The Somerset Herald.
EDWARD BCTTLL, Editor and Proprietor.
WEDNESDAY Joremlr 12,1884.
The Senior Editor of the Herald
is away from home which will ac
count for the scarcity of editorial
matter this week.
Eighty thousand, five hundred
and fifty-three (80,553) is the exact
measure of the Republican majority
in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Cleveland has expressed the
opinion that there i9 abundant ma
terial in the Democratic party from
which 10 select a Cabinet
If Republicans were as free to
vote :n the "Solid South" as Demo
crats are in tb divided North per
haps there might have been a differ
ent Isle to tell.
Though New York lias cast her
vote for Cleveland, the Republicans
have carried the Legislature, and
will elect a United States Senator to
Fueceed Mr. Lapham.
Ik the Illinois legislature is a tie,
as is reported, it is not improbable
that David Davis may again come
to the front. Worse ihings might
happen to the country than that.
President Arthur has fixed up
on Thursday, November 27th, as a
day of Thanksgiving; and Governor
Pattison has also appointed the same
day. It will be a hrd day on Tur
key?. It was not much of a shower af
ter all. Cleveland goes into the
White House on a plurality of about
a thousand cr eleven hundred Re
publican votes, out of a million and
a quarter.
Frank Hurd the Free Trader.who
was defeated in the Sandusky (Ohio)
district by Jacob Romies. Republi
can, is making preparations to con
tett the election. The Republican
plurality in the district is 2U9.
A faithful adherent of Cleveland's
in Washington city makes known
his preference for Dr. Burchard as a
member of that gentleman's cabinet,
lie looks upon the alliterative cler
gymen as by far the most potent
single factor in producing Democrat
ic success.
General Butler declares to an
interviewer that he believes "Gould
was as much in favor of Cleveland
as of Elaine" and that "Yanderbilt
rode two horses; he sent Depew
out to speak for Blaine, and he gave
Cleveland 1 150,000." Put not thy
trust in millionaires.
Tin: New York Sun has so far re
covered from Butler s defeat as to be
able to resume its habit of applying
original and high sounding appella
tions to distinguished persons. As
an example it terms Chairman
Jones, of the Republican National
Committee, a "Smoke incrusted
troglodyte from Pittsburgh."
An Albany special to the Phila
delphia Jiccord says : "It is general
ly believed that Governor Cleveland
will resign his office on the last day
of December, thus giving his succes
sor, Lieutenant-Governor D. B. Hill,
an opportunity to write the annual
message to the Legislature, and
have entire supervision of the legis
lative work of the winter."
To the self-styled Reformers, the
Independent Republicans, is to be
attributed both the nomination and
election of Cleveland. Without the
promise of their support he would
have been defeated at Chicago, and
without their votes he could not
have carried the State of New York,
the real battle-ground of the cam
paign. The bitterest opponents of the Re
publican party during the late con
test were the Independents, and
their acidity seems to have been
sharpened by their apparent success.
Partisan Democrats of course, rejoice
at the accession of their party to
power, but the Republicans who
voted against their belief and con
victions because they did not like
the nominee of the Republican par
ty are trying to reconcile what they
have done to their consciences by
out-IIeroding Herod in their vitup
erative abuse of Republican institu
tions. Some Independent Republi
cans now assert openly that the con
duct of the south towards the negro
race is entirely justifiable ; that the
uegroes when in power held such a
carnival of misrule that they should
be deprived of their constitutional
right to vote by the shotgun and the
bowie knife. Perhaps these ge'nOe
iemen would be giad to see Reagan,
vf Texas, who was one of the Jefler
Km Davis Cabinet, Postmaster Gen
eral, and Wade Hampton, Secretary
of War, and the negro race reduced
to its previous condition of servitude.
Xokth of the Ohio and west of the
Allehenics to the Pacific hut a sin
gle State gives its electoral vote to the
Democrats. That area cover more
of the possibilities of national growth
and greatness than any other of all
our vast domain. It is the real.
Lome of true democracy, and its peo
ple possess in larger measure than
any other on continent theevermas
tering spirit which subdues nature
and Makes her resources tributary
to human progress. Iii all that area
'J
-comprismg pjwenui ana populous . mendratrged it tothe fireand mann
Statee, the voice of the masses was j ed it. The negroes later helped
unhindered, and made itself heard ! save property and 6tav the flames.
in the late conflict. In all that vast 1
trea the press is free, speech is free
. and man is free. No class and no
condition of men is deprived of any
of the rights, privileges and immu
nities guaranteed to American citi
zens by the organic law. There
choice is absolutely free ; men affili
ate as they please without question
ing from anybody. Any verdict
they may render at the polls must
pass without question.
Draw a line from the Atlantic
westward along the southern boun
dary line ol Pennsylvania to the Ohio
river, and thence to the Mississippi,
and the entire area southward tsthe
Gulf gives all its electoral votes to
the Democrats. Yet nowhere on
this continent is there so little of the
trae spirit of democracy as there.
In spirit, in action, by tradition and
by education, the governing class
there is aristocratic In the old
time, when slavery prevailed
throughout the entire area, the voice
of the people was stifled. It was
never heard, and no election within
sixty years has there reflected the
popular will. The spirit of liberty
it there repressed. Neither free
speech, free press nor free pecple
have ever been known in the old
slave area. Force and fraud have
always been the right arm of the
governing clasB there. But a single
class is or ever has been free to speak
or print the truth, and that class
has seldom exercised its exclusive
privilege in those respects.
