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ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
Carroll County'* Fatal Runaway Acci
dent—Eastman’* Celebration of the
Democratic Victory—lnteresting Rem
iniscences in the Early History of Car
roll County—Murder at Titusville on
Election Night.
GEORGIA.
Talbotton has received about 3,000 bales of
cotton to date.
X. K. Butler, of Augusta, died Thursday,
aged 90 years and 5 months.
The Superior Court of Bartow will not meet
till the second Monday in January.
Thirteen thousand dollars’ worth of land
was sold at Urawfordville Tuesday.
The Atlanta Burglar Alarm Company will
soon begin stringing their wires in the city.
It is estimated that there was over $15,000
pnt up in Atlanta In wagers on the election.
Jasper J. Morrison is a candidate for Trea
surer of Elbert county at the ensuing elec
tion.
The Gray dray ordinance will be introduced
in the Atlanta Council again at the next
meeting of that body.
Athens will celebrate the Democratic na
t; nal victory on Thursday with a mammoth
torchlight procession.
There is some talk of having Bartow Countv
< ourt changed to a City Court, and it is said
that the idea has many supporters.
M. Lilly has purchased the extensive
Enterprise Planing Mills at Thomasville, for
m> rly run by Messrs. Kneller A Cos.
K one and Griffin celebrated the victory
Friday. Every town in Georgia has been
pouted red, and the glorification gives no
evidence of cessation.
Alapaha correspondence News, Xov. 7:
At Wiihcoochee to-day Wright Ellis cut two
negroes and shot at a third one. To-night
s ene one shot him through the arm from the
The Eatonton City Council has purchased
from Capt. I. 11. Adams four or five acres of
laud, lying sontiguous to the cemeterv, for
banal purposes, and will have the land sur
veved at an early day. They are to pay at the
rate of S3O per acre.
Cartersville has been visited by Messrs,
llaggart ami Scobel, from Toronto. Can.,
with a view of establishing settlements for a
<i arable class of emigrants, who, with ample
means, are seeking a more genial climate in
which to make permanent homes.
Athens Banner: The boys are getting up a
line suit of clothes for the colored man on
David E. Sims* place who openly voted the
D mocratio ticket in Athens—the only one of
Ins race who had the manhood and courage
to do so. lie will also be given a place of
honor in the procession. Bud Cox sa vs he will
give him the finest hat that can he bought iu
Athens.
Washington Ornette : Dr. J. A. A. Harper,
druggist in this place, made an assignment
last Saturday. Mr. T. Burwell Green is as
signee. The liabilities are $4,100 and assets
$4,300. There are two preferred creditors
whose claims amount to $1,200. The assign
ment was caused by ill health in a large de
gree. Dr. Harper left for Atlanta Thursday,
and will probably travel for a house in that
city.
Two tramps went to the dwelling of an old
negro. Bob Walker, who lives ou Dr. J. E.
Walker’s farm, three miles from Greenes
boro, and, after intimidating his wife, appro
priated all his tied clothing and left. A war
rant was sworn out before the County Judge,
and placed in the hands of Bailiff English for
their arrest. Mr. English, after instituting
diligent search for the robbers, has beeu thus
far unable to find them.
Carrollton Free Frees: Wednesday morning
at 2 o'clock, J. G. Davenport’s gin house, on
Turkey creek, containing 2 gius. screw, 5
bales cotton, and the seed from S bales, was
burned. Xo insurance. The house is just 75
feet from the mill house on the opposite side,
which was saved by a strong wind in the op
posite direction. It was certainly the work
ui an incendiary, as Mr. Davenport says there
hasn't been a fire in the bouse in six weeks.
Griffin Amss: The Episcopal church stands
on the west side of original Griffin, and the
i hri-uan church is a little west of it in West
Griffin. The officers of the CffFutian church
bail made a contract with some workmen to
have anew shingle roof put on their house.
The contractors hail hired some freedmen to
assist in doing the work, and the other morn
ing one of them wanting to put in a good dav’s
work, went to the Episcopal church and tore
off a good portion of the church roof before he
•1,-vovereu that he was working at the wrong
place. It was a very provoking mistake, both
to the owners of ihechunh and the workmen,
who will have 1 the damages.
E:-rman correspondence Xews, Xov. S:
The town was lighted up last night with bon
fire-. and some big guns were tired as a token
of rejoicing over the news of Cleveland's
• U cuon and the triumph ot Democracy, but
the demonstration was nothing compared
with the jubilee that will take place here when
all the returns are in, and the success of the
Demo ratic party is confirmed beyond perad
venture, or even the shadow of a doubt. The
cm. ns of Eastman telegraphed Gov. Cleve
land to-day, sending him their heartfelt con
gratulations on his election, and rejoicing
;li the whole country in the success of De
ni,., racy and honest government. Our people
are almost wild over the news. Never before
ha-the telegraph office at this place leen *o
li rulty patronized In any election as it is in
tin-. Constant inquiries are being flashed
over the wires for the latest news.
Atlanta Journal: A young man by the name
of A. J. smith was brought to the city Friday
evening by William Turner, of the peniten
tiary department. Smith goes up for four
years from Lumpkin county for horse steal
mi. -mith confessed his guilt, and said there
was a regular organized band of horse thieves
operating in Georgia, Tennessee and Ala
bama. ami that he was one of the leaders of
the band. He further said that the voting
man WUloughbery. arrested by Marshal Ware,
of Lacrosse, and Capt. Couch, of this place,
was a member of it. He said they had got in
•mine good work in these States, and when it
1. . nine necessary they were prepared to run
their horses off as far'as Texas. To him. he
said, the life of a horse thief was a fascinating
one. ami when a man once joined the gang he
could not go back on them. The band has
been operating many years, and they hail
i "lamunication with other bands in different
States. Mr. Turner carried him Friday night
to the Dade coal mines.
The Carrollton Times prints the following
fuller particulars of an accident already
mentioned in the Sews: On yesterday morn
ing. about 5 o’clock as Mrs. Betsy Chappell,
in company with Mrs. Berrv Sell, were being
driven to the depot by Ambrose West, a ne
gro. the horse became frightened at some
u-he- near the road, sprang aside, backward,
throwing the wheels of the wagon against a
large stump. He then rushed forward among
some saplings, the sudden move throwing
Mrs, Chappell out over the right fore wheel
Mr*. Seii falling a little further forward.
The wagonliouv came down across
Mrs. ChapneU’s chest. The negro ran and
threw the wagon off of her and picked her up.
Others came up to see how badly the two la
dies were hurt and to render their assistance,
only to find Mrs. Chappell a corpse. She
wonld have been 80 years of age if she had
lived till January next. Mrs. Neil was not
injured much, physically, though there were
a few bruises about her face and chest, and
the mental shock was very great. Mrs.
M'lliiamscn and her daughters were ina buggy
behind and their horses became frightened
an 1 threw them out also, bruising them up
- nsuierably. The cause of the horse’s fright
was supposed to be some bushes with blood
on teem, which some butcher hail thrown
from a beef wagon* They were near, and
just below the road. The wagon was torn al
to splinters. The relatives of the de
ceased lady were sent for and came up just as
our reporter left.
“Cncle Tom” is writing the history of Car
roll county for the Carrollton Timet. This
week he has the following: After the treaty
at Indian Springs in 1825, by which the Creek
of Indians ceded to the United States
for the use of Georgia the territory they had
remaining in the state, including Carroll
county, which comprised all of said territory
West of Chattahoochee river, the hostile chiefs
m said nations killed Gen. Mclntosh and some
other chiefs who had signed said treaty. Mc-
Int sh was killed and his house burned at the
M Intosh Reserve, situated on the Chatta
h lochec river in saul county. After the hos-
U, ■> had murdered the chiefs they applied to
the i nitfcd States Government to set aside said
treaty a. u,t *° make a treaty with them, and
*he Secv ar y °* " ar entered into anew
treatv with said hostile Indians, in which
the government, cede* l back to the Creek na
t na part of the jemty composing Carroll
I'ouatv, being a mile ot* 80 ln width a H a l° n £
the Alabama line from whef the line crossed
the i berokee line to the Cbat- oochee, and
half of the river from there down. "Ut before
this new treatv the Georgia Legislature had
I t-se 1 an act to have the said territory sur
vcye.l, laid oat into districts and lots and to
dispose* of by a lottery. The President,
h-ha ij. Adams.' notified Gov. Troup not to
have this territory ceded back to the Indians
surveyed. l’he Governor replied that the
saii land under the first treaty had
vested in the State, and that he
should proceed to dispose of it as provided for
by law. The President sent Gen. Gaines,
with troops, to prevent the survey, and Gov.
I roup oraered a portion of the State militia
to hold themselves in readiness to protect the
surveyors if auy attempt was made to stop
or prevent the survey, and notified the Presi
dent that when the argument wrs exhausted
we would stand to our arms. Thus it seemed
that war was hovering over a smail portion
of the territory of Carroll county, but by the
interference of some of the wiser heads of the
general government, the President was in
duced to with'lraw his troops and proposed to
T >y the hostiles a sum of money in lieu of the ’
sad disputed territory. I think the govern
ment also paid the Mclntosh party ol Indians
a sum of money.
FLORIDA.
The streets around the Peninsular Hotel
and Lake Dora House, at Tavares, are being
covered with sawdust.
Malarial fever has attacked one or two
persons at Astatula. No spread of the ail
ment is leased, however.
Extensive preparations are being made by
tavares gardeners for putting a largo area
into garden vegetables for the coming season.
Tavares Herald: The whirring of the wings
f large flocks of wild ducks may now be
heard as they fly southward to spend another
winter with us.
At Astatula D. Lowell has purchased from
Mrs. Kern her entire stock of merchandise,
And will transfer it to his handsome new
-Raiding, which is expected to be ready for
occupancy in a few days.
Machinery has been placed at the artesian
J*U m front of the court house at P&latka,
bad work will be commenced to make it
several feet deeper and Increase the flow of
water, which at present is very small.
The sand and mud from the Apopka canal
is being washed into the short canal between
Lakes Dora and Beauclair, filling it up and
making it impassable for the steamer.
Mias Lily Geer, an Orlando lady in an un
fortunate mental condition, attempted suicide
Sunday bv cutting her throat with a knife,
hhe severed her windnipe in such a manner
that there is hut little chance of her recovery.
