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S :starvation at the care now on board the Thetis and Bear. private _Ellis, —_— THE OMAHA DaAiLy BEE FOURTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA, NEB., FRIDAY :\['.)R,N[NG. JULY 18, 1884, CREENLAND'S REQUIEM. | The Survivors of the Greely Expedition Foned in Smith's Sound. Seven Outof a Party of Twenty- five Rescued Alive, The Struggles and Privations of the Party Touchingly Detailed. time in threo centuries England yield: honot of reaching the farthest north, tonant Lockwood and Sergant Brainerd, b, reached I wood island, latitude ' longitue 442 b, They saw from a 2,000 elevation no land north or northwest, but’ to the northeast Grecnland yet extended until lost to view in cape Robert Rincoln, latitude 83 longitude 38 © Lieutenant Lock- wook was turnesd back in 1883 by open water on the north (ireenland shore, the party bare ly escaping a drift into the Polar ocoan, Dr. Pavy in 1882, following tha Markham route, was adrift one day in the Polar ocean north of cape Henry, oscaping to land, abandoning noarly everything. In 1882 T made a spring and, later, & summer trip into the interior of the Grinnell Land, discovering Lake Hazen, some sixt; fed by an'ice cape of north G drains Ruggles river and Weyprecht Fiord in- to Conybeare bay and Archor Fiord, From the h i nnell Land and by ten miles in_extent, whi ‘The Value of His Explorations to {the World, Heroic Strugeles of the Rescuing Party With the Elements, Dangers Braved and Death Defied For Humanity’s Sake, ‘The News as Received by His Mother at His Home. Stiscellaneous Notes of the Expedi- tion Gathered by the Press, The Greely Party Found, W ASHINGTON, July 17. —The acting.socrot: ry of the navy received a telogram from St. Johns, this morning, s'ating that the Greely relief expedition had found the survivors of Grealy's party. The survivors number seven men in all. The names ase Lieutenant Gree- ly, Sergeant Brainard, Sergeant Frodoricks, Sergeant Long, Sergeant Ellison, Hospital Steward Beidenbeck and Private Connell. ‘They were found by the relief ships, Thetis and Bear, five miles off Cape Sabine in Smith Sound. Sergeant on was very badly frost bitten, and died at Godhaven, July 6th, undergoing surgical operation. The relief ships, Thetis-aud Bear, with the survivers are now at 8t. Johos, N, T, The following telegram was roceived at ths ravy department this morning: St _Jouns, N. F., 9 a m., July 17.—To Hon, H. B. Chandler, Secretary of the navy, ‘Washington:—Thotes, Bear and Tock C wrrived hero to-day from West Greenland, All well separated from the Alert one hundred and fifty miles north during a gale. At p.m, June 22d, five miles off Cape Sabine,in Smiths sound, the Thetis and Bear rescued alive, Lieut. A, W, Greeley, Sergt. Brainard, Seret. T'roderick, Sergt, Long, Hospitdl Sto Beidenbeck, Private Cornel and Sergt. Ellison, the only survivors of the FranklinBay expe: dition, Sergt. Ellison had lost both kands by frost biteand died July. 6th, at Godhaven, three days after the amputation, which had become imperative. Seventeen of the twenty- five composing the expedition perished by o point where found. One was drowned while seeking to procurs food. “Twelve bodies of the dead were rescued and One Jiskimo, Twevevik, was buried st , Disco, in accordanse with uzelotrs of th inspector of Western Greer- land. Tive died on the dates following: Sergeant January 1st, 1884; Wederick, Eskimo, Sergéant Linn, April 6; licutenant Lockwood, April 9; Sergoant Jewell, April May 19; Sergeant Ralstrom, May 23d. Tae bodies were buried in ice at a fort near the camp, but were swept away to sea by the winds and currents before my arrival and could not be recovered. Private Henry died June 6th; private Schneider, June 18th. The names of the dead and buried in the ice fort with the date of death, whose bodies were not recorded, areas follows: Sergeant Rice, April 9th, 1884; Corporal Salen, June, 8d; private Berden, June Gth; assistant surgeon Pary, June Gth; Sergeant Gardner, June 12th; drowned by breaking through newly formed ice while sealing, ~Jeus Edwards, Eskimo, April 24, T would urgently request that the bodies now on board be placed in metalic cases here for safe and better transportation, This appears to me imporative, Groely abandoned Yort Longo August 9, 1883 and reached Band Inlet September 20th following, with his en- tire party well. He abandoned all his boats and was adrift thirty days on an ice floe in Smith's sound, His permanent camp was es- tablished Oct, 21st, 1883, at a point where he found, Durin, the nine months his party had to live upon a scant allow- anco of food brought from Fort Conge cached at Payer harbor and Cape Isubel] Sir Goorge Norte in 1 but found much demsged by lapso of time; that cached by Beebe at Cape Sabine in 1883, and a small saved from the wreck of the I’ and landed by Lieutenants ton and Colwell on by ly's party was found, When these provisions were consumed the party was forced to liva upon boiled sealskin stzipped from the sealskin clothiog and lichens and shrimps ht in goud weather, when they were anough %o make exortions, As it took 1,300 shrimps to fill a gallon measure the labor was too exbausting to depend upon them to sustain life entirely. The channel between Cape Sabine and ittleton, Island, did not close on account of violent gales all winter,s0 that the 240 rations at the latter paint could not be reached. All LGreely’s records and all instruments brought by him from Fort Conger are recov- ered and are on board, ¥iom Hare island to Smiths Sound I had constant and furfous struggle with ice in impas- sible floes, Solid barriers were overcome " by watchfuluess aud patience No opportunity to advance a mile escaped me snd for several hundred miles the ships were forced to run their way from lead to lead through ice varying in “thickness from 3 to 0 feet and when' rafted much greater. The stand Bear reached Cape York June 10, after & passage of 21 days on Melville bay, with two ships of the