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NEWS CONDENSED. Oonolse Record of th© Week. lAinRN. Th# cotton goods manufacturer* of Hew Rngland have bcrun a Mpontancous •htittlnir-down movement for Aufuat and •eitotnt*r whloh promises to be of larte di me n«l on a. Five members of the Salvation Army liave twin Jailed at Bridgeport, Conn., for parading on Hundajr, tn violation of the lair. JoMph Hodgson & Son, of Philadel ifcia, have failed. Liabilities, $30,000 assets Mt determined. One million silver dollars were coined •ft the Philadelphia mint during (he month of #aijr. The police of Pittsburgh captured fbtir colored burglar*, who had six large trunk* contain In* watchcn, diamonds, ceal •klnsand silks, valued at tli.00. llhotly Doyle, a farmer, living near St. Joe, I'a.. delivered to three ninnknl men, Mdcr pressure of corked revolvers, $13,000. fl robber* then took to the woods. There gathered at Ocean Grove, N. }., laat week, iliNI permnn who were liNpluing la the contetnliiif armies of the civil war or member* of the Hnultarj' and Christian Com Mission*. Ashley & Bailey's silk factory, and tfcr Fort Plain Olove Factory, at Fort Plain, If. V., turnl, reuniting In a loss of til 1,000. MoorehouM- Hroa.' paper mill, at llrldr^burg, Pi., wan also conmimed, as were tho Meth odist Church and parsonage and a store at Conquest, N Y. .lav Eye-Hee beat the trotting record •ft Providence, nmkine the mile In 2:10. Tho Oreely arctic relief expedition Mime to anchor tn the hartwr of Portsmouth, ft. IIM on the morning of the 1st insi. The party was warmly welcomed by Secretary Chandler, all the naval vessels In port, and MM etttsens generally. WESTERN. Forty structures, including two banks, au hotel, the Postofflce, nine dwellings, •U'., were destroyed by fire at Devil's Lake, Dak. The loss is $100,000, and the insurance about »«o,o(H. St. Paul's new city directory contains •t.730 names, an Increase of 4.8S8 over the number In last year's volume. It tsestlmat Sd that about $11,000,000 will be expended on a*w buildings In that city during the year. In recognition of Its increased pop ulation the Postmaster General has given It Ave additional letter carrlors. Portland (Ore.) dispatch: "News has been received here that an organized band of Mock-thieves has been run down and cap lured by a party of regulators at Willowa Valley. Ore. Seventeen thieves wore caught With a laree number of valuable horses. The two ringleaders of he band were lynched In ibort order, and the remaining fifteen are held in custody. They will be handed over to tbe regular officers of the law for trial." Some days ago the dead bodies of Mven horse-thieves were found hung from ^fleee near the mouth of the Mussel-shell River in Montana Territory. Two of the bodies have been rccognicd as those of Felix and Downer, noted desperadoes of the North west. The other men were subordinates In all probability. It is reported that twenty oowlmys are In pursuit of another gang of berwthleve* who have sought refuge in the Woody Mountains. The cowboys are well armed, and If they capture the thieves they ftobably will not wait for the formality of •i indictment and trial. The Barnum wire works at Detroit has made an assignment, throwing 500 men •en out of empktyment. Twelve car-loads of Texas cattle which arrived at the Chicago Stock Yards were found to be greatly aftlieted with Texas fe\er. JWty-llve head of the consignment died on the way, and fifteen www found dead la the •are. The Commercial Bank of Brazil, Ind., has suspended, its liabilities being about 9140,000, with assets nominally reaching Si TO,000. It is alleged that the concern took fta deposits after refusing to pay checks. The report of John 8. C. Harrison, Vtoelver of the Indiana Banking Company li to the effect that he holds certificates of deposit for $6,206 as his only credit against 9101,Pi? with which he is chargeable, and has mortgaged all his property to secure his bondsmen. Be was arrested and held to bail $60,004. Lightning struck the farm-house of Mathan Miller, near Maryville, Kan., killing his four daughters while asleep. Their ages were 17, i.h, e, and ", respectively. A boy of was badly hurt. The mother is in a critical eendition from the shock of the bereavement. Charles "Wright, a 16-year-old boy, fatally shot his step-father, Joel Laws, a farmer living near Shelbyvllle, Ind. Laws had quarreled with his wife and tried to get into a house where she was staying. Wright Ctaisted Laws, and tn doing so fired the fatal Shot. At her residence in Cincinnati, Mrs. Gjpmeier assisted her boy in breaking open a BU-pound rocket by striking It with a hatchet. The explosion which followed mortally wounded the woman and her little daughter, injured two children, and wrecked the premises. The achool «anm of Chioago, just completed, indicates a population of 629,995, an increase of 124 per oent. within a year. Tbe Chinele numlvr *97 and the colored §»ople T.517. A Joy named Bentley, 12 years old, (tell from a Bar-staff seventg-five feet to tho ground at Flint, Mich., and was not fatally lajuted. The Grand Central Depot at Cin cinnati, which cost $fe00,000 was opened by a inception to President lugalU by tbe Order of flfcu-innatus. It is estimated that the wheat yield »t Minnesota for this year will exceed that Of last year by 4,110,000 bushels, an increase Of 10 per cent.: the entire corn crop will yield from 20,000,000 to 25,000,000 bushels tbe bar lay crop will produce 7,000,000 bushels, the largest ever known in the State and tbe oats ecup will be about 35,600,000 bushels, 10 per OSnt. more than the crop of 1868. 