Limited
Manner.
New York, June 18.— The final order
in the proceedings which were brought
against Itev. Dr. John P. Newman, pastor
of the Madison Avenue Congregrational
Church, based upon the decision of Chief
Justice Sedgwick, rendered several weeks
ago, was signed to-day.
By the terms of the order Dr. Newman is re
reft rained from officiating as pastor of the
church or taking charge of auv of its services
or meetings except as the officiating pastor,
lie is enjoined from presiding at meetings of
church members or the board of deacons, or
officers, from voting at these meet
ings, from demanding or receiving
a salary for his services as pastor since March
31 last, except as acting pastor, and from pro
ceeding with the reorganization of the church.
The Board of Trustees of the church amt the
other defendants to the suit are enjoined from
recognizing Dr. Newman except as acting
pastor of the church and from paying him a
salary for services as permanent pastor since
March 3!, except $6,(00 for services as acting
pastor. All of the defendants are restrained
from preventing church members from meet
ing in tlie building when regularly
called together by the clerk
or in other wavs, ami from
obstructingor preventing the calling of such
meetings. This order, which was signed by
Judge Sedgwick, is made without prejudice to
anv further application the plaintiff mav
be advised to make in respect to the service's
and salary of Dr. Newman os acting or
officiating pastor, or to the defendants moving
for leave to move to modify or dissolve the in
junction.
A BARK’S SOLE SURVIVOR.
Ten Men and the Captain’s Wife Swal
lowed Up but the Mate Saved.
New York. June 18.—The bark Rafael
Pomar (Spanish), Captain Pina, which
arrived from Havana to-day, reports that
she picked up in an open boat Dorson
Stevens, of Moncton, N. S., mate and sole
survivor ot the brig G. P. Sherwood, of
St. John, N. 8., Captain Taylor, from
Philadelphia, for Halifax, N T . S., with coal.
The mate reports having sailed from Del
aware Breakwater June 1, and had . a se
ries of gales up to the 14th. On that date,
at 8 o’clock, in a violent northeast gale,
the cargo shifted and in less than two
hours the brig went over and sank.
All hands were lost—ten men and the Cap
tain’s wife. The mate saw the brig’s
boat afloat and succeeded in reaching it,
together with Michael McGilvery, a sea
man, who died the same evening from ex
haustion. On the 15th, at six o’clock in
the morning, the bark Rafael Pomar hove
in sight, and after three hours with great
difficulty, owing to the heavy sea and
high wind, succeeded in rescuing the
mate from the boat.
RAVAGES OF THE FLAMES.
Athens, Pa., Visited by the Most De
structive Conflagration In Its History.
Athens, June 18.—This town was vis
ited yesterday by the largest fire ever
known here. The fire started in the Nov
elty Furniture AYorks of Hall & Lyon,
and quickly spread to the coal yard of
Ralph Tozer, the grain depot of D. J. Mc-
Afee and other buildings, which were all
destroyed. A large amount of lumber
was consumed. Threeemployes in the fur
niture works were seriously injured, and
many others more or less hurt by jump
ing from burning buildings. Several hun
dred men are thrown out of employment.
The loss is $102,000, which is partially in
sured.
A Merchant Cuts His Throat.
New York, June 18.—8. Waldo Siblev,
a partner of the firm of John S. Bremen &
Cos., dry goods commission merchants,
committed suicide to-day in his private
office by cutting his throat with a razor.
Mr. Sibley was found dead on the floor of
his office. The razor was lying at his side
and he had evidently been dead but a
short time. No one was able to throw any
light on the motive of the act.
BLISS BEFORE SPRINGER.
MR. KER’S DATES AND FACTS
CALLED INACCURATE.
The Witness Warms Up When He
Reaches the Charge That He Was Not
Sincere In the Prosecution of Dorsey,
and Denies the Soft Impeachment.
YY ashington, June 18.—George Bliss,
of New York, was before the Springer
Committee to-day to answer testimony
recently given by witnesses relative to
the investigation of the star route trials.
Mr. Ker was present. Referring to Mr.
Ker’s testimony before the committee. Col.
