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it.AT ST. LOOTS. Opening of the National Democratic Convention. How the Convention was Organised and Conducted. GROVER CLEVELAND. The National Democratic Convention was opened in the great hall of the Exposition Building at St Louis by Chairman Sarnum, of the National Committee, who called the vast assemblage to order at 12:35 P. M. The hall was profuselydecorated with flags, bunting and ever, greens. Portraits of Cleveland, Tilderr,Hancock, Hendricks and ex-Governor Marmaduke, of Missouri, were placed on either side of the large platform. In the back-ground of this long hall stood a heroic statue of Washington on horseback, framed in a festoon of large American flags. Upon a pedestal at the right (f the stage was a massive bronze bust of President Cleveland, and suspended upon the front of the gallery above the stage hung a large portrait of the President in oiL As the convention gathered a fall brass band of Bixty pieces filled the hall with martial strains. The marching of the various State delegations to the seats assigned them was accompanied with great cheering and enthusiasm. The spectators and invited guests occupied the boxes and every other loot of space not given over to the delegates. 7 ALLEN G. THTTKMAN. Chairman Barnum called the convention to order and introduced' Bishop Grandberg, who delivered the invocation, the delegates standing. When the prayer was ended and the delefites had resumed their seats. Chairman araum presented the report of the National Committee, naming Lieutenants-Governor White, of California, as temporary chairman. 'l tie report was unanimously adopted and Senator Gorman, Maryland; General Powell, Ohio, and Colonel Dawson. South Carolina, were appointed to escort the temporary chairman to the platform. The California delegation gave three cheers standing for Chairman White. Mr. White said he was grateful for the honor conferred, because it was an appreciation of his section of the country. He assured the convention that be and his fellowdelegates from the Pacific slope were profoundly impressed with the first distinction of the kind in the history of the Democracy. He congratulated the convention at what ne termed the encouraging circumstances which attended the inauguration of its proceedings. He alluded to the administration by saying that for the first time in twenty-five years a national uemocrauc convention was oeing held while the affairs of the country were conducted by the Democracy. J he experience of four years, he said, has isproved the assertions and charges that the Democracy could not be trusted with the government of the country. Continuing, Mr. White said: V "The platform of principles adopted at our last national convention prescribed with great accuracy the rules of conduct which should control governmental action. Grover Cleveland y&a selected by that con^ntionjaaa-mas^^whose firmness, ability, integrity and statesmanlike qualities preeminently fitted him to undertake thg-task of carrying out the great refpntfSthus suggested by the organization to __^-^-whose tenets he had ever been ready to yield compliance," His laudatory references to President Cleveland drew prolonged applause from the convention, and then he proceeded to the tariff question. He said: "For years it has been generally conceded that it was necessary to reform the tariff. The existing law on the subject had been called into being during the excitement and because of the exigencies of war. The Republican party, while not denying the necessity for reform, has ever failed to suggest any remedy, and has universally thwarted the efforts of the Democracy to afford the needed relief. The present admist ration has realized the promises made by the Democratic Convention of 1884. It has sought to reduce taxation ana ngnten me burdens of the people, and to reduce the revenue so as to prevent undue accumulation in the Treasury, and has at the same time taken the requisite steps to foster.and protect domestic industries." The failure of Congrese to establish free trade, he charged, was due to Republican obstruction. He said: "The existence of an enormous surplus in the Treasury threatens the industries of the country, and is a constant ource of injury to the consumer and men of moderate means, who find it difficult to obtain monetary assistance, because of the withdrawal of a large portion of the circulating medium." He touched on land grant grabs and Chinese Immigration, and gave the Democracy the credit of stopping both. He concluded by saying that "the re-election of Grover Cleveland is demanded by the patriotic sentiment of the land," and prophesying the success of the Democratic ticket in the coming election. Upon the conclusion of Mr. White's speech a resolution of Senator Gorman was adopted, ordering the call of the roll to name the committees. Goveror Green, of New Jersey, offered a resolution making the Convention subject to the rules of the last Convention, modified so k. as to prevent any State changing its vote until the call of the States is completed. The resolution was adopted. nS^Bifr. Patterson, of Colorado, presented a of Colorado silver to the Chairman. B^SHHA^ion by Senator Morgan, of Alabama mHUHfl^d that each delegation name one as its member upon the Comone member as its meml^nHBWSQKS^^itteo on Permanent OrganiIHHBGHKffi^nnber as its member on the ^MflHBB^HHHflj^^^^ions, and that all resojM^SnBnnBaaQaK^H^tform of the Demosaid CommitMHflEBHflM^Bsj^HlMH^Webate. each delone con Second Day's Proceedings. The convention was called to order shortly after 10 o'clock by Chairman White. Formal thanks were given to Colorado for presenting the silver gavel to the chairman. ' Resolutions were offered and referred favoring the Monroe doctrine andrecognizing and indorsing tariff reform. The Committee on Credentials reported, admitting Steele and Megeinar from Dakota. ' The report was amended that two delegates from Alaska be admitted. The Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization made a report submitting the following list of names for officers of the Convention: Hon. Patrick A. Collins, Massachusetts, Chairman; H. H. Ingersoll, Tennessee, Secretary; Alfred Orendorff, Illinois: T. E. Barret, Missouri; W. W. Scott; Virginia; O. M. Hall, Minnesota; Leopold Strauss, Alabama; L. G. Rowby, Michigan; John Triplett, Georgia; T. J. Lingle, Missouri; O. Newell, Colorado: T. L. Merrill, Nebraska, Assistants; Hon. Thomas Pettit, Chief Reading Secretary; R. J. Bright, Sergeant-at-Anns; Daniel Able, St. Louis, Chief Doorkeeper. There was no opposition to the adoption of the report and the temporary chairman selected Hon. W. H. Barnum, Connecticut; Roswell P. Flower, New York, and John O. Day, Missouri, to escort Mr. Collins to the chair. His presence upon the platform was the signal for long continued applause, the Massachusetts delegation getting upon its chairs and yelling itsalf hoarsa The enthusiasm was renewed when Mr. White, thanking the convention for the courtesy extended him, introduced his successor, and it was continued while two of the Tennessee delegates carried up on the platform a framed vignette of the coat of arms of that State, with pictures of the President and Mrs. Cleveland, the whole surmounted by a magnificent floral wreath. - o in whinh hft -iu.1 VUliiuo Uiauo w a^'wvui) ? .. ?