Europe clamps down as Germany suppresses socialism
Foreign news reports a Germany-wide push to curb socialism and all Communist plots as the National Legislature may convene soon. Other items note a 250 fatal coal mine disaster in Lancashire, Gonzales elected president of Santo Domingo, Berlin trials for disloyal speech, Lisbon earthquake, and the Molly Maguire execution in Pottsville with a gruesome hang.
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Germany
Lancashire
England
Gonzaxzs
Santo Domingo
Berlin
Reichstag
Lisbon
Portugal
Peter
Chagres
New Granada
Notable Deaths And Nominations Across Terse Notices
Maj. William J McDowaxn longtime Senate chief clerk dies. Gen Grant and family expected in Berlin on the 26th. Marshal Count Barasway D Himumis dead. Gen Jon C Fremont nominated for Arizona governor. Tomas Winans Baltimore billionaire dies in Newport R I. Mrs Sanan Conwix widow of Gov Corwin dies at 83. President nominates Ernst Dichman Resident to Colombia A S Benjamin Petts Helena Montana governor nominee Peter Negley US assistant treasurer Baltimore.
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Willam J. McDowaxn
United States Senate
Grant
Berlin
Acarne Barasway D'Himumis
France
Jon C. Fremont
Arizona
Tomas Winans
Baltimore
Newport
R. L
Sanan Conwix
Gov. Corwin
Lebanon
Warren County
Ohio
Ernst Dichman
Wisconsin
United States of Columbia
Benjamin F. Petts
Helena
Montana
Peter Negley
United States
National Greenback tickets and state conventions listed
Nominations by the National Greenback party in Maine at Lewiston on June 5 are shown, with gubernatorial nominee Henry Smith and state officials named. Other conventions in Indiana Missouri and Oregon yield various state tickets and legislative outcomes, while Senate and House actions cover election investigations, tariff and army issues, and assorted bills and appointments.
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Joserh W. Saran
Maine
National Greenback Party
Lewiston
Grand Rapids
Mich
Henry 8. Smith
Lysander Woodward
George H. Bruce
Levi Sparks
Herman EE. Goeschel
Frank Damon
Land Office
John A. Elder
Durng Pacsven
State Board of Education
Arvine A. Sapp
Indiana
Isaac 8. Moore
A. O. Miller
George F. Herriott
D. P. Baldwin
St. Louis
Oregon
Congress
Stanley Matruzws
Ohio
Louisiana
Potter
House
Buatler
Lansing
Tax Senate
Stanley Matthews
Senate
Matthews
James E. Anderson
Tance
Anderson
Con— Y Matthews
Thurman
Turrapay
Voorhees
Tipton
Dlinois
United States
Supreme Court
Fray
Jane
Indian Bureau
War Department
Jannuary
Hovss
Committee On Appropriations
Boxns Called In Big Treasury Totals and Crop Stocks
Financial and Industrial notes show boxns totaling 5 060 000 called in by the Secretary of the Treasury last week. Chicago world’s fair funds are discussed with involvement of West Coast figures. Chicago elevators report wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley stocks totaling 2 746 846 bushels vs 5 337 418 a year ago.
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The
Treasury
Chicago
Cheaco
Syracuse Standard
LYNCHING IN POINT COUPEE PARISH LEADS TO HANGINGS
A violent incident occurred in Point Coupee parish where five Black men were hanged following allegations of attempting to murder Wils A. Desierin, a bookkeeper connected with Butler Stillman & Hubbard. The case involves financial scandal and defalcation of 59,000 dollars. An Oroville dispatch mentions Dr. B. F.
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Point Coupee Parish
A. Desierin
Butler, Stillman & Hubberd
New York
Oroville
Ont
B. F
Dr Riggs and the Laughing Gas Yarn Behind Mark Twain
The Hartford Times recounts how Dr.Riggs first administered laughing gas during Horace Wells discovery and how Mark Twain sought the tale for embellishment. Twain demanded the story but faced a $200 bill for mechanical services after Riggs began work and lodging the tale to be published.
