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CLEVELAND CHOSEN.
The Ex-President Nominated
on the First Ballot at Chicago.
Details of the Proceedings of the
National Convention.
The secon 1 Democratic National Conven
tion to meet in Chicago, III, began its ses
sion with the same vigor and intensity of
feeling shown in the earlier contest, which
resulted in Mr. Cleveland’s first nominat ion
for the Presidency eight years ago. The
▼art hall in which the convention was held—
that huge, unpainted, wooden, boxlike wig
wam down on the lake front—began to
gather in the flower of the National Democ
racy soon after the hand on the big clock
over the Chairman’s platform had ticked
^ past 11.
hundred more than 20,000 Democrats langb-
ine and sweating, the balk of them in their
shirt sleeves and all of them ready for a
night of excitement and hilarity.
It was 5:30 when Chairman Wilson rapped
the meeting to order with the Missouri sine
gavel and introduced the Rev. Thomas
Green, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who sent np
to heaven an eloquent prayer.
After a tantalizing delay of an hoar wait
ing for the Platform Committee a motion
to adjourn was voted down. The delegates
wanted to get at the real business as speedily
as possible.
At 6:30 p. m. the Committee on Resolu
tions entered the hall. Colonel Charles M.
Jones, of Missouri, made the report of the
committee. He offered the platform, which
was read in a strong, clear voice by ex-Sec-
retary Vilas.
Cleveland’s name came in near the open
ing, and its mention evoked a volume of ap
plause that continued just eighteen minutes.
It was an unearthly roar such as few men
have ever heard and one that is not
likely to be heard by the average man twice
in a lifetime.
Michigan went wild and Don Dickinson
waved his Cleveland banner. Men jumped
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THE DEMOCRATIC WIGWAM AT CHICAGO.
Almost up to the hour of meeting the
sound of hammers, hurriedly driving the
last nails into the woodwork of the galleries,
echoed through the hall. In the concluding
rush a number of the intended decorative
effects had to be abandoned and others were
materially changed. Though ugly
enough from the outside, the Wig
wam was a bower of beauty within. Its
bare timbers were almost completely hidden
beneath festoons and covering of flags and
bright colored bunting, masses of hot-hduse
plants and myriads ot palms and flowering
shrubs.
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GROVER CLEVELAND, OF NEW YORK.
At 12:42 Chairman Brice came to the front
of the platform, and, standing with gavel in
hand, said: “The convention will come to
order. I have the pleasure of introducing
the Rev. John Rouse, who will open the pro
ceedings with prayer.”
The Rev. John Rouse was a smooth faced
long haired, young man, dressed in the can
onicals of the Episcopal Church. He
looked over the assemblage for a moment,
and. spreading his hands, he said: “Order.”
Then, folding his hands, he began his prayer.
At its conclusion Chairman Brice an
nounced that by direction of the National
Committee the Chair presented to the con
vention as its temporary officers the gentle
men named in the list, which he handed to
the Secretary, who read it as follows:
The Hon. W. C. Owens, of Kentucky,
Temporary Chairman; Secretary, S. P.
Sheerin, of Indiana; Assistant Secretaries,
TV. H. Doyle, of Pennsylvania; H. Shepard,
of Virginia; C. Tilley, of Missouri; L. A.
Rowley, of Michigan; R. E. Wilson, of
Mississippi; C. D. Freest, of New YorK, and
J. C. Swayen, of Illinois; Principal Reading
Clerk, the Hon. Nicholas M. Bell; Sergeant-
at-Arms, Richard J. Bright, of Indiana;
Official Stenographer, Edward Dickinson,
of New York.
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ISAAC P. GRAY, OF INDIANA.
The list was adopted without opposition,
and then a committee escorted Mr. Owens to
the platform. Mr. Owens made a short ai-
dress, and then upon motion of General
Bragg, of Wisconsin, the rules of the last
Democratic Convention were temporarily
adopted. The following resolution was in-
troauced and adopted with great applause:
The Convention then adjourned to 11
o’clock a. m., on the following day.
Second Day’s Proceedings.
Temporary Chairman Owens called the
morning session to order at 11:82, and Rev.
