Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 5, 1884, Page 1

¥OURTEENTH YEAR. | THE OMAHA DalLy BEE OMAHA, NEB., TU ISDAY MORNING, AUGUST against L an, ® friend f vote the wishes of ngainst them, LIBERTINE LAIRD. Such a Correspondent Sizes Up the Second District Congressman, The fight has n and Gaslin, A His Personal Immoralities and Guerrilla Political Methods. aning what they congress, His Subservienoy to the Railroads and to Other Ourporations. not fail to vote the the presidential c braska, onr The Strident Boom that is Walk- { ing the Distriot for Gaslin, The Judee's Magnificent Follow= ing from His Own Distriot, BLAIN! ‘Why Do the #His Splendid and Fearless Judicial Record—All Things in His Favor. —_— CONGRESSMAN LAIRD. WHY MR WILL GRT LEPT. orrespondence of TR Brn, much_pleasure, HasriNow, August 3, —8hall James Laird [the course of be rovominated for congroa is a question that | Yoters 1° will bo decided in the next ten days. In most | history. of the counties of this district tho primaries | of Robert E: will be held next Saturday, end the county conventions a week latce, M, Laird is just baok from his firet eewsfon of congress, and with vory littlo to show as tho result of his la. bors—for so_smart a man aa his friends claim him tobe. . Tho only two counties that have beld conventions 8o far are both against him for blood. * Tu the west JUDGE GABLIN will have the golid following from his judicial district. |The news Is fairly out that he will acoept the nomination, and thatis cnough to make his friends round np the delegates in xood style. Jim will ba in luck if he gets a single mayerick from west of Adams county. GEORGRE B. PRANOR will have at least forty.ono votes. These with Gualin's strength will cartainly control the convention, leaving Mr. Laird to hold the bug. The causes that make Mr. 1.aird a weak candidate, aside from his feeble congressional record, may ba stated in brief: His personal immoralitios, bia} guérilla po- TIn 1880, Garfield, Mr, Bl ter to an Iri and Englishmen ing meon Treland their suffrages s traders of Englan the defeat of G Hancock, They teotive tariff and and nine-tenths o country respond; will dg yonn' bi I have ne: beginning to trou litioal mothods, his subserviencyt ta the cor- porations. Mr, Laird's lifo, bofh b-fure and since his election, has been ma by gross immoralitios such as ought to defeatany candi- whore he 15 kaowa. His POLITIOAL METHODS aro well illustrated by his course two years ago. In order to cmry his own county he en- tered into a compact with the democratic can- didato for the legislature, by which they were to help each othor, and the candidate of his own party, who wssisted Mr. Luird materially to procurehis nomination, was deliberately stabbed in the baok aud defeated. Of a plece :}l* s his bar MONTGOMERY, oppos rgain with the democracy county, which reculted in the de- feat of the republican candidate for the legis- lature, Mr, DaClerk, one of the best men in the muntfi.r This is the klud of & republican and man Mr. Lairdis. ~ Jle does not hesitate iy lb.‘-ufihur his best'friend and most intiinate political associate on the altar of his own whally selfish smbition, SUBSERVIENCY TO OORPORATIONS, 1t is well known to tho_people of this dis- trict that Laird owes his nomination two years ago, to raitroad influenca, In congress, whenever he had An opportunity to make it «fective, he cast his vote with the corporation intorosts, His close sympathy with the polit- ical managers of the railroads of Nebrasks, torin any of the quence there was candidates wero lative candidates The vote of thi MogrLe, Ay, tained by the history of the state. a prominent ruilroad 1man the other day, in answor to & quostion s to Laird's chanoss, “Its up-hill work, but we'll pull him through again.” 1 it to bo wondered at that tho psople of ths Correspondonce of T Bir. MinDeN, August 4—The boom for Judge Gualin s wrsuming a formdable shape and is gathering strength as it moves from ono end of the Second district o tho other. Soldlers, citizeun, eversbody is falling into lie and whon tlie 20th of Augast comes Gaslin, frow the preecnt outlook, will have a walk away. Who ir thik man of whom wverybody is talk- ing at prosent? Judzo Gaalin is from Maine, a former townsiman and classmato of Jamen G. Bluive, thio nest preeident. Guslin camo to Nebraskn n W ley was killed, ously hurt, citizon, was tryin was shot. A arge knowa who di ast fall the people snid well done good aud faithful servant, enter into the third term of office without opposition Caslin has presided for forty-nine murder trin 5, and his newe hes become a terror to the horse thief, the cow-boy and the murdurer, e has presided ia court when his life was in langer every moment, and where the United States troops were callud out to protect justice, He bas mado it possible for & person to travol from the Missouri river to the Rocky monntains in perfect safety and security. With that far seeing and dotermined spirit, o ond Jaines O iaing, Gaslin has stood at thee judicial helm. when wave after wave of <hiscord aud dunger broke at his feet, until uow the ocean 1s calm and civilization is wioving o . Tt is but fitting sud to the tutoreats of Nebraska that TItk OTHER MAN PROM MAINE, should reprasent Nebraska in the while Blaine in prosident, and it is not vaay that Nebruskn will get hor were fatally woun Kansas Crry, e alvo made gressman Vi cump Lo-morrow. however, will be Aho chuir of the misreprdsonta HON. JAMES