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VOL. IL.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What is Being Done in Congressional
Haiis for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAT TO DA? BRIEF'D?
TODD—BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION —OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Thursday. —ln the house Thursday
morning Mr. Hatch reported the agricul
tural appropriation bill. It was ordered
printed and recommitted. About one
dozen leaves of absence were granted,
principally to republicans, the cause as
signed being ‘'important business.” Mr.
Goodnight, of Kentucky, from the com
mittee on judiciary, reported a resolution
calling for information as to the status of
business before the court of claims. Adop
ted. The house then went into committee
of the whole, Mr. Buchanan in the chair,
on the postoffice appropriation bill. No
other amendment was acted upon, the
committee rose and Mr. Hoo ter, of Mis
sissippi, asked unanimous consent for the
consideration of a joint resolution appro
priating $30,000 for the relief of flood
sufferers in Warren and Jefferson coun
ties, Mississippi. Mr. Long, of Texas,
objected. The house then adjourned.
Friday. —After some morning busi
ness the house went into committee of
the whole on the postoffice appropriation
bill, Mr. Buchanan in the chair, the
pending amendment being that offered
by Mr. Blount, of Georgia, reducing by
$2,849,000 the appropriation for trans
portation by railroad routes, and provid
ing that the postmaster general be au
thorized to readjust the compensation to
be paid after July 1, 1893, for the trans
portation of mail on railroad, routes by
reducing the compensation 10 per cent,
from the rate established on a basis of an
average weight fixed and allowed by the
act of June, 1887. The amendment was
rejected after a desultory debate of two
hours’ duration. Then Mr. Holman of
fered an amendment providing tha’
uo part of the money appropriated
for the transportation of foreign
mails shall be expended in carrying out
any contract made hereafter under pro
vision of the act to provide for ocean mail
service between the United States and
foreign ports. It was adopted after some
debate. Mr. Scott of Illinois, offered an
amendment providing that no pait of the
appropriation for stamped envelopes shall
be used io pay for or furnish stamped en
velopes haying the names of any firm,
corporation or advertising device printed
thereon, and making it unlawful for the
postmaster general to have report for re
turn of letters printed on any envelopes
sold by the postoffice department, provi
ded, however, that the department may
continue to furnish stamp and envelopes
containing the words: “If not delivered
within ten days return to—." Agre and to.
The committee arose and the house took
a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening ses
sion to be for the consideration of private
pension bills.
Saturday —The session of the house
Saturday wus occupied in fillibustering
over the anti-options bill.
Monday —An almost if not entirely
unprecedented amount of work was done
by the house Monday. The anti-option
bill was passed. The river and harbor
bill was taken from the calendar and
sent to conference, which insures its pas
sage. The bill taking the 10 per cent
off of banks and other than national was
voted upon and defeated. Bills admit
ting Arizona and New Mexico as states
were passed. So was the bill appropri
ating $50,000 for a pedestal for a statue
of General Sherman in Washington city.
The legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill, one of the biggest of
the whole lot of appropriation bills, was
passed. All of the business was trans
acted under suspension of the rules.
Tuesday —Half a dozen leaves of ab
sence were granted in the house Tuesday.
The agricultural appropriation bill was
reported and placed upon the calendar.
Then the urgent deficiency bill, appro
priating $7,074,332 for the payment of
pensions and $14,000 for miscellaneous
expenses of the house of representatives,
was taken up and passed. Outside of
this no other important business was
transacted.
THE SENATE.
Thursday. —There was an unusually
small attendance of senators present
when Thursday morning’s session began.
Although the exodus to Minneapolis was
exclusively from the republican side of
the chamber, the democratic side made
the smallest showing in point of number
—there being only six senators present
on that side. The silver bill senators
were almost all at their posts. Mr.
Sherman was in his seat, and so was Mr.
Allhon, on whose motion the senate
agreed to adjourn till Monday. The reso
lution offered Wednesday by Mr. Turpie,
calliog for the correspondence with Havti.
Colombia and Venezuela, in regard
to reciprocity, was taken up, and Mr.
Turpie addressed the senate upon it.
The only other feature of the senate pro
ceedings was Mr. Stewart’s speech—con
tinued from Wednesday—in favor of the
free coinage of silver, in the near exist
ence of which he declared himself a firm
believer. The senate, at the close of Mr.
