01 Mar 1879
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Newspaper
Asbury Park Journal
Location
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1879
Page
1
The article notes the Centennial safe display in Statuary Hall with inscriptions honoring contributors and a 1976 opening wish. It also lists a weekly conveyance record from Monmouth County detailing numerous property transfers in Asbury Park Ocean Grove and surrounding townships with buyers, sellers, and consideration amounts.
Flooding damages hit France and Poland while Bulgaria suppresses unrest in Adrianople. Italian restrictions on American swine curb trichinosis risk. Queen Victoria may tour the Continent this spring. Mexico and United States plan an Industrial Exhibition opening January 15 with full support from President Diaz.
Overdue English steamer Zanzibar and a string of accidents and crimes appear across the year’s late 19th century dispatches. Ministers expel Rev. J D Fulton in New York. Angell returns to Philadelphia. Mrs Cobb’s poison trial. crops outlooks and floods of warnings accompany mine disasters, rail accidents, Indian outrages, a deadly boiler blast, and college unrest in Hartford.
A Philadelphia era riff describes a plan where a wife profits from a husband’s whiskey habit by leveraging a bar tab. It sketches mechanics of paying a bartender, buying whiskey, and reclaiming funds, framed as satirical social commentary. It also notes the Malick Staats murder case set for Hunterdon County term.
The report notes production of electric lanterns at Paterson for Russian war vessels. The Newark branch of the New York Lake Erie and Western Railroad will lay tracks soon. Sussex County real estate shows higher prices than last three years, and St Michael's Church Newark was dedicated.
Bills discussed include elections, city acts, and freeholder boards. Reconsideration of the District Court repeal failed. New measures set taxes on real estate liens, limit freeholder expenditures, and empower municipal land sales. Passages include mortgage amendments, church taxation exemption, and public safety boards.
A series of praine meetings and a cebelog-h formed church marked services in Keyport on Sunda with a choir of over thirty. The veteran postmaster in the county remains in office since 1841. The Odd Fellows meet at Long Branch on July 20, 30, and 31 along the Monmouth shore. Engine 148 derailed near Claremont Station delaying travel about an hour. William C. Chambers, eldest son of Ray A. G. Chambers, Freehold Institute principal, died suddenly Monday morning from heart weakness while preparing to shower.
Long Branch News reports work on the Pier paused due to girders not yet arriving. Piles already driven reach over seventy feet from shore while awaiting components to resume construction.
The Red Bank Register notes the organization of a shooting club named The Red Bank Amateur Gun Club. It mentions civic details and local names as the article recalls community happenings.
Mrs Hannah Smith of the Daten of Day preached at the M E Chardton Run. The Idlewild steamer will run next season between Bellevue Beach and New York City. A new yarn of travel to Red Bank is noted. Holmdel opens a yioling manufacturing branch led by James W Heyer with strong expert acclaim for tone and finish.
The Mt E Church meetings continue with rising interest and seventy two probationers admitted by Wednesday night. Walling Opera House event by Omicron Kappa Society supported a new armory project and drew good attendance. A March 26 follow up is planned. C S Bucklie of W H Cohen Co New York toured Matawan seeking a site for a canning factory to build two buildings near the railroad for packing storage and labeling.
The French Assembly reviews a bill inspired by English policy mandating schooling for all children aged seven to thirteen. Commisioners will enforce the law with rural schools to be built by 1881, and penalties include disfranchisement for repeat noncompliance. Conscript eligibility may hinge on literacy.
A fragmentary report describes Tyori Ma auzas arriving Friday and being involved in a brig off Barnegat at 3 P. The account mentions a foreqhannela and an nec ferticlak hs 77 but the details are not clear.
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