Boston customs clash over General Underwood post
Three Boston custom house workers in Washington press to fill the vacancy now held by Gen. Underwood. The proposed candidate is a maimed Union veteran known for ability and courtesy. Collector Beard is urged to recall the seekers and let the old soldier perform his duties on salary.
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Boston
Maine Democrats Eye Judicial Seat After Judge Fox
President Arthur may appoint a successor to late Judge Edward Fox of the U S district court. Two Maine candidates are named Nathan Webb of Portland and Gen Charles Hamlin of Bangor, both praised as honest, unobtrusive men.
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Arthur
Edward Fox
United States District Court
Nathan Webb
Portland
Charles Hamlin
Bangor
Maine
Webb
Hannibal Hamlin
Gen. Hamlin
Mr. Webb
Fox
William L. Putnam
Sewall C. Strout
John M. Goodwin
A. P. Gould
Danforth Street
Cumberland Bar
Massachusetts
Lowell
K. R. Hoar
Hill
Fest Parish
Unitarian
Bion Bradbury
Josiah HA. Drummond
Nathan Cleaves
Almon A. Strout
Charles P. Mattocks
Cumberland
United States Supreme Bench
Justice Clifford
Garfield
Bitter contest for army surgeon general vacancy unfolds
The fight over the army surgeon general post grows bitter. Assistant Surgeon General Crane claims superior rank and fitness, while Baxter, a top lobbyist, pushed to create and then seize the purveyor post. Accompanying figures include Wales Swaim Rockwell, with Garfield's death altering the scheme.
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Army
Crane
Bexter
Congress
Baxter
Wales
Swaim
Rockwell
Garfield
Navy
New York Herald
Bliss
Senate Debates Vest Speech on Woman Suffrage Committee
In Washington on December 16 Senator Vest ridiculed a Harris proposal for a seven member special committee on women rights. He argued existing committees already overburdened and suggested the revolutionary claims committee as the proper venue. The exchange touched on constitutional, religious and social implications of woman suffrage, ending as the morning hour expired without action.
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Benjamin Harris Brewster
Philadelphia
Senate
Star Route
Brewster
Mr. MacVeagh
Brady
Mr. Brewster
Gibson
Cook
Arthur
M. S. Wise
New York Merchants and Bankers
Merchants’ Club
New York
Judge Lowell
Ingalls
Paddock
Upton
the Treasury
Prddock
Harris
Vest
Committee On Revolutionary Claims
Ufe
Watts
Aame
West
Morrill
Hoar
Yeas
Ways
Bayard
Committee On Judiciary
Mr. West
Judiciary Committee
Privilege dispute over department usurpation in Congress
In Washington the House debates a privilege question raised by Mr. Robinson of New York. He accuses a state department officer abroad of usurping House rights and threatening citizen imprisonment, while the resolution condemns a Yorktown flag salute and seeks State Department disclosures on British detentions and extraditions.
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Washington
Robinson
New York
Congress
State Department
Robmeon
Yorktown
Secretary of State
United States
Victoria
Anl
Second banquet of the Social Temperance union in Wesleyan hall
The Social Temperance union held its second banquet at Wesleyan hall with a larger gathering than the first. Gov. Bell of New Hampshire and other dignitaries attended as Hon. Tobey welcomed guests and summarized the liquor law outlook, praising local sentiment and licensing trends in Newton and other towns.
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Wesleyan Hall
Gov. Beli
New Hampshire
Social Temperance Union
Gov. Bell
R. R. Bishop
Dr. Harvey
Howard University
J. M.S. Willams
Starkes Whiton
J. A. Harwood
Samuel Snow
D. B. Ingalls
L. M. Hannum
Henry A. Cooke
J. W. Chick
Dr. Ellis
John I. Baker
Beverly
R. B. Gifford
Salem
Henry B. Blackwell
Union
E. S. Tobey
Tobey
K. R. Bishop
Commonwealth
Newton
Andrew
Cambridge
Bishop
Crosby
Washington
Massachusetts
Guiteau Trial Session Delivers No Sensation
Crowded Washington courtroom hears Anna Guiteau divorce testimony and Guiteau's second spree of interruptions. Judge Porter allows admission of records. Guiteau and Corkhill clash as ex wife Annie Denmire testifies she saw no insanity signs, while Guiteau derides opponents and rants about a past affair.
