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iET AND Gov. Robinson, of Massachu- SOttB, OH the BtlWllHW nKargraf Against Blaine.. • The Bew "Evidence" in That Last , ?atch of Letters Thoroughly Sifted * tnd Controverted. r£> ~ -- * ----- Sharp Contrasts Between Blaine and Cleve­ land, Logan and Hendricks--Inde­ pendent Inconsistency., fi: |r Held tiffaos.) special to the niL] By the Republicans had others of this city the •campaign was commenced to-night with a pro­ cession through the principal streets, a display •Of fireworks and lllu a> matrons, and a crowded *nd demonstrative meeting in the City Hall. Osr. Bobina.in, who came np from Boston on an afternoon train to participate, was escorted to the hall by torch-bearer* and others. Mayor Phillips, who presided at the meeting, which was called to order by the Hon. William H. Halle, spoke briefly of tho certainty of the success of the Republican ticket, both national and State, and introduced to the andience his Excellency Gov. Robinson, who was greeted -with long-continued applause and cheers. The •Governor said: THE ISSUE. It is indeed a pleasant privilege to be per­ mitted to-nistht to come to yonr presence and to Join with you in the consideration and discus- •Sion of topics that concern not only the well- xbeing of every man, but welfare of the country. •The scenes of to-night remind one of those of the years that have pone from lsiw down to the present hour, when the Republican party, meet­ ing the issue of the hour, has gone into the field able, firm in principle, fearless in carriage, and marched straight on to that victory that the American people welcomed, rApplause.] "We come now to see whether we shall proceed as be­ fore, or if perchance it may be that there is a better way in 1884. Let us to-night like men be free as possible from prejudice. Let us dls- •cuss openly and fearlessly. In a political dis­ cussion of the character that we have now be­ fore us we must, of course, consider candidates and principles. We have various candidates be­ fore the people, but the election lies between the candidates of Democratic and Republican parties as It has since i860. BLAINE AND CLEVELAND -THE LATTEB PLEADS GUILTY. Now, gentlemen, I shall spend bnt little time in talking about candid# e-\ because they are ^supposed by the people to ret resent the parties that put them in nomination. If they do, then we pass at once beyond the threshold and grap­ ple with the questions that the parties inaugur­ ate and indorse. Mark you one thing very sig­ nificant in this campaign, our political oppo­ nents started at the outset with an attack upon both the candidates placed in the field by the National Republican party. They made serious -charges against Mr. Blaine; they made similar ones of the same character, but equally serious, against Mr. Logan, and then because some one who believed that these charges were unfounded and baseless, then because some one replied to those charges, it was said the Republicans are all the time on their defense. Have vou any . principles? Do you believe in the candidates? If you have, and you have the courage ol' a cat, you will stand up and reply when that party and those candidates are attacked. [Applause.] Standing up, however, and meeting an accusa­ tion does not necessarily mean that vou are to resort to mean things on either side. That is :not argument. That is not worthy of the con- teat, and it is not a subjtct of consideration be­ fore an intelligent people. Mark you, there is one thins very peculiar about this discussion of the characters of the can­ didates this fall. The reply conies to any crit­ icism on the part of the Republicans against the Democrats' candidate that it is unbecoming to -discuss these charges from a public platform. It will not do lor you. sir, to appear before an audienoe and discuss the character of the Demo­ crats' candidate. Well, why not? Who is to blame? The audience or the candidate? I will agree at the outset that it is not pleasant in any company to treat of the offenses committed by the Democratic candidate lor the Presidency, and I do not propose to enlarge upon them. They are understood by the -American people, and unless I mistake the judgment of this great people of the United States they will never ele­ vate to the office of their highest gift a man who pleads guilty to those charges. 1 have no pa­ tience at all with the doctrine that it is no con- ' cern of the public what the l rlvate lite of a public officer is, and I known that the clean men and women of Massachusetts are far enough in the light to put their unqualified condemnation upon the doctrine that asserts v that. I leave the further discussion of that> can- • didate. A word or two about Mr. Hendricks, the possible President in case the other man should be elected, which is not a probability. INDEPENDENTS ON KENDLILCKS. It lias been said that the attacks upon Mr. . Hendricks are unjustified. Well, all I have to ; say is, lotfk back over the tiles of the newspapers to the time of his foimer candidacy in lSVti. '-.Uow they say the Republicans then, of course, - condemned him. Certainly they did. The Democratic press defended him; that you ex- peoted, certainly. Bat we will take those that stand between the two --the Independents. I • wish you would look at the remarks of their . newspapers in 1H70 about '1 homas A. Hendricks •and his fitness for the candidacy for the Vice " Presidency, and when you look them np you will discover that generally those men who say he is good enough now condemned liim, and ' yet not one hour since that time with the same character in their recollection has he served the public in any capacity. 1 leave him without further discussion. THE NEW "EVIDENCE." I want to say something about James G. Blaine ; v and John A. Logan. Ic is the business of every ; man in dealing with public questions, whether :? he be one that speaks from a public platform or simply one who is busy with his o#n con- » cerns, in dealing with every problem of citi- L zenship--it is his business to keep abreast of the times, to know what is going on; and now. * ; within the last two days, we nave had spread before the people of the Commonwealth--yes, , before the eyes and ears of the people of the country--what is said to he fresh and new evi- dence bearing against the character of Mr. Blaine. I do not allude to the famous publica- ! tions that have been discussed and discussed. "You, gentlemen, I know, have your own opinions about them. I will not attempt to state '* • them or their substance. To compare these ; ; long statements with each other, point by point, would take more time now than we have • at our command: but we are bound to-niuht, here and now, I by myself and you each one by yourselves, to find out wuether there is .- anything new and damaging in what recently came out, because my vote rests upon my own judgment, that is all, and yours lias as good a foundation as that--your own common sense and honesty. Let us look into those letters that • have been published within a day or two to •see what there is new in them. THAT NATIONAL BANK. One thins is entirely new; now It# OR look at It. There arc three letters that refer to the es- • tablishment of a national hank in Little Rock, ' Ark. Now, it is not a charge asainst a man that he has some concern with a national bank. By i ; no means. It is of no consequence in this dis- : cussion, unless it be made to appear that Mr. Blaine was in someway improperly connected with that enterprise. It would not hold if he held stock in i hat bank; it would not hold if he were an officer in that institution. The only question you want to know is. Did he do any­ thing wiong about that bank? And now, what do the letters show? Read them for your­ selves ; don't take my word for anything;' taue your own evesiirht and sense. The first one, written in 18tW, during the vacation of Con­ gress, from Auifnsta, Me, states what? That there was likely to be an .n crease of bank­ ing capital