| Show 1 l ys reciAl ja I 1 i ua 1 t M r ii G V N lae ZAL 2 last saturday near indiana prof made arrangements range ments menta for a ballton balloon ascension and was accompanied by bit ger gir 0 er knapp editor of the orange oranie county union althey As they were the balloon the cords broker mk they rna ina made de a spring for the car ear but only succeeded in grai grasping ping the ropes aa as the balloon rose knapp let io go and fell thirty feet without serious injury wilbur held on 66 and attempted to climb into the basket but was unable to do so the balloon shot up with the professor hanging banging below at the height of a mile he loosed his hold and came whirling to the earth fearfully smashed MEW YOUR youn the publication of tho the list of names on oil the pay rolls of the city was continued today to day in iii some instances there are found the names of persons long iong on 9 since deceased still remaining as city employed emp loyes tammany hall appears to draw the whole amount of the dead mens wages tweeds bureau of the building department has the largest number of sinecures sine cures in the finance department besides tho the monthly stipend paid many clerks receive as much more for collecting arrears and one star starkweather kw eather averages about 2 2000 a month as coi dol collector lector of the assessments geo H E lynch receives a it month monthford for fon filling three offices many of these officials blab hiah are arel related to the controlling powers starkweather is a cathorin father in caf law of governor Gover goven nor nop Hoff nian bian politicians of the worst and most ignorant order are afe foun found xi scattered throughout the roll of sinecures sine bine cures eures which includes retired rum ram sellers barroom bar room loafers ex convicts gambl gambi gamblers ersi br bruisers asere and other bad characters it is be believed llev liev that the support of this army andly offing hirelings costs the tho city 1 upwards 0 of a year at the opening of the court of oyer and morning judge bar barr r nard in his charge to the grand jury alluding to the irregularities thab that exist in the city government said sald that one of the evils which should be stopped j 0 was taking illegal fees by the city and county offiel officials ais als the election laws lewe were flagrantly violated and it was his intention to keep the grand jury in session until after the election to secure the people a fair election in this connection he be spoke of the general corruption and announced it as a fact that nearly all the fast horses an aud and d fast women in this city are supported from the city treasury W H seward arrived this mor morning n ing from europe some of his friends gave him a hearty reception in the bay he left immediately tor for peekskill Peek skill on the hudson hodson washington aa a A telegram from lieutenant carrow IL S marshal of north carolina to Us A J sails salis chief clerk of the tho department oi of justice says judge bond refused yesterday mornin morning 9 to continue the ku klux cases upon any arrangements arrangement pluto durham continued his case on affidavit nine pleaded guilty yesterday and arguments will be prepared ROCHESTER 8 tweed arrived tonight 0 g arters t with a large delegation of new now yonkers yorkers T 0 and there are indications of a severe severa fight in the convention tomor to mor row it is said the state committee has proposed as temporary chairman to tammany one of its bitte bitterest reit enemies and the proposition is indignantly rejected reports are in circulation that twenty car oar loads of roughs boughs are on the way here from new york and that the police will be brought in large force to preserve order it is thought ii robinson will be temporary chairman CHICAGO S 0 S there have been an extraordinary tra ordinary number of fires area in the city for the past three days there were eive five vs today to day the most serious of which destroyed seven small dwellings with a loss of CARSON 3 isaacs the guard who was so badly wounded at the breaking out of the prisoners at carson had bad his leg amputated today to day and fehrs fears are entertained that he will not recover orica CHICAGO ao A st paul special says terrible prairie fires have been raging for several days past in a ii number of counties in the western part piat of the state already fire has passed over portions of six counties all alt butone but one of which McL mcleod leod are thinly populated in mcleod however thousands of bf tons of hay and bushels of grain have been consumed many farmers have lost all they had and the fires still rage with unabated fu fur fun yand are rapidly spreading wino south and southeast south east under a fair wind toward more densely populated parts of the state ti the inhabitants e W of of some counties are reported flying and leav lh ibi everything behind them ROCHESTER 4 the democratic state convention was called to order by S SJ J tilden chairman of the state central committee who made a breech in which he declared the municipal cor eruptions were the result of twenty years republican lican ilean legislation and the partnership men of both parties for plunder he 82 baid said the time had come to make and enforce a decree that no man who plundered the people should be called a democrat