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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1880
Page
4
In response to Democratic letters the paper renews a limited time 14 months offer to readers. It invites supporters to spread The Globe to voters, promoting regular reading. The Globe claims to be the largest and cheapest weekly Democratic newspaper in the United States.
The New Haven Register contrasts independent journalism with partisan bias and cites the Philadelphia Times facing multiple libel suits, including one from a quack doctor seeking twenty thousand dollars. It notes continuing machine doctor criticism and comments on Pierre Lorillard’s wage and search proposal, urging workers to resist.
In the excerpt, observers in England and America view Chu Lai Longkhong as a weak cruel cowardly despot who has largely lost influence and may soon lose power, noting sums drawn by him as expenses for the gold mine and questioning his ability to retain control.
The article surveys the toppled Beaconsfield administration with resignations of key officials and a reshuffle of India governance, noting Lord Lytton’s departure for literature and the prospect of Goschen as a peace or war policy proponent. It contrasts historic governors general with the need for firm leadership, while also touching on Irish colonization schemes and emigration ideas to ease immigration pressures.
The piece argues that famine emigrants from Ireland, driven by poverty and limited capital, flood American ports. It critiques wholesale emigration and proposes organized colonization and transport to agricultural regions in the Midwest and Southwest to channel labor and reduce urban strain.
The piece analyzes New York factional tensions over Tilden at Syracuse and the Cincinnati convention. It argues the nation must choose a candidate by party unity, rejects personal loyalty, and favors a strong anti-centralization platform. It notes Maine Greenbackers uniting with Democrats for a one-flag 1880 campaign.
Describes strategic party union between Greenbackers and Democrats to win the Maine governor race under a new plurality rule, warns of Republican gains in the Senate and possible Democratic loss, critiques national political maneuvering, and notes the Holly steam heating system trial, cattle and beef trade with England, and a Gatling gun exhibit amid broader social issues and economic trends.
A family dinner scene features red hearts and odd decorations on foods. Smith recalls seeing liver chunks while beets bear Eliza’s last year’s beau, and aproned crates display balloons. The old man objects to the artful plates and warns of fewer hinges on the gate if more art appears.
Curiosities from various papers recount oddities in politics science and society. Notes mock Edison tributes, Grant admiration, and Napoleonic legends. The Tichborne case is revisited with detail from a London friend, describing the trial, witnesses, costs, and potential future in Hendon.
An American journalist proves the New York Graphic adage true by entering Greenwich Observatory during a meteor shower. Mr. Glaisher, president of the Royal British Photographic Society, counted meteors with assistants, unaware a stranger had intruded on the scene. The interloper interrupted at the moment of a precise count, prompting surprised dialogue.
A stranger claiming to be the New York Herald special correspondent entered an observatory’s inner sanctum and observed the meteoric display. He shut his notebook, thanked the observer, and departed to file a full account in the Herald. How he gained access remains a mystery to Nature and observers.
Washington correspondence describes a public reception and Supreme Court session where judges examined corsets in court to assess bias and whale bone casings. Lawyers distributed samples, judges studied designs, and a striking decollete gown prompted practical impressions that influenced the later opinion.
Reports from Lafayette Indiana and Nashville Tennessee tally astonishing ages with several centenarians. Eddy Green near Gallatin Tennessee dies at least 106, with family estimating 112 to 114. Nearby North Carolina native built early Nashville homes and recalls era under George III. An elderly Lafayette Irishman claims 130, born under George III, with grandfather said to live 140.
Beaconsfield’s potential aid to Albert Edward, heir to Victoria, would have used public funds if the Tories had prevailed. The Liberal win blocks that option, leaving the prince to endure his debts unless Queen Victoria intervenes. The Washington Post notes the royal’s costly lifestyle and reliance on moneylenders as his only escape.
Richard Van Voorhis, oldest U S navy officer at ninety eight, died Monday after seventy one years of service. A Nashville murder unfolds as gambler George Petway in jail for killing James Ferris of Hartford. Political notes cover Grant support in Kentucky and Missouri, Blaine concerns in Iowa, Albany charter election results, and a copper mine accident in Dilloton. Other items mention Journal buyouts, a ship scandal trial, Mexican soldier death, a New Orleans congressional nomination, gold finds in White county Georgia, damages from a hot stove on a railroad car, Blaine’s Geneva award stance, and trade policy mysteries.
If you want summer boarders and live in any New England town send your ad dress at once to The Boston Daily Globe Boston Mass.
The Weekly Globe promotes a fourteen month subscription for one dollar and urges readers to form clubs to canvass neighborhoods for new subscribers. The paper positions itself as a complete, inexpensive record of political events and appeals to Democrats to increase circulation.
In New England country towns, persons willing to take summer boarders are urged to send their address to the Boston Daily Globe, Boston Massachusetts, at once, indicating how many boarders they can accommodate.
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