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THE CANADIAN CRESCENT. I
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nUBSKAH B. KZlXfLEB, Editor ft Pub'
published every thursday at
CANADIAN. - TEXAS'
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News.
> CONGRESS.
- In the Senate on the 23d the conference
report on the River and Harbor bill was pre
sented and agreed to. The Fisheries treaty
was then taken up In open session and Senators
Dawes and Stewart spoke in opposition. Ad-
journed .... In the House the Senate bill to per-
fect the quarantine service of the United States
was taken up and passed. District of Columbia
business occupied most of the session. The
conference report on the bill requiring the Pa-
cific roads to construct and operate separate
telegraph lines was presented and agreed to
and the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 24th the. resolution to
print 5.000 additional copie of the report of the
Senate Committee on Pensions, on the subject
of vetoed pension bills, was taken up, the ques-
tion being on Senator Cockrell's amendment to
print 100,000 copies of Presidential vetoes in the
last and present Congress. A long wrangle fol-
lowed and the matter passed over without
action. Senator Sherman reported an amend-
ment to the Sundry Civil bill incorporating a
provision to refund to the States the direct
tax. Referred. The Naval Appropriation
bill was then under consideration
until adjournment In the House the
Senate bill passed to prohibit the transmission
through the mails of certain matter in trans-
parent envelopes. After passing several bills
of a local character, the House went into Com-
mittee of the Whole on the Oklahoma bill. Mr.
Warner, of Missouri, spoke in favor of the bill.
No final action was reached. At the evening
session several land bills passed, among them a
bill authorizing the sale of certain lands in
Southwestern Kansas to the Methodist College
Association, and the bill authorizing tne certifi-
cation of lands to the State of Kansas for agri-
cultural purposes.
In the Senate on the 25th Mr. Cullom
offered a resolution of inquiry as to the effect
n interstate commerce of the possession by
he Canadian Pacific railway of certain roads
f ?netrating United States territory in Minne-
#ota. The Naval Appropriation bill was then
£>nsidered and passed* and thé "Senate Al-
Antown (Pa.) Appropriation bill was passed.
The pension bills on the calendar, 127 in num-
J>er, were passed. Adjourned In the House the
£>enate bill for holding terms of theUnited States
District Court at Salina, Kan., was passed.
After disposing of various private bills, the
House took up the bill to establish a United
States land court to adjudicate private land
claims in Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.
After debate Arizona was exempted from the
provisions of the bill and it passed. The Okla-
homa bill was taken up in Committee of the
Whole, bot nothing done. No measure of pub-
lic interest was acted upon before the House
idjouraed.
After the report of committees in the
Senate on the 26th the Army Appropriation bill
was taken up and after some discussion passed.
The Fisheries treaty was then taken up.
Senator Wilson spoke in favor of and Senator
Teller against the treaty. Adjourned without
final action—In the House a joint resolution
was passed providing temporarily for the army.
In the morning hour the bill to provide a pi n
for post-office buildings was considered. The
Oklahoma bill was then considered in Com-
mittee of the Whole until recess. At the even-
ing session bills reported by the Judiciary Com-
mittee were considered and several passed.
After routine business in the Senate on
the 27th the Fisheries treaty was again under
consideration in open executive session and
Senator Saulsbury spoke in favor of the treaty.
The Sundry Civil bill was then considered until
^adjournment—The attendance in the House
was small and the only business transacted was
the consideration of bills on the private calen-
dar. At the evening session thirty-six private
pension bills passed.
THE EAST.
The Congressional investigation into im-
migration matters commenced at New York
on the 25th, agents of steamships being un-
der examination.
The Connecticut Republican convention
has been called for Hartford, August 14
and 15.
Several ot the Nicaragua canal sur-
veyors who have returned to New York
report entire success in their efforts.
A train on the Alabama Great Southern
railway was ditched near Titusville re-
cently by the breaking of the driving
wheel of the engine. Two men, a fireman
and a brakeman, were caught under a car-
load of steel rails and killed.
Major Downs, of New York, who began
the crusade against the bob-tail car by re-
fusing to put his fare in the box, was fined
$1. The case was appealed.
