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mmsi ^ vvsr^row?* #v ^-.i.i.,t - - • •- ••> *' *•>-* J. VANSLYKE. Editor « Ml PmMMHK. McHEMatt; ILLINOIS. T«E HEWS CONDENSED THE EAST. "i» , Vi^V'- m SnitOR HENRY B. AXTIIONT died rather suddenly at Providence, R. I., at g >«" - the ape of 69. The deceased was born of ~ Qu&ker parents at Coventry, B. I., April 1, ^'^,.^.,1815. He received his early education ii {he place of his birth, and received a col >>, ,: , legiate course at Brown University, where I he graduated B. A. in 1833. Five years 'is'f.y."later he became editor and pro . *ri fprietor of the Providence Journal. jJ\v',Y,His success as an editor and journalist was at once assnred. Under his charge the paper increased rapidly in 0: . v$..? 7 circulation, and finally became one of the leading provincial newspapers in the United ^ 5 "States. Mr. Anthony's political career was i if* ' Jnot less brilliant. After holding various §§, "j' ^unimportant offices, he was, in 1849. elected Pp ' , -.'-Governor of Rhode Island. He was again % '.^elected to this office in 1850, and ' :^i:'C;'|#would have been elected to a third fc' i Ii?"11 he accepted the nomination. * *>Eight years later he was chosen United jS<** * ";,J|States Senator. As each of his septennial r v % Iperiods expired he was re-elected, which is & ', p Substantially the history of his career up to IP;^i|:'-|^?Ct:»883, when his last term expired. In 1869 sr , •** and 1871 he was chosen by the Republicans '* - . , ^President pro tem of the Senate. He was $£*>always a 6tanch supporter of the Bepub- {' Siean party. B*" > •*>'«- CHARLES J. FOLGKK, Secretary of the Treasury, died on the 4th inst. at Genevd} fN. Y., in his 66th yeftr. His demise ia di- Jrectly attributable to overwork. For two jweeks he had been unable to lie down, and Ihe died while sitting in a chair. Up to •> *within twenty-four hours of his ^iv,% fdeath he insisted upon answer- ijpl-'v^jlng telegrams. The deceased J ^ Was born in Nantucket, Mass., April 16,1818. WO In 1830 his father removed to Geneva, N. • Y., where Mr. Folger lived the rest of his ,vlife. After leaving college Mr. Folger v , ' studied law, and was admitted to the bar *.•$ ' "when 21 years old. His first office was that 'j.' '. *>f Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, , to which he was appointed in 1844, and f; :, Jie was soon after made a Master and A Examiner in Chancery. In 1851 he was fciv» elected County Judge, and in 1861 . Ae was elected to the New York State Sen- - jbte as a Republican, which party he had 1 (entered on its formation. He remained in '•) » 5ihe State Senate until 1869, when Presi- f. „ .dent Grant appointed him Assistant United * .* States Treasurer for New York City. He -f'"' \"was elected Judge of the Court of Appeals ffv-\:!|3^i|?fe;Xthe highest court in the State of New i York) in 1870, and on the death of Chief |||f '(Justice Church, in May, 1880, he was ap- ! ' >jpointed to fill the vacancy, and in ||te tfhe following November was elected '.rt :ito the place for the full term of V - ^fourteen years. In November, 1881. 1 tie resigned the position to accept that of Secretary of the Treasury in President Ar- .thur's Cabinet. He ran against Grover L._ ^Cleveland for Governor in 1882, and was defeated by nearly 200,000 majority r fS "'The Treasury Department at Washington r. / was closed on the 5th inst. out of respect to ' ,,: the late Secretary Folger. Assistant- ISecretary Coon will be Acting Secretary until the President nominates Secretary :jFolger's successor. • THE WEST. ^ ' ISrairrSG miners at Snake Hollow, Ohio, < " •'commenced a riot at 2 o'clock on Sunday |^i^«|morning, Aug. 31, by firing several hun- ',';V . .dred shots at the guards. William Hare ' was killed and two others received serious ^ bounds. A hopper worth $4,000 was *1 ' f "f 'burned, and the telegraph wires were cut. X- .. *n *®Bponse to a call by tne Sheriff, Gov. , Hoadly ordered the militia companies at ^ - J' '/-' .Lancaster and New Lexington to be in \* "• readiness to march. •? OHIO'S wheat crop of this year will yield .' , 43,982,969 bushels, of excellent quality. %I This is the largest crop of the State, except {§*>. of 1880, when the yield was 48,540.000 bushels. The oat crop will •'*" ' n produce 23.893,663 bushels, or about ^ol.2 bushels to the acre. The barley :, • fcrop will yield about 1,000,000 bush- «* <rj els.i Corn has suffered from drouth, and is V\, about 79 per cent, of an average crop. Re- N • i ports of the corn crop in Illinois, says a Chicago paper, are not quite as encouraging . v,; jas previous reports. There is little change 'Xii. no^e ^ I°wa reports. The prospects are v * very good. In Wisconsin, Nebraska, and . "jKansaa an immense yield is promised. TGT'P ON reports of the State Veterinarian, the V ^ Governor of Illinois has decided pleuro- ? r. pneumonia epidemic among cattle in nine f -ierds, and enjoined their owners from . transporting them without a certificate of i t ' jgood health. ^ i - . i n c e n d i a r y f i r e a t M i s s o u l a , M o n t a n a , ,v\ ^,r *; swept away twenty-two buildings, valued at * " 'i$30,000. The shoe factory of Rice & Eutchins, at Marlboro, Mass, worth $60,- , »<000, was also burned. J#/, * - • THE Indianapolis Sentinel made formal f* • answer to Mr. Blaine's libel suit, maintain- 1 v ing that the facts it published concerning Blaine's domestic troubles were true, and, £ ibeing so, were justly made public. Cer- = • . ' 'tain questions are propounded to the fi .. jplaintiff touching his marriage, the birth s pf his first child, its death, and place of ' "'" Interment, and the mutilation of the inonu- . "" ment over its grave During a sham bat- ' , - tie at a soldiers' reunion at Fremont, Neb., , '.forty spectators were injured by the col­ lapse of a platform, but none of them ' fatally The Northwestern Base-Ball League has sunk $50,000 this season. 1 fe-? 1 HE Indian Commission has ordered n sufficient amount of extra supplies to be sent to the starving Piegans at the Black feet agency. This was accomplished, with the approval of the President, by applying unexpended funds from appropriations for other tribes. FOLLOWING is the official statement of the public debt for August: Intcre«t-»x>artna debt>- Four nml one-half per cents. Four per cents Three per cents Refunding certificates. JWO.OOT.OOO WT.fiH3.i5U 214,571,350 271,000 14,000,000 Navy pension land.. Total lntereet-bearin? debt.-... .tl.aKvWM'M lfatnred debt l)obt boarinK no interest-- LeKal-tendernotes. Certificates of deposit..." Gold and silver certificates..... Fractional currency $U,18vS,o89 3iG,T3!U7G ' M.4i0.