Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1888, Page 6

SUMMARY OF THE DISPATCHES THIS MORNING— TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN ELECTORAL VOTES FOR THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES, NOT COUNTING INDIANA .__ While the actual figures were not known even in some of the most important states, the re- turns received this morning from the election that was held yesterday indicated the success of the republicap party, not only as to its presi- dential ticket but also in securing a majority in the next House of Representatives. Later dis- Patches may make a change in some of the states, but it is not believed that the result thus indicated will be changed. The Electoral Vote. The electoral votes of the different states will probably be given as follows: Le ace 1 egon. Hes i ccais” 12|Rhode Island. Vermont... ‘isconsin If Indiana should = swell Gen. Harrison’ rove to be republican it bs 's electoral vote to NEW YORK. The State Believed to Have Given a Plurality for Harrison. The interest in the result in New York was very great, both because it has the largest number of electoral votes of any state in the Union, and also from the great efforts made by both parties to carry it. It was generally be- lieved that Mr. Morton, the republican vice- presidential candidate, was nominated solely for the purpose of carrying New York, while on the other hand, Mr. Cleveland’s popularityein his own state was thought by the democrats to make it sure for them. The returns up to this morning, while by no means complete, indi- cate that the state has gone for Harrison by a majority variously estimated from 10,000 to 15,000. Mr. Cleveland fell below Hill on the democratic ticket, and the latter is probably elected governor. In the mayoralty contest in New York city, Grant, the Tammany candidate, was elected. ; The first complete returns were obtained from Kings County, and the result for the idency was as follows: Bloveland .- «+ 82,447 Harrison . 70,587 Fisk 1,035 Cleveland's plurality........ 11,860 The returns from 356 election districts in New York city were longer in coming in, and it was nearly midnight before the final bulletin announced the figures, with four districts miss- ing, as follows: tricts in New York state, outside of New York and Kings Counties, give Cleveland 192,678; Harrison, 239,140; Fisk, 11,235. The same dis- tricts in 1884 gave Cleveland, 177,436; Blaine, 212,991; St. John, 10,395, THE CONGRESSIONAL RESULT. Kings County—The following Congressmen were elected: Second district, Felix Campbell, dem.; third, Wm. C. Wallace, rep.; fourth, Jno. M. Clancy, dem.; fifth, Thos. H. Magner, dem.; sixth, Fitzgerald, Tammany; seven -Dumphy, Tammany; eighth, McCarthy, Tammany; ninth, Cox, united dem.; tenth, Spinola, united dem.; eleventh, Quinn, county dem.; twelfth, Flower, county dem.; thirteenth, Fitch, united dem.; fourteenth, StahInecker, dem. In the twenty-first Congressional district Hon. J. H. Moffet, rep., is re-elected. Jno. G. Sawy. rep., is re-elected to Congress in the thirty- first district. Nutting, rep., is re-elected to Congress. Sanford. rep., elected to Congress twentieth district. Roswell P. Flower is elected to Congress in the twelfth district. Quacken- bush, rep., is elected Congressman. Bath—Raines, rep., is elected to Congress from this district, and Wiley, dem., in the Niagara district. In the thirty-fourth district the republicans return Wm. G. Laidlaw, of Ellicottville, to Congress by an increased majority. ‘NEW YORK CITY'S NEXT MAYOR. The vote for mayor, complete, is as follows: Grant, Tamman; . Hewitt, County Democrat. Erhardt, republican Coogan, labor Grant's plurality INDIANA. Returns Come in Very Slowly, and the State in Doubt. Returns received at Indianapolis up to an early hour this morning showed changes so slight in either direction that Indiana was still regarded as in doubt. There was intense ex- citement in Indianapolis throughout the night, and great crowds thronged the streets. One hundred and forty precincts give Harrison 17,- 451; Cleveland, 14,212. The same precincts in 1884 gave Blaine 16.348; Cleveland, 13,754. Net republican gain, 653. Large republican gains are reported from Evansville, Terre Haute, Montgomery county, St. Joseph county and Orange county. A Brazil dispatch says Harri- made big gains among the miners. An In- polis dispatch, dated at 2 a. m., says: “The localities sg far heard from are republican strongholds. The republican plurality, if any, will be small, It will be at least noon before any reliable estimate of the result can be made.” In the second congressional district, Braxton, rep.,is thought to have defeated O'Neall for re~ election. NEW JERSEY DEMOCRATIC. Cleveland’s Majority Estimated at 8,000. The state of New Jersey is claimed for Cleve- land by a majority of 8,000. The democrats elect McAdoo to Congress. Lelback and Beck- with, republicans, are elected. Lelback’s ma- jority is 600. The republicans elect also Buchanan and Voorhees. Essex County, complete, gives Cleveland 24,042; Harrison, 24,713; Fisk, 706. Harrison's plurality, 611, © decrease of 544 on Blaine’s vote of 1884. At Camden Harrison's plurality is 2,700, @ gain of 800. Cleveland's majority in Somerset County is estimated at 300. The whole democratic ticket gets 1,200 majority in Monmouth. Republicans claim Atlantic County by 500 majority. Harrison gets 1,500 majority in Cumberland County. Salem County gives Harrison a majority of 250. Mercer County = republican by 600. At Rahway, where veland got 4 majority in '84, Harrison gets 4. Cleve! 