Two of the three Chinamen who were
detained at Plattsburg, N. Y., on the
ground that their entry papers were ir-
regular or forged, were taken back to Mon-
treal in charge of a United States Marshal.
Having entere*? Canada in bond, they
were liable to a duty of $50 a head. The
money was paid and the two celestials
were set at liberty.
Burglars in Concord, Mass., the other
night made a desperate but unsuccessful
effort to break into the vault of the Con-
cord Bank.
The remains of Courtland Palmer, after
Agnostic services at his late residence on
East Twenty-first street, New York, at
which Robert G. Ingersoll read an address,
were taken to the crematory at Fresh Pond
and incinerated.
The Texas traffic lines' representatives,
who were in New York endeavoring to
effect an organization as public carriers,
are reported to have agreed.
A special from Brighton, ninety-six
miles east of Buffalo, N. Y., says a serious
break has occurred in the three-mile level
of the Erie canal. Several boats were
broken in two and all of the east boats de-
layed.
The differences between the glass bottle
blowers and factory owners of the East
have been amicably arranged.
The suit of the Webster Loom Company
vs. E. S. Higgins & Co., for infringement
of a patent process of carpet weaving,
which has been pending for fourteen
years, was decided at New York on the
27th in favor of plaintiff, but only six
cents damages were awarded, instead of
$3,000,000 wanted.
According to Pittsburgh reports the
soap manufacturers of this country are
discussing the formation of a trust to reg-
ulate prices and production.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Fourteen of the new guns for the new
United States cruisers being made at the
Washington ordnance foundry are nearly
complete, and the other twenty-one will
be finished by winter.
The Republican Senators in caucus have
decided unanimously to pass at this ses-
sion a tariff reduction and revision bill.
This, it is thought, will prevent an early
adjournment of Congress.
The Comptroller of the Currency has de-
clared the first dividend of 30 per cent. in
favor of the creditors of the Commercial
National Bank, of Dubuque, Iowa, on
clams proved amounting to $383,091. This
bank failed March 20,1888,
Colonel J ames Stevenson, of the United
States Geological Survey died recently.
He was formerly connected with the Smith-
sonian Institution.
United States Marshal Gross has re-
ceived a letter from his deputy at Harlan,
KVi The deputy was in the court house
with 100 armed men with Winchesters, and
would try to hold it, though the whisky-
ites threatened to have blood for the de-
struction of their property. They were
under the leadership of one William How-
ard, who had already killed three men.
Postmaster-General Dickinson has
issued a circular instructing postmasters
that under the provisions of the Post-office
Appropriation bill recently passed by Con-
gress the postage on seeds, cuttings, bulbs,
rdots, scions and plants will be charged at
the rate of one cent for each two ounces or
fraction thereof. The former rate was
one cent per ounce.
Mb Fuller, the new Chief Justice, and
Mrs duller, arrived in Washington oh thé
20th. Mr. Fuller declined to see any callers
or to be interviewed.
The President has approved the Post-
office Appropriation bill; the act for a
bridge across the Mississippi river at Wa-
basha, Minn.; the act to construct a road
to the National Cemetery at Baton Rouge,
La.; the joint resolution electing managers
of the National Home for Disabled Volun-
teer Soldiers; the act for a bridge across
the Arkansas near Cummings* Landing,
Ark.
G. L. Pruden, assistant secretary to the
President, has received intelligence that
his son, aged sixteen, was killed in an acci-
dent on a farm in Virginia, where he was
«pending a short vacation.
From evidence in possession of the
Treasury Department it is said that about
$30,000,000 worth of Confederate property
is in possession of parties in England,
and $6,000,000 worth in the possession of
parties in the United States.
The International Copyright bill, it is
thought, will be deferred by the Senate till
next winter.
THE west.
At Morley's station, Cal., the other day,
James Mason, a veteran stage-driver,
bought a fifty-pound box of giant-powder,
sat on it and touched the explosive off.
The coroner gathered up twenty pounds of
him in a basket.
The shoe factory of Krappendorff, Ditt-
man & Co., Cincinnati, a six story build-
ing, was recently destroyed by fire. Loss,
$310,000; insurance, $101,000.