25*. -'7-^z-^rr. rgSB SOUTHERN. In the Georges Creek Valley, in Wtmt Virginia, a tlood did $10(1.000 dam age and drowned twelve persons. Several houses in the village were swept awav. bridges and trestles ruined, and atfiea of railroad track washed out. Less of life is reported at Lonaconing, Md., caused by floods resulting from heavy ««ins. Serious damage has been done at Oimbcrlttnd and I'rostburg. At Hot Hjirings, Ark., wooden bnild talued at $5,000 were destroyed by flames originating in a lamp explosion. A rain and wind storm at li<imore, flooded tciiars in the lower section, un Nofed buildings, and damaged xhtpping. tosa is placed at $100,00% A ehild Was hilled in a falling houae. WASHINGTON. OffidaJaol the i ix\y Depart aa—t ea tftiiau- theeoat of ttw Oreely expedition at floO.OOO. The amount of gold now in tho Iftuted HitU'ii Treasury i« about $11!UHW,0|Q. tMMng about i .,uuo,uuo lea» than a mouth ago. This decrease is due to the redemption of bonds, the paytneut of interest, and the settlement in gold of all tbe clearing house balance* at tbe Mew York Sub-Treasury dur tag the month. lien. Hwaixu will be tried by court •Mtrtlal on the following charges: ooduct gibecoming an officer and a gentleutau and Mlgiect of duty. W. W, Cttlbartaon,* member of Con gress from Kentucky, who was stopping at the National Hotel In Washington, fired five shots into his head, inflicting dHtigcroua wounds. The cause is said to have been de pression from excessive indulgence In licjuor. Following is a recapitulation of the national debt statement issued Aug. 1: ititer'st-tHarliiK nebt— Four and one-half per cents $ 9SO.OOO.OOO Four per cents 737,0 Three per cents S*i,4."3,2M Refunding certificates............... •274,351 Navy pension fund ........... H.ooo.ow Total Interest-bearing debt $l,2,2."..4o7,:i5( Matured debt lMt hearing no interest Legal-tender notes. Certificates of deposit. .... Gold anil silver certificates., Fractional currency ...$ 12,(hW,3K $4«-,7.W.4,|] 1 vj:»VH §:»s. .fitii 6.'!, MSI Total without lntcredb..,,. $ Total debt (principal).. Total Interest Total cash in Treasury .$l,S4M,:w i.s9(i ins.sio.oos Ilonds Issued to Pacific Railway omiianicK, interest payable br I'nited State-— Princlnal outstanding .».»# M,6?!t,si2 IntercKt accrued, not vet paid.117 Interest paid by United Htates fi.V,iVn4 Interest repaid bv companies— By transportation service. 19,14s 0'2't By cash payments, S per cent. &M earuintf".. 668,198 Balance of Interest paid by Unites States 64.235.3Sl POLITICAL. Gov. Cameron, of Virginia, has called an extra session of the Legislature of that Ftate for Auir. 13, on tho petition of two thirds of the members. Assigning as a reason that tho ac ceptory letters of Butler and Cleveland have not been made public, without which intelli gent action could not be taken, the National Labor party's committee nt New York issued orders postponing the convention at Chicago until Sept. 1. Gov. Cleveland was formally notified of his nomination by the Democratic Con vention, at tho Btate-Houso in Albany, on the 30th ult. Nearly all the mcmlcr8 of the notification commit too and of the National Democratic Committee were present, as were several prominent leaders of the parly. In cluding ex-Speaker Randall, Perry Belmont, Gen. Farnsworth, Joseph Pulitzer, and Con gressman Collin!", of Uoston. Col. Vila®, of Wisconsin, introduced the members of the committee and made the speech of not ideation. At the conclusion of Col. Vilas' remarks the formal notification, signed by the members, was read to the Governor. The latter re plied by expressing confidence that tho hap piness and prosperity of the people lay in the application of Democratic measures to na tional affairs. Then followed the usual ex change of compliments, the interchange of views, and a lunch. The notification committee of the National Democratic Convention went from Albany to Saratoga and officially informed Gov. Hendricks of his nomination for the Vice Presidency. The oeromony took place in the parlor of the Granl t'nion Hotel, Hon. W. F. Vilas acting a* spokesman for the oommittee. Mr. Hell. Sec retary of the committee, read the formal ad dress, to which Mr. Hendricks responded in a five minutes' speech accepting the nomina tion. Mr. Hendricks was then introduced to each member of the committee. A general handshaking followed, after which the people paid their res|iects to Mrs. Hendricks, and then quietly dispersed. The Republican convention of West Virginia nominated Edwin Maxwell (the Greenback nominee) for Governor, and di vided the other offices equally, save that the candidates for Presidential electors and Judges of tbe Supreme Court are Repub licans. Plans have been laid in Wisconsin by the Democrats by which Vilas is to be candi date for Governor A. K. Deluncy, Lieuten ant Governor and Gen. Kragg is to be again sent to Congress. If the Legislature is Dem ocratic, Vilas is to lie elected to the I'nited States Senate, Delaney, of course, succeed ing to the Governorship. The Democratic National Executive Committee has leased, for its headquarters, the residence No. 11 West Twnaif femlh street, New Yorh. MISCELLANEOUS. Tho hospitals of Panama are filled with men taken ill while working on Do Les seps' new canal. The Government ordered a quarantine some time atro, but has revoked it at the instance of the canal company. Dr. Lopes, the chief physician of the