Census chief expects results tabulated by month’s end
Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, predicts all results will be tabulated by the 20th of this month. A Tennessee congressman concedes Republicans may win the Senate seat in his state. The Cumberland Justice Court finds Donahue Freeman likely guilty of attempting to murder Peter McCauley at Diamond Hill. The New York Grand Jury indicts directors, captain, engineer, and Superintendent Kirk of the steamer Sea Wanhaka for manslaughter. Seventy percent of Ottawa horses are affected by epizootic, hindering lumbering. Fall River reelects Mayor Greene by over 1,300, with party-led boards. The New York Star questions the Morey letter’s authorship to a Brooklyn journalist. Four comets visible this month, discoveries listed from Ann Arbor, Strasburg, Rochester, and Paris.
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French savant finds oil from American grapevines for watches
BG M. Lullman reports a distillable oil from American grapevines that resists congealing until eight degrees Fahrenheit, lower than other oils sold at twenty seven degrees. He says the oil is especially valuable for watchmaking and similar uses.
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Pottery From Cargipa Bark Ashes in Brazil Trade
In Brazil large quantities of high quality pottery are made from ash of the cargipa tree mixed with river clay. The ware is described as exceptionally hard and smooth and superior to pottery made by other processes.
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Prominent In US to Form Inter Oceanic Canal Company
Congress will be asked within days to incorporate the Inter Oceanic Canal Company to build a canal via the Nicaraguan route. The act of incorporation is ready. The incorporators include many of the wealthiest and most prominent Americans, with all funding reportedly secured.
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Prediction of future electric photography and distant portraits
An observer predicts that seeing by electricity will soon be as common as talking by telephone. The inventor claims electric currents can transmit a person’s features a landscape or writing and that photographs could be taken remotely across hundreds of miles once perfected. Further developments are eagerly awaited.
The Great Shoshone Falls of Souke River Reach Fame
Located ten miles north of Rock Creek station on the Kelton to Boice City route, Shoshone Falls is described as the most beautiful sight in the known world. The 260 foot plunge, the surrounding wild scenery, and rising visitor interest hint at soon becoming a famous national resort. A San Francisco magazine, The Californian, praised its grandeur.
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Fragmented figures on global cases and regions
The readable fragments list numeric figures by region including Europe America Australia Polar Regions and others with totals like 884,707,000 and 455,928, 500, indicating a mixed, unclear dataset of cases across continents and areas. The text repeats region labels without coherent context or dates.
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New York Letter notes crimes, politics, and gifts of 1880
From Our Owns Correspondent reports a New York month of December 1880 full of sensational divorce evidence exposing a clerical fake marriage dealer, the arrest of a prolific bride hunter, and the release of counterfeiter Brockway while snowbound streets and election spending strain city funds. It also highlights railroads as state property, Long Island Railroad investors, and upbeat holiday commerce with new jewelry gifts from George D. Stevens, plus Corporal Tanner as Brooklyn collector pushing mail-in payments.
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Christmas Night in Paris Draws Odd Lottery Prizes
An American and English residents plan a festive Paris Christmas in the Champs Elysees circus. A 20 franc admission pays into a large tree event with two main prizes: a belle of last season receives half the door money as a wedding portion, with marriage compelled if won by a bachelor. if won by a married man, tickets may be redrawn. The second prize is a handsome young man awarded the remaining half of receipts to compensate the winner for giving up her liberty.
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Parrot Tells Off Boston Club Dog in Billiard Room
In a Boston club house billiard room a tame parrot perched freely. A man entered with a dog that directed its nose at the bird. The parrot scolded, “Go home, you darved fool,” and the dog backed away, reportedly never pointing a bird again.
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Portraits of the Garfield Family and Home Life
A Washington-based account portrays James A. Garfield’s family. It notes four sons Harry 16 James 14 Irwin 10 Abram 8 and daughter Mollie 12, with two eldest at Concord preparing for college. It describes Mrs Garfield as intelligent and frugal, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, and Eliza Bal I ou Garfield, 79, as influential matriarchs. It highlights Garfield’s ambition for a national, sagacious presidency and longevity in the family.
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Hood's Sarsaparilla Ad Claiming Blood Purity Benefits
An early advertisement urges readers that health depends on pure blood and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as the solution, promising the happiest results to those who try it.
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Sale leadership for A S T Co Tipped Shoes noted
Asram S. Drruay of Washington Heights states he always finds a ready sale for A S T Co Tipped Shoes, asserting they lead in children's footwear and that his customers will buy no others.
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Pearline laundry cleaner praised for quick, soap-free cleaning
The advertisement extols James Pyle’s Pearline as the best cleaning agent for housework and kitchen chores. It claims it reduces work time by more than half without soap, warns against imitators with similar names, and notes its wholesale availability through grocers.
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Physician lauds Coca plant's remarkable medical properties
Dr Robert Cumsrsey, physician to Queen Victoria, extols the coca plant saying its properties are the most remarkable in medicine. He notes extensive personal trials and conviction that its use is highly beneficial and tonic.
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Providence railroad repairs depot area with new brick shop
The Providence Warren & Bristol Railroad Co. advances improvements near the depot. A large old brick building beside the Marine Railway has been demolished and a new brick blacksmith shop is rising opposite Franklin street. It measures fifty by thirty six feet with sixteen foot walls and a circular-arc tin roof. Nathaniel Gladding does the masonry and John Slade the carpentry. Exterior walls and rafters are in place and progress is steady.
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Special reference lists proposed for Providence readers
Mr W E Foster of the Providence Public Library has compiled special reference lists on popular topics. The Rogers Free Library has received them and notes the work numbers when available. If enough subscribers are found, the list may be printed for students and readers at about five cents per copy. Interested persons may leave their names at the Rogers Free Library for more information.
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