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2HTT PRLFNRTI FFAMDRATA r j, VAN SLYKFC. Vtmusm. iloHENBY, ILLINOIS. HE NEWS CONDENSED. flU JBA8T. •rotm boildingB belonging to the j 0f Finance of tJie Centennial Exposi- utd ft dozen belonging to individuate, MU fjt Miction one day hit wwkop^* gronnds, sad resized h 0f construction w&s f2.G00,000. Va^inarv h»", Memorial hall and Horticpl- •njffl hall were not included to the **}®\ The w*--Exhibition Company, of Philadel- jSOi bought what buildings way will need m fdtore years. 1 Brooklyn Theater, Brooklyn, N. Y., has iMMi dMtroyed by fire. Loss, $250.000.... A Urttiilnftinir (Pa-> dispsteh mm that more than 4tolf of the mines in the Stat® RT® stopped. > nambor of men thrown out of work is esti- I at between ;'•!>, 0(10 and 45,000. It is be- j that the the suspension will be entire by thismonrtii. THE WIS*. k look place in Chicago, on Thanks- _ ^ day, at the corner of Sonth Water street • fttS lSchlgSR avenae, by which »large atonfr- flMbariMSBbnilding was totally destroyed. Lotb W30,£J00; iufliiraECO, about $109,000-. ' / ffe the atth ult., E. F. Carr, a farmer, living tifromflfii south of Oalamos, Neb., murdered M» wife and two mile, children, and then himself. Ho reason ia ssslgned for THE SOUTH. Jtsi otenatre oonflagration oeonxred at New IrieMw last week, destroying 112 bouses. i estimated at $300,000 to $400,000; insur- $200,000. About fifty houses were occu- k 100 families, who lost nearly all their , and were left destitute, many of them their wearing apparel. About twenty «ere injured, several seriously. One b*s his neok broken by filling from a u, E steamship Miry, of the Morgan Line, •organ City, for a Texas port, with an . cargo, struck on the Aransas bar one day let week, and soon after went to pieces. TW. Tmnrl and cargo are a total loss. The fgBol was valued at $125,000: no insurance. No Bvee were lost. WA8HHVQTOW* 1m public debt statement for Deeember ia •e faDows: Stx per cent, bonds ̂9SW9MB Site for rent, bonds. 712,390,400 MaI onto bonds $1,607,330,500 lawful money debt 4 14,000.000 Msfcured debt 2,201.700 Xtfgsl tenders 306,076,607 Osrttflcatesof deposit.... 40.725/W0 •taetkmal 37,406^08 53h certMtoateB.... 37,413^00 MM wMfcoat interest 673,823,716 Mil debt 1*1 Interest.. it to Treasury : »,..|TO^81,4n 11*743^16 ilbeM for ro­ of certtftcates 40.72M00 Total lathe Trcsm?. .1*186.185,516 85,580,269 132,3*9,686 >m OMh In the Treasnry 13,089,386,099 of debt doing Nsvember..... «67.«62 riaee Jane 80.18T6 10,103,245 issnM to the Pacific BiSmy Oon^Kiw, int«!<est parable in lawfal aaoney: HMndpal outstanding accrued and net yet paid Oth© United 8tates by tansportation of •4,028,513 1,616,587 82,080,718 6,990.836 of interest paid by United 95,069,882 Is the treasury estimates for the next fiscal we found the following Western items: flab-treasury at Chicago, $500,000; Custom "* 'Wham and Postoffice at Cincinnati. $500,000 ; 'vSvansrUle Custom House, $40,000; Grand Bapkle Custom House, $55,000; Port Huron ^Custom House, $10,000. * GEMKBAI. Hew Tork canals were closed by iee on ': the 1st inst., and the day afterward was the tine appointed by the State Board for their flcrJ. dosing. Nearly all the grain-laden boats on, the Erie canal got through from Buffalo to 'U&t-wmsr before the freeze set in. POL1TIOAI* THB following table shows the vote for Presi­ dent in the States menuoafed: * Hayes. TiUUn 34,383 68,063 70,841 hi titauM 88,689 California. 78,608 Colorado psftl.K 738 , Ooonectiont .............. 58,929 01 918 wU /mgi y .... 85 185 xiu'noiB. T77HT- U. 7m]h2 Indiana,„ 208,111 213,526 lew* .'.......171 327 112,099 f fensM....... .......... ai.iwi sate*-? 68.030 . i*ain©..... 1.... 66,190 46,410 M&ryssi'iid 71,981 91,780 Hnneoiimntti .........150,078 10H.975 ^lichiRaD 166,534 141,(m • Vioneeote 72,962 48,799 Miseotiri. 144,398 2«3,687 *ebra»ki 31,95'2 17,553 • Sevadft (maj.) 1,000 .... Sew Hampshire 41,522 88,449 ' Ve w Jersey. 103,515 115,9«0 A, few York 489,529 *92,518 fenkC^roUna (maj.) .... 16,178 .«hio.... 330,698 833,182 Oregon (maj.) 1,187 femuiylvsnla ....384,148 363,204 .Abode Mead 15,787 10,712 Tennessee.....'. 86,566 1JS,166 Vet moat. 44,991 20,254 Virginia 35,565 188.671 "WUoonain 130,067 123,926 Tn Qeneral Assembly of Rhode Island oon- •ened m special session on the 1st inst. GOT. Lippett communicated the opinion of the Su­ preme Court that Corliss, the Presidential elector-elect, is ineligible by reason of being , a member of the United States Centennial Commission. The Hen. W. D. Slater wie elected to fill the vacancy, receiving 81 votes, ; to 19 for Charles B. Cutler, the Democratic candidate. The electors for President and Tioe Preei dent met at their respective capitate, in ae- sordtmee with the provisions of the constitu­ tion, awl east their ballots. The following- named States voted for Rntherford B. Hayes and Wm CI Wheeler, na nely: Oftliforaia 6| Minnesota 5 Colorado .. 3;Vebraska...... 3 Florida 4jNevada .. ...». 8 Illinois 21 New Hampshire 5 low* ll|OUio 23 JCan as,... Si Pennsylvania 39 iLoi ig ana......-- 8|Ilhode Island 4 Haiue 7|fk>uthCarolina.... .... 