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70 tho Yslia,rstane Parh.

DR. D. s. Elder has organized a party Of ladies
and gentlemen who will leave this city on the
18th instant, and go to the National Yellowstone
Park. arriving there on the 18th, after a day
spent in st. Paul and Bismarck, and one in the
famous BadLands Of Dakota The party travel
in their own private Pullman cars, with dining
car attached. The round trip fare is placed at
seventy five dollars. There is no trip in the
world equal to this. Nowhere else are there SO
many wonderful and grand things to be seen as
in the Yellowstone. The party will be gone
from three to six weeks. as persons desire.
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His East visit to the nanr.

Yesterday afternoon a Journal reparter met
Frank H Raschig, one Of the clerks Of the late
banking house of A. s. J. G. S Harrison. 'pm
glad the papers have all spared Mr.. Alfred Har-
rison. The failure wonld not have occurred had
he been actively at business, but for five years
or more he has given little attention to the bank.
He is over eighty-three years old, and at that
age can not be blamed for wishing to take
things easy after a long and active business life.
The last day at the bank he came in the morn
ing and stepped behind the counter just as 1 was
taking the cash trays from the safe. They were
empty, instead of being piled with gold and sill
yer. He looked at the trays in great surprise,
and spoke to me. asking Where's the money!
/ turned away. pretending not to hear. He
asked a second time and.e compelled to- say some
thing. 1 pointed to John G. s. Harrison and told
him to ask him. They went into the back room
together and five minutes batter Mr.. Alfred Har-
risun came out, went to the safe. and taking out
a small Tin box IN which he kept some OF his prf
vate papers. he started for the door He did not
say a word, but as he passed me I saw a great
tear roll down the old gensieman's face. And
that was the end of half a eenturys work. and
an honest upright business life
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At Grover cleveland,s Home.

Warriek Ripley, the attorney. who has just re-
turned from an eastern trip stopped a few days
at Buffalo Hes said to the reporter, yesterday:
4 called on a number of Democratic and Re
publican politicians, and took special pains to
get the pulse of the labor vote. 1 went into the
First ward of Buffalo, which is reliably Demo
cratic by /, 500 majority, and talked TO a nuInber
of workingmen. Ono said: I have thirteen
relatives voters, all Democrats, and every one
Of them will vote against Cleveland, and for
Blaine Others said that for the
first time IN their lives they intended
TO vote for a Republican candidate for the presi
dency. Another told me thar he. with ether
w~orkingmen, all but four Of whom were Demo-
Gratis n to the number Of two hundred, had
formed q Blaine and Logan club In the FIRST
ward of Buffalo there are four Blaine clubs and
only one Cleveland club. How is that for d
Democrats wardl The Maria Halpin story is
NOT coutTadicted there
"The editor of the Express told me there is
not an independent on Republican paper outside
Of New York city that IS now supporting Geve-
land. The Express supported Cleveland two
years ago, but is now for Blaine
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Z WAX TIMES.

"reminiscences Of One of the Counties Where
Indiana Democrats Were Scarcely Loyal.
Hartford City Times.
The MaReie Times is a little mixed in its state
ment that DIR. II. q. payisson, of this place,
murdered Whitaker in this county during the
war. The facts are a squad OF ten or twelve
persons were standing on the roadside, when
Whitaker came riding along the road with a
basket Of groceries on his arm, returning from
Trenton to his home. When he passed the
squad of men. one of them proposed that they
s'kill the Lincoln hireling.r At this suggestion,
a man by the name of Foreman leveled his gun
at Whitaker, and fired, sending a ball whizzing
through Whittakers body. One II. ID.
Wirts. q rebel lieutenant, captured at Get
tysburg, came to this county and was at that
as the order of the Golden Circle. This man
Wirts stated that the Whitaker murder was
discussed fully at a meeting of the order Of the
Golden Circle. and all the particulars of the
murder We're given and that DIR. IL G. Davisson
WAS present at the meeting. and heard tho par
ticulaFs of the murder. Whitaker was buried
in the swamps, but the facts did not come to
light in time to secure the murderer and bring
him to justice, he having fed the country a
short time after the Occurrences.
Wirts, the rebel lieutenant, was sent to Co
lurnbus, o., when he was captured, and in the
exchange of prisoners he was one of q large
humber set at liberty. After he was fbcrs
a,ed az Columbus no heard of
and draft roh being torn up in this county, and
concluded that he preferred staying in such a
county North, rather than go South again, and
be compelled to 60 into the rebel army. So he
struck out for Blackford and was here only
three weeks. when the board of commissioners
appointed him county auditor to fill the unex-
pired term Of Anderson, who had skedaddled to
Canada to avoid the draft. Wirts filed out
Andcrson's time as auditor, and was then nom
mated by the Democracy, in 1864, for the same
ofira and was beaten by Ezra StahE bv onTv.
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ADJUSTMENTS.


