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%mw jffcf rctg flainflcalcr I. VAN SLYKE, E«tsrm< PwblUhtf. MOHENRY, - - ILLINOIS THE NEWS CONDENSED. COSHRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. oniiTi «n the proposition to educate fb« Indiana of Alaska cocntitubed ths day's work of the Senate on the 12th Inst. In the Borne of Representatives bills were introduced to plaoc Gen. Grant on the retired list, and to Matilct to Amc lc*n citizens the ownership of teal ert««« in the Territo ies. Mr. Hewitt nr<«etited a new tariff measir*. A Senate bill Was pushed to punish the connterfei:in(T of securi- Jttep of to cijrm governments. A report was m i do that the potion of William Webster, claiming to have l»een unlawfully deprived of a tract of land in New Zealand, foe transferred to Presi­ dent. A thnr for Investigation. Bill" were passed to in'-rease the water supply of Washington and to complete the sewerage system of the Dist. ict of Columbia. Mr. O'Neill introduced a bill to exempt rom duty raw sucar, rioe, and variou* •ther articles of food. THE bill to place Gen. U. 8. Grant on the retired list of the army, with full rank and pay, passed the Senate by a unanimous vote, on the 13th inst. Majority and minority reports were made on the bill to pension Gen. Ward B. Burnet, and Mr. Shcrn an presented a petition to put n. Fremont on the retired list. A oom- municati «n from the Secretary of War asked an appropriation of >20.000 to repa r Jackson Bar­ racks, at New Orleans. Mr. 1/ofran cave notice that when the Metvan pension b 11 comes up lie will move to strike er.t the amendment pro­ viding that ni one shall have the !>enetit thereof •nless unable to make a living. Mr. Yanoe called up his resolution to appropriate Jfcw.ooo for a monument to Sir Walter Raleieh en Roan­ oke Island, and it was referred to the Committee oa library. A conference committee was ap­ pointed on the shipping i 111. The Indian ap- pioprlatlon bill was completed and } a sed. The House of Representative* passed the Sen­ ate l ill providmir fi r civil (jovemment in Alas­ ka, as als i a measure making the I< -cislature of Dakota consist of twnty-foor members of the COun 41 and forty- ijrht members of the Hou-<e, The Townshend bill, providing that no Territory ehall appl for adm s-inn to the I'nion until it has ]'opn!a".ion sufficient for Consrressional rep- ie*«ntatv n. wi>a Isj-l on the table. THE bill for the establishment of a Bureau «T Labor Statistics was tak en op in the Senate Mi the 14th inst., and Mr. Garland moved te amend to have the work performed by the Bu­ reau of Statistics of the Treasury Department. The matter went over. A bill wa» favorably re­ ported to extend to August, 1886, the time to com'iunce laying ocean cables. A bill was passed toanthoiize the construction of a pontoon watf< n brkltrc over the liississirpincar Dubuque. Zn the House of Representatives, resolutions •were report, d unseating Mr. M.Kinlev, fro 11 the Eighteenth Oh o District, and Mr. l'eelle, from the Seventh Iniiana District. A favcnai>le *e- E»rt was made on a bill for a mint at St Louis. r. Springer asfceJ unanimous consent to put on package a b 11 authorizinK the purchase of *42,060.000 in bonds with ereenbacks held in the Trensn y, bat Mr. Weller objected. The consu­ lar and diplomatic appropriation bill was vigor­ ously aebs*<vl in committee of the whole. A motion by Mr. RoHnson to abolish the oftlc; of Mill's"«• Great Britain was loj»t.. M:I- MOIMJAK offered a resolution in the Senate, on the 15th inst., directing the Finance Committee to investigate the natiocal bank suspension* H» Kew York, with leave to send for persons or papers. A bill was i a&sed to aid the New Orleans expesi ion to the amount •f $l,000.i80. A me»sape was received from the President recommending an ap­ propriation to carry out the treaty with Mexico as to the boundary line. Mr. Cullom introduced a 1 ill to prevent speculation by officers of national hanks. An adjournment to the 19th was • taken. The Hou*e cf Representatives passed bills to authorize the construction of bridges over tue Bio Grande at Kaele l ass and Laredo, and over theMissouri f. on Douglas county, Nebraska. The consular ani diplomatic bill was debated in the House. Mr. Hulman, Democrat, defended the course of the committee in cutting down •alas its of diplomatic representatives and Consuls to foreign ports, while Meesrs. Hitt, Coed, and Hiscock. Republicans, advoa ed more liberal app> opiU ions for the oorsitlar and diplomatic s rvjee, a d offered amendments to increase the various items, all of which were vot d down. THE EAST. THE stock speculative dealings in Kew York opened in a disturbed condition on the morning of the 14th inst, and soon after the Exchange began business rumors of failures created a panic, the following concerns closing their doors: Nplson, Rob­ inson & Co., Gaff & Randall, O. M. Bog&rt & Co., bankers; J. C. Williams, Hatch & Foots, Donnell, Lawson & Simpson, Hotchkiss <fc Burn ham, the Metro- Elitan Bank, £nd the Atlantic ite Bank of ^Brooklyn. Prices •offered seriously, some shares touching the lowest figures for years. The Clearing House Association adopted measures by which the banks were to stand by each other, and, in a manner, this restored con­ fidence, values showing an improvement at the close. At leading trade centers there was comparatively no excitement, and a feeling of confidence that no general panic was impending was expressed.... Near Connellsville, Pa., freight and con­ struction trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Road collided on a curve with such force M to kill fourteen laborers and injure many more. ... Rice £ Whitney, bankers at Worcester. Mass., selling agents for Sabin's Northwestern Car Company, are in- •oJvent, and are reported to be "cleaned «Bt entirely." THE resumption of business by the Metropolitan National Bank of New York, Wider the Presidency of Henry L. Jacques, gave a strong impetus to the stock ^market on the 15th inst. The announcement of the failure of A. W. Dimock & Co., pro­ moters of the Bankers and Merchants' Telegraph Company had. but little effect on the howling crowd of brokers on the Stock Exchange. Parties deeply interested scat­ tered over the country the statement that foreign bankers were hungry for American securities, and quotations were marked up npidly until the famine was appeased. A sharp decline in Government bonds put the speculati ve fraternity on their guard, and just before the close of business prices were •mashed from one to five points by the col­ lapse of Fisk & Hatch, the heaviest dealers in Federal securities. F. A. Hawley &, Co., bankers of Boston, suspended, with liabili­ ties of $500,000. The bankers of Kansas City held a meeting and resolved to pay 20 per cent, to depositors and give certified checks for the remainder. The Tuna Val­ ley Bank, at Bradford, Pa., made an assign- ibent; Hilton & Waugh, oil brokers, failed, Und petroleum broke to 76 cents. The City Exchange Bank of La Porte, Iowa, and the tnion Bank of Quincy, IU., closed their oors because of the failure of their New ijfprk correspondents. THK WENT. THB Northwestern