The Great Caricaturist Nast and the Garibaldi War
A San Francisco Chronicle interview with James Redpath profiles Thomas Nast, the political caricaturist. It details his family home, collecting habits, early artistic drive, Garibaldi campaign participation, and his role as a political power. It notes his loyalty, lecturing for a season, stage fright, and steadfast opposition to public flattery.
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The
San Francisco Chronicle
James Redpath
Nast
J. R.—Nast
Mem
Gail Hamilton
Ublic
Tte
Rional
Dana
New York
Grant
Stanley
Africa
Livingstone
Catholic Colonization Society to Lead 18 Families to Nebraska
The Catholic Colonization Society of Boston plans to move eighteen families to Nebraska in early March, selecting land near a valley with rich and sandy soils. Bishop James O Connor of Omaha advises settling in Wheeler County near Cedar River, with capital of about 700 to 800 dollars for a successful start. Stock farming is strong. cattle can graze ten months and feed on wild hay the rest. A meeting is set for Sunday at 7:30 PM at 103 Court Street with Mr Barry for details and contacts.
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Catholic Colonization Society of
Boston
Nebraska
Patrick Harry
East Shoston
James O'Connor
Omaha
Greely
Valley
Aarieey
Wheeler County
Boston Colony Company
Cedar River
Bishop O'Connor
Boston Society of Catholic Colonization
Court Street
Barry
Chelsea Street
East
Bosoes Oe
Phillips
Haverhill Street
He Meant Business And Got Satisfaction A Louisianian Fatal Mistake
In Franklin Louisiana on January 15 Sidney Cole nineteen owner of Chatsworth plantation rode to J K Wofford's gate and announced he came to kill him. Cole advanced with a pistol as Wofford armed with a shotgun fired and killed him. Wofford surrendered but was discharged by coroner's jury finding justifiable homicide.
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Franklin
Sidney Cole
Chatsworth
J. K. Wofford
Wofford
Cole
Woord
Enamored Consolidation of Pacific Railroads
January 15 New York. Union Pacific directors met Jay Gould to discuss a merger with Kansas Pacific. Union Pacific stock rose from below 85 to about 88 3/4 and closed near 93 42, Kansas Pacific at 95 1/4. The plan, decided earlier, aims to boost receipts and cut expenses for both firms.
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Pacific Railroads
New York
Boston
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Jay Gould
Union Pacific
Kansas Pacific Railroad Company
Kansas Pacific
Libel Suit Seeks $100,000 in Walsh vs Chambers
Thomas Walsh a wealthy contractor sues B M Chambers for 100000 dollars over a Times Journal article dated April 1 that labeled Walsh as of unsound mind. Walsh contends the imputation is false and scandalous.
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Louis
Thomas Walsh
B. M. Chambers
Walsh
Times-Journal
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race Date Change
London reports say the Oxford and Cambridge crews held a meeting and moved the annual eight-oared race to Saturday March 20 from March 26. Both universities’ crews are in training.
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Oxford
Cambridge
New York
London
Cassbridge
Clergyman Faces Westchester Jury Over Kissing Scandal
A jury of Methodist clergymen in Westchester county opens today to determine if a preacher engaged in promiscuous kissing. The minister admits kissing many women in his congregation and asserts he has done so with numerous comely parishioners.
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New York
Westchester County
Barksdale for Senator from Mississippi
Jackson Mississippi January 15 The twenty ninth and final ballot in the Democratic caucus for United States senator shows Singleton 3544 votes Walthall 379 10 Bars 57 percent health notes and mentions bitters for inactive liver and urinary organs with no clear outcome or resolution beyond the tally and a reference to another column.
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Barksdale
Mississippi
Jackson
Miss
United States
Singleton
Walthal
Autographs and the Craze for Rare Signatures Revealed
A feature on autograph collecting, its global history, and major price examples. It covers Chinese imperial manuscripts at Pekin, the Samaritans’ Sinaitic relics, famed collectors like Antoine Lomenic de Brienne, and Boston figures. Forger lore, notable sales, and the enduring allure of historic letters and documents.
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Confucius
Pekin
Alcuin
Charlemagne
Fulda
St. Boniface
British Museum
Antoiine Lomeni¢ de Brienne
Henry IV
Louis XIV
Imperial Library
Paris
Duplanis
Marshal Turenne
Sirrah
Dunplains
Sprague
John
Runnymede
United States
Boston
Judge Chamberlain
Public Library
M. P. Kennard
Sub-Treasury
R. C. Watterson
J.S. H. Fogg
Walter Sawyer
Jeremiah Coburn
Curtis Guild
A. C. Washburn
Charles ?. Greenough
Alfred L. Foster
Spragte
State Library of
New York
Almon W. Griswold
T. A. Emmett
Theodorus K. Myers
R. Leflingwell
New Haven
J. Creer
Philadelphia
2. Allen
Providence
Robert C. Davis
Chamberlain
L. J. Cist
St. Louis
Queen Victoria
Liverpool
J. J. Cohen
Baltimore
Continental Congress
Massachusetts
Thomas Dudley
John Haines
Congress
Albany
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Protestant Episcopal Church
Massachusetts Colony
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Thomas Lynch
Button Gwinnett
London
Emmett
Benjamin Franklin
Baron von Gerstenbergh
Weimer
Germany
Schiller
Europe
Penne
Lord Byron
Dr. Foge
Dr. Fogg
Forg
America
Johann Strauss
Mme. Leutner
Ictor Hugo
Italy
Greece
Wilkie Collins The Novelists Rise and His Craft
London sentient chronicle traces Collins from tea trade to law student, biographer, and famed writer. It notes his early misfit path, close ties to Dickens, hit works like Woman in White and Moonstone, and his exacting habits, earnings, copyright zeal, and cautious view on repeating Atlantic travels.