corporation, recently died of dysentery. The principal clearing houses report $664.702,-Mil as the clearings for last week, which is a decrease from the preceding week of $26,032,8 i2. When compare I with tho corresponding period last year the falling off equals 19.7 per cent. The national photographers held a four-days* convention at Cincinnati. One thousand delegates were present. Yellow fever is spreading in Sonora, Mexicx), and Federal officials in Arizona have been urged to vigilant actiou to prevent its Crossing tbe border. The Westinghouse Air-Brake Com pany, at Pittsburg, have discharged 215 em ployes because of dull times and two mills of the Lewiston (Me.) Corporation have closed down, throwing £00 men out of em ployment. Assignments have been made by Bettle & Brother, wool merchants, Philadel phia, with$120,000 liabilities Norton ic Wells, grocers at Wheeling, whose indebtedness is probably $50,000 and by W. J. Hankin & Son, wholesale grocers at Augusta, Ky., who owe $20,000. The failures are announced of John Caswell & Co., tea-dealers of New York, here tofore rated at $1,000,000 P. M. Hargrave, a banker at Lampasas, Tex., whose liabilities are $40,000, and John Kim pel, a carriage manufacturer in St. Louis. At Scottaboro, Ala., George Smith* Asbury Hughes, and George Hughes weos hanged for burning the house of Henry Por ter and looting the premises. "Hug" Cephas, for the murder of an aged woman, was exe. cuted at Cambridge, Md. Tbe blaek cap foil from his head when the rope was cut, expos ing his distorted visage to the spectators. Alexander Jefferson was exevuted at Brook lyn. The rope slipped, and by siiperbumad efforts he tore the cap from his face, his groans and staring eyes horrifying the as semblage, but he was pronounced dead in eight minutes. Wilson Stephens, a mulatto lioj, paid the extreme |M iiuity at Kd?eHel4, N. C. Frank Williams, a wife murderer, was strangled at Pine lilutr, Ark., and harlea Phillips, a negro murderer, was swung of at Huntingdon, Tenn., tieing the first legal exe cution In lanuassee for nearly tmiy FOREIGN. The Duke of Cambridge, as Com mander-in-chief of the British army, has or dered all the military barracks throughout Great Britain put in the best sanitary con dition on account of ih« cholera epidemic in Europe. The Paris Figaro, a leading Repub lican organ, advises Fran*' to abandon all friendly relations with Findanl. wluch has always thwarted France, and whose friend ship is false and hollow. At tbe same time the J-'ivnt recommends an alliance with Ger niany, who has lecn an honest enemy, aud would make an honest ally. Since the outbreak of cholera at Mar sciiles there have been 1,200 deaths from the disease. Nearly a third of the victims were Italians. It is re|orted that China has agreed to pay France $?,2t»o,oou as indemnity for the Lang^bou affair. There will be no w»r, there fore. At a conference of English Liberal members of Parliament held in London, resolution was adopted on motion of My. John Morley characterizing "the habitual disregard shown by the llouw ot Lords ior the wiii of the people a« laoiiou* **id ua- patrlotlc." A resolution demanding the re form ol the Lords was also adopted. Mr. O'Brien, the editor of United Ireland, has been mulcted in heavy damages for referring to Mr. Bolton, an Irish Crown Prosecutor, as a swindler, a forger, a per jurer, and an adulterer. A Belfast Jury has fixed the money value of the injury done to Mr. Bolton at $15,000. A curious notion prevails among th# poor and uneducated classes of Marseilles and Toulon to the efTect that the physicians are aiding in the spread of the cholera in order to get rid of the surplus population. It ap pears that a medical crank at Berlin recently read a paper In which he referred to cholera as a providential visitation to kill ofT persons unfit to live. This has been printed and cir culated extensively in tho infected districts. The result is that doctors are looked upon by the ignorant people a* forerunners of death, and are fought off with knives and pistols. A theological library of DO,000 vol umes has been presented to the Wcsleyan Conference of London by a gentleman who will not permit his name to be given to tho public. The bill for the construction of a ship canal from Liverpool to Manchester was rejected in the House of Lords. A manufactory of explosive bombs was discovered by the police of Paris, who arrested three jiersons found at work. Daly and Egan, the alleged Irish dynamitards, were convicted at Warwick, F.ngland, on the charge of treaon-fclony. Daly was sentenced to enal servitude for life, and Egan to twenty years' penal servi tude. McDonnell, who pleaded guilty, was permitted to escape without punishment. Daly made a speech in his own defense. He said he moved about under an assumed named so did Queen Victoria. He had the same right. He asked not for mercy, but justice, and Intimated that he did not expect either at the hands of a British jury. t^TM NEWS ITEMS. Although the cotton crop in most of the Southern States is about two weeks late the indications point to a large yield. In Southwestern Texas some damage has been done by recent rains. Alton, N. Y., was half destroyed by fire, involving a loss of $75,000. The glass works of King, Son & Co. at Pittsburgh, valued at $50,000, took lire lrotn a leakage in the natural gas pipes and was wholly consumed. The survivors of the Greely expedi tion will be kept at the Portsmouth Navy Yard for hospital treatment for two weeks. A special parade