»S""t |Jlaiudealct I. VAN SLYKE. - and Publisher. McHENRY, ILLINOIS, VtEKLr NEffS REVIEW. f, P. MOTTLTON, of New York, made * vtln attempt to take possession of the Can- onchot homestead, which he recently purchased under the forms of law. Trustee Chaffee and an attorney went with Moult-on to obtain con trol, and lontid that William Spragne, a son of lie ex-Governor, had stationed a large number of armed men at various points. An appeal was then made to the authorities of Rhode Inl and to enforce the law. JIM ELLIOTT and " Tug" Wilson have signed articles for a fight, to come off Nov. 28, within 100 miles of New Orleans.... Rioting occurred at Angusta, Me., Vhen th® Depntv Sheriff attempted to seize sixty-two icaeea of beer illegally brought into the State by an express company, and addressed to fictitious part es. Bricks and stones were thrown at the teamsters engaged to carry away the beer, and quite a number of persons were hurt TH« President wag regaied with a fox- hunt at Newport. The affair wu eminently «ncoesgful from a fox-hunting point of view, an one of the gentlemen following the hounds go! « fall which broke his hip, and he was taken .home m an unconscious condition. WILLIAM H. Li/OYD & Co., bankers «nd brokers, of Philadelphia, have failed, causing heavy losses to country depositors. It stated their total liabilities will amount to 41150,000 ...A loss of #100,000 was incurred at Haverhill, Mass., by the total destruction of 'Three factories and three dwellings by fire. A NEW type of fever which puzzles the physicians has broken out in the knitting worka tat Little Falls, N. Y In a box factory at HttverhilJ, Mass., George Rogers shot his wife , and killed himself... .The Russian Refugee ' Committee in New York shipped back to Liver- ipooi 111 Jews, each of whom was provided •with creature comforts for the trip. . CLOUD has given the Interior Dfijwrtment sixty days' notice that unless tba Agent at Pine Ridge is removed, he will under take to perform that office by force. Maj. Summer thinks something should be done in the premises, as the rebellious savage's fol lowing is quite large Coup's circus is m the hands of the Sheriff at Detroit, attachments having been presented against the oonoera . amounting to $25,000. About 300 employes are thrown out of employment. TEDS legality of the prohibitory amend ment to the Iowa constitution adopted June 27 is to be tested in an agreed case, wherein a brew- ery firm sues a saloonkeeper to recover the value of beer furnished the first two weeks in . August, The defendant admits the purchase of the beer, but denies the right of the plain tiffs to recover in a suit at law for the reason that at the time of the purchase the pi aintiffs were engaged in the business of brewi ng and Belling beer, contrary to the amended constitu tion. The case is to be earned through the highest courts. THIRTEEN Creek Indians were tried at Kane Hill, Indian Territory, for complicity in the Sands rebellion, convict«d by a jury of In dians and sentenced to receive 100 lashes on the bare back. The sentence of the oourt was duly earned into effect, the whipping being witnessed by a large crowd. Two or three of the culprits almost fainted, but the majority exhibited iron nerve.... Chicago Trifoine: In spite of the failure of the crop in some of the frontier counties Kan sas still expects to raise 150,000,000 bushels of com this year, Reports from the main corn belt of the State show favorable conditions and proapeots. Corn in Dakota is coming on fine ly, and has been making great progress in Illinois of late. TH> mill and factory of thê Sierra Lumbar Company, at Red Bluff, Gal., valued at 'V $80,000, was destroyed by fire. Bishop's new Opera House, at Red Oak, Iowa, which cost 925,000, also fell a prey to the flames. w THE oat crop of Illinois, which is about 100,000,000 bushels, is one-fourth larger than ever. before Leadville enjoyed a twelve . hours' snow-storm on the 31st of August. THE MOTHa Two maitoEs, named Savage and James, who had been convicted of the murder of Frank Patterson at Madison, Fla., were granted a new trial by the Supreme Court. As they were being conveyed from Tallahassee to Jasper, a large body of white citizens of Madi son rushed into the cars and riddled the bodies ©f the prisoners with bullets James Redden > (colored) was hanged at Newcastle, Del., for outraging a little girl last February; Robert Parker suffered the extreme penalty at Aiken, 8. C., for poisoning his wife, and William Bryan wu legally strangled at Macon, Fla., for killing Jack Moore ... In a quarrel over cards at Monntainsburg, Ark., Frank Lane disemboweled David Pope and fatally stabbed Tom Simcoe. Lane was captured by a mob, and it is supposed has been lynched Miss Rochila Blair, aged 18, whose father, CoL Blair, was recently killed by Capt. Hatle, committed suicide at Columbia, S. G., by means of strychnine. SFBGKON GENESAL HAMILTON reports seventeen deaths from yellow fever during the past week on the Texas side of\the Rio Grande. The Treasury Department estab lished a cordon around the infected district in time to catch fifty refugees, who were de tained. The Mexican Government has co operated in the work A comimttee of the New Orleans Typographical Union waited upon the newspaper proprierors and asked an in crease of 5 cents per 1,000 ems, thus making rates 40 cents for evening and 45 for morning papers. The proprietors of the English papers all agreed to pay the advance. BROWNSVILLE, Texas, reports eighty- two new cases of yellow fever and eight deaths in one day. Several cases of fever have devel- oped at Pensacola, Fla., causing great excite ment and a tudden leaving of all persons who could get away. A BROTHER erf the late Bine Jeans Williams, of Indiana, for many years a Justice of the Peace at Jacksboro, Tex., has been ad judged insane and removed from office The outbreak of yellow fever at Pensacola' caused : Secretary Lincoln to order th© transfer of the • famson to Mobile, and the navy yard will soon : ft practically closed. TEXAS dispatches report that the bodies of nearly one hundred persons drowned during the reoent floods in the vicinity of Fort Concho have been recovered. On one ranch thirty-one and on another twenty-one persons were drowned, it is supposed now that nearly two hundred persons were drowned POLITICAL GEN. ROSECRANS says Denis Kearney tea publican drayman at the Ban Franciaoo Custom House, and a dead failure in WAJHBItfSVMb GEN. HA^EW states that the Poatoffioe Department will turn into the treasurv a sur plus of $1,000,000 for the fiscal year. DB. D. W. BLISS has written a letter to the Board of Audit appointed to settle the expenses of the illness of the late President, in . which he seta forth in detail hie claim to remu