Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Thomas E. Benedict has taken charge of the Public Printing Office at Washington, having filed his bond for $I X),000. There have been 239,000,000 silver dollars coined under the Bland act The State Department at Washington has received no demand for the' release of the Canadian sailing-vessels recently seized in the waters of Alaska. The total value of the exports of cattle and hogs during August, 1886, was $1,239,713; 1885, $1,073,139; beef and pork products, August, 1886, $6,125,936; 1885, $6,051,189; daily products, August, 1886, $1,389,943; 1885, $1,257,693. The Director of the Mint has issued the following circular in regard to the issue of minor coins: Five-cent nickel pieces and one-cent bronze pieces will be forwarded in the order of application from the mint of the United States at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to points reached by the Adams Express Company, free of transportation charges, in sums of S2O or multiples thereof, upon the receipt and collection by the Superintendent of that mint of a draft on New York or Philadelphia, payable to his order. To points not reached by the Adams Express Company, and where delivery under its contract with the Government is thus impracticable, ths above coin can on the same terms be sent by registered mail at the applicant’s risk, registry fee on the same to be paid by the Government. Orders for transportation at the risk of the applicant should express the acceptance of the risk. An election for Governor, Congressmen, and members of- the State Legislature was held in Maine on Monday, the 13th inst There were three complete tickets in the field —Republican, Democratic, and Prohibition—and the Labor party had candidates for Congress in the First, Second, and Third Districts. The candidates for Governor were Joseph R. Bod well, Republican; Clark S. Edwards, Democrat; Aaron Clark, Prohibition. An Assoiiated Press dispatch from Portland gives the following as the result of the poll on Governor: Two hundred and twenty-three towns give Bodwell 45,633, Edwards 39,021, and Clark 2,373. The same towns in 1884 gave Robie, Republican, 55,839; Redman, Democrat, 41,839; Eustis, Prohibition, 840; two Greenback candidates, 2,093; and scattering, 9. The Republican plurality this year is 9,562, against 14,030 in 1881—a loss of 4,468. A similar loss in the towns yet to be heard from will give an aggregate vote of 127,000, divided us follows: Republican, 68,500; Democratic. 55,200; Prohibition, 3,309. Thomas B. Reed, Nelson Dingley, Seth L. Milliken, and Charles A. Boutelle, all Republicans, have been elected to Congress. Congressional nominations: W. J. Stone, Democrat, Twelfth Missouri District; E. L Briggs, Prohibitionist, Fifth Mi higan; Mark S. Brewer, Republican, Sixth Michigan; Frank Lawler, Democrat, Second Illinois; Poindexter Dunn, Democrat; First Arkansas; William H. Mullen, Knight of Labor, Third Virginia; Fred L. Ludengerber, Democrat, Tenth Missouri; Smedley Darlington, Republican, Sixth Pennsylvania; W. L Hurst, Republican, Tenth Kentucky; William L. Scott, Democrat, Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania; Harvey C. Sherwood, DemoGreenbacker, Fourth Michigan; A K. Delaney, Democrat, Second Wisconsin. George W. Lee, the American oarsman, defeated Neil Matterson, the Australian, in a sculling match ou the Thames course. Most of the tenants on the O’Flaherty estate, near Longford, Ireland, have accepted an opportunity to purchase their holdings at a price equal to sixteen years’ rent. By a panic in the Pilgrimage Church, in Itodna, Transylvania, caused by the accidental burning of the altar curtains, several hundred people were injured, many of them seriously. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, at a banquet, proposed the health of the Czar, which was responded to with cheers, the band playing a Russian anthem. When the Czar heard of it he telegraphed his thanks. Close to the headquarters of General Buller, in Ireland, a bailiff who had made some evictions was unmercifully beaten by the women of a Catholic church where he appeared. A priest who subsequently admitted the unfortunate man to hear mass was denounced in bitter language.