A burglar entered the suburban resi-
dence of Hon. Colun^bus Delano, ex-Secre-
tary of the Interior, at Mount Vernon,O.,the
other night. The noise aroused the house-
hold and the venerable Secretary, now in
his eightieth year, arose, procured a re-
volver, confronted the intruder and drove
him from the premises.
Owen G. Lovejoy, son of the noted
Abolitionist, has been nominated for Con-
gress by the Democrats of the Seventh
Illinois district.
The Burlington offer to compromise the
strike was rejected by the conference re-
cently held at St. Joseph, Mo.
Rudolph Sevic, a gunsmith, was ar-
rested as an Anarchist at Chicago on the
25th. It was reported that infernal ma-
chines were found on his premises.
The Democrats of the Eighteenth Illinois
district have nominated A. W. Hope for
Congress.
Judge Brewer has granted a temporary
injunction against the Iowa Railroad Com-
missioners. He laid down the law that
unlimited power did not exist in the Legis-
lature or in the Board to fix rates.
Indiana White Caps, after whipping two
women in Crawford County were fired on
and put to flight by citizens in ambush.
Three of the White Caps were seriously
wounded.
Congressman O'Neill and Miss Kate
Robinson were married at St. Louis re-
cently without any trouble on account of
Mrs. Moore, who had declared herself
O'Neill's wife.
Six tramps were found smothered to
death in a box cai- of grain on the Omaha
& Republican Valley road, forty miles
from Omaha, Neb., on the 26th. The car
had been derailed and overturned in an
accident.
In a fire at a miners' boarding house at
Maynard, O., recently, a man and two
boys were burned to death.
Three boys were drowned in the Mis-
souri river opposite the smelting works at
Omaha, Neb., the other evening.
Haber & Graham's sash and blind fac-
The bones of a murdered woman and
child have been found on*the banks of the
Dry Dano, in Edwards County, The
matter ipm coznpfete mystery- *•
The McCoy feud fh Pike County. Ky., is
reported to have broken out afresh. John
DottsoirlicCojr is th# last victim.
Near Bentojnia. Miss., recently the
daughter of Djfc^h Miles, colored, poisoned
her father and three brothers. Two of the
brothers were dead. Family trouble was
the cause.
GENERAL.
A BANQUEXjjn honor of American authors
was givaen na London On the 25th. Prof.
James Brice, Consul-General Waller and
James Russet! Lowell spoke.
The Iris^i Exchequer Court on applica-
tion of Ttóothy Healy, member of Parlia-
ment, has granted a conditional order of
habeas corpus for the release from prison
of John Dillon, om the groünd that owing
to informality the county judge who sen-
tenced Dillon in April had no jurisdiction
to rehear the case.
It is learned that the object of a recent
plot discovered at Rustchuk was to mur-
der Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria. Two
of the ringleaders, Bogueton and Ivanoff,
have been arrested.
A German crank named Clotten has
been arrested for threatening Mr. Glad-
stone. He had sent a manuscript for Mrs.
Gladstone to read and because it was mis-
laid or thrown away he wanted some
blood.
The 900th anniversary of the introduc-
tion of Christianity into Russia was cele-
brated at Kieff bn the 26th with much
pomp.
It is reported by steamer from China
that the King of Corea is about to prohibit
preaching by Christian missionaries.
The services of volunteers to assist in
putting down the Indian troubles in the
Northwest Territory have been declined
by the Canadian authorities as not needed.
A private dispatch from London says
that the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
have had the legality of their marriage es-
tablished in England. They went before
the registrar and had their marriage duly
recorded.
H. U. McElroy, chief clerk of the
freight department of the Mexican "Cen-
tral railway, has been arrested at Vera
Cruz charged wtth defalcations.
Business failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended July 26 numbered for
the United States, 199; Canada, 22.
Nineteen emigration agents were ar-
rested at Cracow, Austrian Galicia, re-
cently, for inciting natives of the district
to emigrate to America to avoid military
service. Similar arrests were made at
Brady and Czernomitz.
A volcanic eruption at Bandalsan, fifty
leagues from Yokohama, has destroyed
several villages and killed 1,000 persons,
including 100 visitors at the Thermal
springs.
