.P85 c, PORTRAITS OF Republican t Democratic ^QAHSXSAVSS-^ WITH THE NOMINATING SPEECHES, AND Sketches of the Lives OF THE CANDIDATES THIS BOOK WILL BE SENT TO BLAINE & LOGAN AND CLEVELAND ^HENDRICKS CLUBS ALL OVER THE U. S. COMPLIMEl^TTS OF THE EBBITT HOUSE, Washington, D. C. C. C. WILLARD, Owner and Proprietor. l'AGE 12 ) VANDERCOOK & CO., ENGRAVING AND PUBLISHING. State & Madison Streets, Chicago. Ills. THE GENUINE TIN TAG PLUG TOBACCO IS MANUFACTURED ONLY BY IF 5 . LOIKIILILj-i^IEBID cSc CO. OF JERSEY CITY, N. J. Beware of Imitations and Counterfeits! The CLIMAX Grade has a Red Tin Tag. The BULLION Grade has a Blue Tin Tag. The SAILOR'S DELIGHT Grade has a Green Tin Tag. The MECHANIC'S DELIGHT Grade has a Yellow Tin Tag. THE SUPERIORITY OF THE GENUINE TIN TAG TOBACCO Is manifested by a comparison of its sale with other brands : There are 847 Tobacco Factories in the United States— the firm of P. Lorillard & Co. sells about one-fourth of all the Plug: Tobacco used. There are 117 Factories in North Carolina -Lorillard's Factory produces more Plug than all of them. There are 70 Factories in Missouri— Lorillard produces more than the entire 70. There are 60 Factories in Kentucky, 38 in Ohio, 72 in New York, and their com- bined product of Plug does not equal that of P. LORILLARD & CO. THE LARGEST TOBACCO MANUF ACTORY IN THE WORLD. Consumption of Tobacco and Who 1'rodiiceN It. {Grocer and Country Merchant.) Consumers generally give little thought to the magnitude of the tobacco business, and it is only by actual figures that they can bo made to comprehend its importance. Even then the average mind is bewildered at the figures. P. LORILLARD & CO., manufacturers of the cele- brated Climax, Red Tin Tag Plug Tobacco, and the largest manufacturers of tobacco in the world, produce about one-sixth of all the tobacco consumed in this country, although there are 77a other manufactories in the United States. The total consumption in this country, accord- ing to actual statistics for 18S3, was 139,783,782 pounds, of whioh P. LORILLARD & CO. fur- nished 24,747,260 pounds, as follows : POUNDS. PLUG TOBACCO, 19,028,456 FINE CUT, 2,239,444 SMOKING, - 2,375,994 SNUFF, 1,103,395 This in equivalent to about 83,000 pound e per day for every worklog day in the year. The tax paid to the < tovernment on Huh product by the above firm the last year was 3^,681, 999. 6. r >, -.mm; tor each working day of the year. Astonishing as these figures appear, the firm is annually Increasing its product, the Inoreaae for W«3 over that of 1082 being 5,311,000 pounds. ill claim in the face M these figures that tobacco has not become a necessity instead oi being a luxury, mm it lms been so long regarded i ft- -ft GEO. B. CARPENTER & CO. 208 South Water St., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. FLAGS « STREAMERS ■^CAMPAIGN* Best Bunting or Best Banner Silk. 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BLAINE. * The following is the speech of Judge West, of Ohio, presenting the name of Mr. Blaine as a candidate for the Presidency : As a delegate in the Chicago Convention of 1860, the proudest service of my life was performed by voting for the nomination of that inspired emanci- pator, the first Republican President of the United States. [Applause.] Four and twenty years of the grandest history of recorded times has distin- tinguished the ascendancy of the Republican party. The skies have lowered, and reverses have threatened. Our flag is still there, waving above the man- sion of the Presidency, not a stain on its folds, not a cloud on its glory. Whether it shall maintain that grand ascendancy, depends upon the action of this great council. With bated breath a nation awaits the result. On it are fixed the eyes of 20,000,000 of Republican freemen in the North. On it, or to it, rather, are stretched forth the imploring hands of 10,090,000 of politi- cal bondmen of the South — [applause] — while above, from the portals of light, is looking down the immortal spirit of the immortal martyr who first bore it to victory, bidding to us hail and God-speed. [Applause.] Six times in six campaigns has that banner triumphed — that symbol of union, freedom, humanity and progress ; some time by that silent man of destiny, the Wel- lington of American arms — [wild applause t — last by him at whose untimely taking-off a nation swelled the funeral cries and wept above great Garfield's grave. [Cheers and applause.] Shall that banner triumph again ? Commit it to the bearing of that chief— [a voice: "James G. Blaine, of Maine." Cheers]— commit it to the bearing of that chief, the inspiration of whose illustrious character and great name will fire the hearts of our young men, stir the blood of our manhood and rekindle the fervor of the veteran, and the closing of the seventh campaign will see that holy ensign spanning the sky like a bow of promise. [Cheers.] Political conditions are changed since the accession of the Republican party to power. The mighty issues of strug- gling freedom and bleeding humanity which convulsed the continent and aroused the republic rallied, united and inspired the forces of patriotism and the forces of humanity into one consolidated phalanx. These great issues have ceased their contentions. The subordinate issues resulting therefrom are settled and buried away with the dead issues of the past. The arms of the Solid South are against us. Not an electoral gun can be expected from that section. If triumph come, the Republican States of the North must furnish the conquering battalions — from the farm, the anvil, the loom ; from the mine, the workshop and the desk ; from the hut of the trapper on the snowy Sierra, from the hut of the fisherman on the banks of the Hudson. The Republican States must furnish these conquering battalions if triumph come. Does not sound political wisdom dictate and demand that a leader shall be given to them whom our people will follow, not as conscripts advanc- ing by funereal marches to certain defeat, but a grand civic hero whom the souls of the people desire, and whom they will follow with all the enthusiasm of volunteers, as they sweep on and onward to certain victory ? In this contention of forces, to whose candidate shall be intrusted our battle flag ? Citizens, I am not here— and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I abate one tithe from the just fame, integrity and public honor of Chester A. Arthur, our President. [Applause.] I abate not one tithe from the just fame and public integrity of George F. Edmunds— [applause]— of Joseph R. Hawley— [applause]— of John Sherman— [applause] —of that grand old black eagle of Illinois. [Here the speaker was interrupted several moments by prolonged applause.] And I am proud to know that these distinguished Senators whom I have named have borne like testimony to the public life, the public character and the public integrity of him whose confirmation brought him to the highest office— second in dignity to the office of the President himself— the first premiership in the Administration of James A. Garfield. [Applause.] A man for whom the Senators and rivals will vote. The Secretary of State of the United States is good enough for a 5 * ^FLORIDA.