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18
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November
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1880
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Commissioner Meacham arrivud at Washington on tlie 9th, direct from Denver. He etated thht the Utee did not want war, and would not flght unJess they thiuk t their last resource. The statue of Admiral Farragut, by Vinnle Ream, will ue unveiled in Farragut Square, Washington, about the lOth of December. Secketakt Shiïrman annoiuiced on the lOth th.it tlie interest on tlie six per cents, ot 1880 will rease December 31. In the meantime the bouds will be pnrchased wlth surplus reverme with a satisfactory rebate. The number of immifjrants arriving in this country durin? the ten months ended October 31, was 29J,i 00. The year 1S54 was the year of the Inroest imra gration in thehistory of the United States, the number then arriving being 319,0 0. It is thought that number will be exceeded this year. Accoedixg to the report of the Coinmissiouer of Custoins for the last fiscal vear the total collections from cnstoms were $188,378,611, and the expenses oí coilecting the same 16,033,353. -- - The number of letters and parecis reffistered in the Uir't d States durins; the year ended June 30 wj 6,996, 513, of which 250,000 letters and 8,25) pareéis were for foreign countries. The amount of the fees colleeted on the letters auil parcelfi was $595,774, being an increase of tbirty per cent. over the fees for the previous year. Of the letters, 1,118, or one in every 6, 200, were lost. OF the Electoral vote of the eeveral States Sarfield and Arthur have 214; Hancock and English, 155. Since the commencement of the current fiscal year Op to and includmg the llth the reeeipts from internal reverme amounted to $48,241,768, against $43,780,935 during the corresponding period of last year. In hls annual report AdjutantGeneral )rum recommends young men to enter miliary organizations during the r school life. Ie says that the military duties need not necessarily interfere with their schola6tic studies, and that the advantages to themselves and the Nation from connection with such orgauizations would more thaii compénsate for the time lost. General Drum also favors a uniform system of tactics, rules aud forms for the regular army and the militla. ThO Kast. The evidence in the case of Philp, charged wlth forgiug the Garfield-Morey letter, closed on the 9th, when General Pryor asked the discharge of the prisoner. Juilge Davis said he would render a decisión on the 13th. 8. 8. Morey and Robert Liudsey, two of the wit nesee8 for the defense, were arreated for perjuiy, and were committed for examination. Lücbetia Mott died recently at Philadelphia, aged eisjhty-seven years. She was a preaeher of her sect the Society of Friends, and was early identified with the Anti-Slavery cause. At Safe Harbor, near Lancaster, Pa., on the nlïht of the lOth, durinar a Republican celebratiOH, a cannon exploded, killins; Joseph Taylor and John Anment. Oue man audtwo ladies were seriously iniured. It was stated on the llth that General Hancock, in an interview at Governor's Island, denied that a letter jmrportmg to have been written by him to an army offleer at Washington, touch Dg the New York vote, was wriiten by him, and said that he waa one of the few persons who could not discuss the Presidential elcction at the pres-ent time without indelicacv. He also said that if there" was a letter in existence from him purporting to be of that tenor he was willing that it ehou d be produced. Morey and Lindsat, d,ias ü'Brien, appeared before the Urand Jury ot the New York Courtof General Sessions on the llth and confessed that they had perjured themselves in ti.e hearing of the Philpcase. Morey was held as a State witness, and O'Brien was indicted for perjury. WuiLK twelve men were playing eards in a boardinï-house at Bo dell, near Bradford, Pa., on the n git of the Wth Joseph Heeps, one of the number, poured kerosene oil on the flre to replenish it, wheu the contents of the can caught fire and Heeps threw it from him. It feil into a can of petroleum oil, which set flre to the house. Elliot Brown, Barney Haiey and Henry Hyde peri-hed in the James. Joseph Barthley received fatl injuries in attemptiug to escape. Mike Welsh, Henry Monroe and W.llurd Freeby, who were badly bumed, would probably die. Heeps escaped without serious lnjury. Thb National Democratie Exeeutive Committee has issued an address deuying that they evertook any action in relerence to the Morey letter, or even saw it until alter its publication. AccoiujiNa to the official census report Massachusetts has a population of 1,787,085. ' The females exceed the males by 66,044. The number of persons of foreign birth is 443,116, and there are 19,004 colored personsIn con6equence of the embezzlement of a cashiernamed Berry the Berden County Savings