neration. He asserte his receipts from his practice at the time he was called to attend the late President were about «1,5(K) a month; that this pructiee was to a great extent broken UD bv the engrossing nature of his duties at the executive Mansion, and that the direct pecun- [resulting therefrom, and from subse- En ™,aear> cau!fli ^ the loae nervous HTTrt,on' amounted to about lU&.OW. He thinks He should receive as com- W«lfe,0r.1ilt!ilo'",e8aud h,B services to the uweTfBSitlent the sum of $25,000. Dr. Rev- onrn puts in a claim for $8,000. DR. HICKS publicly states that Guiteau's skeleton will not be plaoed on public exposition, and he denies the all<yij^nB thftt he has intrusted the assassin's bones to the care of the United States Medical Museum. Caterer to public amusement are also informed that the Skeletons curiosity is not for sale. IK Sergeant Mason's ease, Judge Ad vocate General Swaim adheres to the legal •BStoionewrê in his original report, that the proceedings of the court-martial whioh tried Mason were irregular, and that his con- fttMment undsr its sentence is illagaL jp flwuaii. ' THE New Tork, Chicago and SkTioiSi railroad has been opened to traffic between Chicago and Buffalo. These 520 miles of traelc* have been built since May 1 of last year, the oest, with equipment, being in the vicinity of $£8,000,000. The viaduct acrost the Cuyahoga valley at Cleveland is 3,000 feet long and oost over <i2,000,000. giving a low-grade entrance.... Gen. Sherman stated during his late visit to St, Louis that it was his intention to leave the army before the law retiring him went into effect, aud that he would return to St Louis to live. THE Free-thinkers, in convention at Watkins Glen, N. Y., formulated a series of resolutions denunciatory of ecclesiastical power, lauded the march of liberalism, asserted that woman's degradation was a result of Christianity, indorsed the righto of labor, and petitioned for help to erect a Liberal orphans' home. A IT is announced that Gen. Sherman has definitely decided upon asking to be placed on the retired list of the army in November, 1883. Under the compulsory retirement clause of the Army Appropriation bill, passed at the last session of Congress, Geni Sherman would go on the retired ist Feb. 8, 1884, but he has concluded to anticipate that date by a few months. He will make his home in 8t", Louis. ....In accoftiauee with the wish of Charles Stewart Parnell, the remains of Minn Famne Parnell will be interred in Axnerioa. Two LEGISLATURES organized in the Mexican city of Zacatecas, one being friendly to the Federal and State Government, the other supporting Gen. Cadena for the Presidency. A figfc it of twenty minutes' duration took place be tween Cadena's adherents and the State troops, the former surrendering with the loss of one man. GEOBGE HOLYOAKE, the English phi lanthropist, has arrived in New York, his object being to induce the Government to issue a trustworthy guide-book for immigrants, giving facts in regard to the resources of each State. ... .A careful estimate by a Cincinnati author ity jaiaoeg the corn yield of 1882 at 1,800,000,000 PMMMHC. THIBTT-FIVH wpmen have been con victed in Hungary of poisoning their husbands. A number of others are on trial for the same offenbe. THE Australian cricketers, now in En gland, will visit the United States and Canada, and try results with the crack elevens. THE revolution in Corea will bring about a heavy reckoning with Japan, as the at tacks on foreigners were chiefly directed against the Japanese diplomatic representatives. The legation was attacked, the Envoy and Consul and their followers forced to seek safety in flight, and several were killed and wounded. The Corexn Km" vra* not murdered, report ed In the dispatches a few days ago, but his Queen was assassinated, and the heir apparent and his betrothed, both of them children, were poisoned. Thir teen of the Ministers of State and other high functionaries were slaughtered. A Japanese fleet has been dispatched to the port nearest the Corean capital, and a large military force is massed near at hand to be ready for action if called on... .A Calcutta (India) dispatch says: An outbreak of violence between the Hindoos and Mohammedans has occurred at Salem. The headless corpses of Mohammedan men and women were lying on every side. Houses of Mohammedans were burned, and the principal mosque was almost razed to the ground Tlis insubordination among the Irish coustabulary has extended to the metropol itan police of Dublin, 4<)0 of whom met to voice their complaint that they received no pay for extra work. EXPEDITIONS to observe the transit of Venus will soon be sent out by the German Government to Connecticut, South Carolina, Costa Rica and the straits of Magellan. Each party will comprise two astronomers, a student and an assistant... .Fighting occurred between Greeks and Turks on the Thessalian frontier, owing to the attempt of the Greeks to take possession of the disputed territory of Karalik Dervend, The Greek Government has dis patched troops to the scene of action....The appearance of the Siberian plague in European Russia excites the wildest alarm. PARTY CONTENTIONS. Synopsis of tho Doings of a T Few of Them. \ ' %\ r _ -• fMr Declarations of Principles, Caa- didates, Etc. ADDITIONAL HEWS. THE Cincinnati Price Current pub lishes reports from the hog-growing districts of the United States, and says: "In the sup ply available for winter marketing there is an average decrease of from 10 to 20 per cent, in all States except Minnesota and Wis consin,compared with last year. For the last half of the winter the supply will be bet ter, and while winter packing may fall 10 per cent, below last year there will "be fuller supplies for spring and summer packing." Lieut. Flipper, who had recently been dismissed from the United States army, hag been appointed to a Captaincy in the Mexican forces. ON tlip ground that they were coun terfeits, the Chief of the Secret Service seized in New York thousands of dollars' ; worth of plates for printing imitation green- ! backs as advertisements. Now Solicitor | Itaynor decides that these false notes are j issued in violation of law, but that those ! who use them cannot be punished for coun- j terteiting. This view of the matter will doubtless induce many of the sufferers to | bring suit against the Governments j Six of the Sioux chiefs captured by Maj. Ilges two years ago have this season I raised some fine crops on the reservation at Fort Yates At the Dubuque encampment the first prize, $1,000, was awarded to the Porter Guards, of Memphis; the second, $500, to the Branch Guards, of St. Louis, and the Decorah drum corps was given $500. THE Philadelphia and Blading Rail road