The people have but to contrast
these two pictures, drawn from ir
refragable history, and make their
own inferences, as they were lor
twenty years before the great treason
of 1SG1, but the inevitable course of
events will compel the inferences at
last. The party which exists solely
in its criminal alliance with a plu
tocracy 60 vast cannot masquerade
under the thin veil of Democracy
very many years. The inevitable
end of such stupendous hypocrisy
approaches. Philadelphia North
American.
The Official Figures.
The return Judges for the Seven
teenth Congressional district, after
canvassing the returns of the several
counties for Congressman, made the
following official returns :
Campbell.
ti,413
. .. 3,858
-.. 44,2
4.MU
Enfield.
4,073
3.912
4,!'6'i
2,41
Blair
liixTforti...
Cambria..
Somerset.
Total I".
Campbell's majority... ..........oWH
Matthew Calvin, Esq.. Greenback
candidate, had in the district 141
votes, and Samuel Isett, Prohibition
candidate, had 313.
PENNSYLVANIA'S OFFICIAL VOTE.
Figures Wbich Render a lleturning
Board Vnnecessary.
The following are the official plu
ralities by counties for Presidential
electors in the recent election in
Pennsylvania, together with the
gains of the respective parties over
the pluralities in the Presidential
election ot laaU:
Clevo- Rep. Pein.
iilalue. land. Gain. Gain.
4AU l'S ....
1S.M2
1.13 .... 4 ....
Lb'.1 .... 37 ....
10 .... ....
t.wi t-37 ....
1,760 .... ' 70 ....
W7
113 1
yo .... as ....
664 J9
187 .... 12!
.... 132 47 ....
43 667 ....
3.7V2 .... IX
.... 1,13 3A7 ....
.... ti ....
.... 400 4.13 ....
1.WI2 4B0 ....
1.00U .... 2ii ....
716 81 ....
8,027 .... LOTS ....
3,004 W ....
.... Sol 44U ....
2.S04 .... iea
' T7 641
268 .... ISO
313 W!
.... .Mi l ....
1,85 " ....
1,000 .... 242 ....
a,7N7 2M ....
431 .... 310 ....
19 IX ....
S.M1 .... 8,322 ....
V.IW6 .... 1,11 ....
S.2K4 2
2,28V 464
17W 360 ....
W2 S.4SW
64 UlO
SVO .'. 224
1,470 .... 420
8 .... ia
.... 2,233 ISM ....
63 4M ....
4 12
3 ia.1 .2
- .... 11V 70
223 ... 14 ....
39.014 .... .24 ....
028 107 ....
K7 12
72 .... 8.248
TM .... 1!'7 ....
2,842 .... Mt ....
.... Xu 1 ....
1.S-2S W4 ....
II!S .... too ....
M4 .... 62 ....
bl .... 18 - ....
1,247 16H ....
(ioO .... 240
.... 73 '1A ....
"Hi 127
.... 3,448 183
U0.WI1 30,408 43.767 4'.0
lti.40n 4t
Counties.
AilauiK
Allegheny
Armstrong
Heaver
Hertford
Berks....
Hlair
Bradford
Hocks
Butler
Cambria
Cameron
Carbon
Centre
Che.-ter
Clarion
Clear neld
Clinton
Columbia
Crawford
Cumberland
Dauphin.... ....
Delaware
hlk
Erie -
Fayette
Forest
Franklin
Fulton
Oreene
Huntingdon
Indiana.
Jeflerson....
Juniata
Lackawanna ....
Lancaster........
Lawrence
Lelmnon....
Lehiith
Luterne
Lycoming
McKean
MeroT. ..........
Mtfliin
Monroe
M on i R-omery . . . ..
Montour.
Northampton....
Northumberland
Perry
Philadelphia....
Pike
Potter
Schuylkill
Snyder
Somerset ........
Sullivan
Susquehanna....
Ttora
Vnum
VenanKO
Warreu
Washington
Wayne
Westmoreland...
Wyoming
York....
Total
Blaine's plurality SU.i&3 Net gain 43.2T7
Add Uarucld's plurality 87,27
Blaine's plurality
Sullfvan eoamv estimated.
Next Congresnlunal d lesrat ion Twenty Repub
licans, eight Democrat.
Jtcp. isein .
Next State Senate 31
Next Houol UoprernlUvea 141
. 171
70
Republican majority on joint ballot . . . 1
Ulaine in Ilia Own State.
to
70
Aixu'STA, Me.. Nov. 14. The Ken
nebec Journal will publish to-morrow
morning the vote of the state at
the late presidential election, except
ing ten small towns and plantations
not yet returned to the office of the
Secretary of State, showing the fol
lowing result: Claine, 71,710;
Cleveland, 51,050; Butler, 3,91)4 ; St
John, 2,143 ; lilaine V plurality, liU.
000; majority, 13,923.
In 1880, Garfield's plurality was
8'J0 and his majority, 4,373. lilaine
carries every county in the 6tate,
while ln.lSbiJ four counties crave ma
j jorities against CJaxCeld.
Ohio's Official Vot.,
Columbus. O., November 15. The
official canvass of this State was com
pleted to-night, showing: TotaJ,
785.179 Blaine, 400,082; Cleveland,
3G8.280 Butler. 5,170; St. John, 11,.
209. Blaine's plurality, 31, 802.
Negroes Fire a Town.
