President Pardons Robt Logan and Naval Promotions Mar
The President pardoned Robert Logan for a November 1881 mail coach robbery in Western Texas after a Chester Illinois prison sentence of ten years. Rear Admiral Blakeley Creighton retires after over forty years in naval service. Heptograph mail is deemed first class unless marked circular. Belgian-US money orders swap begins January 1. De Long’s party found by Naval Inquiry Board. journal and dead bodies described. Court martial convicts Captain Hopkins of desertion. Bonds conversion to three per cents ongoing. 1882 crop yields projected by George B. Lorrie. corn lead. Treasury buys silver for coinage. Census shows illiteracy rates. Sioux Falls and Lexington banks authorized. Canned meats in small tin cans to be mailed as fourth class. Manufacturing census summarizes U S industries. New York leads in establishments and capital. Mrs Exiza Columbus convicted for arson near her husband in Sunderland. Millerton diphtheria outbreak. schools closed. Harrisburg broker R. R. Sisk allegedly embezzles $15,000. Philadelphia mills burn. total loss about $150,000. McCarry estate bequeaths 1,009,000 rupees to nephew in New York. McCarty heirs pursue estate.
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Apmisrral
J. Blakeley Creighton
Naval Service
Post Office Department
Belgium
Melville
de Long
Naval Inquiry Board
Washington
Alfred Hopkins
Pensacola Navy Yard
Treasury
George B. Lorrie
Statistical Division
Treasury Department
United States
Cesus
Sioux Falls National Bank
Territory of
Dakota
First National Bank
Lexington
Illinois
New York State
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Massachusetts
Indiana
Michigan
Missouri
New Jersey
Iowa
New York City
Brooklyn
Exiza Columbus
Sunderland
Mass
House of Correction
Millerton
N. Y
Poughkeepsie
R. R. Sisk
Harrisburg
Clark & Krene
Philadelphia
Priestly & Brother
Wedley & Tellow
Coton
William Frederick McCarry
India
William McCarty
Liverpool
New York
England
John
Patrick McCarty
Brocton
Columbus
Doren
Coren
Omaha
Long Pine
Neb
St. Louis
Rupert Mayheip
Alex. Kim
Sloss Furnace
Birmingham
Ala
Water Caruth
Dallas
Texas
Henderson
Choctaw Council
Campbell
Ore
J. P. Folsom
Talbotton
Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions
Canada
Cleveland
Richard Powers
The
Lake Seamen’s Union
Samuel F. Leffinewell
Indianapolis
Samuel Gompers
W. H. Foster
Cincinnati
Thompson H. Murch
Maine
Mark L. Crawford
Chicago
F. J. Klokke
Buffalo
Hawn
Myers
Leonard
Fremont
Birchard
H. H. Peasor
Naperville
E. Wert
Kate Guembine
Welleg
Charles Welch
Julian Spencer
Gossage & Co
Labor Congress
Johnson Stanfield
Springfield
Thurlow Weed
Harriet Weed
Mr. Weed
Ths
Cairo
Greene County
Stamford
Macky Crosswell
Catskill
Young Weed
Herkimer County
Colonel Petrie
Sackett’s Harbor
N.Y
Republican Agriculurist
Erie Canal
Manlius Times
Rochester
Telgraph
William Morgen
Telegraph
Weed
de Witt Clinton
Albany
Albany Evening Journal
Whig
New England
Seward
Bradish
State
Evening Journal
Warwick
Harrison
Taylor
Scott
Lincoln
Iss
Europe
Albany Journal
John A. Dix
William Barnes
James Alden
Morrisania
Providence Boot and Button Works Fire Tragedy
A four story brick factory in Providence Rhode Island burned on the 21st. About forty workers were inside. panicked, leaped from windows and three died on a pile of barrels and a fence. Many injured, including broken arms and legs, with losses around 100000 dollars.
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Providence
Tragic Suicides and Pueblo Depot Shootout Reported
An elderly widow in Indianapolis area died by her own hand on the 23d. At Pueblo Colorado a mounted gang fired on railroad workers at the depot injuring two and killing one, with several bandits later captured. Shelbyville postmaster B A Crapster was found dead by gunshot in his barn, a self inflicted crisis. Morris Minnesota reports fires destroying J D Good and Mack Buckenstein stores plus others, losses around 150000 dollars.