(H'0 242,851,S4I 6,'.»7S.0ttl Total without interest... . $610,38.1,218 .........11,841,704,2(13 10.35l.M4 414,541..r>2 Total debt (principal).'.... Total interest Total cash in Treasury Debt less cash in Treasury... .11,437, Decrease durintc August K,542,ss2 Decrease since June 30, 1884......... 12,530,141 Current liabilities-- ; Interest due anit unpaid §1,686.574 Debt on which interest has ceased. I4,1SS,5.S5 Interest thereon 322,410 Gota aud silver certificates 242,851,811 United States notes held for re­ demption certificates 14,420,000 Caaq balance available 141,072,541 Total.... $414,541,952 Available i Cash in Treasury. Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable by United States-- Princloal outstanding Interest accrued, not yet mid....... Interest paid by United States....... Interest repaid by companies-- By transportation service By cash payments, 6 per cent, net earnings. Salaaoe of interest paid by United $414,541,952 M6.235 63,0<W,504 $18,148,923 MUM tt.295.381 roi^ixicAi*. GEORGE R. DAVIS has been renomi­ nated for Congress by a faction of the Re­ publicans of the Third District of Illinois. The Democrats of the Twenty-first Ohio District renominated Martin A. Foran, and the Republicans of the Fourth Virginia put forward Col. Brady, a protege of Mnhone. The Democrats of the Seventh In­ diana District nominated W. D. Bvnum. Daniel Ermentrout was renominated by the Democrats of the Eighth Pennsylvania Dis­ trict. Edgar Weeks by the Republicans of the Seventh Michigan, anil John J. O'Neill by the Democrats of the Eighth Missouri. Judge John Rector will run independently in the Tenth Texas. Jerry H. Murphy was nominated by the Democrats of the Second Iowa. The Greenbackers and People's party, in convention at Monmouth, 111., in­ dorsed Mr. Neece. the Democratic nominee for Congress. The Democrats and Green- backers of the Eighth Michigan District nominated Timothy E. Tarsney. GEN. BUTLER, after addressing a Grangers' picnic near Harrisburg, Pa., journeyed to New York City, and made a speech before the State Greenback Conven- vention. He then journeyed West, and at Detroit spoke to an audience estimated at 25,000 in numbers. At Grand Rapids and Muskegon, Mich., he addressed large open- air assemblages. Thence he jumped over into Illinois, and spoke to a large as­ semblage in Battery D Armory. - - THE Democrats of Connecticut renomi­ nated Gov. Waller, and put forward George G. Sumner for Lieutenant Governor, D. Ward Northrop for Secretary of State, and Alfred G. Goodrich for Treasurer The Republican State Convention of New Hampshire nominated the Hoii. Moody Currier for Governor, and James E. Larkin and George W. Libby for electors- at-large. Resolutions were adopted in­ dorsing President Arthur's administation, approving the Republican national plat­ form, demanding a free vote and a fair count, the protection of American citizens at home and abroad, and eulogizing Blaine and Logan THE Massachusetts Democratic Conven­ tion, in session at Worcester, nominated Judge William C. Endicott, for Governor. Hon. George D. Robinson was renominated for Governor, by acclamation, by the Mas­ sachusetts Republican State Conven­ tion. The Wisconsin Republican Con­ vention nominated Gov. Rusk and all the present Sttte officers for re-election. The Iowa Democratic Convention nomi­ nated E. L. Burton for Judge of the Su­ preme Court, and ratified the Greenback nominations for Secretary of State and for Treasurer. The Texas Republican Conven­ tion adopted a resolution that it is injudi­ cious to place a State ticket in the field, and recommending the Republicans to aid in the election of all independent candidates. The Kansas Prohibition Convention nom­ inated a full State ticket, headed by Mr. Jetmore for Governor. MBS. BELVA A. LOCKWOOD has for­ mally accepted a nomination for the Presi­ dency by the Woman's National Equal Rights Party of California, promising, if elected, to recommend a uniform system of laws in regard to marriage and divorce. BURLINGTON (Vt.) dispatch: "Returns from 227 towns give Pingree (Rep.) 41,188; Redington (Dem.), 19,197; Independent, Greenback, and scattering, 733. Pingree's plurality, 21,991: Pingree's majority, 21,218. There are only thirteen towns to be heard from, and these four years ago cast an ag­ gregated vote of 990. They will probably add 400 to the Republican majority.".... The Wisconsin Prohibition State Conven­ tion nominated full State and electoral tickets, with 8. D. Hastings as their candi­ date for Governor. % id® im rHE SOUTH. -' "-YfflB ©ity Marshal of Sharpsburg, Ky., • • killed Dr. Daniel Henry for resisting ar­ rest A Deputy Sheriff at Hot Springs , was compelled to shoot a horse-thief whom * he was conveying to the State Penitentiary. T • and the Coroner's jury indorsed the act. * ' A Louisville policeman fatally wounded a / w notorions footpad named John Lynch, < » ; who *'a8 caught in the act of robbing a citizen. THE four villains who last May wrecked y'1rn Illinois Central train at Duck Hill, Miss., have been captured by Pinkerton detec­ tives. The motive was revenge on the engineer, who was killed by the plot. The offenders are in jail. SINCE Jan. 1 the Lynchburg Tobacco As­ sociation has sold 20,000,000 pounds of to­ bacco, and during August the sales reached 1,225.000 pounds. The leaves of the plant .• are unusually small this year, thus chang­ ing the type of Virginia tobacco. COL. E. B. CASH, the South Carolina desperado, indicted for complicity with his , son Bogan Ca6h in the murder of Marshal Richards at Cheraw last winter, will not be prosecuted. The State's Attorney of Ches­ terfield County, where Cash lives, entered a nolle prosequi in the case. This action lias caused great indignation, especially as ; Cash threatens vengeance against those who arrested him. AN Augusta (Ga.) dispatch announces the death of Bishop George Pierce, of the Methodist Church South. .'VAIUMCITOX.' ^ JOHN, an employe of the Gen- - eral Land Office, was sent to Colorado to investigate certain complaints. In Las I Animus County he found 100,000 acres of public domain inclosed with barbed wire, bearing signs threatening death for cwttiiV m tearing gates oym. ttEXERAI* the Sedan victory Emperor William was overcome by fatigue and was obliged to dismount and enter a carriage It is re­ ported that the Mahdi's troops at Berber are selling the people of that city as slaves and are subjecting the women to horrible atrocities. A CABLE dispatch says: " Cholera is spreading with Maiming rapidity in Italy. At Naples there were 173 new cases and 76 deaths in twenty-four horns; at La Spezia there were 39 new cases and 13 deaths. The total of the new cases reported is 234. and of the deaths 135." EACH town in Italy is taking independent measures for protection against cholera, several villages having established armed cordons. King Humbert gave $2,000 to aid the sufferers at Spezia. aud three Cabi­ net ministers are distributing relief in the worst quarter of Naples... .A cable mes­ sage to S. W. Tallmadge, of Milwaukee, states that the English wheat crop this har­ vest is about 72,000,000 bushels--an in­ crease of 16,000,000 bushels over last year. The yield in France promises to be large.... The Republiquc Francaise, the semi-offi­ cial organ of the French Ministry, inti­ mates that Admiral Courbet will occupy the Island of Formosa and hold it until China pays the indemnity demanded Twenty persons were burned to death in a sulphur mine at Nicosia, Sicily. *H < (A-, \ .