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The Rockdale - Banner.
VOL. XI.
ELECTION news.
IT LOOKS LIKE
harbison.
lid York, Indiana and Con¬
necticut Claimed by the
Republicans.
Janies Gordon Bennett, ot tlie New
York Herald, Concedes that Gen.
Harrison is Elected.
AN estimate.
At midnight on Tuesday the following
dispatch was received from the New Y< rk
Herald office: “At the hour of going to
prisswithour first edition the probabili¬
ties indicate the election of Gen. Harrison
to the presidency. This opinion is based
upon dispatches received fiom all the
Mates in the Union, and which may be
divided as follows:
CLEVELAND. HARRISON.
Alabama 101 Colorado 3
Arkansas 7 Illinois.. 22
Connecticut.... 6 Iowa ,.. 13
Delaware.. 3 Kansas.. 9
Florida... 4 Maine... 6
Georgia... 12 Massachusetts... 14
Kentucky. 13 Michigan. 13
Louisiana . 8 Minnesota 7
Maryland.. 8 Nebraska. 5
Mississippi. 9 New Hampshire. 4
Missouri... 16 New York 36
New Jersey 9 Ohio..... 23
North Carolina.. 11 Oregon 3
South Carolina.. 9 Pennsylvania ... 30
Tennessee 12 Rhode Island...
Texas... 13 Vermont. rfx
Virginia. Virginia... 12 Wisconsin t—».
West 6
Total 207
Total........168
DOUBTFUL.
California..... . 8
Nevada ....... . 3
Indiana....... 15
Total 26
Total vote in electoral college, 401;
"necessary to elect, 201. Conceding the
votes of Connecticut and New Jersey to
Mr. Cleveland, and regarding Indiana,
California and Nevada as doubtful, Gen.
Harrison has a majority in the electoral
college. of David Tlie figures show tlie election
B. Hill as Governor, and of
Hugh J. Grant as Mayor. Mr. Hill has
made a slrong canvass. The nomination
of Mr. Hewett had the effect which his
supporters the defeat of principally Mr. intended, namel :
Cleveland by the di¬
vision of the Democratic forces in New
York. The political lesson of the elec¬
tion is that the national supremacy of
the Democratic party has been sacrificed
to the ambition of David B. Hill and
Abram S. Hewitt, and the fact which the
Democrats throughout the country should
to Ucart that, in this game of politics,
the possession of the imperial patronage
of New York City is of far more impor¬
tance than the Government of the Union.
James Gordon Bennett.”
WEST VIRGINIA.
The chairmen of both state committees
claim the state. The result in the state
days. j ‘ probably not be known for some
GEORGIA.
The returns came in slowly, but indi¬
cations point to a much smaller Demo¬
cratic vote than was anticipated.
UNRELIABLE.
The returns from the other states are
so meager and unsatisfactory, that
win be deferred news
until a later hour.
MAINE.
Returns show between 23,000 am)
4 000^ ^ Ura '^ ^ or Harrison, a gain of
ILLINOIS.
In Southern Illinois it rained at sev
eral points most of the day. All rc-pors
bo far received, outside of Cook county,
w smi dl Republican gains, which il
tuaintained, ,
will give Harrison several
sand £ a in over Blaine’s vote in 1884.
Pi aimer’s vote for is greater than
Uevoland’s governor
at all points yet heard from.
this ratio is maintained in the state,
oarnson’s plurality will be about 25,000.
esent Be figures indicate the election of
6 ann to 8,000 P u Hhcan, for governor, by about
plurality, but this is urn
CONNECTICUT.
froiiM If’™ towus 1 rece show ived up Republican to midnight gain
of i oo > a
sam ’ ° Ver the vote of 1884< The
^JllVive°t° ■ f
f aiU in tllerema ' nin S towns
450. -j to Harrison by about
j. Republicans Q P r °bably four. elect three The legislature congress
is Pub t , i l an b large majority. Cleve
kna : ^ y a
tv rf «,if Cnve< Ut ia L. Haven a majori
for On D. Morris,Democrat
bv i W run ahead of his ticket
(j' Qn ’ v otes. Wilcox, Democrat, for
eiw' SSm an ’ '"’a® scratched to a great
Ham 4 ^ ,d , elec tion is in doubt. Wil
Ckiiirro- 8unon ds, Republican, is elected
thirtr.fi SSman ‘ One hundred and
Mid V If. t0WDS B ^ including d New Waterbury, Haven
Meridan v’ Britain, K e P°rt,
and v ’ b New London
«rre«J is 5 *Tn he Wlc Republicans gi y e Harrison a gain of
^sman i n the gain * one eon
le guslature. state and both houses of
CON YERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1888.