and demonstration was held at Portsmouth to honor tbe return of the ex plorers. The Illinois convention of the Na tional Anti-Monopoly Labor party is called to meet at Blooiuington Aug. IV. S. li. Elkins, who is to manage tlio Blaine campaign, has resigned the Presiden cy of a bank in Santa le which has regularly paid 18 per cent, per annum. A Cincinnati paper reports that John R. McLean, of the Kmiuirrr, is negotiating for the purchase of the Chicago Time*. It is stated that one of McLeau's foremen has been in Chicago inspecting the type-eetting department of the Timet. A company has' been organized at Denver to build a furnace for cremation purposes. Maud 8., on a slow track at Cleve land, trotted a mile in 2:09^, beating all rec ords. The flood at Cincinnati laat spring ao thoroughly cleansed the bottoms that the death-rate is the lowest in four years. Stanley, the African explorer, was given a banquet at Ostend by the King of the Belgians aud the Due d'Aumalc. In the House of Commons, the other day, Gladstone announced the failure of tbe Egyptian conference to arrive at any conclu sion, which, after a brief session, had ad journed sine die. Beturns made to Parliament in re gard to the ope rat ions of the Irish arrears rent act show that £-',570,000 owing landlords by farmers has teen wiped out under the act sincc 1V8U'. Great Britain has decided to establish plgeou stations at all army centers at home and abroad, and has sent an onicer to study the system in France and Germany. At a picnic near Glasgow, Mo., two persons from Molerly got into a quarrel. Two policemen endeavored to restore peace when one of them, Tom Suphey. was shot dead by Harri-011 Mickey, one of the parties to the quarrel. A mob lynched the murderer. A small party of mounted men took from the jail at Orange Court House, Virginia, a negro named John Fitz nugh, who had made a criminal assault upon a white lady, aud hanse him to a tree in the wood* near by. At Baton, New Mexico, a greaser who had assaulted a young ifirl was given a horse-whipping by the American cit Isens and then hanged to a cottonwood tree by thirty men of his own race. The Chinese Lily. Wftfc the Chinese the lily is tho na tional flower, and many superstitions attach to it. Should it blossom upon New Year's Day it is regarded as a most happy omen, presaging the bestof luck to the fortunate owner of the plant. For this reason a good deal of eare is now bestowed upon the lily by the Chi namen, in the hope that it may put forth its flower on the morning of the anniversary. The Chinese lily is differ ent from any other variety. It is grown bv placing the bulb on bits of window glass, stone, and water. The flower is white, with a gold-colored eenter, some thing between a daisy and a narcissus. Its fragrance is delightful. .. =t THE MARKER NEW YORK. fiWW $5.00 II HIH S5) l-'l.ori -K.vtra ,..'.1','. 4.50 WHEAT- NO. 7.3S 6.33 (ft- GUI «t .1(1 '4 !*7 et .ca:a (!'f .47 17.35 fS ".CO 0.5(1 5.50 t« fi.u0 •..75 8.25 «S .Hit ii .mi .50 & .tl 1" .'.3 A .ea .30 I" .15 t$ .Oit'-j il, .(Mi t" .13 vi 1.75 24.25 Hi Chicago.......... ,89 No. li. .95 UN- x„. 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I.IU'K WHEAT—No White...., J,#J Coax Mixed ,57 OATH—So. 2 Mixid jt\ Pons—New Mi—i I6.110 lMUANAPOMU. WHEAT NO. 2 Ked, N«w H4 Cnav Mixed go A1- Mixed MI KAST MHKUTV. CAITU: IIF*I (,11 r»ir 6.su Coiuiaoe. 4.511 s.«i ft.uo SCOURGE-SWEPT. Ravages of the Cholera in the Cities of Franoe Described by an Eye* Witness. Filth and Pestilence Stalking Hand in Through Marseilles and Tonlon. A special cable dispatch from Marseilles to tlio New York Times giTes a graphic narrative of scenes and incidents of the cholera district by an eye-witness. It says: Passing along the narrow and squalid Roe CaiHserie, over one-half tho shops were seen to bo closed at every crossing. From a tenement region on the hill above a stream of fetid water flowed across the street and plunged down a precipitous descent on the other side through dark lnnes crowded with towering rookeries swarming below with idle men and children playing in the filthy gutters, the women meanwhile swashing the water about with their brooms, under the evident im pression that thev were cleaning something. Each glimpse of any one of these streets is enough to turn the stomach of any healthy man. The smell through all this quarter, in which during a space of twenty minutes we met three laden hearses, wns bad enough, but the smell was indescribably worse when we had driven across town to two of the most afflicted quarters of all Marseilles—Ca pelctte and the adjoining qunrter. In order to reach them we crossed the old ship canal, which was filled to the brim with reeking water and had its surface thickly covered with garbage and refuse of a decidedly miscel laneous and revolting kind. Finally we got on a street known as Toulon road, a wide thoroughfare without a shade-tree. Its gut ters inn rivulets of drab-colored water which had overflown from the canal where it wag dammed now and tlu n by heaps of rotting vegetables or worse substances, including dead cats and dogs. Four out of every five houses were found closed. Those which re mained opon were mainly estamiuets, where, under dirty awnings and'on dirty sidewalks, men and women sat drinking, or were already reduced to stupor by previous drink ing, and junk-shops in which filthy people were sorting rotten rags in an unspeakably vile atmosphere. Festering filth was around them, and a tropical sun beat fiercely down