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Ustar
Guiteau
Gen. Reynolds
Corkhill
Geo. D. Barnard
Supreme Court of
Kings County
N. Y
Anna J. Guileau
Scoville
Jennings
New York
Gen.Reynolds
Corkhbill
Garfield
Reynolds
Col
Fred Grant
Guitean
Logan
Peter
Gen. Garfield
Ellen C. Grant
Annie J. Denmire
Tsay
S. Arthur
Arthur
Col. Corkhill
Porter
Davidge
Mr. Scoville
Noted crimes and society items mix in late dispatches
A varied late news roundup reports Teriulius Theal’s murder verdict with mercy recommendation, Dartmouth alumni forming a San Francisco society, a missing Albert Tompkins in New York, Mark Twain’s Canadian copyright refusal, and coal tonnage totals. It also covers Wallac e’s jail amid efforts for habeas corpus, a Chicago police chiefs convention, Judge Dundy’s threatened life, Arndt’s arrest, and Hanlan versus Boyd rowing negotiations.
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Teriulius Theal
Spruce Lake
N. B
Mercy
Dartmouth College
San Francisco
Rev. S
Wiley of
Benicia
Samuel B. Wiggin
Albert Tompkins
William B. Tompkins
Hope Valley
Third Avenue
New York
Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Clemens
Montreal
Shelbyville
Tenn
Cantrell
CU. R
Harrison
T. B. Kennett
St. Louis
Austin Boyle
Chicago
United States District Court
Omaha
Dundy
August Arndt
Union Pacific Railroad
Arndt
Col
W. B. Smith
United States Court
Dandy
St. John
Wallace Ross
Hanlan
Toronto
Boyd
England
Ross
Hanian
Thames
Two Meredith Men Die After Ice Fishing Accident
The bodies of David Fernald aged 45 and Frank Kerby aged 22 were found in Squam Lake while fishing through the ice. William Mullen of the schooner G. R. Moran was jailed in Portsmouth after an aggravated assault on John Sars, resulting in the loss of sight in one eye. Levi Richardson’s hardware and grocery store in Franklin Falls was burglarized Thursday night. the safe was blown open and about $300 stolen.
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David Fernald
Frank Kerby
Meredith
Squam Lake
Levi Richardson
Frankin Falls
Pike’s Block
Vermont News Roundup St Albans Injuries and Trials
In St Albans Vermont Benjamin Chase a freight shifter fell under a yard engine tram car leaving his left leg crushed with amputation likely. J D Hopkins known for three trials and two convictions in Fire Association funds case was found guilty of larceny and will appeal to the supreme court. Hotel closings in St Albans stir concern as hotels and liverymen cut service. Prohibitionists plan to aid visiting strangers as a large citizens meeting is anticipated and talk persists of relocating the butcher market.
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Vermont
St. Albans
Vermont Central Railroad
Welden
Welden House
Benjamin Chase
J. D. Hopkins
Fire Association of Philadelphia
Artal
St. Johnsbury
Fire Association
Supreme Court
Central
Fall River Spinners Meet Over 1 Percent Wage Increase
The Fall River spinners plan a meeting tonight to push for a 1 per cent wage advance. McMillen, who shot Father McCarthy at Greenfield, is held without bail awaiting grand jury action. Montraville Ackert was convicted in Springfield Superior Court on burning his Brimfield home to collect insurance. The jury deliberated twenty hours and the case moves to the supreme court on exceptions.
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Fall River
McMillen
Father McCarthy
Greenfield
Montraville Ackert
Superior Court
Springfield
Brimfield
Supreme Court
Fire damage to Newport church traced to incendiary act
An examination of the First Methodist Episcopal church in Newport shows the fire was started in a pew by an incendiary. A creditors committee of the A. and W. Sprague estate has called a Providence meeting next Wednesday to consider offers for the Sprague estates held by trustee and assignee.