NEW YORK.
Our latest estimate gives New York to
Harrison by from 5,000, to 8,000.—J. A.
Cockrell. [Mr. Cockrell is managing ed¬
itor of the World .] Harrison’s plurality
in New York state is eight or ten thou¬
sand,and he is undoubtedly elected.—The
Sun. The Times says indications are that
corrected returns from the interior may
yet give the state to Cleveland. The
Tribune claims the Congress Repub¬
lican by twenty-live majority.
Again the presidency hangs on the slen¬
der thread of a few thousand votes in
New York state. 'Jhe Democrats are
confident in their claim that Cleveland’s
majority will not be less than 5 000.
These are narrow margins, but they rep¬
resent the situation. New York gives
Cleveland 55,000 majority, and Brooklyn
adds 12,000, which, with Queens and
Kings counties’ majorities, gives Cleve¬
land not more than 70,000 south of the
Harlem. Blaine came to the Harlem
with 62,000 majority. Garfield had 74,.
000. If Harrison does not do better than
Blaine, he loses; if ho docs as well as
GarOeld he" wins. He has made strong
and unexpected gains in some portions of
the interior of the slate, but in others he
has fallen behind, and for this nason it
is hard to estimate the result in the coun¬
ties not yet heard from. It will t ike a
close count to decide tlie question. The
plurality for Cleveland below the Har¬
lem river instead of the 80,000 or 85, CC0
confidently expected by Democrats, Outside ap¬
pears to be only about 70,000.
of New York and Kings counties the
Republican gain have thus far been steady
with each additional report of the elec¬
tion distiicts. In New* York and King’s
counties the plurrlity for Cleveland, with
King’s comple and New York nearly
complete, appears to he not more than
67,800, and four yeais ago the counties plurality
against Mr. Blaine in those was
58,793. The Democratic gain in these
counties is, therefore, only about 9,000,
but Republican gains of '>,482 have been
reported in precincts embracing about
one-fifth of the remaining vote of the
state. The majority for Ilariison in the
state would exceed 17,000, but if tie
gains on four-fiftlis yet umeport
ed of the vote outside of New
York an 1 Kings should be only
double the gain on the one-fiith reported,
Harrison would stiil have a safe plurality, York
The bureau of election in New
City issued corrected complete figures Harrison, on
the electoral ticket as follows:
105,726; Cleveland, 162,981—Cleve
land’s majority, 57,255. 904 election
d stricts, New Y< rk state outside of New
York and Kings county, give Cleveland
176,851; Harrison, 222,569; Fisk, 10,-
465. The same districts in ’84 gave
Cleveland 163,457, Blaine, 198,552; St.
John 9,620. The very latest on Wed¬
nesday morniDg from Clark Howell, of
the Atlanta Constitution says: “Harrison
has carried New York, He did it after
most of the city bulletin boards were
deserted, and the thousands of eager
spectators liad gone home, satisfied of
Cleveland’s election. The late returns
from the interior of the state settle the
result and give the electoral vote of the
state to Harrison over a man, who, a few
years ago received in the state the larg¬
est majority ever given a candidate for
governor in any state.”
NEW YORK FOR HARRISON.
New York’s majority is about 13,000
for Gen. Harrison.
INDIANA.
Fully 100,000 people were on the
streets of Indianapolis at night. Rumors
concerning t .e state were eagerly sought
after, and every word was made the oc
e sion of a renewal of horn blowing,
yeiling and scenes of the wildest demon¬
stration, only equaled on receipt of news
of Harrison’s nomination. Telegrams
from Terre Haute, Vincennes, Evansville
and New Albany told of rainy weather
and heavy voting in all these cities, with
a number of arrests, but no trouble. In
northern Indiana things were quiet, and
but few arrests are known to have been
made. Local citizens arrested were car¬
ried before the United States commis¬
sioner and all gave bonds promptly. Ihe
only persons that were incarcerated were
a number of tramps and haid looking
characters picked up early in the day who
were unable to give bail. Eighty 8,860; pre¬
cincts in Indiana gives Harrison
Cleveland, 7,791. The same Cleveland, precincts
in 1884 gave Blaine 8,330;
7.343. 220 precincts, Harrison, 29,748;
Cleveland, 24,493. The same Cleveland, precincts
in 1884 gave Blaine 27,888; Harrison
23,955. 100 precincts 9,966—in give 1884 they
11,961; Cleveland, Cleveland, 9,558.
gave Blaine 11,261; dispatch from P. J.