outside whaling Jeet, and continued to Cape Sabice, returning 7 days later, Fell in with seven others of that fleet off Westenholm Island and an- nced Greely's r n 1 to them, that thoy wmight uot he delayed from their fishing grouuds nor be temp! into the dangers of Smith's und in view of the reward of £25,000 offered by con- gress, Roturning across Mel villo Bay, fel with the Alert and Lock Garry off 1 Thumb strugglivg through heavy ice, Con- ader Coffin did sdwirably to get along with transport so early in the season before the opening had occurres, Lieutenant Emery with tho Bear, has supported me throughout with great skilfullness and unflinching readi- ness inaccomplishing the great duty of reliey ing Greely, Toe (ireely purty are very much fwproved since the rescue, but were critical in the extreme when found and for several days after, Forty-eight hours delay in reaching $hem would have been fatal to all now living. The season north is late and the closest for years, Smith’s Sound was not opeu when 1 leit Caps Sabine. The wiuter about Mell- llo Bay was the most severe for twenty 1 entirely duo to the un. wearied efforts of yourself and the secretary war in fite out this e dition for the wor it has had the honor to accomplish, (Stgoed.) W, B, Scurey, Commander, This great resul The Norihu WasHINGTON, July 1 ost Point, Cienerah Hazen, elved she has r the summit of Mount Arthur, 5,000 foet, the contour of the Iand west of Conger mountaina conyinced mo that Grinnell Land tends ¢ reotly south from Lioutenant Aldrich’s farth- est point in 1876, In 1883 Lieutenant Tock- wood and_Sergeant Brainerd succeoded in crossing Grinnell Land, and, ninety miles from Beatrix Bay, the head of Archer's Fiord, struck the head of a Ilord from the western sea, temporarily named by Lockwood, Greely Fiord, I'rom tho center of the Fird in lati- tude 80 minutes and 30 _seconds, longitude 78 minutes and 30 seconds, Lieutenant Lock- wood saw the northorn shore terminate some twenty miles west and the southern thore extending some fifty miles, w wood some seventy ~miles apparently separate land from Grinnell Land, 1 have named the new land Arthur Land, Lieutenant Lock they followed, going and returning, cape averaging about 150 feot of perpenc fa It tollows that Grinnell Land interior is an ice capped belt of country some sixty miles wide, between the northern and southern ice cupes. In March, 1884, whilo Sergeant Long was hunting, he looked 'from the northwess side of Mount Catey to Hayes sound, scei on the northern cost three capes wostw the furthest seen by Nar s in 1876, The sound extends some twenty miles fur- ther west than is shown in the Engl but is probably shut in by land, wl up across the western e years' station duties and obsel s, all explora- tions and the retreat to Cape Sabine were ac- complished without lots of life, disease, se rious accidents, or even severe frost bites, No seurvy was experienced at Conger and but one death occured from it la (Signed) SLEY, A second dispateh from Lisutenant Greely as follow Jonns, July 17.—Chief Signal Ofticer i Brainard, Bierderbick, Conuell, dericks, Long and myself, solo survivors, arrived to-day, having been rescued at the point of death from starvation by the f ships Thotis and Bear, June 223, at Carry Blay, northwest of Cape Salice. All now in good health, but weak. Sergeant Llison re: died in July. Cross died lust January stensen Linn, Rice, Lockwood and Jewell in April. Whisler and Israel in May, Kia- liugburg, Sator, Henry, Bender, Pavy, Gard- ner, and Schuieder in July, Abandoned Fort Conger Argi Frozen in pack off Victc head August 2. ndoned steam laun September 11, cleven miles northeast of Cocked Hat Istand, When on the point of landing were three times driven by southwest stormstinto Kanes sea; fina ly landed Septem- v 29th in Baird Iniet, learning by scouting parties of the Protens disaster, and that provisions had been left for us from Cape Lsabella toSabine, Moved and es- tablished winter quarters at Camp Clay and Sabineand Cocked-Hat. Aninventory showed that by a daily ration of four and_cne-third ounces of meat, seven ounces of bread and og biscuit and four ounces miscellaneous the party would have ten days full rations left for crossing Smith’s sound to Littleton Island, Unfortunately Bmith’s sound remained open the entire winter, rendering crossing impracti- Ve, Gaxme fulet Gespits uJsily hnnting from early in February, Before the sun re- turned only 500 pounds of meat were ob- tained. This year shrimps, seaweed, sassafras, rock lichens and sealskin were resorted to for food with results as shown by the number of survivors, The last regular food was issued May 14. Only 150 pounds of meat left by Garlington. Compelled to send in November four men to obtain 144 pounds of English meat in Isabella, During the trip Elizon froze solid both ~ his hands and feet and lost them, surviving, however, through the terrible winter and spring until July 8. The survivors owe their lives to the indomitable energy of Captain ‘hloy and Licutenant Iimory. who, preceded by three and accompanied by five whalers, forced their vessels from Upernavik through M ville bay into north water at Cape York th the foremost whaler, They gained a rd whenever possible and always held it. Smith Sound was crossed and tho party res- cued during one of tho most violent gales I have evor kuown, the boats being handled only at the imminent risk of swamping, Four of uswere unable to walk, and could not haye survived 24 hours, Every care and attention was given us, and we ological, ti dulum and other obsarvations, Yalo and standard thermon vs, fort negati m blanks, and_photogrphi proofs, ics and_other things neces- sarily abandoued. The Thetis remains hera five days, probably, (Signed,) G urerLy, Comanding. The following dispatches were sent Lieuten- ant Greely to i A vice, WasH- INGTON, July 17,—1 ant A, W, G St. Johns: Our hearts are overflowing adness and thanks to God fc and in sadness for thoso who without fa yours are dead. Your family are well and in San 1 (Signed) W. B. Hazex, Licutenant Greely, St. Jolne: Your di patches are most satisfuctory and show your expedition to have been in the highest degree successful in every particular. This faca is not affected by any disaster later. (Signed) W. B, Hazex, West Poixt, N. Y., July 17.