Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-09-24

to take effect LIST.
Massachusetts Democratic state
Convention.
WORCESTER, Mass, Sept. %.
The nominations this afternoon
consist of Secretary of State, Geo. I'll.
Monroe; Treasure and Receiver, Gen.
Weston Rowland; Attorney General,
Geo. T. Every.
The following platform was adopted:
"We reiterate the declaration COM
~prehensibly made by the National
Conventions held at Cincinnati and
Baltimore, in 1872, accepting the
recent amendments to the liberal con
stilution as a full, final and permanent
adjustment of the political con,rover-
sizes incident to the late war. We de-
mand for the Union support ID full
vigor of all its constitutional powers
and supreme authority, utterly repud-
iating all claims of right by any State
o secede from the Union or to nullify
its laws; and demand for each State an
equally inviolable right to govern it.
self at its sovereign pleasure, snbject
only to limitation and obligation of the
Federal Constitution. Interested in
the public morals, the nations credit
and common welfare, We oppose any
further issue by the Government Of
currency inconvertible with gold. the
recognized measure of value; ard we
favor the speedy return To specie pay
ments as essential To the revival of
commence, business and the cre1it Of
the country, and to the welfare of the
'abOring masses. We arraign the Re-
publican party for its extravaganza,
expenditure and proh:gate waste of the
peoples money; for its contempt of
constitutional obligations; for its ex-
t%ortionate increase and sinecures #
tie salaries of our public officers; for
its oppressive, unjust and defective
system Of taxation, finance and cur
rency, which have degraded public and
private morality and bought upon us
the present depression in the CONNER
cial aud industrial interests of the
country; for its Capitalization of power
and its encouragement of m~onopolies
and corporate corruptiOn; for it's con-
tlnuance of incompetent and dishon.
est men in office aud for its general
nlismana8ement of both the State and
Federal government. We view with
alarm the increase in this Common
wealth, under a Republican admins
t~ration, of the public debt, by prodigal
appropriations for objects rot demand
ed by public interests. The fo.lowin.
we're elected delegates at large by the
Conventions: =. A. Collins, q. w. Gill.
J. w. Abbot and Edward Avery, with
four altsrnates.
Boston sends Ala TO the Texas SUI
ferers
BosroN, Sept. %.
In answer to the appeal for aid from
Mayor Davies, of Galveston, Texas.
Mayor Cobb authorized him to draw
for $1,000 to assist the sufferers by the
recent floods.
a Robbcr Hnled.
CONCORD, n. H.. Sept. %,
At Piermont, N. III. Getting, II man
Of that place, was awakened toy a
tramp with a cooked revolver, who de-
handed his money. Getting directed
the tramp TO a bureau drawer contain
ing 800. The tramp laid down his
pistol to search when Getting seized
the pistol and shot the tramp dead.
Appeal for Ali.
NEW YORK. Sept. %.
Mayor Wick ham yesterday received
from Acting Mayor Davies, of Calves
ton, an appeal for aid for the suffering
Gulf cities.
Suicide.
RUTLAND, VT, Sept. 20.
Jacob Lander stepped in front OF a
train At Bennington Yesterday and was
instantly killed. Poverty and poor
health are supposed to be- the cause 81
tho act. He leaves a wife and four
children. A daughter lay dead in the
house when he suicided.
Further Particulars oi the Cyclone
"A Tale Of Destruction, Horror
and Crime.
CINCINNATI, o., Sept. %.
A Times Southern special says that
parties who arrived from Indianols
last night, and who were there during
the terrible cyclone, fully confirm
even the most sensational reports OF
the destruction of life and properly;
that out OF three hundred houses only
five arc lett standing. During Thurs
day night. when the storm Mas at its
height, the water in the city rose over
six feet ia two hours. The wind was
blowing a, the rate Of IS miles an hour,
driving the water and breakers through
the city at the rate of Is miles All hour,
sweeping everything in its way AMI
covering the plain in the rear of the
| city for ten miles to the depth of seven
feet. Severa, small settlements, mum
boring a total population of $50, was
also swept out of existence, making
with the go lost at Indianola, a tc.sl OF
400 lives lost. The gentlemen con
veying the information gave a most
narrowing account of the restitution OF
the survivors. When they left In
dianola, Monday, 50 bodies had been
recovered. The stencil In the city
from putiefaction OF those dead, " it'll
the stencil from dead animals, VAS
most intolera6le. 1t il also said that a
party of Mexicarts, on Sunday, began
to rob the dead bodies washed on the
plain four to six miles back of the city
the scoundrels chopping off the fingers,
hands and ears Of men and women Ia
obtain jewelry. As soon as this WAS
heard OF in the city a party Of citizens
went out and killed live Mexicans,
whom they caught a. their devilish
work.
The Gold Market Treaty Of tho Co.
lmsmbIMa Government amd Coast
se0lam.o0s