Manufacturing and Company, of Stillwater, Minn., of hich United States Senator D. M. Sabin President, has suspended and a receiver been appointed. The capital stock the company is $5,000,000, of which ,000,000 have been paid in. Nine undred men, of whom 300 were convicts, were employed by the concern. The cause of the suspension, it is said, was the loss of a large amount in Wall Street (New York) speculation. The liabil­ ities of the company are placed at about $1,100,000, while the assets are estimated at $4,000,000. The work of the company will proceed as usual.... Tvsentv DR. S. A. RICHMOND'S Medical Com­ pany at St. Joseph,, Mo., has failed fot $160,000, with no assets. The money is mostly owing to newspapers for advertis­ ing. The State Savings Bank at St. Joseph also closed, upon the suspension of Dunnell, Lawson <fc Simpson at New York, owners of the concern. Statements are made that the bank received deposits fot some time after it had been, telegraphed from New York to close. JU8TICB HABiiAXD, of the United States Court, arrived in Chicago. He failed to secure a room at a leading hotel for a month, and was informed by the clerk that he could hardly find accommodation in the city for the convention period. He at once caused a chamber set to be placed in the only vacant room in the Custom Homse, and will make himself at home in the $4,000,000 structure. THK SOUTH. WHILE John Forsythe and his wife, of Benton, Ark., were driving to the funeral of Mrs. Forsythe's brother, the Hon. Alex­ ander Russell, a large tree fell on them, in­ stantly killing Mrs. Forsythe and fatally injuring her husband, who died a few hours after the accident, There was a triple funeral from Mr. Russell's late residence in consequence of the sad accident. W. BOGAN CASH, the noted South Car­ olina desperado and the fugutive murderer of Marshal Richards, was shot dead, literal­ ly riddled with bullets, at his father's plan­ tation, near Cheraw. Deputy-Sheriff King headed a party sent out to arrest the out­ law, whose hiding place was surrounded. Cash came out of his retreat, and, in mere bravado, as it appears, fired on the arresting party, only one of whom was hurt, and that but slightly. Cash continued to shoot after he was mortally wounded.... Judge Richard Reid, of Mount Sterling, Ky., killed himself in the office of a friend, leaving a card stating that he was mad. He evidently 6tood before the mirror and fired into his brain. Reid, who was Judge of the Circuit Court, was some weeks ago cow- hided by an attorney named Corneilson. Many of his feiends urged him to challenge his assailant to mortal combat. He refused,, and was taunted with being a coward. These taunts, it is said, drove him to in­ sanity and suicide.... At Hazlehurst, Miss., the jury in the case of E. B. Wheeler, for the murder of J. P. Matthews, in Copiah County, was out about an hour, and re­ turned a verdict of not guilty. WASlIIXCiTOX. RETURNS to the Department of Agricult­ ure for May make the prospect nearly as favorable as in April. Then the general average was within 5 per cent, of the standard full condition. The May average is 94. It was 83i in 1883. Barring changes in the future, the winter wheat product will be about 350,000,000 bushels. The tempera­ ture in April has been lower than usual, and low lying lands have been saturated with moisture, retarding the growth of the plant. Well-drained wheat soils nearly everywhere are bearing a vigor­ ous and healthy growth. Rye promises fully as well as wheal The general average is 96. It is Beveral points higher than wheat in the principal States of the West. The general average for barley is 101. It is 100 in New York, l'OO in Penn­ sylvania, 98 in Michigan, and 103 in Cali­ fornia. Meadows and pastures are gener­ ally promising, though failing to come up to the standard healthy growth and unim­ paired condition... .The statue of Chief Justice Marshall by Storey was unveiled at Washington last" week. Chief Justice Waite delivered the formal address on the occasion. THB Honse Committee on Elections •oted in favor of seating English in place of Peelle from the Seventh District of In­ diana. SECRETARY OF STATE FRELTNGHUYBEN has issued a proclamation, by order of the President, restoring to the public domain 307,000 acres of land in New Mexioo granted on certain conditions to the Jicailla and Apache Indians. The red men had refused to comply with the conditions on which the grant was made. POLITICAL. THE well-known Philadelphia editor, M. P. Handy, who lived long in the South, has been interviewing Southern Democrats. He nays: " Carlisle steps to the front with a formal presentation of his name by Ken­ tucky, and he receives favorable considera­ tion by many who never seriously consid­ ered it before. It is claimed for him that while a Southern man he was a loyalist; that his character is clean, and his record good, and that, having been made Speaker of the House on the revenue-reform plat­ form, he is already by circumstances the leader of the regenerated Democracy, and will stand the ordeal of a popular election as well, if not better, than anybody else of his way of thinking." THE California Legislature has adjourned sine die. The session was a fruitless one. It was called by Gov. Stoneman for the purpose of passing a law to regulate rail­ road fares and freights. A measure with that purpose, known as the Barry bill, was introduced, and for a time it seemed certain that it would pass. Enough of its original supporters were won over to the opposition, however, to defeat the project. THE Democrats of New Jersey held their State Convention at Trenton. Senator Mc­ pherson, Gov. Abbett, James J. Newell, and Rodman M. Price were chosen dele- gates-at-large to Chicago. Tilden has a large majority among the delegates from the State, and Randall shows a fair follow­ ing. An attempt to send Gen. McClellan to the national convention was defeated. THE Democrats of the Louisiana Legis­ lature in caucus nominated J. B. Eustds for United States Senator on the first ballot. Mr. Eustis will succeed Mr. Jonas, who was chosen six years ago to suace^d Mr. Eustis. " Turn about is fair play." FIRE RECORD. THE fire losses of the week were as re­ corded below: Bhelbnrne, Out., Royal Block St. John, Ouebcc, chlnaware factory. H< oester. Mas*., hotel ~~ Detroit. M ch., nawmlll Cleveland, Ohio, flourm U................ Pittsburg, Pa., elans factory. Oswego, N. Y., steam tug Florence, Wis., mine machinery.......... Met*mor«, Ind.. buHine»s i lock......,,.. Boston, business block Cloquotte^ Win., planing mill Columbiana, Ohio, liourins mill Norwalk, Conn., fur factory Duluth, Minn., ma hlne shiop. Vlncenne*. IniL, hot.-l Big Ka|4')s, Mioh., 8,0<W\000 nhlngli Losses. ..( *1,000 .. lfi.000 .. 10,000 .. 60,000 .. 