—The follow- ing dispatch was forwarded by Secretary Chandler; To_Captain Shelly. St. Johng, N, I, —Receive my congratula- tions and thanks for yourself and your whols command, for your prudenco, perseverance and courage in reaching our dead and dying countrymen, The hearts of the American people’ go out with great affection to Lieu- tenant Greely and tho few survivors of his deadly peril. Care for thom unremitting y and bid them ba cheorful and hop c: unt of what life yet has in store for them. eserve tenderly the remaius of the heroic doad. Prepare them according to your judg- went and bring them home (Sigued) L. Cgaxi crotary of KERNAN ON GR LY, INCOMPETENCY AT WASHINGTON, WasHINGTON, July Mr. orge Ker nan, of this city, avd a well known Arctic traveller and author, who has taken an active interest in the recent attempts to relievo Lieutenant Greely’s party, and who went be- fore the Arctic relief bosrd last epring to urge the offaring of such a reward as would ro the ation of whalers in the ch, was asked by an Associated press re. porter tonight what he thought of the nows He replied, “It’s a heroicachievement in secured from St. Johus, remarkable story and the field, clouded by disaster, due to incom petency in Washington, 1 Lieutenant Grees ly and his party had all returned in safety to the United States, as they might have done had they been proy frported their Arc- tic record in poiut of skillful munagement an success would have heen unparalelled, N other Arctic expedition has ever spent two consecutive winters and par of the third i such high latitude und achieved such results without & casualty or single cags of serious ickness, 1f Ligut Greely had found the mouth of Smith's sound and the shelter and food he had @ right to expect there, be couid robably have brought his entire party back chief of the followi to the United States in perfect health, thiree winters in the highest northern latitades the f .-Lllhu‘. ever have been reached wnd after a series of sladging campaigns which for boldness and skillful execution have rarely, if ever, been surpassed.” *Conld the disaster which befell his party have been averted with the knowledge avail able at the time the relief exhibition were fitted out “Unquestionably, and that is the pity of it. 1t doubles the grief which must be felt in the face of such a terrible catastrophe, to think that two ships on successive years and proba Lly a third were in a position to land stores ich would have saved the lives of those eighteen men, Beebe, in 1882, anchored in Payer harbor, just north of Cape Saline, with a ship full of stor Garlington, the next summor anchored in the same place, and also with a ship full of stores, and a few days later the Yantic, with four months provisions on board, was only thirty miles away. Any one of these threa sh'ps might have landed stores exactly where Greoly afterwards made his winter camp and have carried the brave party through, but their commanding officers wero n;xtlévr:lmcul to do 8o, and they did not think of it “Were Greely' M\tici[m(l'l? s movements those which it they would bet” “Phey wore precisely such as 1 anticipated, It was thought at signal office, he would remain at his station until September 1st, but as L pointed out in a letter to the Now York Herald on the 17th of last September, if he remained until Sep- tember 1st he could not get away at all that rar, on account of the impracticability of ging operations along that coast in the fall. 1 therefore thought he would abandon his station in July or August of 1883 and come down to the north of Smith’a sound, in hoats, as he was, in fact, doing at tho very timo my lotter was written,” “How important are the discoveries made by Lieutenant Greele; From the point of view of an Arctic ge- ographer they are of first-class import Licutenant Greely has not only taken from Commander Markham, of the D navy, the blue ribbon of Arctic discove: the highest latitude ever attained in ax of the world, but he has greatly extend lumits of Nares explorations, both in land and Grinnell Land. The fact th: Grey Wi two of ey's sledge parties were stopped in open waterin the Polar basin and that Dhoth were at one time adrift in strong currents, which threatened to carry them helplessly away northward, would seem to show that the P lar basin 18 not a sol ncient, immc Dble ice which Nares descri , and which he declared was “never navigable,” Lieutenant realy’s explorations extend over three de- grees of lu itude and nearly forty degrons longi- tude. He has virtually ascertained the true outline of Grinnell Land, and has crossed it from cast_to west, and on the northern coast, Greenland has | gone one degroe of latitude and ten degrees a longitude beyond the farthest point reached by Captain Nares, accomplished sledging offi~ cer, Licutenant Boaumont. These achievements alone reflect the highest credit upon Lieutenant Greely and his men, but to them, of course must be udded the great mass of scientitic knowledge gathered Dy the party during their two ycars at Lady T'rauklin b; Incidents of the Voyage, St Jonns, N, I, July 17,—On the arrival at anchorage of the reli dron to-day an Associated press correspoudent intecviewed Licutenant Gr and other vivors of the Arctic colony and the following facts were disclosed. After passing two winters at Fort Conger in scientific research Lieutenant Gireely, with his whole party intact, broke up mpment and commenced a southwest descent. This was accomplished amid great penls from gales of wind, ice nips and other casualties, Cape Sabine having been reached a temporary home was erected, built of stoues - and wv:‘red {’,}' the Dot 8 ro! long the party onmmm"‘fi Bflghmhlr winter quarters wera o:-ablishid at Oape