Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1883 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The New Jersey Senate has passed a bill forbidding the sale of cigarettes or tobacco in any form to minora The result of the late election for county officers in Falls county, Tex, was decided by the votes of seventeen naturalized Ohinamen, and now the defeated candidates are contesting the election upon the ground that a State law passed in 1875 limited the issuance of naturalization papers to white foreigners, and, it is claimed, disfranchised Chinamen who had already taken out naturalization papers. A high-license act has been adopted by both houses of the Missouri Legislature The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill to prevent delay or discrimination by railroad or transportation companies. A bill prescribing the whipping-post as the penalty for wife-beating has passed the Illinois House of Representatives. A convention of Rhode Island Independents assembled at Providence and nominated ex-Senator William Sprague for Governor. Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts, vetoed the bill making appropriations for charitable and reformatory institutions of the State. The bill to settle the Tennessee State debt at 50 cents, with 3 per cent, interest, passed both branches of the Legislature The President has appointed A. N. Wyman, Assistant Treasurer of the United States, to be Treasurer, vice James Gilfillan. Rhode Island Republicans met in convention at Providence and nominated A 0. Bourne for Governor and O. A Rathbun for Lieutenant Governor. An encounter took place in the Senate chamber at Harrisburg. Pa, between Senators McKnight and Emory. The latter had accused the former of misrepresenting his constituency; the lie was passed, and an exchange of blows followed. Bystanders interfered and separated the belligerent statesmen before either had “knocked out” his antagonist