Bliss said that it seemed to be impossible for
that gentleman to be accurate in date* and
figures. Col. Bliss continued: “Mr. Ker
gives the idea that he brought new witnesses
and drew additional information from old
ones in the second trial, lie says that there
wore seventy-seven witnesses in the
first trial. The record shows that
there were ninety-eight. Thirty of
these were not examined. On the
second trial there were thirty-three more
than on the first. -Mr. Rerdell was examined
at the second trial. Twenty-seven new wit
nesses svere made possible by his examina
tion. I furnished a list of the old yvitnesses
for Mr. Ker aud gave the names of others.
There was but one new witness produced by
Mr. Ker ou the second trial. He is entitled to
bringing here a witness named Cable. I con
sidered that it was a mistake to bring Hint
witness, and Judge YVylie decided that it
was a mistake. Mr. Ker said that the oral
examination on the second trial wa*
stronger than on the first trial. It was. but
not through anv witness he brought. YYe
had Rerdell."
DORSEY’S BILL OF FARE.
.Col. Bliss then referred to the statement of
Mr. ker, in which the former was credited
with giving to an attorney of the defense dur
ing Hie trial a bill of fare of a Dorsey dinner,
which was used by the attorney in court. The
testimony of Mr. Ker was apparently designed
t * show that Col. Bliss was blinded to Dorsey.
Col. Bliss said: “Mr. McSwecny said that he
was going for roe because I was "at the Dorsey
dinner. I concluded that Pd cover, and
brought the bill of fare here and
showed it in the court room. After
wards, while I Yvas absent, the bill of
fore came into the possession of Mr. Mo-
Sweeny. I think that there is no ground for
insinuating that I gave it lo him. It is more
probable that Mr. Ker gave it, but I will not
say so. He was more friendly with Mr. Mc-
Sweeny. 1 was at the Dorsey dinner and
did not pay anything for it. There were a
great many people at that dinner wlo now
don’t care to own up to it.”
Col. Bliss, referring again to the witness,
paid that he advanced SSO to a family of one.
Be was not engaged in seeking’ money,
“but. said he, “in seeking justice, which Pin
afraid I’ll not get.”
NO REFLECTION ON THE COMMITTEE.
"What do you mean? Do you cast a reflec
tion on this committee?” said Mr. Crisp.
"I don’t reflect on this committee,” an
swered the witness.
Col. Bliss continued: “The allegation is
made an through Mr. Ker’s testimony that I
was not sincere in the prosecution of Mr.
Dorsey.”
3 he witness in answer read from the record
of th * first Dorsey trial and from his argu
ment to the jury, in which he spoke of Mr.
Dorsey, and characterized him as being “the
chief conspirator of the conspiracy.” Hu said
that the counsel for the prosecution was
greatly embarrassed by the Attorney General
insisting on closing the case.
“X never proposed or desired that Mr. Dor
sey should escape. Until after the close of
the election when Garfield was elected Mr.
Dorsey was almost a stranger to me. I was
anxious that Secretary Folgershould he made
Secretary of the Treasury, and found that Mr.
Dorsey was of the same opinion. Soon after
I saw a letter from Mr. Jloraey, in which he
said that I didn’t amount to much politically.
From that, we couldn’t have been very friend
ly. I guess the President never entertained
any desire to protect Mr. Dorsey.
NOTHING DONE IN THE DARK.
"YYhen Dorsey YA*ent to sec him one night
the President said that lie would never see
him unless lie came during tiie day time as
tiie public came. The only tiling that the
President ever said to me wes, *Be careful of
your own record. *o that nobody will lie aide
to say that you’ve let anybody out.’ I know
why he said it. I asked Judge YVylie
tiie other day if lie had ever seen any disposi
tion on my part to let up on Mr. Dorsey. He
replied that the idea was a perfect absurd
ity.”
“Mr. Merrick says that in your heart vou
didn t wish Mr. Dorsey convicted?” inlcr
jiosed Mr. Stewart.
“Mr. Merrick was so good a Democrat that
he could not imagine a Republican adminis
tration prosecuting the Secretary of tiie Na
tional Republican Committee. I’m not talk
ing for poppycock now. I never dreamed of
being accused of tryiug to protect Mr. Dorsey
until Mr. Ker in connection with Brewster
Cameron trotted it out.”
