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Allen G., Thurman.

AIICu w. L 1uuEInuus
Allen Granbery Thurman was born on
November 13, 1913. in Lynchburg, Va, OF
good descent on both sides of his family. His
mother was a half-sister of William AL
len, who became Governor Of Ohio
His paternal grandfather, who was a
Baptist minister, removed to Ohio with his
family, numbering three generations, when
Allen G. Thurman was six years old. A set
tlement was made in Chilicothe, where the
boys father at first tanght
sPs thfP TPs ag Obtained tn T00sn Len
education at the Chilicothe Academy, and
was graduated with high honors at the age
of seventeen. Then he studied law in
the offices of his uncle, William Allen, and
Judge Swayne, of Columbus, Ohio. During
his period Of study in the St1te capital he read
law chiefly at night, as in the daytime he was
acting as the private secretary of Governor
Lucas, and the duties Of the position includ.
ed much work which would now be assigned
mitted to the bar, and began practice in
Chilicothe as the partner OF his uncle, who,
becoming engrossed in politics, soon left the
care of his law business entirely to the young
man.
Mr.. Thurman applied himself with great
industry to his profession, in which he quick
ly attained distinction. In 1S45, while he was
absent from MS congressional ulSCrlcI on
professional business, It's Democratic Conven.
ton nominated him for Congress without
his solicitation or knowledge. Mr.. Thurman
was elected after a personal canvass OF
the whole district, in which he fire.
uuently had public discussions with his
Whig opponent. At the end of bis term he
declined a denomination. and resumed the
practice Of his profession. In 1851 he
was elected, upon the Democratic
ticket, a Judge of the Supreme Court
Of Ohio, and from 1854 till 1856 he
was the Chief-Justice of that court.
Returning to the bar in 1856, he found busi-
ness pouring in upon him from all sides, and
by his professional labors he gradually &C
quired a competency.
In 1867 he received the unanimous nomina-
ton of the Democratic State Convention for
Governor of Ohio, and after hotly con-
tested campaign, in which he took an
active art, was defeated by Ruther.
ford B. Hayes. In 1868 Mr.. Thurman
was chosen United States Senator from Ohio,
succeeding Benjamin F. Wade, and he was
re elected in 1874. During his twelve years
in the Senate he served on q number Of the
most important committees, and was recog-
nized as one of the ablest leaders of the DEM
ocratic party.
Since his retirement from the Senate, Mr.
Thurman has taken but little active part in
political affairs.
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Democratic party submits its principles and
professions to the intelligent suffrages OF the


American people.
After the platform had been adopted, reso-
iutions were carried demanding the imne.
diate passage Of the revenue reduction bill
now pending in Congress; favoring the ad-
mission Of Washington. New Mexico, Mon
tana and Dakota as States, and sympathizing
with Ireland in its efforts to obtain home
rule. The States were then called and nomi-
nations for Vice-President made. Delegate
Tarpey, of California, nominated Allen q.
Thurman, of Ohio, and Senator VOORHEES,
named Governor Gray, of Indiana,
Delegate T. NJ. Patterson put in nomination
General Black. The speaker read letter
from General Black asking for the with
drawal of his name. as the sentiment Of the
Democracy was for Thurman. The Clerk
announced that there were three Candidates,
but as soon as the voting began it was evident
that Thurman would be the Conventions
choice by an overwhelming majority, and his
nomination was therefore made unanimous,
amid great cheering and the waving OF
bandannas. The Convention then, at RIO
P. H., adjourned sine die.
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, POSTAL EXPENSES.
A CreditabIe Quarterly Report From
the Postoffice Department..

n SEudT0OTHJ HOOPOE . 0hz
the Postoffice Department.
The report just filed Of the Auditor for the
Postoffice Department for the quarter ended
December 80, 1887, shows the receipts from
all sources to have been $l3, ,653, 962,
and the expenditures $l3,791, ,7Sl. De-
ficiency. sl37.S19, The total amount
of stamps sold was Sl2, ,s59, ,Ss6. The
revenue from the money order business was
s23S,S79. The amount paid for railroad
transportation during the quarter was s3,-
Sf6, ,767. The report shows that the receipts
for this quarter were the largest for any
quarter in the history Of the Government,
and the deficiency the smallest since the
reduction Of the rate Of postage in 1883
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Cut His Sons Head or With an Axe

Haselgraen Township, seventeen miles from
Monticello, Iowa. An old man named Roth
baker. who was working in a stone quarry,
undertook to whip his boy, a ]ad twelve years
old, but was prevented by fellow workman.
In the evening the old man again tried to
whip the boy, who ran away. The father
gave chase, and captured him, knocked him
down and cut his head OFF with an axe
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NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.