A painful accident occurred to Mrs. Blanch
ard, or Dalatka, Sunday morning. Her hand
was resting on the window-sill, when the
window suddenly fell, crushing three fingers
so badly that they may possiblv have to be
amputated.
A severe aceident befell a gentleman by the
name of Heath at the Cass saw mill in Nor
walk the other day. While working about
the mill his arm accidentally came in contact
with the saw, and it was cutoff just above the
wrist joint.
Several citizens of Fort Mason have formed
a company and purchased an artesian well
boning apparatus, which is expected daily, and
a man who thoroughly understands the ma
nipulation of the machinery has been engaged
to prosecute the work. As soon as the mem
bers of the company have had wells sunk for
themselves, they will be ready to make wells
for those desiring them.
On election night James Thomas, master of
the mail boat Mystery, was killed by Capt. E.
H. Ric*, of Titusville. All the parties con
cerned were more or less under the influence
of liquor ami political excitement. Thomas
had some difficulty with several parties, nnd
Capt. Rice became entangled in the trouble.
Thomas struck him, and immediately Rice
drew a knife and struck at Thomas, severing
his jugular vein at the first blow. Thomas
ran, crying, “He has killed me!” and after
a few steps dropped dead. Rice is under
arrest.
John llolleyman, the young white man who
was arrested at Jacksonville Thursday for
breaking open a number of the boxes In the
post office Wednesday night, was. Friday,
after hearing the testimony in the case, sent
to the county jail by United States Commis
sioner Meek in detail't of *I.OOO bonds, at the
suggest on of United States District Attorney
Cheney. Gen. Led with said that he did not
desire to proseeute llolleyman. as In- did not
believe the young man was responsible for his
acts. He regarded him as partially- insane,
and would make an effort to have a commis
sion appointed to examine him as to his men
tal condition.
Avery lively interest is felt in the election
for Mayor of St. Augustine, which occurs
next Tuesday. The chief reason for the inter
est felt is that the temperance question will
enter largely into the contest. Judge J. G.
Long has been nominated by the Republicans
and is accused of lieing pledged to the liquor
dealers. This he denies, but declines to
pledge himself to the temperance voters. He
says that he has been Mayor of St. Augustine
three times during the past twenty-one years,
and it is well known how the laws were en
forced and how few misdemeanors occurred
during his administration, and that the people
can judge his future course by the past. He
claims that designing enemies of his are try
ing to unite the thirty-odd voters of the
Lodge of Good Templars' against him. not
that they care a whit for the ;unday laws,
which are now, he claims, openly violated
every Sunday unrebuked, but seeing the pow
er of the lodge they want to control it to his
disadvantage, and to gratify their own per
sonal spite, lie says that he will give SIOO for
an affidavit showing aiir bargain, directly or
indirectly, with the saloons. The Democrats
intend to nominate a candidate for Mayor
who should lie either pledged or openly
avowed on the teuqicmiice Sunday laws.
The aim istodraw out nearly all of the Demo
cratic vote, much of the white Republican
vote, and all of the temperance and Indepen
dent vote, and thereby secure Judge Long’s
defeat next Tuesday. The light will be a bit
ter one.
Mouticello Constitution: On last Saturday
night there was a negro festival at the house
of Lydia Inman, about 300 yards from the
residence of Mr. William Datvkins, one of the
oldest citizens of Jefferson county, and who
resided aliout nine or ten miles northwest of
Mouticello. Mr. George Dawkins, a son of
William Dawkins, that night, unfortunatelv,
was under the influence of liquor and attend
ed the festival. His father was advised that
the son was making himself disagree
able, and the old man repaired to the place
and, discovering George sitting on a log by a
lightwood fire outside the house, suggested
that he go home with him. For some reason the
young man lingered, and soon a number of
negroes began to gather aliout the fire, and
just as George realized the fact that
they were congregating for a row, and at
tempted to rise, one of them struck him a
fearful blow with a stick on the back of the
head. It knocked down and dazed him, and
just as he arose on his knees, observed a
man named Sam Jackson advancing on him
with a chair; he had a pistol and fired, but
immediately thereafter received a second
blow, which made him insensible. How many
minutes he remained in said condition is un
known. but on his recovery he advanced to the
door of the house, and there found bis aged
'uiher fatally wounded. He took position on
tiic step, and held his father's head until a
conveyance was brought The old man
breathed his last on reaching the gate to his
residence.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
I'r. Kelly, of W illiamsburg, received three
votes for Congress in Darlington county.
A number of schools in Fairfield county are
yet without a teacher for the winter nio'nths.
Thomas F. Harman, of Newberry, had three
houses on one of his plantations burned on
Monday last—a large dwelling-house of five
rooms and two outhouses.
When the vote was counted at Due West, on
Tuesday night. John C. Ale Dill telegraphed to
liiaine that Due West was against him and
that his chances were gone.
Some time ago someone entered the stable
of E. A. Davis, of Middle Township, Orange
burg countv. and cut a fine mare of his in the
flank, from the effects of which she died.
There have been to date considerably more
warrants issued by the Clerk of the Court of
Fa>rfie!d county upon rental and agricultural
liens than during the past two years to even
date.
A colored man was caught in a gin on the
place of I)r. W. F. Barton, near Kowesville,
Orangeburg county, one day last week, aud
was so badly injured that r.e died from the
effects of the wounds.
An old colored woman who lived not far
from Rowesville, Orangeburg county, was
burned to death one'night last week by her
house taking fire and burning down. She
lived in the house alone.
Ex-Treasurer U. B. Whites, sentenced to
imprisonment in the county jail in Newbcr
rv. one year ago. for failing to turn over
money to his successor in office, is out again,
the term of his imprisoumeut having expired.
Shelton Lake, a colored citizen of Newberry
county’ had his crib, containing one and a
half bales of cotton in seed, thirty bushels of
oats, also a saddle, bridle and other articles,
burned on Saturday night last ay an incendi
ary fire.
A legal notice has been served on all the
property holders on the North Carolina side
of Whitaker station by the minor heirs, claim
ing the land upon which it is built. They are
to appear liefore the next term of court for
Cleveland county, X. C.
Dr. William 11. Miller, who killed his step
mother, Mrs. Caroline L. Miller, at Waiter
boro, on June 18 last, was acquitted in the
Court of General Sessions for Colleton coun
tv, Thursday, on the ground of temporary in
sanity, superinduced by a diseased condition
of the brain.
Ella Reed, a colored girl living in Willow
township, Orangeburg county, met with a
terrible death about two weeks ago. In at
tempting to kindle a fire with kerosene oil the
oil can exploded, setting fire to her clothing,
and burning the unfortunate girl so bad that
she died in six hours.
Kennedy O’Brien, white, got into a row
with James Butler, a stonecutter, at Tim
monsville, Darlington county, some days ago.
Butler broke one of O’Brien’s arms in two
places and otherwise badly beat hint.
O’Brien passed through Sumter on his way to
Charleston, and was helped by the town
Council to the amount of several dollars.
THE SHORT COTTON CROP.
Its Effect in Trade Circles and the Out
look for Next Year.
The October cotton report to Brad
street's, published in the Skws last week,
indicated a short crop, and, after a pro
longed and depressing drought, the trade
situation was naturally considered in a
conservative light, ln general it is
claimed that planters are much dis
couraged at the light crop of this year
succeeding the unsatisfactory crop of last
year, but that despite the very low and
unprofitable prices now ruling for cotton
thev are sending the staple forward as
promptly as possible in order to clear up
U a pronounced disposition to
economize in expenses and to avoid mak
ing new debts on the part of planters, and
the merchants, on the other hand, are
buying with extreme caution and selling
as little as possible on time. Under the
circumstances, this clearly promotes a
dull but healtny state of affairs in trade
circles. Collections are worse where cot
ton is the sole dependence, and better
where several crops are produced.
"In Georgia, with ginning and transpor
tation of the cotton crop delaved by lack
of water in the streams, planters' com
plaining that the prices paid for cotton
are below the cost ot raising it, and with
the weather so hot as to prevent the sale
of seasonable goods business ior the
opening of the season has been much re
stricted and collections poor. Last year
the cotton crop was short, and farmers
bought largely on credit, and these two
short cotton crops in succession put those
farmers who depend entirely on mer
chants for supplies in a serious condition.
Planters who raise their provisions at
home are, as a rule, in satisfactory shape,
but those who buy meat, corn and fertil
izers are struggling with debt. Good
provision crops have been grown in many
counties, and where crops are thus
diversified the outlook is hopeful. Al
though the price obtained ior cotton is
disappointing, planters are seliiDg as
quickly as possible. Nothing but roost
rigid economy, it is claimed, will enable
small farmers to plant another crop. Some
large planters will let their lands rest
rather than continue growing cotton at a
iloss.”
BLAINE’S GAME OF BLUFF.
THE REPUBLICAN FIGHT MADE
BY' HIS ORDERS.
All Orders Flashed Over a Special Wire
from Augusta to New York—The Radi
cal Committeemen Getting Tired of the
Nonsense and on the Point of an Open
Revolt.
Washington’, Nov. 9.—A great deal of in
side information about Blaine's present game
of bluff has come from trustworthy sources in
New York within the past 24 hours. The
most important fact thus communicated is
that Blaine is using the National Republican
Committee as a puppet. Everything that
that committee has done since Tuesday last
has been dictated by Blaine over the wire
running between his library in Augusta and
the headquarters of the co'mmittee iu New
York. Members of the Republican National
Committee concede Cleveland’s election.
They telegraphed Blaine on Thursday and
again on Friday that Cleveland had been
elected. On Thursday this conversation oc
curred over the wire:
National Committee—“We think Cleveland
is elected.”
Blaine—‘‘Do you?”
Committee—“ Yes, he has carried New
York.”
Blaine—“ Can nothing be done in Indiana?”
Committee—“No,”
Blaine—“ Nor in the South?”
Committee—“Xo.”
Blaine—“ Well, all that I have to sav is that
you gentlemen must have mismanaged.”
Committee—We have done the best we
could.”
Blaine—“ Well, for the present claim every
thing.” •
This is a sample of the messages with which
Blaine has kept his wire hot day and night.
He seems maddened by his defeat, and is
prodding the committee constantly.
HIS OWN PROCLAMATION.
He wrote the first proclamation published
by thc committee himself, and telegraphed it
to" the committee. Some members of the
committee did not like its extravagant lan
guage and toned it down before printing it.