Sshiny” The cem- missaridt’ had became very meagre, and a cache of provisions left by the Proteus last f'cur; but poorly supplemented it. The steam aunch had become fast in the ice a few weeks previous and had to be abandoned dur- ing the whole winter, The first havoc in the ranks was early in January, when ot the men dropped off with scurvy. On the 9th of April Tieutenant Lockwood and Mr. Rice, photog- rapher, succumbed after an heroic attempt to secure for their starving comrades about 200 pounds of meat supposed to Dba cached at a place named Bad creek, distant about fifteen miles from the encampment, 1 ner, perished May 27th, i ingbury died Jure Ist, and ist, slopt in death June 26th, ized that death was Two Esquimaux also perished, one of starvation and the other drowned in his kayak, being pierced by some mnewly formed ice April 17th thus cutting off all hope of getting any supply of seal meat for the starving explorers, The Eskimo were most faithful and devoted followers and helpers of Licutenant Greely, Ellison was reecued and safely brought on board the steamship Bear, where he died a few days subsequently. This’ i an extraordinary instance of human enduray While away s ten miles from his hus last winter, the temperature suddenly fell to 48 degrees below ze His hands and feet were frozen to the very bone and he was dr 1 by his companions in_almost a dying condition'to his hut, His feet and hands were literally amputuated by gthe incisive frost and “in this terrible state ho lived through the dreary months that int: d. The cued bodies of twelve of the ms have been bronght up by the stcamers and Thetis, embalmed in tanks filled alcohol, The survivors are all doing and are rapidly gaining flesh strength again, Lieutenant Greely, in an exceedingly critical condition wsferred to the Thetis,is now able to his morning he drove out for an hour's ride to get country and came back resuscitated. The rescue took place on the 22d of June under cireumsta of great difficult; The Thetis avd Bear la off from shore about three hundred ds. There was a teriffic gale Dblowing from southwest and a heavy sea was running and a formidable ice nip was apparently inevitable. Lieutenant Cres lly and the other six suryivors had to be transferred from their camp toa steam launch and whale boat in their sleep- g bags, and while steaming from land to the ships the destruction of the whole party atone time scemed certain, The sea swept furiously over them and the fury of the wind threatened to capsize them, At length they were safely placed on board th: rescuing and who w when tr move about, squadron, whers overy possible preparas tion was made to insure their re- covery and comfort, The Girecly party er latitude thah ever r degrees o enland wis ¢ ud 55 minutes by obscrvation reached a high polar expl minntes, Th up tof83 degrees and numed Cape Lincoln, The steamship Alort partad company with the squadron, yes: terday off Tuuk Islands and has not yet reachzd port. LIKUTENANT GREELY'S HOME, Niw B , July 17.—Tho news of find- iog of Greely,s party was received at the honse of the famous commander with profound joy, His career from childhood to the present time has boen watched with intense and the great fame which he has gained 15 proudly felt by all hero, He resided with his brother and mother, and when the glud news wis conveyed to them they were almost over come. Mrs Grealy, while joyful at her sons safety was deeply affected at the loss of 50 wany of his party, B — ¥reserving the Bodies, West Poixt, July 17.—Seeretary Chandler said this evening: “I have in accordance with uggestion made by Commodors y in Iois dispateh, issued instructious to have the remains of the dead preserved, and the whole paity will come home soon.” When asked if there would be any more Artic researches, Mr, Chandler said: I don't desire at this time to enter into that matter,” Dispatches pouring into the secretary all afternoon, congratulating him upon the siccess of the ex pedition, and in company with few friends he was busy perusing thein, wer They Meet in Couvention and Adopt a Platform, And Resolve to Support Blaine and Logan With a Will, They Justly Denounce Land and Corporate Monopoly, And Belabor Governor Glick for Using the Pardoning Power. Tha Nominations for State Ofticers Completed and They Adjourn. KANSAS REPUBLIOANS, THE PLATFOBM, Toreka, July 17.—The convention assem. bled again this morning. Judgo J. C. Strong chairman, Committee on resolutions present- ed the report with the remark that it was the unanimous action of the committee, and had been arrived at through harmony and ina spirit of concession, The resolutions endorsed and ratify the nomination of James G. Blaine and John A, Logan, the fiest citizen of the re public and the brave and gallant union sol dier, and pledge them the largest majority ever given to national standard bearers, The platform continues as follows Resolved, That the mnational republican platform meets with our hearty and euthusi- astic endorsement as the best “statement « living principles ever presented to the Am can people. Its firm adherence to the protec tion of Amrrican industry, in demanding the enforcement of the inaleniable rights of man in opposing land monopoly and corporate mo nopoly moets with our cordial approval, Tesolved, That prohibition has'by n the people, without distinction of part; adopted as the organized law of this sta wolved, favor this faithful on- forcement of the constitutional amendment, that the successful_efforts of prohibition may be realized; that the declared wish of the peo- peultwl, and the majority of the law ed, , That as under tho constitution and laws of the state, all errors and irregularitios of the inferior courts may be corrected by projer proceed- ings in the supreme comrt, a tribunal now composed of members of both great politica parties of the stats and the recent actiou of Governor Glick in exereising the pardoning power to relieve guilty parsoas from their just penalties of law breaking, olely on grounds