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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-13
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The Popular Vote.

The Boston Globe has carefully col
lected the returns of the recent Presi
dental election. So far as we are in.
formed, the figures furnished By that
paper are the first and only ones
which have been printed upon the
basis of returns set down by the
Secretaries of State of each of the
several States in their own hands.
These returns have thus been OF.
tanned in response to a circular letter
transmitted TO each Secretary respec.
lively by the proprietors of the
Globe.
The following is the result thus
verified:
The whole number of votes given for
President on the four electoral tickets
was lQC36, ,057, ofwhich Grover Cleve-
land received 4.S42,292; James G.
Blaine, 4,Sl0,2l9; Benjamin. + Butler,
234, ,S4S; and John p. st. John, 49,
69S, To this aggregate
there is to be added 2,262 scattering
and defective votes.
The Globe also notices the significant
decrease in total pluralities in many
Of the States. This Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennes-
see, Virginia gave smaller pluralitirs
for Cleveland than they gave for
Hancock in 1880; while Illinois, Iowa,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio,
Rhode Island, Vermont and Wiscon.
sin also exhibit reduced pluralities
for Blaine as compared with GAR
field. Connecticut, Indiana and
New York, which voted for Garfield
in 1880, now choose Cleveland cleo
tors, while Nevada and California,
which voted for Hancock, now return
electors for Blaine.
OF the votes given for Cleveland,
l,Ol2,S20 came from the Secession
States" and 3,S29,472 from the
remaining twenty-eight. The solid
South gave Cleveland 1,7l6,232 votes.
The Globe computes The percentage
of the voters that refrained from vot-
ing: In Kentucky the percentage was
SO; In Virginia it was 81 in Texas,
3S; in Arkansas, 43; in Alabama, Al;
in Louisiana, So in Mississippi, Sc;
in South Carolina, so and in Georgia,
66.
This large percentage of non-voters
is not confined to the Southern
States. In Maine, where Mr. Blaine
resides, 80 percent of the' voting
population remained away from the
polls; in Oregon, 36; in Vermont, 3S /;
in Massachusetts, and Colorado 62,
Indeed, in several States only is the
delinquency below 90 per cent. In
New York, the battle ground of the
campaign, where the greatest efforts
were made on all sides, the abscntees
aggregated 3Sl, l,234, or % per cent of
the entire number of voters in the
State.
The percentage of non-voting citi-
zens in the country at-large is ", and
full number failing TO vote 3,754,47S.
Eight States, namely, Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island,
Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia,
and Nevada, gave fewer votes than in
1880. The States which were re-
garded as certain from the first, gen.
orally exhibit the largest amount Of
absenteeism and those in which the
result was sharply contested showed
the least.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-13
The Beetle and the Flea.

Ifa one hundred and CITY pound
man had strength in proportion to
that of the beetle, he could lift nearly
100000 pounds. If he were agile in
proportion to the agility of the flea,
he could leap over three story house.
Some poor fellows are so feeble that
they can neither lift nor lead. Their
blood is poor, their digestion bad, and
their energy gone. Give such men
Browns Iron Bitters, which will en-
rich. their blow and tone them up
gloriously.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-13
Alfonso XII.