LAIRD, ingwator notoriety; as THE ke long 120 bt daylight through tho cospool of ths ttls Frenchman 1 ouly noed £ nay in pussing st the citizens and woldiers have not forgot. ton the fact that Laird attemptod and did trage their pre-emption howestend and tim. Lo eluim vight, and it is properly known e lie “Stinkingwater affalr,” Whiat bas the Hon, James Laird done in eorgreas! Hevoted for the rostoration of Fitz Jobn Porter. While the soldiers all conceds in the Unfon in w o Stiv g departuonts exce count of slack pricas, New Bulletia of / in the 88,800, Portland fire in J Jaird's right 0 vote s he plewsew, they rwerve the right to vote 4 a they pleass, and good men | Btroved. fiave found excusos for Portor's conduct at sccoud Bull Run, the soldiar sees but oue side acl there is no convincing auy soldior that Laird did the fair thing in_voting in dirset wpposition to the wishes of his constitusnts, He has introdused a magoifioant soldiers’ bill," way his fricods, Yes, at the vonth hour Laird did introduce & pension Lill Lo well knew never would psss congress, AR POK POLITIOAL CAMITAL Laird's bill wore it law would bankrupt the mment, und #very bounty jumper and hoad soldier would feast on She bloeding tead carcas of the govermness, No soldier of 1883, a year of prnsion was lnvesti Ac mu, Afier o th ohagres fover. (), bury she body st THAT MAN 13 JUDGR GASLIN, strength overy day, Gaslin s gaining it in no uncertain measure. > The friends of La'rd are begging and threat returned to congress, and thay swe taslin can do more good on the bench than in Yes, ho that has held the scales of ustice equipofso between the high and the low, the rich and the INTERRSTS OF HIN STATE. and especially to | And with the two n ats will not be neglocted. The abova is tha voice in rounded meastires of the second congressional district. e — § TO AN IRISHMAN, just before the election of Gien. American in Boston, in reply to kome inquiries: Auousta, Me., October 27, 1880,—My Dran Siie—1 received youe fr oue anomalies in Never, probably since tho execntion met has the foeling of Irishmen the world over been 8o bitter against England grent mass of tho Trish voters will Tuesday next vote precisely as Euglishimen would have them vote—for tLe interests of Englaud, Hay to depair by what they regard 43 the unjust policy of England, the Irishmen of Americause and servants of the even though ic reduce our own wages and take thebread feom themouths of our chile dren.” Thero are mavy ablo men and - clover writers among th i met one ablo enough and clever enough to explain_this anomaly on any of logic and good sense. from your estecmed favor that the subject i of 1t the more you will be troubled, 1 am eure, Aund you will bedriven finally to the conclusion that the pro«perity of the Irish in this country depends as largely a8 that of any other class upon the maintainance of the financial and in- dustrial policy represented by the republican A Quiet Election most an Unanimous Demo- cratc Vote. tion throughout Alabamn to-day there was no ion whatever to the democrats on the state ticket, and very little of n party charac- made no nominations, and these wero many, Thus the local issues of democrats brought out a fair vote, The hottest fight wi 1 bile betwoeen the democratic nominees and the independent ticket, and in Birmghaw be- tween the democrats and a combination tween the republicans and - greenbackers, Those two points were ths battle the state. Not half a dozen_republican legis- democrats, and was no opposition. st 4. —Tho independents ol KENTUCKY KILLINGS, A Number of Them at the KElections the latter was slightly wounded, Simon Brad- ounded, John Martin and Allen Fulton w Mr. and others wer necidentally shot. the shooting, Sourrser, Ky., August 4,—James Lay, 60 yoars old, and Bart Dalton, uged 00, mt at a8 the eloction to-day snd rencwed an old quar- trouble R. M. Gnify sbot two unknown men und recoived a shot” in the head. C o —— The Oolored N. G, Reunion, meeting of the ‘colored national guards’ re union was held to-night at Kumpfs hall, addresn of weloomo s mado b editor of the Gate City; response by Mayor Albert Burgess, of St. Louis, Addresses wers bination of untoward circumsta sion does not give attendance is smaller than st any previous |} roun on, mot Justifying tho establishing of u The Iron Worke: PrrrsnuRe, August 4. —Nearly all tho dele- factured will be reprasentad, “the Elba iron works closed down to-day, all e —— July's ¥ Youk, August 4.—The Commercial ust b estimates the fire losses |1 the heavies alone, £3,250,000 worth of property Tho aggrogate fire loas sln ary was $62,0.0, an inoreass of about 810, 000,000 over the corresponding seven months o — Imitation Yellow Fever, New Youk, August 4.—A case of wod death from a diseass resem i ted Ly the health officials Batur wleo, which hud come hoalth authoritios say the cse was oo of and ask fot a firm - repub soldier and one that wil constituents, instead of FLAMING FERRY-SLIPS. Sweeping Fire in Jersey City Depots and Ferry-Honses, ) f hi arrowad down between Laird il while Laird is loosing The Damaged Property that of the Pennsylvania Central, 'y s not v sing, will do if Hon. Jan or, for ten years, will right in congress and look to A Number of Piers Destroyed To= gether With Much Freight, congressional district, n from Maine, ono in © and_the other from Ne The Disastrous Blaze Caused By an Explosion of Gas, The Fire Department Unable to Bucoessfully Fight the Fire: PrivaTe SOLOTRR. Irish-Americans Vote Just as the Torles Wish?