Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-20

are voting Tor Mike, the Germans are
voting for Hshn, ana the republicans arc
voting for theic candidate Hahu was
elected.
There Il, quite a joke on Congressman
Post, OF pennsylvania, the y],urgeet
memOar Of tho house and aecyotaiN of TIC
dymocrnt's Congressional committees. IIo
went home to vote for Cleveland, tuH
found upon arriving thoro that he u.u'l
not e st hs ballot b.,auy he had not
paid hi. taxes.
4 Clergy al. ig Nr's,.1n,.ts deter.
mined that he would not vc,s f,r ulHna
and L'gNn. SD he cp, from thn head uf
The straight republican y,av. tho uames
OF Blaine aud Logan and voted tho rlat
of 1t, including tho fourteen presidential
electors who will cast the vote Of Massa.
chuaotts for Blaine.
Q. M, Brown and William Laven, of
Salt Lake City, bet ON the national oloc.
ton, the loser to take a hand organ and
monkey and play On four different cor
ners In the city, taking up n collection
for charitable purposes. Layeu bet on
Blaine.
Alderman Waite, who was chairman of
the canvassing beard in New York CITY,
signed his name to s 266 poll sheets dur.
iug the five days session of the board,
lie has certainly earned ''recognitiun" by
the new administration.
Ea'ly roturns gave tho republican can.
didatl for governor in Now Hampshire a
plurality only,and throw the election into
tho legislature, but nearly complete re.
turns place him about 800 votes ahead Of
all his competitors.
1t is a common opinion in the region
lying between the Ohio river and Lake
Erio that the republican party might have
known it would be defeated when it
stopped nominating Ohio men for presi
pent.
There are on the check lists of Roches
ter, N. III as the registry is called in
that state, the names of sixty-two aged
voters which have been recorded there
ever since the presidential election of
1S40.
In a total of 81, 900 votes the republi.
can lors i'll Vermont is 5000, showing al.
most the same proportion OF detection al
existsd in Brooklyn, N. y, II of the
hotbeds of mugwumpism.
In round numbers there were 400, 00(
votes polled in Michigan at the late cleo
ton. OF these Blaine received 1871 900
Cleveland lag, 900, Butler 40, 900, ant
st. John 10, goo.
An ardent prohibitionist of Alleg heny
Pa, took his 6.year.old boy with him tc
the polls and made him promise that h,
would never cast any other vote but 70,
prohibition.
Blaine's Off 3ial plurality in New Hamp
shire Is just 4 900. L. ia not often u plu
rality or majority comes out i'll roun,
uumbers-not more than once in a thou
sand cases.
In San Francisco the voters Of foreigt
birth outnumber the native Americans 10y
800, the number of the foImer being %,
435. and thai of tho latter 20, 07G.
A Meadville girl bet fifty kisses agains
n winter wrap that Blaine would carry
New York. II is needless to remark tina
tho other party to the bet was a gentle
man.
Mr.. Csrlisle will be a candidate for
reelection to the speskership. OF the
ro-elected democrats 66 voted for Carlisle
in the caucus, 26 for Randall and 10 fol
Cox.
Blaine has 5000 more votes in NeU
York state than Garfield had, but Glove
land increased Hancock vote and hi!
own in 1882 by 2G, 900.
Senator Cameron of Wisconsin, is not
a candidate for reelection. 1t is refresh
ing to find one Cameron who knows when
he has enough.
Ohioans are already moving for an
abolition of the October election. The
change must be made by amendment to
the constitution.
TOTAL number of votes pollod in Yazoo
county, Miss l, 344; for Cleveland and
Hendricks, 1888; for Blaine and Logan,
10
Captain Joseph Burger, of St. Paul,
agreed to walk barefooted to Minneapo-
lis and back if his candidate lost.
st Johns vote in his own state is ri.
dicuously small, a little over 5000 in q
total of over 2l0, 600.
A Housatonic, Mass, man wagered
his g~ravestone"and lost. His grave will
be unmarked.
Two Thorndike, Me-, men agreed that
tho loser should ride bullock through
the streets.
Bold Ben Butler got ak votes OF the
80, 600 cast in Delaware.
Tnere is talk of Blaine rc-entcring
congress.
Blaine carried every county in Maine.