}»« ,« >1 t A WOMAN FOR PRESIDENT. Mrs. LMfivooi Accepts the Candidacy - «f tbe Woman's National Eqaaly i Sights Party. I mmmmm STATE CONVENTIONS. Massachusetts Republicans Renominate Robinson--Judge Endtestt ^ Named by the Democrats. ADDITIONAL NEWS. THE French attack on Ke-Lung was prompted by a desire^o obtain possession of the coal mines, but the Chinese frus­ trated tha scheme by flooding the mines and destroying the pumping works. GRETCHEN ZEILINO, a beautiful German girl employed (is a domestic In the house of Co!. Charles Parrot, of Columbus, Ohio, was shot dead by her jealous lover, James Gieiuer. IN a court-room at Montreal, an insane murderer threw a large water-pitcher at Attorney General Blair, stunning him by a blow on the temple. The maniac cried bitterly when removecF in irons.... A schooner capsized in Newfoundland waters, and all h uicls perished. IN the Memphis district the cotton plant is affected by drought, rust, and" worms, and the outlook is for but an average crop, in case frosts hold off till Oct 24 A forest fire in Talbot County, Md., has burned over 1,000 acres of timber lands. GEN. BUTXIER addressed an audience of 8,000 people on the Fair Grounds at Min­ neapolis. His speech was substantially the same as that at Detroit and Chicago A dispatch from White River Junction, Vt., ' says: "Returns from 200 towns, giving the complete Gubernatorial vote of the State, show the following result: Total vote cast, 02,421; Pingree, Republican, 41,917; Red- diiigton. Democrat, 19,838; Sole, Green­ back, 480; scattering, 18(5; making Pin- gree's majority 21,413. The reduction of the Republican majority is 3,599." CONGRESSIONAL nominations: James G. Blount, Democrat, Sixth Georgia District; F. W. Rockwell, Republican, Twelfth Mas­ sachusetts; Samuel J. Randall, Democrat, Third Pennsylvania; T. J. Patchen, Prohi­ bitionist, Second Wisconsin; D. J. Miller, Prohibitionist, Fifth Wisconsin; J. J. Sut­ ton, Prohibitionist, Sixth Wisconsin; P. C. Haley, Democrat, Eighth Illi­ nois; W. S. Shirk, Republican, Sixth Wisconsin; G. W. Woodward, Demo­ crat, Seventh Wisconsin; J. J. Thornton, Democrat, Second Minnesota; William Walter Phelps, Republican, Fifth New Jer­ sey; Olin Wellborn, Democrat, Sixth Texas; R. B. Renfrow, Republican, Seventh Texas; Thomas Croxton, Democrat, First Virginia; L. M. Sellers, Republican, Third Michigan; C. F. Gibbou, Republican, Tenth Michigan; Charles C. Comstock, Greenback, Fifth Michigan; Frank Liwler, Democrat, Second Illinois; R. R. Hitt, Republican, Sixth* Illinois; T. W. Sadler, Democrat, Fifth Alabami; John M. Glover, Democrat, Niuth Missouri; H. F. Pennington, fusion, Third Michigan; Win. E. Mason and George R. Davis, Re­ publicans, Third Illinois; J. H. Hopkins, Democrat, Twenty-second Pennsylvania; Morrison Foster, Democrat. Twenty-third Pennsylvania; J. S. Woolson, Republican, First Iowa; George Halsey, Republican, Sixth New Jersey; J. B. Weber. Republic­ an, Thirty-third New York. IH the race for the championship in the National League base-ball contest, the Providence has won 64 games, Boston 58, Buffalo and New York 50 each, Chicago 41. Cleveland 31, Philadelphia 27, and Detroit 19. In the American Association games, the Metroplitan has won 56 games, Colum­ bus 53, Louisville 51, Cincinnati 50, St. Louis 48, Baltimore 44, Athletic 43, and Brooklyn 32. In ihe Union League games, St. Louis has won 53, Boston 34, Pittsburgh 31, Baltimore and Cincinnati 30 each, and Washington 23. AT Chatau and Henley Harbor, on the Labrador coast, rioting has occurred be­ tween Orangemen and Catholics, in which firearms were freely used, many persons being killed and wounded on both sides. Two SQUARES of buildings in Marathon, New York, were destroyed by fire. A loss of $85,000 was incurred at Memphis, Tenn., by the burning of Wilkinson & Co.'s drug house, on Main street... .Bar­ rett, Waters & Lewis, wooden-ware manu­ facturers at Cincinnati, have made an as­ signment. The dry-goods house of Brooks, Miller & Co., Baltimare, also assigned; nud judgments for $36,000 were entered against Edward S. Mawson k Sons, farriers, of the same city. A Light in His Ear Tor a Bug. Here is a bug story: One night one of these snapper-bugs flew into the open window and lit on the ear of a gentle­ man who was asleep. The bug entered the ear and commenced liis snapping and tearing at the delicate lining of the ear with his claws. The snapping sounded like the beating of a thousand sledge-hammers, and the clawing caused almost insupportable pain. The bug was too far in to be pulled out by the fingers, and the gentleman arose as quickly as lie could and his wife tried in vain to get it out with a needle and a hairpin. At last he resolved to go to a doctor, and while dressing himself his wife happened to think of the at­ traction light had for bugs and moths. She placed the lamp near the ear, and in less than half a minute the bug crawled out backward with the blood oozing from the ear.--Macon (Ga.) Tel­ egraph. WHEN a woman becomes flurried she feels for a fan; when a man becomes flurried he feels for a cigar. THE MARKET. mn FOREICS*. THE French missionaries have been offi­ cially expelled from Hong Kong. All of the French residents have left Canton, and the military commanders have all received orders to attack all French war ships and merchant vessels which attempt to enter the leading treaty ports, and thone iu port have been ordered to depart at once The British Government has ordered 250,000 pounds of Chicago compressed beef for the use of the troops of tne proposed Sou­ dan expedition. AT the review of the German troops at Potsdam in honor of the anniversary of NEW YOHK. BEEVES Hofs Kleins---Extra WHEAT--No. A Chicago No. 2 Ited ........ CORN--No. A OAT+-WHIT* ; I'oitK--New Megs CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to /'rime Steers. Good Hiilpptui; Common to Fair....... HOOK FLOUH--L-'»ncy White winter JSx Ooo<l to Choice Spriair. WHEAT--No. 2 Sprinu Xo. 2 LIED Winter CORN--No. A OATS--No. 2 HYE-- No . a. HAKLEY--No. 2. BUTTER--Choice Creamery.^.... Fine Daiiv ...... CHEESE--Full Cream Skimmed Flat......... EOGS--Fre^h 1'OTATOES--New, per bn 1'OBK--Mess ....... LAUD TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 Red COKN--No. 2 OATH--No. a ..... MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2... COBN -No. 2 OATS--NO. a BAHI EY--No. 2 Bprlnir 1'OBK--M«MH LAUD BT. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 •, Coax--Mixed v OA#I--No. 2.. KYK PoiiK--Mesa CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN OATS--Mixed. POBK--Ueas LAUD DETROIT. FLOUR WHEAT--No l White COKN --Mixed OATS--No. 2 Mixed POBK--New Mess. INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed, New COBN--Mixed OATS--Mixed EAST LIBERTY. CATTtE--Best Fair Common. 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Webb, Secretary; and members of the Woman's Na­ tional Equal Rights party: Having been daily notified of your action In convention assembled of AU«. 23, 18«4, in nomi- na ini* me as a candidate for the high position ot t hief Magistrate of the United States as the choicc of the Equal Rights party, and although fcelimr «nwo:toy and incompetent, to fill sohieh a place, I am constrained to a?c?pt the nomina­ tion so trenerously and enthusiastically ten­ dered by the only political party which real I v and truly repiesents the interests of our whole people. North and South, Kast and We-t, be­ cause I believe that with your unanimous and cordial support, and the fairness and justice of onr cause, I Bhail no: only be able to can y the election, but to guide the ship of state safely into port. In furtherance of this pnrpos*, I have to say that should it be my (food fortune to be elected, and should our party, with its grand platform of principles, b? successful in the contemplated election, it will be my earnest etlort to promote and maintain e iuaf political privileges to every class of our citizens, irre­ spective of sex, color, or nationality, and to make of this great and glorious country in truth what it has so long been in name--"the land of the free and the home of the brave." 1 shall seek to insure a fair distribution of the public offices to women as well as to men, with scrupulous resrard to civil service reform, after women are duly installed into the offices. I am also in accord with the platform of the party in the desire to foster American industries, and in sympathy with the working men and women of the country who are organized against free trade, for the purpose of rendering the laboring classes of onr couutry comfortable and inde­ pendent. I sympathize with the soldier's widow, believe in the re-enactment of the arrc-a* s act, and the increase of pensions to widows, be­ lieving that the surplus revenues of the coun­ try can not be better used than in clothing the widows and educating the orphans of onr nation's defenders. I would also suggest the abolishment of the pension office, its "compli­ cated and technical machinery, which so beau­ tifully illustrates how not to do !t, and recom­ mend in Its stead three Commissioners, whose only duty should consist in requiring from an applicant for Invalid pension his certificate of honorable discharge; from the widow, proof of marriage; and from the mother, proof of birth. I am opposed to monopoly in the sense of men monopolizing all of the votes and all of the offices, and at the same time insisting upon hiving the distribution of all of the money, ooth public and private. It is this sort of monop­ oly that has made possible the large breach 's of trust with Government officials, caused bank suspensions, and defalcations all over the coun­ try. It has engendered and fostered strikes. I am opposed to the wholesale monopoly of the judiciary of the country by male voters. If elected, I shall feel it Incumbent on me to ap­ point a reasonable number of women as District Attorneys, Marshals, and Judges of the United States, and would appoint any competent wo­ man to any vacancy that might occur ,on the United States Supreme Bench. I am in full symiuthy with the temperance advocates of the country, especially the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, but believe that woman suf­ frage will have a gre iter tendency to abolish the liquor traffic than prohibition will bring about woman suffrage. If the former is adopted, the latter will be its provable sequence. If elected. I shall recommend in my inaugural a uniform system of laws as far as practicable for all of the States, and especially for marriage, di­ vorce, and the limitations of contracts, and snch regulation of laws of descent and distribution of estates as will make the wife equal with the husband in authority and right, «nd an equal partner in the common business. I favor an extension of onr commercial relations with foreign countries, and especially with the Cen­ tral and South American States, and the estab­ lishment of a high court of arbitration to which shall be referred all differences that may arise between them and the United States. My Indian policy would be, first, to have the Government pay them what it owes them, to break up their tribal relations, distribute to them their lands in severalty, and make them citizens amenable to the laws of the land aa other white and colored citizens are. While we sympathize with unhappy Ireland and depre­ cate oppression on one side and lawlessness on the other, our neutral policy as a nation does not allow any public expression from our peo­ ple. Due consideration will be given to the in­ terest ot the honest, industrious, home-loving German. Again thanking y<#, ladies, for your expres­ sions of esteem, I think that I may safely sav I fully indorse your whole platform. Cordially yours, • BELVA A. LOCJLWOOD. Washington, D. 8ept. 4,1884. Iowa Democrats Decide oil Fnuon with Conventions- Iowa Democrats. The Iowa State Democratic Convention net in the Burtls Opera House, at Davenport, near­ ly all the delrgations bMng full. The conven­ tion was called to order by Judg-* Kinne, Chair­ man of the State Central Committee. IVayer was offered by the Kt. Rev. William Stevens Perry, Bi»hop of Iowa. An address of welcome to the convention was then delivered by the Hon. Ernest Claussen, Mayor of Davenport. It was followed by generous