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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-30

ueiegate from Goliad county and III,
oldest delegate at the convention IT,
occupied seat on the platform.
lion. Web Flanagan had followir,
oil lusty delegates who cheered yocifer
ously whenever his name WINS man
toned. 'i'
Judge Rector of Austin knows wba
70 say and how to say it.
lion. Powell Clayton was the cvno
s FUR. OF all eyes during his presence or
Pasco is not anxi Gus to sacrifice
niuIseiI Oh the altar of his country.
s.r Mt Jesse Grant speaks little but b;s
sense OF feeling is powerful. Whiis
s soae try TO look through the mill.
''1 W, ne feels for what is behind II
to Mhen Hoke OF Temple said nthrea
ior flanagan and one for Ds Grass ~ !,
sn response to the call of his comfy =.
signedly. ''' ooWh re-
.o; The gentleman from Freestone ,,...
r roIlad as y, rock for Flanagan. His words %
liz Ieu nom the parquet upon the STAGE
deleaatiaoh oaiis. The Harris county
hy .,, :, - ut"h speak as thew nassad
ny ana when called upon 10 v3ta a .he.,
rp,,t wiue open. Dick Allen tried :,
ring IN cold deck but one Of u ,he 70
f p"s,ng delegates called him down up
70 tofa inc draw and they had to All o u
W nnlscuss matters. 'a'i o"t
me delegate who rose and ss;dn,
c we're no "contestationsn rrnn ,h ~,
county, couldn't tell for tba lisa oti ms
w3 n.y. people We're laughing at. IT. oi MN
when the secretary called er :.
ny 1ose 81 Matagorda, the son of Erin a .me
d All oenegambian who comnosad a tha
,ue'egation nom that county SaJ 'ne
s shss.; each insisting on couStjn mau "a
! ;s,s delegate. The coIored m an
paper, but Pat denied iii ita
rf',nenliclty, averring, ~ know n sn ss
an mi"re ~ MYSELF amid roar, ~
M MA; DeGress can listen to nov,
,ear TSnairmans" without seemin" ,o
is,l LIEN than any one. His mnisn 10 10
or,,, me ihe speakers were bo,d,nu
,orl iauding Justice of the grand nI6
MY 70 It's freedom to all, there u w 4,a
q tyo Two Of the sable brstlren v;s Isie
'le naked eye on the platform. '''0'e
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-30

Ii did the soul of the Houston Pos
good and warmed the blood In its rep
resentative to see the correspondent o
the Galveston News, who has beef
furnishing his paper with Democratic
pronunciamentos, stand up and yot,
IN the Republican convention when
Anderson county was called.
=, foints of order spring perennially In
the human breast and find expression
on The human tongue.
The value of strikers and superfIuous
delegates Is shown nowhere so well as
III taking vote viva voce.
Judge Amos g. Foster was on the
stage-not the burly Amos of yore, but
me subdued, I-may-get-my-w0 rk-in-
yet Amos of latter days.
There Is one difference between law
ana politics. When an adverse de-
cision Is rendered the victim can APP
peal or cuss the court in the former,
Whiie In the latter he can only cuss
and cuss.
After the Fannin county vote had
neeii cast Col. Bob Taylor announced
lhat one OF the delegates had experi-
encen change of heart and desired TO
vote the other way. No references to
illusions.
Inc red-headed ranger of the PAM
pas may live to fight another day by a
prudent retreat.
Umbdenstock Is worker and he Is
In the hands of his friends.
The statement that Hon. Web Elan
sgan was accorded the privilege of adj
pressing the convention through fear
y an explosion, is said to be a base
% A IL
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-30
Convention Notes

ahuerson county was tho first ~
' su.s. She had a good looking delegate
WIN a nasso profundo voice. s
Hon W, /. Hunter, one Of The s,,r.
''S0rs 81 the Goliad massacre, was as !,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-30

sey who got AVN W.
Of the peoples nons! :.
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are are lew men inM
VIII who TX elm di.pe.s
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Col. VIC. sans
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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-24
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Wreck of an Excursion Party Attending
With Miraculous Escape.