Alfred Henry, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Chicago, delivered a prayer.
Senator Palmer made a long speech, which
was enthusiastically received, After which
the Committee on Cretlentials made its re
port, giving Arizona and New Mexico six
delegates each.
The report of the Committee on Perma
nent Organization was then made and
adopted. It made William L. Wilson, of
West Virginia, Permanent Chairman. Mr.
TViison was escorted to the platform by Don
M. Dickinson, J. F. Duncombe, John R.
Fellows, Joseph C. Richardson and M. L.
Clardy. His speech denounced the “Force
bill,” and attacked the McKinley law.
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DAVID U. HILL. OF NEW YORK.
The Committee on Rules nevt made its re
port. in which it sustained the unit rule.
This rule Cleveland’s opponents had attempt
ed to set aside.
Mr. Phelps presented a gavel to Chairman
Wilson, the members of the National Com
mittee were named an 1 ex-'Jovernor Camp
bell, of Ohio, made a short speech. The
Committee on Platform not being ready to
report the convention, at 1:43, took a re
cess to 5 o’cIock .
When the convention reassembled at five
o’clock tnero was a dense mass of parboiled
humanity beneath its wooden roof. As far
as the eyo cou'd see every available chair
was tak.n, and there must nave been several
up in their chairs, beating the air with
their arms, hats and handkerchiefs, and the
ladies performed their full part in keeping
up the excitemeat. The big brass band
joined in the turmoil, but at the distance of
a few yards it was impossible to distinguish
a note that was played.
In all this tumult the New York delegates
kejbt their seats as silent and unmoved as
statues. When quiet was finally restored,
Mr. Vilas was permitted to continue the
reading of the platform without serious in
terference.
Chairman Jones, ot the committee, moved
the adoption of tUe platform, and on this
moved the previous question. Delegate
Neil, of Ouio, who was a member of
the committee, offered an amend
ment to the tariff plank of the platform.
Delegate Neal made a speech in support of
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the north end of the hall where two poliew
men were bending over a prostrate form.
A woman had fainted. She was carried out
and then, with partial order restored. Gov
ernor Abbett went on. Governor Abbett
was permitted to conclude his speech
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JOHN G. CARLISLE, OF KENTUCKY,
at 10:12 P. M. A reneweG out
break of cheers took place as he sat down.
The Michigan delegation hoisted the Cleve
land banner again, and ten minutes were
given to uproar, the band assisting, while
occasional peals of thunder reverberated
above the dm. The rain began to drip in
on the Chairman’s desk, and
also began to pour in on the
ladies sitting at his right, and
umbrellas were put up for protection. The
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HORACE 1JOIES, OF IOWA,
his amendment. Henry Watterson, of
Kentucky, took the platform and spoke
for the amendment. Ex-Secretary
Vilas referred to the amend
ment as unnecessary and vicio us. Colonel
Jones ended the discussion by accepting the
amendment.
A roll call of States was ordered on the
motion to make the amendment a sub
stitute. The amendment was carried
by a vote of 564 to 342.
T. M. Patterson, of Colorado, desired to have
incorporated into the coinage plank the little
word “fretf’ before the word “coinage.” Mr.
Patterson’s minority report was rejected and
the platform was adopted at 9:15 p. m.
The Chairman then announced that the
next question was the call of the roll of
States for nominations of candidates for
President. At this the convention loudly
cheered. When Alabama was called a dele
gate named Fenlon jumped on his chai r and
moved an adjournment, but without heed
ing the motion the Secretary proceeded with
the call.
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WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, OF NEW YORK.
Arkansas yielded her place to New Jersey,
and Governor Leon Abbett rose to place the
name of Grover Cleveland before the con
vention. When Governor Abb ett named
Cleveland the hurrah of an hour before was
renewed. Tne delegates sprang to their
feet, many of them mountel chairs, hats
were thrown into the air, and the noise of
the cheering was deafening. Michigan’s
banner waved aloft again.