GRAND OPERA HOUSE-'Tw0 oFePHANSn
The Arne Walker Dramatic Company began a
weeks engagement at the Grand Opera-house
last night, presenting that most powerful of
romantic plays, '4Fhe Two Orphans The house
was filled To its capacity, and the performance
was in many respects a nerit6rioas ons. The
role of the blind orphan Louise was assumed by
Miss Arne Walker, a child Of fourteen years.
Miss Walkers characterization showed a finish
and ~knowledge of technique, that one would
hardly expect m one Of such tender years. She
possesses much dramatic instinct. and possesses
the making Of d competent actress. The bust
ness in the Frnchord boat house is too long. for
the character of the audiences that cheap prices
bring intofthes galleries. This should be reme-
died, as the gods gave frequent and disturbing
c~ab-ealls. Mr. Edward Arnett, an actor of met
r%opolitan reputation- ENACTED the part ef JaedI1e
Froehard, and De Yaudry, doubling the same.
Mr Arnett is essentially a heavy man,
and the double assumption gave
him much work. Both his reading and acting
were fOaeible. Mr.. Freernan's Pierre deserves
mention, also. as a creditable performance The
Henriette of Miss May Evans WAS rendered with
peculiar grace of action and force of character,
compIementing the Louise in a very sa ~isfaetory
manner, and winning the admiration of her
many friends in the city. Altogether the play
was presented in better form than could be ex-
peeted at the low scale OF prices advertised
The engagement is for the entire week. and no
doubt large houses win be the rule.
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effect of your associate action upon public
opinion. In the logic of events it means that
the laborer has replaced the slave as an object
Of natural interest, and issues Of the future,
rather than the past, viii receive IT'S considera
ton 1t remains in CUR power to increase this
public opinion and to hold its candidate for all
legislative offices. to . stFiet recognition Of this
important and hopeful fact. The Democracy, in
their platform Of 1884, have but the slightest
aIl1tsion to labor Their real views we've shown
plank offered by General Butler was rejected
and, second, in their nomination of Grover
Cleveland over the united protest of the various
trade unions Of New York, thereby adding I'M
suit to injury.
w believe this protest viii grow rather than
diminish, for IN the election of Grover Gfeve-
land we would regard all hopes of further legis-
lation IN the interest of labor futile. WrSh
Cleveland for President and a Southern Cabi
net. our cause for the time being would be lost
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THE SPORTING REcoRp.
Winners of Yesterdays Races Over the h
cage Driving Park Course.

UI,nors p,an. ~;
~ IN
caeo driving fark cearse-
CHICAGO, Aug THE attendance at the
Chicago Drfvine Park was good the weather
w. aNa sNe ss"'A oou
IN the fFSf race. th~ree-fOurths OF a mile for
threesyearo1ds. tho starters wer1 Aetor Whis-
ner;ne Great Maria Mary AnaaySon Tom
- 49, go yrs
a1eore' Neeea Scout bonlSa ana Neo2e. MARIA
Whisperine and Actor ran together for half a
mile. when Maria cuiv. Whfsperfne toet the
Ioo5 "a - {. e. u.+h.. m~
ieau dnU VIII W hNe HeAStASf AetOr SeconaJ
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I~NDIANAANDI ILLINOIS NEWS
The Daily Chronicle Of Happenings Of
All Kinds in the Two States.
A Suspicious COupIe locked Up at Anderson
Suicide Of an Insane Man and a Dis
appointed GirF-State 6feanings.
INDIANA.
A Suspicious Pair Charged with Adultery
and Locked Up.