SEVERAL of the wealthiest merchants OF
MOSCOW Russia, have been convicted by the
Government of adulterating tea, which they
bod FOR Gale. One OF the merchants has been
denriyed @ of all civil rights, and further, sem
Fenced to Siberia for life. /
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Grover Cleveland.

Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell,
Essex County, N. j., on March Is, 1887. his
paternal ancestors were of English origin.
His father was Richard Falley. Cleveland,
Presbyterian clergyman, and his mother
daughter of a Baltimore merchant OF Irish
birth, whom his father married in 1929.
Mr.. Cleveland received an academic edu-
cation at Fayetteville and Clinton, n. Y.
At seventeen he became clerk and assistant
teacher in the New York Institution for the
Blind, New York City. In 1855 he went to
Buffalo, secured place as clerk and copyist
with the law firm Of Rogers, Bowen q
Rogers at S4 a week and began to read law.
Assistant District Attorney of Erie County
for three years from January !, 1868, and
was elected Sheriff of Erie County in 1870,
serving three-years term.
Upon retiring from that office he resumed
his law practice, when the firm Of Bass,
Cleveland & Bissell was formed. The firm
was prosperous and Mr.. Cleveland attained
high rank in Western New York as lawyer.
In 1881 he was elected Mayor of Buffalo by
the largest ma jority ever given candidate
in that city, having received support from
Republicans and Independents as well as
that of the Democrats. He soon became
noted as the veto Mayor" acquiring repu-
tation which he has maintained aS President.
In September, 1882 he was nominated for
Governor of New York by the Democratic
Convention at Syracuse, and in the follow
ing November was elected by a plurality of
1a2, 1854 oyer Charles ]. Folger, the Republ-
can nominee.
Friday, July II, 1884, Grover Cleveland
was nominated at the Chicago Convention
as the Democratic candidate for President,
on the second ballot, and on the fourth day
Of the convention, bv 6S3 votes out of total
of $40. The nomination was afterwari made
unanimous.
In the election the following November
Mr.. Cleveland received 2l9 electoral votes
against 1S2 cast for Mr.. Blaine. His plural
ity over Mr.. Blaine on the popular vote was
69,9O6. Mr. Cleveland received the solid
Southern electoral VOTE with the votes of
New York, New Jersey, Indiana and Con-
necticut added. But the election was, never
theless, very close, since a change OF New
York's thirty-six votes would have given
Blaine 2lS votes in the Electoral College to
Cleveland's 1873, and Mr.. Cleveland only
secured the State by 1047 plurality out Of
total vote of l, 1,l7l,3l2. .
Mr.. Cleveland was bachelor at the time
of his election to the Presidency, but on June
9, 1856, he married at the White House Miss
Frances Folsom, Of Buffalo, the youthful
daughter Of his former law partner. Mrs.
Cleveland succeeded the Presidents sister,
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, as mistress OF
the White House. and has gained wide
measure Of popularity.
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rHElareest meeting OF Kentucky distillers
forming the Whisky Pool ever he'd has been
In session at Louisville They formulated an
agreement to restrict production OF SS-ss ~
ii. 600, 600 gallons ..at.-
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The locomotive engineer breads .
switch !; children don't
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04

It, bot d
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04

Of his yelp, wheeled around into the
ring, threw up her trunk with a shriIl
scream Of rage, and started out for
those reporters. They few. There
was no time for explanation, argument
OF dignlhed leisure. The forty or
fifty employees who were standing
about ran too. Bess stopped at Rube,
and when she saw that he wasn't seri {.
ously hurt she claimed right down,
walked back TO the ring and went on
with the rehearsal.
"When we were going to Lowell
from Boston, Rube, who had sore
foot, was put In one Of the baggage
wagons and sent on ahead. When
they came 10 start the elephants for
the march Bess missed her pet and
broke out in open rebellion. She stood
and trumpeted for him, snorted, and
tramped around in excitement, and
would not be driven, The other ele-
plants began to share her excitement,
6nd q man had to be sent on swift
horse after Rube. The wagon he was
On came back. The doors were
thrown open so that Bess could see
him. She went up TO him, touched
him gently all over with her trunk,
blinked at him, made q succession oil
sounds that sounded like the blowing
off Of steam from the exhaust pipe Of q
boiler, and then logged along behind
him contentedly all the way, the doors
of the wagon being kept OPEN"
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04
rlour Maz ao . no : narre1.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI Oct. All Of
the twenty-five immense Touring MILL in
this city are grinding to their utmost
capacity and putting out all the -four
they can. All the -four men say they
would not be surprised II flour sold for
SO barrel before the advance stopped
The highest price It has ever touched at
MINI apolis is $40 @ A. Pillsbury said
this morning In regard to the advance ;
ave have had quite little squall In
prices; but that is nothing to the cyclone
that is coming later on. My reason for
saving this Is the fact at there is not
enough yoed wheat In this country to
supply our local demand for good -four,
to say nothing of the foreign demand
which cuts no figure on the present crop,
as no matter how much they would offer
for our -four, our home trade must have
IL At a higher price,"
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04