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Horace Welle
Welle
Sam Cooley
Joseph H. Twichell
Asylum Hill Congregational Church
Iggs
Mr. Twichell
Dr. Wells
Mark
Europe
Dr. Riggs
Charles E. Perkins
Hartford
Population figures for United Kingdom and regions 1878
The Registrar General estimates England and Wales mid 1878 population at 24,854,397 up 307,088 from last year. Scotland at 3,593,729 up 3,212. Ireland at 5,433,640 up 97,245. United Kingdom total 33,881,966, up 437,547 from last year.
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Great Britain
England and
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
United Ki
Tuileries Restoration Plan For Modern Art Museum
The Tan Paris Tuileries Commission urged restoring the ruined palace at about $800,000 and converting it into a museum of modern art. The Chambers are to be asked to approve the scheme.
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Tan Paris Tuileries Commission
Grant Denies Taylor Welles Fiction In Interview
Gen. Grant rebuts Taylor and Welles criticism of his Virginia campaigns. He insists no conference with Lincoln or Stanton occurred in 1864 and rejects claims of advancing on the James River costing 100,000 men. Grant recalls his Washington visit, Lincoln's support, and his own plan to beat Lee.
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Paris
New York Herald
Grant
Italy
North American Review
Richard Taylor
Virginia
Atlantic Monthly
Gideon Welles
Welles
Gen. Taylor
Mr. Lincoln
Taylor
Oat Lincoln
Lony Stanton
James River
Lincoln
James
Mr. Stanton
Stanton
Gen. Grant
Washington
Orpheus ©. Kerr
Bob Shorty
Lee
Curious Bestiary Shrines and Odd Animal Tales
A column of strange animal anecdotes from across towns and cities, recounting multiheaded creatures, fourwing geese, a twoheaded lamb, a cow with a long stomach stick, a dog attack incident, and a partridge turkey nest, interspersed with science notes, caveats on adulterated liquors, and brief literary and scientific tidbits.
The Wandering Jew Legends Across Europe
A Hebrew point of view surveys several European tales of the Wandering Jew, noting variations. One version places the cry of rest at Ahasuerus’s gate, another has Cartaffilons delaying Jesus, and a third links the Jew’s endless wandering to fear of divine wrath, with age barely aging him.
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Jesus
Ahasuerus
Matthew
Paris
Tribunal of Pilate
Cartaffilons
Jesua
The Nail in the Skull and the Murderer Actor
A long ago cau nter killed his wife by a nail in the skull and fled, becoming an actor. In a Shakespearean scene on a burial ground stage a skull reveals his past crime via a nail in its skull leading to madness and confinement in a mad house.
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Caunter
Henriet
Hamlet
Yorick
Young Corsican Boy Hero of Burning Deck Dies in Naval Disaster
Owen Casabianca a Corsican youth and son of Louis Casabianca served aboard the Orient during a 1798 battle. At ten he stayed at his post amid fire and smoke, refused to abandon his battery, and perished when the ship exploded, his body later found among wreckage.
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Owen Casabianca
Orient
Casabianca
Fragmenta
Box tortoise sighting tracked across towns and years
Mr D H Willard of Capital Avenue reports a large spotted hinge tortoise found in 1838 on the east farm near Newington junction, reappearing in 1862 westward after crossing two bridges and three rails, then seen again on July 18 near the New Britain line and marked 1878 before release.
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D. H. Willard
Capital Avenue
East Farm
Newington
Nerr
New Britain Line
Peng Yee
Pacific Coast
Hartford
The Mystery Of Gold Lace On Silver Thread
An 18th or 19th century account explains how gold lace is applied as a surface to silver silk foundations. It describes the elaborate layering of gold on silver, the wire drawing process, and a famed experiment by Dr Wollaston yielding a gold wire within silver, all noting the minuscule thickness of the gold film and its enduring bond to the silver core.