When Blaine saw it in print he was greatly
incensed. He telegraphed the committee that
they were a pack of fools. Most of the mem
tiers of the National Committee wearied of
Blaine's persistent effort to bluff his way
through and left New York on Friday after
finally telegraphing their belief to Blaine that
Cleveland was elected. The National Com
mittee is now in the hands of Elkins, Jones
and Fessenden. Even they are growing tired
of Blaine’s dictation, hut they seem to expect
that Blaine will soon back down.
Blaine, however, shows no such purpose.
He has been telegraphing prominent Western
Republicans ever since Thursday- in the at
tempt to organize a body of “visiting states
men” to procure such a result as be desires
in New York. These Western men, under in
structions front Blaine. have telegraphed to
Republicans in the East, inviting them to
join in this movement. One of the gentlemen
so invited was Benjamin 11. Bristow.
BRISTOW’S REPLY
He replied as follows to the telegram:
“New York, Xov. 7.
“Hon. , Columbus , 0.
“Having no experience in super
vising election returns or watching
a count of votes it is not probable that L will
lie called upon to do so now. In my opinion
there is no occasion to fetr that the expre.-seil
will of the people will be defeated In this
State. Tito excellence of the existing el ction
laws, the intelligence and patriotism of the
people, and the courage and vigilance of both
parties may be relied on to defeat any such
scheme. 4ou may be sure of a fair count in
this State. B. H. Bristow.”
This is part of Blaine’s movement to delay
matters in New York witli the aid of the
courts, and every other means, so as to pre
vent the New York electors front acting in
time, thus throwing the election into the
House. There, lie would expect to employ
such means as the Democratic managers now
say were employed by the very men who are
now Blaine’s agents to defeat the will of the
people in 1876. These Democratic managers
hint at disclosures such as iiave never even
been suspected in regard to the election of
1876. They relate to the occurrences which
took place, not in Louisiana, Florida or
South Carolina, but in Washington, and im
plicate members of Congress. Tli- Demo
cratic managers will watch Blaine’s move
ments closely. They have a great deal of in
side infornmion about his last week’s doings.
THE SINEWS WASTED.
The following comes from a most trustwor
thy source in New Y ork: The members of the
Republican State C unmittec are hard at
work explaining how it was that they were
so badl v beaten. They place the whole rc
ponsibility upon the National Committee.
They assert in most emphatic language that
Blaine would have carried New- York had it
not been that the National Committee
“robbed the campaign chest of the State Com
mittee so that we were left as poor as church
mice,” in order that they might send
money into New Jersey aud Con
necticut, to no purpose whatever. All
the money that the State Committee
had for New Y’ork was about $35,000, which
Levi I’, Morton raised for them among his
friends after his return from Europe. The
state Committee protested vigorously at tlie
time against this insane policy. Its Chairman
went to Blaine himself about it, but the
National Committee was allowed to have its
own way. From that moment the State
Committee anticipated defeat.
BLAINE’S GAME EXPOSED.
The Democratic Committee Details the
Ends the Knight Has ln View.
New York, Nov. 9.—The following is fur
nished for publication:
Headquarters v
Democratic State Com., Hoffm an HorsE.S
New York, Nov. 9, 1884. 1
We deem it our duty to announce to the
people of the State that the Republican mana
gers have within the last forty-eight hours
conceived anew scheme for throwing again
into dispute the result of the election in our
State. For many days after the elec
tion they, in entire bad faith, claimed
for the Republican candidate several
States, which they knew they had not carried.
In the same faith! when every source of in
formation, including the Associated Press,
lias demonstrated that the vole of New York
has been given to the Cleveland electors they
still claim the State. No fact of history is
now better known than that the results of
the election,as ascertained, declared and cer
tified by the election officers, and
of puiilic record throughout the
State, give New York to the Cleveland
electors by a decisive plurality. These publicly
certified returns have been sifted in several
counties by both parties with the most con
scientious care during the last four days uutil
every possible doubt as to the result has lieen
removed. Knowing this fact they now pro
liose, as a last desperate resort, to"makcotthe
hoards of county canvassers throughout the
State, where controlled by them, so many re
turning boards after the pattern of those not
long since used by them in Southern States.
Wherever boards fail them, judicial
orders are to be applied for,
thus relying upon the partisansnip of the
boards in the first place and Judges
of their own political faith in the second.
They intend and expect to throw again into
dispute the result of the election and involve
it into interminable litigation. To this eml
printed papers have been sent by them to
their agents and representatives in every
county in the State of New York, to be used
with the courls whenever an occasion can be
manufactured. Of the entire reliability of
the infornuaiton as to this scheme there can
be no question. We call upon the representa
tives of the party in the various counties of
this State to be alert and by every proper
method to resist ami defeat this last
desperate device, and mindful of the grave
consequences to the business interests of our
State which such a conspiracy necessarily in
volves, we deem it our duty to assure our
people, who have now generally acquiesced
in the result, that they tnay confidently rely
that by no such scheme or device will the
State be deprived of the result of its deliber
ate choice. It may disturb aud protract the
determination, but it will not change the re
sult. W. E. Smith,
Chairman Execute Committee.
Cleveland and Kelly,
Washington, Nov. 9.—A near friend of
Jobu Kelly tells me that Cleveland and the
Tammany Sachem are on excellent terms, and
that Kelly can have anything in the way of a
Federal appointment that he chooses to ask
Cleveland for. He does not want a foreign
mission, nor any other office that would take
him out of New York, but would be willing
to accept the Colleetorship of the I’ort of New
York. He thinks that the custom house would
afford him compensation for the defeat of all
his county ticket, except the candidate for
Coroner. I doubt very much whether Cleve
land would affront his mugwump supporters
with such an appointment.
Cleveland’s Sunday.
Alb ANY.X. Y.. Nov. 9.—Gov. Cleveland spent
to-dav very quietly, obtaining much-needed
rest and recuperation. He attended morning
service at the Fourth Presbyterian Cnurch,
where the pastor, Rev. Charles Wood, de
livered the sermon. The afternoon and even
ing were passed at the Executive Mansion,
with the exception of an hour or so at the ex
ecutive chamber attending to private corre
spondence.
Petersburg’s Joy.
Petersburg, Va-, Nov. 9.—The Democrats
here are still jubilant over the election of
Cleveland and Hendricks, aud steps are being
taken for a grand torchlight procession to
take place during the week. The Republi
cans do not yet concede Cleveland’s election,
and Senator Mahone claims that New York
has gone for Blaine by a small plurality.
The County Canvassers.
New York, Nov. 9.—About 50 prominent
Democratic lawyers met to-night, and dis
cussed the law relative to the procedure of
boards of county canvassers in the State. As
a result of the discussion it is probable that
Democratic lawyers will be present at the
sessions of every board of canvassers on Tues
day next.
Blaine’s Plurality in Pennsylvania.
Phil a del? hi a, Nov, 9.— Official returns
from fifty-nine of the sixty-seven counties in
Pennsylvania, and careful estimates of the
remaining eight, give Blaine a plurality of
78,493.
The Jubilee in the West,
New York. Nov. 9.—Large and enthusiastic
Democratic jubilees were held last night in
Detroit, San Francisco, St. Louis, Atchison,
Kan., and a number of other places in the
West,
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1884.
BLAINE AT HIS HOME.
He still Claims New York, but Evades
Close Questioning.
Ai-Gi-STA, Me., Nov. 9.—This has been a
quiet day in Augusta. Mr. Blaine continues
to receive a large number of telegrams and
letters from all parts of the country indicat
ing profound interest in the situation in New
York. He has made no expression of opinion
beyond the assertion of his belief that the
Republican electoral ticket received a
majority of the legal votes cast.
He declines to discuss the details
of the situation. Inquiries about his health
continue, though they are less numerous than
last week. He has entirety recovered from
the fatigue incident to the campaign, and is
in exceptionally fine health—better, as he
tells all who ask him, than he has been for 10
years past. Hp remarked to a friend yester
day that his YY estern tour, though at the time
very laborious and fatiguing, had proved
beneficial to his health.
Florida Returns.
Lake City, Nov. 7. — The election passed off
quietly. Never saw better behavior at an
election. Partyism ran high, and the en
thusiasm among the Democrats never abated.
A grand torchlight procession crowned the
efforts of the Democrats on the night of Nov.
5. The election in Columbia countv resulted
as follows. For Governor—l’erry 1,045, Fope
970. For Lieutenant Governor—Mabry, Deni.,
1,046; Greeley. Rep., 971. For Representative
to Congress—Dougherty, Item., 1,064; Bisbee,
Rep.. 947. For Representatives to State As
sembly— Niblack 1.019, Falmer 1,014,C0ne 1,059,
Democrats; against McKinnev 972, Curtis 962,
Long 953, Republicans. For constitution 987,
against constitution 188. Quite a numlwr of
colored voters voted for Gov. Ferry.
Bristol, Nov. 9.— The following is the
official vote of Liberty county: Cleveland 163.
Blaine 94. For Governor—'Ferry 163, Fope
106. For Lieutenant Governor—Mabry 163,
Greeley 106. For Congress—R. 11. M. David
son 161, Eugene O. Locke 106. For State Sen
ator— W. It. Neel 153. For Assemblvmen—
Marcus J. Solomon 149, William U. Kobertsou
116.
The Result 4u Missouri.
St. Louis, Nov. 9. — Secretary of State Mc-
Grath, in reply to an inquiry from an Asso
ciated Fre-s reporter. said: “I have special
returns from 69 counties and St. Louis, and
from these and a computation of the
votes of 45 counties not heard from I
conclude that the Cleveland electors will
have from 17,000 to 20.000 majority over the
fusion electors; that Marmaduke’s plurality
for Governor will be about 12,5' 0 and his ma
jority not more than 5,000. Brooks, l’rohibi
tiomst, for Governor will have 8,000 to 10,000.
The State Senate will probably stand 25 Demo
crats and 9 opposition, and the House 100
Democrats and 40 opposition, which is a
Democratic loss of 10 or 11 in the Legislature.
Cleveland’s Figures Correct.
Albany, N. Y’., Nov. 9. — The vote of tins
county for electors was carefully revised last
night, and the Democratic plurality was
found to he 650 instead of 640. The Demo
cratic plurality in the State, according to
official figures receive i bv Chairman Daniel
Manning from the County'Clerks, is 1,234.
