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RONieLE. NOVKMKKU M, I8!)is. <c?. NO. II. Democrats Carry North Carolina by Over 25,000 Majority. > y v COL. ROOSEVELT WINS IN NEW YORK. ????? i * ??/ Next1 House of Representatives Will Probably .. be Democratic. y General Joseph Wheeler Returned to Congress Without a Single Vote Being Cast Against Him, Solid Democratic Delegations From Alabama and Louisiana. Texas Democrtic by 250,000. The Raloigh correspondent of the Charlotte Observer says: The election in this citj' wan as quiet as was ove* hold. .It only needed the ringing of church bollB to make it like Sunday. The vote pollod is heavy. There was uot tho Blighteet/^iBturbanoo at tho polls. Tho news rfoeived by Chairmau Simmons up to 8 o'olook says: Duplin gives a J)emooratio majority for tho wholo tioket. In Cumberland throe members of the Legislature are Demo, oratio. The whole Domocratio ticket is elected iu Alamanco. There aro big Democratic gains in Surry. There are big Democratic gains in Surry. Cleve land has oxcoeded oxpeotatiou. New Hnnover is Democratic. Bellamy is elected by a safe majority. Duplin gives 800 Democratic majority, Riohmond and Sampson are Democratic. The Re publicans concede Davidson. The Dem ocrats-carry Richmond by 1,000, a Democratic gain of 1,500; Robeson by H00; Wayne, 750 ; Franklin, 500, and tlip senatorial ticket is safe there. Harnett is oaf* by 200. Jute Carr telegraphs: "Wo have swept the deck in Durham town and burned the broom? 700 Dem ocratic. " Union eivoa .7011 majority and Rockingham 400. Reports Bay that ' Halifax has gone Demooratio. Wilson is couceded to the Democrats by 500, including, the Senator. Wayne gives tlilkfeStato ticket 000 majority, aud Robeson from 400 to 500. There is a Democratic victory in Granville. There is a big Domocratio gain in Craven. The election was quiet there and the ? (senatorial tickot is safe. Rowan gives from 1,000 to 1 , V?00 Democratic major ity; Gaston, 400; Rockingham, 400; Union, 700; Sampson county is. Demo cratic. " ' The Republican State Chairmnn gave out the uaws that at Palmyra precinct, Halifax county, Claude Kitohin and Het.ry White had seized the registra tion books and dettud the poll-holders to hold an election. The Demooratio Stato chairman soon received a report which showed the iact to be that the Republican rogistfar at Palmyra be came angry beoause he could not vote twico and bo chairman of the election beard . The Republicans also gave ' out a story that Oliver DockeryP Jr., had been rotten-egged and mobbed at - Ooldsboro and chased into a hotel. The Domocrats got the news that Dockery insulted some Demoorat at the polls, was slapped in the face and took refuge To a hotel, whence two policemeu escorted him to the train. V: interesting tele ay^wai ope from Ono of the m qntT: grams during the da; Newborn, saying thai *"D ? -J r - - C n uui as , saying that Mayor Denmson and all the white aldei man voted tho Demooratio tioket; that Robert Han oook and Seymour Hancock scratched the negroes on the tioket; that only four white men voted the Republican tioket, and that they were discharged; . aJeo that the Democrats may elect the member of the Legislature, as there are three sets of oaadidates. Returns from the first congrssional distriot did not begin to arrive until late. Chairman Simmons is advised of the following demooratio majorities there: Beau fort 200, Martin 150, Pitt 250, Greene about 25, Other reports which have come in, give tho following Demooratio majorities: Wayne 800, Johnston 1,800, Harnett 300, Guilford, 500, Union 1,200, Gaston 550, Halifax 1,800, Vance, 500. For the State and oonnty ticket. Re .. pnblican tickets, Forsyth is reported as 800 Republican ; Hendfamn 250 Repub can. It seems entirety reasonable to eajr that Wake will n 809- Democratic. Saaapaon ie said to pe oloe^, perhapa democratic, and Bobeaon at least 1,050. John WrOrmtamr wUa ftojubllwu hrtHeii f ?, M " oonfH 'tor Holtoa, nrwai if there ware uy electiorHUits said there were ' " " of Mf Uad. Jam tutCi> . MeDowellHr State, our judicial iioket will have 25,000 majority. ? ? (Jeueral Cox says there was o Pem ooratio gain of 2,800 votes iu Kdge* combo. There is great pleasure at the iiowa that W. J. Davis is olocteil Sen ator from New Hanover aud ftruus wick and that*. Buuoombe olects two Senator*. [ ?