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ft":***. J. VAN SLTKB, PROUM. OHENRY, ILLINOIS. , • i'i; ^ ; £>•• GOSSIP OFTHE DAT. _ A prominent Democratic member of ^Congress, who claims to have carefully looked over the ground and canvassed the matter thoroughly, says the election rf Mr. Kerr to the Speakership of the <mbP ̂House Is "as certain as any evert, of like character in the future." THKBE is a degree of satisfaction in „, ,4 he news that the wretch LaPage, arrest- ̂ J., j H Jad for the murder of Josie Langmaid, in | "f- ** \ "K ew Hampshire,'.has been identified. A * ^blackai scoundrel never crawled upon - Wn $he earth. The murder was one of tlie most heartless and horrible in the long : atalogue of crime. ̂ THE following stanza from a poem M t f i f one of the November magazines is sujp- Mweed to be a delicate tribute to Francis , J î E- Spinner,Treasurer of the United h* i wrole ud wrote, but oould not make a Dt®*! ,n. Thm. cafeed Us fats and'wUed th» world to ̂ luaf-r ' •«W" THE Internal Revenue DepartmOTl IT *0$"'̂ •"constantly bringing to light fresh frauds ; I to the distillery business., The disoov- jffc 44*leri6s of fraud among the old records that .-;̂ re constantly being made is the best ^ '̂T^posdble^evidence of the efficiency of the ̂ system at present in operation in this 'V"' branch of the special Bemoan ' ̂ good work go on. ' f- • , *;• & ,RIH. Y4 T/ngnr, FRED COMJNS, of the United %*** B '" States Navy, commander of the expckli- ^• Vrt >?'tion that made the recent survey of the route for the proposed inter-oceanic ' canal across the Isthmus of Darien, has .•unreported and furnished some estimates ̂; the cost of the work. The distance V ^T7of in a straight line is thirty \; miles, and the work will ooet a total sum of $105,000,000. ' .... imd ' tfti THE dispatch from lima, Peru, giving the result of the Peruvian elections illus- ties. That dispatch was the first ever sent from that city, and it went a long § distance to reach this country. It crossed the Andes, passed under the Atlantic from Brazil to Portugal, and returned to this continent by way of London and Newfoundland, j quartariy salaries, #064,617; judiciary, |$$89$,&45 ; net civil and mis­ cellaneous ' nMndilmNL fn,0?0,7W • War DepcfctnMlit, $41,120,645; Navy- Department, |jd..4flT,036 ; Interior De­ partment, 037,840,878 ; public debt in­ terest, $108,093,544. "" •' v.'i THE Jews as a class are probably the most peaceable, non-combative people in the world. There toe, however, excep­ tions. among which are to be classed Joseph Gvluinan fund Moses Fiskali, partners in a New York jewelry store. This duo of chivalric Hebrews had a quarrel about a business transaction, and, being tillable to settle the dispute amicably, had recourse to the code duello. The meeting had a most tragic termination. The parties met in the loft of a building in Delancey street, armed with revolvers, a»d proceeded to pepper each other in genuine Buffalo Bill style. Qoldman received two bullets through the head, and was instantly killed. Piskall was shot through the right eye and mortally wounded. There were no witnesses to this singular aad terrible eoinbaft. :'<•<•>: • Soife days ago a speoidati ve Pennsyl- vanian wrote to Assistant Postmaster* General B&rber, offering to give him $25 a quarter provided he would send his partner, a country Postmaster $400 in postage, ftq$nps every three months to be sold outside of the office, so .̂ that fhe Postmaster could, by an inoreased sal$ of stamps, increase he salary of his office. Mr. Barber con­ sidered the tempting proposition, but , concluded to remain true to his oath,and be guided by his convictions of duty, so he positively refusedto. accept the fabu­ lous bribe, and sent the tempter the following : . .tol( "The department can make no arrange­ ments, for or without a bonus, to supply you •with stamps for sale either by yourself or your partner in business, the Postmaster, and if the latter is discovered selling stamps in the man­ ner you suggest, his official tenure will be of very short duration. The innate dishonesty of your proposition suggests the propriety of keeping watch on his actions. I inclose oopyof the regulations regarding the sale of stamps." - THfi NEWS CONDENSEB# ? 0*1 revenue laws telett*SKg*dBfcy. Most of - those impttoatad reside lEfliaafco, and many of then ire pwalueat dpKTT., Mia. Btaitli, of BrMfcSaldL Mo« waaMMajhay a loafed S**n the other d^.wlMthaWM^nwaadiaohaived, the load pawling thitm^ ̂ jjbodT of her little daughter and prodaehisieBpit Instant death. .. .The Northweatern JUmmA Oempany has pnrohased and will hereafMlhoperate the Bock- ford, Bock Island and flt»T£cnila road ... The National Gold Bank of 8an¥j»aoi0oo has gone into voluntary liquidation. Creditors will be paid in full. A HOBBIBLE murder oocurred »i Bpringfleld, Ha, lately. A woman named Mary Collins went into the room wham Hmp hnRb>m<L James <k«ul nn nv ar>J|^ instantly. She little daughter, to a neignbor's. pf the Mormon [ Young to evan- mneesee, began Lotos and Wmu Renk, two young wretches, aged 17 and 15 years, treated their mother in a shameful and unnatural manner, in New York city, the other day. During the absence of their father they drove their youngtiar brothers into a room, and; after locking the doors, pre- « --Mumt sented pistols and dirk knives at the old mt snml'i lady, and robbed her of her jewelry and life pocketbook. They then threatened to Mil her and their brothers if theyat- f «!»