Advertising Rates and Political Commentary in The Journal
Advertising rates listed for ordinary and editorial notices with volume discounts. The piece then discusses Keely’s controversial new force and political maneuvering, citing Dawes, Burnside, Massachusetts suffrage, and Senate confirmations. It notes the Times criticism of Stanley Matthews’ pro slavery past and a Connolly bread and water case.
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The
New York Times
Stanley Mathews
Supreme Judicial Court of the United States
Mathews
United States
Ohio
the Times
William B. Connolly
Cincinnati Gazette
Connolly
Mahone
Briddleberger
New York Debates on Health, Politics, and Cuba Affairs
A lengthy column critiques political figures and party loyalties while detailing a New York Herald chart showing a surge in city deaths through April 16 1881 and the filthiness of streets. It cites editorials on Star route corruption and quotes Dana on Cuban tariffs exposing U S and Spanish trade disparities.
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New York Herald
New York
The
Herald
Democracy
Charles A. Dana
New York Sun
Spain
United States
Dana
Cuba
America
Elevate Wires to Spare Streets and Public Nuisance
A public debate argues against underground telegraph and telephone lines and proposes elevated cables as the practical solution. The piece cites London trials and similar U.S. efforts, asserting elevated systems would prevent street disruption while allowing easier maintenance and replacement.
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London
General Braggadocio and Little Mahone Compared in Attacks
The piece attacks Little Mahone for vanity and patronage seeking in Washington and Virginia. It recalls a magazine dispute over Jubal Early and Confederate officers, noting altered passages and a controversial republication. The author mocks Mahone’s self-importance while praising Lee’s generals and cautioning Republicans about pride.
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Early
Warren
Hill
Fifth Corps
Mahone
Confederacy
North
Labor agitation and wage demands shape up in nation
The piece discusses rising wages as a result of revived business, noting slow propagation of gains to labor through higher living costs and rents. It highlights wage petitioning, employer willingness, and political stalemate in the Senate, with focus on Democratic persistence and looming executive appointments.
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Senate
Mahone
Senate of
United States
Virginia
Riddleberger
Gorham
Opinion on Senate offices traded for Confederate brigadier vote
The remark notes that the public will gain clearer insight into the bargain whereby Senate offices are traded off to repudiators in exchange for the support of a Confederate brigadier, highlighting political maneuvering and the potential impact on public sentiment.
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Senate
Republicans accuse Mahone bargain noted by Gazette
The piece argues General Burnside denies Republican senators made a bargain with Mahone yet claims a deal occurred. It cites Dawes guiding a four committee load for a non Republican, with Riddleberger as Mahone’s ally. Gorham and Massachusetts figure as central players in pressured ratification.
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Mahone
General Burnside
Saturday Evening Gazette
Gazette
the Gazette
Burnside
Somebod
Dawes
Sherman
Riddleberger
Senate
George C. Gorham
Massachusetts
Mr. Dawes
Beck
Richuisverger
Messrs. Dawes and Hoar
The Star Route Frauds Exposed in Post Office Scandal
The piece denounces the Star route frauds in the Post Office Department under Brady and Hayes. It accuses Washington officials of systematic overpayments and contract rigging to fund a corruption ring, with figures showing millions in inflated route costs and widespread complicity across party lines. It critiques Garfield and calls for full exposure and accountability, while praising Democrats for firm stance against patronage.
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Hayes
Brady
the Journal
T'weer
New York City
Post Office Department
Civil Service
Garfield
Congress
House of Representatives
Advertiser
Republican
James
Star Route
Grant
Bureau
Key
Mr. Hayes
Department
Washington
Appropriations Committee
House
Louisiana
Dakota
Indian Territory
Arizona
New Mexico
Transcript
Alabama
Quinine duty debate and Senate factional battles
The piece argues that abolishing the quinine tax did not raise prices and warns against reimposing duties to favor a few manufacturers. It criticizes Garfield’s uncertain stance, blasts Republican spokesmen, and endorses Democratic neutrality in Senate disputes with Conkling Frye and Dawes.
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Congress
J. S. Moore
New York Post
Europe
Frye
Senate
Conkling
Debates on Politics and Post Misdeeds in Washington Notes
A compilation of comments on Garfield's cabinet moves, postmaster disputes, and patronage at the federal level. It references Indiana's treatment, East versus West shifts, and criticism of Senate debates. The piece notes concerns over New York and other cities with Democratic mayors and hints at broader political fault lines. It also discusses Irish affairs, spittoon loyalty tests, and various parliamentary opinions.
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Mr. Garfield
New York
West Office
Treasury and Customs
Brady
James
Senator Blair
Congress
New Hampshire
de Lesseps
Jay Cooke
Philadelphia
Cooke
John Sherman
Riddleberger
Sherman
Brooklyn
Chicago
Boston
Baltimore
Cincinnati
San Francisco
New Orleans
Indiana
Gorham
Senate
Virginia Cross Roads
Senate of the
United States
Journal
Messrs
Dawes and
Hoar
Windom
Hayes
Garfield
New Haven
Russia
Maine
Vermont
France
Ireland
England
New York Tablet
South
W. A. M. Grier
Grier
Treasury
Post Office Department
Springfield
Logan
Brown
Lamar
Pugh
Dawes
Prohibition Law Frustrates Senate Stipend Talks
The piece notes Gorham and Riddleberger remain unpaid as Democrats oppose their officer positions while California Republicans intensify their bid. It also reports Kansas's upcoming prohibition law and Rev Beatty of Lawrence facing arrest for using fermented wine in communion, prompting a clash of church law versus state enforcement.
