National and Local News Highlights in Early September 1877
A Hebrew weekly from Cheyenne reports actor J. L. Davemont’s death in Canton, Pa., while St Louis is chosen for the National Science Association meeting. Boston cotton operatives strike, U.S. debt falls, and Habeas Corpus action compels Tweed to testify. Reports cover Germany’s threats, New York politics, labor party mergers, Pittburgh rioting with silver, Sitting Bull negotiations, clergy dynamics, and a proposed Central American Union revival amid regional geopolitical shifts.
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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 Revealing Wandering Brotherhood
Thirteen vagrants from Cleveland Chicago St Louis Janesville Madison Indianapolis Pittsburgh plus others camped in a Dayton Bluff cave near Oak Orchard Beach Maine. They sang mocked labor, faced police, were jailed overnight in St Paul and released on condition to travel on.
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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 Lifesaving Act
A Belgian slater named Caris, who endured molten lead on his arm to save a companion atop a church belfry, is celebrated. News spread to Belgian papers, Major General Bartels supported the cause, and King of Belgians sent a gift. Count of Flanders joined the subscription, funds bought plots of land to aid his life.
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Slater
Caris
Church of Ville Sur Ourthe
Belgium
Bartels
Flanders
London
Massachusetts inventor creates two person extension piano stool
A Boston Summer note describes a Massachusetts man who patented an extension piano stool that unfolds into two halves to seat two players. The piece ties in with a string of light anecdotes about local life and a Rochester wife seeking a quit claim deed from a Canada-based rival wife, amid marital troubles and legal concerns.
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Massachusetts
Zion’s
Iterald
Boston
Balkans
Rochester
Canada
Dead Letters Report Reveals US Postal Carelessness
The 1877 Dead Letter Office annual review shows 8,234,800 dead letters received, with 2.6 million ordinary letters returned or forwarded. 421,165 properly addressed letters lacked stamps, 32,746 letters contained money totaling 51,957.21, and nearly 1.4 million in drafts or bonds were found, with most returned to owners.
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Washington, D. C
Edgar J. Dallas
United States
United States Treasury
Mars Moon Discovery by Professor Hall at Washington
The 26 inch refractor at the United States Naval Observatory helped Professor Asaph Hall discover Mars has one or more moons. The find, hailed as a major astronomical milestone, could test the nebular hypothesis and embarrass Congress over Naval Observatory funding.
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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
Bob Howland's Hotel at Meadow Lake draws old miners
The Nevada hotel tale from Virginia Enterprise recounts Bob Howland’s Meadow Lake boarding house filled by former mining companions. They flood in with blankets and cheer, settling in and eating without paying as the butchers milkmen and bakers halt service while Bob explains the situation to his lodgers.
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Virginia
Bob Howland
Meadow Lake
Bob
Unnamed Upset1870s Group Vows to Punish Citizens
The passage recalls a crowd swearing not to desert him and to whip various townspeople including the butcher, milkman, and baker as Bob commands. They threaten to endure rationing through boiled cabbage and potatoes or other cheap fare if supplies run dry.
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Bob
Ghostly disturbances at McComas farm draw crowds
In western Pennsylvania locals report a daylong haunting at William McComas’s country house. Items moved, furniture shifted, and objects flew or toppled with no human cause. Over 100 witnesses described the scene as astonishing and inexplicable, while Dr J M Todd calls it a mysterious truth after inspection.
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Cadiz
Wheeling Intelligencer
Bridgeport
Ourgo
J. M. Todd
Pittspurgh
Pittsburg
Brigham Young’s Hypocrisy and Profit Moniker
Beadle's Western argues Brigham Young showed religious hypocrisy, admitting religion was a convenience to secure tithes and status. The writer portrays him as a self-serving leader whose conviction shifts with interests, earning the nickname The Profit.
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Brigham
Christ
Mohammed
Beadle
Labor Problem Speech Attacked at Athens Ohio
General Garfield voices a harsh critique of the Democracy and its handling of the great labor strike, denouncing their convention actions in Columbus as reckless and unpatriotic. He condemns the party’s stance on labor while urging a resolute course in the union dispute.
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Garfield
Athens, O
Columbus
Dangers of labor strife and law supremacy urged in Ohio address
The address warns that partisan conflict risks anarchy and despotism, urging enforcement of the supremacy of law, universal education, and cautious handling of the railway problem. It argues suffrage strengthens liberty when paired with virtue and calls for law to shape contracts rather than create them, while urging unity in Ohio politics and support for the Republican ticket.
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Lord Macaulay
Macaulay
Ohio
Republican Party
Petrified rose bud charms Judge Bronaugh’s watch
The Portland Oregonian reports a petrified rose bud found in a letter carried from the South during the Civil War. Judge E C Bronaugh attached the relic to his watch chain after a jeweler drilled a hole for a chain. The bud’s preservation and hardness puzzle readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland Oregonian
E. C. Bronough
Martha's Vineyard name origin and religious influence
The Boston Post notes Martha's Vineyard likely named by a zealous Methodist who prayed for a vineyard of the Lord and ties the name to scriptural Martha. It highlights religious groups turning the island into a religious watering place with camp meetings while acknowledging worldly influx and canal-minded visitors.
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Martha's Vineyard
Vineyard
Martha
Martha’s Vineyard
Boston Post
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H. Glafoes
Cheyenne
Advicts
Tilden
John Bigelow
Protective Labor Party
Philadelphia
United Labor Society
Nevada
Brigham Young
Morton
Havana
Tumrs
France
St. Germain
Thostas
Cincinnati
Scupiers
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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