." tempted to jwevent them from making tBt: X their escape. They have been arrested. T TB Hens^ovinian rebellion is again assuming a grave aspect The defeat of the Turks at Zubei, and the report of fern ." t̂he Consular Commission that the Porte cannot restore order, attest the strength and vitality of the insurrection, sicnificflnt: nf Bnaain calls forth' tlie "London Times a dc -̂'TOtion, ithat England is not prepared to engage in armed intervention. It seems prob­ able that Tarliay will bo obliged to giant to the disaffected, province something more substantial than *he promised re­ forms. . •' > ' 1 JOHN Eoao, of Tennessee, is very busy asking questions about what has taken place during the last thirteen years. He had a farm in Tennessee in 1862, and the soldiers of both armies made themselves cordially at home on his premised So he removed with all his produce to a cave in the Cumberland Mountains. A storm threw down a rock which closed the month of the cave. Therein he lived for thirteen years, in the dark, eating from his produce and drinking trom a spring. The other day a railroad company, blasting for a tunnel, blasted hin> out. . , , . R „ T THK KA8T. THE Beecher scandal has been suddenly re­ vived by the New York and Brooklyn Associa­ tion of Congregational pastors, who have appointed a csmmit*** to investigate charge# against Mr. IJeecher. H. B. CLAFUN & Co., tke well-known New York dry goods merchants, have been indicted for smuggling silks... .Interest in Moody and Sanke^'s revival meetings in Brooklyn is on the decline, and the attendance is growing smaller each day....Lewis G. Phillips & Co., cap man­ ufacturers of New York, have failed for a heavy amount.... At a business meeting of Plymouth Church, Brooldvn. last wee%}ihe names of Deacon West̂ nd Mrs. Francfa/D. Moulton were drotoed from the roll of membership on the grand of continued absence. Mrs. Moul­ ton (MflWed through her ooonaplf^logerA. Pryor, stating that her absence wasan enforced one, caused by the crime of adultery commit­ ted by Henry Ward Beecher, which she knew to be true through confessions and other evi­ dence. She declared her disposition to dis­ charge all the duties devolving on her as a member, that are consistent with with her knowledge of the adultery of the pastor and his false swearing with regard to it. THE committee of reverends charged with investigating Beecher promise to do their work thoroughly. They propose first to scrutinize closely the evidence brought out in the scandal trial, and then to search for new evidence. The | following are named as the committee: Rev. i William M. Taylor, of the Broadway Taberna- | cle, New York; Eev. Dr. Wm, Ives Boddington, of the Clinton Avenue Church, Brooklyn', Rev. The Profs. Parsons and Martin, of the New York 4:iru<i~v:r T Mi.r f >1^0 KmibBBKBs, Standermanand Do- -CTR* * TO1,E New York, Dec. 17-th., tot J fob 3k< w ^bng of Miss Siedenbaum, who re­ fused to marry Mm, aad Dolan for the murder of Noe, a brush merchant, whose *ote the prisoner broke into one Sun­ day morning about three months ago: On the 17th of December three colored men named Weston, Thompson, and Ellis, will be hanged at the same place for the murder of a poor peddler at West Farms, in Westchester county, N. Y., a few weeks previous to their arrest and conviction. Evidently hanging is not played out in New York. Thfiologsn&l Rp-ininiirtr *n4 R^ChirlsS H.Et™ eat, of the Church of tho Puritans, Brooklyn Tue uiiiloitakera o'i WiHiuiSuiUu'gh, N. ¥., are greatly excited about the queer operations of a coffi<' '=-aker in that city. It has ceen dis­ covered that' he was in the habit of robbing cemeteries of the covins deposited in "wly- siatls gi&vea. His plan was to visit a grave­ yard at night, remove the coffins from the rough box cases, take the corpse out of the coffin, put it in the bos and refill the grave. The | coffins thus procured would be taken to the oity and sold to some undertaker. The offender, whose name is Wm. Blake, has been arrested. ....During the performance in a New York theater, the other evening, Superintendent Jenkins, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, raided upon the ata^e and took in chbrge the little trapeze performer known as Leo. The wee acrobat, who is about 6 years old, was in the act of walking a tight rope with a balancing pole at tlie