When Governor Abbett came to the re
view of the modern heroes of Democracy
each was cheered from Ru-sell to Boies, but
when David B. Hill’s name was
nentioned Tammany and the New
York delegation led a demonstration
second only to that which the Cleve
land men had made. Just behind the Chair
man Dr. Mary Walker stood, almost alone,
waring a white handkerchief in the face of
the convention. After eight minutes of
noise the Chairman tried to rap the conven
tion to order, but some one brought in
some lithographed pictures of Mr.
Hill and held them aloft. General Sickles
stuck one on the end of his crutch and
waved it above his head. The demonstra
tion had continued seventeen minutes when
Ed. Murphy waved the New Yorkers to
their seats.
WILLIAM L. WILSON, WEST VIRGINIA.
Indiana, by William E. English, seconded
Cleveland. Iowa was the next State, and
Hon. W. E. Duncombe, of Fort Dodge,
nominated Horace Boies in a strong speech.
At two minutes after midnight he
took the platform to nominate Iowa's Gov
ernor. He finished at 12:18 and the ap
plause which greeted the nomination was as
boisterous and piolonged as the name "of
Cleveland had elicited. The entire New
Yorg delegation joined in the demonstra
tion for Boies, led by Governor Flower.
The Kentucky delegation split on the roll
call, Henry Watterson seconding Boies and
Hon. J. A. McKenzie speaking for Cleve
land. Louisiana seconded Boies. Massa
chusetts, by Patrick Collins, spoke for
Cleveland.
Minnesota seconded Cleveland. So did
Missouri. Montana seconded Boies. New
York asked to be passed.
Pennsylvania seconded Cleveland. South
Carolina said it wanted Boies. South Da
kota also swung into the Boies column.
Tennessee, seconded Cleveland. Texas
was a unit for Cleveland. Senator Daniel,
of Virginia, seconded Hill.
Bourke Cockran then opposed the nomina
tion of Cleveland in a speech of an hour’s
duration, made just before the roll
call, but promised the support of New
York to the nominee. A vote was
ordered at nearly three o’clock a. m. The
roll of States was called without confusion
until Arizona was reached, when it was
evident that Cleveland would be the candi
date.
Then there was great confusion in the
hall, but the roll was con eluded to the end
When Alaska was reached his nomin&tio
was made certain.
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JOHN M. PALMER, OF ILLINOIS.
A minute later the whole convention came
to its feet to stare at a spot in the crowd at
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WILLIAM R. MORRISON, OF ILLINOIS.
Ohio then moved that the rules be sus-
ended and Cleveland be made the nominee
acclamation. Daniel, of Virginia,
seconded the motion, it was carried.
On motion of Dickinson, of Michigan, the
convention then adjourne i until two P. M.
The vote by States was as follows:
Alabama—Cleveland, 6; Morrison, 4;
Campbell, 2; Kill, 2.
ArKnnsas—Cleveland, P>.
California—Cleveland, IS.
Colorado—Hill, 3; Boies, 5.
Connecticnt—Cleveland, 12.
Delaware—Cleveland, 6.
Florida—Cleveland. 5; Carlisle, 3.
Georgia—Hill, 5; Gorman, 4; Cleveland,
17.
Idaho—Boies, 6.
Illinois—Cleveland, 4S.
Indiana—Cleveland, 30.
Iowa—Boies, 26. '
Kansas—Cleveland, 20.
Kentucky—Carlisle, 6; Boies, 2; Cleve
land, 18.
Louisiana—Boies, 11; Cleveland, 3; HiP,
1; Gorman. 1.
Maine—dill, 1; Whitney. 1; Gorman, 1,
Cleveland, 9,
ARTHUR P. GORMAN, OF MARYLAND.
Chairman stood his ground, but was per
ceptibly soaking. An umbrella was raised
over his head, and he took shelter under it.
The Secretary vainly endeavored to resume
the roll call. The lightning meanwhile was
flashing vividly, and the torrents of rain
forcing their way through the roof increased
in volume.
Colorado being reached, yielded to the
State of New York. W. C. De Witt, of
Brooklyn, made his way up the aisle and
nominated Senator Hill. After Mr. De Witt
had finished his speech nominating Senator
Hill Colonel John H. Fellows seconded the
nomination. The roll call was then pro
ceeded with in regular order.
Connecticut seconded Grover Cleveland .
