The enquirer southerner., 1874-11-13

Pennsylvania once more wheels
into line and prepares to torsake the
false gedswho have misled her.
Butler is beaten; it is a sermon in
kaself.
The salary of $4,000 per annum
paid to President Jewett of the Erie
Railway il the largest paid t. any
railroad officer in the United States,
and it is believed larger than any
paid to any railroad officer in the
world.
It was a neck and neck Contest be-
tween the Democracy of Ohio and In
diana as to which ould give the
largest majority on the State ticket.
The official count shows that Ohio
won by few votes: Ohio, 1902;
Indiana, 1908.
Poor Butler! Everybody kicks
him now, and the force which the
most servile organs put into the blow
is a good deal more than that of 40
jackasses.
The Delaware Gazette thinks that
Governor Ponder, of that State, should
issue a proclamation of thanks-
giving over the recent democratic
triumph in the country
The Richmond correspondent of
the Norfolk Landmark says: $50
much negro voting on the conserva
tive side was never done here before,
aud it was done boldly and without
the concealment of ballot
Judge Bond of the U. 8. Circuit
Court for the Eastern District Of
North Carolina has recently decided
that the homestead law cannot be
allowed to have a retroactive effect as
against debts and judgments existing
| before the adoption of the present
State Constitution.
The New Orleans Price Current
says: : we Mentioned last week that
the weather had continued remarka-
bly, fine, since which the immunity
from all causes to diminish the yield
have confirmed long crop views,
while short crop have been extended,
and $500, 900 is now spoken of as an
extreme inside estimate, $3.50, 900 as
conservative, and $780, 900 to 4, 4,O0O,.
900, or even more, as long CROP
Some of tho stockholders of the
Bank of California have entered into
a contract with lumber dealers at
Carson City for the delivery Of Co.,
900, 900 feet of lumber and mining
timbers for the Comstock lode. The
contract extends over a period Of five
years, 100000 feet to be delivered
annually. The lumber and timber
for this extensive contrect 10 to be
obtained from the Lake Tahoe basin.
| The Philadelphia Press, radical,
sums up the result in the Pennsyl-
vania legislature as follows:
Senate Republicans %
Democrats, ts,--------- ~
House - Republicans------- 81
| Democrats. 1U4
These figures says that journal,
will give the Democrats majority of
one on joint ballot, and elect a Dem
ocratic United States Senator TO suc-
eeed John Scott, whose term will
expire March i, 1875, Enough
said
The tone of politics in the country
must be getting healthier since the
storm of the 3rd instant, and the
Outrage" outery be losing its sig
nifcance when such journal as the
Boston Herald speaking of Dawes
candidature for the Senate from Mas
sachusetts says "Mr. Dawes can
not fail to see that he has made an
ass OF himself. He can step down
and out. No bloody shirt shaker need
apply at the State House for Charles
Summers seat. We will have states
man there, please God"
A novel feature of Fred Grants
wedding was the perfuming of the
several rooms of the Honore mansion.
The front parlor was perfumed with
tube roses: the back parlor and under
the arch with orange blossoms; the
library with white roses; the dining
room with jasmine; the ladies' room
with violet; and the gentleman's room
with yhlang.yhlang. This part of
the arrangement was the work of an
artiss,' who imported the perfume,
expressly for the occasion, from Paris
and the effect was peculiarly agreea-
BILE.