Savannah, No'. 16. Brunswick
was fired at 1:30 this morning by
incendiaries, supposed to be negroej.
who are excited by talk of re-en
slavement The negro fire company
reiused to bring out their engine to
fhfl ticstctftnivof tViA whitjiB VVliif
Pne, n,e ,w8 he'4 V e: "ae.ve
land had his torchlight procession
Thursday night and Blaine is hav
ing his to-night" The loss is esti
mated at $200,000.
it
KICKED
OUT
" That Same Old Coon
Has To Go.
Cleveland the Winner.
A Majority of 87 Electoral Votes.
Cleveland is elected President and
the South is once more placed in
the saddle. The official canvass of
the vote of New York State on
which depended the election of
Blaine or Cleveland was completed
on Saturday evening, showing a plu
rality for the Cleveland electors of
about eleven hundred. The electo
ral vote of New York, New Jersey
Connecticut and Indiana added to
the one hundred and fifty three votes
of the solid South gives Cleveland a
majority of thirty-seven in the elec
toral college and makes him Presi.
dent of the United States for the
next four years.
New York, November 16. The
completion of the official count of
the vote of the State of New York
for Presidential Electors establishes
che fact that Grovcr Cleveland was
elected President of the United
States on the 4th of November. He
will have a majority of 37 in the
Electoral College.
The board of Canvassers complet
ed the canvass of tho 112 election
districts of this city this evening.
The first election district of the
Eighteenth Assembly district by er
ror returned 54 votes to the Blaine
electors. The number should have
been SI. The Committee on Correc
tion will rectify the error and report
in lavor ot ol votes on wonaay
morning. With that return in the
official vote of the lowest Democrat
ic elector in this city is 133,157, and
the highest Republican elector 90,
093, giving the lowest Cleveland
elector a plurality of 43,004.
The Tribune gives to Cleveland
and Hendricks a plurality in New
York State of 1.070. The Sun
makes the plurality in the State for
Cleveland 1,087. The orld gives
Cleveland 1.107 plurality and the
Time gives him 1,105.
The Electoral Vole.
BLAINK.
California.......
( 'oloruilo. ..
Illinois .
Iowa...... .............
Kansas....... .
Maine. .
M assacu uet ts . ...
Michigan .........
Minnesota..--..
Nebraska....
Nevada..
New Hampshire..
Ohio........
tregon ................
I CLEVELAND.
8 Alabama ..
10
3 Arkansas
22 ( 'on nccticut. .. .
l.'l Delaware
9, Florida
fi,(Jeorgia-.
14 1 ndiana ...
13' Kentucky... ..
7 1 l.onisiana
V.Maryland
3 M ississi ppi
4 M is&nnn ....... -.
23jXew York....
3 New Jersey...
3 North Carolina-,
4iSouth Carolina-.
. 4
. 12
.. 1")
. 13
.. 8
.. 8
9
- ll)
.. 3(5
- 9
.. 11
Pennsylvania.......
Rhode Island......
.. 9
,. 12
13
Vermont -...
4 Tennessee
Wisconsin... .......
. II
Texas-.....
Virginia...-.
West Virginia-.
,. 12
Total .............
.13;
. 0
.219
Total
MR. BLAINE NOTIFIED.
He Bears the Mews A p pa really Wtln
at CbasriB Ooisic t wasblnrtva.
Boston, Maps., November 15. A
special to the Herald from Augusta
says: Mr. Blaine regards the official
count in New York as practically
settling the Presidential question.
Mr. Blaine, it is stated on the best
authority, received this afternoon a
telegram from New York announc
ing the completion of the official
canvass in that city, and informing
him that the plurality for Cleveland,
in that state would be 1137. The
same authority states that Mr.
Blaine accepts the result very cheer
fully and has no regrets growing out
of his connection with the campaign.
He feels that he made a good fight
and gracefully bows to the verdict of
the American people. He believes
the republican party will prove true
to its grand past and will increase in
ptrength with the coming years. He
expects that in 1888 it will again be
called back into power.
Mr. Blaine leaves for Washington
the middle of next week, where he
and his family will spend the win
ter. He has leased the ''Sargent
house," in Farragut Square, and
will shortly resume his work on the
second volume of Twenty Years in
Congress." The volume will be
ready by next June for publication.
THE PRESIDENT ELECT
Taking Little Interest In the Official
Count Threatening Letters.
Albany, Nov. 16. President elect
Cleveland manifested nomoreactive
interest in the result of the official
canvass yesterday than during any
of the days it has been in progress.
He has occasionally asked his pri
vate secretary how the count in New
York was progressing, but such in
quiries were rather incidental than
otherwise, and being answered, the
Governor at once lapsed into his
customary state of apparent indiffer
ence. It is certain that the Gover
nor, all through the exciting cam
paign, has remained steadfast in the
conviction that he was to oe success
ful. It is reported that just before
the election, when afked by an inti
mate friend upon what he based his
conviction, he replied : "Oh, I don't
know : but it's just my luck." That
seema to correctly express it.
For some reason the number of
visitors ot the Executive Chamber
since election has been remarkably
small. It is true, there has been no
lack of sightseers, who have literally
taken possession of the chamber,
gazed in wonder at the magnificent
ly carved oak ceiling, fingered with
the pictures and even fondled arti
cles on the Governor's desk but
there have been few notabilities.
The Governor's mail, however has
been singly enormous. Poring the
campaign it waa large, but it has in
creased four-fold since ejection.
