Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-11

omcial Electoral Vote Of the County
Death Of One Of tho officers
Of the Gray
A Telegram From One Of the Cleveland
Lawyers Assuring An Eonest
Count In New York.

Special TO the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, Nov. l0.-The COM
mlssioners met this afternoon TO count
the vote OF the county. They only
completed counting the vote for presi-
Dental electors to-day which is as fol-
lows.
Democratic electors, 6l0i; ReDubli-
can, 9l70; Butter, 78; st. John, 10
This city gave ireland 2063, Norton
1865 Jones 1ii Total vote OF the city
1868, of the county S577.
The executive committee Of the STATE
Press association, pursuant TO a call
from Mr.. w l. Hall, chairman, met
In the city this forenoon and ret the
18th day OF February, 1885, for the
time and Galveston AZ the place Of the
next annual meeting Of the assogia
ton. After three days. session the
association will take an excursion 10
the Worlds exposition and mArdi gras
IN New Orleans
The case of the State against Willis
Adams Tor the killing Of Mike Burns,
which was set for 10 day In the district
court, was postponed until the "A h,
because Judge Bradley OF COrsicana,
before whom IL IL TO be tried, will be
unable togst here until that date
Mai Jaiurs II. Btrkley died nc his
residence In East Dallas al 1880 y. m.
yesterday. Msj Bnrkley was born in
Scott county, Mo. December 10, 1924.
and was consequently nearly sixty
years ofsge, Ia 1910, when the gold
fever occurred ia California he
wen to to that region, where he re-
manned az gold miner until 1857,
when he returned TO Butler county,
Missouri. There he married Miss
Margaret Moberly, and 10 them three
children were born. He continued In
Missouri, engaged In the mercantile
business, until the civil war began,
when he espOused the cause OF the Com
iederacy, and was soldier until the
surrender He lost all he had by the
war. His property was conf coated and
his negroes freed. Soon after the war
he came To Texas, settling In Freestonr
county where he remained till 1869
when he removed TO Dallas. He wa-
sheriff of Dallas county for four years,
making one Of the best oilleers the
county ever had. Mai BarlSley was
fond Of fine horses aud al ways owned
thoroughbreds, and he has perhaps
done more TO improve the b pod of the
horses than and other mani the state
Mai. BarlSley was good C tizrn and
the truest friend under all circum.
stances and he will be sadly missed.
Abram Riflln, a colored waiter az
the Windsor hotel, WAS arrested and
locked up for insanity this morning.
and will have trinl tomorrow. He
was told that the election OF Cleveland
meant that the negroes would be put
back into slavery, the thought Of
which ran him crazy.
Gen Francis g. Barlow, Republican
eX-aitorney general of New York, and
the only one OF the visiting statesmen
sent South by Gen. Grant In 1876, who
reported against the theft of the ,lsC-
toral votes OF the Southern states, and
now one OF the Cleveland lawyers APP
pointed 10 see that the electoral votes
OF New York are not stolen from Clev,
land, this morning telegTaphed Mr..
Charles Fred Tucker Of this city "a fol.
lows:
NEW YORK, New o.--Your telegram mislaid
and lust received. The otiiclni returns
when have been opened for public inspec.
ton In the severai county clerks Offices foI
three or tour days, snow Democratic plu
tnlty OF some several hundred. The only
DANCE ~ In honest errors In footing up mo
tins Ike, which are not probable TO any con
siderable extent, aud partisan interference
OF Judges seeking 70 compel county Gao
vRsspfs TO count something else than the
Vo ca Hs returned by inspectors such m
tertcrcnce IN not greatly feared. We fee
| very confident OF tho result
isignedl FRANCIS G. BARLOW.