's majority in Newark is esti- mated at 1,137. The estimated majority in Monmouth County for Cleveland {s 1,800, a Ee . Gei democrat, has m elected to Congress. The democrats elect all Heer lege again oe — gress in the rst district by sao” in the state. Both houses of the lican, thus insuring the rep ‘stato ticket MARYLAND. The Democrats the State Reduced Majority: soli Democrats carry the state of Maryland by a reduced majority. The democrats, it is esti- mated, will carry the state outside the city by 8,000, a loss of 3,000. The total vote of Balti- more city, with the exception of two precincts, was: Cleveland, 44,577; Harrison, 38,866; Fisk, 1,208. Cleveland's plurality, 4,303, The vote of the entire ite is estimated as follows; $ vel ‘8 1654, and majority pencceyy 1688 ETS in 1884 THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. McComas (rep.), in the sixth district, is re- elected by an increased maj Raynor dem.) is defeated by Stockbridge. (rep.) in the fourth, by a majority of 100; a repr ivan gain. In the third district Rush (dem.) is elected by & majority of 4,918; in the first Gibson (dem.), in e fifth Compton (dem.), probably, though the Baltimore American claims Mudd’s election), and Stumps (dem.), in the second. VIRGINIA. The Democrats Seem to Have the State and GainSome Congressmen. Party lines seem to have been badly broken in some portions of Virginia, giving the re- publicans gains in unexpected quarters, while the democrats made inroads on some of the republican strongholds. The democrats seem to have became alarmed for the safety of the state, for a while last night. but the latest re- turns indicate that it has given a small plural- ity for Cleveland, probabally not as much as in 1884. Senator-elect Barhour at midnight said there was no question that the state was safely democratic. received at Richmond up to midnight from thirty-five counties and the cities showed a democratic loss of 2,300, Danville gives Cleveland 258 majority, demo- cratic gain of 137. North Danville gives demo- cratic gain of 40. Chatham, Cleveland 111 plurality; slight democratic loss. Portsmouth city gives a democratic majority of 368. Win- chester gives Harrison 52 majority, a demo- cratic gain of 27. Official vote of Harrison- burg—Harrison aud Morton, 498; Cleveland and Thurman, 357: Republican gain over 1884, 50. Roller, rep., for Congress, 505; O’Ferrall, dem., 336. Norfolk gives Harrison 580. Isle of Wight County is reported democratic by a small majority, James City County gives Har- rison 386 majority. Willtamsbarg gives Har- rison 60 majority. Lynchburg city. jeveland, .053; Harrison, 1,796; democratic majorit 259. Henry peal go a republican majo ity of 300,a gain of 250 over Blaine in 1! Richmond gives about 1,600 majority for the democrats. Roanoke city gives Cleveland a ———- of 174. Roanoke County will run close. Prince Edward County official vote: Cleve- land, 1,133; Harrison, 1,696. For Congress, Venable, dem., 1,103; ‘Langston, colored, rep., 1,167; Arnold,” Mahone, rep., 539. Returns from Elizabeth City and County give Harrison 1,358; Cleveland, 547; Fisk, 18; a democratic gain of 145 from 1884. Bowden, rep., for Con- gress, 1,272; Marshall, dem., 553; Williams, anti-Mahone, 103. Prince George County com- lete gives Cleyeland, 483, Harrison, 791; Venabie, dem, for Congress, 555; Langston, 629; Arnold, 85. Roanoke City gives Cleveland 141 majority. Manchester gives Cleveland and Wise, dem., for Congress, a majority of 197, a democratic loss of 80. Democrats concede Rockingham to Harrison by 300 majority. Cleveland's majority in 1884, over Blaine, was 1. Returns from over the district indicate the election of O’Ferrall, dem., over Roller, rep., to Congress. Returns from eighteen precincts in Albemarle County, including the city of Charlottesville, show a democratic majority of 724. The six precincts yet to hear from gave Blaine in 1884 a majority of 115. If the ratio of democratic gain holds good in these precincts this county will give Cleveland and O’Ferrall a majority of 650—a net democratie gain of 300 over 1884. The indications are that Wise has carried the third district by 1,000 or 1,200 majority. Demo- erats elect seven and probably nine Congress- men out of ten. Ip the sixth Congressional district Edmonds, democrat, iselected to suc- ceed