Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1883 — Page 2

f ift IcmocraticSenttnel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Pobubhjee.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. EASTERN. Lafayette Cook, an eccentric character of South Auburn, Me., some weeks ago fixed upon Nov. 11 as the date of his death. When the time came he took to a lounge, placed one hand under his head, passed Into a condition of stupor, and, within a few hours, calmly surrendered himself to his Maker. A loss of $150,000 was entailed by the burning of Stockweli’s paper-stock warehouse in New York city. Charles H. Houseman’s fine residence In Columbia county, N. Y., was burned, causing a loss of $160,000. Two machine guns have just been completed at Hartford, Ct„ for Gen. Grant as presents to the Viceroy of China and Mikado of Japan. Guns of the model after which they are made have a Government record of 505 shots a minute, and have been fired at the rate of 700 shots a minute and 5,000 shots In thirteen minutes twenty-six seconds. The State-honse at Boston is found to be infested to an alarming degree with white ants, which are capable of leveling buildings by honeycombing timbers. A few years ago they ruined a railroad bridge at Cambridge. At Prospect Park, the horse Frank, with J. O. Nay as running mate, defeated H. B. Winship, with Hiram Bruce as mate, in the best time on record— Winship took the second heat in 2:10)4. The boiler houses two large machine shops and half the storehouses of the Providence railway at Boston were burned. Three men were killed and five others wounded by the explosion of the boiler in Maxwell’s saw-mill In Jackson township, Pa. The American Steamship company’s wharves at Philadelphia were destroyed by fire. Loss, $160,000. Hoffstadt Brothers, fancy goods, New York, have failed, giving $58,000 preferences. The residence of Isaac W. England, publisher of the New York Sun, at Paterson, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire. A robber at Oyster Bay, Long Island, choked to death Mrs. Lydia Maybee and her daughter, and nearly killed Garrett Maybee, a paralytic. A fire at Communipaw, N. J., destroyed the Jersey Central freight depot, twenty loaded freight cars, and a great amount o miscellaneous merchandise. Loss $125,000. Roman Catholic Bishop Hendricken, of Providence, B. 1., has issued a pastoral, prohibiting dancing at fairs and bazars held for church purposes or in aid of church societies and associations, on the ground that dancing tends to immorality.

WESTERN.

The Phoenix block at Mount Vernon, 111, was consumed by fire, causing a loss of $50,000. The Methodist Episcopal church and two dwellings at Youngstown, Ohio, were burned. A train conveying an excursion party from Minneapolis to Southern California was wrecked near Jamesport, Mo., and seven persons were seriously Injured. The trial of Ker, the individual charged with having robbed Preston, Kean & Co., of about $45,000, was concluded at Chicago last week. He was found guilty and given ten years in the penitentiary. The shipments of iron-ore from the Northern Wisconsin mining regions continue to show a decided falling off. AS compared with last year the decrease so far is 562,913 tons. Jacob Netting, the murderer of Ada Atkinson, was taken from jail at Fowler, Ind., by 300 citizens of Oxford, and lynched. A terrible railway catastrophe occurred near Streator, 111. The incoming noon passenger train on the Burlington road, at Otter creek, two and one-half miles from town, had been flagged by a man from a freight that had stuck on the grade this side of the creek, and had stopped just by the north bridge. Another freight was following close behind the passenger. A flagman went back, but he had not gone far before the train was upon him. The grade is very heavy, and before the freight could be stopped it plunged into the rear coach of the passenger train, crushing the car Into fragments. A scene of wild confusion ensued. Four of the passengers were killed outright, while the cries of the wounded could be beard on all sides. Two other passengers died shortly after of their Injuries, and nine were badly wounded, some fatally. The locomotive exploded after penetrating tho cars, half the victims being scalded to death. A passenger, who was one of the slightly Injured, says it all happened so quickly that he could not describe it. There was a crash, the car filled with steam, and then in a few moments all was still. He did not hear any cry or call from the two women who were killed. They were in the seat in front of him. He found them breathing their last. Pearro, one of the men killed, was sitting just behind him. If it had been a flash of lightning that struck them it could not have come more suddenly. A dispatch from Norway, Mich., says: “Nearly 1,000 iron miners are on a strike here. They formed a procession, secured a band and some flags, and paraded the streets until thoroughly chilled. They then made a demand upon the Superintendent of the Ludington mine for an advance in wages, and assaulted and threatened him until he complied. The chief officer of the Chapin mine took a train for Milwaukee, and the strikers say they will stop the pumps unless they are givon more wages. The Sheriff has been sent for, and militia will probably be called out.” v Dr. J. H. Finley and Ed. Smith, injured in the railroad disaster near Streator, 111., are dead, making eight victims in aIL The balanoe of the wounded are on the road to recovery.' The wrecked coach was literally splintered to pieces, and the only wonder Is that any one could have been in there and come out alive. The engine drove more than

