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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. - 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,