7 Xaasachnsette 13jVermont Michig-.n . . ......11| WiHconBln x® The following States cast their ballots for Samuel J. Tildtn and Thouias A. Hendricks: Connecticut 6|Marylaid...... « New Jersey vfississippi 8 vtisKOiiri 15 North Carolina 10 i'ennesaee 12 Texas Virginia 11 West Virginia 5 New York 35 Indiana ........ .. 15 Alabama.,.. • 1" Arkansas • ° X»elaware » •Borgia '1 jKentncky I2 . . ... . , In Oregon two sets of ballots were cast-- <aae of them giving the throe electoral votes of So State to Havts, aud the other giving Hayte two TO-es ani lilden one. G^v. Grover xvaintai ed that Watts, one of the liepuoJican cleotorv- was ineligible by reason of having fceen a P steaetfcr when electe d and is-ue.1 cei- faficate-t to Odeii and Oartwright, Eepublican«, < ronin, Democrat. The tatter declined to «how his aathorty at t i© meeting of the alfitrrs and the Jftetsn biioaus refused u> recog y^jr,a film ttffl T** 1 M' and John Parker Republican electors, and pro- oeeded to oast the vote, two for Hayes and one for Tilden. The Republicans organised, Watts resigned, was at ooce re-elected, and three votes were oast for Hayep and Wheeler, which, with their sworn statement, and oopiee of the ah- straotof votes oast in the State, certiflei to br the Seoretaqr of State, 'were sealed and Mnt on. TH® Florida Cenvasaing Board oonfchided the oanvassing of the vote of the State the day before the time set for casting the electoral vote. Tut, S&yee aleofearc Trere declared ele^'"'* by an average majority of 946, and Stewns, Governor, by twenty-fcrnr majority. The Drae- oorits hfeTs a msiority of en joint bell# In the Legislature. A MONTVFJUER (Tt. telegram df Deo. Ceays: " Aldrioh, the oonteating eletAor, appeared thi» morning with eouaael before the Eleoto?*' College. Counsel informed the oollege that A1 Irich wished to take a part^in tho deUbcrs tlonf., and to process ag«M«»t. a. tafetng any part. The college refused to bear anvthin;: from counsel for Aldrich. Mid, after casting their vote® for Hayw and Wheeler, adjourned. Aldrich asked Nichols, the mes­ senger, to carry his vote to Washington, and r«fnn«d. He then appointed himself mes­ senger, and signed his own certificate of bis votes, which was in oomtnon form, and gave Nichoils notice that he should go to Washing­ ton at the same time he did and present his vote and light it out in Congress, Aldncli has not been sworn in as an elector," FOKEI6N. . ON NOV. 18 the campaign in Oiba wae Opened by a severe, fight on the plains of Minaoe, aboat midway between Bemideoe and Bfc. Espir- itus. According to Spanish aeootmts, their force consisted of only 400 infantry. They were attacked bvthe iceiirsente, numbenng .W0 infantrv and 400 cavalry, who had taken up their position on the pliiijis. When the light commence ! the Spaniards were encamped at a place bidden from view of the plains by a email Jmngeof hills. The insurgents, by sending out some guerrillas, enticwl a portion -of the Spanish forces into the plains, where a num­ ber fell on them, and, whilst these Spaniards were fighting for their lives, the remainder _of the insurgents attacked the other Spanish troops behind the hills. The result, of this affair if, that both parties claim a victory, the insurgents, as usual, carrying off the greater Sortion of their wounded and dead. The panicle lost thirty three killed and fifty-mne wounded, among the latter eix officers. The insurgents left twenty-four dead on the field. COL. J. A. MACDOKAUJ, Captain of the Scot­ tish Rifle Team which reeently visited the Uni­ ted States, has been appointed Solicitor Gen­ eral for Scotland Arthur B. Glass, Teller of Molson's Bank, at Montreal, was arrested re- oently for the embezzlement of $15,000. A SPECIAL from Constantinople says an inun­ dation his occurred at Adnanople by which 1,000 houses were ewept away....A terrible sale ooonrred on the 3d inst. in the British Isles, by which considerable damage was done. The freight steamer Prinoe was foundered in the storm. All on board, fourteen in number, were lost. BISM.VRCK has made another important speech on the Eastern question, his remarks on this occasion being addressed to the German Par­ liament He gave the assuranoe, in the most definite and emphatic manner, that the triple alliance remains cloee and firm, and that the bopee of ite enemies that it may lie broken are absolutely groundless. Germany,, be said, would remain perfMtly neutral in the affair be­ tween Russia ace Turkey, preserving alike her friendly relations with Bowla and England, >nd laboring to maintain peace and to mediate between the powers in order to semove all differences and localize the war if it proves to be inevitable.... A Mo Grande dispatch says that Gen. Diaz has occupied the City of Mesioo, and tirnt Lerdo and his Ministers have fled westward. FORTY-FOURTH CuSiURESS. MONDAY, Dec. 4.--Senate.--'The Senate met and was called to order promptly at 19 o'clock.... The new members were Bworn in, and the two from Colorado drew for their respective terms. Chaffee secured the long term, ending March 4, 1879, and Teller the abort term, ending in 1877 Edmunds submitted a resolution instruct­ ing the Committee on Privileges and Elections,' when appointed, to inquire whether in the recent election in South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida, the right of any citizen to vote has been denied or abridged, and also as to the eligibility of electors; which was read and or­ dered printed, and to lie on the table Ingalla •ubmitted a joint resolution recommending that a . convention be held at CoIumbuB, O,, in May next, to revise and amend the constitution of the United 8tates. Ordered printed, and to lie on the table. House.