half way through the ear, crushing the floor into the smallest possible fragments. All around lay portions of the wreck —wheels, cars, fragments of doors—all attesting the fearful force of the shock. Several pieces of skin, with nails attached, from scalded, shriveled hands, were picked np. The Jury of inquest found that the coming train could not have been more than 400 feet away, as it came down ' from the north. The passenger train had been driven forward perhaps 200 feet by the force of the collision. Conductor Mat Kennedy, of the fated passenger train, gave a straightforward acoount of the accident. He was flagged about forty rods from where the accident occurred. When the train slacked up for the flagman, Conductor Kennedy went to the engine to find out whaMhe obstruction was. The train ran along slowly until it had approached within tea car-lengths of the gravel train, in front, which the switch-engine was unable to move. Seeing this, he ran to the rear end of bis train and ordered his brake' man to flag the freight which he knew to be behind him. The brakeman got the flag, but had gone but about four car-lengths when the freight came crashing down the grade, and the engine was buried in the pas-senger-coach. The freight was a wild train, and should not have run faster than eighteen miles an hour, and should not have been closer than five minutes behind the passenger, which it was not.

SOUTHERN.

By the explosion of the boilers of a sugar-house at Bayou Bceuff, La., three men were instantly killed, their bodies being blown to atoms. Mr. Andrew McLean, aged 116 years, was married at Blithwood, S. C., to Mrs. Martha Wilson, aged 27 years. A loss of $200,000 was sustained by tho burning of the Ashland iron- mills, at Lexington, Ky. D. R. Allen was murdered in the theater at Vicksburg by Frank E. Starke, whom he had discharged from the position of advance agent. At a wedding in Carrituck, N. C., liquor at the supper table led to a difficulty in which several guests participated. Six shots were fired in one minute, clearing the room. The groom’s best man was killed, and another groomsman received a mortal wound. The corpse was removed to an upper room, and the young married couple sat up all night with the disabled man. A fire at Rusk, Tex., destroyed buildings on the public square valued at $60,000. Two extensive freight warehouses at Norfolk, Va., containing several thousand bales of cotton and a large quantity of lumber, were reduced to ashes, causing a loss estimated at $500,000. Mrs. John W. Garrett, wife of the President of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, died at Montebello, Md., from the effects of Injuries received in a runaway accident. Fire at Sumter, S. C., destroyed several structures, Involving a loss of $lO,000. Henry Hanson, a colored man 112 years of age, was buried at Boston. He aided in rebuilding Fort McHenry, at Baltimore, in 1814. A colored man Darned John Smith, was executed at Oakland, Md., for the murder of Josiah Hardin. Perry Jeter was executed for arson at Union, S. C. At Harrisburg, Ky., half a square of buildings were burned, the loss being placed at $50,000. The steamer S. H. Parish, from New Orleans, was burned on the Mississippi, eight miles above Natchez. Its cargo consisted of 3,654 bales of cotton, 1,300 sacks of oil-cake and 500 barrels of oil. Tho loss is estimated at $250,000. Two deck-hands perished in the flames and one was drowned.

