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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 18, 1886

Page

2

Morrison tariff bill filibuster fears shape Senate action

Republicans grow placid on Morrison tariff vote with hopes of defeating a Morrison motion to go into committee of the whole. They cite a pledge from wavering members, sugar duties in play, and tax cuts sought by Virginia and North Carolina Democrats as the currency of the deal.

Hincron Dee House Morrison Louisiana Virginia North Carolina Darwin R. James Brooklyn Hewitt Randall Ways and Means Committee

Free delivery to small cities approved by Senate

The Senate passed a bill extending free mail delivery to towns with 10 000 population or ten thousand dollars in gross postal revenue, signaling the President will sign. The law will require towns to show city features such as street lamps numbered houses and named streets for carrier service. Read lists New England towns meeting the revenue criteria: Ansonia Birmingham Danbury Middletown New Britain New London Stanford Auburn Bath Malden Greenfield Newburyport North Adams Northampton Waltham Westfield Dover Keene Nashua Portsmouth Westerly Woonsocket Brattleboro Montpelier Rutland.

Washington Sprctax Senate New England Connecticut Ansonia Birmingham Danbury Middletown New Britain New London Stanford Maine Auburn Bath Massachusetts Malden Greenfield Newburyport North Adams Northampton Waltham Westfield New Hampshire Dover Keene Nashua Portsmouth Rhode Island Westerly Woonsocket Vermont Brattleboro Montpelier Rutland

Southern Tariff Reformers Seek Tax Reductions

A December meeting in Washington of Southern representatives from Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia discussed abolishing the internal revenue tax on tobacco and fruit brandy while backing limited or no change to whiskey. Committees were formed to draft amendments for the Morrison tariff bill and to explore independent measures if Morrison stalls.

Washincron House Judiciary Committee Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Messrs Cabell Daniel Wise Barbour Croxton O’ Ferrall Cowles Henderson Johnson Skinner Bennett Messrs. Wise Sennett Johnson, Barbour Cander Morrison

Justice Woods Seriously Ill Reported in California

Washington dispatch reports Justice Woods of the Supreme Court seriously ill in Los Angeles with consumption. His condition could leave the bench with one Democratic member, raising speculation about a southern appointment possibly going to Senator Morgan of Alabama.

Washington Sprediau California Justice Woods Supreme Court Los Angeles America Stephen Field Morgan Alabama

Senate Bill on Tenure of Office Act Repeal Sparks Republican Dissent

Washington December 17 The Senate passage of the repeal bill for the tenure of office act draws strong Republican dissatisfaction. Senators say Hoar rushed the vote knowing conferees were unready and unwilling to vote. House Republicans pledge to block further action and oppose the measure.

Senate Washington Sorcau Hoar House

Belmonts Resolution Calls for Commission on Fishing Vessel Seizures

Representative Belmont introduced a State Department inspired resolution to appoint a commissioner to investigate and report on the seizure of American fishing vessels by Canadian authorities. The measure moved to the foreign affairs committee, which favors adoption and expects bipartisan backing and documentary evidence for redress when action is taken.

Washington Speciaz Belmont State Department Committee On Foreign Affairs Post United States

President Denies Dakota Governor Speculation

Washington reports refute Boston Journal claim that President planned to name Lewis K. Church as Governor of Dakota and to later appoint him to the Supreme Court. The piece details Governor Pierce's resignation, his hesitation, and the President's push to delay accepting the resignation until a successor is found.

Washington Speciau Boston Journal of Lewis K. Church Dakota Supreme Court Pierce St. Paul

No Immediate Call for 3 Percent Bonds Remains

Wasa Hincron reports a Treasury official says no urgent call for 3 per cent bonds. The department has notified it will redeem bonds outstanding at par plus accrued interest. Open call issued Sept. 15 redeemed 2,209,900. $63,909,500 uncalled threes remain. $7,075,250 of called bonds are outstanding.

Wasa Hincron Treasury

Indian Severalty Bill Passes House in Washington

The House passed the Indian severalty bill with amendments Dawes says the changes won’t cause serious disagreement. He expects Senate approval except for a two year limit on Indians choosing lands in severalty, arguing more time is needed to solve the Indian question.

Washington Senate Treasury Department Secretary of the Treasury House Friends of the Indians Dawes

Pension Bill Prepared For Universal Disability Benefit

The House committee on invalid pensions merged the Blair substitute with Weber’s bill on dependent parents and sent the measure to the House for possible passage under a suspension of the rules. The new plan fixes a uniform 12 dollar pension for all honorably discharged disabled veterans unable to earn a living, covering all wars, unlike the Blair bill which limited benefits to Civil War veterans with a graded payment scale.

Washington House Committee On Blair Weber Matson House United States

Nominations Confirmed for Navy Bureaus and Ranks

The Senate in secret session confirmed Theodore Wilson of New York as chief of the bureau of construction and repairs and chief constructor of the navy with commodore rank. Pay Director James Fulton of Tennessee was named chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing and pay master-general.

