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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Aug 17, 1876

Page

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Review of the Boston Market for the Week Ending Aug. 16

The week shows mixed activity across commodities. Ashes and candles hold steady with modest gains. coffee and cotton demand remains subdued yet steady, while coal and naval stores face soft prices. Grain, flour, molasses, sugar, and wool display varied movements, with sugar showing active demand and prices advancing. meat and provisions stay firm but not aggressively so.

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Boutwell to headline Republican Convention in Worcester

Boston Post notes Senator Boutwell will be the attraction at the Worcester Republican Convention next month with Butler attending as a delegate. The piece hints at topics Boutwell can address, including Treasury balances, Redpath stories from Mississippi, and his senatorial experiences. It praises his potential as an entertaining convention chairman if he exerts himself.

Senator Boutwell Worcester Butler Boutwell Treasury Redpath Mississippi Belknap Clapp Telegraph Pierrepont Jean Ingelow London Gen. Bartlett Long Branch Bummers

Hays Recounts Cardinal Virtues in Boston Ad

Boston Day Advertiser report from June 4 1875 notes Governor Hays enumerates cardinal virtues but finds them lacking in practical effect.

Guv. Hays Boston Day Advertiser Jung

Senate Keeps Clapp In Line For Government Post

The Senate decided against removing Clapp despite a House investigation accusing him of embezzlement. Dana was deemed unfit for Minister to England in favor of Pierrepont, while Clapp’s confirmation remained a notable final act of the session. If extended, Belknap’s nomination might have followed.

Senate Clapp House Committee Dana England Pierrepont Belknap

Hendricks Denounces Return to Specie Payments

A quotation from Hendricks asserts strong opposition to resuming specie payments. He states that gold and silver are the true standard of values and emphasizes personal earnestness in opposing such a return.

Hendricks

Grant’s Final Messages Push Across Party Lines

The President sent separate messages to Congress as it closed. Grant aimed to influence the Republican Senate with topics on South Carolina and Mississippi, and directed criticism to the Democratic House. His last note appeared to be for show, asserting he can spend money despite Congress and protesting the act of signing appropriation bills trimmed by twenty million dollars.

Congress Grant Senate South Carolina Mississippi Democratic House New York Herald House Newport Don Carlos Ocean House Margarita Carlos Donna Margarita Pau France Paris

Tinpen Leader Addresses Finance and Tax Reform Promptly

Paike Gopwin declares in Tinpen that within three months finances will improve with taxation halved and currency on a steady path to recovery through gentle and almost imperceptible means.

Tinpen Paike Gopwin

Indiana Republicans Worried as Campaign Dims for Tilden Hendricks

A New York Tribune correspondent cites Indiana for Tilden and Hendricks with strong Democratic momentum. Orth’s withdrawal fails to help, Pratt cited as unsafe due to Grant ties, yet Republicans endorse the President. Fundraising woes and lack of speakers signal a party eases toward defeat amid rising Democratic odds.

Indiana Tilden Hendricks Orth D. D. Pratt New York Tribune Pratt Grant Republican Party National Committee Fifth Avenue New York Times Tilden and

No Royal Road for Government Says Tilden Live Within Income

A Tilden quotation warns there is no royal road for government or corporations and urges cutting expenses to live within income, endorsing old maxim as guiding principle. The remark emphasizes restraint in public finance and budgeting. The speaker stresses practical financial prudence over legerdemain in finance and financiering.

Gov Tilden

Remarkable Congress Session Reveals Corruption and Retribution

The lengthy report details a reformist push by Democrats to expose corruption and cut waste after a sweeping popular vote. It notes Kerr as Speaker though mostly absent, investigations into the War and Navy departments, Whisky Ring tied cases, Belknap’s downfall, Robeson’s extravagant Navy leadership, Schenck’s political end, and Orth’s expulsion from Indiana, with severe battles over appropriation bills.

Congress House of Representatives House Kerr Senate Lamar War Navy Department Belknap Robeson Schenck Orth Indiana

Democrats Claim Credit For Tax Remission And Reforms

The piece argues Democrats secured about thirty million in tax remissions, claim Republicans opposed retrenchment, and recounts bills and budget fights from pension to river and harbor, noting reductions in army and navy, large cuts in Sundry Civil Service and other appropriations, with tariff revision pending. It cites Gov. Tilden’s stance and predicts a Democratic push for a favorable November verdict.

House Senate Gov Tilden Pacific Railroad

The Law Moves Paintings Pay in English Exchequer Case

A British court held a sitter must pay for a portrait ordered and executed in a workmanlike manner even if the likeness displeases the buyer. The ruling, noted as likely authority here, says skillful execution justifies payment, though where the work is displayed remains at the owner’s discretion. The decision affirms a precedent protecting artists against nonpayment over subjective taste.

Knights of the Brush Baron Huddlestone Cromwell Merry Charles Lely Hogarth

Post adjournment brings a quiet summer for the President

Congress ends and the President and Cabinet disperse to Long Branch Rye and other retreats. Grant travels less openly as his entourage dwindles and famous hosts face penalties, leaving the presidential party with an unusually quiet season and fewer public shows of hospitality.

Gen. Grant Long Branch Robeson Rye Mr Chandler Belknap St. Louis West Joyce Avery

Governor Hendricks Demands Law and Order Amid Indian Tensions

Gov Hendricks appeals to men defying the law to respect order or face full state power. He rejects compromises and will enforce law at all hazards. He argues state authority backs self-government as Indians troubles grow tougher than any in six years, noting his policy has helped cease the strike.

Statesman Gov. Hendricks Tre Gov. Hendricks

Peach Season Opens With Limited Crop This Year

The city welcomes the peach season as a healthy indulgence for all. Despite a drop in total harvest from nearly ten million to about one million baskets, prices for steady buyers remain only lightly higher. Dry heat hastens ripening, shortening the season and nudging consumers to enjoy the fruit while it lasts.

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News and gossip from the Centennial year era.

A long stream of political chatter and social notes from the era. Mentions Congress adjournment plans in Philadelphia, Redpath and Tilden across newspapers, Hayes and Wheeler, Dunn in Vermont, and Don Carlos at Newport with a ring memory of Margarita Carlos, married 1867, now separate.

Booth Hayes Wheeler Vermont Tilden Bob Ingersoll Chicago God Almighty Gov St. Louis Times Hartford Times Connecticut Forney Jennie June Turkey Punch

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