The United States steamer Juniata,
which went ashore near Gough Island
while on her way to Chemulpo, Corea, to
protect American .Consuls from Corean
mobs, got safely off the mud bank with
the tide on the night of July 22, and pro-
ceeded again to Seoul.
The Empress of Germany was delivered
of a son at the royal palace at Potsdam on
the 27th.
Large numbers of Chinese are reported
making their way into the United States
from British Columbia by way of the
frontier placer mines, which are princi-
pally in the hands of Chinamen.
COURTLANDT PALMER.
1HE IiATEST.
Thomas Carney, the War Governor of
Kansas, died at Leavenworth on the 28th,
in his sixty-first year. The death of
Carney was the first of the men who have
served the State of Kansas as Governors.
Democratic primaries in Kansas City,
Mo., on the 28th, w< nt generally in favor
of Francis for tlie Gubernatorial nomina-
tion.
Advices from Khartoum say that tlie
Austrian captive Neuford, who was en-
gaged to build a mausoleum, managed to
escape from that city, but was recaptured
at Dongola and hanged.
j The Senate on the 28th considered the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, several
amendments being adopted. The House
was in committee on the Deficiency Appro-
priation bill.
The Sioux Indians, in council at Stand-
ing Rock, Dak., it was stated on the 28th,
had determined not to sign the treaty for
the disposal of their reservation.
A Bohemian named Detlaf shotand killed
two ball players named Phillips and Lar-
kins in Chicago recently. The killing fol-
lowed a rough request for beer while a Bo-
hemian dance was in progress.
Five hundred navvies on a strike re-
cently attacked the police at La Villete,
France, and ten w$re wounded with swords.
Many of them were Italians.
The trouble over the collection of the
cattle tax in the Chickasaw Nation, k T.,
came to an unexpected and sudden end,
the Indian authorities succeeding in carry-
ing their point by the aid of United States
I soldiers. A few arrests of non-citi2ens
tory in South Chicago, used until recently ; were made and the threatened resistance
by A. G. Spalding as a sporting goods fac } collapsed.
tory has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
$50,000.
By a collision at a crossing in Chicago
the other morning four cars of a Burling-
ton freight train were derailed and an
Eastern Illinois passenger engine ruined.
No one was hurt. The Burlinglfon men
were blamed.
There was a report in Los Angeles, Cal.,
on the 57th that Henry W. Moore and Mrs.
Norton, the runaway couple, were in that
city.
THE SOUTH.
A. G. Edison, a prominent Choctaw In-
dian, living north of Gainesville, Tex., fell
from a well bucket in which he was being
drawn up from the well on his place and
his neck was broken.
W. T. Werner, sheriff of Crittenden
County, Ark., who was in Little Rock re-
cently, declared that there was no truth in
the reports that there had been a lynching-
or violence of any kind in Marion. He ad-
mitted that nineteen colored men had been
driven out and would not be permitted to
return, but said the majority of the eolorod
people indorsed the action of the whites.
C. C. Nelson, the absconding banker of
Atlanta, Ga., has been arrested at Kings-
ton, Out., for bringing stolen money into
Canada, having carried $25,000' of the
bank's funds with him.
Funeral of the Noted Free-Thinker at His
Late Home in New York—Eloquent Ad-
dress bjr Colonei Robert Ingersoll Over
the Bier of His Friend—The Remain*
Cremated.
New York, July 26.—The late home of
Courtlandt Palmer at 117 East Twenty-
first street was crowded almost to suffo-
cation by the friends who came to attend
his funeral services. The Nineteenth
Century Club, of which Mr. Palmer was
the founder, was largely represented in
the gathering. The remains of the de-
ceased advocate of freedom of thought
reposed naturally in a rosewood casket,
which was laden with flowers, in the par-
lor of the house. Among the friends in
attendance were Mayor Hewitt, President
Foster of the Board of Aldermen,
Assistant District-Attorney Jerome,
Rabbi Gottheil, Moncure D. Conway,
Raymond Perrin, Daniel Thompson,
Cyrus Butler, Dr. Abbe, Mrs. Beard, Peal
Eytinge, Robert Blissert, John L. O'Sulli-
van, the Spiritualist, T. H. Bailey and
Dr. Thomas Robertson. After Macgrane
Coxe had sung 'The Evening Star" song,
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, in accord-
ance with a request made by Mr. Palmer
some time before his death, delivered an
address. He said:
My Friends—A thinker of pure thoughts, a
ipeaker of brave words, and a doer of generous
deeds, has reached the silent haven that all the
dead have reached, and where the voyage of
every life must end; and we, as friends who
even now are hastening after him, are met to
do the last kind acts that man may do for man
—to tell his virtues, to lay with tenderness and
tears his ashes in the secret place of rest
and peace. Some one has said that in the open
hands of death we find only what has been
given away. Let us believe that pure thought*,
brave words and generous deeds can never die.