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First Methodist Episcopal Church
Newport
A. & W. Sprague
Providence
Sprague
Ireland
The
Land League
Caledonian Hall
John Murdoch
Highlands
Peace Society of Philadelphia
Murdoch
Hydrophobia fears rise after dog bite ten years prior
Willimantic dispatch reports Mrs. Henry McVay, bitten by a dog ten years ago, now attacked by hydrophobia. In Brooklyn on Friday, John Gallup, ex president of Windham County Bank, killed himself amid mental derangement from long illness. John Gillespie, burglar, after a ten year state prison sentence for breaking into Dr. Gage's house, was found guilty of another burglary at Charles W. Johnson’s Hartford home in October and given five more years.
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Willimantic
Henry McVay
Brooklyn
John Gallup
Windham County Bank
John Gillespie
Dr.Gage
Charles W. Johnson
Hartford
Rich Carmel heir briefly seized and freed in asylum stunt
Daniel Drew Chamberlain of Carmel grandson of Daniel Drew was seized on West Forty second Street and taken to an asylum. A habeas corpus writ freed him after friends intervened. He is said to own about 235000 in stock and bonds, with 75000 settled on his wife after a prior marriage.
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New York
Daniel Drew Chamberlain
Carmel
Daniel Drew
West Forty-second Street
Chamberlain
Forney to Succeed Father as Progress Editor Publisher
Notices report John W. Forney Jr will succeed his father as editor and publisher of Progress. Also noted are a golden wedding in Brighton for Woodpridge Sanborn and wife and a 74th birthday for John Greenleaf Whittier.
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John W. Forney, Jr
Progress
Woodpridge Sanborn
Brighton
John Greenleaf Whittier
James T. Neill
Nellie C. Stowell
Joseph Harris
Field’s Corner
Mayo
Journal of Education
Texas
Louisiana
Georgias
S. M. Fetton
Panhandle
Felton
New York and New England Railway
P. A. Hilborn
Norwalk
Fla
Lake Delaney
Jacksonville
Nahant
Rice Estate
Swallow’s Cave
Er Grant
S. E. Guild
J. G. Carey
Thomas Motley,Jr
Edward C. Johnson
H. C. Haven
Dodge
Tamah Brooks
America
Virginia
William Yancey
Yancey
William
Tamah
Thomas
Wilson Walter Brooks
Col.j. W. Brooks
Holiday Books in Boston Market Show Strong Trade
The Boston book trade shows exceptional activity for holiday presents with buyers increasing and demand for high merit books rising. D. Lothrop & Co and W. Lothrop & Co invest heavily in illustrated editions and popular juvenile works while A Williams & Co and Old Corner Bookstore offer wide selections in church, periodical, and literary lines including Cape Cod Folks and Love Poems and Sonnets by Owen Innsley.
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Owen Meridith
Lucile
Thomas Moran
Mary Halleck Foote
W.P. Snyder
Ipsen
Linton
Cole
Andrew
Crosseh
A. V.S. Anthony
Smillie
Bellows
Guford
Coman
Farrer
Bryant
Emerson
Longfellow
Lowell
Whittier
Aldrich
Edwin Forrest
Jeffersons
Holmes
Howells
Lennyson
Harriet W. Preston
Virgil
Thackeray
Eben MacKay Hutchinson
Emerson, Whittier
Susy Larcom
Helen Hunt
Celia Thaxter
Edna Dean Procter
Rosina Emmett
Crane
Greenaway
Heliotype Gallery
Messrs. Osgood & Co
D. Lothrop & Co
Messrs
Messrs. W. Lothrop & Co
Spain
Harrison
Sunrise Lands
Edward A. Rand
E. E. Hale
Susan Hale
Europe
Rosiya Emmen
Muss Daz
Houghton, Miffilm & Co
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Bayard Taylor
Hudson
Wallace Bruce
Miss Jewett
Wilbal
James T. Fields
Horace E. Sendder
Lilliput
Cruikshanks
Boston
H. E
Hannah Jane
J. T. Trowpridge
Green
Japan
Hall
H. W. French
Robinson Crusoe
Double Runner Club
B. P. Shilaber
