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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1877
Page
4
A broad set of notes covers appointments in the US Treasury and Oregon, Rhode Island inviting a Presidential visit for an army reunion, church officials and editors retiring, high level diplomatic postings to Chili, and trials and crimes in multiple states. Reports include the London Times on Varna and other fronts, deaths, robberies, and troop conditions amid the war.
Gan Muces raided hostiles, defeating Lame Deer camp and killing about fifty with many ponies captured. Sitting Bull among the defeated. Also General Assembly adjourns after twelve days with union talks rejected. Numerous brief items follow on trials, ships, fires, earthquakes, and accidents.
The statistician reports 4,000,000 swine losses and over 20 million dollars in value from disease over the past year. Illinois suffered about one fifth of losses, with Missouri Iowa and Indiana together at 10 million. Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana combined about 1.5 million from losses. Exports of pork products last year totaled, the apparent loss equaling one third of that sum. Tur Chicago Tribune notes good cereal yields in Kansas Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota, while grasshoppers trouble parts of Kansas and Minnesota. A London Stock Exchange settlement sparks bear market turmoil. thirteen broker failures and Bradford district manufacturing strains reported. Public debt up to June 1 shown.
The sub committee on privileges and elections of the Senate left Indianapolis in special Union and Central Pacific cars bound for San Francisco to investigate Grover’s Oregon Senate election. In Norwich Connecticut the Republicans elected Col. H. H. Osgood mayor and the full ticket by about 550 votes.
The Railway Age notes 395 American locomotives worth 5.49 million dollars exported in seven years and the improving reputation of U S engines. New Orleans votes on a four year four cent tax to finish the Pacific railroad to Texas within twelve months, leaving 120 miles to grade. Cotton production is revised up to 4.5 million bales while Europe’s war slows consumption. Prices for cotton and coffee markets are discussed with expected trends for spring.
The State statistic shows a trade deficit of about 93.8 million for the year ending June 30 1876 with Britain North America excluded. The West Indies Brazil and Britain North America run sizable surpluses while England Germany and France are top customers for US goods. Net balance favors foreign markets though domestic exports remain strong.
The New York Bulletin highlights New York City debt of 160 million dollars, about 2.5 times the U S federal debt in 1860, with debt per resident at 133 dollars versus less than 50 nationally. It notes city taxation near 33 million dollars, 27.50 per head, and compares ten foreign countries’ per head taxes, warning that local tax shares support armies and civil government. It also remarks Chicago taxes around 10 per head locally and 5 more nationally, with national taxes added per person.
An excerpt discusses social hierarchy in Russia, noting meritocracy in public service, limits of noble titles, and the impact of Peter the Great. It describes shifting nobility wealth after serf emancipation, residence in St Petersburg and Moscow, and cultural life including opera, ballet, language, and religion.
Two young men from DunLeith NL fished a river trip with no bait. A dead fish eye was used on a hook, tearing out another eye during a struggle. The fish escaped, the eye was kept, and soon the same fish bit again and was found dead after swallowing its own eye.
The Paris Patrie reports that pilgrims to Mecca cast offerings into three sepulchres for Islam’s defense. It estimates at least $3,000,000 yearly, says vast sums came from a sepulchre opened in 1829, another opened in the Crimean War, and a third never opened since 1415, totaling about $120,000 across the three.
Micuart Ronson of Wareham Massachusetts suffered severe head and neck pains and a pin at times protruded from the ear canal. Removal with forceps brought relief, though the cause remains a mystery.
The report details P. T. Barnum proposing a ten thousand dollar cash reward for delivering alive the kidnapped Charley Ross or information leading to recovery. Barnum pledges not to identify mediators, and the Ross family agrees to immunity from legal action against custodians if the child is returned. The arrangement includes a delay before public notice and aims to shield those involved from exposure.
A Parisian husband and wife quarreled. She threatened to drown herself and jumped into the Seine. He followed and saved her but slipped back and nearly drowned himself. Police rescued both. they returned home as if nothing happened.
A promotional excerpt extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets as remedies for chronic illness and debility. Claiming to cleanse poisons and impart strength, it urges readers to purchase the products for improving vitality.
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