applause. The Hon. Fred Lehman of Pes Moines w(a chosen temrorary Chairman, and on taking the chair spoke at some length. The temporary otiicers, as proposed by the State Central Committee, took their seats as follows: Secretary, B. Swasson, of Black Hawk County; assistants, J. J Kussell, of Muscatine, and M. Parsons, of Lyons; Reading Clerk, the Hon T. O. Walker, of Marshall. Adjourned until 2. The Committee on Resolutions reported every county in the State except Pocahontas repre­ sented. The report wan hailed with cheers. The Committee on Permanent Organization reported as follows: Chairman, the Hohn J. F. Duncombe, of Webster County; Secretary, A. B.Keith, of Crawford; Assistant Secretary, J. Hayes, of Carroll; Reading Secretary, T. O. Walker, of Davis. The report was unanimous­ ly adopted. Mr. Duncombe was escorted to the chair and spoke at length. The Committee on Resolutions presented the platform, which indorses that of the national convention, and heartily approves the letter of Gov. Cleveland, making particular refeience to that clause of it which speaks in favor of the personal liberty of the psople. The eonvention pledged itself to work tor the repeal of all laws that are contrary to the principle of personal freedom in the matter of habit. Nominations beinsr next in order for Judge of the Supreme Court, the name of Judge E. L. Burton of Wapello County was presented, and he was nominated by acclamat.on. James Doolcy, the Greenback candidate for Secretary of State, and George Durr, who was named by the same party for the Tr-. asurership, were unanimously made the nominees of this convention. James Henriques, of Marshall- town, was by acclamation made the party candidate for the auditorship. M. V. Gannon, of Davenport, was, against his mos; earnest protestation, nominated for Attorney General. Presidential electors-at-large were named in the persons of D. O. Finch, of Polk County, who was chosen by acclamation, and Daniel Camp­ bell, of Monona, also by acclamation. District electors were named at the district caucuses, and reported to the convention, which con­ firmed them as follows: First District. A. J. Hunter, Henry County; Second, George W. Lowell, Jones County; Third, Moses Rltter, Black-hawk; Fourtti, lieuben Noble, Clayton; Fifth, George Carter, Iowa: Sixth. Col. C. H. Mackey, Keokuk; Seventh, L. H. Wilcox, Polk; Eighth, J. L. Brown, Taylor; Ninth, Dr. J. B. Hatton, Pottawattamie; Tenth, J.F. Duncombe; Eleventh, J. J. Hartenbauer, O'Brien. The convention then adjourned. WISCONSIN PROHIBITIO.Vrsr.3. They Assemble in Convention and Nom­ inate a Full State Ticket. The "Wisconsin Prohibition State Con­ vention met the Assembly Chamber at Madison, and was called to order by C. H. Giles, Chairman of the State Central Com­ mittee. John J. Sutton, of Columbus, was elected temporary Chairman. The latter made a lengthy speech, assailing the Re­ publican party for not submitting a prohi­ bition amendment, and congratulating the temperance people on the growth of the party in Wisconsin. B. F. Parker of Man- son, Charles Carlson of Eau Claire, and Henry Sanford of Manitowoc were chosen Secretaries. The district delegates reported their representatives on the various com­ mittees and on the electoral ticket. The following nominations for State officers were made: - Governor--8. D. Bastings, of Dane County. - Lieutenant Governor--A. A. Kelly, of St. Croix. Secretary of State--E. G. Durant, of Bacine. State Treasurer--C. M. Blackman, of Walworth. Attorney General--P. M. Angel, of Barron. Superintendent of Public Instruction-- Bobert Graham, of Winnebago. Bailroad Commissioner--Henry Sanford, of Manitowoc. Insurance Commissioner--Nelson Ladne, of Lafayette. A full electoral ticket and a State Central Committee were appointed. The sum of $1,100 was collected from the delegates for campaign purposes. The platform adopted indorses the nominees and platform of the Pittsburgh convention; demands the sub­ mission, adoption, and enforcement of a prohibitory liquir amendment; that no more politicians, but educators, be ap­ pointed ltegents of the State University and Normal School; and favoring sub­ mission of the question of woman suffrage to a vote of the people. .0714(3) .0734 C.00 & .83 0 .54^ & .28 @19.00 S.50 .82 .53 .26 18.50 .78 .48 M 6.25 6.75 4.25' 6.33 3.7# 0 .80 & .50 a m & CT5 @ 6.25 (S 4.75 43 «.» a tso Wisconsin Republicans. The -Wisconsin Republican State Convention was called to order at Madison by Chairman Taylor, of the Htate Central Committee. He thought the proceedings could be finished early, because ot the unanimous desire that t,.e pres­ ent State officers be renominated. ,heciet>ry Payne, of the Central Committee^ read the list of delegates whose credentials had been approved. A permanent organization was perfected by ihe nominat.on of OgdeVH. Fethers, of Janea- ville, as j residing officer, there being no tempo­ rary organization. On motion of Judge Humphreys, the present State officers were renominated by acclamation. The nominees are: For Governor, Jeremiah M. Rusk, of Viroqua; Lieutenant Governor, Samuel S. Fifield. of Ashlanrl; Secretary of State, Er­ nest G. Timme, of Kenosha; State Treasurer, Edward C. McFetridge, of Beaver Dam; Attor­ ney General, Leander F. Frisby, of Milwaukee; State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Robert Graham, of Oslikosh; Railroad Commis­ sioner, N. P. Haugen, of River Falls; Insuranoe Commissioner, Philip L. Spooner, of Madison. The Committee on Resolutions reported the to'lowing platform, which was adopted without discussion: The Republicans of Wisconsin, believing that the interests of the whole people require the continued supremacy of Republican principles in Ht'ite and national affairs, do reaffirm the declaration of those principles as embodied in th • platform of the National Heoublican Con­ vention recently held in the city of Chicaao. We recognize in Hon. James G. Blaine and Hon. John A. Logan, the Republican nominees for President and Vice President, those command­ ing qualities of character and statesmanship which have brought about the establishment ot those principles and give the best assurance of their continued success. The honest, careful, and efficient administra­ tion of affairs of State by the present State offi­ cials commend them to the admiration and confidence of the people of this commonwealth. The State officers were introduced, and spoke briefly their acknowledgment of the honor con­ ferred. No resolutions were reported back. Andrew E. Elmore pressed a resolution urging the ne­ cessity for a system of examining banks every six