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Show SOME STATE OFFICIALS. The path to success for the. recently-elected recently-elected governor of Ivansas, Mr. Lewel-linp, Lewel-linp, lay ulong a canal. lie drove on the Erie's tou paLh in the sixties. Ex-Uov. IIovt's death leaves only two men living who have held the chief executive's ollice of reniisylvania Andrew U. Curtin and James A. !eaver, Jaracs Pollock and lien, llartranft are two others who have recentl' died. Gov. Rrsst:i.r., of Massachusetts, declined de-clined to approve a bill fixing his oili-cia.1 oili-cia.1 compensation at fS.OUO per annum, but Kilned it when it was made to provide pro-vide the hig-hcr salary for his successor, lie is now about to beforae an tfy.UlH) governor, as his own successor. K-(.!ov. Carcelon, of Maine, now eighty-live years old, is a rather spry old gentleman and fond of horses, lie may often be seen behind a. spirited yomify animal in the streets of Lewis-ton, Lewis-ton, and he handles the ruins with skill. Twenty-three horses may be found in his stables. |