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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, November 10,1888. 
In the elections last Tuesday, the Republi¬ 
cans and Protection won a sweeping national 
victory. They have gained not only the 
Presidency and Vice-Presidency, but also, 
according to present indications, both 
Houses of Congress. Here are the figures 
for Presidential Electors in each State: 
STATES FOR HARRISON. 
--1884.-. -—1888. - —« 
Official 
Electoral 
Est’d Elect’l 
Plurality 
. Vote. 
Pl’r’ty. 
Vote. 
California. 
. 13,138 
R 
8 
R 
9 000 
8 
Colorado. 
. 8,567 
R 
3 
R 
13,000 
3 
Illinois. 
. 35.119 
R 
22 
R 
21,000 
22 
Indiana. 
. 6,537 
D 
15 
I) 
5,000 
15 
Iowa. 
R 
13 
R 
30,000 
13 
Kansas. . 
. 64,374 
R 
9 
R 
70,000 
9 
Maine. 
. 30,069 
R 
6 
R 
23,000 
6 
Massachusetts.. 
. 34,343 
R 
14 
R 
22,000 
14 
Michigan. 
. 42 834 
R 
13 
R 
22,000 
13 
Minnesota. 
. 41.779 
R 
7 
R 
30,000 
7 
Nebraska. 
. 33,531 
R 
5 
R 
25,000 
5 
Nevada . 
. 1,615 
R 
3 
R 
1,200 
3 
New Hampshire 
. 4,066 
R 
4 
R 
2 500 
4 
New York. 
. 1,047 
D 
36 
D 
13,000 
36 
Ohio. 
. 31.802 
R 
23 
R 
23,000 
23 
Oregon. 
. 2,256 
R 
3 
R 
8.000 
3 
Pennsylvania... 
. 81,019 
R 
30 
R 
72,000 
30 
Rhode Island... 
. 6,639 
R 
4 
R 
4,427 
4 
Vermont. 
, 22,183 
R 
4 
R 
20,000 
4 
West Virginia.. 
. 4,221 
D 
6 
D 
6 
Wisconsin. 
. 14,698 
R 
11 
R 
15,000 
11 
Total. 
-239 
STATES FOR CLEVELAND. 
.-1884.- 
-» 
■—1888, 
,-v 
Official Electoral 
Est’d Elect’l 
Plurality. Vote. 
Pl’r’ty. Vote. 
Alabama. 
. 34,360 D 
10 D 
34,000 
10 
Arkansas 
,. 22,032 D 
7 D 
20,000 
7 
Connecticut.... 
. 1.276 D 
6 D 
400 
6 
Delaware. 
. 4,013 D 
3 D 
3 
Florida . 
.. 3 735 D 
4 D 
2,500 
4 
Georgia . 
. 46,064 1) 
12 D 
25,000 
12 
Kentucky. 
.. 34,839 D 
13 D 
40,000 
13 
Louisiana.. 
.. 16,193 D 
8 ]) 
8 
M ary land 
.. 11,233 D 
8 D 
6,000 
8 
Mississippi. 
.. 33,001 D 
9 D 
50,000 
9 
Missouri. 
. 33,059 D 
19 D 
25.000 
16 
New Jersey.... 
. 4,358 D 
9 D 
5,000 
9 
North Carolina 
.. 17,884 D 
11 D 
17,000 
11 
South Carolina. 
.. 48,157 D 
9 D 
15,000 
9 
Tennessee. 
.. 9,180 D 
12 D 
12 
Texas 
.132,’ 168 D 
13 D 
13 
Virginia. 
.. 6,141 D 
12 D 
— 
12 
Total. 
. 
162 
Harrison’s majority. 
77 
Necessary to a choice 
.201 
According to the latest, here are the figures 
for the House of Representatives, although, 
of course, the official returns may make some 
slight alterations: 
States 
Dem. 
Rep. 
Alabama. 
s 
— 
Arkansas. 
5 
— 
California. 