The Vote of Massachuselts.
Boston, Nov. 9.— The complete vote of Mas
sachusetts is as follows: Blaine 143.436,
Cleveland 119,211, Butler 23,866,5 t. John 10,200;
Blaine's plurality 24,195. For Governor—
Robinson 155,097. findicott 108,26% McCafferty
23,552, Sec!yeß,2o4; Robinson’s plurality 46,837.
The New Iberia Troubles.
New Iberia, La., Nov. 9.—Y'esterday, by
order of the court. Judge Theo. Fontcllien and
ex-Sheriff Viator were released under a *I,OOO
appearance bond each. Abo Fai llet’s bond
was fixed at SSOO. The other prisoners. 12 in
number, were discharged.
NEGROES FOOLISHLY ALARMED
The Democratic Victory Causing Fears
of a Return of Slavery.
Eufaula, Ala., Nov. 9.—Since the elecrion
of Cleveland has been pronounced certain the
negroes of this section iiave become terrified,
and have had their fears worked noon by
thoughtless people, who in a joking manner,
which was taken in earnest by the negroes,
boast of putting them back into slavery, in
dicating at the same time which they will
buy. This lias so disturbed the negro element
and the more sensible of the whites that it is
suggested by the Mail of this morning that
the first duty of the Democratic partv is to
reassure the negro concerning his political
future, a subject which, the Mail
says, no doubt Fresident Cleveland will
elaborate in his forthcoming message,
and adds further, in commenting on the diffi
culty between a white man and a negro,
which took place yesterday and which for a
time threatened a riot, that “the policy of the
white man toward the negroes now is forbear
ance, and the purpose of every one should be
to assure hern that there is rather more cause
for rejoicing than fear; to show them, now
that we have the opportunity, that we are
their only friends, and make them feci in re
ality that they are at home with us, and that
no harm can come to them; that we will fight
their battles for them if need lie; that we are
all here together, and should live in peace and
unity;that Democratic success meausameli
orating for them a government under which
they may work out their destiny, free from
all harm, and that they will be assisted and
encouraged as long as they behave them
selves, and if otiierwise, tiien the same pen
ally covering the crimes and mis letneanors
of the whites will he applied to them—no
more and no less. The situation is critical, as
the negro in his present attitude towards the
whites is a menace of the incendiary, outrage
ol our women, and the crimes of the assassin,
and it devolves upon the journals of the coun
try to have a more conservative feeling, and
put the country at peace among the whites
and blacks,”
INTERNAL REVENUE.
The Commissioner Makes His Report
for the Past Year.
Washington, Nov. 9.—The annual report
of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for
the last fiscal year has been submit ted to the
Secretary of the Treasury. The total receipts
from all sources for the year were $121,590,039,
as compared with $144,553,344 for the year
188% sl4 %523,273 for the year 1882 and $185,-
229,912 for the year 1881. It is catenated that
the sum of $115,000,000 will be collected during
the present fiscal year. A comparative state
ment of the receipts for the fiscal years 1883
ami 1884 shows a decrease of $16,041,850
from tobacco, an increase of *2 531,610 from
spirits, an increase of $1,184,333 from fer
mented liquors, and a decrease of $10,612,404
from taxes under repealed laws and penalties,
making a total decrease of $22,963,305. The
cost of collection for the past year was a little
less than 4 1-5 per cent, of the amount collect
ed. One thousand and forty-five violations
of the internal revenue law were reported by
agents during the year. Four hundred and
thirteen persons were arrested, l’roperty to
the value of $52,531 was reported by them for
seizure, and for assessments for unpaid taxes
ami penalties iu the sum of $103,662 were re
ported. During the year 377 stills were seized
and 902 persons were arrested for engaging in
illicit distillation.
GEORGIA’S CENTRAL CITY.
A Drunken Negro Killed on the Ralls-
Two Fires Quickly Squelched.
Macon, Nov. 9.— Allen Burnett, a negro
man. who had been drunk since the Presi
dential election, was run over some time last
night by a Central Railroad train near No. 14
and killed. His mangled body was found this
morning along the side of the track. Both legs
and arms were cut off and his face and head
terribly crushed. His entrails were scattered
over the ground twenty yards. The remains
will be buried to-morrow at No. 14.
Rogers & Winn’s candy and cracker man
ufactory caught fire at 2o’clock this morning.
Au alarm was promptly given, and valiant
work by the lire department prevented a dis
astrous conflagation, the establishment being
situated near the business part of the city.
The loss will not exceed |SOO.
Another alarm of lire was given shortly
past noon to-day, caused by the burning of a
kitchen in the thickly settled portion of Ma
con. Prompt action by the firemen again
prevented serious loss. The damage is several
hundred dollars.
Dudley’s Resignation.
Washington, Nov. 9.— The resignation of
Commissioner of Pensions Dudley takes effect
to-morrow. He would probablylike to with
draw it now, but this is scarcely probable.
He would find his old position much more
satisfactory than his connection with a small
banking and brokerage firm here. Nothing
will be done in the matter probably uutil the
return of Secretary Teller. Neither of the
Deputy Commissioners cares for the place
now that Cleveland has been elected.
Congressional Plans.
Washington, Nov. 9.—Several Congress
men have arrived for the winter.
Representative McAdoo, a young New Jer
sey Democrat, says that his party will not
care to mature any important legislation this
winter. It will save everything of importance
for the signature of a Democratic President.
The bankruptcy bill and the Fitz John Porter
bill are spoken of as two that Cleveland will
sign with peculiar pleasure.
The Plenary Council.
Baltimore, Nov. 9.—The third Plenary
Council of the Roman Catholic Church in the
United States began at the Cathedral in this
city to-day with imposing ceremonies. Thir
teen archbishops, sixty-five bishops, and
scores of abbots, monsignors, vicars general,
a> and superiors of religious orders, took part in
the opening services, which exceeded in bril
liancy and impressiveness anv previous re
ligious event in the history of this country.
An Ex-Editor’s Death.
New Bedford, Mass., Nov. 9.—George Kent
died in this city yesterday, aged 88 years. He
was born in Concord, N. H., was once editor
of the New Hampshire Statesman and the
Boston Sun, was United States Consul at Va
lencia, Spam, from 1861 to 1865, and since then
until a year ago was employed in the Trea
sury Department at Washington.
The Cornwall Scandals.
Dublin, Nov. B.—The Civil Service officials
of Dublin have organized a testimonial in
honor of ex-Secretarv Cornwall, detective
Meiklejohn, Editor O’Brien and others, con
cerned in the disclosures connected with the
Bolton scandal. The revelations threatened
by ex-Secretarv Cornwall charge conspiracy
upon several officials.
VIEWS OF THE EDITORS.
THE “TRIBUNE” GETTING IN
SHAPE TO CAPITULATE.
All the Papers Anxious for an Honest
Count —No Sincere Doubt of Cleve
land’s Election Felt by Anybody
Slight Clerical Errors Only Disclosed
by an Investigation up to tne Present.
New York, Nov. 9.—The New York Times
this morning, commenting upon the election,
says: “Reports received from various States
yesterday do not change the general result of
the Presidential election, but only confirm
the choice of Gov. Cleveland. In New Y'ork
State a few changes, caused by recounts in
three counties, reduce the Democratic plu
rality to 1,280. The electoral college, there
fore, remains as given yesterday morning—
-219 for Cleveland and 182 for Blaine. From
other States more full detail* are given of the
result, especially in the election of Congress
men.” Referring to the charges of
fraud made by the Republicans, the
Times says: “Any proper steps
they may take to ascertain the true result of
the vote cast on Tuesday will be heartily
seconded bv all interested parties, but should
thev yield to the strong temptation they are
under to resort to darker methods, even
should they succeed in finding a partisan
Judge to abet their dishonest designs, the
consequences to themselves may be extremely
unpleasant. The laws of New York are
singularly elear in defining crimes of that
sort, and the penalties they prescribe are not
at all mild.”
THE “TRIBUNE’S” DYING KICKS.
The Tribune , referring to the last Associated
Press dispatch, which, it says, shows an ap
parent plurality of about 714’for Cleveland in
New York, adds: “If this announcement had
been a final one we should have been inclined,
■with whatever reluctance, to accept it as
probable that the State had really been car
ried by Cleveland and must, of course, be so
counted; but it cannot be final, for almost
every hour brings news of some change that
must keep up the fluctuation. A recount of
the votes in this city, completed yesterday at
police headquarters, made a difference of 425
in f tvor of Mr. Blaine, exclusive of the fact
that the returns from one election district are
missing altogether. A dispatch .yesterday
from Albany to the Eveninu Post announced
the discovery of a glaring fraud in the Twelfth
ward of that city. To count out the Repub
licans a Aange of 120 votes had been made.
If the vote of that ward is thrown out Cleve
land must lose 388 votes. In the Fifth ward
of Kingston 91 more ballots were found in the
box titan the poll list called for. In that ward
Cleveland had a plurality of 260. In
Brooklyn, by the discovery of alleged
errors, the Democrats on Friday increased
their plurality by 368. Those figures were
slightly redueed yesterday by another count.
From Sullivan county, word was sent yester
day that corrected returns reduced the Cleve
land plurality there by 70 votes. In Queens,
Westchester and other counties there iiave
been wide fluctuations in the reported Demo
cratic pluralities.
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION.
“Under this state of things it is obvious folly
to dispute about the accuracy of one newspa
per’s special dispatches over another’s, or to
set up anyone’s judgment about figures as
infallible. A special count is at baud. It
will be most closely scrutinized in every
county in the State, and in most of them
Republican voters will be represented by
counsel. In this city Mr. Evarts, Mr. Bliss.
Mr. Sewell and other eminent and skillful
lawyers have been asked to undertake the
work. YVe have faith that what
can be done will be, and we think
we have ample reason to know
that if the errors and frauds already dis
covered can be legally corrected, this State
has given what Mr. Manning would ca'l a
•safe and sure’ plurality for Blaine and Lo
gan, which even Mr. Manning’s Democratic
Board of Uanyassers ‘will have to recog
nize.’ ”
In another editorial the Tribune saTs:
“While we believe that Mr. Blaine has been
elected by the honest vote of this State, and
that an honest count and honest canvass will
prove this to the satisfaction of all fair minded
men, we shall be ready to acknowledge a
mistake in judgment, if the decision of this
final court of appeal be in favor of Mr. Cleve
land.