The ProhibitionistB of Kent County
met in County Convention yestsIday ct
Dover and placed in nomination the fol.
low Dg ticket:
seuStoF-RtohArd NJ. Cooper. Duck
Greek hundred.
Repre- eatatlves-Duck Greek, J. O
L1sosll; Little Creek, Edward Pleason.
ton; Kenton, j. w X lIoit; North Muir.
derkill, ". N. BroFn; South Murder.
KIN, NJ. MoI,vAlne; Bast Dover, An
drew LRudeIbAuah; Milford, W. B.
Phillips.
Levy Cour'-Duok Greek, J. W.
Dsnney; BIst Dover, John Ha'toni
North Murderkill, Fl, r Diaper South
Marderkill, Robert Hodson; Mispillionl
Il II Salisbury.
sheriff-BAymond j. Taylor.
OoToneI-GeorRs M. Orossmar1
There was . general sentiment for
straight out prohibition ana NO compEo-
mise With any political party.
A mass meeting will be held October
9th ut Dover, which will be addressed
by DR. A. Brooks, prohibition candi.
date for Vice President.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04

Les A@sEioAa wsrhiagmsa Ponder
ana UhOOss which Ensv will nave

Les American Werkingmsn Ponder
and UhoOss Whloh Ensy win Nave
A much has bsen said about EuRlIsa
wages and American wages during the
present political campaign, and II has
bean rosolutely maintained by many
that the difference Of wages in the two
countries was but trifiing, and II any
differences that difference wAs In favor
OF HnglApd, the purchasing value of .
dollar being taken into confederation,
the following prices will show what
wages are In EuRland, and then the
readers Of the REPUBLICAN, who know
Whist wages are in this county, oAu
make thsir own calculations. Tho list
IL taken from the atatistics 10 the FinAn-
oiAl Reform AlmAnaok, published In
London, the wages reported being for
the year 1888
Carp, era In Manchester get "a shil-
lngB 4 week, In Glasgow, Scotland, rs
shlllinRs This reduced to United
stAtes currency 10 % IS for Manchester
aud % "a for Glasgow. How do these
wages compare with el2 and SIS .
week in Wilmington
Brioklayers in Manchester get So
shllllnag per week, and In Glasgow ~
Ghlllings. or IN United BtAtes money
S9.64 for Manchester, aud e5 as for
Glasgow How does this compare with
sis aud e22 . Wesk in Wilmin ptoD2
MasonB get in Manchester 49,. 101 :,
or 81 16, and In Glasgow 23J 81, or
IS 60. How do these wages compare
With S22 to S95 . wesk 10 Whining
ton7
Miners receive in staffordShire. Eng
land, a. per day, OF 93 cents.
Pattern weavers Teosive generally 25s.
week, or %; wool aoouIers, % rs per
week; mule spinneTs, $780, Wrappers
snd bsameIs, IS 4S; winders and reel
erss "a "a per week; weAvers, "a 80 per
week; reeleTs and wArre:s, e5.1s per
week. children sp'nners. s2.i6 per
week.
Let mechanics and mill workers com
pare these prices with what they get In
Win tngt0n ard see n there is any
difference bstWeen q free.tTAde and 3
protected country.
A an offset 10 the line Of cheap
living, In England coal 10 about dol.
lar o ton cheaper and four about q dol.
lar barrel cheaper. Five tons OF coal
and six barrels OF -four would last 3
good bised family q year, the total
bAVtnk uuln8 hDOub plls Inc uluotehoe
In wages for two weeks In America
would Wipe out this balance in coAl and
hoUr Rents too are about 81 20 month
cheaper, making Q difference Of SlS.
The difference In three weeks wages
would eQuAlIE5 that, and . couple Of
weeks more American wages would
wipe out the difference In all the cloth
ling that family oAn afford 10 buy in
England. In tie ether neoessarles Of
life there is but little difference in
pficss between the two countries. Let
Wilmington woikiugmen study over
and Investigate this tuhjsot. 1t will
bear IL, and the more II Is investigated
the more intelligent and thoughtful
Wofkiugmen will fud out that II they
vote 10 break down the BARRIERS Of pro-
tection, they vote to reduces thelr own
WAgeE.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04

