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controlled by the supreme law OF written
constitution. Thus impressed / ascend
the rostrum to name the next President of
the United States New York presents him to
the convention, and pledges her electoral
vote. Delegations from the .tnirty-eight States
and all the Territories are assembled, without
caucus or consultation, ready, simultaneously,
to take up tbs cry and make the vote
choose candidate, but to name one
the people have already chosen. He is
the man for the people. HIS career Illus
trates the glory of our institutions Eight
years ago unknown, save in his own local
lty, he for the last hour has stood in the gaze
OF the world discharging tho most exalted
To-day determines, that rot Of his own choice
but by the mandate of his countrymen. and
with the sanction OF Heaven, he shall
till the Presidency for four years more.
He has met and mastered every question
as If from youth trained to statesman
ship. The promises of his letter of acceptance
and inaugural address have been fulfilled His
fidelity il the past inspires faith in the future
He is not hope. He is a realization. Scorning
subterfuge, disdaining reelection by coneealing
convictions, mindful of his oath of Office to de-
fend the constitution, he courageouSly declares
to Congress, dropping minor matters, that the
supreme issue IS reform, revs; on, reduction
OF National taxation. That the Treasury of
the United States, glutted with unneeded
god Expresses industry, embarrasses business,
endangers financial tranquility and breeds ex-
travagance. Capitalization and corruption.
That high taxation, vital for the expenditures of
an unparalleled war, is robbery in years of pros
porous peace. That the millions that pour into
the Treasury come from the hard-earned saw
ings of the American people. That in violation
OF equality of rights the present tariff has Gre
ated a privileged class, who, shaping legisla-
ton for tneir personal gain, levy by law con-
tributions for the necessaries of life from
every man. woman and child in the
land. That TO lower the tariff is not free
trade; it is to reduce the unjust profts;.of mo-
aopolists and boss manufacturers and allow
consumers to retain the rest. The man who
asserts that to lower the tariff means free
traae insults intelligence. We brand rim as
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HUMOROUS.

In Kentucky-Runaway Couple to
Minister" Will you join usP' Min
ister-" Thank; | don't care if do"
Washington Critic.
--Jinks has been out the night be-
fore, and is late at his desk. En-
ployer (sternly)-"Well Jinksr' Not
very, sir. "-Toroaato Empire.
Men who make letters a profession
are advised to walk good deal. Let
ter carriers however, do not need this
admonition. Teas Syti'sgs.
-Dry-goods Clerk" Willyou need
any midnight yarns, MADAME" Gus
tomer-"No; my husband goes to the
lodge every night in the week. DE
hot Free Press.
Don't call me 'Ducky,' john"
said a fat bride to her husband. "lt's
too suggestive" "Why, precious?"
because ducks always waddle, you
know. ~ Hotel Mail.
Eight days. it is said, are required
to cut diamond. but after young
lady gets the diamond it does not take
her more than three days to cut her
poor acquaintance. -Mocking Bird.
-" None of your sauce to me, miss. "
said the man who must have his little
joke, with an assumption of brusque-
ness, as the waiter-girl was about to
place a dish of marmalade beside his
plate at supper.
Examiner Ito graduating medical
stxdent-" eff you should make mis-
take and give patient an overdose of
tartar emetic, what would you do?'.
Student-"Try to buy up the coro-
ner. - Chicago Tribune.
-Judge-''The witness swears you
stole his coat and have it on. l must.
therefore. find you guilty" Tramp
ooh, we'll, your honor, if you're going
to Judge a man by the clothes he wears
s'pose I'll have to give in."-DetroG
Free Press.
IFS that your dog, SqaildigP"
Eyes; fine animal, too. Here Rover "
whistles vainly for him.) HE
doesn't appear to obey very we'll ;"
"Oh, that shows he's a pure breed.
He's tarrier, you see. "-PItsbarqk
Chronicle Telegraph.
-Brown-"You are looking bright
and happy this morning, Dumley."
Dumley-" yes; I'm out of DEBT at
last. Every bill owed was outlawed
yesterday. I tell you. Brown, man
feels like man when he is square with
the world. IN Y. Sun.
Teachers so you can't do a
simple sum in arithmetic? Now, let
me explain it to you. Suppose eight
of you have together forty-eight
apples, thirty-two peaches and sixteen
melons, what would each one of you
get?'' Cholera morbus," replied
Johnny.-7iG BIS.
