National and local briefs head into September 1877
J L Davemont dies in Canton Pa and Louis is chosen for the National Science Association meeting in St Louis. Boston operatives strike and debt declines. Habeas corpus frees Tweed to testify on ring operations. Germany threats Nicaragua. Tilden wing fate in New York. Labor party mixes in Philadelphia. Pittsburg riot spins silver into gutter metal. Blackburn mocks 1880 candidate. Sitting Bull exchange rumour and western settlement ideas abound. Central American Union revived with Guatemala Honduras and El Salvador in favor.
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J. L. Davemont
Canton
Sv. Louis
National Science Association
Boston
England
Dononok
Pittsburg
Blackburn
Kentucky
Wendell Punches
Lord Dufferin
United States
Sitting Bull
Mr. Phillips
Mr. Bull
Wipow van Corr
A. G. Lawrence
Newport
QR. I
Sitting Bull Commission
Interior Department
Terry
Bull
Wyoming
New York
The
Tribune
Washington
Potomac River
Georgetown
Guatemala
Honduras
Salvador
Nicaragua
Osta Rica
Tramps Gather in Cave as Brotherhood Roams Midwest
Thirteen tramps from Cleveland Chicago St Louis Janesville Madison Indianapolis Pittsburgh and others camped in a Dayton Bluff cave near Oak Orchard Beach Maine tale from St Paul. They sang praised vagrancy and shared a carefree fellowship before police arrived and moved them to a St Paul station.
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Oak Orchard Beach
Maine
St. Paul
Minn
Dayton Bluff
Cleveland, O
Chicago
Ilinois
St. Louis
Janesville
Madison, Wis
Indianapolis
Pittsburgh
Lever
Ajuymus
Brotherhood of Tramps
N. Y
Brave Belgian Slater Caris Honored For Daring Rescue
A Belgian slater named Caris, perched atop a Ville sur Ourthe church belfry, endures molten lead on his arm to save a companion fixing a lightning conductor. News in London Builder recounts how Belgian officers, King Leopold, and the Count of Flanders contributed funds and land plots to ease his life, inspired by the tale's spread and Major General Bartels's acknowledgments.
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Slater
Caris
Church of Ville Sur Ourthe
Belgium
Bartels
Flanders
London
Extension piano stool invention debuts in Massachusetts
A Massachusetts man unveils an extension piano stool that unfolds into two halves for two performers. The rest of the text satirizes various local items, including a Boston editor’s comment on visiting the sick and dead, and several humorous or odd anecdotes about military, religious, and domestic misadventures.
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Massachusetts
Zion’s
Iterald
Boston
Dead Letters Statistics From the Dead Letter Office
From the 1877 annual report of Edgar J. Dallas the Dead Letter Office shows 8,234,800 dead letters received, 2.6 million ordinary letters with many returned, 421,165 addressed without stamps, 32,746 letters with money totaling 51,957.21. Money drafts and valuables found totaled about 1.4 million, with most returned to owners, while jewelry and stamps were largely redirected.
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Washington, D. C
Edgar J. Dallas
United States
United States Treasury
Moons of Mars Found by Professor Hall at Washington
In a landmark discovery at the United States Naval Observatory on the night of the 16th, Professor Asaph Hall reveals Mars has one or possibly two moons. The feat, aided by a 26 inch refractor, marks a major American achievement matching Uranus and Neptune breakthroughs and may influence views of the nebular hypothesis.
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Mars
Washington
Asaph Hall
Venus
Earth
Red Planet
United States Naval Observatory
Hall
Tersehel
Uranus
le Verrier
Neptune
Alvan Clark & Sons
Cambridge
Muass
Naval Observatory
Nevada Hotel Quests Draw Mining Crowd to Meadow Lake
The Virginia Enterprise recounts Bob Howland's Hotel at Meadow Lake drawing old miners who flock to his sign. They arrive in groups, settle in, and demand meals with no payments, squeezing suppliers like meat, milk, and bread providers until Bob explains the lodging lapse.
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Virginia
Bob Howland
Meadow Lake
Bob
Deserters Threaten Vengeful Homefront Rhetoric
Witnesses recount how residents swore not to desert their community. They menacingly vowed to whip any man Bob targeted, from butcher to milkman to baker, if shortages persisted. They predicted they would endure on boiled cabbage and potatoes or other cheap fare.
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Bob
Ghostly disturbances near McComas farm puzzle community
In Wheeling area a curious daytime haunting at William McComas’s country house drew over a hundred witnesses. Objects moved, furniture shifted, a stove and piano relocated, jars toppled, bread torn, and an entire day of unexplained activity prompted observers to seek explanation while newspapers weighed the event as a baffling mystery. Dr J M Todd of Bridgeport examined the scene and deemed it a mysterious truth.
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Cadiz
Wheeling Intelligencer
Bridgeport
Ourgo
J. M. Todd
Pittspurgh
Pittsburg
Brigham Young's Hypocrisy and Profit Myth
Beadle's Western argues Brigham Young hid hypocrisy behind religion, denying belief while urging baptism and tithes, claiming rights to start a religion. It portrays him as a pragmatic, self serving leader, a philosophical infidel rising in the church.
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Brigham
Christ
Mohammed
Beadle
Labor Problem Critique by Garfield at Athens Speech
General Garfield in Athens Ohio criticized the Democracy for its handling of the Columbus labor strike during their recent convention. He called their actions reckless and unpatriotic while addressing the labor issue and the Resolution of the great labor problem.
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Garfield
Athens, O
Columbus
Supreme Law and Labor Dangers Warned in Ohio Speech
A political speech warns against partisan exploitation during a tense labor era, urging the supremacy of law, universal education, and orderly reform. It discusses railway monopolies, the need for government to enforce contracts, and Republicans urging unity for the state campaign despite ongoing labor tensions.
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Lord Macaulay
Macaulay
Ohio
Republican Party
Remarkable Petrifaction In a Portland Anecdote
The Portland Oregonian reports Judge E C Bronough wears a petrified rose bud as a watch charm. A Southern letter and its rosebud were found in a drawer after eight to nine months, and a jeweler found it hard to drill. The piece remains a mystery why the rosebud became diamond like in nine months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland Oregonian
E. C. Bronough
Martha's Vineyard Name Origin and Sacred Charm
A Boston Post excerpt explains how Martha's Vineyard supposedly earned its name from an enthusiastic Methodist as a vow to become a vineyard of the Lord. It notes the island's religious identity, camp meetings, and later intrusion of worldly pleasures amid its sanctified, cottage-dotted landscape.
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Martha's Vineyard
Vineyard
Martha
Martha’s Vineyard
Boston Post
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John Bigelow
Protective Labor Party
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Rochester
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Morton
Havana
Tumrs
France
St. Germain
Thostas
Cincinnati
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Seventh Infantry
Nez Perces
Big Hole
Michigan University
New York Herald
Savage
Russia
Congress
Oliver P. Morton
Ws. M. Twerxip
Howard
Covington
Marguere MarcHenn
Long Branch
War Department
Charles Sumner
Sumner
West Point
Daniel Webster
Indorsing
Ture
Col. Forney
China
Joseph
Tuerz
Adjutant General's Office
Kautz
Taylor
Forbush
Wood
Chandler
Haskill
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