Hopkins, labor. Returns from the fifth district are meager, but Lester, democrat, is robably elected to Congress by a good ma- jority. A late dispatch from Richmond says it is probable that Langston has carried the fourth district. In the eighth Virginia district (including Al- exandria) Gen. W. H. F. Lee seems to have been elected by 1,500 majority. Orange County is thought to have given Park Agnew, the repub- lican candidate, a small majority. CALIFORNIA FOR HARRISON. The State Republican by a Plurality Estimated all the Way from 8,000 to 22,000. ‘M. M. Bstee, chairman of the republican national convention, estimates that from unof- ficial returns from chairmen of different county committees the republicans will carry the state by from 8,000 to 15,000. Mr. C. M. Ogden, correspondent of the Cali- fornia Associated Press, received the following dispatch from Mr. A. Richardson, general man- ager of the association, last night: “California is slow counting the state, but returns at 9 o’clock indicate that Harrison has carried the state by 22,000 plurality on total estimated vote of 245,000. Republicans elect full quota of Congressmen.” OTHER STATES. Towa Republican as Usual. There are 1,800 voting precincts in Iowa. The comparison is made with the vote of 1887 on the governorship, which was as follows: Larrabee, rep., 169,687; Anderson, dem., 153,- 526; Cane, labor, 14,999. One hundred precincts give Harrison 15.- 071; Cleveland, 9,771; Fisk, 216. The state re- publican ticket is probably elected by 15,000 to 20,000 majority. The following are known beyond doubt to be elected Congressmen: sec- ond district, Walter I. Hayes, dem., by about 8,000 plurality; third district, David B, Hen- derson, dem., 1,900; fourth district, J. K. Dweeney, rep., 900; fifth, Daniel Kerr, rep., 1,100; seventh, E. H. Conger, rep., 2,300: ninth J. B. Reen, rep., 2,500; tenth, J. O. Dollinger, rep., 4,300; eleventh, I. L. Struble, rep., 4,500. Colorado, 8,000 Republican Plurality. The republicans claim the national, state and county tickets by 8,000 plurality. Delaware ————— Probably Repub- ican, The meagre returns from Delaware indicate a small democratic plurality. Wilmington complete gives Cleveland 4,837, Harrison 8,244, A dispatch from Wilmi: says: The le; trek pobre Florida’s Democratic Vote Increased. Jacksonville polled a light vote, with a heavy poll in the state. The democratic na- tidnal ticket appears to have received an in- creased majority. democratic are reported pope 81 na Georgia Solid for the Democrats. Cleveland received a majority of at least 25,000, with a solid democratic delegation elected from 3,000 to 5,000. In the district Grimes, dem., held a gain of | mate is from b.so0 to 5,000. Meager Returns from Missouri. The state returns are slow in coming in, but the few received show a very heavy vote. Re- turns from St. Louis also tardy. Sixty-one pre- cincts of 122in the city give Cleveland 319, Harrison 280; for governor, Francis 296, Kim- THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., carried the state by 18,000. In 165 precincts the gain for Cleveland is 661 votes. The pro- large majority. Incom- lete returns indicate a republican majority in jew Hanover County of shoat 900—a republi- as 228 on vote for governor in 1 Michigan Gives 12,000 Republican Ma- jority. The Michigan republicans have elected Luce governor, and Harrison will have a majority of 12,000, Chipman, dem., is probably elected in the first district; Allen, rep., is elected in the second; O'Donnell, rep., in the third; Burrows, rep., in the fourth; Whiting, dem., in the seventh; Bliss, rep., in the eighth; Cutcheon, rep., in the ninth, and Fisher, dém., in the tenth. ‘The sixth is too close to give any esti- mate, and Stephenson, rep., although probabl; elected, has run consi: rably behind is ticke' Republicans Gain a Congressman in New Hampshire. The latest returns received at Concord, N. H., last night indicate a republican majority in the state of 2,500. Goodale, rep., candidate for governor, runs behind the electoral ticket, but is probably elected by # small majority. The prohibition vote was smaller than antici- pated. The ap es probably elect both representatives in Congress, defeating McKin- ney, dem., in the first district. They will also control the legislature, Republican Gains in Ilinois. Republican gains are reported in Chicago and throughout the state of Illinois, Palmer the democratic candidate for governor received an increased vote which was greater than that of Cleveland. Harrison’s plurality is estimated at 15,000. The election of Hitt and Rowell, re- publican Congressmen, is assured, The returns indicate the election of General Palmer as Governor. Cleveland’s majority in Chicago was about half that of Palmer. | Minnesota Gives Harrison 15,000 Plu- rality. Minnesota, it is thought. has been carried by Harrison with a plurality of at least 15,000. Merriam, the republican candidate, is elected governor by