and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Companies have executed a mort gage on their property of ail descriptions for $160,000,000, under which 5 per cent, consols will be issued, the proceeds of which will be used to redeem all other outstanding obliga tions of the companies. THE cotton crop of Texas, though twenty-five days late, will be above an aver age yield should dry weather prevail during September and October. Confederate bonds are again being bought bv brokers in Richmond, Va., #7.50 per #1,000 having been paid recently. DE. LESSEPS, on arriving at Naples, declined the banquet tendered by French journalists, on the ground that the Suez Capal Company must keep out of political complications... .Specie payments will not be resumed in Italy until next April Indian Massacres in Arizona and Mexico. • Recent dispatches from the far Southwest give accounts of murderous work by tho Apache Indians on the Mexican and Arizona frontier. Twenty persons, including several women-and children, were kdled in the vicinity of the Cal&vasas, Arizona. Near Frontora*, Sonora, a party of miners, consisting of H. Barnes Payson Barnes, a man named Reifenstha'l and two Mexicans, were attacked and Reifensiha! killed, and on* of the Barnes wounded in the left arm. The fight lasted all day, and the men escaped under cover of dark ness. Near Santa Cruz, in Sonora, three per sons were massacred, and in the Sierrato val ley seven were killed. A tight occurred in the Patagonia mountains. The Indians defeated the miners and ranchmen. The savaces num. bered 100. ' IT has always been a favorite theory among the wine-growers of the Rhine that the wine produced during the year of a comet visitation is preceptibly im proved in quality and enhanced in val ue. The wine of such years is called "comet" wine, the years are "comet" years, and the celestial visitor has been honored in having his title recorded and recited. MANX a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for 1,000 years do not spring up into beauty like ft reed.--Qcoryc Henry Lewe*. momoAH BnvBUOAim. The Republican State Convention of Michi gan convened at Kalamazoo on Wednesday, Aug. 30, and was called to order by William Livingston, Jr., temporary Chairman of the State Central Committee. The Rev. C. O. Brown, of Kalamazoo, invoked the divtne bless ing on the assemoly. Col. Delo Phillips next read the call for the convention, and the Hoa J. W. French as sumed the otiair temporarily, and James H. Stone, Secretary. After the usual preliminary business had been transacted, the convention adjourned to meet again at 2 o'clock, at which time the Hon. Thomas W. Palmer, of Wayne county, assumed the cha r as President of the convention. The report of the Committee on Resolutions was next submitted, and tho platform presented by the Hon. Austin Blair. The resolutions wore carried unanimously. The nomination of candidates was next in order, aud tho name of David H. Jerome, the present incumbent, was ably presented by Capt E. P. Allen, of Washtenaw. As no other nominations w%re made, the ballot was taken, with the following result: Jerome, 661 ; 8. W. Palmer, 97; Pitchard, 10; F. B. Stock- bridge, 14. The renomination of David H. Jerome was made unanimous. Mo re an S. Crosby, of Eeut, was unanimously renominated for Lieutenant Governor by ao- ciamation. For Secretary of State, the names of Joseph 8ihith, William Jenney, William Crosby and Harvey A. Conant were put in nomination, and after a spirited contest Mr. Conant received the nomination. E. H. Butler, E. P. Stanton and G. H. Starr were the contestants named for State Treas urer, and'after a lively oontest E. H. Butler, of Wayne county, was nominated. William C. Stevens, of Iosco, reoeived the nomination for Auditor General after some lit tle contest, and Minor S. Newell, «f Genesee, found no one to oppose him for Auditor Gen eral. J. J. Van Riper, as Attorney General, having •erred but one term, was also unanimously re nominated. The following is the platform adopted: The Republican party of the State of Michi gan, assembled :.n convention for the first time sinoe the tragic death of James A. Garfield, our beloved leader and revered Chief Magistrate, grateful for the inspiring lessons of his life and the example of his heroic death, record first of all our profound sorrow at his loss and our veneration for bis memory, and next our strengthened, abiding faith in the stability of republican institutions and our fixed resolve that governments .of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth. 2. Chester A. Arthur, called to the place of. power under the most trying and delicate cir cumstances, has proved himself worthv of the high trust reposed m him. He has given to the country an administration conservative, patriotic and progressive. The Republicans of Michigan extend to him their confidence for the future, based upon the record of the past 3. The Republicans of Michigan once more declare their devotion to the time-honored aud fundamental principles of the National Repub lican party--liberty for all men, equality before the laws, perpetual union of the States, suprem acy of the National Government, and the inal- ianable right of every citizen on every foot of American soil to cast his ballot according to liis sovereign wdl, and to, have such ballot, and only such, honestly counted and duly returned, to constitute the " voioe of the people," which is the voice of God. 7 4. From its organization until now the Re publican party has denounced slavery and polygamy as "twin relics of barbarism." The first perished at the hands of the Republican party, snot to death on the battle-fields and buried in amendments to the constitution. The seoond disgrace of our civilization, and our country must die. We demand that polygamy be destroyed, and we cordially oommend the efforts of our Senators and Representatives in Congress to that end. fi. Whatever may be our individual view* as to the ultimate ideal system of international trade, we are all agreed that the public must pay the pensions of the nation's defenders, their widows and orphans be sacredly guarded and the current expenses of the government duly provided for; that revenues necessary for these purposes must in large part be derived from duties upon imports, and w»< affirm that in the adjustment of these duties in any revision of the tariff, care should be taken to relieve from taxation, so far as practicable, the necessities of the poor, especially such as do not come into com petition with American production, and at the same time to afford incidental protection to American producers, to the end that wages may bo maintained at tho American standard, and America control American markets. 