A Canton, O., special says point on
the Valley railroad, two miles east of that
place on the Goth, was the scene of terrible
wreck, in which one thousand excursionists
miraculously escaped with injuries. The
employees Of Aultman g. Co.'s machine
works had their annual picnic at Cuyahoga
Falls and over 2, 600 went on the excursion,
made up of two trains of fifteen cars each.
The first section arrived at Cinton at 7:20 d.
M, and while hundred fathers, brothers
and sisters were at the station waiting for
friends and relatives on the second section,
hatless messenger came running down the
track crying that the train had been wrecked
and many killed and injured. The scene
that followed was of the widest description,
and when the wreck was reached men, wo-
men and children, ran around wringing
their hands and looking for their loved
water four feet deep. The cries of the in
jured were heartrending. Hundreds Of
willing hands set to work and soon found
that not more than TWENTY-FIVE were injured;
but it was impossible to know how many or
who were killed.
The engineer says the wreck was caused
by the track spreading. The engine pas sed
safely but the first car jumped the track and
eight others followed and ran alongside the
track, throwing the occupants from side to
side and finally jumped the track and landed
in three feet Of water. The doors We're cut
open and the people got out. Later intelli-
injured, but no deaths are reported, and the
wounded are doing better than expected.
No one was killed, and those missing and
supposed to be under the wreck have turned
up. The loss to the railroad company is
about So, 600.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-24
How Bears Fish.
The West Oh!


Very few people know that bears take
to water naturally. They roam over
the mountains and through forests, dig
open rotten logs for ants and worms,
and secure all the hornets nests they
can, and tear them to pieces and eat
the young grubs, pick berries of all de-
scriptions and eat them, and would
seem to belong to the dry land animals.
The fact is different. They love the
water, not, perhaps, as well as the
moose and deer, but better than most
dry land animals. They are fond of
fish and are expert fishermen, and show
more cunning and instinct, if not
reason, than many city chaps l have
seen about the lakes. came suddenly
upon very large bear in thick swamp,
lying upon large hollow log across a
brook, fishing, and he was so much in
terested in his sport that he did Lot no.
tice me until approached very near
to him, so that I could see exactly how
he baited his hook and played with
his fish. He fished in this wise: There
was a large hole through the log
on which he lay, and he thrust his.
forearm through the hole and
held his open paw in the water and
waited for the fish to gather round and
into it, and when full he clinched his
fist and brought up handful of fish,
and sat down and ate them with great
gusto; then down with the paw again,
and so on. The brook was fairly alive
with little trout and red-sided suckers,
and some black suckers, and so the old
fellow let himself out on the fishes. He
did not eat their heads. There was
quite pile of them on the log. 1 sup
pose the oil in his paw attracted the
fish, and bated them even better than
fly hook, and his toe nails were his
hooks, and sharp ones, too, and, once
grabbed, the fish were sure to STAY.
They also catch frogs in these forest
brooks, and drink the pure water in hot
summer days, and love to lie and wallow
in muddy swamps as well as our pigs
in the mire. They often cross narrow
places in lakes by swimming, and also
rivers, and seem to love TO take turn
in the water. Ionce saw one swimming
from the main land to the big island in
Mosselmaguntic lake, with just a streak
of his back out of the water, looking like
a log moving along. Sometimes you
see only their heads out of the water;
at other times half of their bodies are
to be seen. We account for this differ
ence by their condition. If fat, the
grease helps to buoy them up; if lean,
they sink lower in the water.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-24
NEBRASKA TO THE FORE.
Preparing for the Cotton Centennial that
Opens at New Orleans Next
December.

