Independent Catholics scandal rocks new church movement
A New York Herald exposé reveals a fractured Independent American Catholic Church led by Dr Fishblatt. Ex-priest Thomas Powers accuses leaders of fraud while police court hearings and public meetings uncover vanity, money demands, and widespread disillusionment among followers in a saga of religious deception and sensational testimonies.
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New York Herald
Church of Rome
Broderick
Austin
Fishblatt
Brother Jove
Peet
Quinn
Wood
Dr. Fish- Diatt
Father Quinn
Brother Fishblatt
St. John, N. B
Dr. Powers
Powers
McCarthy
Father Powers
Spruce
Dr. Fishblatt
Paul the Apostle
Aptist
New York
New Haven
Conn
East Thirtysixth Street
Minnie
Thomas
Clarendon Hall
Brooklyn
Dr. Fishvlatt
New Movement
Br. Fishilatt
American Independent Catholic Church
Professor Wood
Orak
Mr. McAllister
Rishblatt
Bluett
Jesus
Elnett
Ireland
America
Boston
Vanderbilt's Grandson Seen as Coming Commodore Heir
New York letters claim Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. inherits the Commodore's genius for railroading and fortune. As NY Central vice president he commands detailed knowledge of schedules and charges and is likened to Gould and Keene in acumen. The will left him 85 million, securing his independent wealth and status in Wall Street lore.
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New York
Chicago Times
Commodore Vanderbilt
Cornelius
Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
New York Central
Central Service
Wall Street
Jim Keene
Jay Gould
Commodore
Cornelius, Jr
Corneel
Miraculous Miller Heals by Touch Across Scott County
A Wytheville despatch reports Richard Miller of Estillville, a mill keeper, performing cures through faith. Hundreds seek him for miracles, with claims of restored speech, hearing, mobility, cancer remission, and relief from rheumatism. Miller declines compensation, saying he is God’s humble instrument.
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Wytheville
Scott County
Richard Miller
Miller
McMullin
G. N. Wertz
Abington
Pene
Mr. Wertz
Irene Newton
Bristol
Tenn
Peter Whitesell
Our Dumb Animals and Mr Angell's Humane Mission
A 19th century piece praising the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. It recounts the society’s founding led by George T. Angell, its aims to enforce laws and educate the public, and its work reducing cruelty through investigation, outreach, and persuasion. It notes finances, staffing, and broader goals for humane treatment of animals nationwide.
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Massachusetts Society For the Prevention
Boston Advertiser
George T. Angell
General Court
William Gray
Samuel G.howe
Cephas Brigham
Amos A. Lawrence
J. W. Denny
Samuel G. Howe
Russel Sturges, Jr
Justice Bigelow
John Quincy Adams
Henry Saltonstall
W. W. Moreland
Thomas Motley
J. LD. Slade
George Noyes
Thomas Conery
Franklin Evans
John Reed
William G. Weld
William Appleton
United States
Newark
Angell
GLOBE
Boston
A. Currier
Joseph Baker
Jamas Langlau
Abram Wirth
O.W. Peabody
Tremont Street
Russia
Victor Hugo's Last The Comical Tale of Lippiatt on a Fence
A fragmented dramatic spoof follows Lippiatt, a poor French tailor, pining on a fence before Maronette in a gloomy house. He seeks love, braving storms and a maelstrom, then marries another, only to reveal a final tragedy beside the fence.
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Lippiatt
Maronette
Lippiat
Goudenay
Gratitude Through Support for Protective Society
A fragment urges giving to the society organized for the protection of those in need, framing charity as the debt of gratitude to divine creation and the beneficiaries themselves, and urging increased power to safeguard them.
Printing Under Difficulties The Nihilist Press
A Manchester Guardian report describes how the organ Will of the People is produced in Russia. A lone editor, reporter, compositor, printer and publisher operates from a dilapidated room, hiding type under a bed and in coats. He writes leaders in parks, swallows pages as pills, then distributes the paper through streets and cafes despite police vigilance. The tale underscores the perilous, secretive craft behind revolutionary literature.
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Nihilists
Russia
St. Petersburg
Manchester Guardian
Census Enumerators Meet Backhanded Doorstep
An exchange notes how women census enumerators often face saucy doorfronts. A neatly dressed young woman asks questions about name birth and marriage while the resident retorts with sarcasm about plum pudding and a carpet pattern, finally slamming the door as she hurries on.
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Maine
The Irish Exodus Prompts American Emigration Debate
From Queenstown March 25, Redpath discusses the Irish emigration wave to New York, its likely scale, and effects on American labor. He notes steerage limits, rising rents, crop failures, English competition, and a growing class of educated young Irish who favor modern economics over past zeal. He argues for organized emigration under Catholic leadership and suggests Virginia and North Carolina as potential new lands for settlement.
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Queenstown
Ireland
New York
New York City
America
New Zealand
England
West of Ireland
Mayo
Donegal
Galway
Islands
Erin
John Stuart Mill
Adam Smith
Davitt
Verguson
Brennan
Loudon
New England
Connemara
Erner
Mr. Parnell
Minnesota
South
Virginia
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Seaboard
Sea Serpent Sighted by Veracious Captain Chase
Captain Andrew B. Chase of the brig Isadora Rionda claims a sea serpent at about two hundred yards, not less than a hundred feet long, dark in color with a horse like head. Miller & Houghton call him strictly reliable, and Chase recounts the encounter with cautious precision amid questions about details.
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Andrew B. Chase
New York Herald
Messrs
Miller & Houghton
Captain Chase
Messrs. Miller
Houghton
Chase
Chinese Convert Ah Wing Baptized at Trinity Baptist
The New York Sun reports Mrs. Augusta Carte led a Chinaman youth into Trinity Baptist Church Sabbath school, expanding to about thirty names. Ah Wing, twenty four, was baptized after professing faith in Jesus Christ, becoming the city’s first publicly professed Chinese convert. He works as a car decorator for John Stephenson Car Company and trained at Cooper Institute Art School.
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New York
Ah Wing
Jesus Christ
H Wing
John Stephenson Car Company
Cooper Institute Art School
Three Drummers and a Postal Card Outrage in Town
A collage of clippings reports three drummers selling cheap goods failing to make a sale, a quarrelsome postal card incident in Augusta, and a sailor insult case in Yorkville. Other notes include weather prognostications by Vennor, a Jacksonville tale of a dying bird, color blindness gags, a depot romance misfire, Anna Dickinson’s brother, and a lightning tree imprint on a New Albany tombstone.
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Buffalo Commercial
Robinson
Jones
New Albany
Ind
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