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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1879
Page
2
A chilling report contrasts Western Massachusetts rumors of a cannibal idolater with New York claims of a blood-sucker who seeks human essence. The description depicts a killer who favors human blood as medicine and strength, noting recent tragedies in New York as evidence of others sharing the thirst.
The Tokio Times notes the Agricultural College opened August 1876 is thriving as it nears the end of its third year. It praises Dr Clark and others linked to the school as model professors from Massachusetts, but suggests such model seminaries may not mature into broader institutions and doubts wider benefits to the United States.
The Boston School Committee elected William J. Porter as Auditing Clerk and Phineas Bates Jr as Secretary. It also ordered a five member committee to investigate clerical work and management of the School Board and the late supplies contract. Also: Hoosac Tunnel use agreement prepared for approval by Council and Railroad Directors.
Observer's Grice Signal Service U S A Boston reports at 7 A M 2 P M and 9 P M with mean daily barometer 29.658 and mean daily thermometer and humidity figures. Maximum and minimum thermometers recorded and noted heat conditions for the day.
Entertainment notes list Rice's Surprise Party in Horrors at Park Theatre with afternoon and evening showings. Boston Museum presents H M S Pinafore by Boston performers. Boston Theatre and Music Hall feature H M S Pinafore and Grand Organ Concert. Siege of Paris painting exhibit opens 8 AM to 10 PM at Corner Columbus and Ferdinand. Oakland Garden offers music entertainment and illumination in the evening.
A dated ledger of ships sailing and arriving at various ports including New York Liverpool London Havre Cardiff Panama and Queenstown with vessels such as City of Berlin Donati Ithuriel Rheola Hermod Vaderland Colima Santiago Weser Helvetia Canada Scythia and others from New York Boston Philadelphia and Liverpool heading to Bremen Live London New Orleans and more.
The notice lists daily sale items and times across cities for July including horses and carriages, stocks, boots and shoes, dresses and dry goods, carpets, and groceries. Firms such as Moses Colman & Son Hawes & Henshaw R. L. Day & Co Wilmerding Hoguet Co C. Warren Samuel Bunting's Sons and J. M. Watson & Co are named with Philadelphia New York and York locations. The dates span July 10 to July 15 with morning sessions at 10 or 16 A M and various categories including saloon fixtures and dresses.
The Arctic exploring yacht Jeannette sailed from San Francisco amid crowds and salutes. She left at 4 PM after delays, convoyed by steam tugs Miller Griffith and Rabbon and Gov. Irwin, with the Fannie A. Hyde as coal tender. The crowd cheered Lieut. Delong and the expedition as the vessel proceeded seaward.
Washington July 8 counsel for Miss Lucy Watton Rhett Horton filed suit yesterday against John H Morgan son of Senator Morgan of Alabama for breach of promise of marriage and 20000 damages. It is alleged that Morgan betrayed Miss Horton and then refused to keep his engagement. He is now here.
Governor and Council hold forenoon session on Buzzell commutation with limited attendance. Edgerly argues justice due to Cook confession while Tappan defends trial validity, citing corroboration and separate offenses. Warden Pillsbury confirms no coercion, notes Buzzell offered to tell truth, and guards prepared him for eternity with a clear conscience.
The fiftieth annual meeting began at a pavilion near Kabyan House with singing, prayers, and committee nominations for sections on Nominations Resolutions Necrology Journal of Education Teachers and Places and Honorary Members. Lectures by Judah Dana and Henry Barnard addressed old and new teaching methods and the care of neglected children. The evening featured Henry Hancock on piece-work effects and education reforms, with emphasis on broader training, moving teachers between grades, and avoiding overspecialization. Many visitors arrived and hotels report overcrowding.
The Democratic Congressional Committee has set up headquarters in the House. Maine and Ohio receive campaign pamphlets featuring speeches by Carlisle Tucker Hurd and Wallace. Banks face losses as ten forties rise. Treasury holds about sixty million for circulation redemption. Judge Dillon's resignation status unsettled. possible move to Union Pacific counsel post noted.
New York July 8 reports a theory that Mr Seymour was accidentally killed by a pistol shot from a seminary window fired by student Paul Steukner, though Bishop Seymour doubts the claim. Frisb ie tutor’s room occupant. Frisb ie in Boston. Frank Cosgrove, convicted in malpractices case, gets four years. Mme. Berger sentenced to twelve years. Elev ated Railway radio rumor denied by road officials. Aldermen Sauer accuses Haughton of bribery over Vanderbilt rapid transit. committee of investigation formed. Rifle match at Columbia Range yields perfect scores. board rejects Vanderbilt scheme by 16 to 5. Chittenden injury overblown. Austin Nolan dies from a kick. Airship sighting at sea identified as escape from Coney Island. Saratoga Schoolship arrives from Bermuda with 250 boys. O Leary arrived and headed to Boston.
The Postmaster General divides free delivery cities into two classes under the new law. First class includes cities with 75,000+ population. second class covers 65 existing free delivery cities and will grow as population or postal revenue thresholds are met. Pay scales set for carriers range from 800 to 1000 dollars, with back pay to be decided later. Also outlines which insurance documents and personal correspondence are third or first class matter for mailing rates.
Correspondence reports Edward P. Chase of Portland sues F. B. Bigelow, Maine state liquor commissioner, for 10000. Chase claims defective stock handled during transition in Gov Garcelow era. Bigelow refused impure liquors and bought better stock elsewhere. The suit targets agency practices and trustees in multiple towns, amid political tension.
