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HH OEORGIA.
mm , ■■ vc s barbecue July 10.
■■ * u f Darien, Jitwi Tburs-
M *** s, “|*. ■• ■'
,\; !/• wile Light In
|H Th**"*'"IrJL„. 1 r JL„. a b..ut the ZOth.
a h;i lost forty hog#
f IC '*mii:ir to cholera.
1 .r- of Miileilgerille
m Tl* rtiraron the :*:h in#tant.
T ’ #" .j,. ;.r the n-vent Are at
|V Tar ttf% by brick .torn.
*■ . w;|i |a. the profit* of
H nt> 'l J " . I rt . of July entertainment
W * r “ : . BaMwin Superior Coovt
H Is* '*■* * " v . week. July 11. There
' [ 'D T< -, f i, to come before
Si • ..mnii—mnerg will let
HT* , re- ■''le lii'hteron Am. 5 the
,7 r> w :■! :-/ the l>n<lge across the
Si ‘ -ver. riear Trouptille.
B* 1 i Riitt-- <• -th .-are working ore near
|H (*t. n>. . ■r f 15 rent.* a ton that
■ IHBK> r -w ’l. ( .t.. I!. From 200 to MO ton#
” the mill- |er tlay, whieh
■ 1 i,*imen of Macon propose to
Bp D* -1 tbe colored fire eompa
■ pK-tit" ti ‘ Manm on Aug. 18.
Hus'* l'' ii: - < olutnhua, Augusta
H ' ,r ® r ':j, ir ,\i. tfito l represented.
Si fiu t.itti'tu I-mil in Hablwin county
vff nntinned rain#.
■ !i.i- been killeil ont,
I *-‘' rn 'L.',.. t-ueh a rank growth
I e#” he ■* mipo-vlUle to extir
■ . u.ri- count v primaries ( apt. Harry
9 • r Hon. N. J.
Ii ■ :n all precincts
Sm ®**Sa ..' r .i.i . - f"r Hammond.
H >',V ~n i.t i i.lv ure-l a majority of
I 1 **'a.’.tr*t - I'nt a majority of all the vote#
■ c , wn y, isfujrr'. Reports from the corn
vj . . i ~r. encouraging. The
I M '\ of i'. j -t week lia* made <|uitc a
I • - ' 1 to lie doing re-
II i th< ...itnii treedgener-
H r.t - *"! - If the weather continue#
■ J 4, .. >t id may l>e confidently
I . , 7 Th.- ticket office of the Sa-
I | Western Railway at Val
. ’ -k• t- during eight
rv-i nttv. At that rate it would #eilin
'i nir i'.t triv thm.'iUO worth. KverylKely
"1,,, ... ,tnti t and goes away has either
, .j i 'oae t.. rmne here, or else butnß one to
. -aid that Valdosta
i . and Western, in
I J.-rt n -vr tratio- alone, during the year nearly
I Eu w ., r .|, of-- There were no
' r . ..r anvthiiig unusual during the
i! i r upon which the estimate is based
■■. eal llation an unfair one.
T o- folli w tiz taen are announced as having
I rev ■-hi >.■ -r- m the -entor Hass at the Stale
[I .- it ,. r . I , tlk-k#: \. M. course, 15. J.
I. it-. ’ ar.er-ville. tin., first honor. A. 15.
15. 11. John~>n, Atlanta, first honor;
. |.at.range, -eeond honor: A. K.
I H! - !’• \ I hen-, thirl honor; .1. M. Pound.
BarsAvuli . fourth le i.or. Is.Ph.cour-e.no
h.,if rgiven. 15. t s. course, no honor given.
, I .. J. (1. Walker, Atlanta, first
Iwjti. r; 15. A.i rawford, Athens, second honor,
g \ r..urc, .1. ti. Walker. Atlanta, first
fc.Dor. At a meeting of the Board
of Trustees, fnil. H. < . White appeared be
fore them and made an able and exceedingly
iateresl ng aildress. showing the iinport-tnec
if establishing an exiierimental station of the
Koek i ..liege. He showed the importance of
sm-h a star in, and the feasibility of it. There
i station# In the south—
on. m V rth Carolina and one in Alabama.
Harden, the negro ravisher, who threw L
(iranae into exeitement, has lieen lyncuetl.
A! • oi l. i-t l ' turlay afternoon the sheriff
BrweeCed to the jail with a guard of about
j; v no n and l>>k the prisoner from the dun
gegr. \ large crowd had gathered to acoom
m th-it'nd to Col. Swanson’# plantation,
w. i.• ttie preliminary trial was to let had,
Mr-, lb h i being in too critical a con
dition lo come to the court house.
Sot less than a hundred nun in buggies,
hid- and o bona back followed the doomed
wrre i. Arriving at the place, says a ('<#•
gitsfi n correspondent, the trial was had in
tie very room w here the horrible crime was
waul, tied, and the poor rcuaheti w.-iuan
lyiiur.in her lied testify ng in theca*.-. Messrs.
Arnold and t.affm-v. attorneys, had lecu ap
|. Med a- counsel for the defendant, and
the gave all their legal ability in seeing that
a fair trial was had. Mr*. Heard was shii un*
swerving in her testimony that be was the
man, ami the same evidence that had already
teen draw a out was fully corroborated, and
evert person pre* nt. white and black, was
ntrrwle- uiingly convinced of his guiit. Isv
the time the e-.idence was all taken at least
ISO t* r-oii- from ail parts of the coun*
tv had gathered alsuit the place. As
ti' sheriff came out of the door leading the
priHim-r. intending to bring him back to jail,
the crowd rushed frantically upon him and
theguar i-. disarming the latter, and placing
U . Harden in a ha< k. drove uuiekly in the
npii-ite urc tiou from the jail to a creek
luff am. it- U‘toui.l, and crossing the bridge,
stopped tin- h:n k under a persimmon tree.
Tin pri-..ncr w.i* told that his time had
cotnc. and it he wished to make a confession
a short time would be allowed him.
H . 5 not to !• killed, and confessed to
In; via. - animated two similar oflVuses before,
Im ri-fii-.-d to confess this. He was then
placed cn the top of the hack, a rope placed
•round h -n. k ai. I over a limb of the tree.
The I moved off. and in fifteen minutes,
wft .-I. was a .at sundowu, the worst crime
r '-d - ! 5" light in Troup county was
•verged and the perpetrator was dead.
I:.. I! mast tile Tii < furnishes the follow
ing fuller aee unt of the recent suicide at
that I . ... in. 1 and in oi w hich was made in the
Xokmv Ni.u* dispatches: l.ast Thursday a
Hr ; ger- .1 • • on the l hatlahooehee train
•nn in i• -way up town in search of a
boarding hoi:*e. Ills face was pallid and his
!• k- Hat et a man in extremely ill health.
T .-jt. . and rnd-d liini to the Allen House,
08 ” u - s-oH slm-t, here he immediately put
<*nt condnet—lwMleaa, un
.i-. m-ir.i 1 r .'an*. I the lady of the house to
. •11 ta.it son:, thing was wrong. Upon
Is-ti . -iu. -Hot cd by her. be admitU'd that he
Uu taken some morphine, but not too much,
sin-h ..1 him tin-water and asked him to
* Ins fai-e. which he did. A little while
U r r.'su|.|H-r In-a*kcl for a sheet of pa]>er,
wn • furnished, and, taking a scat in
1 ■ mu . .dii. he wrote a few lines, folded
1 Id r and placed it in his fioeket. At
•1 ;. r time 1,, rcfu-c ito eat, although urged
* - " .-Ilu oilier guests were a'the
K.j.pcr-t.i ", : repaired tohisrcom, and with
a-ina. ktnii, ground very sharp, he rut the
Jaguar tt-in on the left side of his neck. He
tlvii iin-is-d the wound with his hand and
pr.ivi ~."1 10 the piazza, where he found a
tn.iir.. it down in it, and immediately cut the
vein on the . pp. -itc *id,. His going out with
Mail via-i*-.! 1 fie wound, and his actions
* I wn* noticed by a small bov.
a i" 1T..-; the inmates. The sou of the land
, •■rted to him, hut before be reached
and sotm breathed his last.
‘ front hi* hand, and was
1 01. Willi# A. Haw
'.r. 11s. and Mr. 4. W. Sentell, of
-v. were in the city at the time,
‘ - ■mg the body next mrning, re
>‘ -1 ■ a." nu.it, and #av that he lias a! wav*
le and high-toned,
ci.. at tune-addirted to strong drink. That
:• -' .tn- ;-:n Booly county, and that he mar
r . . a Jus* seanngen, of oue of the best
’ that. ..anty, who died a few years
’ 11 ■>“ r.,sh act is not believed to lie the
ii-atn.ii of guilt, but the #e
queneev.: st i.. ! * ranee or mental aU'rration.
i. a 1- turned over to the sexhiu, who
; ur. t u yesterday morning in Laurel Hill
xenn-iery. He left no effiarts, only tire cent#
nemg found on his person.
al,,, T -Virror amd AJrtrtinfr: The
f. r cr-icr decisive of Jack Barrett’s
. - 1. tvd l y MmriffColyer Thursday,
'„ r ; . v at I o’clock sentence wasex
,'r •V t " n ‘.i ' : > -'™ , 'd man on the gallows
■ . “ 1 cad.ij- Ihutnm near the Big
, . ~ 1 r “lge. in full view of the mul
' " • - • cupted the radroad embank*
<u. an 1 the adjacent heights. A Siccta
j. 10 Q "Vct and tragic la-gets a curios
-7; s'-neral. so eager and irrepressi
t,lr path to the place of public
it" ' 1 ;■ ‘tfn in with an army tramp,
at . - K the officers enteretl the jail.
