Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1892, Page 15

B ) R » == Ris mouth. - - [ WILL WONDERS NEVER CEASE Recent Developments in the Limitless Field of Electrical Science. YHE STORAGE BATTERY ASSERTING ITSELF | Emportant Tests and Improvements in | Varlons Branches-Specimens of Quackery—Notable Advance in trie Tractl The storage battery is slowly but surely serting itself. A recent eclectrical inven tion 15 & portable storaze cell, which is ae | livered chargod by the company owning i &t any house in the city and called for at a given time for recuarging, a charged cel belng left in its plac Tho convenience of | Such a supply of eleciric curreat is very groat. In many buildings light and power wre distributed from a dy | namo which can be | eloctr velocity of air now possibla by improved methods of ventilation materially reduces the risks from firsdamp. Tho yearly cost of an electric mining Iamp, burnt through everv shift of the working week, I3 a little over #4 making due allowance for depreciation. Temporing Gun Springs by Electricity. The electric_ourrent is now used in ® French gun factory for tempering gun springs. The aprings consist of steel wire ind spirally, and when they have been brought 10 a high temperature by the pas- sage of the current, the circuit is broken and they are dropped into a trough of water. It is stated that by this method a workman can tewper 2,400 springs in a day. Tra Advances in Kl he devolopment of electric railways in tnis country during_the last two years has been phenomenal. Thera are now in Ameri ca over 450 electric roaas using 10,000 motors and ropresenting ao investment of §i5,000, 000, and the eMciency of the olectric tive is in asing with its adoption. a yoar ago a leading metropoiitan pressad a doudt as to whethier it was possi ble to produce an el o-motor that would draw a train of cars ata speed of twenty miles an hour, The matter was taken up by an cal enginoer, who offerad, under condi tions 1nvolving @ beavy peoalty in case of failure, to construct within four months a tric tlon. Barel paper ox kept in operation but & part of the time. | MOlOF (hat would UL b AHCLIASE Lt b | aspeed of forty miles an hot ofto Many proprietors of stores, factories Of | \qq ganarally remarded as stretching to tho warchousss will not adopt electriclty | utmost limits tho possibilities of electric becase they cannot aftora either | traction up to that time. Ata meoting of fo Ouplicate their . lghting fix- | tho New York Kapid Transit commission Jast woek the question of an underground tures or to run an engine coustantly. Tho | 1St weck the Auostion of siderad, ana storage battery overcomes this dificulty, a8 | yno ropresentatives of a W own electric it not only furnishes light, but, if used in cou nection with a motor, runs elevators and other machinery while the engine 13 idle, sither during regular or accidental stoppages. | This rescrve power costs but little, as it is obtained by equalizing tho work of tho | dynamo during tho usual nours for running. | The average horse power used will be a | Jittie higher, butno extra expenso for labor J# incurred, and the difference in the coal bill 13 not appreciabie. The storage cell, eittier provided charged or fed from the dynamo of tho user, is now employed for in numerable purposes whero an_extra supply is needed—in factorics, stores and ware- houses, office buildings, theaters and pubtic halls, hotels and apartment bouses and elec: tric light stations. A country house provided with a small eogine may nave electricity stored for evening uso whilo water is boing pumped into the tank or feed cut for tho stable. Any intellizent man employed about the grounds can learn to do all that i3 neces- sary in the charging and management of the battery. Physicians and surgeons find The Storage Cetl Tnvaluable, 83 itis found powerful ana reliablo in tho leaviest cautery work. It is superseaing stoam ard naphtha for pleasure boats in Ku- rope and thero are signs that it will soou como into extensive use for the samo pur- pose in this country, The problem of using Btored cloctricity for traction work seems every year to be drawing nearer to solution. Anv installation has just baen mado in Wur- temberg which German engineers believe is destined at no_distant date to remove the trust which obtains against storage bat terv traction, and prove the commer practicability of the system on a large sc Tho line Is two and one-half miles long mand the locomotive is ar- ranged both to haual a wagon and to carry passengers and light goods insido. Tho seats for passengers ara ou eitler 1ido of the wagou, and undor the scats are arranged tho storage batteries which energise the motor. The cells are of tho Oerlikon type, with a gelatinous electro- lyte. They number 100 and weigh two tons, the total weight of tha locomotive being eight tons. ‘Tho line upon which the wagon ruus is of normal gauge, witn very light gradiouts. A fully loaded goods wagon, con- tining twenty tons, can bo nauled tno full Jength of the line 1n twenty minutes, and the battery is hanaled by oncof the machine at- tendants without the supervision of an _ele trical engineer. That this can be sa v anda efticiently accomptished is attributed to the use of tho gelatinous electrolyte in the cnlls, which is claimed to insure a greater working safety than the usual fluid eletrolyte. An futeresting evidence of the importance at- tached in Huropo to developments n this field is the fact that a leading Jtalian electrical paper has offered a prize of §100 for the best primary buttery fulfilling certain conditions. The cowvetition closes at the end of August. lectrie Quackery. 