Portland Maine July 8 The city of Portland sold its interest in the Portland and Rochester Railroad to George P Westcott the present receiver for 236500. bids peaked at 230000 by lawyer Snow and 236000 by William G Davis director Maine Central. Woodbury Moulton brokers also bid. The item then notes consolidation plans of Wabash and Kansas City Northern railways with stock and debt details. It mentions a tariff reduction debate in Concord New Hampshire and a Boston Barre and Gardner bondholders meeting in Worcester. The piece ends with a note of a new railway project in Indiana.
The Brooklyn Eagle recounts the life of Joseph Matthews a Irish native of Columbhill Longford who died in Brooklyn on July 4 He was known for his honesty warmth and generosity and for loving gun and dog culture He faced tragedy after a feud with John Keevy ending in Keevy's murder and Matthews’s long legal fight leading to pardon and clemency by Governor Tilden after a decade of imprisonment He returned to his tailor trade and lived as a temperate devout Christian until his death in Brooklyn
On June 7 two inmates in separate cells hanged themselves the day of their sentence, while a third was pardoned by the Governor. About a month earlier another Indian convicted of murdering a ranchman at Tarry's Landing faced execution at the same time, and Sunday night he hanged himself as well.
On the third reading of the Tariff bill in the Reichstag, it was decided that flour and fats tariffs take effect immediately, grain and wood on October 1, and all other items on January 1, 1980. Wernigerode noted enforcement readiness issues and tobacco and petroleum duties were provisional. The House also adopted a clause increasing duties by 50 percent on unfavorably treated imports, with the government seeking 100 percent. The revised tariff is expected to yield about 120 million marks more annually, aiding deficits and new empire supplies, leaving net estate revenue at 38 million marks per year.
A House of Commons scene in London last night stirred crowds as Liberal MPs pressed for broad limits on flogging in the army and navy with a move toward total abolition. Marquis of Hartington rejected responsibility for the action while Mr Chamberlain of Birmingham mocked his former leadership.
Prince Jerome Bonaparte and his two sons left Paris for Chiselhurst to await the Prince Imperial's body. Reports say conciliatory letters passed with Empress Eugenie who may adopt friends' suggestions for reconciliation with Jerome and Bonapartist party interests.
Official telegram reports that fourteen of fifteen wards in Irkutsk were burned on July 4, destroying homes. The disaster deprives numerous residents of shelter as firefighters struggled to control the blaze.
London July 8 Kate Webster Irish servant found guilty of murdering her mistress Mrs Thomas at Richmond. Body boiled and cast into the Thames head destroyed by burning. Also reported: cable repairs, financial failures, insurrections in Burma, Spain and San Domingo tensions, threats to the Belgian king, cholera spreading among troops, US steamer Alliance voyage, and Russia’s war costs.
Bowdoin College class day events on July 8 in Brunswick were disrupted by heavy rain. Morning exercises and an afternoon program moved to alternate venues, while Lemont Hall hosted a brilliant evening dance with elegant gowns and a grand march. Despite weather, the class of ’79 enjoyed a memorable commencement atmosphere and late celebrations.
A large amastodon skeleton fragment was unearthed in a swamp on Hugh Kelly’s New Windsor farm, seven miles from Newburg. Excavations yield skull, teeth, leg bones, ribs, vertebrae and pelvis portions. animal likely stood about 12 feet high. Dig site 2 to 4 feet deep on blue clay.
A noon gale at Portsmouth New Hampshire uprooted trees and damaged gardens. Two schooners collided off the harbor, one bound to Belfast, with torn sails and a boat store aboard. Some fishing boats at anchor were torn from moorings as winds reached about twenty five miles per hour. A separate severe gale hit Provincetown, delaying a Boston excursion steamer.
The Manchester team from New Hampshire broke up after Saturday’s Utica game, eight players returning home amid many dispatches. Cogswell, Wood, and Woodhead attract interest from several clubs including the Bostons and Nationals. Leary and Bowen signed with Hop Bitters, with Tipper likely to join the Nationals.
In Branch, New Jersey, a rain-soaked card produced easy wins for Bulwark in the one mile race after eight starters. Sensation edged Grenada in the two year olds stakes for five furlongs, while Spendthrift dominated the Jersey Derby over 1½ miles. Pilot won the selling race mile and a quarter, Jericho narrowly captured the one and five eighths miles, and Prob lem won the steeplechase with Derby second as Bender failed to finish.
A week after a Fayette county assault on a lady in West Virginia, Mark Lee, a Black man, was arrested in Parkersburg. On the return trip to Coalburgton, a mob of nearly two thousand seized him and hanged him.
Despatches from Wisconsin and Minnesota report a storm in the Northwest yesterday and Sunday night damaging growing crops. In Cincinnati reports say latest rains benefited corn in interior and Southern Ohio Indiana, with some wheat damage not affecting the overall crop outcome.
Foss and Hunter sue Little Pittsburg Consolidated Company. Judge Miller denies injunction and receiver, orders sworn monthly earnings returns, deposits one third to court, and allows complainant to examine books at the mines.
Deadwood July 8 A few months ago three Indians were convicted of the murder of Private Leo Bader of the Third Cavalry and were sentenced to be hanged at Miles City's jail yard.
A blaze at 7:30 pm destroyed Denham's plastering mill on Scranton avenue and spread to the Variety Iron works the Atlantic and Great Western freight depot and a lumber dealers two story building. Wind aided the flames threatening both sides of the street. Total loss about 100000 with substantial insurance.
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