Senate and House debate and passage of rules and grants
December sessions report bills on governance and disability relief for General Lawton, grants for Julia Grant, and a Presidential Succession plan. Senate and House lines show executive sessions, recesses, and adjourments amid rule revisions and pensions bills.
Widespread Casualties and Political Turbulence Across Lands
Reports detail multiple tragedies from illness after tainted pork in Mechanicsville New York to a murder plot near Newra Indiana and a jailer mob attack. Other items note a fire death in Cleveland and church news from Cincinnati and Augusta Georgia. Internationally, conflicts and bureaucratic moves unfold in France India Ireland Serbia and Rome with deaths, trials, and political threats pervasive.
Presidential appointments and a Brooklyn memorial to publish government papers
The Senate is to consider Franz Siegel as Pension Agent in New York City John Bigelow as Assistant United States Treasurer in New York and Albert B Stearns as Appraiser of Merchandise in Boston and Charlestown A Brooklyn resident M Krauskof filed a memorial urging government funded newspapers at every first class post office The Interior Department seeks suits against about forty cattlemen for illegal public land fencing in Kansas Nebraska Wyoming and Colorado A bill by Mr Ingalls proposes fines of one hundred dollars a day for unlawful inclosures of public lands.
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New York State Sheep Breeders Hold Rochester Meeting
The New York State Sheep Breeders Association met in Rochester on the 15th and elected officers for the coming year: President C. E. Shepard Canandaigua Vice President David Cassell Onondaga Secretary J. H. Earle Skaneateles Treasurer Howland Sherman East Avon. Charles Pantler aged fifteen of Buffalo, shot himself after a prior reprimand. Scarlet fever outbreak at Pittsburgh Protestant Episcopal Home for Children endangers eighty five youths with four deaths and ten ill. Janos McCarthy of Oswego New Jersey faces liabilities over 100000 to New York merchants. Claflin & Co. among largest creditors, assets far below debts.
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Typhoon Destruction in Philippine Islands and Other News
Reports from the steamer Ovceanica arriving San Francisco on the 20th describe a November 7 typhoon in the Philippine Islands destroying over 400 houses including thirteen churches and ten convents with fifteen lives lost and five hundred cattle killed. Also noted is a Siberian mine explosion with conflicting death toll estimates near Pleijachin. Prices and freights for anthracite coal are set to rise January 1, potentially halting upcoming blast-furnace work.
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Heroes of toil and sickness in Talmage sermon
In a Detroit sermon Rev. T DeWitt Talmage extols ordinary heroes. He lauds the sick room sufferers and the steadfast poor who endure pain, domestic strife, and toil, calling them heroes and heroines who will reign with God.
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Ghost of Patrick Tracey Haunts West Newton Home
Residents claim the spirit of Patrick Tracey, dead months ago from heart disease, has revisited his Night Cap Corner house near the Charles River. Sightings describe a dim form approaching doors and yard areas, with speculation of foul play and mortgaged teams sold after his death.
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Egypt Name Origin in Southern Illinois
The writer recounts Southern Illinois earning the nickname Egypt due to a corn shortage in the north and central areas around 1835. He recalls Governor Z. Casey’s multiple public roles and explains that people traveled from the north to buy corn in Egypt, highlighting the region’s agricultural reliance and contrasting hardships with the idea of ignorance.
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Springfield
Jefferson Counsy
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