Stewart’s speech, provided for an investi
gation of recent national bank failures,
held an executive session and then took
a holiday until Monday.
Monday. —The consular and diplo
matic appropriation bill was laid before
the senate, but was temporaaily laid
aside in order to permit Mr. Vest to ad
dress the senate on the resolution hereto
fore introduced by him to discharge the
finance committee from the further con
sideration of the bill to place wool on the
§tah‘ of |ak iVrtiUi.
tree nst, ana to bring it before the sen
ate. Mr. Vest argued for over three
hours to prove that the McKinley tariff
act was a benefit of farmers, wool raisers
or cousuruers of the United States, but
for the sole benefit of manufacturers, who,
by the system of trusts, prevented com
petition and kept up the prices of their
goods. The first part of his speech was
devoted to the silver question, the argu
ment being that, although the free coin
age of silver was bound to come, in
accordance with the popular demand,and
because it was right and proper it
was not and should not be made
au issue in the presidential campaigu.
The real issue, he said, was tariff reform.
In discussing that questiou, Mr. Vest as
serted that it was Blaine’s reciprocity
policy that had brought him to-day to
the front of the republican party, and
that would secure to him that party’s
nomination to the presidency. He an
nounced that he favored no particular
candidate for the democratic nomination,
but that he would not support anv man
wbo was not absolutely opposed to tbe
present system of taxation. No action
was taken on Mr. Vesi’s resolution, and
no other business was taken up.
Tuespay. —Tbe senate passed the dip
lomat. c and consular appropriation bill.
Not much else was done, so much inter
est is being taken ia the Minneapolis
convention. The session only lasted an
hour aud a half.
NOTES.
The work of the house Monday in
sures an ei,r.y adjournment of congress.
That event can now be expected not
later than the Ist of August. It may be
as early as the middle of July.
Senator Turpie, of Indiana, introduced
in the senate Thursday the memorial
adopted in Atlanta on May 9, 1892, by
the Woman’s Mission Union, an auxiliary
of the Southern Baptist convention, pro
testing against the opening of the world’s
fair on Sunday.
Tbe Agricultural Bill.
The agricultural appropriation bill, as
reported to the house Thursday contains
a clause that will do away with a griev
ance which the tobacco and cotton grow
ing people have hud against Secretary
Rusk’s department. The statistician of
the department, M. Dodge, has been in
the habit in his reports of not giving
facts and figures, but of commenting
upon and interpreting them this way or
that. This grievance has at times arisen
to the proportions of a scandal. The bill
as reported prohibits Mr. Dodge from in
jecting his phantasies into his reports.
He is to tell the facts and quote the fig
ures and let those interested do the rest
os best suits them.
GEORGIA CROPS.
Some Statements . # roui Agricultural
Department Reports.
The monthly ferop report of the sta’e
agricultural department will be issued in
a few days. It contains the monthly
crop averages for the different sections
of the state, from which we make a few
extracts. These averages are based on
reports from about a thousand corres
pondents of the department in different
parts of the state, and the average for
each county being found, the county
averages are combined to make the dis
trict averages for north Georgia, middle
Georgia, southwest Georgia and east
Georgia. The figures all represent the
condition of the crop as compared with
an average crop, except in the case of
cotton, where additional figures are given
to show the stand as compared with a
perfect stand. The district averages are
as follows:
North Georgia—Corn, 95£; oats, 99 J:
wheat, 100; cotton, stand, 925; cotton,
condition, 90.
Middle Georgin—Corn, 92£; oats,
75 4-5; wheat, 94 1-9; cotton, stand,
88 3-8; cotton, condition, 89 2-3.
Southwest Georgia—Corn, 91£; oats,
68£; wheat, 95; cotton, stand, 86; cot
ton, condition, 84.
East Georgia—Corn, 96£; oats, 85;
cotton, stand, 86i;cottOD, condition, 92.
Comparing the district averages, the
average for the state is as follows: Corn,
94 1-16; oats, 82 18; wheat, 961-3; cot
ton, stand, 88J; cotton, condition, 88£.