Ca. Messrs. Lee & Shepard
Roberts Brothers
Jean Lege
Jon
Tere
Richard Cobden
Jett Morey
D.G. Rowetti
Gaspara Stampa
Eugene Benson
George Fleming
George Milner
Lonisa M. Alcott
Oscar Wilde
Lymington
William Wordsworth
Mammy Tittleback
H.H
Rev
Williams
Cape Cod
Massachusetts
California
Florida
3. A. Green
Messrs. Williams & Co
Owen Innsley
Estes & W Lauriat
Messrs. Estes & Lauriat
Dc. A. Stephens
Orient
Youn
America
Russia
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Mamma
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Henry Richards
Forberg
Greuze
Gifford
Moran
Closson
George Fuller
W. M. Hunt
Tennyson
W. B. Clarke & Carruth
Messrs. Clarke & Carruth
Seguin
Beatrice
Archway
Gill Edged
Longfellow and Whittier
Little, Brown & Co
Ruskin
Les Saints Evangels
Art Journal
Muniz
Raphael
Meyer van Bremen
Parkman
Lockwood, Brooks & Co
Messrs. Lockwood, Brooks & Co
Eastlake
Ninth Regiment Disorder Report Ends With Discharges
After a detailed board investigation, Gov. Long orders the ninth regiment M V M discharged for improper conduct. About twenty men are named for minor offenses, and the entire unit is barred from parades or outside assemblies until spring drill next May or June. Some serious charges found baseless. the regiment praised for discipline overall.
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Fol. Strachan
Gov. Long
Col Strachan
Col. Strachan
Col.y Strachan
Ninth Regiment Infantry
M.V. M
Boston
A. Hun. Berry
State of
Massachusetts
Adjutant General
Speell
G. A. J. Colgan
J.J. Barry
L. J. Ford
Davia Maguire
Adjt
David Maguire
James Atchison
John Green
Edward Gray
William J. Wall
James A. White
Company B
Timothy Donahue
Michael J. Donovan
Daniel E. Harrigan
Peter Powers
Company Co
Patrick Scannell
Thomas J. Dugan
Hiquor
Patrick T. Sullivan
John J. Quinn
John E.connors
Michael W. Clifford
Eugene Murphy
John A. McGlinchy
James J. Hewett
Thomas J. Burk
James J. McQuillen
New York
Libby
Board of Investigation
Yorktown
Ninth
Wo. M. Strachan
iIland
Commonwealth
A. Hun Berry
Memorial bazaar events close with large crowd and prizes
Friday evening crowds filled the Soldiers bazaar hall for drills by Chelsea high school and eighth regiment guard duty. Sunday memorial service led by Rev. Phillips Brooks features an eighty-voice surpliced choir and Cadet band. Raffles list many winners and prizes across multiple addresses in Lynn and Cambridge.
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Eighth Regiment
Phillips Brooks
B. Whitney
Church of the Advent
Church of the Adavent
Church of the Messiah
St. Stephen’s Church
Lynn
Doll
Alice G. Brown
Shawmut Avenue
D. D. Curtis
Mediera
George ¥. Bouveay
W. Cheater Park
Longfellow
A. A. Whitney
North Avenue
Cambridge
M. G. Herrick
Fourth Street
J. Davis
Newton Street
N. W. Thompson
W. Newton Street
Placque
W. H. Carpenter
Columbus Avenue
H. Ballou
Balach Sireet
C. W. Wellngton
A. Clarke
Hotel Boylston
Nim
John C. Campbell
Linden
S. K. Willliams
Dartmouth Street
W.roberts
Waltham
R. H. Damon
St. James Hotel
Ella =towell
Linwood Square
Vox
G. Weeks
Newbury Street
J. B. Field
Congress Street
Les
Elizabeth B. Harris
Fairhaven
Mass
A. L. Haskell
Chesca
KE. W. Lamson
Parker Street
H. F. Johnson
Exmp
George Fuller
Miss Sampson
Adele Brewer
Auburn Street
Mortgage Sale and Transfers Noted in Dorchester Brighton
Mortgage sale and transfer notices appear for properties in Dorchester and Brighton with details expected in official records. The announcements reference foreclosure actions and property transfers under local lenders and trustees.
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Dedham
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