_ reviewed the work of the Administration, and declared that the confidence placed by the people in President Cleveland had been triumphantly justified. Mention of President Cleveland's name was cheered to the echo. The proposition that taxation should be only for needed expenses was greeted by a lively outbreak of applause. Upon motion of Congressman Campbell, of New York, a resolution of sympathy for General Sheridan in his illness was adopted by a rising vote. Mrs. E. A. Merriweather, of the Women's Convention recently held in Washington, was permitted to speak for ten minutes, but amid the noise and applause could not be heard, and gave up the attempt to interest the convention. Then a score of men jump?d on the platform and asked that nominations be made. A resolution to this effect was adopted amid great applause. Daniel Dougherty, the silvertonguea orator from Philadelphia, rose to make the speech renominating the President. He was greeted with wild applause, and spoke as follows: "I greet you, my countrymen, with fraternal regard. In your presence I bow to the majesty of the people. The sight itself is inspiring, the thought sublime. Tou come from every State and Territory, from every nook and corner of our ocean-bound, continent-covering country. You are about to discharge a mqre than imperial duty. With simplest ceremonials, you as representatives I of tne people are to chooae a Magistrate with power mightier than a monarch, yet checked and controlled by the supreme law of a written constitution. Thus impressed I 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 thirty-eight States and all the Territories are assembled without caucus or consultation ready simultaneously to take up the cry and make the vote unanimous. We are here not indeed to choose a candidate, but to name the one the people have already chosen. He is the man for the people. His career illustrates the glory of our institutions. Eight years ago unknown, save in his own locality, he for the last four has stood in the gaze of the world discharging the most exalted duties that can be confided to a mortal. To-day determines that not of his own choice, but by the mandate of his countrymen, and with the sanction of heaven, he shall fill the Presidency for four years mora He has met and mastered every question as if from youth trained to statesmanship. The promises of his letter of acceptance and inaugural address have been : fulfilled. His fidelity in the past inspires faith in the future. He is not a nope. Jtie is a realization. Scorning: subterfuge, disdaining re-election by concealing convictions, "mindful of his oath of office to defend the Constitution, he courageously declares to Congress, i dropping minor matters, that the supreme issue is reform, revision, reduction of national taxation. That the Treasury of the ; United States, glutted with unneeded gold, oppresses industry, embarrasses business, endangers financial tranquility and breeds ex- : travagance, centralization and corruption. That high taxation, vital for the expenditures of an unparalleled war, is robbery in years of prosperous peace. That the millions ' that pour into the Treasury come from the hard-earned savings of the American people. That in violation of equality of rights the present tariff has created a privileged class, < who, shaping legislation for their personal ] gain, levy by law contributions for the neces- ] aries of lire from every man, woman and i child in the land. That to lower the tariff is not free trade, it it to reduce the unjust < profits of monopolists and home manufacture , ers and allow consumers to retain the rest j The man who asserts that to lower the tuUtr < means free trade insults intelligence. <We , brand him as a falsifier. It is farthtst'from tli/utohf imnapil mnitnl Ar nnt/ir VUVUJUW *4 VKk/?*w? ?VvVUt V VUWI- J prises. The aim is to upheld wages and 1 protect the rights .fit all This administration has rescued the public domain from would-b*f barons and cormorant corporations faithless to obligations and ; reserved it for fre? homes for this and com- ; ing generations/ There is no pilfering, i There are no jobs under this administration. -TlftWic office is a public trust. Integrity stands guard at every point of our vast em- , pire. While the President has been the me- ( dium through which has flowed the undying gratitude of the republic for her soldiers, he ( has not hesitated to withhold approval from special legislation if strictest inquiry revealed a want of truth and justice. Above all sectional strife as never before is at an 1 end, and sixty millions of freedmen in the ties of brotherhood are prosperous and 1 happy. These are the achievements of this administration. Under the same illustrious 1 leader we are ready to me3t our political opponents in high and honorable debate and take our triumph on the intelligence, virtue and patriotism of the psoplo. Adhering to the Constitution, its every line and letter, ever remembering that 'powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States are reserved to the States respectively or to the people,' by the authority of the Democracy of New York, backed by the Democracy of the entire Union, I give you a name entwined with victory. 