■ ' l ' altu - He slept soundly the night
veto,t ...*oundly that he had to be vailed
..■ra.tiiies t.> lie aroused. When lie a woke, he
t r to light Ins pipe, and asked
jr ... which he ate heartily,
i.' a nearly breakfast of vegetables, etc.
j ■ -.1. tor -..me t mie listening to the Scripture#,
v, “‘ifiesuon whether he had anything to say,.
• r <, licit i;.a! he never felt better in h s life;
7f ur rails to-day, -elt un
-’.rung perfectly calm ami collectetl.
■ : a hymn and raised the tune lead
, s' ■ ll n.e song, lie then re<|uestetl the minis
ter to nad m pravor. After a ferveut prayer,
1", would sustain him in this
and greatest trial, he requesteti another
- *- and prayer. He lined the bvmn: “The
...c is swiftly roliiug round, when I
*"1 1 .V nl ar,i etc- llev. Burges, c01..7'.“.'
..7'.“.' "ffcre.l praver. After tins lie talk
h soh'T * D '* rv 'l ue *l* , l his friends to meet
;! Vtn - 1 •*sheriff. guard* amt pris
“ 1 J* 1 * ** 11 o'clock, the prisoner
m *‘^ ta ', n ’“K ■> .aim amt undisturbed frame of
• -i a.l the time. He ascended the platform
. “ rm •**!* and stood erect, enjoying a
a t O all the while. He said tie felt
“and iiertectly resigned. “Like Da-
Lmm-K. . ' Uun * t Mve 1 desired of the
w a , • * IU **** aiter.” Rev. Linuse/,
li nm •' Thc prisoner gave out the
f 0 ” 1 * l> r on thy guard, ten thou
arise, ate. He then repeated with
ia and "h 1- K oice iL * ° l*eath: where is thv sting?”
teen misucderatqod; >ute ha<l
. b m ,n raying that if relieved
l '*° murjter; the Scripture does not
1W of *, long-tongued liar.
tb people to be on their
■ Ve as he'h 1 i n i ot 10 J* 11 on lbe way
nrnr fort.^',' 1 °T*' “ R “‘omber to-day and
done ini' 1 *• 1 am sorry for what 1 have
Wrf itL - par,n * ,he Penalty. God sets a
I ran not past; this is my end.
i,,.. if. we *l treated by officers of the
r. ’ i been under no fetters or ehain-.
b W 'H bless ihem for kindness to me;
turn buffered a day for anvthing. I love
I now m. 1 1 hert t for 1- l*on't grieve after me.
UwTAa f °Y ,are "* u -'' He was then bound
bands £?thia~* U calm atkJ oolleuted—shook
The —T* 1 * 1 tb * o®cer and wished them well.
Balhg i?'Jff* adjitfted around his neek by
his fare* 0 a^l■ an ' 1 tb * black eap placed over
tell A I . M minutes to l o'clock the drop
Mid wok a dttU thud Jack Barrett was
Wk* JgmsJ
ushered into eternity. Xo movement of mus
cle or contraction of limb#*was observed. His
neck wa- broken, and in twentv-two minute#
be was pronounced dead.
FLORIDA.
Five horse# died last week at Sew Troy
from staggers.
Ten prisoners are now confined in the coun
ty jail at Palatka.
Anew pnblic ball hit# been thrown open at
Green Cove Springs.
Green Cove Spring is to have anew jail.
The contract ha# been let.
I£ev. R. B. Wolselev ha* resigned hi# pastor
ate of the Episcopal Church at DeLand. The
debt on the chnrch has been paid off, but about
♦MO are still required to complete it.
The County Commissioners of Futnam. at
their recent session, voted sl3 per month for
the hire of an armory hall for the Gem Citv
Guards. The County Commissioners of Clay,
at their recent session, refused an application
front the Clay Guanls to be allowed $5 per
month for the same purpose.
At their last session the Clay Countv Cotn
mis-.oners declined to appropriate SIOO from
the county funds to aid in securing a projier
representation at the Sew Orleans Exposition
for Clay county among the other sections of
l iorida. which will Ite comjteting for recog-
that display of the product# of the
world. It is understood that a majority of
the Commissioner# took the ground that the
board had no authority to make such dispo
sition of the money under their control.
Tampa Guardian’. Friday evening. June 27.
seven negroes were arrested for playing poker
on the Fort Brooke reservation. They were
released the same evening on their own re
cognizance to appear before Judge Crane (he
following morning at 10 o'clock. The time
came and the negroes did not appear. It was
afterwards learned that they one and all had
left for parts unknown, leaving behind all the
money, knives, razors and revolvers that had
lieen taken from them at the time of their ar
rest by the officers. One of them iiad *33 50
when arrested, which Emanuel Neil claims
was stolen from him by Peter Williams, the
person on whom the money was found.
SOI TH CAROLINA.
Chesterfield’s new court house will cost
SIO,OOO or *12,000.
The new Catholic Church at Spartanburg
was dedicated Friday.
The Catholic Church at Barnwell has been
finished and will he dedicated in August.
Anarea Taylor, a colored woman, died in
1 orkviile on Snndav morning last, at the
advanced age. according to her own chronol
ogy, of 120 years.
The Masonic lodge at Lancaster, whieh had
all of its furniture, hooks, etc., destroyed by
Lancaster’s big fire on March 9 last, has just
received anew and complete outfit from
Ashley, Ohio.
Near Williston. Banfwell county, at the
family homestead of the late Air. John Hair,
his children.grandchildren and their connec
tions united in a pleasant family reunion.
They number ISB and 132 were present.
On Sunday last a colored hoy, 12 or 13 years
old, in York county, attempted to kindle a
lire with kerosene. The fluid, as it was
poured from the can, ignited and the cau
exploded. The boy was fatally burned, from
the effects of whieh he died on Monday
night.
On Friday and Saturday last there were
twenty-nine applicants before the Comity
Board of Examiners of York county for cer
tificates as teachers of common schools. Of
this numlier 18 obtained certificates as fol
lows: First grade, 4; second grade, C; third
grade, 8.
Abner J. Smith, a white man, living three
miles south of Charlotte, on the Charlotte.
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, while going
home in an intoxicated condition last Satur
day night, fell down by the side of the track
rear his home, with his legs over the rail. A
freight train came along and cut off both legs
of the unfortunate man. from the effects of
which he died in a few hours.
CIzEVEIiAXD AS SHERIFF.
How He Cut the Cord AYlilch Dropped
Two Murdererg Into Eternity.
Just now, says a Buffalo special
to the Cincinnati Times-Star, Buffalo is
talking of many things which befell its
model Alayor, the State’s model Governor,
anti whom many thousands of warm
personal friends here hope to vote for as
the nation’s reform President, Grover
Cleveland. It was as Sheriff of Erie
county that the Governor became known
in a political or official way, and many
interesting anecdotes are told by
those who remember those years. Dur.
ing his term of office as Sheriff the Gov
ernor swung off two men Into eternity.
The lirst one was the notorious Jack Gaff
ney, a reckless young Irishman, who kept
a saloon at the corner of Jackson and
AVushington streets, almost opposite the
Courier office. Gaffney was seated in a
low dive on Canal street, “Ted”
Sweeney’s.” plaving cards with a kindred
spirit named Patrick Fahey. The two
quarreled over the stakes and Gaffney
shot and killed Fahey in cool blood. He
was sentenced by the general term in De
cember to hang Feb. T following.
During these two months there was the
greatest effort made on the part of the re
porters to find out how the condemned
man spent his time, but the Sheriff turned
a deaf ear to them, and not a few. times
gave them to understand that they
wanted to know too much. He kept
them out of the jail entirely after a
while, and they were in sore straits.
The interest in the ease was in
tensified to the last by the fact
that Gov. Hoffman respited the condemned
man for a week, and the most strenuous
efforts were made to get a commutation
of the sentence for the condemned. Mean
while the solid old Sheriff was more
rigid in his discipline than ever, anil he
even went so far as to station an old
Dutchman outside with strict orders to
keep reporters off the premises. This
outside guard was used to re
lieve the guard Inside of Gaffney’s
cell, so that he wits well posted
on what was going on inside. One
of the reporters, who now, by the way, is
a city editor of the city, conceived the
idea of “working” the grim German sen
tinel on the outside. He did not try to do
it all at once, but by a skillful working of
his points he became acquainted with him
as the young man who attended the spir
itual adviser.
By degre s he became aware that the
grim sentinel had a weakness for beer.
