Spain and Cuba sit under shifting imperial shadows of 1866
The article surveys Spain’s waning global power, the Cuban dependency, and creole discontent, noting Maximilian’s collapse in Mexico and fears of Cuban resistance. It also covers Johnson’s presidential tour reception, Brown University commencement, and a Southern Convention in Philadelphia with figures like Speed and Burnside. Vermont election returns and a New York shipyard update close the digest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
South
America
Mississippi
Europe
Cuba
Atlantic
Mexico
Maximilian
Republes
Fires Destroy Three Storehouses at Watertown Arsenal
Reports describe fires at Watertown Massachusetts Arsenal grounds last Sunday burning three storehouses with a resounding explosion. Incendiary hypothesis mentioned as glass shattered miles away and observers noted extensive blast damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Arsenal
Watertown
Mass
Firemen's Visit and Clam Bake in Providence Town
Procession of Providence fire companies and guests from Lowell arrives by steamer Bay Queen, escorted through town with bands and flags. A Rhode Island clam bake at Fox Hill follows, with a lecture on Hindooism and a church festival planned for Thursday at Town Hall.
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Providence
Shepard
Excelsior Fire Company
Lowell
Mass
Lowell Brigade
Bay Queen
King Philip Fire Co
State Street
Hope Street
Custom House
George I. Reynolds
Bristol County
F. Shepard
W. J. Darling
John B. Chace Co
James Patterson
Mooshausie Co
Charles H. Allen
Franklin Steamer, Co
G. F. Battey
Ocean Co
Charles D. Battey
Atlantic Co
E. Rosgood
Gaspee Co
N. West
Henry D. Brooks
Excelsior Co
A Shepard
State
Ifhgh
Hugh
Franklin
Hope
Slope Street
Union
King Philip Fire Company
Hlope
No. 4
Fox Hill
Rhode Island
Messrs
Evans & Mayhew
Tenniple Railroad Accident Near Rochester Tragedy
A shocking accident occurred on the New York Central Railroad six miles east of Rochester on Wednesday evening. The steamboat express train from Albany left that morning, was derailed by a left-open switch on a curve, and the locomotive overturned after the engineer jumped. Several people were killed outright and many injured, with the worst damage confined to three adjacent cars.
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Tenniple
New York Central
Rochester
Albany
Eand
Postage Stamp Album Boost From Mr Bennetts Editions
Mr M Bennett Jr formerly of this town has issued two popular editions of a Postage Stamp Album with a third edition to appear featuring space for over 4000 stamps and plans to include revenue and local stamps. The Boston Album is praised for its enlarged improved style and American production. Public Debt figures for September show total debt 2 728 3M R36 95 and treasury totals including coin and currency values.
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M. Bennett, Jr
Bennett
Boston
Pubric Dent
United States
Treasury
California tunnel project to divert Ta Hos Lake water
A California company forms to bore a tunnel through the Sierra Nevada to lift Lake Ta Hos water to the San Francisco channel. It aims to supply up to a dozen interior towns and irrigate vast lands, despite the lake being fifteen hundred feet higher than any navigated water body. Col. A H Von Schmidt is the engineer behind the plan.
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Sturexpora
California
Sierra Nevada
Lake Tahos
San Francisco
Col
A.H. von Schmidt
Severe Storm Hits Cincinnati Destroys Homes and Property
A heavy rain storm in Cincinnati swept away thirty tenement houses as a swollen creek flooded the area. Dongworth notes overflowed wine cellars, tan neries destroyed, a culvert burst, and several people drowned with damage estimated at 300 000 to 400 000 dollars.
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Cincinnati
Dongworth
New Manchester Notice and Local Affairs
The assessor lists city values with real estate at 13039900 and personal property at 5940200, real estate up 1492300 while personal drops 493900. A Boston collector Hamlin resigns amid party disputes as Congress probes patronage. a Cleveland toledo railroad collision kills two at a crossing. a quip about a schoolteacher’s tongue closes the piece.
Town Corner Meeting Orders Saloons Closed After 10 PM
At the regular council meeting a motion set saloons to close by ten oclock each night with owners notified and a twenty dollar fine for each offense. A drainage committee will drain water from the causeway near the town bridge. A watchman will guard petroleum oil on Fall River Iron Works wharf until removal. A Baptist minister from Poughkeepsie is to preach tomorrow at the First Baptist Church. The September term of the Bristol county Supreme Court will begin Tuesday morning in this town.
