Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1883 — Page 2

® |)t UcmocruttcSenttnel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. 7‘ W. JfcEWEN, - PUBLISHES.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS. Elections were held in ten States of the Union on Tuesday, Nor. 6. The results, as indicated In the reports telegraphed from the various States on the morning following the polling, are noted below: Massachusetts. —The election in the Bay State was for Governor and other State officers and a Legislature. There were five tickets in the field for the sovereigns to choose from—Republican, Democratic, Greenback, Independent Greenback, and Prohibition —<tnd the choice fell upon the Republican by a good round majority. Gov. Butler was sat down upon pretty solidly. A vety heavy vote was polled, as the result of the bitter canvass by the Butler and anti-Butlerites. The majority for George D. Robinson, the Republican candidate for Governor, is between 12,000 and 15,000. Butler gained on his vote of last year in less than a score of places in the State, while the Republicans gained heavily in all parts of the State. Butler ran about 15,000 votes ahead of the rest of his ticket. Both houses of the Legislature are strongly Republican. The Prohibitionists polled less than 2,000 votes in the entire State. The Massachusetts Republicans are greatly elated at the overthrow of Butler. New York. —New York elected a Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney General, Engineer and Surveyor, and both branches of the Legislature, and voted upon a proposition to abolish contract labor in the State prisons. There were four tickets in the field—Democratic, Republican, Greenback and Prohibition. The vote was a light one. Gen. Carr, the Republican candidate for Secretary of State, is re-elected by a majority of 10,000 to 16,000; Maynard, his Democratic opponent, was cut in all directions, on account of his strong prohibition record. The balance of the Democratic State ticket is elected by a small majority. The State Senate stands 18 Republicans and 14 Democrats; the Assembly, 68 Republicans and 60 Democrats. The Democratic majority in New York city is about 48,000, in a total poll of lti.ooj. Pennsylvania.— Pennsylvania voted for an Auditor General and State Treasurer, and there were four tickets from which to make a choice — Republican, Democratic, Prohibition and National. A light vote—only about 600,000 was polled. The vote in 1880 was nearly 300,000 above this, and last year 743,000 votes were cast. Great apathy prevailed in all parts of the State. William Livesey apd Jerome B. Niles, the Republican candidates for Treasurer and Auditor, are elected by a majority of 15,008 to 20,060. Virginia. —The election in Virginia was for members of the Legislature. One of the bitterest canvasses in the history of the Old Dominion had been waged for weeks between the Democrats and the Readjusters and Republicans, under the leadership of Mahone. The negroes stood by Mahone in solid phalanx. The returns at this writing indicate that the Democrats have secured a majority, though small, in both branches of the Legislature. The Democrats made gains in all the white districts, and in some of Mahone's strongest counties. The latter held his own pretty well in most of the black counties. The election passed off quietly, contrary to general expectation. There was a slight disturbance at one of the polling places in Petersburg, during which Senator Mahone was struck in the face by an unknown person. Minnesota. —Minnesota elected a Governor and other State officers, and voted upon three Constitutional amendments regulating elections and,the tenure of certain State officers. The entire Republican State ticket was elected. Hubbard, for Governor, runs several thousand behind his ticket, his Democratic opponent capturing a great many Republican Norwegian votes. Hubbard's majority is about 12,000, while the balance of the ticket is elected by probably 18,000. Connecticut.— Twelve Senators, a full House of Representatives and eight Sheriffs were voted for in Connecticut. The Republicans secure both branches of the Legislature, the majority being 60 on joint ballot, and capture the Shrievalty in five of the eight counties. Maryland. —Maryland chose a Governor and other State officers, and a Legislature. A very large vote was polled. McLean, for Governor, and the entire Democratic ticket are elected by majorities ranging from 8,000 to 15,000. The Democrats also secure a majority in, the Legislature on joint ballot New Jersey. —New Jersey elected a Governor, six State Senators and a full Assembly. The Democrats, Republicans, Nationals and Prohibitionists placed tickets in the field. Leon Abbott, Democratic candidate for Governor, has about 7,000 majority. The Democrats have a majority of the Legislature by three on joint ballot. Nebraska. —The voting in Nebraska was for a Justice of the Supreme Court and a Regent of the State University. The Republican candidates for both offices are elected by from 6,000 to 8,000 majority. Mississippi. —ln Mississippi a Legislature was chosen Returns indicate a sweeping Democratic yictory. The election passed off quietly. The only disturbance in the State, as far as heard from, was in Copiah county. Where Wheeler killed Mathews. Mathews went to the polls with a pistol in his hand. He received twenty-four buckshot in the face. Chicago. —There was an election in the city of Chicago and Cook county for Judge of the Superior court and for County Commissioners, resulting in the success of all the Democratic candidates by majorities ranging from 2,500 to 4,600, in a total poll of 46,000, or less than half of a full vote. Other Elections.— County elections were held throughout Kansas, the Republican candidates being successful in most of the counties. At a municipal election in Detroit, the Republicans captured the Mayoralty by 400 majority and the Democrats the City Treasurership by 1,3200 majority. The City Council is largely Democratic. The election news heretofore printed is in the main correct, later returns making but little change in the figures and results there announced. Full returns from Massachusett 8 give Robinson a majority of 10,101 over Butler* while Ames has 13,000 for Lieutenant GovernorAbbett is elected Governor of New Jersey by 7,500 majority, and the Democrats hold the Legislacure by five majority on joint ballot. The Republicans in New York have eighteen majority in the Assembly and four in the Senate, but the Democrats seem to have secured the minor State offices, with the exception of Secretary of State. Democratic gains in Virginia give the Legislature to that party by large majorities. Reese, Republican, is elected Supreme Court Judge in Nebraska by a majority of 10,000. Four-fifths of the members of the Mississippi Legislature will be Democrats. The Republican majority in Pensylvania is about 16,000. There is great rejoicing among the Democrats of the Southern States at the overthrow Of Mahone in Virginia, and Massachusetts Re publicans rejoice with exceeding great joy at be downfall of Butler in the Bay State.

