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Tammany Jus but very little to
53V over the recent defeat.
Blaine says lie is not surorised
over Harri on\s victory.
Leading republicans say llar
rson will try to harmonize tho
North and South.
Cleveland expects to make his
iiomeiu Brooklyn, N Y., where
lie will enter his law practice.
The 25th is Thanksgiving. The
turkey had bettor be looking fora
hiding place
Yellow fever is still making
headway in Jacksonville, Ek>. The
12th inst.. there were three deaths
and thirty new cases.
The London Wh techapel mur
ders are a mystery. The victims
all seem to he women-prostitutes.
No apprehension can be traced to
the murderers.
It is thought Harrison will not
make many changes, but will car
ry out the democrats civil sty-vice
policy of the present administra
tion, Time will toll.
Alabama will have lour of her
congressional districts contested—
republicans claiming their elec
tions, will cause some trouble with
the duly-elect democrats
The 12th inst. a wreck occurred
on the Air Line road at a small
station ninety miles from Atlanta
Two cars—a sleeper and coach,
were destroyed by fire. No one
was hurt.
The government has gained the
suit of the 801 l Telephone c} ■>?
against the United States, taken
from the courts of Massachusetts,
on the grounds that Bell was not
the first inventor.
The 12th inst. the negroes of At
lant gathered out in the suburbs oi
the city to celebrate Harrison's
election. During the excite merit
a quarrel cm ue ' ilting in the
shooting off . . . s,
Washington ■’ uns are al
ready mak :ig : vraUons tor
Harrison mam. m Acorn
miltee of arning. is have been
appointed. A b nine. is antici
pated for ihe •!lh 'Jarch.
Kansas City, D -s having a
rough time over -Hikers. The
coal miners are o;. Hr ike, and
are shooting down HI new men
fhafeon e in Lo take their place.
The police have their hands full in
making arrest-.
The Indian governor of the
Chickasaw nation, Gov. Guy, was
assassinated at Tiscoming'o, the
<’ ■ inst. It is believed
hi- s-i nation resulted in the
f ; i ; his late opponent in
ection Serious trou
ble I !.
* • ve already commenc
ed Harrison by the
•sending congratula
te isking for office, and
other- !j.'w long they have
' r publican party,
1 about-way, want of
fice, < '9rr.:e.
Old Si at the Lime Kiln Club
the other night, addressed a large
congregation of his colored breth
ren. In his remarks he said; “De
’publicans in powah ’gun, but the
col’ed man nnisl be as keerful as
eber in visitin’ de chicken-roost,
lie must keep on a fillin’ his own
meal ba’el an’ smoke house.”
Some of the Bickett men says
Pickett will contest Candler’s elec
tion—claiming that fraud was com
mitted at the ballot-box in some
of tho counties in the district, suf
ficient to defeat Pickett out of
1500 votes. There is hardly any
foundation for this accusation. The
district was conceded to Col. Cand
ler by 3,000 majority, long before
the election—he fell behind some
thing over 1 700. This, itself, ought
to show there were no frauds in
the elebtion. The truth of the
matter is, in some of the counties
that Candler carried, he had no
workers at the polls, but the Pick
ett men were out in full.
Right here in Banks the Pickett
men had three or four kinds of tick
ets in the field, while Candler had
nothing hut the straight democrat
ic ticket. It looks like if frauds
wers committed anywhere, they
would be on the Pickett side.
Harrison’s Mail.
I dianai-. i Nuv 13 —Tlio p
dent-elect ' ■ n • eipt o* a
very heavy oikl ■ • v, * hi- 'i t ■ -■
present, seem* to he enpyin.: b-.ui
i aiM rim? fie U woi k enro
this morning in has lib: ryani -x ept
ing a <ut an hum’s time given to re
Cieatioi a 1 1 11- afieri won he ta t in
hr emir (Jay at his desk, and vva
uti -v ( -a late at- 9 otclock To
night diciaung letters. W 11 Mil- :
>r. Gen (lairiion’s law partner, is no
longer a ting as the g< tu-ral’g tecietary,
! is law practice demand his entire at
notion. Russell B Hariisou, the
president k eldest -cu, is now acting
as his secretary. About five hundred
unopened le* ters lay npou Gen. liar
rison’a table to-night. An nnnsua!
nnmb r of congratulatory letters are
arriving trom tfee South. Among
them arc many horn democrats, who
intoimal y state that although the re
sult was contrary to their withes and
f xpectations, yet they accept tbs peo
ple’s verdict with good grace, noi a
tew even st>-1 ng that they believe the
result ot the election will prove bene
ficial to the South.
