Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1883 — POLITICAL POINTS. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL POINTS.

Capt. W. P. 'Black, independent candidate for Congress in the Third Illinois district, has abandoned his recently begun contest against the Hon. George IL Davis. John B. Manning, Democrat, the most extensive maltster in the United States, was elected Mayor of Buffalo by a majority of 3,510 votea The election in the Ninth Congressional district of Indiana, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Orth, resulted in a triumph for the Republican candidate, Charles T. Doxey. The National Tobacco Association has passed resolutions favoring a tax of 8 cents per pound on tobacco and #3 per 1,000 on cigars, with a rebate equal to the reduction, to take effect May 1. The Republican caucus of the members of the Illinois Legislature, on the fifth ballot nominated Gov. Shelby M. Cullom for United States Senator, in place of David Davis His chief competitors were ex-Sena-tor Oglesby and Commissioner Green B. Raum. A The Elections Committee of the House of Representatives will report in favor of seating Caine, the monogamous Mormon Delegate from Utah. By a vote of 6to 4 they decided to end the Buchanan-Man-ning imbroglio in the Second Mississippi district by deciding the seat vacant.