EASTERN.

Charles E. Leland, the hotel proprietor, made an assignment at Albany, N. Y. Theodore F. Randolph, who dropped dead at Morristown, N. J., had served that State as Governor and United States Senator, and for many years was President of the Morris and Essex railroad. He was 57 years of age. A contract for 30,000 tons of steel rails at $35 per ton has been made by the Lackawana iron-mills. A leading manufacturer at Pittsburgh refused to compete, and threatens to shut down hi 9 works when bis orders are filled. Moses, the husband of the fat girl who died recently in Baltimore, has sold her body to Dr. Hill for SIOO. H. B. Winship, with running mate, defeated Frank, under same conditions, at Mystic park, Boston, trotting two heats in 2:11% and 2:12%. Lancaster county, Pa., has lately been suffering from the depredations of a band of outlaws who escaped from jail six weeks ago, and have since been hiding in the mountains. The villagers and farmers armed and pursued the convicts, and a running fight of several miles resulted in the capture

of one and the serious wounding of three of the gang. Dr. Hill, of Baltimore, only purchased the fat girl’s remains after urgent solicitation by her husband, Moses, who said he needed the money. A gale at Buffalo blew down a fourstory building, which was nearly completed, burying twelve men in the ruins. Five were killed and seven seriously injured. The boiler of a tug in New York harbor exploded, making splinters of the boat and killing four of the crew. A flying piece of debris killed the helmsman of a schooner ying near by. Experts who have gone through the books of the Rutland Railroad company report a cash deficiency of $45,000, an overissue of stock to the amount of $239,000 par value, and the disbursement of $250,000 under the Presidency of John B. Page, for which no vouchers can be found. The Warden of Sing Sing prison was recently arrested for bribery at the polls, but has been discharged for lack of evidence implicating him.

WESTERN.