Several clerks have been constantly
employed in opening, assorting and
answering the leltera,
While many of the missive ar
couched in congratulatory termstb'
ers are those of warning, and others
still contain dire threats. Several
writer solemnly swear that Cleveland
shall not live to ee another fortnight
Others warn him to beware of the
plots against his life, and advise him
to ride instead of walk to the capitol
and to have at least-four guards at
the executive chambers. Probably
Gov. Cleveland has seen none of the
missives, but, if he has, it is safe
to say that they don't worry bim
to any great extent - He is in splen
did health, and seems to be at peace
with himself and the world. Not
even the trying ordeal of the past
two weeks has in the least disturbed ,
his serenitv. A verv larae number i
of letters contain applications for i
office, the positions desired ranging! Toledo, Nov. 13. A large quan
from a country nostmasterehip to a tity ot powder stored in a shed on
Cabinet position! Several thousand Delaware Creek, four miles from this
of these have already been filed. city, exploded at ten o'c? cfc this
The gifts that haye been received1
by itha Governor durinz the past
four months would eo far toward
stocKing a ceuntry store, and
are of almost infinite variety.
they
WA811IXOTON laKTTKR.
From Our Regular Currcqxmdent.
v Washikgtos, Nov. 15,1884.
Last night witnessed the greatest
Democratic parade ever seen in thia
city. It wa marshalled by uui
DiCKSon, who was prominent as a
juror in the Star route trial, and
was afterwards tried himself on the
charge of having accepted a bribe
from the Star route defendants. I ,
mention this merely to show what
kind of men the party of reform(?)
is bringing to the front in the morn
ing freshness of ita victory.
There has been a wonderful res
urrection of Democracy iu Wash
ington since it is thought that Cleve
land is to be tuenext president. Old
whiskey-soaked fellows that the
Washington world had lorgolten
have hobbled forth, and like old
Hamlet's ghost are revisiting the
glimpses of the . moon, verily
something is rotten in Denmark
when these old rebels and rebel sym
pathisers are again in tho ascend
ant It is understood in political circles
here that Southern Democrats ex
pect to have much to say in the for
mation and in the policy of the new
administration. They will demand
their full share of the loaves and
fishes, and occupy prominent places
at the council table. They say they
have taken back seats and eaten
humble pie long enough. They
have voted in a solid mass through
long years of political adversity.
The day of official usufruct has
come, inev want tne oinces. iney
had no part iu civil service legisla
tion and do not believe in it. They
know that they furnished about
three-fourths of the electoral vote
that made Cleveland president, and
they will be satisfied with that pro
portion of the patronage.
The Republican office holders
here are at loss what to do. Some
of them are lulled with the talk
that Mr. Cleveland is committed to
civil service reform, and cannot
consistently dismiss honest and
competent public servants. But
the majority of them are preparing
to travel in the spring or early sum
mer. It is not believed that Mr.
Cleveland will not be able to with
stand the pressure that will be
brought to bear upon him by the
hunsrrv vandals who have made
him president His Cabinet will
becin bv anpointins as their chief
clerks and immediate assistants,
personal and political friends. They
will appoint the friends of certain
senators and members. This will
open the wav to unlimited remov
als, and sooner or later Republican
officials will have to go. Some
clerks are well off, and quite a num
ber have saved a little money, but
the creat majority have not only
not a dollar ahead, but are hopeless-
iy in deM. Many of tuem borrow
ed mont ' to bet on the election. I
know a number who are paying
from o to 10 per cent interest per
month for money staked on Blaihe
Economy is the watchword here
now, and it is felt in every avenue
and artery of commercial, iudus
trial and social life. Merchants
say that trade was never before so
dull at this season. Tailors report
a ereat increase in the bupiness of
renovating old clothes. Fashion
able milliners and dress-makers
are in despair. Even butchers, gro
cers, and saloon keepers feel the
pinch of retrenchment. 10,000
government employes and five times
as many who are dependent upon
them are endeavoring to save a lit
tle money for the rainy day pre
dicted after the fourth of March.
The Capitol is in readiness for
Congress which will convene in two
weeks. The hotels, boarding
houses and restaurants are ready, too.
Mere living will bd cheap in Wash
ington this winter. Bonrdine houses
and restaurants baye adjusted them
selves to the new order of things.
The hungry Democrats who are
already pouring into the city will
be able to find subsistence at a cost
of from seventy-five cents to a
dollar a day. There is no end to
gossip in political circles about the
Cabinet and policy of the new ad
ministration. The Democrats are
not sure of their man for whom
they gave their votes and money.
The sucsfstion that Schurz will
have a place in the Cabinet is gall
and wormwood to them, and it is
not improbable that the first month
of the new administration will de
velop a split in the Democratic
ranks as wide and ns fatal as that
which followed the inauguration of
Garfield. They are not a happy
family by any means. Clouds,
storm-winds, and dangers are in
their sea-road.
An Insane Asylum In Flames.
Oshk.osfi, Wis., No7. 15. Shortly
before 11 o'clock thia evening fire
was discovered in the boiler room
of the Northern Hospital for Insane,
situated about four miles north of
this city. The flames spread with
startling rapidity and the main
building was soon enveloped, En
gines have been dispatched from
this city, but the fire is increasing
rapidly and there are but little
hopes of saving the institution.
About 500 inmates are confined in ;
the asylum and they are now being
removed. It is thought that all
will be saved.
A Prentdent'a Daughter Married.
Richmond, Va., Nov,
AO."-IV1 1S8 I
Pearl Tyler, daughter of ex-President
Tyler, was married at five
o'clock this morning to the Hon I
William Mumford Ellis, member of j
the House of Delegates from Mont
gomery county. The ceremony
took place in St Peter's Cathedral,
the Bight Rev. Bishop John i.