25,000 .. an.ooo .. ao.ooo IS,0O0 35,000 60,000 20.000 £0.000 70,000 20,0 0 15,000 10,000 ish statesman; Giovanni Pratt, Ejet and statesman; Paris C. Donning, of loomington, Ind., who was Governor of Indiana in 1846; Charles A dolph Warts, dis­ tinguished Franch chemist. CYRUS H. MCCORMICK, the inventor of the reaping machine, and one of the most notable men of this generation, died at his residence in Chicago, in his 76th year. leaving a fortune of $15.000,000 Charles O" Con or, the venerable lawyer, of New York, died at Nantucket, Mass., in his 80th •ear. IK the Methodist General Conference, at Philadelphia, four new bishops were elect­ ed as follows: The Rev. W. X. Ninde, the Rev. J. M. Walden, the Rev. William F. Mallalieu, and the Rev. C. H. Fowler. POREIGM. THE most remarkable railway accident of the age happened near Paris the other day A freight-train on an elevated trade went oft its rails and fell on a passenger-train which was running on a lower level. The engi­ neer of the latter train wns killed and thirty- one passengers were wounded. THE morganatic marriage of the Grand Duke of Hesse with Mme. Ksiamire has been legally dissolved. He is free now to marry the Princess Beatrice if the English Lords will pass the deceased ^ife'B sister LATEST HEWS. . THE Iowa Greenback State Committee met at Des Moines, and selected four dele­ gates to the national convention, who favor Ben Butler in case he accepts the <3reen- backers' nomination before the convention adjourns. IN the New York Stock Exch.inge, on the 16th inst., values opened lower and unset­ tled, but before the first call a steadier feel­ ing manifested itself, an advance of 1 to 2$ 6er cent, being noted. Then the failure of t. C. Hardy <fe Sons was announced, when values again sagged off, and the list dropped still further when it became known that the Newark Savings Institution had closed its doors. After this, confidence began to re­ turn, there being heavy purchases of stocks for foreign shipment. Before the close a dread of further failures resulted in a feverish feeling, which passed away rapidly when no disasters occurred, and the market closed in a "whirl of buoyancy" unknown for a long time. Call loans dropped from 1J per cent, per diem to 5 to 6 per cent, per an­ num, and large amounts of money were re­ ceived from the country. The feeling of confidence was enhanced by the Bank of New York loaning $3,000,000 on Govern­ ment bonds, and by the issuance of $5,000,- 000 certificates by the Clearing House. Closing deals -indicated an advance of 2 to 8 points in active shares, and the feeling was that the crisis had been passed and that the market would soon return to its normal condition. ToMiiiNSON, an English Tory, has given notice of a motion in the House of Com­ mons expressing dissatisfaction at the recent commercial treaty between Spain and the United States, and declaring it incumbent on the British Govern­ ment to obtain from Spain the "most- favored-nation" treatment for England.... A committee of Irish landlords has been appointed to explain to the British Ministry the desperate straits of the landowners in Ireland on account of the difficulty of sell­ ing Irish farm-lands. The land market, as Mr. Parnell predicted, is a falling one, and the Irish Landlords are on the verge of ruin. ... Emperor William has accepted the resignation of Prince Bismarck from the Presidency of the Cabinet, and appointed as his successor Boetlicher, Prussian Minister of S'.ate. RILEY ANDERSON and James and Alfred McCullough, father and son, all colored, were hanged at Greenville, S. C., in the presence of the thirty-Bix witnesses allowed by the State law, several clergymen, two detachments of the Greenville Butler Gttnrds. and representatives of the press. All made speeches from the gallows, and expressed faith that they were "going straight to the arms of Jesus." George A. Horn and William Gribben were hanged at Ashland, Ohio, nine companies of militia keeping back an excited mob from the inclosure surrounding the gallows. Christian Reibling was executed at Morri­ son, 111., for the murder of Albert Lucia. He made a full confession. The prisoner spoke a few minutes, after nodding to men he knew in the audience. He thanked Sheriff Bcach and the jailer for gentlemanly tieatment, said he was sorry for, whit he hid done, but repented and trusted in his Savior w;ho died for him. He appeared no more affri ghted than an em­ barrassed man, and when the black cap was brought to his eyes he said: "Good-by, all." Aftar the Lord's prayer by the Rev. Sweet the trap fell, in five m:nutes from the time he appeared. His neck was broken, and no struggle or spasm was seen, and hi was fironounced dead in twelve minutes, n Howard County, Arkansas, two brother J named Pope and a man named Kukendall, were executed by a mob. They had been arrested charged with murdering a peddler named "Ward. One of the Popes made a full confession, giving details of the man­ ner in which Ward was shot and hiB body burned. The persons who did the lynching were the citizens of Howard County, who forcibly took the prisoners from the Sheriff and hanged them to a tree. THE House of Representatives passed a bill on the 16th inst. to authorize the construction ol bridges across the Wisconsin. Chippewa, and St- Croix river* in Wisconsin. In committee of the whole the river and harbor, the diplomatic, and the army appropriation bills were debated and favorably reported to the Hou«e. An even­ ing session was devoted to work on pension bills. The Senate was not in session. ^ M AREJST. MEW YORK. Osweo, N. Y , Arcade Block. lou.'too Cleveland oil and paint works Oantoa. Masu., suspeuder works Moberly, Mo., hay-rake facto y. Bharon. Wis., buHinem property Baltimore, tin-can factory Ep' ing, N. H., 8 earn-* Block Wallingf ord. Conn., manufacturing prop­ erty Breedsville, Mi^h., basinets houses...... «,»i ..'Qom- m.,Micv«dtoteStag EKKXys&rss:SSTz::: jnolaers, attacked a wagon containing non- «•"»>»»»•< <'itv innion molders, shooting two men through their arms. Another party of non-unionists arrived by a Wabash train and were show­ ered with stones and bullets, one of them receiving serious injuries. JACOB SCHAEFEU and George F. Slos- aon played a game of billiards at Central Sa<tiuaw City, Mich., vraiin barns.. Dal a", Tex., block of store.* Wiii amsbi.ra, Ky.. stw-mills Harlem, N. V., biewery 80.U00 100,00 i £0,000 20.000 1S.0W0 20,000 «n,ooo lft.ooo 10,000 10,000 75.UOO 60.0 0 100,0 JO Hoos FIXJUB--Extra. I WHKAT--No. 2 Chicago. No. 2 Red CORN--No. a.... .... OATS--White.....;,........ POKE--Mess Lahd ChlCAOO, BEEVES--Choice to Prime Htcera. Fair to Good Common to Medium... Hoos FLOUR--Fancy White Winter Ex Good to Chotce Spring... WHEAT--No. 2 Hi rinsr No. 3 Hard Spring OOBK--No. 5 OATS--No. 2 IITE--No. 2.. BARLEY--No. 2. BUTTER--Choioe Creamery...... Fine Dairy POTATOES--Peach blows*. EOOK--Fte*b PORK--Mess LABO $ 6.80 . 