WASHINGTON.

Since Jan. 1, 1,144,377 packages of domestic cottons have been exported, exceeding the exports for the same period last year (which were the greatest known) by 4,180 packages. It is now shown by the report of the United States Treasurer that the revenue receipts of the country have been curtailed only to the amount of $5,237,668. The postal-note, says a Washington telegram, does not grow in popular favor. Its friends admit that it has not met with their expectations. Reports from all sections show that, as a substitute for the moneyorder the postal-note Is a failure. The sales do not increase, and people are not disposed to adopt tho note for the transmission of money except where small amounts are involved. Tho sale of the postal-note has thus far not decreased the use of the money-order except in very rare instances. There appears to be little question, says a Washington telegram, that there will be a reorganization of the offices of the Senate. It has been thought that Mahone and Rladleberger might not vote with the Republicans, but the treatment which both have received since the Virginia election removes all doubt on that score. Candidates for the Senate offices are, therefore, preparing for a vigorous campaign. John M. Langston has been appointed United States Charge d’Affairs at Santo Domingo. Judge Cox set aside the verdict of $60,000 in the case of Hallet Kilbourn and others, and granted a new trial. He considers the verdict excessive. Secretary Folger has issued another call for $10,000,000 of 3 per cent, bonds.

POLITICAL.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives fixed Dec. 5 for final adjournment. The people of Lynchburg, Va., illuminated the city in honor of the defeat of Mahone. At a grand mass-meeting resolutions were adopted guaranteeing the negroes full justice before the law. The Legislature of Washington Territory has passed a bill striking the word “male” from the election laws, and the Governor has signed it. Hon. W. M. Springer, of Illinois, announces himself a candidate for Speaker ot the House of Representatives, aad claims three votes from his State.

MISCELLANEOUS. Notwithstanding the cold weather of last week, the Fat Stock show at Chicago

proved a great success. It la said by the enthusiastic that the exposition equaled the celebrated Smithfleld show which has been running in England for eighty years. As a train on the Mexican Central sped around a curve in a lonely spot near the little village of La Jarita, Mexico, the engineer, discovering that a rail had been removed, reversed his lever, but too late to prevent a wreck. Simultaneously forty masked men attacked the train, robbed the express car, and were about to rob the passengers, when it was discovered that one of the latter had escaped and gone for assistance. The outlaws immediately took to their horses and decamped. They are believed to have crossed to the American side of the Rio Grande, and scouting parties are in hot pursuit. The recent gale on the lakes was the severest and the most destructive of life and property experienced in a period of twenty years. It is believed that when a full and accurate statement of the ruin wrought shall have been obtained it will be found that not less than fifty craft have been totally lost, and as’many more badly damaged. The loss of life on the lakes will reach at least 100, and in the entire country fifty more. The property loss will mount into the millions. In Maine alone the storm inflicted a loss of $1,000,000, largely In valuable timber. Reports of damage by the great blow continue to be flashed over the wires. Following are the last reported: Grain barge Milwaukee, with her Captain aDd five men, was lost on Lake Ontario. The propeller Fred Mercur, loaded with ooal for Chicago, went ashore near Erie, and was seuttled to prevent pounding on the rocks. Her crew were taken off by the life-saving service. The tug Torrent put out from Port Huron and rescued the barge Merrimac, fifteen miles off the Canada shore. She was nearly a mass of ice, and her Captain and crew had been without food or sleep for four days. An unknown vessel, with her crew of eight, was lost on Lake Erie. Business failures iijtlie United States last week numbered' 205, a decrease of fourteen from the preceding week, but thirtyeight more than in the corresponding period Of 1882. It is believed at the Mexican capital that the men who robbed the train near Laredo were an organized band from the United States. This has been the greatest year known In the sheep and cattle export trade of Canada, the sheep shipments alone being 30 per cent, in excess of any other year. The earnings of the Union Pacific railroad correspondingly decreased $176,239 In September, and $50,000 In October. In the first week of November the earnings Increased about $70,000. The new standard of time was generally adopted throughout the country on the 19th of November. The Government clocks will not be changed, by decision of the Attorney General, until authority is furnished by act of Congress.