Keane officiating. A large number
ef friends were present The couple
have gone north on their wedding
Jour.
PeeapUatpit tn a Figh.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 13.
Meagre particulars of a horrible
anair near iienaiait navo just oeemiamuy oi jenerson nigger was
received here. Thos. Dull, while in i poisoned with arsenic yesterday,
an intoxicated condition, went into
a house of iil-repute. He became
involved in a difficulty with three
men, and was knocked down and
dealt a terrific blow on the neck
with an axe. The blow almost cut
his head off. lie died instantly.
The murderers escaped.
A FKIG HTFl'l EXPIAWIOX.
More
Than Ten Tons of Powder
Off In Ohio.
Go
morning, making a report, t left was
heard lor lorty miles in every direc-
tion. The windows of houses in that
quarter of the city near the scene
were generally broken. At . the
Broadway school, three miles dis
tant, the windows were smashed and
the slates holding the windows up
were broken. Several persons work
ing in the shed were seen running,
and everybody near took this as a
signal of danger and fled before the
explosion occurred. They were all
far enough away to escape danger
except an old man called "Fred,"
who had charge of the shed. He
was some distance away, but was
thrown down aud had his hair
scorched. A wagon containing a
man and three women in the road
100 yards away was blown into a
ditch, but nona of the occupants
were seriously i ajured. Fences were
levelled in the vicinity, and limbs
were blown from trees.
Tho ruins ignited, and men are
now lighting to keep it from reach
ing a lot of petroleum stored near
bv.
The explosion was in the giant
powder factory of A. J. & O. B
Kammel, consisting of a packing
hou.-e, maeazine and stock-house,
situated on Crown Little Knoll, of
the Delaware creek, and surrounded
bv a dense thicket of trees. The
workmen in the packing-house were
thawing out a tub containing twen
ty -.-ix pounds of nitro-glyceripe, and
sei it too near tne lire, ine tuo
caught fire, aud the men threw it
outride and gave an alarm. An iu
stiuit after the tub exploded. The
concussion set off the tuagazine,con
taiuing ten tons of giant powder,
known to the trade as "Great West
ern" powder. Tho stock building
was blown dowu, imprisoning the
men working there, and immediate
ly caught fire. All extricated thena
gelves speedily with no greater inju
ry than slight bruises, except Rine
land Gault, whq was badly" bruised
all over the body and in getting out
of the blazing ruins his clotning
caught on fire and he dashed into
the creek to extinguish the flame.
He was taken to a house near bv
and medical aid summoned. life
will probabty recover. A hou-ie
near by owned by a man namel
Bench was badly shattered, and an
other belonging to Mr. Wilson was
entirely wrecked. The House of
Refuge, a half mile away, had the
wall on that Fide nearest the scene
of the explosion shattered near the
top. Over eighty of the windows
were smashed, including the sashes.
One side was blown off an ice hourfe
ouc hundred yards away. Barns and
fences near by were demolished, and
a number of telegraph poles thrown
down. A panic was caused in two
f the city school-houses, and in the
stampede many of the children were
badly bruised, but none seriously
injured. The total loss on the pow
der works and the powder in stock
is anout 10,000. The explosion
was felt at Detroit, Mich., a distance
of sixty miles.
Cleveland, Nov. 13. A rumble
and shock that was believed to have
been caused by an explosion at To
ledo was plainly heard and felt this
morning at Leavitt9burg, distant
freni Toledo about 150 miles. Here
112 miles east of Toledo, persons
who observed the motion thought it
was caused by an earthquake. At
Chagrin Falls, twenty-four miles
southeast of thia place, it was
thought that cannon were being fir
ed here over the election returns,and
inquiries were made by telephone as
to what the artillery salute signified.
A Coorageons Woman.
Atlanta, Ga. Noy. 14. Mrs.
Cooley, a highly respected white
lady, last night in the absence of
her husband, was alarmed, at VJ
o'clock by a negro, who tried to
gain admittance. Loadiug her hus
band's pibtl, she placed it on the
shelf beside her bed and went to
sleep. She awoke several hours
later to find her room filled with
light; at the same time she heard,
as supposed, her husband knocking
at the door: On opening she found
it was the bright moonlight instead
of the early sun. At the same
moment the form outside pressed
through the door and the lady
found herself lifted up in the strong
arms of a negro, who laid htr on the
bed.
Realizing her great danger, she
grasped the pistol with her left
hand and fired, shooting hiui in the
neck. Instantly he dropped her
and fell to the floor himself, beg
ging her to desist Iu a moment
rhe was on her feet, and, determined
to kill her assailant, she pulled the
trigger again, but the weapon miss
ed fire. Seeing his advantage, the
negro rose and ran when Mrs.
Cooley fired another shot, striking
him in the back, from tho efltcts of
which he fell, but eoon arose and
made for the woods. It is believed
that he will Oe found dead in the
woods which are now being scoured
fur him. ,
Important Arrests.
Washington, Pa., November 12.
At noon to day James Blair Simp
son, William Rosseland Mrs. Mary
Rosael were lodged in jail at this
place, having been arrested by Of
ficers France and Riley on the charge
of burglary and larceny at Coal
Centre. As booh as the officers de
livered the nrisoiiers to Sheriff Cham-
bers, tho latter told them to hasten
back to loal Centre, as lie haa re
ceived a telegram stating that their
deputy, Jos. Underwood has shot
Harry Ortwin, another of the gang,
while making his arrest this morning
4. i, .,. n n t.n'it Kinlr
near 1
the town.
