POLITICAL NOTES for the first time in the political history of the united states there ie this year a woman elector she waa chosen in wyoming on the bryan ticket the proposition submitted to the voters of missouri to change the capital of the state from jefferson city to sedalia has been defeated Sef lalia is a town of inhabitants jefferson city is a town of the two towns are not very far apart and jefferson city is nearer the geographical centre of the state but sedalia has by far the better railroad connections the two bit cities of missouri t louis and kansas city are on the extreme east and west of the state one on the mississippi and the other on tb missouri neither is fitted oa geographical grounds for capital purposes the voters of missouri appear to have thought that as they get a first class city for its capital a change from jefferson city to sedalia would be undesirable for he cirit time in a national election the republican national committee closed the canvases without a dollar of debt outstanding and with iu the party treasury ia 1883 a year ot success euc cess and in year of defeat the republicans co ed the campaign in debt the closest tor any office at the recent election was over the state in south dakotah alio republican candidate won it by a majority of two votes in a total poll of more than the result was acquiesced in without contention the bayah electors and state candidates won the other offices things are done differently in hungary during the recent elections for the diet at budapest two candidates for the same beai received exactly the same number of votes they took a somewhat romantic method of deciding the matter which had been left undetermined by the voters they fought a duel one of the contestants was killed the other received a certificate of election to the hungarian diet voting by machinery did not prove to be altogether a bucce ss at to recent trial in the city of rochester where the inventor of the machine major myers resides much difficulty was expert encee in many districts from the mechanical ch anical catching 0 the knob on the exit dour whereby tho voters were delayed from five to fifty five minutes the advocated of the myers system of voting allege that failure of the knobs on the exit door to work was due to the inequality 0 the floors of the voting places which prevented tho machines from being plumb in one of the districts a voter he may have been a populist was imprisoned for an hour until the knob of the exit door could be made to work then he went home