It was an easy matter after that, for be
contrived to meet him every night after
he was relieved, and together the two
talked over the events of the day in the
jail over their beverage. The German
was full of information in just the propor
tion that he was full of beer, and the facts
that filled many a breezy column of hts
paper were costing the enterprising
news gatherer very dear. Sheriff
Cleveland was wild. He questioned
every one about the jail, but could get no
satisfaction. At last his eye fell upon the
sentinel, and he was spotted. It was the
night before the execution the two were
seen together. That settled it, for in the
morning that sentinel was gone and in
bis place was another. Gaffney swung
on the • morning of Feb. 14, 1872.
Many citizens of the city remember the
execution and the quickness with which
the Governor disappeared after lie had
cut the cord. The second execution per
formed by the Governor w hile Sheriff was
live months later.
The murderer was one of the most des
picable wretches that ever deserved a
shameful death—Patrick Morrissey. He
lived with his poor old mother in the vi
cinity of the old “Packet Dock,” in the
rear of what was known as the Alhambra
Theatre. He was a thoroughly heartless
man. and was was given to frequent and
continued debauches, during which he
subjected his dependent mother to the
most shameful cruelty. While on one
of these sprees he sought out his moth
er’s hovel and demanded from her the few
pence she had earned by her
own exertions to buy bread. She re
fused, when he struck her to the
floor at the time she was cutting a loaf of
bread for his supper. As she struggled to
her feet she said, “You had better kill
your mother and be done with it.” As she
uttered the words, he grasped the knife
from her hands and with the words, “I
will kill you then,” buried it in her
breast. The horror of the matricide made
the people of the city shudder, and the
jury by which he was tried lost no time in
bringing in a verdict of murder In the
first degree. Morrissey was sentenced to
be hanged on the 6th day of September.
The execution took place on the day
named, and the present Governor was the
executioner.
Confusion and Treachery.
London, July 12.— A Shanghai corres
pondent says: “Sir Robert Hart, Chinese
Customs Inspector, is trying to negotiate
with AI. Patenpotre, the French Minister.
The Foreign Consol seems blind to the
danger of war and of rebellion. Prince
Chun trusts to boasting fanatics and to
officials who conceal the defenceless con
dition of the coast. Ignorance, confusion
and treachery render the situation most
critical. British officers have left the
Chinese fleet.”
A StcanA Suntil
Caldera, July 13.—Yesterday morning
the steamer Mojocko, belonging to the
South American Company, struck a rock
off the Caldera lighthouse in a dense fog.
The steamer, in a sinking condition, ran
on shore. The passengers and nearly all
th* cargo were saved.
ISishop Jacobson Dead.
London, July 13.—The Right Rev.
William Jacobson, D. D., Bishop of Ches
ter, is dead.
THE PLANK’S POPULARITY
REFORMERS AND PROTECTION
ISTS WELL SATISFIED.
Interviews With Leaders Wlio Were
Prominent In Hewing Out the Plat
form—Thurman Given an Enthnsiastic
Reception on His Return Home, and
Expresses Satisfaction with the Result.
Chicago, July 13.— Speaker Carlisle,
Mr. Morrison, Mr. Hewitt and the other
more moderate revenue reformers are
delighted with the tariff plank in the plat
form. To them it signalizes a great
revenue reform impetus. It defines, they
say, the issue between the two parties
respecting taxation admirably. It de
clares for the Democracy, in accordance
with the wishes of a large majority of Its
members, that it is in favor of revenue
reform and tax reduction. They believe
that the ticket nominated yesterday is
greatly strengthened by the platform
upon which it stands, and that the strength
of that platform lies in its declarations in
favor of revenue reform. The satisfaction
felt by these gentlemen is well understood
here, but it is not as well known that
Frank Hurd and J. W. Bookwalter, of
Ohio, who are more radical in their view s,
are as well pleased as the more conserva
tive revenue reformers.
HERD SATISFIED.
Mr. Hurd, when asked to-day what he
thought of the tariff plank in the Demo
cratic platform, said: “The platform is
entirely satisfactory to me. It contains
the fullest and the clearest statement of
revenue reform ever made in a Democrat
ic national platform. In its principal
statement that Federal taxation should be
exclusively for public purposes, it repeats
in the stronger language the principle of
the platform of 1880. Its provision as to
the importance of untaxed raw materials
to the manufacturer, the necessity of more
intimate commercial relations with other
American republics, its approval of the
policy of free trade as existing between
the several States of the Union, and the
suggestion that its extension to the world
w-ould result in giving to America her
share of foreign commerce now monopo
lized by Great Britain, clearly indicates
the tendency of the Democratic partv to
greater freedom of trade. In declaring that
taxation shall hereafter be exclusively for
public uses, it condemns the present
system which taxes the people for the
benefit of particular individuals.
NO SUDDEN CHANGE.
“It, however, proposes that the change
from the old to the new shall be gradual,
in order that the busftiess interests shall
adjust themselves to it without loss. It
also declares that no change should be
made w hich would tend to diminish the
wages of labor. These limitations upon
the methods of taxation are recognized
as proper by all revenue reformers: in
deed, every free trader believes that the
changes proposed cannot be made w ith
out benefit to the manufacturers and an
increase in the wages of labor. That
these views of the platform are
correct is shown by the ac
tion of the Committee on Resolutions.
It voted down a proposition to strike out
the word “exclusively.” It refused hr an
overwhelming vote to approve the Ohio
platform, which declares fora tariff with
incidental protection, and voted down by
a large majority the proposition to in
crease the duty on wool. In my judg
ment the platform contains no protective
feature and is in perfect accord with all
previous Democratic national platforms
on the subject of the taritt’.”
bookwalter pleased.
J. AA . Bookwalter, the Ohio lree trade
manufacturer, who has been in Chicago
during the convention in consultation
with Messrs. Hurd, AVatterson,Morrison,
and other revenue reform traders, con
cerning the platform, said: “I am pleased
with the tariff plank in the platform, and
regard it as a decisive victory lor the
tariff reformers. The fact that the protec
tionists desperately fought this feature of
the platform in committee and in the con
vention.and dislike it now r ,is evidence that
it points too plainly towards commercial
freedom to suit them. The essence of the
tariff platform is contained in the phrase:
‘We demand that Federal taxation shall
be exclusively for public purposes.’ This
is precisely the doctrine of those who are
called free traders. AYtaile the protection
ists call it heresy it is absolutely, in letter
and spirit, anti-protective, and if carried
into effect will sweep away the high war
tariff and taxes that Jay as a crushing
weight upon our industries.
THE PLANK AND THE CONSTITUTION.
“But this doctrine in our platform is
stated in language almo’st identical
w'ith that of the Supreme Court
of the United States, which has de
cided that taxation for other than
‘public purposes’ is unconstitutional,
so that those who oppose our platform in
this respect array themselves against the
co-.stitution and the Supreme Court in
inflicting oppressive taxation upon the
people. Our platform proposes constitu
tional taxation “exclusively.” Our oppo
nents propose unconstitutional taxation
chiefly. AVe can afford to go before the
country upon this issue, and just now
measures are more than men. We have
an excellent ticket, but the platform Is
the leading candidate. 1 recognize this
plank as a bold declaration of the belief
of the tariff reformers, and this time the
party will not apologize for it. In 1876
and 1880 other issues were uppermost and
the taritt plank received little or no vigi
lant attention. In 1884 the tariff is the
great issue, and after a struggle the partv
has placed itself upon a platform of jus
tice in taxation, with its face toward the
right. I believe that it will take no steps
backward and will be no Lot’s wife,
BENEFITS THAT WILL ACCRUE.
“The realization of this policy will be
a benefaction to the depressed industries
of the country and to the laboring masses.
To the manufacturer it means cheaper
materials, cheaper production, larger
markets at home and abroad and an en
larged foreign commerce upon which he
must to a great degree depend fora steady
prosperity. To the farmer it will bring
relief from an insidious and oppressive
tax of hundreds of millions annually,
which so increases his cost of production
as to almost close against him the
doors of the markets of the world.
It would unlock the gorged granaries and
give traffic to railways, aiding all their
corrcllative industries. To the laborer it
would give steadier employment and in
crease in the purchasing power of his
every dollar, it would revive our silent
shipyards, enable our builders to again
produce ships cheaply enough to warrant
our merchantmen in'once more engaging
in the carrying trade, and thus recover
our lost commerce, causing thejAmerican
flag to wave as it once did in every har
bor of the world.”
THURMAN’S RETURN HOAIE.
An Enthusiastic Reception—His Views
on the Convention's Work.
Columbus, 0., July 13.— N0 demonstra
tion over the Democratic nominations at
Chicago were made here until Judge
Thurman arrived home last night, when
he was met at the depot by several thou
sand persons with a band and a liberal
display of bandannas. There was at the
same time a grand display
of fireworks all over the city.
Carriages were in waiting for himself and
the party of delegates, with flags. Be
hind these the people fell in line with
what torches could be gathered, and most
of them bearing red handkerchiefs. The
line of march was the 6cene of a con
tinuous roar, enthusiastic demonstrations
and brilliant displays of fireworks. Upon
the arrival of the procession at ex-Senator
Thurman’s residence he rose in his car
riage and said:
My Friend and Xeigltftors : I should not be a
human being and would have no heart in my
bosom if I were not deeply touched by this ex
pression of your kindness and regard. I knew
that you were my Iriends, that you would
greet me and take me by my hand bn my re
turn, but that you should show such marked
demonstrations is beyond all expectations for
one who is now and who never expects to lie
anything but a private citizen. It is indeed
more than could have been anticipated.
