Contested News From Crete To Washington Alerts
A wide array of brief items reports Crete fighting, impending lectures by GEN James Shields in New England, political maneuvers in Washington and Indiana, and international stir including Paris exhibitions and Austrian rumors. Key figures include Lord Lyons, Gortschakoff, Tilden, and Beecher, with notes on Congress spending, education bills, and Mary Walker’s lobbying efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Shields
New England
Lord Lyons
Hannibal Hamlin
Natieff
Holland
Todleben
Myra Clark Gaines
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Jerry Davis
Gortschakoff
England
Mrs Hayes and Her Friends A Washington Wedding Tale
A Washington letter describes Mrs President Hayes entertaining guests from Ohio including Augustus Parsons and his bride at Columbus. It notes Capitol lanterns, congressmen under stress, private constituent cases, and rumors of cloak room intrigue amid improvements at the Soldier's Home cottage.
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Washington, D. C
The
Leader
Capitol
Congress
Demoselles
Columbus
Soldier’s Home
Blair and His Confederates Critique of Electoral Confusion
The piece argues Blair knew confessions were prepared and suggests Blair was a confidant to the Florida funders. It dismisses proposals as unconstitutional, notes Congress cannot judge presidential electors, and comments on Washington society, race, and the rural member and his family amid political theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery Blair
Honda
Blair
Florida
Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court
Congress
United States
Macauley
Mississippi
Capitol
Willard’s
Bruce
Washington
House of Representatives
Heather
Waifs From the National Capital
Wasuina ron Washington April 23 78 comments on the city as cosmopolitan in a narrow sense during Congress and notes the cosmopolitanism is limited by the Atlantic Ocean while distinguishing the hemisphere’s capital from a larger cosmos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasuina Ron
D. C
War and Peace Fears Hover Over Europe Amid Czar Plans
The article notes cautious optimism for peace in St. Petersburg with a summer travel plan for the Czar and a regent heir. It also reports Berlin’s covert war prep and Germany’s claim of limited diplomatic action, implying readiness to spend for a possible war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Berlin
Germany
City Board Debates Budgets and Licenses in Last Evening Session
City Hall meeting presided by Mayor Bresna with trustees Addams Caswell Masten Granger Reid and Hammond. Salaries for April ordered paid and petty bills approved. Amos Lee saloon license canceled. Hellawell & Hershfield pawnbrokers license returned. Tivoli orchestrian Sunday play rule defeated. City tax levies set at twelve mills total for general revenue streets and alleys interest and debt.
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Bresnahen
Addams
Caswell
Masten
Granger
Reid
Hammond
Hall
Bean
Martin
Hellawell & Hershfield
Potter
Amos Lee
Finance Committee
Bard
Black Hills Budget Sees Growth Amid Snow and News
The Black Hills report notes three feet of snow at Rapid City and two feet at the Red Cloud agency. Eggs sell for forty cents a dozen, beef at Deadwood tops thirty cents per pound, and wood costs ten dollars per cord. A 300 head hog herd moves from Sidney toward Deadwood as Dan Caswell opens a Deadwood restaurant lodging house and bar. Dr. L. Babcock and peers form a Deadwood Medical Association. Beargulch Sand Creek and Nigger Hill populations rise, while a miner survives a fall on Sherman street. Immigrant influx increases despite tensions with Indian affairs.
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Rapid City
Sidney
Deadwood
the Times
Old Red Cloud Agency
Beargulch
Sand Creek
Nigger Hill
Sherman Street
Spring Creek
Custer City
EE. B. Miller
Eureka House
Ferguson Street
Cheyenne
Pioneer
Telegraphic Rates Cut for Eastern and Western Dispatches
Fifty thousand settlers are expected to move into the Hills soon. The telegraph company has cut rates to eastern points. A ten word dispatch to Chicago falls from 3.50 to 2.25 and to Cheyenne from 2.50 to 1.25.
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Chicago
Cheyenne
Excavations at Pompeii Reveal Lively Roman Inn Scenes
Recent digs at Pompeii uncover an inn with clay-inlaid bar vessels and a back room. Wall paintings show guests drinking and gambling in everyday Roman life, including a barmaid serving wine and a quarrel scene, alongside inscriptions about behavior and farewell.
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Pompeii
Thyrsa
Fortunatus
How thio Indians climb trees and other feats
An 19th century miscellany describes indigenous climbing methods in various regions, noting hoops from vines used as support by several peoples, and women in Australia using ropes and trunks to ascend gum trees for opossums. It also recounts a Syracuse lecture incident where Dr Mary Walker was assaulted by women during a talk by Dr Doda Emens.
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Hayes
Lucy MacFarland
Erick Bergland
Engineer Corps
Sweden
West Point
Prof
Church
Lieut
Bass
Bergland
Lexington
Kentucky
Mary Walker
House of Representatives
George the Fourth
Sheridan
Mary
Providence Hospital
Tristram Shandy
Epirn
South America
Africa
Austratia
Appleton
Doda Emens
Syracuse
Pestilent Kissers Exposed By Home Journal Alarm
The Home Journal denounces promiscuous kissing of children as deadly and accuses a woman who kissed a child of causing diphtheria death. It frames the act as murderous, noting the child Flora died days after a sore throat and condemns parental misdirection and doctor silence.
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the Home Journal
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Crete
Wintrams
Indiana
Morton
Indianapolis
Crown Hill Cemetery
House Committee On Public Lands
Denver
Paris
Legation
China
London
Austria
Vienna
Senate
Avery
New York
Tilden
Barnum Springer
Auveust Beelmont
St. George’s Protestant Episcopal Church
Stephen H. Tyng
McC
Chicago Times
Detroit
Pensylvania
Carlisle College
Diocese of
Henry Ward Beecher
San Francisco
Great Britain
Preston
War Department
Sitting Bull
Cincinnati
Moore
Prince
Ireland
President Hayes
Tapis
Black Hills
J. P. Weybrecht
Nineteenth Street
Court House
Cheyenne, Wyo
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