Lincoln Journal.
Pursuant to call of Ex-Governor
Robert w. Furnas, commissioner for Ne
braska, the following named gentlemen met
the 10th: Gov. James W. Dawes, Lincoln
Ex-Governor Robert W. Furnas, Brown
vile; E. Mcintyre, Seward; W. w. Wat
son, Fairbury; E. p. Savage, Sergeant
Samuel Barnard, Table Rock; J. 81. Gull
YER. Milford; W. II. Barstow, Crete; John
C. Bonnell, Lincoln.
An organization to be known as the Ne
brasks Centennial Commission was per-
fected, and on motion Robert W. Furnas
was made chairman, and John C. Bonnell
secretary Of the commission.
After very full and free expression from
the gentlemen present as to the work in
hand, it was decided that the following
gentlemen be appointed by the commission
to act as sub commissioners and to take
charge of the different departments or
bureaus assigned them, and prepare for ar
ranging for the display to be made by Ne
braska at New Orleans:
John C. Bonnell, architecture; j. Fl.
Culver, milling interests and water power,
including Touring mills, paper mills,
wooden mills, oil mills, to make a
display of these products at the exhibi-
ton, and to furnish a chapter for publica-
ton on the unimproved water power Of the
state; John J. King. Dairy; W. W. w.
Jones, educational; Samuel Barnard, horti-
culture; E. P. Savage, live stock; W. II.
Barstow and E. Mcintyre, agriculture; j.
D. Calhoun, press; C. R Schaller, pottery,
tile, brick and terra Gotta work; w. l..
May, piscator1al; s. NJ. Parker, wool;
Prof. Hicks, geological; Prof. Bessy, bo-
tanical; Lawrence Bruner, entomology.
On motion it was decided that each mem
Der Of the state agricultural and horticultural
societies should be asked by Commissioner
Furnas to aid in securing specimens of
grains, grasses, root products, etc., and to
forward them to him at Omaha when mott
fed and requested.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-24
THE CHOLERA PLAGUE.
Precautions Being Taken to Prevent les
Reaching This Country.

Secretary Frelinghuysen has instruct
cd by cable the consular officers at London,
Liverpool, Marseilles, Havre, Bordeaux,
Bremen and Hamburg to at once appoint
competent physicians to inspect all vessels
and passengers departing for the United
States from the ports mentioned. The
consular officers referred to are INSTRUCT
ed to refuse clear bills of health IN all
cases except upon the recommends
ton of the sanitary inspector that such
bills be given. The consuls are in
structed to report by cable any case Of in
fictitious or contagious disease known to
exist on board Of q vessel at the time of her
departure for the United States. This
course is adopted in order that the health
officers in our ports NAV have timely warn
ing of the approaching danger and be pre-
pared to take such measures as shall pre-
vent the scourge from gaining fOothold in
this country. 1t is probable that under the
authority conferred by the contagious dis
ease clause of the legislative bill, medical
examiners will be appointed as attaches to
the American consulates at the French ports
infected with the cholera, whose duty it
will be to report periodically upon the pro-
gress of the disease
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-24
Educated Indians at Home.
Globe (Arizona) Chronicle.


Three young Chiricahua Indians.
graduates of the government school at
Carlisle, Pa, have recently arrived in
San Carlos. They are sent there by
Gen. Armstrong to show what sort of
''injun" civilization can turn out. They
are dressed in the very latest style of
eastern clothes, wear high collars,
Derby hats and carry canes, and, as
was intended we suppose, make pro-
found sensation among their barbarous
brethren. That the training they have
received has civilized them, and that
their reasoning powers have been fully
developed, is evidenced by the fact that
they demand that their names be placed
on the government pay roll and to
draw their salaries without doing any
work. Is it possible for any man
white, black or red-to show greater
intelligence than this? We trust Col.
Beaumont-he has the reputation of
being very stern man-will not be
too severe on his Indian dudes.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-24
THE ASIATIC PLAGUE.
Secretary Foiger Issues Orders for Guard
ing Against tho Same.

Secretary Folger has issued instruc-
tions to collectors Of customs and other per-
sons interested to prevent, until further or:
ders, the unloading Of rags from infected
foreign PORTS and rags which are suspected
on good grounds of being infected, coming
from any foreign port. The surgeon-gen-
ersl of the marine hospital service tele-
graphed the health authorities of New Or
leans that the secretary Of the treasury had
directed the vessels of the revenue marine
service to patrol the coasts Of the
United States, including the gulf
against cholera. 1t Is expected that the
president will issue an executive order call
ug attention to the necessity for mors s,rin-
gent precautions against theintredperion OF
cholera, and urging the greatest vigilance
on the part of the govern ment, both at
home and abroad. Quarantine will preba-
bly, be established azains. Canada and also
against Mexico, in whi"a latter place there
is reported an epidemi., Of yellow fever.
The epidemic iucd, OF which there is an
"a lance of about $3.50 o, will
be utilized by the authorities for these pur-
poses. The administration has determined
to make every possible effort TO prevent the
of the conta giOn.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-24
STILL WITHOUT A BISHOP.
President Potter, Of Hobart College, De-
clines to be Bishop of Nebraska.

