Mills Grind Slow Yet Fine in New York Senate Race
A Conkling newspaper notes the stalwarts work steadily and observes that even half breed mills show solid output in the York state senatorial contest. The report emphasizes careful effort and improving results in the political battleground.
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Conkling
York State
Howe to interior department rumor and Chandler postmaster
The item notes a potential transfer of Howe to the interior department and Bill Chandler of New Hampshire as postmaster general. It portrays these moves as favorable to the democracy and suggests the latest plan fits the pattern of advantageous changes.
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Howe
Interior Department
Bill Chandler
New Hampshire
Atlanta group to convert exposition into large cotton mill
The Atlanta business men who formed a syndicate to buy the exposition buildings have pooled 250000 dollars to purchase machinery for cotton goods. The main exposition hall will be transformed into a cotton factory and is expected to rank among the largest in the South.
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Atlanta
South
Confidence Returns as Cotton Prices Drop and Cash Buyers Rise
The article notes that cotton prices have fallen below real value in many cases after a bust peak in late 1880 and early 1881, drawing cash buyers and giving a healthy market tone. It argues a good crop year ahead and a sound currency bolster national business, despite Wall Street fluctuations, encouraging northern optimism as southern prospects brighten.
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The
Atlanta Constitution
Wall Street
North
Menkin Bros. Failure Highlights Southern Trade Troubles
The Memphis firm Menkin Bros. joins a string of southern bankruptcies amid a precarious trade climate. Once prompt settlers, they reportedly owed little and could discount all bills, with failure attributed to poor cotton crops hurting planters’ ability to pay for goods. More failures are expected in sixty days, potentially broader and more serious.
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House of Menkin Bros
Memphis
South
Menkin Bros
Conkling Confirmed as Justice Amid Hope of Decline
Washington reports the Senate in executive session confirmed ex Senator Conkling as associate justice of the Supreme Court and ex Senator Sargent as minister to Germany. A large portion of the vote favored keeping him from accepting the honor, with expectations he may decline. The tally was about 39 yeas to 12 nays.
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Adams
Mass
Lively Debate in House Over Consular and Diplomatic Bill
In Washington March 2 the House debated the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill of 1,198,630 dollars. Speakers pressed for stronger consular services, discussed canal policy, and debated the Monroe doctrine and naturalized citizen protections amid criticism of current diplomacy. The committee rose without action.
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Democratic Party
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Iowa
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Eads
Hazael Takes the Lead in Endurance Race Feats
New York reports intense day as Hazael leads Fitzgerald and Rowell amid shifting positions in a long distance walk race. Rowell’s troubling absence and betting interest from Sir John Astley loom, with crowds swelling to about 8000 and $10000 banked to date.
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Razael
John Astley
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Sullivan
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Hughes
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Hazeel
Hazael
Gloucester Port Reports 1882 Fishing Arrivals and Totals
The Gloucester port shows 109 fishing arrivals in February 1882 with 1,177,000 pounds codfish 568,900 pounds halibut 142,000 pounds haddock and 6,704,000 pounds frozen herring. Totals for two months show increases in herring but declines in codfish and halibut versus prior years. Historical comparisons trace arrivals from banks Georges Brown's LaHaye Grand Menan and fortune bay across years.
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Banks
Georges
Western Bank
Grand Menan
Newfoundland
Bank Halibuting
Georges, Brown’s and LaHaye
Bay of Fundy
Danbury Readies Guards as Hat Factory Lockout Tensions Rise
Danbury faces potential unrest after a hat factory lockout and striker activity. Gov. Keeow orders the first regiment of the National Guard under Vol Barbour to be ready to march at a fire alarm signal. A town election takes place tomorrow amid the tense mood.
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Conp
Danbury
Kieelow
National Guards
Barbour
Power of Patronage in New York Politics and Arthur’s Harmo
Special correspondence analyzes President Arthur’s efforts to reconcile factional splits within the New York Republican party. The piece portrays patronage as a tool to win over half breeds and stalwarts, flaws of Conkling and Platt, and Blaine’s bid for influence. It notes appointments, looming clashes, and the delicate balance needed to unify power blocs while avoiding fresh quarrels.
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White House
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Presiden
Gray
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Grant
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Pisbrie
Beard
Babson
Masachusetts
Gloucester
Gen. Banks
Gee. Bank
Gen.banks
Folger
Railroad committees order unified western traffic division
Committees of the Eastern and Western railroads meet to divide traffic from western principal cities. No one but general freight agents may set rates. No rebates or time contracts permitted and all existing time contracts are voided.
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Mittees
Eastern and Western Railroads
Old Estab lished Blue Hill Academy and Rail News
The text notes Blue Hill's long established academy with a $12 000 fund and reports on various items including an oil accident at Lewiston and Augusta telephone service. It covers the Rumford Falls and Buckfield railroad annual meeting at Canton with officers elected and business gains.