allowed at the next session of Con­ gress, and that it would probably be distributed in the Southwest. In it the sucuestion was made to Mr. Fisher, the irent cman to whom it , was written: "Possibly you and your friends might like to establish a bank there." They . were connected with railroad enterprises then. Here mav be an opportunity, a'id Mr. Blaine offers his assistance to aid in getting the estab­ lishment of a bank out there. Now what is there about it besides that? Nothiiii: whatever. "There is another letter which treats of the same •subject, but only briefly, and there is another which describes the character of the bonds that must be used as a basis of their circulation. What is there in the letters that is "specious, as ' it is said." The expression is used, "These mat- ' ters are decided by favoritism," and then he savs: "I may be sble to aid von." These aie the two expressions. Take them for what they are . worth. A MATTER FOE THE COMPTKOLLEE, MOT CON- OBESS. What was Mr. Blaine's connection with the •establishment of that bank? And what could It be? He was Speaker of the House of Repre­ sentatives. Congress would pass a law pro­ viding for more banking capital, and perhaps it ' "would be located in ttie South and West, al­ though that was not probable. Does Congress •decide just where the banks shall be «r who • -shall be «iven their charters? Does Congress have any voice in the matter! No. Who? The ... Secretary of the Treasury or the Comptroller . -of the Currencv. It is purely an executive "•duty, not a legislative. Does anybody argue that that bank wa^ to be established without •any capital as a special favor to Mr. Blaine? That they were going to get $450,000 in bills for circulation without putting anything In? Nobody says that it would be frivolous, -and what did the information amount to? What could it accomplish? Nothing, as I understand it, except that which every member of Coneress is glad to provide his . constituents, for 1 want to tell you that a mem­ ber of Congress is a first-class errand-boy for everybody in the Commonwealth. I say for constituents, yes. These were not in Maine, , you say. But so far as the motive, and the pur­ pose, and the correctness of the act were con- , corned, I fail to see when It makes any differ­ ence whether the bank was established in Arkansas or Maine, At all events, there seems to be no doubt that Mr. Blaine said to the Con­ troller of the Currency, "These gentlemen want a bank in Little Bock." I am informed the bank was established there. So far as Is known, it has never failed or cheated Its creditors. That Is all I can find in the bank matter. [Applause.] . Ana, gentlemen, I want to say one thing frankly aw xwa6twxt MA» anA¥ID BT tlonthat ww^Mrfbsdqniteat Kh, andtha* has been » subject of distttuaton far eight years. What was the charge agatastHrVBteSe atthe ontastln that "tatter ? This, that he used his SBbUyr$2nv'<>r. BrlTmfce personal -gain. ,ow, u he did,he deserves our condemnation; if he did not, then, of course, we have no right to put him under suspicion after we have had a* opportunity for investigation. Do these letter* doanythtogto support that charge? I fail to tad These tetters, on the contrary, show that Mr. Blaine fonnd himself in an unfortu­ nate position. He had attempted to speculate and had not succseded. What does hesay to these men to whom he was writing? "Iam only an innocent party to the transaction." Of course you say he would say that to men outside, but ms to tuese two men the charge m. he was In coniUvance with them. If he was they knew It, f?,dwlfKtbfv knfw, an<1 he knew it, do you tmnkhe is so lacking in sense that he would write them that lie was an innocent party to the enterprise? That is not the wav men do who set out by connivance and fraud to over­ reach others. BASELESS CHARGES. In the next place, you will notice a letter, the last one in the series, in which the statement is made that he wished Mr. Fisher to sign what was false from beginning to end. That is a serious charge. There are circumstances, it is claimed, which sustain that assertion. But look Again. In the very letter which he sent in- closing the one for signature he writes the man who knew just as well as he did, all about it (and he didn t write it for publication either,. Bear that in mind; there was a "pt ivate" at the top of it and burn it up" at the bottom. "These statements are trus and honorable alike to vou and to me, and will stop the mouth of slander." I have yet to:find or see any explanation of that language, written, it is claimed, by a man who rascal to another who was a ras- OM, which will clear out that claim. If they ware of that character such language as "Thesa st atements arc strictly true," would not have been used between them. I find, then, I am bound to say m justice to him, in justice to the good sense of the people, in justice to myself, there is no support of the charge that was made against him as a basis for the investigation of eight years ago. I Applause. J , HONESTY KSVEB FEARFUL. .JV8Jai^\h,0Wrtver- that this is fr. sh evidence that Mr. Blaine is guilty of falsehood, or has been at some time. That seems to be coming down pretty close to the domain of private life, with which the public have not any concern, you know, i Applause. J I am bound to go fur­ ther and say that is a question of the considera­ tion of paiers not yet produced. It #ust be evident to anybody who has examined the series that not all are produced. Mr. Blaine has no opportunity in a paper to reply, and, under the circums^nces, with the charges falling around in every other way. I th nk we may safely say that it is only the part of reasonable prudence and fairness to withhold that accusation. When there is a reasonable opportunity I have no doubt Mr. Blaine will meet these charges. At all events instead of saying the men who make the charges against him "Tell the truth," he savs. Bring the men into court and I will meet them." Now, gentlemen, I know very well that 1 have not exhausted the discussion of that branch of the question, but I sav to you that you are bound to read and judge for yourselves, not take my words as any authority in the matter. Mr. Blaine says, as you know, shaking for himself : I want the whole American people to read all those letters, and I will che erfully abide by the result. When the gentlenr-in auainst whom charges of this character are made thus openly and frankly makes that statement, take him at his word, and as honest men look for your­ selves. What we say in public places is dis- cussed thereafter and criticised, and opportnni- ties will not be afforded to make a reply, bnt if each one will carefully consider these charges we will not take his name from the Hag. [Ap­ plause. ) John A. Logan speaks for himself, rApplause.] We are content to match him alongside his op­ ponent [applause], and, though I prize educa­ tion very highly, and though I would have a man cultivated and adorned to the full, at the same time I have a good deal of respect for that old hard sense, that common honesty, and loyal patriotism which have actuated John A. Logan for more than twenty years. [Applause.] ANOTHER LIE SAILED. Mr. Blaine 11 a a No Connection vrlth tlto • Hocking Valley Syndicate. [Cleveland (O.) special.] A few days ago dispatches, based npon a Co­ lumbus communication to an evening paper here, were sent over the country detailing the alleged connection of Mr. Blaine with the coal syndicate now at war with the miners of the Hocking Valley. Judge S Burke, Vice-Presi­ dent of the Bee Line and Columbus and Hock- ». g Valley Railways, and a large owner of min­ ing property in the valley, said to-day: "As to Blaine's connection with the Hocking syndicate he doesn't own a dollar in It. I'll tell yon how the Blaine story originated. The Standard Coal and Iron Company was organized by a man named Lee, of Newark, not Norwalk, as has been published. It had a capi­ tal of $75,000, which was subsequently reduced to $25,000. It issued bonds o 1 some coal lands on which there were already liens, and the syn­ dicate borrowed some monev of Mr. Blaine, giving as security some of these bonds. The company went to plecas more than two years ago, blew its iron furnaces out, closed its coal mines, and ceased business. It has not shipped a pound of coal in two years. Recently an effort to reorganize it was made, and 1 believe they have tried to start up azaln, but men hold­ ing the class of securities which Mr. Blaine had were left out entirely, and Blaine lost every dol­ lar he loaned on the bonds. Gov. Foster is similarly situated and owns no interest in the syndicate." Democratic Rule, 1850-'00. Detroit Post: From i860 to 1860 we had the Democratic revenue-tariff poltcv, with the panic of I&57, trouble to our home industry, foreign importers waxing rich on onr troubles, and as a result of which the following statement of our specie imports was a leading ,* Year. 1851. 