No other nominations or seconds were offered
until Illinois was reached. A. W. Green
seconded Cleveland’s nomination for that
State.
Maryland—Cleveland 6; Go man, 9^.
Masaachusette—Cleveand, 24, Hill, 4‘
Boies. 1; Russe.il, 1.
Michigan—Cleveland. 28.
Minnesota—Cleveland 18.
Mississippi—Hill, 3; Corman, 4: Boies, 3;
Cleveland, 8.
Missouri—Cleveland, 34.
Montana—Boies, 6.
Nebraska—Cleveland 15; Gorman, L
Nevada—Boies, 4; Gorman, 2.
New Hampshire—Cleveland, 8.
New Jersey—Cleveland, 20.
New York—Hill, 72.
North Carolina —Stevenson of Illinois,
16W; Morrison, 11; Clereland, 3X; Boies, 1.
North Dakota—Clevdand, 6.
Ohio—Cleveland, 14; Boies, 16; Carlisle
5; Hill, 6; Gormar, 5.
Oregon—Cleveland, 8
Pennsylvau a—Cleveand, 64.
Rhode Island—Clevehnd, 8.
South Carolina—Boi«, 14; Hill, 3; Cleve
land, 1.
South Dakota—Clevdand, 7; Boies, L
Tennessee—Cleveland, 24.
Texas—Hill, 1; Boies 6; Cleveland, 23.
Vermont—Cleveland, 8.
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JAMES E. CAMP3ELL, OF OHIO.
Virginia—Cleveland 12; Hill, 11; Gor
man, 1.
Washington—Cleveknd 8.
West Virginia—Cleveland, 3J Pattison, 1:
Gorman, 3; Hill, 1.
Wisconsin—Clevelaad, 24.
Wyoming—Gormai. 3; Cleveland, 3.
Alaska—Cleveland 2.
Arizona—ClevelarJ, 5.
District of Columlia—Cleveland, 2.
New Mexico—Cleveland, 4.
Oklahoma—Cleveand, 2.
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WILLIAM E. RUSSELI, OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Utah—Cleveland, 2
Indian Territory—Clevelan 1, 2.
Totals—Clevelaj;
Boies, 103; Gorn
Morrison, 5; Cd
ter son, 1: VV'hitf 3
Lifeot GrVy
Grover Cleveland
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Jleveland.
F as fifty-five years old
father was a Presby-
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teenth year the son
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ROSWELL P. FLOWER, OF NEW YORK,
in the New York Institution for the
Blind in New York Cty. In 1855 he went to
Black Rock, now a part of Buffalo, and aided
his uncle, Lewis F. Alen, in the compilation
of a volume of the “American Herd Book.”
He afterward helped irepare other volumes
of the same work. Ii August, 1855, he be
came a clerk in the law office of Rogers,
Bowen & Rogers. Jour years later he was
admitted to the Bar. On January 1, 1863,
be was appointed Assstant District A ttorney
of Erie County. New York, and he held the
office three years.
In 1863 Mr. Clevel.nd became a partner
in the law firm of canning, Cleveland <fe
Folsom, and contined the practice of law
until 1870. when he ras elected Sheriff of
Erie County. At ie expiration of his
three years’ term he formed the law firm of
Bass, Cleveland & Bssell. In the fall of
1881 he was elected Mayor of P.uffalo, and
in the following yea Governor of New
York. ,
He was nominated or the Presidency by
the Democratic Natonal Convention at
Chicago on Julv 8.184. and was elected,
carrying New YorK Sate by 1047 plurality
over James G. Blaine. He had 219 votes in
the Electoral College aid Biaine had 182.
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ROBERT E. PATTISON.OF PENNSYLVANIA.
On the 2d of June, 1S86, Mr. Cleveland
married Frances Folom, daughter of his
old Buffalo law partne, in the Blue Room
at tne White House. He has a daughter,
Ruth, bora in New "fork City, Saturday,
October 3, 1891.
The Democratic Naional Convention at
St. Louis in l s 88 renoninated Mr. Cleveland
by acclamation. Harison beat dim. get
ting 233 votes in the Efectoral College to 168
for Cleveland.
