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NEWS AND NOTES.

-Vermonts feat in electing an almost
solid Republican Legislature has been
outdone in one State. The Republicans
of Michigan claim unanimous represen-
tation in both branches of the Legislature
of that State.
Already the business boom which
was promised as result of Republican
victory is making itself felt. Prices ad-
vanced on the New York Stock Exchange
at the very first news of the Republican
landslide.
1t is pity that the term of Senator
Vest, who wanted a war of extermina-
ton waged against American industries,
does not expire next March. The Legis-
lature just chosen would elect Repub-
lican successor.
The returns from Kansas indicate
the defeat of the woman suffrage amend
ment by a heavy majority. 1t was bad
politics, as well as bad morals, when the
suffragists yoked their cause with that o f
the Populists ana threw themselves into
the POpulist campaign.
New Jersey which cast it's electoral
vote against the reelection of Abraham
Lincoln, and Connecticut, which in the
thrOes of the Civil war reelected that
324 majority, gave on Tuesday Repub-
lican majority equaling that which
Maine generally gives.
Fate seems to have been especially
unkind to the Democratic members of
the Ways and Means Committee. 1t is
said that ouly three survive the land
slide. 1t is obvious that dark lantern
tactics do not meet with the approval of
the American people.
Missouri contributes one of the big
gest of the long list of surprises by leav-
ing the Democratic column. The Re-
publicans elected their entire State ticket
and the Legi stature as well as the eight
of the fifteen Congressman.
Pennsylvania stands at the head of
the long Republican column with a plu-
rality of pa. 200, New York stands next
with 10000, and Ohio is third with 1885,
600.
Sore throat and lungs, chapped hands
and face positively cured by Ponds Er-
tract; sold only in bottles, buff wrappers.
1t is very fortunate for the Demo-
Gratis that the avalanche halted as it did
in California. Otherwise their present
address wOnld be Pacific Ocean.
--NtllnCl MI. NIGNClouNl lOI MI. OItSll-
am had the courage to endorse their in
| famous Hawaiian policy. At least they
did not vote on Tuesday.
The Democrats have discovered that
fusion with the British is neither pOpu-
| lar nor effective in the land of the Stars
and Stripes.
Not the least of the Republican vic
| tories in New York is the election of a
majority of members of Board of Alder
men. A Republican Board of Aldermen
is something new in the history of Goth
am. 1t will give Mayor Strong n good
backing.
The defeated Democratic candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania enjoys the
unusual privilege of q newspaper of his
own in which to express his woes,
Buried under majority of nearly a
quarter of a million, he needs all the con-
ISOLATION he can get.
Bloody Brides" Waite in his indig-
nation at his Colorado overthrow threat
ems to emigrate to Illinois and make his
home there. In that case Altgeld must
look to his laurels.
| SO Ambassador Bayard thinks that
tariff smashing should proceed? But Mr..
| Bayard has been for some time oIt of
| the country, and is not familiar with the
existing relations between the House and
| the Senate.