1n a discourse on electric frauds bafors tho New York Electrical society last year, the lecturer, after giving a long list of so-called electrical applications, including “electrical’ with ostensibly magnetized ribs, and “electrical” garters, tho sovereign virtue of waich was claimed 1o lie in their ability to fmorove the symmetry of the Limbs, pro- ceeded to dissect an “electric” buirbrush. On cutting open the back of the brush s maguet consisting of & f piece of wire in the form of w double loop was exposed. ‘Lbis, of course, attracted the compass sold with the Lrush, but the magnetism it disvensed could not have the slightest offect on the per- son using the brush. A similar trading on the popular faith in the virtue of electricity is now recorded in the Enghsh clectrical papers. In the window of astoro in Fleet strect, London, is exhibitod a pair of shoes Inbeled ‘“electro-forco shoes.” These shoes are slowly revolved by clockwork, aud their yrations cause erratic movements on two arce magnots placed near them. The wio- dow 18 constantly surrounded by a gaping crowd gazing at the ‘greatest invention. of the age.”’ The public are requested to step iuside and recoive a pamphlet explanatory of the phenomennn. The pamphletstarts off by saying that “electricity, magnetism and odic forco aro the mighty forces of na- ture now employed in so many ways for tho benefit of mankind. These stioes are charged with*odic maguetism and are patron- §zed,” of course, **by members of roval fam- flies. Odic forea 1s continuous in its action and passes through any known substance, as | demonstrated by its action on a balanced magnetic needle.” This odic force “cures | tender feet, cramp, chilblains, and oven brouchitis, énd the electro-force shoes scothe the nerves and renew brain power.” The magnet whicn is conceuled in the sole affects the needle, and thence the oyve and Lhe pocket of the purchaser, and that is all. “Odic | magnetism' or “odic force’ are unmeaning torms, and are simply a part of a quack at- tempt' to promise cures under guise of plausi- blo names, aided by most transparent tricks, Tho whole thing is characterizea by th trical journals as *unworthy of the uamo of 8 respectable tradesman.’ ing by Kle The attention of electricians 1s drawn to a pingular incident which occurred in Berin. Au electrical workman, in testing his cells %0500 i1 the curront was fowing, was in the | habit of putting the two ends of the wires in He gradually absorbed so much of the soluble salts of conper from the wires | 85 to causo his death, I'ne galvanometer 15 | Dow substituted in the Beriin workshop for | the rough and ready test formerly employed, | the dat ger of which was not before realized. | Etvctrie sus Colns. Some iuteresting tests with alternating currents aud a particular form of magnet have been made in Eugland. Amongst the experionts shown was one which illus- | trated a new method of detecUng counterfeit | coins. A genuine coin,velng a good conductor, was held between the polos of 1he magner, but & bad coin, Dot possessiug that necessary | qualification, = immediately dropped when placed iu position, The Electric Light in Minlug. A greal improvement is recorded eyesizhit of the miners, who, by the electrie light, have beeu saved usunl visual strain, Too Jamp has been found to be respousible for | the great prevalence of eye diseases, such as nystagmus, night blindness, ete., and these 00 louger obtaln whoro the portabls electri lamps, designed especially for miniug work, are ewployed. In tvese the light-giving | body 1s highly protected, very little heat and tricity. ¢ for Spu in the | the use of | from the ordinary safety | peitber smell nor swoke s pro- | duced The air is thus unviti- ated by noxious fumes, aud & com- | mon source of danger, the tempiation to trim | the light or to light pipes by it is removed. The lamps may be fitted with o switch aud can be lighted or put out s often as required. They can be keptin almostany position, even ‘ horlzontally, for & short time without any in- convenience, aud are consequently very | valuable for examining roofs. lu additios | 10 this the superior light they give, one and | two candle power, as against the one third to oue-half candle power of the old safety lamp, ouables more work fo be turued outin i | gven time. The ordinary lamp has the &dvautage of showing st once if firedawp is wesent, but this 15 said to be cointer alanced by the fwot that tue wueh greater | tons and bo ca pab |t compuny stated theie readiness to submit a wuaranteed bid for the construction of motors within ten davs from the time it should be notified that thay wore wanted, and further- more, that such motors would weigh sixty of drawing forty cars of the orginary elevated road trpo at a speod of sixty miles an hour, without dauger of burn- ini out or other trouble - ELECTRICLL PROGRESS. 5,000,000 persons, company has 1,030 Electricity em The Thomson-Electric patents A new cavla is boing run between Europs and South America. Electricity has boen successtully employed t force the growth of Howers. The American Institute of Electrical En- ginocrs will meet in Chicago on the 6th and 7th of June. T'ho ancient city of Athens, Groece, which at present has a population of about 100,000, is ilghted with ninety-four are and 5,651 in- cendescent lamps. T'ho electrical department of the patent oftice is 50 overcrowiled that applications for cortain classes of patents which have been on file sinco last Novembver have uot as yet been touched Iue Westinghouse Electrical company 13 stated to have signed a contract with'ths San Antonio Light and Power comvany of southern Califoraia for transmitting nearly 1,000 electrical horse-power a distance of from fifteen to thi miles, The electric