Since March 4, 1889 Mr. Cleveland has
practiced law in New 5ork City.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.
Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois^
Nominated at Chicago.
Closing Scenes of the Democratio
National Convention,
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ADLAI S. STEVENSON.
The National Democratic Convention, at
Chicago, completed its ticket by nominating
Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois, to be the
Vice-Presidential candidate of the party,
and then adjourned sine die.
The delegates were slow in gathering, and
at 2 o’clock, the hour to which the conven
tion adjourned, after its all-night session,
at which Cleveland was nominated for toe
Presidency, not over 109 of them were in
their seats.
At 2:55 Chairman Wilson pounded the
table with his zinc gavel and called the con
vention to order. Most of the delegates
were in their seats, and the galleries were
quite well filled. The Chairman introduced
the Rev. Alfred Green, of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, who delivered the invocation.
Immediately after the prayer the Chair
man announced that the next order of busi
ness was the naming of candidates for the
nomination for Vice-President.
The following four candidates were placed
in nomination for the Vice-Presidency;
Isaac Pusey Gray, of Indiana; Adlai E.
Stevenson, of Illinois, John L. Mitchell, of
Wisconsin; Allan B. Morse, of Michigan,
Then the Chairman ordered the roll to be
called upon four candidates. Everything
went alon? smoothly and without excite
ment until Iowa was reached, when it was
announced that Governor Boies’s State
would cast her twenty-six votes for Colonel
Henry Watterson, of Kentucky.
Montana cast five votes for Bourke Cock
ran. The sixth vote from Montana went to
Judge Lambert Tree, of Chicago.
New York turned the tide for General
Stevenson by casting her solid seventy-two
votes for him, thus putting him forty-two
ahead of Gray, but Pennsylvania evened
matters by giving her sixty-four votes to th -
Indianian. As the contest became closer
and closer, the cheering became general and
the excitement increased.
At the request of Colonel Watterson, Iowa
withdrew her twenty-six votes from him and
gave them to General Stevenson. The last
Territory on the roster had been called at
4:50, and the tally stool Stevenson 402, Gray
343. with Morse and Mitchell dividing the
rest between them.
Instantly it was known that Stevenson
was in the lead, changes were begun at once.
Montana started the business. Neoraska,
Nevada, Oregon and Ohio followed. Then
pandemonium seized the delegations, an 1
the leaders from practically all the States
jumped upon chairs aud shouted for recog
nition.
At precisely 5 p. M. Wisconsin announced
her abandonment of Mitchell, her candidate,
and gave her whole vote to Stevenson. Then
Mr. Cole, of Ohio, moved that the nomina-
^on of Stevenson for the Vic^-Presidency be
made by acclamation. Mr. Heifsell, of Penn
sylvania, seconded it. Chairman Wilson put
the motion and it was carried in most vocif
erous unison.
While General Collins was speaking on a
resolution in regard to the National Com
mittee, one of the ropes which held the big
electric lights in place over the center
of the auditorium broke and let a
lamp down on the beads of the
New York delegates. The globes were
broken and streams of white electricity shot
out from the carbon points. lu a twinkling
every one in the building was making tracks
for the exits. It seems as if there were no
possible way out of a panic, which
must have resulted in the loss of
perhaps hundreds of lives. For
tunately, however, a cool head remained on
its shoulders, and with braced muscles a
cordon of brave men surrounded the panic-
stricken crowd.
The police and the sergeants-at-arms ral
lied at once in the cause of order. Men an 1
women were seized and with no gentle hand
were planted in their seats and held there.
At length the panic was reduced and the
convention proceeded with its business.
Mr. Hensel, of Pennsylvania, moved that*
the resolution of General Collins be referred
to the next National Committee with an af
firmative recommendation and with power
to act, and it was carried.
After the usual resolutions of thanks were
adopted the convention adjourned sine die.
Sketch ot His Career.