FOREIGN.

Three girls in Venice, sisters and members of a rich and influential family, committed suicide simultaneously by taking poison. All three had been crossed in love. Avenger O’Donnell was visited by the Secretary of the American legation in London, and found to be a citizen of the United States. Dr. Stocker, the German Jew-baiter who has made such a rumpus in London of late, had to take a dose of his own medicine the other night. In attempting to lecture on “German Socialism” he found himself In the presence of a very bad-tempered London mob, which mollified itself by issuing groans and strong epithets. He was forced to retire from the hall in confusion. A magistrate with a large force of cavalry and police prevented a Nationalist meeting at Garrison, Ireland. The crowd of 4,000 dispersed upon the advice of Editor O'Brien of the United, Ireland. At St. Petersburg Sofia Warkupensky, a lady student, was executed for Nihilism, and another female member of the Terrorist society, named Osslnuky, hanged herself with a towel in a prison cell. In the Parliamentary contest for the city of Limerick MncMahon, the Parnellite candidate, had a majority o*-er Spaight, Conservative, of 488 votes. The British steamer Holland, from Liverpool, sank off the coast of Holland during a violent storm. Eighteen persons were lost. De Lesseps said at Manchester, England, the other night that ho had assurances from his engineers that the Panama canal would be completed within the next five years. A party of London Socialists took possession of a hall In London where Dr. Stocker was to lecture. They unfurled red flags, sang the Marseillaise, and cheered for the next revolution, forcing the speaker to retire. s • There is a decline in the price of securities id the London market, owing to the large amount of private deposits awaiting investment and to the uncertain condition of European politics. Pope Leo is reported to have ex- . pressed himself favorably to the pretentions of the Comte de Paris, and to have advised the French Conservatives to unite in favor of that royal pretender. The Pope’s action has given offense to the Ferry Government, which has remonstrated, but without effect. Paris and the whole French nation have been thrown into a state of commotion by an attempt upon the life of Prime Minister Ferry. A young man, evidently a crank, had made repeated attempts to obtain an interview with M. Ferry, but was met with a refusal each time, and was finally ordered off. He made believe to go away, and finally slipped in behind some visitors, and reached the library unobserved. The usher again ordered him to leave the building. On this the youth changed his tone, and said excitedly: “I came to see M. Jules Ferry and kill him. As I cannot kill him I will kill you.” Suiting the action to the word, he pulled out a revolver and placed the muzzle against the breast of M. Philibert. Very luckily, before he could fire, M. Pbilibert managed to close with him, and both rolled struggling on the floor. In a moment several officials and, visitors threw tbomselves upon the youth, and, after considerable resistance, managed to disarm him. r tt”* young man then drew two pieces of paper from hls pocket, which he quickly put into his mouth and swallowed. He was taken

