Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1882 — ADDITIONAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A dispatch from Augusta, Me., says: The Kennebec Journal publishes full official returns from all the State except from six small plantations, the vote of which will change the result but little: Total vote 138,175 Robie 72,554' Plaisted..... 68,756 Chase 1,29 s Vinton 262 Eustis 305 Robie’s plurality. 8,798 The Republican candidates for Congress elected by pluralities a little in excess of that for Governor. The Republicans carry fourteen of the sixteen counties. Of the Senators twenty-eight are Republicans and three Fusion. Of the members of the House 108 are Republicans and forty-one Fusionists. In two districts the elections are not yet determined.... Official returns of the State election in Arkansas show the following vote on Governor: Berry, Democrat, 87,675; Slack, Republican, 49,352; Garland, Greenbacker, 10,142. The total vote was 147,169, the largest ever polled During a game of base ball at Bordentown, N. J., a riot broke out among the players and' their friends, fence-rails and bats being used freely, and several persons severely injured... .A dispatch from Philadelphia says that Dr. Longstreth, the Melville family physician, and Dr. Bartleson gave a certificate of insanity in the case of Mrs. Melville, wife of Chief Engineer Melville, and she was placed in the Norristown Insane Asylum. Her children accompanied her to the asylum and then returned home. Chief Engineer Melville telegraphed to his sister in New York, who will hereafter take care of his home and his children. Melville’s friends deny that he deserted his family, and assert that his wife has been deranged several yeara Frank James, the notorious outlaw, was recently the traveling companion of a Michigan merchant, to whom he stated that a project to rob the bank at Blissfield, Mich., had been abandoned, and his mission now was to "get even” with the Fords for the murder of his brother Jesse. So says the Chicago Inter Ocean.... Kt Denver and at many other places a brilliant comet was seen in close proximity to the sun at noon. The extraordinary phenomenon has excited much interest among astronomers. The receipts of the Russian Government increased 19,500,000 roubles during the first half of this year, while the expendiitures were diminished 22,500,000 roubles.... Girard V. Wellesley, chaplain to ’Queen Victoria, is dead Maj. Phipps, who forged Comptroller’s certificates in Philadelphia to the amount of $150,000, was arrested at Hamilton, Ontario, where he and his wife were staying at a second-class hotel under the name of Thompson. Secretary Teller -will hereafter furnish the Indian police only with revolvers. No more of our red wards will get breech-loading rifles. The seats of a circus exhibiting at Mount Airy, N. C., fell, carrying down 1,500 people, of whom fifty were seriously injured