Let us believe that they bear fruit and add for-
ever to the well-being of the human race; that
a self-denying life Increases the moral worth of
man andgives assurance that the future wiU
be better than the past. A free and independ-
ent man, one who demanded reasons, and de-
manded freedom, and gave what he demanded
—one who refused to be slave or master—such
a man was Courtlandt Palmer. He was an
honest man. He gave the rights he
Claimed. Ths was the foundation on
which he built. To think f^r himself, to
give his thoughts to others—this was a privi-
lege and right, a duty anda joy with him. He
believed in personal independence and in man-
hood. He investigated for himself; majorities
were nothing to him; no error could be old
enough or plausible enough to bribe his judg-
ment. He was a believer in intellectual hos-
pitality. He insisted that those who spoke
should hear; that those who questioned should
answer; that each should strive, not for a vic-
tory over others, but for the discovery of truth,
and that truth, when found, should be welcomed
by every human soul. He knew that truth
has no fear of investigation; that it has no fear
of being misunderstood; that it loves the
day. He knew that its enemies are bigotry,
fear and darkness, and that its friends are free-
dom, bravery and light. He felt that the living
are indebted to the noble dead, and that each
Should pay his part; that he should pay it by
extending, to the best of his power, the good
that has been done; that each should be the
bearer of the truth. This was the religion of
deed within the reat h of man within the cir-
cumference of the unknown; a religion under-
stood by the head and proved by the heart;
a religion that appealed to reason.
It was a religion to develop the
civilization of the human race by enlightenment
and education, by teaching each to be noble
enough to live for all. This is the gospel of
man, the gospel of this world; ths the religion
of humanity. This is the philosophy which
contemplates, not with scorn, but with pity,
with admiration and with love. He denied
the supernatural—the phantoms and ghosts
who filled the deluded land of fear.
There was but one religion for
him: a religion of pure thoughts, noble words,
self-denying deeds—the religions of hope and
help. History was his prophet, reason his
guide, duty his deity, happiness his end, intel-
ligence the means. He knew that man must be
the providence of man. He did not believe in
religion and science, but in the religion of sci-
ence. He lived and labored for his fellow man.
He welcomed light; according ío this light he
lived. The world was his country; to do good
religion. There is no language to express a
nobler creed than this, nothing grander, more
comprehensive, nearer perfect. He was
afraid to do wrong, and for that reason
he was not afraid to die. He
knew the end was nigh; lie knew his work
was done; he stood within the deepening
twilight, knowing that for the last time the
zold was fading from the west, and that there
could not fall within his eyes the
trembling luster of another dawn. He
knew that night was coming, but in
that night the memory of generous deeds
shone Ike stars. Kind words can pay a tri'
ateto the man who lived his ideal, who was
turned aside neither by envy, nor by hatred, nor
contumely, nor slander, nor scorn, nor fear.
What words will do we do with love and justice.
Farewell, dear friend! The world is better for
thy life. The world is braver for thy death.
FarewclL We loved you living and we love
you now.
Colonel Ingersoll finished by reading
one of Mr. Palmer's poems. After an in-
termission of five mintes, religious serv-
ices were read by Mrs. Courtlandt Palm-
er's pastor, Rev. Heber Newton. Mr.
Palmer's body was taken to the crematory
at Fresh Pond, L. L, where it will be re-
duced to ashes this afternoon.
HARMONY REIGNS.
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Clearing house returns for the week
ended July 28 showed an average increase
of 0.9 compared wilh the corresponding
week of last year. In New York there*
was a decrease of 7.6.
