Nihilists Rise and Leaders Named in Russian Movement
A detailed sketch traces Nihilism in Russia from its early theorists to 19th century revolts, naming leaders like Kropotkin and Klement, outlining goals such as universal suffrage and land reform, and recounting trials, exiles, and violent acts tied to the movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
New York Herald
Bakunin
Karakosoff
Rty
All Russia
Peter Schouwaloff
Moscow
Siberia
London
Geneva
Bar
Special
Vera Sassulitch
Trepoff
St.etersburg
Bogoluboff
Sassulitch
St. Petersburg
Narodnaya Vola
Aples
Coar
Theople
National Park Memorial Signatures Reach North American Leaders
A memorial petition to the New York Legislature requests land on the Niagara Falls New York side be set aside as a national park. Signatories include Chief Justice Wheeler and U S leaders, governors, Cardinal McCloskey, college presidents, poets Emerson and Whittier, artists Huntington, and many prominent figures from America Canada and Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara
New York
Niagara Falls
William A. Wheeler
United States
Cardinal McCloskey
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Cornell
St. John’s
Daniel Huntington
National Academy
Emerson
Longfellow
Whittier
Holmes
Palfrey Parkman Agassiz
Gray
Metropolis
Horatio Seymour
Charles Francis Adams
Thurlow Weed
Edwin D. Moran
John Jay
Leslie Stephen
Frederic Harrison
Self Denial Report From Fashionable School
The Hour notes a boarding-school Lenten practice where the principal urged self denial of food. The students decided by unanimous vote to give up hash as their penance during the penitential season.
Walt Whitman A Portrait Of The Modern Poet
A Philadelphia Press writer profiles Walt Whitman, detailing his tall, white hair and beard, blue grey eyes, and portly frame. It covers his career from early work to Leaves of Grass, his dislike of formal verse, his Western travels, and his war service healing soldiers, plus notes on Emerson, Bryant, Whittier, and Longfellow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
Walt Whitman
Colorado
Kansas
Missouri
West
Suffolk County
Long Island
Sound of the Sea
Mississippi
Great Lakes
Canada
Brooklyn
New York City
Shakespeare
Whitman
Tennyson
Longfellow
Whittier
Heaven
Emerson
Bryant
Maud Muller
Weill
Bayard Taylor
Interior Department
Washington
Camden
Puzzle coup by Brooklyn couple ends in victory
In Brooklyn Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke tackle a fifteen puzzle after a bet on solving it. They bicker and rearrange blocks with comic missteps until Mrs. Spoopendyke finally completes the solution, while he concedes she did it her way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spoopendyke
Clinton Street
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Eagle
Mrs. Spoopendyke
Mr. Spoopendyke
Rough on Missionaries and Clerical Criticism
Archibald Forbes, London journalist living in Edinburgh, blasts missionaries in a Scotsman letter. He brands some South African clerics as liars, accuses Rev de Witt and Rev Glockner of false or reckless statements, and attacks Bishop Colenso, contrasting colonial views of native converts with missionaries who aligned with colonial powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archibald Forbes
The
Daily News
Edinburgh
Scotsman
Yee
Rorentog
de Witt
Isandlwana
Glockner
John Dunn
Colenso
Zululand
Natal
Fraud Arrest in N Y Store Over Irish Relief Fund Claim
Michael Welsh was arrested in the twenty-ninth precinct after attempting to solicit money for the Irish famine fund at O Neill’s shoe store on Twenty eighth street and Broadway. Officers found $1128 and a loaded revolver, plus a subscription list heading dated March 4, 1880, claiming to aid famine-relief. Welsh, with no fixed occupation, was detained and locked up at the station house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Welsh
Twenty-Ninth Precinct
O'Neill
Twenty Eighth Street
Broadway
Welsh
United States
Ireland
Chicago Wonders and the Grand Pacific Hotel Legacy