. 2 
■1 
Colorado. 
. - 
1 
Connec ticut... 
1 
8 
Delaware. 
1 
— 
Florida. 
2 
— 
Georgia. 
, 10 
— 
Illinois. 
6 
14 
Indiana. 
10 
8 
Iowa. 
1 
Kansas. 
. - 
Kentucky. 
10 
1 
Loasiana. 
5 
1 
Maine. 
— 
4 
Maryland. 
4 
2 
Massachusetts. 
1 
11 
Michigan. 
S 
8 
Minnesota. 
— 
5 
Totals. 
Republican majority 
States. Dem. Rep. 
Mississippi. 7 — 
Missouri.. 10 4 
Nebraska.— 7 
Nevada.— 1 
NewHampshire. — 2 
New Jersey. 2 5 
New York. 15 10 
North Carolina. 7 2 
Ohio. 6 15 
Oregon.— 1 
Pennsylvania... 7 21 
Rhode Island... — 2 
South Carolina. 7 — 
Tennessee. 7 5 
Texas. 11 — 
Vermont.— 2 
Virginia. 9 1 
West Virginia... 1 3 
W isconsin. 2 7 
160 165 
. 5 
Other estimates are still more favorable to 
the Republicans, making the membership of 
both Houses as follows:—Senate—Republi¬ 
cans, 38; Democrats, 36; in doubt, 2. House 
—Republicans, 173; Democrats, 152. 
. .The Republicans have carried the Legisla¬ 
tures in Delaware and West Virginia, which 
will elect United States Senators to succeed 
Saulsbury and Keunn, Democrats. There is 
great rejoicing over the breaking up of the 
“Solid South” by the capture of West Vir¬ 
ginia. In New York State Harrison’s plurity 
will be about 12,000; while, Hill, Democratic 
candidate for Governor, carried the State by 
about 20,000 majority. The betting during 
the campaign was the heaviest ever known, 
and several million dollars must change hands 
on the result. The odds were generally in 
favor of Cleveland, ranging from $100 to $50 
at the outset to $100 to $90 towards the close, 
though a large number of bets were made on 
even terms. A great number of ridiculous 
performances are now being accomplished by 
Democrats all over the country as penalties 
for defeat. The multitude of men who ap¬ 
pear with new hats is equaled only by the 
multitude of women who appear with new 
bonnets at Easter. There were a great num¬ 
ber of fracases on election day, and a few 
murders, but on the whole, the election passed 
off more quietly and peaceably than it could 
have done in any other country on the globe, 
taking the amo jut of population into account. 
Claims of bribery are loud on all sides; but no 
doubt the election was an average fair one.... 
... .Lord Sackville, Cleveland’s “Burchard”, is 
about 64, and has been getting $50,000 a year 
while in Washington. He is small, thin, 
and straight; brother-in-law of the Duke of 
Bedford and Earl of Derby, Liberal-Unionist 
supporters of Premier Salisbury, hence his 
tender treatment by the latter. He still re¬ 
mains at Washington in an unofficial capa¬ 
city, but will soon go away either on a visit 
to Canada, or his return home. (His suc¬ 
cessor, temporarily, is Michael Henry Her¬ 
bert. Charge d’ Affaires, at Washington, and 
there is a good deal of hope that he will be 
made.permanent British Minister to this coun¬ 
try. He is about 31 years old, is the younger 
brother of the Earl of Pembroke, and son of 
Sidney Herbert, the first Lord Herbert of 
Lea, who was British Secretary of War at 
the opening of our Civil War. Mr. Herbert 
has been Under-Secretary in the diplomatic 
service for some time. His mother, a greatly 
respected lady “at home” where the family 
is widely connected, is now in this country 
where she is about to start charitable work in 
the South. No international trouble is likely to 
arise from the late embroglio; but English 
“jingoism” feels very bitter towards the 
Yankees who dared to “bounce” Britain’s 
representative—and a lord at that. 