The mother of Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, died of heart disease at Stillwater. At a farm-house near Independence, Mo., Henry G. McGee killed his wife and daughter with a shotgun, and then destx-oyed himself by a dose of morphine. The preliminary examination of Orrin A. Carpenter, fog the murder of Zora Burns, has been drawing its slow length along during the past week at Lincoln, 111., before Judge Lacey. Little has been added to what was developed at the Coroner's inquest, the testimony elicited being about the same as that given before the Coroner. While Mrs. Dukes was givjng her testimony, the father of the murdered girl was observed standing beside the prisoner, and trembling violently. The Sheriff searched him, but found no weapons, and the old man declared that he had no thoughts of assassination. A brother of the murdered girt appeared on the scene, and swore that he had received a letter from Zora announcing that the object of her visit to Lincoln on the 14th of October was to have an operation performed on her throat. The defense summoned witnesses to impeach the character and veracity of Mrs. Rebecca J. Carpenter (no relation of the accused) the woman who testified that she took Zora’s letters from her trunk and read them, and detailed the contents of one to Carpenter at Lincoln, in which Zora urged him to come over to Decatur and have some fun. A number of the Carpenter woman’s neighbors testified they would not believe her on bath. The prosecution offset this swearing by the testimony of an equal number of the woman’s neighbors that her reputation for veracity was good. There was some talk of lynching Carpenter during the progress of the investigation, but they were only the utterances of hot-headed and irresponsible parties. Dr. A N; Miller, of Lincoln, went to St. Elmo, and, accompanied by a Justice of the Peace, exhumed the body of Zora Burns. The brains, liver, kidneys and intestines were removed and hermetically sealed in cans. They were taken to Chicago, where the parts will be examined by a chemist at Rush Medical college. It is the Doctor’s opinion that O. A. Carpenter is guilty of tfie murder, and he thlnkß the coming examination will substantiate the theory of abortion. Mr. Dion Boucicault, the greatest of Irish comedians, has been delighting large audiences at McVioker’s theater, Chicago, this week, in his familiar role of Conn, the Shanghraun. The local press is profuse in its praise of the work of the great artist. The Inter Ocean , says: “Mr. Boucicault is not only an effective actor, but he is a most conscientious artist, and the delineation of character with him means a perfect revelation, the silent effects of illustration being as scrupulously looked after as the more vital incidents of action in association with speech. The occasion that restores to our consideration such acting is one to be most interestingly regarded.” This week “The Colleen Bawn” will be presented. The roads running to the Pacific coast have abandoned the idea of making common rates and have substituted a division of territory, whereby Oregon business is assigned to the Northern Pacific and San Francisco to the Central Pacific, thus securing to each road exclusive rights in its own section, and enabling it to absolutely control lines of transportation between the Pacific and Atlantic. In a Chicago court, the other day, it was shown that an investor had gone into the show business, and that his partner, the actor, had used the capital of the enterprise to get himself a divorce. The second act in the Zora Burns tragedy at Lincoln, 111., was ended lasi week, and resulted in the third, material victory for the defendant in the case—the first being Prof. Wheeier’s report of the examination of the lines and whip, the second the verdict of the Coroner’s jury that did not hold him, and the third the decision of Judge Lacy that he be admitted to bail, the amount of which was fixed at SIO,OOO and was promptly furnished. The decision gives general satisfaction, and in a measure appeases the want of numerous individuals thirsty for vengeance In the conviction of some one, though it is conceded there is by no means a strong case, or one that should receive the attention of the grand jury in the absence of further proof. Judge Lacey, says a Lincoln dispatch, has given the greatest satisfaction to prosecution, defense and the people for his conduct on the bench and rulings In the case, giving the widest latitude to the evidence submitted for the discovering of the guilty party. At the conclusion of the argument and amid almost breathless silence the court read from manuscript his decision in the case and at the conclusion of which the friends of Carpenter crowded around him to congratulate him upon the very favorable answer to the charge, against him. The father of the murdered girl made an attemt to do violence to the accused, but was seized by officers. The prisoner was immediately drivpn to his home, and the meeting with his family after his three weeks’ confinement is said to have been a most affecting scene. Efforts are now being made to trace out the abortionist at whose hands Zora Burns met her death. A dispatch from Madison, Wis., says the men wounded by the State-house disaster are progressing favorably, and that no more deaths are likely to result. Five lives were lost by the accident, and the Coroner has been investigating the matter with a view of ascertaining who is to blame. The Building Commissioners

secured the services of AC. Nash, a prominent Cincinnati architect, and Godfrey Ludwig, Superintendent of Public Buildings of Cincinnati. They went to Madison, and last Monday began an expert examination of the ruins. Other experts were also summoned to testify. The testimony goes to show many serious defects in construction. At Grand Forks, Dakota, C. S. Uline and eleven other men were held in SIO,OOO bail on an ipdictment for the murder of Charles and Frederick Ward, of Chicago, last April. Assignments have made by Joseph Bursinger, a brewerof Watertown, Wis., with liabilities of $75,000 or more; by Adolph Hoeber, a liquor dealer of St. Louis, who owes $23,000; by Frank A. Fletoher, dealer in furnishing goofis, Chicago, with liabilities of $68,698; by Newton Jackson, builder and lumber dealer at South Bend, Ind., with assets of SIOO,OOO, and liabilities amounting to $90,000; by Kellogg, Sanger & Co., lumber dealers, of Kalamazoo, Mich., whose debts aggregate $150,000; and by S. P. Swartz, lumber dealer, Grand Rapids, Mich,, with $45,000 liabilities. A frightful smash-up occurred on the Panhandle road near Newark, Ohio. A Panhandle freight had taken the siding, and the brakeman left the switch standing open. The Baltttnore and Ohio passenger ran into the freight, making a fearful wreck. The engineer and fireman of the passenger train were instantly killed, and two others received injuries from which they will die. Arthur Williams, editor and proprietor of the Logansport (Ind.) Advertiser, was shot on the streets of that city by George West, whom he had accused of being too intimate with Mrs. Williams. Later accounts of the cyclone at Springfield, Mo., say four more persons have died from the effects of their injuries—Mrs. Pennington, Jeff Edmonson, William Ilger and the infant son of John Cliampieux. This makes eleven deaths in all, and two others are not expected to live. During the year 875,000 barrels of malt liquors were made in Cincinnati, Covington and Newport. This would be 555 glasses per annum for every person in the three cities. For violation of the statute against public sparring, Sullivan and Slade were arrested in St. Louis, although Gov. Crittenden was a spectator. Aggie Hill, Senator Sharon’s alleged wife, produced her marriage contract in court at San Francisco, and when it was shown to Sharon he grew so violent In denouncing it as a forgery that he was ordered out of court. The new wing of the Capitol at Madison, Wis., suddenly gave way the other day, the iron columns being broken like glass. Of forty men at work in the building, four were killed and twenty-one injured, four of them beyond the hope of recovery. The structure was 80x100 feet. The side walls, built of cut stone, are still standing. It is evident that the inner walls, constructed of brick, were not strong enough to support the roof.