The piece surveys Chicago through George Sala’s eyes praising American enterprise. It highlights the Grand Pacific Hotel and hotel clerks, then lauds Chicago press diversity, then details Chicago’s rapid growth, great fires of 1871 and 1874, and the city’s booming grain, lumber, iron and meat trades. It notes population growth, insurance, and resilience of the prairie metropolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Augustus Sala
United States
London Telegraph
West
Chicago
Victoria Bridge
Montreal
Mont Cenis
Holborn Viaduct
Mamasins du Louvre
New Orleans
Semmering
Gibraltar
Barclay & Perkins’ Brewery
Dique
Cherbourg
West India Docks
Southeastern Railway
Birmingham
America
City of
New York
Hell Gate
Central Park
Brookbridge
Acco Jackson
James Keene
Bob Ingersoll
de Witt Talmage
Illinois
Aaron
Diana
Ephesus
Erostratus
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Place Royale
Marals
Dean Stanley
Dean
Europe
Queenstown
Paris Figaro
Gaulois
Catawampus County
E. C
Chicago Daily Tribune
The
Chicago Times
Inter-Ocean
Prairieity
States
Great West
Lake Michigan
Mississippi
St. Lawrence
de Koven Street
Prairie City
Prairie
Board of Trade
Mark Lane
Halle Aux Biles
IMPERIAL HUNTRESS OF AUSTRIA IN IRELAND RIDING
A Dublin correspondent reports the Empress of Austria rides constantly in Ireland, leading hunts and tumbling occasionally. Prince Lichtenstein and a Hungarian attendant suffer crashes, while Rudolph visits but does not hunt. The Empress maintains privacy, sending £200 to Marlborough’s Irish relief fund and keeping away from Dublin Castle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Austria
Meath
Kildare
Ireland
Ceiver
Summerhill
Prince Lichtenstein
Summer Hill House
Patertnal
Rudolph
Dublin Castle
Duchess of Marlborough
First and Last from the Cincinnati Gazette
A collage of humorous vignettes and short notices from the Cincinnati Gazette era. Includes romantic fragmentary verse about Love and doubt, a mock terror tale of the czar, comic accounts of a Detroit prank, an amusing street scene with a rope and plank, the masher on the car, and breezy tidbits on French literature and walking contests.
The Dead-beat and the Telephone Prank in Detroit
A seedy man storms a Woodward avenue shop seeking a telephone connection and shouts for "Mary" and the doctor as a dramatic but harmless prank. He asks for hurried lines to Cass avenue and Duffield street, then begs for money before the merchant cuts him off and wonders about the frantic customer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawkeye
Apollo
Newark
Detroit Free Press
Woodward Avenue
Central Office
Duffield Street
Suboffice
Cass Avenue
Mary
Jefferson Avenue
James
Eeen
Lord Beaconsfield and Women Suffrage In 1880 letter reply
Mrs M'Laren of Edinburgh presided over a Manchester women meeting on March 3 and sent Lord Beaconsfield a memorial seeking a female franchise. The reply from 10 Downing Street dated February 9 1880 regrets the deputation cannot be received due to business, and signs J F Daly with formal reverence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Beaconsfield
Tom Naan
Malam
J. F. Daly
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nicholas Tchernyshevaky
Saratoff
Tchernyshevsky
St. Tetersburg
Nicholas
Russian Empire
Sovremennik
Nekrassou
Nekrassoff
Dobrobutoff
John Stuart Mill
Volkszeitung
Crty
Heitzen
Siberian
Poland
Tchernysheveky
Alexander
Uch
Radical Party
Prince Kropotkin
Kharkoff
Imperial Russian Geographical Society
Prio
Mae N
University of
Kiem
Obstchina
Tussia
Volna
St. Petersburg University
Klementz
Kiementz
Hugcoing
California
San Francisco Post
Pew
Passa
Jhen
Mebbe
Pano
Times
Oscar F. Wilbur
Christ
Oscar
Ifé
Sally _D. Wilber Neeheny
Cattaragus County
N. ¥. Herald
Chicago Hotels and Hotel Clerks
Grand Pacific
Palmer House
Sherman
Grand Pacific Hotel
Jackson, Clark, Adams and la Salle Streets
Charles Stuart Parnell
Maskelyne
Household Cavalry
Bank of England
Mufti
Pshaw
Noucht
South Division
Chicago River
Cincinnati Gazette
Czar
Derrick Dodd
Forege
Henry
Aleck
Mrs. Czar
Detroit
Mia
France
Nana
M. Zola
New York Telegram
Marine Court
McAdam
John W. Boyle
Philip H. Ottman
Glimore
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