Herschel Haines, while attempting to drive 
across the New York Central tracks at Mace- 
don, Thursday afternoon, was struck by a 
flyer and instantly killed, with both horses... 
.Amercian capital and enterprise have 
taken such hold in the development of Mexico 
that a New York syndicate will in February 
open a bank in the city of Mexico with a cap¬ 
ital of $3,500.00. It will be called the Inter¬ 
national and Mortgage bank of Mexico. 
.The Chicago Chief of Police has refused 
a permit for a parade of Anarchists on next 
Sunday, the anniversary of the hanging of 
Engel, Fischer, Parsons and Spies. 
Axworthy, the defaultering treasurer of 
Cleveland, has written to a friend in that 
city saying that he will soon return and 
square all his accounts.General Butler 
who did some good talking for Harrison dur¬ 
ing the campaign, is seventy years of age, and 
he looks it.A terrible fire raged around 
Jackson, Minn, last week. Much property 
was destroyed and five persons were burned 
to death. All the miners in western 
Pennsylvania and Ohio received an advance 
of five per cent, last week. 
Some 50,000 Knights of Labor miners in 
Pennsylvania and Ohio are planning to de¬ 
sert the order and form a federation of 
miners. This drives Mr. Powderly to write 
an appeal, almost frantic in its tones, offering 
to do pretty much anything to keep them 
with him.Sir John Macdonald, the 
Canadian Premier, proclaims “Canada for 
the Canadians;” praises the “splendid cli¬ 
mate;” refuses to sell his “heritage for a mess 
of pottage;” is “opposed to annexation on any 
terms, whether it is in plain terms or dis¬ 
guised under the form of commercial union 
or unrestricted reciprocity.”. The Mor¬ 
mon press is very bitter on Gov. West in 
consequence of his annual report declaring 
that Utah Statehood is out of the question for 
the present.Viroqua, princess of the 
Mohawks, wants to raise $3,000,000 for an 
Indian college at Washington, for whose es¬ 
tablishment the eccentric Col. Jaques, now of 
London, has premised $l,00d,000 on condition 
that the other two are got.The late 
John Guy Vassar’s will makes public bequests 
amounting to $689,000, among them being 
Vassar College, $130,000; Vassar Brothers’ 
Hospital, $252,000; John Gay Vassar’s Home 
for Orphans, $100,000. These three in¬ 
stitutions are the residuary legatees. 
.. David Hostetter, the noted patent- 
medicine man and capitalist, died at New 
York of Bright’s disease Monday. 
..The National Exposition which opened at 
Augusta, Ga., this week, promises to rival 
anything of the kind held in the Southern 
States except the World’s Exposition at New 
Orleans. Northern manufacturers will be 
well represented.The steam whaler 
Thrasher arrived at San Francisco from the 
Artie last week and brought information that 
the 13 whalers with their crews of about 500 
men which were caught in the ice pack the 
last of September are safely out of the ice 
and on their way to the whaling rendezvous. 
. The situation at the Portage crossing 
of the Canadian Pacific railway in Manitoba 
is one of armed defiance, but there is little 
prospect of a fight between the railway and 
provincial forces.—at least not until the Su¬ 
preme Court at Ottawa has passed upon the 
injunction restraining the Red River road 
from crossing the tracks of the Canadian 
Pacific.A wonderful water-fall has 
been discovered by a hunting party on Rifle 
Creek 25 miles from Glenwood Springs, Col. 
The stream spreads out to a width of 300 feet 
at the brink, and the water glides over 
the rocky edge, spreading out into a thin 
sheet as it falls a distance of 150 feet 
to the bottom of the canon. .... 
It is announced that Sir Terence O’Brien, 
Governor of Heligoland, will succeed Mr. 
Blake as Governor of Newfoundland. 
President Strong, of the Sante Fd system, 
has announced a 10-per cent, cut in wages, 
and set the example by reducing his own 
salary 25 per cent .The United States 
Supreme Court has decided that the Texas 
license tax on commercial travellers is uncon¬ 
stitutional.An English syndicate 
is reported buying up American breweries... 