/'' ? THE yOTE BY COUNTIES. Buncombe. Returns from all the precincts in Buncombo county are not iu, but the indications point to the electiou of tho entire Democratic ticket. Chairman Murphy claims the county by 400. J u Ashovifle, the Democratic majority is expected to be about 200. The RepUb Jicau majority in the first aud second ^colored) preoiuots is cut3iowii about 2-Veach, It is believed that tho Dem ocratic senatorial ticket is oleoted, .though there are no official figures. Bteveus, Democratic candidate for judge of the Criminal Court, will prob ably be eleoted over Blytho, Repub licau. Crawford Elected in Buiicomh??. Crawford's majority in Ashevillo is 107. Two yoars ago Pearson carried the city by 149. in Hazel precinct, Pearson'achome, Crawford's majority was 5; two yoars ago Pearson oarried it by 7. Crawford's majority in the oouo* ty is estimated at about 800, which would mean a gain of (524 ovor tho last election. Reports from prqjynots in other counties show Democratio Rains on tho congressional ticket and tho Democrats predict Crawford's election. Craig, for the Bouse of Representa tives, carried the city by bver 300. Limestone township, 7ft Republican two years ago, givos 22 Democratic ma jority. * Wilson. h ?, Eight precincts giyo tho Domocrats 549 majority. The remaining four will run this ffiajorityC to over (100. Tho vote for congressional candidates was a little soatteved. Foxuitain, iudopeu* dent Populist, was Supported by tho Democrats generally, llis majority in the county may reach 400. The judi cial ticket rau ahead of the county v?Mo. The majority for thuse candidates may reach 6GO. Wilton town given a major ity of 477 Democratio. Connor, Dem orat, for the House of Representatives, 1 was elected by 500 majority. Tho fusion coditv chairman has conceded the county by 500 majority. All pre cincts beard from. A Democratic ma jority of 500 is assured. Forsyth. Winston and Salem will give a Dem ocratic majority of 500 ? not more tl^jju 250 each. Two years ago Winston went Republican by 258. The county gave a Republican majority of ovee 1,100. It will not bo over 000 this time. This msuros the electiou of - the Democratic candidates for State Senators in this senatorial election. The eleotiou was very quiet., with the exoeption of two fights in the morning. In the afternoon the colored men in one ward got togethoraud fired pistols at the whit? men who were at tho polls. The latter fired sovoral times and the negroes left in quick order. 0 Wayne. The statement is authorized by the chairman of the Democratio county ex ecutive committee that Wayno givos not less than 600 majority, a Democratic gain of 700. Thia has been the quietest election in years, except for one inci dent Oliver H. Dockery, Jr., fusion candidate for solicitor, who cam# down from Raleigh, went to Webbville, a suburban precinct of Goldaboro. The Democrats protested against his pres ence with tho negroes, and the result was that DoWerv'e jaws were slapped. Dockery, returning to Ooldaboro, took tfc? train for Raleigh. Ooldsboro and Wayne eeonty owwSelrelngly Demo eratk l^e ^natatiel district is 4* fe. Rewaa givee a Democratio majority (about 1,400, a faissfsMriy t?Opsr MvDowcli. McDowell county >h a i i r o 1 >' I - emtio by u nafo majority. In t l?o ti>,'ht l>et wcoii whites and negroes. one negro was shot. More trouble is expected. Cumberland. Crt>8? Croek township, inoludiug Koyotteville, gives a Demooratio ma jority of 884, a gain