of alleged wrongs and irregnlarities existing at the trials when they have not sought a review of their cases in the supremo court, is an un- warrantad assumption by th? chicf exccutive of the judicial power of the state and is an at- temt to destroy the coufiduace of the people in tho courts, thereby inciting lawlossness and disobedience to public authorigy and such con- duct on the part of a governgt under rolemn oath to obey the cunub\tntim¨ enforce the laws, merits and deserves ti-hcondemnation of all citizons irrespective of purty affiliation and regardless of personal views 4s to the policy of te of been prohibition, Corporations derive all «.ir powers from the states and are nsi . o the state for the mauner in which v “Aie eoch pow- era.’» We demand tha’s ' wme + Jeailrcad Taw be 8o strengthened and aended as to re- move its cumbersomo features and to unequiv- ocally vest in the board of railroad commis- sioners all necessary power to accomplish the good that ought to he obtained and s to compel compliance with the reasonable orders of the board made with reference to those matters as to which, under the provisions of said laws, such board has but an advisory ju- risdiction, The railroad companies of " the stato are entitled to a fair and reasonable re- muneration for services performed by them, but they are not authorized and nhuuh{ not h permitted to establish rates for the purpose of obtaining tevenue to be applied in payment of dividends on illegal aud excessive issuos of stock or intercst upon fictitious indebtedness. Tho report of the platform committes having been received, Col. Authony offered to amend by inserting this resolntion; ** That we favor nstitutional convention,” This led toa lengthy debate, in which the whole subject of prohibition was discussed. Finally a vote on the amendment was taken and it wa yeus € The platform was” then adoptec nge. Albart H. Horton was then nominated for chief justice by acclamation and W, A. John- ston for associate just Colonel John A, Martin, editor of the Atchinson Champion and late secrotary of the ropublican national com mittee, wes nominated for governor by a rising vote, and three zheers were given for which tn returned thanks in graceful was then completed as follow without For lieutenant governor, A, P, Riddle; secre tary of state, 5. B, Allu; auditor, Bdwin P’ McCabe; Treasurer, 5. F. Howe, attorney general, S. B, Beadford; superintondeut _of 1, The n and nstruction, J. H. Lowh Jmmitteo wus then cl djonrned publi stato central the convention g ——— THIS TARIFE' PLANK, wry Watterson Expounds the Dem ratic Metnods and Ticket. JuIsvILLE, July 17, Louisyille democrats, to the number of 5000, ratified the national ticket last night, Henry Watterson was one of the spoakers, Ieferring to tho tariff plank he said that the national committee lost the election of 1850 by running away from tho is- sue of revenue reforn, That that nitte was atillin the lauds of the protectioni that its power *‘directed by the fine Italimn Land of Randall, was sont forth to pack plat- form committees in tho late convention Through its sgency artfully employed the democrats of five southern states were mis- ropresented on that committes, Ilence tho disproportion which appearedin congress be tween the followers of ltandull aud the fol Jowers of Carlisle aud Morrison was not n tained in the committee,” Tho committen was in point of fact vearly equally divided But it i fuir to say—it is true to suy, thab ufter the two oxtromes has stripped tho ques tion of eurplusage and had laid down without disguise the full measure their desire a extent their demand, it appeared we were not 5o far apart as we had imagived wo were. And there camo ut a better feeling and along with it a pro- of agroement”. Mr, Watierson went Ay that platform as mude by the sub. commitiee the hearty approval of all members ppt Butler, 'he speaker asserted he was satisfied and that so were Carlisle and Morrison, Hewitt, od with In 1880 a false issue as to ipitated by the republicans in the canvass, The demnocrats ran away nd were beaten, In the comivg canvass the are clearly laid down. No false iswuo or now {ssue can be sprung upen us and we are not going to run away. We are golug to stand and fight intelligently and unanimously and when the battlo is over and won we are going to reduce the war taxes st least §100, 000,000 and revise the tariff aud reduce it to peace basis under @ wise and just application of the principles unfolded and specitied by the platform adopted by the national convention, which put Cleveland and Hendricks in the field. Coufident of the plat- f rm I am equally confident of the ticket Hurd and Morton, and those who ao the froe traders, the tariff was pr la Oloveland has alliod himself with all that is clear and sober, upright and elevated in our public life. o is not a plamed knight, he s 1ot o tattood man, he ik not a legislative prize tighter, nor a diplomatic pay actor, He never | in his life wrapped the American flag around him and marched down the halls of the Amer. ioan congress to throw his shining lance in the faca of anybody. He is a plain and solid citi zen who has done his duty always without any fuss or fusion, and who has the strength and nerve to handle the broom which is to sweep the public service clean, He has in the person of Hendricks joinod to him, all that remains of the old ticket. My belief is, that ticket will be elected, and for my part I enter the canvass without a single reservo or regret,” e - 1K NATIONAL NORMAL, The Teachers Uont'nue in Session at adison, Manson, Wis., July 16,—The work of the national teachers’ association continued with the address of Hon, Thomas W. Bicknell, president of the astociation, of Boston, on de- partment reports, discussing the elementary and normal, art, musical and deaf mute in struction, with the meetivg of the Froebel in- stitute of North America, and the deportment of superintendents, F. Louis Soldon, of St. Louis, president of the elementary department, referred to