from 8,000 to 10,000. Lind, Com- stock, and Snyder, republicans, are elected to Congress. The first and third districts (Wil- son's and Donald’s) are still in doubt an claimed by the democrats, Meagre News from Tennessee. No figures on the state of Tennessee were given last night. Memphis has gone demo- cratic by about 2,500, which is a gain of 900 over 1884. James Phelan, dem., is re-elected to Congress by not less than 2,000, Nashville returns favor the election of the democratic Representative in Congress from that district, At Chattanooga Bates, dem., seems to have been elected to Congress. Nebraska Returns Show Republican Gains. The republicans claim the state by from 28,000 to 30,000. The democrats concede from 18,000 to 20,000, Twentyprecincts throughout the state give Harrison 2,409; Cleveland, 1,643; Fisk, 205. The same precincts in 1884 gave Blaine 2,171; Cleveland, 1,321. Vermont Increases Her Republican Plurality. The Vermont returns were received slowly last night. At midnight only 48 out of 243 towns had been heard from. These indicate a Fane es plurality of 27,500, a gain over 1884 of 7,900. Massachusetts Republican Outside of Boston. Massachusetts is conceded to be republican by a large majority. Boston went for Cleve- land; 180 towns give Harrison 76,199; Cleve- land, 54,775; Fisk, 3,879; scattering, 42. These towns give for governor; Ames, 75,347; Russell, 55,555; Earle, 4,048, scattering, 32. Republican lurality, 21,424. ‘The same towns in 1884 gave laine, 60,652; Cleveland, 45,643; Butler, 9.018; St. Jobn, 4,132, Beard, republican, for Congress, is defeated in the third district. Candler, republican, is elected in the ninth, and Walker, republican, in the tenth. In the twelfth Congressional dis- trict Rockwell, republican, will have 933 ma- jority. Cogswell, in the seventh district, is elected by about 4,000 plurality. Kentucky Congressmen—Speaker Car- lisle Re-elected. Democratic Congressmen have been elected in the first eight districtsin Kentucky, with the possible exception of the third. Congressman Finley, republican, has probably heaten ex- Congressman Wolford in the eleventh, John H. Wilson, republican, has carried the tenth, and the ninth is uncertain. Congressman Ca- ruth, of Louisville, has a majority of 2,500, against 140 two years ago. The vote in Cov- ington, Ky., shows a heavier majority for the Hon. John G. Carlisle than he has ever had there. His election is claimed as secure. Harrison’s Plurality in Maine About 24,000. Harrison's plurality in Maine is estimated to be about 24,000, which is a gain of 4,000 over 1884, Rhode Island’s Republi Majori oe en eee Rhode Island’s complete yvote:—Harrison, 21,968; Cleveland, 17,496; Fisk, 1,276—a repub- lican majority of 3,196. The vote of the city of Providence is as follows: Harrison, 6,983; Cleveland, 6,495; Fisk, 489, ‘The congressional delegation is re-elected. Woonsocket voted to become a city. This will be Rhode Island’s fourth city. No Change in South Carolina. South Carolina returns do not indicate an change in the political conditions there. x Charleston dispatch says no complaint was made by republicans or democrats regarding unfair treatment at the rae Dibble, dem., for Congress, is re-electes a County ives the Cleveland electors, iman, dem., for , and the entire democratic ticket 1,300 majority. Colored people yoted the democratic ticket. Republicans Claim Wisconsin if Twe Thousand. ey A dispatch from Milwaukee at midnight said that the returns from the state were unprece- dentedly slow. Chairman Payne, of the repub- lican state committee, still holds to his estimate of 20,000 for the Harrison electoral ticket, with Howard for governor somewhat behind. Chair- man Usher, of the democratic state committee, says scattering returné give net democratic gan of 1,842, estgnne @ democratic esti- more than reached so far. The vote in the fourth district Qiil- waukee) will be close, but indications it to the Mectiouoe Van Schaick,the cepata sen didate, by a small majority. Both Parties Claim West Virginia. In West Virginia there was a fusion between |-the democrats and union labor men in the hope of securing three members of the legislature = nt First district, Henry M. Bingham, republican; second, Charles O'Neill, republicar third, Samuel J. Randall, democrat; fourth, William D. Kelley, republican; fifth,’A. Charmer. re- publican, sixth, Smedley Darlington, repub- ican, 4 ighth, William Mutchler, democrat; ninth, D. B. Brummer, democrat; tenth, Mar- riott Brosius, republican; eleventh, J..A. Scran- ton, republican; thirteenth, James B. Reilly, democrat; fourteenth, J. W. Rife, republican; fifteenth, M. B. Wright, republican; sixteenth, . C. McCormick, republican; seventeenth, Charles R, Buckalew, democrat; eighteenth, L. E. Atkinson, republican; nineteenth, Levi Maish, democrat; twentieth, Edward Scull, re- vublican; twenty-first, Samuel A. Craig, repub- | aoe ; twenty-second, John Dalzell, republican; twenty-third, Thomas