--In the House of Bepresentatives the opening of the session waa witnessed by an im­ mense concourse of spec tat* re. There were very few members absent. The Speaker's chair was draped in mourDing, in respect to the memory of the late Speaker Kerr. There bein«, therefore, no presiding officer, the Bouse was called to order at noon by Clerk Adams, who thereupon called tho roll of the members. Thee ail showed 249 members present, the whole number on the roll being 288. As soon as the oall was finished, Hoi man rose to offer a resolution for the election of a Speaker, but Banks interposed, as a question of superior privilege, the right of the member-elect from Colorado to have his name placed on the roll eo that he might participate in the election of Speaker, and sent up the c edoatialBOf the member from CoSorado. A discussion ensued on tho question of precedence. Mr. Holra&n and other Democrats contending that orgssisatScs of the Hens;; ~se newCSs&rUy »ho first business m order, wh:llo Mr. Banks and other Republicans contended that all the members had a right to participate in the election. Mr. Frye claimed the same right for his colleague, elected in place of Mr. Blaine. Finally the Clerk decided that the resolu­ tion offered by Mr. Holman took precedence. From that decision an appeal was taken by Mr. Banks, which appeal Mr. Cox movea to lay on the table. Agreed to--yeas, 165; nays, 84. Mir. Hoi- man's resolution then came up for action, and it was adopted without opposition. It was as fol­ lows : The House being informed that Bince its last adjournment M. C. Kerr, who at the com­ mencement of the present Congress wat> elected Speahti' of the House, has departed this life, cre­ ating a vacancy in the office of Speaker; it is therefore ordered that the House do now proceed to the election of a Speaker, viva voce. Mr. Cox jiominafced S J. Randall as Speaker, and Mr. MoGrary, of Iowa, nominated James A. Gar- iield. She former was elected. Mr. Randall had 161 votes s Garfield, 82; Williams of Wiaoonjjtn, 1: G. F. Hoar, 1; and Morrison, 1. The Speaker waa con­ ducted to the chair by Messrs. Cox and McCi tvy Objection was made to the swearing in of Buttz, of South Carolina, and Bedford, of Colorado. In relation to the latter Springer offered a reso­ lution instructing the Judiciary Committee to in­ quire and report at as early a day as possible whether Colorado is a State in the Uniod, and di­ recting, «ntil such niport ia received, that ao per­ son claiming to be a Representative from Colo­ rado shail be sworn in as a member. After some discussion the resolution of Springer was adopted.... The House proceeded to the considemiloii of the question of admitting Buttz, of South Carolina, to bis seat, * he point aea'UHt his admission being that he has been counted in by the Beturn og Board. Morrison presented a memorial and protest signed by the cit­ izens of the diHtrict ag&i et the admission of Buttz, aud moved the reference of the qaestiou to tho Committee on Elections. Morrison'* motion was adopted, 142 to 80.... A reso­ lution was offered by esewitt, and adopted, for tho appointment of three selected committees, one of fifteen members to proceed to Louisiana, oue of BIK members to proceed to Florida, and one of nine members to proceed to 8 nth C arolina to investi­ gate the action of the Returning or Canvassing Boards, as to the roccnt elections in those .States, aud report all facts essential to an honest return of the votje of the electors for i*r* sident and Vice President, and to a fa r mderstanding thereo.' by the people, and whether the electoral votes of those Htates should be counted. TTESDAY, Dec. 5.--Senate.--Morton sub­ mitted a joint resolution, proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States to provide f or theelection of (resident and Vice President by a direct vote of th>' people, which wai read and laid on the table until the appointment of the commit­ tees. and will then be referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. In submitting the resolution, Morton said it was identical with the proposition reported by Committee on Privileges and Election a two years ago t bill was intro­ duced to establish the Territory of the Black Unix. Edmunds aoved to take up the resolution submitted jbt-terday, ordering an inquiry into the late election in various Southern States. The motion, after a lone debate, was greed to by a strict party vote.... Vferrimon intro­ duced a bill to alter the time for elections for President and vice PnsidaBt and wanting the vote in the Electoral College. Ordered printed,,and to be *efemd to the Oomiulttee on Privileges and Elections when appointed. It provides that the Revised Statutes shall be amended so that the elec­ tion for President and Vice President shall be held in October, and the Electoral College •hall meet in the January following. Howie.