a commercial treaty Win Spain Is
before the United States Senate for
ratification or rejection. The interest
taken in the matter by leading mer-
chants ofthe United States, es,particular.
ly in New York, evidences the import
ance Of the questions involved in the
treaty especially as they relate TO the
Dbacco and sugar interests as affecting
our commercial relations with the
Spanish colony, Cuba. For the reas on
alleged Spain occupies large attention
In this country at the present time.
emphasizing in the public regard the
superior interest generally character
izing matters Castilian.
A rcactionary and unpopular ad-
ministration of domestic policy, great
popular disafection in consequence of
this, political intrigue, taking, among
other serious forms, that ofpromoting
disloyaly In the army towards the
young King, awful natural catastro-
phes, throwing down cities AMI de-
stroying manyliyes and much proper
ty are features Of the present condi-
tion of Spain which excite the SYM
pathies Of her friends and provoke
their fears of another revolution in a
country which has been so much III
jured by sudden and violent political
change. Further justiiying anticip-
ations OF trouble is the serious sick
ness of Alfonso Mi. the young mon
arch who wearily wears a crown the
anxieties Of which assist the progress
Of his disease. Should he survive
this year it is not probably that it
will be, for the whole period, in his
, present position. Evidences of his
unpopularity abound, and the army,
the main support of his power, is said
to BE- honey-combed with republican
sentiment. A sick man is not likely
to cOnciliate and lead the only force
which can maintain his power.
The unfortunate King is, however,
a soldier by profession, aud this, such
as 1t Is, is something which suggests
the possibility of his maintaining his
hold of the crown longer than he
otherwise could.
IIe was born as recently as Novem-
Der 2S, 1857, the son of the then
reigning sovereign of Spain, the fam
GUS or infamous Queen Isabel, who
abdicated in 1868, to the great relief
of tho country. A Provisional Gov
ernment succeeded this revolution,
which in 1869, was followed by the
Regency of Marshal Serrano. In 49,
10 Prince Amadeo, son Of the King of
Italy, became King of Spain. He
resigned the crown in 1873, and re-
turned TO Italy. Then came the Re-
public, and at the end of 1874, the pro.
clamation of Alfonso XII as King.
In January ofthe next year he assum-
ed the dignity TO which he had been
called, amidst the united good wishes
not only of his own country people
but of England and other nations; of
England particularly, because there
he studied the art of war, at Wool
wich, near London, and had made
many friends.
On January 90, 1878, Alfonso mar
ried the Princess Marie-de-las Mer-
cedes, daughter of the Due de Mont
pensier. She died the same year, and.
in November, 1879, the young widow
married the Archduchess Marie
Christina, of Austria, by whom he
has daughter.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-13
IMPORTANT To Young Men!

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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-13
Rooster 70stryin Ysoman:

When We brought forth, ten years ago,
This little cock alive,
We never thought 10 hear him crow
AS late as Eighty-flve.
But living yet and standing there,
To pride and purpose true,
He fllls the Democratic air
With cock-a- doodle e-doo.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-13

joaquin Miller apostrophizes the
Mississippi as follows:
'In orange lands lean to-day
Against thy warm, tremendous mouth.n
If some accomplished New Orleans
sand-bagger will kindly smash Mr..
Miller on his warm, tremendous jaw
and send his bill to this Office he will
be duly rewarded for services rem
dered. d.-i,oUisViilllss Times.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1885-03-03
pretfe Ger 2ln3eieer,.

Seb~ 9sa ber epaIte per SaIr. :. $500
g @onate. 4 s.7s
= Monate. & $50
Sr6bs'e anseisen biuiser.
2oeaI Rottaeta.
Sir iebe Belle grepier, ober bereu Naum. boS
erternal 10 Gents, bic nddRen Wsale s @entS.
9eiratbsz unb Eobesan;eissx NIT Spra&
$3.50, obne Sprud $1.00.
auswdrtise Hnseisen maiIen porausbsaabH werbsu.
Nn;eigen fir Ticnics, 9otterien, @lIdsfpiel
&C., bic Sem geiite Der fatb. Rir9e 3uwiber, fin
ben feline Auinabme.
In;eisen ienSe man fpdteRens Ron.
tag @orgen ein.
Job Irbeiten aller 2lrt prompt uno
billis aus9efdhrt.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1885-03-03
1n9 ID. 9nbnque Soma 9rufag Ndr3 1885. Summer

iammeln ii9 bie no@ seritreuteu Gruppen:
t6rper.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1885-03-03
@ Sab.Mfrifa.

N0n6o n, "a. Tebr. yHlt Wedri9ten
aus &apitabt ftebt bic ensliidso sosutibe
gommiiiion TIM 8esriiIe, ibre slrbeiten aur
Teififelluns Der Gisentbums @nigui9e ber
6eutl@en unb enSlii@en lln!su5ansn In
Gnsraspeqasnna anb llmsssenb su besins
nen.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-23
WeII-HOles on the Sea-COast.

