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CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON. June 2O.-The
Mclean nension bill was taken up,
a fter a somewhat lengthy debate
T,,liom attempted to secure an agree,
ment to have q vote on tne Dill anu
amendments by 5 O'Clock to-morrUw
hut Morgan objected by saying Una
the bill must go through on It's nler'
its or not at all. u.,
After an executive session the sen
ate adjourned.
WASHINGTON, June 2O.-Tucker,
IF the committee on judiciary, SUB
mitted q report upon the case or Hal
lot KiInourne vs.. ex-Sergeant~at.
Arms Thompson, which was referred
to the committee on APPROPRIATIONS
The commi tee says: your COLL
,nittee think it better to let Judgment
stand without further litigation, and
"a Judgment against the defendant
was for acts done by him under Of
ders of the House of Representatives,
the committee recommend an appro-
priation be made to pay the amount
thereof in relief of defendant"
The House resumed consideration
of the Mercy contested election case.
In the English investigation to-
day Speaker Carlisle testified that he
had told English that the rule x
Guiding ex-members applied only to
persons who had pecuniary interests
in the measure before Congress. The
case is now closed so far as evidence
is concerned.
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Chicago Races.

CHICAGO, June 20.-This is the
opening day OF che Chicago driving
parks first summer running meeting.
The track was dry and hard, the
weather cool and cloudy with a light
rain this morning. The attendance
was large and betting brisk.
The one mile starters were Cans,
Ascater, Finality. Leman, Holly-
wood, King aud Traubler. Cans,
the favorite, won by a length, Lee
man second, one length before Final
ity who was third. Time, 1:43.
The Chicago stakes, II miles, start
ers were Harpoon, Audraln, Rich
ard l.. and Hallway. After a driv-
ing finish, Audrain, the favorite
won by a length, Richard L., second.
two lengths before Harpoon. Time,
2:11.
Purse race, one and one-half miles;
the starters were Imogene, Bob
Miles, Ooermeyer, Centreville; won
by Bob Miles 1.-THE favorite] by a
]eng h and a hall; Imogene, second,
one length ahead Of Obermeyer;
time, 2::4344.
Illinois Oaks, for three-year old
FLIES, one and one quarter miles;
starters, Fallen Leaf, Oak, Evropa:
won by Fallen Leaf, the favorite, in
a gallop by six lengths; Oak, sc .ol1d,
one length before Europa; time, 2:11a.
In the hurdle race, mile heat, the
horses passed under the wire in the
following order: First heat Scaiper,
Ohio Boy. Othell0. second heat
Scalper won; Ohio Boy fell at the
third hurdle, and was distanced;
Othello, second, also distanced; time,
1:5455.
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Prohibition Convention.

CHICAGO, June 19.-The national
convention OF the American cor pro-
hlbltlon and anti-Masonic) party for
The purpose OF nominating candidates
tor president and vice-prasident OF
the United States, met in preliminary
session in the hall Of the \. NJ. ca:
MS evening. Hon. l.. Bev,laId, Oh
connecticut, was made Temporal!
chairman, and addresses were deny
cred by Gen: Riley, Of Rochester y:
T., and President Blanchard, Oh
wheaton College. Committees n on
credentials were appointed. llr
temporary chairman was made Ft'.
manent and Il number of secretaries
ana Vlce-presldents were chnsell' III
ciuding several women. Ad1oNFhe"
I'LL | O'Clock tomorrow,
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TRUTH: According to a gossippy
Washington correspondent, who can.
not tell a lie, it is Mrs. Logan who
years Black Jacks trousers. 1t was
Mrs. Logan, this truthful CORE.
spondent tells US, who, in the Sena-
tors absence, swung the Logan con-
tiDgent into line for Blaine, and it
was Mrs. Logan who put the Senator
in the hands of his friends, whereby
he became the tail to Blaine's kite.
All this sounds very pretty. It shows
what a prudent wife Mrs. Logan is.
She prefers half q loaf to no bread
she is content to be president of the
Senate if she cannot be President of
the United States, like Mrs. Hayes.
But great as Mrs. Logan is as her
husbands manager, she has a wom>
ans failing-she must talk. She
ought to have known that in letting
the country know that she placed the
Senator in the hands of his friends
she was provoking the opposition of
her sex by demonstrating that he Is
In the hands Of his wife.
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Minneapolis Tribune: Now tina!
the good Queen has thrown the
weight of her wishes into the scale.
tho success OF the deceased sisters
marriage bill becomes almost certain.
The loyal. bishops and the beet-eat-
ing country 'squlres will not ale to
struggle very long against the de-
slres of their sovereign, no matter
how glad they might be otherwise to
follow in the beaten path of COM
servative custom. When the bill is
finally passed it will be curious to
reflect that q matter of snch plain
justice should only be brought about
by the wish of an ambitious old lady
to pass a manageable daughter off
upon q German prince. Because if
Queen Victoria did not want to mar
~ the Princess Beatrice to that gay
old widower, the Duke of Hesse, it is
likely that the supporters of that bill
would knock at the House of Com
mons until the next century before
they received the slightest encour-
agement.
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T.