6. We believe that the time has come when the public debt and the rate of interest upon securities have been so far reduced that our national legislators should consider as an im mediate duty a reduction of the burdens of taxation, and as auxiliary thereto a revision of the tariff. 7. We believe in a national civil service which does not create of the official class a sep arate caste, nor take away from a citizen the inspiration of participating in the administra tion of government, yet which require* that offices shall be regarded as trusts to be admin istered with intelligence, fidelity and economy, and not as spoils to be distributed as the per quisites of political managers. 8. In the administration of State and nation al affairs we demand efficiency, integrity and economy ; that unfaithful officers be removed and punished ; that the public faith and credit be maintained and the people be provided with a circulating medium, safe, uniform and con stitutional : that monopolies dangerous to the liberties of the people and purity of the laws be disfavored, and that the purity of the ballot be sacredly protected. 9. It is the fundamental right of the people to alter from time to time the organic law of the State, as new circumstances or growing evils may require, laying its foundations on such principle* and organizing its powers in such lorm as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. The evils of intemperance have become so great that in the name of patriotism the most efficient measures ought to be taken to reduce those evils to the minimum,r and as the members of no political party are wholly agreed as to whether this can be best done through prohi bition or regulation of the traffis in taxing li quors, and as the people are and ought to be the final arbitrators of this question, and as more than 100.0001 among the moral and intel ligent people of the State have asked by petition that the quealioa be put to the Deople by sub mission to them of a prohibitory constitutional amendment, we declare that we believe that it would be wise and patriotic for the next Legis lature to submit such amendment to a direct vote of the people, and we demand that it be BO submitted. 10. The Republicans of Michigan demand a full legislative investigation of the transporta tion question, with a vew to securing sucn leg islative enactments as will prevent unjust dis criminations in rates by railroad lines oiierating in the State. 11. Duriugthe twenty eight years in which the affairs of the State have been administered by the Republican party, they have been conducted in a _ manner to challenge the approval of all citizens. Efficiency, integrity and eoon- omy have been the standards of service. The prosperity of the State has bean constantly increasing; the population has augmented from 500,000 to 1,700,000 ; wealth and production have increased in a greater ratio ; the unfortunate have been cared for ; education fostered ; the public debt has been substantially canceled ; the credit of the State cleansed'frOm the stain of Democratic repudiation and raised to the highest point, while in the great struggle for liberty and union Michigan has been second to none of her slater States. 12. The administration of David H. Jerome haa been characterized by the Republican standard of excellence, and has fitly continued the long roll of Republican administrations which have reflected honor upon the State ot Michigan. 18. We arraign the Democratic party as the same incapable Bourbon party that it his ever been. Passing over its shameful reoord before, during; and directly after the civil war, its re cent history proves that it has neither repented nor reformed. During its six years of suprem acy in Congress it showed incapable of a single great measure of legislation or adminis trative reform. Neither tariff, currency reve nue. civil servioe, army, Indian policy, or any other great interest received improvement at its hands. They oonfined their efforts at re form to turning out Union sold- lers to make room for rebels • •Month* prerogatives,' refusing the necessary appropriations and ob structing the administration of the laws. At the last Congressional election they stole nu merous Mats in the House of Representatives by fraud of tissue ballots and false oounting, and ae a party indorsed the fraud by keeping the stolen seats alter the fraud was made clear. They obstructed legislation against polygamy, opposed the Tariff Oommissiou, and to the last refused to oo-operate for a reduction of taxa tion. 5jrtbeir whole history thoy prove their incapacity for the leadership of a great people, 14. We denounce the recent amalgamation of the Demomts aad Greenbackers as the most shameless political bargain and sale in the history of Michigan politics. It conclusively proves that they have no principles that they are not ready to barter for the spoils of office. We cordially invite all citizens, of whatever party heretofore, who value principle, who ob ject to befog bargained for and sold like sheep, and who we in substantial accord with the fore going declaration of principles, to co-operate with us in putting the brand of disapproval political prostitution. to KANSAS DEMOCRATS. The Kansas Democratic State Convention assembled at Topeka, Aug. 81. Hon. John Martin, of Topeka, was nominated for Gov ernor, but he declined the honor, and George W. Lick, 6f Atchison, was placed at the head of the ticket, and the remainder of the ticket filled up as follows: Lieutenant Governor, Frank Boem; Treasurer, Charles E. Gilford; Auili'tui, 7>. R. lirow; Alijorntvy General, Gen. Harden; Stute Superintendent, D. E. Loutz. The following were nominated for Congr ess- men-at-Lorge: C. A. Leland, J. O'Flanigan and Martin Van Buren Bennett. The nomi nation of the fourth man was referred to the State Central Coijnmittee. Two sets of reso lutions were rcjtorted from the Committee on Resolutions. The maiority report declared in favor of the repeal of the prohibitory liquor law and the constitutional amend ment upon which it is based, on the ground that it is an infringement of the personal rights of the citizens, and makes crimes of things that arc no where regarded as crimes by. the common law, and called for the sub- stitution thereof of a well-regulated license law. The minority report, which is printed below, was adopted as the platform of the convention, after a verv animated discus sion. by mmote of 177 to i28: THE PLATFORM. The Democratic party of the State of Kansas 1 Convention assembled, recognizing the peopMas the source of all political pow er, and tV constitution of the United States and of t& State of Kansas as the funda mental lifls of the land, and that the chief object end of government is to protect and defeM its citizens in the enjoyment of life, liberty and property, does declare its political faith and purpose as follows: 1. That we have an abiding faith in the wisdom, patriotism and capacity of the peo ple for self-government, and as our system of government is based on the theory of per sonal manhood and individual responsibility, that in the administration of public affairs but little should be left to the Government, but much to the people and to the sense of responsibility in the citizens. 