Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-11-28

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| to form coalition.
| Gen. Meigs is mentioned as the probable
successor of Gen. Meade, and Judge Settle,
of North Carolina, as the successor of JUS
tice Nelson, of the Supreme Court, the lat
ter being about to retire on account of old
age.
| Grants majority in Wisconsin will be in the
neighborhood of IS, 900.
The majority for Grant and Wilson in Cali
fornia is II, 800.
Chief Justice Chase, it is now announced
for any other purpose, and is not going to
resign. He is said to be in vigorous physical
condition.
The official returns from Pennsylvania, ex-
cept the county of Mexican, estimated, make
Grants majority 1877, 537-the largest MAORI
/ ty ever given by any State in the Union for
any candidate. The vote of Greeley is about
October. and Grants vote falls some 5000
below Hartranft's.
The total vote for O'Conor in the United
States is between 80, 900 and 10000.
! The vote in eighty-two out of one hundred
and twenty-five Kentucky counties stands !:
Greeley, S6,6S4; Grant, $3.50; O'Conor,
1907.
in New Jersey is 1857.
| Charles r. Buckalew has been sworn as
member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional
Convention, in session at Harrisburg, in place
of Mr.. Frazer, of Columbia, who resigned for
that purpose.
| Complete returns from ninety-seven coun-
| ties in Illinois give totals, compared with the
| vote of the same counties in 1868, as follows:
| 1s6s-Seymour-..l92O22 Grant...24344o Maj5I4Is
lS72-Greeey..lSo,l45 Grant. ...235l45 1877
hoerner....lS7,532 Oglesby. .23l,0l2 Msj...434S0
| The counties of Cass, Crawford, Jasper,
Mason, and Mercer, to be heard from, voted
in 1868: Seymour, 1921; Grant, 6,s53. They
are now reported to have given Grant 772
majority, which would make his total ma
| jority SIS, 760.
| delegation Of Pennsylvania politicians,
headed BY Senator Cameron, called on Presi-
dent Grant last week, and requested the APP
pointment of one Fairman to the vacant Phila-
delphia Postmastership, on the principle that
he was good Republican. To this the Presi-
pies of civil service reform. and would proba-
bly, promote the Deputy Postmaster, faith
full and efficient official. This little incident
has created quite sensation among certain
politicians, but the course of the President is
highly commended on all sides, outside the
clique Immediately interested.
The official majority for Grant in Delaware
| is $685.
Greeleys majority in Tennessee is s,213,
with ten counties to hear from officially.
Grants official majority in Virginia is ], s75.
Secretary Fish positively declares-so saws
| a Washington correspondent-that he would
not accept the English mission if rendered to
him, but that he intends to retire to private
life after the 4th of March
1t is now intimated that Secretary Boutwell,
does not aspire to Senator Wilson's seat, but
will remain in the Cabinet another four years.
The official vote Of Illinois stands Grant,
24O,3S7: Greeley, 1s3,O79. The vote was
lighter by 25,37S than that cast in 1868.
The vote Of Maine at the late election was
the smallest cast in that State for President
since 1890.
The following is the official vote of Penn
sylvania for President as compared with the
October vote:
o6t p asss H RaR4sp ss s Ms
Nov. Greeley. 2lzul4 Grant, 34e,,s9 1888
The vote of Delaware:
Seymour % ESQ Greeley d.. le; g;
The vote OF Maryland
ISIS s57 Gree ey is.s
440
General.
The General Missionary Committee of the
Methodist Church reports the receipts for the
year, 1861, 056; disbursements, $500, 657 in
| crease Of collections over 1871 about $50, 600.
The pecuniary basis for missionary work for
1873 was made at $780, 900, and s136 900 was
voted for foreign missions, and $4,000 for
domestic.
| Col. Mcdaniel, the owner of Harry Bassett
| and other well-known flyers, offers to match
his stable against any horse or horses in the
| world, to name at post, two, three and four
mile heats, for $4,000 or $40, 900 each race,
races to be run over the Saratoga course,
New York, any time between the last of July
and the first of September, 1873.
| Congratulatory messages were exchanged,
the other day, between the Mayors of Ade-
laide, Australia, and New York, upon the
| opening of telegraphie communication.
| The signal officers at Washington claim to
have traced, during the past few days, the
progress of an aerial wave from its starting
point in Oregon or British Columbia eastward
over the Rocky Mountains and southwark to the
Gulf. 1t is thought to be kindred in its char
acter to an annual atmospheric phenomenon
in England that has for long time been a
| difficult problem for scientists. The practical
value of the problem is believed to be con-
siderable, in that it will make it possible to
predict with considerable accuracy the coming
of winter weather.
The Grand Trunk railway of Canada, IN Or
der to make with railroads in the United Stat IS
| connections the want of which has bean seri