A Gambling State Treasurer.
Sacramento, Cal., Noy. 14 Ar
thur D. . Jannay, Deputy State
Treasurer, was arrested last evening
for appropriating ?3'J,500 which had
been - deposited with the SUte
Treasurer by various counties. The
monjiy was lost at gambling.1' The
prisoner acknowledges his guilt
hole Faovlr poisoned.
CoLUMKtji, Ga., Nov. J?. The
and already M. Biggers and Mrs.
Diggers, his daughter and Joseph
Riggers, his son are dead. The
crime is blamed on negroes whom
Mr. Eiggers had arrested for break
ing into his smokehouse. The fam
ily consisted of four persons, only
one of whom survive.
Spread of the Cholera.
Paris, November 13. The conster
nation over the rapid spreid of chol
era in this city increases. Foreign
ers continued "to leave as the means
of transportation will permit. Up
to 6 o clock this erenine oS deaths
have occurred during the lb hours
immediately preceding, of which 28
were in the hospitals, i wo deatns
are reported at Oran, and at Toulon
one and one fresh case was reported
to day. In consequence of the pop
ular indignation at the filthy
condition of that city, municipal au
thorities are having the streets and
gutters cleaned.
The Swiss Goverment now forbids
railway cars from Paris to cross the
frontier until the passengers have
tave been subjected to thorough
medical inspection.
ihs Kxodus From Paris.
Paris, Nov. 14. The exodus
from Paris still continues in great
numbers ' in consequence of the
cholera plague. A correspondent
went on an exploring tour this
morning through the narrow streets
and alleys that run out of the main
thoroughfares between the Fau
bourg du Temple and the Faubourg
St. Antoioe, where the cholera is
severest He says the uncleanliness
of these populous quarters makes
them verv hot-beds ot disease. One
can hardly realize the condition of
these rookeries, in which thousands
of men, women and children live,
eat, work and sleep, with an inade
quate supply of air, light and water,
and in utter disregard of cleanliness.
One house, four stories high, shelt
ers ten families of some fifty per
sons, includins men. women and
children. The inhabitants
work
tnd sleep in
the same room. The
sanitary
inc.
arrangements
are shock-
Precautions Aganst Cholera.
Washington, Nov. 1-1 The Na
tional Board of Health has sent to
the governors of the several states a
communication concerning the pres
ent European cholera epidemic.
The document declares thatthe epi
demic i9 a constant menance to the
people of the United States, and
that during the last two vears it has
pressed steadily Westward, until it
has found lodgment in European
ports whence more than one of the
epidemics this country has suffered
from have come.
The disease, says the bonrd, may
at any tr.oment make ita appearance
in the United States, and the history
of the disease leads to the conclusion
that we can only hope to escape i
if at all, or to "mitigate its ravages,
by the most prompt and efficient
sanitary service. No part of any
state should be left unguarded, and
the governors nre requested to call
the attention of their respective leg
islatures to the subject and urge the
necessity of appropriations to pro
vide for the immediate organization
of the most thorough sanitary ser
vice, state and
Every organised community
should he provided" with a compe
tent Board of Health, and the state
with a State Board, supplied with
every requisite for aiding and di
recting the local authorities. By
the prompt adoption of such meas-
J urea we may hope, if not wholly to
escape an invasion oi tnis cireaa ais
ease, at least, to limit its ravages to
the place where it first makes its ap
pearance. Accompanying these communi
cations is a copy of the rules and
regulations framed by the board,
and recommended for adoption by
state and local Boards of Health, to
be enforced in teh event of the prev
alence of infectious and contagious
disease.
A Fight With Indians.
Sr. Paul, Minn., November 14. A
party often Indians and a cumber
of white men had a very serious fight
yesterday .at Utsality, Washington
Territory. During the row two In
dians were beaten so badly that they
will probably die. One white man
was wounded. Weapons were drawn
on both sides and several shots ex
changed. The Indians finally beat
a retreat, but swore to have full re
venge for the death cf their compan
ions. All the tribe is very angry and se
rious difficulty is expected. Every
possible effort is being made by the
authorities to settle the trouble
peaceably. The trouble originated
in two drunken Indians making a
murderous attack on the whites.
Gen. Ilarncj Marries at SI.
St. Louis, Nov. 13. General W.
S. Harney, the oldest officer in the
arm', a member of one of the old
families of St Louis, who is 84
years of age, was married here this
evening to Mrs. Mary E. St. Cyr,
who for five years acted in the ca
pacity of housekeeper ia hisi bouse
hold. The only' persons present at
the ceremony, which was performed
at the Roman Catholic Cathedral,
were Mrs. Mitchell, a sister of the
bride; Miss Mitchell, Miss St. Cyr
and the General's body servant.
Drunken Brawl.
Cincinnati, November 12. Wil
liam Williams, colored, was shot and
killed at an early hour this morning
on the sidewalk in front of Deter's sa
loon, corner of Ninth and Plum street
by an unknown man in the
saloon, who escaped. Williams
knocked the other man down
cutting a gash in his head. The
man went out to a water trough to
bathe his wound, when Williams
followed aud fired at hira. The man
returned the fire, shooting Williams
through the heart
Burned Ills Hftuw and
. self.
Kilted Him-
McPhersok, Kan., Nov. 13. Au-
been!Rust Tuxhnru, a farmer of this
county, to-day set fire to his house
and barn, and then blew his brains
out with a shotgun. The buildings
were destroyed together with $4000
in money which was in the hoQse.
