Under the Southern Cross review by Ballou travelers
A brief critique of Maturin M. Ballou’s Under the Southern Cross describes the voyage through Australia Tasmania New Zealand Samoa and other Pacific Islands. It notes similar urban plans in colonies and contrasts emigration with local labor and Chinese presence while praising the volume as informative.
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Ballou
South Pacific
Australia
New Zealand
Great West
Tasmania
Samoa
Pacific Islands
Maturin M. Ballou
Boston
Ticknor & Co
Abolition of Secret Senate Sessions Sparks Clash
In Houston a Senate dispute centers on ending secret sessions led by Rippleberger. Republicans oppose open debate on extradition treaty with Great Britain, while leaders like Edmunds Teller Plumb Ingalls block floor time to stop Rippleberger’s resolution. The conflict highlights tensions over revealing votes and policy on foreign fugitives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rippleberger
Senate
Epmunds
Teller
Plumb
Inngalls
Riddleberger
Great Britain
RimppLe- Berger
Civil service rules tightened to curtail political influence
The President approves reforms strengthening the civil service. Key changes ban officials from using authority to affect elections or collect political subscriptions with dismissal for violations. Veterans are exempt from examinations only for promotions, while appointment exams set lower certification for veterans. The rules apply to unclassified parts of the service and improve transfers and promotions based on experience.
Bill for an international flag and night signals code
An international code of flag and night signals is urged with a House bill by Mr. Perry Belmont to convene a marine conference. Delegates from maritime nations would seek official adoption of the revised code to reduce collisions in bad weather. The piece also notes the Lowery Wakre election contest in Indiana where citizenship questions hinge on Warre’s alien birth and papers.
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National House
Perry Belmont
United States
Beelmon
Lowery
Wakre
House of Representatives
Indiana
Warre
Committee On Elections
WaHke
Legal debate over Indiana seat vacancy and eligibility
The House committee criticizes Indiana law for declaring Wahrr ineligible and Lowery elected with insufficient votes. It suggests declaring the seat vacant and allowing Whitr to pursue it after naturalization, arguing the ruling resembles improper state interference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wahrr
Congress
Lowery
Indiana
Wuitr
Alarm in the camp over tariff reform in the Republican Party
Across several states the Republican press signals alarm at Blaine’s tariff stance, urging real reform to preserve protection. Pennsylvania and Iowa call for direct tax and tariff reductions, while Massachusetts shows little concern, despite party leaders stressing continued protection of industry.
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Massachusetts
Republican Party
Blaine
New York Tribune
Rhode Island
Providence Journal
Illinois
Chicago Tribune
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Times
Congress
Iowa
State Register
Union
House of Representatives
Postage On Books Bill Affects Cheap Literature
A bill to classify books sent by instalment as periodicals passes the House and aims to curb cheap literature by changing postage from eight to one cent per pound. The measure, noted in Washington despatches, illustrates the scope of the plan to stop mailing books in installments.
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House of Representatives
Washington
Reform on Postal Rates for Books and Periodicals
The piece argues for extending low postal rates to standard literature sent by installment or unbound, to curb cheap pamphlets and boost reading. It notes current evasion by treating books as periodicals and urges legislation or a new measure to equalize costs for books and magazines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Committee
Scorr
Free Schooling and State Regulation of Private Schools
The piece defends the majority report on child labor and challenges the Journal and McErtrick minority. It argues private schools face intrusive state oversight, risking individual liberty, monthly reports, and teacher veto power. It urges focusing on core principles over methods and seeks a better plan to preserve educational integrity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal
Special Committee
McErtrick
The
Chauncey Hall School
The Worm Will Turn in Prohibition Politics
A historical analysis notes the Prohibition and Republican parties in state politics have formed an uneasy alliance. It argues Republicans courted Prohibitionists with perfumed platforms while secretly undermining reform, and that some leaders from both sides feign friendship to secure votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prohibition State Central Committee
Prohibition politics and a Boston art studio reminiscence
A reflective piece contrasts Republican pro prohibition rhetoric with party realities, noting voting splits and Prohibitionists' patience. It then shifts to portraits of artist Hunt and a vivid account of his studio life, teaching method, and a moving account of his first night at Magnolia studio with friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunt
Magnolia
van Rensselaer Place
Park Square
Mapmolia
William Ralph Emerson
Salem
Beverly
Tommy
Painter
Deshabille
Washington Post critic taunts Mrs Porter Juliet stunt
The dramatic critic rebukes Mrs Porter for a striking Juliet in seven acts with six costumes. He hails six triumphs of Worry’s art, finds the play fairly good overall, and notes some call it sacrilege though a minority preferred leaving early.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Nantucket Mail Reaches Island After Ice Blockade
The article notes that Nantucket, cut off since January 17 by ice in the Sound, finally received mails on Thursday. It emphasizes the small water gap to Cape Cod yet calls the ice barrier more impassable than the Atlantic in recent times.
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Nantucket
Europe
Cape
Atlantic Ocean
New England Historic Genealogical Society Meeting Marks Constitution Anniversary
A NEHGS gathering on Somerset Street Monday at 3 p m commemorates Massachusetts ratification of the U S Constitution. Society president A C Goop Ex Jr will deliver an address on the formative period of the American Union.
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New England Historic Genealogical Society
Somerset Street
Massachusetts
A.C. Goop Ex, Jr
Boston appreciation of Hunt class art exhibition
A Boston reader endorses Mr. Hunt’s mature art class and defends its departure from classical styles. He recalls the 1868 69 opening on Summer Street, praising the students and the teacher for embracing broad forms over minute detail and lauding the human appeal of the exhibited work.