The OhEnosllor, while o student ct
G Oettingep, by mis- skill and stTi ng,h
gained the reputation OF being . crack
sEordtmAn. 1t is said that he chAllenR
ed two Btadents tue very frst day he
came 10 9osttingea, aud after ward de-
feAted both, although they had had
much experience A very cunning
trick in escaping an attempt made by .
up o fight Is credited TO Bismarck.
When he was 1T JenA on q visit, ar
Engagements were made 10 have him
fight fuel ct Woe!iDiE, n email vii.
iRRe. Toe "pedell"-Kahle by name
was very much dislike by the students
% he often interrupted their fehtr. He
had gottes knowledge Thereof, and on
the morning hxsd for the fight had gone
TO Wnellnt'z ADD hid himse under 3
large barrel used In q bre VERY. He
had placed the barrel in such position
that he could overlook the duelling
place through the buDgdole, iutsuding
to soc all the Eight AMI get the names
Ioi ell III principAls. KAhle's prese ace
was noted, however. By some peasants,
and By bismsIok's suggestion the barrel
was suddenly turned around 90 that the
Role tt9od against the wall. Several
studt nts seated themselves upon the
barrel, and remained these until all the
lights had besu finished, when tae IN.
lucky "pe6ell" was released from his
prison aud heartily laughed ct IsiS 8
fact that shortly AiterWArd hs was Or
dered TO leave the city by the univertity
AuthOritiee.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04

PHILADELPHIA Oct. 4 Isaac Hilyard,
So years, 7S5 North Thirty ninth street,
whose wife secured dive O. from him
sig years ago on the ground of cruel
treatment, was before Magistrate Risen-
brown yesterday on the charge OF at
tempted abduction. His former wife
married man named SchrGm and now
lives at 1903 Moore street.
Hilyard, who had been living in Balti.
more until recently, went to the Moore
street house on Tuesday to see his daugh-
ter. che was on the front step and he took
seat alongsiie Of her. When Mrs.
Schram saw him she summoned Police
man Esquirrell, Seventeenth District, and
had him arrested. Mrs schrAm claimed
that the Court had given her charge of
the girl and she objected TO Hilyard com
munlcItipg with her The magistrate
didn't take much stock in the abduction
Gory and released the prisoner with the
caution TO keep away from Mrs schTam's
house.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04
BEES AND RUBE.

"No.hing Is more curious and in
teresting among the many strange
things to be noted In and about me-
nagerie," said the veteran manager
James III. Nixon TO a New York Sun
reporter, "than the devoted affection
that elephants frequently demonstrate
for dogs. The big pachyderms form
NO other attachments so strong and en-
during, and the dogs seem to recipro-
cate the feeling.
zone of the best Illustrations that l
ever saw was the love between Bess
and Rube. Bess was q female ele.
phant that we had in the Barnum
show in 1873 4, and Ruhe was a setter
dog. Bess was never easy when Rube
was out OF her sight. Her keen little
eyes would follow his every move
ment j! he was frisking about, ana II
he disappeared she would utter little
scream that would bring him gallantly
bank TO her in a hurry. She never
seemed so happy as when he was lying
asleep on the hay in front OF her, with
her big trunk waving over him. One
time kube got sick, She took the best
care of him that she knew how in her
elephantine way. She made bunch
of hay about a foot thick and large
enough for him to lie coiled upon and
in some way made him understand
that he should lie down upon it. Then
che denly worked her big trunk
around under the bunch Of hay 30 as
to take 1t up, with him on 1t, as a
woman takes up a sick baby on a pill
low, and there she held him and
gently swung him to and fro all night
long, rocking and lulling him To sleep.
| In the morning he was well again and
Bess appeared as happy as mother
who had nursed her child through q
spell of illness.
"While we were showing in Boston
happened to mention to q group oil
reporters one day the strong affection
Bess showed for Rube. They evil
IDENTIFY considered It circus fairy
story and were not delicate in saying
80.
a,Yery WE'LL ] said. If any Of you
doubt it, Just get Rube away from
Bess a little distance and hurt him
sliRhtly, enough to make him yelp.'
| / hadn't any idea that they'd do it,
and l didn't stop to think OF where
Bess might be, and whether she was
chained or not. The fact was that she
was at the time going throug b re-
hearsal In the ring, loose, and Rube
was sitting Up on a folded carpet some
way of. The reporters left me and
strolled out into the canvas. Pretty
soon they edged around to where
Rube was, and one of them gave hli
tail a twist, which the dog instantly
remarked loudly. Bess, at the SOUND
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04