2. We will defend and ever maintain the doo- trine of equal rights to all, and special priv ileges to none; the protection of the weak against the strong; equal and just taxation; free speech; free press; free schools, and a free uninterrupted ballot fairly given and honestly oounted; freedom for all men and women of every race, creed and color, and a peroetual and absolute separation of church and state. 3. We demand a revision of the present onerous and unjust tariff laws of the United States. No kind of industry should be fos tered by the Government to the injury of another. No class of men should be taxed directly or indirectly for the comforts, con venience or interest of another. Every in dustry should fall or stand on its own merits. And we especially demand that agricultural pursuits and productions be encouraged and made free from all unjust discrimination in favor of gluttonous and selfish corporations. 4. We maintain that the State has and must retain the power to control and regu late the rights and duties of all corporations created by it, and we demand that the Leg islature exercise this power so as to protect the people against unjust discriminations and exorbitant charges for the transporta tion of freight and passengers by railroad corporations, and we particularly demand the enactment of such laws as will compel all that l^B^eceived charters by favor of the lawsVPCHta State to keep and maintain their general offices within the State. 5. We demand civil and religious liberty, absolute and perfect, for every citizen; ana we declare, as we ever have, that our sym pathies are with the poor, weak and op pressed of every land, and that the American Union is and shall ever remain the asylum and refuge on terms of honor and equality of every lover of liberty and personal lfberty: and we further demand that the sanctity of Americans at home and abroad shall ever have instant and effective protection and defense by the Federal Government, its min isters and'agents, regardless of courtly forms or lordly frowns; and we particularly extend to the heroic people of Ireland our hearty sympathv, and bid them Godspeed in their gallant struggle for life and liberty and for the homes of their future. 6. We demand that the Congress of the Uuited States enact and cause to be enforced such laws as will secure a thorough, honest and radical civil-service reform by which the subordinate posit ions of the Government service shall be no longer corrupt and used as rewards for corrupt party service, and which will abolish the evils of the present spoils and patronage system and establish ffie rule of making honesty and efficiency the essential and only qualifications for pub lic positions. We have had shams and false pretenses enough, and now demand some thing honest a®d real. 7. We demand that the relations between capital and labor be so adjusted by wise and just legislation as to secure to each his just rights, and at the same time so as to make it impossible for avarice and greed to override and imperil the rights and personal freedom and the independence of workingmen; and we demand that every law, combination and policy that is unjust to and onerous upon those engaged in manual labor be removed and utterly destroyed. 8. We are in favor of judicious appropria tions for improvement of our great national waterways, but we denouuee the reckless and criminal extravagance of the present Congress in an expenditure of public money for useless and fraudulent purposes, and we especially condemn the passage of the shameless River and Harbor bin, and we take this occasion to thank the President of the United States for Ms action in vetoing that iniquitous steal 9. We demand an immediate reduction of taxes. Federal, State and municipal, to the low i s t rate sufficient to meet all public dues an•! obligations. So long as the people are burdened with debt, the industries of the country suspended by labor strikes, and thousands of men out of employment by means of the tyranny, avarice and cupidity of existing and oppressive monopolies, it is neither right nor just to collect monev from • the people to be squandered by an {ncom- pevnt, reckless and corrupt Congress in the pre-vnded improvement of sham harbors and waterless rivers, and we further demand that the surplus money in the treasury he applied in the payment of our national debt 1». We demand that the Congress of the United States propose and submit to the Suites for their action, such amendments of our Federal constitution as will accomplish the following objects: The election of a President and Vice President by a direct vote of the people; the extension of the term of office ot the President and Vice President to six years and making the President ineligible t<> a second term; the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the peo ple of the United States respectively; fixing the term of office of Senators the same as the Presidential term, and of Representatives in Congress at four years; the election of Postmaster by the direct vote of the people of the city, town or district in which the office is located; biennial sessions of Oongrewi; the election of all Federal officers to be under the control of the Federal Government, and to be held at a time other than holding State elections. 11. We demand that the fees and com pensation paid all public officers, Federal, State and municipal, be so regulated as to give a fair and just compensation for services performed, but not so great as to tempt the applicants to adopt corrupt meth ods to obtain office or to impose unjust bur dens upon the people. 12. We demand the enactment of addition al and more stringent laws, both Federal and , State, for the punishment of bribery and cor- I ruption in office, and to secure the purity of I elections--general, special and primary. | 18. We are opposed to monopolies of every j kind, believing them to be at war with the ; beet interest of the country, imperiling lte power, prosperity and security, and con- | traryto the fniiw%Bd spirit of tn« in stitution* 14. We are opposed to the doctrine of woman's suffrage, but when any respectable number of worthy and Intelligent women of this State shall request the right to vote w® shall not oppose the submission of an amend ment to our constitution to meet this de mand, but so far no such request has been made. 15. We are opposed to national banks, and insist that gold, silver and greenback cur rency shall be the only money of the country. 