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THE EAST

FIRE consumed 5000, 600 worth of property
| in the extensive lumber district of Bur
| lington, VT, on the 9th.
On the 9th Thomas ?. McElrath, the first
| publisher of the New York Tribune died in
| that city of old age.
| In New York on the 18th Thomas A. Ed
ison was experimenting upon a new cleo
| trio flying machine which he had been
commissioned by the Spanish Government
| to make for war purposes.
DURING a shower on the 18th at Keene.
N H., lightning struck the farm house of
Stephen Clemens, destroying the house,
barn, eight head of cattle and several
horses.
On the 18th Exeter, N H., celebrated her
250th anniversary.
THOMAS RowLANDs, of Boston, Jealous
of his wife, shot her dead on the 18th. and
then killed himself
In terrific thunderstorm on the 18th a
number of buildings were struck by light
ming at Westminster, VT, among the num-
Der being the old Town Hall, which was
built in ITO
REPUBLICANS of the Twenty Penn
sylvania district on the Sth nominated w.
G. Culbertson for Congress.
STEAMSHIPS landed 2,72l immigrants in
New York on the Sth. There were over
five thousand German and Polish Hebrews
in the barracks at Hamburg awaiting trans
portation.
The death Of Rev. James Freeman
Clarke, distinguished Unitarian clergy
man, occurred on the Sth in his residence
at Jamaica Plain a suburb of Boston,
after an illness OF several days. He was
born in Hanover, N. H., April 4, 1910,
graduated from Harvard University in
1888, and in 1910 he started in Boston the
Church of the Disciples, to which he min
istered up to the time of his death
BY the overturning of ladle on the Sth
at the Be5semer mill of the Pennsylvania
steel works in Harrisburg five men were
fatally burned.
A TORNADO wrecked several dwellings
and barns and killed many cattle on the Sth
at Kingsbury, N. Y.
STEPHEN GLEASON, of Fall River, Mass,
died on the 10th, aged one hundred and
three years.
ABOUT five thousand immigrants arrived
in New York on the 9th, about one-half the
number coming from Ireland.
FLAMES destroyed tenement house at
Lowell, Mass, on the 10th, and three of the
inmates, Eugenia Vallerand, Peter Vail
Grand and Della Vallerand, were cremated.
Another of the family and another occupant
named Boisvert were fatally hurt.
The Governor of New York on the 18th
vetoed the Electoral Reform bill passed by
the Legislature
A BOAT was upset near Vinal Haven, Me-,
on the 18th, and John Smith, Harry Smith,
William j. Bishop and Edward Fellows
were drowned
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The money now lying idle tn the Federal
Treasury resulting from superfiuous taxation
amounts TO more than one hundred and twenty.
Eve millions, and the surplus collected is
ions annually. Debauched by the immense
temptation the remedy of the Republi-
can party is to meet and exhaust by extrava-
CANT appropriations and expenses. whether
constitutional or not, the accumulation of ex-
rayagant taxation. The Democratic policy is
to enforce frugality in public expense and abol-
iSh unnecessary taxation.
"Onr established domestic Industries and en-
terprises should not and need not be endan-
gered by the reduction and correction of the
burdens of taxation. On the contrary, a fair
and careful revision OF our tax laws, with due
allowance for the difference between the wages
of American and foreign labor must pro-
mote and encourage every branch of
such industries, and enterprises by giving them
assurance OF an extended market and steady
and continuous operations. In the interests of
American labor. which should In no event be
neglected, the revision of our tax laws contem-
plated by the Democratic party should pro-
mote the advantage of such labor by cheaper
ing the cost of neeesssries of life in the home
OF every working man. and at the same time
securing to him steady and remunerative EN-
plovment."
There was d moderate volume of applause
when the opening sentences which reaffirmed
the utterances of the tariff plank in the plat
form of 1884, but when he followed indorsng
the Presidents message and declaring that it
correctly interpreted that plank the CONVEX.
ton fairly rose to its feet aud cheered wildly
for fun minute.
Mr.. Watterson moved that the report of the
committee be adopted, which was agreed to by
unanimous vote
Resolutions were next presented by Mr.
Lamon, of California; Governor Albeit of
New Jersey, and Mr. Scott. of Pennsyva-
nia approving, respectively, the admission of
the Territories: the efforts of Gladstone and
Parnel for Ireland; and the passage of the
Revenue bill now pending in Congress, all
of which were adopted.
CALIFORNIA NAMES THURMAN.