Therefore I express to you most sincerely my
gratitude.
THURMAN NOT SORE.
Tins repays me fur any disappointment you
may think I feel. But let me tell you sin
cerely I am not a disappointed or soreheaded
man. I have met with reverse# in the past,
but have always tried to keep a level bead.
I am happier in the midst of this rejoicing of
my friends than if I had received the nomi
nation for the Presidency. I was not in anv
sense a candidate. For a year or more I have
said that I was not aud would not be a candi
date, and that all I asked of the world was to
be let alone, but the world saw fit to have it
otherwise. Your State Convention made me
a delegate to the National Council, and after
I arrived at Chicago so many of my friends
said that ther were bound to present my
name and earnestly asked me to consent to
tbeir efforts so that I had not the heart to re
sist them.
HI3 OPINION OF THE RESULT.
I am not here to throw cold water on any
thing that has been done. I will not go over
the proceedings of the convention, but l will
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1884.
say what 1 know, that vour nominees are
honorable men, and that so far as Governor
Cleveland and Governor Hendricks them
selves are concerned, there was nothing done
but that which was honorable in bringing
about th 2 result. There were a few men there
of whose actions it would be the sheerest
hypocricy in me to express approval. But
1 can live without their support, and
I hope that they can live without mine. A onr
nominations were fairly made. It is impossi
ble to gratify all in such matters. There will
always be those who are disappointed because
of failure to nominate their friends, but there
should be none at the present time. The con
vention was the grandest ever held on earth,
anil the nominations were made by such large
majorities and amid sueh enthusiasm as to
Inspire confidence. Let ns go to work and
redeem this country from the irpn rule under
which it has fallen.' The people are tired of
the present power, and, with patriotic mo
tives and earnest work, we will live toeee
this country in the hands of that party of re
form. which was once small, hut which is
now the party of the people from one end of
the land to the other.
The speaker eulogized highly those who
had been his opponents, and spoke of the
nominees in strong terms.
TAMMANY AT HOME AGAIN.
None of the Big Chiefs Give a Hint as
to Tlieir Intentions.
York, July 13.—A special train
bringing the Tammany delegation back
from the Chicago convention rolled into
the Grand Central depot about 7 o’clock
this morning: “I have nothing whatever
to say at present,” said John Kelly to a
reporter. “The organization to which 1
belong has taken no official action in re
gard to Mr. Clevelaud, and therefore I am
not at liberty to say what it will or will not
do. AYhen the Committee on Organization
adjourned several weeks ago it adjourned
to meet again in September. It is doubt
ful whether anything will be done before
that time. Good morning.” And Mr.
Kelly, hurrying into a cab, slammed the
door and was driven away.
Coroner B. F. Martin did not know
certainly what position Tammany would
take, but gave as his opinion that the
ticket nominated at Chicago would be
supported.
I’olice Justice Patrick Duffy was equal
ly uncertain as to Tamniany , s ultimatum
with regard to the ticket, and said that
the matter would have to be talked
over , before they would make
their final decision. The second
detachment of the train, which arrived
soon after, contained Police Commissioner
Sidney P. Nichols and orators AV. Btirke
Cochran and Thomas F. Grady. They
refused to make any statement.' It was
said that enthusiastic receptions were
given to the delegation all along the route,
and that at Utica Air. Kellv made a
speech, in which he said that Tammany
would act in the future as she had in the
past and support the ticket.
CHANDLER STIRRED UP.
He Characterizes Statements in Hen-
Bricks’ Speech as Unfair.
Washington, July 13.— Secretary
Chandler has written a long letter to
Thomas A. Hendricks in reply to state
ments made by the latter in his speech at
Indianapolis last night with regard to the
recent frauds in the Navy Department.
The letter is in part as follows:
In your speech at Indianapolis Saturday
night you made statements from which voii
meant that the public should believe that it
appeared by my testimony that the frauds in
the Bureau of Medicine and Snrgury of this
department amounted during the past year to
000; that I was informed of some of these
outrages a year ago; that after I was in
formed of the frauds I disbelieved them be
cause members of Congress had recommended
a continuance of the chief of the bureau, and
that 1 took jio adequate action concerning
them. Whereupon you demanded the elec
tion of a President who would appoint a chief
of the bureau who would investigate the con
dition of the hooks and bring all guilty parlies
to trial. To the contrary of all this, f testified
that the suspected vouchers commenced as
far back as June 21, 1880, although a small
voucher was paid as late as January 25. 1884;
that while an anonymous letter, of about a
year ago, charged drunkenness upon Chief
Clerk Daniel Corrigan. whieh lhe
cliiet of tile bureau, Dr. Phillip S.
v\ ales, reported to me, was not true,
that I had no information leading to the
frauds untiLPeoember or January last; that I
determined simultaneously with beginning
the investigation to have anew chief of the
bureau in the place of Dr. Wales, whose term
was to expire January 20, and also anew
Cluel Clerk; that great opposition to the
change was made by members of Congress,
but I persisted, and Dr. Wales went out on
that date, and Mr. Corrigan was put out
February 4, and that investigations of the
fra iris tin l arre.st9 of guilty parties have since
proceeded with due diligence. It is true
that I stated that recommendations
for the reappointment of Dr. Wales,
whom I found in olliec when I went in April
17, 1832, were of such a character as tofully
justify me iu believing that the affairs of his
bureau bad lieen well administered. Senator
McPherson. Speaker Carlisle and others who
demanded Dr. Wales’ reappointment were
with you in convention at Chicago, and could
have informed you that he had borne a good
reputation; that the law required that the
chief of the bureau should be a naval surgeon
and placed medical expenditures in his
hands: that his was in no sense apolitical
office, but that if he had any politics he was
a Democrat, and that anv attempt to
make political capital oist of ihe frauds for
which this naval surgeon, who is their inti
mate friend, is solely responsible, would be
disingenuous and unfair. That they did not
succeed in keeping Dr. AVales aud his chief
clerk Corrigan in office is very fortunate.
DUAL DEATH IN A DUEL.
Quarreling Friends Settle Their Trouble
in a Hotel Chamber.
Galveston, July 13.—A special from
Dallas says: “A duel with pistols was
fought last night between AV. 11. Beale
and a man named Bowie in a room on
the third floor of the National Hotel.
Shots were heard and the room was bro
ken into. Both men were found lying
dead. The pistol of each was by his side.
Both were shot through the heart and
head. Shortly previous to the duel the
men were devoted friends. A few
minutes before the tragedy they had a
quarrel and one was heard to say, “
you, I’ll kill you.” Soon after this they re
tired to the room. The tragedy creates
great excitement. Hundreds of people
surround the hotel. The cause of the
quarrel between the men is not yet
known.
SWEEP OF THE FLAMES.
The Western Union Telegraph Office at
Chattanooga Reduced to Ruins.
Chattanooga,Tens., July 13.—There
was an extensive tire on Market street,
between F.ighth and Ninth streets, last
night, the Tower block being entirely de
stroyed. The flames started in a laundry
next to the building occupied by the
AVestern Union office, to which the flames
communicated, destroying all its con
tents, except the battery room. The loss
will probably reach $50,000. The insur
aqce is unknown. The principal losers
are: \V. Hvrler Sellion, Samuels & Cos.,
Shelton & Howard, Henry Strelitz, the
AVestern Union Telegraph Company and
Airs. AYeaver.
Commencement at Athens.
Athens, Oa., July 13.—Thecommence
ment at the State University began yes
terday afternoon with class exercises.
A good crowd was in attendance. Many
of the distinguished men and beautiful
women of tbe State were present as
usual. Among the former was P. W.
Meldrim, of Savannah. The annual
champion debate betweon the societies
took place last night. The Phi Kappa
Society was victorious to-day. BishOD
Beekwilh preached a grand sermon oh
“The Resurrection of the Dead.” The
Board of Trustees is assembling slowly.
Two sessions of the body have been held.
No business of importance has been
transacted as yet, except to increase the
appropriation to branch colleges. Ex-
Gov. Brown will reach Athens to-night
by special train. There is some talk of
changes in the faculty and the re-estab
lishment of the military feature. The
exercises will continue until Wednesday.
Miss Hill's Suit Against Sharon.
San Francisco, July 13.—A. 31. Neil
son, who was the chief instigator of the
famous suit of Miss Hill against ex-Sena
tor Sharon, has announced his withdrawal
from the case. He says that he became
aware that certain testimony upon which
Miss Hill based her case had been falsi
fied. The falsification consists in changes
in the “My dear wife” letters. The word
“wife” having been added. The state
ment creates surprise. The trial will be
resumed to-morrow.
An Irish Sleeting in New Vork.
New York. July 13.—About seventy
five Irishmen met at Clarendon Hall to
day and formed an organization to oppose
Cleveland and Hendricks. A resolution
was passed indorsing Blaice and Logan,
and a committee was appointed to pre
pare a plan for a permanent organization
of the Irish Independents in this city.
Base Ball.
Washington, July 13.—Games of ball
were played to-day as lollows:
At Cincinnati—Cincinnati 9, Baltimore 2.
At St. Louis—St. Louis 11, Brooklyn 4).
