The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-24
ST. LOUIS NEWS.
SUCCESS or THE BENCH sEiOw-THE
PRIZES AWARDED.

The Frsst-MetcaIfe Election Contest
THE Democratic Party In st. Louis
United-German In The pub
lie schooIs.
Especial Correspondence OF the N. O. Democrat
ST. Louis February I'll, 1878.
To-day is the third day of
THE BIO DOG SHOW,
that / spoke of IN my last letter. 1t has
rained more or less every day since the open
ing Of the show, and the attendance has,
therefore, not been as large as was anticipated
The average daily attendance Of paying visit
orH. including to-day, has been about 1900,
and tho managers Of the show counted on at
least $500 visitors day. In other respects
tho exhibition has beon d complete success
Nearly every dog entered was placed on
exhibition the EXCEPTIONS being less than
d score in number. Every champion
bird dog in the United States or Canada Ii
there, and England ID represented by nine
pointers and settlers and two fox terriers from
tho kennels of I. II. Scott and j. A. Doyle
0ovell known dog breeders Of Yorkshire Eng
land. The steamer which brought the English
dogs to America did not arrive In New York
until last Sunday, and the dogs did not reach
st. Louis until the second day Of the show,
too late to compete in some of the classes in
which they had been entered. Tho
AWARDING or THE PRIZES
y was commenced Tuesday, but is not yet con
eluded The first prize for English setter
dogs, native or imported, was won by Glad
stone an imported blue Bolton. owned and OK
hibited by z. II. Bryson of Memphis, Tenn.
The championship for English setter bitches
was won by Queen Mab exhibited by Arnold
Burgess of Michigan.
The champion Irish settor dog was declared
20 DO Elcho. exhibited by WIN. Jarvis Of New
Hampshire, and the champion bitch Loo II,
exhibited by the st. Louis Kennel Club. The
championship for Gordon settler bitches was
won BY Fan. belonging to w. j. Farrar, Of
Toledo, Ohio, and that for imported English
setter bitches by Floss, belonging to J. a.
Whitman, Of Chicago; Berkeley, belonging TO
the st. Louis Kennel Club, carried off the first
prize for imported Irish setter dogs. Prizes
arc to be given for settlers and pointers in
folty-seven different Glasses the number of
prizes offered in each class ranging from one
to eight. The pointers are being judged this
afternoon.
The first prize for Scotch deer hounds has
been awarded to Lulu. exhibited by j. Il.
Whitman, of Chicago. Lulu formerly be-
longed to the kennels of Queen Victoria, and
was valued at $4,000. Three dachshunds
from the kennels Of the Grown Prince Of Ger
many were also placed on exhibition but one
of them died the first day Of the show. Ths
value given these dogs by theirpresent ownelo,
.3aeh. The largest dog on exhibition is O New
smallest is baek and tan f terrier. Weighing
klt pounds Three other large dogs arc ex--
"A Newfoundland Championship premiums
fuT Chesapeake Bay dogs were awarded tn
the exhibits made by Paul Mars. Of Hender-
so sna we're a Sss p r az IT, bernard
saag prize, but the Judges decided that none Of /
them were Of pure breed, and no prizes were, l
therefore. awarded III this class. The whole
number Of entries for the show was 916. and
the number Of dogs now on exhibition is
about T5D, making tho show, as far as num-
bers is concerned, the largest dog show ever
specimens goods Is also well filled with eS-
hibits, consisting principally OF rifles and
shotguns Of improved patents. hunting suits,
boats and fishing tackle.
THE FRosT-METoALFIE coNTEstr1sD ELECTION
CASE .t Fl 4.s,5
has not been settled yet in the House of Rep
resentatives. Col. Metcafe holds his seat on |
n regular certificate from the Secretary of |
State Of Missouri but 1T Is now pretty gener-
ally believed that he was not really elected.
The election was close one, 80 close that the
alteration of q single figure In the tens-column
Of tho election returns In one Of the precincts
was sufficient 70 turn tho majority, The
courts of this State decided that the figure
was changed, and the seat was accordingly
given to Col. Metcalfo. Mr.; Frost carried the
pending. The limit Of time allowed
Mr.. Frost for taking dispositions in the case
expired last Saturday. The dispositions Of
nearly 100 witnesses were taken. and If
their evidence IL, worth anything, then Mr.
House Of Representatives.. All the Judges and
well as Democrats, testified that they made
o mistake of nine votes In favor Of Metcalfe by
the displacement OF one figure Twelve men. 4
duly registered and entitled to vote according
tn the recorder Of votes, were not allowed to
vote on account Of mistakes made In the print
ing Of poll books. These men all testified that
Of about 100 moro registered voters In the
district were refused because the names were
omitted from the reprint OF the poll
books. Capt. Carson, steamboat captain,
testified that six Of his colored deck hands,
whose homes were In Quincy and Keokuk,
voted for Col. Metcalfe. One of the witnesses
tostiiied that q package Of twenty five Mctcalfe
Deputy United States Marshal called atten-
ton to 1t. he was told to. shut his mouth.
-Four OF the deputy marshals testified that
they were Democrats, and were appointed on
condition that they would vote for the Re
publican candidate FOR Congress OF their dis !
trict. Another of the marshals testified that
he received instructions from Capt. O'Connor
to keep Democrats from voting by arresting
them The total number Of deputy marshals
appointed for the ostensible purpose of pre-
venting fraudulent voting was 1923, twothirds
of whom were assigned to the Third Congress
sional District, and the remaining third to the
First and Second Districts. The appointment
of these deputy marshals cost the govern
ment over $4,000. When Deputy Marshal
Barnard. the chief Of the election day dcpu-
ties, presented his bill to Acknowledgement
Taft, the latter remarked that the bill was
Taft that his deputies had succeeded In re-
turning FIJI delegation Of Republican Con-
gressn,en from st. Louis, and that during the
previous two years all three Of the st. Louis
districts were represented in Congress by
Democrats.