ele- wentary instruction as the basis of all higher ummings of the New York training color and design, Thenormal departiont was addressed by Prof. W. M., Payne, of Ann Harbor, and f. Hunter, R, W. Stevenson, superintondent of schools, Columbus Ohio, addressed the convention on the supervision of city Is. Art education was discussed by 8. L. jompson, president of Perdue university. Miss Jorephine C. Locke, supervisor of drawing, St. Louis, presented a roport on the condition n the United States, submitting a critical comprehensive course of study on animproved plan, Approving discussionsfollowed by T Miss school diseussed form, »fossor Otto Fuchs, of the Muryland institute, Balti- more; Prof Woodward, of the St. Louis rain i g school; Anna I, Kuauffus, of the Loisville hlgh school; and others, A discussion in tho deaf mute departmont wade by John A, Giilespio and Graham Bell, of Washington, and_Professor Gordon, of the deaf mute coiloge, of Washington, A popular paper on *The @onflict of the Ten Tdeals” was given by Colonel I\ W. Harker, of Tllinofs. e evening sossion oponod with an address itol building, and C ional church drew ing address spoko on “Tho Gospel of elt olp,” Robert Bingham, of North Carolina, con tinued the subject with a papor on “Hduca- tional Status and Needs of the South » on “The Educational Outlook in " was given by Prof, 1. B, Wash- ington, of Tuskege . Albert Salisbury, 's tendent of educa: tion of the American Missionary nssociati followed with a paper on “The supplement of the war.” Tho subject was further di ed by the state superintendont of Hon, G. J. Orr, and Professor A, 11 man, of Cieorg Addrezses wera made on the World's Indus- and Cotton Exposition by Hon. John Eaton, U, S, commissioner of education, and Directoc-Goneral A, 1%, Burke. Mavisox, Wis, July 17.—The National Toachers’ association continued its proceed ings with the announcement of committees by Prof. Bickuell, followlng which the conven- tion opencd with the disoussion of Indian ed- ucation by Albert I, Riggs, Santee agency, Neb, In tho art departmont, resolutions coms plimenting the work of Miss Josephine Locke, Sicoctor of drawlng, St Lowlss Wa 5. Derry, Worcester, Mass, and Ir, L. Thompson, pres- ident Perdue university. In a meeting of the fudustiisl dopartmmé ugusi ducobsdis ot Chicago, on tha nubject: “A Layman's View of Mantal Training,” ably championed the general introduction of manual training in publio. schools. ~ Education in our public school discussion followed and political scie in our colleges was preseated in paper by Dr. W. W, Folwell, of Minneapolis, Presidonit John Bascom _followed discussing “Langnage in a Liberal Education.” President S. A. Knapp, of Towa Agricultural college, con: tinued the subject, Mant sesmon discussed by Mrs, and Miss Clara ( )ly followed. “Wo- man's Work in Education,” concluded the con vention's work with a paper upon_the subject by Mrs. May Wright Sewell and Mrs. Louis Hopkins, A grand reception and collation to the convention was given by Govenor Rusk at the mansion residence, July 17.—In the evening morican Fducation,” wera Alogg, of Boston, e —— cuBa, How the Guerrilles Demoralize the Government Troops, NEW Onceans, July 16,—Privato advices the headquarters of the b the insu nts un- Aguro undertook dition agai slantations of cer ;i rsous known to favor the government, Although opposed by a strong detachment, of vogular troops, the insurgents after a sk via, Jamaica from Cuban insurgents of two hours, drove back the forces and burnt all the build d machinery on the Santa Maria and ades plantations, At the same time o baud of insurgents in_ the ugar district wero avtacked by a strong force of the government troops known as the San Domingo division, The usurgents being in trenched in an aliost_impregnablo position, vepulsed the troops with a | o Killed al wounded, Th s of the sts was one slightly wounded, The captain general of Cuba hins called i meeting of officers to concort on 4 plan for successfully encountering the encmy in the field, A large number of troops were lost or demcralized, b gucrilln war-faro, The insurgents divido fnto 1l bands, scattor over a largo torritory and lizo the regulars by false alarms and ed marches through swamps to find no ry. 'he formal presentation of the flag sent to tha Ascalon division of Knights of Pythias by the Fort. Dearburn division of Chicago was colebrated by a full dress parade and ball in tho Spanish fort, e TELEGRAPH NOTES, The New York democratic state committee ots ut Albany, July 23, ‘There hes been 578 deaths from cholera at Marseilles since the appearance of tho plague The board of health of Paris have ordered a thorough cleansing of the city to prevent the cholera securing a foothold, T'he authorities of Vienna havo issued a wai rant for the arrest of Thos, Leisinger, a mor- mon missionary from America, 1 gor s skipped the country for the country’s good, The national prohibition convention which meots at Pittsbure next week will be largely attended. over 600 delegates having been elected already, 1t will Lo a strictly delegal body, Ample arrangements have been made to entartain the de tes with pure ice water, A dispateh from New York, July 16, suys The long contested fight botween the Brush loctric Light Co, and the United States Electric Light C regarding validity of pat- ents has been decided by J“Hl]uflslllpumn in favor of the United States Electric Light Co The testimony and briofs covered four thous. and printed pagos Henator Pendleton expresses bis pleasure at the declaration of tho democratic convention for civil service reform. o said both Cleve. land and Hendricks were strongly committed to the reform of the clvil service ‘who could desire more absolute commit the doctrines of reform than the acts ¢ wrnor (! d and the declarations of Goy ernor Hondricks?" m— . Crop Outlook, Ixpiaxavorts, Iod, July 1 Manager Henderson, of the Indu ington & Western railway, has boen gath information as to the condition of corn, wheat Gieneral and oats, tem in Ohio, Tndiana