SOUTHERN.

Unknown assassins fired a volley of bullets through a circus tent at New Edinburg, Ark., killing a contortionist in the ring. John L. Martin, of Luling, Texas, who confessed having murdered his wife, was taken out of the hands of his guard by 100 masked men, and hanged to a tree. A second lynching party called at the Constable’s house for Martin two hours later. An assignment has been made by Simon & Mertief, dry goods merchants of Montgomery, Ala., whose liabilities are $30,000. Sixty-five colored men took a negro murderer, named Lawrence White, from the officers at Mount Mourne, N. C., and lynched him. James Truxtill, charged with a brutal outrage on Mrs. Coones, a married woman, near Clio, Ky., wa§ arrested and privately taken to be identified by his victim. The next day Truxtill’s body was found hanging from the Cincinnati Southern railway bridge over the Cumberland river. He had been taken from the officers and thus disposed of by a mob.

WASHINGTON.

The jury in the case of Hallet Kilbourne against John G. Thompson for $350,000 far false imprisonment returned a verdict for $60,000 for plaintiff. It is understood at Washington that the court-martial has sentenced Lieut. Col. Morroxy to be dismissed from the service.

POLITICAL.

Keifer, Hasson and Hiacock, are mentioned as likely to receive the Republican nomination for the Speakership of the next House of Representatives. Col. John A. Martin, Secretary of the National Republican committee, has issued a card calling 1 a meeting of the committee at Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 18, for the purpose of deciding upon the date and place for holding the next National Republican convention. Hon. Frank Hurd, of Ohio, says the Democratic nomination for President awaits Mr. Tilden’s acceptance. Should he decline, Mr. Hurd says Qov.-eloct Hoadly will beyond all question be placed in the field. Hurd’s choice for Speaker is Carlisle. A son of Senator Mahone was fined sls for drawing a pistol at the polls at Petersburg, Va. Washington telegram to Chicago Tribune: Riddleberger'B friends here say that the reports that ho is likely to abandon Mahone and return to the Democrats, cannot be well founded. They say that he will, for the present at least, occupy an independent position, and, that as he has six years before him in the Senate, he can afford to wait. Mahone expects that the new Legislature will remove all the Readjuster officials. A prominent member of the administration gives it out that President Arthur is positively a candidate for re-election. This statement, say a Washington dispatch, coming from a person as to whose knowledge on the subject there can be scarcely a doubt, is, perhaps, the first positive declaration by any one near the President that Gen. Arthur is a .Presidential candidate. It is very certain that he had not determined to be a candidate four months ago. It is quite certain that he is a candidate now. It is very possible’ that within the next few weeks events will happen which will make it apparent

that G«n. Arthur is to become what the politicians perhaps would call an aggressive candidate. William Long, a tobacconist, of Petersburg, Va., confesses that he is the man who struck Senator Mahone in the face on election day, but claims it was an accident and explains how it occurred. President Arthur says it is that the Democratic nominee for the Pres# dency will not come from east of the Alio ghanies, and that the coming campaign will be fought out in Indiana, Ohio and New York.

