Lecture on Jackson campaign to be delivered in Baltimore
Jubal A. Early will speak in Baltimore on February 22 about Jackson's 1862 campaign against Pope. The address may interest Fitz John Porter supporters. A quiz over editor Cockerell’s killing case in St. Louis ends with no indictment. Snakes and wild beasts caused and suffered many deaths in India in 1881.
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Jubal A. Early
Baltimore
Jackson
Pope
Fitz John Porter
Jeffersonville
Ind
Louisville
St. Louis
John R. Cockerell
Post-Dispatch
Colonel Slayback
Cockerell
India
The Smile and Oddities in a 19th Century Column
A collection of humorous lines appears about celery skepticism a clergy caricature and a ship carrying whisky and idols for Mozambique. The note cites a Vienna style elephant routine and a New York seal skin coat sales pitch with an editor subscriber quip about paper length.
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San Francisco
Mozambique
Detroit Free Press
World
Indianapolis
New York
Dr Pierce Offers Blood Enriching Medicines for Various Ailments
The notice extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for anemia and related conditions, claiming it enriches blood and treats debility, lung disease, and scrofulous sores. It also promotes Favorite Prescription for debiliated women and Pleasant Purgative Pellets as stable, reliable tonics, with distribution by druggists.
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Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Blind Pool Ticket Splits Fourteen Thousand Dollars
A Washington bulletin reports a lottery pool in 1882 that yielded thirty thousand dollars to seven men. Gwynn Harris and Joseph Beisler shared a fifth of a ticket winning fifteen thousand dollars. Five others earned four thousand or fifteen hundred dollars each.
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Washington, D. C
Gwynn Harris
Joseph Beisler
Skidmore
Baltimore and Potomac Road
Alfred Redmyer
Lathrop
Lewis
Redmyer
Republican
Hunt Brings Indian Skins to Eastern Markets
A Columbus citizen leads a party of Omaha Indians on a large hunt supplying rations traps and ammunition. The group hopes to return soon with a vast bounty of skins for sale in eastern markets. Notable tribesmen include Four Eyes Spotted Tail Big Horn Little Crow and Stand Up.
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Columbus
Sorghum sugar praised from Salem factory
D W Ransom of Salem, proprietor of the sorghum factory, presented a fine specimen of sorghum sugar described in the journal. The sugar matched or surpassed New Orleans sugar in quality and purity, and Ransom's enterprise is hailed as public benefaction, with potential for expanding to syrup manufacture.
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D. W. Ransom
Salem
New Orleans
Ransom
Falls City Journal
The Artesian Well at Akron Investigation
The Times reports its inquiry into the claimed subterranean river near Akron. It states the finding is not as hoped and does not justify prior assurances about water or its usefulness for drilling.
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Akron
The
Times
Denver Times
Deer Hunt Party Returns With 29 Fine Bucks
Messrs. W. H. Tucker John Hancock Joseph Hughes and John Stringfellow returned north of Keith county after leaving Ogalalla on the 19th. They brought in 29 deer most large and in fine condition. Heads will be mounted and the trip was aided by good weather and a full camping outfit. The same men plan a second hunt late this week.
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Messrs
W. H. Tucker
John Hancock
Joseph Hughes
John Stringfellow
Keith County
Ogalalla
North Platte
Desert wager ends as Arthurs loses after eating jack rabbits
In a Denver News note a wager ends when Arthurs, after seventeen rabbits consumed, cannot meet the required total and declines further prospect. Burnham, present, offered to shoot a fresh jack rabbit but Arthurs refuses, ending the contest.
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Mr. Burnham
Mr. Arthurs
Denver News
Northern ranchers favor young bulls to beat Texas methods
The Texas Live Stock Journal notes northern ranchers replace old bulls after six years to avoid losses from fighting and inferiority. Young, strong bulls yield better profits and steadier herd growth in colder climates, contrasting with Texas pride in old bulls.
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Texas
Texas Live Stock Journal
Brilliance At New York Wedding Aids Vanderbilt Home Scandal
Ex Governor Stanford of California rents Vanderbilt residence on Fifth Avenue and hosts a fashionable wedding where Mrs Stanford displays a diamond collection described as the finest in the city aside from Mrs John Jacob Astor's. The chronicle notes Pacific coast moneyed men relocating to spend lavishly in New York society.