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Hunt
Sumner Street
Boston
Paris
Doll
Summer Street
Mercantile Library
Old
Propose Private Boston Hospital for Ill Children
LAURA Fay urges Boston to create a subscription private hospital for well to do families children with scarlet fever. She praises City Hospital and Dr Rowe but argues private isolation and professional care are lacking and calls for support from humanity lovers in Boston dated February 1, 1888.
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Sir
Boston
City Hospital
Rowe
Laura Fay
Morgan's Papers on Shakspere Review
A critical essay deconstructs Appleton Morgan's Shakspere in Fact and Criticism 1888 edition. The reviewer accuses Morgan of dogmatism and literary hostility toward rival schools, praising little beyond his fixation on Stratford's vault and Baconian cipher.
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Mr. Morgan
Shakspere
Shylock
Antonio
Ll.b
New York
William Evarts Benjamin
Handbook of Republican Institutions in the United States
A Scottish solicitor in New York cites immigrant trials and reviews Bannatyne’s Handbook. The work focuses on New York state statute law and national departments, with critique of its relevance to immigrants and a sample extract on social freedoms and public print exposure.
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Dugald J. Bannatyne
New York
Glasgow
Scotland
Canada
United States
Bannatyne
State of
Handbook of
Scribner & Welford
Boston
Estes & Lauriat
Books Received This Week
A list of new titles available from publishers and vendors including Heads and Faces by Nelson Sizer, How to Succeed as a Stenographer or a Typewriter by Arthur M. Baker, Physical Culture by D L Dowd, Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de St Pierre, The Works of William Shakespeare edited by Irving and Marshall, The Art of Living from Samuel Smiles, The Long Exile and other Tolstoy tales, Napoleon and the Russian Campaign by Leo Tolstoy, Homoselie by Mary F Tiernan, and a Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property by Benjamin. Prices noted for Tolstoy works.
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Nelson Sizer
New York
Fowler & Wells Company
Arthur M. Baker
D. L. Dowd
Paul and Virginia
Bernardin de St. Pierre
William &. Gottsberger
William, Shakspere
Henry Irving
Frank A. Marshall
Scribner & Welford
Samuel Smiles
Boston
D. Lothrop Company
Count Lyof N. Tolstoy
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co
Price
Count Leo Tolstoy
Mary F. Tiernan
Ticknor & Co
J. P. Benjamin
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Nature's Book Bound in Ice and Odd Observations
This notice compiles a string of varied opinions and curiosities from shore to shore. It mentions a possible danger to New York Democracy and rumors of a poor peach crop next summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
New York
Chicago
Herald
America
Sam Small
Hindostan
Salem County
N. J
Pennsgrove
Bangund Church
Norway
Horace Greeley
Publicity for British extradition treaty urged by Herald Democrat
The article argues for open government and urges President Cleveland to release the British extradition treaty. It frames secrecy as aristocratic and publicity as democratic, stating the people have a right to know the treaty's terms and asking the Secretary of State to publish the document after eighteen months of handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Senate
A Fair Fight for Republican Revival in the South
The Atlanta Constitution notes that Yarmouth’s candidacy could elevate the Republican party in Louisiana. It anticipates a fair, well contested race that lets the ablest men stand on strong platforms and win, a sign of respectable Republican revival in the South.
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Yarmouth
Louisiana
South
Atlanta Constitution
Blaine organs aid Governor Hill in anti Cleveland intrigue
The Blaine organs push to aid Governor Hill by stirring anti Cleveland sentiment. They fear Cleveland’s nomination and hope to divert Democrats, but the effort will fail as time shows Blaine’s side cannot prevail and disappointment will grow.
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Blaine
Governor Hill
Cleveland
N. Y
Ind
Notable Washington Figures and Society Gossip
Senator Stanford is said to be the most unassumingly dressed public man in Washington. Alexander Id. of Russia plans a 650000 monument in Moscow. Ex-President Bascom returns to Williams Town to lecture at Williams College. Ex-Governor Cumback, at a Congress reunion, is the only western voter for Banks in 1856. Harriet Beecher Stowe follows her son Charley’s Hartford church work. Mrs Potter’s Washington visit strains relations with Mrs Whitney, fueling gossip over attendance and politeness.
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Stanford
Washington
Alexander Id
Russia
Grand Court
Kremlin
Moscow
Bascom
University of Wisconsin
Williamstown
Williams College
Will Cumback
Indiana
Congress
Banks
Ohio River
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Charley Stowe
Hartford
Conn
Stowe
Boston Art Scene Highlights Portraits and New Works
The Botolph Club hosts artists showing notable pieces including Dallin's James Russell Lowell bust and Boit family portraits from Paris 1882. Eliot works on Chicago interiors and Ward portrait. Vinton debuts Exeter street studio. Gaugengigl draws strong interest. Duveneck's era marks Booths. Lormstadt-Chadwick's Five O Clock Tea gains Salon engraving acclaim.
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Dallin
James Russell Lowell
Botolph Club
Edward Boit
Boit
Paris
John Eliot
Chicago
Eliot
Samuel Ward
Frederic Vinton
Exeter Street
Gaugengigl
Miss Boot
Boston
Mra Duveneck
Emma Lormstadt-Chadwick
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NEW Books
Houston
Bedford Street
Mr. Grundmann
John Donoghue
Horticultural Hall
John Boyle O'Reilly
Post
Taverner
New England
Corot
Bonnat
Burne-Jones
Browning
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