Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-10-20
WORLDS DOINGS.
A Summary OF the Daily News.
PoLlr1CAL AVID PKRsoNAL.


The settlement of the difficulty between the
Republican factions in the Third Wisconsin
District, reported as having been effected, is
defeated by the refusal of the Hazelton dele
gates 10 permit their candidate to withdraw.
General Butler has formally accepted both
the Democratic and Greenback nominations
for Governor of Massachusetts,. In a letter to
the Democratic committee the General ex-
presses himself in favor of civil service reform
declares against the taxation OF the necessa-
ries Of life, and says the highest duties should
be taxed on luxuries. The letter to the
Cireenback committee says: II can congrat-
ulate you that hereafter you may lay aside the
word 'Greenback' as the designation of your
party, unless you keep it in remembrance of
the fact that you took it upon you when con-
ferred by your enemies as title of reproach
in behalf of the Greenback or legaltender
note. Your labors are done, and the mission
of your party is as completely fulfilled as is
the mission of the Republican party, which
was the abolition of slavery. The 'Greenback'
is now the money OF the United States, and is
the equal of gold and silver" The committee
is then referred to an expression of views in
the Democratic letter, and the rest of the
communication is given to a statement of
his devotion to the interests of the laboring
people.
1t is now stated that the condition of Presi-
dent Arthur's health when he left Washington
was such as to excite the gravest apprehen-
sion on the part of his physicians. Rest and
relaxation have proved of great benefit, and
he is now much improved. The members of
the Cabinet were summoned to meet the Pres
ident in New York on the 10th, to accompany
him on his trip to Boston.
The officers of the Irish National Land
League Of America have issued circular de
nying that the League has ceased to exist,
and declaring that, with Parnell and his CO
laborers at the head, it will continue its mis-
sion until 1t is accomplished.
Ex-Vice President Wheeler has been ten
dered; but declines, the nomination for Con
gressman-at-Large in New York.
New Jersey Prohibitionists will hold Con.
vention to consider the question of bringing
about a submission Of an amendment to the
State Constitution prohibiting the liquol
traffic.
Later returns from the Ohio election give
the State to the Democrats by a majority OF
5000. The Democrats claim the election Of
Toilet in the First, Jordan in the Second
Murray in the Third, Lefevre in the Fourth
Seney in the Fifth, Hill In the Sixth, Hurd il
! the Tenth, Neal I'm the Twelfth, Wallace in the
Eighteenth, Paige in the Twentieth, Foran il
the Twenty-frst, and concede the election o.
Morey in the Seventh, Keifer in the Eighth
Robinson in the Ninth, Mccormack in tn,
Eleventh, Updegraff in the Seventeenth, anC
Taylor in the Nineteenth. The four othe
districts are very close. The Democrats claim
fifteen out of the twenty-one Congressman.
AT the West Virginia election the Republi
cans gained the election of one member o
Congress, Golf, Republican, being elected il
1 the First District.
Franklin l.. Chase, Chairman of the Cool
| County, Ills, Democratic Committee, is re
ported to be defaulter for a sum estimated a
from $4,000 to $4,000. Drink, womel
and speculation caused his downfall. II,
was a lawyer, and the money had been con
fded to him by his clients who trusted hin
without security. Mrs. Norton, widow o
Chase's protector, Judge Norton, loses $40,
600, and through her the story has come t
light.
The President has accepted fifty miles o
the Northern Pacific Railroad, beginning ii
Idaho and ending in Montana, which wa
lately examined and reported on by Commits
sioners Blackstone, Fry and Reed.