The reports from the watermelon dis
trict show that the crop is somewhat be
low the average in condition, while the
acreage, with the exception of some of
the most southern shows a marked de
crease. These reports indicate that the
acreage is large in the lower counties
that come into the market first, while the
upper or late counties have heavily re
duced their crop. This is clearly the re
sult of last year’s experience, which was
uniformly disastrous to the late shippers,
while the earlier ones in some cases did
fairly well. Considering acreage and
condition the crop is not likely to be as
large as that of last year.
The notes accompanying the reports
indicate that the drouth throughout the
state has made crops backward. In
southwest Georgia the spring oats have
been almost a total failure. Cool nights
have also contributed to the backward
ness of crops. The bud worms have been
injuring corn all over Georgia. In the
southern part of the state cotton has been
attacked by lice. Corn is very small,
but generally in a healthy condition.
The reports from all parts of the state in
dicate a fine peach crop. The report for
apples is a little less favorable and that for
nears is very discouraging. In the coun
ties which produce the Le Conte pear
largely it is reported that the crop will
be almost a failure.
Cholera Ravages.
Cable dispatches of Tuesday from Cal
cutta, India, report that, since May 7th,
there have been 2,460 deaths from chol
era at Serinagur, iu the vale of Cashmere.
All Europeans in the place became alarm
ed S' me time ago at the fearful ravages
o! the disease, and left the city.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, JUNE 11,1892.
FIRE AND FLOOD.
Bnrning Oil and Raging Waters— Dvratb
and Destruction Everywhere.
THE JOHNSTOWN HORROR REPEATED IN
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA —TWO HUN
DRED PEOPLE'DEAD.
Dispatches of Sunday state that <he
city of Titusville, Penn., was vi Led
during the past twenty-four hours by
the most disastrous fires aud floods in all
the history of the region. Oil creek ha 9
overflowed its banks from the west and
above the water and gas works to the
city line below, and for hours assumed
the proportions of an almost resistless
flood, reaching almost up to the line of
Spring street. The city is without luel
or street electric light, the waterworks
and gasworks arc surrounded by water
and inundated. The Perry street uud
Franklin street iron bridges have been
swept away. Scores of cheap dwelling
houses in the lower part of the city have
been destroyed, and scores of lives lost,
some having been burned, but the ma
jority perished by drowning.
RUIN AND DESOLATION.
The scene presented by the rushing
waters, surging through the lower part
of the city, as witnessed by thousand* of
citizens, was one of utter
When the morning broke, hundni%of
anxious people looked out of wind< ws,
or stood on the roofs of houses, awaiting
the helping hand, and trembling tor
their fate. Strong and brave men, by
means of boats and ropes, succeeded in
reaching and saving those wbo held their
positions till help arrived, or till the
waters began to recede.
BURNING OIL.
To add to the horror of the scene, rain
fell in torrents, fire broke out in the re
fineries at the different points, and the
burning oil sweeping down the current
war, communicated to other manufactur
ing plants and establishments and the
destruction increased a hundred fold.
Among the losses by fire are the Inter
national oil works, Hiram Blow copper
shops, Rice fc Robinson refineries, Titus
ville radiator works, the Western New
York and Pennsylvania railway freight
offices, the Caspersou’s furniture works,
store and residence, Jack Cullen’s hotel
and the Crescent oil works of John
Schwart & Cos.
LIST OF THE DEAD.
Fifteen dead bodies have already L a
recovered and the search continues. The
following is a list of the dead as far as
ascertained: John Quinn, wife and two
children; Jacob Bergenhammer, wife and
nine children; Mrs. Mary Haynes and
three daughters, Gertrude, Mary and
Clara, and one son ; Mrs. McKenzie; Mrs.
John McFadden and sister; Mrs. Camp
bell and two children; Mrs. Casperson;
Mr. Coppie; Fred Reid, wife and child;
John 6’Mara and wife. Two Yeigle
boys and four more, names unknown.
The authorities of Titusville have
issued an the public as follows:
“Our suffering and destitution is terrible,
and there has been great loss of life and
destruction of property. A large por
tion of our manufacturing interests have
been wiped out by flood and fire. Hun
dreds of families are homeless and desti
tute. In the absence of our mayc|we
appeal to the generous public for hefp iu
this, our time of distress.”
