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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-08-07
patriotic" A resolution demanding the 70
form of the Lords was also adopted.

patriotic" A resolution demanding the 70
form Of the Lords was also adopted.
Mr.. O'Brien, the editor Of United
Ireland. has been mulcted in heavy damages
for referring to Mr.. Bolton, an Irish Crown
Prosecutor, as swindler, a forger, a per-
jurer, and an adultcrer. A Belfast jury has
fixed the money value of the injury done to
Mr.. Bolton at $4,000.
A curious notion prevails among the
poor and uneducated classes of Marseilles and
Toulon to the effect that the physicians are
aiding In the spread Of the cholera In order
to get rid Of the surplus population. 1t ap-
pears that a medical crank at Berlin recently
read paper In which he referred to cholera
as q providental visitation to kill of persons
unfit to live This has been printed and cir
cnlatcd extensively in the infected districts.
the ignorant people rs forerunners Of death,
and are fought of with knives and pistols.
A theological library Of 10000 vol
umcs has been presented to the Wesleyan
Conference Of London by gentleman who
will not permit his name to be given to the
public.
The bill for the construction of
ship canal from Liverpool to Manchester was
rejected in the House of Lords.
A mandatory of explosive bombs
was discovered by the police Of Paris, who
arrested three persons found at work.
DAILY and Egan, the alleged Irish
dynamitards, were convicted at Warwick,
England, on the charge of treason-felony.
DAILY was sentenced to penal servitude for
life, and Egan to twenty years penal seryi-
tude. Mcdonnell, who pleaded guilty, was
permitted to escape without punishment.
DAILY made speech in his own defense. He
said he moved about under an assumed
named; so did Queen Victoria. He had the
same right. He asked not for mercy, but
justice, and intimated that he did not expect
either at the hands of British jury.
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LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Although the cotton crop in most Of
the Southern States is about two weeks late
the indications point to large yield. In
Southwestern Texas some damage has been
done by recent rains.
Alton, N. Y, was half destroyed by
fire, involving loss of $4,000.
The glass works of King, Son & Co.
ut Pittsburgh, valued Mt s5O,00O. took fire
from a leakage in the natural gas pipes and
was wholly consumed.
The survivors of the Greedy expedi-
tion will be kept Mt the Portsmouth Navy
Yard for hospital treatment for two weeks.
A special parade and demonstration was held
at Portsmouth to honor the return of the ex-
plorers.
The Illinois convention of the Ma
tional Autobiography Labor party is called to
meet at Bloomington Aug. 10.
S. b. Elkins, who is to manage the
Blaine campaign, has resigned the presiden-
cy of a bank in Santa he which has regularly
paid Is per cent. per annum.
A Cincinnati paper reports that John
X. Mclean, Of the Enquirer, is negotiating
for the purchase of the Chicago Times. 1t is
stated that one of McLean's foremen has
been in Chicago inspecting the type-setting
department of the Times.
A company has been organized at
Denver to build furnace for cremation
purposes.
Maud S., on a slow track at Cleve-
land, trotted a mile in 2:09a, beating all rec
ords.
The food at Cincinnati last spring SO
thoroughly cleansed the bottoms that the
death-rate is the lowest in four years.
Stanley, the African explorer, was
given banquet at Ostend by the King OF
the Belgians and the Due d'Aumale.
In the House of Commons, the other
day, Gladstone announced the failure of the
Egyptian conference to arrive at any conclu-
sion, which, after a brief session, had ad.
journed sine die.
Returns made to Parliament in re-
gard to the operations of the Irish arrears
rent act show that &, 10000 owing landlords
by farmers has teen wiped out under the act
since 1882.
Great Britain has decided to establish
pigeon stations at all army centers at home
and abroad, and has sent an officer to study
the system in France and Germany.
At picnic near Glasgow, No., two
persons from Moherly got into quarrel Two
policemen endeavored to restore peace when
one of them, Tom Suphey, was shot dead by
Harrison Mickey, one Of the parties to the
quarrel. A mob ynched the murderer.
A small party of mounted men took
from the jail at Orange Court House,
Virginia, negro named John Fitz-
nueh, who had made criminal assault upon
a white lady, and hanged him to tree in the
woods near by. At Ration, New Mexico, q
greaser who had assaulted q young girl was
given horse-whipping by the American cit
liens and then hanged to cottonwood tree
by thirty men of his own race.
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How Political Debate OF 1880 Ended.