.The women assistants in the public 
schools of New York have organized for the 
purpose of petitioning the School Commission 
to fix the minimum yearly salary of primary 
and grammar grade teachers of 10 years’ ex¬ 
perience at $750. In Philadelphia, according 
to the schedule of 1886, the maximum yearly 
salary for primary and secondary assistants 
is $470, while the minimum is $320, or but 
little more than six dollars a week. The 
highest salary paid a secondary grade princi¬ 
pal under the schedule without the supervis¬ 
ing principal’s additional salary, is only $600 
or $150 less than is now demanded by New 
York assistants. The San Antonio 
International Fair and Exposition will be 
started by telegraphic signal from the City 
of Mexico by President Diaz on November 13, 
at noon. Enthusiastic interest is taken m 
the affair throughout the whole of 
Mexico, as the Mexican exhibits will 
be comprehensive. The buildings are 
rapidly approaching completion. 
A Convincing Succession. 
Time is valuable to us and we conclude that 
for your purposes, it is precious to you: so a- 
part from tedious prelude which might dis¬ 
tract your attention from some important 
subject matter, we briefly call attention to the 
following convicing combination of evidence 
in regard to Compound Oxygen. 
Under date of Dec. 1,1887., Mr. N. G. Osteen 
Proprietor of Watchman and Southerner , S. 
C. writes: “ I have used the Compound Oxygen 
home treatment from Drs. Starkey & Palen, 
as a revitalizer, and have experienced marked 
benefit from it.” 
On Ma rch 18, 1888, Mr. Osteen, among other 
things, writes, “Your medicine is getting up a 
reputation in this vicinity from the good it 
has done Mr. Chas. L. Witherspoon.” 
Referring to our files, we find the following 
hearty testimony from the gentleman named 
by Mr. Osteen in the above extract. 
Sumter, S. C., March 24, 1888. 
Drs. Starkey & Palen: For eight months 
I had been a sufferer from diarrhoea and dys¬ 
entery. I commenced the use of the Com¬ 
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results. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, November, 10, 1888. 
In England the trial of the alleged Irish 
criminal agitators has been going on for sev¬ 
eral weeks before the special commission of 
three judges created for the purpose. Sixty- 
four Irish Members of Parliament and a large 
number of other notabilities have been in¬ 
dicted by the Times, and the Ladies’ League 
has been added to the Land League as a crim¬ 
inal organization. The Times, an alias for 
the Government, is still bringing forward wit¬ 
nesses, who give testimony regarding outrages 
in Ireland which they believed to be due to 
the instigation of the Land League which 
was controlled by the defendants. On cross- 
examination most of these own that the “ In¬ 
visibles,” “Fenians,” and other organiza¬ 
tions favoring violence have been bitterly 
opposed to the League ; that the outrages 
were really the results of distress produced 
by rack-rents and other forms of oppression, 
and that the real leaders of the League coun¬ 
seled moderation. It is asserted that all the 
dynamiters in prison in the United Kingdom 
have been approached by emissaries of the 
Times, who informed them that the Govern¬ 
ment would grant them liberty if they would 
give testimony for the Times before the 
Parnell commission. The prisoners refused 
to accept freedom at such a price. 
The trial is expected to drag on till about 
March. The expenses must be enormous and 
about $75,000 have been already collected here 
and in the United Kingdom as well as in the 
British colonies towards the outlay by the 
Parnellities which is expected to reach up¬ 
wards of $200,000. Parnell has brought a libel 
suit against the Times before a Scotch court 
in Edinburg, and the judge has just decided 
that the court has jurisdiction in the matter. 
Last week a large number of municipal elec¬ 
tions were held in England, and the two great 
parties gained and lost many seats. Tories 
gained 54 and the Gladstomans gained 69. 