--The House proceedings were dull and fp'ritlest. A resolution was adopted assigning Saturday. Dec. W, for the presentation of suitable resolutions on the death of the late Speaker Kerr. ... The Speaker then announced the President's annual Meaaage, which waa thereupon read by the Cltrk.., .On mot-ion of Wood <K. *•), the Message -ud accompanying documents wore ;;dored printed forthwith In pamphlet form, and were referred to the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union The Speaker announced the following select com­ mittees : On Louisiana--Messrs. Morrison, Jenks, MoMahon, Lynde, Blackburn, Meade, House, Phelps, New, Boss, Townsend (Pa.), Donford, Rurlbut (IU.), Crapo and Joyce. On Florida- Messrs. Thompson, De Bo t, Walling, Hopkins, Gar- lield and Bunnell. On the South Carolina com­ mittee the name of Cochrane was substituted for that of Stenger, excused* on account of illness in his family. WEDNESDAY, Deo. 6.--Smaie--Vi. Withers called up his resolution requesting the President to inform the Senate under what authority and for what purpose troops were sent to Petersburg, Va., on the day Of the recent election. After a long de­ bate, participated in by Messrs. Wither*, Thurman, Morton, Edmunds, and Lo­ gan, the resolution waa adopted in a slightly modified form The Chair laid be­ fore the Senate a Message from the President of the United States inclosing the report of Senator Sherman aud other members of the committee which visited New Orleans, together with accom­ panying testimony in regard to the recent, election in Louisiana, and moved that it be printed and lie on the table. A lengthy debate fol­ lowed, the Democratic Senators ob­ jecting to printing the communication of the committee and the accompanying vita.... Edmunds moved to teko up the joint resolution of which he gave notice yesterday, proposing an (wnendment to the constitution of the United States in relation to counting the electoral vote. Merri- mon objected, mml read the 21st joint, rule, requir­ ing that bills, resolutions, etc., not Acted upon at the close of the first session of a Congress shall be taken up and acted upon at the beginning of the sec­ ond session, as if no adjournment had taken place. He raised the point of order that as the joint rules were in force unfinished business from the last session should be taken up The Chair overruled the point of order, and decided that the joint rules were not in force Merrimon appealed from the decision of the Chair, and proceeded to address the Senate, but soon yielded for a motion to adjourn, and the Senate adjourned. Hou8i.--The Speaker laid before the House a Message from the President transmitting a letter accompanied by the testimony addressed to him by .Hon. John Sherman and other distinguished citi­ zens in regard to the canvass of the vote for electors in Louisiana. The Speaker, after a review of the rule on the subject, decided that the paper in ques­ tion was in the nature of informationrand a step toward correct legislation, and that therefore it must be read. The Clerk thereupon proceeded with the reading of the paper. When it was finished. Mr. Wood, of New York, rose and ex tressed surprise at such a Message having been sent by the Resident. He regarded it as most extraordinary and unprece­ dented, but remarked that this was a marvelous and extraordinary time. The exception which he (Wood) took to it was that the President should have transmitted fn such an unauthorized way an unauthorized document of a mere partisan and ex-parte character, and his first im­ pulse had been to move that the communication be returned to the President. He should sim­ ply move th*t the Message of the President and the accompanying documents be laid on the table. [Applause ] Hoar said that his side of the House desired to debate the subject. The motion, how­ ever, was undebatable, and It was adopted--yeas, 15S; navs, 99; a oarty votf. APPALLING) DISASTER. Destruction", by Fire of a Brooklyn Thea­ ter--A Panic, Ddrlng Which 350 Per­ sons Perish--Details of the Terrible Ca­ lamity. J The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Theater waa deetroyed by fire on the night of the 5th Inst., and about 850 people perished In the flames. Dispatches from New York give the following details of the awful calamity: The fire originated on the stage at 11:80 p. m., when the company was about half through with the last act. of the " Two Orphans." The fire spread with lightning rapidity; and burst out through tho door on Washington street. The panic aud confusion among the audience were terrible. 