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Mary Lona
Brokville Pike
Indianapolis
Pueblo
Colorado
B. A. Crapster
Shelbyville
Morris
Stevens County
Minn
J. D. Good
Mack & Buckenstein’s
Debts demanded of Montreal parishes by Catholic bishop
Tur Catholic Bishop of Montreal ordered the three canonical parishes to immediately pay a 300000 debt owed by the fabrique of Notre Dame. Married men must pay two dollars per year and single men one until the debt is discharged. A separate note reports the Queen gave 370 medals to troops from the Egyptian campaign at Windsor with the Prince of Wales and royal family in attendance.
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Tur Catholic
Montreal
Notre Dame
Windsor
Prince of Wales
Wearmouth
Quebec
Magdalen Islands
Duke of Edinburgh
Royal Marines
William Brooksnaw
Cork
Ireland
Redmond
Astor
Rome
Madrid
Spain
Corea
Canton
China
Spanih
United States
Germany
Reichstag
William Brookshaw
Duke of Connaught
Egypt
Postmaster General Howe signs contract for 3 cent mail set
On the 14th, Postmaster General Howe contracted with George Ehrlich of St. Louis to supply a combined letter and envelope. The new sheet, envelope, and stamp will be marketed next January and priced at three cents across all post offices.
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Howe
George Ehrlich
St. Louis
Interior Department
Tuk Comptroller of Currency
National Bank of Chicago
First National Bank
Pawnee City
Buffalo
Schooer
J. W. Doane
Groton
A. H. Moss
George Bailey
Sisters’ Hospital
Marquette
East Buffalo
Ralph Lord
Indianapolis
Katie Daily
Ella Keenan
Mary Somers
Mark HaAwegins
Delaware City
Del
MatTre Cheysman
Dr. Cheysman
Little Rock
B. Dupont
J. M. Wright
Cyrus Hewrrt
State Land Office of
Michigan
Lansing
Death of Thurlow Weed Bio Graphical Sketch
Washington reports list a Treasury department annual fiscal data for the war ending June 30, 1882 with receipts of 103,425,259 and expenditures of 257,921,439. It notes U S bonds held by banks and private lenders, gold and silver stock, and gold exports versus imports. The obituary of Thurlow Weed details his birth, career, influence as a Whig leader, anti Masonic era, later politics, and a $1 million estate.
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Washington
Secetary of the Treasury
Comptroller of the Currency
United States
Western States
Middle States
Southern States
Pacific States
Treasury Department
Savings
Commissoner
Internal Revenue
Mint
Treasury
Anks
Curfew Enforced in Alexandria Restricts Nightlife
A curfew law in Alexandria prohibits all cafes shows places of amusement and all movements of people on the streets after ten o'clock at night. Europeans protest the order arguing it clashes with their custom of late dining and open air cafe sitting until near midnight.
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Alexandria
Treasury report details Western public buildings expenditures
Supervising Architect James G. Hill submits annual Treasury report for year ending September 20, 1882. It lists expended amounts and unexpended balances for many Western custom houses and courthouses including Cincinnati Chicago Cleveland Kansas City Little Rock Memphis Nashville New Orleans Paducah Pittsburgh St Louis Toledo Topeka, with notes on extraordinary repairs and proposed new site selections in several cities.