This is well up to the percentage of Liberal 
gains shown in recent popular votes. An 
enormous Liberal meeting of representatives 
from all parts of the Kingdom has just been 
held at Birmingham. Gladstone predicted 
victory for Home Rule, said he would lead 
the cause so long as he remained in public 
life, and then that it was bound to succeed as 
the whole Liberal Party had adopted it. 
There is much agricultural and industrial 
distress, manifested by much grumbling and 
frequent strikes which generally fail to suc¬ 
ceed. Parliament met yesterday, and a good 
deal of general legislation is expected to be 
brought before it. 
Probably the most serious danger to Repub¬ 
lican France is its terrible indebtedness. The 
public debt is about $6,400,000,000, and there 
is an annual deficit of about $100,000,000, so 
that the debt is increasing at an alarming rate. 
Since the German war, $1,500,000,000 have 
been spent on public works, most of it waste- 
fully to please the constituencies. The Min¬ 
ister of War asks for the current year 918,- 
000,000 francs of which 220,000,000 have already 
been given. The Minister after a recent tour 
in the southeast of the country, insists that it 
will be necessary to spend $200,000,000 more 
for the purpose of defending the eastern fron¬ 
tier against a possible German invasion. At 
present great trouble is caused by the enor¬ 
mous influx of foreign laborers, artizaus, etc , 
etc., especially from Germany and Italy. These 
work for less than the natives are willing to 
take, and the latter are extremely discon¬ 
tented. The Government proposes to compel 
all resident foreigners to register tneir names, 
and to pay an income tax for the portion of 
their incomes spent or collected in the coun¬ 
try. This is likely to keep away a good many 
visitors from the great International Exposi¬ 
tion which opens at Paris, on May 5, 1889, clos¬ 
ing on October 31. TheU. S. Congress has ap¬ 
propriated $250,000 for an American exhibit 
at this show. A revision of the present Con¬ 
stitution, as urged by Boulanger, is now cer¬ 
tain, the parliamentary committee appointed 
to consider the matter, having just decided by 
a vote of six to four in favor of a revision by 
a specially convoked Constituent Assembly. 
One of the most important objects sought is to 
give Ministers a certain tenure of office, so 
that their position will not be, to the same 
extent as now, affected by votes of the 
Chambers. The President is also given the 
right to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies. 
Hitherto, since the establishment of the Re¬ 
public, the changes in Ministries have been 
exceedingly frequent, their average duration 
having been only about eight months, and, as 
experience has shown, the Chambers, through 
their control over the Ministries, can force 
the President from office before the conclu¬ 
sion of his term. Preparations for war are 
still unremitting. New defences are being 
built, and old ones strengthened. The 
army and navy are constantly kept ready 
for action. Improved large and small arms 
are turned out night and day. The whole 
nation realizes that the next war will be a 
life-and-death struggle. Meanwhile Paris has 
lost more of its gaity; and France is still the 
light-hearted nation. 
Direct news of Henry M Stanly has been 
received through the Zanzibar traders. From 
this it appears that he was in good health at 
the end of last November, contrary to pre¬ 
vious reports. 
The slave trade is still carried on to a fear¬ 
ful extent in the interior of Africa and along 
the coast. Great Britain, France, Germany 
and Portugal are to send a combined fleet to 
the coast of Zanzibar to blockade the ports 
in order to suppress the trade there. Efforts 
will also be made to check it in other places. 
Bad as the trade itself is, the horrors perpe¬ 
trated in capturing slaves are still worse. 
The Pope has contributed $60,000 towards the 
good work. 
The betrothal of the Prince of Naples to 
Princess Clementine, of Belgium, will be an 
nounced shortly. 
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“I want to thank you,” writes a young man 
to B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va., “for 
placing me in a position by which I am enabled 
to make money faster than I ever did before.’ 
This is but a sample extract of the many hun¬ 
dreds of letters received by the above firm.— 
Adv. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, November 10, 1888. 
