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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1887
Page
4
Boston Post Publishing Co lists daily rates: one year 89, six months 4.50, three months 2.25, one month 0.75. weekly Friday issue 1.60 per year. Payment by check, draft, or money order to the Post Publishing Company. Ship News on page three. Entered as second class matter.
The long running New Hampshire railroad dispute has escalated with a proposal offering a substantial bonus to the state in exchange for exercising its right to purchase the Concord road and then resell the property at the original price. The move adds a fresh twist to a conflict that has kept the Legislature in session far beyond the usual limit.
The Treasury purchased 44 per cent bonds at 109 44 100, aligning with market value after adjusting for two percent interest to maturity. The deal appears fair to both sides, signaling no profit for either party and suggesting no immediate liquidity crunch despite earlier fears. bullion holdings rise in Paris Berlin and London, hinting at gold moves to the United States as crops export.
JAcos Baz of Guatemala City issues a statement from New York portraying General Barillas as having seized power June 25 and forming a cabinet to revise the constitution in October. The consul claims public credit improves, property is protected, schools reopen, and the judiciary remains independent while Washington legation is reestablished and North American trade is pursued.
The article questions which Berlin Treaty clause governs Bulgaria’s prince election and recalls details of Tirnova’s Assembly of Notables. It notes suspicions by Russia and Germany and asks whether the assembly’s ad hoc summons, dissolution, oath, and Saxe Coburg status meet treaty terms.
The treaty makes the Notables choose the prince and the Porte must confirm after assembly selection. Powers’ consent becomes mere recognition. Russia’s demand for a clause on deporting a sovereign opposed to Russian influence is cited as a missing provision.
The Lamar indemnity lands decision ends railroad favored withdrawals and allows immediate settlement. It opens an estimated 25,000,000 acres to the public and signals broader policy to restore national lands to citizens, curbing railroad discretion and correcting past abuses. The piece also notes political commentary on Cleveland administration and press criticism.
The World pokes fun at Democratic defeats across Indiana Virginia North Carolina West Virginia Cincinnati Chicago Milwaukee and Kentucky while suggesting the questions echo a humorous August mood rather than serious analysis. It hints the piece targets the President and his administration but ends with a languid, farcical tone.
A blue book on Afghan frontier negotiations claims final settlement rests on mutual concessions by Russia and Afghanistan. The plan would add twenty miles of Afghan ground in exchange for a hundred miles of desert ceded to Russia, bringing troops within striking distance of Herat and enabling western Afghanistan to be linked to India via rail.
A Harvard professor barely avoided arrest in a Connecticut town after rushing to the station hatless. The piece mocks hat wear as a civilizational rigidity, arguing that the hat rule drives baldness and social judgment.
In Boston, English yachtsmen split into two camps on the Thistle’s chances. Local transplants back the American yacht, while recent arrivals doubt its prospects. A sociology professor cites inherited Yankee outsailling intuition as a possible factor.
In Boston Beacon Hill homes cloak facades with Virginia creeper Japanese ivy and wisteria creating varied greens and textures. The writer notes Japanese ivy’s elegance contrasts with Back Bay fronts and laments ampelo poplis infatuation. He also admires English pageantry and ponders American militia dress and pride.
A writer notes that excessive praise can ruin authors, while scathing reviews rarely kill work. Overpraise makes authors arrogant and readers indifferent, whereas harsh praise destroys self respect. The piece cites Tolstoy and American critics, urging balanced judgment over sensational verdicts.
The excerpt notes John Guy Vassar's grave illness in Poughkeepsie, San Francisco firm William T. Coleman & Co. earning 3,000,000 from salmon operations, Sir John Puleston as a Queen Victoria knighthood recipient and former Pennsylvania agent, Lt. Dan Godfrey as Grenadier Guards bandmaster, Dr. Spencer F. Baird as prolific author, JE Berry Wall's reduced Saratoga turnout and $1000 monthly resources, and General Sherman’s high demand for yachting and dinners with praise for his memory, speech, and knowledge.
