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lawfully qualified person as an elector for President 

 or Vice-President, or as a member of the Congress 

 of the United States, or to injure in person or prop- 

 erty on account of such support or advocacy, each of 

 such persons shall be pumsned by a fine or not less 

 than five hundred nor more than five thousand dol- 

 lars, or by imprisonment of not less than six months 

 nor more than six years, or by both such fine and 

 imprisonment. 



The election took place on November 5th, 

 and resulted as follows : First District Yeates, 

 Democrat, 12,084,- Martin, Republican, 12,135. 



Second Kitchin, Democrat, 10,804; O'Hara, 

 Republican, 9,682; Harris, Independent, 3,948. 

 Third Waddell, Democrat, 10,730; Russell, 

 National, 11,611. Fourth Davis, Democrat, 

 11,864; Turner, Republican, 8,353; Jones, In- 

 dependent, 2,911 : Fifth Scales, Democrat, 

 10,326; Tourgee, Republican, 7,680. Sixth 

 Steele, Democrat, 4,908; Oovington, Indepen- 

 dent, 258. Seventh Armfield, Democrat, 4,- 

 753; Brower, National, 3,650. Eighth Vance, 

 Democrat, 2,894; no opposition. 



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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. ABBOTT, Rev. 

 WILLIAM PENN, died in New York City, De- 

 cember 22d. He was born in Wilkesbarre, 

 Pa., December 31, 1838. He had been in the 

 Methodist ministry about seventeen years, was 

 pastor at different times in Albany and New- 

 burgh, and at the time of his death had charge 

 of the Thirtieth Street Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, New York. He was the Presiding 

 Elder of the New York district. Syracuse 

 University conferred upon him the degree of 

 Doctor of Divinity. 



ADRAIN, GARNETT B., died at New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J., August 17th. He was born in 

 New York City, December 20, 1816, graduated 

 at Rutgers College, New Jersey, in 1833, and 

 four years later was admitted to the bar. In 

 1856 and 1858 he was elected to Congress from 

 New Jersey, and served as chairman of the 

 Committee on. Engraving. 



AIGAN, Major JOHN, died at Central Falls, 

 R. I., September 3d, aged 44 years. During 

 the late war he served in the First, Third, and 

 Fifth Rhode Island regiments. 



AIKEN, FREDERICK, died in Washington, D. 0., 

 December 23d. He was Secretary of the Demo- 

 cratic Committee of Vermont in 1860, and was 

 one of the counsel for Mrs. Surratt. At the 

 time of his death he was on the local staff of 

 the Washington "Post." 



ALEXANDER, BARTON STONE, died in San 

 Francisco, CaL, December 15th. He was born 

 in Kentucky in 1819, and graduated at West 

 Point in 1842. He was employed in repairing 

 fortifications before and after the Mexican war, 

 and superintended the erection of Minot's Ledge 

 Lighthouse, at the entrance of Boston Harbor. 

 During the late war he was engaged in the 

 construction of the defenses of Washington, 

 and took part in the Manassas campaign of 

 1861. In the same year he was made brevet 

 major for gallant service in the battle of Bull 

 Run. In 1862 he became brevet lieutenant- 

 colonel, and in 1865 brevet colonel and briga- 

 dier-general. He was General Sheridan's con- 

 sulting engineer in 1864, and after the close of 

 the war he had charge of most of the public 

 works in Maine until 1867, when he became 

 senior engineer and member of the Pacific 

 Board of Engineers for Fortifications. 



ALEXANDER, HENRY, Jr., a leading banker 

 and prominent citizen of Springfield, Mass., 

 died there July 24th, aged 59 years. He served 

 two terms in the State Senate. 



ALLEN, GEORGE A., died at Flemington, N. 

 J., December 26th, aged 56 years. During the 

 late war he was a captain in the Third New 

 Jersey Regiment of Volunteers. He was an 

 influential member of the Republican party and 

 was the founder of the Huntingdon, N. J., " Re- 

 publican,' 1 ' which he edited for sixteen years. 

 He was one of the ablest and most prominent 

 lawyers of central New Jersey. 



ALLEN, WILLIAM F., died at Oswego, N. Y., 

 June 3d. He was born in Windham County, 

 Conn., July 28, 1808. In 1848 he was elected 

 a Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, 

 having previously served as United States Dis- 

 trict Attorney for the Northern District of New 

 York. At the expiration of his first term he 

 was reflected, and at the end of his second 

 term in 1863 he went to New York City, where 

 he practiced law for several years. He was 

 elected Comptroller of the State in 1867, and 

 during his administration the State debt was 

 greatly reduced. Before his term had expired 

 he was elected a Judge of the Court of Appeals 

 in 1871. 



AMAT, THADDEUS, died at Los Angeles, Cal., 

 May 12th, aged 67 years. He was the Roman 

 Catholic Bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles. 



AMES, JOHN, Jr., died in San Francisco, Cal., 

 April 6th. He had been recently appointed 

 United States Surveyor-General for that State. 



ANDERSON, LARZ, a brother of General Rob- 

 ert Anderson, died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb- 

 ruary 27th ; he was born near Louisville, Ky., 

 April 9, 1805, and when very young graduated 

 from Harvard College. In 1834 he married 

 the youngest daughter of the late Nicholas 

 Longworth. He was a prominent capitalist 

 of Cincinnati, and was respected for his chari- 

 ties and public spirit. 



AYER, Dr. JAMES 0., died at Winchendon, 

 Mass., July 3d. By his manufacture of sar- 

 saparilla and other preparations, he acquired 

 a fortune which was estimated as high as $20,- 

 000,000. His estate comprised extensive prop- 

 erty interests in Lowell, Boston, New York, 

 and Chicago. He accepted the Republican 



