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SIIIGFRT A FOKSTKK, Fdilors.
VOL. I.
®ht (Cnitvr Drmotr.it.
Tarma 81.50 per Annum, in Advance.
S. T. SHUGERT and R H. FORSTER. Ed.lora.
Thursday Morning, July 24, 1879.
Democratic State Ticket.
STATU TIIKASLIIUR,
DANIKL <>. BAHH, Allegheny county.
Tin: third House of Congress, usual
ly termed the Fraud of the White
House, has located himself at the Sol*
diers' Home, a few miles from Wash
ington, to pass the heated term.
Tut: Democracy of Centra' county
were represented in the late Demo
cratic State Convention by James A.
McClain ami (leorge 11. Barrett, Rep
resentative Delegates; and T. C. Hip
pie, Esq., of Clinton county, Senatorial.
NAPOLEON lh >N.vl'.vttTK was a great
man in his day, ami was a terror even
to kings, but now we guess he is out of
the way. When men once receive a
goajal hanging, accoralingto the Ameri
can tuoale, they are not often bearal
from again. Tiie other day jwior Na
]H)lea>u was hung in Sardis, Mis*., anal
now we hope the world will let him
rest. IVrhaps it will he well to state
that in this instance XapaJeaut was a
negro who Was guilty of murdering a
fadlow by the plcbian name of Tom
Butler.
THE. Sherman boom is now ha'aral on
the Atlantic coast, away North, in
the neighborhood of Newjsirt, K. I.
Junketing these hot days in a govcrn
meut revenue cutter at the expense of
the Uuited States is pleasant work,
anal entirely consistent with John
Sherman's well rccoguized hnhits of
economy. It also shows that he has
a pro|aer regard far the uses t<a which
gaavernment property may be put.
This is especially commendable in a
canalidatc for the Presialency, anal will
no alouht have alue weight with the in
telligent masses when they come to
consiaicr the qualifications of aspirant*
for that high office.
THE Democrats who take the stump
in Ohio ami elsewhere this fall, will
not lie disposed to waste all their time
to gratify John Sherman in discussing
financial issues ami caaiintiug his tall
columns of figures. The people don't
eare a continental for John's figures
now. The living issues sent Jowu bv
Congress and the Framlulent Presi
dent, are those which claim the atten
tion of the hour. The doctrine of
centralization avowed hv the Republi
can leaders in Congress, and the at
tempt of the Executive to seize the
legislative functions and enforce sup
plies to pay for soldiers and executive
police to control the votes of the peo
ple are now the attraction, and cannot
he obscured under issues of less im
portance.
THE hope that was felt at the close
of week that the ravages of Yel
low fever in Memphis would lie con
fined to a few eases is again dissipated,
ami the rejKirt* which come this week
inform us that it is spreading with
great rapidity. On Monday there
Were thought to be at least sixty raws
In the city of Memphis. It did not
result this year from tho accumula
tion of filth, as Memphis is said by
those who have beeu there this season,
to have lieeii in an unusually cleat)
condition; but it was because all
trace* of the disease had not been
exterminated by the destruction of
clothing, bed covering and other arti
cle* which had come in contact with
the disease last year. ' This seems to
be absolutely necessary, as the coldest
winter does not seem to lw sufficient
to absolutely exterminate it. We
trust we are wrong In our conjectures,
yet it seems almost certain to us that
the fever will spread to other places '
and become perhaps as terrible in its,
effect* as it was last year, unless He
who alone can control its course sees
fit to iuterferc and prevent its progress. I
"KylAI. ANIi K.XAIT JIMTK'K TO ALL M K.N, OK WIIA TKV K K HTATB OH PHUtl' AHIOK, UKI.IUIOIs pU KoLITK A I.,Ji-ffrrwiO
IT appears Col. Bright, sergeant-at
arins of the Senate, since the adjourn
ment, has removed a wounded soldier
doing duty as a door-keeper at the
Indies'gallery. This soldier, it is said,
lost both his legs in the Union army,
and is of unexceptionable character,
ami competent to perform the duties
required. He walks upon two wooden
j legs. If the facts he as stated we
trust the Senators will sec that Mr.