185 2 185 3 185* 1855 1855 185 7 185 8 1869 i Specie Imports. ,. (5,453,991 ... 5,505,041 .. 4.201,382 .. 6,'.15 ',184 .. 3,«.V.),8ia .. 4,207,632 .. 1?,461,799 .. 11','274,4fl6 ,. 7,434,779 Specie Exports. $29,472,752 42,674,135 27,486,875 41,436,455 66,247,343 4*>,746,485 6.1,126,923 C-\7r3,l47 67,302,905 T«tal $69,156,780 $422,339,420 69,156,730 Excess of exports over imports, and loss of specie to the countrv *353,178,690 The enormous drain of specie brought inevita­ ble trouble. Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury under Buchanan, in his report in 1860 told how capitalists "were unwilling to invest in United States securities at par," and he was in trouble about $11,000,010 he wished to negotiate to pay the daily expenses of the Government. Under an act. of Dec. 17, 1860, Treasury notes were issued redeemable one year after date, bearing interest at from 6 to 12 per cent. Hr. Hendricks. Thomas A. Hendricks was one of six Senators who voted against the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution (abolishing slavery). He was one of eleven Senators who voted against the fourteenth amendment to tho Con­ stitution (conferring citizenship upon the ne­ groes and prohibiting the payment of rebel debts). He was one of thirteen Senators who voted against the fifteenth amendment (establishing lieurro suffrage). He was one of twelve who voted against the civil rights bill. He was on? of fifteen who voted against pass­ ing the same over President Johnson's veto. He was one of the seven who voted against the reconstruction act of the Thirty-seventh Con­ gress, and one of ten who voted against nagging it over .the veto. He was one of thirteen who voted against the first bill lor the admission of Colorado, and one ot twelve who voted against the second Colorado bill--both bein^ vetoed by 11«8 dent Johnson. He was one of fourteen who voted against the admission of Nebraska, and one of nine who voted against passing the bill over the veto in 1867. These are a few reasons why the people of the j West, and especiallv of Colorado and Nebraska, 1 will not help to make Hendricks presiding of­ ficer of the body he did so little to adorn when he was a member of it.--Chirago Tribune. Mr. Blalae Receives a Delegation ot Clergymen. A delegation of Methodist clergymen, num­ bering over one hundred, and headed by Bishop King, of Brooklvn, waited on Mr. Blaine at his hotel in New York City. Mr. Blaine had no notice of their coming, but was greatly pleased at the visit. The delegation represented in the aggregate about 50,000 i>eople, and through Bishop King the members declared that the call was the result of deliberate consultation. They had examined, he said, into every one of the charges made against Mr. Blaine, and they had discovered absolutely nothing to shake their confidence in him. At the same time they had come to the conclusion that every man who was an advocate of pure morals and decent lite should support his candidacy. Mr. Blaine cordially thanked his visitors for their expres­ sion of confidence. The incident gives great satisfaction to the Republican leaders, and is particularly- significant in view of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's declaration in favor of Cleveland, which is unmercifully ridiculed by secular people and nntversally condemned by religious men. It will but serve to keep the | Halpln scandal prominently before the public. AFTER Carl Schurz's Democratic experi­ ence in 1872 he was publicly repentant, and said in a speech: "Only once have I slept in a side-room of the Democratic party, and there I have heard enough not to vote a Democratic ticket, again im mv life. Yes, my hand shall wither before I do so again." It is not so "withered" that it does not grasp his $150 bonus with a good deal of CARL IRZ G. F. Boar's Tribute to Blaine-- P Earnest Words for Irish- American Citizens. " How Cleveland KM Been Toting for Twenty-few. . . 'V' ^ r~ At a recent Republican rally at Salsm, Mass., Senator Hoar spoke as follows: Mr. Blaine has been called a Jingo. I think he is very much such a Jingo as the last Massa­ chusetts President, John Vjulncy Adams, was. I think he means to cultivate friendly relations with every other nation, especially with those of the American continent, and he means to have it understood that if an American citizen, whether by birth or by adoption, goes anywhere on the face of the earth, he is to be respected accordingly. He means, I think, to sum up his foreign policy in one sentence--we ask for no injustice and we will stand no nonsense. • • • • * • » Now I should like to ask any Englishman, or Scotchman, or Irishman in the County of Essex if the picture I have drawn of the condition of the workingman that he left behind him, and the condition of the workingman here, is not true to the letter. And I should like to ask, and I should like to have you ask your Irish neigh­ bors, what reason they can give, while they came here to get out from under the heel of England, for voting for the policy which England is eairer to have this country adopt. The Ii ishman was a British subject in Ireland, but he didn't have an American vote. The irishman who votes the Democratic ticket In Essex County is ten times a British subject, and, unfortunately, in that subjecting, he is casting an American vote. Our Democratic brethren offer to oar suffrages Grover Cleveland and Gov. Hendricks. And what do you know of either of them .' Do you know anything of Grover Cleveland fit to be publicly discussed, except that he has been all his lifetime a blind and obedient follower of a party always in the wrong? He is 50 years old. He voted for President in 1860. I don't know whether he voted for JeiT Davis or for what other of the Democratic candidates of that year, but ha didn't vote for Abraham Lincoln. In 1864 the question was put to the American people, "Shall our army be called home in dis- erace; shall this war stop; shall the Sonth go; shall the tint,- be folded up and laid away; shall the country perish?" "Aye," said Grover Cleve­ land. The question was put to the American people in 1868, "Shall the slave continue a slave; shdl the old rebel set his heel on his neck again, or shall the constitutional amendment, which makes of the slave a freeman, and of the free­ man a citizen, and of the citizen a voter, be in­ scribed on the Constitution V "No," said Grov­ er Cleveland. The question came in 1876, "Shall the debt be repudiated; shall the cur­ rency continue to be debased: shall the Amer­ ican coin, with which the workmen's wages, and the soldiers' pensions, and the savings-banks deposits are to be paid, oe a debased cur­ rency?" "Aye," said Grover Cleveland. And, aow, what does he tell you in his letter of acceptance and his speech of acceptance? Here are plenty of living issues. Shall the great Mormon cancer spread over the breast of this continent? Shall the South con­ tinue fraudulent voting and criminal practices? Shall the protective policy on which the work­ man's wages and the comfort of his home de­ pend continue? What says Grover Cleveland as to these questions? He says not one word upon all these great, vital issues--not one word. He savs simply, "I am chosen to execute the plans, puriK)ses, and policy of the Democratic party"--and if he is elected he will do it. And Hendricks is like unto liim, with the single ex­ ception that, while Cleveland has been in ob­ scurity, Hendricks has been a leader and an actor in all the Democratic policies of the past He sat in the Senate throughout the war, em­ barrassing Abraham Line oln by every vote he cast and every .speech he made- his votes re­ corded against the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery; his votes recorded against every proposition to raise troops; and he com­ mends himself to the civil service reformers by the declaration that the first thing to be done by a Democratic adr.