Bank and the Bank of Bergen County, New Jersey, were forced to suspend on the 12th. One hundied thousand dollars in funds and seeurities were missing, and the d shonest cashier was sick and under guard in his home. The official vote in Pennsylvania was 874,788, divided as follows: Oarfield, 444,703; Hancock, 4U7, 4 18; Weaver, 20,618; Dow and others, 1,983; Garfield's plurality, 37,376; his majority over all, 14,6-'5. The round sum to be raised by the Methodist Churches lias been fixed by the Methodist Missionary Society at $778,034, including a debt of $112,000, which sum is divided up among the annual conferences. Dr. John Buohanan, of bogus medical-diploma notoriety, has pleaded guilty in a Philadeiphia Court to the charge of having sold bogus academie degrees. West and. South. Fayette McMüllen, of Virginia, who served in the Federal and Confedérate Congresses, was recently killed by the care at Wytheville. G. H. Dat, of Indianapolis, wholesale clothing mauufacturer, made au asstgnment on the 9th. His liabilities were stated at $45,000, and his nominal assets at $48,000. Govbrnor Colqditt was inaugurated for the second term, at Atlanta, Ga., on the 9th, with great enthusiasm. The Alabama Legislatura orsanized on the lOth. Mr. John D. Rother was elected President of the Senate anl Colonel Dawson, of Selma, Speaker of the House. The total vote in Illinois at the late election was 6al,980. Gartield reoeived 318,2 5; Hancock, 277,454; Weaver, 25,821; Dow and scatteriner, 500. Qarfleld's majority over Haucock, 40,751; over all, 14,400. The total vote of the State in 1876 was 554, T66. Govebnor Fostbr, of Ohio, on the lOth received the resignatiou of James A. Garfleld ae member of Congress from the Nineteenth Ohio District. The Nineteenth District, at the time of General Gartield's eloetion to Congress was not composed wholly of tlie same territory of which it is now constitutcd. Thu writ for an election to Uil the vacancy was issued for November 30, and sent tothose counties which composed the Nineteenth District at the time General Gariield was elected, itbeiug held that the territory composing that distr ct has vested rights which cannot be abrogated by an act of the General AsBembly. The official canass of the vote in Ohio ehows the followins result: Total vote cast, 723,5191, of which Garfield received 375,048 ; Hancock, 340,871; Weaver, 5,456; Dow, 2,616. Gartield's plurality, 34,177; Garfield ovw all, 26,105. THEtuwn oí Keochie, La., has been demo s!ied by a cyelone. One man was killed am eu persons injnred. A Dallas (Texas) telegram of the lOtl ■;ays that place had suffered the loss of seven ry-five horses by the epizootie, and there were wo huudred cases UDder treatment. A nümber of colored railroad laborera were 'vorkinr umler au embankment near Oranse Court-House, Va., on the llth, when a great mass of rocks and earth feil and orushed to 'leatii Edmond Fieids and Powhatan Taylor. Five olhers were dangerously iniured. ClovEiixoit Sjiitu has appointed Judge Orasmus Colé to be (Jbief-Justice of the ISupreme ('ourt of Wisconsin, viee Chief-Justice Ryan, deceased, and J. B Cassody, of Janesville, to be Associ ite Justice, vice Cole, promoted. Witii the exception of Judge Terry, the Hancock E eetors in California have a plurality of 1-22. Terry ran behind his ticket 205 votes, ami is defeated. Mits. Bkown, of Indianapolis, convicted sorue rnonths ago of beiug an accomplice with one Wade in the murder of her husband, has been granted a new trial by the Indiana Supreme Court. The motion for a new trial for Wade was denied. General Pope, commandtng the Department of the Missouri, in bis animal report, expresses the opinión tnat there is little probability of trouble with the Utes, the barrenness of their lands keeping away the whites, but regarás the death of Ouray as a public misfortune. The Navajoes are the mnst formidable, mustering two thousand li .liters. The General hope3 for an early decisiou upon the right of whit jnen to settle in Indian Territory. TnE followinj is the official vote of Maryland for Presidential Electors: Hancock, 93,7U6; Gurtield, 76,515. ÜN tiie 12th two small children left alone by their mother in a house on Poplar street, Milwaukec, were burned to death. The National Gotton Exchange reports that 1,507,945. hales of cotton of this year's erop has been si pped from Southern ports, or by rail to Northern manufacturing points. This is an lacrease over the shipments at this time last year of 167,781 bales. On the 12th life insurance policies in the Michigan Aid Asso'tiation for $4,000 each, issued to Charles Olson and Olef L. Sanguest, inclosed in a bottle, floated ashore near Muskegon and are in rossession of ex-LioutenautGovernor Holt. The holders of these policies resided in Chicago and are kuown to have been on the Alpeua. Foreiffii Iiilelüíjeiice. TnE Greek Cabinet is said to be activelv adraucin; military preparations, and the army will be ready for the field in Mareh. The recent earthquake shocks in Croatia caused damage amountln; to about 4,000,000 florins. A dispatoh from Teheran on the llth says the Persians were plundering Kurdish villagea in the vicinity of Ourmiah. In the Freneh. Chainber of Deputies on the llih Boudry d'Asson, a Leg timist member, stated that the Deputies were abandol burglars, and he hoped the Repubüc would not survive during the winter. When the President ruled him out of o!