Economic and political turmoil across Europe and America
The report cites large-scale displacements after a plague outbreak in London and political shifts as Benye Vincent and others face arrest. It notes gunfire near Petersburg, a thaw flooding rivers, and Gen. Grant in Dublin receiving civic honors. It covers fires, deaths, and public health woes including scarlet fever in New York, plus memorials in New York and notable obituaries and investigations into state finances and crime.
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Priceipat
Amoor
Emprant-Ortels
Shere Ali
Eyataese
Europe
Benye Vincent
Enreri Ris Ik
Haskis Et
Ek Petersburg
Gen
Grant
Dublin
Ireland
Washington Motel and Treasury Bond Calls
The Treasury Secretary calls for payment of 10 million dollars in additional 520 bonds with proceeds from subscriptions to four percent bonds. Texas Pacific Railroad advocates claim a House majority and Senate support for LI when it passes. Senators Patterson Garland and Chaver led a Senate Territories inquiry into Indian Territory affairs and citizenship conversion. A new vehicle order has been issued by the Treasury Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Treasury
Texas Pacific Railroad
House
Senate
Patterson
Garland and Chaver
Indian Territory
United States
United Stazen Court
Gecretary of the Treasury
Sheridan charges spur an Indian service report
A government currency figure review notes large balances in the treasury and a special deposit for redemption certificates while Gen Sheridan answers Gen Sherman with detailed instances of mismanagement in the Indian service. A $10,000 currency package was stolen from the Government Printing Office some days ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Secretary of the Interior
Gen Sheridan
Indian Service
Gen. Sherman
Government Printing Office
Political turmoil as Potter committee probes elections
The Socialist Labor ad urges working people to attend meetings praising German policy. New Orleans hosts Potter Cox sub committee hearings with testimonies from Oscar Arroyo and P G Deulonde. Sherman documents, potential forgery claims, and adjournment plans surface amid election intrigue. Maine lawmakers elect Democrat Alonzo Garelon after no majority vote, a historic outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Socialist-Labor Party
United States
Clarkson N. Potter
Jacob D. Cox
Potter Investigation Committee
New Orleans
Potter
Oscar Arroyo
Sherman
Preas
Jenka
John Ray
Territary Sherman
M47
Washington
Tyle
E. B. Washburne
Berlin
Rays Hin
Maine
Alonzo Garelon
Mixed News From Across Regions and Seas
The note highlights Baring Bros and Co planning steamship routes between Liverpool and Boston. It reports a Swedish Polar expedition blocked by sea ice near Behring Strait. It notes January’s resume tax act effects and gold payments limited by Treasury policy in New York. A Manitoba blizzard cripples travel and freezes people nationwide, with rail delays and dire casualties.
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Baringros, & Co
Liverpool
Boston
Fantcape
Behring Strait
United Staten Treasury
Washington
New York
Hillborne
Manitoba
Buffalo
Modern warfare and the electric light future
The New York Sun notes warfare has become a precise science with advanced arms and machinery from the United States. Electric light could erase night advantage, enabling attacks by day or night, but the only true best plan is to refrain from fighting altogether.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York Sun
Derivation notes in historic word origins
A compact excerpt explaining how words such as pamphlet Punch and Judy and bigot arise from ancient names and phrases. The fragment traces Pamphilia, Pontius Pilate, Judas, and other tokens, noting distortions and relics from old miracle plays and medieval language.
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Pamphylia
Punch and Judy
Pontius Judas
Pontiun Pilate
Titl
Iscariot
Visi
Spain
Deri
Atab
Dagned
Watered Silks and Rumors Across Lands
The passage links phrases like Hamburgs Hambug and Ham news to German rumors, and notes a Gaza origin for Gauze. It also identifies Old Nick with the water demon Niki from Scandinavian legend, presenting a mix of folklore and etymology in a compact survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
Germany
Gaza
Niki
The Blaine Investigation Aids to Senate Inquiry Details
A long letter from H M Teller outlines a Senate resolution directing James Blaine to specify frauds outrages and violence in recent elections. It highlights South Carolina Louisiana and New York election issues with witness names and requests for documents and testimony to aid the committee’s investigation. The note asserts the investigation’s scope and references related political correspondence and official reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaine
Thurman
H. M. Teller
United States Senate
Senate
Jamen c. Blaine
Gros
Tan
Samter
Louisiana
Tensas Parish
New Orleans
United States Court
New England
James B. Campbell
OM Markey
CG. Mimminger
South Carolina
Gov Nichelle
Col Zachary
Jusilce Sideling
Tion
Reuben Davin
Min- Hinnippi
J Cole Davin
Helena
Ark
The
Amaranthe
Memphis
United States
Camtitter
Congress
Phoneticking Puzzle From Harper's Bazaar
A curious piece from Harper's Bazaar presents wordplay on homophones and spelling. It ponders how a foreign author could quickly master the correct usage of right, write, rite and wright while tying a horse and hoeing rows, using misprinted phrases to challenge readers.