1 nominate Grover Cleveland, of New York." The Convention hroke into the wildest enthusiasm at the close of Mr. Dougherty's speech. Hats were waved and thrown into tbe air, bandanas streamed out all over the hall, and the delegates jumped on their chairs and cheered madly. A picture of Cleveland in the "White House was uncovered on the east wall, and the bands plaved "Hail to the Chief." The cheering and uproar continued, spectators in the gallery tearing flags from the rails and waving them in the air. Some one on the stage crowned the bust of the President on the left of the Chairman with a laurel wreath, which was the signal for even a wilder burst of shouts and cheers than before. Although the full band of sixty pieces was in full blast all the time, not a sound from its trumpets could be heard. The climax of this remarkable scene was reached when the banners of all tbe States were borne by the delegates to the New York standard and draped 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, waving these improvised banners all over the hall for ten minutes. The Chairman kept rapping for order, but the cheering continued, and horns were blown in the galleries. The delegates gathered in groups, waving their State banners high in air, and cheering with renewed vigor. The cheering ceased after twenty-four minutes. The Kentucky delegation asked and was granted unanimous consent to second tho nomination. James A. McKenzie was recognized, and there was renewed cheering at his mention of Cleveland's name, and wild enthusiasm at his mention of Mrs. Cleveland. Judge Twiggs, of Georgia, Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, H. W. Lightfoot, of Texas, and others seconded Mr. Cleveland's nomination. The roll call was then completed, and a motion of Mr. McKenzie to suspend the rules was carried, and Cleveland was nominated by acclamation. The Convention then adjourned until 10 a. m. the following day. jl WHrre man who disguised himself by blacking his face, and swindled colored k people in Greene County, Ga., was captured Kr his victims and beaten to death THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Four of Jersey City's (N. J.) Commissioners or Public Works nave been indicted for conspiracy and malfeasance in office. Robert Reidy and Boyd Guinter, boys, walking upon some loose logs in the river at Williamsport, Penn..slipped, fell in the water and both were drowned. The steamer Etruria has beaten the record for transatlantic passage by a run of six days one hour and flfty-flve minutes from Queenstown to New York, Richard Kearney, a murderer under sentence of death in Monmouth- County (N. J.) Jail, has confessed to committing the crime for which " Mingo Jack" was lynched at Eatontown, N. J., two years ago. The Italian residents of New Fork City unveiled amid great ceremonies the statue of Garibaldi, the Italian patriot, which they have erected in Washington Square and presented to the city. Miss Catharine Gounby, sixty-seven years, deliberately placed herself before a railway train at Saratoga, N. Y., and was killed. JOSEPH DUFORD and William Bishop were killed by a fall of rock in the Sterling mine at Antwerp, N. Y. South and West. James B. Hayes, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho Territory, is dead, aged forty-eight. Three men were killed and seven hurt by the explosion of a boiler in iron works at Wyandotte, Mich. The second day's session of the North Carolina Democrats resulted in the nomination of William L. Saunders for Secretary of State, and the selection of a complete State ticket. The platform as adopted cordially endorses President Cleveland and a tariff tax reduction, and calls for the abolition of the internal revenua Andrew Graxdstaff, who murdered old Reuben Drake,his wife and two young grandchildren at Viroqua, Wis., was taken from jail by the angry populace and hanged. A battle took place between the Green and Jones families in Hancock county, Tenn., the result of a long standing feud. Two of the Green family, and A. D. Jones, who led the other faction, were killed. A destructive cyclone swept over Washington countv. Ark., and nearly destroyed Evansville, a place of 500 inhabitants. Fourteen persons were injured, four of them seriously. James Phillips, of Logan, Ohio, cut his wife's throat with a pocket knife in the presence of their three small children and then committed suicide. The people of Thomson, Ga., indignant at the continued crimes of a worthless colored man, took him from jail and hanged him to a tree. Maxwell, the murderer of the Englishman Preller, at St. Louis, is to be hanged July 13, all efforts to obtain a respite or pardon having failed. Cromwell, a village 23 miles west of St Paul, Minn., has been wiped out by fire. A cyclone swept over Southern IjTorth Carolina, and the destruction wrought in its pathway, which was twenty-five miles long and 500 yards wide, was terrible. Large acres of recently planted corn and tobacco, near Milton, were wiped out Bucketfuls of hailstones as large as guinea hens' eggs could easily be gatheredDavid T. Disney, a prominent Democratic politician, was killed at Seymour, Ind., while on his way to the St. Louis Presidential Convention. The deadlock in the Democratic State Convention, of Arkansas, which has continued for so many days, has been broken by the nomination of John P. Eagle for Governor Cleveland's position on the tariff was indorsed by the Convention. Oregon went Republican in the recent State election by 4000 majority. The Legis lacure is Republican by twenty on a joint ballot D. Porter, a son of ex-Governor Porter, was shot and killed at Paris, Tenn., by Alex. B. White, Cashier of the Commercial Bank. General J. B. Weaver has been nominated for Congress from Iowa by the Union Labor party. Washington. Total coinage for May: Gold, $3,405,561; diver, $2,934,000; minor coin, $80,665. During May the public debt was reduced $1,618,695.96. The total cash in the Treasury Is $608,971,049.03. Count Arco Valley, the new German Minister, has arrived in Washington from New York. He will be presented to the President at once. President Cleveland has nominated Captain William B. Remey, of the Marine Corps, to be Judge Advocate-General of the Navy. The President returned to the- House without his approval bills for the erection of public buildings at Bar Harbor, Me., andJflMtoeT purchase of additional ground foc-iifiebuilding at Council Bluffs, Iowa,. In order to assist In f&e maintenance of luaranunejigfttast tbe introduction or miectiouB diseases, the President has determined ^establish, by means of the vessels of the revenue marine, a national patrol of the coast of the United States. Seventeen new National banks were organized daring May. Foreign. .An English gunboat has visited Maitre Isle, which was recently occupied by the French, and warned the French to haul down the tricolor; England claims the island. Emperor Frederick of