“There is no truth in that,” interposed Mr.
Ker. “This committee could not do a better
thing than investigate Brewster Cameron in
the ‘jury bribery ease.’ ”
THE JURY BRIBERY CASE.
Tiie witness continued: “That’s the only
ca3e in which only Democrats and Brewster
Cameron arc involved. Tiie charge was that
tiie Department of Justice and the prosecu
tion were endeavoring t£ bribe juries. Tiie
circumstances out of whwli the charge arose
was Brewster Cameron’s interview with Mr.
D.ckson, foreman of one of the juries.”
"lou convey the idea that the reason why
this committee did not investigate the jury
bribery case was because only Brewster
Cameron and Democrats were involved,”
said Mr. Fyan.
•That is probably one inference in mv
Blind. I have heard that -Mr. Ker advised
Mr. Cameron to go to the jury. Tiie services
if Brewster Cameron for the committee
would probably influence the committee not
to touch things that lead up to him.”
“If yon know anything about bribery tell
it,” interposed several members of tiie com
mittee.
“If this is the first time the committee lias
heard of the alleged bribery it has not been
as wide awake as X thought it was.”
"The committee hasffieard of attempts on
both sides,” said Mr. Springer.
THE NAMES MENTIONED.
“I don’t know that any Democrats were
wrongly involved,” Col. .Blies continued.
“The names mentioned were Brewster Cam
eron, Ker, Dickson, and a man named Calls,
some kind of a lawyer here. I don’t impli
cate anybody. I have no reason to believe
that Mr. Ker was connected with it.”
“You know that ray name was not men
tioned with it,” said Mr. Ker warmly
The witness continued, “I don’t make
charges against the committee, but it is the
general understanding outside that you are
going for the Republicans, and not Democrats,
f am net going to give names, but there are
persons who say that thev are going for me
because I am closely connected with the ad
ministration. If any body wants to sit on me,
let him do it. He’ll find he is sitting on burrs.
As to the removals from office of certain
officials, I will say that I wrote to the Presi
dent concerning them without consulting any
body. Marshal Henry had been President
Garfield’s pet. We felt that he was not acting
in the interest of the government, yet we
could not put our fingers on anything. Mr.
Ainger was Postmaster here, and owned a
paper in Michigan.
AINGER’B LETTER.
“He wrote a letter afier his removal, in
which he attacked the prosecution. Mr
Silencer was another one. I wrote to the
President, asking for the removal of these
men, and then sent a copy to his private Sec
retary. To the latter 1 said that the letter
expressed ray views, and that I wanted the
President to see it and act. I did not consult
wiih anyone before sending it, or send it a*
coming from the counsel, because I thought
t{int the President would in that case con
sider it as official and feel compelled to act.
My letter he could consider as private or
official. Within twenty-four hours after its
receipt the President said that the parties
must be removed, and all others who hindered
the prosecution.”
“Did you receive advices or solicitation
that favor should be extended to anv of the
defendants?” asked Mr. Van Alstyne
“No, sir.”
“From any one who had ever been con
nected with President Garfield intimately or
socially?”
“No," sir.”
NOT APPROACHED BY BLAINE.
“Ask him squarely it he ever received any
from Mr. Blaine,” interposed Mr. Milliken.
“No, sir,” Col. Bliss repeated, “and I will
say to you further that I have not conversed
with Mr. Blame since I went into the star
route cases. I have not communicated with
hifli directly or indirectly, and neither he nor
anybody else ever approached me on that
subject. I think it is just as well to ask
squarely about Mr. Blaine, and a great deal
squarerthan for Mr. Ker to write to the
Chairman to have Mr. Merrick aaketl a ques
tion he was asked the other day.”
The question was, “Who recommended that
Busier be relieved from the subpoena'-”
“Merrick declined to answer. That’s what
you did, and you know it.”
“Who told you!” asked Mr. Springer, the
Chairman of the committee.
reViahf e ’’ eP ° rter *' Keporter ® are generally
The witness continued, “Mr. Ker says that
I told him that the initials of Uerdelt could
not be found. That’s wrong. No inquiry
virasinade a sout ■*. To show you how little
effort was made, W, C. Rerdell’s name ap
peared correctly in the Washington directory
that year.”