DESTRUCTION AT OIL CIT *
Dispatches of Sunday from Oil City,
Pa., state that never before in the history
of Oil City Bnd the oil country has there
been such a disaster, excitement and tur
moil as the city is now witnessing. At
11:45 o’clock Sunday morning the city
and country for miles around was startled
by two explosions occurring almost sim
ultaneously. The Associated Press cor
respondent was standing on Centre street,
directly in front of The Derrick office
and on tbe approach to the Oil creek
bridge. The creek was a raging tor
rent and Centre street for one
square was a solid mass of humanity.
Five hundred or one thousand people
had approached this point watching the
muddy waters rolling by. About 11:30
o’clock upon the opposite side of the
stream a greenish fluid floating on the
waters was noticeable. This increased
rapidly in quantity and extent until at
last it covered almost entirely the yellow
muddy waters of the creek. A smell of
gas and oil was perceptible. Suddenly
and without warning a mass of flame was
seen to shoot heavenward a short distance
up the creek. The people on the banks
turned like stampeded cattle and started
for the hills. Har lly had they started
when a terrific explosion rent the air and
the entire creek for hundreds of feet on
each side seemed a seething mass of fl mie
and smoke.
The panic stricken crowd shrieked
madly in their efforts to escape. Wo
men ijnd children were trampled under
foot and about twenty severely bruised
had to be picked up by a few of the
cooler heads and carried out of the way.
CAUSED BY GASOLENE.
About a'half mile northward from the
city on the Western New York and
Pennsylvania railroad was a tank filled
with gasoline. Some young men no
ticed the tank leaking, and knowing its
explosive nature and seeing a
shifting engine approach ran up
the side of the hill, where they
turned, and looking down saw the en
gine pass. A mas-iof flame sliotlOO feet in
the air and the earth seemed •to shake
with awful tremor. The engineer and
fireman were seen jumping from the cab
and it is supposed were burned to death
or killed by the force of the explosion.
In an instant the entire upper part of the
city, which was fl >oded by the oily waters
of the creek,and men, women and children
who were moving from their houses, were
caught by tbe deadly fl lines and if not
burned to death outrigtit were drowned
in the flood. Seven ghastly bodies have
so far been taken from the flood and are
lying on the railroad track unrecognized,
w titing for their friends to come and
claim them.
TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
A later dispatch from Oil City 9.iys the
loss of life there will probably reach
200. Emlenton, another oil town be
tween Oil City and Titusville is also re
ported having suffered greatly from the
flood.
FURTHER PARTICULARS
Later dispatches from Titusville statt
that never in the history of Titusville ha;
such a scene of destruction presented it
self as was unfqlded to the gaze Monday
morning on the principal thoroughfare.
The first sight witnessed was four men
carrying the dead body of a man on a
stretcher. Within fifteen minutes the
sight became so common that it ceased
to occasion any surprise. At the present
writing it is estimated that fully 100 per
sons were either drowned or burned to
death.
The money loss will run from $150,000
to $2,000,000. An idea of the amount
of the territory covered by the flood and
fire can be obtained when it is stated that
over two miles were destroyed. This in
cludes railroads, factories, refineries, pri
vate dwellings, etc.
WIPE OUT THE WHOLE TOWN.
Another dispatch from Oil City says:
At 2 a. m. forty-six bodies have been re
covered, but it is impossible to give an
accurate estimate of the total loss of life,
although it is said to exceed 100.
THE PROPERTY LOSSES.
The property damaged will reach into
the millions. Titusville’s los9 is estima
ted at $1,500,000; Oil City $1,500,000;
Cory, Penn., and Meadviile, $150,000
and the surrounding country probably a
million more.
NEWS IN GENERAL
Happenings of the Day Culled from Onr
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
*WHAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
At New York Saturday afternoon two
thousand people assembled in Broadway
at Main street to witness the start of
Frank J. Lenz, an amateur bicyclist on
his trip around the world on a pneumatic
safety bicycle. The start was made fiom
the city hall at precisely 3 o’clock.
In the democratic primaries! in Cincin
nati and Handlton county, Mjtday
the anti-Ch|feland men OOTied every -
thing, not more than four friends of the
ex-president being ejected out of sixty
five delegacy to the state convention.