time of the raid. When it became known, however, what was the object of the whole affnir, the audience gave expressions of their satisfaction and sym­ pathy in a burst of applause. THE people of Saratoga county, N. Y., are ex­ cited over the discovery of the of Henry &. Mann, who has been the Treasurer of the county for the last fifteen years. It is known that the sum of his stealings will reach $140,000, and may largely exceed that amount. The New York Order of United Irishmen Redivivi has tried another one of its members for treason arid condemned him to death. Pat­ rick J Walsh in the alleged traitor, and makes. the third person condemned Haight, Ilalsey & Co., of New York, heavy importers of bat­ ters' goods, have suspended. Their liabilities are $750,000. THE experiment of running a fast mail train | from New York to Pittsburgh was inaugurated i on the 9th Lost., and would have been success- | fill but for an accident that happened near ! Philadelphia. Mr. Douglas, Chief Engineer of j the Pennsylvania railroad, who was superin- j tendiag the tnp. leaned out of a window so far that bw head struck a post standing near the track. He was instantly killed. A stop was made, when the train proceeded on its way, making the run through to Pittsburgh in eleven hours and thirty minuted. The locomotive showed ne signs of giving out, and the officials aie amiir dent that regular trips can be made as pro- THE official total net revenue of the government for the last fiscal year was $288,000,061, distributed thus: Cus­ toms, $157,167,722 ; internal revenue ; $110,007,41*3 ; lands, $1,413,640 ; mis­ cellaneous sources, $19,411,195. The total net expenditures were $274,623,392; divided thus: Customs, $19,713,707; $5,188,513; Interior $4,957,535; Treasury proper, $313,643,262; diplomatic, $3,- - 7 : ̂ • c; •elsewhere -• W.-.V&K. T3B WEST. A BOKKIBUS murder and suicide is reported from Kokoino, Ind. David Robinson, while laboring under a temporary fit of insanity, at­ tempted the murder of his entire family. First by shooting ard killing one of his children, then firing at his wife, but missing her. and she making her escape gave tbe alarm. Robinson tll®n *)lot an(i killed a second child and wounded a third in the face who made its escape. Not yet 8atishe<t, Robint<on nearly severed one of Uie dead children's heads from its body, and lert the house. Hin body was subsequentlv found lying near the railroad track, where he had committed suicide. THE United States Grand Jury at Chicago has found about sixty indictments against parties charged with criminal violations of the inter- vuumio* to CMS -- -- -- | n u n his skull in two, killing then attempted to murder but the child mad* her £lder Morgan, an religion, appointed by ** gelize Illinois, Kentucky his "work of graoe"at Bbasnngtcn. 111., last Suhdav, by addressing a .Mfte meeting upon the "Tenets of the Mormon faith." It is his intention to thoroughly eknvass the three States named in the ii»terest ef Mormoniam. DISTINCT shocks of earth^jfiake were felt in differeut sections of KassirBiliiftrly on the morn­ ing of the 8th tost, The Vacations were from east to west, and we) e tepotfltoied by a heavy, dnll, rambling sound, lluupQgs were conuid- eiably shaken, and the inmate*, in some cases, much alarmed, but no daaag» was done. THE whisky ring throughout the West is thoroughly demoralized. In Chicago nearly all the distillers have been mulcted and wili soon be brought to trial. The evUencs against them is said to be of a very goiBtve character, and cannot fail to convict. 'The St. Louis ring is completely banted. Soqwef the most promi­ nent citizens have been' indicted, including William MeEeSi of the 'Qk&'I)emocrat,. Con­ stantino Magnire, late Bevsnue Assessor, and othera. They have retained Dan Voothees and Ben Butler for the defense. A review of the operations of' the St Lottie Ting shows that during the last- few years they have defrauded the government out of at lefiit a. million dollars annually. At Milwaukee a large number of distiUeie sga,under injUfltegeat, and the prose­ cutions will be pushed vigMwly. ALL of the Italians, five in number, engaged in the horrid butchery at Denver, Col., have been arrested. It is hoped they will be speedily brought to justice. Hanging la too mild a pun­ ishment for such inhnmaa monsters Small­ pox prevails to an alanBu extent in Cincin­ nati. .. . The Minneapolis (M8nn.) Tribune has no loss than seven libel raits on its hands, the damages claimed aggregating $90,000 Chi­ cago elevators, as per offidlu returns, contain 1,405,607 bushels of wheat; 802,932 bushels of corn; 800,409 bushels of oate; 148.958 bushels of rye, and 82,914 bushels Of barley, making a grand total of 2,888,820 bushels, against 2,403,- 833 bushels at this time last year. THESE is no truth In the report that the Northwestern Railroad C^Bjbany has purchased the Rockford, Rock IslancHbd St. Louis road. .... Miss