Wilson, the soldier removed, is re
instated ami Col. Bright properly re
linked for such unjustifiable proscrip
tion. The removal, it is also said, was
made on the recommendation of Sctia-
I tor Don Cameron, and one of his
friends appointed to the place.
There are always two sides to every
story, and since the above was in tvpe
we find in the Washington iW a
statement which places it very differ
ent face upon the ease, it now'appear
that the removal was the result of
insubordination and neglect of dutv,
and the complaint an attempt on the
part of Mr. Wilson, the crippled sol
dier referred to, to manufacture some
cheap |>olitieal capital at the expense
of truth. Mr. Wilson being the own
er of valuable property and in the
receipt of a pension of $72 per month
and at ingle man, i- not a good subject
to make a resectable martyr. The
/'• says;
<'ol. Bright is still aLcnt from the
city, but tho Post has muile sonic in
quiries in regard to tho removal of
\N ilson. The facts are that in the first
place he objected to performing the
duties of the |x>-ition which lie held : it
required more hours of attention dur
ing the day than he cared to be con
fined. Col. I'right than gave him an
easier place : he put him at the foot of
one of tho private staircases intended
for senators only, and employes of the
Senate. There were no cards to take
ill, and, in fact, there was nothing to do
but sit at the foot of the stairs while
the Senate was in session. Wilson ob
jected to this place, because, ss he said,
it was too lonesome and quiet : he want
ed something more lively. lie was
transferred to the west door of the
Senate, ami lie at once complained ol
this because there was too much work.
He was not willing to carry cards to
Senators. Wilson said positively lie
would not fill tpst place, and before
Col. Bright could, in his desire to nc
enrntnodate the savior of his country,
find another easier place for him, Wil
son had gone home. Without waiting
for Congress to adjourn, ami without
asking for leave of alxence. he left the
city and went to his home.
THE Republican press affect lo
sneer at the startling and damaging
revelations of corrupt management re
cently brought to light by the publi
cation of the report of Mr. (Jlover,
chairman of the committee charged
with the investigation of the Treasury
Department. These revelations can
not IK* "laughed out of court," nor
answered by mere abuse of the chair
man. The committee deal in facts and
evidence, and when the investigation
shows, among other corrupt practice*
and irregularities, that in the Presi
dential campaigns of !*<>*, 1*72 and
IMTIi, there was a large fraudulent
issue of greenbacks, amounting to
$19,000,000, put in circulation ami
proved to have las-n printed from the
original plate* in the Treasury De
partment —tht this circulation was
kept afloat for months and the Treas
ury statements falsifies! to cover the
fraud, it seems to us more is demanded
than sneers or abuse. The Glover in
dictment is plain, and the pleading to
it must lie equally so to satisfy /he
public. That this fraudulent issue of
greenbacks went largely into the cor
ruption election funds, is strengthened
by the fnet, that after each Presiden
tial election the public were notified
from the Treasury iVpartnient that
counterfeits were in circulation so well
executed as to be difficult of detection.
They would lie hard to detect, cer
tainly, but having answered their pur
pose, the cx|H*rt* of the Department
could easily find some defect to con
demn them.
A !*KW nir line railroad is now be
ing constructed from Harrislmrg to
I'oughkeepsio, New York, a distance
of 190 miles and is expected to lie in
ruuning order by the Ist of January
ncxt.
IIKLLKFONTK, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 21, IHT'.i.
Better Times.
It is very gratifying to note the tin
niUtiikcaltlc signs of u genuine ami
healthy business revival in almost
every branch of trade that eomc to
us from ull parts of the country.
After the inactivity and depression of
years, many of the great manufactur
ing industries are looking up with
prospects that are decidedly Ixqiefiil.