of noarly 270, I'eafrce'a Mill ?? Democratic majority of IS, a Kt?tn of i>0 votes. The Democrats gained about 60 votoa iu Black River township, but did uot carry it. Tho Democratic losses iu Seventy- Ural township are 17 only. The losses so fur, summing up, seem to give l'eniooratio tioket 301 net gain In eight townships, with four to hoar from, two of which will increase and two d?; create the gain. The whole Domocratio ticket in probably eleoted in Cumber . laud by u small majority. AJtnough nil the retujne are not in, enough is as cprtaiued to warrant the assurance thut tho county is safely Democratic by from 160 to 250 majority. Rockingham. Ko'uruH f'oiu IU preeincb*, out of CO, iu the oouu''* ?^ow a Democratic gaiu on tho oongrei'b^ual tioket of li*4? 'Die j precincts unheard from aro Deiuo cratio strongholds, and conservative OHtimntes put Kitohin's majority in tho oounty at not less than -460. The eutire I)emocratio ticket is thought to bo elected by a safe majority. Tho eloe tiou passed off quietly. A heavy vote was polled. In Reidwille, Democracy wiasby from 800 to f>00 over the fuaion i#ts ?ud that takes in every candidate. Lindsay, for tho Senate, Idnda the county ticket. Kit.ehin makes great gains in every preoinct. Randolph. Randolph is still in the Republican column. The Demoorats havo cou ceded the eleotiou of the Republican ticket at this hour, 1 a. m., by a majority of about 5J8. It is so very oloso that it will take the offiajal couat to decide. Every preoinot ex'cejpt two h^s oeen heard from and there is little hope for the legislative ticket by tno /Democrats. but the other two precincts may eleot It by 10 majority. Atwator ran a little behind the tioket fidgecombe. n Tarboro seven preoincts out of IM give the Demooratio legislative ticket. 1 , 800 majority. Tarboro shows n .1 )em ? ooratio goiu of 080 over the vote c?f '00. Tho Demooratio legislative ticket ih olocted by 1,800; the Defttoarjitic Stato tickot will have 600 majorKy. Guilford. Tho olection passed off quietly. Thoro was no diaturbance wttfetovor. The indications are that Guilfordwiil, go Domooratio from 000 to 800. Tho entire Democratic ticket ia elected. Robeson. Robeson oounty gives a Democratic majority of 012. The fifteenth! R#n?to rial distriot.is saved. Robeson is held und the Htate is eaved! The J)emo cratio majority ia fully 1,000. Orange. The State tioket ia Democratic by 200 majority. The Legislative tioket is Demooratio by 860. - Chanel HiU ' goes Democratic and Orange oatinty follow* suit. Tho county tioket is eleoted by a majority of from 800 to 600. Kitohin'H majority in the oounty is at least 400. There are Democratic gains' through out the county. 4 Davie. The Republican senatorial and. coun ty tioket is eleoted by not exceed in* 100 majority. The Demaoratic shej-ift'and register are probably elected. Haywood. Tho indications axe that Haywood county has gone Dem.ocrMliot>y at least 1,000 majority. Mecklenburg. >So faithfully had Chaiifman McCall and the other Demooratio workers of Charlotte done their dttty, that it was oxpooted that Meoklenbura would go about 1,000 Demooratio majority? those figures being announced as the official expectations, bnt no one anticipated the hundaome majority of 1,700, which uho rolled up. Every Democratic official in the county is eleoted. Char lotte township went Demooratio by 1,186 votes. 