Total loss, 111,000. Evidence show
ed that he intended to murder his
wife and four children, but his
plans were frustrated by i his wife.
No cause is assigned for his act. ex
cept that he was a man of violent
temper.
v. A SJiip Slink. .
Bog-rq.v, November 13. A dispatch
repeiyed at tfie Merchants' Exchange
torday, dated Pernambuco," Novem
ber 12, rrport3 the loss of the' ship
Andrew Johnson, Captain Kelleran,
of Thomaston, Me., while on the
voyage from Caleto Buenna to Ham
burg. She collided with the British
ship Thilmerce, Captain Smith, from
Queenstown and sunk with 17 of her
crew. The Thirlmere has arrived
at Perambuco with the survivors of
the Johnston's crew.
Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Harkisburg, Pa., November 10. j
Governor Pattison to day issued the ;
following: 'Our mo?.t humble and
heartfelt thanksgiving and praise
are due to Almighty God for His
gracious goodness and great loving
kindness to U3 and to all men. In
the midst of His judgment He has
saved us from the pestilence that
walketh in darkness and the destruc-
tion thatwasteth at noonday. He
has blessed us with abundant har
vests and peace. I, therefore, do
hereby appoint Thursday, the twenty-seventh
of the present month, as
a day of general thanksgiving, praise !
and oraver. and I recommend that
the people of this Comm
non wealth,
al business
S, at their
abstaining trom tlinrusua
occupations and pursuit
homes and m their respective places
of worship do reader thanksgiving
and praise to the God of State for
His numberless blessings, and that
that they do further uaite in solemn
prayer, beseeching Him to preserve
us evermore from all perills and to
continue His loving kindness to
us.
The Freeholder Jlenameot
Freehold, N. J. November 13.
The handsome monument erected
commemorate the battle of Mon
mouth, which was fought Sunday,
June 23, 1778, oh the hill side just
west of Freehold, was unveiled to
day with appropriate ceremonies.
The crowd was one of the 1 irge!t
ever seen iu New Jersey, fully thirty-five
thousand persons being pres
ented. Every house and store in
the town and the public buildings
were profusely decorated with ever
greens and flags of all kinds. On
i the green fronting the Court House
was a large platiorm, ironi wnicn
Governor Leon Abbott and staff,
General Gershom Mott, the com
mandant of the New Jersey Division
of the National Guard and staff,
members of the State Senate and
State House of Assembly, Ex-Governor
Parker, Ludlow and Btd!e and a
host of other officials reviewed the
procession. It was composed of the
First, Third and Seventh Regiments
National Guard of the State, firemen
and a number of civic soci
eties. The crowd at the unveiling cere
mony covered tweuty acres of land.
Theo W. Morris, the President of the
Monmouth Battle Monument Com
mission und the originator of the
project, in a short speech presented
the monument to the State. After
an invocation by the Right Rev.
Bishop Scarborough', Episcopal Bis
hop ot the Diocese of New Jersey,
Governor Leon Abbott in fitting
terms accepted the monument on
the part of the state. Ex-Governor
Joel Parker, the orator of tho day,
delivered an address upon the bat
tle of Monmouth. A collation to
the invited cupsts followed the un
veiling ceremonies.
The monument cost 810,000. Oi
the entire sum Congress appropria
ted 820,000 and the State of New
Jersey ?10.000, the remaining $10,
000 being raised by private subscrip
tion. Ihe monument is nearly one
hundred feet high. It is a circular
shaft It stands upon a triangular
pedestal and is surmounted by a
statue of Liberty. The sha:t and
statue are of granite. Oa the lower
prrtion of the shaft are five bas re
liefs of bronze, representing five
scenes from the battla of Monmouth
Above tbem are thirteen bronze tab
lets of the coats-of-arms of the origi
nal States ot the L nion. it is one
of the finest battle monuments in
thi3 country.
A Mintstpr'd Suicide.
Tkenton, N. J., Nov. .13 Rev.
Henry Williamson, rector of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church in this
city, was found dead, with his brains
dashed out, at about 11 o'clock this
mornin?. In his hand was a brand
new revolver with one chamber dis
charged. The bullet crashed
through the temple, scattering the
brains and small bones all around.
The deceased was a young man
about 28 years old. He has been
in this city several years, first as
assistant rector of St Michael's and
lately as rector of St. Paul's Church.
He graduated from Princeton Col
lege in 1S79. His father is ex
Chancellor Williamson, of Eliza
beth. No ciuse has yt been dis
covered for the deed, although it is
rumored a love trouble hs some
thing to do with it Mr. William
son stood high in society, and was
greatly esteemed wherever known.
The suicide was prmd'1tated.
He wrote lettsrs to the undertaker
and treasurer of St Paul's Church,
telling how he wished his body and
salary disposed of. No satisfactory
theory for the act is advanced. It
is probable that no inquest will be
hld, as Chief Justice Brasley virtu
ally took charge of the body. The
deed was done in a lane on West
State street .
A Terrific
I.wier Ex plosion
Toledo, Ohiu.
near
Toledo, O., Nov. 13. A large lot
of powder stored in a bhed on Dela
ware Creek, four miles from this
city, exploded at 10 o'clock this
morning. The report was heard forty
miles in every direction. The win
dows of the houses in that quarter
of the city were generally broken.