Large establishments, long dormant,
are springing into new life and w ill go
into o|M>ratiou with fair hopes for the
future. May success crown their ef
forts. Furnaces and rolling mills are
beginning to work upon full orders for
their products at an improvement
upon the low prices which have rules!
in the markets for a long period past,
and in some of them, employing a
large number of ojterntives, it is a
pleasure to state, material advances
have already been made in the wages
of employes. The laborer is always
worthy of his hire, ami, with incn as
ing prosperity, employers should with
out delay |>crmit their employes to
share in the larger profits that urise
from their growing prosperity. Todo
this will be to follow the dictates of
wisdom as well as of self inter" -t. A
more kindly fending will tlius be
brought about between employer and
employe, and much of tin- unseem
ly and unncc'-s-ary antagonism—lead
ing to riots, strikes, l<s of time •and
consequent suffering to dejiendent
families —that has lecn aroused and
encouraged by what is called the con
flict ltetweeri capital and labor may
be allayed. With a fair division of
profits each will work in harmony
with the other and the bitterix -* and
uncertainty that have marked the
o|cratinm of our industrial pursuits
during the past f>eri<d of depression
will he forgotten in the general jubilee
of the good times to which present in
dications point with almost unerring
certainty.
The Riot Damages.
Ihe question having la-en decided
by the Supreme Court adjudging tin
liability of Allegheny county f->r
damages incurred bv the Pitt-burg
riots in 1*77, a very large number of
suit- arc now living actively entered
to l>e within (he two years to which
the liability of the county is limited
by the act of assembly. Thc-e dam
ages will amount to several millions,
and will embarrass the people of tlint
county very much. Hut with their
immense resources, unsurpassed manu
factories, and well known enterprise,
the embarrassment should lie of short
duration.
Tf!K tobacco ring of New Orleans,
with Morris Marks, collector of Inter
nal Hevenue, at its head, has been do
ing a thriving business in robbing the
government of the taxes due u|hii to
bacco. The disclosures recently made
of the operations of this gang of thieve*
by Mr. Flore*, a prominent tobacco
merchant of that, city, nml also by
(en. Webster, a trustworthy agent of
the revenue bureau, who made nu in
vestigation of the charges against Col
lector Marks, arc disgraceful in the
extreme, and call for the summary
punishment of nil engaged in the ras
cally business. But as Marks helped
to steal the electoral vole of Louisiana
for Mr. Hayes he has thus far liven
able to hold his own with the govern
ment, notwithstanding the exposure of
his villainy. He yet retains the posi
tion of collector of the revenue, and
with the influence of Hhcrman, Kcl
logg and the other elect#nl thieves, is
likely to do so for some time to come.
CI.KKICAL-JvHROIt f*TOU()IITO!, the
virtuous statesman who distinguished
himself in the Presidential fraud, and
was rewarded by the Fraud with the
mission to Hussin, after a brief term of
service has returned homo on a visit.
He now declines to return to his post
at St. Petersburg, and the mission is
offered to Courtland Parker of New-
Jersey, another visiting statesman. i
Till: Hi-llcfiiiitc /(epultlicnn pitches
into the platform adopted by the
Democratic State Convention last
week in true stalwart style ; but for a
li-sue of deliberate and unblushing
misrepresentations its like was never
seen. We shall only take time to cor
rect one of them. The r<-*t are un
worthy of attention. Tin- firi-t and
second resolutions arc exceedingly ob
noxious to i(s -en-alive patriotism,
though we cannot hut think it per
mits its loyal in-tincf* ti Is- uixlulv
exeiu d over them. 1!< ar it:
'*l lie |ir-l Hi,.! *,*•<,hd resolutions *"•
drawn expressly to li. kl<; and (Lib r tin
peculiar o-nlioe nt of th<-ir-talwiirt D--in
iH-riitic brethren of tlo- .South * • *
I la- iloetriiio that tlo- sovereignly- of tic-
Statu l Mq*r|.-r to tie- sovereignly of tlx-
Nation wu not more Ixildlv adv-xat'-l
three month- prior to tin; in . igurat. i. ol
the r-l*-llion of l*ol than it i now. '
I/-t us .-<•<• alKiut this. If these rc--
olulion- say anything aliout State sov
ereignty Ling -tipcrior to the -ovtr
oignty of the Nation we have failed to
discover it. 1 hey read a- follow*:
Amflllf, Fir-t. That we, tbe Dwnorrt
lie party of I'-iun-ylvnnia in oiiv.-niioii
H-x-mbli-d, reix-w . ,r \..> of fidelity to
the fundamental principle* proclaimed and
prai-tin-J l.y tli' iilurtrn a men oho* tth-.l
• '•ir fr.-o Institution* and founded tbe Dem
ocratic party to protect and preserve th-m
o l. That the jul f-iwiir of the K--1-
-rnl I ni.-n, the right* -.1 the State. and the
■ iberli< -of tin* |--opl- are vital part- .-f one
harmonious system. an I to save each part
in it whole Constiluiionai \ig--r is to rave
the life of the nail n.
