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Newspaper

Cambridge Herald

Location

Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Dec 21, 1882

Page

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Senate and House Proceedings Detailed in Mid December

Senate and House conduct on December 12 to 15 shows resolutions on political assessments and War department actions, reports on New York agencies, and library funding debates. Bills on post office, rail right of way, and French spoliation are discussed as committees report and adjournments follow. A Philadelphia disease report faces physician opposition amid rising diphtheria deaths and notable local notices conclude with major estate, fires, and deaths in early 1883.

Senate Beck Edmunds Committee On Judiciary Hoar New York Custom House Post Office Surveyor's Office House Page California Henderson Randall Congressional Library Morrill Finance Committee Ingalls Butler Charleston S. C St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company Fort Smith Ark Dunn Ryan United States Washington Navy Pendleton Hovst Pound Committee On Public Lands Secretary of the Interior Congress Upson Postmaster General Converse Columbus & Eastern Railroad Company Columbus, Ohio Ferry Post-Office and Post Roads Committee Anthony Tariff Commission O'Neil Philadelphia Kasson Committee On Ways and Means Cape of Good Hope Guenter Fort Smith Military Preservation Arkansas McLean Missouri Thomas Allen

Senate confirms multiple nominations and military appointees

The Senate on the 12th confirmed nominees including Edward M. Cheng United States Attorney Northern District of Florida Francis Atkinson registers land office Indiana Helena Montana Charles Alexander Wisconsin Tuc son Arizona James P Luse Indiana Deadwood D T Also confirmed on the 7th were Henry N Morgan Louisiana secretary legation to Mexico George E Waring Jr Rhode Island member National Board of Health Commodore Earl English chief of Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting and Navy Captain Belknap reports to the Secretary of the Navy on King Kalakaua birthday celebration aboard the Alaska A regatta race was won by a barge crew from the ship Cuandler Telegram from Lieutenant Haber dated Bulun September 16 reports Jeannette crew pursuing Chipp party with no trace yet found and plans to reach Irkutsk mid December Ex Senator Hendricks health outlook remains poor Senator Voorhees notes Hendricks told him recovery unlikely President nominates Colonel Robert Murray to be Colonel and Assistant Surgeon General of the US Army.

Senate Edward M. Cheng United States Northern District of Florida Registers Land Office Francis Atkinson Indiana Helena Montana Charles Alexander Wisconsin Tucson Arizona James P. Luse Deadwood D. T Henry N. Morgan Louisiana Mexico George E. Waring, Jr Rhode Island National Board of Health Earl English Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting and Navy Belknap Secretary of the Navy King Kalakua Hawaiian Islands Alaska Cuandler Haber Hendricks Voorhees Robert Murray United States Army

Trial and crimes span wide on twelve day report

The Omaha trial of D. J. Wen for false vouching claims totals twenty three counts with losses between five and six thousand dollars. In Cumberland Ohio a schoolmaster stabbed two pupils during a discipline attempt, killing John Hayes and wounding Charles Luce. A guard at Oakwood Cemetery Richmond Virginia arrested two medical students and two colored men for grave tampering. four bodies were later found at the Virginia Medical College.

D. J. Wen Omaha Wintham C. Pratier Cumberland Guernsey County Ohio John Hayes Charles Luce Frazier Cambridge Oakwood Richmond Virginia Medical College New Board of Trade Chicago Fort Hall Idaho Price Smith State Railroad and Warehouse Commission John F. Potter Congress Roger A. Pryor Muskwonage Wis American Agricultural Association General Grant J. Tilden Turbridge Great Dry Canyon Pecos River Sunset Railroad Texas Ohio State Grange Mansfield Mester Brighman Fulter

Old Michigan Capitol Burns at Lansing

Latter news reports the destruction of Michigan's two-story frame State Capitol at Lansing by fire on the 16th, built in 1847 and once occupied by Pratt Brothers. Also noted are Treasury limits on a Pitts burgh Chinaman’s intended China wife, Sherman to retire next fall, and various political and financial items including a Newport Arkansas blaze, birthday in Boston, and railroad matters.

