The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-21
GENERAL NEWS.

The arrests for drunkenness in Philadel-
phia on Saturday and Sunday numbered
2S6.
| The official canvass of Ohio, completed
on Saturday night, gives Blaine 400,0
votes; Cleveland, II, $50; Butler, $40;
st. john II, 2G9. Blaine's plurality, 81, :
8O2.
The full official vote of all counties of
New York State gives Cleveland and Hen
| bricks plurality of 1905. The canvass
of New York City was finished on Satur
day evening. Cleveland and Hendricks
will have 219 votes in the Electoral Col
lege to 1872 for Blaine and Logan.
A telegram from Chicago, received on
Tuesday says: The Cook county Can
vasing Board to-day discovered that the
figures for State Senator in the second
precinct of the Eighth ward had been
reversed, those belonging to Brand (Dem.)
and vice versa. This elects Brand by 10
majority aud gives the Democrats the
Legislature on joint ballot" The Leg
iSlaturc is to choose United State Sena-
tor to succeed General John A. Logan.
A telegram from Augusta, Maine, says
that Mr.. Blaine regards the official count
i'll New York as practically settling the
Presidential question: that he accepts
the result very cheerfully, and has no re-
grets growing out of his connection with
the campaign and that he gracefully
bows to the verdict of the American peo-
pie" He expects that the Republican
party will be recalled to power in 1888. He
will spend the winter in Washington, and
soon resume work on the second volume
of his Twenty Years in Congress-
The officials OF the Pennsylvania rail
Victor Wierman, of Section B, between
Stelton and Trenton the prize of 500 for
having the best track in all respects on
the line of the road. The section is be-
lieved to be the finest in the world, and
this is the third time Supervisor Wicrman
has received the prize. In order to test
the smoothness of running trains on this
track a goblet filled within a half inch
of the brim was placed on the window
sill, and not drop was spilled i'll going
the thirty miles i'll thirty-fiye minutes,
Rev. Henry Williamson, rector of St.
Paul Episcopal church at Trenton, was
found dead, with his brains dashed out, at
the extreme end of West State street,
about II o'clock last Thursday morning.
In his hand was a bran new revolver with
one chamber cmptied. He was lying
along the sidewalk when discovered by
two boys. The deceased was a young
man about twenty-eight years old. He
had been in Trenton several years. first as
assistant rector of st. Michaels 5, and lately
as rector of st. Paul's church. He gradu-
ated from Princeton college in 1879 His
father is ex-Chancellor Williamson, of
Elizabeth. No cause has yet been dis
covered for the decd.
Camden jail was the scene of lively
racket on Wednesday of last week The
Board Of Freeholders found law allowing
them to appoint a Prison Warden, and
elected Jacob Daubman the defeated Re
publican candidate for Sheriff, to the posi-
ton. When Daubman and his friends went
to take charge of the Jail, they were met
by Sheriff Smiths aids, and with revovers
pointed at them were forbidden to enter
under pain of being shot down. There
was good deal of clustering and threaten
ing, but no blood was shed. Smith was
master of the situation The matter is 20
be tested in the courts. Smith has en-
ployed Judge Pancoast as counsel, and
Danbman has the serN ices of Thos b. lIar-
mes