M e tak- it that the second iv-ulii
tion m< an* ju*t what it -ay-, and that
it i- a fair re cognition of the divi-ion
of pro]* r that -\its under our fir ii
of government i*'twc<n the Federal
I uion and the State-, and that • ;i< 2i
in their p .wt r and legitimate spin r
must 1h- preserved intact. If the
-lit■ -r of the Jiejiub/ir in ran -< <• anv
thing in it thai indicates so foolish mi
id< a as In -ugg*t aliout the sovt r< ign-
IT of the State l*-ing superior to the
of the Nation lie must r-si<!
it with sharj>er cy< - than tho* given
to the average of mankind.
dm Centre county representative,
fareil very well in the late Democratic
State convetition at Hnrri-hurg. <
It. Barrett, Jr. Keq.,—-uti-titufcd for
Cyrus lirunigard—was made a
nu tuber of tbe committee on perma
nent organization, and James A. Me
' lain, Ks<|., wo* a mcmlxr >f the
committe' on credential*. In com
mittee Mr. Barrett nominntcil the per
maiiciit chairman of the convention,
Hon. A. 11. Coflroth, nnd supported
him in n strong speech. The opposi
tion to Mr. Coflroth canx- from F. A.
Beamish, of lain rnc, but *a without
avail, the committee scleeting the
Congressman from Somerset on the
first ballot. T. C. Hippie, K*q., of
Lock Haven, the Senatorial delegate
from this district, wa* on the commit
tee on resolutions.
Sknator WAl.t.Aii.'A committee
will meet in New York next week to
investigate and overhaul the crooked
ness of John I. Davenport in connec
tion with tbe election*. We may ex
ject rich development*, a- Wallace i>
the man to sift thing* to the bottom.
I'uHTMASTKIt II ARTRAM4T lUxl Soc
rctary (juay are spoken of a* probable
candidates for Secretary of War, in
the event of the retirement of Secre
tary McCreary. Mr. (juay having
been interviewed on the subject says he
knows nothing aliout it. Of course
he don't.
• ♦
The Poke of Argyll nnd the indies
M:irjr ami Llixal>cth <\tnipß-ll snde<l lor
l-hiro]Ki Wednesday on the Hcythin.
They arived in New York from New
port Monday evening o( last week ami
spent the following "lay in visiting
place* of interest in and about the city.
Together with Mr. t'yrus W. Field and
General di Oesnnla they viewed the
Metropolitan Museum of.Natural His
lory. \Ve<lne(iay morning was spent
by the laii-es in bop|)iiig, wliile the
Puke with his constant attendant. Mr.
Field, rode on the elevate.l line to Har
lem and inspected the working* of the
railroad. Before lunch the Duke had a
long conversation wilh Secretary KvarU.
Among those who went on board to hid
the party farewell were Mr. Cyrus W.
Field, David Dudley Field, General di
(Vsnola, Thurlow Weed ami Allen
Thorndyke Hice. of the North America*
fMrtr In conversation with those
around him tbe IHike expressed much
gratification with bi* visit to New
York.