A Suspicious Pair Charged with Adultery
and Locked Up.
Special to the indianapolis journal.
ANDERSON, Aug. A man giving his name
as H b Lee, with q woman whom he represent
ed as his wife, have been in this city for the past
four weeks, giving instruction in the art of
cameo oil painting. They left here last Wednes-
day, and being unable to pay their board bill,
their baggage was retained by the land
lord of the hotel at which they were
stopping, as security for the debt. Yesterday
the contents of one Of the trunks was exam
ined, and letters were found establishing the
fact that the two were not man and wife, but
that his name is Harris, with a wife and child at
Ada, o.. and her name is Rosa Doyle, of
Montpelier, this State. In answer to a
telegram sent, It was ascertalned
that, after leaving here, the two went
to Muncie, and were passing there as husband
and wife. Accordingly, Marshal Ceburn, of this
city, went TO Muneie at AN early hour. this morn
ing, and arrested the pair, who are now lodged
in the county jail here, charged with adultery.
Both parties stoutiy deny the truth of the allega-
ton. but offer nothing to establish their fnno-
eenee. Evidence of their guilt is fast accunaV-
lating against them,
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Raeing ID nrirhton Beach.

New YeRK, AUG 1.-THE races to-day were
run in a pouring rain. The attendance was fair,
and the track heavy.
The first race, for non winners, three-feurths
Of a mile, was won by Australians; Aedasa second,
Retort third Time, I.29
The second race, for non-winners. three
fourths of a mile, was won by Tony Pastor; Host
age second, Columbia third. Time Ell.
The third race, the Culver railroad stakes. one
mile and a half, was won by Car1ey b.; Dizzie
Blonde second, Brunswick third. Time, 246II.
The fourth race, selling allowances, one mile
and a furFong. was won by Ten-strike; Erin
Burke second. Ghost third Time. 1881.
The fifth race, for all ages, one mile and a fur
long. was won by Arsenic; Frank E. second
Lena third. Time. 2:0t4.
The sixth race, for maidens, seven ~furlongs.
was won by Carlisle; Will Davis second, Florence
j. third. Time, E34S
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letter from GOV. Cleveland.

new YORK, Aug. 4-Gov. Cleveland has sent
the following letter to the Eighth Assembly Dis
triet County Democracy Association:
Your letter of the 18th inst. informing me of the
Endorsement of theticket lately nominated at Chicago
by the Eighth Assembly District Cleveland and Hem
bricks Club. Is received. am glad that the club en-
tors early upon the work Of organization, which |
deem absolutely essential to success. | assure you l
should be glad to be present at the meeting 10 be held
ON this occasion, but my official duties and the increase
Of labor, caused by the engagements madef for me by
the Chicago convention. Will prevent nay taking paRt
in the banner-raising and ratification.
Yours sincerely, GROVER CLEVELAND.
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"Details Of the FIRE.

JERSEY CRY, Aug 4-At Il:30 tonight an
explosion Of gas, said to have been caused by a
leaky main, blew up the flooring and overthrew
the ticket boxes III the entrance to the PennsyI
wanna ferryahouse, at the foot of Exchange place,
Jersey City. Robert M Jones, the night ticket
taker, and William G. Backus were selling
and receiving tickets at the time Both
were blown out of their positions and slightly
hurt. An unknown lady and gentlemen were
pursuing through the entrance at the time; the
woman was pinned down by the overturned box,
and badly burned before she was rescued and
taken charge of by her friends.
The force of the explosion was such as to blow
the glass from the roof and sides of 50x106 feet
of the waiting room beyond the entrance. The
flames shot up in all directions An alarm was
promptly responded to by the city fire depart
ment and the fire boats Of New York city and
the Pennsylvania railroad. A strong softferIy
wind was blowing at the time and carried fire
10 ali portions Of the waiting room and totl1e five
slips of the ferry waiting room. Fhe entire
structure was frame, with the single exception
of a few Offices above the ferry entrance. The
steamboats, Richard Stockton, Of the Pennsyl
vania railroad, a N%ewburg excursion steamer,
and the Thomas p. Way, of the
Steel & Conditas Bay Ridge line. were
lying at the dock adjoining the most southerly
Of the five slips, with two ferry-boats tied up for
the night, but were pulled into the stream by
tugs, uniniured. The cars In the depot and one
Adams express car were pulled out Of danger.
The fire has now consumed five slips and the
sheds connecting them, the ferry
and railroad offices. and waiting
rooms, with the contents. The main depot
has brick walls and an iron and glass
roof and will probably be saved
Railroad PASSENGERS are landed at Washington
street, three blocks west of the ferry.
and trains will start from the
same point. 1t is understood that
the ferry boats will land and receive passengers
at Harrison's cove freight-Yard, where the com
pany have several floating bridges. No teams
can be transported until the ferry-boat slips are
rebuilt.
LATER-The fire has been confined to- it's
present limits. The shed on the Adams express
dock is slightly damaged. and about one hundred
feet of the main depot destroyed, but the re-
mainder is intact. So far as known, DO lives
were host
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Brief Mention.