M. Bayne, republican; twenty-fourth, J. W. Ray, republican; twenty- fifth, Charles C. Townsend, republican; twenty- sixth, William ©. Culbertson, republican; twenty-sevénth, Lewis F. Watson, republican. Congressman Mills’ Plurality. A dispatch from Waco, Texas, says: “Con- servative estimates place Mills’ plurality at 2,500 in the district. Negroes, prohibitionists, and republicans voted almost solid for Jones, while union labor party was divided. Mills will not poll as large a majority as at the last election, while the vote is much larger.” Republicans Still Control Kansas. Reports from various parts of Kansas show that the labor portion voted solidly for its own state ticket, not combining to any extent with the democrats, Neither of the state com- mittees has any positive information as to the outlook and both decline to give figures. The legislature will not be as strongly republican as heretofore, but the republicans will control it by a good majority. There is little or no op- aa to the return of Senators Plumb and galls as their own successors, Republican Congressmen Claimed in Arkansas. The estimated majority for Cleveland in Arkansas is between 12,000 and 14,000. Repub- licans claim the election of Jno. M. Clayton in the second, and Louis P. Featherstone in the first Congressional districts. The election of Thos. McRae, Jno. H. Rogers, and Samuel W. Peel, democrats, is conceded in the third,fourth, and fifth districts. The prohibition vote in the state is variously estimated at between 2,000 and 3,000. The union labor ticket, it is esti- mated, will poll 10,000 votes. a WHAT THE VOTES MEANT. Other Officers Besides Presidential Elec- tors Voted for Yesterday. At the election yesterday which was held in every state in the union all the states voted for presidential electors, and the following shows the number in each state and what other offi- cers were voted for: Alabama —10 electors and 8 Congressmen. Arkansas—T electors and 5 Congressmen. California—8 electors, 6 Congressmen, a Chief Justice and Associate Judge of the Su- preme Court, and a legislature, Colorado—3 elevtors, 1 Congressman, state officers, and a legislature, which will elect a United States Senator. Connecticut—6 electors, 4 Congressmen, state officers, and a legislature. Delaware—3 electors, 1 Congressman and a legislature which will elect a United States Senator. Florida—4 electors, 2 Congressmen, state officers and a legislature. Georgia—12 electors and 10 Congressmen. Illinois—23 electors, 20 Congressmen and a legislature which will elect a United States Senator. Indiana—15 electors, 18 Congressmen, state officers and a legislature. i Iowa—18 electors, 11 Congressmen and miner state officers, Kansas—9 electors, 7 Congressmen, state offi- cers and a legislature which will elect a United States Senator. Kentucky—18 electors and 11 Congressmen. Louisiana—8 electors and 6 Congressmen. Maine—6 electors, Massachusetts—14 electors, 12 Congressmen, state officers, and a legislature which will elect a United States Senator, Michigan—13 electors, 11 Congressmen, state officers, and a legislature which will elect a United States Senator. Minnesota—7 electors, 5 @ongressmen, state officers, and a legislature which will elect a United States Senator. Missouri—t6 electors, 14 Congressmen, state officers and a legislature, Mississippi—9 electors and 7 Congressmen. Nebraska—5 electors, 3 Congressmen, state officers and a legislature which will elect a United States Senator. 1 arama, minor New Hampshire—4 electors, 2 Congressmen, state officers and a legislature which will elect a United States Senator. New Jersey—9 electors, 7 Congressmen, 6 state senators and the entire assembly, who will assist in electing a United States Senator, New York—36 electors, 34 Congressmen, a overnor, lieutenant-governor, judge of the urt of Appeals, assemblymen and a constitu- tional amendment providing for an additional part of the Court of Appeals. North Carolina—11 electors, 9 Congressmen, state officers and a legislature which will elect a United States Senator. Ohio—23 electors, 21 Congressmen and minor state officers, ‘Oregon—3 electors. Pennsylvania—30 electors, 28 Congressmen, a carer Court judge, state auditor and a legis- ture. Rhode Island—4 electors and 2 Congressmen, South Carolina—9 electors, 7 Congressmen, state officers and a legislature which will elect a United States Senator. - Tennessee—12 electors, 10 Congressmen, a jovernor and a legislature which will electa Gnited States Senator, Texas—13 electors, 11 Congressmen, state offi- cers and a legislature which will elect a United States Senator. Vegeta alone \d 10 Congressm inia—12 electors and 10 en, West Virginia—6 electors, 4 Congressmen, state officeragand a legislature which will elect a — i ee . isconsin—11 electors, 9 Congressmen, state officers and a legislature. > ———+or_____ A Queen’s Breakfast in the Middle Ages. From the London News, A letter written by Anne