^ •^Revised Descriptive Circular of DeLand, Florida* DeLand, Florida, Sept. 15, 1884. The city of DeLand is located five miles east of our landing, on the St. Johns River, where all river [steamboats pass; very near the geographical center, north and south of Tolusia County, and in the middle of THE GREAT ORANGE BELT. This place is about twenty-five miles from the Atlantic Ocean, andis almost constantly favored with a tempered] SEA BREEZE, and from its elevation above the river, its location among the pines, and its isolation from all standing water, it is peculiarly adapted to the necessities of invalids. This belt of land is about twenty miles long, and averages about five miles wide, is gently undulating, and in our immediate vicinity somewhat hilly. Our lands are UNSURPASSED IN FERTILITY by any pine land in the State. In our city, which is only seven years old, we have an Academy Building now being built, at a cost, furnished, of about $6,000, to be opened in October, under the management of Dr. J. H. Griffith, D. D., of Troy, N. Y., for the educa- tion of students of both sexes, preparing them for college, or for teaching, or for practical life. Also a fine new Public School Building under contract, to cost, furnished, about $2,600 ; to be open about Nov. 1, as a free white school. Also, a Baptist Church, costing §4,000, and a Methodist Church, costing $2,600, both neatly finished, furnished and paid for. A Presbyterian Church ; an Episcopalian Church nearly finished, and a Catholic Church. We have DOUBLE DAILY MAILS, and now have six general merchandise stores, carrying some of the largest and best stocks in South Florida ; also, two drug stores, a millinery and notion store, a furniture store, bakery and confectionery store, two livery and feed stables, jewelry store, and a paint store, the Volusia County Bank, two hardware stores, a Masonic lodge, four saw mills within two miles, and a blacksmith and wagon shop. ^^ THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST, a large, eight-page weekly, is published here, and it is a valuable paper for those desiring information about Florida. Also, the Orange Ridge Echo, a lively seven-column local Our hotels and boarding-houses afford good fare at reasonable prices. Paice Land Hotel was enlarged and nicely fitted up last fall, and was filled through the winter with first class guests. The DeLand Grove House and Floral Grove House are being enlarged, and Harlan Hotel is being built at Lake Helen, five miles southeast from DeLand, all of which will be under good management, and so run as to best accommodate tourists and health and pleasure seekers. The DeLand & St. Johns Railroad is now finished and is being run to accommodate travel to and from the river steamers, and also to connect with the J. T. & K. W. R. R , now being rapidly built, and which it crosses on the way to the river. These railroads will also give us telegraphic accommodations with the north, supplying an urgent need. For the information of invalids, we will add that several good physicians are settled in •ur midst, affording excellent medical aid when required. Population now in and near DeLand City, that trade there, 1,000 to '2,000. We hi <■ ultVriiig those choice lands to actual settlors at $20 to $100 per acre. Village lots and improved property for sule also. For farther particulars, call on or address J. Y. PARCE. DeLand, Volusia Co.. Fla. Or H. A. DeLAND, Fairport, Monroe Co., N. Y. 6 * plain flesh-and-blood God's people to vote for for President. [Applause.] Who shall be our candidate ? [Cries of " Blaine!" "Arthur!" and "Logan!" A loud voice yelled above the tumult : •' Give us ' Black Jack' and we will elect him!"] When quiet was somewhat restored, the speaker continued : Not the representative of a particular class. Send the great proclamation to the country labeled, the doctors' candidate, the lawyers' candidate, the Wall street candidate, and the hand of resiirrection would not fathom his November grave. [Applause.] Gentlemen, he must be a representative of American manhood — [applause] — a i*epresentative of that living republican- ism that demands the amplest industrial protection and opportunity whereby labor shall be enabled to earn and eat the bread of independent employment, relieved from mendicant competition with pauper Europe or pagan China. [Loud applause. J He must be a representative of that republicanism that demands the absolute political as well as personal emancipation and enfran- chisement of mankind — a representative of that republicanism which recog- nizes the stamp of American citizenship as the passport to every right, privilege, and consideration at home or abroad, whether under the sky of Bismarck, under the palmetto, under the ]:>elican, or on the banks of the Mohawk — that republicanism that regards with dissatisfaction a despotism which, under the Sic semper lyrannis of the Old Dominion, accomplished the slaughter of popular majorities in the name of Democracy — a republicanism as embodied and stated in the platform of principles this day adopted by your Convention. Gentlemen, such a representative Republican is James G. Blaine, of Maine. [Continued cheers and prolonged applause, waiving of handkerchiefs and opened umbrellas, which lasted for several minutes. 1 Order having been restored, Mr. West proceeded as follows : Gentlemen of the Convention, it has been said that in making this nom- ination every other consideration should merge, every other interest be sacri-' flced, in order and with a view exclusively to secui'e the Republican vote and carry the State of New York. [Slight applause from the backseats.] Gentle- men, the Republican party demands of this Convention a nominee whose inspiration and glorious prestige shall carry the Presidency with or without the State of New York — [applause j —that will carry the Legislatures of the several States, and avert the sacrifice of the United States Senate ; that shall sweep into the tide the Congressional districts to recover the House of Repre- sentatives, and restore it to the Republican party. Three millions of Repub- licans believe that the man who from the baptism of blood on the plains of Kansas to the fall of the immortal Garfield, in all that struggle of humanity and progress, wherever humanity desired succor, where love for freedom called for protection, wherever the country called for a defender, wherever blows fell thickest and fastest, there, in the fore-front of the battle was seen to waive the white plume of James A. Garfield, our Henry of Navarre — [the speaker, seeing that he had misspoken, closed his sentence by substituting the name of] — James G. Blaine, our Henry of Navarre. Nomi- nate him, and the shouts of September victory in Maine will be re-echoed back by the thunders of October victory in Ohio. Nominate him, and the camp- fires and beacon -lights will illuminate the continent from the Golden Gate to Cleopatra's Needle. Nominate him, and the millions who are now waiting will rally to swell the column of victory that is sweeping on. In the name of a majority of the delegates from the Republican States and of our glorious constituencies who must fight this battle, I nominate James G. Blaine, of Maine. SKETCHES OF HIS LIFE. James G. Blaine was born January 31, 1830, at the Iudian Hill Farm, Washington County, Pennsylvania, on the west side of the Monongahela River, opposite the town of Brownsville. The house is somewhat of a his- torical spot, being the first stone building erected on the western side of the river. It was built by Mr. Blaine's grandfather, the elder Neal Gillespie, in 1778, on what was at that time considered the western borders of civilization. Mr. Blaine's boyhood days were passed at Lancaster, Ohio, where he lived in * * #- * ^THE«~ PLEASANT VALLEY WINE CD OF Rheims, Steuben Co., N. Y. THE OLDEST WINE COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES. ORGANIZED I860. C/^te This is the Finest Champagne produced in America, and compares favorably with Km ropean vintages. A Natural Genuine Champagne, fermented in the bottle, two years being required to perfect the Wine. Our Sweet and Dry Catawba and Port are, like all our Wines, made from selected . grapes, and are Pure Wines. For Prices, address PLEASANT YALLEY WINE CO., RHEIMS, STEUBEN COUNTY, N. Y. 8 * * — * *TWO ELEGANT PICTURES!