The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-02
PRESIDENT HAYES has been an

four years. And why not? 81, 500 per
annum is enough for President TO
spend.
A PITTSBURGHER connected with
Truth says that ,hc paper printed $685.
O)0 copies of the number containing
the fac simUe of the Morey forgery
after Hewitt and Randall endorsed il
as Garfield's penmanship. The DEM
ocratic National Committee took 75.-
900, and General Hnncock bought
$1,000.
THE OFFICIAL canvass Of the re.
cent election in Michigan has been
declared as follows: Garfield, 1856, 1876:
Hancock, 13l, ,30l: Weaver, 84,s9j:
Dow, 942; scattering, 332 Jerome Re.
publican, for governor, received III, ,954;
Holloway Democrat, 1877, ,6Sl; Wood
man, Greenback, 1852 All the nine
Congressional districts are Republi-
can.
AT A RECEPTION rendered to Joel
Hembree and wife at the residence Of
the brides father, Colonel Dahl. near
Kingston, Boone county, Ky, arsenic
was used in mistake for salt. The ar
senic was intended for crows, but was
put in edibles as seasoning instead of
salt. Twenty-seven guests were pois-
oned and six are now dead. Three
more will probably die.
THE OFFICIAL vote of Illinois on
presidential electors stands as follows:
Garfield, 3lS,032; Hancock, 277, ,635;
Weaver, 20, ,053; scattering. 5l7. Total,
6-2,267. Total vote of 1876, 554, ,O36;
increase, 6s,20'. Garfield's plurality,
1887 Majority, 1897 Garfield
ran ahead of the Republican candidate
for Governor 8, 468 votes. Hancock ran
ahead of the Democratic candidate for
Governor 103 votes.
GOVERNOR DAVIS of Maine, has is
sued proclamation declaring carried
the amendment to the Constitution
making only a plurality of votes
necessary to elect a Governor. The
point is again raised in popular dis
cussiOn whether the amendment
should apply to the late election, and
the probability is that it will get into
the courts and that Use will be made
of it to prevent General Plaisted be-
coming Governor.
THE New York World, which at
one time showed a disposition to back
up Barnum in his fraud cry, accepts
the action of the Board of State Can
vassers with reference to the result of
the Presidential election in that State.
There is one Democrat in the Board
OF Canvassers, and rs he agreed per-
fectly with his Republican colleagi es
there does not appear TO be anything
for the Democrats to do but to submit
as gracefully as they can, and this
most of them are doing.
THE CURIOUS fact is show by the
official canvass of the votes cast i'm
New York city and county on the I'd
inst. that not one "scratchcdn ticket
for Presidential Electors was saved,
Every one of the 30 candidates on the
Republi AN ticket received 81 $50 votes;
every one on the DE- IN pcratic ticket re-
ceived l23,0l5 votes; every one on the
Greenba ticket received Clio votes.
and every one on the Prohibition
ticket received 2s votes, and there were
no defective and no blank ballots.
KANSAS has gone a little further
than any State in prohibitory legisla-
tion, by adopting an amendment to
the constitution prohibiting the man
ufacture and sale of intoxicating Ii.
quors except for medical, scientific
and mechanical use. 1t is reported
that this has been adopted by ma
jority of 5000 votes. AS part of
the Constitution this prohibitory law
cannot be changed or repealed exec, t
through two third vote of each
branch of the Legislature, ratified by
vote of the people.
THE REPORT of the Census Bureau
shows as plainly as can he that South
Carolina would be Republican OH an
honest count of the votes. The poIu-
lation is ascertained to he 995, 306 an
increase of $50, 700 over the population
credited the State il 1919. OF this
population 39l ,404 are white, an in
crease of l0l 4Oi in ten years. The
colored population is GOA, ,235, an in
crease of lSs, ,42l for the same period.
This would indicate an increase of 8
per cent. of the white population and
As per cent. for the colored. The col
ored population exceeds the white by
1854.
THE chief of the bureau Of statistics
furnishes the following information
in regard to immigration into the
United States. There arrived in the
customs districts of Baltimore, Boston,
Detroit, Huron, Minnesota, New Bed
ford, New Orleans, New York, Passa-
maquaddy, Philadelphia and San
Francisco, during the month ending
October 81, 1880, So, ,SoS passengers, of
whom 81, ,3l2 were immigrants, 5,9O5
citizens of the United States returned
from abroad, and 1851 aliens not in
tending to reside in the United States
OF this total number of immigrants