The following late
Moran, of the Atlanta Constitution tell*
the story: “The unfavorable news con¬
tinues to pour in, both from the stats
and the country at large. The re
publican ratio of gain in Indiana thus fai
will give them a net majority of 5,000
votes. The vote in Marion, the county
in which Indianapolis is situated, has no!
been counted at thj^ hour. It is claimed,
however, that it votes against Harnsot
and elects Bynum to Congress. Com
plaint by the leaders here is strong
against New York. They say that heu
York insisted on the candidate and alsc
deprived Indiana of the second place,
and then bled the state for contribution:
and finally failed to give its vote tc
Cleveland. They claim that m the fu¬
ture New York should be put under pro
tection, and that future battles should be
fought on different lines. The Republi¬
cans are boisterous in saying that tie
Solid South must be smashed. (his
seems to be the great bugbear with the
Republicans. Chairman Hutson the
Republican chairman, says: ‘We have
carried the state; we have got New York
and Indiana, and General Harrison wil
be sworn in a-' President on the 4th o.
next March.’ To quote from all the light*
at hand, ‘the fight has gone against us.
ALABAMA.
The state will send a solid Democratic
delegation to Congress. The State Dem¬
ocratic Executive Committee have re¬
ceived information from different parts
of the state, indicating that all the dis¬
tricts have been carried by the Demo¬
crats. The list of representatives in the
next Congress will be as follows by dis¬
tricts: First district, R. H. Clark;
second district, H. A. Herbert; third
district, W. C. Oates; fourth district, S.
W. Turpin; fifth district, .1. E. Cobbs;
sixth district, J. H. Bankhead; seventh
district, W. H. Forney; eighth district,
Joseph Wheeler. The closest contest is
in the fourth district, where the Demo¬
cratic candidate is opposed by J. V. Mc¬
Duffie, Republican, but unless all signs
fail, the Democrats have won the fight
there. Cleveland’s majority will b«
about the same as in 1884.
NEBRASKA.
Fifty-six precincts in Nebraska, out¬
side of Douglas county, gives Harrison
6,595, Cleveland 4,997. McSbane, Dem¬
ocrat, for governor, run ahead of big
ticket.
VERMONT.
Seventy-five towns give Harrison 18,
980, Cleveland 6,878, Fisk 565, scatter¬
ing 28. Same towns in 1884 gave Blaine
16,396, Cleveland 9,039, St. John 740,
Butler 292; Republican pinrality, 12,040;
majority over all, 11,447. Republican
gain over 1884, 252. The Republican
majority in the state will exceed 28,000.
KENTUCKY.
Indications are that Fi 1 y, Itepiibli
can, in the llthdis'r ct is cl ct-id.* A1
other districts look Democratic.
MISSISSIPPI.
The Democrats have elected all sever
of the congressmen anc. Cleveland’s plu¬
rality of 33,000 in 1884 increased. Hill.
Republican for congress in the Ihird dis
trict, runs far behind Harrison and Mor¬
ton, and is defeated by Catchings by a
good majority.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Scattering returns from various parts
of the state indicate that the state has
gone for Cleveland by about the samt)
majority as in 1884, about 17,000. In-j
dications are that the Democrats arq
elected in ah the districts except thfi
first, second and fifth, from which suflU
cient returns have not been received to
indicate the result.
VIRGINIA.
Returns came very slowly. The dis¬
tricts unofficially heard from show Dem¬
ocratic gains in the colored counties,
while the Republicans show gains in the
same ratio in several of the white coun¬
ties over the vote in 1884. Cleveland’s
majority majority in Richmond city, is 1,942.
Wise’s for Congress is 1,720.