Clarkson Clark BoniN SN potter M 0 was as then chosen temporary charman cb arman armau in accordance with the understanding of all factions A communication was received from the tammany delegation waiving for the sake of the success of the ticket all cia cis alm im to participate in the convention at the same time pledging the delegation to support the nominees the committee on credentials was then appointed and the convention toba a recess till 4 pm the permanent organization of the democratic convention was effected in the evening session by the jhb election of clarkson N potter president with the usual number of and secretaries resolutions were reported the first denounces the administration at washington as false faise to its pledges ale adges to the constitution and charges that it has kept alive sectional hate refused amnesty to submissive citizens and denied pe peace aceto to the restored states made the rich richer and the poor poorer qu andere d the public lands and now seeks eek to p perpetuate its power by military interference with popular assemblages T 1 ft q and a nd the second recognizes tho the emancipation and enfranchisement and equality before the law of the freedmen of the south as the inevitable consequence nce of the civil war abathe and the overthrow of the tbd rebellion and declares it the d duty uty uly of all to sustain them in all their rights the third denounces the fraud and corruption in new york city and demands the immediate punishment of those upon whom the guilt can be fixed it farther further declares the republican party responsible for the tha inauguration and growth of this state of af falis affairs and demands from the next legislature such reforms in the city charter charier as shall eradicate legislation through which such frauds are possible and secure among other things an early opportunity to the people ol 01 or the city to lo choose new municipal officers and give the mayor mere more complete control of and consequently more complete responsibility for the subordinate departments make the mayor of new york and the mayors of all cities liable to removal by the governor for malfeasance in office or neglect of duty elections in the spring of each year publicity of accounts at all times and facilities to taxpayers to restrain and punish abuses and secure speedy trial of offenders in independent courts the fourth favors a law defining the powers of towns and counties to create debt and levy taxes the fifth calls attention to the federal corruption the sixth denoun denounces ees the registry laws and favors the constitutional amendment now pending making bribery a ground of or challenge to an elector and denying the suffrage to both the giver and receiver of a bribe the seventh challenges comparison between the democratic and republican administration of state affairs the eighth declares that the g government 0 vern shall levy no tax upon i imports m ports except for revenue purposes that th the e revenue shall be moderate and based upon the value of property and that raw material cannot be a specialty speciale specia lt y without unjustly burdening domestic manufactures it denounces the present tariff and declares there is no necessity in the present condition of government for any tariff whatever upon necessary articles such as coal iron clothing medicines and all materials used in mechanics and the arts the ninth endorses and highly eulogizes governor hoffman roff Hoff mau man the tenth in view of the apprehensions expressed that the religious a and nd civil quality of citizens is menaced renews the pledge of fidelity to the great democratic doctrine of equal and exact justice to all of whatever creed or nationality tion tiona allty lity and special favors to domone none the resolutions were adopted adapted and the convention adjourned till 10 am to nominations will be made GREEN bly BAY the fires which are e in sir or seen eastern counties of wisconsin have never daoa parallel since the settle bettle the country the has hai prevailed since early in august has dri dried ed up the springs r ins los ios an and d it lams streams anil anal and all vege vegetation tationA in aad d bab baa parched paro parc hed bed the thel ground to suo sao buch each a depth below the stir bur eur face that the soil itself acts acta as a conductor and living trees are falling from the action of the fire which undermines them all outstanding property is swept away there being so little water in available situations to stop tha the fires barns and their contents hay bay stacks cord wood and other property ro p erty together with hundreds of miless mile mlle of fences are dds destroyed troyed as no resistance can be offered to 10 the approaching fires T che the tie lie increasing d corruption of or society eastward appears tobe alarming many so SOT ber citizens and impelling them to wonder whereunto these things will grow as witness the following from the new york poso post in view of the appalling increase of corruption in high places and in low it is hardly strange that peaceable and honest citizens bewildered with tho the dan ger and despairing of relief by accepted means should wonder whether this worse than prairie lawlessness may not call for the rough and ready directness of prairie logic and the swift justice