Annihilation as Zulus rout British at Cape clash
Despatches from Cape Town report 29,000 Zulus engaging a mixed force, with 6000 Zulus killed and the British forces annihilated at the camp. The Zulus seized a convoy of 129 wagons, 1000 oxen, two guns, rifles and ammunition, and the Fifteenth Regiment’s colors. Reinforcements are being dispatched to Natal amid widespread consternation in England and calls for stronger leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loxpon
Cape Town
Twenty-fourth Regiment
Fngland
Cane Town
Zunus
Kaffirland
Cape
Cetywao
Transvaal
Lord Chelmsford
Thesiger
Spain
Russia
India
Connaught Rangers
Buffs
Natal
Sixth Dragoons
Seventeenth Lancers
War Office
South Africa
Zalns
England
Doupirin
London
United Kingdom
Exculpation of War Policy Amid Cape Colony Crisis
Analysis argues war conduct justified by ministerial limits, blaming local officials in the South African and Kaffir wars. It notes Cape Colony forces dwindling to about 1600 white soldiers and 5000 natives after the January 21 calamity, with critical troop and settlement conditions warned by dispatches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Office
Lord Chelmsford
Cape Colony
Terrible fly wheel explosion at Birmingham iron works
A thirty year old eighteen ton fly wheel exploded in the Birmingham iron and steel works. Sixty workers were in the rolling room when the wheel burst, sending massive iron fragments through the roof and walls. Superintendent Warner and engineer George Dyer narrowly avoided death as debris showered the shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
New Haven
Conn
Birmingham Iron and Steel Works
Warner
George Dyer
Opinion of Ex-Governor Tilden Testimony in Potter Panel
A private Ohio Democrat letter reports Tilden’s New York testimony as honest seeming and forthright, disconcerting Reed of Maine, and casting doubt on Reed while suggesting Tilden’s days are numbered. The memo also forecasts John Sherman gaining presidential traction in New York and New Jersey with strong backers, indicating a late surge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Ohio
Tilden
Potter Committee
Pelton
Sammy
Potter
New York
Reed
Maine
Earth
Heaven
Alcet
John Sherman
New Jersey
U Fool
Fahnstock
Jay Cooke
Old Lawsuit Decided Over Water Rights in Claremont
In Claremont New Hampshire on February 18 a long pending case Shepardson versus Perkins et al mill owners was decided. The dispute concerned water rights and flow from a stream near a mill system with the plaintiff asserting riparian rights and prescription against the defendants. The supreme court upheld riparian ownership awarding the plaintiff 1945 dollars after prior verdicts. The case drew attention for its valuable water privileges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claremont
N. H
Shepardson Vs. Perkins Et Als
Laintiff
Foster
Supreme Court
A Singular Case in Strocko Death Mystery
Mme Plante died in Strocko on Sunday from a disease with singular similarity to frame. An autopsy removed a sack of thirteen gallons of watery matter weighing 130 pounds from the abdomen. The bag bore fifteen tumors including two ovarian ones about the size of an egg. The disease was reportedly unknown to the profession. Madame Plante had been wasting for two years and was only skin and bones at death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quoebec
Mme. Plante
Strocko
Revenue crackdown targets New Orleans tobacco makers
Revenue Agent E. D. Webster exposes an extensive tobacco fraud network in New Orleans. Leading manufacturers face seizure as authorities promise a broad enforcement sweep within forty eight hours, risking involvement of revenue officials in the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. D. Webster
New Orleans
Life Saving Service reports improvements in stations and equipment
The general superintendent’s report for the year ending June 30, 1878, details 148 stations across Atlantic, Lakes, and Pacific coast regions, 171 vessel disasters, 1557 people aboard, and 1881 lives saved with 226 lost. It notes new coast stations, revised life saving ordnance, introduction of telephones at select stations, and steady decline in coastal fatalities due to legislation and better vessels management.
