Conkling Defends Arthur as Admin Struggles Harden
Washington January 15 A Senate executive session unveils Secretary Sherman’s paper attacking Collector Arthur of New York. Conkling rebuts the charges with a forceful, lucid argument, swinging the chamber against the administration and signaling a new political clash in Congress.
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Washmgeton
D. C
Conkling
New York
Senate
Sherman
Colector
Arthur
Art of
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Resumption Amendments Face Lively House Debate
The House bank and currency committee, by five to two, sent General Ewing to present three amendments to the resumption repeal bill. The proposals would curb bond sales, halt interest on called bonds, and cap greenback denominations, sparking expectations of a close, heated floor fight. Luther reports from Washington.
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General Ewing
House
Washington, D. C
Banking and Currency Committee of the
Senate
Appeser
Ewing
Luther
The Favored Banks Where Uncle Sam Keeps His Loose Change
Secretary Sherman sent to the house a supplemental statement of balances on loan account in coin standing to the credit of the treasurer of the United States in ad eee ee Usd.
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Uncle Sam
Washington, D. C
Sherman
United States
Major bank balances listed for January 1 1879
Aggregate deposits across 38 banks total 46 98 168 01 with top balances held by First National of New York 19 107 948 National Bank of the State of New York 7 155 064 Bank of New York National Banking Association 5 551 411 Maverick National Bank Boston 4 842 999 National Bank of Commerce of New York 2 217 928 Second National Bank of New York 1 512 526 Monument National Bank Boston 1 088 521 National Exchange Bank Albany 935 364 and the rest spread among the others from 300 to 100 000.
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First National of New York
National Bank of the State of New York
Bank of New York National Banking Association
Maverick National Bank of Boston
National Bank of Commerce of New York
Second
Recovered Remains Rumors in Garden City Cathedral Plan
Reports state Mrs. Stewart said her husband’s body has been recovered and placed in a secure crypt awaiting completion of the Stewart memorial cathedral in Garden City. Negotiations allegedly demanded cash and legal assurances to prevent robbers' pursuit, with $50,000 paid and identification deemed satisfactory. Judge Hilton declined comment.
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New Yorks
Stewart
Hilton
Stewart Memorial Cathedral
Garden City
Greenbackers defend silver currency as economic safeguard
The silver law is praised as a tool to meet coin obligations and potential future demands. Greenback advocates argue it bridges gaps until a permanent greenback system is adopted, counters bank power, and educates the public on currency principles amid a hard-money era.
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Sherman
Europe
Gulf
Congressional party counts for the forty sixth congress
The Tribune lists members elect by party with 147 Democrats 126 Republicans 7 Democratic Nationals and 5 Republican Nationals. The remaining seats are not stated in the fragment.
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the Tribune
Mollie Maguire Mobster Bergin Hanged in Porrsville
Martin Bergin was executed by hanging in Porrsville Pennsylvania for the 1870 murder of Patrick Burns at Tuscarora. The case ties him to the Mollie Maguires gang as the nineteenth such killer in the state. The narrative recounts Kane and McDonnell guiding the hit and Bergin’s arrest in Canada before transfer to Pottsville for death.
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Mollie Maguire
Martin Bergin
Porrsville
Penn
Patrick Burns
Tuscarora
Peter McManus
John O’ Neill
Hesser
Shamokin
John Kane
Burns
Cane
Kane
James McDonnell
Mollie Maguires
McDonnell
George K. Smith
Audenreich
St. Clair
Thomas O' Neil
Tom
Order of Hivernians
Boucicault's Ebony Suite On Fifteenth Street
A New York correspondence describes actor Boucicault’s lavish apartment on Fifteenth Street near Union Square. The second floor is a marvel of ebony wood, silk, velvet, and ornate furnishings including a blue china tiled bath, extensive libraries, and a hidden ice box with liquor and cigars.