—Blaine The F:imes Under Control a Late Hour This Morning. Puzzled. at aino wrote the following lot ADISASTROUS BLAZE, AT THE JERSEY FERRY SLIPS, Niw Yonk, August 4.—The Pennsylvania Central railroad depot at Jersey City is allaze, and_just now soems doomed, THE BLAZE SPREADING, New Yok, Avgust 4.-11:45 p, w,—The firo at the Pennsylvania railroad depot in Jersey Oty is spreading, andthe heat is so great that the firomen and employes are pre- ventud from saving anything on shore while tog boats cannot get near enough to tow out the ferry boats and freight boats, and these must go in the genoral destruction of the de. t. The piers are also burning, and this in- 1ves the 1oss of all the freight and cars upon them, The windis light, but sufficient to give the fireanortherly direction, The loss wlll Le very heavy, THE DEPOT AND FERRY HOUSE DRSTROYED, New Yok, August 5,.—1 :30 A, M.~ The Penusylvavia railroad depot and ferry houses aredestroyed. The flames, however, burn fu. riously yet, and have attacked the Adams ex- press pler. That portion neaveet the shore is on fire, The firemen are laboring hard to save it, but fear the shed which covers it will car- ry the flames throughout its length and breadth. ~Theentire fire department of Jersoy City is at work pouring water upon the lames while the river hoats are contributing a num- Ler of heavy streams. The Pennsylvania rail. way depot and ferry house being of wood and stocked with every sort of combustible mate- rial, the flames made sure and rapid work, mocking ths company’s fire department, an organization of employes, and defyivg the la- bors of the city fire depirtment, while there was a stick of wood to foed the flames, dly letter wiil Let me say ‘in reply that yourself and other ~Irish of tha most extra - our political asat this hour. Aud yet the reduced to misery and driven though they were the agents uglis tories, The' fioe nd desiie uothing so much as arfield and the election of wish to break down the [ro- criwle our wanufastues, of the Irish_voters of- th 1 with alacrity, “Yes, we ing and vote as you please, = g he Irish in Amerl asis T amglad tosoe ble ou. The wmore you think date for an important and_honorable position, [ PArty. Very truly yours, Brai s " This fact is notorious and is the cause of the = 2 AUSED BY AN RXPLOSION. deep-zeated hostility to Mr, Laird that almost AS QUIET AS THE GRAVE, 1 A. m.—The fire was cawred by an ex- univorsally exis's emong the best people TR plosion of gasin the ferry entranco, Tho n Alabama-—Al- Hames spread rapidly to the ferry slips and the railroad depot. “Taylor's hof Yh suved thus far by the favoring wind. 'he Brook- Iyn aunex slips and foor ferry slips of the raileosd and forry offices, with the wait- ing rooms, were burmed. Tho flames are advancing up n the main depot. The explosion of gas is suid to have been cauted by a leaky main. It blew up the floor- ing and overthrew the ticket boxes by the en- truuce to the Pennsylvania forry houss, at the foot of Exchavge place, Jersey City. ( Robert M. Joves, night mh::’ Wm, C. Buckus were selling a tickets at the time; both were BLOWN OUT OF THEIR POSITIONS o- | and slightlvhuit. An unknown lady aud gentleman were pasking theough the entrance at the time, The woman ~ was vinoed dowa by an overturned box and badly burned be- fore being rescued and taken charge of by friends, ' The foree of the explosion was such as to blow the glass from the roof and sides of a 60x 100 waiting-room beyond the entranc "The flames shot up in all direction: wlarm was promptly _responded to by the city fire_department and the fire-boats of New Ala., Augostd.—In the elec- county contests. Ia conse- no excitement except where Tunning counties that aker and Teceiving o rounds of were running in the state, is city was about 1,800, all of the colored voters a and his dopendence on them for support, is [Jio0C BY B8 0B OF B30 | democracy. York City and the Peonsylvania railrond, nown to every man fulia: with the panit: Isrke majori ,8Yepitho oguis df 4 AT g e blowing at the i Sai time and carried the fire to all portions of thegwaiting room, and the five slips of the ferry and the immense railroad waiting roow. The entire structure wus frame, single story, with the exception of a few offices ubove the Sacond distriet wre preparing to ropudiate the Yesterday, ferry entrance, gorgeons? ADAMS, The steamboats Richard Stockton, the THY DROOM FOR JULGE GASLIN, :an, Ky., August 4. In an alterca. | Pe0nsylvania raroad Newburg excursion stesmer, snd the Thomas . Way, of Steel & Price, | Condit's Bay Ridge line, were lying at the ck adjoining the most southerly of the five s, With two ferry boute Inid up for the night. ~They wore pulled into the stream by tugs uninjured, The cars in the depot and on the Adams oxpress pier north of the ferry lips were puled out of danger. The firc has now consumed five slips and the +heds conneoting them, the ferry and rail road offices and the waitiog rooms with their contents, The main depot has brick walls and ironand gluss roof and will probably be 0. Trumbo and H, G. Ed. Simmerman fatally Bradley, a prominent g to stop the fight when he s crowd was standiog around 1t is not ONB OF 178 PIONKELS el Dalton was shotund,kitlod. sy was ax Ty R T and has been on the beuch for ton yoars, and m‘iq:r'mn”\x, August 4.