Attempt to Make Capital Against Senator Bayard
Washington scene reports that foes of Senator Bayard failed to damage his reputation by reviving his 1861 peace speech. Bayard defends his union loyalty, while a new vigilance committee formed to counter crime, including a brutal rape on Capitol Hill. The article also notes a public debt drop for February and quotes a political insider on Samuel J. Tilden’s nomination plans and ticket preferences.
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Washington
Bayard
Tilden
Mr. Bayard
Senator Bayard
Capitol Hill
Saforesaid
Cri
Luther
Tilden Hold and anti Tilden Factions Stir Dem Committee
Washington February 27 Democratic national committee strains over convention site and Tilden’s fate. Rumors swirl of withdrawal as anti Tilden forces gain strength, while Tilden’s agents operate nationwide. Observers doubt Mrs Tilden’s intent to quit, though uncertainty grows.
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Washington
Tilden
anti-Tilden
Mr. Tilden
Congress
Democratic Committee
Enator Barnum
Prince
Boston
Tammany
New York
National Democracy
United States
Democratic Party
Porter case sparks Hartford protest over gallant officer
Bridgeport preacher Clarkson Ayers charges Fitz-John Porter sold his corps to the enemy before the second Bull Run. Porter and aide Drake DeKay deny the tale, with evidence showing Lee far from Porter's camp and no Eleventh or Seventeenth New York rosters match the accuser. Senate action on Porter's case next week looms.
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Hartfury
Owsrum Up
Bridgeport Standard
Clarkson D. Ayers
Freewill Baptist Church
Fitz John Porter
Ayers
Eleventh New York Volunteers
Bull Run
Robert EK. Lee
Noth
FitzJohn Porter
Porter
John Porter
Congress
Ae Te Eegins
Fifth Army
Mr. Porter
General Porter
Washington
Clarkson D. Ayer
Hartford
Fitz-John Porter
Lee
Drake DeKay
Ayer
Eleventh
Seventeenth New York Regiment
Seventeenth Regiment
Senate
Lurher
Duped by a Widow In Natick and Lincoln Scam
A widow calling herself Patterson visited Natick four years ago seeking a home and claimed a $60,000 fortune in New York. She confided in Mr. Lincoln, proposing a half share in the money in exchange for cash to cover legal costs, and a deed was prepared in her name. Lincoln, deemed prudent, prepared another deed and travels to East Cambridge to record it. the widow later claimed to be detained in Boston.
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Patterson
Natick
Bailey’s Hotel
Lincoln
Pecan
New York
Boston
East Cambridge
Deserter Seeks Navy Cast On Brooklyn Sailor Tale
A boy claiming to desert from the United States Navy seeks custody after meeting Officer Tay on Seven teenth Street. Commissioner Shields jokes about shipping him to Her Majesty's Ship Pinafore at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where a British warship might be crewed. William Brewster of Webster, Massachusetts, provides his name.
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New York
Tay
Seventeenth Street
United States Navy
Shields
Navy Yard
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Cne
William Brewster
Webster, Mass
Robbery on Sixth Avenue Car in New York City
City oil inspector George Mitchell was knocked from a Sixth Avenue horse car by two highwaymen before about twenty witnesses. His watch chain and wallet were ripped away as he lay unconscious in the street. His injuries are feared fatal.
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Highway Rkobbery
New York
George Mitchell
City Inspector of Oils
Sixth Avenue
Armour Firm Buys Large Pork Short-Rib Load
CHICAGO February 27 The provision company P D Armour and Co bought 16 million pounds of short ribs pork. Six million pounds came from one packing house and nine million from others. Price 6 42 cents per pound, value 276 000 dollars.
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Chicago
P.D. Armour & Co
Beaconsfield Ready to Take the Wind Out of the Liberal Sails
Foreign dispatch from Lord Lytton outlines a viceroyal plan to partition Afghanistan between England and Persia. Details include Herat and Seistan under Persia, Kandahar and Cabul under British protection with native garrisons, and divided control of Cashmere Khoorum Khost and the Khyber pass to India.