1 i * i Ashe. Ashe oounty, at 8 o'clock, ia in great doubt. It looks as if the Demooratio and Republioana have about divided the oounty tioket The leglslativo ticket is very doubtful. Larga Demo cratic gains jtfe reported in some town* ships. j*' Anton. Anson county has had a great day for Democracy, The Democrats carry the county by not less than 60 majority for the county and Htate ticket. Burke. * Unofficial returns from all praoiacte in JBurW oounty, received up to 10 o'clock, show tha election of Julius H. Hoffman, Democrat, to the Legislature by a majority of 100. The majority for tho Demooratio eenatorial tioket is about the same as Hoffinan's. Manly MoDowell. Demooratio candidate for sheriff; has abool 800 majority over Bhuffman, Republican. octatio oou gresatonat, judicial and h'i.; inlatlvo ticket ih olortod by 000 ui.uin ity. Tlis was quiot. There woro great Democratic gains over 's'li. * Catawha. Returns from all but three precincts iu Catawba five a Democratic majority of 448. Complete returns canudt ro ducd tho majority below H75. I'lio en tiro 1 >emooistio tu kol ih elected. Rutherford. Returns from tho oouuty up to I : o'clock indicaW tho election of tlio on tiro Democratic ticket by mnro than 4tH) majority. . lUirhiiu. Durham oom/y'N eutire Democratic tioket is oleoted^by majoritio? ranging from 800 to OOU. Vouahee, Democrat, for tho Legislature, in elected for Con greaa Aitcl carries the oounty by about f>00. The senatorial aud judicial tickets iuo safe by good majorities. Alexander. Tho oatiro Democratic ticket ia elect ed in Alexander. Molntoah, for tho IIouho, i? electcd by about 100 ma ionty. I Cleveland. Cleveland oounty oleota tiie ontiro Democratic ticket, Stato and local. Conservative estimates place tlto in \ jovitv at 500, a great Democratic ;:am in ovary procinet. Iredell. liodeil makes a gain of 750 vot?ft, going Doiuooratio by 800 or moro. The oleotion of Menatorp i in district seems to ho assured ? livtry township iu the oounty shows .h6avy Democratic gains. yhiloh leading, with a majority of 200. ? Caldwell. Tho Democratic majority' iu Caldwell oouety iBovor8t)0 for all candidates ex oept iSpainhour for solicitor, who ruui l)robably 100 bohind tho ticknt. Halifax. Kcotlaud Nook's majority ia 511 ; l'al myra's 137 for the Democrats and noth iiiu for the Republicans, bocauso tuo,> refused to vote iu tho lejal boxoa. Tillery preoluot gives a good Demo eratio vote and Roseoeath 170 Democia tio, from what has bssn learned. Kverv thing in quiet .at all' products heard from and thorte has beou no trouljj* any whero. Pitt. The indication** at tho clone of tin polla aro tbal I'itl elects tho l??uislativ? and county ticket by about 250 major ity, a Democratic gain of #00 in tin count}'. Surry. Hurry oounty haa been carriod by tol Democrats by a safe majority. gCartoi ia elected to the House. The Senato) ia in doubt. V * Granville. The indications are that part o county, tickets is electcd. The countj ia claiined for the Democratic ticket. A large, vote was polled. It waa tin qultrfst election ever held in Granvillo. The negro vote was almost solid. Richmond. The indications are that Richmond has gone Demooratioby 1,000 majority, it is reported that Governor Russell was run out of Wilmington anil came to Hamlet, locked up in a baggago car. Alamancc. Alamanco ia rodcomod. Tho county is Democratic by from 25p to M00. ? Moore. Mooro has gone Democratic, Blac.k, Democrat, is probably elected Senator in the twenty-second district. New Hanover. New Hanover will go Democratic by .'{00 or more. Everything ia quiet. tho Cartaref. Tho Democrat* oarry tho county by from 200 to flOO. The member of the Houso of Representatives is elocted by from 100 to 150. The Htato congression al and senatorial tickets are elected by 200 majority. Duncan claims that it will take the official count to decide. Neutral Palat Saved Our Ships. "T am delighted to read In tho tele grams from Washington that the American war ships <u*o being pa luted white again," said Colonel K. >B. Brown at the Rubs House last night The colonel Ik from Virginia City, ami like most Ncvadacs ho oscillates be twv<?n the Rubs and. Palace? boards nt t>lieN "first and talks jiolltics In the ro tunda of the other. "White is the color of peace, and that Is "what suits me," continued Col onel Brown. "It suits me especially when it won in such a glorious fashion as* was sol by Dowe.v and Schley. When our floating