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New York
Fifteenth Street
Boucicault
Tiffany’s
Union Square
Pinard
Fifth Avenue
Mr. Boucicault
Ebeny
Dion
Pillard
Miss Davenport’s Baby Doll Mystery At Palmer House
Chicago correspondent reports Miss Fanny Davenport bought baby clothes cause of street recognition and public curiosity. Her maid proposed carrying items to the hotel, leaving them at Palmer House. A wax-doll Olivia, with curly hair and blue eyes, arrived as a gift for a little friend, healthy and walking three miles daily.
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Chicago
Fanny Davenport
Palmer House
Miss Davenport
Olivia
Stetson's Narrative of the Paige Conspiracy Unfolds
The long confession details partnerships, forged records, and bonds looted from Paige's store. Stetson recounts buying bonds under aliases, destroying ledgers, and fleeing to Baltimore and Europe with Paige and Winslow's plans. The tale ends with Stetson's return to Boston, personal turmoil, and an engagement hinted by past loves.
Wedding night shock in Kentucky tale of longing and betrayal
Ten years ago in Lewis County Kentucky a young lawyer Phil Hodge wed Missa Addie Sillett. After the ceremony he vanished at dawn telling a servant his master is gone forever. The bride’s father found her in her wedding dress shaken by fever and delirium. She later revealed her long standing attachment to Lon Foliet and the pressure of his attentions.
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Lon
Phil
Hodge
Lan
Adite
Lon Follet
Addie
Lon Foltier
Leo
Lewis County
Phil Hodge
Missa Addie Sillet
Lon Foliet
Long Tramp Seeks Return to Hungary After 69 day Walk
An elderly man, Paul Ostrich, sixty six, testified at Castle Garden that he sailed from Temesvar to the United States aboard the State of Pennsylvania. He described a 1481 mile trek from Omaha to New York in sixty nine days to seek work after losing his money. He requested repatriation with the aid of the steamship line, citing U.S. emigration laws.
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Omaha
New York
Hungary
Paul Ostrich
Jackson
Castle Garden
N. Y
Temesvar
Pennsylvania
United States
States
Washington Territory
San Francisco
Place
Ostrich
Casine Garden
Missing Reform Club Vice-President in Boston Disappearance
Mrs Dennis Lovett, wife of R C Reform Club vice-president, recalls her husband Dennis leaving with all money last Saturday and Mary McGraw also leaving town for Boston. Deputy Cobb failed to locate them as a daughter arrives in Boston seeking his whereabouts. The couple’s bundle was sent to Boston per Marys order, with no legal claim to stop it. Dennis is about fifty, Mary about forty, and four children depend on him.
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M. Frank Paige
Summer Street
Charles T. Stetson
Stetson
Paige
United States
Brewster, Bassett & Co
C. A. Swett & Co
W. Willard
Europe
Winslow
Montreal
England
Gratian, Mitchell & Co
New York
Brock
Baltimore
Perryville
Mr. Brock
Nevada
Guion & Co
Liverpool
Steamship Company
Winstow
Boston
Tone
Reform Club
Manstiela
Dennis Lovett
Mary McGraw
Dennis
Mary
Cobb
Toronto Globe
Ladies of Canada
Monenre D. Conway
Rochester Express
David Swing
Chicago
Edison
George Sharp
G. Sharp
Hosea
Ephraim
New Haven Register
Aberdeen
Red Sea
Ireland
Caleb Cushing
Afghanistan
Lowell Courier
Saiah
Dublin Freedman’s
John Stanley Mathews
St. Xavier’s College
Order of St. George
Russia
Germany
Shay
Henry Giles
Hyde Park
Schuylerville
Bill
Saratoga Sun
Virginia
Norristown Herald
Olive Logan
Olive
Westminster Hall
Q. C
Marian Evans Lewes
Augusta
Gibbs
St. Louis
Bavaria
Bavarian Alps
Herropworth
Chimsee
Hypocritical preacher visits Griffin woman seeking shirt
A man posing as a devout preacher stopped to beg a shirt from a Griffin resident. She mocked his pretense and offered nothing, recounting how yellow fever survivors in her family would not be shamed by hoaxing beggars, while the visitor fled with a retort about a yellow fever shirt.