welding of streot railway rails a substitute for fish platos, the v of exporiment for somo time. The ess 15 now said to be entirely successful, t is possiblo to weld by elactricity two piecas of steel of twenty-five squars inches section, and thereforo a solid rail four or five miles long can be had if required. A microphona was recently successfully used to distinguish heart beats in o person suffering from catalepsy who had been pro- nounced dead by physicians, Everything was dono to resuscitate the patient, who ehortly afterwards rocovered consciousness. Ventilation, knife-cleaning, hat aud linen wroning, cooking, and, i fact, everything do- mestic that needs boat, light or vower is to be douo olectrically in connection with the ctric exinbit at the Crystal pelaco, Lond Tue electrical cookery is stated to be es pecially clean and dainty. Ono of the dificulties in connection with the ostablishment of tha power plant at Niagara is found 1o bo the lack of a satisfac- tory meaus of transmitting the amount of power which is to ba used from the water to the dynamos. Rope belts have been em- ployed with a degreo of succass. A uew dovico has beon brought out in- tended to do away with the use of ey sock- ots in 1canaescent lamps, by means of which the lamp is lighted or extinguished by sim- ply pulling the suspending cord. The difi culty of turnizg the key of a swinging incan- adescent lamp is well known, and this inven- thon gots over 1t by placing the switch on the ceiling and having it covtrolled by the lamp cord. Tho danger of incasing incandescent lamp bulbs in readily wtlammable material 1s evi- denced by fires recently reported. Notwith- standing the popular impression, an incau- descent electric lump gives outa considerablo amount of heat, and surrounding its bulb Vs with laces, tissue paper or such sub- tances as are commonly used in window displays, without arranging them so as to allow good radiation, involves cousiderable danger. A condwit railway system has boen de vised in which the current is transmitted to the car by induction. It requires no over- head wires, storage batteries, surface or un derground conduits, the arrangements of the transformers being such that the prirars circuit is underneath the roadbed, while tiio secondary is carried on the car, so that there is no metallic counection between the car and the main circuit from which the cur reat is derived. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. A machine makes 30,000 wiro corkscrews a da; California making. It cost the world $430,000,000 for its tele graph messagos lust year. The average life of a tradesman two-thirds that of a farmer. The Maxim un still holds the record for quick Bring, for it can deliver 750 shots each minute, or 1214 each secoud. he Coates tin mll in will have co-operative sugar is about Baltimore, which startod last month, 15 turning out from 1,500 10 1,500 cases of tinplate a weok. Tus silk worm is & delicate worker. It has been shown that the cocoon of a silk worm will yiold a fifths of » mile loax. A Chicago man has invented a romarkable sowing machine that sews through a layer of brass onc-eighth of an_inch thick placed be- tweon two 35 of leather. There are more beo hives in the United States, whero there are 2,500,000, thao in any other country. (iresce, famous for its love of houney, has only 50,000 hives, In tho towns and cities of Cuiliall the shopping of auy consequence is done in the cvening. In Sautiago the stores are open ull midnight, and during bot afternoous they iread 1,000 yaras or thre | ure locked up. The rarmers alliance of Goleta, Cal., has opened a buteher shop at that place. They say they are tired of selling fat cattle for 2:; cents a pouud aud paying 15 cents for beef. They offer to sell meat at from b to 7 vents a pound. A uow form of fastener for woodwork, de- signed to take the place of nails or screws, has been invented. The device consists of a smail plate of corrugatod stest sharpened at the bottom and driven like a pailnto the wood across the joint to bo fastened. According to statistics just puolishea, the production of gold 1n Russia in 15%) amountod 10 2,400 poods 57 pounds (the pood equals 40 Russian or 36 English pounds), compared with 2,271 poods 31 pounds in 1550, The 1n- crease is said to bo due Lo thoe development of Siberiau gold. A ratber uniquoboycoit is threatened by the labor ons of Allegheny couuty, Pa., against a printiog house *hat” has the con: tract to get out the eity directoffies for Pitts- burg and Allegheny. ~They propose to de: stroy the value of tiie books by keeping out names of nearly 100,000 workingmen. The new wool-washing machine comes from Eugland. It cousists of two bowls placed one above the other, the lower boing a settling tank, whie jn the upper the wash- ing is done. A set of vessels, called possers, having a vertical motion, squeeze the wool beneath them, and in dowg so force the water throuzh the material Tne New Yors Central & Hudson railroad will elevate ils tracks near, aud build a high level bridge over, the Harlem river, & bill having been passed authorizing 1he road to elovate its tracks between One Hundred and Sixth fand One Hundred and Thirty-1ifth streets, in New York City. entire cost of the work is estimated River [ | 000,000 and tha city's chare wili beabout 750,000, LI Dr. Biruoy's Catarra Powder for cold fo bead. #or salo by all druggisis, 50 cents OMAHA DAILY Bl SUNDAY. MAY | PARTY LEADERS IN COUNCIL Reminiscences of the Past and Speculs on Coming Natioual Conventions. THE TWO GREAT GATHERINGS IN JUNE itrasted with n Pence and Unity Democratic Strite and Bitte: Review of Ballots n tles In Previous Conventio esting Neaxt month the delegated representatives