months. Henry C. Pftyne introduced a res­ olution that the Republican party of Wisconsin was opposed to the employment ot convict labor in the penal institutions of the State. Both were ignored, and the convention adjourned with three cheers tor Blaine and Logan. Mr. Blaine Objects t» Being CaUei tke Next, [Topsham (Me.) dispateh.] The Bepublican mass-meeting at the Fair Grounds was attended by 2,500 people. Congressman Beed introduced Mr. Blaine as the next President. Mr. Blaine said: Fellow-citizens, your Chaiimin will per­ mit me to object to that form of presenta­ tion, for the people of the United States will claim the right to be heard yet. I am not here to make a speech. I have attended many meetings this summer, and I have seen that the principal result of my intro­ duction has been to interrupt the proceed­ ings." He then introduced Judge West, of Ohio. Mr. Blaine opened the New En­ gland Fair at Manchester, N. H., making a ten minutes' sptech, in which no allusion was made to politics. The August Fire Fecn-d. [New York dispatch.! Tl^e Daily Commercial Bulletin reports the loss by fire in August at $10,500,000, exce eding any previous known fire record of that month, and making a totil of $74,- 0 :0,000 as the destruction wrought by fire this year so far, and about $11,000,000 in excess of the sum t eight months in 1883, the total of which year was in excess of any previous year except 1871 and 1872, when the great Chicago and Boston fires occurred. During August there were eighteen fires, the destructiveness of which aggregated $3,700,000. more than one-third of the en­ tire fire loss of the North. Massachusetts Democrats. Gen. Patrick A. Collins called the Massachu­ setts Democratic State Convention to order at Worcester, and congratulated the party on its sssnrances of success in November. The offi­ cers of the State committees were made the temporary officers of the convention. The usual committee were appointed. Jonas H. Finch wag elected Permanent Chairman. He addressed the convention at length, and his allusions to Cleveland were heartily cheered. Pending the action of the committe-s the convention ad­ journed. On reassembling an informal ballot was ordered, but some one stuffed the box and the result was hopeless confusion. The in­ formal ballot was abandoned and a formal one ordered. The delegates passed upon the stage and handed their votes to the Secretary. The result was the nomination ot William C. Endicott for Gov­ ernor on the first ballot. The nomination was m»de unanimous, and the ticket was completed as follows: Lieutenant Governor, James S. Grinnell; Secretary of State, Jeremiah Crowley: Treasurer and Receiver, Charles Marsh; Audi­ tor. John Hopkins; Attorney General, John W. Cummings. The platform congratulates the party on tl prospect of the restoration of honest nationj government in the election of Cleveland _ Hcndi icks; approves the national platform the remedy for political evils and correction abuses; demands war taxes in time of war ai peace taxes in time of peace; demands t| restoration of American shipping, and advj cates the rights of labor and extended suffraJ The platform was adopted without discusslj and the convention then adjourned. INGULFED BY THE OHIO. ctmieim AHB SCIENTIFIC. Terrible Work Wrought ; VHirricane Near eon, Ky. f * •-T| A Railway Transfer Steamer Ospdwd HiAfiver and Sevwleaar?^" "Lives Lost. this rEvansville (Ind.) speelaL A tornado lasting fully an hour Ctty at 8:30 this morning. When the oeased and a view of the damage done was had it presented a terrible sight. The city had been raked from one end to the other. Not a manu­ factory in it entirely escaped injury. Most sari- nHf ar.e the Evansville Cotton Mills, oil"' w®°Ien about $7,000; Bodker Plow Works, $10,000; Armstrong Furniture Company, about (t,ooo. A large school building in course of construct on, and which needed but aroof for completion collapsed totally. On ev­ ery street cellars are flooded, trees and fences leveled, and telegraphic and teleplionic commu­ nications almost entirely suspended, llun- 2? ? *• °Ji. dwellings and stables are razed to the ground, and families left without shelter. The scene on the river wa» awe-inspir- 1?" .Waves lashed themselves into nnspeak- SIXK UFY' d, dashing twenty and thirty feet , steamers and tugs were broken ftom their moorings and grounded, or blown np bars,where they were grounded.The Louisville and Nashville transfer barge, with six cars, was blewn from the railway dock and went b.arc* ®®ro®?d on a bar two miles from where it started. The steamers Josh V. Throop and Sll- verthorn were caught by the wind, chimneys _£? ov®£b°*rd, and boats otherwise badly riddled. The James Blackman was blown out In the river and swamped. But the most horrible and saddest news of all is Hie sinking of the transfer steamer Belmont and seventeen passengers who were on board. The Belmont left heraat 7:30 this morning with ^th-bound paAnger train on a barge. About eight miles below here the storm came up, and part of the passengers, horror-stricken, ned from the cars to the steamer for safety. The barge was torn from the steamer and driven In shore hard aground, while the cy­ clone seized the steamer and capsized it, the boat going down bottom upward, ihe pilot, cook, and engineer jumped on the barge as the steamer went down. All the others were in the cabin, and unable to escape. The only officer of the boat lost was John H. Smith, the captain. Those lost are as follows: Mrs. W. S. Lyon and daugh­ ters; Miss Laura Lyon; Mrs. Sarah Bryant; E. C. Roach and son; Capt. John Smith, of Evansville; Mrs. John Hav, of Owensboro, Ky.; Mrs. Addie Murray, babv, and niece; Mrs. Laura Morton, of Briarflel'd, Ala.; Mrs. Wood- ville, Henderson, Ky.; another white lady, name unknown; Mrs. Arthur Hamilton, colored; the 12-year-old daughter ot Emma Bell, colored; a colored man, name unknown, with a boy and girl. Those who remained in the cars on the barge were compelled to sit down with idle hands and watch the death of their companions. In conversation with one of the survivors he said: "It was such a scene as 1 shall never for­ get. We were trying to get on the bank. The women were huddled in the cabin, some weep­ ing, others sitting quietly, fearing the worst, yet prepared for the inevitable. Suddenly, without warning, the boat careened on her side, the guy ropes to the barge snapping. I lumped for the barge and just reached It when I hurd a gurgle, and looking around, the boat had gone down head first.and there was nothing visible but the bottom." The boat lies in fourteen feet of water and will