1 - ' • ' The fire originated in the fliee, whioh, blaz­ ing, fell on the top the scenery. One of the actresses came to the front of the stage and eaid; " A small accident has occurred, but don't be alarmed. Only a piece of fly is on lire." On the mention of "fire" the audience rose to their feet and made a wild rash for the doors. The smoke soon became suffocating, and women fell fainting in the aisles, and were trampled over. Numbers jumped out of tbe windows and were seriously injur d. It ia thought that not less than 350 persona wore killed in the rush to the exil or burned to death, being unable to escape. The fire broke out during the performance of the last scene of the "Two Orphans," in Which Miss Claxton, wbo plays the part of the heroin®, lies on the boat-house floor. In five minutes more the audience would have been diBmibsed, and there would have been noth­ ing more serious to record than the destruction of property. The house was about two-thirds filled, those below sitting well forward toward the stage. For those in the family circle, dress circle, and gall&ii&s there was no way of esoape, except by Wattiimjytnn Rtrcfit, The panic-stricken pcaple rushed pell-mell toward and down the stairways. The main GXit boCaujO SSiulCdiniSij' uliuiiOU Up, ItUU £S> scene of terror, confusion, and distress ensued which beggars description. t Just above the landing-place of the stairway & woman in the crush had Her foot pushed be­ tween the balusters and fell. Th© crowd be­ hind, forced forward by the terrified people still further behind, fell over and piled on top of each other four and five feet deep. The polioe from the station-house, next door, were promptly at the scene, but, ;owing to the manner in which the people were piled upon top of etch other and massed together, they could extricate comparatively few, Mid these were all bruised, bleeding and maimed. Kate Oiaxton, at the preliminary iuquay of the Fire Marshal, said: "At the beginning of the last act, just as the curtain went ap, I iu ard a rumbling noise on the stage, and two jnuiutes after I saw flames. The lire seemed to be all on the stage. Mrs. Fan-en, myself, Mr. Btudley and Mr. Murdook were ou the Btage at this time We four remained there ana endeavored as best we could to quiet t e audience and prevent a panic. I said to people: "Be quiet, we are be­ tween yon and the fire. The front door is open and the passages are clear. Not one of the audienoe jumped on the stage. Fiainea were then coming down on us. 1 ran out and jumped over several people. Mr. H» H. Murdock, after endeavoring to calm the fears of the panic-stricken people, went to his dressing room to get his olotliing, and must have been suffocated." J. W. Thorp, the stage manager, states that the fire occurred in this wise: A drop waa ig­ nited from a border light by eoaxe means inex­ plicable. as one was guarded from the other. He immediately directed Stage Carpenter Weaver and two »<itpernumeiaries to en­ deavor to extinguish the flames, but the difficulty was to reacj the part on tire, 'ihe fetage carpeuter, with the su ernum^raries, e^ttayed tj vffict that obj ct by lowering the drop, aud iu so doirg added fuel to tue flames. Toe scene, the la-t in tLeplay. em­ braced a ctiiei apartment, and the iustaut that the bur.>ii.g urop came in com'act with the inflammab e c^Uiug. it teemed to spread the exibtirg flames. In a flash, as tough powder bad pieviousiy beeif scat­ tered ab jut the sceuery, the eutlre proper­ ties were in a blaze. The ueual avenms of escape wa. e thus summarJy closet at the rta, aud an exit, if *t ail pos ib e. had to be marie by way of the IKX entrance. Ail, except peru «ps one or two, thus e c iped. A later dispatch from New York gives Ute following ad itional details: Horror upon horror accumulated as the day advanced. Corpse after corpse, charred and blackened, waa pumed oat, and still the pile of bodies in the cellar did n >t seem tj diminish. As the number mounted to 150 and 10), the belief that the number would reach 200 grew in o a certainty, and, finally, at 4:30, the 200th body was Mooted. Botat were found with liartw and hands bumed off, and nothing left bat a ghastly, blackened trunk. At 5 o clook the number had reaohed 220. Twenty bodies were taken oat in half an hour. A look into the pit at. this time still showed a considerable pile of corpses lying crosswise, like sticks of Wood, and there were apparently still fifty or sixty oorpsesmnalniM. This was in the oellar under the inner veafibale, from where all the bodies taken oat to-day were re­ moved. They lay in a pile, apparently where they had been pitched into the oellar when the floor and stairwav gave way. As night ap­ proached, two calcium lights were placed in position, and the work of removing the ghastly forms of the dead (made more ao by the light) was continued. Thejp were under the galleries, bat no estimate oould be Bade of the number. The charred remains of the victims were taken oat in front and rear of the theater and rapidly loaded in boxes, and placed upon the under­ takers' wagons. Will the pile of bodies in the oeller did not seem to diminish. At a late hour to-night 285 bodies have been rcccvcred. The city authoritiee were in session to-day to make arrangements for interment in Green­ wood Cemetery of the dead not identified. The Times says that Fire Marshal Keadv, who has made an exhaustive examination of tho oircnmstanoee attending the fire, is of opinion that at least 350 persons perished in the flames. The Official Result la Louisiana. NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 5.--The Returning Board to-day promulgated the result of the canvass of the votes for President and Stat® oflieers. The net result is the return of the ElftyeB elector?, the entire Republican State ticket, a majority of Republicans in the Legis­ lature, and of four Republican and two Dem­ ocratic Congressmen Appended are the fig­ ures on Presidential electors RUSSIA AND TUBKEf. TiUien Electors. MoEncrv.... 