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

A dispatch from Comanche, Texas, reports that late at night, while the Sheriff was absent, fifty armed and masked men battered in the jail door with a heavy pole, overpowered the guards after a hard struggle, and, taking out the two Bailey brothers, hanged them both to a tree in the graveyard, a mile from town. It is not stated what the Baileys were charged with. Wilbur’s clothing manufactory and Robertson, Taylor & Co.’s, wholesale grocery house, at Charleston, S. C., were destroyed by fire. Eight women and a boy were imprisoned by the fire in Wilbur’s building, and two girls perished in the flames. The others jumped, one being killed and another mortally injured, while the boy escaped unhurt. Gen. Sherman reached St. Louis last week, and drove at once to his residence on Garrison avenue, where he received many friends. At Trempealeau, Wis., the Utter house and other buildings and stores were burned during a hurricane. The loss is SIO,OOO. The Booth & Osgood Manufacturing company, of Chicago, engaged in the schoolfurniture line, has been closed by the Sheriff. Its liabilities are about $75,090. The editor of the Daily Evening Capital, of Des Moines, states the lower house of the lowa Legislature will pass a prohibitory law by about 7 majority. By the premature explosion of a blast at West End, Pa., two men were Instantly killed and a third fatally injured. A decision has been rendered by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania holding the Pullman Palace Car company liable for money stolen from a passenger while asleep. The regular annual autumnal gale swept over the country oh the 11th and 12th of November. It was of unusual violence* mounting in some sections to the proportions of a genuine tropical hurricane, and proved very destructive to life and property on the great lakes. Upward of twenty vessels of all descriptions were wrecked, and twentyfive or thirty lives are known to have been lost. The tug Protection and schooner Arab, both of Chicago, went down in Lake Michigan, and every soul on board the twp 111-fated craft, fifteen in number, perished. A num. her of vessels were blown ashore on Lake Erie, but no loss of life is reported. A peculiarly sad disaster occurred near Petos. key, Mich. During the blow, O. M. Chase, Superintendent of the Michigan fish hatcheries, C. H. Brownell, his assistant, and George W. Armstrong, foreman of the Petoskey hatcheries,' left Harbor Springs for Petoskey, In a Mackinaw sail-boat, the boat being manned by Moses Detwiler, a former Fish Inspector in Canada, his two sous, Charles and George, and a nephew, George Detwiler, making seven in all. The boat capsized a mile and a half from Petoskey, and all on board found a watery grave. The new docks at Petoskey were swept away by the wind and waters. Near Harbor Springs, Mich,, a sail boat capsized and three men were drowned. A number of vessels went ashore on Lake Ontario, and some of them will prove total wrecks. On Lake Huron the storm was more severe, if possible, than on the other inland seas, and many vessels were beached and wrecked. Leaving inland waters, the tempest created havoc on shore as well, raging throughout Canada, New York and Pennsylvania, and pushing its conquests far along the shores of the upper Atlantic. At Toronto it is described as the fiercest storm on record, the wind attaining a velocity of two and a half miles a minute. The wharves were seriously damaged, and a schooner sunk in the harbor. At Hastings and Bellville, In Canada, structures were unroofed and trees blown down. Thunder and hall prevailed at the latter place, where, in Metropolitan hall, the salvation army held forth; a panic was caused by the rattling of the scenery by the wind, and in the rush down stairs many persons were hurt.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves . $4.80 @6.50 Hoos 4.40 @ 5.10 Flouk—Superfine 3.10 @ 3.60 Wheat—No. l White 1.09 @ 1.09% No. 2 Red 1.10 @1.11% Coen—No. 2 59%@ .60 Oats—No. 2 33%@ .34% Poke—Mess 11.87%@12-00 Lakd 07?4@ .07% CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.60 @7.30 Common to Fair 4.30 @ 5.20 Medium to Fair 6.25 @ 6.20 Hogs 4.45 @ 4.90 Floub—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 @5.60 Good to Choice Spr'gEx 4.75 @6.00 Wheat—No. 2 Sprin f 96 @ .96*4 No. 2 Red Winter 1.00 @ 1.01 Coen—No. 2 49 @ .49% OATB—No. ‘ RySN-No. 2 56%@ .67 Baulky—No. 2 61 @ .61% Buttek—Choice Creamery 29 @ .31 Eggs —Fresh 24 @ .25 Poke—Mess 10.80 @10.85 Laud 67%@ .07J£ MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 95 @ .95% Coen—No. 2 51 @ .61% Oats—No. 2 28 @ .29 Rye—No. 2 66 @ 67 BaELEY—No. 2 60 @ .60% POBK—Mess 10.60 @10.90 LAED 07 @ .07% ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red i.00%@ 1.01% Coen—Mixed 4i%@ .45 Oats—No. 2 26%@ .26% Rye ,52%@ .53 Pose—Mess n. 28 @11.35 Labd.. 06%@ .07 CINCINNATL Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.06%@ 1.07 Coen 49 @ .no Oats 30 @ .30% Rye.... 59 @ .60 Pobk—Mess 11.25 @11.50 Labd 07 @ .07% TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.02%@ 1.06% Corn 63 @ .53% Oats —No. 2 31 m .32 DETROIT. FLOUR 4.00 @6.75 WHEAT—No. 1 White. l.( 6 @ 1.06% Coen—No. 2... 54 @ .65 Oats—Mixed 30 @ .31 Pobk—Mess 12.25 @12.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 lied 1.01 @1.02 Coen—No. 2. 47 @ .47% Oats—Mixed 29 @ .29% EAST LIBERTY. PA. CAttle—Best 6.00 @ 6.25 Fair. 4.60 @ 5.26 Common 3.75 @ 4.50 Hogs 4.40 @ 4.60 Sheep 3.60 @ 4.60