PARIS, June 2O.-The senate
adopted to-day by a vote Of 81 to 80
the amendment to the bill reestab.
fishing divorce aud permitting the
wife to demand a divorce on proofs OF
adultery by the husband, even if the
act is not committed under the con
jugal roof, and ,. jected the amend
ment, 1875 to 131, demanding that
cruelty only should constitute a case
for separation and not for divorce.
LONDON. June 2O.-The Fountome
collection of art treasures, one of the
most famous ancestral art collections
in England, has been sold at auction.
LONDON, June 2O.-In the Com
mons to-day the Unde' Foreign Sec>
re airy stated that the last news from
General Gordon Was under date of
April II. He said twenty messen-
gers had been sent to General Cor
don by different routes. One mes
senger who went up the Nile by boat
succeeded in entering Khartoum.
On his retuen, bearing General Cor
don's answer to the government, he
was pursued by rebels and killed.
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Starving Indians.

A correspondent of the Sun River
San, writing from Blackfeet eencv.
says: "Things are in a deplorable
condition here. A starving Indian
is a fearful foe. We are more secure
from the Crees than these Indians.
Lieutenant Bell and his command
will remain here until a better state
OF affairs dawns on the Agency. He
e not deem US safe unGer existing
circumstances. The worst has never
been told. Ex-Agent John Young
should have made an estimate for
more than one-eighth rations. He
alone is responsible for the wretched.
ness and starvation here. We behold
the suffering and are unable to re-
lieve it. As high as four Indians a
day are dying, they say by the white
man. Not by bis gun or his knife,
but by his neglect and ill-treatment'
in neglecting to furnish them the
sustenance which is their duty by
treaty with him."
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Independent Republican Com
mittee is the Organizes
ton Opposed to
Blaine.
The Mormons are Worried
About the Senate
Utah Bill,
But Believe God will Sustain
Themin Their Religion.
Prohibition Convention at
Chicago Nominate a
Ticket.
Exciting Races at the Chicago
Driving Park.
Prohibition Convention.

Prohibition Convention.
CHICAGO, June 2O.-The American
prohibition party held another ses>
! sion this morning and appointed a
committee with ex-senator Porter as
chairman to formu ate a platform,
after which 1t adjourned until 2
O'Clock. At the afternoon session a
platform was adopted, which de-
clares that God of the Christian
scriptures is the author of civil gov
eminent; fav0rs the use Of bibles in
schools; withdraws all charters to
secret lodges; opposes prison and inn
ported contract labor; favors a revi-
sion of the patent laws; pledges the
party to vote for ON suffrage; as
serts that civil equality granted by
the thirteenth, fourteenth and ff-
tenth amendments should be ex-
tended to Indians and Cinnamon;
that International differences should
be settled by arbitration; that land
and other monopolies should be dis
couraged; that the government
should furnish a sound currency; that
the tariff should be reduced as fast as
the necessity of revenue and vested
business interest will allow: that
polygamy should at once be sup
pressed; that the Republican party is
censurable for long neglect in its
duty in respect to this evil; demands
a direct vote for President and Vice
President of the United States. The
preamble adopted by the National
Christian Association in 1875 is also
adopted. The convention then pro-
ceeded to the nomination for Presi-
dent of the United states.
S. G. Pomeroy of Kansas, Gov. st.
John of the same State and Rev. J.
Blanchard, of Illinois, were named.
of II votes asst POmeroy received Y
and his nomination was made unan-
inlous. For vice-president J. A. Co.
nant, of Connecticut, was nomio-
ated by acclamiation. The national
committee by states then appointed a
meeting to be held in the evening to
be addressed by Senator Pomeroy
and others.
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Notifying Committee.