At the Broadway school, three miles
from the scene, windows were
smashed, and the; scholars' slates,
holding the windows up, were
broken,
-s Several persons working in the
shed were seen running and shout
ing. Everybody near took this as a
signal of danger and tied. A terrif
ic explosion followed,' but all were
far enough away to escape except
an old man named Fred, who had
charge of the shod. He had eot
some distance away, but was thrown
down, and his hair was badly
scorched.
A spring wagon cor.taininz a man
and three women, which stood in
the yard a hundred yards away.
was blown into a ditch, but no oue
was seriously injured. Fences
were leveled in the vicinity and
limbs blown from the trees.
A Brother' Fiendish Act.
Kittaxsixg, Nov. 12. During
the absence from home of George
Hauser, who reeides near Dayton,
Armstrong county, his fourteen-year-old
boy stripped his younger
sister and placed her on a red-hot
stove, burning her so severe v that
ber ife is despaired cf.
Pension Commissioner Dudley's
Successor-
Washington, D. C, November 15.
The President to-day appointed
Otis P. G. Clarke Commisioner of
Pensions, vice Dudley, resicned, and
Cal vin B. Walker of Indiana, at
presentSecond Deputy Commission
er, will be First Deputy Commision
er, yice Clark promoted.
OFFICE OF
. M. AVOOLF,
Kos. 250 252 Hail St.
TO THE PIT.LIC :
We have the pleasure to announce that our arrancme
for the business of the present season, Ion considered
jmost carefully made, arc now complete, and we respectfully
: vite the people from far and near- to call on us and inspect
j 0,1Twrl SfAl Vt ara Trclr mi r o-rViliif in oi-ow .1 .
We now have exclusive control of Messrs. L. Adlrr, Bros V
Co.'s Rochester (N. Y.)Fine Clothing, the reputation of whir'
stands pre-eminent. Their garments bear the stamp cf ir
viduality ; their styles are the most approved, the fit periV
the make admirable. Their Clothing has the appearance r
fine custom work, and can in no w ay be compared to the or
nary ready-made clothing found elsewhere. We want each C
dividual opinion as to whether our line of Men's and Youth
Clothing is not the Largest and Best-Assorted ; as to whet
our Styles are not the Most Desirable ; as to whether our fo
ments are not the Most Perfect Fitting ; as to whether tC-
to i
are not the Best-Trimmed and Best-Made ones ; and last, bci
not least, as to whether our prices are not the Lowest.
We will, however, emphasize the fact that our Line .
Overcoats is by a large majority the handsomest in the citv :.
Our furnishing goods department is replete with all" &
Latest Novelties of the season, consisting, as it does, of a Fal
and complete line of Lowrey's Xew York Fine Neckw.-.
(Lowrey's Neckwear is handled by the finest New York funis'' '.
ers only) ; all grades of Underwear, from the cheapest to ('sr.
wright & Warner's and the finest camel's hair ; all the '(
Styles in the Crown Make Linen Collars and Cuffs.
Wc would like to make mention of some of our XoVltjp.
and specify some of our Styles ; but, as the school-bov sav j
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We are sole agents here for E. Morris & Cos (fo;
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E.
KA-TON-KA
The Great Blood Purifier,
Has beoa asatl for eenturies by the ln,lian, and brought hr them ilirwt from their Ww,i-J
Indiiiu either the ruoU, barbs, barks an j gums, ami ship tbem ( to as. A few of tU mst
a and tkilltaiof these people are seat bare toproparo tiiis remrlubie mejlctno for tbe wfiinW '
use. The Indians rightly tfiliere that
THE It LOO D IS THE LIFE,
Anil that to keep It pare Is the trill to healt h.
proioceu suTamaoie a remtMiy. or
blood, as this Indian preparation.
rlu e4 suraluabl
rernddy. orone so potent
five it a fair trial.
aosunerer
A DISORDERED LITER AND STOMACH, UNLESS CURED BY IA TOMA,
Causes snch 4!sc.tses as Dyspepsia. Sick Headache. Sour Stwnaeh, T,oss of appetite. Hesr'tiam. :
prewlon, I 'eura U;la. Femitle DiiiNers, Kidney Diseases, i'oosiipillon, Liver t'oajhs. Iii'-'isv"' -;
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awl Acae, Sciatica, K houaiallsin. Nrrouness, 0 iticnes.H, Bilious Attack, Pains in the "
Laer Disease, Bolls, Pleurisy, and a h i ot other III'.
The medicines of the druxxist. tulcn Iniernally. will l no trod. The only safe and sure eas-' s,.
In the use of K.4.TO.VKA. itai.is the liver an I sLum v-iito man a itntjl ttim. driv' 5 '
poisons from the system, tones a p the nerrons
uwiiu. Asa
has it not, tell
Ask your druitvist for KA-TO.V-KA.
ell him to send for it to the
OREGON INDIAN MEDICINE COMPANT,1
COBRY, E2riTA. f
Price fl.OO Per Bottle, Six Bottles for $5.00. I
THE IKDIAK COUGH SYRUP
Is certainly the best Remedy of Its ktn.1 ever introduced, ana the people wboere snfterln
Coagbs, Colds, andXuDg Troubles shunl J not delay. Iu e fleets are magical.
nrtrtftt iftll 'WlllneTerberonrottenbythosewhosawtbewnderfulijar'?'S
IslUUVV VIL formed in nubile by the Indian Medicine Men. It rcUrvesi!PJ
Immediately. Ask your uruKxist for Mudoa
bottle. Large bottles JO cents. For sale by aU
oe Indian
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SOMEKSET,
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