Wise’s majority in this (the third) dis¬
trict is estimated at 1,000. The vote in
the first congressional district is very
close, and the district is claimed by both
sides.
OREGON.
Ninety-six precincts in Oregon out ot
496, outside of Portland, Harrison 2,767;
Cleveland 9,926; Fisk 730. The same
pr cincts in 1884 gave Blaine 10,110;
Cleveland 9,052,
MASSACHUSETTS.
One hundred and fifty towns give
Harrison 47,520, Cleveland 33,785, Fisk
2,648. The same towns in 1884 gave
Blaine 38,426, Cleveland 28,778, Butler
6,561, St. Jchn 2,861.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The election passed off quietly all
through the state. The fourth brigade
of state troops was under arms all day,
under the command of Adjutant-General
Bonham, in the expectation of their ser¬
vices being needed in the interior of the
state to preserve the peace and protect
the polls. A special train was kept at
the disposal of the state. Advices re¬
ceived indicate the election of a clean
democratic delegation to Congress. The
only doubtful district is the 7tb, but
Elliott is very popular in Beaufort and
Berkely. It is thought that Elliott will
get from 500 to 1,000 plurality. The
democratic county ticket m Berkley is
elected by a handsome majority, and the
latest advices indicate the election of the
fusion county ticket in Beaufort, as
against the regular republican ticket.
Advices from Columbia say: “The vote
in this state was light, beiDg about 60,
000. Thousands of negroes went to the
polls without registration tickets and
could not vote. The returns at 10:00
p. m. indicate a majority for Cleveland
of 35,000, and that McKinley and Miller,
republicans, running in the first and
seventh districts in opposition to Dibble
and Elliott, have been defeated. No
bloodshed has been reported.”
IOWA.
There was a large vote polled. Harri.
son run considerably ahead of the state
ticket in Des Moines vicinity. Tho
railroad men generally voted for Demo¬
cratic railroad commissioners. Several
Democrats of the city were arrested for
distribution of suspicious ballots. The
state Republican ticket is probably car
ried by 15,000 to 20,000.
MINNESOTA.
It was roughly estimated, at St. Paul,
that when the polls closed, 6,000 to 9,000
St. Paul voters had failed to get their
ballots in, because of the heavy registra¬
tion, and slowness of the inspectors.
Great indignation is expressed, especially city
by the Democrats, as a vote of the
usually shows a Democratic majority.
The Republican state committee claims
state for Harrison by 2,500, Ninety
two precincts give Harrison 12,606;
Cleveland 10,346; Fisk 901.
RHODE ISLAND.
A New York Tribune bulletin says
Rhode Island goes Republican by 4,000
plurality. The latest official returns
were: Harrison 21,968; Cleveland 17,-
496; Fisk 1,876,
LOUISIANA.
The election passed off quietly
throughout the state. A very Congressional light vote
was polled. In the second
District, indications point to the election
of Coleman, Republican, by a small ma¬
jority, and Democrats in other districts.
If Coleman is elected, it will be a Re¬
publican gain of one Congressman. New
Orleans complete, except three precincts, _
give Cleveland 13,824; Harrison 7,372.
In the second Congressional with District, 3,350
BUiott goes out of the city parishes
majority. Partial returns from
no w indicate the election of Elliott.
MICHIGAN,
Harrison Ninety-three towns in the state give
18,627; Cleveland 14,406. The
same towns in 1884 gave Blaine 15,964;
Cleveland 13,891. Net Republican gain
2,348. Burke, Democratic candidate for
Governor, concedes his defeat by 2,000.
INCIDENTS.
Among the prominent citizens arrested
by United States deputy marshals in In¬
dianapolis, Ind., were A. B. Nordyke,
D. W. Mormon and Bainnrd Rorrisou,
composing the well known manufactur¬
ing firm of Novdyko, Mounon & Co.
They were arrested for having scratched
ballots in their hands which they were
distributing. The charge was that they
were deceiving voters. They were at
once taken before the United States
commissioner, and at once released on
their own recognizance. Harrison
New, son of Colonel John New,
and one of the proprietors of the Journal,
was arrested by a deputy United States
marshal for interfering with an officer.
