Global unrest and financial shocks from Vienna to London
London reports the Afghan campaign to be run by the Indian Government while Austria and Turkey face possible war. Colonial Trust of London defaults and liquidation looms. A wave of bank failures and sensational shipping losses hit Manchester and Glasgow. Russian moves around Adrianople and Novi Bazar trigger tension as European powers clash over Bosnia and San Stefano terms. Local U.S. election results show Democrats gaining Indiana and uncertain Ohio and Connecticut towns amid broader geopolitical turmoil and yellow fever updates.
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Vienna
Austria
Turkey
Colonial Trust Corporation of London
Couuin, Duntay_ & Co
Glasgow
Scotland
Sailer
United States
Asia Minor
Constantinople
Porte
Adrianople
Gemany
Bosnia
Raid and shootout across Tennessee distilleries detailed
Report recalls Deputy Collector Pusarirs returning to Nashville from raids in Overton Jackson Fentress and Wayne Counties where several illicit distilleries were destroyed A clash near Livingston on the 3rd left about fifty armed men and revenue forces exhausted with four distillers reported killed and several wounded Also noted are postal rulings on mailing bank notes and greenbacks and a tragic excursion train wreck near Wollaston Heights Boston with many dead and injured, plus political churn in New Mexico and Missouri and remarks on West Virginia’s anticipated Democratic shift.
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United States Revenue
Pusarirs
Nashville
Tenn
Overton
Jackson
Fentress
Waftnam
Livingston
Postoffice Department
Wollaston Heights
Old Colony
Boston
Hares
Sth
United States
New Mexico
Lincoln County
Lec'y McCrary
Sherman
Missouri
New York State Democratic Committee
Wm. Purcell
Rochester
Tilden
Faulkner
St. Louis
Supreme Court
Alex F. Denny
Roderick Baldwin
Land Register
W. T. Nordell
John B. Tracy
Giweon J. PiLton
St. Francis River
Arkansas
West Virginia
Congressy
Yellow Fever Commission Meets and Ports Face Outbreaks
The Yellow Fever Commission appointed by Surgeon General Woodworth met in New Orleans to study origin spread effects treatment and contagion. Memphis received relief steamer John M Chambers valued at 30000 with 3000 in medicines. Memphis and environs logged 35 deaths while New Orleans reported 49 new cases and 164 total deaths 3400. Vicksburg refugees show localized cases. Decatur Ala and Hickman Ky report rising cases and deaths with Cairo also showing new cases. Overall conditions in infected towns remained unsettled as of the 11th.
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Walker
Ant Green
Indiana
Senate
House
Voorhees
United States Senate
Heisman
Brown
Orth
Calkins
Cowgill
Baker
Cobb
Bicknell
New
Myers
Hostetter
Colerick
de LaMatyr
John Conquest
Clio
Mich
Conquest
Chicago Jockey Club
Rarus
Hopeful
Great Eastern
Connecticut
Gry
D. D. Cotton
Southern Pacific Railroad
Occidental & Oriental Steamship Company
San Francisco
Ife
Des Marxes
Iowa
Congress
Weaver
Gillette
Thornburgh
Camp Robinson
Neb
Hakeand
Tilden
New York
Marquette
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Internal Revenue
Arkansas
Wheeler
Little Rock
Cairo
Memphis
New Orleans
Vickspure
Grenada
Greenville
Miss
Holly Springs
Hickman
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Woodworth
S. M. Bemis
Jerome Cochrane
Mobile
E. Howard
Baltimore
John M. Chambers
St. Louis
Jefferson Davis, Jr
Jeerson Davis
Vicksburg
Decatur
Ala
Hickman, Ky
Market Summary Fluctuates Across Grains and Livestock
New York prices show Flour and Wheat at varied levels with No 2 Spring and Western Mixed oats and corn quot ed. Pork Mess at 38.80 and cattle and sheep ranges reported across multiple markets including Philadelphia and Baltimore with futures and cash prices.
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New York
Chicago
Milwaukee
East Liserty
Battrore
Hoxs
The Cheyenne butcheries report of Indian outrages
Aut Oberlin Kansas correspondent recounts the Kansas Nebraska frontier attacks near Buffalo Station and Sappa Creek. Settlers form a company of fifty five to pursue Indians, two Indians killed, one captured, and a brutal attack on two women. Survivors warn of winter needs for arms, ammunition, and provisions as the threat persists.
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Kansas
Nebraska
Oberlin
Decatur
Buffalo
Monduy
Prairie Dog Creek
the Solomon
Prairie Dog
Praire Dog
Peck
Sappa Creek
Taney
Sappa
Suppa
Vaser
Beaver Creek
Mr. Lang
Mr. J
Prairie Dot Creek
Mis Son
State of
Red Devils
Decatur County
Buffalo Station
Kansas Pacific
William Lang
John
William and
Freem
J. C. Hutson
Mr. Messkelly
Ferdinand Westphalen
Lull
Mr. Erwin
Marcellus Felt
WW. P. Humphrey
James G. Smith
F. Abernathy
John Humphrey
Sr. Stedman
Appa
Quirky Snippets From Old Newspapers Amid Buttered Truths
A collage of wry lines and brief tales spans barbed humor, legal quips, and vanished notes. It mentions umbrellas, desserts of humble pie, poets, a barber barred from work, a New Haven widow’s fine, and curious anecdotes from Danbury, Ithaca, Bridgeport, and Eureka, with references to era banking, ministers, and long-forgotten regulations.