8.60 3.60 .97 1.04 .63 Al 16.75 6.80 S.75 6.39 6.75 6.60 4.60 .68 .90 •S M .18 M .la 17.26 e <-75 & 6.26 0 6.73 «* 6.26 6.79 0 5.23 S) .91 .67 .SI .03 •«T .22 .20 .38 .14 ($17.60 POLITICAL CONVENTIONS. Ban Batter iTominated for President T DenMcratio State Conventions--Resolu­ tions Indorsing Tilden aad Hendrioks. ..JjneS.MONOPOX.X8TA. The National Convention at Chicago. The National Antl-Monopoly Contention met •ft ChtoftRO on Wednesday. May 14, and was called to order by John F. Henry, of New York, Chairman of the National Committee. After congratulating them upon having met wtth the intention of nominating a Presid nt of tne United States. M namsd A. J. Streeter, of Mer­ cer County, Illinois, as Temporary Chairman. Mr. Streeter returned thanks for the honor coni' ferred upon him, and said he believed the i ono was notlntended for him personally, but for the industrial people of Illinois whom he had tried hard to serve. The Secretary read the call, following which motions were made that a delegate from each State represented be nominated for a Committee on Credentials, Permanent Organization. Plat­ form, and Vioe Presidents. On motion of Mr. Henry, of New York, N. B. Killman and B. F. Bhively were elected Temporary Secretaries, and the roll of States was called. The follow­ ing were appointed members of the committees: _ Platform. Credentials. California, Mrn M Todd. A D WUson. Kansas, W A Qarreteon. W J Montgomery Diet. Columbia, J A George. W W Jackson. Massachusetts, C H Ticlitman. W Lcampton. Maryland, A J Weddcrlmrn A.T Wedderburn Pennsylvania, Pgden WhitlockOgden W'hitlock Colorado, jjt Schilling. R Schilling. aiwAivnH •••J'-'. "* ij- A T a TO r*i _i Oregon, Illinois, Sndiana, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Nebraska. New York, Wisconsin, Vermont, aA J Grover. S E Fisk. B S Heath. H R Harris, G N Norton. W O Willard. W M lis. S F Reynolds. J A Brawley. H S Brown. 17 H lilanchard.N H Blanchard. J Streeter. C Runkin. H .Taager. F Crew®. Pratt ohn Barnd H Shupe. V J Blatz. • 160 & 6.00 & (.00 & & 1.06)6 & .66 & .46 @17.26 .08>*<gs ,08ft «K>KRAL. A WEEK'S death record: Hon. Truman Smith, of Connecticut, who served in Con­ gress from 1839 to 1847, and in the Senate Schaefer won the championship, which he already held, defeating Slosson by a score of 800 to 384, with the remarkable average «f 38 2-21. THE Board of Equalization of Missouri values the railroad property of the State at $42,000,000--a $2,000,000 increase over last year.. ..Michael Gay nor, Alderman from the Ninth Ward of Chicago, was shot in the . Jietd and fatally wounded during an affray in a saloon in that city. , Mnsic Hall, Chicago, for the championship from 1849 to 1854; Prof. Samuel D. Gross, of tbo world at the balk-line game. an eminent surgeon of Philadelphia; Col. Thomas H. Hunt, Treasurer of the World's Exposition organization at New Orleans; William F. Clogg, a cele­ brated naturalist, of Boston; Ju- dah P. Benjamin, formerly United States Senator from Louisiana and Confed- erte Secretary of War, at Paris, France; John F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn., who gave $1,000,0(10 to the cause of education in the Southern States; Lemuel Shaw, Presi­ dent of the Great Boott Mills, in Massa­ chusetts; Midhat M1LWAUKEK. WHEAT--No. a CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 1 BARLEY--NO. 9........ PORK--Mess LARD • ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. a Red CORN--Mixed. OATS--No. a. RYE POKK-- Mess....; LARD CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2Red..... CORN OATS--Mixed. PORK--Mess I.ANN TOLEDO. WHEAT--NO. A Bed COBN--No. a OATS--No. 3 DETROIT. FIXHJB WHEAT--NO. I White CORN--Mix OATS--No. 2 M x. <L PORK--Mess INDIAN APOLI& WHEAT--No. a Red,} CORN--Mixed. OATS--Mixed EAST LIBERTY. CATTUD" Best........ Fair. Common. Hoos....... .0*1*0 .08 H & .40 & .66 <£9 .86 fit .70 <017.50 & 8.50 & 1.13 (9 .65 0 .33* & .60 &17.L0 .08* J53 .34 JW 17.25 8.36 1.12 ,61 .S3 ,5'J It. SO 1.06 .6V .a* 11.36 .08 .95 .68 .36 4.60 1.06 .66 .33 30.00 1.03 .64 .34 0 1.08 <Q» .62 & .to @17.76 0 .0»K 0 .08 0 .69 tf .38 0 8.00 0 1.06 & .r$ & .36 ($20. SO 0 1.05 0 .66 0 .36 <a 6.60 0 4.76 0 4.26 6. as Duringa recess to await the reports of the com­ mittees, Mr. mot, of Nebraska, made alenKthv speech, reviewing the powers of the monopo­ lies. He did not blame them f r takng all they could get, but he did blame the people for toler­ ating it. He was followed by Mr. Font?, of Michigan, who retarded Ben But ler i s the great­ est friend of the working people, and said he would be the nominee of the convention. He would be nominated by other conventions, and he believed that he would be the next President of the United States. Mr. Crocker followed. He said that dyna­ mite was the extract of tyranny, and that it might bo expected at any time. Dr. Julia Sev­ erance, of Milwaukee, said she did not think they could expect their rights until they were willing to accord woman her rights. Gen. Weaver whs called for, but declined to speak, as he was not a delegate. The convention was again called to order. Mr. Post, for the Committee on Credentials, said that the committee had decided that each dele­ gate should have bnt one vote, no matter how many proxies he held. The report, after some discussion, was adopted. The following permanent officers were elected: President, John F. Henry, of New York; Secre­ taries, Messrs. SUively and Killman. Mr. Henry took the chair and called lor the report of the Committee on Resolutions. " Phocion" Howard said that he proposed to forestall any machine resolutions, as was the case in most all conven­ tions, by offering one himself. He wanted to explain that by profession he was a journalist and a Bourbon Democrat, as well as an Anti- Monopo .ist. He then moved that all resolutions. presented to the Committee on Platform should be read to the convention, to prevent being con­ signed to the waste basket. The resolution was overwhelmingly defeated. Charles H. Uitchman, of the Committee on Platform, reported the following resolutions: The Anti-Monopoly organization of the Uni­ ted States, in convcnti'»n assembled, declare*: 1. That labor and capi.al snonld be allies, not en mies; ahd we demand justice for both by protecting the rights of all as against privileges for the few. 2. That corporations, the creatures of law, should be controlled by law. o. That we propose the greatest reduction practicable in public expenses. 4. That in the enactment and vigorous execu­ tion of just law equality of rights, equality of burdens,, equality < f privileges, and equality of powers in all Mtizens will be secured. To this end we furth&r declare: 6. That it is the duty of the Government to Immediately exercise its constitutional preroga­ tives to reaulate commerce among the Stat s. The great instruments by which this commerce is carricd on are transportation, money, and the transmission of intelligence. They are now mercilessly controlled by giant monopolies, to the impovwiahment of labor, the crushing out of healr.hfurcotnpetit:on. and the riestruction of business sSaSritr. We hold it, therefore, to lie the imperMPeflkl iiiniiodiatc duty of Congress to pas^ all needful laws for the control and regulation of these great agents of commerce in accordance with the oft-reieated decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. 