Governor Garcelon hailed for compassionate Lewiston rescue
An 1870 Lewiston incident shows future Governor Garcelon, then mayor, lifting an intoxicated Irish woman from a muddy Market Square street. He carried her to her home amid jeers, prompting reflection on whether his act or Sir Walter Raleigh’s cloak gesture was more dignified.
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National Democrat
Garcelon
Augusta
Lewiston
Market Square
Ana
Ana Ooys
Garceion
Nadeen
Walter Naseigh
Farmer’s Steamship Fleet Proposal by Judge Driggs
Judge Driggs of New York proposes to West farmers a plan to raise 5 million dollars to fund twenty steamships of 2500 tons each. The aim is to transport wheat to Europe at the lowest cost, forming a dedicated fleet to secure cheaper overseas markets.
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Driggs
New York
West
Europe
Driggs Plans Drainage of Jersey Flats Boosting Wealth
Judge Driggs devised and implemented a project to drain the Jersey flats converting waste lands into valuable property worth millions. The plan would enable swift cheap grain and produce export, reduce middlemen charges, and bring producers and consumers closer together.
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Judge Driggs
Dersey Flats
Greenbacks and Gold. Phillips on Greenback gains and demands
Wendell Phillips writes to the New York Herald detailing the Greenback party gains, including remonetization of silver, reissuance of greenbacks, and equalization with coin at the custom house. He argues for a single national currency and warns Republicans will claim credit for any future victories.
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Wendell Phillips
New York Herald
Greenback Party
New Finance Party
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Boston Board of Trade
Solomons
Benedict
Sherman
England
Republican Party
John Sherman
Endell Phillips
Legal-Tender Act viewed by Maine judge in historic context
A Portland judge argues the legal-tender act remains constitutional, noting a 1870 overrule and stressing that Congress may issue demand notes and maintain greenbacks. He cites Judge Fox on following Supreme Court interpretations and asserts no legal obstacle prevents reissuing currency or converting government obligations into greenbacks with proper consent.
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George F. Talbot
Portland
Eastern Argus
Portland Advertiser
United States Supreme Court
Fox
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Congress
Ita
United States
Doughnut Fight at Church Social Ends in Snow
At a Westfield church social a brawl broke out over which young men should accompany the girls. The minister prayed through the melee as the kitchen stove toppled, doughnuts flew, and the crowd spilled into the snow outside.
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Westfield
Death of actor Mark Bates in Philadelphia
Mark Bates, a well known actor, died at a police station in Philadelphia from a heart ailment intensified by dissipation. Found intoxicated on Chestnut Street, he spoke of Magullin and the Arampian hills, refused supper, and was later found dead in his cell with no violence shown. Papers named Markus Bates of Cleveland. he had recent stage work in Baltimore and was popular in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and the West. The body was claimed by the dramatic fraternity.
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Mark Bates
Philadelphia
Chestnut Street
Magullin
Arampian
Markus Bates
Cleveland
Baltimore
John J. Ford
Reading
Newark
Boston
West
Butler on the Army Bill
A letter by General Butler argues against the army reorganization bill. He cites four main objections: abolishing the secretary of war, creating a despotic commander in chief, selling muskets to the government by the Providence Tool Company, and arming the militia through private contractors leading to state variation. He promises opposition in Congress.
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Genera
Butler
Congress
Providence Tool Company
United States
Curfe cy and curios from a fedgling era roving headlines
A collage of witty snippets, jokes, and brief notes from a late 19th century page. Curiosities include social irony about clergymen and deacons, mock puns on Afghanistan and Ireland, notices of theater halls, and small anecdotes about public figures, travel, and royal events.
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Hayes
Seriatim
A. Il’. Stewart
California
The
Tribune
Silver and the Greenbackers
O’neil
Bergin
O'Neil
Michael Bergin
Pottsville
Michael
Martin
Canada
Nower
Dion Boucicault
Paige-Stetson
A. L. Coolidge
Will Carleton
Fiso
Exchange and Manufacturers
First National Bank
First National
Cottage Farm
Boston and Albany
Eutaw House
Eutaw Hose
Eugene Thayer
Thayer
Paris
London
Hote
Trowbridge
Dickinson
Newton
Kentucky
Griffin
Maine
Greenbacks
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