Boleymabout three anda half centuries ago has just been pub- lished. It was on the occasion of her first visit to London, and the writer describes, among other things, the unfavorable effects produced in her case by the late hours and dissipations of the capital in the early Henry V! She writes: rise so late in the morning—-seldom before 6 o’clock—and sit up 80 late at night—being scarcely in bed be- fore 10—that I am quite sick of it? The ular life which I have led since I came to has quite destroyed my appetite, Then ds to mention alittie Retail illusthates the ideas of the and her contemporaries as to what was a nor- thi ho would vote for a democratic United States appe' healt Englishwoman Senaiot Full returns wil probably not be ex Ree ee apes ceive lore to-morrow. eee, % . —s — Bt et rans eg fo her correspondent, the state to determine, with certainty, the of ale for my breakfast in the result, Chairman state , but in London I find it difficult to get committee, says that he is confident through half that quantity.” eT Ee ? Hie He [ise Hl ‘of | #Fe from persons who have speculated on the THE RUIN SHE HAS WROUGHT. Mrs. Fox-Kane Filled with Semtas oe me THE aL MEDIUM EXPOSES WORE OF THE FRAUDULENT TRICKS OF THE PRETENDED SPIR- ITUALISTS—HOW MESSAGES FROM THE DEAD From the New York World. Since Mrs. Margaret Fox-Kane’s statement exposing spiritualism was published in the World it has been widely commented upon in all parts of the country and she has received several hundred letters en the subject. Some advice of mediums; some are from women and men whose homes have been wrecked who write to ask whether she really meant that there was nothing whatever except deception in what they had come to look upon as a reli- gion, and many others are from people who have been grossly misled and _barcfacedly robbed by bogus spiritualistic mediums, Mrs. Kane emphatically indorsed her state- ment as already cera} comet seen by ~ — reporter ——: and sai at since its pul lication had been overwhelmed by abuse and threats against her life from scores of mediums who see that their nefarious profess- ion has received a death blow. One whose temper probably got the upper hand of his judgment challenged her to prove that there was, or even could be, fraud connected with communications written by the spirits upon a Piece of paper placed on the floor under the ee 's feet after it had been marked and olde “Why, of all things upon which to make an issue this is the most ridiculous,” Mrs. Kane exclaimed. ‘‘Here’s how that trick is done. Mark this piece of paper and fold it up. Now you see I lay it on the floor under the tbe and place my feet on it. Now, as you are not in a darkened room you must not look under the table, as that would probably destroy the de- usion.” The orter immediately heard a sharp scratching, like the sound of a pencil being rapidly run over the paper, and when it stop- ped he picked up the paper, on which was written in a perfectly legible hand, “This is a fraud.” The paper was, to all appearance, the same which had been laid on the floor. “It is done in this way,” she explained. “The paper is laid on the floor, and as the room is k Irub the sole of my slipper sharply and in short strokes over the paper. Inext remove my slippers, in one of which has been placed a iece of paper folded similarly to the one on the floor, That I did while you were marking | and folding the paper you expected to get the communication upon.” The reporter confessed that he had not noticed her either writing on or folding the paper. Con- tinning, she said: “That paper I placed in my slipper at the heel and then replaced it on my foot. As I said before, after having imitated the sound of writing I remove both slippers, and with a quick movement of my feet I catch up your piece of paper and drop it in the other slipper. Another movement throws the pre- pared paper in its place, Here is your marked | paper.” moving her slipper Mrs. Kane exhibited the paper pressed into a compact roll in the toe. Allthis happened in half the time it takes to tell it sal while the reporter held her hands. “Will you explain how many mediums pre- pare and conceal the communications which are foisted upon their dupes?” asked the re- porter. | “Well, in the first place, no experienced me- | dium will give written communication unless the visitor is known to be a believer in spirit- ualism. They live by their wits, and most of them are quick-witted, and their long practice of deception has developed a kind of second nature, which warns them just when to stop and how far they may safely go. Their ability to extract from one enough information to | warrant an assistant who. may have overheard | part of the conversation in preparing a mes- | sage or their being able to take advantage of some auspicious moment in which to write a | few words will, to a great extent, determine the length of the communication. If they have | no basis on which to fabricate