The London Stock Exchange was active
during,the week ended July 28, American
securities being in demand. Business was
fair and the bourses were strong in Ger-
many. On the Paris Bourse prices were
firm and active.
John Anderson, imprisoned tn a well
near Johnston, Neb., was rescued after be-
ing in peril for ten days. He was wedged
in by the falling timbers some distance
from the top and one hnndred feet from
the bottom, a situation which made his
rescue one of extreme difficulty.
Kate and Dennis, children of Patrick J.
Byrnes, were drowned in New York har-
bor the other day by the upsetting of a
row boat. The father was saved with
difficulty.
Dispatches from San Francisco report
the Arctic whaling fleet up to June 16, and
the Japan sea fleet up to June 20. The
Arctic fleet had only taken five whales
and had probably struck the ice, for the
dispatch stated the season had been a
hard one. The report from the Japan sea
fleet stated that five whales had been
taken.
A NHGHTY LIVELY ISSUE."
the Mongolian Influx on tlie Pacific Coast
-Impeachment of Federal Judges Called
For.
Chicago, July 26.—A San Francisco
special to the Herald says; The continued
influx of coolies, despite the restriction,
led last night to a large anti-Chinese
mass-meeting at which was adopted a
memorial to Congress asking that Federal
Judges Sawyer and Lubin be impeached
for their part in over-riding the Restric-
tion act These judges have granted
writs of habeas corpus on which many
thousand Chinese have been landed. In
Chinatown they are instructed in re-
gard to the names of streets and places,
and then when pat on the witness
stand they tell a plausible story of their
prior residence here, which is pure fic-
tion. Sawy€tr and Lubin, it is alleged, re-
ceived fat fees for every habeas corpus
writ issued,and lately they transferred the
hearing of evidence in these cases to
Master-in-Chancery Houghton, who is
admitting coolies at the rate of a score
per day. He receives a fee of $300 for
every Chinaman admitted,, the fee being
paid by the Chinese themselves. Repub-
licans here claim the Chinese question
cuts no figure in the campaign, but last
night's' meeting demonstrated it was a
mighty lively issue.
The Colored Democratic National Conven-
tion Winds Up With Both Wings Flap-
ping.
Indianapolis, Ind., July 27.—The Demo-
cratic Negro National conference reassem-
bled yesterday morning at 10:30, with
Prof. Peter B, Clark, of Cincinnati, in the
chair as permanent presiding officer. The
animosities engendered by the heated con-
test over the permanent organization had
apparently been forgiven and forgotten
during the n ight, for harmony and fairly
good order prevailed at yesterday's ses-
sion until just prior to the final adjourn-
ment in the evening, when the conference
tired out with a long session got into a
wrangle over a motion to adjourn sine die.
which finally prevailed.
Turner moved the appointment of a com-
mittee on resolutions and address, and the
chair appointed a committee of ten, witti
Mr. T. Thomas Fortune, of New York,
chairman. Among the other members of
the committee were: Charles H. Taylor, of
Kansas; J. Milton Turner, of Missouri;
William T. Scott, of Illinois, and J. Gordon
Street, of Massachusetts. After an hour's
delay the committee reported a set of
voluminous resolutions, reviewing the po-
litical conditions affecting^ the negro and
the promises made by President Cleveland
touching thefull enjoyment of their rights,
aud continuing as follows:
li&oloedi That we heartily indorse the posi-
tion taken by the St. Louis convention upon
the tariff question, in conformity with the rec-
ommendation of President Cleveland that it is
sound public policy to tax heavily the luxuries
and lightly the necessities of the people, and
that we reurobate the position taken in the
Chicago platform which would, on the contrary,
tax the necessariesof the people and remove
the taxes wisely placed on the luxuries which
the few who use them should be made to pay
for and that we especially find objectionable
the declaration of the Chicago platform that
rather than surrender any feature of the pro-
tective tariff octopus would the Republican
party remove entirely the righteous ihternal
tax on the demoralizing luxuries of whisky and
tobacco, and would expend the redundant rev-
enues of the Government In ways that have in-
variably led to corruption aud peculio*1 in
high places and to the debasing of the morals of
the people; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the conference of colored
American citizens, in the exercise of their God-
given aud constitutional prerogatives, and for
the reasons hereintofore stated, do pledge them-
selves and their best efforts for the Success of
the Democratic party of the Nation, and its
wise, liberal and progressive standard bearers,
Grovcr Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman.