The committee decided to adjourn until to
morrow, when Col. Bliss will continue. Be
fore the adjournment, however, Mr. Ker
asked the privilege of making a statement re
lative to the jury bribery case.
KER’S STATEMENT.
He said: “This is the first time I ever knew
my name used in connection with any
attempt to bribe the jury. I was in Mr. Mer
rick’s office when Brewster Cameron came in
and said that he had been asked to go and
talk with Foreman Dickson. Ho wanted to
know if it would be proper for him to go. and
both Mr. Merrick and myself advised him to
go, thinking perhaps that Dickson wanted to
give him something that would be of iuterest
to the government in these cases. Cameron
went but did not see Dickson. He never had
an interview with him. Brewster Cameron
is a high-toned gentleman. lam proud of hi*
friendship. I was not aware that he and Col.
Bliss were on bad terms,”
“Buchn-Palba.”
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SPRINGER ON ARTHUR.
Both He and Brewster Sincere in the
Star Route Cases.
Washington, June 18.— A very labor
ed and ridiculous attack on the Springer
Investigating Committee appears in a
New Y'ork paper to-day. The two prinei
pal charges are an effort to shield Attor
ney General Brewster and devoting un
necessary time to the investigation of
marshals’ accounts to the exclusion of
more important matter. Mr. Springer,
having had his attention called to the
article, said: “This attack received its
inspiration from the star route thieves
who recently defeated a most elegant and
singularly honorable gentleman for the
Republican nomination for the Presiden
cy. I have endeavored to shield no one.
I have faithfully tried to smirch
no one. All the investigations have been
openlv, honestly and energeticallv con
ducted. My committee has sat more
hours and bud more frequent meetings than
any other committee in Congress. The
things we are charged with as having left
undone are matters over which we had no
control. The House gave us no jurisdic
tion outside of our regular work, although
I asked several times that the scope ot
our investigations be widened. In regard
to Gen. Brewster I can only say that the
administration has met us more than half
way from the very beginning in onr
efforts to exjiose frauds and purifv the
public service. There is not the slightest
ground for the statement that either the
President or the Attorney-General has
been derelict in tbe prosecution of the
star-route defendants. Quite the con
trary. There is every evidence going to
show that they have both made an honest
effort to purify the party within itself.
For the effort and his failure to entirely
accomplish it. President Arthur was, in
my judgment, defeated; and by whom,
pray* Why, by the worst elements of
his party. The men he had been
prosecuting, and their friends.
These were the active forces in tbe
nomination of Blaine. The Elkinses, the
Dorseys and men of that ilk, the star
route plunderers and thieves who had
been exposed by this administration.went
to Chicago to defeat Arthur aud nominate
Blaine. They succeeded admirably. Ar
thur’s nomination was the one thing 1
feared at Chicago. He is the first gentle
man we have had in the White House for
years. If nominated he would have been
the hardest. Republican in the oountrv to
beat.”
BURNSIDE’S PECULATIONS.
832.043 so far Known to have Been
Embezzled—Other Accounts Honestly
Kept.
YU ashington, June 18.—The First
Comptroller of the Treasury has nearly
completed a settlement of tho accounts ol
Col. J. O. P. Burnside, late Disbursing
Clerk of the Post Office Department. So
far as ascertained bis defalcation
amounts to $52,042. The great bulk
of this was taken from the
contingent fund. The accounts oi all
the disbursing clerks in the Treasury
have been overhauled recently, and all
found correct except in the Bureau of En
graving and Printing, where a disbursing
clerk had advanced wages to the amount
of $5,000 to employes on simple receipts.
This was not deemed fraudulent, but was
held to be an irregularity, and for his in
discretion the disbursing clerk’s resigna
tion was called for.
rearrestkd.
Washington, June 18, 11:50 p.m.— J.
O. P. Burnside, late disbursing officer of
the Post Office Department, and Edwin C.