^ Crayon Drawings, Size 19 x 25, Sent by Mail, Prepaid, JAMES G. BLAINE AND JOHN A. LOGAN, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT. Price : $1.50, Postage Prepaid. Send at once and secure Two Fine Pictures for framing for your homes. SEND POST OFFICE ORDER OR DRAFT. VANDERCOOK & COMPANY, Engravers and Publishers, State and Madison Sts., CHICAG-O, ILL. *- * BLACKWELL'S DURHAM ®- mm ^CIGARETTES. , These Goods are sold under an Absolute Guarantee That they are the Finest and PUREST goods upon the market; They ARE FREE from DRUGS and CHEMICALS of any kind; They consist of the Finest Tobacco and Purest Rice Paper made. OUR SALES EXCEED the products of ALL. leading manufacto- ries combined. None Genuine without the trade -mark of the BULL. Take no other. BLACKWELL'S DURHAM TOBACCO CO. Successors to W. T. BLACK WELL &> CO., Sole Manufacturers, DURHAM, N. C> BLACKWELL'S 3D txxs, xa: _^. -&A. * -* *— — — — — — * the family of a relative, Hon. Tliouias Ewing, then Secretary of the Treas- ury, and attended a neighboring school. He was the third son of Ephriam L. Blaine, a Justice of the Peace, who became somewhat noted by deeding to the Economists the tract of land now occupied by the city of Pittsburg, for which he received $25,000. Being elected Prothonotary of the County Court in 1842, the elder Blaine sent James to Washington College in 1843, from where he graduated in the fall of 1847, at the age of 17 years. During his college days he demonstrated his fondness for politics, ami was known as a strong Clay man, and was always the court of last resort in political discus- sions among the students. On leaving college the youthful graduate went to Kentucky and taught school, his father at this period being comparatively poor and having insufficient means to support tbe large family of which he was the head. While following the occupation of a country school teacher, Mr. Blaine met his present wife, who was also teacher of a country school in Kentucky. Shortly after their marriage they went to her former home, at Ken- nebec, Me., where he entered the journalistic profession, assuming control of the Kennebec Journal, and afterward of the Portland Advertiser. He imme- diately sjjrang into a position of influence in State politics, and, at the age of 25, was recognized as one of the young leaders of the Republican party. At the age of 29 years he was selected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Republican organization of the State, a position he has held ever since, and practically shaping and directing every campaign and leading the party to victory. In 1858 he was elected to the Maine Legislature, and servedin that capac- ity four years, two of which he was speaker of the House of Representatives. In 1862 he was chosen a representative in Congress, from which time he has been prominently before the public. During the period of his Congres- sional career as a member of the Post Office Committee, he was instrumental in bringing into use the present system of postal cars, a branch of the Department which hitherto had not reached any degree of perfection. He was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives in March, 1869, and was re-elected in 1871, and three years later entered on his third term as such. In 1875 he took his seat on the floor of the House, and was recognized as the leader of the Republican minority, the Democratic " tidal wave" of 1874 had given them the majority. His dash and brilliancy as the Republican leader on the floor of the House made him a popular candidate for the Presidency in 1876, he, on the first bal- lot, receiving 298 votes, and on the seventh ballot, on which Hayes was nomi- nated, received 351 votes. The same year Governor Connor, of Maine, appointed him United States Senator to succeed Hon. Lot M. Morrill, who resigned to accept the position of Secretary of the Treasury. At the following session of the Maine Legisla- ture he was elected to his seat in the United States Senate. Four years ago he was again put forward as a candidate for the Presidency, and after thirty-six ballots were cast was defeated by the late James A. Garfield. On the inauguration of President Garfield, Senator Blaine was appointed Secretary of State, which position he resigned several months after the death of the lamented President, owing to a difference in his ideas to those of Presi- dent Arthur on matters of public policy. Since his retirement from the Cabinet he has been engaged in literary pursuits, having written during that period his "Twenty Years in Congress." Throughout his distinguished career he has been always regarded as a man of good temper and tempera- ment, with a powerful intellectual vehemence. Duringhis career in Congress and the Senate he delivered many eloquent speeches, among them his defense of Maine, in reply to reflections by Hon. S. S. Cox, on fishing bounties, the Conscription bill, the silver question, the Army Appropriation bill, and other subjects. His studies have always been largely on political questions and history. In his early college days he was noted for his early love of American history, which, in his subsequent years, he cultivated, and at the present time it would be impossible to find a man in the Union who could, without refer- ence, give so many accurate facts and statistics relating to the financial and revenue system, and, in fact to everything that constitutes and includes the developments, achievements and success of the United States. 9 *- ^ A MODEL RAILROAD. Something of "What it has Done, and is Doing-, to make Life Less a Burden for Those who Travel. Many who read this can remember, and it wont require a very long atretch of memory, when to travel more than a hundred miles by rail without having to change cars at least once, was a thing unheard of ; when fifteen miles an hour almost took their breath away ; when, if the trains run at all at night, they had to sit up in uncomfortable and rickety cars ; when " ten minutes for dinner," and a poor one at that, was the rule ; when, in short, to take a ride of any distance on the cars was a thing to be desired only on account of its novelty. But now it is different, modern railroads have grown apace with modern thoughts and ideas. As good a way as any to illustrate the difference between "Auld Lang Syne" and the present in railway service, is to select one of the typical modern roads, and give a description of the territory that it covers, and the service that it gives the traveling public. The Chicago & Nobth-Westekn, being the most extensive railroad in the country, is chosen for this purpose. This great railway system starts at Chicago, from which point it stretches out to the North, Northwest and West, through the richest and best portions of the Northwest. The following are among its through trunk lines : 1st. A line running nearly due north along the shore of Lake Michigan, through the cities of Milwaukee, Fond du Lac. Oshkosh, Appleton, Green Bay to Ishpeming and Marquette, Houghton, Hancock, Calumet, and the copper regions of Michigan, carrying passengers from Chicago through Wisconsin to the Northern Peninsula of Michigan without change of cars. 2d. A line running a little west of the above through the cities of Harvard, Janesville, Jefferson, Watertown, and intersecting the former at Fond du Lac. 3d. A line running west from Milwaukee through Waukesha and Madison to Galena and Montfort. 4th. A line running west from Sheboygan on Lake Michigan through Fond du Lac, Ripon and Green Lake to Princeton. 5th. A line from Chicago through Harvard, Beloit, Madison, Devil's Lake, Baraboo, Elroy, Eau Claire and Hudson to St. Paul and Minneapolis. Trains on this line connect in a Union Depot with trains for Fargo, Bismarck, the Yellow- stone National Park, and all points in the Northwestern Pacific Coast regions. Connect- ing with this line at Eau Claire is a branch that runs to Spooner, Wis., where it divides — one arm running to Ashland, Washburn and Bayfield ; and the other to Superior City and Duluth. 