have just five points, and Indiana s abor uantity and quality A comparatively sma ti It is rovorted poor at o not a corn growing loc above the average in and raported poor EUMMEL 1l and it the av m——— NO. 2. nols. a0 In Tlinois acr nly alit no point, Saddlebags and Sulky. Caieaco, July 17, the driving park, First race—seven 0, Niphon second, Wi ond race 2:104. and rac 1:45, 1474, Tho fitth none of the jocl Tho judges hay Tho judgos fi No tune taken, tho full course. Moxyovtit sweopstakes won, Pank, 0 stakes ; time, 1:1 Burngate stakes—th a half time, 2:404, nza won, Ro ; time, 1:50} Tongs—Sister won, It Patapsco third; time, Handicap steeploc Buchra and Compron second place, No tim Brionron Bracit, —threo-quarter mil Catheart 2d, Quixot Selling raco—mil craft won, Lodford 1 hotel sta ime, 2:13}, Handicap raco won, Tenstrike 2d, All agen irth race—mile heats tha tirst heat, Edwin A, the second Breechloader socond pstakes soven furlongs, attlor 2d, Jessie D. 3r Mid:summer races at furlongs Floyd Tuly threo-quarter mile - as sccond, Duplox third; time, q two-year-olds Wanda won, Chalula second, reo-y ing allowances ke 1:31. haso Nise ran g o taken, July 16 les— il Wandering 2d, b 1l ages —milo, arewell ar-olds Joo throo-quarter mile 171 Qu threo-quarter Glenarm dead heat for | d None soven rite) second, i vardous divisions of that eyt oun SPEGML Raport both i there | zo, bt the condi- rn crop is uniformly 1, at vwenty points very good and at some points promises to be the largest over raised. which i The oats crop is age and condition o point, Murray Daly third; time, - Exil \lvu(!, Rhodama sscond, Wanda third; time, hird race—ono and one.quarter miles won, Chantilly second, Athlon third; Breochloader won nd thir time, 1:434, weo seemed like a put up job, ya apparently trying to win not yet decided tfw r Iy gave the race to Sealper. It was a steoplechaso over Tandi eon ; X mile and St Saviour won, Duchess socond, Turk mile and a quarter al Arch sccond, Mimi Colt won a furlong. Waood- | b erilous #d; time, 2:00, d o quartor. ughaballagh King Fan time, 1:406, | shorts King Lion won, time, 1314, fur- vinners Littlo Buttercup won, MARKETS, n received from alout seventy- T'he condition of w = « | Wheat Is Strong and &y newhat Higher, &* Corn and Oats Are = out at Nominal Pric - Cattle Dull and LO‘a Large Receipts, Under ¥ o | The Bulls and Bears Struggle for the Lead on Wall Street.. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH, d Special Dispatch to the B Citieaco, July 17.—Grain opened strong under an active demand from shorts, and ade vanced fe on wheat and nearly 1c on corn. There were also some buying orders an flour, from the north and southwest, where the weather was reported to be showery, English markets were also quoted firmer and liyhter vipts were reported on winter wheat mar- kots, The advance in corn was attributed to largoe shipments and small_receipts. Corn is to be scarce all throughout the west and in Now England, and shippers are forwarding now beeause freights will be 5o higher next woek to the seaboard points. Aftershorts had covered freely, markets weakened and ruled dull, but rallied later on receipt of a fresh bateh of buying orders and closed at the high- est figures of the session, Cash or July wheat was about lc under August. Vessel room was engaged for nearly 200,000 bushels of n, | whoat, most of which was bought before to- y's advance. Cash No, 2 corn sold at 53@ ic, and rejocted at 4 3 ta sold up to 30jc, and later 30jc was bid the demand bemg from shorts. Lard and meats followed corn, with moderate trading, fly in the former, which closed 123@15c higher than on Wednes- day evoning, P quiet. Wheat sold at” 8hfe, down to Sdfe, and closed at 8 August off to 83{@sde, and October opened at closing at about S5ic. The ppowed to have covered, and efforts nado to brosk the market. ' Corn sold at closing at the out- e, and cloted at Cash or July higher, and ribs 224 : PITTLBURG'S BPORT, relatively stronger, sall- Pirrsivng, July 17.—The ovent at the sing at bic. Oats Homewood raco track to-day was the trial of for September, Lard Westmont o beat his Ohicago record of and short ribs at S7 774 for Sep pa rter was the last, he_broke b places—Time 2:17. ul was 5500 added to beat his nd i, 2:18§, known, Freo-for-nll pa won, Billy 8. 2d Time 213§ The ngg full milo with ranning He failed by} socond—Time 2:0: own tor 2 The Oar, CONNEAUT REGATTA POSTPONED, MeADVILLE, Pa., July 16.—The consolation s ot Conuoaut. Livke. woro the rapes of the o rough water. Creaco, Jul LRowing association rowing organizati ns father of wators, from loans, opened here to-day. The race for junior single soulls, rowed in heats of one mile and The first frial heat was won by Corbett, of Pullman, Illinois, in 15:00;" E, A, ialveston, second; roturn, Baker, third, bporud uuiil bo-orors, on ase in th ers—Purso 81,600 fuller 3d, Joo Bowers 4th— 17.—A Daily News Mc Tllinois, special says the seventh annual re- gatta of the Mississippi Valloy Amateur comprising all tho leading the valley of the t. Paul to New Or- R, P.A The second hoat was won by J. nahue, of Davenport, in 1 t. Louis finished second, b cut himself in_six time The purse was $ io thir 00, witl sting. The race v by Haery Wilkes in | @1 Rogers 2d, A, V. P ihrino. Sparkle 4th™~Time Tho winner % comparatively un Richbal Ilen, I, Gas. was dis- qualified for turning the wrong stake, givin § wnoond p Fowler, of Ch ago, third, 0 to John Karf, of Chicago; start for the final heat to-morrow, Base Ball, At Pittsburg At New York—Athletics, 5; Metropolitans, AtSt. aul At Boston ns, 4 'y At Minnespolis — Minneapolis, 5; Terre Haute, 2. These six will Alleghanys, 3; Washingtons, and Rapids, 0. rovidence t. | droves of o, [ Drices. JOK St l;h!u 1Y, [ ber and pork at $11 90 for the year. 1 oat CATTLE, n the md Market dull under very heavy receipts and . | descriptions of cattle sold lower. There is an 1 | increase of nearly 4,000 over this time last week, about 3,000 of which arrived to-day. The best fat cattle were