At Louisville—Louisville 4, Alleghany 5.
At Indianapolis—Metropolitan 5, Indiana
polis 1.
IN THE JAWS OF DEATH.
THRILLING SCENES AT THE
BURNING OF A TENEMENT.
Panic-Stricken Inmates Leaping for Life
—A Rope of Sheet# Breaks and Dashes
Down Mother and Baby—The Former
Fatally Hurt—Another Baby's Head
Knocked Out of Shape on a Man's
Shoulder.
New York, July 13.—The inmates of
the four-story tenement house at No. 2195
Second avenue were aroused this morning
by an alarm of fire. Flames broke out in
the basement, and communicating with
two dumb waiters and air shafts in the
rear of the building, as well as the stair
way, soon reached every floor, and filled
the whole house with dense clouds of
smoke. The terror of the inmates at being
aroused from their sleep and finding all
means of egress cut off. as the building
was not provided with fire escapes, was
indescribable, while a heavy thunder
storm, which was raging without, in
creased their fright. The windows in the
front of the house appeared to be the only
way of escape.
LEAPING TO AN AWNING.
,A family occupying the second floor
were the first to make theirVav out upon
an awning of a grocery store which occu
pied the first floor, whence they were
taken by neighbors who came to their as
sistance.
The wife of James Morris, who lived
on the third floor, leaped from a window
to the awning, and rolled down into the
street, receiving severe injuries. Her
husband threw the baby after her, and it
was caught by a neighbor as it dropped
from the awning uninjured. Morris him
self made his way down in safety.
MOTHER AND BABY DASHED DOWN
TOGETHER.
John McMahon, who lived on the top
floor, attempted to lower his wile and
baby front a window by means of sheets
tied together, out the fabric gave way
belore they had reached the third floor,
and the woman and child came crashing
down upon the awning, which broke
beneath their combined weight. Airs.
McMahon fell upon the sidewalk, and was
picked up unconscious. Her skull was
fractured and her arm broken, besides
receiving severe internal injuries. She
will probably not survive the shock. The
infant lodged upon the awning, and,
strange to say, was found to be unhurt.
McMahon succeeded in getting down
safely by clambering from window to
window.
JUMPING FROM THE SECOND STORY.
Louis Louden and his wife, who occupy
rear rooms on the second floor, jumped
from a window into the yard below. Airs.
Louden fell upon some stone steps and
broke her left arm in two places. Jacob
Belz, a butcher, wrapped his baby in
a blanket and dropped it from a
third-story window into the arms of
a man standing in the yard. The
child’s head struck the shoulder of the
man, and was knocked out of shape by
the concussion, Belz and wife escaped
by means of a ladder provided by neigh
bors. Owing to delay in sending out an
alarm, everyone was out of the house
when the fire department arrived. In
tense indignation is felt against the own
er of the building for failing to supply it
with suitable fire escapes, and complaint
will be made to the Bureau of Buildings.
TAMMANY AND THE TICKET.
Air. Kelly Says, “Of Course We Will
Support Gov. Cleveland”—So AVill
Butler.
Kelly and his district bosses, says a
Chicago special of the 11th to the New
York World, feel disappointed and dis
heartened. When the balloting showed
that Cleveland was gaining in nearly
every State, Mr. Kelly’s face did not have
a smile on it. He w hispered to August
Belmont, on his right, and Grady, on his
left. As the States began to change
their votes to Cleveland and the
Tammanyites saw that the fight was
ended they remained in their seats and
had nothing to say. Before the result of
the ballot was announced Mr. Kelly arose
and quietly walked out of the convention.
His lieutenants remained to witness toe
final act in the drama. When the Tam
many boys walked out they looked crest
fallen, and several of them were heard to
say to the victorious County Democrats,
“Wait and you will see.”
Air. Kelly did not wish to talk on the
results of the convention. He said he had
nothing to say.
“I must say,” he remarked, “that In my
opinion the convention made a mistake.
Of course we will return to New York to
support Gov. Cleveland. When w’e get
back we can have a calm review of the
action of the convention and ascertain
the feeling of the people. The nomination
may give rise to grave complications and
we should be ready to straiehten them
out. AVe may have some difficulty. Ido
not care to say anything more.”
SENATOR GRADY EXTREMELY HOARSE.
Grady was asked by a correspondent
when and where he would deliver his first
speech for Gov. Cleveland.
“There you have me,” lie replied.
“What do you intend to do?”
“Wait till we get to New York and I
will tell you.”
“You will support the ticket?”
“Ah, wait till we get to New York.”
“Won’t Tammany Hall support the
Governor ?”
The ex-Senator chewed on his cigar and
replied:
“When we get to New York we will see
how the thing stands. I don’t care to say
anything. lam very hoarse lrom speak
ing and shouting.”
“AYill the hoarseness last until after the
election?”
“I will decide that after I get to New
Y'ork.”
Ex-County Clerk Gumbleton said:
“Oh, yes, we will support Cleveland, but
whether he will be elected is another
question,” •
“Won’t lie carry New York?”
“There are a great many of us who do
not think he will.”
W. Bourke Cockran said: “Tammany
Hall made the fight against Cleveland on
principle. AVe claimed that he could not
carry the great State of New Y'ork. That
State will be the battle ground, and
w<* thought that with Cleveland
as the nominee the party would be
heavily handicapped. Cleveland has
been nominated against our protest.
Tammany will support him; that is
iny impression. We have not said that
we would not. The old wigwam always
announces a holt before hand. When we
get back to New York we will have a
meeting of the Committee on Organiza.
and discuss the action of to-day’s conven
tion^
TO SUPPORT THE TICKET.
“AVill Gov. Butler be the anti-monopoly
and labor candidate for President?”
“Oh, I think Gov. Butler will support
Gov. Cleveland. Iu tact, I have no doubt
of it.”
Ex-Alayor Prince, of Boston, said:
“Massachusetts Democrats are good
Democrats. AVe always give a hearty
support to the ticket. Cleveland will
make great inroads into the Republican
ranks. I think that he will carry the
State. Anyhow, there is a good chance
for it. The Democrats will vote for him
solid, and if he polls the votes of the in
dependents, he will carry the State.”
John A. McLean, in speaking of the
Ohio campaign, said that Cleveland would
certainly carry that State. “His nomina
tion,” be remarked, “will remove all fac
tious feeling. It will unite the various
elements of the party. They will act
together harmoniously. The Germans
will give Cleveland nearly a unanimous
support. There are thousands and thou
sands of Germans in the West who are
drifting in the Democratic party. Cleve
land against Blaine will bring the Ger
mans over.”
The Fight Over the Franchise.
London, July 13.—Should the House of
Lords reject the franchise bill in the tall
the government will dissolve Parliament
immediately and a general election will
take place before Christmas. The breach
is Widening between Lord Randolph
Churchill and his party.
The compromise motion offered bv the
Earl of AVemyss touching the franchise
bill has not been accepted by the govern
ment and will have no result.
A Steamer on the Rocks.
Boothbay, Me., July 13.—The Bath
and Boothbay steamer Gasanet ran ashore
this afternoon on Clough’s ledge, in Sheep
Scott river, in a dense fog. She has
oareened badly and will probably fill.
Her passengers, mail and baggage were
taken off by- the steamer Samoset and
carried to Boothbay.
Durkee’s Salad Dressing is composed of
the freshest, purest and choicest condi
ments money will buy. It surpasses any
that cau be made at home, is cheaper,
saves labor and all anxiety. ,
VIEWS OF STATESMEN
Respecting the Democratic Ticket—Gath
ered from Various Sources.
Speaker Carlisle was overheard to tell a
friend that he regarded the work of the
convention a serious business for the Dem
ocracy. The result of our nomination de
pends entirely upon what the Democrats
of New York can do. If they can keep
their promises Mr. Cleveland will be
elected. Mr. Cleveland, personally, is
very acceptable to me, and I shall do all
in my power to elect him.
Senator Davis, of A'irginia, said: “The
ticket will go through, I guess, but I
would have preferred another. Still, we
must now give away our preferences
and work for the election of the nominee.”
Henry Watterson said: “Cleveland was
not my choice, but it was the judgment of
the majority that he should be nominated,
and we will do all in our power to elect
him.”
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Rice, of Ohio, said:
“Cleveland is not very well known in our
State, but we will make an earnest fight
for him. If Thurman had been nomi
nated we could certainly have carried the
State.”
Representative Collins, of Alassachu
setts, said: “lam going to Saratoga to
take the waters for a week, and at the
end of that time 1 may be able to tell what
I think of the ticket.”
Representative Budd, of California:
“My preference was Thurman. Had he
been nominated I think we would have
carried the State. lam sorry that there
was no emphatic anti-monopolv plank in
the platform. Such an one as ißutler pre
sented would have helped us.”
John 11. AlcLean: “I atn gratified at the
result. It is really a stronger nomination
for Ohio than one of our own candidates
would have been. It brings into harmo
nious action all the elements of the party,
and otters us a splendid chance to carry
the State. Clevelaud is a winner.”
Congressman Ermentrout, of Berks:
“Cleveland’s forces were managed with
great skill. The same forces must see
that he is elected. I take it that his New
York friends knew what they were about
when they said he could carry New York.