Adlai A. Stevenson, the Democratic nomi
nee for Vice-President, is a resident of
Bloomington, 111. He was born in Christian
County, Kentucky, October 23, 1835, and
received his preliminary education in the
common schools of his native county. Later
he entered Center College at Danville, and
when he was sixteen years old removed
with his father’s family to Bloomington,
IIL. where he studied law and was admitted
to the bar. In 1859 he settled at Matamora,
Woodford County, 111., and engaged in
the practice of his profession. Here he re
mained for ten years, during which time he
was a Master in Chancery of the Circuit
Court for four years and District Attorney
for a like periol. In 1864 he was named as
the Presidential elector for the district. At
the expiration of his term of office as Dis
trict Attorney for Woodford County, in
1869, he returned to Bloomington and formed
a law partnership with J. S. Ewing, which
still exists.
Mr. Stevenson was nominated for Con
gress by the Democrats of the Bloomington
listrict in 1S74. The district had been safe
ly Republican by an almost invariable ma
ionty of £000. His opponent was Genera:
McNulta. Mr. Stevenson was successful.
His majority in the district exceeded 1200.
He was in Congress during the exciting
scenes incident to the Tilden-Hayes contest
in 1876. His party renominate 1 him for
Congress a secon 1 time. In this contest he
was defeated, but in 1878, having been nom
inated for the third time, he was again
elected, increasing his majority in the dis
trict to 2000.
He was a delegate to the Democratic Na
tional Convention of 18S4 iu Chicago, an 1
after the election of Cleveian 1 as President
!>f the United States, was appointed First
Assistant Postmaster-General.
Mr ritevenso 1 married a daughter of the
Rev. Lewis W. Green, President of the
Centre College in Danville, Ky., in Decem
ber, 1865. He has three children, one son
and two daughters, all of whom are living.
General Stevenson enjoys the honor of
having founded the first post of the Grand
Army of the Republic.
ACCIDENT ON A CRUISER
Tlie Deputy de Lome’s lioiler Blows
Out and Injures Many.
While the new French cruiser Deputy d®
Lome, 6300 tons, was trying her machinery
at Brest, France, the end of one of the boil
ers was blown out. Men lay on the deck
delirious from agony, writhing in convulsions
with blackened aud distertei fac^s and
blistered bodies.
The deck of the fireroom was covered with
hot water from the exploded boiler to the
depth of two or three inches, and in this the
injured men lay, every second ad ling to toe
terrible scalding they had received. Fif
teen were dying or dead when they were
taken to the ship’s hospital and others wer#
fatally injured.
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
In the Senate.
117th Day.— rhe President sent in a mes
sage recommending retaliation on the l>o-
minion of Canada for her unjust discrimi
nations against American vessels navigating
Canadian canals. Mr. Vest reported ad
versely from the Commerce Committee the
bill directing the Secretary of War to cause
the low bridges now crossing the Harlem
River to be replaced by permanent bridges
with fixed spans at the expense of the
owners.
118th Day.—The conference report on
the Military Academy bill was presented
and agreed to Then the bill for the free
coinage of gold and silver was taken up and
discussed for the remainder of the day.
119th Day.—The Nicaragua Canal was
discussed The Agricultural Appropria
tion bill was also considered.
In the House.
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session in discussing the Tinplate bill and
then adjourned for three days.
137th Day.—The House then went into
Committee of the Whole ;Mr. Lanham, of
Texas, in the chair) on the General De
ficiency bill, and the entire session was con
sumed in the consideration thereof.
13Sth Day.—The House met at 11 o’clock,
but adjourned immediately without trans
acting any business. No quorum was pres
ent.
139th Day.—The House was in session
only ten minutes and then adjourned with
out action.
THE LABOR WORLD.
The women compositors of Boston, Mass.,
have been organized.
Indianapolis, Ind.. has eight carpenters’
unions with about 1490 members.
Russia is rich in coal and iron, and its
mines for the want of labor remain unde
veloped.
The extreme heat is having a fatal effect
on Hungarians working at the Pennsylvania
coke ovea~\
About 600 Japanese miners recently left
Kobe for Mexico, where they will bo em
ployed in copper mines.
Nine years ago there were onlv eleven
State labor bureaus in this country, and
now there are twenty-eight.
There were more strikes and demands
for higher wages in May among the silk
workers than in the entire year of 1831.
Delegates from fourteen labor organi
zations in Boston, Mass., recently formed a
new Amalgamated Building Trades Coun
cil.