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National Hall
Philadelphia
Caron Clubs
Kentucky
South
Charles Gibbons
Gov Hamilton
Col. Stokes
Tennessee
Thomas J. Durant
Louisiana
J. W. Jackson
Mississippi
Mr. Gibbons
Gov. Hamilton
Texas
Hamilton
James Speed
Speed
United States
Burnside
Geary
Union League
New York Mail
New York
Borror
Bristol
Poenix
Messrs
William H. Webb & Co
Providence
7Th Street
East River
12Th Street
Chicago Tribune
England
Moscow
Tiffany
Chicago
Garden City
Tie
Johnson
New Jersey
Harreshoff
Stephen T. Church
William P. Manro
Ira P. Slade
Fall River Iron Works
Supreme Court
Illustra ted Phrenological Journal September issue features notable figures
The September ILlustraTED PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL describes traits of Count Bismark Archduke Albert Emma Sturge Ver net Gisboin Cyrus Field and a Native African group with articles on Anthropology Physiology Psychology Pneumatology and Physiognomy plus Shakespearean characters. Includes items on Sins of Society Quack Medicines Female Suffrage and more. A rich number priced 20 cents or 2 dollars a year by Fowler & Wells New York.
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Count Bismark
Prussia
Archduke Albert
Austria
Queen Emma
Sandwich Ilands
Joseph Sturge
England
Horace Vernet
France
F.N. Gisboin
Newfoundland
Cyrus W. Field
New York
Shakepeare
Hamlet
Cassius
John Neal
Wyllis
Fowler & Wells
N. Y
Night Blooming Cereus Scent Sold At One Dollar
It argues midsummer madness to buy foreign perfumes while Phalon's Night-Blooming Cereus, described as the rarest scent in Christendom, is available locally for one dollar per bottle.
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Phalon
Christendom
Pestacume Hair Restorer Promoted for Cats
An advertisement proclaims Pestacume as the best catwraction product and claims wide availability for use and sale everywhere.
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Grant
Farragut
Brown University
First Baptist Meeting House
Provinence
Vermont
Paul Dillingham
Waterbury
Charles N. Davenport
Whittingham
Senate
A. T. Stewart
St. Louis
Montreal
Antietam
Missouri
Pike County
Ogdensburg
Tad” Lincoln
New England
Iivister Clymer
Pennsylvania
Richmond Examiner
Gen.Grant
China
Japan
Howe
The
Christian Advocate and Journal
Methodist Church
Hartford
Henry Ward Beecher
N. P. Fisher
Stoughton
Portland
de. Emerson
Salem
South Church
Washington
Frederick Keith
Boston and Fairhaven
Fairhaven
Plymouth Rock
Marouyn de l'Ilays
Marquis of Montholon
Prince Imperial
Minnesota
Milford
Taunton
Edward Flynn
Michael Cunningham
Cambridge
Union Pacific
Fort Kearney
Browning
Secretary of the Interior
Virginia
Choton
Great National American Bank
London
Delmonico’s
Norwich Bulletin
Baltimrode
New Orleans
Galveston
Ireland
North Carolina
Harper
Bowling Green
Granite Mountain
Sber
Bocat
A. G. Rogers
Congregational
C. Posborne
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
William Manchester
Martin Bennett
Farraxp
State Street M. E
Town Hall
James Lawless
G.A. Pierce & Co
Weath
Newront
Hamlin
H. Hamlin
Two Houses of Congress
Cleveland and
Toledo
Babcock
Poughkeepsie
First Baptist Church
Chicago Times
Tas
Crosty Orerna Horuss Art Association
New York Press
Crosby
Kong Men's Association
Chamber of Commerce Club
Board of Trade
Crosby Opera House
Washington Street
Buerstadt
Yo Semita Valley
Cropsey
Iving
Prais Rie
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L. W. Volk
Art Union
Opera House
Art Institute
Broadway
Thomas Read
Jerome Thompson
D. Huntington
U. H. Crosby
A.A
No. 625
Crosby Opera House Art Association
Herrick Allen
Liberty Street
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