6. Thit these monopolies, which exacted from enterpiise such heavy tribute, have also inflicted countless wrongs upon the toiling millions of thr! United States, and no system of reform should commend itself to the support of the people which does not protect the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his face. Bureaus of labor statistics must be established, both State and national arbitration take the place of brute force in the settlement of disputes between employers and employed, the national eitrht-hour law be honestly enforced, the im­ portation of foreign labor under contract be made illeual, and whatever practical ret rms may be necessary for the protection of united labor must be granted, to the end that unto the toiler shall be given that proportion of the profits of the thing or value created which his labor bears to the cost of production. 7. That we approve and favor the passage of an interstate commerce bill: navigable waters Should be improve ! by Government and be tree. a We demand the payment of the bonded debt as it talis due, the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of th<? people of th^ir respective States, a gradual income tat, and a tariff, which is a tax up n the people, that shall be so levied as to bear lightly as possible upon nece-iFarie*: we denounce the present tariff as being largely in the interest of monoi ol v and demand that it be speedily and radically re­ form d in the Interest ot labor instead of capital. 9. That no further grants of public lands shall be made to corporations. All enactments granting land to corioration« should be stiiotly construed, and all land g.ants should l.e tor- felted whtre the terms upon which the grants were made have not been strictly complied with. The public lands must be held for homes for actual i-ettlerH, and must not l>e subject to pur- abase or control by non-resident foreigners or speculators. 10. That W J deprecate the discriminating ot American legislation against the greatest of American industries, agriculture, by which it ha-t bern deprived of nearly all beneficial le^i*la; ion, while foroed to bear the brunt ot taxation, and we demand for it the fostering care of Govern­ ment and the just recognition of its Importance in the development and advancement of our land, and we appeal to the American farmer to co-operate «ith us in our endeavors to advance the national interest-) of the country and tho overthrow of monopoly in every shape, when and wherever found. A wrangle at once ensued upon the adoption of the resolutions, and oi.e delega e wanted a plank put in on the election franchise in the District of Columbia, and a half dozen others bad planks to insert. Motions were made in all quarters of the house, but the platform was finally adopted. Nominations for President of the United States were declared in order. Mrs. Todd, of California, placed in nomination Benjamin F. Butler, and a dozes others spoke in favor of the General. Mr. Blanchard, of Vermont, nominated Gen. Weaver. The Chairman announce 1 that ho had conferred with (Jen. Weaver and thatthte (Jen- eral would under no clrcumStane-s accept ihs nomination if tendered, and that he favored Butler. Mr. Schilling wanted to know if Gen Butler would acc -j>t th* nomination. C. H. Lifshtroan aid lie knew that ne would. The convention soon proceeded to ballot. Butler received the 3.» votes of the lll.nols and yj votes OL the Michigan delegations solid, an total of 106; '1 hut-man 7- and Solon Chase 10. The nomination of Gen. Butler was made unan­ imous. The convention then adjourned, subject to the call of the National Committee. tton will vote for them. Tho resolutions adopt­ ed congratulate the people upon the result or the November election, which rescued the State from the corrupt ring, and re­ stored oontrol to the people; arraigns the Republican party as the abettor of ring rule in Virginia, and as the perpetrator of the highest public crime of tho i*e -tho theft of the Chief Magistr cy: denounces the attem; t made bjrle ding Republic an Senator* to show that the Danville riot was instigated by Democrats for the purpose of draw.ng the color line • demands the uncondit onal and immedi­ ate abolition of t e internal-revenue system, and favors tariff for revenue only. Tilden and Hendricks were almost the unanimous choioe oi the convention. Dakota Tci ilJory. The Democrats of Dakota Territory gathered in convention at Pierre to elect delegates to the national convention for the first time. J. B. Foster, of Mitchell, was made permanent Chair­ man F. M. Zelback and J. McCormick were electe 1 delegates to Chicago. The delegates go uninstructed, but are understood to be for Tilden and Hendricks. The platfo m declares for revenue reform and holds thufc th© luxuries of life should pay the expenses of the Govern- ment.and favors the bill pending before Congress granting 160 ac es of and to each Union soldier or the late war. It also declares for civil service reform and hard money, and oppo-ea all sumpt­ uary laws, THE PROHIBITIONISTS. Michigan State Convention. The Michigan Prohibitionists held a State convention at Battle Creek for the purpose of electing delegates to the national convention at Pittsburgh. Julv 23, and to consider the most effective methods of hastening the advent of prohibition in Michigan, 'lhe number of dele­ gates was 2a9, including nine women. John Russell, of Detroit, presided. Del-gates were elected to the National Proh bitlon Convention, to be held in Pit eburgh, Pa . July 23, and a State Central Committee was chosen. The resolutions adopted reaffirmed confidence in the power of the State to suppress the liquor traffic; in the Union Prohibition party of Mich­ igan and the ational Prohibition nome Pro­ tective party as the only comi>etent political agency to that end. A resolution approving won an suffrage was adopted by 112 to a9 votes, after a hot discussion, especially by the wom.n delegates. GKEENBACKKKS. Nebraska State Convention. The Nebraska Greenback State Convention met at the Commercial Hotel in Lincoln, and elected the following delegates to the national convention to be held at Indianapolis: L. C. Pace, of Lincoln; C. W. Wheeler, of Nen.aha; W. B. Pickett, ot Butler County; Ed J. Hall, of Saunders County. The delegates are sent unin­ structed, but are supposed to favor Butler for President. No vote for preference was taken. 1 FEARFUL IOLLISIOK. ~v Fifteen Lives Lost by a Disaster Near Connellsvil'e, Pa.--The Victims Roasted to Death. [Pittsburgh Telegram.] A west-bound freight collided with the gravel- train on the Baltim< re and Ohio Railroad ono mile east of Conn 'llsville. A number of labor­ ers we; e killed and many were Injured. The scene or the disaster is (n a sharp onrve just west of the Speer Sand Works. Tne freight- train was heavily ladtn with ore. The gravel- train consisted of six cars. It con:atned about fifty men from the Pittsburgh Southern Road, and they were on th^ir way to Ohio Pyle Falls to work on the grading for a double track on the east end ot this division. Both trains were going at a high rate of speed and came together with a terrible crash. The engines re­ mained on the track and telescoped each other into the smokestacks, but the heavy tendeis jumped into the air and tell, thi freight tender upon its tngine, and the gravel train tender back upon th > first car In the rear ot it. Here was the scene of death. Six men were killed outright in t'iis car, and four others fast­ ened down by the broken timbers were roasted to death, the car catching fire from the over­ turned stove and burning up t>efcre t he stupefied survivors could comprehend the awful situation of their shrieking companions, 'l'hr.