Omahs Herald.
Rev. James Paterson, secretary OF the
Episcopal council of the diocese Of Ne.
braska, Is In receipt of letter from DIR.
Eliphaiet N. Potter, of New York, declin-
ing the office of bishop of Nebraska, unani-
previous to his election here DR.. Potter was
called to the presidency of Hobart College,
at Geneva, N. Y. to accept which he re-
signed similar Office at Union College, and
as he so fifty expresses 1t In his letter he
feels that the institution and the church at
large. has prior claim upon his services.
DIR. Potter's decision will necessitate the
holding of another council, for which the
requisite sixty days notice will be issued
shortly. The letter of declination is as fol-
lows:
HOBART COLLEGE,
GENEVA, N. Y, July 9th.
DEAR BRETHREN: Your communication
informing me that had been ''unanimous.
ly elected to the office Of bishop of Nebras-
ka,' was so unlocked for and SO impres.
sive that 1t has moved me profoundly. 1t
is no small honor that you should have
thought of me at all In connection with your
vacant diocese. 1t is still greater honor
that you should have accounted me worthy
to take up the work of the great bishop
whom we have lost. Were free to do so,
l should have come to you In response to
your call, gladly and at once. You bid me
to noble diocese of the great west, in
which enduring foundations have been laid
for the future of the Church. But 1 am
not free. 1t may be strained sense of
duty-there are those Of my friends who
will think so-yet l cannot feel myself at
liberty SO soon to abandon the needed work
for Christian education and the Church at
large upon which have but Just entered,
and to which / am strained to account my
self, especially in view of renewed requests
of its Representatives, honorably bound.
In forwarding, after serious reflection,
this declination, L am convinced that there are
those available who can with abundant abil-
ity administer even so important diocese
as that of Nebraska. May God send to you
such an one to carry forward the Masters
work which has been begun with such
promise of enduring success in your at
tractive and progressive state. The well
fare of the diocese will ever be of deep in
terest to me, and shall rejoice in any way
to serve it or its clergy or laity.
Respectfully and affectionately yours,
ELIPHALET n. POTTER.
To the Rev. Clergy, President John McNa-
mara, Secretary James Paterson and 9TH
ers; and to the Laity, Hon. James M.
Woolworth, Chancellor, and others for
the Council of the Diocese of Nebraska.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-24
POLITICAL.

The national executive committee of
the prohibition home protection party will
meet at Pittsburg the 22d inst. to make final
arrangements for their convention which
commences on the following day. Delegates
ate daily arriving, and it is expected that
when the convention is called to order over
500 will be seated, representing every state
in the union. Secretary Swager says in the
event of the s, ccess of their party Miss
Frances E. Willard will have the choice Of
cabinet positions.
John F. Henry, president of the ma
tional anti-monopoly organization, says.
81 have not heard from Butler since Cleve-
land was nominated, but from what he said
to me before going to ChicagoI am confident
it. He has formally accepted the nomina-
ton of the anti monopolists, and he tel
graphed me from Chicago on Thursday,
saying he could never consent to the NOM
inatiOn Of monopol!st.
Chairman Plympton, the leading
Butler manager of Massachusetts,, arrived
at Plymouth from Chicago on the 18th. He
declined to make definite statement in re-
gard to Buffers plans. He said no man
had authority to say what he would do.
Gen. B. F. Butler, was interviewed
by Washington Star reporter. He posi-
lively refused to discuss his attitude or in
innate his future course. He said the lat
ter is his subject for consideration and when
he gives it the careful consideration it
merits, he will declare himself over his own
signat ire in no unmistakable terms. He
denounces in a wholesale way any and all
expressions or declarations purporting to
have come from him as false.
Information has been received from
close friends of Gen. Butler by B. F.
Shively, secretary of the anti. mOnopolist
committee, dispelling doubts regarding
Buffers candidacy for the presidency on
an Independent ticket, and stating definite
ly and positively that he will run. Shively,
who was at the Briggs house in Chicago,
expressed the most absolute certainty that
Butler would be candidate with the en-
dorsement of the greenbackers, anti monop-
olist and possibly laboring men. Buffers
refusal to at present make public state
ment, Shively says, is prompted by desire
to first see what will be done by the conven-
ton of the labor representatives to be held
at Chicago, July 3Oth.
The republicans of the Sixteenth Hi
nois district nominated James Mccartney
for congress.
The New York state greenback con-
vention is called to meet in New York City,
August 9th.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-24
FOREIGN.