Germany, accompanied by tbe Empress, Crown Prince, Bir Morell Mackenzie,and a suite of attendant officers, sailed on a pleasure trip in an open boat from Berlin to rotsdara. Signs of increased strength were observed, and after dining heartily he strolled around the park. The Queen Regent of Spain has unveiled bhe statue of Christopher Columbus in Barcelona. The ceremony was made the occasion of great rejoicing. Three of a party of six men who undertook to cross a stream near Mackey's station, Canada, were drowned. GkkebjLL Boulangeb made a speech in the French Chamber of Deputies urging a revision of the constitution. He'was constantly jeered at and ridiculed, and his motion wa3 defeated by a vote of 377 to 186. It is the intention to crown the Chat of Russia Emperor of Central Asia at Samarcand,in order to offset the influence of Queen Victoria's title as Empress of India. The city of Hull, a suburb of Ottawa, Canada, has been visited by a fire which destroyed the City Hall, the Cathedral and other public buildings, with hundreds of dwelling-houses. Two million dollars is the estimated amount of the loss. A heavy shock of earthquake was felt in Buenos Ayrea. The French Senate has passed M. de Lessees' Panama Canal Lottery Loan bilL AIT IMMENSE NEW BAFT. A Great Structure Shaped Like a Ship?Manned by Fifteen Sailors. Advices from Nova Scotia state that the second log raft which James D. Leary, of New York city, is having constructed at Fince3 Board, in the Bav of Fund v. is rapidly neariiig completion, and will bo launched soon. This new structure is entirely different from the last one, which went adrift on the broad Atlantic while being towed to New York by the English steamer Miranda. This new raft is not cigar-shaped like the last The various pieces of timber are all put together in su ;h a way as to form the perfect model of a ship, being cut away sharp forward, full in the centre, and decreasing as the spars work aft. In a 1, 31,000 logs are being used in the construction, the spars ranging in size from twenty-five feet to 200 feet The raft from point to point measures 700 feet, or nearly 150 feet larger than the former one. It will be sixty-five feet broad and thirtyfive feet deep. The huge steamboat M B. Mure will be used to assist the raft to New York, but as n. sort of auxiliary six masts will be erected. These will be given yards, like on a sailing vessel, and an enormous spread of canvas will be put on the spars to aid the safe navigation of the raft to New York. A large house will be erected on the upper part of the raft to shelter fifteen sailors. A St. Louis minister says that the greatest feat of baptism in the history of the Baptist Church in modern times was that performed in July, 1878, by J. C. Clough, a missionary, vrho with the assistance of five native preachers, immersed 2222 converted brethren within six hours. - ?-? '..vifc- ' - GENERAL OF THE ARMY. A. Bill Passed by Congress Reviving the Great Rank. The Commission Presented to Genera] Sheridan on His Sick Bed. VRPnmJESSBR^ \ / GENKRAL PHILIP H SHDUDAlf. The bill to revive the grade of General for the benefit of Lieutenant-General Sheridan came up in the House Friday immediately after the morning hoar, and after c?logistic speeches from Messrs. Kelley, Cox and Breckinridge, it was passed by a viva-voce vote. The bill was enrolled and harried to President Cleveland for his signature. At ten minutes past two the President signed the measure, and at twenty-five minutes to three the Senate confirmed the appointment of Lieutenant-General Sheridan to be General of the United States Army. Five rainates after the President had handed them the commission, Senators Hawley and Manderson, who had hurried to the White House immediately on the nomination being confirmed, were in the drawing room of the Sheridan home. Mrs. Sheridan was summoned and soon appeared. Senator Hawley handed her the commission with a few appropriate words. Mrs. Sheridan told the Senators that she thanked them and all others who had assisted in conferring this great honor on her husband. "If anything can cure him this will," she aid. "Elarly this morning he seemed greatly pleased when he learned of the efforts that were being made. I will show him the commission as soon as he wakes." General Sheridan woke a few minutes after 3. His wife told him the news and the sick man seemed greatly pleased. "That's the best tonic I've had in a week," he said. Chief Clerk Tweed! e, of the War Department was sent for and soon arrived. The members of the general's staff who were in the house were summoned to the tick room, and the formal oath was administered to the stricken soldier by Mr. Tweedale. While waiting for him a letter of thanks to the President, at the General's request, was prepared, and a few moments later he affixed his signature to the letter, Itis first attempt at writing since he was taken sick. After taking the oath General Sheridan? now General of the United States Army? signed the necessary official papers, and immediately announced his staff to be the same officers who had served him as Lieutenant-General. This appointment gives to each of them me ranK OI v^oioneu no meu unueu uia utbii order as General, which was a notification to the army of the appointment of his staff. Sympathetic and lo*~-voiced congratulations were tendered to General Sheridan by those present daring the simple ceremonies. The bill reviving the rank of General of the Army reads as follows: Be it enacted, &c., That the grade of Lieutenant-General of the Army is hereby discontinued, and is merged in the grade of General of the Army of the United States, which grade shall continue dur- I ing the life-time of the present I Lieutenant-General, after which such grade J shall cease; and the President of the United ] States is hereby authorized to appoint, with I the advice and consent of the Senate, a I General of the Army of the United State* i Sec. 2. That the pay and allowances of < the general be the same as heretofore al- I lowed for that grade. < General Sheridan signed the following ] formal acceptance of his commission: ] Headquarters Army United States, ) ' Washington, June 1, 1888. j J The Hon. Secretary of War : 1 Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the i receipt^of-rof^omT&i^rr-Rl. jQ?cflcaVt>{^tee-H Xrrriy, to which position the President bas to-day appointed mo. I hereby accept the same. . i X~. XL oaaiuuArr, ucuci ai? The signature was written with a pencil In \ a large and perfectly legible hand. A. DISASTROUS VOYAGE. 