upon the scene, blinding the eyes as its rays were reflected from the White road, across which in the Quartier Capelette courses a stream tho size of a main sewer in New York, winding its way uncovered among the houses on its jour ney to ttio sea. The stream was laden with the sewage of the vilest of the Marseilles quarters—Capelette and the adjoining —which have furnished much over one-half of the deaths that have occurred at Marseilles, and it is an interesting fact that the largest pro portion of them were Italians. The wharfs all along the water rout were found to be crowded with quarantine shipping, most Italian and French, and picturesque sights were tho Mediterranean sailors, among whom were many negroes, lying about in the shade. At tho beginning nineteen-twentieths of tho patients received at the l'liaro failed to reco\ er. For the last fortnight matters have so far improved that only two-thirds of those received have died. This excessive mortality at first was largely due to the fact that most cases when received developed into a hopeless condition. The highest number that have been in the hospital at any oue time is 110, and the largest number received in any one day is thirty-seven. There are two chief doctors. The treatment, both here aud at Tcgilon, in the first stages, is twenty dropB of 1 tudanum with three grains of ether, with ice in the mouth to stop the vomiting. In the second stages the patients become Tery cold. From ten to fifteen grammes of acetate of ammonia, the same quantity of alcohol, and two injections of morphia are given daily. If the patient can not breathe, artificial respiration of oxygen is pro duced and the limbs are rubbed with turpentine. Ihe third stage is the coffin. Delay in placing the bodies in the coffins is made necessary by the fact that violent post-mortem action of the limbs tnkes place, caused by a terrible reaction after death, in which the temperature rises from extreme cold at dis solution to 120 after it. Of many pathetic sights the most painful that I saw occurred in the female ward, where one room was mostly occupied by children. A nun held in her arms by an op*n window a dying babe 1H months old. Its three sisters (the oldest being only 10 years) lay on beds near by their parents, both of whom died the same day, and there was small hope for any of the remaining children save the oldest. A dozen children in all were to be seen here, some of them in a state of recovery. Late at night I drove with my courier outside the city to tho Cemetery St. Pierre to see the burial of the three patients whote I had observed in the Pharo hospital in the afternoon. After a brief burial service, intoned by a pale young priest who looked badly scared, three boxes were hurriedly lowered into a trench eight feet deep by twenty feet long, and a goodly quantity of lime was shoveled on top. It was a ghastly trench and there was plenty of room for more coffins. It was a weird and sadden ing sight. There stood the tall white houses. The dead still wore their tawdry trinkets, and the whole was lighted up as in a picture by Renibmndt by the fitful glare of three lanterns. Those gaping trenches were big enough to hold their thousands. A concierge showed me a buri.d permit. Across the face of the docu ment was written: "Cholera—urgent,"and there was a requisition for some disinfect ant. The same correspondent visited Toulon, and thus depicts what he witnessed: If in a sanitary sense the condition of Marseilles was frightful, that of Toulon struck me as simply murderous. Although Toulon has a background of mountains, the city itself is situated 011 a flat plain, four feet only above the level of a titleless sea. The con sequences arising from imperfect drainage, with a natural want of slope, are that the sewers have only a fall of eighteen inches so, with a sluggish movement, the filth of the town drops into an almost stag nant sea. What is worse is that at the points where these drains flow they are only covered with plank, and the filth, disgusting to the nose, impresses itself on the eyes. You not only th 11 smell but you see the pub lic garbage of Tonlon. Just faucy people living in this city of quite 811,000 inhab itants without the faintest glimmer of com mon sense in regard to common hygiene! Toulon must be inhabited by people who utterly ignore every precaution which health requires. Their habits both in their houses and in tho public streets are indescribably filthy. The plain English of it is about this: That it is impossible for people who live on fruit, who drink all kinds of poor fluids, who sleep in dirt and nastiness, who breathe an air polluted by the sewage of the town itself, and rendered doubly poisonous by excreta left by the training-ships, to escape cholera. The marvel is that this disease did not find its birth here years before. Toulon has always been a center of disease. Small pox, when it broke out in Toulon, was always of a malignant type, and more diffi cult to stamp out than elsewhere. The natural di atli rate was invariably high, and likely to be increased at any time by ab normal diseat-es. Flight, fatigue, and bad food are ex actly the elements which predispose human beings to attacks of cholera. I believe, as I have said before, that there is little dan ger of contagion, provided precautions are taken. I think that fear kills many men and women. I find that the nurses and Sisters of Chanty who have been stricken down with the disease .were invariably those who had lost heart aud were afraid to face cholera. ITEMS. RAILWAY men are beginning to talk of steel or iron cross ties. Moit.MNu concert for ladies area new feature at Long Branch. Nor one French woman is to be fonnd among the wives of Utah. THE total number of patents granted for agricultural implements is 35,960. 