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Gorham
Riddleberger
Senate
California
Philadelphia Times
Kansas
Dr. Beatty
Lawrence
Jesus
Music in the Depths Fiddler Faints in Mine Tale
A French violinist, aiming to play at 2000 feet below the earth, hid his instrument and found foreman Hugh Lamb playing the fiddle instead in bonanza mine drifts. He fainted and later reportedly killed himself at Soda Springs, leaving a note of heartbreak. Miners claim eerie violin notes echo in the lower levels, said to presage fatal mine accidents.
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Virginia City
New
Bonanza Mines
Hugh Lamb
Soda Springs
Lake Tehoe
Exodus of Southern Colored People to Kansas Report
Rev. G W Henning of the State board in charge of care of the treeamen from the South ern States to Kansas says the board has received cared for and distributed over 10 000 of those people since the exodus began and helped turn 10 000 more into other States He notes efforts to check the influx have failed and many are moving toward Kansas the home of old John Brown The exodus has restarted with large numbers preparing to move The board has rejected southern offers to fund the exodus as beyond their power.
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G.W. Henning
State Board
Kansas
Henning
John Brown
Wiltz
Louisiana
New Orleans
Joseph A. Lane
Roseburg
Ohio
Mr. Dillon
Bob Ingersoll
Brooklyn
Russia
Mapleson
Europe
Berlin
Commodore Kensett
St. Paul
Egypt
Waterloo
Lord Rowton
Montagu Derry
Bar Beaconstiela
Parnell
Castle William
Bishop Seymour
Springfield
Ill
Charles A. Holbrook
Portsmouth
N. H
Yonkers
Kirkwood
Hampton
Carlisle
Penn
Robert Matlock
Arkansas
Miller
W. F. T. Shanks
New York City
American News Company
Charles D. Gilmore
Schurz
Interior Department
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Benjamin Bohane
Danville
Tenn
St. Joseph
Council Bluffs
Naples
Italy
Andrew Bleakley
New York
Vics
Henry Clay
Chicago
Frank Hatton
Burlington Hawkeye Publishing Company
Defrees
Tyner
Whic
Constantinople
Longstreet
United States
Georgia
Solid South
Policy of Assassination Developing
London Truth reports on how the new Russian Emperor rejected screening letters. He discontinued the prior open-letter system and refused to read any correspondence not addressed to him. A minister who brought an open letter faced downfall after the Emperor tore it up, ending his influence.
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New York Commercial
Mahone
George Alfred Townsend
Thomas Snead
Richmond
Lee
Garfield
Capitol
Dawes, Hoar and Frye
London
Russia
Mystery of Harriet Hitchcock’s Cornwallville Estate
In Cornwallville Greene county Harriet Hitchcock a maiden lady died after weeks in bed alone with only a young nephew for company Neighbors who helped her with food and nurses discovered after her death $2000 in bank notes about $600 in specie and a large quantity of household valuables including 100 dresses shawls silver spoons carpets mirrors and stoves The two nephews are named as her sole heirs.
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New York
Cornwallville
Greene County
Harriet Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Public kiss in 1881 Fashionable at Design Academy
A New York letter-writer notes engaged couples in 1881 freely show affection in public. He describes a wealthy family's daughter kissing her fiancé in a room at the Academy of Design before around a hundred witnesses, including the future mother in law, contrasting with the stricter norms of 1880.
Signatures and the American habit of legible names
A London Truth cites Mr. Bright via a French correspondent claiming Americans alone sign their names legibly. The piece extols legible signatures as an incomparable merit, urging tomb inscriptions acknowledge such virtue. It questions how many people could truthfully have that epitaph.
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London
Bright
Immense Yuba River Snow Slide Near Downieville
The East fork of the Yuba river five miles above Downieville hosts a vast snow slide covering several hundred feet of the river. Formed last winter at about seventy five feet deep, it remains over forty feet thick after last summer’s heat and this winter’s snowfall. The arch is naturally formed by the river’s erosion and will likely persist into next summer due to limited sun in the gorge.
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Downieville
Cal
Yuba River
Matrimony in a business-like way from a western minister
A Western pastor issues a humorous circular listing marriage fees as a catalog. One marriage plain costs $2, kissing the bride $3, adding a groom and a bridesmaid brings $4 with 50 cents for each extra attendant, and extra charges apply for bachelors and maids of age. Mileage, club discounts, and cash payments are noted with no refunds.
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Far West
Hair in steer flesh sparks market mystery in San Francisco
L A Terry of stall No 7 Center Market found in a 940 pound steer shoulder a mass of low blonde hair about the diameter of a trade dollar and half an inch thick embedded in healthy flesh. He seeks a cow lawyer or anatomist to explain how the hair got there.
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San Francisco Examiner
L. A. Terry
Center Market
Terry
An Unexpected Mathematical Solution
A gentleman in the New York Swamp meets a short acquaintance who asks a mental arithmetic conundrum. If you had $10 and he asks for $3, how much remains? The reply is ten dollars.
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Ishoe and Leather Reporter
New York
Grand Duke Nicholas a Conspirator Despatch
Paris despatch notes a Frankfort Gazette report linking Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich to a Nihilist arrest. The informer helped locate a mine under the Grand Duke Constantine’s palace extending toward the Winter Palace, possibly two years in construction.
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Nicholas
Paris
Frankfort
Nicholas Constantinovich
Constantine
Winter Palace
Kipney and Urinary Trouble Cured by Hop Bittera
A short medical note claims Kipney and urinary issues respond to Hop Bittera as a safe and reliable remedy, urging readers to trust the tonic for persistent discomfort.
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