The National tribune., 1882-12-14

pollcd 81, ,O54 votes, and North Dakota 16,319
votes. Only persons who came to the Territory
prior to August were entitled to vote. In the
southern half of the Territory not more than
eighty per cent of the full vote was cast.
certificate of election was issued to James
o. Broadhead, Tuesday, the Democratic candi-
date for Congress in the Ninth Missouri dis
trlct. A certificate was refused to DIR. ). Ill.
Mclean, who claims to have been elected to fill
out the unexpired term of the late Congressman
Allen the Secretary of State holding that the
district had been legislated out of existence.
The total vote for Secretary of State of
Iowa at the last election was as follows: Hall,
Republican, 149059; Walker, Democrat, 1l2,-
$50; CASTOR, Greenbacker 30,617, with num-
Der scattering. Halls plurality, 36,57l; ma
jority over all, 5,704.
PERSONAL
Colonel John W. Porter, president Of the Iowa
State Agricultural Society, died last week.
JEFF Davis is to pronounce the eulogy at the
| unveiling of the recumbent statue of Gen. K.
+. Lee at Lexington, Va, next June.
A complimentary banquet is to be given to
Frederick Douglass in Washington on New
Years Day next, at which ex-senator B. X.
Bruce will preside.
Mrs. Anderson widow of the hero of Fort
Sumter, is spending few weeks in Washing
ton with her three daughters. After the holi-
days they will all go to Florida for the benefit
of the health of one of the young ladies'
Princess Louise and the Marquis Of Lorne
arrived at San Francisco Sunday on her
Majesty's war ship Comus. The forts in the
harbor all fired saluteS, and as the Princess and
her consort were leaving the ship, another
salute was fired
Ulysses S. Grant Jr., and his wife, Fannie
c. Grant, have sold to Jerome B. Chatfee, of
Colorado, their residence at % West Fifty
eighth street. New York, for $4,000. Mr..
ChafIee owned the property in 1879, when he
conveyed it to the present Mrs. Grant
Mr.. John B. Cough has recovered his health,
and is now leCturing nearly every evening.
Mr.. Cough is now in the sixty-ffth year of his
life, and the forty-tirst of his career as a lee
turer. 1t is estimated that he has travelled
44s,OO0 miles, and delivered $3.50 lectures to no
less than S,500000 persons.
On Tuesday last Mr. P r Barnum-of the
original and only greatest show on earth -"
celebrated the semi-centennial anniversary of
his release from the common Jail in Danbury,
Conn, where he had been for sixty days i'm
prisOned for an alleged libel published in his
paper, The Herald of Freedom.
The Pennsylvania Board of Agriculture has
received reports from its $50 official reporters
and makes the following estimate of the crops
of 1882: Wheat, 22,425OOO bushels; corn,
39,S75, 900 bushels; oats 34580 600 bushels; rye,
5,S05,Oo0 bushels; potatoes, 13,760,000 bushels;
tobacco, 28, $50, 900 pounds.
The big bridge over the East River at New
York is so near completion that the foot-path
promenade will be open for foot passengers by
the middle of next month. The contract for
the furnishing ofthe cars which are to draw pas
sengers has been let. A special committee has
been appointed to decide what shall be the
prices for crossing. 1t really looks as though
the bridge will be finished in few months.
General Sidney Burbank, u. S. A., retired,
died Thursday, in Newport, Ky. He was a
graduate from West Point in 1929, and served
in the Black Hawk and Seminole wars He
served in the Army of the Potomac during the
late war, and was brevetted brigadier- general.
His age was seventy-four. His son, Clayton
Burbank, is a lieutenant in the Tenth infantry
In the suit of James F. Molloy, citizen of
Edgefeld, South Carolina, against James Cor
don Bennett for libel on him, published in
the New York Herald the jury in the United
States Circuit Court brought in verdict of
$4,000 damages for the plaintiff. Counsel for
defendant moved for stay of Judgment, and
gave notice of a n otion for new trial.
Joe Coburn, the pugilist, was released from
Sing Sing prison last Thursday. A large num-
Der of his friends escorted him to New York.
where reception was given him. On March 6,
1877, he was sentenced TO prison for ten years
for shooting and dangerously wounding police
men Tobias and Jerfies, in front of his saloon,
October IL, 1876. Three and one-half years
communication for good behavior were allowed
him, and the remaining nine months were
taken off by the governor.