ELECTION ECHOES.

Great Rejoicing in Massachusetts and Virginia ■ - to Over the Downfall of Ben Butler and Billy Mahone. Journalistic Views of the Result of the Elections. ELECTIONECHOES. New York. The plurality of Carr (Republican) for Secretary of State, is 18,000, and Chapin (Democrat) for Comptroller, has 15,000 plurality. Maxwell, Treasurer, runs 6,000 behind Chapin. The pluralities of the othenDemocratic candidates range from 12,000 to 14,000. In twenty-six counties Maynard ran behind his ticket 28,000. He was especially slaughtered in New Fork and Kings counties on account of his posititlon on the question of a uniform liquor law in the State. In New York city the Democrats elected sixteen Aldermen and the Republicans eight. The fight in New York city was very bitter. Tammany secures three Senators, the country Democracy one, Irving hall two, and the Republicans one. Thirteen Democratic Assemblymen were elected and eleven Republicans. The total vote polled was 155,000, of Brooklyn polled 97,000 votes, of which Low, the present incumbent, received 48,320 for Mayor, and his Democratic opponent, Joseph C. Hendrix, the Sun reporter, received 46,791. The vote was very close, Low pulling through on 1,529 majority only. A Democratic County Auditor, District Attorney, County and Supreme Court Judges, and a Republican Supervisor were elected. Pennsylvania. Official returns from fifty-seven of the 6ixty-seven counties in the State and estimates of the others give Niles 16,261, and Livesay 17,501 majority. Nebraska. Returns from three-fourths of the counties In the State and unofficial estimates from the remainder indicate the electjpn of Reese (Republican) for Supreme Judge by 8,000 majority. The Board of Regents are elected by 15,000 majority. Crawford (Democrat) is elected Judge of the Seventh district. The others, except Broaty in the First district, are Republicans. There is a Republican gain over the last election of nearly 10,000, taking the vote forjudge as a basis. Virginia. As the returns come in from Virginia the Democratic gains increase, defeat becomes more overwhelming. The Democratic majority in the Senate Is at least eight, and in the lower house of the Legislature twenty-seven, and on joint ballot thirty five. “The popular majority against Mahone in the State will reach 30,000. Mississippi. A Jackson telegram to the Chicago Tribune says: The Democrats have swept the State, losing only thaee or four counties which were contested by Independents. In many counties there were fusions between Democrats and Republicans, all of which were successful except In Panola county, which was carried by the Chalmers element by some 300 majority. Chalmers is buried beyond political resurrection. The estimated political status of the Legislature is thirty-five Democrats and two Republicans in the Senate and 100 Democrats and twenty Republicans and Independent Democrats in the House, which includes Fusion Republicans.