Resolved!, That we think it is £he apex of poli-
tical impudence for the Republican party to ex-
pect the colored voters of this country to take
kindly to their ironclad protection declaration,
when the colored men and women of the North,
as well a6 in the South, are almost absolutclv
barred from the manufactories which receive
the chief benefits from the protective system.
The report was unanimously adopted.
At the afternoon session the membership
of the National Committee was annouueed
as follows: Arkansas, B. F. Adair; Dis-
trict of Columbia, R. B. Robinson; Illi-
nois, W. T.Scott; Indiana, T. H. Shelton;
Iowa, Charles Curtis; Kansas, Frank Boyd;
Kentucky, J. A. Ross; Massachusetts, C.
H. Plummer; Michigan, George H. Moore;
Missouri, J. Milton Turner; New York,
Henry F. Downey; Ohio, R. A. Jones;
South Carolina, T. J. Clemmens; Tennes-
see, H. C. Smith; Virginia, G. W. Fisher.
The National Committee held its first
meeting last night at the Hotel English
and elected William T. Scott, of Cairo, 111.,
chairman. The following executive com-
mittee was chosen: J. Milton, Turner, Mis-
souri, chairman; H. J. Lewis, Michigan;
Frank Boyd, Kansas; C. B. Plummer, Mas-
sachusetts, and R. B. Robinson, District of
Columbia. F. S. Anderson, of Pennsylva-
nia, was elected secretary.
TRADE REVIEW.
Dun's Trade ReView Makes a Good Show-
ing for the Condition of the Country.
New York, July 28.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
weekly trade review says: Improvement
continues. Tlie collapse of the Western
Iron Manufacturers* Association has set
nearly all the mills at work, and makes
pig iron firmer, but bar iron weaker.
Stocks have been strengthened by a de-
cision arresting the enforcement of the
Iowa rates. Wars of rates do not cease,
and Inter-State decisions on many impor-
tant cases are deferred. The net earnings
of eighty-two roads in May showed a loss
of 3.4 per cent., through their gross earn-
ings gained 0-4 per cent, and the gains
in gross earnings for July have been less
than half as large. Statements show that
2,426 miles of road have been placed in the
hands of receivers during the half year,
with $153,850,000 bonds and stpeks, against
only 428 miles and $28,200,000 bonds and
stocks for the first half of last year. But
the average price of stocks has risen about
$1.40 per share, though less strong of late.
Reports of domestic trade are almost
uniformly encouraging, for, though dull-
ness yet prevails, improvement appears
at many points. The clearings at all
cities exceed last year by 10.3 per cent.,
and outside of New York 5.5 per cent.,
with large gains at Boston, Chicago and
New Orleans. Foreign tra<ie for June
showed imports exceeding exports by
$18,206,340, and for the half year the ex-
cess was $61,4tS,220. Against this the net
exports of gold and silver for the half
year were $17,488,831, so that, when inter-
est and undervaluations are considered,
the movement of foreign capital this way
appears to have exceeded $100,000,000 for
the half year. Exports of merchandise
from New York in July show a decrease of
8 per cent, in value against 1 per cent, in-
crease in imports, and for the past year
exports have been smaller than in any
other year since 1878, except the year
1885-6, while imports have only been ex-
ceeded In one year—1881-2—and then less
than $1,000,000.
The Nation Troubles.
Gainesville, Tex., July 27.—Deputy
United States Marshal John McAllister, of
Paul's Valley, passed through this city
yesterday on his return from Fort Smith,
Ark., where he had been to secure writs
from the United States court for the arrest,
of all non-citizens of the Chickasaw Na-
tion who have resisted the authorities in
the collection of the tribal cattle tax. He
was met at Ardmore by a posse of deputy
marshals and Indian policemen and im-
mediately went to the districts near by*
where the rebellious citizens are looatedt
for the purpose of making the arrests..
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