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Lincoln's Inn
William Collins
Collins
Rome
Cornwall
Charles Dickens
Household Words
Dickens
Charles Allston Collins
Wilkie Collins
Pickwick
Armadale
Count Fosco
Moonstone
Woman In White
Balzac
Thackeray
Atlantic
America
Pinis
Methodist Ecumenical Council to Meet in 1880s
A proposed world Methodist Ecumenical Council to be held in the United States in 1880 or nearby years aims to unite 20 million Methodists across Christendom. The plan, discussed since 1876, envisions common worship standards, church rule reforms, and expanded missionary effort, with Cincinnati to host an organizing meeting and Philadelphia as a potential later site for joint councils.
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Baltimore
Hishop Simpson
Cincinnati
Christendom
Asia
Africa
Simpson
United States
Canad
Great Britain
Northwest
Iowa
Mackenzie
Canada
Philadelphia
Pan- Presbyterian Council
Methodist Ecumenical Council
Minister performs quick wedding over phone exchange
A minister adapts to a peculiar scene as Malinda Duzenberry and Algernon Smithkinson agree via telephonic ceremony. The minister asks Malinda to relay the message to her daughter and proceeds to marry the couple with improvised vows.
Deaths Door and the Lake Michigan Mystery
A Detroit harbor tale from February 1877 recounts the Deaths Door tragedy near Lake Michigan. An old fisherman and his son vanished for forty days before a Cana Island lighthouse keeper spotted their frozen, lifeless bodies drifting in a boat, ice-encrusted and motionless, with the father’s beard icicles and the son staring blankly.
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Death's Door
Port du Mort
Little Green Bay
Lake Michigan
Detroit Harbor
Sister Bay
Cana Island
Death
Sae Mnen
A Trick Over a Trade Dollar in a City Store
A boarding-house keeper bought a range at an Eighth-avenue store. The clerk informed her a trade dollar paid was worth only ninety cents. She returned the dollar and received ten cents, settling the sale while both parties remained unaware the shop was short ninety cents.
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Ninth Ward
Eighth-avenue
Diamond Wafer Magical Tables Offer
The Diamond Wafer Company of Boston advertises magical tables that amaze by instantly answering any name, number, article, or food item. Seventeen tables exist with seven for ladies and seven for gentlemen, plus one instruction table mailed postpaid. address and stamps required for delivery.
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Tay
Gracy Bony
Mall Postn
Diamond Wafer Company
Water Street
Boston
Masa
Diamond Wafers
Wyltjale
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Museum of Art
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Darky
Oiece
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J. R
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Frank Leslie
Cast
Garibaldi
Papal States
New Jersey
Blood
Punch
BBC
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North
Nasty
Thomas Nast
Cee
Shepherd
Harper's
Curtis
Little Hayes
Hayes
U P
England
Josh Billings
Josh
Ree
Mid-Ocean
France
Peabody
Herald
Reater
Steinway Hall
Catholic Colonization Society
Nablus
Abishivra
Phineas
Aaron
Robert Gilmore
J. K. Test
Savannah
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John Hancock
Sullivan Brothers
Libbie
John Adams
Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
Jackson and Taylor
Lincoln
S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Josiah Franklin
Thomas Stone
Robert Treat Peine
Charles Carroll
William Paca
Benjamin Harrison
Lewis Morriss
Josiah Bartlett
Bassett
Mount Vernon
Commodore OU. H. Perry
Commodore Azur
Patrick Henry
Henry Clay
Benedict Arnold
Robert Fulton
John C. Calhoun
Aaron Burr
Joony Wa
William Penn
Caleb
Pbs
Boston Corbett
Noah Webster
General R. E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Beranger
William Cullen Bryant
Allan Cunningham
Washington Irving
G. BP. BR. James
Iic
Theodore Walker
W. H. Prescott
George Bancroft
Tennyson
Thoreau
Theyerson
Voltaire
M. F.supper
Goethe
Walter Scott
Robert Southey
W. M. Thinckeray
John Howard Wayne
Edgar A. Poe
Whittier
Charles Kean
Fanny Kemble
Louis Kossuth
Walter Savage Landor
Henry Laurens
Henry
Witz Greene Halleck
Henry II
Louis XV
Louis Avl
Napoleon Bonaparte
Charles X
Napoleon III
Gladstone
Kosciusko
Daniel O'Connell
Charles Sumner
Benjamin West
Richard Grant White
John Jay
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R. H M. Dana
Cooper
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Siamese Twins
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Shakspere
Stratford-on-Avon
Martin Luther
Barnum's Museum
Harnum
Captain Cook
Fugg
Wilkie
Willian Wilkie Collins
Inky Guild
Hastings
Wither
Tavistock House
Charles Fechter
Fechter
Carlotta Leclercq
Bruete
Jove
Mimi
Conaren
Methodist Church
Fowler
Christian Advocate
Gurboliae
G Matel
Aaa
Phen
Pat Ating Powsity
Gnaracter Snair Restronavie
Wien
Ade
Pieh Ree
Pavers
Puma
Alfred Phillips
Pruggi
Joversvill
Amy Wile
Kennedy & Co
Second Ave
WOOD
Pittsburgh
Geo. C. Goodwin & Co
Weeks & Potter, Smith, Doolittle & Smith
Carter
Harris & Hawley
Mass
Weeks & Potter
Smith
Doolittle & Smith
Cutler Bros. & Co
Jno. W. Perkins & Co
W.F. Phillips & Co
Mason, Toe & Co
R. L. Wells, Richardson & Co
Burlington, Vt
H.& J. Brewer
Springfield
Brent, Good & Co
Park Place
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