Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-12-03
POLITICAL.
President Cleveland has made

President Cleveland has made the
following appointments: .
Newton s. Barnes to be postmaster at Fair
mont, w Va, vice Thomas Read, commission
expired William A. Beach, of New York, TO be
Collector OF Internal Revenue for the Twenty
first District of New York Bartlett Trip, of
Yankton. Dakota, to be Chief Justice Of the SUI
premo Court OF the Territory Of Dakota George
W. Miller, Of Washington, Pa, to be Mar
shall Of the United States for the West
ern District OF Pennsylvania; Elijah Gates
OF St. Joseph, Missouri, to be Marshal
Of the United States for the Western District of
Missouri; George N. Baxter, OF Faribault,
Mimi, 70 be Attorney OF the United States for
the District OF Minnesota; BENJAMIN Il. Ledbet-
ter, of Summerfeld La, to be Surveyor Gem
eral of Louisiana; Thomas j. Butler, of Ring
gold, La TO be Register OF the Land Office at
New Orleans Andrew II. Ward to be Special
Examiner of Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals
in the District OF Boston and Charlestown,
Mass. VIM. Smith, OF Red Falls, Mimi, to be
Register OF the Land Office at Crookston, Mimi. I;
VIM. S. Austin OF Seattle, Washington Terri.
tory, to be Register OF the Land Office at Van
couver, Washington Territory. To be Consuls Of
the United Standardization l.. Bridgers, OF North
Carolina, ut Montevideo, Uruguay William II.
McArdle. Of Mississippi, at San Juan del Norte,
Nicaragua; Joseph w. Merriam IA citizen Of the
United States), at Iquique, Chilli William G.
Emmett Of New York. at Smyrna, Turkey.
Secretary Manning has asked the
resignation of Mr. Henry N. Gassaway, As
sistant Chief of the Division of Internal
Revenue and Navigation, for alleged discount
esy to persons making official inquiries
Thomas A. Doyle was reelected
Mayor of Providence r. l., by majority of
2,946 over the Prohibition candidate. The ma
jority for license was S26
A successor to Senator Cockrell will
this winter be elected by the Missouri Legis-
lature. Col. James Burnes, owner of the Ga
zette at St Joseph, is the principal candidate,
but Judge Sherwood has recently entered the
field
There are usually from twelve to
twenty contested election cases in the House of
Representatives, but this year there will be
only four, three of tho contestants being Re-
publicans, and the fourth is Mr.. Weaver, the
Iowa Greenbacker. The most interesting case
is that of Mr.. Frank Hnrd, Of Toledo, the bril-
liant young free trade advocate, who disputes
the legality of the election of Mr. Romeis, a
Republican who holds the certificate Hurd
claims that Romeis was elected by lille
gal voting, and that he was not en-
titled to the certificate on the count Mr. G. w.
Steele of Indiana, Republican, will have to
defend his seat against Mr.. Kidd who makes
slihllaI chaISes, anu y. H. Tdpe, DemOcrat,
claims the seat of Mr. w. A. Pearce, Rhode
Island Republican The contest which has
been waging in the Sixth Iowa District ever
since the last Presidential campaign will then
be transferred to Washington, and Mr.. Weaver
will have to fight for his seat
The Prohibitionists carried Atlanta,
and the county of Fulton, in which it is stu
ated, after prolonged and desperate contest,
by the very narrow majority of 2l9 in a poll
exceeding 5000 votes. The fight was fioroe
as to excite the whole State of Georgia spec
tators of the battle. The city proper gave an
INTERPOLATION majority of 800, but the coun-
ty precincts went "dry" by $50, thus beating
the "wets" in the city by 2l9.