fighting in&ciiincs visit oilier countries they will stiiH bo properly designated as tho wlilto navy, and no prettier or sturdier ships ever made furrows In the sea. "This changing in tlio' cx^lor of our ships Is expensive, but It is a good investment. When I waa at Santiago do Cuba on a press boat four weeks ago I took a good look at the war boats In t}cJr fighting paint feed it con vinced me that the VnrflrM ithn gnf_ up that ides waa no baOMded a ma teur. He knew wUdx be was doing, and the government waa wlae In ac cepting the suggestion. ) "The dirty, neutral dot of the v cr eels mode then look as it th ejr, were - merging ia4o the marine vraterscspe. fw eetrtd (caiidj M wlim UK) i&ipi ended Md the water began, ao that i^ was uracil more dUBoalt to draw a bead onjtjbem than it tber had been [ painted la oaf (tar tetor. The Span | tarda an poor a?artttm<a; of conrse, but LnteUara that oar ahlpe. gpcajsd Jhaay a shot ssd skell by patttsf on the ?oatral flat. Oar Amerteaa hdhw I Republicans Can) Now York State | by About 20,000, RESULTS IN OTHER, STATES, ~ ? kipiililu.tiis Cam Nebraska fur tiotcrnor \nil Will Prohabl) Control (lie Wvjfisla. lure v Republican to Succeed Senator Murpln to New \ork. > o . ? Nt:w Yohk (Spooiul). ? Theodore Roo*o\o!t, Republican, lute colonel of the t'nited Sluloi Volunteer Cavalry, lia.s boon elected (iovernor of this ?siniu by n plurality any wtioro from Is, 000 to JO, 000. All Col. RoosoVoH's associates on tho Kopublicnti State ticket arc probably elected with liiin.? I I > <? returns In*) li from tlroator Now ^ ork ii i) (I from ttiu counties outmdo of tin") ?iinuii'i|nl:ty aiu incomplete, 1 > n t enough Intvo been received to in dicnto a heavy falling oil" in tho voto up tho Stato, whilo that i:> tho city was well sustained. ' ho const, |ueuce is tho fiilllug oil* in tlio Ropublicau plurality iu tho Stato from 000 to tho approximated figures given above. Outside of (Renter Now York, i ho voto for Van W'yck is only about ouo lifth of ono per cent. above thai of I'ortor, in INiltl. There appears to ho a Imt.i of four Republican Con gressmen in tho Rrooklyu district*, tho second, fourth, llfth aud sixth ?ud Con gressman iv)uikk, who had a majority of about 0, 000 at tho election last voar, has boon dofoatod by Win, Aster ('hauler. In (he Alhauy distriot, the twentieth, (llynn, Democrat, ha* been elected to succeod Southwiok, Ropubli cau. Iu addition to the foregoing there are soemiugly, Domocratio gains in the eighth and thirteenth districts both iu New \ ork city, Daniel J, Kiordan, being eleotod iu tho ou\) and JolVerson Levy iu tho other, This makoH a total I >omocratio gain of several Congross mot). I'cnusy Ivania. I ho following namod Congrosmu6n have been oleoted in I'ounsylvnuia: l;i? Kt. district, II. J I . binghnm, Repub lican; soeond, Kobflrt Adftms. Jr., Uepiiblic/Ou; third, William MoAloer, Democrat; fourth, Jntuos It. Young, Republican ; fifth, A. < Harmor, lio publican ; sixth, Thomas S. Mutlor, Republican , *ovoiitli; Irving l\ Wan ger, Republican; ninth, Daniel Er men trout, Democrat; tenth, .Marriott Rrosius, Republican ; Twelfth, .Morgan' R. Williams, Republican; fourteenth, iMarline OlmRtead, Ropublicau; lif tooiitb, Charles frVWriirht, ltepublican; tOuii! ii, noiucu R. lacker, iiopub lican; oightoeuth, Thaddeus M. Mo lion, Republican; twentieth, Joseph-E. J'hi'opp, Republican; twonty- first, Summers M. Juek, liepublicau; twen ty-second, yJobu Dazwell, Republican, twenty-third, William 11. Graham, Ropublicau; t weuty-fourth, Ernest F. Achosou, Republican; twenty-fifth, J. Hhownltor, Ropublicau, Congressman at-largo, (ialusho A. (trow, Repub lican; roiigrossmnn-at-large, Samuel A. Davenport, Ropublicau. Nebraska. Scattering precinct returns indicate a political surpriso in Nebraska; inas much as thoy forecast the almost cer tain election of Maywatd, Republican, for Governor by a plurality of not less