-.inistration is to turn out 50,000 Republican officeholders aad put 50,000 Democrats in their stead. Now, fellow-citizens, I thank God that we have candidates with no such miserable records. We have candidates--both of them--worthy of the enthusiastic support of every man. Vou know something of the principles, the policy, the purposes of the Republican party. They are written in letters of light on your country s history, as they are in the platform adopted at Chicago, and James G. Blaine has been selected to carry out the principles, and the policy, and the purposes of the Republican party. And he is about to do it. Has there ever been a candi­ date since the Republican party was organized so well commended to you as Mr. Blaine? Did you know as much about Abraham Lincoln when you voted for him? Did you know as much about Grant, in civil life, I mean, when you first voted for him? Did you know as much about Hayes when you voted for him? I think the choice of the gteat^ftopublican party of this country ought to (tount^for something. They have not made a misutlweven when they took an obscure man, comparatively, for their candidate. They knew what they were about. And they have not made a mistake when they have taken the one most conspicuous person in civil life in America. Why, they talk about their charges! I sup­ pose you have heard country lawyers argue a case when they hadn't got much evidence on their side--and don't understand me as speak­ ing contemptuously of country lawyers, because I am one of that kind myself. ILauurhter.J But with almost any complicated state of facts, and figures and correspondence a shrewd and crafty man can get up and, by shaking his head, and sneering, and declaring that the thing you thought was innocent was done for a guilty purpose, and with a truilty motive, can make out an apparently plausible story before some­ body who does not know anything about the case. And that is the attempt in these charges against Mr. Blaine. There are four of these let­ ters--all that Mr. Schurz quoted in his speech and in his letter--and I should like to have them printed and put into the hands of every Repub­ lican voter in Massachusetts. All there is of them is the charge that when Mr. Blaine re­ minded his correspondent of a perfectly honest and righteous ruling, he did it not innocently and honestly, but for a corrupt purpose, and to imply that if he could make a trade with the man he would do him such a favor a train. Now, 1 think Mv. Blaine is entitled to the charity with which you would judge the humblest and the most obscure man in your own neighborhood. Suppose these letters had been written bv a watchman in Lynn or a policeman in Haver­ hill, and not by a candidate for the great office of President, and all his neighbors came for­ ward and said to you: This man we have known fiwm his youth up, through and through; he is a per felly honest man. Suppose the men who had quarreled with him and fought so far as in them lay the high honor which can only t>e giv­ en in full by the whole people of (he United States. What thoy think of him you can judge by the tremendous majority in that State. What the people of the United States think of him a similar result in November is certain to show. [The applause which greeted this pre­ diction was suddenly hushed by a blinding flash of lightning, followed instantly by a tremendous roar of thunder.] The people of the State of Maine have just spoken. That is the one community on this earth which would not tolerate a knave if they knew it, and from whose intelligence a knave could not hide himself if he tried. It stands, I lielieve, at the head of all the communities on the face of the Klobe in the capacity to read and write, in the education of its jieople. It is an unmixed English blood, and I speak of thatonly to show that they have been used to self-govern­ ment and to choose their rulers for two centu­ ries. Over and over again Democrats leaving their party to do it, the p^ple of Maine have declaied their love for and their confidence in this man. The United States Senate was just half Democratic when Mr. Blaine was pioposed to them by Gen. Gaiiield for the office of Secre­ tary of State. Now it would be improper for me, unuer the rules of the Senate, to say whether he wan unanimously confirmed, and I say nothing about that, anywhere; but I have a right to say, under the rules of the Senate, that a single objection would have compiled that nomination to go over at least twenty-four hours, and that he was confirmed in two min­ utes alter his name went in. Don't you suppose that these Democratic Senators knew whether Mr. Blaine was an honest man or a knave? And don't you suppose they would have been swift to condemn him if they had entertained the latter opinion? into the _ party intfae very NtM he was sti' lac party alive. Mltft the Pennsylvania In­ stitution for the In9tra<*loa of the Blind No- vmber iwt-atter'the mrtMea were listed in Maine which baveb^en ttlsely attribut- od to him--and in the very next year. 1856. ac­ cording to Gov. Kent, "he was a leading power in the councils of the Republican pa*ty." f f THE YOUNG YOTEa to the Yonng Men Who Wilt tatfe M to Where to Cast Their First Ballot*. rLieut. Gov. Hanna, at Gosport, I rid.] xonnif man, you should consider well before castimr your first ballot If you start to voting right. It will be of great advantage to you in after life. If you vote with a party lhat is proud of its past history--a party that can take great sat- isfaction in recounting its record in the war for the I nion--a party that is pleased with its candidates, a party that is active, progressive, and determined to be for Americans and America; if you wilFjoin such a patty as that, your future life will not be a political burden to yon. "Young man, if you should join the Demo­ cratic party, you will find many dissatisfied and disappointed old men--many discontented and restless young men. Young man, do you know that the youngest Democrat in this country that ever voted for a Democratic President Is 49 yearaof age? "It has been twenty-eight yean since the Democra tic party elected its President, and un­ less that uarty mends its ways. It wUl be twenty-eight years more before it even has a chance to elect a President. "Intelligent, enterprising yonng men, don't go into the Democratic party. Thero is no room for you there. The company Is not the kind for you to keep. Look at the Democratic party-- the solid South is there, the free-trader is there, the Mormon is there. The Bourbon is still there, who never learns anything nor forgets anything. The copperhead Democrat is there. The rebel guerrilla is there. The men who murdered draft officers are there. The men who burned colored orphan asvluras are there. The shotgun and ritie clubs are there. The tissue ballot is there, old Bill English Is there, Hen­ dricks is there, Cleveland is there, Tilden is there, Jeff Davis is there. Young man, don't go into the Democratic party. Don't vou see it is no place for you? Don't be a Democrat just be­ cause your father w.is a Democrat. 