Jane Coombs, OMbpf the moat popu­ lar oomediennee at. presiw on the American stage, is playing a very apooessful engagement at McVicker's Chioago Theater. Crowded houses nightly witness her renditions of the heroine in the great historical spectacle of "The Jewess." "38,'ggS SO^TASS. $HE steamship City of Waco was burned in the gulf, near Galveston, Tex., on the morn­ ing of the 9th inst. She had just arrived from New York, and was anchored outside the har­ bor. Tke fire caught in a large quantity of oil which composed part of the cargo, and spread rapidly. The passengers and crew, consisting of fiftv persons, put off in the steamer's boats. The wind at the time way blowing & gale, and, as at last accounts noth­ ing had been heard of thank, it is thought every soul perished. Tlie City of Waco was built at Chester, Pa., was almost new, and was valued at #250,000. The cargo was worth #10,000. THE Treasury Department has received in­ formation of the conviction of eighteen per­ sons at Abiugdop, Va., apopsd of illicit die. tilling in Ihat neighborhood Over fifty addi- amsts havealso made for illicit _ to the Ytefbia iH5tihtsta Mgion frauds against the government there &re in a fair way to be completely checked, as they have already been in the West Tbe wife, daughter and son of Charles Massey, living near Fordsville, Ky., recently died from the effects of arsenic poison, which some fiend threw into the family well. WASHINGTON; ! ATJGUBTCB S. OAYLOIID, of Michigan, has been appointed Assistant Att<vney-Qeneral for tE6 Interior Department, vice Wm. A. Smith, resigned. " THB Commiaaioner of Internal Revenue has decided that under the statutes all inventions for ageing spirits, when brought into use in bonded warehouses, according to the proposi­ tion made to the department, constitute the •ffoik of lecslilcts-tiun auu jJurnicaLiun, mid those using such processes bccome wfiflers of spirits and tmVfcct So taxation as such.... During Octo­ ber 80.138,000 postal cards were iesued by the PcstofiicG Department, the largest issue by at least 1,000,000 aver mad© inth® same time-.... A Washington telegram states that a large num­ ber of special agents are oiaployed in investi­ gating frauds in the pension business. These frauds are chiefly in tlie West, and there is rea­ son to believe that the total amount of money whicli the government is defrauded of annually by this means is an enormous sum. One of the specie,I agents fixes the sum as high as $2,000,000. He thinks that amount of money is illegally paid out to persons claiming to be pensioners A WAHUIXOTOV dispatch says it is now cer­ tain that three topics, at least, will be largely dwelt upon by the President in his coming message to Congress. These three topics will embrace the public school question, the finances, and the condition of affaire in Cuba. It is «aM he will urge, as he has done hereto­ fore, the justice of recognizing the rights of the belligerent Cubans; will come outstronglv against the demands of Catholicism: and will take advanced ground in favor of an immediate return to specie payments The Postoffice Department lias ruled that where a postal card i» to be sent through the mails a second time, a cent stamp is not enough to secure its trana- mission. It must carry letter postage. THE report of the Commissioner of the Gen­ eral Land Office is likely to create a sensation. He devotes much space to the manner in which railroads have obtained and used their land grants, and especially criticises what is called the California Land Ring... .Asst. Atty.-Gen. Spence, of the Postoflice Department, nae de­ cided that it is proper to exclude from she mai a postal-cards containing offensive expreeaiOi.B and allegations calculated and Intended to wound the feclinga of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. The latter appealed to tlie Postoffice Department for protection against indignities through the medium of postal-caras seivt through the mails... .Vice-President Wilson had a sudden and serious attack of illness a few cUya ago, but is now recovering. POLITICAL. V Da. ISAAC J. HAVES, the well-known- Arctic explorer, was elected to the New Uork Legis- ture on the Republican ticket, at tjtbe recent election in that State The complete vote for Governor in Iowa at the late election was as follows: For Kirkwood, Bep.» 125,069 ; for Lefiier, Dem., 98,?24. Kirk wood's majority, 31.745. There was a scattering Temperance vote of a few hundreds Ex-Senator Pease, of Mississippi, who has lately held the Postmaa- tership at Vicksburg, has bean dismissed from the office. THE full vote of Massachusetts °n Governor, at tlie recent election, is as follows: Gaston, D m., 78,246; Rice, Rep., 83,523; Baker, Temp., 8.965; Adams, Ind., 1,774; Phillips, Labor Reform, 301....Full official returns of the Pennsylvania election give Hartranft, Rep., a majority of 14,510. v THE people of Missouri have ratified