of the two great poiitical parties of the coun- try will assemble in national convention to | nominate candidates for president and vico president and enunciate the principles on which they will seek a aecision at the ballot box 10 Nov As usnal the repubiican party will be the first in the field. The convention meets in the Exposition builaing in Minneapolis, Juno 7. Two weeks lator, June 21, the democratic convention assombles in the wigwam on the lake frout, Chicago. While tho former will be little more than a ratification meeting, tho democratic convention will undoubtedly bo a | turbulent gatherine. The opposition to the renomination of President Harrison has van- ! ished. Enough delegates are already 1u- structed for him to insure his nomination on the first ballot. Among “our friends, the cnemy,” there is a surplus of candi- dates, supplemented with factional strife, which will be manifested ia the con vontion at the outset. The leading condi- dates arc David Bennett Hill and Grover Cleveland. The former has the prestigo of New York's endorsement, with its seventy- six dolegates and the support of the famnous Tammany orgavization. Cloveland is prac- tically a candidate-at-large, without the reg- ular endorsement of his own state. Late calculations give him 230 of the delegates airondy selected throughout the couniry, but most of these, though friendly, are not iostructed. They' are, liko the Nobraska delegation, at liberty to forsake Cleveland for whomsoover thoy pleaso. Senator John M. Palmer of lllinois has & qualified cu- dorsement of his own state and will_most likely Do the western choice should Cleve- land fail. Governor Boies of Towa, Governor Pattison of Pennsyivauia, Governor Russell of Massachusatts, Governor Flower of New York ana Senator Gorman of Maryland are also being groomed in tho backgrouad. The rule requiring & two-thirds vote to nominate will operate against a snap judg- ment. A prolonged, bitter contest seems certain, in marked contrast to the decorum harmony and aggressive enthusiasm which will dominate at Minneapolis, The young meu among the leaders of both partios today know that Lincoln was nomi- nated by the republicans tn 1560, and Gar- field in 1830, on o certain ballot, but how wary of them know that Lincola did not start out a favorite in tho balioting at the Chicago convention, and that in the Chicago convention twenty years afterwards Gartield was not even mentioned as o candidate till the twenty-cighth baliot was reached ! Reviewing national couventions for the past thirty-two years the New York Morn- g Adveruisor avers that the most famous couvention ever held, for o variety of rea- sons, was the Chatleston democratic conven- tion, which opened proceedings on April 23, 1560 The newspapers, the day before the couvention met, published in capital letters the names of no less than twenty-six promi- nent men who were being mentioned as can- didates, any one of whom was likely to be- come the party nominee. Among these were Stephen A. Douglas of Iilinois, Jonn € Breckinridge of Kentucky, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, Caleb Cushing of Massachu- setts, Andrew Jonuson of Tennessee,s 1 Houston of Texas, Horatio Seymour and and Daniel S, Dickinson of New York, R. M T, Huuter of Virginia, Joseph H. Lano of Orozon, Howell Cobb of Grorgia ana James A. Bayard of Delaware. But one man of these entiro twenty-six is living today. It took that convention eight days to get down to business, and by that time the dele- gates of seven of the southern states hud lett in a buff. Douglas got 145 ] on the first bal- 1ot, and on_ May 2 the thirty-fourth ballot was reached, and ho then had secured only 152. Fagged out, the convention adjourned to meet at Baitimore on June 18. Douglas ou the first ballot there got 173'; and 194 on the secord ballot, which nominated him. Meanwhile the seceders had been quiotly watching things from their own convention at Richmond, Va., and finally nominated Breckinriage. Now tbatthe democrats from Now York are squabbling about their prob- able action at the Chicago convention next summer, it may be remarked jnst here that New York had two delegations i 1560 that fought desperately, the one headed by Fer nando Wood being ‘the hottest fighters. The republican _convention naturally was in very good humor when it met in Chicago on May 16, 130, fourteen days after the Charleston convention had adjourncd, for a rest, s it were. The ‘‘broak’’ among the democrats was so open that the republicaus could not have been in any other than good bumor, Necessary to a choice in that convention of 465 votes was 232, and Seward got 17343 Lincoln, 102 On the second bsliot Seward o 2315, aud Lincoln 171, Seward reached 150 aud Lincoln 23114, This vote of Lincolu's was within 21 of a majority, and on motion of Mr. Andrews of Massachusetts the voto of that state, which bad been on the provious ballot: Seward, 18; Lincoln, 5, was changed by four of the Seward votes beiug trans- ferred to Lincoln. Thus Lincoln was nomi- uvated. Now York stuck to Seward to the last—in fact until Massachusetts' littlo trans- fer had beon made, “I'tie two national conventions of 1504 wera “short and sweet,” as it were, The demo- crats beld theirs' in Chicago. They begon the proceedings on August 20, continued them on the 30th, and wound up evervthing ou the iist. Thero was nospeechmaking when tho nominations were made, and Gen- eral George B. McClellan got { votes on the first ballot and Seymour 231, Lincoln was the same year renominated by the republicans in the Baltimore convention, which met on June 7. ‘Thero was ouly one oailot; tht was on thesth, Lincoin recéiving 425 of the 407 votes. Seventy-two votes