The telegraph operators in Spain have
struck, and communication with the prov
inces is suspended; The wires are oeing
worked by the military.
El\ctricians report a more urgent de
mand for appliances than ever before
known, and all of the well satisfied works
are crowded with contracts.
The co-operative factory established by
the Cigar-Makers’ Union of Hamburg.
Germany, employed about 169 people last
year, and the surplus was $2472.10.
Atlantic City (N. J.) waiters are pro
posing to establish a graded tip system
ranging from a ten-cent tip at a two-dollar
hotel to fifty cants at a swell house.
It is stated that the average wages paid
machinists in shipyards is about $10; only
very few men m New York shipyards have
ever received more than $18 per week.
AT Pittsburg, Penn., the demand for
finished iron is good, tha prospect of wage
difficulties stimulating, the workers demand
ing last year’s scale and the manufacturers
a reduction.
The guards, or brakemen, on English rail
ways receive, on commencing, eighty-seven
cents per day, and after a time get a dollar.
The drivers,* or engineers, get $1.12, and get
up to $1.25.
Glasgow, Scotland, has an industrial
home where women who have come out of
prison get a home provided for them and
where they are employed in laundry work,
for which they receive payment.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Prince Bismarck says he will never again
take office.
King Oscar, of Sweden, is one of the
losers in the Panama Canal scheme.
Gounod, the composer, has twelve unfin
ished operas lying in his desk awaiting his
finishing touches.
Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer,
as a candidate for a seat in Parliament will
be an interesting character in English poli
tics.
Elaine Goodale, the New England
poetess, who was married to Dr. Eastman,
an Indian, has presented her husband with
a baby.
Dr. John Tyndal, the eminent scientist,
began his career in 1843 as an assistant on
the staff of the British Ordinance Survey at
$5 a week.
Tennyson, the poet, allows nothing to in
terfere with the luxury of smoking, of which
he is extremely fond. His pipe is rarely
away from bis lips.
It is officially announced that the Czar of
Russia has invite 1 the Austrian Emperor to
go hunting with him in the autumn. This
is taken as an indication of peace.
The household of ex-President Hayes at
Fremont, Ohio, is presided over by bis only
daughter. Miss Fanny Kayes. The two
younger sons of General Hayes also live at
home.
Governor Boies, of low.t, is a widower
but he has two sons who are practiciag law,
at Waterloo, and a married daughter, Mrs,
J. W. Carson, who resides at Mount Ver
non, Iowa.
Signor Giolittl the new Italian Prime |
Minister, prides himself uoon despising the
mandates of fashion, and wears at all times
an old-fashioned rusty black frock coat that
reaches nearly to his ankles, to the great
satisfaction of the political caricaturists and
cartoonists.
The Wanamakers have four homes—the
residence in Washington, one in Phila
delphia, a cottage at Cape May Point, called
the Lilemyn cottage, from the names of the
two daughters, an i Lindenhurst, a very fine
residence and estate, about fifteen miles
from Philadelphia.
There has been a curious dispute among
the biographers regarding the age of Grover
Cleveland. By some of the campaign his
torians he is said to be fifty-seven years old,
while others make him fully five years
younger. Mr. Cleveland himself, in answer
to numerous inquiries sent him some time
ago, is reportea to have given his age as
fifty-five.
DISASTROUS WRECK.
A Fatal Railway Collision Near
Harrisburg, Penn.
The most disastrous wreck that has ever
occurred in Harrisburg, Penn., took place
a few mornings ago at 12:39 o’clock at Dock
street. The second section of the Western
Express ran into the first section, com
pletely telescoping two cars.
Among the killed were Richard Adams
andwife, a furniture man of Harrisburg; an
unknown man from Altoona, and a man
from New York. A lady on the train, who
was uninjured, lost her infant child.
Five dead bodies were taken to the Morgue
at the Pennsylvania Railroad station. The
number of injured was placed at forty. It
rained hard, which greatly retarded the
work of rescue.
Robert Pitcairn and Mr. Westinghouse
and family, of Pittsburg, were on tbe ill-
fated train, but escaped injury. Thirteen
bodies had been recovered on the day after
the tragedy, including that of the infant
mentioned.