This insures The election of four Hill or
anti-Cleveland delegates to the national
convention in the Cincinnati districts.
A New York dispatch of Tuesday
says: A special meeting of the Tennes
see Coal and Lon Company has been
cal*tl for June 16th, in compliance with
threats made by the elders to se
curtmiu injunction against the cousolida
tic/jWvith the Debardeleben company if
it was not again considered. The con
solidation had already been ratified by
the stockholders.
Advices of Saturday from Guthrie.
Oklahoma, state that it is declared
positively that the Dalton gang, which
held up the Santa Fe express at Red
Rock, I. TANARUS„ last Wednesday, secured
from the Wells Fargo safe $50,000 which
was being forwarded from the treasury
department at Washington to the agent
of the Sac and Fox Indians in part pay
ment for lands recently purchased by the
government.
A cablegram of Tuesday from Warsaw
states that the police authorities have for
some time past been making visits to the
homes of persons in Poland suspected of
being nihilists, in search of explosives or
incriminating documents. Two thousand
persons have been arrested in the differ
ent provinces of Poland. Most of these
are men under thirty years of age. One
hundred of them have been exiled to
Siberia. t
A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo.,
says: Terms of agreement looking to a
fusion of the democratic and people’s
parties in Kansas were made public Sat
urday. They provide that the Demo
crats be giveu the candidates iu two of
tbe seven congressional districts, the con
gressmen at large, the attorney geueral
and a judge of the supreme court. All
the other nominations on the congression
al, state and electoral tickets were con
ceded to the people’s party.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Nearly
a thousand men resumed work Monday
morning at the large Spreckles sugar re
fineries here alter a shut-down of nearly
three months. General Manager Peter
son said to a reporter: “By Wednesday
morning we shall have over one thousand
inen at work, and on Thursday we shall
put our sugar on the market again at
such prices as we deem remunerative
without any reference to 9uch prices as
anv trust may be disposed to dictate.”
A Railroad for Sale.
The Illinois Central ha an option un
til June 18th on the Louisville, New Or
leans and Texas Pacific. President Fish
has called his stockholders together to
decide whether they shall buy. He says
that the system cau be bought on a basis
of paying for all securities, $5,000,000 in
money, $20,000,000 of Illinois Central 4
per cent bonds, being part of au issue by
a pledge of the purchased securities.
The remaining $5,000,000 of bonds to be
retained by the Hlinois Central.
FLORIDA SPEAKS.
State Officers Nominated and Chicago
Delegates Selected.
THE ALLIANCE OAPTURES THE MEETING
AND HAVE THINGS THEIR OWN WAY.
JUDGE MITCHELL FOR GOVERNOR.
The Florida state democratic conven
tion assembled at Tampa at noon Wed
nesday. After a iwo hours’ session forming
a temporary organization it adjourned to
8 o’clock p.m. After a ten minutes’ session
in the evening it adjourned till Thursday.
The convention has developed into
a “Call” and “anti-Call” fight,
and it will be a war of the
giants, for all factions are fiercely in ear
nest and propose to beat if in their power,
no matter at what cost. The “antis”
came out ahead in the temporary organiza
tion. The session was hot and stormy. St.
Clair Abrams, Hon. B. P. Calhoune and
others fiercely denounce the state execu
tive committee for its unheard-of and
impertinent interference in thus packing
the convention with its adherents. The
delegates are hot-headed and serious per
sonal collisons have only been averted by
some of the cooler heads in the delega
tion.
Second Day. —lt developed on the
second day of the session that the
Farmers’ Alliance had captured the con
vention ; that is, the alliance delegates,
elected as democrats, had measured their
strength, found that they numbered
nearly 160. They held the balauce of
fower and exercised it with an iron
and. When the committee on creden
tials was chosen Wednesday, the Anti-
Mitchell men were jubilant, for they
figured it out that their side had a ma
jority of the committee, about
22 to 20. This meant, they said,
the seating of all the contesting delega
tions from Duval, Polk and Washington
counties, thus adding 38 votes to tbe anti-
Mitchell column, and assuring the defeat
of the judge, but they had not figured on
the allianceinen who bad places on the
credentials committee. They were evi
dently under some obligation to some
body, which it was not easy to deter
mine. When the committee took an infor
mal ballot Thursday morning on the Duval
county contest it stood 24 in favor of the
Mitchell delegation and 18 against. This
was a surprise to everybody outside of
the committee. The allianceinen had
undoubtedly done the business. It is
now said that a secret deal was made
whereby the Mitchell men, in exchange
for the alliance votes, bound themselves
to stand solidly with the alliance dele
gates for an endorsement of the “Ocala
demands” and the St. Louis platform.