to the poHoe-fitation. The name of the wouldbe ««iuwin is Carrieu. He is not Insane, but a fanatic, and has been a constant attendant at anarchist gatherings. In an address to the Liverpool exchange, De Leseeps said the second canal across the Isthmus of Suez could only be constructed along the side of the present one, with a liberal margin Intervening for the strength of each. One of the canals could then be used for ships bound to, and the other for ships returning from, the Red sea. This was the only solution of the present difficulty.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Jacob Nelling, the murderer of Ada Atkinson, who was lynched at Oxford, Ind., met his doom as coolly as any wretch that ever felt the halter draw. His executioners were met at the door by Nelling. “How are you, gentlemen?” he said, quietly, without a tremor. “I kqow what you want, and I'm ready to go.” They took him to a two-seated open wagon that stood In waiting, into which they bundled him roughlyThe old man offered no resistance, simply remarking: “Go a little slow, gentlemen; I am older than some of you.’’ The mob, with their victim, left quietly for the scene of the murder. A rope was suspended from a limb, Nelling bound hand and food, when the Captain said: “Mr. Nelling, you realize your situation. If you have any statement to make we' want it now.” “I have nothing to say,” replied Nell* tog. “ Did you not Intend to ravish that girl before you murdered her?” “No, sir, 1 did not.” “Have you ever been implicated in any other crimes?” “No, sir.” “You have no further statement to make?” Nelling replied: “Nothing.” “Swing him'up,” said the Captain. A noose was placed around NellIng’s neck, the other end fastened to the limb of a tree, and the wagon driven from under. The mob dispersed, leaving the murderer swinging in the air, in plain sight of Atkinson’s house. A paper bearing the words, “A warning to murderers,” was affixed to the swinging corpse. The Coroner’s verdict was death by violence at the hands of unknown men. Two enterprising photographers were early on the ground and took the old man’s picture In his suspended state. Yale college has invested funds of $1,924,328. Its expenses for the past fiscal year were $332,827. ‘ A. H. Rowand,Clerk of the Pittsburgh courts for two terms, has been arrested for embezzling $47,000. Rowand gave bail In $6,000. Solidor Milon, a Lieutenant in Napoleon Bonaparte’s “Old Guard,” who remained with his commander in St. Helena until his death, was banqueted in Philadelphia the other night on the occasion of the 96th anniversary of his birth. The anti-monopoly movement is gaining in magnitude in the Canadian Northwest. Many vessels were wrecked near St. Pierre, N. S., during a fearful snow hurricane, and several sailors perished. Three schooners foundered in Trinity bay and one in Caplain bay. ' Attorney General Brewster issued an opinion that the United States Government was an institution too dignified to tail In on the change In the standard of time. Congress alone must decide. After delivering himself of this proclamation, which put the departments at Washington a little behind the world at large, the great man rode to the depot and walked out on the platform only'to find that the train had been gone just eight minutes and twelve seconds. The malt-house of C. L. Epps & Co., Chicago, has failed, owing $125,000. S. H. White, a civil engineer on the Denver and South Park railway, was murdered by a tie-cutter at Robinson. H. E. Newman & Co., shoe-dealers at South Bend, Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids, have filed an assignment In the latter city. Sam Hemay murdered his wife at Swanton, Ohio, and then killed himself. He also attempted to slay Mrs. Liba, his wife’s daughter by a previous marriage. Seven citizens of St. Louis have obtained at Springfield, 111., a charter to build a bridge across the Mississippi at Chain of Rocks, ten miles above St. Louis, at a cost of $2,000,000. The German Crown Prince receined a hearty welcome from the populace of Genoa. In an address at Drogheda, it was declared by Healy, member of Parliament, that England should not obtain an extension of the franchise unless Ireland did.

THE MARKET.

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LYNCH LAW.