“It is almost unnecessary to add that if Mr.
Clcveiandjie officially declared to be Presi
dent-elect, we shall judge of him by the
future, and not by the pasi. All past scores
will be wiped out. YVe shall begin afresh and
judge of him by his official sets. It will be our
public duty to watch his administration
closely, but it will be equally our duty and
our privilege to give loyal support to Ills ad
ministration whenever his public acts will
warrant approval. This we pledge ourselves
to do in advance of the final decision.”
THE '‘HERALD’S” KEVIEYV.
The Herald says: “Our returns this morn
ing do not alter the result as heretofore given.
Grover Cleveland is elected President of the
United States by a majority of 37 electoral
votes, as we announced on the morning after
the election. Nothing can change these fig
ures. His plurality in this State is nearly
2,000. Conplete returns are in. The figures
have all been carefully compared, added and
readded. The 36 electoral votes of New Y'ork
will be cast for Fresident Cleveland. Pre
cautions have been taken at Albany by the
Governor's friends to have copiestafeenof all
lists received from the County Clerks through
out the State. If any returns hereafter sent
in by mail should differ from the figures
already received, a rigorous accounting will
be demanded of the person who may have
tampertd with them.”
THE “SUN’S” SAY.
The Sun savs: “A few slight changes weie
made in the election returns from three
counties in this State yesterday, which re
duce Cleveland’s plurality, as shown by the
Sion’s table, from 1,206 to 1,198. Blaine’s plur
ality in Livingston county was increased
one and in Essex county two,
and Clevelands plurality in Queens
county was decreased live. The smallness
of these changes, which are the result of
e’erical errors, tends to strengthen the proba
bility of the substantial correctness of the
figures which the Sun has been enabled to
present to its readers. In the returns from all
the other 57 counties no changes have been
made, although in several instances the cor
rectness of the figures given yesterday has
been retested and confirmed.”
THE WAY THE STATES WENT,
And the Pluralities They Gave.
£ Plurality - Vote.
,o t :
States. 2’ > , K ® £ >;
g j ® 3 p o S
3* x 5 . p
a u a 55
Alabama lo 40000
Arkansas 7 25000
California— 8 13000
Colorado 3 3500
Connecticut.. 6 1200
Delaware 3 4276
Florida 4 4000
Georgia 12 30000
Illinois 22 15000
Indiana 15 5500
lowa 13 30000
Kansas 9 47000
Kentucky.... 13 40000
Louisiana.. .. 8 20000
Maine. 6 25000
Maryland. . 8 ; 12000
Masaachus’tts 14 23000
Michigan 13 4800
Missouri 16 35000
Mississippi... 9 20000
Minnesota.... 7 35000
Nebraska 5 17000
Nevada 3 800
N. Hampshire 4 4000
New Jersey.. 9 4112
New York... 36 1200
N. Carolina.. 11 25000
Ohio 23 30000
Oregon 3 1500
Pennsylvania 30 76000
Rhode"lsland. 4 5000
S. Carolina.. . 9 40000
Tennessee ... 12 15000
Texas 13 100000
Vermont 4 22000
Virginia 12 8000
West Virginia 6 2000
Wisconsin 11 5000
Totals 401
Total electoral vote Cleveland 219, Blaine
182; Cleveland’s majority 37.
Cholera’s Revival.
Paris, Nov. 9.—The cholera epedemic in
Paris is increasing, especially in the E'eventh
aud Nineteenth urrondissements. During the
forty-eight hours ending at midnight last
night there were reported 186 new cases and
63 deaths. At Montreuil 10 new cases were
reported during this same time. To-day 1
fresh case has been reported at St. Nazaire
and there have been 4 deaths at Nantes.
Trying to Shake the Lion,
London, Nov. 9.—lt is reported that the
Transvaal Government is secretly negotiating
with Prince Bismarck, asking Germany’s
protection.
Don Cameron Arthur’s Guest.
Washington, Nov. 9.—Senator and Mrs.
Don Cameron, who arrived from Harrisburg
last night, are the guests of the President.
Fifteen Lives Lost.
London, Nov. 9.—An explosion occurred
to-day in the Tredegar Coal and Iron Com
pany’s colliery at Hockin, near the town of
Tredegar. Fifteen lives were lost.
Mr. Leigh’s Successor.
London, Nov, B.—At the Parliamentary
election in South Warwickshire to-dav Mr.
Lloyd, a Conservative, was elected'by a
majority of 1,176 to succeed Hon. Gilbert Hen
ry Chardos Leigh, who perished some weeks
ago by falling qver a precipice in the Rocky
Mountains. Mr. Leigh was a Liberal and
was elected by a very small majority.
The Land or Flowers.
The pleasure of visiting that garden of
the tropics, Florida, is still only possible
to the few, but the choicest fragrance of
that land of flowers is brought within the
reach of all in the genuine Murray &
Lanman Florida Water. To the sick
room its balmy breath imparts a delicious
freshness, ever welcomed by the most
delicate invalid, while as an enjoyment
to those in health it is invaluable, whether
used in the bath or at the toilet. To dis
tinguish the genuine article from its nu
merous imitations, look out for the “Trade
Mark,”
WILL CLEV ELAND MAURY?
The Ladies of the White House Under
the New’ Administration.
Here it is regarded as settled, says an
Albany special, that Gov. Cleveland is
the next President, and already the gos
sips are busy with conjectures as to who
will be the lady of the White House.
There is a well-defined belief among his
friends that there is a young lady in
Western New York who will soon be led
to the altar by the President-elect. Others
who have known him long and well say
that he will never marry, and that this
talk simply comes of the fact that he has
shown this young woman some slight at
tentions since he was elected Governor.
Early in life his hopes and ambitious lor
a wife were crushed by the hand of death,
and his affection for the lost one has kept
him treading the wine-press of life alone.
If the reports that he is to marry are not
true, then his own immediate family will
furnish the lady to do tue social honors of
his administration.
It is generally believed bv those who
know him best that there will be less fes
tivities during his term of oflice than there
have been for many years past. He has
been a hard-working Governor, and will
probably continue his industrious habits
as President. Bachelor as he is, the YVhite
House will, however, have a most credit
able mistress. There are four ladies in
his immediate family, either of whom can
well do the honors of the household. His
eldest sister in this country, Mrs. W. E.
Hovt, of Fayettesvilie, would fill any po
sition with credit. She is a middle-aged
lady, of pleasing address, who has spent
a good deal of time at the Executive Man
sion here since her brother has been Gov
ernor. She has made many friends here
in the capital of the State, and will
doubtless do the same in Washington,
where she will probably go March
4 next. Miss R. E. Cleveland is
the maiden sister. She still re
sides in the little home cottage at Hol
land Patent, just above Utica] A good
public speaker, a quick conversationalist
aud generally a plain woman of intellec
tual force, she would do her share in en
tertaining her brother’s guests at the na
tional capitol. Mr. Cleveland has a
sister who for 20 years has been a mis
sionary at Ceylon. She has two charming
young lady daughters, Mary and Carrie
Hastings, whom the Governor has been
for years educating in this country. He
has given them every advantage, and
they have improved them. They "will no
doubt be a part of their uncle’s family
circle at Washington, as they have been
at times here.
With Mrs. Hoyt or any one of three
other ladies spoken of the social end of
the first Democratic administration for a
quarter of a century will be well sus
tained, even should the President-elect
continue a bachelor.
MANY TONS OF BALLOTS.
A Fanciful Study In Statistics Applica
ble to the Election on Tuesday.
Here are facts aud figures, says the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, not usually ap
pended to election returns. The history
of past elections teaches that this vote of
the nation advances from President to
President by steps measured in numbers
by 10 per cent. The total vote of 1868 was
6,724,654: of 1872, was 6,465,805; of 1876,
was 8,412,733; of 1880, was 0,210,970. Add
10 per cent, to this last total, and the es
timate for the vote at Tuesday’s
election will be 10,312.067, an approx
imation borne out by other calculations
and which will he found not far out of
the result. A ballot is a piece of paper
averin? four inches wide and 10%
long. One hundred and fifty ballots will
weigh about a pound. Two hundred and
fifty baliots laid on each other will meas
ure about an inch. To prepare these bits
of paper at a reasonable profit costs nine
ty cents a thousand. If the ballots cast
Tuesday Yvere placed end to end
they would reach in a continu
ous line lrom YVashington, D. C.,
to El Faso, in Texas, or they
would stretch from Eastport, Me., to New
Orleans, as the crow flies. If one end of
the long line of paper were made fast at
Cape Flattery, the extreme northwestern
promitory of Washington Territory, the
other end would pass Kansas city, with
enough miles to spare to reach Sedalia.
This has to do only with the ballots ac
tually voted. The number of ballots
printed, of course, is tremendously larger
than the amount voted. In St. Louis, for
instance, the Democrats had 600.000
and other parties in all 700,000, making
for this one town a total of 1,300,000. It
is generally admitted, however, that the
vote of St. Louis will not. at the outside,
make more than 50,000. Here, then, is a
surplus of 26 ballots for each one cast.
This makes the total of ballots
offered to the people throughout
America at this election 200,000,-
000. It would require 85 freight cars
to move this load ot paper, whose
weight is 1,716,000 pounds. The white
paper and printing of the mass has cost
$234,000. Pasted end to end there would
be paper enough to go entirely around
the globe, leaving 19,000 miles to spare
for a gigantic double bow-knot, which
would cover the greater part of the two
Americas, or, if one preferred to keep the
string in the United States, there would
be miles enough to wrap the streamer 36
times around the State of Missouri, and
still leave enough o\ r er to reach from the
Post-Dispatch building to Gov. Cleve
land’s private oflice iu the State House at
Albany.
BOTH ARE MOURNING.
They Don’t Know Which Won Their
Election Bets.
Last Tuesday Gobblepie, who is a
staunch Democrat, bet his roommate,
Bugfighter, a good Republican, $5 on the
result of the election, says the Cincinnati
Times-Star. On Wednesday Gobblepie
came down stairs, his face lit up with a
four-inch smile, and asked Bugfighter,
who sat disconsolate in a corner, for the
‘•fiver.” He turned it over with an ill grace,
and muttered curses on the “blasted
Democrats.” Gobblepie went down
to the office, and, getting his
fellow Democrats together, went out
and spent every last cent of Bug
fighter’s hard-earned money. Thursday
morning the loser arose early and got a
glimpse of his paper. Running up the
staircase four steps at a jump, he awoke
the sleeping Democrat and demanded a
“fiver” on the strength of Blaine being
elected. Gobblepie, thunderstricken,
forked it over and filled the air with good,
solid Democratic blessings. Bugfighter
also went down town, and gathering a
band of Prohibitionists about him, they
went to a saloon and invested that “sneak
ing Democratic’s” $5 in extract of drunk.