slow and strong at 10 lower. Among the arrivals were several prime fat vatives, and a large num- ber of fairto good grass cattlo. There was lso n large number of poor grassers and other common nutive stock that sold 30@40c lower 11 | than at the opening of the week. There were about-100 ears of Texans, 40 or 50 cars of Col- orado and Indian Territory cattle, which with odds and ends, would make nearly 2J0 cars of western, northwestern and southwestarn stock on the market. Texans were 10@15 lower, makiog decline of 25@40c for the week, Old ke sl aep OB it o native stock wero e lower, i L decline for sl week ‘-&hi,\\ e, Stockers: and feeders_uniet, with little or no in 1,450 to 1,550 Tbs export mades, S6 60 @6 85; good to choice hipping, $6 15@6 5b; common to medium, 1,040 to 1,350 1bs 5 40@ 6 00. Grass Toxans averaging 710 to 970 Ibs sold 10@20c lower at $3 60@4 (0, There was a keen demand for fine assorted light, and the best of these sorts sold 6@10 higher. Heavy worts wero_ouly barely steady on an average, the genoral market cloring ratber tame. There was only a limited demand for skips, culls, light throwouts, and prices were almost nom= inal. Choice assorted light sold at from $3 00 @5 70, maioly at ‘@b 50, and choice heavy at $ 00@b 65, wainly between 85 40 5 60, Light, 160 to 210 bs, 8 00@5 65, ¢ | and & W, T, THE MONEY MARKET, Special Dispateh to Tiie Bee. NEw Yonk, July 17.—It has been dull and comparatively dead in the stock market all day. In tho Grangers St Paul isupl per cent from lowest prices, but only do better than last night, and is about the same below the opening. Lurlington s the same as yes- terday. Tllinofs Contralis 1 per cent better, At Buffalo—Buffalo, 1; Chicago, 2. Rock Tsland is off 13 V. f y 13 3 2 tock d is off 1}e, and Northwestern }o At Lomiavitle - Towiaville, 3; Clncinnati, 1. | Jower,The Vanderbilf stocks ave dull, ndrop v hiiadeiphiyeyUnions, Kevatong 41 of 1 per cent in tho Michigan Central and 2 ro ’ ) e only a fractional change in the others, includ- #AL Milwaukeo, Wik, —Milwaukeo, 0; Sagl- | jpg"New York Central. Tn connection with S 4 o O the latter it may be stated that there 18 some At Quincy *‘li"‘.‘" Bl 'l‘»‘v‘ iy B o, 5, | Pressare to sell Truske line stocks this after- k- Chevatudae b Desporun 5, | oot and u roport of tho outting of rates by gt QIATRIANES, the “Nickel-Plate, good many shorts were At Btillwater —Btillwater, willing to cover on the break. Gould stocks have 0. At Peorin Peoria i Italians in Minecs. NELSONVILLE, Ohlo, quie the mines, all expericnced minors, rators claim that t r wookly for is ended, of the one dol troub] McBrid tors had not acceded, Ttalians are dissatisfie the Pinkerton men will rer this a detachmont of ¢ Carbonhill to see t| wish, Operators more Italians to work , July 17, he B The_uctions of tate Mincs ussoclation, arc watched as the fifteonth was the day he was to order - general strike in the state, if opera an geb Muskegon, 4. Lis vras tho t day since the Italians wero put into [ M A carloud of twenty-five Ttalians, arrived to-day, an ) ,000 more. T'he miners in soveral districts have promised f fund until the Prosident been let alone. The only noticable variations u Missouri Pacifie, which sold off over2 per cent, and iy now 1 ver cent better than th bottom prices. Western Union varied less, but is fractionally weaker than yesterday. on_good stock colluteral to-day is offered freely at 1 per cont. Abnormally low d | funds aro awaiting confidence in market and socking call loan investment, There was some sclling oarly in the day, on reports of further bank troublos in the west, with direct reference to [ndianapolis, but up to_this hour thero are no confirmations of the alleged con- tinuance of the troubles, Numerous lwpurm of fuilures in banking and commission circles Reporte that the | continue to be circulated. od and and will leave if e — t, In view of Rallroad Appointments, constables was sent from the e Auten GALYESTON, July special says that ‘Web Hotton, rapist, overh outrag citizens, h dead, They took th for dead, After the p morning, inquest, but the rema cors are now hunting for th him 6 rope « ins dis o Burned to Death, 1l Dispateh to T ning by the were kind oil on to make it burn not live doubtful, | a— Savings Bank Collapse v, (Ils.) Daily Murphysboro, Citeaco, July 17, News' privato dvic Dank at that pla nominal axsets to the hour of closing hended, W uly17. Cuicao, of the Wo v number Ttesolutions were pa Jovition. 1t was d iore for the dissemi and the recov 11, report the failing of the 1 e Bk, July 1 o oxplosion uf a kerosene dling « fire, and poure botter, 4the olde The € abiliti o 10's Kxposition, Director General Burke, i's Jixposition, New Orleavs, wet of leading citizens to cave an explauation of the we ased pred Killing. A Ne s Richmond ' ANDREWS’ aled in the woods near the scene of the off and ici, aged six and niue, were -y of the young Miners not veceipts of applications for space, on go out if they claim_differontly, and say they have ordered now machines and will pat left i Tho coroner weut oug to hold an cared and offi re this afternoon by a crowd of indignant i toa treo and shot fifteen times at him, when he foll apparently o m 1 1ty left Hetton got up, S8, § went_ home. dressed his wounds, and left this anws N U ~Two boys of burned ! havin, stated ,000. T'he citizons are excited o account of the bank recelving deposits up and trouble is appre night and k in hand, cudorsing the ex- led to open an office ation of information 81, Louts, July 17.—James Smith, general traffic manager Wabash railroad, this morning appointed M. Kuight general froight agents H. B, McClellan, general eastern agent; W. H. Smith, commercial agent, Kavsas City; O, Hudson, commereial agent, St. Louis, RYING TO HOLD DOWN 'EARL DAKING POWDE ITAMBOUNDTORISE, is LeT LYET uma owder, 13 pos- o ettmonata Dana Hays, Bos. ton; M, D 10; aud Gusiavas Bode, Milw sold in bulk, _E. ANDRE X i m‘fi?&cfl“s. o %fi’&?fifis (falum oF i in Androw tively PURE. recefved Troin 2 | } { | | |