1 heard an Irishman in my town say that there was no need of a young man being a Democrat just be­ cause his father was a Democrat--no more use of it than there was for a young man to be a bachelor just because his father was a bachtSor. My young Democratic friend, let me tell you a secret. 1 was a Democrat once myself, in my younger days, and an orthodox at that; that is, my father voted for Polk and Pierce, but when I heard of the Republican party, when I heard of Fremont and free homes for free men, 1 fell in line under the Republican flag, and have been following it ever since, and I am glad of it. "Young man, turn your face to the State of Maine and cast your political future with the Republican party, and you will alwavs be proud of that act--a party that since it has come into power has known no defeat; that in the struggle for supremacy in the last quarter of a century has been the survival of the Attest A party whose motto is equality before the law and at the ballot box. A party that gives homes to the homeless; that crushed secession; that obliterated human slavery: that made it impos­ sible for a slave to exist beneath our Hag in the domains of our republic: a party that lielieves in protecting American labor and American in­ dustries; a party under whose wise administra­ tion our country has grown rich and prosperous, has increased more than threefold in wealth in the last thirty years, and to-day our republic is the greatest and grandest nation beneath the stars. Young man, if you will join the Repub­ lican party, you will be urged on to greater and nobler deeds, you will be stimulated by the ex­ ample and memories of the actions of the great fathers in the Republican party--the apostles and martyrs of freedom--you will be surrounded by men who keep pace with the spirit and progress of the age--who believe in the sacredness-t of the home--men who would crush the vile heads of slander--bv men who do now and have kept step to the music of the Union--men Who believe in Ameri­ ca and Americans. " You will be cheered on to greater duty by having in charge the soldiers of the Union, blessed with the prayers and tsars of tueir widows and orphans. You will have upon your shoulders the hopes and fears ot 4,000,000 of 'men made free by your party. " Young man, look at'the great names the Re­ publican party has given to America and the world -John Brown and Thaddeus Stevens, Sumner and Stanton. Morton and Wade. Then the long list of Presidents--Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Gareeld, Arthur, and next November, James G. Blaine, ot Maine." GRAXT AND BLARE. What Hr. Blaine Sajv * 1 TPreiin the New York Tribune.! That Mr. Blaine refused to join the Know Nothing organization, though his associate in the Kennebec Journal had done so. has been established. The falsehood that he wrote ar­ ticles for that journal in support of prescriptive ideas has been refuted by the voluntary declara­ tion of the gentleman who did write them, and at that time held those ideas. What Mr. Blaine did think of the Know-Nothing movement, he has told the whole world in his history, which was written at a time when he had no expecta- lion of becoming candidate tor office again, and which has been highly honored in Europe and In this country for its calm, impartial and can­ did treatment of public questions. In his first volume, pagj 117, Mr. Blaine said: "Thenceforward new alliances were rapidly formed. In the South those Whigs who, though still unwilling to profess an anti-slavery creed, would not unite with the Democrats, were reor­ ganized under the name of the American party, with Humphrey Marshall, Henry Winter Davis, Horace Mayn%rd and men of that class for lead­ ers. 'f his party was founded on proscription of foreigners, and with special hostility to the Roman Catholic Church. It had a fitinl and feverish success, and in 1854-55, under the name Ot Know-Nothings, enrolled tens of thousands in secret lodges. But its creed was narrow, its principles were illiberal, and its methods of pro­ cedure bovMh and undignified. The great body of thinking men in the North saw that the real contest impending was against slavery and not against naturalization laws and ecclesi­ astical dogmas. The Know-Nothings, therefore, speedily disappeared." It is not to be expected that the Democrats, in this extreme emergency, will tell the truth about Mr. Blaine. But those citizens who wish to know bis real opinions will be glad to have ttd lEUkl¥'liKfili6BSGd, How the Veteran General and the Maine Statesman Met in New York. Mr.- Blaine was seated in his rooms with a number of personal and political lriends. Sud­ denly there was a knock at the door, and Mr. Blaine, who had just risen from a seat, stepped forward to open it. A stout, heavy-set man, with gray whiskers and dark-blue eyes, leaning on a pair of crutches, stood at the threshold. It did not take an instant for the crowd to recog­ nize the veteran figure of Gen. Grant. Quick as a flash every man was on his feet Mr. Blaine stepped forward in delighted sur­ prise, and grasped the General's hand with much warmth. Everybody in the room was silent as the two foremost men of their time stood hand in hand in the center of the room. The reception on the part of both was sincere and unaffected, and tears seemed to sparkle in the General's eyes as he noticed the deference which all BO gladly paid him. Leaning on his crutches, the General was led to an adjoining settee, and there Mr. Blaine and ho remained in consultation for nearly an hour. A little boy attached to the National Republican head­ quarters, who had come over to see the candi­ date, was sitting at a center-table in the room, on which rested his elbows, while he gazed earnestly at the snectacle before him. Then, turning to a gentleman whom he knew, he said, in a quiet voice: "And that is the man whom Ward robbed?" Altogether the scene was one which those who witnessed it are never likely to forget. Gen. Grant talked hopefully and earnestly of the prospects of Republican sutccs. To Mr. Blaine he said: "They are abusing you as they have abused me, but they will elect you, neverthe­ less. For my own part," continued the General, "I do not know of any time when Republican success was more essential to national prosper­ ity than at present." The conference between the two great Repub­ licans lasted tor about an honr, and Mr. Blaine, at the parting, shook both of Gen. Grant's hands, and assured him that he was more than delighted with his call. "My first duty after arriving," said Mr. Blaine, "was to have been to call on you, but you have anticipated my pleas­ ure in this regard." Hannibal Hamlin, who probably outranked everybody present in his devotion to Repub­ lican principles, seemed to pronounce a benedic­ tion ui>on the whole affair as he bade Mr. Blaine farewell, and said, in a good-natured way: "That is a happy affair, indeed." MULLIUAJH, THE LETTER THIEF. A Fair and Impartial Opinion of the Man Who Is Trying to Injure Blaine. [Richmond (Va.) Whig.] It is evident that this whole Mulligan calumny is as foul as its source. And what is that? Mul­ ligan's malice. A dishonorable man, in some dishonorable way, gets possession of private let­ ters, which, by the aid of partisan hate and prej­ udice, he proposes to employ in a dishonorable way to smirch the character of an eminent and honorable gentleman, and, in puisuance of a dishonorable plot, they were brought to the front in the very nick of time to discredit the gentleman's claims to the highest honor his party and countrymen could bestow upon him. A vile man, a vile plot, a vile use of private cor­ respondence, a vile misconstruction of this cor­ respondence--could anything be viler than the wholp dirty business? And do gentlemen who adopt Mulligan and his methods consider what they dor Are they sure that they are not de­ grading themselves in their eager efforts to damage Mr. Blaine? Of course, tho Mulligan letters were only a part of the plot. All sorts of lies and misrepresentations were brought to bolster the foul meaning which