GENERAL NEWS.
Judge Slerrett and family aro at Bed
ford Spr ings.
lln* I'rohil.ition nominee for Gover
nor of lowa declines,
'■<> l. Itobert G. Ingersoll ha* sold his
$2. f .ono residence at lVoria, 111,
Harry Palmer, of the firm of Jarrct
■V I'aimer, died iu London on Kundav.
' iiii-tiii<- I'd*, the murderer of Mr*.
Hull, will le hung on the 20th of Au
gust.
Su-vn It Anthony say- that the nights
were liitide lor cats, hit* ami had litis
hands,
I Inoil, lite <'.ilifomia millionaire, i* to
have a -• , |,. huilt at Menlo 1 alk at a
cost of ■}><) O xI.
.*• r blttsrii 111ornton is to vi-it New
port m-xt month, a* th guet ol the
I-rench Minister.
I lie ' diforni Democratic State fen
tr.il • omtnitlee have voted to retain Dr.
Glenn i nominee h>r Governor.
A reunion of soldier* of the North
west will I<• held at Auiora, 111., on
August 20, 21 ami 22.
I'resiilent Mct'osli hi. the most ele
gant month aof any OOIIMO j-re-ident--
the gilt "if th<- Philadelphia Stuarts.
A furioii- storm of wind ami rain vis
' it* <i tin- 1i,.:.-rii portion of Ms-skliu
■Ht-i la-t week, doing great danxtge.
General William F. Ilarrv, Colonel of
the Second Maryland artillery, and in
command at Fort M( Henry, died in
Baltimore, Friday.
'>f the s(Oi .-<*<UKiin refundingcertifl
rates i*ue<l hy tlx- l'nitei States Treas
ury ? ..'. Jl. is*) iiave la-eu converted in
t<i four per ler.t. t-".m1.-
The Itev. William fVtoper Mea<l, P.
i* , 1.1.. P., rector of Hi, Paul's church,
Norw.tlk, ' 'onnecticut, died sudiienly
">n Thursday evening.
John Carle, injured on the 11th at
Ball uunre By a I-oiler explosion, <ii*l on
Satur-lay. Jo.j.li Michael, another
vif tint, will probably dio.
Anthony Zihri-kie, an eccentric gem
■l-in hi of Morn-ania. New York, worth
-Mssi, wa- run ov.r by tbo cars
and kill, d one day la-t week*.
' ill- I Bond* are coming in sa fa-t
that the Treasury i* unable to keep
w..rk up. There will consequently be
much delay on making -< tllemerita.
Snyder Brothers', distillery at Milton,
Kentucky, oppo-ite Madison, Indian*,
*** l urried on s iturJay. J. . ;
no tnuratice. The war- li i--wa-e<l.
Bichsrd Grcviv®. ■ n |ri*h ooachinvn
of Phil- 1.-|j Ina. arrived at Long Branch
oti "-atunlay night and was drowned at
resin Sulci.iy tnie hathil.g. body
ws- r< ovcred.
I he -teamer <. T. Glvphant -truck
i r .-k r1 y "-.mday morning in S:am
ford Conn harbor and -.ink. l'lie
l-at w... advertise"! to make an extur
•ion t<> Coney island en the*day,
V fxe broke out at >< al right, n-ar
Ix>ng Branch, at 2.1 r la-t Faiday rnorn
mg. It destioye"! two blocks of
-nd cottages in the bu-incaa district.
None of th"- hotels or principal cot
'ages wera injured. Ihe total loss is
•bout $ sMssi, ami insurance al>out
#l *> (*l.
Kirly Monilav morning a fire destroy
ed ili-mpy A <V new planning mill at
Cleveland, Ohio, loss, s2O,t*Jo ; insur
•--I fur fI ► ►>. It ;• supposed to be the
*vor*of an incen-liary. Two firemen
were injure-t. and it is feared one fatal
ly. By falling walls.
