Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Henry Watterson has collected the following figures as to the Speakership contest: For Carlisle, first and no second choice, 84; for S. S. Cox, 13; for S. J. Randall, 11; for W. M. Springer, 2; non-committal, 65. For Carlisle, second choice, 18; for Cox, second choice, 4. Of the 133 thus classified, 85 are outspoken in favor of a revision of the tariff, 9 are against it, and 29 are noncommittal The political campaign in Virginia is being pressed by both sides with an energy and vigor never before known in the politics of the Old Dominion. ( Ben Butler’s managers are scattering over Massachusetts an imitation of the Republican ticket, printed on material similar to tanned fiumamflesh. The Governor’s Council of Massachusetts rejected the nomination of E. J. Walker (colored) to bo Judge of the Charlestown Municipal Court. Gov. Butler immediately renominated Walker.

sermon was delivered by Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island. Bev. Dr. Beardsley, of New Haven, was elected President of the convention. Near Lampasas, Mexico, a few days ago, Mrs. Valdez, while Insane, killed her five children and herself with a batches, knife The ages of the children ranged beween 2 and 10 years. Flames swept away the Peck & Son’s flouring-mill at Oshkosh, W 1&, worth $75,000; the Kent flour-mills, at Chatham, Ontario, valued at $50,000; Decker’s paper-mill at Lee, Mass., worth $35,000, and Malone A Bozeman’s flouring-mill at Carmi, Ind. Twenty-six deaths from yellow fever are reported from Hermosillo within two days Interior towns in Mexioo are being swept by the epidemic Dun’s Commercial Agency reports that for the week business has been unusually quiet in New York, but in Western centers a little more activity has been shown. The banks are not lending money so freely, owing to the exhaustion of their surplus reserve; and the failures, though numerous, are Indicative more of mistakes in the past than business defects at present. A cable dispatch from London states that news had reached there from China, to the effect that Charles Seymour, of Wisconsin, United Consul at Canton, had been assassinated by a mob of infuriated Mongols. Dissatisfaction with what was deemed by the Chinese the too light sentence Imposed by the British Consulate upon Tldewalter Logan, who was tried as the ringleader In the riots of Sept. 10, had embittered the native population of Canton against all foreigners indiscriminately. The mob finally vented its blind fury by the murder in cold blood of a man who had taken no part in the existing troubles and given no offense, but who, in the eyes of the mob, was guilty of the high crime of being a foreigner, and, therefore, worthy of death. Mr. Seymour was Postmaster at La Crosse for many years, and during his entire residence In Wisconsin he has been prominent in the workings of the Republicans in the Congressional district in which he lived. He was a public speaker of considerable power, and stumped the State for Garfield during- the late Presidential campaign. The Northern Pacific Directors, at a meeting in New York, re-elected the board of officers, and authorized the issue of $20,000,000 of second-mortgage bonds, subject to the approval of three-fourths of the stockholders, with which to the floating debt and equip the road. The German citizens in various parts of the country have been celebrating the 200th anniversary of the founding of Gorman town, Pa., by Francis Daniel Pastorius and a body of German pioneers. There were appropriate celebrations in Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York, Milwaukee and other cities.