Russian Great Families Rise From Humble Origins
The Ostermanns and Menschikoffs illustrate how Russia’s noble lines began in modest stations. An emigrant translated a czar’s dispatch catching Peter the Great’s eye, while Alexander Menschikoff, a pastry cook’s helper, carried tarts to a palace banquet. A dog’s death after swallowing a tart sparked superstition about fate.
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Russia
Ostermanns
Pomerania
Peter the Great
Menschikoffs
Alexander Menschikoff
St. Petersburg
Poison Plot Hero Becomes Imperial Chancellor Then Banished
A clever youth uncovered a plan to poison the Czar and rushed to the palace to reveal it. Rewarded with two posts in the Imperial household, he rose to Chancellor until Peter III’s accession. Banished to Siberia, he died there, but Empress Anna later reinstated his family, keeping them prominent at court.
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Peter III
Siberia
Anna
A Scorching Review of the President's Methods
Senator Hi of Georgia denounces President Hayes civil service rewards after 1876 frauds in Florida and Louisiana. He argues Johnson's punishment of conspirators contrasts with Hayes rewarding criminals, cites forged evidence, and warns misuse of patronage threatens popular government.
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Hi 1
Georgia
Andray Johnson
Hayes Beame
Mr. Johnson
Mr. Hayes
Florida
Louisiana
Electoral Commission
Johnson
Surratt
Hayes
Anes Jenks
Treasury
Wilkes Booth
Andrew Johnson
Executive Mansion
Potter Committee
Republica
Congress
Kellogg
Packard
Wells
Anderson
White House
Hage
Booth
Waelf
Chives
Nossassin Booth
Tinnisiana
Tay
Tig
Wayee
Uemen
Mie
Wilkes Boot
Potter
Mayes
Fra
New Orleans
Industrial notes from the era and a curious miscellany
A collage of commerce and science items outlines Mexico’s cloth factories, Leadville silver mining growth, and railroad branches. It includes notes on timbering, a new zinc-based white pigment process, a ship with many masts, chestnut crops, wool prices, social anecdotes, and miscellaneous European and American curiosities.
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Mexico
Leadville
Col
Scientific American
Wiscasset
Utien
Oruron
Cascades
Willamede
Umpeyta
Sufferings of a Tarred Man after tar and feathering
W J Jones was tarred and feathered by Keno men and sent westward by train. In Truckee he suffered extreme pain as tar coated his face eyes and body. Local efforts by Grandison Jones and another man to remove tar began, with Dr Goss prescribing linseed oil. Eyes inflamed and possible permanent blindness feared. paper notes poke weed as a paper material.
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Paris
Tory
England
Daily News
Sheerness
Sig Midnibers
Teidoke
Acad
Russia
Amoy
China
Levant Herald
Cyrus
Limerick
Ireland
W. J. Jones
Truckee
Republican
Grandison Jones
BR. J. Goss
Virginia
Nev
Enterprise
Adan and the lonely boyhood of a genius
A reflective sketch imagines Adan Darwin as a mischievous boy with no playmates, missing traditional childhood amusements, contrasting the imagined loneliness with the vivid metaphor of a world around him. The piece pivots then to the yellow fever epidemic, detailing its rapid spread from New Orleans through the Mississippi Valley, its indiscriminate impact on whites and blacks alike, and the economic toll on the South as northern reliefs pour in yet fail to halt the disease.
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Adium
Adan
Wright
Darwin
Adam
Tere
Cain
Abel
Gulf of Mexico
New Orleans
Daily Press
Havana
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
Texas
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ohio River
Louisville
Georgia
Arkansas
Missouri
Chicago Tribune
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Afghanistan
Berlin
Kuazin
Moscow
Novi-Bazar
Lauvre
India
Peshawar
Khyber Pass
Huon Batfour & Co
Manchester
Eng
Donne
Coliseum Theater
Liverpool
Jith
Novi- Bazar
San Stefano
Bank of Comtere
Odessa
Constantinorde
Baooksat
Covasantinople
Todleben
Parte
Russi
Bisnop Duraxsour
Orleans
Ohio
Hamilton County
Butterworth
Sayler
Cincinnati
McMahon
Lefever
Ill
March
Finley
Converse
Ewing
Dickey
Warner
Atherton
Geddes
Young
Keifer
Neal
McKinley
Monroe
Updegrail
Garfield
Townsend
Mercer
Kansas City
Jackson County
Gates
Woman's Congress
Providence
R. C
Kate N. Dougett
Finnette 8. Leclge
Martha W. McKay
Ellen Mitchell
Ilinois
Lucinda H. Stone
Michigan
Emma C. Bascom
Wisconsin
Julia M. Hunting
Town
Lavinia Gandell
Frances E. Willard
Caroline M. Brown
Illinois
Margaret T. Longley
D. J. Beckwith
Sarah B. Stearns
Minnesota
Eugene A. Cronin
Portland
Ore
Des Moines
Culbertson
Edinburg
Chattanooga,Tenn
New Haven Register
N. C. Times
Sumner
Rochester Democrat
New Haven
Danbury News
New Laven Register
Bowers
Bridgeport Standard
VY. Graphic
Eureka
Sentinel
Attorney-General
Ithacs
Jthaont
Journal Mk
TnuMmeeponn
Mr. Thunbledork
Burlington Hawk-Eye
United States Bank
Bank of England
Adissouri Republican
Bissaury H. Hint
Robert C. Humber
Eatonton
Industrial
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