6th. Lines running from both Chicago and St. Paul and Minneapolis, through to^Huron, Pierre, Watertown, Redfield, Aberdeen, Columbia, and the famous grain regions of Central Dakota. 7th. A line running nearly due west from Chicago through Dixon, Sterling, Clinton, Cedar Bapids, DesMoines, Marshalltown to Council Bluffs, Omaha, Sioux City, Norfolk, Fremont, Neligh, Valentine, and the fertile fields of Northeastern Nebraska. Through trains are run by this line carrying passengers from Chicago to San Francisco with but one change of cars, and from Chicago to Denver without change. Sth. A line from St. Paul and Minueapolis to Sioux City, Iowa. 9th. A line from St Paul and Minneapolis to Des Moines, Iowa. 10th. A line connecting with the main Iowa line at both Tama and Ames, and running through Northwestern Iowa to Central Dakota points. These, together with the shorter branches shooting off from the main lines in various directions, form an aggregate of nearly 6,U00 miles of road all under the manage- ment of this great corporation. But not alone in the number of miles owned does this road excel. In lieu of the old straps and light irons and slow time, it carries its passen- gers safely at the rate of forty miles an hour over smooth steel rails on solid rock foundations. The old-fashioned and uncomfortable day car is superseded on this line by palatial coaches that are models of comfort and elegance, and that at night are transformed into luxurious sleeping apartments furnished with comfortable beds, and all appliances for rest and refreshment. But the climax of all improvements in the modern over the ancient railway service is in the dining cars as introduced and operated by this company. It is usoless to attempt to enumerate the comforts of a North-Western Dining Car. They must be experienced in order to be properly appreciated. The cars are palaces on wheels, and their tables are loaded with the choicest viands that the most expert cooks can prepare. Railroad travel is no longer a tedious bore, but surrounded by such comforts and luxuries as those provided by the North-Western for its patrons, ouo can ride from ocean to ocean without experiencing the slightest discomfort or fatigue, (See map on page 3.) 10 * #- -H< THE EBBITT Washington, D. C kir"-« wk ifik tit III ft: 111 Illfl 'ttflfsfrb '■rf. THE EBBIITKOUSE, Cor. F & Fourteenth Streets, (EIGHT IRON FIRE ESCAPES.) ^HEADQUARTERS* ARMY AND NAVY. G. C. WILLARD, Owner and Prop. 12 *- * ^_ ^ GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN. The following is the speech of Hon. Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois, nomi- nating General John A. Logan for the Presidency. Although the Convention has accorded to him the second instead of the first place on the ticket, the eloquent words of Mr. Cullom are nevertheless appropriate and at this time very interesting reading : Mk. Pkesident and Gentlemen of the Convention: — Twenty-four years ago the second National Convention of the Kepublican party met in this city and nominated its first successful candidate for President, of the United States — Abraham Lincoln. [Cheers.] Abraham Lincoln led the Eepublicau party to its first great victory. He stands to-day in the estima- tion of the world as the grandest figure, the most majestic in all modern times. [Applause.] Again, in 1868, another Republican Convention came together in this city, and nominated as its candidate for President of the United States another eminent citizen of Illinois — General Ulysses S. Grant. [Loud cheers and waiving of fans and other demonstrations of approval.] And the Republican party turned its face toward this political Mecca, where two successes had been organized, and the murdered Garfield led the Repub- lican party to victory. [Loud and continued applause.] Mr. President and fellow citizens, it is good for us to be here. There are omens of victory in the air. History repeats itself. There are promises of triumph to the Repub- lican party in holding its Convention in this great emporium of the North- west. [Applause.] The commonwealth of Illinois, which has never wavered in its adherence to Republican principles since it gave to the world the illus- trious Lincoln, now presents to this Convention for its consideration as the standard-bearer of the Republican party another son of Illinois, one whose name will be recognized from one end of this land to the other as an able statesman, a brilliant soldier, and an honest man— General John A. Logan. [The announcement of General Logan's name was received with wild bursts of applause, a great many persons rising to their feet, waiving their hats and handkerchiefs, and the thousands of people in the gallery joining in the roar of applause. The cheers were renewed again and again.] A native of the State which he represents in the council of the Nation, reared among the youth of a section where every element of manhood is brought into play, he is eminently a man of the people— [applause] — identified with them in trust, in faith and in feeling, and enjoying their sympathy, respect and confidence. The safety, the permanency and the prosperity of the Nation depend on the courage and integrity and the loyalty of its citizens. When yonder flag was assailed by enemies in arms, when the integrity of the Union was imperiled by an organized treason, when the storm of war threatened the very life of this Nation, this gallant son of the Prairie State resigned his seat in the Congress of the United States, returned to his home, and was among the first of our citizens to raise a regiment and to march to the front in defense of his country. [Applause.] Like Douglas, he believed that in time of war men must be either patriots or traitors, and he threw his mighty influence on the side of the Union, and Illinois made a history second to none in the history of the States in the struggle to preserve the Govern- ment. [Applause.] Among the large number of brave men, of brave soldiers of the late war, whose names are proudly written upon the scroll of fame, none appear more grandly than the name of Logan. [Applause.] His history is the record of the battles of Belmont, of Donelson, of Shiloh, of Yicksburg, of Lookout Mountain, of Atlanta, and of the famous march to the sea. [Great applause.] He never lost a battle. [Applause.] I repeat again, Mr. Chair- man and fellow-citizens — [applause]— he never lost a battle in all the war. [Applause]. When there was fighting to be done he did not wait for orders, nor did he fail to obey orders when they were received. Hia plume, the white plume of Henry of Navarre, was always to be seen at the point where the battle raged the hottest. [Applause.] During the long struggle of four x 13 * *- * Minneapolis, Minn. THE FINEST HOTEL IN THE NORTHWEST. •*& 500 ROOMS ^ Elegantly Furnished and Equipped with every Modern Convenience and Appliance of a First-Class Hotel. ABSOLUTELY FIRE-PROOF. Accommodations for 1,200 Guests! Two Passenger Elevators! Electric Lights! Table and Dining-Room Service unexcelled anywhere. Conducted strictly First-Class in every respect. RA TES: $3.00 A DAY AND UPWARD. ACCORDING TO LOCATION OF ROOM. C. W. SHEPHERD, (Of Gilsey House, New York), MANAGER. 