1I JUMI the last six months there have been sixty-two suicides in Han Francisco. TUB Mormons mean to be up with the times. They are having the|r $ibif» rw. flsed. NATIONAL PLATFORM. Adopted at lndlanaioll« May, 1SS4. Eight years ago our young party met in this city for the first time, and pro claimed to the world its immortal prin ciples, and placed before tlio American people as a Presidential candidate that great philanthropist and spotless states man, Peter Cooper. Since that con vention our party has organized all over the Union, and through discussion and agitation, has been educating the the people to a senso of their rights and duties to themselves and their country These labors liavo accomplished won ders. AV© now havo a great, harmon ious party, and thousands who believe in our principles, in tho ranks of other parties. "We point with pride to onr history." Wo forced the remonetization of the Rilver dollar prevented the refunding of the pnblie debt into long time bonds secured the payment of tho bonds, until the "best banking system the world ever saw" for robbing tho producer now totters because of its contracting foundation we have stopped the squandering of our public domain upon corporations wo have stopped the wholesale destruc tion of the greenback currency, and se cured a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States establishing for ever the right of the people to issue their own money. Notwithstanding all this, never in our history have the banks, land-grant railroads, and other monopolies, been more insolent in their demands for further privileges—still more class legislation. In this emergency the dominant parties are arrayed against the people, and are the abject tools of the corporate monopolies. In the last Congress they repealed over $12,000,000 of annual taxes for the banks, throwing the burden upon the people to pay or pay interest thereon. Both old parties in the present Congress, vie with each other in their efforts to further repeal taxes in order to stop the payment of the public debt and save the banks whose charters they have renewed for twenty years. Not withstanding the distress of business, the shrinkage of wages and he panio, they persist in locking up on various pretexts, $100,000,000 of money, every dollar of which the people pay inter est upon, and need, and most of which should be promptly applied to pay bonds now payable. The old parties are united—as they cannot agree what taxes to repeal—in etl'orts to squander the income of the (iovernment upon every pretext rather than pay the debt. A bill has already passed the United States Senate making the banks a pres ent of over £30,000,000 more of the people's money in order to enable them to levy a still greater burden of interest taxes. A joint efl'ort is lieing made by the old party leaders to overthrow the sove reign constitutional power of the people to control their own financial a fl airs, and issue their own money in order to forever enslave the masses to bankers and other usurpers. The House of liepresentatives has passed bills reclaiming nearly 100,000,000 acres of lands granted to, and forfeited by, railroad companies. These bills have gone to the Senate, a body composed largely of aristocratic millionaires who, according to their own party papers, generally purchased their elections in order to protect the great mo nopolies which they represent. This body has thus far defied the people and the House, and refused to act upon these bills in the interest of the people. T! erefore, we, th«i National party of the I'nited States, in national conven tion assembled, this 2'Jth day of May, A. D. 1K84, declare: 1. That we hold the late decision of the Su preme t'ourt on the icj»l-tender question to be a lull vindication of the theory which that party lias always advocated on tbe right and author ity of Congress over the IKKUO of legal-tender notes, ami we hereby pledge ourselves to uphold said decision and to defend the Constitution against alterations or tunendiucutft intended to deprive the people of any rights or privileges conferred by that Instrument. We dentil nd the issue of such inonev in sufficient quantities to supply the actual demands of trade and e. nini'Tce in acci rdance with the increase ot imputation and the development of our indus tries. We demand thesotistitutionof greenbacks tor national bank notes and he prompt payincpt ot the public dei t. We want that money which M-.ved onr country in time of war, and which has given it prompt ritv and li .ppiness in ieaee. We condemn the retirement of the fractional ear reiicv and small denominations of greenbacks an 1 demand their restoration. We demand the issue oi the hoards of money now locked up in the I'nited States Treasury by applying them to the payment of the public debt now due We denounce as dangerous to onr repub lican institutions those methods and policies of the Democratic and Republican parties which have sanctioned or permitted the establishment of land, railroad, money, and other gigantic corjiorate monopolies, and wc demand such governmental action hs may lie necessary to take from sn monopolies the powers they have so orruptly mid unjustly usurped and re1 ptore t'M in to the people to whom they belong. a. The 1 ublic lands teing the natural inher itance of the 1 eople, we denounce that jioliey which has ur.iuted t. corporations Tast tracts of land, and we demand tliat immediate and vig oious measures be taken to reclaim from such eeriHirations tor the people's use and benefit all such land-grants as have been forfeited by rea son of iion-tultiliin'.'iit ot the contract, or that may have U.11 wiongfully acquired by corrupt 1- uislation and tint such reclaimed lands and other public domain Itc henceforth held aa a aacred trust, to be granted only to actual set tlers in limited quantities and we demand that ali n ownership of laud, individual or corporate, Ehall be prohibited. 