In my childhood discovered we'll
hole in a perfectly flat granite ledge
at Cundy's harbor, on Harpswell
Great island, Maine. This hole was
about the dimensions of flour barrel
and about five feet in depth and per-
fectly round, smooth at the sides and
concave at the bottom. 1t was told
me at that time that Harpswell Great
island was favorIte winter residence
of Indian tribes, attracted to the place
by the thousands of acres of round
quahaug claims in adjacent flats lying
west of the island and south of Burns
wick. There were fine fishing grounds
we'll in shore, near Cundy's Harbor,
which would be an additional induce
ment an Indian village there. An old
stager, well acquainted with Indian
customs, stated that this well hole
was made by the Indians, by turning
a large stone and grinding the cavity
slowly in the action of sharp gravel
under the revolving stone. 1t was
used to boil Holsters, fish, and corn by
filling half full of fresh water and
dropping IN heated stones until the
water was about the boiling point.
The food was put into the hole and
heated stones frequently added to
keep the water in boiling state. The
hole was also used as mortar in
which to pound corn under the weight
of heavy round stone dropped upon
the corn in the cavity at the bottom of
the hole. do not consider it possible
that this particular well-hole could
have been excavated by other than
human hands, since at the ledge in
which it was found was very smooth,
apparently having been worn by many
feet congregating around the cavity.
In the town of Georgetown, Me-, on
the Riggs farm, some four or five hum
dred feet from and perhaps seventy
five feet above tidewater, on the Sas-
samoa river, there are three of these
wells, the largest of which l helped
clear out about thirty-nine years ago.
1t is some seven or eight feet in dia-
meter and eight or nine in depth, per-
fectly round and smooth. The others,
one on either side, are considerably
smaller. These walls have been visit
ed by large number of people. among
them many scientific men, who have
never been able to account for their
origin. About two miles to the west
of this [ discovered another small one.
about two feet in diameter, which l
think is entirely covered by decayed
leaves. In the town of Harpswell
there are three more, situated nearly
as the first described, high above
the water. They are on the fiat ledge.
Cor. Boston Journal.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-23

writer's have also found the tpye-writ-
ers a valuable aid, and lawyers are
beginning to use it for writs and other
legal documents.
There are now nearly dozen diff
ferent type-writers on the market,
each, of course, claiming to be the
best. The prices range from S25 to
800. The sale of the machines is
large and constantly increasing.-NeW
York GraDhtc.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-23
what. the Matter with Your,

"Well, not much in particular. But
I'm little ailing all over. / don t
sleep well. and my kidneys are out OF
order, and can't enjoy my meals, and
I've a tocuh of rheumatism, and once
n a while twinge of neuralgia. "
Now, neighbor, you seem to want q
general fixing up. and the thirg to do
/ is Browns Iron Bitters. MIR. A. j.
Pickrell, of Ennis, Texas, says: al was
4 sickly man. Browns Iron Bitters
made me healthy and strong"
Miss fortunes come to some men when they
ret married and they don't mind IL bit.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-23
THREE STAGES OF LIFE.

There is time In life
The brightest days of youth
When We are ever searching
For something more than truth;
When our imag nation
Puts besuty over all,
Then life is at its zenith,
Ere hollow mock'ries pail.
There is a time in life
When man is like the clay,
Which we can mold with care
Or spoil or throw away;
For If a careless sculptor
Should take the work in hand,
He'd spoil that bit OF nature,
Though for god he planned.
But If II be sculptor
Who knows the vital art,
He'll mold tnat bit of clay
Into noble heart.
There Is time in life
When man looks back and signs
For something left undone,
Or something done unwise;
But then whate'er betlde us,
Whate'er our lives beget,
We always leave behind us
Some footprints Of regret.
May F7eiSc1man
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-23
Would Cremation Tend to Protect
Prisoners?