THIRD DAY.
Just before midnight Thursday night
the convention completed its permanent
organization by electing Samuel J. Turn
bull, of Jefferson county, first vice pres
ident, and Fred T. Myers, of Leon, sec
ond vice president. An immediate ad
journment was confidently expected by
nearly all of the delegates, but the lead
ers of the Mitchell faction had gained au
advantage and held on. Dr. J. U. Pelot,
of Manatee county, moved the adoption
of the two-thirds rule, and Geueral A.
W. Gilchrist, of De Soto, m >ved to
amend by substituting the word “ma
jority.” Both made speeches on tbe
motion, and debate proceeded for some
time, being constantly interrupted
by motions to fay on the table,
to adjourn, etc., but the two-thirds rule
finally prevailed by au overwhelming
majority. This was another advantage
gained for Mitchell, and his backers
pressed it all the harder. It was now 1
o’clock Friday morning, but Mitchell’s
cohorts, many of whom had not slept for
forty-eight hours, did not propose to quit
the wigwam till that man had been pushed
to the front and nominated. K. S. Bur
ford, of Marion, moved that nominations
for candidate for governor now begin
and the opponents of Mitchell made a
strong effort to stave off the inevitable by
a motion to adjourn and other dilatory
tactics, and the alliance pushed for the
adoption of a platform, before the
ticket, or any part of it, was named; but
the Mitchell current was too strong to be
stemmed, and on the roll call of counties
Jr motion to adjourn was lost by a vote of
*241 to 175. The roll call of the counties
then began on gubernatorial nominations.
Dr. Crawford’s friends announced that
they would not place his name in nomi
nation for governor, but afterwards
would urge him for secretary of state.
Crawford has been Mitchell’s strongest
competitor, and it was evident that the
opposition was rapidly going to pieces.
Hon. Sid L. Carter, on behalf of Alachua
county, took the platform and in an elo
quent speech nominated Henry L. Mitch
ell, of Hillsboro. Wild cheers for
Mitchell followed. The call for
counties continued and one by
one the opposing delegations fell into
line for Mitchell, No other name was
presented to the convention. The nom
ination of Mitchell was made unanimous
by a rising vote ‘amid wild enthusiasm
and the strains of “Dixie.” Judge
Mitchell was sent for and conducted to
the platform by two of bis former oppo
nents and made an excellent speech of
acceptance He denied the charge that
he was the tool of the railroads and out
lined briefly his policy in state affairs if
elected. '1 he convention at 2:45 o’clock
a. m. adjourned, and the populace un
hitched the horses from Judge Mitchell’s
carriage and hauled him through the
streets to his home.
The convention met again at 11 o’clock
a. m. and R. Fenwick Taylor, of Al
achus, for justice of supreme court; Dr.
John L. Crawford, of Wakulla, for sec
retary of state; W. B. Lamar, of Jeffer
sen, for attorney general, and W. B.
Bloxham, of Leon, for comptroller, were
all renominated by acclamation. Tbe
first contest of the day on the nomination
of state officers commenced when four
names were successively presented for
state treasurer. After a hot fight C. B.
Collins, of Marion, was nominated. For
superintendent of public instruction W.
N. Sheats. of Alachua, was pitted against
Major A. J. Russell, che incumbent, aud
defeated him, being chosen by acclama
tion at the close of the first ballot. There
were two candidates for commissioner of
agriculture—L. B. Wombwell, of Jack
son, tbejneumbent, and E. A. Wilson, of
Lake, lhe latter was withdrawn on tbe
second ballot, and Wombwell’s nomina
tion was made unanimous. The only
new men in the state nomination! are
Sheats and Collins. The latter is a very
prominent alliancemen. Both had the
■olid support of the alliance. The ticket
is generally acceptable to the anti-Mitch
ell men.