4. We den.and Congressional regulation of in terstate commerce we denounce "jxtoling," s'.ock-wati ring, aud din. nmiuation in rates and charges and that Congiiss shall correct these libn-es, even if necessary by the construction of national railroads we also demand the estab lishment of a governmental isistal telegraph system. 5. All private property, all forms of money and obligations to pay money, should bear their just proportion of public tazos we de mand a giaduated income tax. i',. We (tcummi an amelioration of the condi tion of labor by enforcing sanitary laws In in dustrial establishments by the abolition of the convict-labor system by a rigid insjcction ol mini s and factories by a reduction of the hours ot labor in industrial establishments by the fostering of educational institutions and by al»olisliing child labor. 7. We condemn all imjiortation of contract la bor made with a view of reducing to starvation wage.- the wurkingmen of this country, and de mand laws ior its 1 icvention. s. Wo in-ist ui on a constituiioualamendment reducing the terms of I'nited Btates (Senators one-ha'f, and making them elective directly by the people also making the President ineligible to re-election. 1». We demand such rules for the government of Congress as siudl pla--e all representatives of the ople upon an equal footing aud take away from com 11111ic*. s a veto power greater than that Of the President. 10 The quc*.iion as to the amount of duties to I e levied ui 011 various articlex of import has been agitated, quarrel-d over, and has divided communities for nearly a hundred years. It is not now and never will be settled unless bv the abolition of in lirect taxation. It is a conven ient issue al».tvs raised when the people are ex cited over iibuses in th -lr midst. While we favor a wise revision of the tariff laws with a view of raising revenue froHi luxuries rather than nec essaries, we insist that as an economic question its imj or'anee is iusignifii ant as compared with the ttuaneial iss :e r, whereas, we have stif fercd olirwor -t punt s under low and also under high fciriMs, we have n "v.-r suffered from a panic or seen our factori* s i.nd w u k-lu ps dosed while the volume of 1 ur uioncv in circulation was a quut' to th needs of mm ne. (five our far mers and iiianufacturcis money as cheap as you now give our bankers, and they can pay hith wages to labor and compete wi the whole world. 11 For the purpose of testing th sense of the people upon th" subjects, we arc intavorol sub tt 111/to a vote the people an amendment to Ihe Constitution in favor o suflrage, regard less of s* x, as al-o on the subject of the liquor tr attic. li. All disabled soldiers of the late war should tie equitably pensioned, and we denounce the policy of keeping a siua armv of otllcehol lers, whose only business is to prevent on technical grounds de erving Mildiers 10111 ol/taimug tiis tiee Jr. 111 the tiovi rumnit they helped to ave pi As onr name indicates, wc are a national party, knowing 110 Ka--t, no Wi -t, 110 North, no South having no section prejudice, we can pioi rh 1 lace in nomination to-" the Itigliofltnf of stale men from anv secti 11 of the I nton. 14. We appeal to all ople who IH.II \e in our priuciphb au| us bv voice, and JMSO, and ARIZONA'S FCTL'RE. A Section of tho Territory Vail of DtNtnty and rromise. Still another hope of Tttcson is tlv Santa Cruz Hiver Valley, writes a cor respondent. It is only within the past year that this region has attracted any considerable notice as a productive area, and in the past the only ones who utilized it were the l'apago Indianrt, who have a settlement some nine mild south of Tucson, and who have, in tlieiif primitive way, made the valley to blos som and bear fruit. Now, however, ranchmen and agriculturists are begin ning to 880 that tho water from the shallow stream can be made to irrigate a large tract of the most excellent graz ing ami wheat country. A ride through this section of Arizona gives one ot the surprises experienced by an observer who before had only noticed the cacti and the barren lields scattered along tho railway. Tho road up the valley from Tucson to the old San Xavier Church is lined with trees and shrubs, and leads through a fertile country which has much of tho freshness of New Kngland with the velvety green ness of Now York, lieyond the \vid flat meadows dotted with the graceful mescal and fatted animals, rise the blsi» heights of the Cutalina range, while in the southwest isolated and broke# shoulders of mountain after mountain mav be seen reaching toward a skv of brilliant blue. From the old tower of San Xavier, a stately cathedral left by the Spaniard* as a memorial of their visit lu re, the Santa Cruz Valley is seen stretch ng about and beyond one like a garden. Wide and straight, it conies into viow from out a hazy distance in the south, and extends to whero dim outlines u pointed cones shut it from one's sight. Were an artist to paint the colorings seen from the tower, as tine stands be neath the old bells hanging there, I10 would be thought a person of too free imagination, whilo 111 reality 110 brush ean do full justico to tho colors nattiri gives. There are patches of bright y el* low grain, acres of green alfalfa, bln» mountains, cloud-patched and talL shining vistas of tho river, brown-liuei huts of Indians, glorious blossoms of cacti, and a mellowness of light illumin ing all which cannot be described, bill which once seen ean never bo forgot?