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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1887
Page
2
Nevada cast 15000 votes in the last election while Dakota tallied 100000. The note adds Nevada as a state and Dakota’s aspiration to become a state in the future.
A philosopher counsels young readers for the new year to rise early, dress sensibly, live temperately, avoid worriments, seek innocent amusements, and save some thing. The tone reflects prudence and frugality for self improvement.
Thompson H. Murch, the Danvers Mass stone cutter who defeated Eugene Jiale of Maine for Congress in 1879, died recently in the Danvers asylum at age forty eight. His pursuit of Congress allegedly ruined him.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upholds the butter ban and those in oleomargarine manufacture and sale decide to quit the business.
Mr. Atkinson notes that average annual wages for mechanics grew from 4168 in 1850 to 720 in 1886. The purchasing power of skilled labor increased by about 100 percent in the past two decades.
General Corse the new Boston postmaster invites all who have complaints about his management to come forward. He aims to address issues and restore the post office to first class running order.
John Roach a veteran ship builder faces a slow decline from a cancer akin to General Grant's. While Grant's cancer linked to smoking is debated Roach never smoked yet suffers the same disease.
The Boston Budget reports officers will receive one month of paid vacation annually with the ability to accumulate to four months by the fourth year. It notes that a four month leave enables an officer to visit Europe and expects the policy to prove popular.
Chicago reports a year of mixed commercial statistics with smaller receipts for breadstuffs hogs and lumber while cattle rise slightly. Product values declined due to low prices yet wholesale trade and manufactures jumped. Total trade reached 997 million dollars up about 4 percent.
At Buffalo port last season the port handled 94 858 931 bushels of grain counting flour as wheat equivalent and 259 500 000 feet of lumber received while shipping 1 478 000 tons of anthracite coal. The Lake Superior ore trade was the greatest on record and Lake Michigan lumber also boomed.
Congress considers a bill to eradicate contagious pleuro pneumonias foot and mouth disease and rinder pest among cattle and to aid exportation of cattle and livestock products. It provides for a presidential appointment of a three member commission with power to enter premises suspected of infection. Infected or exposed animals are to be destroyed with owners paid three fourths of their value. Commissioners receive five thousand dollars annually.
William G. Deshler a Columbus banker donates one hundred thousand dollars to the Columbus Female Benevolent Society. He asks the society to act as almoner and use the gift to aid helpless widows maidens and children in need reflecting his mother’s Christian charity.
Government gold holdings reach 170,912,413 dollars, a high since resumption of specie payments except for November 1881. Gold stock has grown since July despite bond redemptions, with December gain near 7 million and half-year rise just over 14 million.
A Washington paper notes that out of hundreds of condolence messages to Mrs. Logan only two mention religion. Stephen A. Douglas and Col. John Hay offered prayers, saying May God comfort and sustain you. The piece contrasts past and present modes of sympathy and timing.
General William B. Hazen chief signal officer United States Army dies at eight o clock in the evening after a sudden decline from diabetic coma. The death follows recent illness and a day of improved condition, with physicians including Dr Harvey Dr Huntington and Dr Lincoln in attendance. Funeral arrangements and military honors are being coordinated.
Thomas Johnson Cluverius, convicted of the murder of Fannie Lillian Madison, was hanged in the Richmond jail yard on March 14 1885. Crowds packed every approach and vantage point as the execution occurred at 1 08 pm. Madison, 22, was pregnant and a Bath County schoolteacher. Cluverius was her cousin and a former lawyer.
President nominates Johan F. Norrish for surveyor general of Minnesota to replace Martin S. Chandler. Norrish, Hastings merchant and longtime Democrat, faces Col. Crooks of St. Paul as his chief opponent. The office pays 2000 annual in favorable times, likely to rise to the statutory limit with the next legislative funding.
The Senate adopted a resolution directing a full itemized treasury report on money paid to federal officers for prosecutions in state courts from 1879 to 1885, and approved paying Mordecai $35,091 for mail carrying Charleston to Havana. Bills authorizing process service in territories and park removals, plus a telegraph of electoral counts, passed as the session extended and adjourned.
A digest of kitchen tips and recipes includes fur rug styling notes, colored cheese cloth draperies, and practical guidance for making potato crusts, bread crumbs puddings, ginger cookies and various fried or baked dishes. Recipes cover beef fritters on batter, rice pudding with fruit, broiled onions, fried onions, nut candy with hickory nuts, fruit jumbles, veal suet pudding, boiled onions, fried chicken, and Boston plum pudding with brandy sauce.
Senate debates a soldiers' home appropriation of 100000 with 15000 this year, seven governors appointive commissioners, and ground costs. A five member rail inquiry is proposed, with power to summon records and personnel. House and Senate confirm multiple state appointments and tackle education, taxes, and warehouse regulations amid a flurry of loyalist and reform bills.
A narrator describes mounting fear and loneliness that push him toward marriage to escape isolation. He details waking visions, an empty chair appearing real, and the terror of being alone at night, with the belief the presence exists only in his fear and imagination.
The Chicago Inter Ocean reports the telegraph wires are being buried underground in Chicago. The plan is successful and will remove unsightly street poles as time passes.
A historical note praises the king of Dahomey as fond of children and claims he has three hundred forty two offspring. The anecdote describes his preference for fat children stewed with palm oil and pepper.
Garrett P. Serviss writes of the strange sensation when peering through a telescope and feeling as if viewing another world from a safe perch. He recalls gazing at the moon and nearly losing balance as the globe seemed to tilt under his eye with a 4,000 mile drop below.
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