A comutjiLteft of citizens appointed
to consider, and il advisable to arrange
for a grand celebration by the republi
cans of the recent victory, met at the
Denison house this evening. Upon
lull consideration it was concluded
that as business has been so Jong in
terrupted by politics, and as the de
sire is now general that ordinary offic
ers haye attention that no further de
mocstraiions are desirable. Those
who jollified in the rain Saturday
night are satisfied, while thoso who
waited for lair weather will wait till
the ntxt time.
The federal grand jury met this af
ternoon, and was given a comprehen-
sive charge by Judge W. A. Woods.
Sj Ccik'.ng of tho yioia.icns of election
laws, be oaid the press has charged
that franas were committed during
the late election, and that it is the ju-
ry’s duty to investigate tho truth.
Especial attention was the
fact that attempt to be bribed does not
constitute an offense, hut while it is
not an offense to attempt, it is an of
fense to advise another to bribe, or in
any way violate tho election laws.
The jury was also instructed with re
gard to tho duties ot election officer*,
and the penalties attatohed to their
r.egleot or perversion. Reference waa
made to the reported conspiracy to.in
fluence voters and circumvent the law
oh a laige scale, and investigation w£
recommended.
A Sad Story Connected to Preju
dice the North Agaiust the South.
Boston, Nov. 11,—A family of
ten persons arrived in Boston yes
terday, the'head of which is Elb
lidge J. Jordan, aged about forty
seven, a native of Maine, an ex-sol
dier in the union army, who four
years ago went to North Carolina,
and two years ago opened a fruit
store in Durham. Jordan says he
has always been a republican, and
makes the following statement:
Last Tuesday he was a candidate
for the office of constable. The
men in charge of the polls chal
lenged more than two hundred col
ored voterp some of whom had
been known as voters for the last
two years, and on account of ibis
delay there were about a hundred
colored voters with republican bal
lots in their hands left standing in
line when the polls closed, the
whites and blacks depositing their
ballots in separate boxes The
votes were not counted until the
next day, when it was announced
that the democratic candidate was
elected by fifty-two .voles.
There was some talk of contest
ing the election, and Wednesday
at midnight Jordan was awakened
and called Jo his door Here he
found seven or eight men with
handkerchiefs covering their faces,
who ordered him not to go from
his home before 6 o’clock in the
morning, but to leave town on the
8 o'clock train. He declared he
had done nothing wrong, but was
ordered to leave town or he would
he killed He had no money to
pay for traveling. The visitors said
they would provide the money. An
hour later they returned and said
they would give bim no money, but
would provide for his family.
At daylight Jordan went to a
friend tried to borrow some money.
His friend said he could not get
any money until the bank opened.
Jordan did not succeed in obtaining
money before eight o’clock The
train started an hour later. While
he was in his store, three men enter
cd the place and hurried bim out to a
carriage and drove off with the avow
ed inton’ion of killing him. This act
of violence was seen by some of the
leading business men of the town, al
though democrats, fearing that a polit
ical murder would reflect severely up
on the town, took horses and rode af
ter the party, overtaking them about
a mile aud a half trom town. By their
influence, the would-be-murderers
w ere persuaded to take Jordan back to
his home; but they told him they
could not control the worse element
sufficiently to jirotect him if he remain
ed and bo leaving everything in the
house and store, and taking almost
nothing except thoelothiag they wore,
the family left town at noon, men
who resided near Jordan providing the
money to pay traveling expenses to
Boston. They left Norfolk, Friday
afternoon on the steamer D. H. Miller
and arrived in Boston, Sunday after-
noon. To-night they go back to Port
land, and from there to Freeport, the
money for this purpose having been
given by Bos’on men, to whom they
applied for aid.
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