The resolutions all having been disposed of,
the convention proceeded to the nomination of
a candidate for Vice.President When Cali
fornia was called in the list of States Mr..
Tarpey was introduced and proceeded to NOM
mate Allen G. Thurman, Of Ohio. Mr.. Tarpey
spoke as follows:
/" Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN: This
is indeed most nlnaSant duty which thrOl OH
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A resolution demanding that the. war taxes
levied on all kinds Of articles for the private
gains of the few, thereby creating an aristoc-
racy maintained by despotism, shall cease was
offered by Mr. Showalter, of Missouri amid APP
plause, and referred. ~
Congressman Tim Campbell, of New York,
offered a resolution expressing sympathy for
General Sheridan, which was UNANIMOUSLY
adopted.
The convention decided to listen to speech
from Mrs. Merriwether, of ST. Louis on behalf
OF woman suffrage. Mrs. Merriwether was un-
able to speak but q few minutes, as the dele
gates and people paid no attention.
motion to adjourn was defeated, and the
convention decided to call the roll Of States
for the names of candidates for President and
V!ce-President of the Urited States.
When Alabama was called. the chair
man said his State desired to give
way to New York. The conyen-
ton appiauded at this announcement.
and when the New York delegation presented
Daniel Dougherty to make the speech naming
Cleveland the great hail rang with cheers,
which were prolonged for nearly minute, un.
til Mr.. Dougherty mounted the platform, when
it was redoubled. AS soon as he could be heard
he said
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FROM WASHINGTON.

DURING the seven days ended on the Sth
there were 207 business failures in the
United States, against 1856 the previous
seven days.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 9th aggregated 1872,
4O3,23S, against 1927, 149,0S6 the previous
week. As compared with the correspond
ing week of 1887 the decrease amounted to
H. per cent.
THE Signal weather crop bulletin
states that the weather during the week
ended on the 9th was generally favorable
for all growing crops.
PRoF. RILEY, United Entomologist, said
on the 18th that the seventeen-year brood
of locusts were now Matching, and plague
might be expected in many parts of the
Northwest
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balcony and galleries arose and stood shouting
at the top of its voice until the din became
deafenlng. Hats were thrown in the air, red
bandanas waved from thousand hands, and
white, black and gray hats wefe ffantica1ly
thrust upon the points Of canes and waved UNI
TIL the owners became exhausted
The climax of this great scene reached
when the banners OF all the States were borne
by, the delegates to the New York stand
ard and grouped about it. At this the
enthusiasm was unbounded. Spectators
and delegates tore the red, white
and blue bunting from the pillars and
from the face Of the balconies and waved these
improvsed banners all over the hall for ten
minutes. This remarkable outburst did not
&C ase until every body was absolutely exhaust
ed. It was exactly twenty-feur minutes be-
fore the chair was able to regain contol of the
convention.
After the storm had at length been ouieted
the roll-call proceeded, and speeches seconding
the nomination We're made by Nessrs. McKen-
z!e, of Kentucky; TWggs, of Georgia. Morri-
son, OF Illinois; Stout of Michigan, and Light
foot, of Texas. Mr., Mckenzie, of Kentucky,
moved to suspend the rules, and to nominate
Grover Cleveland for President The chair put
the question, and there was returned from the
convention laundering chorus of ayes The
chair therefore announced that Grover Cleve-
land, having received an unanimous vote, was
the candidate of the Democratic party fer the
office of President OF the United States.
When the nohfnatton of Cleveland was ais
nOunced by the chairman, another scene of
wild enthusiasm occurred in the convention,
but the delegates and spectators were too near
exhausted to sustain SO prolonged a scene as
that which followed Mr.. Dougherty's speech.
The convention then adjourned until 10
O. clock a. m Thursday
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Bret Harte is said to be making
from 81, 600 to $4,000 year in Lon.
don.
William O. Brien, the Irish leader,
says that Journalists are the watch
dogs of civilization"
y MIR. Ruskin has written sixty-four
books, and his annual receipts from
his publisher reach $4,000.
The German daily newspaper hay
ing the largest circulation In the world
is publised in New York, not in Ger
many.
1t is noted of certain Canadian
newspaper that all its editorial page
is devoted to Canadian topics, except
the humorous column. which is made
up from American papers.
Miss Amelie Rives, the Virginia
novelist, has. says the Atlanta Con-
sttution, been offered $4,000 by
New York publishing house for
novel This is the largest offer ever
received by an American author.