14 "* * years he commanded, by authority of the Government, first a regiment, then a brigade, then a division, then an army corps, and finally an army. He remained in the service until the war closed, when, at the head of his army, with the scars of battle upon him, he marched into the capital of the Nation, and with the brave men for whom he had bled on a hundred hard-fought fields was mustered out of the service under the very shadow of the Capitol building, which he had left four years before as a member of Congress to go and fight the battles of his country. When the war was over and general peace victoriously returned, he was again honored by his fellow-citizens to take his place in the councils of the Nation. In a service of twenty years in both houses of Congress, he has shown himself to be no less able and distinguished a citizen than he was renowned as a soldier, conservative in the advocacy of issues involving the public wel- fare, ready and eloquent in debate, fearless — yes, I repeat again, fearless — in defense of the rights of the weak against the strong. He stands to-day — and I say it without disposition to take one laurel from the brows of those men whose names may be presented to this Convention — I say he stands to-day, in my judgment, closer to the great mass of the people of this country than almost any other man now engaging public attention. [Applause.] No man has done more in defense of those principles which have given life and spirit and victory to the Republican party than has John A. Logan, of Illinois. [Applause.] In all that goes to make up a brilliant military and civil career, and to commend a man to the favor of the people, he whose name we have presented here to-night has shown himself to be the peer of the best. We ask you, therefore, to give him this nomination, because he would not be assailed, and he is not assailable. We ask you to nominate him because his public record is so clean that even political calumny dare not attack it. We ask you to nominate him in behalf of the hundreds of thousands of grey vet- eran volunteer soldiers who are to night over this broad land standing around the telegraph offices waiting to know whether that gallant leader of the volun- teer soldiers of this country is to receive the nomination at your hands. [Applause.] We ask you to nominate him in behalf of the Avhite and the colored Republicans of the South who are here by the hundred, black and white, appealing to this Convention, as the representative of our grand old party, to give protection and to vindicate them in their rights in the South. [Applause.] Now, my friends, standing in the midst of this vast assemblage of repre- sentative citizens of this grand republic — aye, in the sublime presence of the people themselves, represented here to-night in all their majesty— we offer you the name of the tried hero and patriot, the sagacious and uncorruptible statesman, the man who, though defeated, never skulked in his tent — we offer you General John A. Logan, and ask you to make him your nominee. [Loud applause.] If you do so, he will give you a glorious victory in November next, and when he shall have taken his position as President of this great Republic you may be sure you will have an Administration in the interest of labor, in the interest of education, in the interest of commerce, in the interest of finance, and in the interest of peace at home and peace abroad, and in the interest of the prosperity of this great people. [Applause.] SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. General John A. Logan, the nominee for Vice President, is essentially a Western man, who claims Chicago for his home. His father, Dr. John Logan, emigrated from Ireland in 1823, and settled in Jackson County, 111. His mother was Elizabeth Jenkins, a native of Tennessee. He first saw the light of day in Jackson County. 111., on February 9, 1826. He spent his early years in Jackson County. Here he received a partial education from his father and such teachers as happened to be in the district. When the Mexican war broke out he volunteered and was chosen a Lieutenant in a company of the First Illinois Infantry. He became adjutant of his regiment and did good service. He returned to his home in 1848 and commenced the study of law 15 ^ _ ^ *- COATES' "LOCR-LEYER"HAYtGRAIN RAKE Patented August, 18G7 ; January, 1875 ; June, 1875 ; November, 1S76. 100,000 Now in Use ! 20 Refined Cast Steel Teeth ! The best Self-Dump Rake in use; no ratchet-wheels, frietion bands or other complicated machinery about it ; all done by the driver's weight. A small boy rakes easily 20 acres per day with the '■ Lock-Lever." THE BEST BAKE T2sT TH"B ^KTOttTjJD I Coates' Two-Horse "Lock-Lever" Rake. A. W. COATES & CO., ALLIANCE, O. * SEND Foil riKCOI.ARS. -* -* with his uucle, Alexander M. Jenkins, at one time Lieutenant Governor of this State. In November, 1849, he was elected Clerk of Jackson county. In 1851 he entered into practice with his uncle. The next year he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the Third Judicial District, and later to the State Legislature, being re-elected three times. In 1858 he was chosen a member of Congress from the Ninth District by a large Democratic majority. At the conclusion of his term he was re-elected. He was an ardent supporter of Stephen A. Douglas in the campaign of 1860. He was present at the called session of Congress in July, 1861. He joined the military forces at the front and was in the first battle' of Bull Run. He returned home and helped to organize the Twenty-first Illinois Infantry and was commissioned as Colonel. He took part in the battle of Belmont in November, and gave evidence of superior military ability. He was in the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh, and on March 3, 18C2, was made Brigadier General. He was an active worker during the siege of Vicksburg. General Grant selected him for consultation in consideration of his services, and on July 4, 1863, he led the march into Vicksburg. He improved his record during Sherman's march to the sea, and was heroically brave under the most perilous circumstances. "When General McPherson was killed Logan succeeded him in command of the Army of the Tennessee. His exploits were always bold and fearless throughout the long campaign. When the war was over General Logan declined the position of Minister to Mexico, and in 1866 he was elected to Congress from the State-at- large in Illinois by a majority of 55,987. In the Fortieth Congress he was one of the managers of the impeachment of President Johnson. In 1870 he was elected by the Illinois Legislature to succeed Richard Yates in the United States Senate. He was defeated, however, at the close of his term, the Hon. David Davis, being his successor; but in 1879 he was again elected to succeed Oglesby. His career since then has been sufficiently well known not to re- quire further mention. The Grand Union Hotel, OPPOSITE THE GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT, NEW YORK CITY. Offers travelers and families — arriving, or leaving the city to visit Saratoga, Long Branch, White Mountains, or other Summer resorts— superior accom- modations. All improvements. European plan. Over 600 elegantly fur- nished rooms, fitted up at an expense of One Million Dollars, reduced to $1.00 and upwards per day. Richly furnished suites for families, and elegantly arranged rooms for dinner parties for ten and upwards. Cuisine and wines of superior merit. The Restaurant, Cafe and Wine Rooms supplied with the best, at moderate price. Toilet and Baggage Rooms for ladies and gents, where coats, valises and parcels can be left free. W. D. GARRISON, Manager. Guests' B&ggage taken to and from this depot free. 17 * * THE TEACHERS TESTIMONY. The Chicago & North -Western Railway will take school teachers and others direct from Chicago to more beauty and variety and richness of land- scape and skyscape than many of them have ever dreamed of before. Lake and river and prairie and mountain, hill and dale and dell ; botany, mineral- ogy, zoology — all these, in fact, and every point — everything which makes the marvelous Northwest so attractive and instructive, can be reached on the line of this magnificently equipped and splendidly managed railroad. It is well worth a trip from New England or from the extreme South and Southwest to see what is furnished along this line. Its rates are so low that it is about as cheap to