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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1886
Page
4
The notice lists rates for a weekly publication with prices for one year nine dollars, six months four dollars fifty, three months two dollars twenty five cents, and one month seventy three cents. Additional Friday edition pricing shows one year at one dollar fifty cents.
THURSDAY MORNING SEPT 2 1886 Charleston faced a disaster that deprives residents of shelter and basic comforts. The city’s devastation surpasses previous calamities, and reports seek outside relief. New York has begun relief efforts, with other regions following. Boston is urged not to lag in helping.
Commentators note the schooner Highland Light was seized within the three mile limit off Prince Edward Island during fishing. Legal sufficiency for capture remains unresolved, risking further Canadian maritime actions and provoking opposition presses. The advised course for Yankee vessels is strict adherence to law and staying inside territorial waters.
Arkansas opens Monday with a fused ticket in some counties supported by colored voters and white reformers in harmony. Vermont’s election follows on Tuesday with the Edmunds party securing nomination in Republican caucuses, ending senatorial questions. Maine votes a week later amid debate on Prohibition turnout as Blaine managers issue free tickets from afar.
Warring factions in Belfast have flared up again and, though quiet has been restored, the situation remains extremely critical. The ferocity in the North of Ireland appears ineradicable by persuasion or force, and past lapses of time fail to quell these fierce fires of religious hatred. A sad state of things.
The London Spectator lays out a neck or nothing policy urging continued Union while addressing Irish grievances. It accepts agrarian problems as Parnell’s leverage and warns that failure would demand sober separation, challenging Gladstone’s willingness to seek separation as a remedy.
In the Halifax sugar refinery case the expenditure exceeded a million dollars illustrating the protective system. The tariff on sugar was established in the tariff era, highlighting how protections function in practice.
The Illinois Republican convention endorses protective tariff and harshly denounces anarchist propagandists while criticizing Cleveland for pension vetoes. It argues for local government audits and accuses state officials of overreach, noting recent Cook County jail inmates awaiting citizenship fate.
The New York Tribune notes the Gaiaten lacks real merits beyond being a sea-going yacht and ponders who would attend the Irex sale or a new excavated vessel the English would not deem worth disparaging.
A historical critique traces how a protective tariff fostered infant Canadian refineries then failed as sugar prices fell. It notes investor losses, unemployment among trained workers, and sagging local spirits while defending labor organization and the new State board of conciliation and arbitration as the path forward.
The piece discusses England’s independent audit of local government accounts, tracing a history from the District Auditors Act of 1878 through 1887 remarks on utility. It notes district auditors' powers to disallow improper sums, appeals to the central board, and cites Chalmers’ remarks on local officials’ tendencies toward finding means to misuse funds.
The published correspondence between Prince Alexander and the Czar sheds light on Bulgaria and Russia. It shows the prince offering conciliation and sacrifice to Bulgaria’s cause, while the Czar issues a hostile warning and hints at intervention. The piece argues peace in the East remains unlikely, barring a broader coalition including Austria Turkey England and Germany.
A dispute simmers as Brockton shoe shop owners plan to require Knights of Labor members to resign from the union to gain employment. The move echoes East Cambridge pork packing lockout logic, with manufacturers arguing it shields their interests from organized labor interference. Similar pledges surface in Athol as local firms seek individual assent over collective affiliation.
The St James Gazette sighs over coincidences making the year unlucky citing five Fridays in months and moon phases as a "Friday year" omen. The Charleston earthquake and a fragment about eighty six beginning on July and containing fifty remain unreadable, with the column ending abruptly.
Mr. Steele Mackaye describes a system in which he does not whip his boys. He claims a father should not use force to train children. When disobedience occurs, he makes the boys whip him to teach them. He notes a potential risk of harmful results in some youths, yet calls his heroism admirable.
A California paper reports a remarkable young woman whose electricity powers astonish, with events like a bed turning to flame and quick shifts of light. Her demonstrations imply vast electrical potential, but caution is urged as she may pose danger. The piece notes she seeks museum exhibition and hints at a risky public reception.
A Punch cartoon shows Lord Salisbury and Lord Randolph Churchill in a shop window labeled Irish policy. Salisbury offers Irish goods while Churchill notes low demand and suggests storing them for spring. The piece mocks the new government’s policy direction as hucksterish.
The article notes Prince Bismarck conceals his ideas in the North German Gazette and remarks on mercifulness in distributing national calamities. It contrasts a fictional eruption in Town with the imagined Kentucky disaster to illustrate fear and horror.
A collection of brief political squibs notes shifts in party dynamics. Prohibitionists push toward a leadership role while old ideas fade. various opinions from U S papers comment on Gladstone Ireland policy, possible home rule, and the broader tension within parties and public discourse.
In Boston reminiscences Colonel Francis L. Lee, son of General Gordon, remembered for his refined bearing, art knowledge, and quiet service in war as well as his social duties. The piece also reports scaffolding at St Paul’s Church promptly removed after bird roosting repairs, discusses missing bas relief, and cites Solomon Willard as a prolific Boston designer and sculptor with a wry compare to Chantrey's boast.
Francis L Lee of this city died suddenly at his summer home on Lake Champlain Westport New York presumed heart disease. Born in Boston in 1828 he studied botany horticulture and landscape gardening. He served as volunteer aid to Governor Andrew and commanded the Forty fourth Regiment M V M during the Civil War. Survived by two sons and three daughters his widow Miss Wilson of Keene N H and several descendants live across the United States. He was noted for charity and landscape art and had strong convictions and lively conversational powers.
A jumbled column blends comments on Fi er ty, John C. Eno, and a refused reply from New York. It lampoons English cricket, a via Alexander, tariff talk, and political figures like Galusha Grow, St Michaels destruction, and Gettysburg heroics.
A rambling column surveys high society figures and events from Boston to Vienna. It recounts Cyrus W. Field's alleged legal fealties, remarks on Sidney Bartlett, reflections on Richard Mansfield's Jekyll and Hyde portrayal, Dr Holmes's Lisbon earthquake links, and ends with Anton Hannakampf the Emperor Francis Joseph’s longtime valet who tended the young Napoleon’s heir and died in 1882.
The Hartwell descendants gathered in Concord for their 250th anniversary reunion, reestablishing the old officer line at Agricultural Hall. President Densmore led the meeting, with Hartwell family officers from New England states present, followed by speeches from clergy and dignitaries and a recap of family history.
Daniel McAuliffe of Cambridge received a bold cream colored letter postmarked Boston on Monday. The message matches the handwriting on the envelope and McAuliffe, a peaceable man, has sought police protection after fearing an unseen enemy.
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