—In an election |arc landed at Washington street, throe blocks west of the ferry, and trains will start from the sawme point, It is understood that the ferry boats will land and recoive passen- gers at Harsimus Cove Ireight yurd, whoro the company have weveral fioatlng bridges. The teams can be transported until the ferry slips ure rebuilt, All three nded, August 4.—The insugural LATRST, The fire will be confined to the present limits, The shod on the Adawms Express dock in slightly damaged, About one hundred fect of the main depot is destroyed; the remuioder is intact, D. H. Vehslange, of No, 3818, Eust treot, New York, is the man who wus An y J. Daliax, Mayor Talbott and Through a com cos the sos- Th by n” Heroe, promise of success, Hin Judy friend way fously bu They wero takon to Chriat's hospital Heury Thorpe of Marion, employed on _the Brooklyn annex, had an srtery of the right arm seversd by the breaking glass. So far a5 hs programo othorwie, carrlod out as projected, Oonvention, sharo of the rights of states and her interosts | R&tes to the natlonal convention of the Amal- | known will ba looked after and her & Idiers will not | Ramated ;:mcuuuc,d.w)%ha beging an t;l-l NO LIVES WELE LOST, o forgol en Gaslin cocupie o orrow, have arrive: vention 3 Taylor! Le: forgotten when Gasdin cocupies, as he will, | A T L d‘.yf‘;‘;du‘m"yn;m Seversl hundred guests of Taylor's hotul were greatly alarmed, but were quieted down when shown there was no dangar, The occupants of the small stores of Fx- chavge Place moved their offects into the ot and are mow returning. G truckmen and abattoir butchers sre wsing t Chawmbers street ferry, FIRED BY LIGHTNING, A firo broke out roown of the Baldwin locomos wmotive works, Brosd and Hunilton sireets, ht and destroyed the machine avd tool pwand u large number of valuable pat The total loss is atimated ab 8150, hich fron or steel are manu- pt tho bolt factory, on orders and unaatisfactory 'iros, nited States and Canada at July loss since the . By thirteen fires s de- Jaou- uly 1 000. The fire is supposed to buve been caused by lightning s the eogines had een shut dow for some t'1ue before the discovery, Part of the boiler house was subsequently distroyed by fullin g walls, extraordinary fire waste —— Dayton's Soldiers' Homeo, Davrox, 0., August 4.—The congressional uu the stesmer | Inyestigation of the Boldiers' howme is now in ot fiom l‘lnt-.lmfl;m-n here, Tho committes consiste of iuvestigation, the envrals Roseorans and Blocum and Repre sentatives Murray, Steele and Cutchen, A number of witnesses have beon examined and considerable important testinony has Luon g vellow horough rdors have been issued to wnice, H — teken up, hus Leen canght or will be caught by this | ® i ik, Why id ot Laird introduce shis bill The Clearing Houses, i T + tha beginnivg of bis caroer as u congress | BosToN, August 4.—Dispatches from the| The Massachusetts Greenbackers, sl cars #0 that the bill would have stood [ leading clearing houses of ti United States BostoN August 4.—~The executive com- o ghont of & ohance of passge? Ob Jumes, thils wop won's wash down. ~ The scldiers of Jeforwon county have spoken in Do unosr= per cent. coipar beim ruice whem thoy epring the key wute wook & year ago. ahiow that the cloarances for the week nding Auguet 2 wore 874,082,404, u docraase of 1 witte of the state gresnback committes met to-day and decided 1o call & stato convention with the gorresponding § for Beptember 4th, at 11 o'dloc k, st Meinc 1 Seeretary Hutchinson sald that Giegoral But pl and unles al party would put In nom ticket of T m— GREELX'S GREBTING, The Magnificent Demonstration at Portsmouth in Honor of the P and publi and “Wel ardod on bunting evesyw filled with erafts with people, amid (-uuu.d.\m}. asiasn - Commander ley, Lisutenant 'In{ aod Commander Ooffie, disen 3 Following thess wore other officers of Grocly cxpedition aud wailora of tho Thotis Bear and Alort., | They weore enthusinsti The crowd pressed and a roar of well oclock, Greely was sming toward thel 3recly was clothed hat and wenrl:g plnu;m inligh:’ o L A Greely leaned ieutenaut Powell anc e b Janguidly ment indicated woakness, ceived much attention. Al were placed in conches and driven t the Rockingham house. it having beon pear in the processlon. At the hot 1 crow gatherod to cateh a glimpso of them. Lieu- tenant Greely enid 80 the associated press rep- resencativ and he much moved_ by 4l Mra, Grooly joined her At 12:20 march, Applause gréated the sailors of the tion. hotel, reliof squadron, - At uvation continued | defeated in the Egyptisn conforence, 1t is through _the route. Commander | reported Waddington offers to resign, Th Schley, Licutenaut” Greely and Commander | Figaro, reforring to the subject, says: *“Wad. | #1low the coffer dum Coftin ‘were reced So were Secrota azen, Commodote Wells, acting 'Admirl Luce. ~ As the head of the plause. Rockingh survivors prosure: greoted hi and Alert to Inok his gratitude to the men who so re- cently roscued him from an Arctio grave, The scene was Comm) teuant Kmery raised | the hero, party wero driven t) thegrand stand, where the promineat men on.. the stand were Secre- tary ~ Chandler, Hale, Mayor Lathren, of Dover, Newbnryport, man Robinkon of New York, the officors of | ({1 the reliof aquadion, ments of many New England cities cession was diemisséd st 2 o'clock. Shortly after, the dinnér by Pormsyourn, Augnst 4. citizens ¢} ron Arctic relief flet; the crews sailors wero enthusiwstically received while entering the hall, also th Secretwy Chandler, Goneral Hazen, lowed Randall a; o} New