70,808 W i c k l i f f e . . . 7 0 , 6 0 9 St. Martin..,..?:.. .70,5-3 Poche 70,335 I»e Blanc...........70,337 8eay............... ,70,r>35 Cobb. ...70,423 Dross 70.566 Hayes Electotr#. Kellogg Z5-J15 Burch 75.127 Joseph .74,014 Sheldon..,;.- 74,027 Marks.......;. 74 418 laCvi&B-je.. ..74 003 Brewster 74,0i7 Jeflfrion. 74,736 The majority of the lowest Hayes elector over the hi hest TUden ©lector is 3,437. The following is the vote as returned on State officers: Governor, Packard, Republican, 74 624: Nichoils; Democrat, 71,198; Packard's majority, 3,426; Lieutenant Governor, An toine, Republican, 74 669; Wiltz, Democrat, 71,093; AntoineV majority, 3,577; Attorney General, Hunt. Repnuiican, 75,036 ; Ogden. Democrat, 70,886; Hunt's majority, 4,150; An- ditor of Public Accounts, Johnson, Republican, 75,555; Jum«l, Democrat, 70,391; Johnson's majority, 5,164; top riutendent of Public Edu­ cation, "Brown. Republican, 74,446; Lasher, Democrat, 71,109; Brown's majority, 3,337; Secretary of State, Honore, Republican, 74,885; Strong, Democrat, 70,898; Honore's majority, 3,967. AH Arkansas Tragedy. A bloody tragedy was recently enacted at Mackvdle, Green county, Ark. A short time ago two desperadoes, named Yowell and Duncan, assisted a peddler, who was under arrest^ to make his escape from the county authorities, and then robbed him- They were captured and tried, but the peddler had been bought off and refused to prosecute the despera­ does. They then deolaj-ed their inten­ tion to take revenge on Robert M ,Onl- lom, the Deputy Sheriffs and Berryman Harvoy,. the Justice of th© Peace. While the funeral of a Toman ursa in progress near Mackville, Yowell and Duncan made their appearance. They gave HO evidence of belligerent intentions, but aided in filling the grave. When the work was completed Duncan drew Ms revolver without a word, and commenced shooting at McCullom, Vowell at th© same time drawing on Justice Harvey® The last named grabbed up a grab- hoe, whioh had been used in digging the grave, and knocked Vowell down before he oould shoot. He then turned to aid McCullom, but the latter was down, and Duncan was rapidly emptying his revolver. Harvey knocked tho des­ perado over, but Yowell coming to his partner's assistance the Justice turned and ran. Yowell and Duncan gave their attention to McCullom, shooting him three times after he was dead. Mc­ Cullom was armed, but was able to fire but once, that shot penetrating Dun­ can's abdomen. Harvey got off badly crippled. The desperadoes are Mdlag in the woods, but it is thought their capture is sure, as Duncan's wound is a bad one. Rapid Work. An illustration was given yesterday in the postoflioe of the speed with which the employes can distribute incoming mails when, circumstances will permit the force gres^ht to work at it. The mail of the Bremen steamship Neckar, an un­ usually large one, in all 103 bags, was received at the rear doors exactly at 1 p. m. In about twenty minutes all the let­ ters, about 50,000 in number, had been distributed, and in half an hotir the great mass of newspapers. At 1:40 p. m. all the city mail had been distributed in the boxes, or was in the hands of the carriers as they went out on the 1:45 p. m. delivery, and at this time all pack­ ages for different parts of the country were fully made up.--N. Y. Times. A noble Doer* On Wednesday morning last, a little 5-year-old child of Frank Dunbar, liv­ ing four miles south of GrayviHe, was silting before the fire eating nuts. The parents were away, and only one or two children present. By some means the child's clothes caught fire, and in a mo­ ment she was enveloped in flames. The house dog, a common cur, sprang on the child, threw her down, and actually stripped off the burning olotliiDg, burn­ ing himself severely. By the time the parents had arrived, the noble dog had saved the child's life, it being the worst burnbd of tho two.--QrayviUe Inde­ pendent. The New Proverbial Philosophy. Ask no woman her age. Never joke with a policeman. Do not play at chess with a widow. Never contradict a man who stutters. Be civil to rich uncles and aunts. Your oldest hat, of coui so, for an evening party. Always sit next the carver if you can, at dinner. Keep your own secrets. Tell no human being you dye your whiskers. Wind up your conduct, like your watch, once every day, minutely examining whether you are fast or slow. Make friends with the steward on board a steamer--there's knowing how soon you may h» id bis power. WRISTLET pg*rftei*are LATEST* The lufliAp furnish the wristlets, and each iwitr is numbered. One of each pair with a number is put in a box, and is sold to the gentlemen by a committee, and corresponding wristlets with the numbers are worn by the ladies. The fun commences when each gentleman buys a wristlet and finds the owner of the mate to it, to whom he is to pay at­ tention* doxing the evening. Strength and Organisation of Their Ar- , mlea--Purchases of War Material In This Country. r [from the New Tort Tribune.] • The prospects of war in Europe have for some weeks been th© cause of excite­ ment among American manufacturer of arms, most of whom have their agents in this city. " The fact that in case of war