The Vienna Municipal Council has
been occupied with the subject of Gre
nation. A motion was debated for
erecting furnace on trial, and it was
stated that the cost of building fur
mace available tor the whole capital
would be 100000 fiorins. The motion
was not rejected, but adjourned Gre
nation has many partisans in VieaEa.
and yesterday a debate was conducted
in serious and practical spirit,
Here, as elsewhere, however, it is
felt that the great difficulty lies in the
facilities which cremation would offer
to prisoners. 1t is agreed that in gen.
eral it would not be safe to allow Gre
nation unless an inquest into the
causes of death were held in every
case. and this really shelves the mat
ter until scientific analysis shall have
been simplified and cheapened.-Lon-
don Times.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-23

Miss fortunes come to some men when they
yet married and they don't mind 1t bit.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-23

The wife of prominent citizen of Lockportt
New York, named s. R. Goddard, having sud
denly became insane from illness, stabbed her.
self with a carving-k knife at the breakfast
table, and then pounded herself with fatirop
before she could be quoted.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-23

auopteO INC dmttlcdH typewriter,
and in all the Government offices in
India as we'll those in London and
elsewhere the machine is now in con-
slant use.
The Chinise are about the only peo-
pie who will be left out of the type
writing nations. There are so many
thousand characters in their language
that it would be impossible to con-
struct machine capable of doing the
work.
There are many thousands of type
writer's in daily use in New York City,
and the instrument has long ceased to
be curiosity. With the telephone,
the Wall street ticker and the type
writer a part of every well-appointed
office, the duties of clerks have indeed
been revolutionized within the past
half century.
Very many authors now write all of
their books and magazine articles on
the typewriter, and among these are
w. D. Howells and Mark Twain. The
Declaration of independence was not
written on a type writer, but if
Thomas Jefferson lived this in day he
would probably have licked off his
immortal document upon one of these
little labor-saving machines. A legal
decision has been rendered to the eff
feet that although typewriter manu-
script is printed it is writing all the
same, and the postal authorities re.
gard it as written matter which must
pay full postage. One of the openings
for women that are constantly coming
up is copying manuscript on the type
writer, and very many girls and young
women now find it pleasant and re-
munerative business. Shorthand
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-23

A Rockland. Mass, man gave his wife an
old waistcoat to make amop of, and she fished
a $40 bill out of one of the pockets.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-04-23
KIDNEY
Many a Lady

is beautiful, all but her skin;
and nobody has ever told
her how easy it is to put
beauty on the skin. Beauty
on the skin is Magnolia
Balm.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

TECUMsEH, Mich, Nov. 30.-On Satur-
day night. Aaron Palmer shot b. =. and
Irwin b. Anderson. Both men are still
alive, although in precariOus condition.
Palmer is young rutlian, who, before
has been guilty Of attempted murder He
was incorporating the streets armed with
a knife and revolver. While flourShing
his knife in the postotlice, i. r. Anderson
attempted to pacfy him, and thought he
had succeeded, when Palmer called him,
and, as he turned. shot him in the breast.
The wounded mans brother then engaged
in terrific hand to-hand struggle with
the murderer. The by-standers We're
afraid to interfere, and The other Amber
son soon Tell, pierced by two bullets. The
murderer then escaped. Armed parties
are securing the town and country. The
AuderSouS are prominent i'll business cir
Giles. and their families are of the highest
reSpeCt&DilltN
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04
GENERAL SMALLER IN TROUBLE.
Arrest ed on the Charge of Bribery in His
Offcial Capacity.

New YORK, Nov. 30.-Late this after
noon bench warrant was issued for the
arrest of Major- General Alexander Shaler.
The general is charged with bribery in
connection with the purchase of armory
sites. He was arrested at his house about
$3.50 this evening and locked up.
The arrest was effected by Inspector
Byrnes, who was accompanied by detec-
tives Slevin and Reilly. The general made
no protest, but promptly accompanied the
officers to the police headquarters, where
he is now confined Gen. Shaler is presi-
dent of the Board of Health and is Il
mayor general in command of the first di-
vision of the National guards. He was
also secretary of the armory board which
chose the sites of the armories recently
built, The other members of that board
were ex- Mayor Edison and Hubert Thomp-
son. His arrest is result of IN nveStlga-
ton by committee of the State Senate
Gen Shaler has throughout the investiga-
ton, denied that he ever received or was
influenced in any way in the choice of
sites for armory properties. In his
testimony today Monmouth b. Will
son emphatIcally said that by
arrangement with Shaler, after affect
ing a sale of certain property to the arm
DRY board at figures greatly in excess of
what the property could have been bought
for at private sale, he had paid off mort
cages of 5000 and the property owned by
General Shaler in New Jersey. After the
Gibbs committee began its Investigation
General Shaler handed he papers back to
him with the request that they be destroy
ed, which was done
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04
GOULD'S RETIREMENT.
The Management of His Great Interests
Entrusted to His Son.