travel on this road as to stay at home. — American Journal of Education, St. Louis, Mo. WE KNOW HOW IT IS OURSELVES. A GhREAT RAILROAD. The Chicago and North-Western Railway Company is one of the largest enterprises of the land, combining under one management nearly 6,000 miles of railways in the great Northwest. Starting from Chicago, its Omaha line, about 500 miles, crosses Northern Illinois, bisects Iowa, and at Council Bluffs connects with roads for California, Colorado and Oregon, while Dakota is reached via Iowa or Southern Minnesota, and either route conducts the traveler through as fine agricultural lands as are found in the Northwest. Its St. Paul and Minneapolis line offers to the tourist or business man the choice of two lines between Chicago and Madison, one by Milwaukee and through the fine suburban towns on the lake shore ; the other, the inland route, by Harvard Junction, Beloit, etc., to Madison, and thence to the " Twin Cities " of the Northwest. For Green Bay, Marquette and intervening points, two routes also are open to Fond du Lac, the Lake Shore and the Inland Routes, via Janesville, Fort Atkinson and Watertown. Then there are the lines from Des Moines and Sioux City to Minneapolis and St. Paul, besides a great number of branches which reach nearly all the important agricultural and commercial centers of the Northwest. Its Minnesota and Central Dakota line of 780 miles traverses the great grain and dairy belt of the Northwest, where thriving towns abound. Through trains from Chicago run on all these lines, making good connections at all important points. The finest of sleeping cars, and their own superb dining cars are attached to all through trains, while the regular passenger coaches are models of con- venience and cleanliness. Evei^ experienced business man knows the value of sleep and regular meals to health, and so appreciates these modern improvements. Everything which taste and practical science has devised for the health and comfort of the traveling public can be had on these trains. The service at the stations and on the trains is intelligent and courteous, every man seeming to understand that he is employed by the company to serve the patrons of the roads. The frontier farmer, the emigrant, and the capitalist alike receive gentlemanly treatment. The general management is characterized by liberality, sagacity and energy. — Farmers' Review, Chicago. [SEE map ON PAGE 3. J 18 ^THIRTEEN MINERAL SPRINGS AND BATHS^- * THIS remarkable collection of mineral waters known as Sour Lake, is situated in Hardin County, Texas, about eight miles from Sour Lake Station, on the Texas & New Orleans Railway. The Lake is located in a lovely spot, and is surrounded by a grove of stately old oaks, which afford a delightful shade, and a cool breeze blows continually from the south. The waters of the lake have a strong acid taste, and close around it are thirteen separate and distinct springs, each one furnishing a different mineral water. The Lake is studded with streaming gas jets which impregnate its waters, and a mineral healing tar oozes up out of the ground and floats upon the surface of some of the springs ; this is col- lected and used in the treatment of all kinds of skin diseases, ulcers and scrofulous sores. Both the gas and the tar burn with great brilliancy when ignited. The Indians discovered this wonderful laboratory of nature and used the waters suc- cessfully in the treatment of various diseases, and found out the healing properties of the tar by applying it to sores on the backs of their ponies. Almost from its earliest discovery the property upon which Sour Lake is located has been in legal dispute, which, until re- cently, prevented its being thrown open to the public as a health resort. A new and commodious hotel has been built and furnished throughout. Bath houses have been erected, the springs enclosed, and the surrounding grounds are being improved and beautified. Everything is being done to make the stay of visitors pleasant and to afford them every facility for deriving the full benefits of the mineral waters, mud baths, etc. Comfortable vehicles await the arrival of trains at Sour Lake Station to carry visitors to the springs. The wonderful freak of nature which has placed so many different kinds of mineral waters in such close proximity is without parallel anywhere, and the curative powers of the waters and baths are unequaled. They are an unfailing remedy for Dyspepsia and Indigestion in all its forms ; all kinds of Stomach and Bowel disorders, Derangements of the Liver, Nervous troubles, and Debility, particularly all kinds of Female Complaints and Weaknesses, Kheumatism, Paralysis, Kidney Diseases, Erysipelas, Scrofula and Blood Poison, all kinds of Skin Diseases, Syphilis and Syphilitic Affections of the Throat, Skin and Bones. The following indorsements are from prominent medical men and others who have had opportunities of witnessing the wonders of Sour Lake : Galveston, Aag. (,1883. — A residence of six t iths at S"ur Lake ia the practice of 1113- profession gave me an opportunity "1 \\ itiR-sMiis the speedy relief afforded by th<- use of tin- waters in many case9 of disease. In all forms of m dig P i pepsia Chronic Rheumatism, and, in fact, all diseases save and except that of diseased everal remarkable cures of persons suffering; from chronic bl 1 diseases "t the most loathsome nature. Belief w as in ei 1 ad permanent, so far as I was able to find out. THOMAS M. II, \N U1AV M. I>. St. Louis, March '.'n. 1--:;.-- llthnugli only able to spend one week at Soar Lake, I feel so much benefited, having thai [ taki great pleasure in reeommending its waters to the afflicted. The curative nature: indeed most wonderful. 11 Is truly a delightful, homelike resort. Many improvements add to tb mforts ol the guests. Already a great deal has been done since it fell into the ■lit owner, ■oily a year ago. WW. S. HARNEY, Maj. Sen. I . S- Army, retired. RATES OF BOARD. From $10 to $15 per week ; $2.50 per day. Children under ten years, and servants, half price, including- •water and bath privileges. Bath Towels fur- nished by Guests. Reduced rates to lar.^e Families for the season. FOR CAMPERS- Cabins (two rooms each), $5 per month; water privileges Free; Bath Tickets, 25 cents each. Special location for Campers in tents, Free; $2.50 per month for water privileges ; Bath Tickets, 25 cents each. "WATER— Per barrel, $8; half barrel, $6; 10 gallon keg-, $3.50, packages included; less quantities, 25 cents per gallon, packages extra. Special rates to dealers and reduction for the return of packages. Tar, 50 cents per ounce. For special rates and other particulars, address MANAGER SOUR LAKE HOTEL, Sour Lake, Hardin Co., Texas. 20 *- -* GI^OYEI^ CLEVELAND. The following is the speech of Mr. Dauiel Lockwood, of Buffalo, present- ing the name of Grover Cleveland for the Presidency: Me. