Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Official returns from sixty-five out of eighty-six counties iu Michigan givo Luce, liepublican, 168,495; Yap'e, Fusion, 159,729; Dickie, Prohibition, 24,759. Luce’s plurality, 8,766. There is little difference in the totals for other State officers. Official returns have been received from all the counties iu Pennsylvania except) eight. The aggregate vote for Governor thus far is: Beaver, Republican, 373,902; Black, Democrat, 330,906; Wolfe, Prohibitionist, 28,224; Houston, Greenbacker and Labor, 3,683. Hailey, the Democratic nominee for delegate to Congress from Idaho, was defeated on account of his partiality for tho Mormons.

! The President has made the follow- ! ing appointments: Francis A. Hoffman, to be Appraiser of Mer- : cnaivliss in the Diitrict of Chicago, 111. ; Wm. D. Burnett, Cincinnati, to be Attorney of the ; Unit id States for tho Southern District of Ohio; ! Timothy W. Jacks >n. of New York, to be Indian ; Agent for the State of New York; Auios A. Brown, of New York, to be Consul ot the i United States at Clifton, Canada; Wm. , A. Bovmiann, of Rochester, N. Y., to be cotnj missioner to examine a section of the Oregon : and California Railroad in place of Gideon J. I Tucker, declined; Charles W. Irish, of lowa ! Citv. lowa, to be Surveyor General of Nevada; A. W. Kibeshutz, of California, to bs Receiver | of Public Moneys at Independence. Cal., vice j Michael J. Cady, resigned; John W. H. Laird, of California, to ha Register of the Land office j at Independence, Cal., vice David Walker, rei signed ; Timothy A. Byrnes, of Atlantic City, N. J J., to be agent for the Indians of the, Uintah, ,an 1 Ouray consolidated agencies in Utah; A. Walton, of Kentucky, to be Consul of the United States at Asuncion. Gen. Chalmers, of the Second Mississippi Congressional District, is preparing to contest the seat of J. B. Morgan. The Democrats will have a majority of 44 in the Missouri Legislature on a joint ballot The Central Labor Union of New York has issued an address in which tho formation of a national party is urged. The official canvass of the vote in New York shows that for Mayor Hewitt received 0'),553 votes, George 63,110, and Roosevelt 60,405.