1(5.* That fidelity to the constitution and obedience to the laws made in pursuance thereof is the first duty of good citizenship because of welfare and personal interest. Obedience to the law shields from anarchy and protects from lawless violence and con fusion, and upon its honest, just and impar tial enforcement depends the safety of liberty and property, and we now recall with just satisfaction the traditional history of our party for its constant and unbending* fidelity to the constitution and to the laws of the land, and while now, as heretofore, we have been opposed to all sumptuary laws and are in favor of the widest latitude of personal liberty consistent with the public safety, and view with alarm any legislation in effect abridging the natural rights of the citizens, we emphatically announce that we do and shall insist and demand of all public officers a fair, honest and impartial enforcement of every law of the land, not for political pur pose's or reasons, nor to gratify the clamor and maudlin sentiments of hypocrites, dema gogues and shallow pretenders, but because patriotism,- good citizenship and self-preser vation demand it, and the safety and happi ness of the people require it 17. We are unqualifiedly in favor of tem perance, sobriety, morality and good order, and we rely largely upon the wisdom, pat riotism and honesty of the citizen to so order his life and conduct individually as to ac complish these enda We are in sympathy with the cause of temperance in truth and in fact, not as a political hobby for the per sonal benefit of ambitious demagogues,,,un principled adventurers and sham reformers, and we demand the enactment and en forcement of wise and just laws for the pur pose of promoting the cause of temperance, and we submit to the impartial judgment of every candid man that the existing law on this subject, by reason of its unwise, op pressive and tyrannical provisions, has not been enforced, and that it now stands as a hindrance and obstruction to the growth of true temperance; that it has been and is still the cause of neighborhood quarrels, conten tions and strife, of fraud, corruption, per jury and violence, and because of these facts we demand the enactment of such amend ments, changes and modification of the law as will make the law effective and useful for the purpose for which it was designed. 18. It is a cardinal rule in our system of Eovemment that the majority- shall rule. It i equally fundamental that all just Govern ments derive their powers from the people, and it is alike a fundamental rule that when any respectable number of the people de mand that any great public question once passed upon be again considered, justice, firmness and right requires that it be done, because it would work no injustice to any one. As there exists in the public mind a dilference of opinion as to the wis dom and policy of what is known as the prohibitory amendment to our constitution, and because of the uncertainty whether said amendment fairly and hones'tlv reflects the judgment and will of a majority of the people of Kansas on the subject, and "it being important that the question be fully and finally settled at the earliest possible mo ment, therefore f 'r'Holrtil, That we are in favor of the sub mission of the prohibitionary amendment to the constitution of the State of Kansas at the general election of State officers in Novem ber, 1884, believing by that time the people of the State will be fully advised as to the feasibility of said amendment 19. This being the first representative meeting of the Democratic party of Kansas since the assassination of the late President, James A. Garfield, we deenj it due to the country, to his memory and to the party we represent that we express as we now do our sense of that terrible and melancholy event as a great public calamity, and the events preceding the assassinatioi^ of the President challenge our thoughtful consideration, in connection with the baneful and dangerous fanaticism of personal and partisan politica DEVASTATION. Frightful Tales from the Head waters of the Colorado in Texas. Forty Perrons Drowned at Ben Fick- lin--The Town Entirely Cut Off. [Telegram from Galveston, Xes j Port Conoho dispatches to the Ne«>», in rela tion to the inundation of Ben Fioklin, are heart rending. Forty deaths are reported from drowning. The only names so far ascertained sre Mrs. Metcalf and daughter, George Robert son Soott and Dr. Owens, and one child. One Mexican was also among the viotime. The other' victims were twenty-one MevieAn^ at Kelly's ranch and ten Mexicans at Beasly's ranch, also Joseph Math- ew" wife and four sons and one woman and a baby, Ren Fioklin is all washed away except the lighthouses. The Court House and jail are a total loss, and are uninsured from loss by water. The people of San Angeles tried to render assistance, but tho raging wnter pre vented. It is still impossible to cross the North Concho. The country presents a »j»ectacle which beegars description. Houses, horses, caitle and clothing are piled up in heaps at every step. The bodies of Mrs. Metcalf and daughter are the only onos found. The tele graph wires are still down. [Telegram from Little Rock, Ark.] The Gazette's Texas specials furnish more/ particulars of the damage by heavy rains. The North Concho river at San Angeles is swelled ti an unheardof depth. It, at 4 p.m., has gainM a point on the main street of San Angeles, submerging all tho house*. The Concho Hojtel is now deserted. The people are moving /all their effects on the high ground. Ben Ficklin, on the Main Concho, is com pletely inuudated. The Court House munt have fifteen feet of water in it. Houses, trunks, cattle, sheep, and every conceivable thing are flouting down the river. The town is entirely cnt off from all communication, except by the Fort Davis military telegraph lines, and cov ered with water for over a mile from Concho. Fears are entertained for the people of Ben Ficklin. The old stage station is covered with water: but the occupants must have escaped. The loss of property in Sau Angeles, as seen from the opposite side, includes Mrs. Tankerly's fine hotel, Patton & Lang- worth's tini-hop, Vick's storehouse, Miller A Reek's livery-stable building, and four dwellings. Theso were all adobe buildings. Aiong the banks some fifty or sixty Mexican houses were washed awav. The post engine- house is destroyed. The loss at Ben Ficklin is not yet ascertained. At Dublin the Bosque river is a mile wide. Several houses have been washed away. Many horses and cattle were floating down the stream. Baldwin, the mill man, lost 6.