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Wright
Harper's Bazar
92 Year Old Torrington Woman Keeps Hartford Courant Archive
Miss Apa GinterTe, a hale 92 year old resident of Torrington Connecticut, preserves a complete Hartford Courant file dating from its first issue in 1764. The treasured collection crowds a room fifteen feet wide, stacked to the ceiling and housed in a century old house built by her father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apa GinterTe
Torrington
Hartford Courant
Brief Resume of Our Financial Legislation for Seventeen Years
A historical survey of US finance from 1861 to 1874, detailing bank suspensions of specie, government notes, and the Legal Tender act. It tracks bank lending to the Union during the war, the shift to greenbacks, gold premiums, debt expansions, contraction efforts, and the 1874 resumption law shaping public credit and specie payments. It notes key figures like Hugh McCulloch and political actions in Congress and the Supreme Court.
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York
California
United States
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Merrimac
Rio Grande
New York City
Sxpeere
Congress
Buffalo
Tates
Stoucu
OHNO
Mer
Mareh
Ustc
Aad Hag McCatloch
Treasury
TNO
Tate
Greenbucks
Lantern Street
Peris Bone
Amon
Hugh McCulloch
the Treasury
Itrena
Earth
Grant
Richardson
Supreme Court of the United States
Hepburn Va. Griswold
Gepal- Towler
Jushee Chase
Treasuryeact
Fustien Strong
Wprpremierd
Inatiee Bradley
Knox Ve Dec
Parker Va. David
Secretary of the Treasury
Bayard Taylor Family Portrait and Legacy
Bayard Taylor’s family story centers on his marriage to the daughter of Gotha’s astronomer, her refined taste aiding his learning. They have one child, daughter Lahn, whose portrait aligns with Taylor’s European boyhood image. The couple live at Cedarcroft near his birthplace, on ancestral land. after nearly ten years of golden marriage, their life reflects a lasting domestic harmony. Cincinnati Commercial
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Ife
Cedarcroft
Modest request for renewal of a scraxon pars on Alton road
A tattered letter from February 14 at the Bloomington Superintendent's office seeks renewal of a scraxon pars on the Alton road Amborteng. The writer asks to borrow a wheelbarrow and requests repair or replacement of a hat, hinting at using it by March. The fragment references Morvan and Lansdorix in a worn archival note.
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Image
Alton Road
Bloomington
Cam Taball
AL Lansdorix
Novelty in grave robbing reported at Cula NY
Eighteen years ago a Cula resident warned his mother to prevent theft by building a brick receptacle for the coffin in mortar and covering it with timber. Recently he tried to remove the remains and found the grave disturbed though the coffin remains untouched, with all bricks removed.
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Cula
Alleghany County
Eoghteen
Caer
Vincent Keenaxonaki
Quincey
Camp Point
Tle
Vincent von Kochanowski
America
Chicago Growth Despite Calamities Aims Toward Greatness
A Chicago Tribune excerpt notes thirty years of uninterrupted growth in Chicago trade and manufacturing despite war pestilence fires and economic shocks. It highlights record breadstuffs receipts in 1878 hog and livestock outputs and rising wholesale values while warning readers to study the detailed review of figures and the city’s expanding commerce.
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Garden City
Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Ita
Ixtr
Adacge
Petty
Remarkable Rat Story From Auburn Freight House
Workmen at the Auburn NY central freight-house uncovered a gigantic rat hidden in a wooden box beneath the floor. The rodent, described as rat- sized kitten and nearly white, had lived there for years, fed by scraps and water supplied by other rats, escaping workmen with a sprightly dash when released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn NY
Boy's Windpipe Cut to Save His Life
Tal resident Henry Brinker swallowed a piece of whelk the size of a dime while eating nuts. It lodged in his throat and caused severe choking at 3 a.m. Doctors performed emergency surgery, opening the trachea and locating the obstruction in the larynx.
