Quiet Moves Toward Grant Presidency in 1868 Report
Special correspondence from Wasnixctos details General Grant’s arrival and the subdued reception, with Beale and Don Cameron present. The piece notes cool ties with President Hayes, hints at a Grant nomination plan led by Conkling and Cameron, and recalls a private dinner where Sherman, Don, and Simon Cameron discussed a united Grant ticket and solid delegation strategy.
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Boston Globe
General Grant
General Beale
Don Cameron
Republican National Committee
Slim Jim” Tyner
Morton
Ulysses
Grant
Sitting Bull
Barnum
Lafayette Square
Beale
Sherman
President Hayes
White House
Hayes
Political maneuvering for Grant nomination outlined
The excerpt details a secretive Republican bargain among Sherman Blaine and others, aiming to secure Grant support with promises and delegations. It notes Blaine as dangerous yet useful, Don Cameron as chairman, and the plan to fix southern and New York delegations while Halstead mobilizes a rival press bloc to challenge Grant.
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Roscoe
New York
Grant
Sherman
Blaine
Simon
Don Cameron
Pennsylvania
South
Murat Halstead
Prince Murat
Springfield Republican
New York Herald
Boston Herald
New York Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Greeley
Sam Bowles
Horace White
Bowles
White
Enn
London
Billingsgate
Luther
The Greatest French Playwright Emile Augier
The noted French dramatist Emile Augier, now aged over fifty nine, forged a path from law to literature. His works at the Odeon and Theatre Francais shaped modern French theater, influencing Ponsard, Robertson, and Sothern. From Gabrielle to Diane and Les Lionnes Pauvres, Augier collaborated widely and left a lasting legacy on stages in Paris and abroad.
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Emile Augier
Pigault Lebrun
M. Augier
Odeon Theatre
John Oxenford
Odeon
Ponsard
Common State
Ponssard
Lucrece
Theatre-Francais
Theatre Francais
Mragon
T. W. Robertson
Sothern
England
Lester Wallack
America
Comedie-Francaise
Gabrielle
Jore
Miss Braddon
Charles Horsman
W. J. Florence
Globe Theatre
Restier
Paris
Saul Forrester
Victor Hugo
Marion Delorme
A. R. Cazauran
Blanche Meda
Lad Blanche
M. Jules Landeau
M. Landeau
Harry Beckett
H. J. Montague
Vaudeville
M. Poirier
Society
Arthur Matthison
Uncanonical Indian Mirror Paragraphs in Queens Script
A Cincinnati Commercial London letter cites an Indian Mirror extract claimed to be from an uncanonical Old Testament book. It narrates a fictional frontier dispute involving Victoriana Empress of India, the Amir, and Bendizzi, with forged letters and armed witnesses, ending in a storm and seizure of the frontier.
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M. D. Conway
London
Cincinnati Commercial
Indian Mirror
Victoriana
India
Metternich Recalls Historic Dresden Interview with Napoleon
The article previews Metternich memoirs from 1773 to 1815 and prints Metternich’s nine hour 1813 Dresden interview with Napoleon. It covers Napoleons hard line, calls for peace, and Metternich urging mediation while European powers weighed neutrality and victory risks.
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Prince Metternich
Prince Richard Winneburg
New York Herald
Metternich
Napoleon I
Dresden
Austria
Napoleon
Eveat
Leipsic
Count Bubna
Marcolini Gardens
Elsterwiese
Friedrich
Rhenish Federation
Europe
Napoleons
Prince of
Prince of Neufchatel
Ertnier
France
Lutzen
Bautzen
Vienna
Francis
Pitiless Memories and Scandal Shaping Eugenie Tales
A vivid portrait of Empress Eugenie’s life from glamorous fantasy to political exile. The piece recalls costume ball intrigues with Diana the Huntress imagery and Muse costumes, Eugenie’s wartime stance, pride, and later remorse. It notes gossip on palace life and the alleged harsh treatment Eugenie endured.
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Eugenie
Madrid
Wade
Damen
Countess de Montijo
Diana the Huntress
Vatican
Marle
Loris Ronalds
George Francis Train
England
Louis
Marie Antoinette
Compeigne
St. Cloud
Tuileries
Napoleon
Chiselhurst
Nasby Portraits and the Western Editor Locke in Interview
The San Francisco Chronicle’s fourth interview with James Redpath sketches D. R. Locke known as Nasby, detailing his background, multilingual heritage, humor style, business acumen, and impact on American journalism. It contrasts Nasby with prior humorists, notes his rise to Toledo Blade ownership, and quotes Redpath on Locke’s character, speech, and work ethic.