BOSTON, June 2O.-The committee
appointed by the National Republi-
can Convention to notify Blaine and
Logan of their nomination, met to
day and decided to take a special
train to Augusta at 10 o'clock and
remain at headquarters until to-4uor-
row morning, when the committee
will wait upon Blaine with the nom
ination which is to he rendered him
by Chapman and Henderson. After
speeches there will be other exercises.
The committee will leave for Port
land where a reception will be ten
dered by the citizens. They Will
reach Boston Monday and then re-
turn home.
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Fast Flyers.

NEW YORK. June 20. - There
were nearly 5000 persons at Fleet.
wood Park to-day. There ere two
races trotted by the famous flyers.
The first race, 235 purse, for ST. 900
was won easily by J r. Graham's
Dad Carlos in three straight heats.
Time 2:279s, 2841, 2444. The Ohio con.
testants were Mary, Artillery.
Fanny. American, Queen, Shamrock
Jessie D., Bessie, Topsy, and jim,
WIN. Between heats Maud s. was
brought out and put arund the
course in 2 131, the fastest time ever
made on this track. Trinket's record
was 2:14, Frank and Running Mate
made a mile in 2 49, and afterwards
covered another mile in 2.l2a.
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AS General James Watson Webb
celebrated his SD birthday on Feb
ruary s, 1884, it was not to be expect
ed that he would recover from the
severe attack of his disease. His
career as a soldier and as an editor is
peculiarly interesting, and he has
been a participation in some of the
fiercest political strifes ever witnessed
in New York,
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THE BOLTING PAPERS.

At no presidential election since
the organization of the Republican
party has there been such a general
revolt against its candidate for the
presidency IS there is against James
G.. Blaine. 1t would seem from the
list of boiling Republican news
papers that the Chicago convention
nominated the very man most dis
tasteful to the larger portion of the
party. In the list which we publish
below there are the names of several
journals which, although classed as
independently have almost invari>
ably supported the Republican ma
tional ticket and admininistra-
ton. The list is far from being COM
plete, and additions are being made
to it every day. No mention is made
of the hundreds of country Repub~
lican papers which refuse to support
MI. Blaine, MOI of the Republican
journals in the larger cities which
give him a lukewaIm or partial sup
port.
To the list must be added the
WesNiche Post, of st. Louis, Carl
Schurz old paper, still largely owned
by him. The list includes the New
York Times, New York Herald,
Harper's Weekly, Puck. Evening TEL
egram, Brooklyn Union, Rochester
POST Express, Rochester Herald, Syr-
acuse Herald, Flushing Times, Bos>
ton advertiser, Boston transcript,
Boston Herald, Springfield Republi-
can, Philadelphia Record, Philadel-
phia Times, Chicago Times, Chicago
News, New Haven News, New
York Ercning Post, New York
Truth, New York Stats Zeitung,
and Illinois Stats Zeitung, Utica
Press, New York MuU and Express,
Philadelphia Telegraph, Worcester
Gazette, Reading Eagle, Flushing
News. Newport NeWs, st. Louis
Auseiger, Kansas City Star, Bellville
Zeitung. Davenport Democrat and
New York Independent.
The list, although a partial one, is
formidable and plainly indicates the
drift of popular feeling against MI.
Blaine. If he be elected in the face
of it the people of America will have
good reason to have their faith |
in the power Of the press.
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Dangerous Expedition.