A New York Tribune note urges a movement to limit tobacco use as 1.2 billion cigarettes were consumed nationwide last year. It argues smoking harms youth and bars smokers from Naval and Military Academies should be considered.
A New York Herald opinion argues Congress has power to prevent railway catastrophes and should enact a new interstate law now. Disasters are increasing due to lack of safeguards by railways and insufficient state laws, and federal action is urged for traveling public safety.
The anti saloon Republicans in Massachusetts wake Dr. A A Miner a lifelong foe of shams replies to Dawes Hoar and Long in a biting letter. Miner exposes insincerity and partisan aims while citing facts that sharpen his critique.
The piece notes that critics of the national administration from Pennsylvania provoke smiles, not ire, as they denounce perceived imbecility and sectionalism. It mocks their claim that James G. Blaine embodies a true statesman and questions their stance on his 1888 nomination, suggesting even Pennsylvania politicians hesitate to commit.
The article argues that Dawes Hoar and allies misread Dr Miner's letter and failed to sway Prohibitionists. It contends Anti saloon Republicanism targets Prohibitionist votes by moderating action to avoid offending German voters and Republican saloon keepers.
Harper's Weekly argues that neither major party is truly reform minded and that reform has advanced through independent opinion pressingboth parties. It says Cleveland’s actions strengthen him as a Democratic candidate and notes Republican prospects rely on his performance rather than party reform.
A Paris letter to the New York Evening Post discusses two French factions over beer. One opposes German beer and its economic sway, while the other notes France buys grains from multiple countries and that German brew aids the economy. The piece cites wine prices, phylloxera, and a prophecy that beer consumption could shift national temperament. German beer trains supply Paris daily as critics fail to curb consumption.
A jovial exchange from a Northern Sun fragment notes Mrs. Hayseed where her son studies at college and George writes of taking fencing lessons. Mr. Hayseed replies he will have him dig post holes when he returns home.
John Addington Symonds writes a concise life of Ben Jonson for the English Worthies, praising his scholarship and treatment of biographical detail. The critique notes Symonds clarifies Jonson’s image against slanders and covers his ties with Drummond, literary feuds, and key episodes with balanced critical insight.
A critical appraisal of Henry JT Finck's Romantic Love and Personal Beauty. The essay notes Finck's handling of modern love as complex and evolving from ancient to contemporary times. It remarks on natural selection arguments for beauty, dietary guidance, and Finck's sometimes vulgar tone yet overall measured judgment.
A collection of brief items spanning rail disasters and hazards, local curiosities, social quips, and oddities. It notes the Meade statue in Fairmount Park set for Oct 19, an equestrian monument unveiling, varied humorous vignettes, and assorted quotes about politics, crime, and daily life.
The piece surveys Sir John Lubbock’s reprinted addresses on happiness noting his motive to counteract low spirits. It also reviews George Meredith’s The Shaving of Shagpat and Farina, praising its intricate style and pointed satire that may go over readers’ heads.
A long diffuse volume of over 700 pages offers much on bicycle clubs and travel rules across countries though the book is marked by irrelevancies. Kron dedicates the work to "The Memory of My Bull-Dorg" as he presents his travelogue and observations on wheelmen.
A Chicago Daily News item reports the Prison Mirror, edited and printed by Stillwater Minnesota penitentiary inmates. It lists Robert Younger, James Younger, and Cole Younger as stockholders and notes Cole Younger serves as librarian and printer’s devil. The paper aims to uplift inmates through literature and warn outsiders, with a humorous invite to President Cleveland to visit.
Fragmentary scene shows an old lady asking for the Century as a boy at a Jersey City news stand offers tobacco or magazines amid busy street chatter.
Alvan Clark founder of the Cambridge telescope works is dangerously ill at his Brookline Street home. Aged over 83, he remained unimproved last evening. Dr Wellington says he may not live much longer. His son Alvan G. Clark is in Paris negotiating for a replacement photographic lens for the Lick glass damaged in a previous experiment.
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