Fete of Blood in Cairo Mosque Draws Brutal Fanatic Pageant
A Philadelphia Times observer describes the Shirte Saint Saidaa el Hassen festival in Cairo's Egyptian quarter. Dervishes slash with cimeters, bloodied youths ride a horse draped in white, and crowds chant Allah as urban Islam's zeal shows itself amid grotesque spectacle.
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Philadelphia Times
Morgen Land
Saidaa el Hassen
Cairo
Esbeckrah Gardens
Mahomet
Mohammed
Saidaa el Hussen
Allah
Hussen
Satana Hussen
God s Peculiar People and a Small pox Death
In Plumstead a coroner’s inquest probes a child’s death from small pox in a family of the God s Peculiar People sect. An elder prayed over the ill boy and no doctor was summoned. The father, John Morley, is held on manslaughter charges. the sect's beliefs are challenged by the verdict and bail.
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London Daily News
Plumstead
Arundel Carttar
Kent
Abraham Morley
God's Peculiar People
Sisters
Tne
Rachel Morby
John Morby
Orchard Road
Cveir Son
James
Thomas Hines
Alfred Sharpe
Charles Gilliam
Old Bailey
John Morley
Two Lovers Who Laugh Comedy of Errors Elopement
The Louisville Courier Journal recounts a wealthy creole father opposing his daughter's artist betrothal. A mysterious carriage calls at a mansion on Esplanade, lovers elope, the father boards the carriage, and a comic chase ensues to a Mobile steamboat landing where the maid and hustler are mistaken for the lovers’ guardians. The artist and the lady wed at a friend’s home.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Grand Boulevard Esplanade
Minneburg
Lake
Dawn
Color Line Threatens Tennessee College Dissolution
Maryville's college faces potential suspension as a race row erupts over a white literary society. A black student was denied admission to the society, the faculty backed him, and twenty three members were expelled. The dispute over property and governance has caused mass withdrawals and growing community tension. Some blame Congressman Houk's sentiments for the crisis.
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Tennessee
Maryville
Tenn
Houk
Drawn Through Rollers in Iron Mills Tragedy
In PitrsbuRG Pennsylvania on February 11 Tony Fleur a young German worker was drawn through rollers at Wilson Walker and Co iron mills. He survived the accident but is badly injured and expected to recover.
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Pitrsburg
Penn
Tony Fleur
Deserted wife endures in Nevada wilds to 63
Miss Nancy Sweetser of Westford Massachusetts, left for California in search of work, endured a perilous trek to Nevada where she lived with miners, raised Angora goats through years of hardship, faced poverty and deceit, and finally returned east to her sister in Massachusetts. She recalls her lonely, nomadic life, friendships with Piute people, and harsh market struggles before resettling at home.
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Nancy Sweetser
Westford
Mass
California
Golden Gate
Golden Strand
Sonoma County
Asa Prescott
Forge Village
Prescott
Nevada
Miss Sweetser
Gold Hill
Virginia City
Nelson
Mssachusetts
Westport
Lowell
K. W. Hutchins
Virginnia
Hutchins
Lorenzo
Nathaniel Sweetser
Intelligencer
Missionary Enterprise Calls Women to Missouri Settlement
A historic proposal urges inviting one million educated women from New England and the East to settle in Missouri. Churches, counties, and eastern societies would place them as clerks and teachers, with funds from donors supporting their migration and homes.
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New England
Great West
Missouri
East
Railroad fare proposal cited by Missouri editor
A Carthage Missouri Patriot fragment argues that if the idea is properly presented to Jay Gould the Vanderbilts and the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company of the East they would support a measure to subsidize rail travel with one-third or one-half of the fare.
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Jay Gould
Vanderbilts
Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
East
Carthage
Live stock and dressed meats market weekly report
Exports of live stock and dressed beef to foreign markets for week ending February 11 were lightest in months with 400 quarters of beef and 26 carcases of mutton shipped from this port. No material change in value of live cattle. American dressed beef slightly up. Freight rates unchanged. space being allocated on vessels Virginia, Milanese, Manitoban. Western cattle prices higher. stockyards trade fair but Western cattle sold near cost in some cases.
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Vainea
Catrie
Worcester County
Tate
Malaga
London
Sultana Atil'ge
Turkey
Norfolk
Sicily
Valencias
Buenos Ayres
Montevideo
Rio Grande
Sierra Leone
Entre Rios
Santa Fe
Calcutta
St Nicholas
Cape de
Bengal
Guatemala
Rockland
State
Canada West
Western
Boston
Elaine
Choice Canada
Maine
Finance and Commerce. Boston Money Market Report 1882
The Boston money market remains quiet with steady loan rates and moderate demand. New York funds, exchange, bullion, and treasury actions are reported, alongside a bearish shift in some stocks and a cautious outlook for the coming week amid lingering market tensions.
Boston Markets Show Improved Demand in February
Commercial matters in Boston report stronger activity across leading departments with better business conditions than last week. Wares such as dry goods boots and shoes and clothing gain attention, food products rise, and several country produce prices advance. Apples Firm. Beans market active with price gains. Boots and Shoes demand steadier, light trade, wax boots steady. Butter prices rise 3 to 5 cents. creamery stock thinning, high grade demand.
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Boston Daily
New York
New York Markets Flour and Cotton Prices Tumble in Quiet Trading
New York markets report flour markets steadier for export with no price range changes and broad activity in cotton futures. Wheat and corn show mixed declines and persistent speculative demand, while provisions and fats move with export demand. Prices for lard, bacon, and beef vary, with oats steady and oils mixed as shipments remain robust.
Live Stock Markets Brighton and Watertown Arrivals Feb 12 1882
Weekly livestock arrivals shown for Brighton and Watertown with totals by class. Cattle and sheep counts, swine and veal totals, horses listed. price notes and hide and tare values accompany the live stock market figures. The table itemizes beef cattle prices per 100 pounds and dressed weight, with regional prices and unit figures.
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Brighton
Watertown
Ile
Sheeskins
Gloucester Fish Market Sets For Week Amid Strong Arrivals
Special correspondence reports Gloucester week totals with 18 arrivals from Georges Bank and 65,000 pounds halibut, 225,000 pounds codfish plus 1,800,000 herring from Grand Manan and Newfoundland at high values. Prices for various cod and halibut products are listed, with stock ranges for mackerel and herring, and notes on market conditions and frozen fish availability.
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Sunday Globe
Gloucester
Grana Menan
Newfoundland
Becton & Preferring
Hatibas
Tanners
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Finance and Commerce
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Review OF the Week
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