We have just received from J. S. Wood¬ 
ward, the earnest and active Secretary of the 
N. Y. State Board of Agriculture, the follow¬ 
ing list of farmers’ institutes in the Empire 
State during the winter: 
Place County Date 
Lowville.Lewis Nov. 19-20 1888 
Herkimer.Herkimer " 21 22 
Waterville.Oneida “ 23-24 
Mexico.Oswego “ 26-27 
Cambridge.Washington Dec. 8-4 
Catskill.Greene “ 5-« 
Newburgh.Orange “ J-8 
Watertown.Jefferson “ 14-15 
Cortland.Cortland “ 17-18 
Norwich.Chenango “ 19 20 
Binghamton _Broome “ 21-22 
Sherman .Chautauqua “ 27-28 
Sandy Hill.Washington Jan. 3-4 1889 
Rawlings .Dutchess " 7 8 
Coblesklll.Schoharie “ 9-10 
Delhi.Delaware “ 11-12 
Albany .Albany, w’h an’l m’t’g “ 16-19 
Lockport.Niagara '* 21-22 
Canandaigua. ...Ontario “ 25-26 
Batavia.Genesee “ 28 29 
East Aurora.Erie “ 30 31 
Auburn.Cayuga Feb. 4-5 
Ithaca.Tompkins ** 6-7 
Geneva.Ontario “ 8-9 
Genesco.Livingston “ 12-13 
Broekport.Monroe “ 14 15 
Warsaw.Wyoming “ 18-19 
Randolph.Cattaraugus “ 20-21 
Fredonla.Chuatauqua “ 22-23 
Watkins . ..Schuyler '* 26-27 
Friendship.Alleuany “ 28 Mch. 
Bath .Steuben Mch. 4-5 
Elmira.Chemung *• 6-7 
Lyons.Wayne “ 8-9 
Monticello.Sullivan 1112 
Jamaica .Queens “ 13-14 
Johnstown.Fulton 15 16 
Although two of the Minneapolis Mills were 
idle last week the flour output was 150,000 
barrels. There is a great scarcity of barrels. 
The barrel question is becoming a serious 
one. With very little or no export trade, 
the mills have packed a very large propor¬ 
tion of their product in wood, and it is get¬ 
ting so the coopers cannot make packages 
fast enough to meet the demand. The mills in 
operation are running strong and getting out 
all the flour they can, in anticipation of the 
early close of navigation. Old wheat is now 
practically exhausted, but the flour made 
from the new crop is usually very strong and 
fully up to the standard of former years. 
... .The amount of sorghum sugar that will 
be turned out at Fort Scott, Kansas, this sea¬ 
son, will be between 400,000 and 500,000 
ounds, and the capacity of the works will 
e increased to about 800,000 pounds by an¬ 
other season, and a refinery will probably be 
put up in connection with a new factory 
which will be built near that city. Con¬ 
tracts have already been made for 3,000 
acres of cane for next season.. 
One of the latest Chicago reports is that Ar¬ 
mour has been the real engineer of the recent 
wheat operations in that market, which have 
been credited to “Old Hutch.,” the latter 
merely acting as agent. 
The Italian maize crop this season is offici¬ 
ally estimated at 66,000,000 bushels, compared 
with 84,5 00,000 bushels considered an average 
crop. 
The raisin crop of California this season is 
estimated at 30,000,000 pounds, and is in good 
demand. 
The San Francisco Daily News states that the 
present wheat crop of California will yield 
30,000,000 bushels for export, while there were 
carried over from last year 7,300,000 bushels, 
making a total surplus for shipment of 37,- 
300,000 bushels.The legislature of 
Louisiana has recommended that its Repre¬ 
sentatives in Congress ask for an appropri¬ 
ation of $100,000 for the establishment of a 
sugar-work school in tnat State, and for ex¬ 
periments with processes and apparatus for 
sugar-cane, sorghum, and beet-sugar—$30,000 
to be expended for the testing of certain dif¬ 
fusion patents, etc.The Vermont 
legislature has just passed a bill prohibiting 
“Herbrand ” Fifth Wheel for Buggies .—Adv 
