Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A dispatch from Salt Lake, Utah, says: The general election in this Territory, being the first under the Edmunds law, was one of the quietest ever had in the Territory. The Mormons and Gentiles had tickets f ormembess of the Legislature Territorial county, and precinct officers, but there had been no campaigning or. canvassing on the stump or In the presa The Gentiles accepted, as a foregone conclusion, that their defeat would be overwhelming, and the Mormons realized that victory was certain. The Gentiles practically abstained from voting. Their ticket was not seen at many precincts until late in the day. The returns all show unexpectedly large Mormon majorities. It is probable the Gentiles carried Summit county. All other counties have certainly gone for the Mormons. This city gives about four Mormon votes to one Gentile. No polygamist voted, and no polygamist ran for office, though the many-wived ruled in the nominating conventions and made up the Mormon ticket * An Alexandria dispatch says: “One hundred and ten British soldiers have died from cholera in Egypt since the outbreak of the disease. The general spread of the disease is now no longer doubtful, and great anxiety prevails. Business is suspended. Agriculture is neglected. Judgment against the fellaheen are not to be executed for two montha The railway service is reduced to a minimum. The postal service is greatly upset The customs receipts are failing. The Egyptian officials in the administration are disorganized. Persons arriving from the interior report that the cattle-plague is worse than ever, and that the diseased meat is consumed by the natives as heretofore.” The clearing-house exchanges throughout the country last week—379(s,508,223 —were 328,996,485 less than the previous week, showing quite a reduction in general business. New York alone reports a reduction, as compared with the corresponding week last year, of 42.3 per cento when its exchanges exceeded the sum total of the country last week by $130,0000,000. The financial upheavals have had a depressing effect on trade W. W. McNair declines the nomination of the Democracy to be Governor of Minnesota. Pasctor Knott has been elected Governor of Kentucky, his majority being estimated 45,000. The Legislature will stand: Democrats, 110; Republicans, 23. In an election row at Bryantsville, Ky., caused by a white man selling his vote to both parties, two negroes were killed, two mortally wounded, and two white men seriously injured. Hon. Bradley Barlow, of St. Albans, Vt, President of the Southeastern Railroad Company, was forced to suspend payment on account of the failure of negotiations for the sale of the road to the Canadian Pacific. His embarrassment caused the suspension of the Vermont National bank and of the St Albans Trust Company. Mr. Barlow assigned all his property to the bank for fidvances of $320,0C0 to the railroad. An assignment has been filed by Brothers* Co., of Ijetroit, engaged la land, lumber and insurance, with liabili ties of SIOO,OOO. The Recorder of Kansas City fined Charley Ford S2OO for carrying a revolver without proper authority,although the Chief of Police swore that he believed such protection to be necessary Bince the killing of Jesse James. Later crop reports from England put a much brighter look on the situation. The shortage on wheat and barley will be very small, while oats and potatoes will yield far beyond average crops Megia, a famous bull-fighter of the City of Mexico, was fatally injured the other day. A maddened animal tossed him high in the air and caught him on its horns as he descended.