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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1881
Page
4
A Washington correspondent reports Guiteau’s trial proceeds, with debate over insanity and the jury’s task. The piece questions State Department links to Peru and Chile, urging congressional scrutiny amid huge claims, Grantite appointments, and looming court martial of Mason.
Report notes that travel to Irkutsk requires couriers and is aided by telegraphic links across 2820 miles from Moscow. The line underscores the impracticality of direct dispatch while highlighting the established telegraph connection between the two cities.
The piece argues that Christmas symbolism should expand into practical service. It urges churches to move beyond mere ornamentation toward real aid for the poor, stressing that true peace and good will require unselfish acts. The author envisions a world where generosity and brotherhood define the season.
A victim funded by references lends money to an Irishman who claims a brief errand. The scamster vanishes and another man, the cap tain, searches. the victim discovers he has been robbed. The man states $23,500 has been stolen this way, and French police rarely pursue rogues. He warns American travelers about the crime beyond Paris.
A New York national bank official told a reporter that after the Newark frauds directors showed weak scrutiny, failing to deeply inspect cash and records. He blamed public banking ignorance, called for better pay for responsible officers, more independent directors, and noted inspectors often signal examinations and directors borrow heavily from their own banks.
A broad critique links rising food prices to poverty, crime, and health decline in Europe and America. It cites Ford on how dear provisions drive emigration, worsen mortality, and depress labor while urging tariff cuts and currency restraint to relieve distress.
If speculation in food products subsides prices may find a lower and more natural level. Dear food and dear money are no elements of prosperity, vod cannot be too cheap.
National census shows total population 50,155,783 with a gain of over 12 million since 1870. New York leads with 5,082,871. Ohio 8,198,062. Pennsylvania 4,282,891. Illinois 3,077,871. Missouri 2,168,380. White persons total 43,402,970. colored 6,580,793. natives 43,475,840 and foreigners 6,676,948.
The speaker urges experts to assess the mental state on July 2 and the thirty days before, asking what the foreman or his honor thought. He dismisses debates over past insanity as nonessential, insisting the core issue is sanity and responsibility on the key date, presenting a view that seems lawful to him.
A collage of aging editorials and quips from a San Francisco Examiner era page. Topics range from church reform and clerical advice to Lutheran counts, Irish landlords, Western harvests, and a parade of political figures like Blaine, Guiteau, Johnston, Davis, and Grant. Observations touch on media, diplomacy, tariffs, and public notices with wry, period tone.
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