Mr. James Gordon Bonnet was eulo
gised in Paris on Saturday night last.
By M. I<oui* Simonin, the engineer ami
traveler, at a meeting of the Socite
Geographique. Tne sailing of the Arc
tic ex|-lortng steamer .B-annette was
the immediate occasion which called
forth the eulogy.
The steamer State of Virginia, from
N'.-w York for Glasgow, went ashore at
Sable l-land, Halifax, at 7.4"# r. a. on
the 12th instant. Four holies ami five
children are rep .rted lost in the surf
while landing. The vessel had seventy
b-iir passengers, one hundred and four
head of cattle and a general cargo.
Sixty her.J ol cattle were saved.
Saturday evening four ice houses half
fill- d with ice, owned hy Scott, Vuitin
A Morris, situated on Van Itenssalaer
iland, at the upper end of the city of
Albany, N. Y., were totally destroyed
By an incendiary fire. Ksch building
wa* thirty feet wide by two hundred in
length. The loss is estimated at flu,-
000; partially insured.
Governor McClellan has recently
made from hi* home on Grange Moun
tain a pleasure tour through the north
em counties of New Jersey, driving By
way of Sehooley's Mountain. IDoketU
town and Hope to the Itclaware Water
• lap. The party consisted of the Gov
ernor, his wife, his son sod his "laugh
ter, the former driving a barouche and
hi* children a phaeton.
The late William Allen had an ex
tremely powerful voice—so powerful,
indeed, that it gained for him the soiiri
qtiet of "Earthquake Allen." When a
youth and apprenticed to John Thur
man, the saddler, Allen was a tall, erect
fellow, and a |>er*istent worker, study
ing with his book before hint on his
work-bench.
An incendiary fire at Oneida, N. Y.,
Monday morning, destroyed nine build
ings, The principal losers are the
Joseph Robert* knitting mills, |4.i,000{
insurance, $27,000. Oneida Gss light
Company, loses sfi,ooo; insurance, $4,
000. Upson k llnlderi's carriage shop,
ss..'ioo| insurance, $2,700. W, C. Law
renre. grain, $2 5501 insurance, $3,000.
1. N\ Messenger, slo,ooo] no insurance.
IRKMN: |kt Annum, in Atlumw.
'I here wcrp taken from Krie to N.-w
York, ori Saturday Over the Lake Shorn
and M.clngan railroad, L'2.fXm>ouod of
butter.
J here i* *o much dan per of a water
famine in I'itlsburg that the police have
been ordered to report all j.eraoija found
wasting it.
'he Deputy Mayor of Pittsburg, who
hold* forth at Lawrenceville, a suburb of
tin- firat named pbo■< . when do-agreeing
wive* arid hu-harid* are brought before
him lo k them up in a room, and gen
erally finds that when they are released
a reconciliation haa been effected.
Ihe hirst National hank of hufler
ha* been compelled by the foiled
State- hank Kvttniner to go into liqui
dation. Ihe Kiie llrr thl aaya it i* un
• h-r-torel that Fx Chief lu-tice <'harl<-<
M<<"atidl( w.JI hee p,n,< •') by it. It
ha- turnout < iu*ed a panic among tbo
fanning people of ifuth-r county.
Ihe New Hampshire House of Rep
re-entalivo* ha* passed a hill regulating
railway ji*-enger and freight tariff*.
It give* to the Railway Comim**;onerii
the right to regulate the tariff of any
road in the Slate, and prohibit* any
'Railway ''ommi*ioner from holding
office in taiy railway corjeiration or
from owning the stock or bond* of any
railroad.
l.x-fiovern r Thoma- Swann, of Mary
land, gave a grand dinner on Saturday
night at hit Newport cottage in honor
of hi* guett, Kr.-Secretary Hamilton
Kith. The gue-t included Mr. and
'•lt-. - tlney Webster. Mr. and Mr*,
lohn Whipple, fit-neral and Mr*. Ceorgo
W. f'ullurn, of New York ; ll* • iorcrtior
1.-mrence and I >r. and Mt*. W, J„
Wheeb-r, of Newport, and Mr*. Dr. S.
