The Republicans Of Maine Were

rious in the election on Moriday, though the uiajority of last year has been reduced over one-half, and Radicalisui received another serious check in one of its strongholds at a aiost critical period. Last year the majority on Governor was over eleven thousand. The returns of Monday's election show a majority of loss than five thousand. THE Grangers of Wisconsin intend to show their hand in the approaching canvass in that State. The Master of the State Grange has sent out a circular address to meuibers of the order, calling upon them to use their influence in the coming canvass to secure the election of persons who will maintain the law of 1874 regulating railroads, and exert themselves to secure such additional legisiation as will render its thorough enforceinent moie certain and easy. He also makes the remarkable assertion that the granger moveinent has not proved detrimontal to railway enterprises. TitE Eichmond Knquirer thus displays its eloquence, in announcing the democratio success in California : " The grand democrrtic tidal wave which set in last fall from the Atlantic, and which is still rolling toward the west, has caused a synipathetic disturbance in the political elementa of the Pacific, and now ■we behold another wave, equalin height and power, coming from that direction to meet, neither of wbich will be stayed in their progress until thoir surges strikes the Kocky Mountains and they mingle their spray in the clouds which cap their lofty summits." Woman suffrage has had a fair trial in Wyoming Territory, and the result has not been very satisfactory in any direction. The Rocky Mountain News thus speaks of the practical resulta : " As to the efforts of suffrage on the ladies, there are aimost as inany opinions as there are people in Wyoming. The inajority, however, declare themselyes unable to Bee any change. As far as can be known, the ladies divide their vote bet ween the partios as much as men do - rut h er more, perhaps, voting for personal friends. To suin up, the opinión of the best iuformed is that women suffrage in Wyoming has resulted in making everything as it was before, only a a little more so." GOLDSMITH Maid will race no more. Wilkes' Spirit Bays : " We are authorized by Budd Doble to state that Goldsinith Maid will never start in another race. She inay, and perhaps will, give some exhibitions of speed in company with a running mate, but she will no more be subjected to the wear and tear, the tedious gcorings and terrible punishment of a race. In this determination the voice of humanity will sustain Mr. Doble. The old mare has richly earned her reputation, and none will question her right to retire upon her laurels." The will of the Morniou Bishop, Geo. A. Smith, contains soine curious provisions. It direotB that tho slab of uiarble which niarks his resting-place shall not cost more than one huudred dollars; that his coflin shall be made of red pine or other mountain wood.plain, but large enough to give ampie room forthe body to swell, with no unnocessary ornaments about it, and with three halfinch holes bored in the bottora ; that at funeral services either the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians, or the vision in the Book of Covenants, or an appropriate extract from the Book of Mormons shall be read, and that the att.endants at the funeral shall be in clean attire. Gx-Goveknor Seymob. has writtnn a letter on the money question to a working man in Pennsylvania, explaining the evils which inrlation brings to the working class. Ha writes : " Paper money is cheap and makes society drunk as liquor does an individual, ïhen comes the reaction, the delirium tremens. Business is checkod and thousands of mechanica and laboring men are out of work and suffering in our cities. Every one can see, if a few men had the power to change the s;ze of bushei baskets or the length of yardsticks when they pleased, that the laborers wou ld be the losers. The same thing is done in effect when the value of bank bilis is changed, for they measure values just as bushei baskets and yard-sticks measure quantities. There is no limit to the quantity of paper which can be printed and called dollars, but they are not dollars. The laboring man, if he toils in fields or workshops, should be paid in good money, not in money which is at a discount. Another terrible lake disaster occurred on Friday morning last. The propellor Equinox, with a cargo of salt,, towing the Emma E. Ways, loaded with lumbor, was overtaken by a storm about 2 o'clock on Lake Michigan. Captain Woodworth, of the Equinox, came to the stern of the propellor at thé time and called out to cut the lines. This was done, and the propellor immediately careened and sunk with all on board, numbering twenty-two persons consisting of the captain, his daughter and granddaughter, and and the crew of nineteen men. Captain Lusk, of the sch oner Emma E. Wayes, says that during the storms the crews of both vessels were ready for duty, and that of the schooner was constan tl y engaged about the sails and rigging. The fury of the storm, he says, was terrible, and it seenied several times as though certain destruction awaited them. He received no signal of distress from the captain of the Equinox, and, had any been given, aid iu the storm would have been iinpossible. Besides the large cargo of 8alt uearly six thousand barrels - there was a deck load of lumber, more than she was capable of oarrying. Her engiueer had protested against the overloading, but was induced to go with the vessel in spite of his conviction thai she was unsafe. She was valued at $25,000 and the cargo at $8,000.