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Tal
Henry Brinker
Central Avenue
Water Street
Dru
Dawson
McMechan
Dr. McMechan
Ieee
Poisons and Antidotes List From Historic Guide
A historic compendium lists common poisons and at hand remedies. It covers acids and alkalis, arsenic, lead, belladonna, mushrooms, nitrate of silver, snake bites, tartar emetic, verdigris, opium, nux vomica, prussic acid and more with emetics, diluents, and antidotes like vinegar, milk, eggs, charcoal, and coffee. Names include lime water, chalk, whisky, hartshorn, and Peruvian bark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartshorn
Hartford Mad Dog Attacks In Town Amid Bravery of Officer
The Hartford Courant recounts a feral dog biting several people and dogs in Hartford. Officer Jencks dispatched the animal with a shotgun after a dangerous melee, the dog collar flew when the blast failed, and the aged dog was finally killed. The dog was 18 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Jencks
Morgan
Practical Joke Backfires on Saloon Keeper in 1877 Case
In July 1877 William Webber of New York was lured into a saloon for a lifting machine joke. While he pulled a ring, Stewart behind the bar turned on electricity, shocking Webber and damaging his nerves. The prank led to years of litigation, ending with $200 in damages plus costs, about $400 overall.
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William Webber
New York
Stewart
Webber
Fatal blast at Cardsville fires powder on fire
In Mercer county Kentucky at Cardsville Mrs Dickerson tried to aid a fire with a keg of blasting powder. The keg exploded engulfing her in flames and she died. Three of her children were badly burned with two not expected to survive. A New York man owned gilt silk banners with crusaders figurines placed on his dinner table for guests.
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Cardsvillle
Mercer County
Dickerson
Youkes
Illinois News Roundup From Springfield to Quincy
Illinois river skating is praised with cross river trade at Rock Taland selling for ten cents. A tile makers convention is planned for Springfield and State events note acquittals in Chicago, January Medical Association in Centralia, bank recoveries in Quincy, and university control of a prep school in Rockford area. Reports cover cattle disease in De Witt, a Bloomington death, a John Baker return, Jersey county township talks, hog slaughter totals, a Mt Vernon infant found, prairie fowl prices, a Christmas pistol death, crop prospects, a hotel fire near Fithingham, a Polish count’s Civil War role, Garder fire loss, a habeas corpus ruling, and Orpheus Kerr’s recovery of appetite.
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Rouxgorp
Ilinois
Rock Taland
Illinois
Springfield
Cnappock Coturee
Quincy
Clinoixs Wesleyan University
Bloomington
de Witt
William Genning
John Baker
Gicago Packers
Mt. Vernon
Souutheastern
Farmet
Marcelline
McFadden
Scott
Rver
Canton
Tinois Department of Agriculture
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Aera
Court of Pardons
Benjamin
Bryant
Academy of Music
George William Curtis
President Hayes
Evarts
Geo. Sherman
Gov. Tilder
Peter Cooper
Hancock
Caleb Cushing
Newburyport
Mask
Weet
Breathitt County
Randall, Lian
Breathitt
Paris
Charles T. Sherman
Cleveland
Ohio
Huilman 4
Parbanks
Terr Haute
Ind
Legislature of
Oregon
Grover
Northwest
Second Baptist Church
St. Louis
Congressional
Ralund
Saur
CO Republie
Marne
Hethe
Biggenths
Davenport
Kon Fernand
Yan
Kenstor Wallace
Wunder
Penney
William de Kelley
Pennsylvania
Avegne and Totreat
Montpelier
Bernangtin
Gieae Gerhan
Tax Erreiar
Pablo
Bureau of Statistics
Bayard Taylor's
Lincoln
GREAT
Cincinnati Enquirer
Jane
Pire
Fitinghan
Junefinn
Milneis Central
Vandalia
Tompines
Apisastrois
Gardner
Stumph
Speers
Michael Merrick
Michael Gafigan
St. Clair
Gaffigan
Merrick
Yuman
Rogent H. Newer
Orpheus C. Kerr
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