Lord Salisbury, Premier of En-
gland, who was formerly a working
journalist, is always as courteous as
his position will allow to newspaper
men, and frequently incloses news to
men who were formerly his co-labor-
erS.
MIR. Campbell Clarke, the accom-
plished and successful correspondent
of the London Daily Telegraph at Paris,
was for eighteen years librarian at
the British Museum. Then he was
made at an hours notice musical
critic of the Telegraph, and afterwards
was sent to Paris.
Donald G. Mitchell, the author,
who is better known as like Marvel"
lives quietly on his farm at Edgewood,
Conn, and looks for all the world like
a little old Scotch farmer or gardener.
He is now sixty. He has comfortable
revenue from his published books, and
is enabled to live in comfort without
firing hand or brain.
-Paschal Porter, the wonderful
child revivalist of Indiana, who is now
only eleven years old, recently
preached sermon in the Baptist
church at Williamstown. KY, that as
tonished every body who heard it.
The pastor of the church says that he
has read sermons on the same subject
delivered by the ablest preachers, but
not one of them could compare in
power or in elegance of diction with
the boys eXhortation.
Margaret Andrews Oldham, the
new Southern poet is an attractive
little woman, whose years are not
much beyond score and quarter.
She has pretty, intelligent face, with
a shapely nose, large blue eyes, ex-
pressive mouth and a shell-pink COM
plexion. She inherits her literary in
clinations from her father, who was
college president, while her mother is
at the head of an educational institu-
tion. Her husband is journalist and
writer, and her brother is lawyer
editor.
AT seventy-six Mr. Browning does
not look to be much more than forty,
nor act so. He goes everywhere and
sees every tn no. Within few days
he went to the funeral of Matthew
Arnold. to the Academy. to Grosvenor
and the New. to say nothing or num-
berless '.At Homes" Mr.. Browning
has no affections. Unlike his friend
and contemporary, Lord Tennyson, a
SLOUGH hat and long cloak in some
country palace of art" have no
charms for him. London, the city of
his birth, is his favorite dwelling
place. although he will probably be
buried by the side of his wife in the
Florentine Cemetery.
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SECOND DAYS SESSION.

ST. LOUIS, June 1.-THE second days ses.
sion Of the Nat onal Democratic convention
was called to order by Chairman White al
1923 a. m. yesterday, and prayer was offered
by Rev. J. p. Greene, of Missouri. A resolu-
ton was adopted accepting the silver gavel
presented by the Colorado. delegation, and
placing it in the custody of the National Com.
mittee. Credentials were received from the
Territory of Alaska, and referred, amid laugh
ter.
Congressman Tim Campbell. of New York,
offered resolution demanding the recognition
and enforcement OF the Monroe doctrine in all
its length and breadth, and declaring that Ter.
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ton, %; Philadelphia, II, Pittsburgh,
IA; Indianapolis, 10; Washington, 3 The
American Association clubs stood: Brook
Ign (games won), 30; st. Louis, %; Cincin-
natl, "a; Philadelphia, 81; Baltimore, 10:
Cleveland, is: Kansas City, IL; Louisville,
IL. In the Western Association the fol-
lowing was the order: Des Monies games
won), II; Omaha IS; Kansas City, Is;
Milwaukee, Is; st. Paul, II; st. Louis, IA;
Chicago, 10; Minneapolis, H.
Mrs. CATHARINE CRoHELL died On the
9th near Columbia, s. c., at the age Of
nlnety-nine years. She was the mother of
sixteen children.
DANIEL LYON, Thomas Purcell and Fred
Mock. three laborers, were killed on the
9th by the caving in of a bank at Omaha,
Neb
A FIRE destroyed several large factories
and number of dwelling houses at Gin
cinnati on the 9th. Loss, $500, 900
REPORTS from Michigan stated on the
10th that heavy rain-stor had done great
damage. All the country from the Wiscon-
sin line to the upper range and the whole
width Of the peninsula suffered Houses
were undermined and swept away, culverts
and bridges We're destroyed, and miles of
fences and sidewalks were ruined
On the 9th Mrs. Annie Roush, living near
Selait, W. Va, celebrated her one hundred
and first birthday. She possessed the use
of all her faculties
GREAT excitement prevailed on the 9th
at Greenfield, Mo-, over the discovery that
lad named George Staffle,. who was
thought to have committed suicide, was
hanged by his inhuman mother.