PITTsBURo, Oct a.-As result Of the
tinkering with the tariff and the passage
OF the Mills bill In the HOUSE, J. Painter
a Sons. one Of the Oldest iron mAnuiao-
turing nFtnS in this city, have discon
tinusd the making OF cotton ties. The
lie department OF their works has ben
shut down entirely and II 10 probable this
Industry viii never be reeumed by the
arm. This leaves but one aim In the city
making cotton ties, William CIark's
Sons, and they are engaged on spec
iality On account Of It's peculiar make
the English manuiaetur, re can not COM
pete aud undersell the Pitt-burg article,
and the last vesiige Of the industry which
once gave employment to Thousands Of
Pittsburg woTkmen stands as living
monument OF what low tariff on one
article has done for this country.
The present duty on cotton ties lie IS
per cent advalorem. The tariff was re
dueed TO this figure in 1888, and in less
than six months the Southern market
was flooded with English ties. A mum
Der Of old idle iron plants were fred up
and the manufacture OF cotton ties on
large scale was begun by English firms.
The low duty enabled them to 60 into
every American market and undersell the
product Of American workers. Prior to
that time Pittsburg manufacturers, sup
piled all the South with the ties used In
tLat section At that time Painter g.
sons ran double turn and they had So
many or ers that they could not rgn
their mills or anything else. Lindsay &
McCutchto on, Jones snd Laughlin, Graf,
Bennett g. Co., William Clark and other
mills could notsupply the demand After
the tariff was reduced the business wac
crippled and the PlitsburR mandfac-
turers bad to give up the industry. Under
the Mills bill ties will be placed on the
free list and the business will be further
crippled.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04

The editor of the Ackley (Iowa)
Tribune thus answers correspondent
who asked him If he ever saw bald
headed woman: mo, we never did
Why should we9 Nor we never saw
a woman waltzing around town in her
shirt sleeves with a cigar between her
teeth stepping into every saloon she
saw, We never saw q woman 20
fishing in the mountains with q bottle
in each pocket, sit on the damp ground
all day and go home drunk at night.
Neither have we ever seen a woman
yank off her coat, spit on her hands
and say she could whip any man in
town. No, God bless her, she amt
built that way"
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04
nnmsn rier ..Vaeeine. I"

A happy father out on Massachusetts,
street re lates a Buffalo exchange, had
his child, girl thre months old, vaoci-
mated day before yesterday "By George,
isn't that great |" he exclaimed, as he
saw the doctor at work. "By Jove why
guess IN call her by that name
Vaccine Why that Is a girls name, ain t
1t? Vaccine Virus Saunders Capital
People viii think we are descended from
some old Roman family. Dear little Vac
cine I" The mother strongly objected to
this appellatiou for the infant. She
wanted it named Imogeue. but the father
was determined, and Vaccine Virus
Saunders she will go through life.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04
nonr Rely on Profsssors

President Adams, Of Cornell Uni
versity, in a recent address advised
students mot to rely on professors to
do your work. Don't lessen individual
effort. Herein is the success OF self.
made men, The men whom the world
wants are those who do better than is
expected of them. Sometimes they
are without q college education; are
such men as Franklin and Lincoln,
who get a real liberal education and
become monArchs in the domain OF
Thought" -
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-10-04

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, OSt. A-Tbe
new oasts OF fever ct Jacksonville yes
ter lay numbered 70, snd the deaths
six. Among ihote taken sick was Mrs.
O. d. Davis, nurse from Philadel.
pbiA.
-Four new cases OF yellow fever and
two DEATHS were reported ct Deoatur,
AlabAmh, yesterday.
The Bosid OF Health OF Columbia,
South OErolinA, yesterday resolved to
Invite refuRteB from all yellow fever
dlstricte to 90 there.
Trains which were discontinued on
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
on account Of the yellow fever QuAran
tine are now running again