foul miscon­ struction had foisted upon Mr. Blaine's private letters. But these, in every instance brought to scrutiny, were overwhelmingly refuted by the highest evidence. Even MnlHgau supplemented his original baseness in obtaining and using the correspondence by inventing a dramatic fiction in connection with B1 dne's recovery of his let­ ters, overdoing the matter, however, and mak­ ing his statement obviously and ridiculous­ ly' false by its absurd extravagance. Mr. Blaine got on his knees to him, Mr. Blaine promised him a consulship. Mr. Blaine threatened to kill himself, and all this stuff, when Mulligan himself confesses that Mr. Blaine, after once having the letters in his pos­ session, and looking them over, returned them, and that Mr. Blaine only retained them, on again having them in hand, when Mulligan threatened to publish them before they went to the committee investigating the matter. The sum of the matter is, that the Mulligan calumny not only fails of proof, but is a self-evident falsehood upon its showing, llarprr's Week ly, the New Vork Timef, and ull the men and jour­ nals now so insistent upon the charge against Mr. Blaine, once declared he was guiltless and unsmirched by the evidence. Even the Bour­ bons of Virginia, with all the testimony before them, ignored the charge and landed Mr. Blaine to the skies. The sum of the matter is that the charge is now revamped and pressed only on the well-known principle of "anything to beat" Mr. Blaine, the stalwart representative of Re­ publican protection. Cleveland Played Out in New York. New York Sun (Dem.): It Is now tolerably clear that there is no chance of Grover C leve­ land's election to the Presidency. He cannot carry New York. He will be beaten in this State by a majority of not less than 50,000, in spite of every exertion that may be made be­ tween now and election day. Why, then, should genuine Democrats any longer think of tying themselves np to such a hopeless candidacy? It was a mistake from the first. We warned Its ""ml- linrMi , to a BeaMBerBtto earwtWWc in the SelA for whom men may vote with earnest good- wln.y?d.* kope tot thefutnr*. We reTer to t&e candidate of the People's Democratic party. G e n . B u t l e r . I n t h i V & a t e t S l ! S a S n t ^ t & between him and Mr. Blaine; and If all the free- mlnded Democrats who have hitherto been dis­ posed to support Cleveland, on the possibility that by some good fectnne he might be elected, will now abandon him andvote tor Butler, the strength ot the People's Democratic party will thereby rapidly become great and formidable, ao that it may even exceed the strength of Blaine. It would be a great thing to beat Blaine here in New York. Butler only can do it. DEMOCRATS RESPONSIBLE KNOW-NOTHINUISM. FOR ^ ferennan in a speech at Indianattfef^ The slavery-holding States were the home of Know-Nothingism. O'Connell had excited the wvath of Sout era slave-holders by spuming their offers of assistance and denouncing their institution of slavery; and the cry of "Ireland lor the Irish," which was the war cry of the re­ peal agitation, was paraphrased in the South bv the war whoop of "America for the Americans." Know-Nothingism was a Democratic bolt which seriously threatened to overthrow the regular Democratic organization. A majority of the Democratic leaders had sense enough to se • that this phase of fanaticism could not succeed, and to provide for its own perpetuation the Demo­ cratic party of the period took sides against it; but it most found favor in the cities which were then and now most powerfully Democratic Places like St. Louis and Louisville ran red with Irish blood, and the malice of the mob found vent in heartlesn excesses and cruelties. The Know-Nothing party was in the height of its power in ,1835. It polled nearly half a million of votes (47'.»,465) for Eillmore in the slave-hold­ ing States in 1856. At the same election John C. Fremont, the Republican candidate, received less than one thousand two hundred votes (1,194) in all of the fifteen slave-holding States. There was practically no Republican party in the South in 1856. and in 18:>1 the vast Know- Nothing army was absorbed bodily into the ranks of the Democratic party or ttie party of the rebellion, which in the South was one and the same thing. In I860 the Democrats and Know-Nothings united in tho State of New York, the Know-Nothing party receiving seven electors and their share ot the joint ticket. Grover Cleveland was then a Democrat, resid­ ing in the State of New York; and if he voted at all he voted for these seven Know-Nothing electors; and the chances are that he voted. WAS BLAINE A KNOW-NOTHINU ? The slanderers might as well sav that he as­ sisted at the crucifixion of onr Savior. He was an active Republican in 18T>5; supported Fre­ mont in 1856, and fought for Lincoln in i860. The State of Maine never lKilled quite 4,000 Know-Nothing votes, while the little State of Maryland gave Fillmore 47 0i«. No, Blaine was not a Know-Nothing. He is the son of a Catholic mother, and he has declared in the most emphatic terms that he would not for a thousand Presidencies say one unfriendly word against the religion of bis mother. I challenge the Democratic press, 1 defy the Democratic bosses, to produce a single line or single word that Blaine has ever spoken or written un­ friendly to the race or religion of an Irishman. I will go farther. The Republican party has been in power for a quarter of a century. It h s l>een guilty of its sins, and I am not its apologist; but I will defend it- against the foul charges of which it has been unjustly ac­ cused. I challenge the Democratic party press; I defy the party bosses; I appeal to the letter of history, and defy any man to show me an act ufion any statute book enacted bv Republicans infringing uj>on the rights of any man on ac­ count ot his race or religion. Its spirit and its purposes have b< en utterly incompatible with the objects of Know-nothingism. If you want to find the iiesh and bone and spirit of intolerance which animated Know- nothingism in its palmy days, I commend you to the Democratic part}'. In Mississippi they shoot a man to death for an ppinion, in Indian­ apolis they seek to ruin his business for an opinion. In the State of Maine the Irish Km w-nothings burn a high-souled Irishman in effigy for the atrocious crime of rising above their prejudices, and the Demo cratic State Convention of Iowa hisses the name of Patrick Ford, the fearless editor of the Irish 11 or'il. You yourselves know well that right here in Indianapolis your Irish candidates on the Democratic ticket run behind their party vote. Quite recently, I am informed, an esti­ mable young Irishman of this city was a candi­ date for City Clerk, and he ran more than live hundred behind the party vote. Need I call your attention to Mayor Grace, of New York, who, on account of his religion, ran 40,u00 votes behind his Democratic party ticket, or to Sen­ ator Kernan, one of the most eminent men of the Irish race, who lost the Governorship of New York through Democratic defection on ac­ count of his religion? And yet you indulge in the stale delusion that the Democratic party is the guardian angel of the Irisrimau in America. Open the eyes that God has given yon. See the world promenading past you. Seek knowledge for the purpose of being right. You have it In your hands to-day to be iiowerful and respectable in American politics, or to seek the graveyard and the gutter and to perish in them. See your German fellow-citizens. Do they beg anybody's pardon for their opinions in poli­ tics? They are a self-respecting people who change their politics to guard their interests, while they at the same time vigorously insist that the Irishman has no right to do the same thing. They taunt you at tho first manife-ta- tlons of awakening manhood. You take it in abject submission and crawl away like a youth­ ful spaniol freshly convicted of patty larceny. Shame on you! Where is the courage of your race? Friends have