THE PLATFORM.
The committee on platform reported a
▼ery voluminous document, embracing
twelve planks, before it touched on state
affairs. The second plank demands con
tinued liberal appropriations for south
ern rivers and harbors. The third promi
ses legislation for the relief of the m
-cultural classes. The fourth denounces
the McKinley tariff bill. The sixth
plank denounces the efforts of the re
publican party to pass the force bill.
The eighth demands that congress shall
piss such laws as shall effectually pre
vent dealing in futures of all agricultural
and mechanical productions, i'he ninth
demands unlimited coinage of sil
ver and abolition of national banks,
and the issue of legal tender treasury
notes. The eleventh demands that the
amount of the circulating medium be
speedily increased to not less than S4O
per capita. The twelfth says the gov
ernment should control the railroads in
the interest of the people. A resolution
eadorsiug Cleveland, but cot instructing
f >r him. was voted down, but it is and nbt
fut it a quorum was present at the-tium.
The Chicago delegation is sttoag in
its alliance tendencies, but it is said that
no open opposition to Cleveland is to be
expected from it. At a late hour the
convention adjourned.
LIST OF DELEGATES.
Following is a list of delegates to the
Chicago convention, each with half a
vote: F. C. Adams, Jasper; J. E.
Grady, Appalachicola; H. T. Sikes,
Brooksville; J. S. White, Live Oak; F.
A. Bailey, Han Mateo; C. E. Gardner,
Greencove Springs; N. P. Bishoff, Dade
City; W. S. Jones, Monticello; J. P.
Taliaferro, Jacksonvil’e; A. J. Chipley,
Pensacola; A. D. Hawkins, Tallahassee;
T. A. Jennings, Jasper; D. L. Qauldin,
Titusville; B. Genovar, St. Augustine;
Al x. St. Clair-Abrams, Tavares, and S.
A. Parkman, Tampa.
TRADE TALK.
Dunn & Co’s. Report of Business for
Past Week.
It. G. Dunn & Co.’s review of trade for
week ending June 7th, says that the tone
of commercial reports from various parts
of the country indicate that business has,
to some extent, improved. More favor
able weather has helped both retail aud
wholesale trade in many quarters and has
materially improved crop prospects at
(he west, while a little improvement in
the price of cotton ha 9 operated as a
stimulus to bu-iness at the south. There
has been no difficulty or disturbance in
the money market and the volume of
currency in circulation has increased
during the month of May about six mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars,
amounting to $1,620,000 on June Ist.
Collections throughout the country are
on the whole better than of late and
fairly satisfactory, and excepting the
speculative corner at Chicago, there ha 9
been no especial excitement in any kind
of business. Wheat has decliued half a
cent, western receipts being unusually
large, though export in cotton, in the
belief that the acreage will be much di
minished, has helped the speculators to
advance the price one-fourth of a cent,
and transactions have been moderately
light. Nevertheless the stock of cotton
in the country continues far be
yond the record of the previous
years and there is every reason to
believe that even a great reduction iu
the yield will scarcely reduce the aggre
gate supply for the year below the quan
tity usually required for consumption.
The iron business shows considerable in
crease in transactions, though there is
as much complaint ns ever of low prices.
Business is still retarded by bad weather
at Little Rock and Memphis, improved a
little at Nashville, but very dull at Sa
vannah. Cotton strengthens at New
Orleaus aud there is a better feeling in
business generally, while sugar is in fair
demand and rice steady.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last seven days,
as reported to R. G. Dun & Cos., number
for the United States, 175; Canada. 32.
THE CONVENTION HALL
At Minneapolis Thrown Opon to the
Public.
The republican convention hall of 1892
at Minneapolis was opened to the general
public Monday night with au event long
and pleasingly anticipated in local mu
sical circles —a grand concert by a chorus
of 1,000 voices, supported by the second
regiment band of Chicago. The vast
audience, numbering over 12,000 people
and tilling every seat far as the eye could
reach, surveyed the inspiring scene which
bids fair to become a memorable political
battle ground. Striking changes have
been made in tbe interior appearance of
the exposition building, which is the
boast of Minneapolis. Chauncey Dopes?
was the orator of the evening.
NO. 15.