-e men escaped from the car, and one of them said that the tire could have been extinguished had water been applied in time. Tne wreck itself was a ghastly sight. At the side of the car that was burned could be seen --sitting amid the g'owing embers, twisted iron rods, and d \'id sshes --three grinning skeletons, one si ting bolt upright, apparently pterins into the flames that had smothered out his life as well as those of his companions. When the wreck was cleared away it was dis­ covered that twelve persons had been iujured and fourteen more were dea l or missing. The bodies of ten of the dead have been recover d. The others are supposed to have been complete­ ly consumed. Of those recovered only two could be jwsltively identified. The others were so burned as to be shapeless One of the injured died on his way to the hospital, making fifteen deaths. DKJKTOCBAT^C STATIC CONVENTIONS. New Jersey, The New Jersey Democratic State Convention met at Trenton, Gov. Bedle being chosen imma­ nent Chairman. District del gat . s wore chosen as follows: First, A. J. Steelman and Daniel F. Creem. 8«won<i, H. B. tsm th and 1*. M. J. Smith; Third' Willard Kt>s» and 8. W. Bri/wn; l ourth, M. <:, Swartzweller and Senator Carteote'; F1 th Thomas J. Flynn and Carmen F. Ibindo'p Sixth, Assemblyman HaiTigan and Gott red Krueger; Seventh. Orestes Cleveland and Mar­ tin Helyes. The platform adopted declares that und 'r Re­ publican aimlnls ra .ion of national affairs latrar is unable to meet with fair wag ;s; great public tr mlaals are unpunished througn delays o actual connivance on the ) ark ot the Federal otli cera; that n* governi'-nt, Las the rigltt to burden its people beyond tho amount nrccssary to pay its economical exi-e^i s and gradually extinguish th<? national d *btithat legislation Is need- d to protect home industries, without pro­ ducing or fostering monopolies; that. It is the $4,000,000. A Bank President's Heavy Defalcattos, [New York Telegram.] The defalcation of John C. Eno, former President of the Second National Bank, is stated upon good authority to be $4,000,000. Of this amount $2,500,000 is said to have been paid by Amos R. Eno, the father of the defaulting President, and the balance by the rest of the Directors. Director Henry A. Hurlburt said that the deficit was about $4,000,000, and that Mr. Amos B. Eno had made up most of the loss, the stockholders^ xing up the balance. " What was the cause of the deficiency, and how was it managed?" was asked. 'I cannot tell yon. Mr. John G. Eno would have been liable to imprisonment, but his father, who is worth $25,000,000, has agreed to see the bank through safely for any amount." Death of One of M. Quad's Characters. [Detroit Telegram.] David E. Harbaugh, ex-Police Justice of Detroit, died this morning at the Pontiao Insane Asylum. He was born in New Lis­ bon, Ohio, in 1808, and came to Detroit forty-nine years ago. He practiced law, became Collector of Internal Revenne, and some years ago filled the office of Police Justice. Mr. Harbaugh had been made famous all over the world by the Central HEWITTS REVENUE BILL List of Artioles Proposed to Be Admitted Duty Free. Eepresentative Hewitt's tariff bill, Intro­ duced in CongreM on the 12th inst, is framed on a different principle from the beheaded Morrison measure, though it con­ tains many of th« features of the latter, be­ sides many others. It is eutiUed " A bill to modify existing laws relating to duties on imports and internal-revenue taxes and to enlarge the free list." Extensive additions to the free list are proposed. The bill, after making modifications to simplify the administration of the custom laws, provides that after the 30th of June, 1884, the internal-revenue tax on brandy distilled exclusively from apples, peaches, and grapes shall be 10 cents on each proof gallon or wine gallon when below proof. After Jan. 1,188S, no article mentioned in Schedule I (cotton and cotton goods) shall pay a higher ate of duty than 40 per cent ad valorem; in Schedule J (hemp, jute, and flax) than 30 per cent.; in Schedule M (wool and woolens) than 70 per cent.; and carpets and carpeting shall not pay a higher rate than 35 per cent, ad valorem; and in schedules B and C (earth­ enware and glassware, and metals) than 50 per cent. On all articles, except those specifically excepted, mentioned in Sched­ ule A (chemicals), D (wood), G (provisions), M (books), N (sundries other than precious stones), and E (sugar) there shall be levied 90 per cent, of duties now imposed. On the articles in Schedule F (tobacco) there shall be levied 80 per cent, of the duties now imposed. On still wines in casks the duty shall be 40 cents a gallon. It repeals tha clause of the law of 1883 which imposes a tax of 6-10 of a cent per pound on iron or steel rivet, screw, nail, and fence wire rods, round, in coils and loops, valued at 3£ cents or less per pound, and authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to refund to any manufacturer of fence-wire or wire-baling ties the amount of duties which may have been paid on im­ ported iron or steel wire-rods a<Jtually used in the manufacture of fence and baling ties. The following articles are put on the free list: Salt, in bags, sacks, barrels, or other packages, or in bulk; coal, slack or culm; coke; coal, bituminous or shale, provided this shall not apply to coal imported from Canada until that Government shall have exempted from the payment of duty all coal imported into that country from the United States; timber, hewn and sawed, and tim­ ber used for spars and in building wharves; timber, squared or sided, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; sawed boards, plank, deals, and other lumber of hemlock, white wood, syca­ more, and basswood, and all other articles of Bawed lumber; hubs for wheels, posts, last-blocks, wagon-blocks, ore-blocks, gnn- bk>cks, heading-blocks, and all like blocks or sticks rough hewn or sawed only; staves of wood of all kinds; pickets and palings; laths; Bhingles; fine clapboards; spruce clap­ boards; wood, unmanufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; iron ore, including manganiferous iron ore; the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites and sulphur ore and iron pyrites; copper im- 5>orted in the form of ores; lead ore and ead dross; nickel in ore, matter; chromate of iron, or chromic ore; hay; chicory root, ground or underground, burnt or prepared; acorns and dandelion root, raw or prepared, and all other articles used or intended to be used as coffee or as substitutes therefor, not specially enu­ merated or provided for in this act; jute, jute-butts, flax-straw, flax not hackled of dressed, tow of flax or hemp, hemp, manila, and other like substitutes for hemp not spe­ cially enumerated or provided for; sunn, sisal grass, and other vegetable substances not specially enumerated or provided for; bris­ tles; beeswax; lime; glycerine, crude; ex­ tract of hemlock and other bark used for tanning not otherwise enumerated