MAHONE. His Defeat Overwhelming. [Richmond Telegram to Chicago Tribune.] Mahonp’s defeat is one of the most overwhelming known in Virginia politics, and surprises even his opponents. His former strongholds have all gone against him. The excitement was unprecedented in Virginia, and greater than during the uprising against carpet-bag government in reconstruction days. The whole State was literally under suns, and such was the explosive condition of affairs that the slightest jar would have caused riots all over the State. In Danville white men 70 years of age went to vote with shotguns on their shoulders. This state of affairs was largely due to campaign speeches, the whites warning the negroes that they would be enslaved if Mahon was defeated, and the colored orators threatening the burning and sacking of houses and murdering of women and children while the whites were at the polls to vote. This roused the people at Danville, and many sent their wives and daughters to Richmond and other cities and moved about like walking arsenals ready for the expected emergency. Mahone Jubilee. The streets of the principal cities have been thronged, and Impromptu meetings gotten up at what was called “ A matinee jubilee.” In Richmond the crowd forced Mr. William L. Royall to speak, and he said: “I thank God that Virginia has been freed from the turkey-buzzards who roost in her 6acred places, and, by the gods, these same turkeybuzzards in that Capitol had better understand that the people are not to be trifled with, and stand no more counting out.” What the Defeat Means. This election means not only the present overthrow of Mahone’s power in Virginia, but his defeat for re-election to the United States Senate two years hence. Kiddleberger. The result of the election, It Is understood, will oause Riddleberger, Mahone’s colleague, to act with the Democrats. He has been silent for several mouths past, and, while he put forth the plea of ill-health, It is evident that he understood the meaning of the charges in ihe Southwest. Washington Opinion. [Washington Telegram to Chicago Inter Ocean.] The situation In Virginia hus at racted much attention in political circles here, and the view has been advocated by several prominent Republicans here. that the best policy will be to reorganize the straight out Republican party in the State. It-is not thought, however, that the President would favor such a course at this time. Wlio Struck Billy Mahone ? William Long, a Petersburg tobacconist, says he is the person who hit Gen. Mahone in the'face during the scuffle at the polls on election day. Long explains his action as follows: Being pressed by the crowd, he (Long) raised his hand to clear himself and get out, and as he did so some one struck him violently on the right hand, which caused it to strike Gen. Mahone lightly in the face, which he hopes did the General no serious Injury. Long says he had no Intention or desire to do Gen. Mahone personal injury. As to his (Mahone’s) offer of $lO9 to know the scoundrel or assassin who struck him, he (Long) is the responsible party, and hopes this statement will be satisfactory.

BEN BUTLER Still In the Ring:, Though Sadly Diefigured. The Pittsburgh Commercial-Gazette telegraphed Gen. B. F. Butler for his views on the result in Massachusetts and asking for his programme for the future. The following characteristic reply was received: An answer to your question Is easy. Last year 1 had 134,000 votes. The largest vote ever polled was In the Garfield election of 1880—Garfield, 165,000; Hancock, 112,000; total, 277,000. This year 1 the Vote is 318,000, of whloh I have 152,000. This enormous increase has been caused by the freeest use of money and by the fraud and corruption by my opponents. More votes have been cast than will be in the next Presidential year. The' B,ooo or 9,000 plurality of my opponent was more than lost in the city of Boston. Massachusetts Is, therefore, surely Democratic If I make another State canvass without better gain. When a man has Increased the Democratic vote from 112,000 to 162,000 In three years. Is thereany need of an answer to yomr question as to what my programme will be? I am pleased w Ith the result, and had rather have my vote than to be

elected by 185,000. In that ease It would then be said Massachusetts Is a Republican State and that she has a large reserve vote, which In a Presidential election will oome out. Row we have had them all out and measured them, and In the next Presidential Election, with a Judicious platform and popular nomination, at least we should keep all the Republican men and money at home to take care of Butler, instead of sending both into Ohlaand Indiana to oorrupt those States. Benjamin F. Butler. The Boston Herald states that Gov. Butler told a member of his Counail that he should run for Governor next fall. The compliment of 150.000 votes leads him to think that he> will be successful. Journalistic Comments on Butler's Eefeat. [New York Herald.] Considering Butler’s advanoed age, this disaster winds up his political career, so far as the State of Massachusetts at large Is concerned. Once off the track of success there in a State election he never can get on again. But if he should wish to renew his reputation as a disturber of the peace in the popular branch of Congress, his vote Indicates that there are Eeveral districts where he could find an opportunity. We deem it probable’ that Gov. Butler never will make an Attempt again to carry the Massachusetts State-house by assault, but wHI apply himself hereafter, in combination with Mr. Wendell Phillips and other agitators, and very likely with hie friend, our own John Kelly, to get up a new National party on the “capital and labor” issue. [Springfield Republican. J People respond “notguilty” to the Infamous charges of Gov. Butler. Let all the world take notice that Massachusetts has not. had a loose, dishonest, extravagant or oorrupt administration. Massachusetts Is not yet given over to the domination of Ignorant, foreign-born or forelgn-fathered. Massachusetts cannot bo permanently held In control by any party which makes clap-trap appeals to ignorance, prejudice aud stupidity. The attempts to excite feeling against the Republicans as the party of aristocracy, blue blood and capital have miserably failed. [Boston Journal.] What Appomattox was to the Confederacy the election of yesterday was to Butler and Butlerism. Both the man and the thing have been annihilated. For such a result decent people, not o*ly of Massachusetts, but of botn parties throughout the country, should be profoundly thankful, because the one man In this country who could rally about him tbeignorant and vicious elements has been east down for the last time. [Boston Herald ] This finishes Butler. Massachusetts has spoken in earnest and with a full voice: “Never more be officer of mine.” It is true he has not been able to permanently Injure Massachusetts, for his power Is limited and her Institutions are strong. The disgrace was In electing him. The State will survive and look back with shame upon this wild Butler frolic when Butler Is dust. [Boston Post.] Gov. Butler 1s defeated with a year’s record, behind him and his choice of campaign methods. He cannot accuse his committee and other workers of bad management. He has assumed the part of absolutism with respect to the manner in which his campaign should be conducted, ahd bis assumption has not been challenged. Butler tias been Command-er-In-Chief and- Supreme Executive Magistrate in his own behalf from the time he was inaugurated Governor till his defeat on Tuesday, and he alone Is responsible for his failure to obtain a re-election. [Boston Advertiser.] Butlerism is dead and burled. Let it not beexbumed. [New York San.] Gov. Butler has gone. The sweet singer of Chicopee proved too much or him, aud an. interesting and humorous figure is thus withdrawn from the boards. The defeat of Butler might have been predicted, for he had made himself very disagreeable, as men who tell the truth often do. But the forces which made him successful for one year in a Statethat had been In the fore-frontof Republicanism do not die with him, If so irrepressible apersonage can be oaid to die politically. We shall live to see the State Democratic, but notBu tlerite.

