The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-09-12
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Harranson, Georgia, have not been over
done. Within a few days over fifty
men have died in an exclusively rural
population. The victims were mostly
young men. Those attacked suffer hor-
ribly, the tongue turning black and
swelling to double the natural size, and
blood oozing from their mouth and ears.
Immediately after death the bodies be-
come spotted and discolored. OF 30
cases under one physicians treatment,
not one recovered. The greatest alarm
and distress prevails, and it is steadily
spreading
the latest returns from Maine are as
follows: The vote cast for Governor in
$40 towns was ia, pa, divided as fol-
lows: Davis, 2,552; Smith, 1874;
Garcelon, 1859; scattering, 249. The
remaining l23 towns cast the following
vote last year: Common, 5,20l; Smith,
4,553; Garcelon, $3.50; total, 1903.
The opposition to the Republicans had
a majority in these towns last year of
1872. The same ratio of increase of
the vote in the towns not heard from as
in those from which the vote has been
received, would carry the total vote of
the State to nearly l39, 900, against a
total vote last year of 1885, 100, and an
equal ratio of Republican gains in these
| l23 towns as in the rest of the State
would leave Davis lacking from 800 to
500 votes of election by the people.
Secretary Sherman's attention having
been called to published statement
that he had directed that the silver
dollar should not be received by the
Treasury in certain cases, says the
statement is absolutely false and with
out shadow of foundation The law
makes the silver dollar legal tender
for all purposes, and it has always been
received by the Treasury in payment of
demands of every kind, and as fully
and freely as gold coin.
The New York Democratic State
Convention nominated John c.. Jacobs
of Brooklyn for Governor by an almost
unanimous vote, and adopted the fol-
lowing platform: "The Democrats of
the State of New York in Convention
assembled profoundly sensible of the
important consequences depending upon
the immediate result of their deliber-
atoms, to declare aud reassert the prin-
ciples of popular liberty and rights laid
down by Washington Jefferson and
other founders of the Republic. We
hold to the Constitution, with all its
amendments sacredly maintained and
enforced, and to the rights of States
under the Constitution. The tenden-
cies of the Republican party to central
ization and consolation are contrary
to the principles Of our Constitution.
The United States form "a nation in the
sense to the extent and for the purposes
defined in the Federal Constitution, and
we resist every attempt to transform it
into an Empire. We insist ON unity, fra
ternity and concord, and that the issue
settled by the war shall not be revived.
We deprecate the efforts Of the Repub-
hcan managers to revive sectional
feuds and to rekindle the passions
OF the past. We demand an
honest election and an honest count of
votes. Never again by fraud or force
shall popular will be set aside to crafty
interruptions partisans. The Democracy
oppose all favoritism. No single inter-
or class of persons should be protected
at the expense of another"
An Indictment for murder in the first
degree was found yesterday by the
Grand Jury of Essex county, New
Jersey, against Joseph A. Blair, the
paying teller of the Mechanics National
Bank, who shot his coachman, John
Armstrong, as he claims, in self defense
on June rs, in Montclair. A bench
warrant for the arrest of Blair was
issued at once, and he was lodged in
JAIL Much feeling has been caused bv