their new Constitution by a majority of upward of iiiMiwiiMitiiain^ainm to two eaoai dates--M. C. Kerr, of and Sam Ran­ dall, of Pennsylvania, ijjttii the chances decid­ edly in favor of the first named. nSNEHALi • THBBE fiahennen were drowned near Hairis- ville, Lake Huron, one day last week, by the swamping of their boat The United States Direct Cable has been successfully repaired, and is now in goad working condition. THE Spanish government in Cuba has for­ warded to its agent in New York city orders to buy up and ship at onoe $500,000 worth of am­ munition and provisions. Die fear of Ameri­ can intervention at an early day is stated as the reason for these large purchases.. . .The direct Atlantic cable has been repaired, and is now transmitting messages as usual. THB colored cadet from Mississippi who has been causing so much trouble at the Annapolis Naval Academy, has been dismissed from the Academy by the Secretary of the Navy. • ABBANOEMEHTS have been perfected by which through bills of lading and through tickets tar passengers are to be issued from ail leading European cities to China, Japan, Australia, and New Zetland, via New York and San Francisco, and vice versa.., .The steamship Pacific, which saDed from Victoria, Vancouver's Island, for San Francisco, on Thursday morning, Nov. 4, was wrecked the fame evening, forty miles south of Cape Flattery. The Ul»fateo vessel had on board 108 persons, only one of whom escaped. The survivor, Henry L. Jelly, saved himself by clinging to the pilot-house of the wrecked steamer, and was picked up a day or two afterward by a pass­ ing vessel Charles Beade's delightful ro- jnance of "Foa! P!®y" its counterpart in a thrilling tale reported from New York, On a lonely island of the Wsefe Indian group four bodies were recently seen l>y sea-faring men. Who they were, how long they had watched and waited, what their presence were meant, is not revealed. ADVICES from Boston report that the brigs J. W. Spencer an<| Toronto, and the schooners Moses Patten, Nettie Chase and Serene, were lost, with all on board, during the terrible hur­ ricane which recently caused so much damage in the West Indies. DETAILS of tbe foundering of the steamer Pacific, on the Pacific coast, show that the catastrophe was of a more lamentable nature than was at first reported. There were on board the vessel at the time of the disaster two hundred souls, and only two persons, so far is known, live to tell the sad story Isaac P. TIce, the well-known inventor, is dead The General Missionary Convention of the Method­ ist Episoopal Church of the United States held its annual session at New York last week, all the members being present except Bishops Foster and Haven. The treasurer's report showed a balance on Nov. 1, 1874, of $13,288 ; receipts during the year, $662,485; expendi­ tures, $721,800, leaving the debt of the treasury #46,030. Besides this there ar© letters of credit for foreign missions amounting to $139,532, malting the imi debt $185,562, FOKKIGN. . THEBE" is much suffering among the indus­ trial classes of Germanv and the government is being asked to establish loan banks as a means of relieving the' distress Advices from Russia give doleful accounts of the un­ paralleled failure of this year's harvest. The failure has been general all over the country, and includes every species of crops The French Assembly met on Nov. 4 So far from being crushed out by Turkey, the insurrection in Bosnia and Herzegovina shows signs of healthy vigor. The military leaders in those provinces have taken the preliminary steps toward proclaiming a national government. A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch says the Russian Ambassador has had a long interview with the Sultan. He represented to him the maladmin­ istration of the country, the discontent of the population, the dilapidation of the finances, and the consequent urgency of reform. THE members of the Franco-American Union in Paris gave a grand banquet at the Hotel du r®' Louvre recently. Two^hundred guests sa<?( down to the table, and M. de Laboulaye, the distinguished jurisconsult and member of the Assembly, presided. Speeches were delivered by Minister Washburn and Col. Forney, who promised the hearty co- operation of America in the project started by French citizens to erect a monument in New York harbor, in commemo­ ration of the 100th anniversary of the inde­ pendence of the United States. THE Prince of Wales has arrived Bafely in India, where he was enthusiastically received. ....The Emperor of Germany made a speech the other day, on the occasion of receiving the President of Parliament, in which he laid stress on the eminently peaceful aspect of affairs. Though the Bosnian difficulty was still un­ solved, he expressed himself as perfectly con­ fident of a peaceful settlement of that ques­ tion A letter to the Loudon Times from I? :r!in states that as a result of the