OPINIONS AND COMMENTS. The Newspapers on the Result. [New York Tribune.] The result makes Republican success possible in the next Presidential contest. If New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania had all followed Ohio lu going Democratic this year, few would have been hopeful enough to believe that so overwhelming a current could have been turned back in a single year. Now, everybody can see that fighting gfound Is left; that the Republicans can fairly hope by good conduct and good fortune to carry everyState they had in 1880; and that., os against a party so prone to blunder and wltft bo many chances to blunder as the Democrats, their prospect for carrying enough of them is morethan fair. • [New York Herald.] Although the result throughout this Btate was practically a revolution —for a Democratic majority reduced from 190,000 to 20,000 or thereabouts implies an overwhelming change—yet the Republicans can. hardly congratulate themselves upon all their vote as legitimate gain for their party. They must not count it without consideration, of their friend John Kelly. There is no doubt tjiat a large part„of the vote cast for Republican candidates Ireprcsents the treason of Tammany hall to the Democratic candidates. * * * * New York passes into the category of doubtful States in tho Presidential election of 1884, and the manager* of the Democratic party have nobody but themselves to blame for it. [New York World.] The result reaches further and rises higher than a more victory of Democrats over Republican*. It means 1884. It means a change at Washington. It means that the people arp tired of the ruling party. It means the vindication of popular self-government. All attempts to divert attention from the fact that yesterday’s contest was the decisive skirmish in the Presidential battle failed. One marked feature of the Democratic victory in New York is tho evidence it affords of the total failure of the Republican attempt to hoodwink the people on the tariff issue. The effort to drag the tariff into the canvass was abortive here, as in Ohio. Six months ago the Republicans were jubilant over the thought that they had fixed the Issue on the Democracy, and that their opponents were on the wrong side of the question. The election in New York showe plainly that the drift of the tide is%lth the Democracy. In Ohio the Republicans declared that the liquor Interests contributed to their defeat. In this State the liquor interests were in their favor, and did their best to defeat the Democratic State ticket. [New York Morning Journal.] New York still retains her place In the oolumn of Democratic States, although, of course, by a majority far below the phenomenal one which carried Mr. Cleveland into the Governor’s chair a year ago. While Republicans have made enormous gains all over the State as compared with the result a year ago, the Democrats have done as well as if not better than they expocted. Twenty thousand majority is not very large, but It 1* enough. • [St Louis Globe-Democrat.] A sudden change has come over the political prospect of the country within the last twenty-four hours. Where there were doubts and ominous shakings of the head as to the future there is bow cheerful confidence. The freaks of the elections of last year stand forth In their true light. There was no permanent strength in the ebullition whicß made Butler Governor of Massachusetts and gave Cleveland the astounding majority of 200,000 in New York. These were not evidences that the people were ready for the change which would place the country under a Democratic administration. They signified merely a dissatisfaction with the methods adopted by certain Republican manager*.

SMALL TALK. Mbs. Tom Thumb says she will never marry again. Small boys catch rats with a fish-hook? and line at Marysville, Cal. Thebe Is no law against miscegenation in the District of Columbia. They have a Spanish-American commercial club at St. Louis of about 150 members. The faculty of ti Texas female college hu forbidden the wearing of hoops or bangs by the students.