One of the most exciting duels ever
fought took place at Little Rock, AK,
in 1880, between Gen. Conway and
Robert Crittenden. It was of polit-
ical nature. Parties were just begin
ming to form in the State. and the two
gentlemen were opposing candidates
for Congress, and canvassed the State,
taking different routes. The people,
however, clamored for o joint discus
sion, and the men spoke in pine grove,
opposite Little Rock, people coming AZ
great distance rs 400 miles to DO
present, and camping out around the
town. The discussion became highly
personal, and ut the close of Critten-
den's speech he said he hoped no gen.
tleman would utter words in the heat
Of debate concerning him that would
not be tolerated in the code of honor.
Conway answered in shower of in
vective, and . challenge followed. A
tremendous crowd collected to see the
encounter. Ben Desha son of Gov
ernor Of Kentucky, was second for
Crittenden, and Wharton Rector for
Conway. During the preli> inaries
Conway was angry and restless, while
Crittenden lay on the ground on a
blanket, with his eyes closed rs if in
slumber. At the word fire from Desha,
Conway pulled the trigger, but missed
Standing firm, calm and collected
Crittenden fred at the word two, and
his adversary fell, pierced through the
heart by o ball from Crittenden's
pistol.-Cinciasnati Enquirer.
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A Sermon ON Cranks.

What would we do were it not for tho
cranks? How slowly the tired old
world would move did not the cranks
keep it rushing along! Columbus was
q crank on the subject of American
discovery and navigation, and at last he
met the fate of most cranks, was
thrown into prison, and died in poverty
and disgrace. Greatly venerated now?
Oh, yes, Telemachus, we usually esteem
a crank most profoundly after we starve
him to death. Harvey was a crank on
the subject Of the circulation of the
blood; Calico was an astronomical
crank; Fulton was a crank on the sub
Ject of steam navigation; Morse was a
telegraph crank. All the old aboli-
tionists we're cranks. The Pilgrim
fathers were cranks; John Bunyan was
o crank; any man that doesn't think rs
you do, my son, is crank. And, by
and by, the crank you despise will have
his name in every mans mouth, and
half completed monument to his
memory crumbling down in a dozen
cities. while nobody outside of
your native village will know that
you ever lived. Deal gently with the
crank, my boy. OF course some cranks
are crankier than others. but do You be
very slow to sheer ut n man because he
knows only one thing and you can't
understand him. A crank, Telemachus,
is . thing that turns something, it
makes the wheels GO round, it insures
progress True, it turns the same
wheel all the time, and it can't do any
thing else, but that's what keeps the
ship going ahead. The thing that goes
in for variety, versatility, that changes
its position hundred times day, that
is no crank; that is the weather vane,
my son. What? You nevertheless
thank heaven You are not q crank?
Don't do that my son, maybe you
couldn't be o crank, if you would.
Heaven is not very particular when it
wants weather vane; almost any man
will do for that. But when it wants o
crank. my boy, it looks about very
carefully for the best man in the COM
munity. Before you thank heaven that
you are not crank, examine yourself
carefully, and see what it is that debars
you from such an election.
ton HaUkeye.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The hospitals of Panama are filled
with men taken Ill while working on De Les
seps' new canal. The Government ordered
quarantine some time ago, but has revoked
It at the instance of the canal company. DIR.
Lopez, the chief physician of the corporation,
recently died OF dysentery.
The principal clearing houses report
1894, s02, 2so 40 the clcarings for last week,
which Is . decrease from the preceding week
OF S2s, 032, sa2. When compare with the
corresponding period last year the falling OFT
equals 49, per cent.
The national photographers held .
four~days' convention at Cincinnati. One
thousand delegates were present.
Yellow fever is spreading in Sonora,
Mexico, and Federal officials in Arizona have
been urged to vigilant action to prevent It's
crossing the border.
The Westinghouse Air-Brake Com
pany, at Pittsburg, have discharged Els en-
ployes because of dull timeA and two mills
OF the Lewiston Me- Corporation have
closed down, throwing 500 men out of en-
ployment.
Assignments have been made by
BEETLE & Brother. wool merchants, Philadel.
phia, with sl2O, 600 liabilities: Norton & Wells,
grocers At wheeling, whose Indebtedness is
probably $4,000; and by w. J. Rankin &
Son, Wholesale grocers at Augusta, KY, who
owe S20, ZOO.
The failures are announced of John
Caswell 4 Co., tea-dealers Of New York, here
tofore rated at 81, oOO,00o p. NJ. Hargrave, y
banker at Lampasas, Tex, whose liabilities
are $4,000. and John Kimpel carriage
manufacturer in St Louis.
At Scottsboro, Ala, George Smith,
Asbury Hughes and George Hughes were
hanged for burning the house Of Henry Por-
ter and footing the premises. "Bug" Cephas,
for the murder Of an aged woman, was exc.
cuted at Cambridge, Md. The black cap fell
from his head when the rope was cut, expos
ing his distorted visage to The spectators
Alexander Jefferson was executed at Brook
lyn. The rope slipped, and by superhumali
efforts he tore the cap from his face, his
groans and staring eyes horrifying the as
semblage, but he was pronounced dead In
eight minutes. Wilson stephens, mulatto
boy. paid the extreme penalty at Edgefeld,
N. c.; Frank Williams, wife murderer, was
strangled AT Pine Bluff, Ark, and Charles
Phillips, q negro murderer was swung of ut
Huntington, Tenn, being the first legal exc.
cution in Tennessee for nearly forty years.
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SOUTHERN.