conferences in Vienna, the powers have determined to ask Turkey wh©«"'»«?r «he has any guarantees to offer for tho fulfilment pf her often-broken prom­ isee of reform. A^DIXXONAX lattorahave been received at Lon­ don from Henry M. Stanley, in Africa, which are described as exceedingly interesting. They fully confirm Sheke's views that the great Vic­ toria Niyanza is one body of water, and not an aggregation of lakes, as held by Livingstone. ...»The notorious Mordannt divorce case has been brought to an end in the courts of En­ gland, Sir Charles Mordaunt having been granted a decree of divorce Advices from Penang, India, announce that the mutilated remains of Mr. Birch, the late English resident at Perak, have been recovered after a sharp engagement with the Malayans. A general outbreak was feared, and Hong Kong had been telegraphed to for troops... .The French As­ sembly has, by an almost unanimous vote, adopted an amendment to the electoral bill al­ lowing half-yearly residents to vote. THE New York Herald prints a telegraphic synopsis of Henry M. Stanley's latest letters from the interior of Africa. The intrepid ex­ plorer had several conflicts- with slave-dealers on Victoria Lake. On one occasion he wa attacked by 100 natives, armed with spears, in thirteen canoes, who were repulsed after a severe fight. Thiee natives were killed. He arrived at the Utesal hnnting-aampatNisayura, April 12, where the King digested extraordinary festivities and displays. One feature was a naval review on the lake of eighty-four canoes, manned by 2,500 men. On the second day, in addition to the naval maneuvers, there were races, in which eighty-four canoes were en­ gaged. each propelled by thirtv oarsmen, the King leading the fleet personally in the pres­ ence of a great crowd of on-lookera, including the 300 wives of the lung. On the third day there was bird-nliootiuK and target-practice by 3,000 troopn, and on the fourth day he returned to Mtesas, the capital. The Kiug lias 2,000,- 000 of subjects. He is a Mussulman, has great intelligence, and bis dominion affords the Mst angary for the possible civilization of Africa. ^ VOX POFUU. The Hovember Election*--Verdict ®f the * People In the Various States--A General Summary of the Result. Elections were held in eleven States an Tuesday, Nov. 2, as follows: Illinois, Kan­ sas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Misaissippi. New Jersey, New York, Pennsyl­ vania, Virginia aud Wisconsin. We present below a brief summary of the result in the sev­ eral States: NEW YORK. In New York the entire Democratic ticket, as given below, was elected by 10,000 to 15,000 majority: Secretary of State--John Bigelew. Comptroller--Lucius Robinson. Treasurer--Charlen N. Roes. Attorney-General--Charles S. Fairchild. Engineer and Surveyor--J. D. Van Boren« ' | H. Canal Ctammiariooer--Quia. A. Walnth. Prison lomartor-Sodney R QiWWef. She Bepuldiceni have seearaa both fwanfthati of the Legislature. lb ti» city of New Yolk, tbe entire Tammany ticket was defeated bjr an alliaoos of Bepubii- MW and anti-Tammany Dwosrsts. John Wxmmmj, aaM^aMBsny, State Senate over John Fox, in the Fourth Dis­ trict, comprising the lower section of the city. The Brooklyn ring, headed by "Boas" Mo- LaughUnu Was also routed- the Republican ticket, aided by the honest Democrats, being elected by a large majority, althoughtheDem- ocratic State ticket earned the city by over 6,000. In New York and Brooklyn, as in Chi­ cago, it was a b"d day for rings. y w y j f • -i-1 '̂-.̂ . The Republican State ticket, headed by John F. Harirauft (present incumbent), i* elected in Pennsylvania by about 20,000 majority, MASSACHUSETTS, In Massachusetts the entire Republican State ticket is elected by a majority of 6,000. The following are the newly-elected State of flciate: , ' p Governor--Alex. H. Rioej ' • . Lieutenant-Governor --Horatio G. Knight, Secretary--Henry B. Pierre. f. J ' * •• Treasarer--Charles Eudicott Auditor--Julius L. Clarke. _ ' Attorney-General™Charles K. Trimr Congress, one year--William W. Crapo. The Legislature is largely Republican. ' ,. MINKESOTA. ; ' The Republicans carried Minnesota by a ma­ jority of about 10,000. Appended is a list of the officers elected : ^ Governor--John S. r illabqry. Lieutenant-Governor--John B. Wakefield. Secretary--John S. Irgens. " * Auditor---O. P. Whitoomb. Treasurer--William PfaendSr. Chief-Justice--lames Gilfillan. Attorney-General--George P. Wilson.1 - Clerk bf the Supreme Court--Samuel NicholB. Railroad Commissioner--Wm. R. Marshall. WISCONSIN. The contest in Wisconsin was very clone. Ludington, Republican, is elected Governor by a verv small majority. The vote on minor State offices is almost evenly balanced, and it will probably require the official count to deter­ mine who are elected. MABVLANDw , Injtbis State all the candidates on the Demo­ cratic ticket, as printed below, were slSOted by a large majority: ;f}" ] Governor--John Lee Carroll. j . t Comptroller--Levin Woodford, tu * l~V Attorney-General--Charles J. M. Gwynn. NEW JERSEY. The election in New Jersey was for members of the Senate and Assembly, The Republicans were successful in securing a majority of both. , MISSISSIPPI. In Mississippi the people elected a State Treasurer, members of tne Forty-fourth Con gress and a State Legislature. The Democratic candidate for Treasurer and all the Democratic candidates for Congress, with possibly one ex ception, are elected. Both branches of the Legislature are also Democratic, which insures a Democratic United States Senator to succeed James L. Alcorn. KANSAS. In Kansas tbe electors chose a State Legisla­ ture and county officers. The Republicans elected more than two-thirds of the member ' of the Legislature, and tbe eovinty officers gener­ ally are of tlie same persuasion. VIRGINIA, The election in Virginia was also for mem­ bers of ills islatiire. A majority oz those chosen are Democrats. ILLINOIS. The election in Illinois was for county and municipal officers, and only a local inter­ est was taken in the contest, except in a few counties and in the large cities. In the city of Chicago there was one of the most exciting campaigns in the whole history of municipal elections. It was a fight between honesty on tlie one side, and corruption and rascality on the other, and honesty achieved a moat signal victory. The Democrats proper made no nom {nations. The Republicans placed in the field a ticket made up of respectable, trustworthy citizen*. Arrayed against them were a lot of unprincipled scala­ wags, placed in nomination by a combination of foreigners, ward bummers and the riff-raff and offscourings ¥f society in general, not one of the candidates being a native-born American. This ticket was supported and voted for by all the bad elsmantd of society; the other by the opposite wemfc»i» the merchants, b|HW> men, tax-papers, and honest men of all cflasflk. It was a Utter, determined fight, the very large vote cast--over 57,000-- attesting the interest taken in it. The ^Republican ticket, which was supported by large numbers of Democrats, was elected by a handsome majority, the disreputa­ bles were routed honse, foot and dragoons, and Chicago is saved front the threatened danger of a aecond era of Tweedism. NATIONAL FINANCES. 44,486 9,368 47,174 21,880 Some Idea as to What It Costa to Bun the Revenue Bureau--Items that Enter Into the Maintenance of Our Diplomatic Ea- tabllshment. The report of Mr. Ela, Fifth Auditor of lile iliC <busms22 O? h?*? office for the last year, has been sent the Secretary of the Treasury. It shows the cost of too diplomatic service of the gov ernmont to have been as follows: For foreign Ministers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . > 8 3 6 , 3 4 3 Far ConsulB 841,368 For clerk-hire of Consuls. 26, Fees collected by Consuls....... #07,: » xeess of fees above Consular expenses. 148,816 Cost of relieving distressed seamen la foreign porta Paid for passage of seamen home....... Received by Consuls for extra vapMTOB of peanien discharged abroad Number of seamen sent home........... Paid out to representatives of Bailors and citizens who died abroad INTERNAL REVENUE EXPENSES. The cost of Internal Kevenue Collector who were paid by salary and oompii*- Hious was 962,074 By special allowance........... 877,607 Expen«es of Collector's office............ 1,485,719 Total cost of Collectors...... 2,183,462 Amount collected by thorn 102,91)5,24U Expense of Storekeepers 761,026 8 Expense of distillery Surveyors' salaries. , 6,267 Expense of distillery Surveyors' ex­ penses.... Gangera' fees Gangers' traveling expenses Cost of Supervisors of internal Berenna --for salary...' For expenses. J. For clerk hire Total expenses.... Coot of Internal Ha venue Agento--for salary For expenses The amount of spirit-stamps sent to Col­ lectors for the year was. Tobacco, snuff, and cigar stamps Beer stamps. Special stamps.. Adhesive stamps to agents 8tamped foil wrappers for tobacco...... There was paid during the year few engrossing and printing stamps and for stamp paper, $614,400. The expenses of the Patent Office for photo-lithograph­ ing was $40,009; for pontes for official gazette, $36,643; for copies of drawings, $89,997; for tracings of drawings, $34,- 996/ 1 The expense of preserving the col­ lections of the surveying and exploring expeditions was $30,000. The contingent expenses of the Post- office Department amounted to $66,100; the contingent expenses of the Patent Office, §79,772. Amecg the miscellaneous expenditures of the State Department are: 1 Publishing the laws in newspapers and psmplet. ...$ Edition revised and annual statutes. Purchase of official postage stamps Survey of British boundary Salary and expenses of Spanish Claims Commission Salary and cxpeusec of Mexican Claims Commission .... Salary and expenses of Court of Alabama Claims 83,986 Awardx to British claimants. 