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NEW YORK CITY. 



NICARAGUA. 



Sheriff, Charles M. Clancy ; District Attorney, 

 John B. Fellows ; Surrogate, John H. V. Arnold ; 

 Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Miles 

 Beach ; Justices of the City Court, James M. 

 Fitzsimons and Lewis J. Conlin : and Coroners, 

 Edward T. Fitzpatrick and Willian H. Dobbs ; 

 also for a justice of the district court in each 

 judicial district, for a Senator and 5 district dele- 

 gates to the Constitutional Convention from 

 each senatorial district, for 30 members of As- 

 sembly, 15 delegates at large to the Constitu- 

 tional Convention, and a commissioner of street 

 improvements. 



Republican. Comptroller, Henry C. Robin- 

 son; Sheriff, -Thomas L. Hamilton; District At- 

 torney, Charles H. Murray ; Surrogate, William 

 H. Townley ; Judge of the Court of Common 

 Pleas, Mortimer C.Addoms; Justices of the City 

 Court, William M. K. Olcott and John O'Con- 

 nell ; and Coroners, Edgbert P. Fritz and Peter 

 H. McDonald ; also for a justice of the district 

 court in each judicial district, for a Senator and 

 5 district delegates to the Constitutional Con- 

 vention from each senatorial district, for 30 mem- 

 bers of Assembly, 15 delegates at large to the 

 Constitutional Convention, and a commissioner 

 for street improvements. 



Prohibition. Comptroller, Frederick C. Al- 

 brecht; Sheriff, William Smagg; District Attor- 

 ney, Atkinson Sharrnberg ; Surrogate, Thomas 

 D. Stetson ; Judge of the Court of Common 

 Pleas, Charles E. Manierre ; Justices of the City 

 Court, Alfred L. Manierre and James H. Laird ; 

 and Coroners, J. Howard Yarnall and George C. 

 Needham ; also for a justice of the district 

 court in each judicial district, for a Senator 

 and 5 district delegates to the Constitutional 

 Convention from each senatorial district, for 30 

 members of Assembly, 15 delegates at large to 

 the Constitutional Convention, and a commis- 

 sioner for street improvements. 



Socialist Labor. Comptroller, Theodore Birk; 

 Sheriff, Samuel Jacobson ; District Attorney, 

 Howard Balkam ; Surrogate, Charles Franz ; 

 Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Isaac Ben- 

 nett ; Justices of the City Court, Enoch K. 

 Thomas and Henry Foth ; and Coroners, George 

 C. Stiebling and Woldemar Dorf mann ; also for 

 a justice of the district court in each judicial 

 district, for a Senator and 5 district delegates to 

 the Constitutional Convention from each sena- 

 torial district, for 30 members of Assembly, 15 

 delegates at large to the Constitutional Conven- 

 tion, and a commissioner for street improve- 

 ments. 



People's Party. Comptroller. H. Alden Spen- 

 cer; Sheriff, John Haggerty; District Attorney, 

 Thomas J. Sandford ; Surrogate, Wilbur Aldrich ; 

 Justices of the City Court, Nicholas Aleinikoff 

 and Edward W. Chamberlain ; and Coroners, 

 Edward B. Foote, Jr., and Walter C. Moore; 

 also for a Senator and 5 district delegates to the 

 Constitutional Convention from each senatorial 

 district, for 30 members of Assembly, 15 dele- 

 gates at large to the Constitutional Convention, 

 and a commissioner for street improvements. 



Of the foregoing, the Democratic candidates 

 were successful except with the candidates for 

 the 15 delegates at large to the Constitutional 

 Convention and with the nominees for members 

 of the Assembly for the Eleventh, Twenty-third, 



and Twenty-seventh Districts in which cases the 

 Republican candidates were elected. 



On March 21 a special election was held to fill 

 the vacancy in the Ninth Senatorial District re- 

 sulting from the death of Edward P. Hagan, and 

 Thomas F. Cunningham (Democrat) was elected, 

 receiving 14,805 votes against 2,054 for Edward 

 L. Montgomery (Republican), 228 for George W. 

 Needham (Prohibition), and 360 for William F. 

 Miller (Populist). 



NICARAGUA, a republic in Central Ameri- 

 ca. The legislative power is vested in a Senate 

 of 18 members, elected for six years, and a House 

 of Representatives having 21 members, whose 

 term is four years. The President's term is four 

 years also. Dr. Roberto Sacaza was elected 

 President in 1892. The active army has a legal 

 strength of 1,200 men, besides which there is a 

 reserve of 10,000 men and a National Guard 

 or militia force of 5,000 men. Two thirds of the 

 revenue is derived from monopolies of liquors, 

 tobacco, and gunpowder, and the other third 

 from import duties and a tax on cattle. 



The area of the republic is 49,500 square 

 miles. The population in 1889 was 282,845, con- 

 sisting of 136,249 males and 146,596 females, be- 

 sides 30,000 wild Indians. The chief industries 

 are the raising of cattle, of which there are 400,- 

 000 head, and the cultivation of coffee and 

 bananas, and gold mining. The production of 

 coffee in 1891 was 113,000 quintals. The export 

 of coffee in 1890 was valued at $2,487,646. The 

 total value of the exports was $3,834,137, of 

 which $1,169,051 went to the United States, 

 $863,432 to Germany, $793,249 to France, and 

 $461,634 to Great Britain. The total value of 

 imports was $2,536,820, of which $995,855 came 

 from Great Britain. $597,043 from the United 

 States, $531,277 from France, and $495,218 from 

 Germany. In 1891 the total imports were $2,- 

 738,500, "and the exports $2,376,500. There are 

 91 miles of railroads and 1,700 of telegraphs. 



Revolution. Exhausted and impoverished 

 by the internecine struggles of former times, 

 Nicaragua has for many years been free from 

 serious revolutionary outbreaks. The Nicaragua 

 Canal enterprise, which seemed to insure the 

 conditions of lasting peace and progress, in- 

 directly contributed to the greatest revolution 

 that has taken place since the dictatorship of 

 Walker, in 1856, for it encouraged the Govern- 

 ment to undertake extravagant public works 

 and waste the public funds and incur new debts 

 in a way that produced widespread and pro- 

 found dissatisfaction. The Constitution pro- 

 vides that when the President dies or absents 

 himself from the country his successor is to be 

 chosen by lot from among 5 Senators appointed 

 by the vote of the Senate at the beginning of 

 the presidential term. Dr. Sacaza, a distin- 

 guished surgeon, was chosen in this manner on 

 the death of President Evaristo Carazo, in 

 August, 1889. Sacaza's accession gave much 

 general satisfaction, as he had few enemies, not 

 being a party leader, and the preceding Admin- 

 istration had been weak and unpopular. Soon, 

 however, he antagonized the prominent poli- 

 ticians by calling into his councils men of little 

 weight, thinking that he could rule alone and 

 create a personal following that would insure 

 his election for a regular term. As the time 



