The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-11-17


A correspondent informs the Tribune that
the late Democratic Legislature of Ohio, hav
ing enacted that no device of any kind should
be printed on ballots, nothing but the bare
| names of candidates and offices for which they
were supported, and the Democrats of Monroe
Co., having headed their ballots 1.-THE White
Mans Government" the State canvassers
have been constrained to reject all, returning
the Republican candidates as elected in that
Democratic stronghold.
An honest Republican abstained from vot-
ing because he had resided in the State less
than year by fifteen minutes when the polls
closed election week. In another part of the
country voters right was challenged on The
ground that he would not be twenty-one until
half an hour after the closing of the polls
The project for the railway between Great
Britain and France has now assumed a def
| mite shape. The Anglo-French Railway
Bridge preliminary Company has been form
ed with capital of $4,000, for the purpose of
constructing the models for the proposed
bridge across the Straits of Dover. 1t is to be
bridge from the Shakespeare Cliff, Doyer, to
Cape Blanc Mex, short distance from Calais.
The length of the bridges will be 1882 yards,
divided into ten arches, resting on piers rising
| $50 feet above the sea, which will permit the
passage of ships of the largest class.
One Representative and one Senator repre-
sent the Democracy in the Kansas legislature.
The Senator was elected by fraud and had on
ly majority of five at that.
Five thousand meteors were counted at the
| Naval Observatory in Washington, Friday
night
Gen. Dent, father-in-low of the President
elect, is Democrat. Some one asked him re-
Gently in Grants presence how Missouri had
voted: "Voted for Grant," replied the old man,
"but d--n me, if he got my vote" General
Grant himself could not avoid enjoying his
father-in-law's Democratic pluck.
Sam Cary, the hard handed working-man
who was not elected to Congress from the Gin
cinnati district will probably be the next
Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio.
A wrestling match between a young man of
% years of age and a young girl of q, came off
in New York on Monday evening, The female
proved the victor in five minutes.
Outside of Galveston nothing but specie is
used for currency in Texas.
The subject of the division of Texas will
come up for consideration upon tine re-assem-
bling of the constitutional convention of that
State.
The Concord Statesman confidently predicts
that Hon. Onslow Stearns will be the next
Governor of New Hampshire, and that he will
administer the State Government with econo-
my, fidelity, and to the entire satisfaction of
every Republican who takes part in the sweep
ing victory by which he will be elected.
Mr.. Robert Bonner has given his celebrated
trotting horse Dexter" to Gen. Grant
The celebrated "Howland will case" in
which Miss Hetty HI. Robinson, the plaintiff,
endeavors to recover of the executors of Mrs.
Rowland a very large estate, which she con-
tends was willed to her, has been decided in
favor of the defendants by the United States
Circuit Court. An appeal has been taken to
the Supreme Court of the United States.
A committee of the Social Science Associa-
ton has recommended the appointment by the
Governors of the several States of commits
sioners who shall meet at Springfield, Mass,
on the 1st of September for the purpose of de-
vising uniform system of measures for pre-.
venting the introduction. and checking the
fatal consequences, of the various cattle dis
eases, which system is to be recommended to
the several State Legislatures for adoption.