than :?,000. This will he a reversal of the verdict of 180(1 by nearly 16, 000. Tho count thus far is wholly on the Gov* ornor, bo lai ?ih tho Htate ticket is con cerned, and nn it is tho belief that Hay waid is ruuning h1 ichtly ahead of his ticket, it would make the results on tho remaining .Stato officers very close. The iuo?t Murpriaiug featnro of it all ia the Ktrength displayed by liepnbJicaii Ie^ij>i?tiv? cnudidatotf, tho few returns allowing them to evon ahead of Hay warn. A? theso aro from but one or two couuties, however, they fail to indirato asburedly tho complexion of the Logislaturo. Ohio. Congress, first district, Ohio, Wil liam R. Hhattuck, Republican, elected; second district, .Jacob H. RromwelJ, Ropublicau, elected; fourth distriot, R. It. (iordon, Demoorat, elected; fifth district, David Meekison, Demoorat. reelected; 6ixth district, Heth W. Rrowu, Republican, le elected; tenth district, Stephen R. Morgan, Republi cs n, electod; eleventh district, Chan. 1]. Groavenor, Republican, reelected; aeventeeuth district,' Jobu Anderson iMcDowell, Democrat, oleoted; nine teenth district, Chas. F. Dick, Repub lican, elected; twelfth district, E. X. II unguis. Republican, elocted over .1. J. Lent/. Demooritt. This district gave a Democratic plurality last year of!i,lM7. Twenty- first district, Theodoro E. Rurton, Republican, oleoted; twentieth district, F. O. l'hilips, Republican, elected. New Jersey. The iirat return* ooming in indicate that the Democrat* will carry Jersey City by about 2,800, and the oonoty of Hudson by between 6,000 and 0,000. No Republican* writ be oleoted to eijr Eisition in the oountr or oity. The emocrata have, made a daam awaatx (TriBa Will Lara mmtlj, U aot son, than 9,000 in the ooonty, William D. Daly ia elected^* Congreoe by proba bly 4,600, Alios T. McDermoU ia oleoted State Senator by nearly aa ameh.. Chair man Jfnrnky, of the En boon by 11,00^ Wn hare oleoted ? mnjoritj of the) Aooonmljr nnd wiU elect John KoonTUnited 8(?tU Bonn I tor.^' Altit T at tbOonme Ik await Inrthor lotoine boforn en y prediction*. United SUtee Son*" la Wa J. Bowel! telefTAjAe lW Ac otHMOtotf Fmoo from Camden nt mld ab<ht eWoRowo: "New Jeraay eloeto ?I zimIU: lien, Dmm>* ssas Spight, district, John ,1 Fit/.'nnM oui*cr?t; third (hstn(? vXuuxmi D iiKgs, Democrat; fourth district |:or. ?'!' i,( l,Vu>'>. Democrat; til 1 1, t\lH. rtu, I rank I. Wilson, Democrat J xth iliHtrict. M itoholl .May. Democrat' Ithaca city compile -,\os Uu, lMoil 1 ? ' ??> ? . ? uu W yok. I, 'j .*)(!_ ticor.jfia. Hoh)i Mf <<00,yi? ''.tun, ? r delegation to ConglOss, ?s 1 irst, Unfits i: I.ostoi ; second -lames M. ih.r.l. <? ?ow?S; fourth. Wiljiaiu < .A t,/IIIIM Mf h. LoounUs I.. I.ivni^iw.,; Xl|, \i V ' ' liar I J ft I ; o v?- n i I>t < ^ ), ,, \\ ' Maddox; oigljtn, Williaiu .\l. Uow.ud ninth, Pariah C. Tate; tenth, William ll. Fleuiiug; eleventh, William (I, Brautley. I leriiln. HeturiiH innuro tho roturn of N^\|. Spark man, Democrat, n\ tho first qKa gresaioual if iHtriot, and R. W. llama, Democrat, in tho second, Tho vote, judging from indication*, in from 1 o to UO per cent, lighter for both )>a rtioa than iu lMKii, the whole Democratic State tickot in clectod. 1 he I iff 1 1 1 vote ia duo to the teeblo roaial anco oft'orod. 1 ho constitutional nmondinontH re?|iiir *nK that bends of .State otlicers bo iu Hound surety nnd guarantee companies, woro carried overwhelmingly. , The Uopubltcana and Populists \\ i!