1 The British Barfc Balaklava has a Hard Ran of Lack. The British bark Balaklava has arrived in j San Francisco from London, after a remarkably long voyage of one year and seveatyfour days. Her misfortunes during the trip , were many. There is not a sailor on board who shipped on. her from England. Ten | sailors were washed overboard and drowned in a storm off Cape Horn, and while at Valpariso for repairs, the remainder of the crew deserted. The bark was again caught in a storm after leaving that port and lost two more men. i NEWSY _GLEANINGS. Totc armv worm has invaded Kentucky. Mod nt Etna is now in a state of activity, but the eruption has not assumed a serious aspect. A Parliamentary return shows that thirty-two people starved to death in London, England, in 1887. The forests were on fire recently in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, and untold damage was dona Erastus Snow, one of the twelve apostles of the Mormon Churoh, died at Salt Lake City, Utah, aged 70. Thomas Carey, who shot and killed a Chicago Chinaman, was sentenced to fifty years' imprisonment. All Jews, except merchants of ths first guild, have been ordered to quit Moscow, Russia, within a fortnight. It is announced that, after all, the Prince of Wales will be unable to make his contemplated visit to this country. Judge Nash, of Washington Territory, has decided the Woman Suffrage Act of that Territory unconstitutional. Two men have startei on a trip of 3000 miles through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in a torpedo boat. Harbison Hamilton, a prominent merchant of Chatham, Mass, blew out his brains because he was suspected of arson. The German Corp3 of the Guards and the Cuirassiers will discard the cuirass and carbine, which will be replaced by revolvers. The Greek Catholics of Chicago are about to build a church of their own. The Russian Government will be requested to sena a priest there. Charles Clendenning, near Bakerstown, Penn., has just celebrated his 100th birthday in the midst of his Ave children and all their descendants. According to the Hungarian Minister ol Agriculture, the loss of Hungary from pleu? ropneumonia has of late years amounted to $6,156,000 yearly. The Massachusetts House has passed, to be engrossed, the measuro providing for the Australian system of voting, which was recently passed by the Senate. The hessian fly has appeared in the wheat fields of New Zealand, and instructions for coping with the invader have been transmitted them from England by wire. San Francisco is to have a crematory. A coraDany has been formed, which owns a valuable lot, and this month work will be begun upon the furnace and chapel. Dr. Lawrence and his son, who were on trial for selling alleged spirit-painted pictures to Lawyer Marsh, have sued eight New York papers for a total of $800,000 damages for libel _./*** [f , - . ; - o/o . / ? ,v;V, : v j ' SPMMABY OF OOK&BE88. Senate Proceedings. 104th Dat.?The entire day's seesfon was consumed by the consideration of the Indian Appropriation bill. Mr. Blaif made a lengthy speech in which he condemned the present administration of Indian affairs. After much debate the bill was passed without amendments. 105th Day.?A bill was placed on the calendar appropriating $125,000 for a public building at Bait Lake City,Utah.... A bill to repeal all pre-emption and timber culture laws was referred The Committee on Appropriations reported back the Consular and Diplomatic bill Mr. Spooner offered a resolution (which was laid over) calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for copies of correspondence between the First Comptroller and the United States Commissioner or Chief Supervisors of Election appointed for the Congressional election of 1886, and tor a statement of allowances made to them .... Senator Cameron offered a resolution appropriating SCO,000 for a monument to mark the Dirthplace of George Washington The Senate considered bills on the calendar and Dassed the folio wine: Senate bill appro pristine $35,000 for Jan equestrian statue of ex-President Zachary Taylor in Washington; appropriating $100,000 for a public building at Waterbury, Conn., authorizing the President to appoint and retire Alfred Pleasanton, with rank and grade as Colonel ?with an amendment reducing the grade to that of Major; appropriating $75,000 each for public buildings at Nashua, N. H , and Altoona, Penn.; to increase the endowment (by a grant of 25,000 acres of public land in Louisiana) of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural College; authorizing the President to place'on the retired list, with the grade of Major, MajorGeneral William W. Averill; appropriating $60,000 for a public building at Hoboken, N. J.; requiring American Consuls abroad to make monthly reports on agricultural and horticultural subjects The Senate went into executive session and passed private pension bills. 106th Day.?The following amendments were reported by the sub-Committee on Diplomatic Appropriations and adopted by the House: Transferring to the grade of Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary the "Minister Resident" in Belgium,the Netherlands, Sweden, and Noway, and Venezuela without change of salary ($7500); inserting an item, "Minister Resident and Consul-General in Corea. $7500;'' transferring to the grade of "Minister Resident and Consul-General" the charge d'affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay without change of salary ($5000); inserting a provision requiring all consulates and commercial agencies, where the compensation allowed for the fiscal year 1888 exceeds $1000 to be estimated for under classified consulates . . .On motion of Mr. Sherman $25,000 was appropriated for the salaries and expenses of a scientific commission of three persons (an officer of the army or navy, a geologist and mineraloanrI o nafniKi1iof\ fn vioif. nnH iHiTWrfc ?UU ? UMVIUIMIBV/, W .-WW - vrw . upon the commercial resources of the Upper Conjjo Basin, the salaries (not exceeding $6000) to be fixed by the President and the Commission to expire June 30, 1889....Mr. Chandler proposed a bill to make operative the retaliatory law of last Congress in connection with the fisheries. 