H. Maine, oomtpi “ron themlatforn et . g on, Sepeter cCuetrg, Rev. ¥ followed by an address of welcome by mayor of the city of Portsmouth, Secretary Chandler was wade chairman, Coming forward: heaas warmly applou. ed, and when in tl Hal. as the nobl Coffin and Lieutensut Emery, the audicnos became almost wild with onthusiasm, ler told th ¢ ject of the 7| Chandler then related the histor; successful comrades served tribute to all r had told the commi { his nomination, that be o The pefplo might put any constrnction they «d on the . tsMOUTIL Augtd, —Tho city is thronged = that minates. Liout, Greelay and comrades were soated on a baloony, Cheer after cheer bouse of reprasentatives and Senator n behalf of tho Greely relief bill, us woll eo who sod pted the xamo L per 10 por cont; N JABBERING JOHNNIES., Johnny Bull and Jobuny Crapean Now merh!'s lettor of Accoptanos, 4 he died before « ction, the natlen. ation & straight alectors. And Which May Eventually Re- sult in a Clash of Arms, of Texns, tal, but 1h gest yicld oy Reoturned Arctics, and privagh buildings are decorated come to oMb Arctic Herves," place The hatbor is At 11:20 Paris Papers Especially Warm- ing Up Against England, “England Has Not Yet Evioted Europe from Egypt.” d a3 they * landed. kward o shako handy went up when at 11 ered with comrades in theadmiral's baree white with slouched les. As he and com- , allerowded to welcome him, Fronch Constitutional Convention Opens Lively at Versailles, Gladstone Moving to Relleve Gordou ~200,000 Reformors Assemble in Londou, liftod Hia every move- is comrades re- FOREIGN AFFMIS, Tha proje they should not 11\] 0 France and England Warming Up, Pans, August 4. —One section of the press demands the reeall of Waddington, the Fronch ambassador at London, as the author of the Anglo-French agroement which was s that he felt very well this mornin; ook { He expressod himsolf cordinlity of the recop- sbvnd at the ihe procession began to od, July dibgton’s successor must diepin flooded, energy against the spread of Eaglish power; French and English interests are now com: © procession neared | pletely ooposed and a conflict b am house, where Greely und the | the near future ™ The rupture of tha confor- wero Waltiog to roview, the | ence, the paper mays, is & gruve enough event, of the ‘erowd becams ro | but it hopos it will not have to snaounce that the « ‘columu was delayed :-l:u Iatent conflict has passed into open hostil tiow, La Republique Francaise maintains that al though the agroement has elapsed, England has admitted the elaims of France, “Francs tho paper waye, “must vindicate her right Rogland bas notyet evicted Furope from Egypt. England’s asserted frosdom and pow- er of uction are a delusion,” with tremendous ap- Chandler, General gatos, valve and and fineal year m. As the crews of Thetis, Bear pissed, Greeley bowed and seemed ficicnt funds DAviga Ston Revising the French Constitution. Pamis, August 4,—The opening sossion of e cougress composed of the two hous liament which nssembled at Versaill day to undertake a revision of the constitution s exoeodingly uprearious, and broke up in great disorder.~ After o stormy tumult, 1. royer's proposal to adopt tho stauding ordors as-embly of 1871 was agrced to, Both and left took part in the interruptions, As soon as this matter was dispo-ed of Minis. ter Ferry ascended the tribune to introduce the scheme of revision. Andrieux and _ others at (noe protested that Ferry was out of order. 1t was contended the committees ought to be clocted first. As Andrieux way ascending the tribune the members formed a semi-circle around him and . scene of the wildest oxcite ment ensued. The president thorcupon put his hat on and suspended the sitting, affecti nders s:‘hlmd Coffin and Lieu- hats as they passod After ston Greeley and u reviewed the procession and re- | ¢, plaudits of the multitude. Among neral _Hazen, Goveruor the mayor of Sanruel J, Randall, Congreas- expedition and North Atlant and wembera of the city govern- Thy pro invited guests were entertained at the city of Portsmouth, meoting of nnll&tfl xtend an official wel- best known ters have bec andLhix compunions was In ge. wervice fithusiastic, On the stage cers of the North Atlantic uqmtfi» in the front reats xat of the Thesis, Bear and Alert, The on, Mr, Relieving Gordon, City, writ Loxvox, August 4.—(iladstone stated in the commons to-day that he would aske the house to-morrow for a yote ::l:ngi& for_an l:xpod'ill.lunwmliew s P of | General Gordon, He will st the xame timo smueli ISR, N as | ake s Ol o atops the govera- ment propses to take in coussquence of the failure of the Egyptian conference, 200,000 Englnh Keformers' Loxnox, April4,—Two hundred thousand people asstmbled to-day on tha grounds the reform demoustration - took place. The meetiog compriacd nine divisions, Thiere was excellsnt order, - Woathor fin SBUMMER SPORTS, officers who fol- ice, Clanéeal Butler, Congressmen ud Ro¥inkon, 'and Governor Hale, . H, Alder mad i e the he referred to the efforts of Rundall Licuis, B, Vandalia ry The above le work of Commanders Schley and Chand- ¢ story of the orgamzation and ob- Greoly expedition. of the offort of Commander Schler and | ganaroas, August 4,—Mile and furlong— fo Jesous Gireely, and paid ade-| Ali, 1at, Nottlo 24, Cardinal McCloskoy cancorned, - dwelling | 5 time 1557 Saddlebags and Sulky AT HABATOG are v nvailable, 81 5, Tooverion Benynrd eayd, ¢ of o “)Ick and di Cagtaiige dredging of th gates be exhausted