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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1875
Page
8
A New Orleans letter to the New York Times describes intense public hatred for General Sheridan with insults in streets and venues. It notes mobs hang him in effigy and ridicule him in theaters and shops while he endures amid polite indifference.
The ongoing puddlers strike in Pittsburgh causes widespread hardship and destitution, with extensive suffering reported as the dispute continues.
The Grange movement expands across Southern states with 641 lodges and 32,000 members in Alabama, 108 granges and 5,500 members in Florida, 521 in Arkansas with 21,000 members, and Georgia noted as having more members than any listed state. Though nonpolitical so far, Grand Granges push to align the groups with a political cause.
The State Journal notes that the Fisk Jubilee Singers were housed at the Neil House along with other guests. Proprietor Mr. Failing responded to protesters that the singers were guests and entitled to hotel privileges.
A mid day blaze at the Navy Department in Washington spread for hours due to a defective flue. Upper story apartments housing department records were damaged by fire and water, with many records wholly destroyed.
Citizens of Jackson County show high optimism as the Dayton and Southern Narrow Gauge Railroad stock books open. The Standard notes that if Saturday had lasted longer, Jackson County would have subscribed its full quota on the first day.
About 147.50 was taken at Marietta as 15 cent admissions for a spelling match last week. Prominent spellers included Silenus Siocumb, 74, and Jos E Hall, 82. Frederick A Benney Esaq, a Maryland notable, died in Frederick City at age 61.
In the New York Sun report on Beecher's Friday evening Lecture Room talk, the preacher argues life’s troubles pass and we move toward the life beyond. He recalls childhood pains, vows to journal, and asserts the soul's larger, eternal life beyond earthly cares.
A Confederate general’s surrender era address condemns jayhawkers and urges loyalty to Federal law. The piece contrasts political reaction with Sheridan’s enforcement plan and ends with a Detroit pie shop joke about finding a two cent piece in a slice.
Athens County Common Pleas issues an order of sale in the partition case Kinney et al v Carr. The sale will be conducted at the courthouse door in Athens, Ohio, on Monday February 8 1875 by virtue of the court order.
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