In the Georges Creek Valley, in
West Virginia, flood did 100000 dam
age and drowned twelve persons Several
houses In the village were swept
away, bridges and trestles ruined, and
miles Of railroad track washed out.
Loss Of life is reported at Homecoming,
Nd. caused by floods resulting from heavy
rains. Serious damage has been done at
Cumberland and Frostburg.
At Hot Springs, Ark, wooden build
ings valued al $4,000 were destroyed by
flames originating in lamp explosion.
A rain and wind storm at Baltimore,
flooded cellars In the lower section, un-
rooted buildings, and damaged shipping.
The loss 10 placed IT 100000. A child was
killed In . falling house.
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The Chinese Lily.

With the Chinese the lily is the ma
tional flower, and many superstitions
attach to it. Should it blossom upon
New Years Day it is regarded as
most happy omen, presaging the best Of
luck to the fortunate owner of the plant.
For this reason good deal of care is
now bestowed upon the lily by the Chi
namen, in the hope that it may put
forth its flower on the morning Of the
anniversary. The Chinese lily is differ
ent from any other variety. 1t is grown
by placing the bulb on bits of window
glass, stone, and water. The flower is
white, with gold-colored center, some
thing between daisy and narcissus.
It's fragrance is delightful.
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officials Of the Navy Department es-
innate the cost Of the Greedy expedition 1t
tsoo,oO
The amount of gold now in the
United States Treasury IL about Sis, 0O0, QUO
being about $4,000. 600 less than . month
ago. This decrease II due to the redemption
Of bonds, the payment Of interest. and the
settlement in gold Of all the clearing house
balances at the New York sub-Treasury dur
ing the month.
Gen. Swain will be tried by court
martial on the following charges: Conduct
unbecominG IN of1icer and gentleman and
neglect OF duty.
w. w. Culbsrtsou, = member OF Con-
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Hadn't Accused Him.

Smiths wife was not very bright
woman, but she sometimes said things
which we're worthy of wit. One day,
after doing or saying something silly,
her husband snapped out:
"Well, you are little the worst I
ever saw"
"Why, what's the matter now? Have
/ done anything wrong?"
II should say SO. You don't know
the difference between horse aud a
donkey, quite believe"
II didn't say You were a horse, did
II" she replied, meekly, and Smith
said no more.
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POLITICAL.