be made, the plant from theirpresenco s ment in St. wire between that city ‘O’ Reilly ling o L resident, wr oent i per o por o iraska, inc 1eld, 80 por con Duing Comsiderable Talking, |1 iy i 10} In Kansas, Missou WaSHINGTON, August 4, in oharge of the river and harbor menty at Chi upon the work an followa: £uryny Hennepin and enlargeront Tlinoi and Michigan eanals: ver fuproven Able, S106,185 107,101, r~ Dredgi tnow in the ntan af and concontrate Tha fundy will bo applied to ra % walls to thaie required hoight and in nat.rinl for 08 wnd Should addi should Vo ) continues, ro there shall pleting the work in or n throughout the and other material obtained a weason in ad 1on ehould bo made ther for; otherwise deluy only add to the pense o promise is alte g oiher funds now availablo will completo the walls of the Kaneas, Increase of vield, 12 per cent; < dncrease of ncreage, ont: live stock, rease of ncreage, 14 it; live atock, 40 per 10 por cent per cent in Rome ‘l‘""l injured by y and part dotrimens her for the lar Toan , anc —— RIVERS AND HARBORS, ajor Benyard's Annual Report Upon the Work Laid Out, Major Benyard, tmprove % has made his annual report amonnt available, ment: amount avail amount asked, $350,000, Chicago harbor - Formation harh mount axked, Calumet harbor™ Provide en mot river and port of Sou avallablo, £20,000; amonat Calumotrly I 800,000; wnount wskod, $100,000, amount 000, 1, S21,400, : amount availble, conrsn of tion of the Illinois river, tes the construction nat ench of the sites seloct and ~ Kampaville hannel feom the sta Copperas areck to the wouth of the river. further xays that as the amount appropriated Oth will be insutficient to continue the work at buth points, it is proposed to discon- tinno the work for s season a8 Kampavill that point to and the » lock at He to the force af and constiucting fixtares, The Lagrange lock, at the closa of the preseut tional approprintions o will be travsferredto Kumpsville for operatioa at that point. Suf- ppropriated, Benyard bono delay in com- to open the river to atio on, uired I‘fn\'u to bo and due provis f the woik, e e—— TELEGRAPHERS' REUNION, Interesting Gathering of Veterans to Take Place at st. Louls, Globs Democrat, The fourth annual reunfon of old-time tel- cgraphersand tho United States telograph corpk, which takes place in this oty August 20 aud 21, will bring together wome of the lographera in the received fr all might C. wections untry. Let- om voterans in the stating that counted up- b now__ ed Hive, itor of the Insurance Monitor, New Nork, had cliarg Louis when t f the first instru. was only ono nd the east, the and asaited in laying the fiest gable thit wha put ncross tho Mississippi. 1 office Tn Peru, Ottawa and the small towns betw I think 1 wrote th calling attention to the disturbanco of telig. raphy by the aurora borealis, itin Kt. Louls in 1848, 1 havs sion a picture of the orieinal corps of the St, Louis office, ms it way c only one memter of whic M. Colburn, oad,” only one o tern and gives an iden of what mat v will be composed. ite in an excursion on the river er tho adjournment of the Old ons moeting. the headquartors of the membors, vars for 1844 of the Old Timers « Goorgo M, Dugan of S nneasce; vice prexident, wnourafully on the suffering and fortitude of | “Rfile and half and farloog W, R. Wood. [ Omsha, Nebra those who perished, aud expressing the watis- | ward won, Powbattan 2. Manitohs 3d; tie | B. hild, faction of the Bation in the surpassiog sucoess | 5.0 States military tolegrap of Greely The governor, Senutor Hale and Congross nian Randall followed with short addressos, Secretar Wi o party to be present ewing to the fatigur dent to to-duy’s ceremonies, He then intro duced G, A, Nesmith, brother of Mrx, Omioaco, Augnst 4,—Three-fourths m who with much ex thanked Secrotary | 4-year olds—Whisperine won, Actor 2d, Ma. Chuudler and Comaanders Schley and Coffin | ria 2d; time, 114}, i Licutenant Emcry for tl work of the| F ghts_mile—heats —2.year olds —Geor- resgue. mania won, Lady Craft 2, Vaulter 8d; beat ( al Butler was iotroduced amid tro- | time, 1:04, spplunse. He spoke feclingly of his [ Mile and u quarter—All ages - uaintance with Cireely, whom e de- | won, Sullivan 2d, Chantil'y 3d; time, scribed ax and trave!, wore duc to Quecn Vi As to Butler aid he thought Amer Alert, never rest He thought a party ought to be went| Mhree-fourthe mile - non-wins tolfithe Arctic to “stay, and advance | jiang wou, Medusu 2d, Retort slowly, establishi eupply depots s they | Threc-fourths mile —non-winm. od & their territory would soon embrace the eu- tire weste clowing ho them to realize all their poss thorough knowledge of the pri governuient, Tho meoting closd about midnight, O WarHIN Addie Fletcher, colored, head chawbermaid, wiws vecovered from tates hotel this murming, * | omo vietin remus Henry Hol, hotel, that but under lurge a fore Iy employed are abwark removing the debris it Tared orauks Iaehe tion of the makes the Two Deaths Lyxivaron, Ky, August house to-day, WHLle ths election wis progross ing a dixp 6ot Kl Killing hiu Lotwern Cleary was dis: Cloary and Murphy bad s old grudge aud were both The Umul’u Course, Y, Augustd, 6:50 p. m, - beou seven deaths this worni ted into t{:‘« Pharo l-auy)ru-l to-day, Bixty | vantage of his Imbecility, bribed hi ig Iy false, casen aro being trentod there now; " teu were | release from any clam he might buve to os gy Uincharged to-duy, it e thuat, the Tenom: Boston, Walker, Btiong & Camroll's fuctory, at Fast Weymouth, thin worning, refurivg to last whoes for Italiaus who had beow seoured to fill the » ‘Thisfs & common vemark when roughs and rowdys insult publio desency by their mnseon- Iy wayn. out with 2 i crat and J now uader treatment, deuth to-dey at Leseyne, and two ut 5 d his resoued comrades. Throe-quarter mile —Galaxy won, Raysure 2d, Minnio Meton 8d; time 1:16, # Steeple ch-ao—all ages; ovor o fra=onal course—Rickott won, Miss Menlsoy 2, Abra- ham 54; time 4:34, AT CHICAGO, Mu.’fiu ry Ohandler here announced that it > for Livutenunt Grecly ana inci- 11}, nth—selling ~all_ages— Startle 3d; tiu bl rold; Milo and_eixte ot won, Mavito “Three-fourths mile Sawyer 2d, Conk! AT BIIGH O, BriGnton Braci, August a sad-eyed studeot of exploration . He sl the thanks of the nation orin for the gift of the Polur explorations, General ans would until the north polo was reached, ny o north ter wou, Hostage 2, Columbia 3d; time, He baid, and he predicted the bolonged o 1:21. Culyer yaflroad stakes—mile and o half— Charlio B won, Dizzy Blonde 2d. Brunswick 8d; time, 2046 Mile and furlong —sellin Ten u hemisphero poles and all. In said all Amerlcans needed to enable ibilities wis n plos of their allowanoes ninety-third strike won, Krin Burk 2d, Ghost 315 time, 1:504. nile und o furlong —Arsenic won, d, Lena 8d; time, 2:01, Maidens —woven furlongs — Carlisle won, Will Davis 2d, Florenco J 8d; time 1:54). The Tumbled Hotel, G108, Aligust 4 —Tho dead body of Base Ball, GAMES YRNTERDAY, At Chicago—Chicsgos, 9; Clevelands, At Pittsburg — Allcghenys, 2; Brooklyns, 4. At Washinglon—Unions, Baltimore, | 7; Nationals, 2. At Milwaukoo—Milwaukee: of the United It is believed but i to by found, This Ix lored. The main part " of tho fronting on the avenue, 1y ntact, guardianship of the polics, As Isborers can be advantageous- 101Ul rel o4 Join him, 10: Stillwaters, por g rear walls of thay ¢ building which remaing stand work of the lubore, @ of danye i tthe Kentucky Polls, ~At the court " At Evansvillo-Evansville, 4; Muskcgons, 2 " At Phiiladelphia—No gane; rain, At Inaianapolis —Ladianapolis, Tolodo, ‘wrre Huute, 1. At Tereo Hauto—Suginawa, 0. "At Quiney—Quincy, Detroit— Detroit, ¥, , 12; Mibucapolis, 15, ke bobween Goorge Stowart, dem Buffulo, 18, Gecrgy republican, resulted in i Stewarc through the head, ) instaul Another row occurred ack wry and Dick Murpby, welod, and has since 4! d, 6 Oar, TREMEL AND HOHS MATOMED AGAIN, Bowioy, August 4.—A five iwile seulling wateh for §1,000 u side has hsen arranged he- twoen Feomor and Rows, The tims of too riwe in yob in abeyan ol MR setiiialnid Alex., T. Btewart, Jr, Niw Youk, Augut 4.—Judge Hilton ex ecutor of the A, T, Btewart cstate, filed in the United States cireuit court today an answer in the wuit of Alox. T, Btewart, at who clairs to be she logal beir of A, T, Bte ort, aud who charges that Hi ton, takin cune to the drunk, Heunce, No deaths number of 109. ~ "There 4 hicre to-day. Total reports tho | Tha pl Bataiuon st 4, 7 r. w, —There have rom cholera since eleven . - Ooly throe cases were adwic tate, Judgo Hilton sserts that the elaimant wiss perfectly responeible when he signed the release, and recelyed $24 000 for o doing, aud offers thut If the 824,000 be paid back by the claimaut ho will regard the releasn ws not having buen sigood. i Italian Oueap Labor. August 4 Thirteen lastors left eupiata of roof r cem— of triking stitchers, Bouthwesiern Orops, SEnatia, Mo, August 4. The Bazoo will tw-morrow publish earefully prepaced reports of the greia crops in the states of issouri, Kausas, Nobraskis, Toxas and Iudian Territo 1y, Tho mports show un fucrease of acrosge in Missouri of 20 per cent. and an Increas of yiokd, in wost coopm, of 15 per eeat; live vwck: —— ire Him Out," Fire it Dyspopaia bs & horl “a de ik Byanl Bittsre, K an, W. R, Plum, R, .G advices the Mahdi is n triby s around Geb alive or dead, K noss, w0 v hampton county, ¥ Tho story is juiy Chicag yoar, Mr. n Chiea; firat article d published inmy posses- mstituted in 18 survives in S agent of t ticke! f The two socicties imers’ The Laclede hotel will b The offi- 3. Rosowator, b corps: President, ice-president, Genernl more, New Yor E. and secretary The Thames Disaster, LoNuox, August 4, 1 lision and sinking of the steamer Dione, in the ‘Thames Eaturday night, state chat thero were i great many pleasure passengers on Lo It way a clear moonlight nighe. occurred about miduight with' the large ron stoamer Oamden, just off Gravesend, Diones port side was stove in, the vessel keel ed over and sank in two minntes, Thowesaved rushed on deck, jumped over- haf dressed and wore rescuod by tugs. weonod wora heartrending, men to save their childrin, wore carrying Infants, hecinfant on o floating floated off, but was found s Haven, the infant alive. Tho captain of the Dione was saved, but was badly hurt, articulars of the vol- The collision T'he The Ladies implored Many women One wother placed crate, Tha crate off Thames R Death of a Piusburg Veteran, Pirmsnuna, August 4. one of Pittaburg's earliest and most promi uout business mon, died this morning in his Lowis Potorsen, Sr., Poterson was one of the proprietors of the Pennsylvania Daily Advocato, the first daily publis} formed the first board of trade, manufactured the first cotton, and wan largely interested in the iron industry of this city, Masonio order fn Philadelhia cae to Pittaburg the year following, here. He He joined th 1812, and e— Aftairs in Egypt. At "hilade! phi; city unl.u'ulK at the visit —— Wholesale Lynchi NEw Vou, August’d,—A special dispatch e a, ToxDoN, August 4, According to the latest ow_fightiog the negro El Gadir who refused to It is asserted he dispatchod o force o Khurtonm under orders to take (Gordon He urdercd the wells between oko and Berber filled up. The Sultan of Zanzibur sont » message him to Zanzibur, to Gordon invitiug — General Logan in New York. NEW Yok, Augast 4, ed in A ow York B, Hill, Bix priys of T} neral Logan ur- npany with and W, B, Henoys he upon private’ busi- as 0 politicsl wigoi ynching of ten negros in Nort- by New Youk, Augus. 