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Newspaper
Chariton Patriot
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1879
Page
1
A horrific murder in Pocasset Mass linked to a religious sect leads to jailings and arrests for accessories. Other items report bank robberies, payroll fraud, a Philadelphia theater shooting trial, a Chicago organ dispute, mine explosions, and legal battles over church property. Additional notes cover politics, strikes, and disasters in Canada and the US Northeast.
An official London report details Miraehi Persia’s March quake destroying 21 villages and causing 922 deaths along with livestock losses. Bulgaria names Alexander Battenberg as king. Nihilist threats hinder St Petersburg security, while executions and riots rise in Dublin. Edward Hanlan defeats John Hawdon in England. Parole wins Cheshire handicap at Chester amid British favor. Yakoob Khan seeks friendly ties with India as Britain expands frontier gains and trade restrictions rise over American pork imports.
The society issued 258,854 copies with 10,814 at home and 238,040 abroad. In sixty three years total issues reached 86,052,108. Over 8,445,000 families were visited this year. The annual homeopathic physicians meeting was in St Louis with many delegates. Minneapolis selected for next gathering. The National Woman Suffrage Convention in St Louis elected Elizabeth Cady Stanton president for the coming year.
Congress spent a quiet day as the Senate did not convene and the House focused on a coinage bill and a Democratic caucus on the Army Appropriation. A proposed measure would bar military forces at elections except to repel enemies or enforce constitutional provisions. A Republican joint caucus opposed the bill, naming a committee to draft a substitute.
The record details strict party votes on memorials and bills, including the Kellogg contest, coinage and bullion certificates, and testimony on Spofford's memorial. It notes clashes between Chalmers and Burrows, Fort Pillow remarks, and passage of measures on military interference, Eight Hour law, and the Eads jetties funding.
A satirical roundup notes aging, European crowns, and spring wardrobes. It jokes about purses, China fabric suits, quartered diamond patterns, and advance payments for hats while mentioning slippers, furs, and undertaker mahogany finishes.
A clerical anecdote linked to Hon. BE Washburne recalls a Scarborough minister who prayed for rain to end a drought. The tale, shared by Canseur, cites a deacon asking for rain and the pastor praying that the Lord send rain because the land needs “dressin’.”
A discouraged man asks what the use of living is. He describes lifelong blows from infancy to old age, toil and suffering, marriage pressures, and the ultimate futility as children dispute a father's watch and wives seek others. The passage reflects bleak outlooks on life's cycle.
A Zurich canton study finds substantial mice losses with communes reporting up to 66 000 vermin caught last year. It urges protection for birds of prey and recommends farming sectors safeguard cats foxes and hedgehogs to control rodent populations.
Tax Parisians discuss a canal linking the English Channel to Paris to revive direct foreign commerce at the city’s quays. The piece then surveys presidential veto histories, noting Grant vetoed 25 bills, with Monroe and Lincoln vetoing few, and listing veto counts for Washington through Hayes.
Gen Burner proposes 20000 acres in Wisconsin to black refugees from the South, to be parceled into small farms. Bob Ingersoll plans a lecture to fund the exodus and aid. A Philadelphia Quaker contributes 10000 dollars to help set up the West as William Lloyd Garrison reports 510 dollars in subscriptions.
A three member family, two brothers and a sister aged 72 to 78, lived 42 years in a single room at Lewis Center Ohio until an inquiry into their mental condition. They had deeded their farm to a nephew, but a jury found them eccentric. The Rail Age shows 1878 railroad foreclosures, total miles, bonds and capital. Opium edict in China threatens death for use or sale next year. Prince Alexander Battenberg favored for Bulgaria by Russia, as Bulgaria leans on Russian tutelage. Pennsylvania timber dominates eastern construction. forests drained by rafting push loggers to seek tall pines in northern Michigan and Pennsylvania presses calls to protect forests.
A Northampton bookseller firm received an order from Tarboro North Carolina for three gross of Emerson s Evangelical Primer. Published in 1809 it almost forgotten work contained a Calvinistic catechism.
On the title page a recommendation is signed by many clergymen including President Timothy Dwight of Yale. Only thirty six copies could be located to meet Tarboro demand.
A beggar accosts pedestrians, claiming family hardship and hunger, saying I can say no more after each statement. He asserts arrival in this country four years ago, no work, no English, and honesty. The encounter ends as we continue walking past the man.
The 36 year old Burdette described as affable and humorous in a Philadelphia Times interview at the La Pierre House parlor. He explains his idea driven humor and how he enjoys making people laugh, noting no formal schooling beyond life itself.
The Germans Italians and French plan extensive displays at the Mexican Exhibition of 1880 to challenge growing trade between the United States and Mexico.
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