Nelling, the Murderer of Ada Atkinson, Hanged by a Mob. The Old Man Dresses for Death and Meets His* Doom Coolly. Jacob Nelling, the murderer of Ada Atkinson at Oxford, Ind., some weeks ago, was taken from the jail at Fowler, Ind., on the morning of Nov. 19, conveyed to Oxford by a masked mob and hanged. It will be remembered that after Nelling confessed to the brutal murder of the innocent girl he narrowly escaped execution at the hands of the Infuriated populace, and was spirited away to Lafayette and confined iff the strong prison of that city, for better security against mob vengeance. It appears that the Tippecanoe oounty authorities got tired of looking after his welfare, and, as the excitement over the tragedy had apparently died out, it was deemed safe to take him back to Fowler for confinement In the Benton county jail, which was accordingly done. Two days after the return of the prisoner the neighbors and friends of the murdered girl proceeded to organize themselves for the work of veageanoe, and did it so quietly and secretly that the officers of the law were kept in supremo ignorance of the movement, and were taken completely by surprise. The mob was perhaps the most orderly one that ever strung up a man. While none of the men are certainly known, their actions showed that they were determined and. resolute men. An eye-wltne6B thus describes the affair: “ A solitary horsernan was seen to come from the east and ride quietly around the Jail. Then he rode rapidly away in the direction whence he came. About an hour afterward about 150 masked men, in wagons and buggies and on horseback, rode quietly up to the jail from the south and posted guards at all the avenues of approach. They then proceeded to divide their forces, a portipn going to the entrance to the Sheriff’s residence adjoining the jail, and a part to the east door of the jail. After demanding the keys tothe jail, they proceeded to batter the outer door with sledges. Then with cold chisels, prepared especially for the purpose, they cut the locks from the doors, and in about an hour gained entrance to Nelling’s cell. The old man had in the meantime got up and dressed himself ready to receive them. They hurried him out to a wagon that stood in waiting, the old man simply remarking that they ought not to bo so rough, that he was older than some of them. Then they departed with their prisoner In the direction of the murder, near which place he was executed. Everything was done in a business-like manner, having very much the air of a funeral. The jail officials made no determined resistance, owing to th© number and character of the mob.” When Nelling was taken from Lafayette to Fowler a few days ago for trial it was given out that he would enter a plea of guilty and accept a sentence of death on condition that his execution be stayed sixty days. This anticipated delay in the course of the law Incited the mob. Nelling killed Ada Atkinson in her room some nine weeks ago. She was almoßt a child, and he had been her father’s laborer for many years. The case excited a great deal of attention, and was for several days m mystery. Another man was arrested on the word of Nelling, but afterward Nelling admitted be lied and said he did It himself. He barely escaped lynching at the time, and, as stated above, was removed to Lafayette to avoid the fury of the mob. He was to have been Indicted and tried in a few days.

CIVIL RIGHTS.

The Dissenting Opinion of Justice Harlan, of the Supreme Court. [Washington Telegram.] Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, in his dissenting opinion in the civilrights cases says: “The opinion in these cases proceeds upon grounds entirely too narrow and artificial. The substance and spirit of the recent amendments to the constitution have been sacrificed by subtle and Ingenious verbal criticism. The constitutional provisions adopted in the interest of liberty and for the purpose of securing, through national legislation, if need be, the rights inhering in a state of freedom and belonging to American citizenship have been so construed as to defeat the ends the people desired to accomplish, which they attempted to accomplish, and which they supposed they had accomplished by ohanges in their fundamental law. The court has departed from the familiar rule requiring that in the interpretation of constitutional provisions full effect be given to the intent with which they were adopted. The power conferred by the Thirteenth amendment does not rest upon implication or inference, and the power to enforce it by appropriate legislation was expressly granted. Congress, therefore, may enact laws to protect the colored people against deprivation on account of their race of any civil rights enjoyed by other freemen, and such legislation may be of a direct and primary character, operating upon States, their officers and agents, and upon those wielding power under the State. The National Legislature may, without transcending the limits of the constitution, do for human liberty and the fundamental rights of American citizenship what it did with the sanction of the Supreme court for the protection of slavery and the rights of masters of fugitive slaves. In every material sense applicable to the practical enforcement of the Fourteenth amendment railroad corporations, keepers of inns, and managers of places of amusement are agents of the State, because amenable to public regulation and the denial, by these instrumentalities of the State to a citizen, because of his race, of that equality of civil rights secured to him by law is a denial by the State and the supremo law of the land which has decreed that no authority shall be exercised in this country upon the basis of discrimination in respect to civil rights against freemen and citizens because of their race, color or previous condition of servitude. The assumption that the General Governmentcan not, in advance of hostile State laws or hostile State proceedings, actively interfere for the protection of any rights, privileges, and immunities secured by the Fourteenth amendment is not authorized by its language.