This morning they both descended to the
breakfast room in feverish haste, and
each seized his party journal. They read
intently lor a while, when Gobblepie
broke forth:
“Look here, Bugfighter, you bulldozed
me out of that cash yesterday morning.”
“What! You— Why,you cold-blooded
swindler, you actually' stole my five dol
lars Wednesday morning,” was Bugfight
er’s hot reply.
“Don’t you call me a swindler!”
“If you call me a bulldozer I’ll knock
you down!”
“Bulldozer!”
“Swindler!” ! ! ! ** * ! ! !
The rest of the boarders, after a hard
struggle, pulled them apart, and untwist
ed Gobblepie’s hand from Bugfihter’s
hair, while others wrested Gobbleyie’s
shirt bosom out of Bugflghter’s hand.
They are roommates no longer, and each
mourns his five dollars as lost.
ELECTION NEWS IN LONDON.
Comments on Jay Gould’s Congratula
tory Dispatch to Guv. Cleveland.
London, Nov. 7.—The fact that Jay
Gould had sent a dispatch to Gov. Cleve
land, conceding his election, and con
gratulating him thereupon, was received
by the Cable News Company in London
late this afternoon. It was immediately
placarded in the library and smoking
rooms of the House of Commons, and pro
voked many comments. Mr. Gould is not
popular in London, especially since the
Wabash episode, and there was much
mirth and sarcasm at his expense. The
great monopolist’s expressions of admi
ration of Gov. Cleveland were looked
upon as ar, effort to conciliate the coming
man, in view of the large amounts of
money due to the General Government by
Gould’s railways.
KuKlanU's Supply of Wheat.
London, Nov. B.— The stock of wheat in
England is estimated at 150,000 quarters, be
ing less than two-thirds of the amount held a
year ago. The low prices current here are
repelling American exports and thus lighten
ed stocks held by English dealers.
A Race Declared Off.
Pittsbcbg, Nov. B.—A single seull race for
*SO a side between Peter H. Conley, of Bos
ton. and John Teemer, which was to have
taken place at McKeesport this afternoon, was
declared off.
GOB’S CREATION OF EYE.
TALMAGE TELLS THE STORY' OF
ADAM’S RIB.
Eden Pictured In a Rhetorical Flight—
A Lesson from the Results of Illegal
Inquisitiveness—The Bitterness of the
YVages of sin Portrayed—Woman’s
Great Influence.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 9.—At the
Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day Dr. Talmage,
after expounding appropriate passages of
scripture, gave out the hymn:
“He leadeth me! Oil, blessed thought!
Oh, words with heavenly comfort fraught!
YVhere’er I go, where’er I be.
Still ’tis Goa’s hand that leadeth me.”
Dr. Talmage’s text was taken from
Genesis ii., 22: “Of the rib Yvhich the
Lord God had taken from man made He a
woman and brought her unto the man.”
Dr. Talmage said:
It is the first Saturday afternoon of the
world’* existence. Adam has since sunrise
been watching the pageantry of wings and
scales, and while taking his first lessons in
zoology and ornithology and ichthyology he
notices that the robins fly by twos, and the
fluh swim by twos, and the lions walk by twos;
and in the warm redolence of that scene he
falls off into slumber, as if by allegory, to im
press all ages with the fact that sound and
healthful sleep is the grandest of all earthly
blessings. This Paradisaical somnolence ended
in woman’s arrival on the new planet.
Of the mother of all the living I to-day dis
course Eve, the first, the fairest and the best.
I make me a garden. Its paths I inlay with
mountain moss, and border it with shells
from Java and pearls from Ceylon and dia
monds from GoleoDda. Here a'nd there are
fountains that toss in the sunlight and ponds
that glitter with golden scales aud ripple un
der the paddling of swans. I plant me lilies
from the Amazon and orange groves front the
tropics and tamarinds from Goyaz. YVoodbiue
and honeysuckle climb over' the wall and
starred spaniels sprawl upon the grass. Among
the tree branches I call doves and larks and
brown-threshers, that stir the air with infinite
chirp and carol. But this would be a desert
full of howling and death compared with the
bright residence of the woman who is the sub
ject of my morning’s story. Never siuce Eve
such skies looked down through such leaves
into such waters. Never since has river wave
known such curve or sheen or bank as adorned
Bison, llavilali, Gihon aud Hiddekel, the very
pebbles being bdellium and onyx stone. YY’hat
fruits, with no curculto to sting the rind!
YY'hat flowers, with no slug to gnaw the root!
YVliat atmosphere, with neither chill-blast to
frost nor heat to consume! Sunlight on the
waters, bright colors tangled in the grass,
perfume in the air, music in the sky. Birds
warble and trees hum and waters dash! It
was all gladness and life and seng.
Under these bowers of vine and leaf and
shrub, at an altar carpeted with flowers, was
the first marriage. Adam, as he takes the
hand of this immaculate daughter of God,
pronounces the ceremonial himself when he
says: “Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.”
A forbidden tree stands in the garden. Eve
strolling out alone one day comes under it.
She says to herself: “YY'hat beautiful fruit!
I wonder how it tastes? Let me just put my
hand upon it. Yes; ripe and beautiful; I will
take it down, but not to eat. Suppose I just
break the rich tinted rind; that can do no
harm.” After a while she tasted. Calling to
Adam, he aiso came and tasted. Sin for the
first time is inside the gates of the world. Let
the heavens put on gloom, and the winds sob
on the bosom of the hills, and from cavern,
and from ocean depth, and from deserts and
from sky let there come one long, deep, hlel
resounding howl: “The world is lost!” Beasts,
before playful and harmless, growl upon eacli
other, and run out claw and tooth and tusk.
Birds whet their beak for prey. Wrathful
clouds troon in the sky. Sharp thorns shoot up
through soft grass. Illasting is on the leaves.
The rivers,riled and angry, rush between torn
banks. The chords of that great harmony are
snapped. Upon the brightest home that
earth ever saw our parents turned their back,
aud led forth on a pilgrimage of sorrow the
broken-hearted myriads of a ruined race.
Bee first the danger of an illegal inquisitive
ness. Healthful curiosity has done much for
letters, art, science and religion. YVith the
geologist, it has gone down into the earth, and
read the first chapter of Genesis in the book
of nature, illustrated with engravings on the
rock, and from its inspiration the antiquarian
hath blown the trumpet of resurrection oyer
buried Pompeii’s herculaneum until their
sepulchres have opened and shafts and tow
ers and amphitheatres have arisen to the
world’s gsze. Curiosity hath attracted the tel
escopic vision of the astronomer until distant
worlds have come out of their hiding places
in the fnrtherest heaven to choir the praises
of God, while planet ts weighed against planet
and wildest meteors are lassoed of resplendent
law. It has found traces ot the eternal God
in the polypi, and star-fishes in the sea, and
the maiesly of the great Jehovah encamped
under the gorgeous curtains of a dahlia. It
hath examined the spots on the sun and the
larv® hidden in a leaf, the light under the
fire-fly’s wing and the terrible glance of the
condor pitching front Chimborazo, the myri
ads of ammalculas that make the phosphores
cent blaze In a ship’s wake and the mighty
maze of suns and spheres and constellation's
and galaxies that blaze on in the march of
God.
Curiosity hsa inspired the inventor until
forces that for ages lay hidden have come to
wheels and levers and shuttles and wings in
numerable, swimming through the waters,
cleaving through the mountains, soaring
through the air, until the whole earth rattles
and crushes and roars and rings with strange
mechanisms and lightnings plav kite with
philosophers and ships with nostrils ol hot
steam and yokes of lire draw together the
continents. We would not condemn the la
bors of human inquisitiveness, but we hope
that their Leyden jars and electric batteries
and voltaic piles and magnifying glasses
might charge upon the barred castles of the
natural world unlit it should surrender the
last secret. Give it wider range and let new
discovery come down from tlie air and leap
up out of the waters and rear from the earth
to crown human inquisitiveness. God be
praised for this geological curiosity of Prof.
Hitchcock and the zoological curiosity of
Agassiz and the chemical curiosity of Liebig
and the architectural curiosity of Christo
pher Wren and the inventive curiosity of
Edison!
But the inquisitiveness of many have rush
ed them into predicament. Eve wanted to
know how the fruit tasted, and she found out,
but 0,000 years of wretchedness and woe have
deplored her curiosity. Unlawful curosity
has sent the theologian mad into the forbid
den systems of God and religion. He has
sometime* wrenched his whole moral nature
out of joint in trying to pluck fruit from
branches beyond his reach,or venturing too far
on the limbs hath tumbled headlong without
remedy. There are 10,000 trees from which
we may eat and get only good, but from the
forest of mystery, divine election, Trinity,
the resurrection, how many have plucked
their ruin? Thousands of men are not Chris
tians because they do not know who Mel
cbisedeeh was.
There are many forms of unheaithful in
quisitiveness. Manv sit from morning to
night with the eye staring and mouth agape
of curiosity. They are the first to know who
told a lie, and build It another story high and
two wings to it. About other people’s bouses,
about other people’s food, about other people’s
apparel, about other people’s financial condi
tion, they are over-anxious. No choice bit of
gossip floating in the community but stops at
their door. And they lnxuriate and grow fat
in the endless round of the great world of
tittle-tattle. lie invites and sumptuously en
tertains at his fireside Col. Twaddle, Esquire
Chit-Chat and Gov. Small-Talk. Whosoever
hath a slandtr, whosoever hath an innuendo,
whosoever hath a valuable secret, let them
come and offer it a sacrifice to this goddess of
splutter. Multitudes of Adams and Eves
spend their whole time in eating fruit that
does not belong to them. Some who are pro
ficient mathematicians have never learned
this computation in moral a’gebra:
Good sense. Good breeding. Curiosity.
Minding your own business.
