Changes in the Senate and the Carpet-Baggers Left
A special dispatch from Washington dated February 7 notes the Senate will be reshaped after March 4 with at least seventeen familiar faces leaving. It highlights the four carpet-baggers Spencer Dorsey Conover Patterson and others, detailing their flaws and legacies, and sketches rival colleagues’ temperaments, backgrounds, and likely fates as the chamber changes hands.
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Sunday Globe
Washncton
Senate
Ublicans
Spencer
Alabama
Dorsey
Arkansas
Sargent
California
Chaffee
Colorado
Connor
Florida
Oglesby
Illinois
Matthews
Ohio
Mitchell
Oregon
Patterson
South Carolina
Howe
Wisconsin
Armstrong
Misri
Barnum
Connecticut
Dennis
Maryland
Ais
Louisiana
Merriman
North Carolina
McCreery
Kentucky
General Shields
Shields
Trong
Ee Cee Don Cameron
Jones
Evada
Ingails
Kansas
Morrill
Vermont
Conover
Matt Carpenter
Logan
Pennsylvania
Waterloo
Quartetite
Debade
District of Columbia
Vorsey
Sandusky [Ool Company
Arkansas Central Railway Company
Senators
Seusie
Fashion Notes From A Past Era on Spring Garb and Accessories
The article describes short skirts contrasted with fine hose and slippers, wide Chantilly lace flounces, throat bows of Persian ribbon, and new cape styles in elk chenille. It notes color trends like garnet and claret, evening and morning wear preferences, emerging draped overskirts, and inventive fringe details such as sealskin and sunbeam fringe, plus early spring fabric mixes and Paris influences shaping garments and basques.
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Carmel
Martha Washington
Paris
la Camargo
Satteen
Young Nimrod of Horse Creek Wyarns Deer Master
A Cheyenne Sun profile extols Thomas Mills a fourteen year old Wyoming hunter from Horse Creek near North Platte. He reportedly killed seventeen deer in three miles of camp during a three day hunt with his father and has totaled 114 head in four months. Described as future frontier marksman, he challenges famed shooters Bogardus and Cummings.
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Horse Creek
Thomas Mills
United States
B. A. Mills
Pumpkin Creek
North Platte
Tommy Mills
Young Mills
de Kalb
Missouri
Wyoming
Bogardus
Cummings
Lanier
The Perkinses at Home in Lowell Visit
Abigail Perkins writes from Boston on February 7, 1879 about visiting Lowell to observe the women’s rights movement. She mocks pretensions, recounts dress and hotel stay, notes the convention at Huntington Hall, and remarks on rival views among suffragists, family tensions, and plans to write a story for newspapers.
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Abigail Perkins
From Altar to the Tomb in Visalia Murder Tale
A Visalia event ends in tragedy after a wedding night turns fatal. George Guzman, a Mexican wood chopper, is suspected of stabbing Theresa Porter and fleeing with valuables. An inquest traces a brutal murder, missing money, and plundered home while officials scour the county and telegraph a poster-wide manhunt.
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Visalia Delta
George Guzman
Justice A
Neill
Visalia
Theresa Porter
Poras
Jesus Mancinatas
Sacramento Luna
Mexico
Guzman
Delano
Charley Allen
McCrory
Court Street
Mill Creek
Boston clubs described with transcendental flair and wit
A Brooklyn Eagle summary notes Boston club life as high minded and eccentric, with residents meeting for “high living and high thinking.” It contrasts Boston with New York and Philadelphia, describing salons at Parker's, the Saturday club, and reports on local journalists and Harvard scribes amid a tone of satire.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Boston
Hoston
New York
Philadelphia
Theostonian
Athens
Brooklyn
Aivott
Boston Club
Concord
Smal Brook Farm
Tabernacles
Itecary
Parker's
Marvard
Americas
Tragic Death of Addie Durham in Medora Outhouse
Eleven year old Addie Durham of Medora Indiana died by self inflicted gunshot in an outhouse at about 10 am Monday. Her father Jack Durham had recently remarried after moving from Kentucky. Addie had been living with Mrs Findley for about a year and resisted accompanying him back to Kentucky prompting a neighbor to lend a revolver under a stated pretense. The gunshot fractured her skull and she survived about fifteen minutes.
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Mies
Addie Durham
George M. Findley
Medora
Ind
Jack Durham
Kentucky
Addie
Lane
Senator Gordon
Senate
Oaby
Caw
the Baptist Weekly
Pullman
Theological Question Sparks Debate in New Haven Church
A clergyman asks if gin can be considered orthodox after a dealer in communion wine reported a preference by some ladies of the congregation. The remark prompts a church decision on beverage standards and doctrinal stance.
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New Haven
Ungrateful Abolitionists and a Starving Scholar in Philadelphia
Walter H. Broom, once a famed abolitionist lecturer, lies near death in a South Tenth Street room. He lives on three meals a week, aided by a poor tin smith, John Dowell, while his memory wanes from assault wounds and poverty. Broom, once connected with the Loyal Publication Society, seeks food to regain strength and finish two books.