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Washington, D. C
Atlantic
Lakes
Pacific Coast
Pacific
United States
Metropolis
Huron
Maryland
Delaware
Virginia
Cape Henry
Cape Charles
North Carolina
D. A. Lyle
Ordnance Department
Army
Kaittybank
Congress
Heath Confession Links Embezzlement to Politician Plot
St. Louis February 13 Ex Auditor William H Heath sentenced ten years for embezzling 140000 from schools confesses he was induced to play poker by prominent politicians who then introduced him to professional gamblers under fictitious names The scheme fleeced him for months and thousands before he uncovered the plot Also Madge Rivers a Boston educated girl in male disguise jailed in New York since arrival seeks charitable work and truth of her court story is supported by Justice Otterbourg
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Boston
Lim
Collier
Sargent
Eddy
Boston Highlands
Killppofford
Highlands
Cambridge
Lynn
Havin
Arens
St. Louis
William H. Heath
New York
Madge Rivers
Southbridge
Mass
Outrage Found Out Confession in Trial Witness List
The confession of George A. Collier, a principal witness for Spofford against Dr. Eddy and E. J. Arens, made last October under oath, has been published. He states that the other leading witness James Sargent of ...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Collier
Spofford
Dr. Eddy
E. J. Arens
Wimess
James &. Sargent
Yellow Fever Rumors From Southern States Reach New York
A St Louis dispatch reports Hewett a New York merchant, says yellow fever persists in New Orleans and Vicksburg and may reappear in spring. Mississippi and Tennessee doctors blame disinterment of wealthy bodies for recurrence, urging limits on southern burials and warning of fever spreading with spring trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
St. Louis
Hewett
New Orleans
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Tennessee
Board of Health
PENSION FORGERY LEADS BATH CAPTAIN TO TEN YEARS
Captain George Prince of Bath, aged sixty two, was sentenced to ten years in the state prison for obtaining pension money by fraudulent pretences. He admitted forging seals and transcripts, creating about 1000 names, and fabricating widows in hopes of civil settlements. He claimed prior misrepresentations and contrasted his fate with political corruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portnand
George Prince
Bath
United State
Prince
Bath National Bank
Department of the Interior
Washington
Lake County
Portland Eastern Argus
Pension
Washington Star
Svar
Guesa
Pensiona
Sabina R. Mudge
Mrs. Mudge
Portsmouth
Mra. Mudge
Boston Post
Boston
United States Senate
Secor Robeson
McGills Crime and First Degree Murder Conviction
Charles McGill killed Mary Kelly in December 1877 after pursuing her from a saloon to her Cross street room. He admitted the deed, claimed insanity as his defense, was tried twice, and a first verdict of murder in the first degree led to a hangings sentence set for February 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles McGill
Mary Kelly
Cleveland
McGill
Cross Street
Mary Keily
Mary
Couity
MacMath
E. Adams
Robinson
Supreme Court of Ohio
The
Common Pleas
Cadwell
Adams
Brins
Cigar Trade and Tenement-House Factories Debate
A Boston discussion argues that tenement-house cigar shops in New York drain wages, crowd families into small rooms, and evade taxes by treating small rooms as factories. Workers describe substandard living conditions, while some manufacturers defend their practices and call for fair competition and regulatory reform.
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Massachusetts
Boston
Springfield
Worcester
New York
Raum
United States
Sam
Sc Toulions
Vulvar
Lee
Rew
Pacific Coast
Hhis
Strasser
New York Cigar-Makers Union
Sys
Isaac Harris
Hanover Street
Tegrment
Waite
Waite & Bond
Blackstone Street
Belfast priests riot leads to mob assault at Victoria Park
In Belfast magistrates court on January 29 James Keith and William McCullough faced charges over a riotous mob at Victoria Park. Clergymen Hamill and O’Hara were pelted with snowballs and missiles as police intervened. McCullough was fined twenty shillings plus costs. Keith’s case continued with conflicting testimony about ringleaders and motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Clifford Lloyd
R. M
J. ©. O'Donnell
R.M
James Keith
William J. McCullough
Victoria Park
Mekrlenau
McLean, Jr
Harper
Keith
Charles H. Ward
Tne
Hiamill
O'iara
Queen’s Stand
Peuitemen
Hamill
M‘erlean
Rov
Hannll
Otvie
Orme
McCance
O’hara
Thomas Rooney
Dempsey
Royal Hospital
Lim
David Smith
Ballymacarrets
Iggith
Janes O'Hara
M'Cullough
Costa
New Theory on Stewart's Body Disposal by Robbers
A Greenwood undertaker proposes that grave robbers used an undertaker's disguise and burial permit to place Stewart's body in a coffin. The thieves allegedly added the corpse and its contents to the casket, then used a prearranged grave. This theory argues it explains the concealment and would be harder to detect at the cemetery gates.