BRIEFLETS.

Ten oounties in Tennessee have no newspapers. Modjeska boasts the finest corsets on the American stage, One of the New Haven Malley boys waptg to go on the stage. Judah P. Benjamin expects to return to America to reside. Miss Emily Faithfull says that this Is her last visit to America. Jack Johnson, at Sabine Pass, Tex., killed fifty teal ducks at one shot. Bets are being made in Atlanta that the cotton crop will not be over 6,000,000 bales. A farmer of Suannee county, Fla., has gathered two crops of peaches from his trees this year. Three tramps took possession of the bridge at Easton, Pa., the other day, and collected toll from people who passed over. Mr. Villard has stabled Old Nig, the horse who drew the first and last load of rails for the Northern Pacific road, comfortably in New York, there to pass the remainder of his days in peaceful enjoyment of all the oats he can eat. A rural inventor claims that he can make paper out of grass. He says that grass paper is stronger, softer, more transparent than linen stock, and considerable cheaper. According to his figures, one acre of grass will produce 8,711 pounds of paper. A rock impregnated with petroleum, iron and gold la on exhibition in Los Ageles, CaL

CARLISLE CONFIDENT.

The Vote by Which He Claims That He Will Capture the Speakership. [Washington Telegram.] The following table showing the votes claimed by Carlisle for Speakership, and the votes allowed by him to Randall, Is said to be correct by Congressman Phil Thompson, who is the confidential friend of Carlisle: Car- Ran-I Car- Ran- - lisle, d&ll.i Hale. dalL Alabama 4 4 Mis ouri 10 4 Arkansas * I,Nevada 1 O' California. 3 SiNew Jersey 0 3. Connecticut.... 0 S New York ...... » 16 Florida 0 llNortti Carolina. 6 a Georgia 8 1'0bN0............ 6 8 Illinois 7 2 Pennsylvania... 0 11 Indiana 7 2 South Carolina. 4 lowa a 1 Tennessee 8 4? Kevtucky 8 0 Texas » * Louisiana a alVtrginla «. 1 * Maryland 0 4West Virginia., a 1 Massachusetts.. 1 3 Wisconsin...... 4 1 Miobigat 5 1 Mississippi 8 0 Total 110 80 It Is admitted that Cox will get about thirty-five of theso votes in the first, and, perhaps, on the second ballot, but the .table is intended to represent the Btrength of Carlisle and Randall after Cox drops out. The Tilden influence is said to be for Randall and the Tammany for Cox, but it is understood that when Cox drops out of tho fight John Kelly will not favor or oppose either of the other men. The few Randall men here ridicule the extravagant claims of Carlisle, and say that in Tennessee and Georgia, for Instance, the figures will be exaotly reversed. Randall is expected to be here Thursday, and then hie claims in detail, which have not yot appeared, will probably be made known.

AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

A Man Foretells His Death, and the Prediction is Fulfilled. A recent dispatch from Lewiston, Me., reports the following singular ooourrenoe: Lafayette Cook, © resident of South Auburn, 60 years old, declared two weeks ago that ho would die onSunday, the 11th Inst. He aroso on Sunday morning in his usual good health. but remarked at tho table that It was the last he should ever oat. After the meal he shaved! carefully and arrayed himself In clean clothes. In which he requested he might be buried. He was so eccentric that people did not pay much attention to his talk. One of his peculiarities, so one of his neighbors say, was that he prepared his own meals, and never ate tho food his wife did. He was an excellent man, however, and respected by all who knew him. Sunday morning ho was apparently in his usual health. He walked out with his grandchildren a short distance. At 4 o’clock ho went Into the house. He carefully shaved and washed himself, put on o clean shirt, and then said he would like to have a spread thrown upon the lounge. He was given a quilt, or something of tho sort, stretched himself on the lounge, and covered himself. He put one hand down by his side, bent the other arm so that he placed the band under his head and closed his eyes. So far as anybody knows, ho did not stir from thisposition and never afterward spoke,* but continued in a sort of a stupor until an early hour Monday morning, when the last vital spark left his body. Cook was a dead man within the time set for his demise. Those who watched him say they witnessed a slight movement of the chest, but no other sign of animation, after he lay down. He took no poison or drug of any sort. It was a simple surrender of vital power.