NORWAY, Mich, was almost destroyed by
fire on the 9Th. Thirty buildings were
burned, including the main business sec
ton. Many families were homeless Loss
$500 0oo
JAMES FOSTER, (colored) was taken from
jail at Henderson, XIV, by q mob on the
18th and hanged for criminally assaulting
little girl.
In Detroit on the 18th John Munich
thaier, keeper Of candy and cigar store
in Detroit, shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself.
DISPATCHES Of the 18th say that recent
severe rains had caused the greatest flood
ever known in Northern Minnesota.
Along the banks of logging streams tribu-
tary to the st. Louis river millions of
acres of land were overfiowed Sixty five
families were forced to leave their homes
at Crookston by the rise of Red Lake river.
and many lost their effects At Cloquet
only the tops of houses were visible.
PETER SHANNON, aged sixty years, of
Portland, Ore, shot and killed his wife,
aged ffty-five years, on the 18th, and then
killed himself, from a fit of jealousy. They
had been married only a year
On the 18th Colonel Abner Taylor was
nominated for Congress by the Republicans
of the First district of Illinois.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

On the afternoon of the 9TH the Demo-
cratic National convention at st. Louis ad-
Journed finally after having adopted a
tariff reduction platform and nominated
Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, as candidate
for Vice President. The names of Gray
and Black were withdrawn before the first
ballot was completed, and with great en-
thusiasm the nomination of Thurman was
made unanimous.
REPUBLICANS of the Eleventh Illinois
district on the 18th renominated William H.
Gest, of Rock Island, for Congress.
HE business portion of Laingsburg
Mich, was destroyed by fire early on the
morning of the It'll
FIRE destroyed the Mountain House at
Manitou Springs, Col, on the 9TH Land
lord Thornton had placed 81, 600 in green
backs in his desk the day before, and they
were burned
NEAR Nogales, A T., Deputy-Sheriff AL
verd had fight with the Sonora train rob-
bers on the 18th while trying to arrest them.
and killed two of them and mortally
wounded the third.
THE Republicans of Indiana will hold
their State convention for the nomination
of State ticket in Indianapolis August s.
FURTHER returns from the recent cleo
ton in Oregon showed on the Sth that the
next Legislature, which will elect United
States Senator, will stand: Republicans,
20; Democrats. 20.
FIRE on the Sth at Wellsville, O., de-
stroyed three stores, two livery stables and
several horses.
FOUR robbers were discovered on the
Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Chicago train,
on the platform of the express car. between
Delhi and Cincinnati on the night of the
Sth. When seen they fired pistols, fatally
injuring Baggage Master Ketchum, and
then jumped from the train.
THE Atlas paper-mill was burned on the
Sth at Appleton, Wis.
On the 9th the MorRon church closed ne
gotiations for four hundred thousand acres
OF land in chihuahua, Mex
A WIND and rain-storm passed over Fort
Yates, d. T., on the 9Th, and many houses
were blown down or unroofed Shellking,
an Indian chief, his son and several set
tiers were killed.
On the 9th the last brewery in Sioux
City, Ia, was closed under the Prohibstory
State law
HE record of the baseball clubs in the
National League for the week ended on
the 9TH was as follows: Chicago (games
Won, 70; Detroit, "a; New York, %, Bos-
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JUNGLE Phil LOUIS, colored citi.
zen of Dallas, Tex, says that he was
brought to this country from Africa in
l773, in the ninth year of his age. and
consequently he is new in his 124tE
year. He claims that he was present
Acknowledgment crossed the Delaware,
December 26, 1875, and was afterward
made the body-scrvant of Colonel
Archer, accompanying him through
the entire war to the surrender OF
CORVALLIS at Yorktown. Uncle Phil
is the father of twenty-siX children, has
used tobacco freely for 105 years, and
is still quite vigorous.
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Mrs MARIA L. BEAsLEY, of Phila-
delphia, has made fortune from the
mcSt remarkable invention which the
mind of a woman ever conceived. In
1884 Mrs Boasley took out patent
for Il machine for the construction OF
barrels. Up to that time barrels had
been made almost altogether by hand.
The machine is worked by three men,
and turns out more than six hundred
completed barrels day.
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AN examination of the operation of
the parole or ticket-of-leave act in
Ohio penitentiaries has proved to be
successful only five per cent of the
parole convicts being found 80 violate
the provisions of the law and commit
crime after their release. The act APP
lies exclusively to first offense prison
ers, and the State assists them in Sc
curing honest employment.