w cast for General Grant by Missouri, simply as a matter of form aud honor to the goa- cral. The republicans were the firsttohiold tueir convention in 186%, at Chicago May 20. Grant got all the votes on the first ballot. Certainly New York will never forget 1508, for it wus in that city that the convention was held in Tammany hall, when the wig wam in Fourteenth stroet ‘was brand new, and the weattier was 30 hot tnat the rails of the street ruilroads were absolutely warped in places like curling irons. The city was swarming with democrats from all parts of the country who tad never seen this city be fore, and for tho sake of comfort nino men out of teu, delegates included, wore to col- lars, unboiled shirts and loni linen_dusters. Tho convention assembled on the Fourth of July, which was on Saturday. Horatio Sey- mour was the chairman. Tho total vote of the vonvention was 317, and necessary for a cnoice 21115, Politicians must not forget that it requires a two-thirds vote to secure a nom- ination in a democratic national convention, hence this needed 211, For days before the convention met Salmou P. Chase was looked upon s a great probability; yetthe first ever heard of bim 1n the balloting was on the seventeentn baliot, when ouo delerate from Californin threw his vote for him, and thus moer. oro | recorded Chase in the scoro with " for 2 gt no more on that ballot. On the first ballot there were eleven cundidates in the fleld | Parker, Packer, Andrew Johnson, Doolittle, | Hendricks, Blair and Reverdy Jounson, Not | one of tuese men is alive today. Pendieton headed the list with 105, just 1063¢ out of the way of success, with Andrew Johuson 65, Hancock 335 and Chureh 4. On the fifth ballot Pendleton reached 1 and 1225 on the sixth ballot. Iols was on July 7. 'Phe fitth aay of the convention's work was on July . Pendleton scored his highest point on~ the eighth baliot when he ®ot 156, and he feli on the next ballot to 144. Hendricks, meanwhile, who had on the first ballot received only 39, reached 49!, voles ou the sixth ballot, and 1o the nintb, when Pendleton feil from 1561, to 144, re- ceived Su'g. Hendricks' friends began to cheer, but so did Haucocks', when on the eighteenth the General got 144!, to Hen- dricks' 57, and Pendleton went down to it was on the twenty-second vote that Horatio Seymour got the necessary two- thirds vote. Genersl McCook began the rush by castiug seveuleeu votes from Ohie ~for the New York wman, and Sanuel J, Ti Peualeton, Hancock, Church, Englisn, den announced Church for Seymour. that “SMe York sot aside t sottled tuings It was on June 44 Philadeiphia, that the republican canyention opened. On the second day Sheibg M. Cullom of tllinois put General Grant Wp for renomination. There were 732 votes X the convention, and they wero all cast fof Grant on tho first baliot The democratic convétion that year was a very quiet, humdrum affair, It was held 1 Baltimore on July % 3ad the couvention was in session two days. Horace (reeley was put in nomination #& the second day by Mr. Snowhark of | is, and got all” the necessary votes on tha first batlot Now, indeed, weo comé to a president: year that will bo long remembered—18 The republicans were fiFst in the field, They met in Ciemnati on June 14, and were in session four days. 'The vote necessary o a choice was 370, and this is the way the first ballot stood: Blaine, 201: Morton, 125; Bris tow, 113; UConkling,00; Hayes,5; Hartranft, 5% Jewell, 11 On the third ballot Blaine fell to 203, on the fourth to on the fifth to 287; but on | the sixth he jumped to 305, within 71 to vic tory, Meanwhile Hayes, who had started with 65, had got to 113, On the seventh lot Blaine reachied within 2 of the nomina tlon, he receiving 351 but Corkling, Morton and Hartranft got out, and the result was as follows: Hayes, 334; Blaive, 351; Bristow. Hayes on this ballot received 61 of New York's 70 votes, and got 24 of P It was Indiana that made the break for Hayes casting 25 votes for him, 'Then ez in aud the other states fol nnsylvanin’s by Keutucky sw lowed 1n'the wake, Ibe democrats in 1 tion at St. Louis on June sion on Juno 25 and 20, Only were taken, Senator Kernan ot state put Samuel J. Tiiden in uomination, and this was tho way the first ballov stood: Tilden, 403, ; Hendricks, 1 ; Hancock, ¥ Alleu 563 Buyard, 27; Parker, 15 Tammany was an_ ugly customer in this convention, as usual, aud tried to *boss’ things against_Tilden, but had to give it up. liere wera 738 votes in the convention, and the vote necessary to & choics therefore was 402, Tilden was equal to tho occasion, as on the second ballot he received 515, It was on motion of Penusylvauia that the nomination of Tilden was then made uuani- mous. Chicago was again tue battle ground for the repubiicans 1 1850, They wore twenty days carlior in the field than the democrats, and the convention was made remarkablo by the great contest that eusued betweon tho anti-third termers and the famous *'305," who fought so crandly but so nopelessly to put General Grant in the fiela again. The couvontion was in session from June to 8, und the balloting did not begin tll the Tth, (rant headed on tho first ballot with 304 votes. He got 505 on the second, 306 ob the eighth, 803 on the ninth, and on held their conven- and were in ses- two- baliots New York 9 the twenty-eighth closed with 307, Blaine began with 254 and ended with 270. Sher man got 93, then feil to 91; Washburne gained from 30 to 85, Kdwards fell from 34031, Windom got 10 clean through from beginning to And where was Garfleld at the start! He wasn’t mentioned on the first batlot, ana had ouly 2 on the twenty-eighth ballot, aud Haye bad only 1 when the tenth, cleventh and twelfth ballots