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention — It is with no or- dinary feeling, and with no ordinary feeling of responsibilit}*, that I appear before this Convention as representative of the Democracy of the State of New York [applause] for the purpose of placing in nomination before this Convention a gentleman from the State of New York as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. This responsibility is made greater when I remember that the richest pages of American history have been made up from the records of Democratic administration. [Applause.] This responsi- bility is made still greater when I remember that the only blot in the political history done at Washington, an outrage upon the rights of the American people, was in 1876, and that that outrage and that injury to justice is still unavenged [applause], and this responsibility is not lessened when I recall the fact that the gentleman whose name I shall present to you has been my political associate from my youth to the present hour. Side by side have we marched to the tune of Democratic music; side by side have we studied the principles of Jefferson, of Jackson, and love the faith in which we believe, and during all this time he has occupied positions comparatively as a private citizen, yet always true and always faithful to Democratic principle, and, gentlemen of the Convention, the only object of our meeting here is to deal with the question so that when we have gone to our homes, the people, who are the voters of the country, will ratify the nomination which we shall make. [Applause.] No man has greater respect or admiration for the honored names which have been presented to this Convention than myself; but, gentlemen, the world is moving, and moving rapidly. From the North to the South, new men, men who have acted but little in politics, are coming to the front [applause] , and to-day there are hundreds and thousands of young men in this country, men who are to cast their first vote, men who are independent in politics, and they are looking to this Convention, praying silently that there shall be no mistake made here. They want to drive the Kepublican party from power. They want to cast their vote for a Democrat in whom they believe. [Ap- plause]. Those people know from the record of the gentleman whose name I shall present that Democracy with him means honest government, pure government and protection of the rights of the people of every class and every condition. A little more than three years ago I had the honor at the city of Buffalo to present the name of this same gentleman for the office of Mayor of that city. It was presented then for the same reason, for the causes that we pre- sent it now. It was because the government of that city had become corrupt, and had become debauched, and political integrity sat not in high places. The people looked for a man who would represent the contrary, and without any hesitation they named Grover Cleveland as the man. [At this point there was a wild burst of applause, some of the New York delegation, practically the entire Wisconsin delegation and some few* scatter- ing delegates standing up and making all the demonstrations possible in Cleveland's favor. As soon as the uproar subsided and comparative order was regained, Mr. Lockwood continued] : The result of that election, and his holding that office, was that in less than nine months the State of New York found herself in a position to want just such a candidate and for such a purpose, and when at the Convention in 1882 his name was placed in nomination for the office of Governor of the State of New York the same people, the same class of people knew that that meant an honest government; it meant pure government: it meant democratic government, and it was ratified by the people. [Cheers.] And, gentlemen, now, after eighteen months' service there the Democracy of the State of New 21 ►*< -► THE & Old Established Short Line AND THE UNITED STATES FAST MAIL ROUTE FROM AND TO (IN BOTH DIRECTIONS) e CHICAGO © And all points in Northern Illinois, Central, Eastern and Northwestern Iowa, Wisconsin, Northern Michigan, Minnesota, Dakota, Manitoba, Cen- tral and Northern Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, California, Oregon. Washington Territory, British Columbia, China, Japan, the Sandwich Islands, Australia, New Zealand, and all prin- cipal points in the NORTH, NORTHWEST AND WEST. With its own Express Passenger Trains it traverses Illinois, Iowa, Wis- consin, Minnesota, Northern Michigan and Dakota. Its Through Cars run to and from C XX I C A Gr O , Milwaukee, Fond du Lac, Menasha, Neenah, Oshkosh, Green Bay, Wau- kesha and Madison, in Wisconsin; Negaunee and Ishpeming (for Mar- quette), in Michigan; Winona, Owatonna, Mankato, Tracy and Marshall, in Minnesota; Huron, Aberdeen, Columbia, Frankfort and Pierre (for Dead- wood), in Dakota; Elgin, Rockford, Freeport and Fulton, in Illinois; Clin- ton, Cedar Bapids, Marshalltown, Webster City, Algona, Des Moines, Hawarden, Sioux City and Council Bluffs, in Iowa; and all intermediate points. At CHICAGO it makes close connection with all other railroads at that city. At COUNCIL BLUFFS and at ST. PAUL and MINNEAPOLIS its trains connect in Union Depots with all diverging railroads. Its trains make close connections at all junction points. PALACE SLEEPING AND PABLOR CABS are run on its Through Trains. The celebrated NORTH-WESTERN DINING CARS are run on its trains between Chicago and Council Bluffs, Chicago and St. Paul and Chicago and Milwaukee. If you wish the Best Traveling- Accommodations you will buy your Tickets by this route, and WILL TAKE NONE OTHER, All Ticket Agents sell Tickets by this Line. [SB] M U- ON PAGE 3.] 22 -* £« £< York come to you and ask you to give to the country, to give to the inde- pendent and Democratic voters of the country, to give to the young men of the country, the new blood of the country, and present the name of Grover Cleveland as its standard-bearer for the next four years. I shall indulge in no eulogy of Mr. Cleveland. I shall not attempt any further description of his political career. It is known. His Democracy is known. His statesmanship is known through the length and breadth of this land. All I ask of this Convention is, let no passion, no prejudice influence their duty which they owe to the people of this country. Be not deceived. Grover Cleveland can give the Democratic party the thirty-six electoral votes of the State of New York on election day. He can, by his purity of char- acter, by his purity of administration, by his fearless and undaunted courage to do right, bring to you more votes than to anybody else. Gentlemen of the Convention, but one word more. Mr. Cleveland's candidacy before this Convention is offered upon the ground of his honor, his integrity, his wis- dom and his Democracy. [Cheers] Upon that ground we ask it, believing that, if ratified by this Convention, he can be elected and take his seat at Washington as a Democratic President of the United States. A BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. Grover Cleveland was born in Essex, N. J., March 18, 1837, descending from an old New England family. His great-grandfather, Aaron Cleveland, was a Congregational minister of Norwich, Conn., and was the author of a large number of anti-slavery papers. Richard, the father of the nominee, was educated for the Presbyterian ministry. Marrying a Miss Neal, of Balti- more, he became a pastor of a church in New Jersey, where Grover was born. The Rev. Mr. Cleveland afterward removed to Fayetteville, N. Y.. where he had promise of a larger salary. Here the present Democratic leader attended the common school. He was employed in the village store at a salary of $50 a year, and if he proved competent he was to receive $100 the second year. His father removed to Clinton, Oneida County, and this gave the boy an opportunity to attend an academy. Here he remained until the family removed to Holland Patent, about fifteen miles north of Utica. Three weeks after the family's removal the elder Cleveland died suddenly. The family broke up, and Grover removed to New York City, where he accepted a posi- tion as under-teacher in an asylum for the blind. He remained here two years, and then started for the West, intending to go to Cleveland, Ohio. His only reason for making this selection was that the city bore his name. On his way he stopped at Buffalo to visit his uncle, Lewis F. Allen, a stock- breeder. He told him that he wanted to be a lawyer. His uncle tried to dis- suade him from this purpose, and finally induced him to accept employment as a compiler of a herd-book at a salary of $50 a year and board. With the ambition to become a lawyer he succeeded in entering the law office of Rogers, Brown & Rogers, at Buffalo. At the end of four years he was managing clerk in the office. In 1859 he was admitted to the bar, and remained with his em- ployers until 1863, when he was appointed Assistant Distinct Attorney of Erie County. In 1865 he was nominated by the Democrats for District Attorney, but was defeated by Lymonk Bass. He formed a partnership with I. V. Yanderpool in 1866, which was continued until I860, when the firm of Laning, Cleveland & Folson was formed. In November, 1870, Mr. Cleveland was elected Sheriff of Erie County, and at the close of his term he joined the firm of Bass, Cleveland & Bissell. In 1881 he was elected Mayor of Buffalo, and before the expiration of his term was elected Governor of New York, defeat- ing Secretary Folger by a majority of some 192,000. From that time he overshadowed all other Democrats who had Presidential aspirations. Mr. Cleveland is one of nine children, four sons and five daughters — all. with the exception of two sons, who were burned at sea, are still living. His mother died two years ago. 23 ■* BY ALL ODDS THE BEST EQUIPPED RAILROAD IN THE WORLD! 