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New York
Stanford
California
Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
John Jacob Astor
Pacific Coast
Narrow Escape in Apache Attack Near Chihuahua
Denver dispatch reports Frank Josselyn alias Daf Sandy arrived in Silver City from Chihuahua after surviving an Apache ambush. He rode away from his companions Biggs and McDonald at Paso del ChoColah, as the two campers were shot, then led sixty armed men to bury them. Apache leader Nana is named as the alleged commander. The Chihuahua region is in arms.
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Denver
Tribune
Albuquerque
Frank Josselyn
Daf Sandy
Silver City
Chihuahua
Josselyn
McDonald
Biggs
Paso del Chocolah
Nana
Elliott vows to fight anyone with bare fists for 2600 dollars
Jim Elliott, slated to box Allen, claims he would fight any man bare handed for 2600 dollars and would not bar anyone. He disputes Sullivan as champion and says Sullivan is better with gloves than he is. Elliott bets no one can KO him in four rounds. Fox backs Allen vs Sullivan for 5000 dollars. Elliott plans to return to Chicago after his bout with Allen, scheduled for the 23rd, with venue to be decided next Thursday.
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Nebraska
J. T. Allen
Chicago
American Agricultural Association
Europe
Jim Elliott
Allen
Sullivan
Elliott
Fox
A Father's Protracted Death
Henry N. Smith recalls a prearranged wire to Washington about a stock move in the Union Pacific case. A signal promised by a dispatch would say Father is dead, but the timely news came only after the stock rose five points. He notes betting with others on such rumors.
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New York
Henry N. Smith
Goldsmith Maid
Union Pacific
Congress
Washington
Father
Mr. Smith
Immigrant arrivals noted. English colony forms Mendocino venture
The immigration committee reports 562 immigrant arrivals overland for the week. A new colony of Englishmen has gone to Mendocino County to select a location for a stockraising and general farming association.
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San Francisco
Immigration Committee
Mendocino County
Devastating boiler blast at Shawneetown mill kills eight
A noon boiler explosion at J. Vincent & Son sawmill in Shawneetown Illinois wrecked the mill and hurled iron plates across fields. Eleven workers ate lunch when the blast occurred. eight died immediately and three were wounded, one fatally, as bodies were blown into the river and miles away.
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Chicago
Tribune
Shawneetown
J. Vincent & Son
Lost Horse and a Lottery Scheme Headlines
Estrayed horse with UC branding offered for recovery or delivery to A Martin of Egbert Wye. Also cited is a booming Democratic majority claim in New York and a wealth lottery by the Commonwealth Distribution Co in Louisville with a $50,000 prize and $132,400 in prizes. R. M. Boardman in Louisville handles tickets priced at two dollars and up.
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Council General
Corsica
General Paoli
England
Dublin
John Lenmane
Middletown
New Orleans
G. T. Beauregard
Louisiana
Gen
Jubal A. Early
Virgiania
Amounude CO
Newrleans
M. A. Dauphin
Seventh St
Washington, D
M. B
Eans
Louisville
N. B
Postorfigh
Aby Express
R. M. Boardman Ponkiswrournat
Hagle’s Nest
A. Martin
Egbert
Wye
Comonwealth Distribution Company
Kentucky
R. M. Boardman
Fortune
Oh My Back Pain Causes and Suffering Across Ailments
The piece notes back pain stems from many causes including kidney disease liver trouble consumption cold rheumatism dyspepsia overwork nervous debility and other ailments. It emphasizes the wide range of underlying health issues that can produce back pain.
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Wm. P. Marshall
Logansport
Indiana
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Weekly Leader
Stories OF the West
Nebraska Sugar
Deer Slayers
Hugh Allen
Edinburg
Tonquin
Gambetta
Galignani
Tiber
Rome
Fawcett
Russia
Ireland
Frances Mara Kelly
United Kingdom
London
Cairo
Sibiriakoff
Nordenskjold
Anthony Trollope
Kensal Green
St. Petersburg
Arthurs
R. W. Burnham
Dun’s
W. Tipton Arthurs
Campbell
Arapahoe County
the News
Patrick
Higgins
Huddies
North British and Mercantile
Commercial Union
Phoenix
Royal Exchange
War Office
Madrid
Alexandria
Mrs. Stanford
Slugger
A Stockraising Association
L.S.L
Louisiana State Lottery Company
Louisiana State Lottery
B. Frank Moore
LaSalle Street
Broadway
N.Y
Brown
Dare & Collins
Butts
N. Sth Street
BT. Louis
de Nota
North Sth
Loula
Rris Remedy CO
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