Rhode Island Convention Calls for Free Will in Choice of Nominations
The Rhode Island State Convention to meet on the 22nd will influence national and state affairs as the last party assembly before the presidential nominating Chicago Convention. It urges a fresh, untrammelled popular choice, rejects factional manipulation, and stresses American citizenship and equal protection for foreign-born citizens amid broader immigration issues.
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Rhode Island
Chicago
Sat
Anemier
Sud
Unite States
England
Great Britain
United States
Republic
Josephine the Morgan Line steamship reaches Gulf service
The Harlan and Hollingsworth Co. completes the Josephine, a 242 foot schooner rigged iron steamship built for Charles Morgan of New York. Cost about 260000 dollars, to ply New Orleans to Galveston, with 79 state rooms and lavish saloons, supervised by Captain James Lawless.
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Gulf
Wilmington Daily Commercial
Harlan & Hollingsworth Co
Wilmington
Gulf of Mexico
Josephine
Charles Morgan
Exq
New York
Great
Morgan Line
New Orleans
Galveston
Texas
Morgan
Lawless
Bredith
Louisiana
James Lawless
Union Pacific bonds rise in price amid heavy sales
The Union Pacific Railroad Company reports its First Mortgage Bonds have advanced from 90 to 95 cents on the dollar and may soon be placed at par. Ten million dollars in bonds have already sold nationwide with strong demand possibly bringing five million more in early February. The company shows high credit and ample cash for construction. Also mentioned are Reverend Balch of Montreal and Reverend Hawley of Hartford as potential successors to Vermont’s bishopric.
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Astox Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Centra Pacific Baitroop
Central Pacific Railroad Company
Minnesota
Turvy
Ashtabula
Arkansas
Mapamee Varian
Edward Hoffman
Florida
Juan Fernardes
Algiers
Methodist Episcopal Church
Italy
Great Britain
Isaac Laeser
United States
Philadelphia
Cuhinesx
Old Colony and Newport Railroad
Middleport
Debates Rise Over Supreme Court Quorum Bill and Temperance Meeting
In Washington, Doolittle opens a senate debate on the Supreme Court quorum bill, with Trumbull Morton Nye defending or opposing. Lectures followed by Arnold on Lincoln and Agassiz on geology. The Congressional Temperance Society held its first meeting of the season, chaired by Senator Wilson, highlighting temperance campaigns and notable speeches.
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Hineros
Guenne
Congress
Senate
Doolittle
Supreme Court
United States
Trumbull
Mr. D
Gov. Morton
Indiana
Gen. Nye
Nevada
Fremont
Lincoln
N. Y
Wade
U.S
New York
Tammany
Prof. Agassiz
Cambridge
Gov. Sprague
Rhode Island
Congressional Temperance Society
House of Representatives
Good Templars
Wilson
Massachusetts
Sciety
T. A
Plants
Carey
Tom Ford
Ohio
Worace Greeley
Hublbard
Cincinnati
Congressional Society
Senator Wilson
Ford
Chericos
World of earthquakes and eruptions from ancient histories
A historical digest recounts catastrophic quakes and volcanic events around the globe. It covers Caracas 1812, Riobamba 1797, Guanaxuato, Guatemala, Chile 1822, Java 1772, Sumbawa, Iceland 1783, the 1839 South Polar volcano, and other distant phenomena, noting waves of destruction, land raised or swallowed, and strange geological effects.
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Dean Poenix
St. Thomas and Alaska
Caraccas
Riobamba
Guanaxuato
Mexico
Guatemala
Java
Sumbawa
Iceland
South Polar
Galongong
Jipin
January 1868 Tac collections and injuries aboard steamer Providence
In the Second Collection District of Rhode Island January receipts totaled 40683 dollars and 97 cents. Thomas Carroll, working on the Bristol line steamer Providence in New York, was seriously injured near machinery last Friday. A Connecticut Joker was fined fifteen dollars for playing ghost.
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Rhode Island
A. D
Thomas Carroll
Providence
Bristol
New York
Connecticut
Ghost
Assembly-January Session at Providence
The Providence assembly notes report of the Inspectors of the State Prison and recalls the death of House member Richard Saunders. Committees are formed on the Quartermaster General and State papers as resolutions pass in both houses. Central Pacific bonds rise to par as demand remains strong.
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Genera Assembly
Providence
Senate
Richard Saunders
Church
House
Bradley
Secretary of State
Messrs. Flage, Hall
Chase
Quartermaster General's Department
National Bank of North America
D. C. Houston
U. S
Block Island
Guardian and Ward
Pawtucket
Hazard
Committee On Education
Brown University
Agricultural College
State House
Grant Stands Firm Against Falsification Charge
The Boston Journal lauds General Grant for maintaining dignity under attack over alleged falsification of his word. It asserts the arrow of slander fails to wound him and predicts he will emerge honorable from the episode, earning greater respect from loyal countrymen.
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Boston Journal
Various European and American notes of the era
A collage of brief items reports deaths murders and legal questions in the United States and abroad. Topics include a enslaved woman found dead in Georgia a Minnesota murder case a coal mine tragedy in Britain wheat farming in Georgia and Vermont births and deaths in Taunton Vermont and Virginia and plans for Canadian tax averages and land grants for immigration.
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Granata Exchange
Georgia
Tur
Taunton Gazelle
Taunton
February Premiums and Subscriptions From Tar Lirrie Corpora
The Publisher Alfred L. Sowell of Chicago advertises February premiums to raise Clabs with unusual inducements. A sample copy is offered free for applications made during February and subscriptions cost one dollar per year.
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Alfred L. Sowell
Chicago
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Dhe Hristo
Rhenis
Old World
Egal Riphism
Balch
Montreal
Hawley
Hartford
Vermont
Grant-Jonxson
Gen. Grant
Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Jobson
Union
Andrew Johnson
Dickens
New Jenser
Satt Lane
Columbus, G
States
Bergen
N.J
Thomas Baker
St. Birmingham & Brother
Dilton
Mass
Grorae Garland
Lynn
Tur London Post
Clerkenwell
Taunton Great River
R O'Conner
Richfield
Minn
Brattleboro
Faux Rover
Tun
Boston Transcript
State of
Jess Mate
North Stonington
Norwich Bulletin
Bulfinch Academy
Lee & Shepard
Boston
Bocal Intelligence
Meering
Blonday
Thomas Lindsey
James M. Gooding
Josiah Goodming
Richard S. Pearce
William Pearse
Wm. R. Taylor
James H. West
Scott Greene
Bradford F. Munro
Elizabeth G. Swett
A. T
T. J. Usher
J.L Gardner
Bristol High School
Rery James Dew. Perry
Theodore Waltron
Jane E. Babcock
R. I
Oil City
Barersaton
Mary Thomas
Stephen B. Martin
John Noble
Abby S. Bullock
Hannah Holmes
Henry D. Gladding
Ellery
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