Kirkwood, a clerk in the Bureau of Medi
cine and Surgery of the Navy Department,
who were arrested upon charges of em
bezzlement and fraud and subsequently
released on bail, were to-night rearrestcil
upon new charges based on evidence just
discovered. James D. dimming, a com
mission merchant of tliis city,
was also arrested late this
evening on a warrant sworn out by Sec
retary Chandler, charging him with con
spiracy to defraud the government. It is
understood that he is one of the outside
parties who are suspected of having been
concerned with Carrigan and Kirkwood
in frauds in the bureau of medicine and
surgery in the Navy Department. The
reason for Burnside’s arrest is that an
additional shortage of SB,OOO in his ac
counts was discovered to-day, making the
total over $60,000.
UNHAPPY IRELAND.
Lord Lieutenant .Spencer Gives tile Cold
Shoulder at BeHast.
Belfast, June 18.—Earl Spencer, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, performed the cere
mony of unveiling the Queen’s portrait
this morning. More decorations were dis
played in the streets along which the pro
cession passed than were seen yes
terday, but silence was ob
served along the whole route.
On reaching the Town Hall the Lord
Lieutenant was greeted with mingled
cheers and groans. In his speech Earl
Spencer referred to the troubles of Ireland,
and dwelt on the reviving prospects of the
country. He congratulated the citizens
of Belfast on their peaceful character, and
their adherence to law and order.
mtjtinV of a regiment.
Limerick, June 18.—An artillery regi
ment, en route to Tarbert for training,
mutinied to-day at Glenmarket, a few
miles from here. The soldiers attacked
the town people, and injured several of
them. Great excitement resulted, ami
several arrests were made.
O’BRIEN FINED.
Dublin, June 19.—The Court of the
Queen’s Bench has fined Win. O’Brieti,
member of Parliament and editor of United
Ireland , £SOO for contempt of court. This
happened in connection with the action
for libel brought against him by Mr. Bol
ton. The court fined him instead of com
mitting him, because he is the defendant
in other actions for libel.
Writs were also served upon Mr. Par
nell, and other owners of United Ireland ,
by Bolton. They are based on an article
in United Ireland calling the latter a rep
robate beside whom the Maamtrasna
murderer is a paltry and unimaginative
miscreant. “Bolton,” the article states,
“is a scoundrel w ho ought to bo drummed
from Ihe public service; a thief and a
lecherous old villain who is false to his
wife; a miscreant who, under any whole
some government, would have had his
patriarchal locks shaved in the hulks,
lie is a fraudulent bankrupt, brutal adul
terer. and heartless debauchee.”
O’Brien’s allegations against the French
and other Castle officials were based upon
the evidence collected by ex-Detective
Micklejobn, of tbeir complicity with the
band of men indulging in unnatural of
fences, a scandal which greatly dis
turbed Dublin society.
Mr. Edmunda’ Safe.
Washington, June 18—Mr. Edmunds,
the District Commissioner, In explaining
his attempt to remove the safe which he
claimed as his from the office of Squiers*
Cos., the bankers who failed recently, said
to-day that five years ago he asked Mr.
Squiers to allow him to leave a safe
in his bank, and that he had
kept it there ever since; that it contained
papers belonging to him, and silverware
and papers belonging to his wife, and that
riquiers had no right to open the safe, and
had not had access to it. He said that he
had frequently loaned money to Squiers
at 10 per cent, per annum, but had not
been his partner.
Hon. HeUter Clymer’s Ueatli.
Reading, Pa., June 18.—The friends of
the family of the late Heister Clymer
authorize the following statement rela
tive to his death: Mr. Clymer was in bad
health, suffering from malaria, profuse
night sweats and insomnia. He used
narcotics in quantities which in
ordinary health would only have pro
duced sound sleep, hut which, in his de
bilitated condition, produced paralysis of
the brain and hurried his death. There
will be no judicial inquiry, and the body
will not be exhumed. There is no truth
in the report of Mrs. Clymer’s dangerous
illness.
Foljter and the Distilleries.
Washington, June 18.—Secretary Fol
ger did not. decide to-day- the question as
to whether all the spirit distilleries and
warehouses should be closed at once on
account of the insufficiency of the appro
priations for storekeepers and gaugers.
He said that he thought that be would
have to decide to furlough the storekeep
ers and gaugers.
The Testimony of a Physician.