Gov. Cameron, of Virginia, has
called an extra session of the Legislature of
that state for Aug. 10. on the petition of two
thirds Of the members.
Assigning as a reason that the ac-
ceptory letters Of Butler and Cleveland have
not been made public, without which intclli.
gent action could not be TAKEN the National
Labor party's committee at New York issued
orders postponing the convention at Chicago
until Sept. /.
Gov. Cleveland was formally notified
Of his nomination by the Democratic Con-
vcntion, ut the State-House in Albany. on
the Goth ult. Nearly all the members Of the
notification committee and Of the National
Democratic Committee were present, as were
several prominent leaders OF the party, In
GLIDING ex-Speaker Randall Perry Belmont,
Gen. Farnsworth, Joseph Pulitzer, and Con-
gresham Collins, of Boston. Col. Villas, of
Wisconsin, introduced the members of the
committee and made the speech Of notification.
At the conclusion of Col. Villas remarks the
formal notification, signed by tho members,
was read to the Governor. The latter re-
piled by expressing confidence that the hap
piness and prosperity of the people lay in the
application of Democratic measures to ma
tional affairs. Then followed the usual ex-
change of compliments, the interchange of
views and lunch.
The notification committee of the
National Democratic Convention went from
Albany to Saratoga and officially informed
Gov. Hendricks OF his nomination for the
Vice Presidency. The ceremony took place
In the parlor of the Grand Union
Hotel Hon. w. +. Villas acting as
spokesman for the committee. Mr.. Bell. Sec
rotary Of the committee read the formal ad-
dress, to which Mr.. Hendricks responded in a
i've minutes speech accepting the nomina-
ton. Mr.. Hendricks was then introduced to
each member OF the committee. A general
handshaking followed, after which the people
paid their respects to Mrs. Hendricks, and
then quietly dispersed.
The Republican convention of West
Virginia nominated Edwin Maxwell tthe
Grecnback nomince) for Governor, and di-
vided the other Offices equally, save that the
candidates for Presidential electors and
Judges Of the Supreme Court are Repub-
licans.
Plans have been laid in Wisconsin by
the Democrats by which Villas is to be candi-
| date for Governor: A. X. Delaney, Lieuten.
| ant Governor; and Gen. Bragg is to be again
cent to Congress. II the Legislature is DEM
| ocratic, Villas il to be elected to the United
States Senate, Delaney, OF course, succeed
ing to the Governorship.
The Democratic National Executive
Committee has leased, for Its headquarters
| the residence No. II West Twenty-fourth
street, New York.
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ARIZONA'S FUTURE.
A Section Of tho Territory Full OF Beauty
and fprOInise.