Russia will be out off from all arms- producing countries, fad will have to come here, will make matters rather lively with us," said the representative of a leading rifle manufactory to a Trib­ une reporter; <e but as to orders already received or arrangements now pending for the supply ot arms to either Russia or Turkey, I cannot give you any in­ formation." The same reticence was observed by several agents, but the reporter learned that there are now in New York both Russian and Turkish agents, negotiating for all sorts of arms. Five years ago Gea Gorloff, then mil­ itary attache to the Russian legation at Washington, made a contract with Colt's Rifle Company for 30,000 arms, for which he paid a very liberal price. He distributed them to the vaiiooB wmau- factorers and arsenala ia Eoseia where their mechanism wm explained. Orders were then given for the machinery for the manufacture of these guns, and over 8,000,000of Colt's rifles have since teen made in Russia with American machine­ ry. For this service Gen. Gorloff has since been rewarded by promotion as aid-de-camp to the Emperor. While in this country Gen. Goriofi perfected what is now called the Russian cartridge,, and had 20,0^0,000 of, them made in Bridge­ port, Conn. He also made a set of cartridge machinery for the Russian Government, and that country is now making 4CM>@000 cartridges a day in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Notwithstanding the possession of the American macMiiery for the manufac­ ture of both guns imd cartridges, it ap­ pears that ihe Russians cannot complete their armaments without receiving con­ stant supplies of metal from this coun­ try to make the cartridge. The Lake Superior copper has a tenacity un- equaled by any other metal in the world end on this ftcmtmt contracts for 1,2G© tons of the metal have lately been made by the Russian Government. These orders for cartridge-metal were considerably increased still later by vari­ ous Governments, in consequence of a discovery made at a survey by Prussia, that of cartridges made of European metal 40 per cent, were found worthless. Owing also to this superior American metal, the Turkish Government con­ tracted two years ago with an asms com­ pany of New Haven for 200,000,000 cartridges for the Martini ̂ -Henry rifle, and 60,000,000 for the Stnider gun. Most of these cartridges have been made by this time, and have reaohed their destination. Maohinery for making cartficiffes has also been - sent from this oountry to Spain, and that Government now uses about .500 tons of Lake Supe­ rior metal for its cartridge factories'aft Seville® Toledo and Havana. Notwith­ standing the machinery now in use in Russia and Spain, the cartridge manufacture of the United States is th© lfurgest its. the world, and is especially active at Ihe present moment, one fac­ tory have made 600,000 a day for thirty working days, and actually made 1,000,000 a day during two days of the past' month. The different cartridge factories in the country iur& out about 2,000.000 a day. Most of the anus now in use by the Turkish army came from this country. Seven years ago Blacque Bey, the Turk­ ish Minisfcer8 bought 400,000 Springfield rifles from the Government. These were transformed into breech-loaders on the Snider prinaipJe, but since that time the Snider principle has been con­ demned in all the European countries. Three years ago Turkey made a contract for 200,000 on the Martini-Henry prin­ ciple, as used in England. This con­ tract was extended to 800,000, of which 250,000 have been shipped, 100,000 are ready for shipping, and material for 100,000 is on hand at the works. Re­ mittances not having come to hand promptly recently, the American com­ pany lias stopped work on th© remainder of ti i« ©ftnir-aolj Ajid ia awsMeiiit f so faliOT- remittances and orders. Military men her« look forward with Ct interest to the expected stregwfe. ria has not been engaged in a ISu- ropean conflict since the reorganization of her army in 1870. Under the old system the Russian soldiery were takt n exclusively from the lowest class of peas­ antry by a complicated plan of forced ' service. The omoers then were deficient in number, character and education, and there was no definite system of reserves. " But," said an officer at the army head­ quarters in Houston streets "all this is changed now. The Russian of to-day is not the Russian of the Crimea.^ Won­ derful progress has been made ia mitt* tary reform by Russia during the past few years, and if war breaks ovf> the whole world will admire the g«^iis of Gen. Milutin, the great c«fp™zer of Russian armies. Their iaf^fcl7 regi­ ments have no rivals on the march, the soldiers are excellent gyaB&sto, Mid their bayonet exercise i* splendid. While laying before the reporter the latest information 1b regaw to the Rus­ sian armies now in possesion of Amer­ ican officers, the same gsaideman saitl: " The 600 mitrailleuses-hi use by Che Russian army are, like Gatling, 10- barrel guns, only some^at improved in the breech mechanism Py Gen. GOTIOH, late Russian military acne at Wash- mThe'entire Russian^ is divided as follows * 1. The field armj^p^poeed of the standing army W % *gmented re- Se^ei*regi»fcir troops, both cavalry and infantm