According to the best obtainable infor¬
mation, the deputy marshal arrested a
negro, and New asked the deputy wliat
the charge against the man was, and the
officer is said to have replied: “None of
your business.” Whereupon New said:
“I will make it my business,” and the
officer took him in. He was released by
the commissioner on bond, and at once
instituted suit against Ucitul 8:ates
Marshal Hawkins for $2,000 damages,
the papers being served on the marshal
ftt 6 .' correspondent of the
p. J Moran, the
Atlanta. Constitution, telegraphed: to-night “As
a piece of gossip picked up here
I learned that tho names of Hon. A. E.
Buck for postmaster-general and Mr. R.
T. Dow for postmaster at Atlanta has
been under favorable consideration of
General Harrison if he should become
President.” ceased shortly in _ Indian
The rain had
apolis, Ind., before two men wearing lull
overcoats with collars .turned up walked
quietly along Seventh street and entered
ftie polling place They were_ Gen Har
rison and his son Russell. The distance
from their residence to the polling ph ce
is some three and a half squares. The
chute being open when the general and .ir
rived, he walked up to the window
in the quietest possible manner handed
in his ballot. As the inspector dropped
the paper in the box he called out tho
nanus “Benjamin Harrison,” and the
clerk iU responded “Number 237,” signify
the number of ballots cast up to that
time. As this precinct only cast 302
votes in 1884, and 357 in 1886, it will be
seen that over two-thirds of the vote was
in at half past ten. Russell Ilarri
son rL did not vote, being a citizen of Mon
* an '
MANY WERE KILLED.
A terrible explosion occurred at the
mint s located in Clinton county, Pa., on
the line of the Philadelphia & Erie Rail¬
road. Men entered the mine to learn the
particulars of what had occurred. An
appalling state of affairs was found in¬
side. Of twenty-one men who had been
working in the drift only three or four
had escaped death or injury. The total
number of killed or fatally wounded was
found to be seventeen, all Hungarians making or
Italians. It is thought that in
a blast a gas feeder was struck, filling
the chamber with gas, which coming in
contact with a naked lamp, produced the of
explosion. A gas feeder is a pocket
mis embedded in coal. As soon as a
pick is struck into it the gas ignites and
tin explosion folloyvg.
CAUGHT!
Ellison Mounts, the desperado who
has led the II itficld gang in ihiir bloody
raids in Kentucky an l YVest Virginia,
was captured on Sunday'. He was taken
to Pikeville, Ky. Ever since tlie Hat¬
field gang murdered tin three young
sons an-', the daughter of Randall Mc
C..y, the people of Kentucky have
thirsted night and day for the blood of
the cruel desperadoes.
EARTHQUAKE.
Quite a perceptible earthquake shock
was felt in Memphis, Tenn,, on Satur¬
day morning. The people'asleep in the
upper stories of buildings and residences
were considerably alarmed. Its duration
was only a few seconds.
WANT PEACE.
The International Peace Arb tration
Society met in Paris, France, on Thurs¬
day. It was resolved to organize an in¬
ternational congress, to meet in 1889,
representing America, Engl md, France
and other countries favorable to the plan.
MI88IH8IIPI.
A freight train on the 1 ouisville, N ;w
Orleans & Texas Railroad truck a cow
on Sunday and was thrown from the
track. The engine and cars were wrecked,
three persons killed and two wounded.
The killed are Charles Seymour, of New
Orleans, and Jack Conway, of Vicks¬
burg—both employes of the road—and
an unknown tramp who was stealing a
ride.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN¬
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN—KAIL
ROAD CASUALTIES—THE COTTON CROP
—FLOODS—ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
James Conway dropped dead in
Huntsville.
J. J. Kelley, of New Orleans, who re¬
ceived the contract for constructing the
United States public building in Hunts¬ and
ville, will commence work at once
lie says he will complete it in fifteen
months at the outside, and likely in
twelve.
W. B. Moore, who was business man¬
ager of Tom Ellis’s paper, the Hornet,
at Birmingham, and conducted it for a
while after Ellis was killed, was arrested
and jailed for forgery. He forged
Blank Bros., clothing Jeffe, merchants, saving name
to a check on the jon county
bank for $69.50 and obtained the money.
The United States Express the Company Annis¬
lias extended its service over
ton & Cincinnati Railroad, running reaching from
Atlanta to Anniston, and
the following points in Alabama: Gads¬
den, Nowlin, Cove’s Creek, Rock Springs,
Woodward, Reads Mill, Duke, Wood¬
ruff, Phillips, Alexandria, Pelham, Leath
erwood, Anniston.