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Washington
James G. Hill
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
Cincinnati Custom House
Chiago Custom House
Cleveland Custom House
Kansas City Custom House
Little Rock Custom House
Memphis Custom House
Nashville Custom House
New Orleans
Custon House
Piducah Court House
Pittsburgh Court House
St. Louis Custom House
Toldo Custom House
Topeka Custom House
Cairo
Ill
Indianapolis
Ind
San Francisco
Galveston
Louisville
St. Paul
Lincoln
Neb
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Columbus
Count Biaffa
Detroit
Frankfort
Minneapolis
Quincy
Various Global Facts and Market Notes From 1880s Newspapers
A collage of brief items notes six Arkansas coal mines, Philadelphia assessed at $571,85 255 less than New York City, rail production using less coal, a German domino calculation of 284 528 118 840, cattle herd trades near Laramie plains, Boston as boot and shoe capital, 1880 shipments of 2 250 000 cases, and a Russian census for St. Petersburg. Also reports plans for a Pension Office in Washington, and the sale price history of New York’s old post office block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
Philadelphia
New York City
Laramie Plains
Utah
Chicago News
Boton
Boson Transcript
St. Petersburg
Pension Office
Judiciary Square
Washington
M. C. Meigs
New York
Reformed Dutch Church
N. Y
Wit and Wisdom Gleanings from Various Papers
A collection of humorous quips and anecdotes includes a New York Herald remark on patience, Swift quips on conversation, a Pittston cow devouring a spring bed, and a German misunderstanding about a German being Irish. A Detroit Free Press note, Norristown Herald joke, and a tale of a passenger with mislaid baggage appear, plus a recipe book quip, a butcher’s cordial service, and a country youth calling himself nature’s humorist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y. Herald
Swift
Pittston
N. Y
Detroit Free Press
New York
Gustavus Schwackheimer
Gustavus
Tipperary
Norristown Herald
Japanese Ethics and Filial Duty in Tradition
Yokohama cor. to the San Francisco Chronicle describes a Japanese custom where a daughter’s birth is celebrated by planting a tree that is later cut for wedding furnishings. A new tree is planted for the nuptial, and filial piety is held as a cardinal virtue guiding family behavior and honoring parents even after death.
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Japan
Far East
Yokohama Cor
San Franciaso Chronicle
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Cambridge Herald
Cambridge, Guernsey County
M. R. Patterson
Attorney-at-Law
Cambridge
Shaffner Building
J. C. Steele
Hutchison Block
L. C. Wells, M.D
Homeoeopathist
Taylor Block
Main Street
Lambert Thomas
Harper Jefferies
Lambert Thomas & Co
Produce and Wool Commission
North Water St
N. Wharves
E. McCollum
Mill Street
Kyle
Marble and Granite Works
Newnom & Moss
Mannufacturer of
City Hall
Steubenville Street
Bb. Allen S
Ferbrache
H. L. Williams
Main St
James Stevens
Scott's
Hotels
Eagle Hotel
B.S. Hering
Marii
Antrim
J. M. Albaugh
Eretres Elcouse
Fourth Streets
WM. Kirk
Thompson
Crow
Parmers’ Hotel
Wn Rainey & Son
Dry Goods
J. W. Leppincott
Beecher
Gov. Broadway and
South Streets
Quaker City
Washington, Ohio
Faxes Smite, Prop’r
Globe House
Cumberland
James Canady
Fprop
F. J. Cheney
Adams Street
Toledo
John A. Downar
Propriet
Zanesville, Ohio
Is Now Offering
Ladies and
A. L. Moore
Court House
Do.c
Moore & Ct
Weaver
Green
Ewan Romans
Ann Arbor
Mich
DR. Moore
Pine and
Steubenville Streets
W. A. Rainey
Allegheny Mountain
Eastern Ohio Railroad
Pt. Pleasant
Senecaville
Rouenville
Pleasant
News OF the
Robert Logan
Chester, Ill
James
Rawlsson
R. J
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Standard Oil Company
Commonwealth
Standard Company
Jacoby Powder Mill
Montgomery County
John Schmager
Board of Health of
Boston
TuerLton Werp
Agriculturist
Norwich
anti-Masonic Enquirer
Democratic Party of
Silas M. Clark
Supreme Court
Pioneer Iron Foundry
Burlington
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Fanny Sprague
Quidnick Company
William Sprague
General Butler
Young People’s Association of the
Church of Pilgrims
R. §. Storrs
Cook
Miss Austin
Frostburg
Muhlenberg County
Lewis Wilson & Brother
John King
Milton
Wis
D. P. Upuam
Ark
Webster
Wass
Western District
Clayton
FE. Baker
W. Ransom
Elkhart
Leaping
R. I
Calender and
Mason Streets
Melvin
William H. Robinson
Tames
Robinson
Asquirrel
Calendar Stree
Thomas Mann
Mr. Robinson
Emma Garrett
Bessie Cobb
Mary McSorley
Thomas S. Mann
Eghteen
U. S. Treasury
Naples
Public Buildings
Thibet
Cashmere
W. FY
Transcript
Forsey
WIT and Wisdom
Chicago Tribune
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