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Blue Hill
Lewiston
Augusta
Rumford Fails and
Buckfield
Canton
Israel Washburn, Jr
Sullivan ©. Andrews
George D. Bisbee
I. Washburn, Jr
C. Andrews
Olly Hayford
N. L. Marshal
R. C. Bradford
Otis Hayford
Oren Spaulding
Wentworth jury convicts in assault case at Dover
In Dover New Hampshire the state court found George L Wentworth guilty of aggravated assault after a jury verdict in the case involving an attempt to kill E M Nowell. In Kingston deputy Lanzon arrested Moses Rogers on theft suspicion linked to a horse taken near Haverhill Massachusetts.
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George L. Wentworth
Nowell
Moses Rogers
Kingston
Lake Village
Lanz
Haverhill
Mass
Simonds Free High School
Warner
John Foster
Boston
Monadnock Blanket Company
Marlboro
Henry Taylor
Supreme Court
West Seventh Street
Heoprietta Rightenberg
South Boston
House of Correcion
Parmenter Street
Charles Norwood
Mary Canty
Frank Wentworth
Metropolitan Steamship Company
Philadelphia Steamship Company
Savannah Steamship Company
Robert Curran
John Stopford
Merrimac Place
Stopford
Massachusetts General Hospital
Patrick McCue
Snowhill Street
Martin McDonough
Ninth Street
Eighth Streets
Carl. D. Bischof
No. 1
Elm Place
Court Street
Cilley
City Hospital
Smallpox Sickness Eases as Disease Is Controlled
Holland reports declining smallpox among patients while Chester opens a new soapstone mine leased for forty years. Montpelier pauper expenses near four thousand dollars with highway costs around six thousand. The University of Vermont medical course opened with 200 students. lectures led by Prof. George H. Perkins on The Physician of the Future.
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Holland
Chester
Wofk
Montpelier
University of Vermont
George H. Perkins
Frank Pecor
Michael Kennedy
John Cook
Pittsfield
Father A. R. Dufresne
Holyoke
Thomas Sampson
Sampson
Father Dufresne
Barre Town Finishes Debt Payoff Across Year
The town of Barre paid off seven thousand ninety three dollars of its debt totaling thirty nine thousand nine hundred fifty eight dollars. A Fall River man seeks to sell his mother in law s false teeth not buried with her remains. Daniel Morey of Fall River was found dead after attending a wake, with a head wound suspected from a fall on rocks at Iron Works wharf. Almon Ingalls and John Nichols of Fall River were rearrested on a conspiracy to defame charge after earlier discharge for indict ment informality.
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Fall River
Daniel Morey
Iron Works
Almon E. Ingalls
John F. Nichols
Superior Court
Ingalls
Boston
Staite
Committee On
P. A. Collins
Board of Visitors
Miner
Mary E. Hildreth
Briggs
Mary Carter
Muse Hildreth
Ellen F. Pillsbury
Henrietta Molineux
Miss Carter
J. L. Caverly
William A.thompson
Larkin Dunion
Smith
Edward Carey
Cynthia BE. Hoils
Henry W. Pore
Meek
William Briggs
White
Norfolk County
Willam B. Shattuck
Canton
Mary
Shattuck
Gardner H. Starkey
Wrentham
Maria A. Starkey
William M. Fisher
Bond
Henry Upham
Brookline
John A. Burnham
George P. Upham
Mary &. Brett
Stoughton
Frederick L. Brett
David Dennison
Stought Oi
Margaret Dennison
Abaz Allen
Bellingham
David A. Cook
Elizabeth M. Phillips
Medway
Alonzo
Alonzo #. Phillips, admiistrator, bond, $1,500; Lewis Willcutt
Cohasset
Sarah H. Wallcutt
Maria del Rose King
John H. Morgan
Thomas Casey
Norwood
Catherine Julia Sullivan
Pond
George K. Chickering
Dover
Lizzie A. Tuck
Hannah Chickering
John D. Lovell
Susan R. Lane
Abby R. Lane
Branree
Bona
Ananias
George E. Morse
Daniel Quinlan
Plympton
Old Colony
Oficer
Holbeck
Howard Colburn
Selectman
Agat «Ord
Wanderer
Morse
North Abington
Weat Dedham
Ward
Brookeline
Queen Fends Off Pistol Attack at Windsor Station
London March 2 A man identified as Roderick MacLean fired at Queen Victoria as she entered a Windsor railway carriage. The assailant was seized by police and crowds. no one hurt. MacLean, 27, said to be a grocer’s assistant from Southsea, was deemed sane by doctors. The incident prompted official despatches and public condemnations, with sympathy from European rulers.