Samuel Patton, a small merchant on
South Side, Birmingham, accompanied
by his sister, went to make a call on the
family of his brother W. S. Patton, who
is a policeman. Whilo they wero there,
W. S. Patton Come home from his beat
for his supper. As he was taking off, hii
pistol belt the pistol hit dropped floor, out. but He il
caught it before it the
was discharged his in brother’s some way, breast. lodging Sara a
No. 88 ball in
died of his wound.
Georgia ;
Tho Georgia gtat(j Mr pened in Ma .
eon on Monday.
The Georgia Pacific passenger conduc
tors, and all the tram men in the service,
have had their salaries increased.
While Mrs. Stinsanskn was crossing a
bridge near Abbeville, Ga., she fell over
the side rail, striking a plank, and kill
i n g her iustantly.
A detail of United States soldiers ar
rived Augusta on Sunday, nnd will
do dld y a t the recruiting station recently
established, there by order of the War
depurtm cnt.
A negro woman> na med M ary Wiggins,
was k j]i ed the dummy, in Columbus,
® ^ ? through the park, walking
^ dfl of the track. Just as the
d "n drew nearer, the woman took a
notion to « get on the other side,
“J over her. She was
l 1 '-', man “T gled, ’ one leg s and one arm
being , cut off.
of the Georgia . Pa
Flagman killed Stroupe, and horribly mangled
cific, was night Douglasville. How
Saturday death near will probably be
he met his never
known. He must have fallen from the
top of one of the box cars near the ca
boose, where he was last seen, or missed
his footing upon one of the side ladders
as he was descending it to step upon
the platform of the caboose. The theory
of tlie train men is that he made a mis¬
step and fell between the two ears just
ahead of the caboose, as he was coming
over the train from the engine. It is al¬
most certain, from the mangled condi¬
tion of his remains, that several cars
must have passed over young Stroupe’s
body, crushing out his life.
On Monday afternoon, fire broke out in
the cellar of T. C. Burke’s three-story used
building on Third street in Macon,
for painters’ supplies, oil, mantlepicces,
etc. The building and contents were
totally consumed, The fire was com
municated to an adjoining building on
the left, occupied by O'. H. Taylor’s fur¬
niture store, which was destroyed. The
store adjoining Burke’s on the right, oc¬
cupied by Nussbaum, Van Sykel & Tin
dull, crockery, glassware, cutlery, stoves, also
etc., was destroyed, with contents;
the adjoining store of D. II. Adams &
Co., wholesale grocers. With the great¬
est difficulty the fire was prevented from
spreading and burning the entire block.
Several firemen narrowly escaped death
from falling walls. The total loss
amounts to $150,000; partially insured.
In going to the fire the horses pulling
engine No. 2 became unmanageable, mouths. as
there were no bits in their
They ran wildly several blocks away
from the fire. The engine of Walnut was over- and
turned near the corner
Fifth streets, and badly battered. Fire
man Henry Faulk was thrown violently
to the ground, and the engine cut n ter¬
rible gash on his leg.
LOUISIANA.
The North American Timber Compa¬
ny’s mill in New Orleans, was destroyed
by fire.
.SOUTH CAROLINA.
An engineer named Coots was killed
on the South Carolina road at Branch
ville Sunday morning before day by his
own train, under the wheels of which it
is supposed he fell while clambering on
his engine.
Mormon prophets and priests are still
operating in the upper portion of the
si ate. In Union county there are signs
of trouble. Three Mormon elders have
been preaching there and hav e made a
number of converts.
There were eleven additional arrests in
the license cases in Charleston. Six of
the defendants paid the fines and were
released. Tne number in confinement is
sixteen, all web known business men.
They are quartered comfortably in a
house adjoining thgjail.
NO. 37.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF*
FICIALS ARE DOING.
—
Acting Secretary of the Navy Har¬
mony has approved the findings and sen¬
tence of the court martial in the case of
Lieut. Nelson T. Houston, who was found
guilty of scandalous conduct teuding of¬ to
the destruction of goad morals. His
fence consisted in obtaining, by bribing
an employe, a copy of the questions class, to of
be propounded to the torpedo
which he was a member. The sentence
of the court is that Lieut. Houston be
suspended from duty for three retain years his on
half waiting orders pay, grade to and be
j resent number in his to
publicly reprimanded by the Secretary
of the Navy.