The Shanghai correspondent of the
London Times says: "Sir Robert FL art,
Chinese customs inspector, is trying to
negotiate with Palenotre, the French min
lister. The foreign council seems blind to
the dangers of war of rebellion. Prince
Chun trusts to the Boosting fanatics and to
officials who conceal the defenseless condi-
ton Of the coast. Ignorance, confusion
and treachery render the situation critical.
The British officers here left the Chinese
fleet.''
The London Times SAYS: ssThe plat
forms concocted by the republican and
democratic conventions are both unworthy
of respect. They are distinguished by the
absence of clear conviction and by evasions
and trimmings, by servile rivalry in tlatter-
ing OF the masses and in pandering to the
popular pre- JUDGES of modern demagogues
and social quacks.'
During the national fete day celebra-
at Paris band of excited students, having
visited the Strasburg monument, attacked
the Continental hotel and destroyed the
German flag. Gamins assisted the stu
dents, who Threatened to assault the pro
prietor of the hotel. The students returned
at night and did more damage, but were
dispersed by the police.
The report that the cholera had made
its appearance at Lyons, France, is denied.
The pope has decided to create res
idental archbishop at Carthage in charge
OF Cardinal Lavigete, at present archbishop
OF Algiers. Monsignor Duserre will be ap-
pointed archbishop Of Algiers.
Prince Hohenlope, the German en-
bassador, called at the French foreign Of
fee on the subject of the insult offered to
the German flag.
Private advices via Jamaica from
headquarters Of the Cuban insurgents state
that the insurgents, under the immediate
command of Aguero, under took an eXpedi-
ton against the plantations of certain per-
sons known to favor the government. AL
though opposed by a strong detachment Of
regular troops the insurgents, after skirm-
ish of two hours, drove back the forces and
burnt all the buildings and machinery on
the Santa Maria and La Mercedes planta-
tions. At the same time band of insur-
gents of the Sagua district were attacked
by a strong force of government troops,
known as the San Domingo division. The
insurgents being entrenched in an almost
lmpregnable position repulsed the troops
with loss of three killed. Several were
wounded.
The French minister at Tienben has
demanded the withdrawal of Chinese troops
from the frontiers of Tonquin and the pay
ment of the indemnity asked by France.
This demand was delivered to Tsung Lii
Yamen. who rejected it. The time allowed
China by France for compliance with the
terms she offered expires July 10, and war
is apparently inevitable.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-24
Sentenced to Swing.

At Charleston, w. Va, Judge Guth-
RE held special session of court ard sem
fenced Charles Spurlock, a member of the
chill boys' Jesse james, gang, who muir
dered Alvin Woods and shot his father,
Jack Woods. near st. Adams, in the latter
part of April. Spurlock is to be hanged
October 18th. His only request when sem
tence was pronounced was that he be bap-
tized. Notwithstanding that he confessed
to murder in the first degree, when brought
out for trial, he said that he did so in fear
of the mob and now denied ever having
killed any one.
VIM. Coleman (colored), who shot and
killed Fenton Hill (eolored) at a Saturday
night dance last October, was sentenced by
the same Judge to be hanged on the same
day as SpurIOck.