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It costs no more to travel on this route, that gives first-class accommodations, than it does to go by the poorly equipped roads. For maps, descriptive circulars and summer-resort papers, or other informa- tion not obtainable at your Local Ticket Office, ■write to the GEN'L PASS. AGENT C. & N.-W. R'Y, CHK'AGO, ILL. [SEE MAP ON PAGE 3.] 24 * * — — * TWO ELEGANT PICTURES! Crayon Drawings, Size 19x25, Sent by Mail, Prepaid. OF Grover Cleveland AND Thomas A. Hendricks ^j^' Democratic Candidates for President ami Vice-President. Price : $1.50, Postage Prepaid. Send at once and Secure Two Fine Picture3 for framing- for your Homes. Send Post Office Order or Draft. YANDERCOOK & COMPANY, E t .. ENCRAVERS AND PUBLISHERS, State and IVIaclisoii Streets, CHICAGO, ILL. * % — >fr THE UNITED STATES MUTUAL ACCIDENT •^•ASSOCIATIONS 320 & 322 Broadway, New York. Insures Against Accidents at Half the Rates of Stock Companies. OF INSURANCE IN FORCE. NOT ONE DOLLAR OF INDEBTEDNESS! 2,000 Claims Paid. 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Situated one hundred yards from Fort Monroe, at the confluence of the Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads, 180 miles south from Baltimore, and about 15 north of Norfolk and Portsmouth ; all passenger steamers running to and from those cities touch at the pier, going and returning, with the United States mails, landing only twenty rods from the Hotel, which is substantially built and comfortably furnished; has two Otis' hydraulic elevators, gas and electric bells or Creighton's Oral Annunciator in all rooms ; baths, including Hot Sea, and closets on every floor, with the most perfect system of drainage of any hotel or public building in the country- As a resort for the pleasure -seeker, invalid, or resting-place for tourists on their way to Florida or the North, this house, with accommoda- tions for about 1000 guests, presents inducements which certainly are not equaled elsewhere as a summer resort or cold weather sanitarium. Has during the cold weather over 15,000 square feet of spacious verandas en- cased in glass, enabling the most delicate invalid to enjoy the sunshine and tine water view without the slightest exposure. The climate of Old Point Comfort is unequaled for salubrity, having an average temperature of about 47° in winter and 75° in summer, MALARIAL FEVERS REING ARS0LUTELY UNKNOWN. For sleeplessness and nervousness, the delicious tonic of the pure ocean air and the lullaby of the ocean waves rolling upon the sandy beach, but a few feet from the bedroom windows, are most healthful soporifics of the Hygeia. For further information, address, by mail or telegraph. HARRISON PHOEBUS, Proprietor. 26 * *- T THOS. A. HENDI^IGI^S. Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania, nominated Thomas A. Hendricks. There followed great cheering, at least one-third of the delegates taking part in it. Mr. Menzies, of Indiana, clamored for recognition. Vilas recognized Governor Waller, of Connecticut, however, who seconded Hendricks' nomi- nation. Mr. Menzies was then recognized, but for a long time was prevented from speaking by the yelling delegates and spectators. TMe Ohio delegates were especially noisy, trying to cry Menzies down. He waited patiently, however, and order being restored, said he spoke in soreness and earnestness that Mr. Hendi-icks was not and would not be a candidate for Vice President. A Georgia man declared that Hendricks would accept a unanimous nomina- tion. Mr. Menzies repeated Mr. Hendricks' positive assertion that he was not and. would not be, a candidate. Governor Waller, of Connecticut, declared that the Convention was not an Indiana one, but a National one. If Hendricks would not accept a unani- mous nomination he would withdraw his name with humiliation. There was an evident determination to force the nomination on Hendricks, to make up for the soreness among his Mends. The Indiana men shook their heads. Senator Wallace moved to suspend the rules and nominate Hendricks by acclamation. An Alabama man demanded the rules. Searle, of California, withdrew Rosecrans' name, and seconded Hendricks' nomination. Glick was also withdrawn by Kansas, and McDonald by Colorado. Hubbard, of Texas, seconded Hendricks' name, demanding his accept- ance, and declaring that he would be a tower of strength, an embodiment of the issue of 1876. SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. Thomas Andrews Hendricks was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, Sept. 7, 1819. In 1822 his father settled in Shelby County, Indiana. Thomas graduated from South Hanover College in 1841, and was admitted to the bar two years later at Chambersburg, Pa., after which he returned to Indiana, where he began the practice of law. He was elected a member of the Indiana Legislature in 1845, and in 1850 was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention. He represented the Indianapolis district in Congress from 1851 to 185f>, and from the latter year to 1859 he was Commissioner of the General Land Office, having been appointed to that position by President Pierce. In 1863 he was chosen by the Indiana Legislature to represent his State in the Senate of the United States, where he served on the Committees on Claims, Public Buildings, Judiciary, Public Lands, and Naval Affairs. He was strongly opposed to the plan of reconstruction, and also to the right of franchise to negroes, on the ground that the foundations of government ought not to be disturbed during the war or immediately after its close. He was a supporter of measures necessary to the prosecution of the war. Just before the Demo- cratic National Convention of 1868 Mr. Hendricks' name was prominently mentioned for the nomination for the Presidency, and at the Convention, which was held in Tammany Hall, New York, he received 132 votes to 135J cast for General Hancock. The name of Horatio Seymour was proposed, when it was seen that the contest between Hancock and Hendricks would be a long one, and the latter was nominated. In I860 he was defeated by Henry L. Lane for Governor of Indiana, and in 1868 by Conrad Baker, but was suc- cessful in the race for the Governorship in 1872. At the National Democratic Convention, held in St. Lotus in 1876, his name was again mentioned for the Presidency, but, as is known, Mr. Tilden secured the place, and Mr. Hen- dricks was given second place on the ticket. Since 1876 Mr. Hendricks has attended to his law practice. 27 -* *- * PECK'S CHAMPION BLADE AXES AND EDGE TOOLS, ABIE TZHZIE IBIEST FOE, Lumbermen, Rail Roads, Farmers, Mechanics, Store-keepers, Everyone. SOLD BY ALL TUB LBJLTJinSTG- Jobbers in the West. Hi 28 * CHAPMAN'S SUMMER RESORTS. > CD o C6 -P - /-,- - ,-■ /