Reform Debate Signals Radical Change in British System
A House of Lords debate shows fear of sweeping reform as a radical bill expands suffrage. Lords shift from defiance to deference amid forecasts of a new political order and a larger voter base. The article links this to a potential constitutional overhaul and notes parallel Pacific Railroad progress and Crete reports.
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Eopland
Shafterbury
Earle
Wade
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House of Plenty
House of Commons
Party of Reform
Hayti's New Constitution Outlined and Its Promises
The article discusses Hayti's post revolution political shift toward self government. It outlines the constitution with features like equal religious support, free education, press freedom, and broader voting rights for industrially employed males over 21. It notes no death penalty for political offenses and a four year presidential term.
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Hayri
America
National Guard
Yarg
Rhode Island Summer Resorts Shown By Tribune Word
A Chicago Tribune correspondent praises Rhode Island as a summer retreat noting fifteen resorts around Narragansett Bay with about five thousand guests. He highlights Rhode Island’s coast and water beauty as unrivaled in the region and claims Cook County’s population scale contrasts with the state’s bayside appeal.
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Ruppe
Chicago Tribune
Rhode Island
Cook County
Nirragansett Bay
Submarine Cable Replacement Planned At Railroad Ferry
The Fallover Times reports a new submarine cable will be laid across the bay at Railroad Ferry to replace the broken line at Slade's Ferry. The old Slade's Ferry cable is part of the original Atlantic line, with worn outward covering due to water action and immersion.
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Railroad Ferry
Slade’s Ferry
Pickpocket Arrested on Train Between Boston and Providence
A pickpocket was arrested on the train between Boston and Providence last Monday morning. He relieved Rev. Rufus Babcock of Barrington Center of 65 dollars, another man of 20 dollars, and a woman of a small amount. He was taken to Providence and committed to prison.
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Bostop Journal
Boston
Providence
Rufus Babcock
Barrington Center
Mass Executions Reported by Mexican Letter
A Mexico dispatch claims at least five hundred Imperial officers prisoners of war from France Austria Belgium and Mexico have been shot since March. The report says the killings are indiscriminate in many areas as eight hundred tons of shell are sent back to Washington for filling. It also notes that sawdust has been substituted for gunpowder in many of the projectiles.
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Crete
Omer Pasha
Omar Pascha
Hungary
Mexico
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Athens
Greece
Java
Schoors
North District
North East
Robinson
Academy
A Dream Uncommon in Paris Township Silver Swindle
A stranger staying at a Paris township farmhouse described a dream of discovering a rock in a ravine with a crock of silver. They found $400, divided it, and he exchanged $250 in counterfeit coins before leaving. The host later learned the money was fake, losing $250.
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Paris Township
Ohio
Mina
Treasury extends conversion window for seven thirties into five-twenty bonds
A Treasury circular announces the privilege to convert sevens thirty notes due August 18 into five twenty bonds dated July 1, 1867. The period is extended to September 15 next. Notes not presented by then will be paid in currency at the U S Treasury and at assistant treasurers’ offices in Boston New York and Philadelphia.
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National Guard
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Treasury of the
United States
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Fifteen Cent Currency Debate And Train Collision Injuries
The Treasury reports daily small remittances for the proposed fifteen cent currency, which the public should know are likely useless as the Secretary may reject the denomination. In another incident a New London Northern train near Grants Corner could not stop after a large rack fell on the track, injuring both engine and engineer.
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Secretary of the Treasury
New London Northern Railroad
Grant's Corner
Notably Mixed News From Across the Nation
A miscellany reports on musical politics in Chicago and anti temperance sentiment, mining rivalries in Ohio, Pacific telegraph talks to San Francisco, a Commodore Vanderbilt relative in asylum, a Willimantic camp meeting, Belfast market prices, and varied local incidents from Maine to Bristol including drownings, fires, storms, and social notes.
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Asonx
Commodore Vanderbilt
Willimantic
Conn
Belfast
United States
Simreemra Annual Clam Bake at Pearce's Grove
A Swansea Rhode Island event description of the annual clam bake for the Episcopal Church at Pearce's Grove near Luther's corner. The article details a large turnout from Providence Fall River Newport Warren Barrington and nearby towns with eighty bushels of clams twelve hundred ears of corn five hundred pounds of fish and other foods cooked on heated stones under rockweed. It notes orderly service a lively crowd and the author praising Swansea bakes as a strong local tradition and suggesting Swanzes is unmatched in Rhode Island for this kind of event.
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Swanzea Village
Pearce’s Grove
Luther's Corner
Swansea
Wm. E Chadwick
Providence
Fall River
Newport
Tawnton
Warren
Barrington
Rhode Island
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Pearce
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Sixteenth Edition of Ned Nevins Street Life Pamphlet
Rev. Henry Morgan releases the sixteenth thousand copy of Ned Nevins the News boy or Street Life in Boston a cheap form of his popular lectures canvasers find strong sales A Terre Haute lady sold 120 copies and 25 in a few hours Price in globh 1.50 pamphlet edition 75 cents Agents may apply to Rev Henry Morgan Boston Mass.
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