James Beecher, M. D., of Sigourney,
lowa, says: “For several years I have
been using a Cough Balsam called Dr.
Wm. Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs,
and in almost every case throughout mv
practice I have had entire success. I
have used and prescribed huudreds of bot
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THE UTAH BILL FIX A ELY PASS
ED BY THE SENATE.
Thirty-throe Yen. to Fifteen Nays Tell
the Story—The Home Takes Up the
Pacific Railroad Bill—Considerable
Time Devoted to Discussion, but No
Vote Reached.
Washington, June 18.— In the Senate
to-day, after ttio reading of the journal,
which contained an allusion to tuo Fltz
John Porter bill, the Chair slated that no
further action on that bill was necessary
than to have the action of the House an
nounced to the Seuate.
After further remarks as to the parliamenta
ry status of tlio bill the Chair laid before the
Senate the message of'tlie House of Represen
tatives announcing the concurrence of that
hotly iu tlie report of the conference commit
tee, which recommended that the House re
cede from its disagreement to the amend
ment of the Senate, anti agree to the same.
Tills action takes the Dili hack to tlie House of
Representatives as finally passed, so far as the
action of Congress is concerned.
The Senale passed a number of private pen
sion bills. Consideration of tlm Utah bill was
then resumed.
Various amendments were proposed ami
debated, some ot which were adopted and
some rider tod. The debate was participated
in by Messrs. Bayard. Vest. Ingalls, Hour,
Call, State r, Dolpli, Brown, Maxey, l.iphaiu
ami McPherson. Among tlie amendments of
fered was one by Mr. Hoar to strikeout the
clause abolishing woman suffrage in thu'tS<■■■"■*
ritory of Utah. The amendment was rejected
by II vote of 17 yeas to 34 nays. Those voting
in the affirmative arc Messrs. Blair, Bowen,
Brown. Conger, Cullom, Dawes, Dolpli,
George, Hoar, l.npham, Mutidcrson. Mitchell,
Palmer, Pike, Sherman, Vance and Wilson.
Mr. Brown explained his vote by saying that
lie was personally altogether opposed to
woman suff rage, but regarded it as an entirely
local matter, and us it hud been established in
the territory ho would videagainsttlieUnitoil
States Government interfering with it. All
amendments being disposed oi, tlie bill was
read tlie third time, and passed by a vote of
33 yeas to 15 nays. Tlie vote in detail was as
follows:
Trim.—Messrs. Alliston, Beck, Bowen, t'nrn
erou of Wisconsin, Colquitt, Conger, Cullom,
Danes, Dolpli, Edmunds, Fair, Frye. Garland,
Harrison, l ugalls, Jackson, Jones'of Florida,
Jones of Nevada, Lnphaiu, McMillan, Mac
pherson, Muhonc, Manderson, Miller of Cali
fornia. Mitchell, Morrill. Palmer, Pike, Pugh,
Riddlebergcr, Sawyer, Voorhees, and Wil
son; tolnl 33.
Xav*.— Messrs. Bayard, Brown. Coke,
George, Hampton, Jonas, Kenna, Lamar,
Maxey, Morgan, Pendleton, Ransom, Vance,
Vest, and Walker; total, 15.
Then, at 6:35 o'clock, tlie Senate adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
lii the House to-day further conference was
ordered on the post office appropriation hill.
Messrs. Townsliond, of Illinois, Holman und
Ilorr were appointed on the porlofthe House.
Mr. Miller, of Pennsylvania, offered as a
question of privilege a resolution declaring
James It. Chalmers entitled to Hie seat from
the Second district of Mississippi.
Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, raised Iho
question of consideration, and'tlie House re
fused to consider it now, by 66 yeas to 12!)
nays.
The Ohio contested case of Campbell and
Morey being then called yp. the question of
consideration was raised by Mr. Thompson, of
Kentucky, and the House iilso refused to eon
aider it.
lne House then proceeded to considera
tion of the Pacific railroad hill, known as tlie
Thurman amendment bill.
PROVISIONS OK THE BILL.