warned me that I would be stoned in Indlanaiwlis for telling vou the truth. I said 1 would face the music and abide the con­ sequences. "The blood of the martyr is the seed of the church." I am one of you--bone of your bone, flesh of your flesh--every fiber of my body, every pulse of my heart. I ask you to be men, thinking men; no longer the slaves of unmanly prejudices or miserable delusions. You have hngged this Know-Nothing humbug for a quarter of a century. Give it a decent burial. Let the dead past bury its dead. Act, act in the living present. Hearts within and God o'erhead. No Inquiry as to Cleveland's Opinions. [From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.j There seems to be some confusion among Democratic editors as the style in which Mr. Blaine's national attitude about a local issue is to be treated. There are two distinct and diverg­ ing lines of treatment noticeable. One is to in­ sist that Mr. Blaine is a Prohihi ionist and must be treated accordingly". The other that he is not a Prohibitionist, and is therefore no better than the ungodly and subjoct to pursuit by tho righteous. These things do not serm to consist. In the meantime it may be noticed that Mr. Cleveland is so unimportant in the public esti­ mation, that there is no inquiry as to his opinion upon any subject whatever--unless it may be as to several of the ten commandments. GEN. MCPHEBSON, Secretary of the Re­ publican Congressional Committee, has addressed a letter to Gen. McCartney, of Fairfield in this State, on the question of penHiou legislation, proving from the Con- grettmonal Record that the Democrats have almost invariably opposed liberul measures in favor of the veteran Union soldiers and sailors who were disabled in the war. He points ont that the Mexican pension bill, which passed the Senate last session, was defeated in the House by the filibustering tactics of Hewitt, of Alabama, and other Bourbons.--Chicago Tribune. HARPER'S WEEKLY in an editorial of May 13, 1876, after giving a correct resume of all the charges against Blain^, and dis­ proving them from the record, closed the matter as follows: "If nobody now appears with new proof to justify this accusation it must be considered merely one of the reck-. less slanders to which every proniiuent man is exposed; and no charge that may hereaf­ ter be made against Mi'. Blaine, unaccom­ panied by weighty testimony, will deserve any attention whatever." GEN. GEO. H.-SHAKPE, one of the lead­ ing New York stalwarts, says there is no truth in the stories circulated to the effect that the stalwarts are lukewarm in their support of the National Republican candi­ dates. They will heartily support Blaine, who will, in Gen. 8harpe's opinion, cuiy New York State by 50,000 plurality. THE Republican party has paid over a thousand millions of Democratic- war debt, and reduced the annual interest account from $150,0C0,0i>0 to less than $50,000,000. "Turn the rascals ont" MARY CHANCBY, a little girl in Ath­ ens, Ga., has no collar-bone, and can double her shoulder- blades together. Her mother is similarly deformed. WE ask for long life, but it is deep life, of grand moments, that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. As CONCERNS the quantity of what is to be read there is a single rule: Read much, but not many, works.--Sir W, Hamilton. To BECOME an able man in any pro­ fession, there are three things necessarr --nature, study, and practice.--^(risto- tle. the past fifteen yedri, tfc* weitihk' w that no inspired penon has ctarised a scheme for awaking gnefct* who dssire to take an early morning train, without waking everybody on the same floor. There seems to have been no improve­ ment made on waking people, in the past thousand years. At the ancient Roman hotel the porter pounded on the door of room 240 with his knuckles, or an iron key, or anything, until the galoot that wanted to be called had rolled oyer and yawned a few times, and answered, "hello," when the porter would yell, "It is half past four," and the guest would say "all right," and get np and fire himself into his pants, hit the water pitcher against the wash bowl with a sound that would go through the next half dozen rooms, grab his gripsack and go ont into the hall and slam the door, and go down stairs whistling, "Its five o'clock in the mora­ ine." And the same thing is done now, only the parties make more noise, and the guests swear a little. Every other guest, for half a block each way, is awakened, and is mad. It is singular, but when a porter attempts to awake the man who is to be called, that man is the last one on the' floor that wakes up. Everybody else hears the noise, but the man that ought to hear it dreams on in blissful ignorance that a panel is being kicked out of his door, and when he does wake up he is always mad, though he has nothing to get mad about. It is the other guests that have a right to be mad. Everything about the first-class hotels of the present day is perfect except the method of awaken­ ing early guests. That is still as great a nuisance as the old-fashioned candles, and the insane rule of paying in ad­ vance, that onoe molested some of the best guests. A guest at a Chicago hotel, who had been awakened hun­ dreds of times when other doors were being pounded on, wanted to get up at five o'clock in the morning, and he de­ cided that he would not oause all the other guests to be annoyed, so he told the clerk he was going to hitch a rope on to his ankle when he retired, and throw the end of it over the transom, and wanted the porter instructed to pull on the rope at five o'clock until he got an answer, and not pound on the door. The clerk said that would be all right, and the man retired. The clerk told a party of young men boarders of the singular request of the guest, and they thought it very original. They went out to the theatre, and got full of wine, and when they passed the sleeping guest's room at one o'clock in the morn­ ing, and saw the rope hanging over the transom, they thought it would be no more than right to see how the new idea would work, so four of them took hold of the rope and l>egan to pull. They heard a heavy body seem to be walking over the foot board of the bed, on its back, heard nhee'ts rip and night-shirts tear, and they kept pulling and the heavy body struck the fioor and a voice began to swear and yell "murder" and "fire," and they pulled away, until the heavy body seemed to be climbing up the door feet first, on the inside, and the voice said "All right, I am up," but they kept pulling until one leg of a man came over the transom, but the other leg was kicking the door, and the voice was using language that was not admissible in polite society. The men then tied the rope to the door knob and retired to their rooms, leaving the man hanging head down with one leg out in the hall. The man yelled until the watchman camo, and he thought it was a case of suicide, and he cut the rope and the heavy body fell to the floor, when the clerks and manager of the house, and several por­ ters were called, and they bursted in the door and found a badly used up guest, grabbing at blankets and sheets to oover himself, and swearing his back was broke from sliding over the foot board. An explanation was had, and it was believed the tipsy young men had done the deed, but when they were called they wero asleep and the next morning they claimed that they had re­ tired as usual at 9 o'clock in the even- in?, and were innocent of anything on earth. The guest remained up until 5 o'clock, and used arnica and things, gave the rope to the porter, and said after this they could pound on his door and wake up the whole house if they wanted to. However, somebody oug >t to invent a scheme by which one guest at a time can be routed out, without spoiling the sleep of a hundred.