The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-11-15
GENERAL NEWS.

place Nov. 4th, New York elected the
entire State ticket with the exception
of Robinson for Governor.
Mississippi elected the Democratic
ticket.
Massachusetts, elected the entire Re-
publican Long ticket.
Pennsylvania elected the entire Re-
publican ticket.
Virginia elected the Readjusters'
ticket (Democratic.)
Nebraska elected the republican
ticket.
Wisconsin elected the Republican
ticket.
Minnesota elected the Republican
ticket.
The is no question of the election of
the Democratic State ticket and a
Democratic Legislature in Maryland.
In Connecticut the Senate will stand
seventeen Republicans and four DEM
Ocrats. For the House, returns re-
ports 1853 Republicans, 70 Democrats,
/ Independent and ties to be voted
| on.
The Republicans have gained one
State Senator in New Jersey, and
probably five or six members of the
Assembly. They will retain control
of both branches of the Legislature;
the Senate by majority of 3, and the
Assembly probably IA or Is majority.
While Europe is deluged with rains,
which have proved destructive to its
crops, we have not had enOught rain
to swell the rivers by which our crops
are moved.
Charles Gruneisen, noted as theol-
Ogian and as biographer of distin-
guished artists, is dead at the age OF
seventy seven.
A telegram from the steamer Fara-
day, through the New French cable,
dated on the Sd, states Faraday sue
cessfully completed present part of
operations of laying cable, and is pro-
ceeding to Halifax.
, Advices from the Indian Territory
| report that the Arkansas river il en-
tieely dry at Big Bend. This was
never known to occur before. Corn
t crops ale very short iu the Cherokee,
) ChOctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole and
3 Creek nations. Much suffering III con-
i. sequence is anticipated.
r The ship Lady Octavia from Broad
. water to New York, cOllided with the
steamer Champion, from New York fol
4 Charleston, striking the steamer amid.
: ship sinking her in five minutes. 1t II
!, rumOred that 25 are saved and 81 lost
. The collision occurred IS miles off Del
eware capes, at A o'clock on the morn
. ing of Nov. 9Th. The ship was badl.
. damaged and towed to PHILADELPHIA;
d Dy tug.
; Second Assistant General Brady, il
IT his annual report, says the estimate
for the next fiscal year are made wit
g a view to provide for the continuance
It of the present efficient service, and {
n afford largely increased service, i
d the States of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky
d Tennessee, North Carolina, SOut
t. Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi
ID and Louisiana, which have all bee
at advised to 90 into affect July LIST, 1oo
l. and which will improve the presel
ID mail facilities.
I'd Even the white settlers in Kansa
do not appear to he doing very wei
a. A tale of suffering and misery come
at from Hodgeman county. Out OF tw
III thousand inhabitants, nineteen hui
a. dred are reported in restitution an
tie Oh the very verge of starvation.
relief committee has been organized
n. keep these unhappy people throug
u the winter, and appeals have bet
to made to the charitably incliued to a
ne sist them. 1t is to this land, whe
nd hard working, Industrious white me
be cannot make living, that so mar
SIS deluged negroes have gone, under Il
ty will idea that they can do better thu
in the South.
be South African advices report di
ng turbance among the Beers at Middl
I'm burg, in the Transvaal, growing out
he the trial of Boer for assaulting u
~ tive. After adjournment of the cot
M party OF armed Beers forcibly took
gn quantity of ammunition from a stol
we leaving its value on the counter. II
was in violation Of an order from
M Garnet WOlsely ,forbiding Beers to pr
to chase ammunition until they had pa
md their taxes. A later dispatch fri
Cape Town says the offenders I
nal known and will be prosecuted. I
the presence of Col. LanyOn with a detat
the ment of the LIST Dragon Guards "
be sufficient to preserve order.
A train on the Greenwood and La
Railroad train ran off at the Hack'
aph sack drawbridge, New Jersey, on
: a morning of Nov. 4th. The engin
Pu- was killed. There were about twel
leet nsrsons on the coach. mostly busin