If he does he is the next President.”
Frank Hurd, of Ohio: “I don’t know
anything about the strength of Cleveland.
I have been looking after the platform. I
assume that he is all right.”
Congressman Lamb, of Indiana: “It is
a stronger nomination for our State than
any man except an Indianian. He is not
weighted with a record and will run well.
AYe will carry Indiana for him.”
Senator Jones, of Florida: “It’s a good
nomination, and we can.elect this ticket ir
tbe doubtful States do tbeir duty.”
Ex-Senator AVilliara Wallace: “A good
day’s work. Cleveland is strong in the
Slates where the work is to be done. He
ought to, and will, be elected, for be is a
good candidate and will make a good
President.”
Ex-Senator Kernan.of New York : “You
have heard the last of divisions among tne
New Y’ork Democracy. All factions are
now for Cleveland. He is strong in New
Y'ork and can carry it. If we can elect
anyone, that man is Grover Clevelaud. I
believe he will be elected.”
Senator Williams, of Kentucky; “He
ought to run like a race horse if all the
New Yorkers say of him is true. He will,
of course, carry the South.”
Senator Cockrell, when informed of the.
nomination of Cleveland, said: “I have
all the time said be was the strongest and
most available man, and I have believed
he would make a most excellent Presi
dent.” v
Senator Garland said: “Without dis
pragement to any of the distinguished
and meritorious gentlemen who were can
didates before the convention—they were
all first-class men—l believe the nomina
tion of Gov. Cleveland is the very best un
der the circumstances whieh could have
been made. The country will now be
presented with a fair and square issue be
tween the two parties in the persons of
Air. Blaine aud Gov. Cleveland.”
Representative Herbert, of Alabama, a
member of the House AYays and Aleans
Committee, said he considered tbe plat
form an admirable one and the nominees
no less so. The former could not have
been better, and the latter was the
strongest man who had been presented to
the convention.
Representative R. W. Townshend, of
Illinois, said: “I think the ticket is very
strong. I believe it will carry New York
and Indiana, which, of course, moans
that it will be elected.”
Congressman S. 8. Cox said: “I was
at tbe end of the wire when the decisive
ballot was taken and knew the result nt
once. 1 am sure the New Y'ork Democ
racy will not be distracted. Time will
poultice the wounds of the past fort
night.
Representative Rosecrans said of Cleve
land that he was not the choice of tbe
people; that he represented the capital
ists, and not the laboring classes. The
platform he regarded as “solid,” and said
of the tariff prank that it met his views
exactly.
Sena'tor Vest sat under a tree in front
of AVillard’B Hotel, chatting with a couple
of comrades. Somebody came over from
the telegraph office and told him Cleve
land was nominated.
“Tell me something new,” he replied.
“He’s been nominated for more than a
week. There wasn’t stuff enough at Chi
cago to beat him.”
The Senator said he liked the nomina
tion and he liked the platform, which was
one of the strongest and most statesman
like documents ever produced at a con
vention. He did not think Kelly would
be heard from during the campaign, and
if he should leave the Democratic party it
would be no loss.
Representative Holman, of Indiana, re
garded the nomination as an eminently
respectabltwme. Mr. Cleveland was a
very respectable gentleman, who, he
thought, could carry New York State and
the Union. He had not yet given the plat
form sufficient study to be able to pass an
intelligent opinion upon it, but as far as
he could judge from a cursorv reading, it
was an able document.
THE SAGE OF GREYSTOXE.
Mr. Tilden Expresses Some Surprise
Over the Ticket Selected.
New York, July 11.— The Morning
Journal will print to-morrow an inter
view had with Mr. Tilden at Greystone
to-day. Mr. Tilden sat by a closed win
dow, wrapped in a heavy drab cloak,
which covered his shoulders, close around
him. He sat in a reclining attitude in a
big arm chair, and bis right hand could
lie seen shaking with the palsy which has
troubled him for so long. A pair of red
slippers and a blue smoking cap gave him
an Oriental appearance.
“Mr. Tilden, how do you regard the
nomination ot Cleveland?” iuqtiired the
reporter.
Mr. Tilden did not seem to be enthusias
tic about it, and replied somewhat coldly:
“It is a good nomination. Mr. Cleve
land is very popular outside of his own
State, and I think he will beat Blaine.”
“You think he is not so popular in New
York?”
“Well, there is a great deal of opposi
tion likely to come from a faction in New
York city, and I do not think his actions
as Governor have met with general ap
proval among the workingmen of that
city. Still I have no doubt that he will
carry this State.” *
“What do you think of the nomination
of Hendricks?”
“It is rather queer that Mr. Hendricks
should be put in the second j>lace upon
the ticket. He will give it great strength,
however, especially in Indiana and the
West. Mr. Hendricks is a man who
would sacrifice his own ambition for the
benefit of bis party, and of course will
do all in his power' to help his own elec
tion. I had an idea that he was not so
popular as the outbursts in his favor at
the convention proved. With hearty
work all around 1 hope the ticket will
pull through,”
“Will you take any part in the cam
paign ?”
Mr. Tilden smiled sadly as he replied,
“No; I have withdrawn from political
life forever. I want to see this
great country in honest hands before I
die.”
Francis Joseph's Escape.
Vienna, July 13.—As a train which
left Pola after the one on which was the
Emperor Francis Joseph was passing
through a gorge near Podsoritza it was
discovered that the rails had leen mis
placed. The discovery, hofvever, was
made in time to stop the train before a
disaster occurred. The criminals had
evidently mistaken this train for the one
containing the Emperor.
London’s Municipal Bill.
London, July 13.—A great demonstra
tion was held in Hyde Park to-day in favor
ot the London municipal reform bill.
Twenty thousand people were present.
Resolutions were adopted.uenouncing the
present system as a danger and disgrace,
and urging the government to reintroduce
the bill at the next session of Parliament,
DR. KOCII’S DISCOVERIES.
IMPORT AXT RES l" I/TS OF HIS
VISIT TO THE EAST.
A Parasite Found Which U Relieved to
be the Cholera Germ—Attempts to Pro
pacate the Disease Artificially from
the Parasite Not Successful as Yet.
I There is good reason to believe, says a
Calcutta letter, that the visit to Calcutta
of the German Cholera Commission ( which
consists of Drs. Koch, Fischer and Gaff
ky) has been fruitful of a very important
discovery. The investigations made by
the commission in Egypt last year had al
ready indicated the existence" in all true
cases of cholera of a peculiar microscopic
parasite or bacillus, as it,is termed in
medical language. In all cases which
came under their examination. Dr. Koch
and his colleagues observed these para
sites in great number, both in the intes
tines of persons who had died of cholera
and in ‘ the dejecta or cholera patients.
I be same parasites were uniformly fouud
In all cholera cases examined in" India.
Moreover, although looked for with mi
nuteness and care, no parasite correspond
ing to them could be found in connection
with other diseases, sueh as dysentery
and diarrhiea, which have some resem
blance to cholera. Tbe fact, therefore, of
a close relation between the parasite and
the disease of cholera would seem to be
placed beyond a doubt. The coincidence
would not in itself, however, as is obvi
ous, warrant us in regarding the parasite
as the cause of the maladv, for, as Dr.
Koch is himself willing to allow, it may
be the consequence.
i rom a further discovery made by the
commission in Calcutta there is no reason
to believe that the relation of the parasite
to the disease is one of cause; iu short,,
that the parasite is the long-sougfit-for
cholera germ. AVhile the commission was
in Calcutta a sporadic outbreak of cholera
of great intensity occurred in the native
quarter of the town, in the neighborhood
of a dirty tank or pond. On examining
the water in this pond Dr. Koch and his
colleagues discovered to their joy that it
swarmed with the parasite which thev
had hitherto failed to find outside the hu
man subject. The water had been used,
according to Indian habits, both fordrink
ing and bathing purposes by the people
among whom the outbreak had occurred.
It was further observed that as the out
break subsided coincideutly the water
became clear of the parasite. Here was
a great step in furtherance of the inquiry
as the etiology of cholera. Another step
and the artificial propagation of the dis
ease by means of the parasite success
fully accomplished, the commission could
have reported to Prince Bismarck tbe
completion of one of the most important
discoveries ever made in medical science.
But the last link completing the chain of
evidence has yet to be forged. All the
attempts of Dr. Koch and bis colleagues
to artificially propagate cholera by means
of the parasite, whether found i:. the wai
ter or in the human subject,have been with
out success. Many experiments have
been made with a view to reproduce the
disease by inoculation inwnimals, but all
have failed. Matter containing the para
site has been mingled with the food of
mice, cats and dogs, but tbeir health has
apparently not been disturbed. The ar
gument from analogy meanwhile goes
strongly to show that in the parasite which
a pair of German spectacles has revealed
the cholera germ has at length yielded up
the dark mystery of existence. To Dr.
Ivoeh it fell some years ago to discover the
parasite, or bacillus , which causes the
disease of splenic lever in animals, and
later to make the still more important
discovery that tubercle or consumption
was also caused by a bacillus peculiar to
it. Other investigations have further
traced to a parasite the malady among
fowls known as ’’chicken cholera,” while
there is strong reason to believe that tbe
malaria associated with the Roman Cam
pagna is also ot a parasitic origin. These
cognate cases lead to the belief that the
true exciting cause of cholera has been
found in the parasite discovered by the
commission.