1,9*9,819 Expense* of His Hawaiian Majesty 19,917 Bent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, China, .Siaiu, Turkey, etc 16,485 Vor purchase and restoring to the family T of Gen. Lafayette the watch preset.tad him by Washington 241 805,356 " 164,387 fc),9 99 64,590 87,114 1&7.752 43,652 81,209 62,703,538 86,079,885 9.403,190 10,403.440 8,614,fit© 49X882 Forty Thnaamid pratflS la ronrMcntha-- Buryins Female Alive. Pttrtbar iafortniiimi ffrom Fiji conveys Mill datfcer aeoooBte of tbe plague which has xeoentiy passed ovtt the new colony., Silent of tougistauidmg, writing to' J Victoria contemporary, says: "Tbf death rate is not yet made upt but the probability is tint 40,000 Fijian® died daring the foar months' plague. The native population of Fiji is sow about one-third only of what it was when I landed here about twenty-five jfears ago.' 5$SB SCCCuIiii gitSu Oi {lie XEtfijmiljpdo the disaster are less harrowing tha n tho» of the sufferings of the victims, f " Very few died of the measles, the^majority dying of subsequent disease in the form of dysentery, congestion of the lungs, etc. Want of nourishment, or starva- 'tion, carried off thousands." iWe are told that "all work was suspended for two months. You could pass through (Whole towns without meeting any one in • the streets, which were soon completely covered with grass. Entering a house, you would find men, women, and chil­ dren lying down indiscriminately, some? just attacked, some still in utroHy, and some dying. Some who were sfc enough attempted suicide, and not al­ ways unsuccessfully." We ate further ,told that "as the scourge Meatoe more ! permanent, some four or fivfc were buried together in one grave, and generally without religions service. In some cases the dead were buried in the earthen doors of the houses. The tjjiifups were hurried, and the probability-is that some were buried gtive. In many instances the husband, wife, and children all died. In one village all the women died, and in another ail the men." It is interest­ ing to read of the different mental effects produced by the torture of (disease. It is not surprising that '"•some made fruitless appeals " to their ancient god. Some inland tribes, who h&Lonly re cently embraced Christianity, Mnsiderec that the disease was conveyed by theii religious teachers, and they dismissec them and then abandoned their new re lipion. Among these some / were foi killing the teachers, but wiseir 'ooans^h prevailed* It is said that one tribe buriec alive one teacher's wife and child, whos< father died of the plague, to stop infec tion. But wMle some in their distrest fell back on their former superstitions the greater number are saî t to" borne their calamity with fortitude, anc to have suffered and died under the inrlui ence of Christianity.--Sidney {Amiru lid) Herald. ff "" ' " • - • • • • - - : .V 1 A Pleasant Neighborhood to Live In At Senatohia, a few days ago, Bartoi McHenry and J. H. Cocke, b^fh white tion. Cocke fired until his pistol waij exhausted, when they clinched, Cock< drawing his knife and McHenry using his pistol by striking him on .the head A short struggle ensued, when McHenc fell dead in front of Slaton & Slaton' ^office, with seven stabs in Ms breast, twi in the region of the heart. Mr. Cock went home without assistance, but f ing liimsel badly wounded, medical ait; was soon in attendance, when it wa found that he was mortally wounded, ball having struck him near the center * his abdomen, ranging downward an<* comjng out near the spine on the lef side. One shot also took effect near th point of his hip bone, another struo] him lower down on the other hit Jhe fourth fpade a slight venuu • above his 'ankle.-- Vtoksburg wal ̂' - Some Big Churches, We think we have some big churchc here in America; but very few have seating capacity of over 1,500. The fo lowing table, showing the size of som of the big churches in Europe, will b apt to astonish some: Person .. ..37,0C ...32,00 .. .35,i 24, St. Peter's Church at Bome will hold.... Milan Oathednl St. Paul's at Home St. Psul's at London.... St. Petronio at Bologaa......... . Florence Cathedral....... 24,31 Antwerp Cathedral 24,0( St. Sophia's, Constantinople 23,0( St, J'4,n T Notre Dame Ht Pflrfs..; i./tA.. -W' Pisa Cathedral ».»W/. .13,00" St. Stephen's at Vienna .12,41. St. Dominic's at Bologna...1'A01 St. Peter's at BoloRiia. v • •• i CatbedrBiof Vienna...... ,.. St. Mark's, Venice.,.V.OCi i'b Tabernacle 7,0 3 Church, Fifth avenue, itefr York, ^ ^ ' THE MARKETS. '̂50 -12 CHICAGO. « 00 5 00 Good to Mine Steers.... 4 60 Cows and Heifers.. 2 60 Medium to Fair. 4 00 Inferior to Coinmo!i;...i J 50 JS WHEAT--No. 1 Spring 1 09 No. 2 Spring,.... I 07 No. 3 Spring 92 ® •»»»»»..̂ «».» p- 81 2 . . .X' 32 » ' Ai '•M FI^XJB---Fancy White'winter*! Red Winter Oom»--No. 2.. 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