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Beaconsfield
Longdow
Foreign Office
Lord Lytton
India
Afghanistan
England
Persia
Herat
Seistan
Candahar
Cabul
Bamian
Hadjijah
Khelat
Cashmere
Khoorum
Khost
Khyber Pass
Jellalabad
Turkestan
Meroe
Dizzy Proposes to Outbid Liberals for Land Reform
London letter to the Cincinnati Commercial notes Lord Beaconsfield plans a liberal land bill to simulate real estate succession on intestacy. If true, it risks alienating radical reformers and could alter the coming election, with Morley and Bradlaugh facing pressures over supporting the government agenda. The Anti-Obstructionists’ motion in Parliament passed 166 to 20, suspending obstructive members.
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M.D. Conway
London
Cincinnati Commercial
Lord Beaconsfield
Disraeli
Beaconsfield
Marquis of Hartington
Lord Keaconsfield
John Morley
Yemeny Review
Westminster
Smith
Admiralty
Morley
Mill
Bradlaugh
Northampton
Remarkable murder case ends with life sentence in London
The central criminal court convicts Lewis Payne of murdering Miss McLean by forcing large quantities of brandy during a debauched plot with Fanny Matthews. Payne is sentenced to life penal servitude after a lengthy, rambling claim of innocence. Matthews’ trial is to follow.
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London
Boston Globe
Lewis Payne
Miss McLean
Central Criminal Court
Payne
Fanny Matthews
Matthews
Miss Matthews
An Irishman's Story of the Famine in Galway
An Irish immigrant Mr Michael Glynn from Menley Galway arrives with wife and child describing unprecedented famine distress in Ireland. He and others beg for food amid scarce crops, many losing clothing and furniture to survive. Reports from Galway describe about 100000 destitute, with locals leasing to America for aid. A gunboat correspondent notes dire conditions on Innishark and Innisboftin, hunger, nakedness, and reliance on seaweed. Archbishop Dublin thanks for gifts from Pope Leo XIII and others totaling 14273 shillings pattern of aid.
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Menley
County Galway
Glynn
Ireland
America
Tony
Mr. Glynn
Old Country
Dublin
Galway
Goshawk
Innishark
Innisboftin
Leo XIII
Monsignor Kirby
Irish College
Rome
Donation Distribution to Archbishops by Brepagseds
A note in the Dublin Freeman's Journal records a donation from Brepagseds with the remaining three fourths allocated to other archbishops. The item highlights redistribution of a charitable gift among church leaders.
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Brepagseds
Dublin Freeman's Journal
Riot in Ireland as tenant meeting is broken up
A tenants rights meeting near Portadown, Armagh, was attacked by several thousand Orangemen armed with bludgeons. They stormed the platform, drove off speakers, and assaulted tenant fighters, with several seriously wounded. A large crowd gathered on Armagh bridge to witness the clash.
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Dustin
Portadown
County Armagh
Armagh
Armagh Lurgan
Newry
County Orange Lodge
Bann
Gunpowder Plot Report on Jersey Barracks
A barrel in St Helier barracks on Jersey hid twenty eight pounds of gunpowder with suspicions of an intended explosion. Two privates of the Thirty second Regiment are under arrest while motives point to the drill-master. Suspicion grows from the discovery and ensuing inquiries.
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Jersey
Longon
St. Helier Barracks
Thirty-second Regiment
Tay Bridge
Rough Weather on the Atlantic Sees Seamen Drowned
A detailed Atlantic storm report notes heavy gales and high seas from February 10 to 18. The Lena from Bristol lost three seamen and two firemen during attempts to secure hatches. multiple vessels faced wrecks, with the Hindoo listing, three officers washed overboard, and other ships suffering damage. Also included is a Paris-Genoa note and cargo/crew losses, with Hindoo fatalities identified as Dodds Crocker and John Wright. Additional items cover Garnier’s divorce suit and a Cincinnati claim by descendants of Samuel Guist’s slaves seeking estate rights in Virginia and England.