4. a tenement agang of Italians, bable and " unconfirmed, is remote from teleeraph, ¥ August ‘4, lynching in Northampton county is abwolute The wtory of the ps, Twenty thres oo houss on Charlton atreet were endangered by fira this morning, but narrowly esoaped in ther night clothes b laddors from the atrwet and by | — Three Ovuta n Mile, 87, PauL, Auguit 4.~The Owabia road has issued @ circulur statiug that the passenger rates over its woad in Lowa have been reduced to thres conts per wilo, 10 souforw o the new cra < He i taken roous ifth Avenue hotel, and refuses to tall resoututives of the press, oy ool to the ardy all wero nlightly burned, but no lives wero lost ). 40 VALUES VS. VERTEBRZ, Very Litle Ste tngth Stowa in the Chicago Markets Yesterday, Texas Cattle Plenty ' Compar= atively Cheapor ' _ atives, Hogs Drop 10 to 20 or Some = What Heavy £ ots, Only a Fair Dogree Grain ivity in & & Ma Although Wheat Makes a Gain of One-Fourth of a Cent, ©Corn Galns an Eighth—Oats Quict— Pork Nominal Lard Easier, CHIOAGO MARKETS, Special Dispatch to 0, Augast fat native: UATTLE, Tar B, 4. —There was o fair de- 4, such a4 would suit the dressed or the ehipping export trade, and pricew on these sorts, 8o long as the den lasted, were fully as strong ns on Satur Toward the closs, and after urgent orders had been filled, there The best 650 b 50 to 6 30; and ot from those figures to 4 90 to 5 25, ye ‘was an easier feoliv, 0675 and socond class her sorts of native stecrs The supply of comui>n na tives, inclading cows and hulls was rather light, and thero was barely suffi- cient husiness to make a market, but a elight show, however, for these sorts to make any better prices than formorly, for Texans aro pl cheaper th about 2,000 Toxans, higher at 3 00@3 y ., Thero was ty and yot comparatively wnmon: native, There were and. they sold a shade Aboutall the Texans were sold. (ood to common hipping; 1200 to_ 8000, pounds, 6 modium, 1000 to 1. range cattle, 5@20c higher; b 00@06 50; 1200 common o ponnds, 4 2025 60; grads Texans, 700 to 850 pounde, § 20@s3 75; Texane, 00 to 1000 pound, 3 Y0@ & 40; corn fed, 6 00@5 70. HOGH, Under the somowhat unexpected hewvy roceipts, prices dropped 10 to 20¢, an average of a strong 10¢ on there was an acti ground that the o to-day, Sales were 1fght, and 5 60 to 5 hulle to Truding was accompaniod by only & fair d groa of activity o erally firm. Wh ) ordors were to stimulate kot openod kte: off J the regular board On ‘the afternoon firm, August closl Jf tha packers’ hogy 570; light, 160 to 200 pounds, b 30 to 5 80, Al gorts; but atfdecline demand, the idea gaining run of the woek wotld be at 560 to b 80 for « SO for as g at about 5 65 GRAIN. v, but values wore gen t was quiet butstoady; fow -nmf fluctustions too local trading, declined about & ® mar- ensod then becamo strongue and closed on o Wgher than Satarday. boatd prichs were agal og ub 82}c, Septowber at 8idke, October at 84je, A moderate b The opening was firm, but’ pr rec Later, under a good speculutive demand, t mnrket beoame stron de, and clos d 1§ bi for Scptember, and Saturaay, ket again becam at 56, September at bije, B3} « i Pork nominal, Lard « shade easi August, 7 45 for Sey er. Un the afteimoon board the ts wore quiot and stea at 27de and Septemberat 260 e WaK transacted in o roeded nger, prices advancing § to ghor'for Angust, s hilches d¢ higher ‘or Octobo stronger, August closing nd October at August closing OVISION! ior, closing at 740 for ptember, 7 674 for_ Octo- BUTTER AND CHEESE., s d supply o unchanged; 128,000 pow WasHINGTON, Al Missisaippi villey: asterly winds becoming 1Ay, August 4, T BgIN, But or higher; regular at 28@23)c, closing very inshort of the demand. no rogular sales, Private nds of butter, 3,300 boxes g For the upper ly fair, morth- viriahle, slight changex in temporature and lower harcmetes, For the Meisouri fair, variable winds valley: Slightly warmer, gencrally from the south, and lower baromcter, NNATI, Aug —— A Blaine Boy's Sk boy 16 years 0ld, was Deaten on the head to- Fractured. Wm. Holmes, ust, 4. night at the Vine stroet opora house for shout- ing for Blaine during the Ih:rlurnr skull was fractured will die. Private Watchuan Yooug, w . His s thought the oy did and it the beating, was arrcsted. ——— The Cotton Crop. New Onveans, August 4,—The National Cotton exchange reports July more favorable for the cotton erop, which has iu about ten points, bringing it up to 87, # for June und 84 for M wy Southern Coal, CHATTANOOGA, A l-rmluurh of Kentu wma met here to lare forky compar uly preliminary b s t is to form a southern he leading conl s and Alu meeting was ented, The assogintion, wcky, Ton: husiness to Blaine in Augusta, Avausta, Me, August 4.—Blaine arrived to-night, Lrow: A“;Ac . E. A ik ek N 'aP ] AM TAWTAR. 1000 ANDREWS’ G ov | VES {03 TG varnfl fonn 1 Baking Powder,