31 Jan 1877
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Newspaper
Bismarck Weekly Tribune
Location
Bismarck, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1877
Page
1
The era sees Senate and states weighing the electoral bill amid Republican and Democratic tension. Reports cite Minnesota Delaware Connecticut and Maine legislatures backing the measure while Kentucky and Tennessee lawmakers debate implications. Public figures including Gov. Tilden and others face pressure over vote counts and potential troop use.
The Electoral Bill passed the House 191 to 86 and the President approved it in a special message. The Tripartite Commission will include Senators Edmonds Morton Frelinghuysen Thurman Bayard and Representatives Payne Hunton Abbott Garfield Hoar with Justices Strong Miller and Field, to review disputed returns.
A Detroit grocer recalls a stranger who returned over weeks with cash and goods, proving honest in a parade of small sums. He returned found money and overpaid, then vanished after promising a wallet and a large cash purchase, leaving the grocer puzzled.
A wheat speculator's lavish bets prompt a dramatic office moment when a box arrives labeled from New Orleans. Inside is an alligator tagged as a member of Louisiana's Returning Board, driving the room into chaos as peers pretend not to see it while the broker vows to quit drinking.
In a Harper's Monthly January item, President Orton cites a rickety old darkey tale to mock the notion of telegraph science. The joke imagines pinching the telegraph dog’s tail in Washington and hearing a bark in Hoboken, New Orleans, and Brooklyn.
A Marietta Street man is awakened by his wife who insists she hears a sound like a ticking watch and the bed ticking. The man dismisses it, and Maria has gone home to her mother, Alants Constitution.
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