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Lena
Bristol
England
Cook
Alexandria
Genoa
Julia
Medport
Eng
Port PF Bello
Swansea
Hull
Deruyter
Antwerp
Dodds
Crocker
John Wright
Supreme Court
Garnier
James Gottendorf, Jr
Bayonne
Erastus H. Randall
Cincinnati
Samuel Guist
Virginia
Guist
Ohio
Hanover
Amherst Counties
Epidemic Among Sheep Alarm British Farmers
U S commercial agent in Gloucester reports February 9 1880 dispatch detailing a deadly new sheep liver disease spreading across Great Britain. Chambers of Agriculture and Royal Agricultural Society organize veterinary examinations, with fears it could surpass recent crop failures in impact on farmers. An older man in Isabella Georgia was killed by an alligator in Worth county after resting by the river while hunting his cow.
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Washington
United States
Gloucester
England
Department of State
Great Britain
Royal Agricultural Society
Atlanta
Isabella
Martin
Worth County
Conkling Seeks Grant Backing at State Convention
The Vermont style report details the February Republican state convention with C. E. Smith as temporary chair. Conkling rallying for Grant drew fierce support while Blaine received a counter cheer. Delegates debated third-term objections and pledged votes for Grant, naming Conkling and others among national convention electors.
Vermont Delegates Nominate for National Convention Blaine Favored
Vermont Republican delegates at a February convention endorsed Edmunds and placed Blaine as second choice with Grant in the rear. Elected were John Gregory Smith Frederick Billings John W. Stewart and George W. Hooker. The body praised the party, condemned the Maine count-out, and supported Hayes administration and honest money. Illinois set May 19 for state convention. New Jersey GOP to meet May 6 to choose Chicago delegates. In Indiana Blaine led with twenty-two delegates to Sherman four, from thirteen districts.
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Bein Sagacious
Democratic Party
Mr. Tilden
Samuel J. Tilden
Tilden
New York
Grant
Hendricks
Ohio
Hoadley
Cincinnati
Henry B. Payne
Cleveland
Tllinois
Palmer
Bayard
General Grant
Thurman
Jewett
Sam Randall
Aallace
Pennsylvania
Randall
Wallace
Luther
Mr. Schaurmann
Kings County
Woodford
Clarence A. Seaford
John C. Churchill
Roscoe Conkling
A. B. Cornell
Chester A. Arthur
J.D. Warren
Republican Party
South
Hayes
Executive Department
New Jersey
Trenton
N. J
Taylor's Hotel
Chicago
Blaine
Indiana
Indianapolis
Sherman
Yellow Fever on Board the Marion
The Marion arrived at Montevideo from Rio Janeiro with yellow fever aboard. Five officers and nine men ill. two deaths occurred. Total cases twenty one: six officers and fifteen men. Lieutenant J. P. Wallis died on the 23d, John Rogers of Staten Island died on the 20th. Officers and crew ashore on Flores island. most are well or convalescing. Fever thought to have originated from Rio coal.
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Marion
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Commodore Bryson
United States
Montevideo
Rio Janeiro
J. P. Wallis
John Rogers
Staten Island
New York
Harvey Wilk
Flores Island
Sarahs
Ghostly Message Reported from Trinity Church Leader
Rev. R. W. B. Webster of Trinity Church Quebec believes a spirit delivered a Greek written message to him at 2 a.m. He claims it prophesies dire calamity and that he must obey its commands. Congregants largely scoff while a few supporters defend his reputation.
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R. W. B. Webster
Trinity Church
Quebec
Mr. Webster
Coal price circular raises rates for egg and other grades
New York March 1 The Pennsylvania Coal Company issued a contractors circular advancing rates by fifteen cents per ton for lump steamer grate and egg grade, stove and chestnut unchanged. Louieh Valley Company also raises egg by fifteen cents per ton and will meet market on other grades. Local agency for the Lykens Valley coal maintains.