Y oung people urged on by their inquisitive
ness have ransacked the whole field of French
novels to find out whether they really are as
bad as moralists have pronounced them. Just
coming to look over the parapets they have
lost their balance, and down they went,
dashed into remedyless destruction, or, per
chance, crawling up on the rocks shattered
and bleeding and ghastly, gibbering with
curses, or groaning ineffectual prayers. Pas
sion is a fiery courser, and driven along
dangerous places it may become unmanage
able, and at the sudden sound of mirth’s
trumpet bit and pole break, and it lunges like
a bolt into terrible Abyson.
Again learn from Eve’s career that some
fruits that are pleasant to the taste afterward
produce agony. The forbidden fruit was so
pleasant to Eve’s appetite she Is not satisfied
until her husband tastes it. But her banish
ment ifrora Paradise, and the sufferings of an
entire race were the price paid for the lux
ury. Eve is not the only one who has sold
freat happiness for temporary satisfaction.
he cup of sin always sparkles at the top, but
there is death at the bottom. Intoxication
hath pleasant exhilarations, makes a man see
five stars where others, see one star, puts
spring into the ground, fillips the blood,
makes a poor man feel rich and cheeks white
as snow and red as roses. But what about
the dreams that come afterward, when they
seem falling from great heights and in effort
to save themselves meeting with other fancied
disasters till the sweat stands on the brow
like the night dews of eternal darkness and
they are ground under the hoof of horrid
nightmares, shrieking out with lips that
crackle with feverish torture.
Look into that hall of revelry, where un
godly mirth staggered and blasphemed.
Listen to the senseless gabble and watch the
going ont of the last traces of manhood from
men made in God’s own image. “Ila, ha!
This is joy for you,” saith a roystering neigh
bor. “Fill your cups, my boys! Here’s to
my wife’s sorrow and my children’s rags and
my God’s defiance!” But he sees not that the
fiend stirs the goblet in the hand, and
adders uncoil from the bottom and thrust up
their forked tongues, hissing in the froth on
the brim. Perdition bought for a sixpence!
The fruit was pleasant to Eve, but that dis
obedience still smites the carlh until it reels
like an ox under the butcher’s bludgeon. Who
could tell the consequence of that one sin un
less all at once he could make the world
throw open all its prison doors to expose the
crimes, and all its hospitals to snow the dis
ease, and all the almhonses to show the squal
or, and ail the insane asylnms to display the
madness, and ail the sepulchres to show ftie
dead, and all the gates of the lost to show the
damned. Tbat one Edenic transgression has
lighted up every ungodly passion and
stretched cords of misery over the world,
striking them into dolorous woe, and hath
seated plagues on the air and shipwrecks on
the tempest, and hath fastened famine like a
leech on the sick heart of the nations, and
made 10,000 battlefields groan with horror.
Oh, the deoeitfulnesa of sin I The ground l
°I. er which it leads is hollow, the fruit it
offers to your taste are poisoned, the promise
it makes is a lie. Over this nngodlv banquet
the keen, glittering source of God’s'judgment
is suspended. An ominous handwriting Is on
the wall. O thou misguided victim of pleas
ure. I sound the alarm! Thy pleasure boat is
far from shore. Thy summer day is closing
roughly, for the winds and waves are loud
voiced, and the over-coming clouds are all a
writhe and agleam with terror. Thou art
past the “narrows.” almost outside the
“hook.” and if the Atlantic take thee, frail
mortal, thou shalt never get to shore again.
Homeward! Put back! Rowswiftly.swifter,
swifter! Jesus from the shore casteth a rope.
Grasp it quickly! Now, or never! Borne ol
my hearers I rear have freighted al! their
hopes and loves and joys upon a vessel which
shall never bring them to a port of safety.
See, thou nearest the breakers! One heave
upon the rocks! Another lunge may crush
thee beneath the shrivelled spars or grind thy
bones to powder among the torn timbers!
Overboard, for thy life! Overboard! trust
not that loose plank nor tempt the shore, but
quickly clasp the feet of Jesus walking upon
the watery pavement, shouting till he hear
thee: “Lord, save or I peri h!”
Again the biography of Eve tearhea me
what a shocking thing sin is when appended
to great beauty and refinement. Never since
Eve’s death has the world seen such perfec
tion of womanhood. Coming directly from
the hand of God there vrus not another attrac
tion you could have suggested for her person
nor another refinement to Iter manners. No
gracefulness could have been added to hor
gait, no sparkle to her eye, no color to her
cheek, no sweetness to her voice. To be the
companion of a perfect man ami the inhab
itant of a perfect home God had created her,
and all that beautiful nature vibrated in ac
cord with the brightness of the scene of Para
dise. But she resisted God’s authority, and
with the same hand with which she had
plucked the fruit, launched upon unborn gen
erations the crime and the wars and the trou
hie and the tombs and the woes which have
set tile universe a-wailing. Terrible offset to
all her attractiveness.
To find men and women naturally vulgar
given up to evil practices does not startle us
very much, for we expect those who live in
the ditch to have the manners of the ditch.
But when wc find wickedness joined to acute
ness of intellect and attractiveness of manner,
we are startled. The accomplishments of
Mary Queen of Scots make tier patronage of
Darnley, the profligate, the more astounding.
The genius of Catharine 11., Empress of Rus
sia, only set off' in more repelling light her un
appeasable ambition. The translations
which Elizabeth made from die Latin and the
Greek and her extraordinary qualification
for a Queen only brought out into more vivid
contempt iier capriciousness of affection and
haughtiuess of temper. Lord Bvron’s great
ness makes the more shameful Lord Byron’s
sensuality. Let no one think that suavity of
bearing or a high style of accomplishment can
apologize for vanity or ill-temper or unkind
ness. Disobedience to God or unrighteous
ness towards man will becloud the most
brilliant attainments. Though your accom
plishments be heaven high, they will not
excuse for vice hell-deep.
Again learn the real influence of woman. In
the power which Eve exercised over Adam,
and on the destiny of uncounted generations
I see a type of the power which her descend
ants should exercise. YVe iiave no sympathy
with the flatteries that are showered upon her
from the pulpit and the stage. The true no
bility of woman consists in the power of a
Christian influence. Eve’s overthrow of
Adam and the race was only an illustration
of what power there is now in the frail arm
of woman to strike until the echo ring through
eternity down among the caverns or un among
the thrones. This influence was not monopo
lized by such great representative women as
Eve. who ruined the race with one fruit
plucking, nor of Jael, who sent a spike through
the head of Sisera, nor of Esther, who over
came royalty, nor of Absgail, who
by her beautiful countenance arrested
a hostile army, nor of Mary who vursed the
world’s Savior, nor of the great dancer who
carried about on a dish the gory head of John
the Baptist, nor of grandmother Lois who was
immortalized in her grandson Timothy, nor
of Charlotte Corday who, withjher da truer,
slew the assassin of her lover, nor of Mary
Antoinette who could conquer a mob by one
look from the balcony of her castle, and whose
scaffold was a throne of forgiveness and moral
courage. I refer to tlie mothers, to the wives,
to the daughters, to the sisters, who, unambi
tious for political power and the scramble of
the hustings, are performing the ten thousand
sweet offices of home.
YVhen I thus speak I find myself using as a
model one whom, about twenty years a.’o, we
put away for the resurrection. About eighty
years ago, just before the day of their marri
age, my father and mother stood up in the old
meeting-house at Comerville to take the vows
of a Christian. Through a long life of vicis
situde she lived blamelessly and usefully, and
came to her end in peace. No child of want
ever came to her door and was turned away.
No stricken soul ever appealed to her and was
not comforted. No sinner ever asked her the
way to be saved and wasnotpointed to Christ.
YY’hen the angel of Life came to a neighbor’s
dwelling, she was there to rejoice at the in
carnation, and when the angel of Death came
she was there to robe the departed one for
burial. YY'e had often heard her, while
kneeling among her children at family pray
ers, when father was absent, sav: “I ask not
for my children wealth or honor, hut 1 do ask
that they may all become the subjects of Thy
converting grace.” She hail seen all her
eleven children gathered into the church, and
she had hut one more wish, and that was that
she might again see her missionary son, and
when the ship from China anchored in New
York harbor, and the long absent one crossed
the threshold of his paternal home, she said:
“Now, Lord, 1; ttest Thou Thy servant depart
in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salva
tion.”
YVe were gathered from afar to sec only the
house fr m which the soul had fled farever.
How calm she looked! Her folded hands ap
peared just as when they were employed in
kindnesses for her children, and we could not
help but sav as we stood and looked at her:
“Don’t she look beautiful!” It was a cloud
less day when with heavy heart* we carried
her out to the last resting-place. The with
ered leaves crumbled under wheel and hoof
as we passed, and the setting sun shone upon
the river until it looked like fire. But more
calm and bright was the setting sun of this
aged pilgrim’s life. No more toil. No more
tears. No more sickness. No more death.
Dear mother!' Beautiful mother!
“Sweet is the slumber beneath the sod
YVhile the pure soul is resting with God.”
WHO FEEL IT MOST?
The Effect in Washington of the Pros
pect of a Change in the Government.
Ever since the closing of the polls
Tuesday evening, says a Washington
special, the capitol has experienced a
deeper feeling than that of excitment.
The anxieties have been intense. No
where else are there so many reasons for
it. Now that there is to be a change in
the government—the Republicans to
go out and tne Democrats come in—not
the officeholders alone, but nearly
every person here will in some way be
affected. There is no description of busi
ness, no shade of society, no walk in life
that is not in some way related to the
government. Reasons for interest in the
question, “Who is Preeident?” exist here
that do not elsewhere, and especially in
the social network which is peculiar at
the capital, and peculiarly so in view of
whether Blaine or Cleveland is to occupy
the White House.
Under such circumstances the feeling,
as the prospect has changed, has been
not merely exciting, but intense. The
gaps m the waiting period have been
filled by discussions of the canvass, its
management, the candidates, and the
vote thrown. The apparent insignificance
of the Butler vote has been one of the
first things for remark.
Elsewhere in the country the election
may have been attended by curious mani
lestations of human nature, but it is here
in Washington, where nearly everybody
and everything depends on getting some
thing out of the government, that the ris
ing sun worshipers showed themselves
most prominently.
As Cleveland’s banner seemed to rise,
and a change became probable, it was in
teresting to observe how men long in the
background came to the front, not all giv
ing promise of becoming the ornaments
they seemed to expect to be to the new
administration. “We’ve got’m!” was
the exultation of many an one, who for
years had been in retlracy, waiting for
the turn which seemed to betaking place.