Wasu HincTon Senate Theodore Wilson New York Bureau of Construction and Repairs Navy James Fulton Tennessee Bureau of Provisions and Clothing Navy Department

Menmans Peptonized Beef Tonic Ad Promo

An advertisement for Men mans Peptonized Beef Tonic claims it preserves the entire nutritious properties of beef. It highlights blood building, strength boosting and life sustaining effects for indigestion nervous debility and general exhaustion. Caswell Hazard Co New York sells through druggists.

Caswell, Hazard & Co New York

Martyrs of New York and the free thought circle legacy

In New York a column surveys Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, their free love advocacy, and the public slander they faced, noting their bold banking and brokerage work and later European life. It also covers Dr McGlynn, Stanley, the Epoch trustees, and cultural notes on fencing, theatre, and a proposed Palais de Industrie exhibition on Madison Square Garden grounds with a $1 million bid.

New York the Post United States Victoria Woodhull Tennie C. Claflin Woodhull & Claflin Broad Street Europe Herald Woodhull-Claflin Ge Ae Wall Street Dr. McGlynn George Corrigan Rome Stanley Congo Sam Major Pond Pond The Epoch DeWitt T. Seligman Theodore Seligman Eugene Seligman Seligmans John Foord New Yrrve York Times George Parsons Lathrop Justin McCarthy McCarthy Simon Sterne Woodrow Wilson Henry Eckford Boston M. Sénac Captain Nicolas Fencers’ Club Eckford W. EF. Wharton Equitable Life Assurance Society Madison Square Garden New York & Harlem Railroad Company Adam Forepaugh Palais de Industrie Paris Weedon Grossmith Courtenay Thorpe N. ©. Goodwin Bijou Moise Mme. Modjeska Union Square Theatre Daniela Mr. Keller Fifth Avenue Theatre Miss Dauvray Bronson Howard Edwin Booth Lawrence Barrett John Howson G. E. MontGomery

Gigantic Southern Industrial Boom Reported

The Baltimore Manufacturers Record details a surge of Southern industrial growth in mid December with new firms forming across Alabama Florida Kentucky Maryland North and South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia and West Virginia. Notable ventures include an Eusley Land Company in Alabama with 10 000 000 capital to build a manufacturing town near Birmingham and multiple new mills furnaces and mining and lumber firms in several states.

Baltimore South Alabama Eusley Land Company Birmingham Florence Florida Kentucky Coal and Iron Company Lumber and Mineral Company Maryland North South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia West Virginia Oil and Gas Company

Tennyson and the mob crisis in Locksley Hall critique

The speaker at seventy seven laments decline of poetry and drama while railing against democracy equality and radicalism. He condemns critics and modern verse and recalls a past of hope and truth in a harsh expose of contemporary literary and political trends.

Mad Swinburne Robby Browning Shakspere A. T Fes Tennyson Ad’ Eyncourt Tennyson Locksley Hall

Late Ship News Arrivals Report Crew Rescue After Fire

Sonpoys December 17 steamers Fulda arriving in Southampton with the crew of Louise M Fuller, abandoned after a mid ocean leak and fire. Germanic sailing to Queenstown tonight from New York.

Sonpoys Fulda New York Southampton Louise M. Fuller Germanic Queenstown

Constant Quality in G. O. Taylor Whiskeys Since 1872

The article asserts idem meaning the same and stresses consistent production. G. O. Taylor whiskeys have remained pure in age and quality since 1872, now sold by leading family drug and grocery trade. Chester H. Graves & Sons' name appears on every cork and label.

G. O. Taylor Chester H. Graves & Sons

Theatres Announce Light Week Of Holiday Shows

The Boston Theatre features The Black Crook with added novelty while Park Theatre presents A Tin Soldier with Miss Army Ames. Adonis ends at Hollis Street for the season next week and Harbor Lights closes at the Museum while Held by the Enemy debuts Monday. The Mikado continues at Globe with a strong cast and The Corner Grocery leads Howard Athenaeum. Bijou opens The Martyr for a two week run.

Boston Kiralfy Bros Hoyt Park Theatre Army Ames Violet Hughes George C. Boniface, Jr James T. Powers Paul Arthur Gus Hennessy Flora Walsh Isabel Coe Ada Deaves San Francisco Mr. Dixey Adonis Mr. Irving The Globe Geraldine Almar Agnes Stone Alice Carll Courtice Pounds Ray Stainton Signor Brecolini J. W. Herbert Howard Athenaeum Daniel Sully M. D’ennery Bijou

Fires Alarmed at 59 North Margin and 14 Main Street

Record of two local fires shows Box 12 alarm at noon yesterday for a minor blaze at 59 North Margin street causing about $30 in damage. Box 46S reported yesterday morning a $200 fire at Taylor's furniture store on 14 Main street in Charlestown district.

North Margin Street Taylor's Furniture Main Street Charlestown

Fire damages mill and properties in multiple towns

A Ply mouth Woollen Company mill drying room fire caused about 1000 dollars in damage. In AmeEspery a stable fire destroyed around 1000 dollars of property owned by George Rowell and used by M E Carr, with the American House stable and a nearby building heavily damaged. In Newburyport a Wesley street two tenement house burned from a defective flue, totaling about 2700 dollars with insured loss.