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Philadelphia Times
England
Walter A. Broom
New York
Broom
Charien Sumner
Wendell Phillips
William T. Blodgett
Mr. Putnam
Lucretia Mott
America
Yorkshire
Lancashire
Joseph Barker
Barker
Loyal Publication Society
Boston
Walter H. Broom
General Butler
New Orleans
Collegea
Boston Commonwealth
Costle Life
Publication Society
Fenton
Hoffman
New York City
Philadelphia
Dr. Lieber
William
South Tenth Street
John Dowel
Dowel
Dowell
Union
Vowel
Germantown
Ives
Lean
John Francis
Americano Anion
W. H. Furness
William J. Kelley
Bloomfield
Mary Mason
Alaska Mining Boom Ahead Claims El Dorado Promise
New York Graphic reports Alaska as the site of a possible mining boom. William Gouverneur Morris predicts one of the greatest mining excitements, citing Wrangell and the Yukon interior with rich placers. Dangers include Indian hostility and deadly terrain, with eight months of winter and rugged trails.
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New York Graphic
Alaska
William Gouverneur Morris
San Francisco
el Dorado
Wrangela Vero
Yukon
Fraser River
Cariboo
Notable Alaska Expedition Advice and Provisions
The text advises deterence from going if Alaska placera are found, noting one obstacle must be plainly stated in advance. For an expedition, it recommends coal, iron, endurance, patience, a year’s supply of flour and bacon, tobacco and other necessaries, medicines, tools for building and wining, and aniscorbutigs to ward off scurvy.
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Alaska
Bulding
Celestial Capers at New Year in Chinese Temples
The San Francisco Chronicle describes New Year rites in two temples on Clay and Lupont streets. Worshippers offer artificial flowers, burn incense, and present foods as the Pearly Emperor presides. Deities include the Divine Tiger and Little Devil, with a detailed shrine setup and ritual bells.
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Hell
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco
Clay Street
Kearney and
Dupont
Lupont Street
Doctors
Wealth
Heaven
Unitarianism Of Today And The Old Washington Church
A critique contrasts modern Unitarian works in Cambridge and Boston with the old Washington Unitarian Church era. It notes new ministers, a beautified church, and refined music, while lamenting the loss of liberalism and bold doctrinal preaching once led by Hedge Clarke and Bellows, and the rise of cautious, constrained discourse. In parallel, a separate note recounts a convincing tale of a waif misrepresented as Katie Walding, later revealed as Rose Wiltmer, with police involvement and the child placed in reform care see.
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Cambridge
Boston
Hedge
Sormon
New Unitarian Church
James Freeman Clarke
Washington
Washington Unitarian Church
M. D. Conway
Banks
Channing
Abraham Lincoln
Jesus
Paul
Jerusalem
Freeman Clarke
Jonah
The
Clarke
Bellows
Everson
Ivan
Washington Louer
Springfield Republican
Uncle Remus and General Sherman in Georgia gossip
A brash collage of humorous sketches and vignettes from Atlanta and Kentucky. Uncle Remus, Major Throckmorton, Mrs Gordon and other figures are pictured in anecdotes, wry lore, and moral strokes about wartime memory, social custom, and gossipy town talk.
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Shepherd
Weiter
Morton
Jooke
Newburyport
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Jess
Wabcounty
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Oxyleaby
Charac
Eve
Dick Oglesby
Richard
Hamlin
Stanley Matthews
Inter Radical
Baroum
Democratic National Committee
Nevada Politica
Luss
Harvard Law School
Luther
Nimrod
Cheyenne Sun
Perkinses
Lowell
Father
Melvina
Solomon
Dodge
Hagar
Lucy Stone
Lucy
Mary Mack
Massachusetts
Ellva
Europe
Absalom
Huntington Hall
Jeptha
Davie
Jericho
Farson Dodge
St. Peter
Talbot
New Zealand
Parson Dodge
Stephen
Johnny Barker
Griggses
Griggs
CLUB
Hayes
Washington Post
Civil Service Reform Administration
Paul Strobach
Montgomery
Ala
Clanton
Senator Morgan
J. J. Martin
Peca
Strovach
Upstaire
Celestial Capers
Jimmy Blanchard
Lome
de Velde
Lake Street
Chicago
Katie Walding
Stonecutters’ Society
Rose Wiltmer
Whitney Street
William Wiltmer
Remus
General Sherman
Atlanta Constitution
Gener’l Sherman
John
Hun
Dickens
Throckmorton
Galt House
Louisville
Memphis
Paradise
Salt Lake
Richmond
Virginia
Brother Johnson
Brudder
Maine
Balaam
Martin Paine
Troy
Danbury
Lyceum
New Milford
Thas Rees
Philadelphia Bulletin
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