Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-12-09
THE ELECTORAL COMPLICATION.
Oregon Dual Electors.


dates were present and asked what the sealed
envelope contained. Cronin answered that
IL contained certificates of election. Watts,
Cartwright and Odell asked 10 see the certifi-
Gates. Cronin declined 10 all of them. The
request was made three times by the electors
named. and each time denied. The electors
Gates. Cronin refused i'm most emphatic
terms, at the same time thrusting an envel-
Ope in his vest pocket and buttoning his coat
The electors aver that no one was in the room,
but Cronin saw what he claimed were the
certificates. So far as they had positive or
judicial knowledge, the envelope contained
nothing except blank slips. He claimed he
was an elector and said he had certificate,
and asked PERMISSION 10 act with Cartwright
and Odell. These gentlemen did not refuse
at any time 10 recognize or TO act with him.
They demanded he should exhibit his certifi-
cate and show what right he had 10 claim a
seat in the electoral board This he also pos
itively refused to do. Cronin himself with
drew and declared that, as the other two gen
ilemen refused toact there existed two vacan-
cles in The board. which he proceeded TO fill,
appointing Miller and Park, two staunch
democrats, and then cast the so-called elect
oral ballot of the state. The republican
electors, after casting the electoral ballot.
prepared full and complete statement OF
what look place in the room, and OF every
thing that was said and done, to which each
appended his affidavit. This statement has
been forwarded, together with the sealed bal
lot, To the President of the Senate.
South Carolina.
CUTTING OFF CHAMBERLAIN'S SUPPLIES.
Judge Carpenter, of the third judicial court.
| last evening issued n temporary injunction
/ on complaint OF taxpayers enjO'ning two
| banks in the city. which are state deposit
tories of public funds, from paying out any
! monies on checks signed T. l.. Cardozo.
| claiming To act as public treasurer. Car
d0ZO rs the republican treasurer acting under
| chamberlain. and il is claimed by plaintiffs
/ that his term of Office under the constitution
expired on the Sd of December. and his sue
/ cessor has MOI been qualified. Ii the injunc-
| ton is sustained the republican government
! VIII De left without any funds 10 carry on the
government.
THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
! have put clerks TO work 10 obta' N u copy of
| the returns of the election as sworn 10 by the
| managers OF precincts. These are the same
returns which Senator Gordon requested the
| state board 10 permit him 10 have copied
| some weeks ago. They have since been in
possession of the secretary of state, men,
Der OF the state board. Cen Ruger has not
yet replied to the questions prOpOunded TO
him by the committee from the democratic
house, but proposes to do so to-day. All
quiet, and both parties seem waiting for the
action OF the Congressional committee.
Florida Figures.
The canvassing board yesterday concluded
the canvass for governor and members of
Congress. and the result was declared
against the protest OF the attorney general
who refused TO sign the canvass on the
grounds Of fraud and irregularity, and i'm
obedience to Judge Whites order restraining
the board. The other members of the board
will answer Judge Whites order for con-
tempt by saying they had already canvassed
the vote when the order was served on them.
Whole vote cast for governor, 1851; for
StearDs, rep, % $685. Drew, dem, % Dos; ma
jOrity fOi Stearns, 45S. Lieutenant governor.
whole vote cast, 1881; Montgomery, rep,
3,51 Hull, dem, q ,273; majority for Mont
somery, J4. Congressional vote. LIST district.
N,4le; Purman, rep, II $50; Davidson, dem.
l2,o6l; majority for Purman, 2s5. al district,
-, 49,; BiSbee, rep. ii ,2s9; Finley dem IL las;
majority for Bisbee, AL All the troops leave
to-day for South Carolina, except one COM
pany OF infantry.
BETWEEN Il eco and 10000 alligator skins
are tanned yearly, which are consumed by
boot and shoe manufacturers in every pOr-
ton of the United States, as well as export
ed TO London and Hamburg. The alligators
formerly came almost entirely from LOuisi-
ana, and New Orleans was the great center
of business The Florida swamps and mo-
rasses are now the harvest fields, and Jack
sonville, in that state, the great depot The
aliigators often attain length of eighteen
or twenty feet, and frequently live TO a very
old age. The hides are stripped off, and the
belly and sides the only portions fit for use.
are packed I'm barrels, in strong brine, and
shipped to the northern tanner, who keeps
them under treatment for six or eight
months, when they are ready 10 be cut up
| Philadelphia Ledger.
IT is SUPPOSED that larger percentage Of
the Danes than Of any other nation has hith-
erto embraced Mormonism, and a Danish
newspaper is regularly published at Salt
Lake City. Since the separation of Schles-
wig Holstein from Denmark, the recruiting
| ground OF the MOrmOns has been reduced, as
their preaching has been rigidly suppressed
| in those duchies. or late years the immigra-
tion into Utah from the European missions
mas varied rom one to four thousand persons
annually. The most active attempts at
propagandlsm appear 10 have been made
about the year 1923, but In this country
Mormon Mo, mission was founded as early as
Celestial Marriage" had given its peculiar
character TO Mormonism.-{L London Fort
nightly Rerie,o.
PLAN TO .ABDUCr THE sULrAN.-A
| special dispatch to the London Standard from
pose the present Sultan was discovered on
| Tuesday night The conspfrators, six of
whom were found in disguise I'm the palace
| itself and arrested, had planned TO carry off
| the ex-Sultan Murad I'm a steamer, which
they had already engaged, to Athens. When
there, they intended TO proclaim that Murad
had recovered his reason and the Sultan
Hamid was consequently a usurper The
prisoners are of various nationalities; one is
Greek, and is brother of the chief drago-
man of one Of the principal foreign con-
sulates."
STABBED WITH A SLATE PENcIL.-I,iz-
zie Taylor, girl eight years old, while
playing with other children in the yard at
tached to the Church of the Holy Comforter,
girl bad i'm her hand when falling penetrated
her chest and entered one OF the lungs. The
child was carried to her home, No $50 Cough
street. The physicians who were summoned
TO attend her state that she is in a critical
c0ndition.-lBduo.A american, 9th.
GEN. P0RFIRIo DIAz, the Mexican reyo-
iutlonist, is about five feet ten inches in
height, and when sitting in the Congress- is
credited TO the State OF Vera Cruz. He is a
man of great influence, and the secret of ID is
found in his remarkable executive ability
He was married by proxy on the eve OF one
OF his principal battles with the French, DUR
ing the invasion.
RICHARD CONGREvE, the apostle, and rep
resentative in England of Comte, denies TO
America now or in the future any high place
among nations, because the influence OF the
religious ideas Of the past is so much greater
here than in Europe. He claims the primacy
of the nations for France, and characterizes
the French as "the vanguard naturalization"
RICHARD CULLAN murdered a man in
Modesto, CAL, in the presence ftwo witness
es. Cullan told these witnesses that he would
certainly kill them IL they divuiged what
they had seen, and as he was q desperate,
they believed him. During three months
they kept the secret and then, prieked by
conscience. they gave information TO The au-
thorities. The murderer.has Just beenhunged.
MISS KATE CLAYTON, (Mrs. Dore Lyon,)
who displayed SO much heroism at the burn
ing OF the Brooklyn Theatse, Is the grand
daughter Of the Rev. Spencer w. Gone, eel
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