A Section Of the Territory Full Of Beauty
and Promise.
Still another hope Of Tucson is the
Santa Cruz River Valley, writes cor
respondent. 1t is only within the past
year that this region has attracted any
considerable notice rs q productive
area, and in the past the only ones who
utilized it were the Papago Indians,
who have settlement some nine miles
south of Tucson, and who have, in their
primitive way, made tile valley to bios
som and bear fruit. Now, however,
ranchmen and agriculturists are begin
ming to sec that the water from the
shallow stream can be made to irrigatc
large tract of the most excellent graz
ing and wheat country. A ride through
this section Of Arizona gives one OF the
surprises experienced by Oh observer
who before had only noticed the cacti
and the barren fields scattered along
the railway. The road up the valley
from Tucson to the old San Xavier
Church is lined with trees and shrubs,
and leads through fertile country
which has much of the freshness of
New England with the velvety green
ness Of New York. Beyond the wide
fiat meadows dotted with the graceful
mescal and fatted animals, rise the blue
heights of the Catalina range, while in
the southwest isolated and broken
shoulders of mountain after mountain
may be seen reaching toward sky of
brilliant blue.
From the old tower of San Xavier,
stately cathedral left by the Spaniards
as memorial of their visit here, tho
Santa Cruz Valley is seen stretch NJ
about and beyond one like garden.
Wide and straight, it comes into view
from out hazy distance in the south,
and extends to where dim outlines Of
pointed cones shut it from ones sight.
Were an artist to paint the colorings
seen from the tower, rs one stands be-
meath the old bells hanging there, he
would be thought person Of too free
imagination, while in reality no brush
can do full justice to the colors nature
gives. There are patches of bright yell
low grain, acres of green alfalfa, blue
mountains, cloud-patched and tall,
shining vistas of the river, brown-hued
huts of Indians, glorious blossoms of
cacti, and mellowness of light illumin-
ing all which cannot be described, but
which once seen can never be forgot
ten. Each arch Of the tower
commands a picture: each gives .
glimpse of Arizona which at once dis
pels all idea of barrenness and of drear-
mess; and at the end of the valley lies
Tucson, settled in its vast natural am
phitheater, mountain guarded-old in
years but young in hopes and expecta-
tions-waiting for the future with con-
fidence and calmness.
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RAILWAY men are beginning to talk OF
steel or iron cross ties.
MORNING concerts for ladies are new
feature at Long Branch.
Nor one French woman is to be found
among the wives Of Utah.
The total number OF patents granted for
agricultural implements is 1880.
DURING the last six months there have
been sixty-two suicides in San Francisco.
The Mormons mean to be up with the
times. They are having their Bible ~.
vsed.
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AN English journal recalls the fact
that our first President never saw "A
steamboat, oar second never saw
railroad train, our seventh never heard
Of the electric telegraph, and our sew
enteenth lived only long enough to
know Of the existence of the telephone.
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USED you pretty rough, didn't liz? ?"
remarked a sympathizing byatander to
the man who had Just got an awful
licking. We'll, no." replied tie sub
dued one, Il thought he polished Inc
on very nicely. "-Burdeite.
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Ercss from kentucky, who was stopping at
the National Hotel In Washington, fired Ave
shots into his head, Inficting dangerous
wounds. The cause is said to have been de ;
preston from excessive indulgence In liquor.
Following Is recapitulation Of the
national debt statement issued Aug. /:
interest bearing debt
-Four and e-half per cents $ 1000 600
-Four per cents OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1860 $50
nnsvc III cents .................. 223. ia3 2bf
neIunufng certificates. .............. 21435t
Navy pension fund 49,. ......... lI,oo0OOo
Total interest bearing debt .si.22s. 4o7 DOC
Debt bearing no interest
Legal tender notes. ...,....,.. S46.73a. AL
Certificates of deposit. l5,2so.ou
Gold and silver certificates. 23s t2i SCI
Fractional currency. ................ 6.9Ts,is
Total without interest. .....& COZ, 3s1. sos
Total debt principal. ga. as3. sss
nOtAi interest: ................. s.5s3.nba
Total cash In Treasury. 4os, $40 ooa
Bonds issued to Pacific Railway
Com panies interest payable by
United States
PRINCIPAL outstanding. .,,......4 a eoa so
Interest accrued. not vet paid 800. .os1i,
Interest paid by United States. 800. O., ,5o4
Interest repaid by companies-
BY transportation service. .........1 la.l4s o2s
By cash payments. s per cent net
Balance Of interest paid by United '.''
Ossses.... ..........s............ A.23s.3Sl
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maud n grauuateu income TAX.
&. We demand an ameliOfatiOn OF the cOndi-
ton of labor by enforcing sanitary laws In In
dustrial establishments by the abolition Of the
ns fss
Of labor In industrial establishments: by the
fostering Of educational institutions; and by
abolishing child labor
I. We condemn I'll importation OF contract To-
Dor made with view OF reducing to starvation
wages the workingmen Of this country. and de-
mand laws for It's prevention.
g. We insist upon a constitutional amendment
reducing the terms of United States Senators
one-haf, and making them elective directly by
the people; also making the President ineligible
o. We demand such rules for the government
OF Congress shall place all representatives Of
the people upon an equal footing and take away
from committees veto power greater than that
OF the President.
10 The question M to the amount OF duties
to lie levied uron various articles q import has
been agitated, Qnarrclad over, and has divided
communities for nearly hundred years. 1t II
not now and never will be settled unless by the
abolition OF Indirect taxation. 1t Is conyen-
lent issue always raised when the people are ex-
cited over abuses In their midst. While we favor
n wise revision of the tariff laws with view Of
raising revenue from Injuries rather than nee
essaries. we insist that rs III economic question
its imror. anee IN insignificant as compared with
the financial Issue: fur, whereas, we have suf
fered orr worst rani = under low and also under
high tariffs. we have never suffered from panic
or seen our factories and workshops closed while
the volume OF cur money In circulation was a.sc-
guate to tn needs af commerce. Give our far
mers and manufacturers money as cheap rs you
now give our bankers and they can ray high
wages 10 labor and compete with the whole
world.
people upon the subjects we are in favor oil sub
IN ting to vote # the people an amendment
TO the Constitution In favor OF suffrage regard
less OF SEX aud also ON the subject Of the liquor
IL. An disabled soldiers Of the late war should
be equitably rensioned, anu we aenonnee tue
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THE MARKET.

NEW YORK