The headquarters of the telephone exchange
at Clinton were burned and Totally destroyed by
LIGHTNING, the whole block in which the central
Office was located narrowly escaping,
W. B. Simonds, the defaulting supervisor of
Concord township, IroquOis county. has returned
to Watseka IN charge Of Sheriff Barber. who
arrested him in Denver. Col. He langrishes@ in
the jail.
While riding ON a load of hay, during a visit
to an uncle In the country, near Sycamore. the
nine5yearzold daughter Of Mr.. n Xix, editor Of
the City Weekly OF that place was preeipitated
to the ground by a part Of the load slipping off,
and broke her leg near the hip joint.
A telegram was received at NATION, yesterday
morning, from Washington, D c., announcing
the sudden death at that place, yesterday even
Gray's mother and relatives reside near Mattoon.
and his remains will probably be brought to that
city for burial.
On Sunday afternoon the cornerstone of tho
new Catholic church at Mattoon was laid with
imposing ceremonies in the presence of thousands
Of interested spectators. The Rt. Rev. Bishop
Baltes, of Alton, IH, conducted the ceremonies.
Excursions were run from all the ~neighboFing
towns. The church is expected to be one Of the
finest, in central Illinois.
Charles Blunk, of New Albany. Ind, was killed
at Mount Vernon, while making a switch for the
east-bound Airline train Deceased was a brake
man on the Airline, and stepped I'M behind the
engine, which was backing up, and endeayored
to step on to the tender. and IN some way missed
his hold and fell to the ground, the engine pass
ing over him and cutting him to pieces.
William Trow. an old resident of Bloomington,
ended his life by committing suicide. Early in
the evening he went to his home and had some
alteration with his wife regarding the punish
ment of a Young child for some misdeme amor
He afterHEard visited a drugstore and purchased
a quantity of stryehnine, and. going home, he
mixed the fatal drug and swallowed the contents
in the presence of his son.
last Friday, at his fathers coal mine, near
Duquoin, Dick Galley, a youth Of twelve, was
killed in the absence Of witnesses. When found
he was hanging in mid air with three coils of
the wire hosting cable around his neck and
the large vertical drum. 1t is supposed he was
practicing rope-walking on the horizontal por-
ton of the rope while the machine was in mo,
ton, and III falling was caught as found, while
the horse continued his rounds until tho cage
was up
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Mr.. Blaine,s Private Character.