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Windsor
Roderick MacLean
John Brewe
MacLean
High Street
Southsea
Eton
Henry F. Ponsonby
Gladstone
Cabinet
Lonon
Empress
Austria
William
Germany
Outrage Claims Stir in Russia and Ship Disaster Near Lagos
A Russo Jewish committee reports outrages against Jews in Russia based on letters from high officials and refugees, while British consular reports are questioned. West Africa ferrryboat capsizes off Lagos with forty seven of sixty drowned. Czars distressed by Gen Skobeleffs speech. In Montevideo Dr Vidal resigns. Senator Sanchos elected president. tranquility noted.
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London
Russia
Ao Eminent Rabbs
Africa
Lagos
St. Petersburg
Skobeleff
Montevideo
Vidal
Republic
Congress
Sanchos
Fires Cause Multiple Losses Across Several Cities
Fire destroyed blocks in North Troy Vermont including Parkhurst’s buildings and G Weselver’s hardware, with insured losses totaling thousands. In Ashburnham Massachusetts Wilbur Whitney’s chair shops burned with about 30 000 dollars loss and 21 000 insured. Riverside New Jersey church and school buildings burned for about 25 000 dollars. Minor blazes in Cambridge and Stoughton caused smaller damages. a Hampden Street fire at 192 damaged a hay store. a Commercial Street fire caused by a kerosene lamp totaled 40 dollars.
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Norv
O.N. Elkins
Kk. P. Lewis
Ashburnham
Fitchburg
Mass
Wilbur F. Whitney
South Ashburnham
Riverside
N.J
Cambridge
Peter Durnan
Gore Street
Jonathan Drake
South Stoughton
Boston
Pope
Ninth Division
Hampden Street
William Stanley
Sergt. Wimar
Commercial Street
Lewis Whert Corporation
Mary Smith
Doctors Debate Guiteau Sanity at Medico Legal Meeting
New York March 2 at the Medico Legal society meeting Dr Hammond argued Guiteau suffered reasoning mania a lunatic but worthy of punishment Dr Parsons agreed with Hammond while Dr Spitzka defended original insanity and questioned whether punishment would deter copycat crimes Dr Barry Mann Gray and Henry supported Hammond's view
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Guiteau
Hammond
Ohio
Medico. Legal Society
Parsons
Spitzka
Barry, Mann, Gray and
Henry
Hearings on Judge Day Removal Case and Icelandic Sagas Lecture
The committee examines petitions to remove Judge Joseph M. Day of Barnstable county. witnesses include Charles H. Nye and Mrs. Clarissa Nickerson. Separately Prof. Boyesen discusses Snorre Sturlason Heimskringla and the Saga of Burnt Njal, praising its historical rigor and national impact. Also noted are a Kansas City incident and East Boston crime statistics.
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Clarissa Nickerson
Committee On Street Railways
Charles River Street Railway Company
Robert O. Fuller
Union Road
West Boston Bridge
Cambridge
Fuller
John S. Paine
Samuel F. Woodbridge
Charles River Company
Gale
National City Bark of
Cambridgeport
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Snorre Sturiason
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Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Lowell Institute
Snorre Sturlason
France
Germany
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Semund
Norway
Sweden
Herbert Spencer
Snorre
Congress
Oscar
Kurnt Njal
Lemund the Learned
Calamity from Floods Wrecks Mississippi Valley
Despatches describe massive flood devastation from the Mississippi valley with tens of thousands displaced and stock losses. Rescue efforts follow reports of levee breaks from Riverton to Vicksburg, with hundreds of lives at risk and aid needed for destitute families and laborers.
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Hopefield
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Riverton Landing
Boyne Phalia
Riverton
Belen
Helena
Panola County
Bolivar
Washington
Leflore
Warren
Issaguero
Vicksburg
Duncan’s
Wrights
Judge Miles
Duncan
Frank Remach
Dancan
Max Muller
Concordia
Blackburn’s
Rosedale
Providence
Tenn
Mississippi County
Bolivar County
New Orleans
Carson’s Landing
Ben Haines
Cache River
Little Rock
Flooding Regains New Hampshire and Mohawk Valley Rail Lines
Heavy rains raised streams across Littleton Franconia Bethlehem Junction and Albany delaying trains and washing out bridges. Mohawk River tops ten year high with rails submerged and riverfront commerce moved by boat as water floods tracks and piers.
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Franconia
Bethlehem Junction
Albany
Mohawk Valley
Mohawk River
Central Railroad
Canajoharie
Hudson
Sacred Heart fair nets thirteen thousand dollars
Superior Court cases delayed while Dan iel Desmond and Clarence Hersome face entry charges. John Callahan fined for liquor nuisance and selling to minors. Sacred Heart church fair in East Cambridge closes during Lent, reporting net receipts of 13 000 with major prizes awarded to multiple local residents. Community notes cover St Thomas Aquinas college anniversary events and various local incidents and probate actions.
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China
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Hampshire Streets
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