raised only in timtof war. S? Militia, or local forces. The Russian force availabK for field service, omitting the militi or local forces, now consists of 47 drfcions of infantry, 8 brigades of rifles, \o divi­ sions of cavalry, 50 brigades f field artillery, 8 brigades of horse artery, 5 brigades of engineers, making fetotal strength in time of war of 43,3&offi. oers and 1,358,672 men, with 2,304 gns. DB. Superintendent of tp Massachusetts Insane Asylum at NorC ampton, advisee plenty of sleep am avoidance of excitement as the best pre ventives of insanity. He thin to that the reports of cures in asylutos are com­ monly exaggerated. His estimate is that of ten persons attacked by insanity five die of the diaease sooner or later, and that of the five who recover three will haw subsequent attacks. Street Loafsrs. Whence do they come, those idlers in the streets who, wandering in single rank or dispersed detaohfoents among the busy and the purposeful, are eon- founded with them, and never seen for what they are till something happens which calls them together, when they astonish us by their numbers and the problem of how they are able to live at all--idling not being a profitable Invest­ ment of one's capital. Men and women who, one would suppose, K*d enough to do to keen thinow food and clothing for themselves and those belonging to them, if they worked diligently for twelve hours out of the twenty-four, gather into compact mnhnrfr of gaping idleness at every unumml oc­ currence, every trifling accident, and paes hours staring at the sight, if hours are needed to be passed before the ob­ struction gets itself removed, or the show vanishes into space. Masterlees men, surely, they must be; yet evidently they are not then? own masters, so far as hav­ ing the whip-hand of circurastanoes goes--women without home or duties, for all that dress end appeiawm«s and the betemyiijg wedding-ring wtn̂ d mv.xz. to pomt io both ; mere idlens cumbering the ground -whioh others till, and living as best they can on food whioh they only help to consume, taking no trouble to create or prepare. These multitudes of idlers to be collected together in the streets of any large town at a moment's notice hav« always seemed fcs us to jbe the oddest phenomenon of our social life. Men wftb the need and marks of work legibly written on every square inch of their person and attire, why are they £ot at their bench, in the factory, the foundry, the ship-yard, at the anvil, at the loom! Or, if they belong to none of these trades, and are of that qucfer, nondescript class which seems to have no settled occupation, and one may well believe no settled home--whioh «J)n itself generically the class of the " handy men," ready for jobs of any kind and living on the disregarded crumbs of labor--how is it that they give so milch time from their scratchings on the stir- face of the great field of work, and spend _ in street, sight-seeing that pre­ cious jewel to humanity celled tinie? Who can tell ? All we know is that, like vultures gathered to the carcass,, sot the least event can happen in the atreete out of the ordinary run of daily traffief-a horse cannot fall, a new kind of hurqy- gurdy cannot grind out a familiar tune, a mountebank cannot go through tricks that were stale a hundred years ago, nor Punch repeat a pantomime known: by heart to all but the rising gweration-- but tu6 idlafn M6 gnuiwed in crowds J and for them, at leasts all the duties of life are suspended for hours to some. The Russian Tlie surprising quickness anil readi­ ness with whioh the reoent Rnssian loan of 100,000,000 roubles was taken by the two cities of St Petersburg and Mosctiiw alone only finds ite parallel In. the esse with which the Fireach raised the enor­ mous German war indemnities. The ukase of the Czar authorized the Bank of Russia to issue notes for 100,000,000 roubles,, receiving cash subscriptions' «t 92, the notes to have ihe chflfacter^of bonds and bear 5 per cent, interest* Estimating the rouble at 78 c nts, the amount would be equivalent to $78,00(1,- 000, whioh would yield to the Goveptt- ment, at 92, the sum in oash of $71*- 760,000. No time is fixed for the loon to run, andit will be-at the option of the Government to redeem the notes when­ ever it sees fit. Looking at the loan from aa unfinaocial standpoint, the quickness with whioh it has been taken shows the uncompromising spirit of tho Russian people npon the questions at issue between Turkey and the Sclaves. It is an eloquent testimonial of the de­ termination of the people that tbe Solaves shall be free. r A PHOTOGBAPHEB at LeRoy, N. 1, a few days ago photographed In one group Mr& Stanley, aged 92 ; her daugh­ ters, M®3" Brown* aged 74; her grand- daughter ̂Mrs. Bsctvriok, aged 44 ; tier great-grand-de.n{*hter, Mrs. I>unoan 23. McNaugMoa, aged 23 ; and her gresfc- great-grandson, Hoy McNaughton, •git'1,' 2 years. TUB MARKETS. ; NEW YORK, Birai,.... fX (|ll IS HOGS 0 TS & 6 2ft OOTTOH 13 <9 1JK FtouR--Saperflos Western.... ... 4 78 & S 25 WHEAT--NO. 2 Oliasgo 1 90 & 1 3® CORN--Western Ml»ed 64 <& 61 OATir--No. 2 Olueugo 4S & 60 Bth--Western... ........ SB & 83 PORK--New Mew ..16 CO &16 74>,. LABD--8te»M IHf CHICAGO. 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