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.
Dr. Koch’s Interview with a “Gauloig”
Correspondent “Truth About the
Cholera.”
The Gaulois to-day, says a Paris cable
gram of July 11 to the New York Herald,
publishes the following interview with
Dr. Koch:
Toulon, July 9, 5:30 r. m.—Appended
is an exact report of an interview I had
lastnight with Dr. Koch and his assistant,
Dr. Libertz, of Frankfort:
“Are you off to Marseilles, Doctor?”
“Yes; there is no more for me to do
here. 1 have quite made up mv mind.
All the post-mortems 1 have made con
firm the results of my first investigation,
which put the Asiatic character ot the
scourge beyond question. I have found
some phenomena, as in the cases which 1
investigated in India.”
“Were the microbes identical F’
“Precisely. I found numbers in the
body of that soldier, Besnard, whose
post-mortem 1 made on Sunday evening.
Indeed I found more than I bad seen in
Egypt. Messrs. Strauss and Roux, who
were standing by, also recognized the
presence of the Indian microbe in Egypt,
but had always seen it mixed with others;
whereas in post-mortems that I have made
here the Indian microbes outnumbered
the others immensely.
microbes in epidemic times.
“Where do you find the microbes in
times of epidemics?”
“The microbe is rarely met with in the
stomach. The disorders of the digestive
organs and the gastric disorders are not
favorable to it, so it takes refuge in the
small intestines, where it can easily
multiply.”
“What mischief does the microbe do in
the intestines?” the Doctor was asked.
“First, its presence causes diarrhoea
and vomiting, leading to thickening and
chilling ol the blood, then it secretes an
intoxicating poison, 'which causes the
dry, instantaneous cholera in the origi
nal cholera— foudroyant sec—that is,
cholera without diarrhiea.”
“With such precise information as this,
Doctor, surely one should soon befable to
destroy the microbe?”
“No doubt; but I have nothing to do
with cures; I am a mere observer; let
others profit by my observations and sug
gestions. I have already told you that
contamination is not caused by air, but
by absorption of roicrolies infecting food,
especially water and sfflid food introduced
into the digestive tubes.”
boiled water is safe.
“I presume that explains whv. this af
ternoon, you advised the members of the
Sanitary Committee to shut up the wells
and counsel the people to drink boiled
water, or water from non-infected daces,
or light mineral waters?”
“Yes. It also explains the necessity of
taking only well cooked food, peeled
fruits, vegetables and preserves. Remem
ber, microbes die if exposed to a high and
especially to a dry temperature.”
“Will you kindly explain your theory,
to enable me to repeat it?”
“With pleasure. I hold that microbes
are transmissible only by excrement or
objects soiled by excrement. Consequently
the first precaution to take is to subject
the linen of cholera patients to heat, hot
air and phenic acid more or less concen
trated. Microbes cannot live in concen
trated solutions of phenic acid or in a
dry atmosphere. Remember, they de
velop and multiply in the damp. They
have been found in ponds in cholera
countries.”
THE effect of dryness.
“Would a great storm of wind, the mis
tral, for instance, destroy microbes in
apartments, linen, etc. ?”
“Yes, certainly; no soiled object is the
least dangerous when once it is dry, for the
microbe has become pow’erless to repro
duce itself; indeed, it is dead.”
“One more question,” said your corres
pondent; “it is this: Did the theory of
the destruction of the microbe bv dryness
lead you to advise the closing up and dry
ing of contaminated apartments for sev
eral days?”
“Yes| and to pronounce the disinfecting
of luggage, letters and travelers ineffec
tual. I cannot understand how any faith
•as ever put in it.”
“How about watering streets and the
boulevards?”
“The practice is dangerous. It favors
the conditions needed lor the reproduction
and propagation of microbes.”
“Then it would be preferable to leave
the streets ary and dusty ?”
“Certainly.”
origin of the cholera.
“What is jour opinion regarding the
origin of the present epidemic?”
“I think 1 may say that, considering
the precautions taken by the naval au
thorities, cholera was imported on some
merchant ship, probably English. They
do not scruple on English vessels to hide
deaths which occur on voyages or to fal
sity logs.”
“Of course,” said I, “you disapprove of
crowds altogether V*
‘■All public fetes and fairs, and conse
quently the fete of July 14 should be for
bidden.*’
The Gaulois correspondent adds:
“Several French doctors to whom I
talked of the above conversation made
the following remarks: ‘The inoculation
of various animals with Asiatic microbes
did not give them cholera; -hence some
doctors doubt whether Dr. Koch’s mi
crobes are the real causa of the cholera.
If inoculated animals fell 111 it would
be easy to discover the means of killing
cholera and tho microbe like other in
sects—tapeworms for instance.’”
CONVENTION POINTS.
Pieked Fp by a Correspondent.
McDonald’s friends—and he has some
very warm ones in the ludiana and Illi
nois delegations—admit, not only that he
had been badly handled by his alleged
managers, but that he had been treacher
ously slain by some of his alleged friends.
It was evident from the beginning that
the McDonald boom was nowhere, and
that if any man from Indiana were put
on the ticket it would not be McDonald,
but Hendricks, and an effort wa*s made
between the sessions of the convention to
work a boom for the tail of the old
ticket. John Kelly has always beut
toward Hendricks, and it was "more on
Hendricks’ account, tnan for any other
reason, that he gave a lukewarm support
to the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in IB7t>.
He would have liked to have seen Hen
dricks nominated for the Presidency, and
probably would have supported him ns loy
ally as he would either Butler or Bayard.
But the boom did not grow, nnd it soon
became evident that the only hope there
was to defeat Cleveland was to mass
the opposition on Bayard or Tburman,
and Thurman stood verv little show, be
cause his own State repudiated him.
THE CLEVELAND MEN SAID BLUNTLY
that they had no second choice, and that
they were ready to sinK or swim with the
Governor. It was. however, the general
opinion that they had the intention, in
case Cleveland were beaten, to spring-ex-
Alayor Cooper, of New Y’ork, on the con
vention. Air. Cooper had the great ad
vantage of teing comparatively unknown
outside of New Y’ork city, except for the
tact that he was a son ol Peter Cooper,
the well known philanthropist.
Of all the well known people in the con
vention, perhaps the most prominent was
John Kelly, of New Y’ork, or it would be
more proper to say, Mr. John Kelly, of
Tammany Hall. His is a not unusual 'face,
and the various caricatures of it are so
common and well known that any de
scription of his appearance would be su
perfluous. Not that a caricature Is al
ways a taithful likeness, or that exagger
ations of a man’s facial peculiarities give
any exact idea ot his true personal ap
pearance; but Kelly’s prominent features
are so strikiug that a cartoon conveys a
fair idea of his real looks.
THERE IS, OF COURSE, NONE OF THE
GROSS SENSUALITY
of vicious ignorance that the cartoonists
put in his lace; in fact, Air. Kelly gives
the appearance of a well-bred, well-edu
cated,. and fairly good-looking business
man, who cares little about polities and
is not averse to a good dinner. But the
shaggy eyebrows, the elose-cut and scant
beard, the heavy under jaw, and closely
shut mouth that are seen in the cartoons
are all in Mr. Kelly’s face, and he would
be recognized at once froi%ltis pictures.
He is a good speaker, but his voice is
hardly loud enough to bo of any effect in
the large hall, and he suflered in that re
spect by comparison with his colleague,
John R. Fellows, who is a leader of the
County Democracy, and the especial
mouthpiece of the opposit ion to Tammany.
Tbe manners ot the Tammany leader
while speaking are, however, extremely
easy, and his spoken words of opposition
to men or measures are good-humored and
courteous.
A SQUARE, RATHER PODGY FIGURE
was that of National Committee Chair
man Barnum, ol Connecticut. Air. Bar
num has an owl-like faee 'surrounded by
a thin and very white beard. Although
not .60 years old, he looked older, and
dressed in a broadcloth suit, with gold
eye-glasses on his nose, and no jewelry
in sight. He was a typical picture of an
old-time well-to-do busiuess man who had
suddenly lieen called upon to preside over
a large meeting, and was rather appalled
at the prospect before him. His voice
was weak and totally insufficient to fill
the hall, but he shrewdly got over that
difficulty by saying extremely little, and
what he did say wits perfunctorv, and it
made very little difference whether any
one heard it or not. AVhen he had gotten
through with his simple duties he dropped
back into his seat with a resigned and
satisfied air, as if he had done the best he
could lor the salvation of his country and
the consequent betterment of his party.
RANDALL WAS SOLD OUT.
Before the echoes of the cheers which
greeted his name at Allentown had died
away, and it was not strange that when
he himself came here he found that he
had been knifed in the house of his
friends. All along there were Pennsyl
vania delegates who were in close com
munication with Dan Manning, and while
the latter did not seek their votes on the
first ballot, he knew where he could put
his linger on the man and men he wanted
at any time. Hay and Read were the sus
pects. Others were known to be against
Randall. It is a question, even if he had
been here, leaving his paramount duty as
Chairman of the Committee on Appro
priations at AA’ashington in the early
stages of the convention, if he could have
accomplished anything substantial.