wera taken, Ou June S, on the thirty-tifth ballot, Blaine had 257, Sher- man 99, Garfield 50, Washburne 23, Idwards 11, Windom 3. Grant's 806 were with him on the thirty-eighth ballot, Biaine went Sherman to: 8, Washburae to 5 nd Edmunds and Whidom got nono at all, It was plain to see where B aine's men went, with the 06 who bad been for Sherman, the 11 for Edmunds and the 3 for Windom on the thirty-fifth ballot for Gartield’s total at the close of the thirty-sixth ballot was 3. That nominated him. It was Governor Hoadly of Ohio who callea tho democratig’ convention to order that year, on June 22. Cincinnati was the place. As in 1876, Tammany was hissod aud hooted, ana her delegation squelched. Dantel Dougnerty of Piiladelphia put Han- coclc in nomination, and the New York dele- gation had no candidazs from its state, and ina surly mood voted for Payne of Ohio on the first ballot. The vote necessary for a choico was didates in the field. J, tor the leading nine ucock, 171; Bayard, i) Morrison, aown to 42, and there were nineteen can- Tho first ballot,on June were as follows: ; Thurman, 631 ¢ 5043 i Iieta. 6 Tilden, 35; Payne, §1; Ewine, During the veting on the se jumped a little mau from Wisconsin nnd an- Henaricks, nounced twenty votes for Hancock. This started tho tide all ono way, and tho ballot finally resulted in Hancock’s homination, It was then_that “‘Baldy” Smith went to the wires on the stage and teleeraphed to Han- cock: *“The gray and blue unite on you.” Chicago, as bas been shown, wus in 156 1868 and 1350, the rendezvous of the republi- cans, and in 1854 the national convention met therd again, boginning work on_June 3, five days belore tho democrats who also held their convention that year in Chicago. The republican convention was in session for four days. Thnere were 518 votes, 411 being nec- essary for choice of a candidate. Four bal- lots were taken oa June 6 as follows: First Sceona Third Fourth Candidato— ballot. ballot. balot. b Bluine..... -k . &80 3 Arthur. . 27 Edurunds.; [ Loznu Gitg 3 ; 1 Lincoln i WoT Shermin 2 Tllinois withdrew Logaa on and threw 35 votes for Bl gave him 50, and so on went the dance among other states till the 5#l was reached, 130 more than the necessary choice. ‘The democrats met in Chicago on July 5, the last oallot ine. Then Indiana 18%4, and on July 10 the first ballot was cast. It resulted as follows: Cleve'and, 392; Bayard, 170; McDonald, 56: Randall, S: Thurman, S5; Cavlisle; 27; Flower, 4; Tilden, 1; Hoadly, #; Hendricks, 1 There were 520 votes in the convention, and 537 under the two-thirds rule was neces- sary for a cholce. On July 11 the second bal- lot” was taken and Cleveland got 633 and was tnerefore nommated. Tammany, s usual, was against tue popular candidate, and had to rub its nose and getinto the swim finally much against its will, William 1", Vilas of Wisconsin presided at this con- vention, and ho had o hard vime of it with Tammauy. The acmocrats in 1555 tion in St. Louis on J Cleveland, I'he republican convention was again held in Chicagoin 1555, The first ballot was taken on and the first three ballots resulted as follows' for tho leading candidates : held their conven- une 6 and renominated First Second Third Candldate, bullot. baliot. baliot, Alger L 116 122 fr 240 230 14 107 Depew w ) arrison 7 o Allison o4 e | 1] B Depew withdresw aftor the third ballot,aud recelved afterwards the vote of the four dole gates-at-largo—Hiscock, Miller, Platt and bimself. New York then threw 50 votes for Harrison. On June 24 tho fifth ballot sulted as follows for the five leading candi- dates: Suerman, 2243 /Algor, 57; Hurrisou, 142; Allison, 213 Blaing; %9, California’ made a Bréak on the seventh vallot. Before that ballot Sherman had 244 to Harrison's 231 but omsthe seyenth ballot Alger lost 17,and Harrigon had a gain of 47— 218 in all ¥ Allisou’ withdrew on tho eightn ballot, and Towa went over to Harrison. Wisconsin gave him 22 votes, and the tekult finally was being necessary for a choice—Harrisou Sherman 115, Alger 109, itiresham 5 5, McKinley 5. e There can be nothing fnore tempting or de- licious to serve your guasts with than Cook’s Extra Dry Coampagaoe: e Getting to Biv Point, Sir,” said & ferco lawyer, “*do you, on your oath, swear that this is not your handwriting?” I think not,” was the cool rep **Does it resemble your writing? 1 can’t say it does.” Do you swear it does not resemble your writin d 1 do.” **Do you take your oath that this writ ing does not resemblo yours ¢ ‘Y-e-s, sir,” *Now, how do you know ? *Cause I can’t write.” Collapse of fierce lawyer. - “Life bas been a burden to me for the past fifty years ou account of great suffering from very severo and frequent beadaches. Brady- erotine has done wonders for me. | am now a rew man, aud shall proclaim the merits of vour medicine to all & cav react ' Goorge K. Fowler, aitoruey at law, Pulatks, Fla. PAGI NEBRASKA FACTORY N ( Notes Gather: I Hero and There Among the | Preparing for the State Exhibit of Manu- “ factured Goods in This Oity. ; A NEW INDUSTRY STARTED IN OMAHA [ Manufacturers of the State—A Coppor Plant Coming Hers trom The work of | turers East, the manufa preparing for exposition, to be held at Omaha n une, goes merrily on. As originally | planned, the exposition would have been | much larger than anything of tho kind ever | beld in the state, but the interest taken tne subject by tho pubiic has aroused still greater enthusiasm among the manufac. | turers, ana the most enterprising firms are | enlargiog their original plaus 0 a groat | extent. A good many firms are preparing to spead from £200 to £00 on their exnibits, and | one firm bas announced that it has sot asido | 81,000 to bo devoted 1o this