Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1883 — POLITICAL POINTS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL POINTS.

Jr 4e '£ H ■ *" % *» 3 y*' v # A vast concourse witnessed the inof Grover Cleveland as Governor New York, after which a public reception was held at the Capitol W. H. Bulkeley,Republican candidate for Governor of Connecticut at the election, positively refuses to accept office through the reversal of Democratic ballots in New Haven. Gee. Joseph Wheeler (Detfl.) was elected for the unexpired term in the Fortyseventh .Congress from the Eighth Alabama district, defeating McClellan, the Independent candidate J. D. Taylor, Bepublican, was elected to Congress as the successor of the late J. T. Updegraff, in the Seventeenth Ohio district,

Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts, in his inaugural message, recommends that all votes at elections be inclosed in self-sealing envelopes of the same appearance. The Legislature is asked to make death the penalty for the act of attempting to wreck a railway train. Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks has sufficiently recovered strength to write for the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association his views of the political situation.