-l r, he and his friends resisted. A eompany of fol ievs waa cailed n, and, after a pers n:tl encountev, the truculent memberwas lalcn out. The ( huinber then passed a vote of coniidence in the Government by ayes, 297; noes, 13L On the 12th bank notes of the value of 600.000 francs were stolen from a postman in Rue St. Vinne, Paris. A Brussels dispatch of the 12th siys i was the death of M. O ts, auother distingui6h(d Belgiau, and not M. Frere Ornan, lbo Begian Premier, which occurred a few daya j siuce. A land agent named Wheeler was shot dead on the 12th near Oola, (Jouuty Limer.ck, Irelaml. On the mornin? of the 12th an explosión occurred n the Furd coal pit at Stellarton, N. S., supp ised to have been caused by a 1 reckless shot üred by a miner. Nearly sixtv personb were covered by the huge blocks ol coal brouslit down by the eoneussion, oí whora six were taken out in a dying condition. About forty were missing and sup■oied to lie dead. An iucideut of the ealauiity was the killinar of tweuty-nine horses. The Viaritime Bank of St. John's, N. B., faileU on the 12th. Accordino to a Constantinople telegram of the 12th the Turks were making extensive preparations for the expected wai witli (ireece, and eecret oidfirs had been iaBueil by the Turkish eommander in Thessaly to behead any Greek found to be aiding hia countrymen. Accokdino to 8t. Petersburg dispatches received on the 12th all the Nihilists implioated in the plot agaiust the life of the Czar had been convicted, flye receiving eentence oi death, eleven of hard labor in the minea from life terms to flfty years, and three women of penal servitude for iifteen years Tnn Stellarton (N. S.) coal mine, thescene of the recent explosión, was flooded with water on the 13th in the hope oL extinguishing the raging flres, but to no apparent good purpose. Auother explosión oecurred about niidnight, whieh blew the roof and gear of the fan shaft high in the air, and on the 14th still another explosión took place. Workmen weré enjaged all day on the 14th diggiug a trench with a view of turning all the watei in a neighboring stream into the mine. The loss of life by the explosión was about flfty. Judoe Noah Davis delivered a lengthy decisión inthePhilpforgery case on the 13th. He held that it as fully aud iudisputably proved thatthe Morey letter was a forgery; that there was no such persou in existeuceas H. L. Morey orj. W. Goudall; that the letter never wenttoLynn; that the envelope was erased and doctore d to make it appear that the letter n un i there; and that the nriting on the envelope, the body of the letter and the Biguature were in the same handwiiting; and further that whoever wrote it was iroilty of a malicious libel. He also held that those who published the letter, knowing that it wos not genuine, or who had uot pretty good evidence f ts genuiueness, were guilty of libel. Piiilp was held for trial on charge of criminal libel. büRtSO the week ended on the 13th there were 41f;,W4 standard silver dollars distributed; duiïug the same period in 1879 the iiumber distributed was 291,499. -üakcook's plurality in Missouri at the late eleetiou was 55,002. Il is stited thut the reeent re-emimerat.ion of the inhabitants of St. Louis shows a total population of 340,i!ÖO- an iitcrease of 6,000 over the n'rst census. At the late election in Nevada, Storey County eal 13 votes iu favor of and 5,114 votes against Cltinese immiration. The official returns from all the countiea of Iowa foot up as follows: Total vote cast, 3:23,842- an increase of 83,958 over the vote oi 1876. For Gariield, 183 954; for Hancock. L05,92S; for VVeavcr. :i3,S9i; scatterin ?. 470. Gartield's majonty ver Hancock, 78 126over all. 44 06Ö. Gen-eral Ord, commanding the Department oí' Texas, reporta tuat niiie nieuwere killed aud two men wounded and one captured by the Indians since the Ist of October, L8T9 The General complains of a larga number of desertions from the ranks. He reeommends that a large íorce be maintained on the Rio rande to preserve order in that quarter. Tiie Grauville (S. C.) Daily Xrw. qt the I3th ptibhshesa letter lrom BeBfaüor llampton, in which lie exvresses the opinión that t Is very Important, es, (iallv tu Ihe South, that the Democratie paMy hoa'.il iftatnlti organizaron. He pays lio n lie PresiJential alectioii as ettld. aid that he should opeóse :mv act.on took'nw to contest on riM'c i-.ln,u-:il rraugdi a; ttTelutlonan

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