VANCOUVER, w. T., June 90
den. Miles, commanding in the Dis.
trlct OF Columbia, has detailed I.ien-
tenants Abercombie, Brumback ND
Dr. Robinson, with M, Homan %
Typ tyyPographlcal assistant, to explore
lug Topper river IN Alaska. The ex-
Peoltion Is considered a dangerous
one IS the Copper river country is oc.
.uP,e Dy Indians who have never
sllowed white men to explore It.
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Committee at

AUGUSTA, Maine, June 2O.-A
| special train bearing the committee
appointed by the Chicago convention
to notify Nj. Blaine of his nomlna-
| ton, arrived in Augusta at four min
! utes before 10 tonight. Upon reach
ing the city the members of the COM
mittee entered carriages and were
driven to the Augusta House where
they will spend the night. When
Portsmouth was reached a large
crowd was at the depot and
three cheers were given.
The crowd c'alnored for a
speech, and Mr.. Lynch, of Missis-
sipp,, went out upon the ear plat
form and made q few remarks. Ex-
Senator Rollins, of New Hampshire,
am Judge Foraker, of Ohio, were
each called upon for a speech, and
each responded in turn. At other
stations along the route there were
large numbers to greet them. In the
evening they will be rendered a re-
ception, at which time addresses will
be made by Henderson, Foraker,
Lynch, Goodbe, Filley and others.
WrathY MOrmOns.
SALT LAKE, June 2O.-The Nor
mon press ana prominent Mormons
consider the IIoar bill that just
passed the Senate as a cruel measure,
harh, unjust, tyranical and in some
respects revolutionary and unconsti-
tutional and designed to rekindle the
fires Of persecution in many of the
provisions. They think they will not
stand the test of q judicial examina-
ton and evidently framed with a de-
sign to destroy the Mormon religion.
They assert that the circumstances
here do not cali for any such
enactments and that the existing
public opinion which prompted the
Senators to vote for the measure has
been created by the persistent circn-
lation of false reports concerning the
affair here. Upon the surface there
is no excitement here but it is evil
dent that the Mormons are nerviDg
themselves up for a repetition of
what they allege We're prosecutions
and fortifyiDg themselves in the be-
lief that God will render migratory
all efforts to destroy their religion and
they propose to meet the conse-
quences.
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Der Herald, the most influential
German newspaper in Milwaukee, as
it is in the whole great Northwest.
comes out against Blame, and says it
will support Cleveland or Bayard,
and do so with prejudice to its return
to the Republican ranks after the
battle shall have been fought.
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DAY DlsPA7c@a5S

'rison's FAN
J New YORK, June 2o-o '''''
X. Garrison to-day flsd ~Corpvs
ment in the County Clerk,s'n ssspss
John l. Terry; rrefereucs.s orr
The detail of the ass,vns, sssl
vides for the payment of n%eat NJ
sum to Letitia W. Garrison a., ssis1
Forrest an indebtedness oeorss
ment of the affairs. Tho naass
is due on notes secured ihe,aaiaSI
bonds and realty. W &c.,
Commodore G.. X. C.,~. \
made an assignment to>danS nv,
known as formerly deeply s y.
in Pacific Mail, New O,,.outsts,}
West India steamship l;nes
large stakeholder in proft,h he
companies of this city, St as
New Orleans and other !ar',, 1s
He was principal owner in e%s
souri, Pacific railway, but sol ~ lAtt
few hours ago to Jay Gould vt
been interested lately in nun ~
railway schemes, and was forty
resident of st. Lonis, where haa
the bulk of his fortune prlor y
rebellion.
Melville G. Day, counsel ia,
rison says: The assignment !. y
because of a financial embarrassaas w.
1t was forced upon Garrison hv
test of notes under his endors.,h
yesterday. He is a heavy hoiaas'.
securities and so much OF his wel
is tied up in these, which are stal'
unmarketable at present, tb ul9
could not meet his Iiabilities" !
has a large number OF Ohio rail,i
securities which have shrunI :,
market value of which cannot hs u
timated The assignment is SIM
for the benefit of creditors X
amount involved by The fai|u,aa
Garrison will be nearly s. ANA
The preferences amount to SCAT r.
Assignee Terry said it was imnos';,
yet to give figures. TIE eff.cr
Wall Street was still more nnsot,,'
though not to so great an extent
was feared. Garrison Is not 70
largely interested in stocks, !
fancy being for gas stocks and n
side specu!ations. Stocks fell =
from one to three per cent bU,
prominent banker said the effect
the failure coming as it doe, M
will naturally unsettle things and
fact stocks. can go no lower witho
hitting and hurting some one
think the failure rather a good thi
than otherwise, for it dislributas
large amount of money among mo,
different people. Men like Vandf
.ilt or Garrison do not stoD at an y
emulation of two, three or i've m
lion dollars, but they run it up tot
and twenty millions. That is wro
and a distribution Of such lar
amounts will benefit the people,
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Officers EVaox.l

re ctont of Nd 9 Or; June 2o.-rhe d.
j. Cooi;Gaa Officers: President. ~
dent Tto1 = Boston: first vice.nros i.
1nd vice president, &. O. Ms. sec
PPoosston; secretary, Thee Wvunester,
R ostland; treasurer, F. R. NNygart'
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The Boston advertiser is decided