purvose, Thero are stiiia few factories located at Omaha and at some other points in the state, which have not consented to make an exhibit and which should be represented in order to wmake the showing of Nebraska in dustries complete. A committes has boen appointed to wait upon theso wmanufac- facturers and lay before them the manv ad- vantagos of placing their goods before tho peoply and try to bring them to the front As the groat importance of the exposition becomes botter known a rood many manufac- turers aro comitg forward and askiug for space. L. C. Humphrey of Lincoln, secrotary of the Chiase Manufacturing company, was in the city a fow davs ago and joined the Manu- facturers association, This company has a factory at Weeping Water for the manufac ture of sewing machines, windmills and cold rolled steel type and dies. They will take part in the exbibit. The Cudahy Packing company and the Omaha Packing company of South Omaha have joined the association. The former will make a large display of meat products at the exposition. 1t has been suggested that the Columbus wooden shoe faotery ought to make an ex- hibitat the exposition as there are fow people who arc awaro that such an industry 1s in existence in the state. Thero will be mer- chants in attendance at the exposition from all over the state and many of them have among their customers farmers of foreign birth and wouid be able Lo dispose of wooden shoos if they know that they could be readily obtained. C. E. West, who has done good work for tho association, left Omahs the past week to represeut tne Cousolidated Coffee company in the southern part of tho state. A. M. Malngren has commenced the manu- acture of shoo blacking in Omaha under the name of the Crystal Manufacturing cowm- pany. The quality of the blacking has been pronounced tirst class and its manufacture promises to become an important industry in the city. Thera are in the cast some very large fac- tories for the manufacture of shoe blackiug and a good many hundred people find em vloyment in them. If tho shoe dealers and others who sell shoe blacking will patronize home industry Omaha way have a large fa tory of this kind. The Omaha Tinware Manufacturing com- pany have ordered dies to make the boxes for the shoe blucking factory. This iilustrates how one industry helps cthers. Gothenvurgis to have a large brass and copper manufacturing plant, which will move to that point from Camoridge, Mass. The company will be known as the Holton Brass and Copper company, and is incorporated with a capital stock of £200,000. They ex- pect to employ over 150 men, which, with their families, will make a very substautial increase in the population of that euterpris- ing Nebraska town. The compauy already has a large western trade and their removal 10 Nebraska is for the purpose ot being in a position to handle this trade to better ndvan- tage. As they will now becomo a Nebraska institution it is to be hoped that their trade in this state especially will be largely in- creased. Creighton has a new picket fonce factory. A cigar factory with £5,000 capital has been organized at St. Paul, Neb. When will something bo done to build up the manufacturing business of Omaha? & Tho Farmers and Merchants Milling com- papy of Broken Bow nave filed their articles of incorporation preparatory to commencini business, savs the Custer Leader. The tu- corporators are James Hutchinson, M. J. Morrison and H. W Dickinson of this city, and the Gandy & Morrison mill property 1s absorbed 1n “the deal. The new company wiil at once put in some new and much nceded machinery and fix up the buidings and grounds, and will operate a first cluss grist mill plant. Itis not, perhaps, generally %known, says the Odell Consistonr, that we have in town a manufacturing establishment which 1s well worth visiting. especially when expert hands like Ralph Oliver and Dick Waddell are bundling the machinery. \Wo refer to the manufacture of tho patent fence which 1s being manu- factured by Templeton & Waddell The machinery, while simple, is very in- teresting and is well worth any man's time, to spend a half hour watching its action and observing the rapidity with which the fence is manufactured. The demand for this fence is rapidly increasing, which is not surpris- ing, as it tills & long felt wantamong not only farmers, but all who desire a chean, durable and efiicient fenco. The Maple Grove sorghum works, near ‘ecping Water, will be improved, and will oue of the most important in the country. I’remont is to have a new cornice factory. nery for the Beatrice boot and shoo y, will be shipped by May 12, — Weepig WaTer, Neb., Oct. 23, 190, —Dr, Moore: My Dear Sir—I have just bought the thira bottle of your Tree of Lifo. It is indeed a “Tree of Life.” Doctor, when you s0 kindly gave mo that first bottle my right side was so lame and sore and my liver en- larged so much that I could not lie upon my right side at all. There was a soreness ove my kidnoys all of the time, but now that trouble is all over. 1 sloep just as well on one side as on tho other, and my leep rests and refréshos me, and 1 foel the best I've felt in fifteen years, and I know that 1t is all due to your Tres of Life. Yours very truly D. F. Dupiiy. "or sale by all druggists. — CONNUBIALITI > The engagement of Dr. Oliver N, Miss Sophia Bozue, day ( Huff to ghter of Dr. Roswell Bogue of Chicago, is aunounced The marriage of Miss Florenco Griswold of New York and Surgeon Cross of the Eu- glish army was solemuized at Newport last week. Two white teachers of Chinese Sunday seuools in New York married Won Lung aud Loo Wing lust week. Taeir conversion was complete. “Merey ! cried Juliet. *“This glove is ught.” " *1, too, sloutd be intoxicated,” rapturously responded glove upou that hand.” Romeo, ‘“‘were I a Mr. Leon Abbett, r., a son of Governor Teou Abbett of New Jersev, was married ou the 20th ult. to aliss Lillian Hall, & daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs, Thomas R. Hall of Nev York “And you want @ pension!” “That's what!" “How loug were you in the war!" SWell, sir, [ wur murried” long in 1569, an’ peace ain't been declared yit; so you kin Jes’ calkilate fer verself!” 