a missive they will calmly inform the believer that ‘there is some obstacle which prevents my control from giving you anything,’ or that ‘some conflicting influence prevents the departed one from man- ifesting himself.” socar adie YA eae FOREIGN NE AND GOSSIP. The Japanese army isnow 150,000 strong. It will be 600,000 strong before long. At a steeplechase in England on October 20, a horse on whom tracheotomy has been per- formed a fortnight before, won a race of over 2 miles. Marriage must bea failure among the Rus- sian peasantry. Upon a convict ship convey- ing women only to Sagalien, 75 per cent of the risoners had been convicted of killing their usbands, The smallest steam-engine ever made has just been completed, after two years of labor, for the Paris exhibition. It is composed of 180 pieces of metal, is 2 shade under three- fifths of an inch in height, and weighs less than one-ninth of an ounce. A watchmaker made it. ‘The new European fashion of embroidering the seam of trousers for evening wear suggests the question whether it presages the reappear- ance of belaced and ed wrists and colored and silken coats. The new trouser seems will soon be of gold, it is said, and then anything may happen. Emperor William did not kiss the = hand is the solemn declaration of the official German papers, nor did the pope kiss the emperor's forehead, That the emperor “bent his knee” to the pope is also characterized as an ultramontane imagination. His majesty bowed twice and shook the holy father by the hand three times. Kalakaua, king of the Sandwich Islands, is writing a novel. He has long had literary as- pirations, but did not feel that he’ ought to at- tempt fiction until after he had learned some- thing about life from experience. Capt. Boycott, despite his experiences in 1888, HOUSEFURNISHINGS. Coouxe Br Gus A full line of GAS COOKING STOVES: (Op band and for sale. ‘WASHINGTON GASLIGHT COMPANY. Canrers: Canrers:: Canrers ! We are daily receiving our Fall supply of BIGELOW, LOWELL & HARTFORD WILTON CARPETS, BODY BRUSSELS, MOQUETS, VELVETS, TAPESTRIES, THREE-PLYS, INGRAINS, and ART SQUARES, BUGS, MATS, CURTAINS, and DRAPINGS in great variety. An inspection of our stock is solicited. se25-3m HOOF, BRO. & CO., 1328 F st. Fo A FIRST-CLASS HEATING STOVE, RANGE or Latrobe, at low call 7 3B. LEPREUX & CO, ‘ormerly with P. Hiss & Co, Pak Walt Parens = OO We have just received a large consignment ie Gilt from TK asrantoee class, Fresco Painting pees 4 LEPREUX & BRO, 508 7th et. aw. ‘7th street care pass the door. ‘my RAILROADS. * ? PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE. Jo Tae Triad wes Ae Dae POTEEL MAILS MAGNIFICENT Pye :PMENT. EFFECT NOVEMBER 1, 1 _ TRAIN ¥ TATH WS: For Pit! and the We Limited F: faburg and the West. Chicago Li ‘xpress of ne, Sibo'man, daly to Gcspand goa St Louie Ps rom nis baile, Cincinnati, day, to Chicago, with Stoeping Car ‘aRogte toch. cago. Western -40 pan. ily, with ee ge a ae Suto nn Le ‘Bile or Louisville and Mc b yeen, 10:00 pain dally. for Pittsburg a est, to Chicago, BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD. For Ene, Canandaigua, and Rochester, daily ; for Buf- falo and Niagara, daily, except Saturday, 10. 00 p. m., with Sleeping Car Was! mm to Roe! % im. daily, except Sunday. For New York aud the Fast, 7:20, 8:00, 1:00, ana 11:40 a.m. 2:00, 4:10, 1 amd 2 Pe Sunday, 9: 11:40 a.m. ‘00, 4:10, 10:00, and Pp. Limited of hy c Cars, 9:40 a.m, daily, except Sunday, and 3:45 p. daily, with Dining Car, p.m, every day, m. For Boston without change, 300 wary day. ‘or Brooklyn, N. ¥., through trains connect fer- i of Brooklyn sey City with boats 0 Annex, aff Girect transfer to Fulton street, voiding double bb 17°20 pan. Limited Exp Au. week-ays and 3:45 pan. daily, with Dining For Baltimore, and 11>. 01800, day, 9:00.'9:05, 9 06, 7:40, and 11: For Pope's Creek Line, 7:20 a.m. and 4:40 pan, daily, ‘except Sunday. For Annapolis, 7:20 and 9:00 a.m., 12:05 and 4:40 pm daily,except Sunday. Sundays, 9:00 « m., 210 pan. XANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL- WAY, AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON RAILROAD, Alexandria, 6. | | | | 2:30, 9:55, 8:05, and | for Quantico, and the So | 5,9:32 | 2 p.m. 7 and {aformation at the office, northeast cor- | ner of 13th street and Pennsylvania avenue. and at the station, where orders can be left for the checking of to destination from hotels and resi Ces. i CHAS. E. PUG: 3B. »D, {no2]__ Gen. Pas. Agent. — AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule in effect Nov. Ist, 1888. ve Washington from station corner of New Jersey | avenue and C st. For Chicago and Northwest, vestibuled limited ex- ress, dail: So an. : express, 9:15 p.m. er Gindlanati and Si. Louis, express; dally, 3 and 5 pm. ~ For Fatisbang and Cleveland. vestibuled limited ex- press, daily, 1 1n., and express, 9:15 pa, For Lexington and local stations, 10:10 am, For Philadelyhia, Newark, and Wilmington, 7:30 a, my, 2:09 and 9-25 p.m. daily, A ‘or intermediate points between Baltimore and Philadelphia, +5 a.m. and t3:15 p.m. For Singerly and intermediate points, §7:30 a.m., 14:30 pam. For Baltimore, 5, 6:30, 6:40, (45-mi 3 30, 4:55, ays 6:30, 7 1; 05, 3:30, 4:30, 4:35, 3 m. For Annapolis, 6:49 and 8:30 am., 12:10 and 435 .. On Sundays, 8:30am, 4:35pm. Leave An- otis 6 ‘am, 12:05, 4:10, pam. ‘Sundays, m. 7 Stations between Washington and Balti. more, 8-00. G40. 