The Boston advertiser is decided
i n its opposition to the candidacy of
Mr.. Blaine 1t closes an editorial re-
Gently by saying: We have, then,
nothing to retract and nothing to
modify. With undated devotion to
the great purposes for which the Re-
publican party was organized and
has been maintained, we declare our
inability to support the nomination,
either in the present aspect of the
political held or in any which now
likely to present itself.
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Ireland's

DUBLIN, June 2O.-Earl Spencer,
replying to the address of O. deputa-
ton of Presbyterians, said Irela nd
a passed through a turbulent per-
iod, but there were go ID grounds for
hoping that better times were near at
hand. The terrorists' power for evil
was being controlled and the tyranny
they had exercised had passed away.
Order was restored and Irishmen
could now devote themselves to
peaceful pursuits without fear of
outrages. Earl Spencer met with a
cheering reception en- route to Dub
lin, especially in Portstown.
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Bis Luncheon

BERLIN, June 2O.-Bismar7k o.,
5ertalned to>day at portesmentory
luncheon the cabinet ministers anS
members of Burdesrath and Ro;"h ho
stag, Princess Bismarck at tho snm>
t,lne entertained the ladies Of thaae
gentleman. 1t was noticed H.. " ny?
ularck conversed privateiv VII
Werndthoest, the well knoa,yy WIN
montana leader. n'"h Ultra
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In the Scott liquor law cases before
the Supreme Court of Ohio, the
court held that one section of the
law, pertaining to first lien on the
premises, was unconstitutional and
another section valid, and accord
ingly reversed the decision Of the
lower court in one case and affirmed
it in another. The decisions still
leave the constitutionality of the law,
as a whole, undetermined. That
question will probably be argued
next December.
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The Saratoga convention did not
instruct the delegates to the Chicago
convention and their preferences for
q Presidential candidate are a matter
of conjecture. The friends of Cleve-
land and Flower each claim a ma
jorlty for their tavorite.
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Murderer Incarcerated.

NEW YORK, June GOWN. G.. r
helander, who shot Jno. Drake, was
arrested tonight in Brooklyn, where
ne was found in a boarding house and
was locked up in the police head
quarters. He told Inspector Bvrnes
mat he shot Drake because he had
allenated MS wife's affections and in.
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FOREIGN.

CAIRO, June e. -Madhi bias agaIu
written to MuGir of Dongola, suIIt
monlng him to espouse the cause 81
ne consents he will be made govelD~
OF the province and allowed to he,ff
all taxes. If he refuses the lieu1elaIn
OF Mahdi will murder Mudir and"
belonging to him.
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That must have been a tame ratlfi-
cation meeting at Washington night
before last, when John Sherman felt
called upon to prod lukewarm Repub.
llcans and score boilers. The Blaine
and Logan partizans will have their
hands full of that kind OF work dur
ing the ensuing campaign.
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Secretary Chandler has just discov-
cred that systematized frauds have
been carried on in the Naval depart
ment during the past three years.
The Secretary has been a long time
in finding them out.
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The Tichborne claimant, having
been released from prison on a ticket
~of>leave, talks of coming to America
to lecture. Please don't do it. MI.
Fraudulent Tichborne. We can get
along very we'll with Rutherford B.
Hayes.
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1t will require a Democratic ad
ministration to unearth the other
frauds in the Navy department
which Secretary Chandler has, thus
far, overlooked.
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Russian officers propose to attempt
to reach the North Polls by sledges
via the Siberian Islands. It is od6
that we should know more about
space and its planets than we do
about parts of our own earth.
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1t is said that Senator Logan has
bought an English grammer and
will take lessons in the "art IF speak
ing and writing the English language
correctly"
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The "toos" are increasing. They
used to consist almost entirely Of
me Too" Then a Wilde "too toon
was added. and now comes the tat
too, which just now has the call.