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New York
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Louieh Valley Company
Lykens Valley Coal
Local Coal Prices Reported for Varieties androads
Their price for all grades stands at 525 dollars per ton. The Carberry variety shows an advance of twenty five cents per ton. Neither the Delaware and Lackawanna, Delaware and Hudson nor Lehigh and Wilkesbarre have issued any circular or changed their prices.
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Delaware and Lackawanna
Delaware and Hudson
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre
Voyage of the Golden Gate from Boston to Bahia
Burrell and Coombs recount their perilous open boat voyage begun July 9 from Boston to Melbourne. After gales, loss of compass, and months at sea they reached St. Helena, drifted toward Brazil, faced near-starvation, and finally landed near Bahia. They expect to return to the United States aboard the City of Para.
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New York
Mr. Burrell
Andrew B. Coombs
Boston
Melbourne
Australia
Bahia
Para
Golden Gate
Glen Roy
Stafford
Canal project plans aired by De Lesseps at engineers society
About 300 prominent citizens attend a reception for M. De Lesseps at the Union League theatre. He outlines Panama canal plans, estimates cost at 168 million dollars, dams at 20 million, and a yearly traffic of 6 million tons at 3 dollars per ton. He discusses capital raises in Europe and America and notes a deep cut of six to seven miles averaging 1180 feet.
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M. de Lesseps
Society of Engineers
New York
American Society of Civil Engineers
Union League Club
A. Canute, Esq
American Society of Engineers
Count de Lesseps
Panama Canal
Suez Canal
Sumner
Propecen Canal
Chargres
Europe
M. de Jouret
Two-Faced Child Stuns Buckhorn Family
In Buckhorn a baby born with a second facial formation at the back of the head drew curious visitors for ten days. The front face showed two mouths and two eyes with a nose to the chin as the child nursed and cried from either side before its death.
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New Philadelphia
Buckhorn
Thirteen Year Old Girl Dies After Poison Ingested
New York February 27 The Sun s Poughkeepsie correspondent reports that Sarah Weaver a thirteen year old girl living with her aunt since her mother died killed herself. After her aunt said she could not support her she was sent to live with her father. She bought five cents worth of arsenic last week and became sick on Tuesday dying with enough poison in her stomach to kill twenty people.
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St Mvicus
Golden Gate
Bahia
United States
Para
New York
the Sun
Poughkeepsie
Sarah Weaver
The Negro Exodus Arrives in Kansas as Emigration Grows
Fifty black migrants from Mississippi arrived in Leavenworth and were sent to Atchison. A statewide meeting is planned for April 12 to coordinate aid for the growing influx. Some migrants have formed secret groups to deter further southern emigration.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Mississippi
Atchison
Kansas
South
Eloping minister and sister-in-law arrested in New York
Rev H W Richardson Methodist minister of Sea Cliff eloped with his wife's sister Elizabeth Southie aged nineteen. They were arrested in New York on the steamer Rio Grande before sailing to Galveston. The wife and several children remain. In San Francisco it was reported Flood sold mining properties to Mackey and the Cooks, with Flood's son claiming his father would be rid of all mining interests.
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New York
H. W. Richardson
Sea Cliff
Elizabeth Southie
Rio Grande
Galveston
James Flood
San Francissco
John Mackey
Seth
Daniel Cook
Filood
Wretched Russia Growing Discontent Among Middle Classes
A St. Petersburg strand reports widespread discontent among peasants and educated classes due to harvest failures, high prices, and land hunger. The piece notes potential agitation by Nihilists and a shift of blame toward proprietors, with calls for reform via freer information, migration to better land, and practical governance.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Volga
Caucasus
Charkoff
Proaganda
Dis Rieta
Socialistic Revolutionary Party
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