8.30 0. m» 12:10, 3:30, 285,885 uday: a.m. 1:15, 3.3 “$5. For Stations on’ the Metropolitan Branch, 16:35 8 pm. for principal stations only: *10:10 a, +5230 and 18:45 pan. and ineoragedie ite points, 19:00 a ty Nees 35, t11 m,,112:30, 94-40 3-85, FLD opts amd fa 17:00 pm, for tertiediate ee a leave Washingtor ‘Sunday at urch trains leave neton on 1:15 pm. stopping at all stations on Metsopaltian inch, For Frederick, 10:10 am, 3:00, 4:35, 15:30. m, ‘Sundays, 1:15 pan. For Hagerstown, 10:10 a.m. and t5- us arrive from Chicago daily 7:20 a.m. m Cincinnati and St. Louis daily 6 ¥ 5 pan.; from Pittsburg daily 7:30 aan. 3:1 Pm. From Philadelphia, Chester and Wilmington, 2:5 7 J0and 9-05 pim. daily, and 110-45 am ge From Singerly and intermediate points north of Baltwore, 10 am, daily, and 12:25 am, Sundays only. Trains leave Baltimore for Washington, at 6:2 6:30, 7:25, 9:00, 9 0:00. tminute train), 1): 5 b train) a. 3:00, 4:16, 5:00, | i P. hay 8 left at ticket Pa. ave. W. M. CLEMENTS, CHAS. 0. SCULL, nl Gen. Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent, DIEDMONT AIR LI Schestule in effect September 30th, 1888. —East Tenn. Mail Daily for Warrenton, 8:30 A. Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, and between Alexandria and Lynchburg, ristol, Knoxville, Rome, —. loutgomery, and New Or- leans, man Steepe ‘axhington to'New Orleans, 5 11:24 A. M.—Fast Mail Daily for Warrenton, Char- Ireland, seems to have no hatred either for the country or its race. In a letter he made use of this remark: “I go for my annual holiday to dear old Ireland—it is my one treat of the ear.” é Mrs. Humphrey Ward, author of “Robert Elsmere,” was born in Australia. Her brother, Theodore, is a schoolmaster in New Zealand. Her sister was married a few years ago to Leon- ard Huxley, son of Prof. Huxley. The Birmingham Pos announces that Mr. Jos, Chamberlain is en route to America, and that he will marry Miss Endicott a few days after his arrival. He will spend a few weeks in visiting friends in America, and will return to England about Christmas, ae Recipes for School Lunches. The schools have opened and thescholarsare now at work in earnest. Many who live some distance from the school-house, both in coun- try and town, have to take their lunches with them, and mothers are often at a loss what to put in their baskets to compensate them for the nice, palatable lunch, or warm, comfort- avle dinner at home. Of course, bread and butter and meat of some kind must be the foundation—the something substantial—but the child’s appetite calls for something else. Nearly always something sweet, and there are many simple, inexpensive little saucer pud- ding” easily and quickly made which children, and whic! as the bod the reign of | durable. they will the sugar and molasses substituted. The sweet potato is emphatically the vegeta- bg hie oper enter ef oy Stee fer ong the favorite way generally is to slice them, make a sauce of sugar, butter, spice and ater, with a dash of wine if you are not “otal | soa Does not connect for C. lottesville, Gordonsville, Stations Ches. & Ohio’ Rout b ky Mount, Danville and Stations bet toon Lyn id Danville, Greensboro, Raleigh, tween Lynchburg and Danville, Greens 1 Charlotte, Columbia, Auzusta, — Atlan Birming han. Montgomery, New Orleans, Texas and Calif Pullinan Sleeper New York to M tgomery in, couneo- tion wit! man Sleepers Montomery jew Or- Jeans and Mann Boudoir Sleepers for Birmingharn Vicksburg, and Shreveport. an Sleeper Danville to Columbia and Aurusta. "Solid tral to Sundays, 2:30 P. M—Daily, except Sunday, for Manassah, Strasburg and intermediate stations 30 P. estern Express Daily for Warrenton, Charlottesville, Louisville, Cincinnatt, Sleepers and Solid Trains Washington to Louisville; ais) for Lynchburg, Bristol Memphis, Little Kock, and all’ southwestern Through Pullman Sleepers Wi ‘to Memphis without change, 11:00 P. M. 3 ‘S pure, Danville, Raleixh, , Auirus' Jeans, Texte aud Californie, Palins Ws New 200 A. Duily; arrive yi i Ais, Returaing leave Round Hill 6:08 ax Erk) 2 umendinoeed 701 Feu a eeed, and checked at ofc, Haliroad, Tas Le ta Passenger rot Bete, POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. . VERNONI MT. ©-12:2-5, Sunday, from 10 to, - In presenting THE EVENING STAR in it new dress and improved form, attention is called to ite peculiar merits as a news and family paper, as well as to the extraordinary advantages it aforde to advertisers. 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