(100 bushels of wheat which he had stored in his mill, and his machinery is badly damaged. Several persons had to leave or gel on top of their houses for protection. Adulterated Drugs. The charge that some Philadelphia druggists do not honestly compound prescriptions seems to be borne out by good evidence. "Not long ago," says one physician, "one of my patients was suffering from malaria chills, and I pre scribed quinine, but the disease showed no signs of disappearing. Then I began to suspect something wrong. The t>a- tient was taking sugar-coated quinine pills, each pill being supposed to con tain two grains of quinine. _ Upon mak? ing a quantitative analysis of some of the pills I found that thev contained one-quarter of a grain each. This is rather a large discrepancy between the prescription and the medicine when you consider that my patient was made to pay full value for the worthless pills. The substitutes for quinine were starch and the cheaper alkaloids of the cin chona barjL I made my patient take my prescriptions to a druggist whom I knew to be. honest, and her reoovery was PttllG DOMAIN. "t The Bur prising: Sapidity With Whioh It Is Melting Away. w Abrtraet of the Report of tho Coa- •rfMloner of the General Land Offlee. The report of £h« CkxnmiMioner «f the Gen eral Land OSfiie shows that 3,910,212 acres of the public domain were Bold for cash daring the fiscal year ended Jane SO last. This total was made up as foliows: Agricultural lands..... %6M,899 97,0M • lfi6,05S Mineral lands Deaert lands.,...... 7,19* Coal lands....... .. *. «,M0,M2 Wie cash sales of agricultural fa.n<t« during the preceding fiscal year were 1,587,G17; the increase in this item alone was therefore 2,112,- 282 acres. The sale of agricultural lands by States was as follows: NtaUn and Territorit$. Arret. Amount. Alabama 59,00« $ 103,937 Arizona 3,790 6,199 Arkansas 58,SM 116,879 California. 145,3J4 307,641 Colorado 74,189 116.9H0 Dakota. 098,091 1,751.9(50 Florida 140.530 234,374 Idaho 29,114 43,051 Iowa M5 889 KanMM.... 201,09* 507,380 Lontxiana 310,eM 108,331 Michigan 408,77S ' 636,7«8 Minnesota. 969,907 706,01!i UkeipsippL. 219,8(19 277,964 Missouri. : /.. 129,449 164,075 Montana 14,489 32.885 Nebraska 226,677 533j?17 Nevada. 794 1,386 New Mexico 4,326 6,360 Oregon 57,789 114,512 Utah 8,690 17,242 Waahiiipton Territory. . .... 126,744 280,230 Wiaconain 849,327 538,764 Wyoming. 2,781 6,601 LACTIONS of a penny have never been paid by the Bank of England in dis tributing the dividends on the national debt, and the accumulation of the un paid fractions amount to £143,000. Total...... ......3,699,899 *6,877,271 ' It will be seen that Dakota leads in the num ber of cash sales, and Michigan, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wiseoasin and Nebraska follow in the order named. The hom®B§8a<! entries for 1881 were 5,028,100 acres. For the year just closed they were 6,- 347,729 acres. Qrar one-third of all the home steads taken up are in Dakota. In 1881 1,886,- 872 acrea of Dakota land were occupied as homesteads; for 1882 the figures, partly esti mated, are 2,187.411 acres. The foHowiug table shows by States the number of acres en tered dnring the last year, also the commissions and fees charged, and the number of certifi cates of final homesteads granted t SXATXS Aim TMBRITO- BIKS. Alabama. Arizona Arkansas. California Oolorado Dakota Florida Idaho Iowa Kansas Louisiana. Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Minsouri Mmmtana Nebraska...... Nevada New Mexico Oregon Utah Washington Territory.. Wisconsin Wyoming LANP ENTtBED ITNDEB HOMESTEAD LAW. Acre*. |Cem'a'n.| Fee*. 266,523 8,4'12 964,148 287,612 138.298 2,187,415 181,0K8 8f>,63l 3,124 537,3JW 116,703 103,065 588,334 158,488 134,211 64,681 473,816 4,5W> 74.107 153,532 54,745 24r%17« 98,519 17,3ff7 Total 6.347,729 % 214,552 $ 399,597 6,381 429 9,473. 14,886 6,155 63,789 ̂ 5,391 3,153 167 17,3('6 3,053 2,806 22,110 3,467 3,723 4,308 14,161 205 3,801 8,480 2,285 14,891 3,097 907 17,385 544 20,155 18,941 8,695 135,053 12,794 511 195 81,814 7,765 6,9"2 37,225 9,570 9,455 4.265 28,075 285 5,525 9.626 3.380 15,110 6,851 1,120 STATES AND TMBITORXES. FINAL HOMESTEAD. Aere-i. | Cfrnimine'iu Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Dakota Florida Idaho Iowa. .JL Kansas i Louisiana Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Mexico.. Oregon.* Utah... Washington Territory Wisconsin Wyoming Total 96,8.5 5,314 77,243 17&,423 78,955 207,695 •1,726 17,548 6,481 418,299 26,740 69,156 3b5,647 18,627 80,523 8,699 267,308 3,953 87,165 63,637 S9,64<> M,527 78,681 3,347 '.4,412 256 2,459 8,965 3,364 6.820 2,368 X 679 1. 255 16,157 536 2,372 10,165 465 825 501 8,299 182 1,636 3,791 2,349 2,790 255 169 2,216.244] | 78.384 Unaur tao Timber Culture act a,6o9,797 acres were entered last year, more than half of which was located in Dakota. One hundred and sixty-six thousand acres were taken under the Desert Land act, an in crease of 58,000 acrea as compared with the pre vious year. There were taken of dosert lands in Montana 61,882 acres, in Wyoming 33.294 acres, and in Idaho 23.747 acres. Muoh of this land i» capable of being irrigated and used for agricultural purposes, but most of it will be turned into cattle-ranges. Under the Mineral Land act 17,125 acres were tak°n up in Colorado, 8,113 acres in Cali fornia, 3,947 acres in Montana, 1,965 acres in Nevada, 1,733 acres in Arizona, 1,014 acres in New Mexico, and 1,143 acres in Utah. But 181 acreu of mineral lands were claimed in Dakota. The total for the country was 27,189 acres. The public lands of ajl kinds disposed of for CMh and under the variotig land acts amounted to 15,699,848 acres, .for which $8,361,091 jrere -received. The totals for the previous year 'Were 10,893,397 acres, valued at $5,408,880. Tne aggregates by States are shown in the fol lowing table: State* and Territories. Acre*. Amount Alabama. 616,514 $132,536 Arizona 26,527 25,110 Arkansas. 502,977 266,772 California. 672,945 408,700 Colorado, 609,702 254,Cvl Dalinto. *4,568.909 2,132,639 Florida 422,396 257,089 Idaho : 185,513 74,1«5 Iowa 15,646 3,0:43 Kansas 1,569,475 621,976 Louisiana ..... 516,800 481,163 Michigan 595,828 553,291 Minnesota 1,389,989 805,839 Missiseiopi. 