|' not elect altogether over five members of the I.OifiHlaturc, if that many. Tho Legialaturo elected will chooao a nuo cotfsor to Samuel l'asoo., Minnesota. Both parties aro claiming the roault on tho State tickot. On Ijogialnturo, the Democrats havo all along conceded tho v ietory to the Ropublicana. Returns on Congressmen ate iusufticiout to do- I oide, although it ih probablo the Ito publicanH havo at least four delegates, i probably more. A| paroully tho roault will be decided by tho country, an the two citioa are about a atuud oft'. South Carolina. Elliott, Democrat, that; Tolbort, Doiuooi at, aecond ; Latimer, Democrat, third; Wilson, Domocrnt, fourth. Fin ley, Democrat, fifth; Norton, Demo crat, sixlU,r aud Stokes, Domoorat. sovonth congressional districts, elected by very largo majoritioa. The Demo crat io .State ticket was elected without opposition. Light voto oaat through out tho State. North Carolina. The Democrata have certainly won iu fifth, sixth nnd sevonth districts. Ro turua not conipleto, make it practically certain that they havo won iu tho first, third nnd ninth, in the second and fourth tho two Populists, who woro endorsed by tho Democruta, aro elect ed. The Republicans re elected Linnoy in tho oiglitu. It looka now that the Domocrta have made a clean sweep ox copt in tho eighth district, u'lmrii t!l0 majority is reduced. Tho Legislature ia two-thirds Demooratio ou joint ballot and the Demooratio judioial tioket is olected by not leas than 20,000. Two years ago tho fusionlstS carried the State by 40,000. Tho vote shows that there has been a revolution. Massachusetts. Congress, Massachusetts, first <Hb triot, George P. Lawrenco, Republican, eleoted; second district, P. II. Gillott, Republican, elected; third district, J. If. YValker, Republican, olected; fourth distriot, G. W. Weymouth, llepubli oan, elected; aixth distriot, W. II. Moody, Itepublioau, elected; seventh district, E. W. Roberta, Republican, olected; oighth distriot, S. W. MoCall, Republican, olected; eleventh district, C. P. Sprague, Uopublican, eloctod; twofth (liatrict, \y . C. Ijovorin^, He publicau, elected; fifteenth distriot, W. S. Groou, Roputilicau, elected. Connecticut. Returns from Connecticut leavo tb^ ('onuocticut delegation uuchaugod p ci-* htically. | Following is the C'ouneoticuk list complete. First distriot, E. Stovens Henry, Republican; second N' 15. Kperry, Republican; third district, Charles A. Russell, Re publican; fourth district, E. ,T. Hill. Republican. Texas. Hay ere carries Fort Worth by abont & It is estimated that lie will carry the State by 260,000. Louisiana. The I>^4aoorats in tonisiana made a clean aweep.alecting six Congresamou, three railroad commissioners and throe judges in the parish of Orleans The Congressmen eleoted are: First die trict, Adolph Myers; second Robert (3 / aT?.y; ?V"rd' ,Itobert F Kronssard": four h, Phanor Rreaseale; fifth, bam uel 1. Raird; sixth, Samuel M. Robert son. Missouri. Chairman Cook claims the election of the entire Democratic State ticket by a plurality of 85,000. tho election of I H and possibly 14 Congressmen, and the return of a safe majority to tho Legis lature, ensaring re-election of United States Senator Cookrell. Arkansas. Congress, first district, P. D. Mc CuIIocb, Bemocrat, ^fected ; second I)y^nocr*t, elected; third district Thc&a da McRae, Dem ocrat? alec ted; fourth! distriot, Wr I,t ZPFtM olwUd; sixth dia tract, 8. Bftindidge, Democrat, elected. touth districts, where tho Democrats had formidable opposit ion Tho result in that tho State rut urns u solullv Dem ocratic delegation of ten members, auil the feature of thi) election whs tho breaking hwav from (ion. Walker in tho Uopublioun stronghold* of tho ninth district, whoro ho was defouUul hy Itliea. All t ho Congressmen elected are promt 11011 t silver mou. Iowa. ('. 