of the renn reng regulator and his terrible but bat even if we should grant that it may ever be necessary to use such methods it is clear that they ard bre are inapplicable in cases casos where anything like ilke an ad organized form of civil government exists in such cases the remedy is self subversive J and not only debars those who use it from any future appeals to principles of order and 16 legality but like all bad tools is apt to wound the tha hand which wields it there is a homely proverb that two can alayat play at that game and the hi history a tory of t the h a last few y years ears has shown that wt when en gent gentlemen leme n and good citizens renouncing the obligations and guarantees of civil order undertake the rough game wood justice therna nian fian ilan is apt to hold the str stronger baud hand nas nat bat bas the thy dally daily life of our cily cIty shows even 1 mord more clearly more justifiable but less practical which witti tibe the seni semblance blance of a civilized community shall give us its ita safeguards the evil comes every day closer and closer to our oar own fi resides the old rule used to be to keep out of rows by never going near them and as long as the upright and peaceful citizen confined himself to the thel ordinary walks of 0 orderly and decent existence he was supposed tp to be bd tolerably safe 1 against all average casualty or attack however this may have been of old it Is untrue now rhe the venom of vi violence vit vii lence dence is so rampant that thai without retiring to hermit liko ilko sec seclusion lusion the most inoffensive among us is not safe from danger before the community has recovered from the horror caused by the brutal murder of a peaceful citizen for doing what no man could refrain from doing attempting to protect an innocent girl from insult another and more aggravated case comes to deepen the impression sion must rust we go back for instruction to the good old times when every corner and doorway had its bravo or its imola mohawks Mo hawks w ks 11 when an evening call was made with rapier capler and dagger on thigh and a score of retainers and torchbearers torch bearers to guard the way must the coach seats be padded with pistol cases and aud ajo a journey urney arney to the next town re quire the armed escort 04 oan an expedition into sonora son ora must mush the education of a gentleman include as prime requisites the defensive exercise of the boxing ring th the 0 fencing ball and pistol gallery r and shall oar daily dally costume once more show the milan ulian coat of mail mall and the steel lined b bonnet on of charles IX IM or harry of the t who in this imminent dissolution of so go vial order shall show us any good for cecily eerily the evil presses us sore sere WE are pleased to see the follow following ingv ingi I 1 in n harpers weekly concerning a gentleman who filled the presidential chair with honor some years agone A great pity there are not many more as irreproachable in office the hon millard il limore ilmore has been spending a few days among his old friends in this his city although he has exceeded by one year the scriptural threescore and aud ten he is nevertheless in full health It liis Itis just fifty years since mr removed to buffalo and commenced the study of law for four years previously he had been an apprentice entice to the wool carding business cpr his political 0 lotical career commenced with his electro election n to the state assembly in 1829 in 1832 he was elected to congress in which body he served eight years in 1847 he was elected controller and in 1848 vice Preal president dent il in I 1 july lug 1850 by the death of president taylor be he became president his term expiring march ath 1852 1853 in every relation of life mr fillmore has enjoyed the respect of his fellow citizens politically no taint of irregularity or jobbery ever attached to him in private liseno canhas man has hes been more irreproachable sens SENSATION dispatches and tumors gotten i up and distributed east ehat and ind we st fo ri ulterior purposes are and will be plentiful concerning affairs at salt ilabe zake one of which comes back here and tind appears in another column today taday we wd need not enlarge u upon p on the tent went T it 1 l I 1 Z ta aku ann teci tecy I 1 E t isa iia rr anai anAT ahn ahw lent spir spirit which m manufactures t u forr J wards such chiy I 1 bound sound so suchlike much like ilke neb heb that thit son sneed be deceived by them it lt lathe desire and the lu supposed P ased interest alot ot the ning jing ring to induce tze tee the belief at a distance that utah is iw all aflame with excitement cio cit ement no matter matten what hat bat interests suf nerl nerk la in consequence ce of or the taise false rn ru 1 mors mora I 1 the facts are that utah is gerfe perfectly c lly liy self belg possessed and tranquil that there is no excitement here and that there will be none of any moment unless it is purposely and maliciously gotterup gotte gotten sup by byr the ring and a nd then for it they must beheld responsible it is what they desire and what they incessantly strive stride to bring about the bona fide citizens are quiet and not laboring under any excitement nor is there any prospect ol 01 an any except among those who desire andt and ana seek it |