--Peck's Suru • - ' |F»r-SlgM«l Officii : Bank President--"My dear, I sup­ pose you know that I am not only the President of the bank, but the owner of most of the stock?" Daughter--"Yes, pa." "And if I am not mistaken jon are becoming rather fond of Mr. Light- finger, my cashier?" "Yes, pa; I confess it is true. Bnt how do you know?" "I have eyes. But why have you tried so hard to conceal this from me?" "O, pa, please forgive me; but I knew you would object to marriage with a poor man, and dreading your terrible anger, I have tried my best to conquer my feelings. Indeed, indeed, I have!" "Conquer them ? Great St, Bullion! I want you to marry *him as soon as possible!" "O, you dear, darling old pa! But whiat has wrought this strange meta­ morphosis ?" "( >, nothing; only I thought it would be just as well to keep all the bank funds in the family.--Philadelphia Call. :m A Sunshiny Husband. A sunshiny husband makes a merry, beautiful home worth having, worth working in and for. If the man is breezy, cheery, considerate, and sympa­ thetic, his wife sings in her heart over her puddings and her mending basket, and renews her youth in the security she feels of his approbation and admi­ ration. You mav think it weak or childish, if you please, but it is the ad­ mired wife, who hears words of praise and receives smiles of commendation, who is capable, discreet, and executive. I have seen a timid, meek, self-distrust­ ing littie body, fairly bloom into strong, self-reliant womanhood, under the tonio and the cordial of companionship of a husband who really went out of his way to find occasion for showing her how fully he trusted her jnd. ment and how fully he deferred to her opin­ ion.--The Household. Planning a Farm Home. If I were to plan a house, I would begin with the kitchen. That should be the first room in the house, and all others should be made tributary to it. After aH other rooms were arranged for, what was left should go to make up the state parlor.--Eben £. Rexfordt in Western Ploughman. --Elkhorn reporti'̂ ilptwual bee trees being cut tJ&jgitMn. . ... . ,g --John Ellison, whose wife had dewrted him, hanged himself at Decatur with a wiM rope. t --The opening of ttie public schools si Beardstown has been postponed on account of the prevalence „f scarlet-fever. --Near Decatur, Abraham Parks, ag*ffl$/ committed suicide by poison on acoouttif ̂ ill-health. • --Phil Armour, the poA king of Chicago^ * is charged with having been expelled from > school at Watertown, N. Y., for taking a * girl out riding in school hours. <. X ! > --A woman waiting tor the train in -Hi* Illinois Central depot at Dixon was ap- p:»-ached by two men, who, at the point of revolvers, robbed her of a large sum and valuables, and hastily left - --An unknown man about twenty-thyse years old shot and killed himself in Lin­ coln Park, Chicago. On his person were a silver watch, a plated chain, sleeve-but- * tons inscribed with letter "A." H .37 in money. --George Panton, who killed W- Smith at Elgin in March, 1883, hj^j been found guilty cf murder in the firsydtgree, and is awaiting sentence of death. The trial took place, on a change of vepue, at Belvidere. of C --The Old Settlers of ChiistianX>oUBty and Central Illinois held their second an­ nual picnic at Taylorsville. Fnlly 5,COO people were on the grounds. Old Settlers from all parts: of Central Illinois wet# •; present --Differences on the liquor-license ques- tion in the Decatur Council have resulted in the city's gas supply being shut off. Members will not vote for gas bonds unless their fellows agree to the granting of liquor licenses. J --The Governor has commuted to five years the sentence of Simon L. Dyer, con- * victed of murder in Pike County at the No­ vember term of the Circuit Court in 1881. The petition was signed by Judge Shope, who tried the case, by Judge Higbee, of the Appellate Court, and by the jurors who satin the trial. \ . ^ --The Pas-a-Pas Club, a body oompow& ~ entirely of deaf and dumb people, was ofcw * < ganized at the Young Men's Christian As­ sociation Building, Chicago. The follow­ ing officers were elected: President, George F. Dougherty; Vice President, C. Angla; Secretary, C. C. Colby; Treasurer, C. I*. Bnchan. The club will meet on the an 1 third Thursdays of each month. --The Chicago Medical Society adopted i resolution to the effect that, since yellow- fever and cholera threatened this country, the Government should make an appropri- iitio n large enough to enable (he National Board of Health to make re&eaches with a view to preventing epidemics. A commit- . tee was appointed to prepare resolutionsoit the subject to be forwarded to Congress. --Mrs. Sarah M. Ely has begun a suit tor $15,000 damages in the Circuit Court ef; . Cook County against Dr. E. W. Day, a dentist, for alleged malpractice. She says she went to him to have two teeth extracted, and while she was under the influence of chloroform he extracted twenty-two, and broke her jaw. In fact, the only teeth he loft in her head were the two she desiredto .: have extracted. --Gov. Hamilton has commuted the sink'1- if tence of James Collins from six to four and a half years. Collins was convicted in 1881 of robbery in Cook County. The Governor has pardoned Thomas Campbell, convicted of horse stealing and sentenced from Jack­ son County in 1883 for three years. He was a poor man, and had traded for the horse, which was stolen, and attempted to secrete him from the owner. --Henry aud Anna Waarich, an aged couple, filed a bill in the Superior Court ef Cook County, to set aside a deed by which they conveyed their form of eighty seres, in January, 1881, to their son, Henry Li Waarich. The conveyance was made on the condition that the son should pay then $1,000, and give them every year sixteen bushels of wheat, two young pigs, pastur­ age for two cows, and the use of three acres of tilled soil. Bnt they say as soon as he got possession he treated his agreement with contempt, and began to try to get rid of them entirely. --Robert C. Locke, son of Rev. Clinton Locke, of Chicago, had a very close call the other night. He was in a room at hia father's residence, 2324 Prairie avenue, loading shells for a shot-gun with which he was going hunting. He was also smoking a cigar, and accidentally dropped the light­ ed weed into a keg containing twenty-five pounds of powder, which stood open at hia side. The explosion was terrific, but did ̂ comparatively little damage. Mr. Locke escaped with a slight burn on his right hand v and a badly singed head of hair. The - hdtise\caught fire and was scorched $106 . worth. . > --A murder was committed lately in the village of Augusta. James. William aad Samuel Holden, quarreled six years ago with an nnknown nun, who was killed in the affray. Which brother struck the fatal blow is not known, bnt a deadly feud has existed ever since between James and William, and the difference culminated in a fierce battle between*the two. A citizen named Finley interfered, wherenpoia James deliberately raised his revolver and shot him dead. The murderer then fled. ~ William Holden was arrested and is now in jail. The Holden family h:is a bad repute. tion. The murdered man was highly re- „ «\ spected. "':'V --In connection with the death of th*. • % Hon. Edwin C. Larned a remarkable fact is mentioned. Within three years, at * dinner given by Mr. 8. H. Kerfoot to th* Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, then President offv: th« Chicago Historical Society, on the oe- •• •<£ cisiou of Mr. Arnold's return frolh Loa- 5' don, where he had gone to read before tho Londou Historical Society a paper on the life of Mr. Lincoln, there were present a* i s?" Mr. Kerfoct's guests Mr. Arnold. Judge & - B. Lawrence, Mr. .Thomas Hoyne. Larned, and Judge Thomas D:uaimoad. Of all the geatlemm constituting the- - , guests of that company there now remain* only Judge Druinmond. We ca:i easily . | imagiue the brilliancy of that dinner }> »rty; but that so many of those distinguished men should have gone give* rise to sad re-, |i flections.--Chicago Tribune • - • - -X : . -VI'; --They hive a handsome new iron hndsp VI TT» AT Vhrnn , * •*„ - i • « \ t t" 1 ". . > i , . . . r • %-:a • '4i