Plymouth Plymouth Woollen Company AmeEspery Currier Street George Rowell M. E. Carr Newburyport Wesley Street H. W. Moulton Eben Edgcomb Charles J. Parker

Raids on the Gamblers Reported by Boston Officers

Sergeant Daly with Lieutenant Walker and Officers Watts Little and McGonigle raided three gambling houses. At 73 Cornhill they seized 30 pounds worth of implements, at 17 Brattle Square 20 dollars, and at 35 Hanover Street 15 dollars worth of gambling gear.

Daly Walker Watts, Little and McGonigle Cornhill Brattle Square Hanover Street

Sleigh Stock From Ford F. French & Co

Ford F. French & Co offers an immediate delivery assortment of sleighs at 165 Tremont and 14 22 Sudbury streets with new fashions. The stock includes family and pleasure sleighs of the Test patterns and light weight speeding sleighs as specialties.

Ford F. French & Co. (Limited Tremont Street Sudbury Street

Boston Theatre Schedule and Public Lectures Highlights

Afternoon and evening performances listed for Boston venues including Edwin Booth in Richelieu and Richard III at various theatres. Joseph Howard to deliver final lecture at Park Theatre tomorrow evening on notable people he knew. Concerts and operatic events feature Sol Smith Russell, Mme Modjeska, Kneisel Quartet, Handel and Haydn Society Messiah, and other city musical offerings with dates and venues noted.

City Theatres Boston Edwin Booth Eugene Tompkins Boston Theatre Corps H. A. M’glenen Rand Avery Company John Graham F. A. Searle John C. Paige Morse Tremont Temple Walter Emerson Medora Henson Emerson Nella F. Brown Henry Daggett Harvard College Chickering Hall Handel and Haydn Society Music Hall Zippora Monteith Gertrude Edmonds William J. Winch D. Marks Babcock Carl Zerrahn B. J. Lang Franz Kneisel Richard Shuebruk Chicago National Opera Company Colonel McCaull Wilson Barrett M. Franz Rummel New York Tribune Berlin Liszt St. Elizabeth Brooklyn Philharmonic Society Emma Juch Anna Lankow Max Heinrich Franz Remmertz J. Allen Preisch London the Friar Comyns Carr Caldicott German Reed Mr. Carr Hugh Conway H. A. Jones Princess’s Theatre Grace Hawthorne Theodora Olympic Coleridge London Daily News Mark Ambient Bath Torquay Barnett H. J. Ormerod Theatre Annual Clement Scott Messrs William Archer E. L. Blanchard Austin Brereton Saville Clarke E. J. Goodman Charles Her

Unclear OCR fragment prompts brief newspaper note

Fragmentary text provides no complete events names dates or places. Unable to extract a coherent headline or summary from the readable content.

Executor orders dividends on multiple Boston firms

By order of Executor 57 shares Boston and Albany RR Co div off 45 do Boston and Providence RR Co div off 80 do Boston and Lowell RR Co div off 20 do Old Colony RR Co div off 40 do Natl. Exchange Bank 100 do Tremont Nk 140 do Bunker Hill N. Bk 70 do Second N. BE 45 do New England N. BE 180 do Old Boston N. BE 8 do Boston Gaslight Co 7 do Revere Houre Co

de Wakefield Rattan Co Ft. Scott Eastern & Memphis RR Cedar Iowa Falls & Northwestern RR Allen Co Ind China Mutual Ins Central Lowa Short Creek & Joplin RR Atchison & Nebraska RR Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR City St. Joe Council Bluffs Boston, Concord & Montreal RR Chicago & West Michigan RR Union Cattle Co Boston & Roxbury Mill Corp Suffolk Mtg. Co Florida Boston & Albany RR. Co Boston & Providence RR. Co Boston & Lowell RR. Co Old Colony RR. Co Natl. Exchange Bank Tremont Nk Bunker Hill N. Bk Second N. BE New England N. BE Old Boston N. BE Boston Gaslight Co Revere Houre Co American Bank Note Co McKay Manchester Chicago Rolling Mills Albany RR Ton. & Santa Fe C. RR Imon Air Line Sand. & Atte AISO Vermont & Mass Eliot Androscoggin Mills Newton & Waterbury Gas Lt. Co Metropolitan Rd Manuf Plymouth Cordage Co Rutland Rd Mt. Ds Rock & Ft. Smith Ry. Co Rutland

Stock Auction List of Bonds and Banks in Boston Area

A dated listing for a December 18 stock and bond auction by R L Day & Co includes entries across railroads banks and corporate issues. Notable items include City of Cambridge 6s 1888 City of St Louis 6s 1888 Atch To Santa Fe 5s 1920 and various bank stocks such as First National Bank Lynn Howard National Bank and Merchants National Bank with multiple lots and maturities.

Cna Shawmut National Bank Merchants’ National Bank Boylston National Bank Boston, Concord & Ment Detroit Hillsdale & South Western City of St. Louis St. Louis Co Colo. & Pac. RR

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