'I'. Hancock, chairman of tho Iowa I^opublicau Mtato coutiol committee, says: "Wo expect to carry tho- Slat? l? v about 50, OOU an. I elect tho outiro congressional liolo^'ittiou " ( ', V man, secretary of tho Democratic com mittee, flays: "From tho ivtnrug ro coivod so far tho Stato will iloptiblp can by gloat ly reduced mnjoi itios, " Till Nl XT CON'liKI SS. DIaIIiikuIhIiimI IIitlKltc.iB Ai thl*. i . A Helgiuu artist, one of Watteau's students-? Caesar Ducorn^t ? was liand-c less, having hcen born without arms, and with only rudimentary legs, and yet he carried off all the prizes at LI He, vvon golden medals In Paris, and had pictures In the J^ouvrc. He used to hold the palette with one foot stump, and use the brush with. 4 he other. A wlender scaffold was :-l>ullt in front of his easel, and on this ho wrIUied and twisted, climbed and crouchedirieavlng ? traces of coloY wherever he passed, traversing the canvas with the swift ness of. a fly upon the- wall. Antwerp - had an artist who coplqd the master pieces of Rubens, hands. All Ills work was his toes, and eo well did ho his pictures fetched a higher price for their artistic merit than Uioee oT Any other artist In the city. England's handless painter, Mr. Dartram Hlles, at tho age of 1G had exhibited his first plcturo at the Bristol academy, and succeeded in winning the national scholarship of tho value of ?100 for two years. Fie both paints and models with his mouth. Herr Adam Stepen of New York, Is another armies* artist, who guides the brushes with his toes. Tho young Swiss artist, Aimee Rapln, has no arms, hut manipulates her cray on In a wonderful manner with her right foot. A German lady, known as the "fobt artist" (because armless and painting with her feet), four years ago marrlod a professional signer. Tho wedding ring was placed on her fourth toe, and Bhe Kigncd tho register wl?b her foot. iiclpiag OM Mas Oat ' "It may no* tftrlke you as a plausible story, yul \f has the merit. of truth. I' rend hiw <|own iu Pennsylvania. XI whs in^tiie old dnys when lecluro* ^ were popular and people thought ? yood deal of solid information. ? -?..J. "There was one old cb*P In oar neighborhood, who thought he bad ? : call to Interact the people in some uf X~ tlio most ovstruse /problems of philoti* phy and mitlcil! economics.- Tik* truth irni tnkt" hg-wgrsn ?low W mu6 moWoaom that ordlunry Inb^Hfrnye ti^lu\ l nc Republicans, and 10'i ilciuitcraU I lectcd to the House. Ni:w Yoi<k, (Speoial). ~ UoluruH ro coivod in th'o ABSoctatod Press office in this city from all ' over tho oouu try \\ odnosdny morning, indicate that 85 RopublicniiH ami lui) I 'onio/rats have cortainly boon olootod to( seats in tho national llouso of H^ptoaeuta tivos. I'lio same districts /two years ago I'oturnod to tho lower house of Congress J ()."? ltopiiblic&UB aud 81) Democrats. Hosed solely upon the os timutoain (Iioho districts a Kopnblican loss of aud a Domooratio gaiu of 21 is indicated. - Those ostimatos concodd to tho Democrats all of tho congres sional districts in (Ireator Now York except one, tho tiftoonth. To tho Assooiatod Prosa, Secretory Korr Bind at I o'clock: "The Itepubli raun will have lost control of tlio House #f Koprosentativou. Wo will hnvofrom JHtl to 100 niombers aud will organize tho House of the lil'ty- sixth CongroM. Tho majority of tho opposition will-Be- - ? from 15 to 20 over tho Republicans and perhaps more. Our advicos indicato Domooratio gains in some of tho Stutes an follows; Alabama^, I llinois 5, Iowa 1, Kentucky il, Maryland a, Massaohu- y notts 2, Missouri X?, New Jersey 2. New^ York U, North Carolina 2, Pennsylvania fl, Virginia 3, West Virginia 1. ThiBia % total 01*87,. Ouo district in Dolaware Is doubtful with thoohanoos iu favor of the Democrats. In figuring a gain of throe iu Virginia Hooretary Kerr in cludes two diBtrie.lH which elected Democrats iu 1800, who woro unseated by tho pros>out House. Cuban and Porto Rican Bonds. Tho foreign bondholders have at last moved formally tp protect thoir inter cuts iu Cuba and .Porto itico. , The iuitial stops liavo boon taken through the agency of iho i- 1 ouch embaBsy at Washington, which in this easy acts no longor as tho representative of the Spanish govornmont, but for Frenoh Bubjects. The Teresa May be Saved Yel. Tho Merritt Wreoking Company has received information that the Maria Teresa is ushore at Cut Island. Captain ? - Chittenden will leave with the Merritl at once.