107th Dat.?The Senate bill in relation to cadets at the Naval Academy was passed.... The conference report on the bill appropriating $130,000 for a public building at Bridgeport, Conn., was agreed to The Senate then considered the House bill to prevent the employment of alien labor upon public works ana in the various departments oI the Government, which went over In the consideration of the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill an amendment fixing the salary of the Minister Resident to Paraguay and Uruguay at $7000 was agreed to. The consulate at Prague (Austro-Hungary) was taken from class five (salary $2001) and placed in class three (salary 13000)! The bill was then passed ....Theremainder of the day was devoted to the passage of individual pension bills on the calendar. Among them were bjlls increasing the pensions of the widows of Major-General Thomas Kilby Smith to $75, of Major-General Heintzelman to $100, and of Brigadier-General Schimmelfenniog to $50, ana giving a pension of $50 a month to the widow of Commodore Truxton. Pnnco PrnrPMi inPIL 127th Day.?The Senate bill to authorize :hc Fort Smith and Choctaw Bridge Com* wroy to construct a bridge over the Poteau River near Fort Smith, Ark., was passed.... Mr. White, of New York, rising to a personal explanation, declared that it was not true that he was directly or indirectly interested in any claim against the Venezuelan Government, and none of his constituents aad any such claim....The parliamentary lifficulties in the way of the Legislative Appropriation bill were overcome, and the bill passed with the blank salaries filed in as it was reported from the Appropriations Committee Mr, Bayers reported from the Appropriations Committee the Customs Deficiency bill, with the recommendation that-' rtft-Senate amej&n&ate-be concurred fn, and with further amendments reported by the House Committee. These amendments were agreed to, and the bill was again sent to the Senate ? The bill to elevate General Sheridan to the rank of General of the United States Army was then passed by a viva-voce vote, Mr. Oates, of Alabama, going on record as opposing it. The bill has been signed bv the Speaker of the House and the presiding officer of the Senate, and sent to the President, who also signed it and returned it to the Senate for] confirmation The House then went into Committee of the Whole on Tomff TVia h'mo fnr rinhatn over the first paragraph was limited to forty minutes by agreement. LIr. Holsian spoke briefly in favor of cheap lumber. The first paragraph of the MilJs Tariff bill was passed.... Tb? evening session was devoted to private pension bills. 128th Day.?Most of the day was consumed in considering the appropriation bills. The Agricultural Appropriation bill waa passed without amendments, but all other Dills went over without definite action.... Mr. Wilkins, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported to the House a substitute for the bill introduced by him, to rerevise and codify the banking laws of th? United States. 129th Day.?The following bills were introduced: Directing the Committee on Foreign Affairs to inquire into the alleged action of the Brazilian Government in imposing an export duty on coffee nearly equal to the duty formerly imposed by the United States on that commodity, and in aiding British capitalists to establish flour mills in Brazil while maintaining an excessive duty on American flour; to prevent food adulteration; to amend the Inter-State Commerce Law; to restrict the immigration or i oreigners moo the United States; calling on the Secretary of State for information as to whether the Canadian Government has violated the spirit of the Treaty of Washington by discriminating against American vessels passing through the Welland and other Canadian canals.... The Senate bill making Inauguration Day a legal holidav in the District of Columbia was passed.... With amendments, the Senate bill to prevent obstructions and injurious deposits in the New York harbor and adjacent waters was passed. 130th Day. The following bills were reported: The Allentown (Penn.) Public-Building bill, with the recommendation that it be passed, notwithstanding the President's veto. Placed on the calendar; Senate bill to provide an additional mode of taking depositions for use in United States courts; to ratify an agreement with the Shoshone and Bannock Indians for the surrender of a part of the Fort Hall, Idaho, reservation, and for other purposes; adversely, from the Judiciary Committee, the resolution to authorize the acceptance of the invitation tendered the House to attend the centennial celebration of Washington's inauguration in New York in 18>1t. The report takes the ground that this House has no power to bind its successor.... The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Tariff Bill, Mr. Springer in thfc chair, debate on the pending clause ("wood mnnnf.ooiiirAs not sneciallv enumerated or provided for1') being limited to thirty minutes. Mr. Parker, of New York, addressed the House in opp<- sition to the lumber clauses of tha Tariff bill He was followed in the opposition by Mr. Reed, while the bill was defended by Messrs. Cox, and Bynura. Six lines of the Mills's bill were passed. 131st Day.?The entire session was occupied in a discussion of the Mills bill. Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, introduced an amendment to provide for the admission of all fish free of duty, but no action was taken. Farther debate was indulged in by Messrs. Mills, Tarsney, Dingley and Brewer. Th* bodies of Edward Whitehouse and Lizzie Webb were found in the river Lea, in England tied together with a handkerchief, ana locked in each other's arms. A letter wai found In the young woman's pocket addressed to her mother, desiring tier not to "fret," and asking that she and har loyer b? buried in the same grave. APPALLING DISASTER. Fatal Conflagration in a Bock, dale (Texas) Hotel. The Mnndine House Destroyed and Eleven Inmates Cremated. The most appalling calamity that ever occurred in Texas took place at Rockdale, sixty miles north of Austin, at four o'clock Monday morning. The Mundine Hotel, a three story brick building, was discovered to be on fire, and in leas than five minutes from the time it started the whole building was a raging sea of flame. The wildest and most indescribable terror seized the people when it became known that at least fifteen persons were within the doomed hotel, but the cooler and more collected of the spectators at once went to work to save the unfortunate victims, several of whom were seen at the upper floor windows begging pitoously for succor. Dr. W. A. Brook*, the proprietor of the hotel, was pulled out of the burning building with his hair and bead completely singed and his body in several