Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-11-01
NEWS SUMMARY.

The Louisiana Republican State COnvcn-
ton, held ut New Orleans on the Goth and
elst, nominated Taylor Beattie of Lafourch
for Governor and full ticket of minor State
officers. The platform reiterates the essen
tial principles of the National Republican
party; favors the improvement by the Gov
ernment of the Mississippi and its
tributaries, and also Government aid for
Southern Pacific railroad. The honest
payment of the State debt is demanded. A
resolution was adopted setting forth that il
the colOred people are accorded free and
fair elections, allowed to vote and have
their votes counted, they will remain as Of
right i'm the State; if not, they will
be forced TO emigrate. The election
of Dumont, who is an out-and-out Sherman
man, rs permanent President of the Con-
yention, is considered an Endorsement of the
Administration. A resolution eulogiZing
Gen. Grant and declaring him the choice Of
the party for the Presidency was received
with great cheering, but was never formally
brought before the Convention for its action
thereon.
1t is announced by authority tnat the Gar
will pay visit TO the Emperor at Berlin in n
short time. The Russian Imperial family
will spend the winter at Cannes.
Won Bulow, German Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, died on the Goth, at Frank
fort-on-the Main.
f. L. Mansfield, one of Agent Meeker's
employees at White River Agency, escaped
the fate of the other men there by having
gone with message to Capt. Dodge on the
day of the massacre.
The official count of the vote Of Ham,
ilton County, Ohio, which includes the
City of Cincinnati, gives Foster, Republic
can, for Governor, a majority of 3, ,645. 9th
er majorities for Republican candidates
range from 4,9OS, the highest, TO 1,444, the
lowest.
Full returns from IS counties in Iowa give
Gear (Republican) 81, ,S96 majority over Trim
BILE Democrat).
The Empress Eugene is going to Zululand
in February, TO pray on the spot where her
son was killed.
The total vote cast i'm Ohio on Octo-
Der 14th, for State officers, has been officially
counted with the following result: Total
vote for Governor, 66S, ,667, divided as fol-
lows: Foster, Rep, 1886, ,261; Ewing, Dem,
1912; Stewart, Pro-, 4,145; Piatt, Nat, o.
129. Fosters majority over Ewing, 17,129.
General Grant has returned TO California
grand reception at Sacramento.
All the proposed Constitutional Amend
ments voted for at the recent Ohio election
were lost, none having received majority of
all the votes cast.
A canvass of the vote for members of
the Ohio General Assembly, east Oc-
tober IA, shows that the Republicans
elected 90, and the Democrats elected
A. members of the House; the Republicans
elected 22, and the Democrats ID members
of the Senate. The Republican majority on
joint ballot is 81.
Reports of depredations by the Uintah
Utes and Snakes in Southwestern Wyoming
were prevalent on the oath, and caused great
excitement throughout the Territory. Ad
vices from the Uintah Agency, dated the 23d,
state that there had been no trouble with the
Indians there up to that time. A Sioux City
Qowa) dispatch of the 27th reports that
Spotted Tails Indians i'm Southwest Dakota
had gone upon the war-path, killed one Of
the Agency men and committed other depre-
dations.
Rosenburg, proprietor of the London
TO,on- TAX has been sentenced to IS months
Imprisonment for publishing defamatory
libels against Mrs. Langtry and Mrs. Corn
wallis -West-the "Jersey Lily" and the
"Welsh Rose"