2x-Goveruor Pinkney Whyte of Baltimore | was married to Mrs. Mary Thowas, daughter | of Wilhiam McDonald and widow of the late Raleigh Thomas. The wedding took place in Immaculate Baptist church, Baltimore, The marriage of Count Jobanues von Franken Sierstoripfl, licutenant of the First battalion, Second dragoous, of tne imperial army of Garmany, 1o Miss Mary Kuowlton, the only child of Edwia K. Kunowlton, a mi lionsire merchant of New York city, took place last week A Cambridge, Mass., girl broke off tho en- gagement on discovering that ber intended bad a cork leg. The fact that she was shot : dead by ber discarded lover should ve a warnirg Lo otbers to make due inguiries re- gordiug suitors’ pedal extremitios before a copting them. A wedding occurred last week at the Poiat OTES ANK& ¢o. GHIGRGO. FAIRE Arago The oldost married to lighthouse, on the coast of Oregon rom Wyman was Ira Atlea by Justice Georgo Chard of South Slough. This wedding is worthy of notice from the fact that it was the most “western' wedding ever celebrated No couple has bofore boon married at a point 50 far to tho west as this on land. Of course weddings at sea are not counted. NOVELTIES IN A silver articlo is a candlostick In shape, but supports & round clock. Mon's scarf clasps of overlappiug spirals of gold and platinum are popular. New silvor candlesticks have raised rims of perforated silver in Italian dosigns, Porforatod gold boads incrusted with en- amels aro a pretty modification of the or- thodox style. Bunches of edelweiss in white enamel aro more prominent than any onameled fiower except the orchid. The perfumed salts for the roow, inclosad in & cylinder of glass with a top of silver or silver gilt, has founa & place. New silver vises tako the favorite chrys anthemum form; that1s, they are slender, tall and iotended for only two or three stalks, Ladies are veginning to wear much jew- olry in tho streets again in the torm of eiab orate and conspicuous bonnet pins, veil pins, clasps and & great variety of pins on the badice. The old time snake ring has been revived under the name of tho Cieopatra, and is now worn by swell girls on the thumb of the left hand. Another stylish thumb ri set with jewels nalf the way rouna. ing moro barbarous in effect can be imaz- ined, except a ring in the nose. Orange and egg snoons of silver gilt wi perforated handles wore brought out in pro- fusion for Eastortide. They were incrusted with enamols, green and white prevailing in tint. Somo of tho handles looked like stalks of the lily of the valley. Green and pale olue were another combination. i daughter of JEWELRY. LIGIOUS, ‘The fmmanuel Baptist church of Ashland, Neb., has extended o call to Miss I Townslay of Chicago to supply the vacant pastorate, Patsy Sears of Howard couuty, Indiana, who claims to be 103 yoars old. says that he has been a church member for 105 yeavs. His retigion should have soaked well i by this time. The Rev. David L. Anderson of Atlanta, Ga., who has been engaged in missiona work in Clina since 1334, is now on his way home, having obtained a year's leavo of ab- sence. Dr. Briggs promises to be an_exceedingly live 1ssuo at the forthcoming Presbyterian assembly in Portland, Ore. Juaging from present indications Dr. Parkhurst of crusade notoriaty will be another. The oldest church !constructed by English spcaking people is said to be located at Nor- folk, Va. Tt was built 1632 The sizo is 30x50 feot and the cower fifty feet tall. The walls are thick, 1n good condition; the brick and the mortar are so firmly joined togetber as to defy separation without breaking the rick, The oldest well-defined grave in tho churchyard is that of General Joseph Bridg- er, who died in 1656, and _whose father built the church, which nas withstood the ravages of three wars, the revolution, the war of 151 and the strugele of 1860. Three times it hus been re-roofed and it is now undercoing re puirs of & very attractive and suostanti naturo and bids faiv to be useful as a church for tho next three centuries. Memorial win- dows have been constructed for itin Ik land and when again in shape to uso it will present @ very atiractive appearauce. -— Spectacles & eye giasses litted & ground to suit the sight on short notice at Aloe & Penfold Co., 1st door south of P. O. — The public schools of the Upited States are to take a couspicuous part in the Colum- bian exposition, and the movoment to inter- st the scholars and teachers promises to do more toward popularizing the World's fair than any single feature of the grand event yot suggested. The movement is a national one and has already spread out so that from the Atlantic to tho Pacific there is scarcely a school that aas not been invited or given an opportunity to participate. If you are not sure that the whiskey you are now using, or for medi- cinal purposes, is positively purcand whole- some, ask your dealer or druggist for « beverag It is guaranteed to be absolutely pure, rich and mature, You may know it by its fine flavor and the proprictary bottle in which it is served. For saleatall first-clas drinking places and drug stores. Call for “Cream Pure Rye" and take no other. 4 DALLEMAND & CO., Chicago. o i DRE.C. 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