03 Mar 1880
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Newspaper
Chariton Patriot
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1880
Page
1
An advertisement claims The Patriot Job Printing House offers fine commercial printing with new type, good presses, and superior workmen. It pledges readiness to handle all kinds of printing as well as large city offices in quality.
Commander Clominas, in charge of transporting Cleopatra's Need from Egypt to New York, argues the foundation emblems are undeniably Masonic and prove Egyptian origins of Masonry. A Birmingham musician Bruno died after a live electric wire shock at the Holta Theater. Baron Rothschild's Vieras stable features a £12,000 loose box, part of an £80,000 stable with marble floors and silver fittings. The baron's annual income is $1,600,000.
In Ottawa a grave digger is startled when the dead man kicks the coffin top during burial. Elsewhere in Leadville two pall bearers drop a man who sprang up and fled. Lawyer Clinton's $3250 bill against W H Vanderbilt is criticized as greedy. Clinton defended Vanderbilt in the will contest.
Obituary recounts John Renixson known as the lightning proof-reader for deciphering manuscripts. He read works by Hildreth Greeley Pulaski and others at a glance. He exposed a forged editorial by Horace Greeley, leading to suppression. His rapid proofreading was unparalleled.
A report recalls a failed Tay bridge disaster clairvoyant search in Scotland and an 1767 Newbury experiment that allegedly found a drowned child after a loaf with quicksilver floated down the Kennet. It also profiles Ma Pagnext, a foreign entrant in American public life, and Mr. Parnell, a 32 year old British MP bearing calm, purposeful energy.
The piece profiles an anti slavery advocate who differs from typical Irish rhetoric, using calm, parliamentary style to urge just public opinion and English reform. It notes China’s young emperor faces expense as seventy women need clothing, detailing extravagant expenditures on silks and pearls and the trouble over a costly empress dress.
Observations detail 1500 Europe, 600 hides production, Pittsburgh nails output over 1,003,855, and tallies on rail, coal, timber, and clothing manufacturing. It cites rising mill activity in Altoona and Chicago, new timber and ore discoveries, and expanded rolling mill operations. It discusses economic indicators and political implications for 1880 election counting.
The Democrats challenge that disputed electoral votes require concurrent Senate and House approval. The article argues fraud supporters in Maine would exploit disputes to prevent counting any state's vote. It urges a sweeping Republican win like Grant in 1872 to bury technical challenges and teach Bourbons a hard lesson against fraud and conspirators.
The National Republican Convention to meet in Chicago on June 2 will have 746 delegates apportioned by state and territory. Each state gets two delegates per electoral vote plus one additional vote for each territory. the District of Columbia receives two seats and votes. The total delegates amount to 746.
Mr. 8. Park Baker of Youngstown N Y letters Kentucky friend arguing Gen Jackson dressed to deceive Dickinson about his body location in the duel. He contends Jackson’s premeditated kill was unfair though Dickinson provoked it and praises Madison wife slander claim. He recalls 1826 related Kentucky Philadelphia duel and Clay remark about Randolph.
In a New York Herald report Edward Delaney proclaims a six month abstinence from liquor and loafing, claiming nightly residency in a penitentiary like reform with Sunday services and tracts. The magistrate signs as Delaney blithely boasts his change while the room questions the depth of his reform.
Reports from the state capital describe the House Pay of Public Officers committee advancing a retrenchment bill cutting salaries from the Governor to railroad commissioners, reducing General Assembly pay, limiting committee clerks, and tightening officials’ expenses. Several other measures pass or move, including schooling, tax, and municipal authority changes, with debate on the state debt and war bonds continuing.
The Nong Kong Daily Press describes the Manchu imperial system of rigorous early schooling for princes. Forty-day schedules show two hours of Chinese lessons, then Manchu Mongol and dialect instruction, archery and athletics, with meals weighed and strict curfews. At 15, princes marry as eunuchs guard the inner chambers and the emperor sleeps with multiple handmaids. The cabinet ministers keep 2 am to 6 pm palace hours, while annual New Year banquets let empresses or wives be seen together. A late note recounts a stagecoach driver threat ending in a desperado leaping into a pond.
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