or pro­ vided for in this act; indigo, extract of, and carmined; tartars, partly refined, including Lee's crystals; cement, Roman, Portland, and all others; whiting and Paris white, dry; nitrate of potash or saltpeter; wood tar; coal tar, crude; coal tar, products of, such as naph­ tha, benzine, benzole, dead oil, and pitch; all preparations of coal tar, not colors or dye, not especially enumerated or provided for in this act; ochre and ochry earths, umber and umber earths, and sienna and sienna earths; all earths or clays unwrought or unmanufactured not specially enumer­ ated or provided for in this act; all barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and bulbous roofs and excrescences, such as nut- galls, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, grains, gums, and gum resins, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots, and stems, spices vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not gar­ den seeds,) and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects, any of the foregoing of' which have been advanced in value or con­ dition by refining or grinding or other proc­ ess of manufacture, and not specially enu­ merated or provided for in this act; iron or steel sheets or plates, or taggers-iron coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals are a component part, by dip­ ping or any other process, and commercial­ ly known as plates, terne plates, and tag- fers-in; wools of the third class, commonly nown as carpet wools; asphaltum; living aniaoals;copperas, or sulphate of iron; mi- crosoopes imported by physicians for pro­ fessional use, and not ior sale; copper in iogots, old copper, regulus of copper; goat­ skins; rags; books in foreign languages. TWO NOTED MEN DEAD. Death of Cyras Hall McCormick, One of the World's Ben­ efactors. don <4 : of the Long and Active Lift # Ohark* CConor, the Gtttt Jurist. , in Station sketches of "M. Quad," the hu- and professional books not published in the morist on the Detroit Free Press, whose United States, imported in single copies, pen pictures of " His Honor " and " Bijah," ] for use and not for sale; crude were grotesque caricatures of Mr. Harbaugh and the venerable police doorman, Abijah Joy. The latter is still living here. Mr. Harbaugh became a mental wreck some years ago, and has since been in the asylum. Louisiana Constitutional Amendments. [New Orleans Dispatch.] The Governor has promulgated the vote on the proposed constitutional amendments. The first is reported adopted by the follow­ ing vote: For, 51,784; against 44,589--a majority of 7,195 in fayor. This is the State debt amendment concerning which there has been so much bitter controversy. It changes the State bond from a 3 to a 4 per cent, security from and after Jan. 1, 1884. The other amendments are of only local interest. Four Men Drowned. rDuiuth (Minn.) Telegram.] The ferry-boat Mary Martini ran into a skiff containing twenty or more men who were returning from the cool docks aj; Con­ ner's Point to Duluth. The skiff was crushed by the collision and four men were drownc-d. (ion. Pryor Blackballed. iNew Yo*k Dispatch J Gen. Roger A. Pryor, who for the last twelve years has occupied a conspicuous aud honorable position at the New York bar, w:is put up for election as a member of the Bar Association, and was black­ balled. CHIPS. AT Waynesboro, Ga., Mr. Reeves' little girl dropped her babv brother into a tub of boiliug water, and ho was dead when taken out. WOKK is proceeding rapidlv with the "UVIUK vi Jii)C uiuu^iiviicB, m in liio . •• \ . , * * duty of every free man to belptlrivc from i*>w<»r K1**1*1 railway tunnel under tho Mersey. The tunnel will be throe and one-eighth miles in length. A R.II the rich fat men of Europe are now flocking to Prince Bismarck's doctor, who has so reduced him in size without injuring his health. tbe i>arty who maoe iiiumpl.a t tho election fraa'l of 187«. The platform a so d e arth lot civil-B rv*ce reform, an'l loncludes, while »(1- hermpr *o the St 'to custom not to instruct dete- itas, w.th » tMolution favoring TilOeu and «at«s. w.tji Hendricks. Virginia. John T. Harris presided ewer the Vinrlnlm Bemocratio S ate Convention, wnich assembled at Richmond. Tilden and Hendricks were the almost unaolmou choice of the convention, and naf.iflnal OOfiVOtt- bodfe. refined borax, and boracic ac­ id; grindstones in the rough; stones, unmanufactured or undressed, freestones, granite, sandstone, and all building or mon- mental stone, except marble not specially enumerated or provided for; paintings in oil and and water dolors and statuary, not otherwise provided for; osier or willow pre­ pared for basket-makers' use; waste ana all raw and unmanufactured material not spe­ cially provided for by the existuig law. The President is requested to withdraw Consuls of the United States from places which are not ports of entry whenever in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treas­ ury they are no longer required for the pro­ tection of the revenue. Sec. 8 abolishes all fees, and the oaths re­ quired by existing laws relating to the en­ try of goods are abolished, and it is pro­ vided that where such fees constitute all or part of the compensation of any such officei the latter shall receive in lieu thereof a fixed salary. It is further provided that the Sec­ retary of the Treasury shall grant permis­ sion * to any firm or corporation to with­ draw from bond alcohol or any spirits con­ taining alcohol, subject to the internal rev­ enue tax, in specific quantities, of not less than 300 proof gallons, without payment of internal revenue tax on same or on the spirits from which it may have been dis­ tilled. for the sole purpose of use in indus­ trial pursuits. HENRY W. MIM/EK, of Worcester, Mass., has. ns apprentice and proprietor, occupied his place of business as tin and hardware deolex £gr seventy years. * j r Winter and Spring Wheat. The Cincinnati Price Current publishes \ verv comprehensive statement of the con­ dition of crops collected from special in­ vestigations. The condition of winter wheat is stated* Ohio, 87; Indiana, 90; Il­ linois, 75 ; Missouri, 100 ; Kansas, 105; Michigan, 90 ; Kentucky, 95 ; Tennessee, 100; West Virginia. 