Wur Mitchell and Mi-* (ladwallader, of
Philadelphia.
Tor three week* past the f'utnlser
land and Pennsylvania railroad bi
kept an engine standing at a point
where the Pennsylvania railroad in
Maryland desired crossing track
on the out*kiru of f timix-rlsnd. At 1
p. tn. Friday the engine left teni|*orurily
to allow a coal train to pns*. A* i-ocn
a* the coal train had passed workmen of
the Pennsylvania railroad in Maryland
tore up a rail of the Cumtierland and
Pennsylvania track, preventing there
turn of the engine, and effected the
orns-mg. Five hundred people were
pn-- nt. The excitement was immense,
tiul no disturbance occurred.
The Nomine"*
I- . Ihr AII-aniFn
Mr. Daniel ti. Itarr, the Democratic
nominee for state Treasurer, i* a na
tive of R'airsviile. Indiana county, and
is thirty rune year* of age. He w en
g iged for year* w hen a youth, a*
i telegraph operator on the Western
Division of the Pennsylvania railroad.
''ri the l' th of .luly. Is'.*, he accented
a position in the old Pittsburgh Trust
' v.tnpany—now the First National
i-itik o( Pittsburgh—and ha* since that
-late been connected with that institu
tion. which i one of the largest bank*
hi the city. It is pcrbapa an augury of
-tier. ** that hi* nomination by acclama
tion a* a candidate for State Tro-anurcr
should have occurred nn the twenty
first anniversary of bis connection with
the batik, in whose service he ha* spent
hi* active bu-inea* life. Mr. llarr ha*
always taken an active part in Stato
and National politics. In lko9 and
again in IS7<> he wa* the Ih-mocratic
legislative nominee for State Treasurer
that officer Wing then elected by the
legislature—but the Democrat# being
in a minority the honor was an empty
ne. This nomination mean* an elec
tion, as Mr. lUrrg* deservedly popular;
while hi* well-known ability, integrity
and bu*ine training admirably quali
fy him for the duties of the position.
Mr. P.arr i* in all respect* a most
creditable candidate for State Treasurer.
A trained banker, thoroughly familiar
with our finaneiaPsyfttem, active, inteb
bgent and faithful in hi* business rela
tion* and |>r*onally Maine].-** alike in
public and private life, hi* fitness for
the responsible trust will not be ques
tioned by friend or foe.— Pkilmdrlpkui
Tmis*.
Mr. Barr's character is spotlessly pure,
and hi* long connection, in I'mrst m
sponsible |osiiion with one of the lead
ing bank* of the city, is the bet evi
dence that coul.l l*> offered of his full
qualification for the office for which ho
ha* been nominated. —Pvulmry leader.
Ijirge Bellierlr* of Wheal and Beeline
of I'rtm.
Ciiic ;o, .luly 19.—There has been
considerable excitement the past week
in conequence of a rapid and uncheck -
ed decline in grain and provision* on
< bange. The favorable crop rejavrt* ru
more that the combination which ha
held wheat up for a few month* |<w*W
wers selling out and the ex| eolation of
an outliieak of yellow fever in Southern
cities have combined to depress prices.
The cssh decline on wheat ha* amount
ed to about 14 cents during! week,
the iowe*t sales being msde today,
when on call wheat sold for-luly option
at Kfij cents. There were rumor* of'
failures, but so far aa is known they
were only temporary embarrassments,
and all of the Arms interested arc expec
ted to continue business on Monday.
The clearings to day were larger by 1,500-
0(10 bushels than u-usl on account of
heavy deliveries of wheat by the combi
nation. The total deliveries made by
tbcm were 1,700,000 bushels here and
POO,OOO buhel* in Milwaukee, It is un
derstood that they sre rapidly getdng
out of the deal, and the culmination of
the break will come Monday, if it haa
not already been reached.
No. :*<>.