A BUCKEYE.

O’Donnell, the Avenger, Was Natural* ized in Ohio. [Telegram from IrontoD, Ohio.] On tho records of the Probate court of Lawrence county, Ohio, bearing date of Nov. 6, 1870, appears this very Interesting record: And now comes Fatrick O’Donnell, a native of Ireland, and makes his application to be naturalized, and—the court being satisfied from the declaration of said Patrick O’Donnell filed herein, and the oath of Michael McGarvey, that said applicant has in all things complied with tho law In relation to naturalization, and he having taken the oath of allegiance prescribed by law —it is ordered that a certificate of citizenship be Issued to said applicant in due form of law. George W. Thompson, Probate Judge. Judge Thompson has received an order from the Acting Secretary of State at Washington to forward at once a duly authenticated copy of the above record. ITjo proofs, it is supposed, are wanted in England in the trial of Patrick O’Donnell, tho slayer ol James Carey, at Cape Town, Africa. O’Donnell was a resident of lronton, and has relatives here; besides, many people live here who remember him.

A DANCE OF DEATH.

A North Carolina Marriage Festival Ends in a Double Murder. [Dispatch from Newbeme, N. C.l At a wedding at Currituck, Hyde county, N. C., a fatal fight occurred. Charles Credle, a young cotton-planter, was being married to Miss Ella Creble, a lovely belle of that section. The house was richly decorated in honor of the occasion, and crowds of guests were pres* ent. The ceremony took place at 8 o'clock, after which the company sat down to a superb banquet. Champagne flowed like water, and some of the young men partook too liberally, and a quarrel arose as to whether the german or cotillion should be danced after supper. Hot language ensued and a general fight followed, the infuriated young men paying no heed to the shrieks of the young ladles. Revolvers were drawn and shots fired, and for a short time the scene was a terrible one. Charles Ballance, the groom's best man, was killed, and Thomas 8. Edan, another of the groomsmen, was mortally wounded. The sight of the dead man brought the reveiers to their senses. The fighting closed and every effort was made to save the life of the wounded young man. No physician was nearer than twenty-five miles, and several of the participants in the affray at once started for him. The newly-married couple sat •up up all night by the wounded man's bedside. The dead body of Dalianoe was laid out in the parlor until the Coroner could investigate the matter.

GLEANINGS.

lowa has $7,000,000 in her savings banks. Bogs are $1.50 per dozen in some parts at Montana. Ex-Senator Ferry, of Michigan, will remain abroad another year. A hen farm, stocked with over 1,000 fowls, is to be started in TbomasviUe, Ga. The mill operatives at Manchester, N. H., have $5,000,000 in the savings banks. They do not allow a fellow to whistle while going through the sausage market in St. Louis. A nest of gray squirrels was found in a tree five miles east of; Fulton, N. Y., byOrviUe Johnson. He took the squirrels home and gave them to the care of a eat having kittens. The oat adopted them, quite to the exclualon of her own kind. Two magnificent bas-reliefs, ascribed to Michael Angelo, have lately been discovered in Havre. One of them represents the storming of a fortress, the other Fame, crowning one of the Duke* of Guise, It is supposed that these two works adorned the grave of the first Duke of that family in the Castle of Jolnville, which was sacked during the (Tench revolution. Florida has 830 factories, working 2,74$ hands, with a capital invested of f 1,MT.,000.