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The
San Francisco Sunday Chronicle
James Redpath
D. R. Locke
Nasby
Redpath
Abraham Lincoln
Army
Navy
Petroleum
V. Nasby
David R. Locke
Lincoln
Thoreau
John Brown
Lance
Radical Club
J. H
J. R
America
Ingersoll
Douglass Jerrold
Charles Lamb
Jerrold
Unio
Massachusetts
New
Locke
Ohio
Xenia
Hannah Jane
Sydney Smith
England
Grandfather
Sor
Morket
Horace Greeley
Barnum
Nasby’s
Doesticks
Thompson
Goldsmith
New York
Bailey
Danbury News
Hawkeye
Detroit Free Press
Norristown Herald
Toledo Blade
J. B
Toledo
J. K
An Anxious Life Czar Diary Satire In SF News Letter
A satirical diary fragment portrays the Czar waking at seven, avoiding poison in bathwater and coffee, deadly staged dangers by Nihilists, a coachman killed by a blast, a chef poisoned chair risk, dinner with Baron Laise homnowowski who dies, oysters and stout saved, a theater shooting, and finally sleeping on the palace roof through the night.
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San Francisco
Baron Laisehomnowowski
Baltimore
London
Swift Runner the first legal execution in Northwest Territory
Winnipeg report states Swift Runner, an Indian cannibal, was executed at Fort Task Saskatchewan on December 20 for killing and eating his mother, wife, and seven children during the last winter. The convict acted on his own confession.
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Europe
Napoleon
Agalne
Moscow
Steké
Russia
France
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Swift Runner
Fort Taskatchewan
Northwest Territory
Havin
Nihilism in Italy trial of Florence radicals ends with guilty verdict
A Florence assize court concluded a high profile case against members of the International Association of Socialist Workingmen. Thirteen suspects led by Francesco Natta faced charges of conspiring against the state. The trial drew massive crowds and police guarded the proceedings as the jury found most guilty, including several men and two women. Anna Koulischoll was acquitted.
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Napoleon
Verthier
M. de Metternich
Europe
New York Herald
Florence
Italy
Piazza San Vancrazio
International Association of Socialistic Workingmen
Associazione Internazionale Ei Lavoratori Sociaileti
Rome
Francesco Natta
Anna Koulischoll
Switzerland
Vera Sassulitch
Francesco
Luisa Lezai
Florida Matteucci
L'Avenire
Sienna
Pisa
Livorno
Paria
France
Prince Demidoff
Marquis Panciatichi
Marquis Fanchiatichi
Silvelace
Fence
P Loteyes
Matteucci
Anna Koulischoff
Crispi
Nicotera
Cairoli
Zanardelli
Pevce
Trento
Trieste
Marignolle
Raffaello Lombardi
Pezzi
Natta
Prizones Martini
Chiti
Gomez
Vannini
Nicceli
Marzell
Talchi
Massa
Pieromaldi
Bermini
Ppr
President Hayes proposed Utah voting probe to curb polygamy
The plan envisions a registration board to test voters moral character and polygamy ties. It aims to bar unregistered residents from voting or holding office, triggering a Gentile legislature and sweeping changes to church influence in Utah.
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Utah
Hayes
Washington
New York Tribune
Congress
Territory
United States
Board of Registration
Mormon Church
Waltrs
Nobleman's Death Richard III Actor George Jones
George Jones, also known as the Count Johannes and avowedly a lawyer and historian, died in a West Side hotel room with his pupil Avonia Fairbanks by his side after a Christmas Day illness. The aged actor stressed Shakespearean roles, recalled Booth, Hamblin, and dramatic anecdotes, and left manuscripts and a knighthood parchment with his pupil.
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George
Johannes
George Jones
New York Supreme Court
New York Sun
West Side
Sixth Avenue
Fifteenth Street
New York
Lydia Fairbanks
Avonia
London
Shakespeare
Aveny
Count Tone
Goman
Miss Fairbanks
Knights
America
Fairbanks
England
Continent
Richard
Ashby de la Zouche
Supreme Court
Lyceum Theatre
Hamlet
Claude
Puge
Herrot
Old Bowery Theatre
Thomas Hamblin
Prince of Wales
Henry IV
Richard Itl
Hamblin
Booth
Bosworth Field
Jemmile Anderson
Lileh
Earl
King Booth
Earl of Richmond
Henry VIII
Mr. Upereon
Richmond
Duke of Norfolk
Eiber
Norfolk
Richard III
Mr. Booth
Somalia
Earl of
Allibone
Lecumseh
Harrison
Putnam
Fourth Avenue
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Mr. Hayes
Grant Bvont
Ali Borate
Pypion
Grace 'O
Philadelphia
Senator Conkling
Simey Cameron
Conkling
Don
Cameron
Simon Cameron
John Sherman
John
Ros
National Committee
Frye
Mos
Bert
Gabe
Great Britain
Fils de Giboyer
Maitre Guerin
Olive Logan
Union Square Theatre
Paul Forestier
M. Sandeau
M. Foussier
M. Labiche
Sappho
M. Gounod
Alfred de Musset
Madame Caverlet
Lea
Lesourchanbault
Comedie Francaise
Julian Magnus
H. €. Bunner
Lyster
Paul Lindau
Nord Und Sud
M. Victorien Sardou
Daniel Brochat
Bendizzi
Germany
Prague
Bohemra
Bohemia
M.de Narbonne
Ba Ion
Napoleon the Conqueror
Napoeon
the Chronicle
Him
Wit
Hailetenes
J. Ris
Eps Locke
San Francisco News-Letter
Czar
A. Manitoba
Haves
Ale
Elder Booth
Avonia Fairbanks
Pairbanks
Dr. Simmons
Lumbys
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