The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-01-11
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ROYAL street, il. front o. the state
House and after ieering and hooting st
The police a. the door, began pelting
them with oyster shells aud other
missile. AMI yelling Lets put them
out. The Doors were closed aud some
.asties then preceded 10 def4ce kel-
lo@g- carriage which was standing
near. Thos Boylan, Nichols newly ap
pointed Chief Of Police, appeared aud
Ii-pers.d the crowd. Tha city - quiet
tonight \ large crowd assembled In
ffott ~ the Masonic Hall \ here Mich
ol,' ice are beng enrolled. as an az
tack upon the State House was appre-
hcuded. They have all been barrlcad'
cd and reinforced to prevent the Dem
ocra.e taking them by force. The Dem
ocrats are much ela,ed over the reports
from Washington that the President
will not recognize either Governor for
the present.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-The Times
Washington special thus describes the
character Of the affidavits taken by
the New Orleans House COMMITTEES;
d" The a.iidavits are alike in sizs aud
wording for each parish, aud IN fact
vary very ii'tle throughout the State.
Where the applicant is colored 1t Is so
printed. and those for the white afida
vii makers are little stronger than for
the cnlorei There are many thousand
OF these documents which will make
perhI.s 600 printed pages or two-thir1s
If the Democrats case In each parish
one nau usually alters all of these Ia
prr., and they look very much as
though one Iau III each parish had
filled chem al mp Looking them over
j. enough to demonstrate TO any one
why the democratic committee sent to
New Orl. ans refused to give the Re
publicans q copy of them, and why
they have held them back so long be-
fore presenting them for publication.
Ii is extremely doubtful also whether
the returning board ever saw or heard
of one tenth Of the stuff the democracy
propose to give the country to show
that Tilden WAS elected in Louisians.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Thc Times
Washington special Oh the Oregon bus
mess says that Pel,on. Tildens
private secretary. had eight thousand
dplltrs Of somebody's money sent out
t. Oregon on the day of the meeting Of
the electors, and that he has since tried
I, keep the fact from the committee
II is further shown that Cronin hav-
ing been the Democratic elcctor receiv-
ing the highest number of votes was
the only person who could carry out
the Democratic programme; that he
took advantage Of this position in
which he found himself to be conscience
stricken until he secured $4,000 To pay
his expenses of $500 at the most. The
Cronin college cost money. aud money
went from New York at just about the
proper time that it would have been
needed
/ The Irbune's Washington special
says Oregon Republicans explain the
return OF the $4,000 draft 10 New
! York by the theory that the money
was originally sent by express, but
not getting there in time was tele-
graphed four days afterwards. The
express package got to Salem and the
draft WAS returned according to agree
ment. This theory is confirmed by n
! report i'll Salem paler, of the State
/ House proceedings Of December 9th
! Ii Was stated therein that the Demo.
cratic leaders were very anxious dur
/ ing the forenoon. but just before noon
Bush, q banker appeared. and. after a
consultation with him. the trouble
seemed u vanish. aud they went ahead
with their programme
PHiLApELruIA, Jan l0-The meet
ing between Bennett, and May took
place one mile from Marydell. Mary
land. at one o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The party carried blankets. overcoats.
two cases OF pistols aud surgical instru-
ments. They represented themselves
as railroad officials, May saying he was
. director of the Pennsylvania railroad
and Bennett giving his name as Daniel
Drew. Of New York. aud stating his
mission was ,ae purchase Of the Mary
land and Delaware railroad. They had
with them also maps ri the Peninsula
and 10 several parties they reported
themselves hunters on . CANNING expe-
dition. and such was the privacy Of the
whole affair that their statements were
believed III the neighborhood. Ben
nett face showed scar which was
much swollen, probably by cold. The
scene Of the meeting was short dis
lance from the line Of the Maryland ami
Delaware railroad Three shots were
fired without Injury 10 either Of ths
after which the entire party