Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-11-25
NEWS OF THE DAY

Department, the computation of which
is completed, is as follows Pattison.
Dem, 800, 79l /; Beaver, Rep. 3l5, $50 +;
Stewart, Ind, 43, 743 Armstrong. G. L..
23, 4S4: Petit, Pro, 5.l96. Total vote.
743,S Pattison's plurality. 40, 202
This Is the largest vote ever polled III the
State. with the exceptions Of the Presi-
dental contests of 1876 and 1880.
The official count of the vote for
Governor in the last State election in
Alabama gives O'Neil. Democrat, l0O.-
sol. and Sheffield. Independent. AZ. 1856.
"A series OF census bulletins on the
commercial fisheries of the Middle States.
now being published ut Washington.
shows that New York comes fourth in the
list Of tish-producmg States, with products
valued at -, $50. 500. Persons employed.
1866; fishing vessels. 54l; fishing boats,
3,441.
The st. Louis Ore and Steel Works,
employing 1900 men, propose 10 shut
down December l.
In the coal pits near Pittsburg about
1,50O ef the 5000 miners are Oh strike
for an advance Of half cent buel-'
their wages
Governor elect - .lan5 :, M.
P,,s.Ia '''"' the Mayoralty OF
d -A1s nnaden fishery Of Tiverton,
H. T.. aIone amounted this summer to
- 1000 barrels
Guy Smith. twelve years old. was
sentenced, at st. Louis. Mo. to one
years Imprisonment for killing his grand
father.
Three mon were killed near Holy
rood, n b.. by car being thrown from
the track III consequence of running over
an OK.
Samuel Wilkesons smt against Mr..
Beecher resulted in a dismissal Of the
plaintiffs complaint owing to a failure Of
proof.
"A switch-tender, only fifteen years
old, was killed by a construction train on
the West Shore Railroad at Cornwall,
Ny.
A contest will be made over the Con
gressional election in the Twentieth dis
trict Of \. Y. State, West (Rcpublicam)
claiming thirty-one majority over
Wcmple Democra), who has received
the certificate.
Returns of the Congressional cloc-
ton from the whole State Of Arkansas,
except one small county, show the total
vote for Congressman-at-Larg to he as
follows Breckenridge. Democrat. 81
327 Cunningham, Greenbacker. u 1874,
total of 81. III less than half the vote
polled in September.
William B. Cunningham leaped into
the blast furnace Of the Birmingham
Rolling Mills, Ala, and was burned to
death.
Alvin Gelman, Of Syracusa. n. Y,
lay down while drunk. and his clothing
taking fire from his pipe, was entirel,
burned from his body.
The Secretary of State Of Mississippi
refused to count for J. r. Chalmers votes
returned as for j. r. Chambless, and GER
terfcate of election to Congress was
thereupon issued to Van II. Manning.
Colonel Bodine has resigned as Cap
tain Of the American Team of 1888
The 262d anniversary of the landing
of the Pilgrims was celebrated at
Provincetown, Mass.
The Norfolk Jubilee Singers were
arrested in New Haven for the violation
Of an old Sunday law.
Governor elect Pattison of Penn.
has declined the offer of an escort ten
dered him for the occasion OF his in
auguration.
Experienced electricians say that the
electric disturbances on Friday night
were among the most remarkable and cx-
tensive ever known.
-William D. Warl, captain. and Noses
o. Bailey, pilot. of the steamer City OF
l.. I 4 =. 4
the charge OF running down the barge
Saginaw and causing the death of Cap
tain Taylor's family in New York har-
Dor.
Reports from al sections show that
the area of the electric disturbance on
Friday extended across the Atlantic 10
England and the Continent, the phenom-
ena everywhere being similar
Burglars entered house occupied
by women and children at Naperville.
H., shot child and young woman and
made their escape.
The annual report of the Superin-
tendent of the Flatbush, L. J., Lunatic
Asylum shows ninety-one deaths out OF
354 patients admitted
Six prisoners were arraigned in the
Court of General Sessions in New York
on Friday on indictments charging them
with murder in the first degree
An elevator in Meningitis carpet
house, Louisville, Ky, recently fell from
the second floor 10 the basement and Sc
riously injured its five passengers.
Seven thousand four hundred labor
ers on the North rn Pacific Railroad.
with following of gamblers and saloon
keepo~s, are approaching the Flathoad
Agency to the alarm of the agent.
Pittzsfhllyg the iron trade is re-
port, tohof"A very depressed condi-
"A ma1eeyH.'ci boy were killed by the
fall of Alter tower which was being
tested by the Fire Department in New
York City.
a special Minister is to be sent to
the United States from Nicaragua to pro-
mote the passage Of the act incorporating
the Maritime Canal Company.
N-Mr. johnson, OF the Republican State
Committee of New York. denies an
knowledge of the assessment circular is
sued over his name after thc election.
The engineer Of the locomotive
which collided with freight train on
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad.
causing loss of life, last Saturday, has
been lodged in jail at Beaver Co., Pa
The barge Saginaw was run down bv