The National tribune., 1885-01-08

week read thus:
ILLINOIS.
send petition with 56 names, and could have got
more had not sickness prevented. 1t is signed by
Democrats, Grecnbackers independents and Re-
publicans.-R. p. Stowe, Perry, Ill.
Inclosed please find petition with SO names.
would have got more had the weather been better
"A. C. Stage, Utica Ill.
1 return petition with $50 names.-John Ken;
nedy, MarenGo, III.
INDIANA.
send petition with 100 sgnaturcs Could have
got more but thought had better send on at once
Geo. w. Barnhart, Cromwell, Ind.
1nclosed find petition with 50 names. Two more
in circulation here.-H ii. B. Miles, Bowling
Green, Ind.
The petition you sent was at once filed. Not
one ohjected.--John Averill, Waterloo Iowa.
send petition with 81 names. | could have got
lots more if l had had time.-James w. Dawson,
Brooks, Iowa.
secured the 100 signatures to inclosed petition
in about three hours.-Jerry Runile, Lisbon, iowa.
got 100 names to petition. Nobody objected to
sign IT'D. w. Moss, Lineville, Iowa.
l send you names of ll5 citizens in favor of the
Mexican Pension Bill.-H. A. Web5er, Brighton,
Iowa.
send petition with l62 names appended thereto.
got them all in two days.-N. Il. Marshall Ting
ley, Iowa.
could fill petition that would reach from
Maine TO 0regon-J. B. Coutant Let's, Iowa.
] could have procured many more names If
had had tme.-J. NJ. Randall, birmingham, Iowa.
KANSAS.
I send petition with 100 names I got them all
In a day and half-George NJ. Williams, Tonga
noXie, Kan.
secured the los names appended to petition in
less than half a day.-Lenan Jones, Sedan, Kan.
send petition herewith signed by IS voters of
this neighborhood.-Jo ]. Osmer, llndale, Kan.
send you petition with go names. and find no
objection to it anywhere,-Thomas Watson, Paris,
Kan.
return petition with Al names OF soldiers and
citizens.-Isaac ii. Marrs Mound City, Kan.
KENTUCKY.
got the 63 names to petition in less than half
day.-Henry Brauehton HaZelpatcll. Ky.
return the petition with lis names; 80 per cent.
of the people i'll favor OF it.-Miles A. Taylor,
CaneyViile, ny. 50
NORTH CAROLINA.
Only one man refused to sign.-T. L. Walker,
Bright's Creek n. G.
MAINE.
send you petition with l13 names-all secured
within five hours.-Edwin A. Pratt Hartland Me.
i send petition duly signed. Only two persons
refused TO sign it.-E. q. Small jr., South Lubec,
This petition, with ss names is the second one
sent you from this place, and makes l26 names in
ALL. IL. Caldwell, Oxford Me.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Seth B. Wixon, of West Harwick, Mass desires
that the subioined list of the names of soldiers
and sea captains of that town, who have pettioned
ican Pension Bill with Amendments, be pub
lishcd in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, as follows:
David III. McVea, Ralph Cummings Edward G.
Chase, Joseph A. Breks, Seth b. Wixon, Thomas II.
Grew ZebinaS S. Rowland, Il, X. Chase, G. W. Chase,
Nehemiah Smith, Job ID. Chase, Edwin Berry,
Frederic Cobb and Joseph Ashley. Ihave received
other petitions from your Office, which will
deavor to present before adjournment-N. II.
Davis.
MICHIGAN.
Men Of all political parties signed-especially
very best men, Only a few, and OF very small
calbcr, reiused-Leland Fisher Decatur Mich.
asked 81 men to sign petition, and it has "a
sgnatures.-E. d. Young, Chesanng, Mich.
got the ls7 names in less than day. Not one
In 30 refused to sign, and some hunted me up for
fear they would not have the opportunitys-Denns
Wright, Co. K, 9th Mich.
/ return petition with 100 names. Everybody
responded willingly and wished it success--Icd-
ward Coffin, Clinton, Mich.
NEW YORK.
Every man to whom l showed the petition to
signed it.-John johnson. HomowaciS n. Y.
succeeded without trouble in getting 10 names
to petition.-Wiilis Pixley, Conkiingvie, N. Y.
1 send petition filled with many Grand Army
boys names.-A. p. Boardman. Keeseville. N. Y.