A colored Catholic coogress will meet
at Washington, January 1, 1889. The
historic event indicated was proposed Ohio, by
Daniel A. Rudd, of Cincinnati,
editor of a Catholic paper for colored
readers, and owned and controlled by
member of the Roman church. Cardi¬ _
nal Gibbons, of Baltimore, and Arch¬
bishop Elder, of Cincinnati, and other
prelates, give the arrangements for the
congress earnest encouragement, and the
Catholic press generally favors the as¬
sembling together of leading colored
people attached to their church. There
arc believed to be about 200,000 colored
Catholics in the United States. In Tex¬
as, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, South
Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri and Mary¬
land there are large numbers, ami among
them some of the best and most influen¬
tial families of the race. The third plena¬
ry council of Baltimore, held in 1886,
gave great impetus to the missionary
work among the colored people of the
country by passing a decree that special and
efforts should be made to educ'*io
convert the negroes of the United States,
and ordered that a collection be taken
up annually in all the churches of this
country, for that purpose. It further im¬
plored young men studying for the priest¬ As
hood to give themselves to the work.
a result, many institutions have been es¬
tablished all over the country. Friends
of the congress think the ceremonial of
their church well adapted as a vehicle of
worship to the peculiarities of the negro
temperament.
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THANKSGIVING DAY.
President Cleveland’s proclamation i<
as follows: Constant thanksgiving and
gratitude are due from the American
people to Almighty God for His followed good*
ness and mercy, which have
them sinco the day He made them a na¬
tion and vouchsafed to them a free gov¬
ernment. With loving kindness He has
constantly led us in tho way of visited prosperity with
and greatness. He has not
swift punishment our shortcomings, but
with a gracious care He has warned us of
our dependence upon His forbearance,
and has taught us that obedience to Hi*
holy law is the price of a continuance of
His precious gifts. In acknowledge¬
ment of all that God has done for us as a
nation, and to the end that on an ap¬
pointed day the united prayers of a grate¬
ful country may reach the throne of grace,
I, Grover Cleveland, President of the
United States, do hereby designate and
set apart Thursday, the twenty-ninth thanks¬ day
of November, instant, as a day of
giving and prayer, to be kept and ob¬
served throughout the land. On that day,
let all our people suspend their ordinary
work and occupations, and in their ac¬
customed places of worship, with prayer
and songs of praise, render thanks to
God for all His mercies, for the abundant
liar vest which have awarded the toil of the
husbandman, during the year that has
passed and the rich reward that has fol¬
lowed the labors of our people in their
shops and their marts of trade and traffic.
Let us give thanks for the peace and for
the social order and contentment within
our border, and for our advancement in
all that adds to rational greatness. And
mindful of the afflictive dispensation land lias
with which a portion of our
been visited, let us, while we humble
ourselves before the power of God, ac¬
knowledge his mercy in s tting the
bounds to the deadly march of pesti¬
lence, and let our hearts be chastened by
sympathy for our fellow countrymen who
have suffered and who mourn. And as
we return thanks for all the blessings, hands
which we have received from the
of our Heavenly Father, let us not forget
that He has enjoined upon us charity;
and on this day of Thanksgiving let us
generously remember the poor and needy,
so that our tribute of praise and grati¬
tude may be acceptable in the sight of
the Lord. Done at the city of Wash¬
ington, on the first day of November,
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and
in the years of the independence of the
United States, the one-hundred and (
thirteenth. In witness whereof I have
hereunto signed my name and caused the
seal of the United States to be affixed.
Grover Cleveland. By the President.
T. F. Bayard, Secretary of State.
MUST LEAVE.
The correspondent of the New York
World was ordered to leave Stuttgart,
by special command of Emperor wiam.
His dispatches were taken fron oe tele
graph office and confis cated.
WF.'T VIRGINIA.
Thos. Sayers, one of the bigbwaymeil peddlers
who murdered and robbed two
in Mercer county recently, was caught
and lynched. ARKANSAS.
Buck & Trexler general failed. merchants, Liabilities .of
Crawfordville, have
$lo0,000, assets $90,000, principally ill
accounts,