New YORK, Nov. 30.-Jay Gould official
ly announces his coming retirement from
Wall street, after twenty-five years of
continuous and prosperous business. The
firm of W. f.. Conner x Co., in which he
has been a partner for the past ten years,
will dissolve limitation on January l.
1886, and Mr.. Gould will then withdraw
from business, leaving his eldest son,
George j. Gould, who has been in active
training for the past five years, to look
after his enormous interests AS soon as
his steam yacht Atalanta can be put
into shape for IA cruise Mr.. Gould will
start on Il long voyage. Mr.. George
Gould Will abandon all other bust
ness ana speculative interests outside
those committed directly to his care The
firm of W. f. Conner 81 Co. will continue
in name as of yOre, but outside of the
senior member its exact composition has
not yet been decided upon. 1t is surmised
that Mr.. Giovanni u. Morosni, who has
been in the firm, and whose fidelity to
and intimacy with Mr.. Gould have made
him II rich man, will retire, the new COM
pany to be formed of clerks in the Office
or of some outside capitalists.
Il Mr. Gould said yesterday to a reporter !:
81 sold all my speculative stocks during
the summer and fall and am now, while
confidence is increasing and business IS
being restored, ready to step out. OF
course | shall retain my interest in the
three companies in which am heavily in
terested, the Western Union telegraph,
the Missouri Pacific and the Manhattan
elevated railways. My interest in them
is that of an investor, not of Spectator.
OF course | have large interest IN the
Wabash, whose reorganization is virtual
ly assured and in the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas company, but the three com
panies which | have mentioned above Will
absorb my entire attention Between Mr..
Conner, Mr.. MOrosini and myself there
has never been an interruption of good
feeling"
1t is beyond question that Ayers Cherry
Pectoral has done and is doing vast good, ano
is worthy of the place of honor it holds at the
head of all remedies for diseases of tho throat
and lungs.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

WAsH1NGToN, Nov. 3O--Although Mr..
Morrison will be chairman of the ways
and means committee Of the next House,
he does not propose to introduce tariff
bill in the House in the coming session.
He thinks that it is understood that the
failure of his former tariff bill would pre-
JUDGE any tariff bin he might now intro
duce. 1t is understood that the tariff bill
which the revenue reformers Will favo +
will be offered in the House by Mr.. Hew
lit of New York, who will be member of
the ways and means committee in the
next, as in the last, House Mr.. Hewitt has
been at work for several months on Il tariff
bill, which he will submit to the revenue
reform leaders when he arrives here. The
revenue retOrmcrs Will consider and
amend it at il conference, and it will be
offered in the House. Free raw materials
will be provided tor IN this bill, and Il gem
eral reduction i'll most of the schedules.
Mr.. Randall is preparing II bill which VIII
embOdy the concessions which the prOtec-
tionists are willing to make respecting the
reform of he tariff. These two bills. with
the recommendations of the President and
Secretary Manning, will be the basis of
the work of the ways and means com
mittee.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

WAsHINGTON, Nov. 3O.-Adiutant-Gen-
eral Drum has received the following
telegram from Gen. Crook Sanchez
brought into Fort Apache, last even
ing, the head of one of the hostiles named
Agarl Quelah. He also reports that hos
tiles are killing all the White Mountain
Indians they can find scattered over the
reservation. 1t seems probable that up to
this time they have killed eleven women,
four children and five men and boys. The
White Mountains threaten to retaliate on
the Chericahuas remaining on the reserva-
ton, but these are close to Fort Apache
and carefully guarded. Indians on the
reservation are extremely aroused, and
several parties of scouts and troops are
hunting the hostiles. All the Indian
camps have been notified. There is reason
to hope that more of the hostiles will be
killed