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Stewart
Greenwood
Greenwood Alrready
India
New York
Death of Captain W. W. Coit of Norwich
Norwich Conn February 11 Captain W W Coit died at his Church Street residence after a long illness. Born February 24 1798 in New London he settled in Norwich at eighteen and led steamers including the McDonough Exchenge Huntress and W W Coit. He helped found the New York and Norwich Transportation Company and aided city waterworks and Central Wharf development. He leaves a wife and two sons, General James B Coit and J W L Coit.
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Norwton
Conn
W. W. Coit
Church Street
William W. Cott
New London
New York and Norwich
Mclonough
McDonough
Coit
Andrew Jackson
President Jackson
Groton
Norwich
Tuorn
Worcester
Jobo Marshall
Ann Maria
Commonwealth
Kacort
Raffael
San Juan
Steamship North America
New York and Norwich Transportation Company
Long Island Sound
Commodore Vanderbilt
General Gimore
Fort Sumpter
Bean
Colt Famour
Adams
Adams Express Company
Captain Colt
New York
Mr. Adams
Mrr. Adams
Boston
Captain Cort
Iain Cort
Cort
City
Palmtreets
Captain Coit
Thames River
Yantic Cove
Central Wharf
Lin
Fairmount Plain
Norwich Bree Academy
New England
New London County Agricultural Society
Henry Clay
Dr. Bond
Clay
Willoughby & Co
Capitol Building
Baltimore
Washington
World voyage in open boat could outdo brave prior feats
A Boston based plan to sail around the world in an eighteen and a half foot open boat is proposed for June. Captain Lewis G. Goldsmith, a Denmark born 1839 veteran of the Civil War era, would skipper with his wife as crew. The route aims from Boston to Copenhagen then north to Norway and Sweden, across to Leith, through the Suez Canal to Aden and Calcutta, with possible Melbourne detour. The craft, built by W. B. Smith at City Point, features nine air compartments and a two end hull design for safety.
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Atlantic
Crapo
New Bedford
Andrewa Brothers
Boston
Havre
Christine
Bourril
Lewis G. Goldsmith
Denmark
Goldsmith
Bostono
Navy
North Carolina
Virginia
Rhode Island Cavalry
Goldmith
Copenhagen
Ireland
England
Norway
Sweden
North Sea
Leith
Scotland
Scottish
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Suez Canal
Aden
Aratia
Bowhay
British India
Indian Ocean
Penang
Strait of Malacca
Galega
Voyager
Singapore
Malay Peninsula
Hong Kong
Soanglesi
Yokohama
Yeddo
California
Golden Gate
Coldsmith
Melbourne
Australia
Barrill
W. B. Smith
Citvy Point
Reward Offered for Information on Impurity in Body Parts
A historic notice advertises a $500 reward for information or assistance concerning substances or practices affecting nerves kidneys or urinary organs. It urges readers to report morally questionable or impure remedies or agents and promises payment upon verification.
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Africa
Curts
Life Saving Service
New England Coast
Heath
Chiildren
San Francisco
Olguerras
Broad Street
la Lis
R. Gillette
Oly
Stewar
Connecticut
Andrews Brothers
Goldsmith’s Boat
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