■ ALL GREAT REVOLUTIONS ARE BORN
in violent throes, and the desperate bat
tle just closed in the Democratic National
Convention will stand as a memorable il
lustration of this truth. It was the most
heroically contested struggle I have ever
known, in thirty years as a witness of
Presidential nominations, and everv ele
ment of ambition and jealousy, of meanest
hatreds of struggling spoilsmen and of
both petty and majestic individual rival
ry was an intensifying factor in the con
flict. Only a supreme cause high over
men could have withstood the
repeated shocks of the fierce as
sailing hosts. No National Con
vention ever stood like the rock-ribbed
shore against the angry purges of the
spoilsmen’s storm as did the convention
on the day of the nomination. It was
held in anarchy for an hour in the midst
ot a ballot by the cunningly devised
strategy that suddenly burst a Hendricks
hurricane on the body, which appealed to
the inspiring sentiment of historic justice.
Neither Grover Cleveland nor any greater
man could have withstood such a cveione.
But the cause that he was made to repre
sent with such distinctness alike by
friend and foe so strongly appealed to the
intelligent and considerate judgment of
the body that its members stood like a
wall of adamant as the tempest raged in
the wildest fury around them.
LET NONE MISUNDERSTAND THE ISSUE
of the great conflict that is upon us.* It
involves a sweeping political revolution—
not merely the transfer of power from
one political party to another, but the
revolutionary overthrow of the worst
methwis and purposes of both parties and
the triumph of the best inspirations of
every political faith. It is not simply
whether there shall be a Republican or a
Democratic President,nor is it a struggle to
make James G. Blaine or Grover Cleveland
the Chief Magistrate of the republic. A
revolution *has dawned upon both
parties and it has been born of supreme
necessity. Its seeds have been lavishly
strewn by the Republican abuses anil
Democratic follies of the past half genera
tion, and they have been watered and
nourished and grown to apparent harvest
time by the distinctly opposite men and
measures declared by the two Chicago
conventions of ISB4.
Cleveland will lose many Democratic
votes for the single offense of typifying
practical, honest administration. The
blatant demagogues who bang on the
edges of every hopeful party by turn will
decry him and the leprous jobbers of all
parties will make common and exhaustive
battle against him. But more than one
hundred thousand men of sincere Repub
lican faith in the debatable States will
openly espouse his cause and press the
result to successful revolution. New York
will be desperately contested, but the
more desperately it shall be fought the
more signal will be the Cleveland victory.
Connecticut and New Hampshire promise
to be Cleveland States, and Massachusetts
will tremble in the balance between the
Plumed Knight and the man who is known
only as a resolutely honest public ser
vant.
France’s Demands of China.
Ju ly 13.—La Figaro says that
M. Patenotre, the French Minister to
r c? a ’ ® aß P aß ted the Chinese Ministry
of Foreign Affairs a delay of two days,
but that if it then fails to give assent to
the terms submitted by France Admiral
Courbet’s squadron will bombard the forts
at Shanghai, and Admiral Lespes will
disembark his forces at Foo Choo and
seize the arsenal there. Two ironclads
have left Brest to reinforce Admiral
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IRELAND’SORANGE riots
several shots fired but no
general uprising.
A^* t * ol,c Shot N> *r Carriok Hill and
Hl* AflftaUaiU; Rescue*! from th* Po
lice by Friend*—A Stray Shot Kills a
Telegraph R., y During au Encounter
at Cleatock.
Belfast, July 13.—During the Orange
demonstration yesterday near Carrlck
Hill, an Orangeman shot a Catholic.
Police arrived and arrested the Orange
man. but he was rescued by his friends
Fighting ensued, and at last
although the Mayor had interposed, fight
ing still continued.
A BOY KII.LKD.
White Haven, July 13.— An Orange
procession was returning yesterday to
Cleatock. a town near here, when it'was
attacked by Nationalists. Serious fight
ing at once took place, during which a
telegraph boy was killed and several ner
sons were injured. Revolvers ami swords
were used, stones thrown and windows
smashed. The police, armed with swords,
finally dispersed the rioters.
THE CORXWALL-O’BRIKN libel.
Dublin, July 13.-Alfred McKieman.
late clerk in the Munster Bank. George
Tnvlor, a shipping clerk, and Malcolm
Johnson, witnesses for the defense in the
Cornwall-O’Hrien libel case, have been
arrested. Detectives are on the track of
Cornwall, who tied from Dublin when the
suit was decided against him. It is re
ported that a warrant has been issued for
the arrest of Mr. Klrwin, a witness for
the prosecution. Great excitement pre
vails. r
CORNWALL ARRESTED.
London, July 14, 2 a.m.—Mr.Cornwall
lias been arrested at the residence of his
brother-in-law, Sir Robert Dalsoll, near
Linlithgow, Scotland. He is charged with
felonious practices and unnatural crimes.
REIGN OF THE CHOLERA.
l>r. Koch of tli Opinion that Lyons will
Ksoapc a Serious Visitation.
Paris, July 13.—The sanitary state of
Paris is good. There are some choleraic
cases in the city but none of an epidemio
nature. The Minister ol Commerce has
written a letter to the Academic of Modi
cine, which ufl hold a meetin®.Tueaday,
asking that academy to give an authorita
tive opinion iu regard to the treatment of
cholera cases and the best measures
to prevent the extmision of the disease.
During the twenty-four hours ended at
0 o’clock to-night, there were 57 deaths
from cholera at Marseilles, and 96 at Toil
lon. Two Sisters of Charity were among
those who died at Toulon. The munici
pality of Marseilles is providing tree
kitchens for the relief of sufferers from
the plague. Dr. Koch, the German ex
pert, arrived at Lyons to-dav. Ho thinks
that the cholera will reach there, but that
it will appear in a milder form, owing to
the excellent drainage of the city.
PLUMBERS TO FIGHT CHOLERA.
Chicago, July 13.—Andrew Young,
President of the National Plumbers Asso
ciation, has addressed a card to the mem
bers of the national association, suggest
ing that tho*Master Plumbers Associa
tion in every city in tlio United States
tender their services as an auxiliary sani
tary corps to lie under the direction of the
Local Boards of Health by reporting
premises found in bad sanitary condition.
The tender of such service is made owing
to alarm in the public mind regarding a
visitation of cholera.
RE UR ES ENT ATI V E li ANSON.
Points iu liis Career.
Representative Kasson is a member of
the House of Representatives who will
probably resign next September, he having
recently been appointed to the Berlin mis
sion. Kasson is every way a diplomatist.
He talks and looks like one. Ilois a small
sized man, with iron gray hair and beard,
lie walks with a stoop of the shoulders.
There is little style about him. He
dresses plainly. lie is a ready debater,
and when be does talk talks to a purpose.
He is also a fine writer, some of bis com
positions being models of classic beauty.
Sometime since he contemplated con
necting himself in an editorial capacity
with an lowa paper. He is 62 years old
and is a graduate of the University of Ver
mont. Like Sargent, his predecessor at
Beilin, he was a poor boy. When Sargent
was a young man he was a government
employe in the printing office. In 1819 he
went to California, going from New York
by vessel. From the Pacific coast State
lie was sent to Congress, serving as a
member of the House and afterwards tfttr
Senate. His successor at Berlin studied
law. Kasson’s domestic relations were
unfortunate. While yet a poor young
man be married. His wife did not keep
up with his progress. Intellectually.
This, it has been said, led to a divorce, the
divorce being sought by the wife. When
afterwards he was Minister at Vienna
from this country he is reported to have
fallen in love with a foreign lady of promi
nence. The discovery on her’ part of a
divorce from his wife led to the breaking
up of any matrimonial connection. At
Washington Kasson has lived at dne of
the city hotels. He has gone but little in
to society.
THE FREAK OF A FIEND.
A North Carolina Man Pours a Spoonful
of Molten Lead Into the Kar of His
Sleeping Wife.
Much excitement has been caused
throughout the adjacent county, says a
Charlotte, N. C., special, by the arrest of
Stephen l’ullern, a farmer, for commit
ting a most hentous crime against bis
wife. Monday morning Pullern informed
some of his neighbors that his wife was
dying. Medical aid was summoned,
and could. discover no cause of the
woman’s illness, but stated that death
must unavoidably result shortly. To
day a tramp informed the authori
ties that, while sleeping on the
porch of Pullern’s residence Sunday night,
he was aw-akened by someone moving in
the front room. Looking through a crack
in the shutter, he saw Phllerii heating
something in a spoon over a lamp. After
a while, approaching his sleeping wife, he
poured the contents of the spoon either in
her ear or down her neck, ho couldn’t say
which. This led to an examination,
which showed that something very hot
had been poured in Mrs. Pullern’s left
ear. An iron spoon with some pieces of
lead sticking to it was also discovered in
the house. Pullern was immediab ly ar
rested. Greatly frightened, be confessed
to the Sheriff that he had melted several
leaden bullets and poured the contents in
his wife’s ear. No cause for the crime is
assigned. The woman cannot live.
THE Watertown Times, the home organ of
the Lone Fisherman, says that the seldom
heard of William A. Wheeler is in better
health thar he was last winter, but thiuke it
“doubtful if he ever will appear in public life
again.”
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