places badly bruised and borned. For his escapa from death he paid an awful penalty, having left his wife and four children behind him, all of whom perished in the flames. He had to be taken from the building by force, as he was unwilling to be saved without his wife and children. He is badly burned and is almost crazy over the loss of his family. Brooks was in a room adjoining that occupied by his wife and children, ana ms wnes room was enveiopea in names when he was awakened. Mr. J. F. Briscoe, with his wife and two children, were also burned to death, all efforts to reach them being unavailing. Mr. Isaac Cohen, of the firm of L Baum & Co., likewise perished. Mr. Femberton Fierce, representing the firm of George H. Zlgler, or Philadelphia, jumped in his night clothes from the third story of the burning building and was killed by the falL The hotel register was lost, and it is not improbable that other lives were lost, though this will, never be known for certain. Mr. D. M. Oldham, representing a Halves ton firm, escaped uninjured by jumping. He occupied a room in the second story and was awakened by a roaring, crashing sound. He thought that a storm nad arisen, but later he detected smoke in his room, and opening the door, saw the hall full of flames. He at once closed the door and escaped by crawling out on the roof of a> veranda and sliding down a post Oldham had just reached the ground when he saw Pemberton Pierce rush on to the veranda enveloped in the flames. Pierce leaped to the ground, ?trilcing on his head. He broke his neck and died instantly. The mystery is that so many should have perished when none was higher up than the second story, and there were galleries and exits on both sides of the building. No one nrno Iiaa?w1 frt /tall ai? o/iwm all oat a cry for help, though a great, crowd quickly gathered and exhausted every effort to rescue the victims. Unfortunately there is no fire organization in town, or there might have been a chance of saving some of the people. The charred remains of ten human bodies have been recovered from the ruins, but they were unrecognizable. Every business place wan closed in town out of respect to the dead. Mr. Pierce was the only victim not a resident of Rockdale. The Mundtne Hotel was valued at $8000, and was insured for *1500. "THE NATIONAL GAME. Mack, Washington's catcher, Is six feet two inches talL Chinamev are commencing to patronise the national gama Memphis has signed pitch Rudolph, of the Eclipse Club, Louisyillei Baltimore has a tailless kitten for a mascot, and Kalamazoo a little fox. The Philadelphias were the first to win a game of Chicago's young pitcher Krock. There are more postponed games so far this season than there were all oi last year. The Louisville Club is badly off for catchers, and is on the lookout for suitable men. Jack Firth, of the Houston (Texas) Club, died last week from rheumatism of the heart. Toicr MuLLANE,the Cincinnati pitcher,has entered the list for the long-throwing championship. Cow 13key, of 8& Louis, had a finger smashed against his bat by a pitched ball, at Bfltttoi&re. ?- ? ? .. . The Indianapolis Club is the only one in the League which insists on having a marble home plate. It seems to be the regulation daily thing now to find Ned Williamson, of Chicago, credited with a home run. Titcomb's record would Buffer greatly but for Murphy's magnificent catching of the New York pitcher's erratic delivery. It has been shown pretty conclusively that Dunlap, second baseman of the Pittsburg League Club, gets a salary of $5000 a year. No team in the American Association, not even the famous St Louis Browns, has anything like the great base-stealing record of the Cincinnatis. The secret of the weak batting on the part of Foster, of New York, is said to be'that he can't hit a drop ball and that the League pitchers are all onto this. The St. Paul players have rented a wellfurnished house, engaged a cook and washerwoman and will ran their own hoteL The wives of two players will super viae. Tekry, the Brooklyn American Association Clubs' pitcher, at a recent game with the Louis villee, performed the remarkable feat of shutting oat the rival nine without a single run or nit The rivalry between Easton and Allentown, the two Pennsylvania ball clubt, is so great that the papers of the two towns cannot find words in the English language to express their feelings. Billy Sowders, of Boston, is a pitcher in action, and looks a pitcher in every regard but in size. He stands about 5ft. 6in. high, and does not weigh much over 180 pounds. He is slight, dark and very modest. Reckoning the season at six months, John Clarkson, Boston's $10,000 pitcher, who will probably not pitch more than an average of two games a week during the season, will be paid the handsome wages of $33.33 1-3 an hour or $5.55 a minute for his services. An important event in Milwaukee (Wis.) sporting annals occurred in the opening of the base ball season in that city, and the dedication of Athletic Park, the new $40,000 ball grounds the Milwaukees will hereafter entertain their visitors upon. The number of people who witnessed the morning and afternoon games of the League and American Association Clubs in New York, Brooklyn, Boston.Philadelphia,Wash ington, Cleveland ana Baltimore on peculation Day aggregated 84,454. New York led with a total attendance of 18.2S2. "Who lsthtbest pitcher; in the profession P* was asked of Charley Bennett, the Detroit catcher, recently. "Well, the best pitching talent in the country lies between Caruthers, of Brooklyn, Clarkson, of Boston, and Tim Keefe, of New York. Caruthers and Clarkson are great strategists, but when it comes to putting the ball right over the plate nobody can touch Tim Keefe." One reason for Chicago's high standing is its great strength behind the bat In Daly and Darling they have a couple equal to any pair of catchers in the League. Daly caught eight games without a fielding error, accepting seventy-five chances. He bad four passed balls. His colleague played the same number of games, accepted as many chances, with five errors and six Dassed balls. NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. Same or Club. Won. lout. Chicago 25 10 Boston 23 15 New York 21 13 Detroit 22 13 Philadelphia 15 18 Pittsburg 14 20 Indianapolis 11 21 Washington 8 2(3 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. Kame of Club. Won. Lost. Brooklyn 29 10 8t. Louis 21 11 Cincinnati 23 14 Athletic 18 16 Baltimore 17 17 Cleveland 14 23 Kansas City 10 21 Louisville 10 28 "'L - ' ' ? ri. . r ,.;7 LATEB NEWS. "Fire destroyod Tony Pastor's Theatre, op 14th street, in New'York, and spread to Ttov^s.