Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — ELECTION ECHOES. [ARTICLE]

ELECTION ECHOES.

THE CRIME Or BETTIN9. Indiana polls News. Anotchr election incident is much sadder. An aged German shoemaker and his wife had toiled aDd deprived themselves of the comforts of life for years in order to save money to buy a Louie. This fall they wet* rejoicing over a bank account of SI,OOO. Just preceding the election 'the shoemaker saw what he regarded a wonderful opportunity to double the amount of their savings. He wagered, SI,OOO on the election of President Cleveland. When the result of the vote as announced the old man crept weakly home and revealed to bis wife what he had done, and the terrible outcome. The poor woman was daaed. Her spirits went out like dry sand from the hand that would grasp it. In the evening she took to het bed and in three days that husband wept over her corpse. Was there ever a clearer case of a broken heart? ■>

seneral harrison’s bbt. Portsmouth,o., Special, An express money order from Indianapolis, having the signature of General Harrison, President-elect, calling for the payment of $2 to Mrs. S C. Greene, a prominent lady of this city and a friend of the Harrison family, arrived \here thiq morning. It is in payment ot a wager made several months since, in which General Harrison bet against himself. —*— MURCHISON IDENTIFIED. Lon Angeles Special New York Herald. Murchison is Francis G. Haley, a farmer, residing two miles from Pomona. He is a native of New York, of Irish descent, and has a very nice little family. He told me that he wanted to get at the bottom facts as to the real desires of the British Government. “I wrote the letter to Minister West,” said he, “entirely of my own volition, and though I expected a reply, I should not have beeri disappointed if none came. I held the letter neary three weeks after it came befoi e I showed it to anyone. I was in collusion with no one, and had no idea that the correspondence would have any political effect.” In conversation respecting himself, Mr. Haley said he came to Pomona from Ohio between four and five years ago. His neighbors all give Kim the reputation of an honest, fair dealing man. TWO OP A KIND. Recently William H. English received a letter from a gentleman in Watertown, N. Y., stating that a Prohibitionist had denounced General Harrison is an intemperate man and a friend of Indianapolis liquor dealers, referring to a lady well acquainted with the family as authority for the assertion. The reply of Mr. English was as follows: ~ “I do not hesitate to say that the charge of intemperance aga nst General Harrison, to which you refer, is entirely untrue. I served in with his father, and have known the General for a long time. I do not know anything against him but his politics, and if a Republican had to be elected, I do not know any member of that party likely to make a better President. This story about General Harrison being intemperate reminds me of a charge made against me when I was on the presidential ticket in 1880 viz.: that I was a Rebel sympathizer,during the war, and, to cap the climax some man certified and published that he was present and saw me arrested for treasonable practices. Both stories false.” WON HIS WIFE ON THE ELECTION. The most romantic story of an election bet comes from Broadbrook, Conn. George W Brown is a blacksmith in the town, and the smithy is his sole possession. He is a staunch Republican. For a, long time he has paid court to a young woman, ithe daughter of a Democratic farmer, who did not look with favor on the young man because of his politics The old man tried to invent some scheme'which would wrest from Brown his b'acksmith shop, and compel him, through poverty to depart from the vicinity. He. felt sure ot Cleveland hi ing elected, and, imbued with the idea, he visited Brown’s shop. “Young man,” he said, I’ll tell you what I’ll do You want to marry my j daughter. I’ll make you a wager. If Harrison is elected she is yours. If not, you can give me a bill of sale of this 1 shop and the tools and forever quit the town." George was only too glad of an opportunity to back up his political prefer-" ences any way, and he accepted the farmer so quickly that the old mflu was i dazed.. j The rest of the story is soon toffl. After the presentation of all the convinc- ■ insr documents obtainable the old farmer has given in. though insisting that a trick has been played upon him and that he is the victim, after all. ; Chinese Beggars. London Times. A writer in a Shanghai journal,* refer ring to the beggars of China, says that] large donations are givtoffto the people, j but these are in Hie nature of an insurance. In the cities the beggars are-or-ganized into very powerful guilds, more! powerful by far than any organization i with which they can have to contend, for the beggars tavTCnothing to low andfour, i i which respects they i stand alone, 'i he shop-keeper who] should refuse donation to a stalwart} -9 '

• beggar, after the latter had waited for a time and has besought with what the lawyers call “doe diligence,” would be liable to invasion from a horde of famished wretches, who would fender the existence even of a stolid Chinese a burden, and who wodld utterly prevent the transaction of any business until their continually rising demands should be met Both the shop keepers and the beggars nnderstand this perfectly’well, and it is f or this reason that the gifts flow in a steady, if tiny, rill.