Senate and House disclose 1879 measures and Chinese labor debate
The April sessions show the Mississippi River improvement bill advancing with amendments, a contentious Chinese labor provision passing the House and facing Senate scrutiny, and calls for inquiry into fair courts in the South. Additional items include railroad bridge authorization, a Western Nebraska representation dispute, and notices on militia funds and Apache incidents.
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Viva Voce
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Nevada
Cameron
Wisconsin
Smocrats
Hovski
Sioux City & Pacific Railroad Company
Mississippi River
Missouri
Calkins
Lynch
Chilmers
Moore
Tennessee
Congress
Sherman
Secretary of the Treasury
Edmunds
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Vest
Garland
Maxey
Hampton
Farley
Massachusetts
Townsend
Ohio
Randall
Pennsylvania
Second National Bank of Cincinnati
Comptroller of Currency
Arizona
Springer
Committee On
West Virginia
Committee On Judiciary
Nebraska
Secretary of War
Chalmers-Lynch
President nominates several officials and senators receive health news
The President sent nominations to the Senate for John C. Montgomery and others to key posts in Denver New Orleans Philadelphia and Virginia. Senator Ben Huxtable is reportedly near death, and Senator Farrey criticizes anti Chinese bill handling. The Interior Department reports pension totals and lapses, plus a White House resignation and a forestry congress in Cincinnati with new constitution and officers.
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Denver
Col
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Louisiana
New Orleans
Andre J. Kauffman
Internal Revenue
Ninth District
Pennsylvania
John 8. Wise
United States
Virginia
Rutledge P. Hughes
Ben Hutu
Farrey
Pacific Coast
Secretary of the Interior
William Crump
White House
Crook
Craump
Garfhcld
Europe
Emerson Dies at Concord After Prolonged Illness
Ralph Waldo Emerson dies at Concord at nine tonight after a period of weakness from acute pneumonia. He passed quietly in the presence of his son Dr E M Emerson, two daughters Miss Ella Emerson and Mrs Forbes and Dr Putnam, with kin recalling his long career as a Boston scholar and national figure. He had returned to health routines since Tuesday and the end came as sunset approached. the obituary traces his life from Boston birth May 25 1803 through Harvard and Cambridge connections to his role as a leading thinker, writer and lecturer in Boston Concord and abroad.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concord
E. M. Emerson
Ella Emerson
Forbes
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Gailiam
Mr. Emerson
William Emerson
Ralph Waldo
Continental Congress
Ralph
Harvard
William
Bronson Alcott
Emerson
Europe
England
Coleridge
Wordsworth
Carlyle
Walter Savage Landor
Unitarian
New Bedford
Margaret Fulier
Parker
Stetson
Clarke
East Lexington
The
Dial
Margaret Fuller
Brook Farm
Mechanics’ Institute
Lord Brougham
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
Abraham Lincoln
Tyndall
Ellen Louisa Tucker
Lyda Jackson
Plymouth
Remains of General Hurlburt Arrive in New York
Reports list multiple 19th century incidents across the country including deaths in Concord Massachusetts and ColoneL Grovar W. Patt en in Houston Maine. It notes coal land leases in Iowa near Erie and Edinboro and a shooting in Carbondale Pennsylvania.
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Aspinwall
New York
Ratru Vanpo Emenson
Concord
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Erie
Edinboro
Ronent Morris
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Carbondale
Niagara
Boston
Hicagr
Western
Southern
Middle
Pacific Coast and Territories
New York City
Grand
Dauphin County
Henry L. Acker
State Capital Mutual Assessment Insurance Company
George H. Overter
J. L. Bowers
Cornelius Smith
Henry H. Overter
Sraveyard Insurance Association
Grovar W. Patten
Houston
Harrisburg
Simonton
Standard Oil Company
Ourt. Me
Diverse 19th Century News Briefs Highlight Global Tensions
Reports from Cork restrict police to barracks and readiness. Lawsuits against Commons officials in Britain abound. General Skobeleff is dangerously ill in Berlin. Russia circulates anti Jewish Nihilist hand bills. Zulu crisis escalates with risk of bloodshed. Germany’s Elizabethgrad colony allegedly overrun. Prince Leopold and Helen of Waldeck Prymont wed at Windsor. Labouchere cites slavery in Hong Kong Gold Coast and Malay States. Dr Lamson hanged in London. Jeannette crew members due in St. Petersburg by May 10. Earl Cowper resigns Ireland Lord Lieutenancy. Earl Spencer linked to successor. Alexander demands recall of Russian Consul General. Twenty eight Bulgarian war officers resign after Krylow’s resignation. Deputations refuse audience and return home.
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Braphaven
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Duke of Albany
Helen
Princess of Waldeck-Prymont
St. George’s Chapel
Windsor
Archbishop of Canterbury
House of Commons
Labuchere
Hong Kong
Gold Coast
Malay States
Borneo
California
Australia
Chin
Lamson
London
Bexvin
St. Petersburg
Earl Cow
Laughing to the Edge of Collapse in Spadina Apartment
A group of young men in a private Spadina avenue room in Toronto tried a hour long laugh contest. One man’s face reddened, veins swelled, and he showed signs of apoplexy from laughter. A drugstore draught was given and he recovered.
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Globe
Fire fat burns child as pan is flung from mother
Mrs Achibald Wright of Garfield Bergen County New Jersey rushed with a hot fat filled pan to the door when it catastrophically burned her three year old child both eyes burned out and the face badly disfigured a physician notes irrecoverable eye loss and severe facial damage while the child endures agony. the report also notes Kalloch left the ministry to practice law in San Francisco.
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Alvin Hawkins
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Minneapolis, Minn
Frank McManus
Nina Spear
McManus
Boston
Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias of Ohio
Columbus
Denver Tribune
Santa Fe
Gila River
Clifton
Guthrie
Sheldon
Captain Black
Religious and educational notes across faiths and cities
A survey highlights growth in faith and education. Twenty Methodist churches in the New York East Conference erased debt within a year. Rochester University receives 190000 dollars for a women’s department. Oswego reports over 500 conversions in a four week revival led by Widow Van Cott. Calvary Baptist Church in New York raises over 51000 in missions.
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Oswego
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New York
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Chicago
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The
Mormon Church
Salt Lake City
Chicago News
Chicago Tribune
The Recent Auroral Display Observed Across the Continent
The Chicago Tribune notes a spectacular auroral display Sunday night seen across much of the continent. Physicists call it an electrical phenomenon and link its intensity to solar activity near sunspot maximum, with telegraph lines affected and wires reversing without batteries.
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Princeton
Dearborn Observatory
Chicago Tribune
Kinder Looking Round
A man returns after two years in Lowell and visits a trader. He reveals his wife has died and shows an obituary, then explains he is back in town to look for another wife. The trader sympathizes, and the man admits his true purpose in returning is to search for a new spouse.
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Blank
Smith
Lowell
Lowel Metay
Global economic snapshot from 1881 trade and labor data
Reports document vast slate deposits in Berks County Pennsylvania, extensive underground mining in Britain, and global submarine cables valued at about 200 million dollars. They note emigration from Switzerland, German wire exports to England, Russia, France and America, and oil mills across the southern United States.
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Clifton
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France
Germany
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America
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Tenney
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Alabama
Georgia
Missouri
South Carolina
Illinois
Parisigaro
Puzzles, witticisms and quips from a busy page
A collage of humor from society anecdotes and newspaper musings comments on marriage chaperones playful puns about time and death and a critique of Tennyson with light satire about poets and performers from various papers.
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