* many Hall, the famous political wigwam, was damaged to the extent of $75,000. Thomas McElbath, for many yean partner of Horace Greeley in the publication?^ of the New York Tribune, died a few day* . ago in the Metropolis, aged eighty-one yean. George Herktmeh, the proprietor large knit goods factory at Eau Claire, Wi&| shot his wife abd then killed himself.. ~ """ Thbee -children of Ferdinand Mathias ant James Mark, aH hetwoa^ ten and sixteen . years of age, were drowned at Wisaer, Neb., while crossing the river in a' boat They were returning from a wedding. In a town of Pat&z, Department of La Libertad, Peru, a woman accused of being a witch was publicly burned alive by the pep pie. P. M. Db Vaixk, an ex-Mexican Qasei ft ,? Panama, swindled several perscog out OX sums amounting to f100,000 and then'fled. It is estimated that two thousand persons *** were rendered homeless b>. tha recent flreitt Hall, Cuu|fk To add tt their destitution terrific 2ectric storm grossed over the city the following -day and rendered atoott-V'; wholly val&less the household goo Is which were saved from the ravages cf the Are. Troops pursuing banditti in Cuba carae up with the fugitives in the province tt Santa Clara and killed six of them. ;} Ten persons were killed and much property^ 7; destroyed in the suburbs of Ottawa, Canada, by a terrific cyclone, accompanied by JUghtT " niuz. "1 ? . k TEREIBLE JOKE. A Youthful Husband Accidentally . Kills His Touag Bride. , < : Mrs. David A. Colbert, a bride of twoweeks, was shot and killed by her husband; J in their room at his parents' house, Chicago. The shooting was accidental, but it clear case of reckless carelessness in the use of a revolver. As her husband was- dressing; ?; Mrs. Colbert picked up his watch from pillow and told him jokingly that she meant to keep it "'So you mean to oea highway ber,do you? Then 111 turn high wayman," hi<> ? said laughingly as he pulled Us plitolfron his pocket "Stand and deliver." Mm Cdr .: T bert jumped out of bed, and aa she tried to>ehojd of the pistol Colbert attempted p it out of her reach. In some way. ? managedito strike the weapon with her hand; an explosion followed, ana Colbert, as uv blood appear on oar mgot ui w, i?u m. .? a faint to toe floor. Ab her yonngor sister came running into the room' Mra CoIberf'L;^ gasped: "Ob, Kitty. look at Darid^-'aa&t;^ fell dead. Bbe bad been shot in the left Her husband, on recovering conscioraa^^v-i made two attempts to take his own. life, once \ with the revolver and again with a carrinc^ ^ knife. He was disarmed by the family and' held ontll the police arrived and carried hfn*? off to the station house for-safe keeping.- j Colbert is 31 years old and a ckrk for-Cbium'&'ji Germain, a Board of Trade man. His wiff** was a very pretty girl, and bat 17 years They returned home from their wedding just a week ago. HANGING ABOLISHED. New York's Governor Signs tbe flfli&'g to Inflict Death by Electricity. " ;'s Governor Hill has signed the bill abolishing hanging for all murders compaitted after January 1,1889, and substituting death-* . ---i? nt. wn Hik-.i'-'i the mwn ft Dwminariatha /.:? contained in tee flm annual m>?, ^ age of Governor HOI to the lature in 1885. The attention of scientific "ISS men wai attracted to the sobject by tSmai H message, and in 18S6 a Commission - wae pointed by the Legislature to investigate aad _ report the most humane and practicStr*:/method of carrying into effect the wntencaof death in capital casea A BAHBOAS SLAUGHTER'\ : ' Eighteen Persons Killed and Forgone Injured in Mexico. .. 'Cyc-'h'. A railway accident occnrred Tnesday^ evening just outside of Tampico, Mexico, in I ^hichgaanyjixe^wm Inrt. A construction train was derailed near sC.-^,J bridge by a cow and a donkey which were on the track. The train went through the bridge and down an embankment The dead ana injured were carried into the City of Mexico immediately after the accident So far known eighteen were killed and forty-one in- ' jnred. THE LABOR WOULD. Mott Havkt (N. Y.) has a female horse* shoer. ThkLondon (England)i Typographical AM- ' sociation now numbers 7?? memoeri. Thx car-wheel plant at Birmingham. nearKansas City, Ma, baa a capacity of 125 carwheels a day.\ \ Thx citizena of Altoona, Penn., haveaub- 'J scribed 945,000 toward stock in a- silk mill be started in the near future in that city. : < ? Labor troubles are spreading in Germany, and strikers in Hamburg and Mayence hav? a attacked the police. The K. of L. in Mandan, Dakota, hav? elected the Mayor and fifteen other municipal officers. They are all members of tb? order. , Alabama boasts of nineteen cotton mills, representing ai\ investment of nearly $3,* 000,000, ana an annual production of over $1,500,000. . > - . There are 20.266 members in the International Cigarmakers' Union with an ontstands?? !? ? nt .115) 7ft And a huik tccomit at nearly llOO/Kxi! ' ~ ~ ~ j THE MABKET& T~" 23 Jiff YORK. Beef. Cl^r Dressed 1 @ 8Jf Calve*. oommon to prima.... 8V0 10 Sheep 4 <8 5 Lambs ; 7^@ 8# Hogs?Live 5 90 <?6 00 Dressed 7%& 7% Flour?City Mill Extra. 4 59 <q 4 65 West good to choice 4 S5 @ 5 80 Wheat?No. 2 Rod 90X? 91# Rye?State 56 & .58 Barley?State 82 @ 85 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 61 & 68# J Oats?White State ' 45#<g 46 Mixed Western 8i @ 40 Hay?Choice Timothy 90 @ 1 00 * 8traw?Lone Rye 1 05 @ 1 10 Lard?City Steam ? @8 10 ' Butter?State Creamery.... 19 <g 19# Dairy 16 ? - l#*, H West Ira. Creamery 13 <g 16# " ' ? 19 fa 14 V ractorv ;, ? Cbeese? State Factory, New 8* Skims | i Western 7 @ f Eggs?State and Penn 16 @ 16X < buffalo. Steers?Western 4 35 @ 4 85 Sheep?Good to Choice 5 00 (g 6 00 Lambs?Western 6 59 @ 8 25 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 55 @ 5 90 Flour?Family 4 85 @ 5 25 Wheat-No. 1 92%@ 93 Corn?No. 2. Mixed 57 (g 57W Oats?No. I. Mixed ? <g S3>? Barley?State. 88 <g 91 boston. Beef?Good to choice. 7 <g 8 Hogs?Live 5J^@ 6 1 Northern Dressed.... 6j{@ 7 Flour?SpriDg Wheat pat's.. 5 25 (g 5 65 Corn?Steamer Yellow. 6$ (g 69 Oats?White 47)^(g Rye?State 60 <g 65)f watirtown (mass.) cattle *ar?r Beef- Dressed weight 7 ig 7% Sheep?Live weight 4X@ 0 Lambs 6'4? 8 Hogs?Northern 7 (g 1% philadelphia. Flonr?Penn.extra family... 3 00 @ 3 25 Wheat?No. 2, Red 93 <g 97 Corn?No. 2, Yellow ? <g 63 Oats?Mixed... 42 @ 43J? ^ Rye?No. 2 ? <g 78 Butter?Creamery Extra... 18 @ 20 Cheese?N. Y. Fall Cream.. 9%<3