19 Oct 1877
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1877
Page
1
A raucous Maine style tall tale follows a coachman who buys a luxurious carriage and horses. He encounters frightened passengers and a spectral woman in the back, then sells the team after a deadly crime is revealed, leaving the macabre ride behind.
A patchwork of notes names gamblers in San Francisco and a political retardation tale from Kentucky. The piece threads social vice among Chinamen black markets and a Southern standoff over Hayes and Santo Domingo, ending with reflections on pensions and party unity.
A farmer with a wagon carrying eight family members parked by a Beaubien Street house and knocked at the door. After failed efforts to enter, he hitched the team and the family waited on the grass while a boy nearby witnessed the scene and shouted warnings.
James T. Freans recalls an admirer finding a wo man among his circle who had never read Shakespeare. Months later the adviser asks what he thought and learns the reader found the plays glorious, yet notes only the author could have written them, praising their imaginative scope.
The Job Printing department of this office provides latest styles of type and materials and promises neat dispatch on all orders. They offer bill heads, letter heads, books, pamphlets, posters, and legal blanks in stock, asserting they can do as good work and as cheaply as any printing establishment in the state.
Senator Morton speaking in Portland as head of the Grover Investigation Committee claims the Democratic party would grant pensions to all soldiers if in power. The Southern press largely accepts the charge with Meridian Mercury even backing the policy of pensioning all or none.
Secretary Sherman publishes a supplement to the monthly debt statement showing treasury condition on Oct 1 1877 versus Oct 1 1876. It lists balances special fund coin certificates outstanding legal tender and fractional notes, noting debt reduction and gold premium for the year and a decline in silver coin.
Hon Cassius M Clay once minister to Russia under Lincoln shot and killed Perry White on Gen Clay s Richmond Kentucky farm. A fired cook killed the robber after a confrontation as White threatened vengeance and the plan to attack Clay from cover near a pasture surfaced when Clay confronted the assailant.
A Arkansas man attempted to shoot his bed in wife during a confrontation. The gun misfired when he tried to strike her, and buckshot struck the attacker’s lungs, ending in his injury rather than the victim’s.
Osman Pasta demands copies of all American papers calling him Relaycrawford and storing them for future reference. He vows vengeance against the writers as retaliation for a public disagreement with Skobalail.
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