The bill extends the provisions of tlie Thur
man act to Hie Kansas Pacific Company, the
Sioux City and Pacific Company, and to the
central brunch of tlie Union Pacific Company,
it allows tlie investment of Hie sinking funds
of all the companies in their own first mort
gage bonds or any United States bonds or
securities on their application to Hie ex
tinguishment, of the interest on subsidy bonds.
It requires Vj per cent, annual compensation
for government services to be carried to the
sinking fund, and also a large annual pay
ment into the fiinkng fund. The twelfth sec
tion declares that failure on the part, of any
• f the companies to com pi v with these re
quirements for six months shall operate as a
forfeiture of tlie franchise.
The substitute offered by tlie minority of the
Pacific Railroad Company provides for the
extinguishment of the debt due to tlie gov
ernment by tlie issue by companies of 3 per
cent, sixty years redemption bonds. Speeches
were made by Messrs. Throckmorton of Tex
as, Thompson of Kentucky, Post of Pennsyl
vania, Jordan of Ohio, and Cassidy of Ne
vada.
UNION PACIFIC'S BAD SHOWING.
In the eonrse of Mr. Cassidy’s speech, oppo
sing the majority bill and advocating the mi
nority, lie said that he had before him the
statement of the government experts who had
just been examining the books of the Union
Pacific Company at Boston, and that tlie
statement showed that there was a falling ofl iu
tlie net earnings of that company of $1.b53,000
for the five mouths ending May 31, 1884, as
compared with 1883; that the revenue and ex
penses of tlio entire system during the samo
period showed a deficit of $720,000; iliat the
company in order to pay its July dividend
would have to borrow or to draxv from other
sources $1,400,000; that the debt of the com
pany on March 31, 1884,including tlio capital
stock, was $223,1175,000, and that its floating
debt, included iu the grand total, was $11,400,-
000. The Central Pacific Company had com
plied strictly with Hie letter of the law. had
paid every dollar required under the Thur
man act, and to-day was not a dollar iu ar
rears to the government.
UpS COMPANY CLEAN HANDED.
It had besides a sinking fund of its own in
which it had some $6,000,001 and will! which
it would discharge its first mortgage bonds so
that that corporation came to this Congress
with clean hands. There wan no evidence
that it sought to wreck its property and un
load it on the government. He argued that it
would lie wise to deal conservatively with
these companies and that the passage ot the
majority bill would have the effect of increas
ing local freight and passenger rates.
Mr. Hewitt opposed both the minority and
majority lulls as being inadequate to the pur
pose. He would move to recommit the bill
with instructions directing the Secretary of
tlio Treasury to report, on the first Monday in
December, a plan by which the account of
May 7, 1871, should be enlarged by additional
payments to lie made by the railroad compa
nies, so that the debt to the United States
principal and interest, should certainly lie
paid at maturity, or at the expiration of anv
extension that the Secretary may deem neces
sary to be made.
ON THE VERGE OF RUIN.
There was a misapprehension, ho said as
to the present condition of the great compa
nies. They had been treated as if they were
prosperous. He wished that ttiey were so
One of them, however, was standing on the
verge of bankruptcy. Its dividends would lie
passed, and he doubted whether they would
ever be resumed What he asked was that
tlie House should do with these companies
what every business man would do with a
debtor short of means-nurse the debtor and
give him an opportunity to pay his debt, in
stead of crushing him.
Tbe discussion was continued by Messrs
Anderson of Kansas, Laird of Nebraska. Bel
ford of Colorado, and Sumner of California
Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, having charge
of the majority bill, offered an amendment
making, in the aggregate, the payment re
quiredof the companies 55 per cent, instead
3j P<’ r *• The previous question was
then ordered, and the House, at 5■ 10 o’clock
toot a recess till 10 o’clock a. m. to-morrow.
The Rustem Fig Iron Association.
Reading, Pa., June 18.—The annual
meeting ol the Eastern Pig Iron Associa
tion, composed of the owners of 100 fur
naceseastof the Alleghanies, represent!
ing $25,000,000 of capital, was bold hero
tCMlay. Ilenry S. Eckert, 0 f
this city, presided. tThe New York
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Schuylkill’
Lehigh and Lebanon valleys were largely
represented. The reports presented in
dicate that the present slight dullness in
the trade will be succeeded by brighter
business and heavier orders as the season
advances;
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