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California
Rochester
N. Y
M. Manrsrann
Henn
Pan
Cameron
Kansas
Buchanan
Christopher Mittehler
Germantown
Cal
Wollaston
Coventry
Paris polish and perpetual brightness in urban art
A historical note praising Paris for constant beautification and renewal of architecture. It contrasts Paris with London and New York, highlighting Parisian habits of keeping structures pristine and continually refined rather than letting soot accumulate.
Battle on a Ballground near Passaic
A baseball game drew about 400 spectators Sunday afternoon near Passaic with a fight erupting between players from Passaic and Paterson. The brawl continued for a time before police intervened.
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Passaic
Pura Viemgeoe
Paterson
Counterfeit Currency Ring Busted in New York
A forged currency scheme involving a $75 000 import plan and $50 counterfeit United States notes was exposed. Samuel Carpenter of the Pennsylvania Railroad finder flagged the fake bill as dangerous and directed it to the bank for authentication, with authorities tracing the spread through emigrants.
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Tur
United States Brewers’ Association
Baltimore
Evarte
France
Italy
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Owre
United States
Berks County
Norriatown Herald
Bom
Sing Sing
Kachen
Ean
United States National Bank
Samuel Carpenter
Pennsylvania Railroad
United States Treasury
Ee General Crm
Mt Carpenter
Bank
New York
Builder Recovers After Narrow Scaffolding Fall at Church
An Auburn Maine builder climbed 150 feet on a narrow High Street Church scaffold. He felt nausea and dizziness, fell flat on his back and lay for half an hour. He gathered himself, rose, finished the work, and descended, hoping never to repeat the ordeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Street Church
Terrible Caracas Region Earthquake Leaves Towns in Ruin
A powerful quake struck near Cua and Ocumare in Venezuela at 8:30 PM, flattening walls and sparking fires. More than 300 lives were lost at Cua, with widespread damage to sugar factories and agriculture, halting business across the country as aftershocks kept residents in terror.
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Valencia
Cua
Caracas
Ocumare
Orkmen
Venezuela
Polish Robinson Crusoe on St Paul Island in 1819
A Frenchman discovers a Polish exile on St Paul Island in the South Indian Ocean after a schooner wrecks setting up a settlement there. He sails to Port Louis to sell fish and returns with tools seeds and stores. By 1830 the Pole leaves the island with $2,000 compensation.
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St. Paul’s
South Indian Ocean
Kosciusko
Aa Louis
Mauritius
St. Paul
Port Louis
Water drinking guidance and counterfeit coin note
Improper drinking leads to deaths and dehydrated troops. Advice warns against drinking water while walking, suggests rinsing the mouth when thirsty, resting before drinking, and sipping water slowly. Also mentions counterfeit coins made from tin and bismuth as well as widespread imitation silver dollars in circulation.
Heart Regulator Promoted for Sale in Drugstores
A reader recounts years of heart palpitations and near fatal episodes and reports relief after using a remedy called The Heart Regulator sold at drugstores for 50 cents and 1 dollar per bottle. The account notes breathlessness and fainting but claims improvement and hope of cure. Concord, XNI list presenter.
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Asirep
Per
Reev
Concord
XNI
Dox’r Foncer It advertisement in the paper
An advertising section includes the Dox’r Foncer It feature among other notices. The layout and wording suggest a notable promotional item within the issue. The exact claims and details remain unclear from the fragments provided.
Fragmentary note on Mothers Day relief of child illness
Incoherent OCR fragment mentions Mormons and mothers and Mrs Winalow with a remedy or relief. Unclear event or action. unable to determine concrete facts or names.
Advertisement heads another column in the paper
The line urges readers not to overlook an advertisement headed in a different newspaper column. It signals a notice or promotional item appearing elsewhere in the issue. The brief implies a cross-column prompt to catch readers up on a highlighted matter.
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