The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-21

by SO majority. In Aroostook county where
railroad questions entered into the contest, the
Democratic candidate is elected
"A call is published for Peoples State Con-
ventton in st. Paul, Mimi, on Thursday Oct z,
TO nominate State officers ''by the election of
whom the people mayrebuke the abuses of party
management and reform the administration OF
the State affairs"
that cotton will go down to fifteen cents during
the winter, and then rise to thrty-fve in the
spring, but the Telegraph of that city tells him
that the crop is too short and the demand too
eager for such fluctuations
The Prohibitory law went into force in
Massachusetts, on the 1st of July last. Since
that time the State Police have instituted 1903
prosecutions. including seizures. The amount
of fines paid mp during the present year on the
prosecutions of the State Police is S74, 703.
The Richmond Dispatch urges the imme-
date election of United States Senators, partly
on the ground that until they are elected there
will be powerful combination against the re-
moval of the disabilities of Virginians, because
so many OF them are aspirants for the Senator
ships.
"A call is issued for the Massachusetts, Labor
Reform State Convention in Boston on the 2Sth
inst, to nominate n State ticket. All legal
voters, without regard to past party affiliations
who are in favor of forming an independent
political party to he known as the Labor Reform
party are invited to send delegates
The Ohio State Temperance Alliance has de-
termined to raise 5000 and has assessed the
several counties in the State their proportions of
the amount. Ihls is not the organization which
put the State ticket in nomination. The friends
of temperance as q moral reform movement dis
associated from politics, are called upon to con-
tribute.
General Garfield has recently written letter
declaring that the bonds must be paid i'm gold
and saying that although Hon. Thaddeus
Stevens in his last days took the other side that
does not alter the fact that he and all Others
who spoke on the bill at the time of its passage
admitted that the principal of the bonds was
payable in gold.
Chicago sent out last Thursday its largest
mail by single train on the Iowa division of
the Northwestern Railroad. 1t consisted of iftv-
nine paper bags, and five large lock pouches,
destined for California, and ffty-seven paper
bags and thirteen lock pouches of Chicago mail
matchmaking total of 1923 sacks of mail mat
ter, $4,000 pounds in weight.
The San Francisco merchants are consider
ing the proprety of settling time sales of goods
by note. Their plan has been to sell goods on
account payment being made on steamer days.
but as these have changed, and the merchants
have been brought into competition with those
OF the Mississippi valley, the system has been
cumbersome and improbable.
"A block of buildings in Chicago. belonging
to Elisha Sprague, who was so terribly afflicted
with dryS(pydce, was sold last Thursday for the
purpose of raising funds to soothe the lacerated
feelings of Amanda Craig, who got the 500, 900
verdict for breach of promise. The block was
worth 100000 brought $4,000, and Elisha can
redeem it within fifteen months from the day of
sale
Hon. Thomas c. McCreery, of Kentucky
would like to 90 back to the United States
Senate, but he finds rivals in the persons of
Governor Stevenson, r. II. Stanton, John G..
Carlisle who is young man, Congressman Col
laday, who advocates reputation, Oscar Tur-
ner, General Preston, and many Others of whom
the most noted is Jesse d. Bright who long
since found Indiana uncongenial and sought
kindred spirits in Kentucky.