Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-16
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. NOT so FUSION. Plaisted's Majority Growing
 Beautifully Less. . ONLY TWO FUSION GONGREsSMEN The Legislature Republican in
 Both Branches. TOWNS YET TO BE HEARD FROM. The Majority Probably Under a
 Thousand.
POLITICAL.

| The Maine Election-Ninety-eigh Towns ! Yet to Hear FrOm-The LegisIature R Re- ! publican i'm Both Branches-Plaisted's 1 Majority Rap apidly yDvvind1ing--Three R e. publican COngressmen Certainly Elect ed.
 PORTLAND, Me, Sept. 15.-The most reli- able information up to p. m. indicates a very small Republican gain in four of the thirty-two towns in Knox and Oxford coun- ties. But little is yet known from Aroostook county, upon which hinges the result and the gains predicted by the Fusionists. A few towns from Aroostook, the names of which have not yet been learned, show no change from last years count. There still remain ninety towns, mostly from Aroostook, to hear from, and should they follow 4n line with those reported it will leave Fusion majority of BOO These are the facts as near as can be
 learned from the most reliable sources, and
 no further returns are looked for until to-
 morrow. Outside of this anything advanced
 as news is pure speculation.
 AUGUSTA, Me, Sept 15.-Stragging re-
 turns continue to come in from the more in
 accessible parts of the State, but they are
 not of a character to alter the general result.
 To-day's returns show that while the ratio of
 gain for the opposition in the cities and lar
 ger towns has not been sustained in the rural
 districts, the respective forces have each
 about held their own. This discovery ac-
 counts for the reduction from the earlier es- inmates of 5000 to 4,OOO majority for Plais-
 ted, which Is what the Fusion majority would
 have been had the ratio of gains in the cities
 held good through the State The Republi-
 cans have recovered in a measure from the
 panic into which the first calculations threw
 them, and are striving to congratulate them selves on having elected Frye and Lindsay respectively in the Second and Third Con- gressional districts, and Reed (although by close shave) in the First district. This keeps their representation in Congress unchanged They also have made sure of Republican United States Senator to succeed Senator Hamlin by carrying fair working majority in the Legislature. On the other hand both branches of the anti-Republican coalition are exultant.
 NEW YORK, Sept 15.-An advices received to-day at the Republican National headquart- CTS confirm the dispatches received there yes terday in regard to the result in Maine Over forty dispatches arrived from the smaller towns giving scattering returns but the fol- lowing addressed to Colonel George W. Hook CT from Augusta by J. O. Smith, secretary of the Maine Republican State committee was the most satisfactory
 In regard tothe total results the election of three Republican Congressmen and two Fusionists is as- day which substantially borne out by the returns which have since come in Reeds majority ip the First district is 147 Fryes in the Second 1500 and Lndssy's in the Third from 500 to 700 On Fusion
 st side, Ladds majority in the Fourth district is about 5O0 and Murch's in the Fifth about 80O The House is Republican by nineteen majority and the Senate stands twenty Republicans and eleven Fusion ists, perhaps better. The chances that S. Brown, of Garcelons Council who for Senator in Somerset in defeated, and that the Republicans there elected to the county offices The returns come in slowly from the back towns so that PIaisteds ex- act lead cannot be stated It is estimated not exceeding 800 on the full vote.
 Colonel Hooker said You see how ab- surd was the claim of the Democratic Ma dispatch broadcast that the Fusionists had carried four or five Congressmen and the on joint ballot, and claimed as high as 5000 majority for Plaisted Our dis patches are accurate to a wonderful degree Colonel Hooker further said that the victory was Greenback victory, and if the Demo crats could stand it they could. Before join ing the Greenbackers, P1aisted was the most radical of Republicans. and no man was so bitter against the Democrats in the State of Maine as he.
 The latest dispatch from Maine received by the National committee this evening re- duces Plaisted's majority to 300. The last dispatch received by the Democratic National committee gives Plaisted 1,5Oo majority.
 BOSTON, Sept. 15.--The latest returns do not vary the general result. The returns are not yet in from Aroostook and some portions of Penobscot. Ninety-eight towns to hear from gave last year-Fusion 2, 3S9 and Davis 3 3,01O. There is no reason to believe the Fusion gains will not continue, and Plaisted's majority will be about 1000. The Republi- cans claim that he will have only plurality.