Eey. O. b. Cheney. President of Bates College,
l feel it my duty to say that T lived a neighbor
to Mr. Blaine four or five years; that l have
been intimately acquainted with him for the last
thirty years. and that T should as soon think Of
raising aqaestion ON his character and habits as
on the character and habits of Neal Dow or ex
Governor Dingfey. This is no more Than l
would say Of any true man Of any political party.
Mr.. Blaine is a man, and, like all men, has made
mistakes, but he is pure, temperate, honest
and truthful-a Statesman the world over, 50 his
Slanderers can not hurt him.
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Instructions have been received at the signal
office in this city that in the future coldwave
signals win be displayed here, on t~elegraphie or
der from the Chief signalO fieer at Washington,
d c., wheneveF it is anticipated that the tenn
p~erature win fall decidedly below the normal,
and it viii BE- lowered whenthe temperature has
reached it's minimum. The signal consists Of a
white flag with square, black confer, which will
be- displayed from the flag STAFF of Fletcher q
Sharpe's building.
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..0aiet and order, Elsewhere.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 1.-The Courier-Jour-
nails MoRehead, KY, special says I'm an alter
cation between VIM. Thumbs and Il. G. Price,
Price was slightly wounded and Solomon Brad
ley killed; Ed Zimmerman was fatally wounded,
and John Martin ana Allen Sutton seriously
hurt. Bradley, who is 3 prominent citizen, was
trying to stop the fight when he was shot. A
large crowd was standing around. and others
were shot accidentally. II is not known who
did the shooting
A special from Enterprise. KY, says: In an
election fight, r. M. Gritty shot two unknown
men and received a shot in the head. An are
supposed to be fatal
At Somerset Ky. James Lay, sixty years
old, and Bant Dalton. aged fifty. met at the cleo,
ton. to-day and renewed an old quarrek in the
course Of which Dalton WIS shot and killed.
Lay was arrested. The men lived near Somer-
set.
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. ANhs OhusAAAS FtONS tAtO lAlS lGIbGT ~ uOLGl
years ago to one Of his college classmates:
HorsR on REPRESENTATION
WAsHINGToN, D. c. April ;, 1S72S
Prof. Alexander NJ. Cow.
My Dear Friend and Glassmate: You ask my story of
five and twenty years. StorYt God bless youi as Cam
ning's knifesgrinder says, | have none to tell. In Oc-
reber, IS47, ten days after our graauatfons / went to
Kentucky; there for nearly three years I spent the
life of . tutor returned then to Pennsylvania, where l
renamed till 1853. wheHI went to Maine to engage in
editorial labor. Was successfveTy editor Of The Ken
nebec Journal and Portland Daily Advertiser wish
l could say successfully. though ON shat score | was
not wholly deficient. | was a member of the Maine
Legislature in 1859. 1860, lS61. and 1862; the last
two years was Speaker Of the House. In the autumn
of 1862 l was elected to Congress. and have been a
meraber IN the Thirty.eighth, ThirtFsninth, F0rtieth
and Fortyfirst Congresses, Speaker of the last two.
Married a Maine lady, which was the cause of my emil
grafton Eastward. Have had seven children, four
sons and three daughters; six living; lost one infant
SON There IS my brief. social personal, and Political
believe it fairly answers your questions Hope to
meet all the boys for boys they will always be to
mel in June, and renew the pleasures Of college days.
Faithfully and hastily yours, JAMES G. BLAINE.
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A Lost Platforms


Miss Gruudy, in the Graphic.
When I saw the committees communication
and engrossed copy of the Democratic platform
IN IT'S neat morocco case MIR Hendrickss hands
| asked him if he would put it away with that he
received in ike manner in 1876 He said he did
not Know now where that was. This one. at all
events seems to be gotten up in too handsome a
style not no be carefully preserved Mrs. Hen
bricks says the notification IN 1876 was very I'M
formal as compared with that of this week, and
that there were no speeches made then.
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GREAT FIRE At JERSEY CITY
Ferry Slips and Freight Houses of the
Pennsylvania Railway Destroyed.
The Fire the Result Of an Explosion Of Gas,
Caused by a heaky MaiR-Lsss Net
Known but Supposed To Be Heavy.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-The Pennsylvania Central
railroad depot, at Jersey City. is ablaze, and just
now ElI30J seems doomed
HIS P. M-The Ere at the Pennsylvania rail
road depot. at Jersey City, is spreading and the
heat IS so great that iiremen and employees are
prevented from saving anything on shore,
while tug-boats cannot get near enough
to tow out the ferry-boats and freight
boats, and these must go in the general destruc-
tion at the depot. The piers are also burning,
and this involves the loss Oe all freight and cars
upon them The wind is light, yet sufficient to
give the FIRE a northerIy direction. The loss
viii be very heavy.
1890 A. M-The Pennsylvania railroad depot
and the ferPy-houses are destroyed The flames,
however, burn furiously yet. and have attacked
the Adams express pier; that portion nearest
the shore is on fire. The fremen are labering
hard to save 1t, but there are fears that the shed
which covers it will carry the flames
throughout its length and BREADTH The
entire fire department. Of Jersey City is at work
pouring water upon the flames, while the river
boats are contributing q namher of heavy
streams.
The Pennsylvania railway depot and the ferry
houses being Of wood, and stocked with every
sort OF combustible material, the flames made
sure and rapid work, mocking the eempanys
fire department. an organization of employees,
and defying the labors of the city fire depart
ment, while there was a stick of wood standing
for the flames to feed on.
l A. M.-The fire was caused by an ex-
plosion Of gas in the ferry entrances. The
flames spread rapidly to the ships and railroad
depot. Taylors Hotel has been saved thus far
by q favOring wind. The Brooklyn Annex slips
and four ferry slips, the railroad and ferry
offices with the waiting rooms, are burned, and
the flames are advancing npoh the main depot