Michigan State Capitol Lansing Pratt Brothers Secretary of the Treasury Pittsburgh China Arthur Arizona Indian Territory New Atlantic & Pacific Newport Ark Joan G. Wauttier Boston England Greorge J. Rice Utica

Great Kingston Fire Report From Jamaica Vividly Described

A cablegram recounts Kingston Jamaica s great fire in the business quarter. Losses reach £6 000 000 with hundreds homeless as wharves stores and banks burn. City without a fire department and fear and fatigue hindered response while relief is urged to Kingston Charity Organization s W K Arbill. Kingston a maritime capital sits on Blue Mountain slope and reports coffee sugar tobacco dye woods exports and broad imports.

Kingston Jmaica W. K. Arbill Royal Mail Steamship Company Atlas McDowell Jamaica Surrey Spanish Town Europe

Strange Freak of a Crazy Man

Westerly Rhode Island dispatch reports Cyrus Barber a young man in a morbid religious fixation tried to end his life by chopping off his leg with a axe. He fainted and was treated by a surgeon as dawn broke and he spoke of doing right. He had previously attempted suicide by holding his breath.

R. I Cyrus Barber Mr. Barter Barber

Timber-Culture Question Resolution from National Agricultural Association

In Chicago the National Agricultural Association adopted resolutions urging state legislatures to appoint forestry commissioners, establish state arboreta and forest stations, and push federal forest experiments. It calls for annual reporting, seed and plant distribution, and testing of tree species suitable to climate and soil.

National Agricultural Association Chicago Ith Wuerras United States Commonwealths Congress State Boards of Agriculture United States Agricultural Department

Proposed Bankruptcy Law Summary Includes Trustees and Court Oversight

Washington report outlines Lowell bill provisions for estate administration by a creditor chosen trustee and a Committee of Supervision. It creates a complete bankruptcy code with Commissioners in Bankruptcy, Supreme Court oversight, and limits on voluntary filings. It details asset seizure, pre adjudication receivers, and creditor appointed trustees. Also notes a Chicago clergyman’s remarks at a bank president’s funeral amid an inquest finding four aces in the deceased’s sleeve.

Washington United States Senate Supreme Court Circuit Courts Chicago Boston

Commissioner of Railroads Reports on 1882 Year and Rates

The annual report outlines vast railroad improvements, substituting steel rails, more ties, better fastenings, and renewed bridges. It details subsidies, indebtedness of Pacific lines, sinking funds, and calls for reform including possible issue of interest bearing bonds and a federal commission to regulate rates and signals.

Commissioner of Railroads Pacific Central Pacific Central Branch Union Pacific United States Sioux City & Pacific Central Branch Union Pacific Treasury Secretary of the Treasury Great Lakes Congress Supreme Court of Illinois Supreme Court of the United States Rairoad

Reform of Pensions Proposed in Commissioner Dudley Report

Washington reports the Commissioner of Pensions recommends remodeling Bounty Land laws and simplifying pensions to prioritize disability over rank. He cites 117 pension grades, proposes honoring actual rank, extending filing windows for widows and invalids, dating pensions from accrual, and a $5000 yearly pension agent salary. The census gap is noted with only about 26 percent of 2,053,591 veterans seeking pensions, leaving a surviving soldier population around one million with future pension potential.

Washington Commissioner of Pensions Dudley Bounty Landows Congress Regular Army

Job Material Offers Latest Styles for Quick Job Work

The H Brain office announces a new complete outfit of the latest job material and is prepared to execute all kinds of job work on the shortest possible notice.

Vast wealth and infrastructure notes from 19th century data

A sweeping compilation reports Massachusetts valuations at 1,149,826,625 with a gain of 28,033,224 over 1881, Southern cotton mills employing 40,000, world iron output pegged near 19.5 million tons with Britain and the US leading, and Russian marsh draining reclaiming 1.7 million acres. It lists timber, charcoal, Idaho mining yields, first snows in recent decades, Royal Limited Express costs on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and a survey of 118 world observatories with Europe leading by nation counts.

Massachusetts Southern Cotton Mills Great Britain United States Germany France Ireland Antrim Kerry Wood River Saw Tooth Idaho N. Or Picayune Pennsylvania Railroad Europe Asia Arica America Oceania Prussia Russia England Italy Austria Switzerland Sweden Spain Portugal Holland Norway Greece Belgium Denmark Leyden Copenhagen Paris Greenwich Moscow

Quotable Fragments of Wit and Folly Across Papers

A collage of quips from Boston Post and New York Herald satire, with jokes on nihilists salesmanship and fashion, and humorous exchanges about women, speed, and sermons. The pieces showcase era humor, misprints, and light lampooning of clergy, families, and social quirks.

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