Show THE ELECTIONS abo result of the in the eastern states has been a complete sur csc to both after the ohio election the democrats were very confident of success in tho november states but republican successes in the north aie everywhere reported new york pennsylvania and massachusetts chu have switched the result is that next year tho democrats cannot count on electing a president as they had bored to do with new york and pennsylvania will stand with i solid front and a republican will without doubt occupy alie white house for four ears more ahe cause of the democratic defeat 13 due to the poor judgment and bid whiskey deal in bv cleveland in new york but lei s pei feay and political bugaboo all through his term in and the uniting of tle factions of the republican party in both pennsylvania and new york but the hardest part of the defeat 11 the of ben butler s hopes nothing would avail to rp seit him in the gubernatorial hair ot massachusetts and crushed b the w eight of atis hu sinks to rise nomore not but what he w ill endeavor pace nix like to rise from his political ashes but that were impossible with his election this fall he would have been available as a democratic presidential candidate but that party can afford to no roan who cannot carry his own state hov jou T delegate to congress has remembered the in the distribution of public documents ind has hid forwarded to us the report on population compiled from tle census of 1880 it contains very valuable information on every item relating to the number race color occupation ets ot the inhabitants of every state Tern tory county city or town in the union ahe table on illiteracy in the different states and territories is especially interesting but it mikes a bid showing for the southern as against the northern states for houi lind hon came accept our thanks THE claim of a hebrew gentleman to be exempted from serving on a coroners joiy on the ground of his being a descendant of aaron the high priest and forbidden in that character to ap i dead body seems a strange one to advance and io many card have passed since aarons death that the fact of being directly descended from him must in the day be dim cult to establish in england it is considered a great thins to be able to trace back to a mm who came over with the conqueror Con in france a nobleman is booie rooie than satisfied if ho can prove that any one of his forefathers took part in the crusaded 3 what however in point of antiquity is the first crusade Cru sada A bat i the invasion of england by abo normans compared with such an event as the escape of the israelites from egypt and the giving out of the law in the wilderness wild einess foi these and especially the latter aia the 1 istone performances with which the ancestors of mr lewis david cohen the aho vho refuses to enter unto a corpe corp e is associated mr cohen had been hac tunes fined when he at last appealed to the at quarter sessions who after hearing his evidence and ra greiving the walten testimony of the rabbi as to the descent has ordered tl e i emission of tha fines A airl writing from a mormon set clement m nevada davs brother wadsworth Wads woith is preparing pie paring foi cold veathur he aiom lofter rutih another one of his wives and now has both women within the vil laap A woman to bug up before and another to hup up behind is a very comfortable thing in winter I 1 wish I 1 was a man mi berga abi S P C A man saya it is cruelty to animals to catch fish with a hook there be much fun in if a min had t dive under the water and hold water to a ash h nose until it became and then hit it en tho head with a hammri |