“It’s our turn now,” expressed the re
joicing which fresh reports from some
doubtful States for the moment repressed.
Men thawed out wonderfully, and if one
could believe half he heard he would not
be at a loss about what was going to
happen in the next four years. Anew
set of owners of the government and the
surplus seemed to have come into exist
tence all at once, and some went so far
as to select for themselves the places they
would get and what they would do with
the pay.
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL,
Interesting Little Flashes from the
Wires Printed In Condenged Form,
It is said that President Arthur has deter
mined to apDoint Gov. Schuyler Crosby, of
Montana, to be First Assistant Postmaster
General.
At Brussels, at a meeting of the Liberal As
sociation yesterday, a resolution was adopted
demanding the repeal of the education law
and the dissolution of Parliament.
A dynamiter was arrested at Montcenu les
Mines, France, Saturday, while in he act of
preparing a cartridge of dynamite with which
to explode the house of the foreman.
At Petersburg, Va., Saturday, the case of
W. Whyte, late teller of the Planters’ and
Mechanics’ Bank, {for fraudulent entries, was
given to the jury. At 10 o’clock last night the
jury being unable to agree was discharged,
and the case was remanded for another trial.
The Russian student, Roieff. who denounced
to the Moscow police many of his fellow stu
dents as Nihilists, has been poisoned and
died. It was accomplished by somebody who
gained access as a visitor to the prison, where
Koieff was kept to protect him from Nihilists.
Another student has been obliged to flee to
save his life.
Patti’s Divorce,
Paris, Nov. B, —The divorce of Madame
Patti from her husband, the Marquis de
Caux, waa to-day made absolute.
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INCENDIARISM ATTEMPTED THE
SECOND TIME.
A Negro Detected Saturating Hi* Dwell
ing and Bedding with Kerosene and
Lodged in Jail—The City Patrolled by
a Guard—A List of the Losses and In
surance.
PiLiTKA. Nov. 9.—The following; is
the lis, of losses and insurance: Putnam
House, loss $135,000. insurauce $75,030; Larkin
House, loss $lOO,OOO, insurance $63,000; Deve
reux, Rogers A Son, loss $45,000, insurance
$18,000; Faulk, dry goods, loss $22,000. insu
rance $5,000; Lansing & Cos., loss $16,000, part
ly insured; M. Loeb, dry goods, etc.,
loss $25,000, insurance $40,000; \V. V. Cross,
butcher, loss $2OO, no insurance; E. TANARUS, Lane,
hardware, loss $7,500, p.irtly insured; Haugli
toa Bros., grocery, lossso,soo, insurance $3,000;
Vertres A Cos., h ty and grain, loss *1,600, in
surance $1,003; IV. O. Wolts, druggist, loss
$1,300, insurauce $1,000; I)r.'Rosenberg, den
tist, loss $lOO, insurance none; B. L. ciliec
tlial. furniture, loss $4 )0, insurance $400; C. L.
llosbrook A Cos., orange packers, loss $4OO, in
surance none; A. Knight, tinner, loss $5O, in
surance none; C. E. Smith, butcher, loss $3OO,
insurance none; John Usina, buildiug, loss
$5 0, insurance $1,000: GriHin, brick block,
w- S a,a lS ’ 000 ’.i UQ,J - 1088 ou other buildings
$lO,OOO, partly insured; H. L. Green A
Cos., boots and shoes, loss $7,500, partly
insured; John T. Dunn, grocer, loss $30,000.
insurance $8,010; Kennedy & Cos., groceries
and hardware, loss $22,000; L. J. Kennedy’s
loss on buildings $15,000, partly insured;
Moragne’s pharmacy, loss $1,500, insurauce
M , r i B -- Mor f®e’s loss on buildings
$l,OOO. partly insured; Murray’s confectionery.
Oss 47,500; Charles 1). Autry, fruit and to
bacco, loss $l,OOO, insurance $500; Warren
Printer, loss on furniture $lOO, insurauce
none; I*. 5 ung. packing house, loss $BOO, in
surance $603; F. C. Cochrane, stationer, loss
$6,000, insurance $3,000: S. Graham A Cos.,
hotel, loss $B,OOO, insurance $1,500: M. 11. Dal
ton wood vard. loss $2.5 K), partly insured;
( alhoun. ciUis & Calhoun, lawyers, damage
$lOO, partly insured; I*, and 11. Peterman,
loss on buildings $5OO, partly insured; J. F.
Kingdon, loss on bakery $2,500, insurance $500;
W. H. Wigg, law ollice, loss $2OO, insurance
none; J. Mangold & Son, photographers, less
$1,200, insurance $800; Putnam’s phar-
macy, loss $1,500, partly insured; Journal ,
loss SIOO. insurance none; A. Usina, toys and
notions loss $4,500, insurance $500; Ackerman
A Jackson, druggists, loss SI,OOO, insurance
$1,500; V\ . C. Snow, post office building, loss
$3,000, insurance $2,000; Brenera & Nevil.
plasterers, loss SSOO, insurance none; U. G,
Phillips, jeweler, damaged bv water, $300; it.
J. Adams, warehouse, loss on stock SSOO, in
surauce none; \\ ebb & Nichols, land brokers,
loss $5,000, partly.insured; Dr. Crabb, office,
oss s4o, insurance none; Presbyterian churcli,
loss $15,000, insurance $6,000; J. Jacobson, dty
g 'Ods, loss $20,009, insurance SB,OOO. lira. 8.
smith, loss on ouilding, SSOO, insurance none;
J. B. Buser, land agency, loss SSOO, partly in
sured; Mrs. Joe Mann, losson building SI,BOO,
partly insured; Gus, Mann, butcher, loss sl,-
200, partly insured: Cuban Cigar Store, loss
SBOO, partly insured; J. E. Lucas, boat home,
loss $7,000, insurance *1,000; Joe Price, build
ing, loss $4,500, insurance $2,000; Ed
mous Barber, loss S3OO, fully insured;
FI. 11. Padgett, loss $4,000, partly insured;
Brown’s restaurant los3sl,oJo, party insured;
James Sand, taxidermist, loss $5,00, partly in
sured; H. W. Clicker, tailor, loss $l5O, 110 in
surance: A. Finley, barber, loss S2OO, partly
insured; Mrs. Hieklau. building, loss $3,500.
partly insured; Dr. Estes, dentist, loss $1,500,
insurance $750; J. 11. Fry, buildings, loss
$5,000, partly insured; W. J. /uniwait, furni
ture, loss $4,000, insurance $1,500; Col. H. L.
Hart, buildings, etc., loss $3,0C0, iusuranco
$7,000; J. 11. Hilliard, Insurance Agency, loss
SBOO, insured; J. 11. Kamsaiir. loss SI,OOO, part
ly insured; E. D. Earle, dry goods, losss2o,ooo,
insurance $7,000; Wiuegar A Cos.; First Na
tional Bank loss $4,500, fully insured. There
arc a number of incidental losses amounting
from $2,000 to $3,000, which cannot be learned
to-night as the parties are scattered and
nearly demoralized. The town, after the
conflagration, has been very quiet to-day.
Sunday excursions came from every direc
tion to view the ruins.
AN INCENDIARY CAUGHT.
Last night a negro named Gibson was caught
in the act of saturating his lmildtng and bed
clothes with kerosene, ami lie was immedi
ately arrested and placed in jail. If hisdia
holicall deed had not been nipped in the bud
the Are would have swept the Cnrleton House,
court house and other large buildings In the
track, which would have placed the loss over
$1,500,000, and destroyed what little was
left of the, business portion of the
town. To-night the citizens have
organized a patrol service and a close watch
is kept on all parties out without any busi
ness. The negro clement here seems to be
gay over the loss and make light of it in their
loud gufl'aws. The proprietor of the Putnam
House, Mr. F. 11, Orvis, will lie here on Tues
day ami will at once coptract for the erection
of a handsome brick structure. Other build
ings will be erected as soon as possible, there
by showing to the outside world that the
uem City will once more arise Phirmx like
from the ashes. The Herald and Hew*
buildings had a narrow escape and
at one time it looked very blue to the fra
ternity, so much so that the Herald force •
packed up and wore ready to bid their office
a good-bye forever. For the present no one
has been hurt, and the town at this writing,
although desolate, is made more so by the in
tense darkness and drizzling rain which sur
rounds it.
OIL MILLS ABLAZE.
London. Nov. 9.—The oil seed mills of Stew
art Bros. A Spencer, at Strood, are on fire.
England’s Navy.
London, Nov. B.—ln the House of Commons
to-day Mr. Marriot, Liberal member for
Brighton, offered resolutions, with the ap
proval of the Conservative leaders, which
were laid upon the table, providing for a sus
pension of the sinking fund, which is devoted
to paying off the national debt for two years,
and placing the amount of $60,000,000 at the
disposal of the Admiralty Board for an in
crease of the navy. The proposal received the
support of many Liberals upon the ground
that there is an immediate necessity for
strengthening the English fleets, and that the
adoption of these resolutions would render an
additional tax unnecessary.
Do Brazza’s Mission.
Paris, Nov. B.—M. Denlizie, member of M.
de Brazza’s mission to Africa, reports that M.
de Brazza has obtained a cession from tho
King of the whole territory between the ri
vers Loanidina and Nian, including trading
posts which have been established by the Afri
can Association.
Steering Balloons.
Paris, Nov. B.—Capts. Renard and Krebs
made a balloon voyage to-day from Mendon
to Billon Court and return, alighting at the
point from which they started in 45 minutes.
The aeronauts made a complete success in
steering their balloon.
About 5 o’clock on a recent afternoon
the inhabitants of the Rue des Martyrs,
Paris, were treated to a strange drama.
A man, in his shirt only, suddenly leaped
upon the balcony of a room on the fifth
floor, and took refuge in an obscure cor
ner for 45 minutes. Then, a heavy
shower coming on, he crept on all fours
toward the opposite end of the balcony,
and got behind a large shrub. At this mo
ment a feminine arm was seen to throw
him a garment, in which he enveloped
himself as well as he could, and an hour
later a young woman opened a window,
and this martyr of the street of martyrs
bounded through it. A few moments af
ter this he was seen to jump into a hack
and disappear without in any wise re
turning the signs of adieu made to him
by a feminine head from the window.
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