A DETERMINED SUICIDE.
Binding Her Child to Her, a Woman
Lies Down in a Pool of Water.
Mrs. Mary Clark and her child, two and
a half years old, were found in a stream ol
water back of her house in Hubbardston,
Mass., a few afternoons ago.
8 be had tied the chill to her
with a piece of apron and then jumped into
the water lying face do A-n. The water other
wise would have been scarcely enougu to
drewn her.
Padget!
WILL. PAY
THE FREIGHT
SAY!
DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU
Can buy any article of
FURNITURE,
Cooking Stoves,
^Carpets, Mattings,
Window Shades and
Lace Curtains, Cor-j
nice Poles,
BABY CARRIAGES,
Clocks, Mirrors, Pic-i
|tures, Dinner Sets,
Tea Sets, Chamberl
Sets, Mattresses,
Comforts, Biankets|
and a thousand and
one articles needed
in a house delivered
at your depot at the
same pr.ee that you
buy them in Au-j
jgusta?
I CARRY EVERYTHING
jYou need, and can quote
you prices that will sat-1
isfy you that I am giving |
a dollar value for every!
I dollar paid.
Special Offer No. I.
To introduce my business in every
neighborhood in the quickest possible
manner, I will ship you one Bedroom
Suite complete, consisting of One Bed
stead, full size and high head. One
Bureau with glass. One Wash Stand,
One Centre Table, Four Cane Seat
Chairs, One Rocker to match, well
worth $20; but to introduce my goods
in your neighborhood at once 1 will
deliver the above suite at your railroad
depot, all charges paid,
FOR ONLY $16.50,
[ When the cash comes with the order.
BESIDES this Suite, I have a great
many other Suites in Walnut, Oak,
Poplar, and afl the popular woods,
running in price from the cheapest up
to hundreds of dollars for a Suite.
Special Bargain No. 2
Is our elegant Parlor Suite, seven
[ pieces, walnut frames, upholstered in |
E lush in popular colors, crimson, olive, i
lue, old gold, either in bandea or in
I combination colors. This suite is sold
for $40.00. I bought a large number of
| them at a bankrupt sale in Chicago,
hence I will deliver this fine Plush
Suite, all charges paid by me, to your
nearest railroad depot, for $33.00. Be-
I sides these suites i have a great many
other suites in all the latest shapes and
styles, and can guarantee to please you.
Bargain No. 3
Is a Walnut Spring Seat Lounge, re
duced from $9 to $7. All freight paid.
Special Bargain No. 4i
Is an elegant No. 7 Cooking Stove,
trimmed up complete for $11.50, all
charges paid to your depot; or a 5-
hole range with trimmings for $15.
Besides these I have the largest stock
of Cooking Stoves in tne city, includ
ing the gauze door stoves aud ranges,
and the CHARTER OAK STOVES
with patent wire gauze doors. I am
delivering these stoves everywhere, all
freight charges paid, at the price of an
ordinary stove, while they are lar
superior to any other stoves made. Full
particulars by mail.
109 rolls of Matting, 40 yards to the
roll, $5.50 per roll. 1009 Cornice Polls,
25 cents each; 100 Window Shades,
3x7 feet, on spring roller an i frigned,
at 37% cents each. You must pay
rour own freight on Cornice Poles,
>Vindow Shades and Clocks.
Now, see here, I cannot quote you
everything I have got in a store con
taining 22,600 feet of floor room. In
sides its annexes and factory iu another
part of the town.
S^~I shall Vie pleased to send you
anything above mentioned, or will send
my catalogue free if you will say you
saw this advertisement in The Aiken
R.ECORDER, published at Aiken, S. C.
tSPNo goods sent C. O. D., or on
consignment. I refer you to the editor
and publisher of this paper, or to any
banking concern in Augu-ta, cr to the
Southern Express Co., all whom know
me personally.
Yours, etc.;
L. F. PADGETT,
DYER BUILDING,
805 Broad St.,
AUGUSTA, GA„
Proprietor Padgett’s Furniture,
Stove and Carpet Stores.
Factory, Harrison St.