397,006 291,573 Missouri 297,124 18it,Gfi2 Montana 194,006 102,082 Nebraska 1,341,257 621,089 Nevada 84,579 17,851 New Mexico 141,297 29,065 Or»-Kon 378,315 151,936 Utah 143,606 78,302 Washington 518,382 359,209 Wisconsin 800,684 553,98# Wyoming 61,826 60,176 Total ...16,699,848 $8,361,091 The report shows that the public domain is melting away with surprising' rapidity, and that, there will soon be no new lands to be offered to •etuers except those owned by simm imm. mi- road corporations. THE WAR O EGTfPT. den. Wolseley, with the First division of in fantry, all the cavalry and sixteen guns, at tacked the enemy near Mahalla on the 25th of August, and captured five Krupp gnns and •eventv-i!w ear-loads of provisions. Some ot the leading Arab merchants of Port Said aud Damietta contributed monev f®r the rebol cause and sent out 500 horses. The order* at Alex andria were not to permit Turkish troops to disembark ( without the signature of the military convention aud the issuance of a proclamation by the Sultan denouncing Arabi Pasha as a rebel, bnt the Turks were unwilling to accept the latter condition. There were rumors that the rebel chieftain had set a price on De Lesseps' head, charging deliberate deceit. Gen. Wolseley reports that at Magfar, on Aug. 24, with 2,000 men, be held his grouud all day against 10,000 Egyptians. Melidoff, the Russian Ambassador at Constan tinople, was making effort* to have the military convention ot the Porte witii England presented to the conference for examination, and, if pos sible, modification. He also wished a declara tion from Lord Dufferin that hia government would seek no exclusive advantage in Egypt. The Turkish delegates had made fresh demands on Great Britain touching the convention, viz: (bat the Sulian'ts troops should land at Alexan dria- and that, instead of proclaiming Arabt a rebel, he should aimply be summoned to labmlt to the Khedive. The English opened fire with two heavy |ui on Arabi'a forces on the left bank of th* MahmonrtWi canal on the Mth uH ̂ bat ti» rsply was feeUa. • party of Bedontns ad- J«noed to within a short distance of th* forts, bnt found the position untenable tired after considerable firing. TIYH-- ments were beiag thrown up h. Egyptians to tbe southward of Meb, rebel battalions left Aboukir to occupy thi jacent isthmas. The British estuUdx blockade of the Egyptian eoast Two Albanians were enlisted for service in the i antine and other departments. RJ.t i win not form a new ministry for the lTh+4 the Chamber of Notables be restored. Pi Ibrahim, a brother of the Khedive, a*k<xi mission to accompany the army in Egypt, but Lord Grat declined the offer of the a Tne water supply of Alexandria beea scanty that each inhabitant was to be farn^a a gallon daily from the condensing apnai De Lesseps claims to feel happy overhwt in preventing France from joiniiv m ai venture destined to be more disastrous that of Napoleon in Mexico, The Turkish F Minister informed Lord Dufferin that Council of Ministers had resolved to l Arabi Paeha ae a rebel aati aeeept the U militery convsntieti. Tbe attitude of the sien represeatatire was still England. The British embassy at Cong nopie reoeived information tw. Russia ja teg large purchases * wheat and storing Ears. ° Three Arab sailors, guilty of mutiny, keel-hauled on the Egyptian frigate the harbor of Alexandria, and soon died. British were attacked at Kassassin on the of Aug. 29, by a large force of Egyptian der Arabi Pasha. Gen. Graham comma the English troops. The Egyptians wer pulsed with lews, while the' Engiixh ca ties were only eight killed and sixt' wounded. The Brkiirti captured cloven i Toulba, Pasha was poisoned in the rear of andria. Sultan Pasha had arrived at Port to install representatives of the Khedive ii territory occupied by the British. Const nople dispatches of Aug, 30 state that Porte now insists that the -troops of Turkey England shall Jointly operate from Alexaii A further reserve of Indian troops has prepared and will be dispatched to swell •eleyV command. The British oavalry are highly praise their gallant behavior in the fight at BUL Alexandria dispatches of .the lBt inaj port that Arabi was strengthening his fort dons at Ramleh, while Wolseley and his army were advancing. Europeans who ai from Cairo under esoort, at Port Said, nonnce that owing to the energy of the Pri of Police at Cairo Europeans are not mole Orders have reached Wdolwich arsenal ward at once to Egypt a light siege train, weight will be 2,000 tons, and it will 1,136 officers and men. A report that Arabi Pasha was suins peace, through the ag'ency of the Govern Zigazag, and that he had raked for an days' armistice, was telegraphed fror mallia on the 1st insfc. At a meeting' of Chamber of Notables, held at Cairo, was declared to be the supreme rul< Egypt. Theinutiliationsby E«rvptiansof ish who fell into their hands the battle of Kassassin, caused gTeafc dignation in the army. A Madrid disp says that all the powers, including Engl have replied favorably to the propositio Italy that Holland an*! Spain be permits take part in the collective protection ol Suez canal. The British Government s< telegram to Gen. Wolseley, laudatory o conduct of the campaign,' and the galls Of his ofiioers and men. The Persuasive Musket. While near Nashville, Gen. Steed had a negro regiment on the picket and a bright young mulatto sergean command of a post got the drop rebel post and captured the whole ot The rebels were a crowd of high- ping young Virginians and some of t were badly wrought up by the ide having tosurrender to a "lot of nigg Gen. Steedman took their command* fine young fellow, into his tent, extc ed some little courtesies to him, an the course of the conversation said : was a little tough, Lieutenant, taken in by colored soldiers, but wai Btrange experiences." " Well, Gene said the other, setting down his g "I've been in the army nearly •ears, and if I've learned anything i been a profound respect for the mus When the muzzle is shoved into my I don't usually ask any questions who's got hold of the hreeoh."-*-2| Blade. Herculanenm. The first building excavated at He: laneum is an oil merchant's shop tanks in the marble counters and faceable green stains from the cof coins )eft by the fleeing owner, to pocketed by the ahtiquarian despc 1,700 years after. An eating house little table still standing, is near, beyond is the principal building ei vated, the hou'Be of the Argus, so nai from a fresco that was found there, beautiful dwelling it must have been, gayly frescoed rooms opening upf colonnade about an open court now fi and smiling as of old, with a luxur garden, gay and sweet-scented, an< its midst the marble seat that stands of old, a fitting reminder that the ians of old, as their descendants, lo to repose as well as to work under open sky. The colors on the stu< faded somewhat in Pompeii, are 1 brilliant as if it were but yesterday they were disclosed ,for wind and weati whose prying fingers have been busj Pompeii, stood helpless before there bound doors of Herculanenm. NATALIE, the young Queen of Ser is a beautiful brunette, of stately figi above middle height, graceful in b ing and winning in manner. THE MARKETS. NEW YOEK. 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