be a total loss. She was built in Pittsburgh in 1881, cost $22,000, and was insured for $15,000. Bhe has been running as a transfer packet about a year and a half, and has weathered several Kales. BUBNED IN A SLEEPER. Seventy Hen Imprisoned in a Flam­ ing Car ia Transit Hear i Col. ver. Ten Crisp Bodies Found, and Xaaj Injured In Escaping Through the Windows. [Denver telegram.] The.train belonging to the Anglo-American Circus, Miles Orton proprietor, left Fort Col* line for Golden, via the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Road. Forty minutes later, when near Greeley, the sleeping car, in which were seventy- live men, employed as roustabouts of the cir­ cus, asleep, caught fire and was wholly con­ sumed. Ten men perished. Two were seriously and five slightly burned. The fire was com­ municated from an open torch with which the car was lighted to a quantity of gasoline which was being carried in the same car, causing an explosion. The blazing gasoline enveloped the sleeping men. One door of the car was blocked by baggage and the fire cut off retreat through the other. Before the train could be stopped men were dropping along the track from the car windows, many being badly bruised as well as burned. The absence of water rendered efforts to check the fire im­ possible. As soon as the tire permitted, searoh in the ruins was made and ten charred bodies found. The bodies were taken to Greeley and an inquest exonerated the railroad company, which had no control of the cars. It is im­ possible to get a complete list ot the dead, aa many«were engaged but a day or two, and their names are unknown. The wounded men were brought to Denver and placed in a hospital as follows: E. E. Fairbanks, aged 22, arms, legs, and face badly burned, residenoe unknown; Al­ bert Borden, aged 17. Logan, Kan., arms and face badly burned; Thomas Golden, aged 17, De­ troit, Mich., very badly burned on the back and legs; N. J. Zimmerman, aged 18, St. Louis, Mich., terribly burned about the arms, legs, back, and face; Frank King, aged 22, Menomi­ nee, Mich., hands and teet badly burned; Michael McGlenn, aged 28, Holton, Mich., face and hands badly burned; Hugh O'Donnell, aged no. New Orleans, badly burned and in a critical condition. Alexander McLeod, Mari­ nette, Wis.; Thomas McCarty, Independence, Iowa; John Kelly, New York City; Silverthorn, residence unknown; others, called respectively Andy, George, Frank, Frenchy, and Smithy. Last named unknown. Frenchy was from De­ troit. The men were in the habit of entering the car with torches and were culpably careless. The accident was due solely to that cause. SCIENTIFIC SURGERY. XOM Made Out of Two linger [New York special.] Massachusetts Republican*. in the Hardware, Stove Line. be Undersold! RE BUYING ELSEWHERE Promptly Attendedjto. bargains can always be obtained at Pierce, Abington; TreasurjT%T "W- '^4. a, Medford; Audit >r. Char ' " f POOB TECK. technically called a duke, and even a prince, is wandering about with his equally impoverished wife, and the two tramps are a continuous source of worri- ment to that very worthy old woman, £ueen Victoria. BLAINK will not work any more on big book until after election. THE Chinese are to have postal-cards af- The Bepublican State Convention of Masi chusett* was called to order at Boston by Clia! man Lodge. Temporary organization was fected by inviting the officers ot the Cen Committee to act tor the convention. The co mittees were appointed, and tlist pn perman oruanhation at once reported Robert M. Mor Jr.. for Permanent Chairman. Mr. Morse viewed the records of the politic tl part touching especially (he civil service, the tion'il election laws, and the tariff questi Gov. George D. Robinson was renominated acclamation, and the remainder ot the tic was completed as follow^: Lieutenant (it ernor, Oliver Ames, of Kaston; Secretary State, Henry L ~ " Daniel A. Gleason. ... K. Ladd. Sprnsjfleld; Attorney General, Kdt J. Sherman, Lawrence; electors-at- lar Mark Hopkins and Thomas Talbot. The resolutions, which were adopted witht debate, recite the achievements of the Re put can party; favor a tariff in which retoims • corrections can be made so as to reduce the ek. plus and at the same time correct the inequali. ties; pledge the Republican party to further the interei-ts of,the workingman; favor a continued reform of the civil service, and opi>ose political assessments; demand a foreign policy that shall insure ceneral promotion of citizens everywhere; advise the restoration of the navy; deem the further coinage of silver unadvisa- ble, and concur in the action of the Chicago convention. After addresses by Senator Hoar and Gen. N. B. Banks the convcntkm ad­ journed. * - Texas Republicans. In the Texas Republican Convention, which assembled at Houston, resolutions were read fa­ voring fusion and the indorsement of George W. Jones, Independent candidate for Governor. A morion to concur in the resolutions led to a test vote, showing 104 yeas and '27<> nays. Two reports were presented by the Committee on Resolutions. That of the majority was in lavor of fusion; that of the mi- liority demanded a straight Republican ticket and Blatneaiirt Lotran electors. Anan/ry debate ensued on a motion to substitute the minority report for that of tne majority. Groat confusion followed, which finally terminated in a recess, after which the fttrutfirl? was con- tinued A vote was taken under difficulty, and reHuited in HO yeas to nayn. The majority report was adopted by a viva vocc vote. It in- dorfle* the National Kepnbllcan platform, and jir&es the correction of the local abuse* which have arisen under tiie Democratic adnuntotra* tion. The convention adjourned In great con­ fusion. Horse Shoeing, wilg'on*. " Two Jmmai. fin* yv* • nearly a total failure of the crops is the impelling motive. Between the exodus and the short crop of wheat and corn, business men here have abundant room for discour­ agement. ITEMS. ~ ' • GLADSTONE expects soon to final exit from public life. < SOMEBODY wants subscriptions FOR | monument to Artemus Ward. " OCR CABTEK" is the name of a Postofflce in Kansas. A Chicago man is the Post­ master. THE Republicans of Ohio have nomi­ nated three Taylors tor Congress, and their districts adjoin. THE Maharaja Sir Buno-o-deeph Sing, Prime Minister of Nepaul, wears a ruby worth $100,000. Lorrs MF.YER, a German butcher at Win- field, L. I., locked himself in his ice box and froze to death. WOMEN and girls are nearly one-half of the depositors in the savings banks of Massachusetts, having to weir credit $117,- 932,399. LIFE VICTOB HUGO has a dang$ta& AD«L% ia • lunatic asylum in France. I AMONG the 20,000 articles of bronz& belonging to the lake dwellers so far found in Switzerland about 80 per cent, are rings, 17 per eesit. bracelets, 4 per cent, knives, 8 per cent, needles, 0.4 per cent, hammers,' and 0.2 per cent fibulte. WHEN Arago was Director of THE Observatory in Paris the gift in aid ^as less than $20,000 a year. In the time of Leverrier it was $50,000. Now the donation is $50,009, although the- meteorological department is set apart as a special service. PAPER wash-basins, buckets, and sim­ ilar articles for domestic purposes are- generally made of straw pulp, and after they are rough made into the desired shape they are subjected to hydraulic pressure in strong molds where they acquire the finished form. GOOD shellac varnish is made as fol­ lows r Take of very pale shellac five- pounds, mastic one ounce, and alcohol five or six pints, and dissolve in the cold to prevent the evaporation of the* alcohol, stirring the mixture meanwhile. This is a good varnish for furniture, and it is much employed in France br cabinet makers. THE estimated total cost of fires and insurance companies in the United. States is $150,000,000 a year. Com­ menting on this, the American Arch­ itect says that every man or woman in. the community who is paid for his or her labor works one week in every year as a gratuitous contribution toward, paying the salaries of insurance agents and the fire losses caused by careless- ne.cs or crime. THE height and velocity of the clouds has been determined in England by means of photography. Two cameras^ placed about COO feet a part, are pro­ vided with instantaneous shutters sim­ ultaneously released by electricity. The observer measures the angle of inclina­ tion of the cameras and the position oi the cloud as photographed on the two- plates, and from these data a trigonom­ etric calculation gives the distance and height of a cloud with great accuracy.. FRENCHMEN are beginningto outstrip both the English and Americans in the ingenuity of their advertising dodges in the endeavor to attract attention to- their discoveries. The following will serve as an examplo: A certain inven­ tor of a face wash improves the shining- hour of a family party, to invite a re- reporter, who carefully inspects the phy­ siognomy of the inventor's wife, daugh­ ter and mother-in-law, aud prints his- nnpressious in praise of said concoction,, giy'ug the names of all the members of the family. A CURIOUS instance of the kindling of a fire by means of the concentration of! the sun's rays by a globular water-bot­ tle through which they passed is related bp a correspondent of La Nature. The air was cold, but the sun shone bright­ ly; the bo.tie, an "onion-shaped" flask, filled with water so as to form a perfect­ ion's, sat upon the table. The starting of the fire, which would have caused great damage if the relater of the inci­ dent had not been present to extinguish it, was revealed by the smoke. A de­ liberate experiment was made the next- day, with complete success, in kindling a fire by this means. The School Savings Bank. One of the European improvements- in education is the school savings bank. It object is to teach children how to save and accumulate money. The- natural tendency of youth is to will­ ful waste, to spend constantly, to be- led away by casual temptations. The habit of saving is seldom taught and. seldom learned until the rude experi­ ence of life brings with it the iron pres­ sure of necessity. The folly ot ex­ travagance prevails chioflv among tlie- young, and the recent annals of ourcitv and country abound in instances of ruined lives and wasted hopes, the re­ sults of the luxurious and thoughtless- manner of the age. Our young men of business have too often never learned in early life how to save; their only conception of living is how to get, in order to spend. The passion of ex­ travagance grows upon them. Their salaries are too small, their profits in­ significant, compared to the demands- of a growing love for pleasure. They soon overstep their legitimate expense; they rusk into speculation; they fall at last .into crime. The awful moment- comes too soon, and the ruined victim of his own folly perishes, dishonored and lost, because he had never learned in youth the practice of saving. It is not so much to the wealthy as to- the poor that this habit is all-import­ ant The wealthy may waste the ac­ cumulations of his forefather; but to the workingman, the professional man, or the roan of business the habit of saving is the only security from suffer­ ing and often despair. It is a safe­ guard that should be thrown over every family and taught in every sohool. The school savings bank has been found singularly useful and successful in con­ nection with the public school of vari­ ous countries. It was suggested in France many years ago, and has already extended to Germany, Hungary, Italy, Belgium, and Holland. The system is very simple. The teacher tells his children that he is ready to receive their small savings, and explains to them how they may be made to increase. He gathers in their pennies and cen- t mes, keeps a register with the name of each depositor, and when the sum amounts to a franc or more, places it in a neighboring savings bank or lends it- to the State. The business is trans­ acted out of school hours; it teaches the pupil some of the nicities of trade. He keeps a duplicate account of his de­ posits, and can only draw any part of them with the consent of his parent or guardian. The plan has proved very attractive to children. In Ghent, out of 45;000 pupils, there are 13,000 depositors, each, lor more than one franc. In France the number of school banks is 10.261, with 213,135 depositors. The whole amount deposited by the children was in 1880 more than $1,000,000. The school banks form a part of the system that would make education a practical thin?, and more than ever useful in pre­ paring the youth of the nation for active life. To teacli the great body of the people in childhood the habit of saving would of itself alone more than repay the public outlay upon education. It is the foundation of honesty, the chief source of national honor. In it Jie the safety and purity of families, and much of the happiness of domestic life. Without the habit of saving, our young men and young women often wander recklessly on a perilous track, and perish miserably for want of an early training in frugality.-- Eugme Lawrence. THE members O? the Salvation Army have begun a crusade against the cor­ set, which they denounce as the device ojfthedeviL ' .-v- i