* ten. Each arch of the tower commands a picture each gives ft glimpse of Arizona which at once diso pels all idea of barrenness and of drear* iness and at the end of the valley licR Tucson, settled in its vast natural anv phitheater, mountain guarded old ia years but young in hopes and expeetai* tions—waiting lor the future with con fidttwe and calmness. A Sermon on Crank*. What would we do were it not for th# cranks? How slowly the tired ol«| world would move did not the cranks keep it rushing along! Columbus wak a crank on the subject of American discovery and navigation, and at last he met the fate of most cranks, was thrown into prison, and died in poverty and disgrace, (ireatly venerated now? Oh, yes, Telemachus, we usually esteem a crank most profoundly after we starve him to death. Harvey was a crank on the subject of the circulation of the blood Galileo was an astronomical crank Fulton was a crank ou the sub ject of steam navigation Morse was a telegraph crank. All the old aboli tionists were cranks. The Pilgrim fathers were cranks John Bunyan was a crank any man th it doesn't think as you do, my son, is a crank. And, by and by, the crank you despise will hav® his name in every man's month, and a half completed monument to hit memory crumbling down in a dozen cities, while nobody outside of your native village will know that you ever lived. Deal gently with the crank, my boy. Of course some cranks are crankier than others, but do you bo very slow to sneer at .1 man because he knows only one thing and you can'I understand* him. A crank, Teiemachu% is a thing that turns something, ik makes the wheels go round, it insure* progress. Truo, it turns the sain* wheel all the time, and it can't do any* thing else, but that's what keeps the ship going ahead. The thing that goes in for variety, versatility, that changes its position a hundred times a du.v, that is no crank that is the weather vane, my son. What? Yon nevertheless thank heaven you are not a crank? Don't do that my son, maybe you couldn't be a crank, if you would. Heaven is not very particular when it wants a weather vane almost any man will do for that, lint when it wants a crank, my boy, it looks about very earefully for the best man in the com munity. Before you thank heaven that you are not a crank, examine yourself carefully, and see what it is that debars you from such an election.—Burling ton llaw key e. How a Political Debate of 1S30 Ended. One of the most exciting duels ever fought took place at Little llock, Aik.# in 1h 30, between lien. Conwav and ltobert Crittenden. It was of a' polity ical nature. Parties were just begin ning to form in the State, and tho two gentlemen were opposing candidates for Congress, and canvassed the State, taking different routes. The people, however, clamored for a joint discus sion, ami tho men spoke in a pine grov^ opposite Littlo Kock, people coming as great a distance as 400 miles to bo present, and camping out around the town. The discussion became highly ]iersonal, and at the close of Critten den's speech he said he hoped no gen tleman would utter words in the lient of debate concerning him that woult not be tolerated in the code of honor, Conway answered in a shower of in vective, and a challenge followed. A tremendous crowd collected to see the encounter. Jien Desha a son of a Gov ernor of Kentucky, was second for Crittenden, and Wharton lieetor for Conway. During tho preliminaries Conway was angry and restle*s, while Crittenden lav ou the grouud on a blanket, with his eyes closed as if ia slumber. At the word lire from Deshtig Conway pulled the trigger, but missed. Standing firm, calm and collected Crittenden tired at the word two, aud his adversary fell, pierced through the heart by a ball from Crittenden's pistol.—('incinuati Enininr. Hadn't Accused 11 im. Smith's wife was not a very bright woman, but she sometimes said tilings whioli were worthy of a wit. One day, after doing or saying something silly, her husband snapped out: "Well, YOU are a little the worst I ever saw. "Why, what's the matter BOW? Have I done anything wrong?" "I should say so. You don't know the difference between a liorse aud a donkey, 1 quite believe." "I didn't say you were a horse, did I?" she replied, ineeklv, aud Smith said no more. AN English jonrnnl recalls tho fact that our first President never saw a steamboat, our second never saw a railroad train, onr seventh never heard of the electric telegraph, and our sev enteenth lived ouly long enough to know of the existence of the telephonu. "USBD you pretty rough, didn't lie?* remarked a sympathizing bystander tn tho man who had just got an i.wful licking. "Well, no," replied tie sub dued one, "I thought he polished 11M0 op very nicely,fiurdrtte. 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