95 ; average condition of the entire winter crop 96, against 82 a y0dj> ago. The season is backward, but the growth is now progressing favorably. Spring seeding is nearly completed in Da­ kota and Northern Minnesota under favor­ able conditions, and farther south the plant has made u promising start in growth. The area is somewhat increased. Reduced to bushels, the Price Current estimates the winter crop at 350.000,000 bushels, against the production of 294,400,000 last year, and the spring growth outlook at 135,000,000, against 125,600,000 last year. PAPER is now used in Germany instead t o r e o f " Cyras H. McCormick. Cyrus Hall McCormick, the well-} millionaire and inventor, and proprietor ot the famous McCormick reaper, died at home in Chicago on the 13th of May. Ho had been an invalid for two years past, from a partial paralysis of the lower limbs * brought on by severe rheumatic troubles, and was compelled to remain at home. His mental powers remained unimpaired during his enforced retirement from active work, and he never ceased to oversee and direct his vast business interests. His vitality and intellectual power remained strong up to within a few days of, his death, when he complained of great weakness and inability to bear the strain on his mind of the man­ agement of his business. He took to his bed, and gradually grew weaker, until the physician in attendance gave up all hope* of rallying him, and the family were in­ formed of the near approach of the end. He realized the fact himself, and spok» calmly of the event, endeavoring to ease their sorrow with tender words of comfort. He passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family and a few intimate friends, his last words showing an unshaken faith -in the promises of a life everlasting. Cyrus H. McCormick was born in Rock­ bridge County, Va., Feb. 15, 1809, and was consequently 75 years old. His parents were of Scotch-Irish descent, and he inher­ ited from his father an inventive turn of mind that did him great service while he was yet a young man. Born on a farm, he early saw that agriculture was not keeping pace with mechanics and manufactures in inventions for the relief of labor, and when 15 years old he began his inventions for the improvement of farm work by constructing, n "cradle," which he used in the harvest field with success. His father had previ­ ously invented a reaper, but, failing to at­ tain the success hoped for. it was laid aside. The son observed the defects and pa­ tiently went to work to remedy them. In 1831 he achieved his aim and jjive to the world the first practical reaping machine. He built it with his own band, and tested it in the harvest field. Although successful in his attempt, he did not at once embark in the manufacture, but kept adding im­ provements from time to time. About this period he became interested in the smelting of iron, and engaged in that business unffl reverses came upon him, and he removed to Cincinnati in 1844, where he made arrange­ ments to manufacture the reaper. Two years later, discovering Chicago to be a better field for the establishment of such a business, he at once began the work. In 1848 he made and sold 700 machines, in the following year 1,500; since then the annual sales have regularly and rapidly increased until now not less than 50,000 are Bold every year. The Hon. Reverdv Johnson, in an argument before the Commissioner of Patents in 1859, said that the McCormick reaper had already contributed an annual income to the whoie country of $55,000,000, which must increase through all time. The world at large has not been slow to honor Mr. McCormick for what he has done for agriculture. Medals and decorations have been bestowed on him by the crowned heads of Europe, and at every international world's fair ever held he was awarded superior hon­ ors for his inventions. He was the founder of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest, and at its inception bestowed $100,000 to endow a professorship in it, and from time to time, as oceiision required, he increased his donations, so that they more than tripled the original gift. Recently he learned that the seminary required enlargement and houses for the professors, and guve $100,- 000 for the purpose. He gave to the Wash­ ington and Lee College, of Virginia, and few but himself know how many struggling churches, colleges, and schools are indebted- to his generosity for means of maintenance. In view of his beneficence, and the world­ wide reputation of his reaping-machine, perhaps no other name is more widely known than that of C. H. McCormick. Mr. McCormick was an active politician, and Btood high in the councils of the Demo­ cratic party, to which he adhered. In 1872. he bought the Interior, the organ of the Presbyterian Church in the West, and haw retained the ownership ever since. The value of the estate left by the deceased is estimated in the neighborhood of $20,000,- 000. Whatever the exact figures, he was one of the wealthiest--if not the wealthiest --men in Chicago. Charles O'Conor. The great jurist, Charles O'Conor, died in Nantucket, Mass., on the 12th of May. after a protracted illness. For more than a week he had taken no nourishment what­ ever. His mind wan clear to the last His dying words were simply "My God." Mr. O'Conor was born of Irish parents in New York City. His father came to this country near the beginning of the century, shortly before the birth of the son, and was then in possession of much wealth. This he subsequently lost, and a consequence was that the son received a comparatively limited education. In addition to the ordi­ nary brunches of the primary schools, he obtained some instruction in Latin from his father, and also in French. In 1824 he was admitted to the bar, and almost at once entered upon a large, successful, profitable, and dis­ tinguished practice. The defects of educa­ tion he overcame by a life of study. He devoted himself exclusively to the- law, and during his fifty years of professional life resisted every appeal and inducement to en­ gage in politics. For many years he was confessedly at the head of the American bar. As early as 1829 he had taken dis­ tinguished rank as a lawyer in the New York courts. Since then he had been con­ spicuous before the country for his abilifj[- Eleven years ago he volunteered his serv­ ices, in the interest of nublic morals, to prosecute the municipal officers of New York City and county, aocused with Tweed in conspiring to plunder the public. His servioes were all the more valuable in this instance because the influence of his per­ sonal and professional character was almost irresistible. The only official position be ever held was the office of United States District Attorney of New York; this place he accepted at the per­ sonal request of President Pierce, but resigned it after a year's service. _ He was a member of the conventions which framed the Constitutions of New York in 1840 and in 1804. He was an able constitutional lawyer. Mr. O'Conor was an intense Demo­ crat on all questions of constitutional in­ terpretation. The doctrine of State sov­ ereignty and State rights was often and ably discussed by him. In 1872 he was nominated for President by the anti- Greeley Democrats, who held a con­ vention in Louisville, and also by the Labor Reform Convention, which met in Philadelphia, but peremptorily de­ clined to be a candidate under any circumstances. His ambition was con­ fined solely to his profession, where he was eminently successful. He was a member of the Roman Catholic Church, aud a regular communicant during nearly the whole of his life, and was considered the ablest and leading layman of that denomination in the United States. His personal life hits been such as to win the highest praise from the general public; his ability has shone more conspicuously because of the purity of his personal character. His death is a loss to the American bar, a loss to the cause of high political and social morality, a loss to the State of New York, and to the country generally. ENGLISH shooting clubs have killed