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Newspaper
Cincinnati Daily Times
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1867
Page
3
The weekly issue is ready for delivery featuring General News Congressional Proceedings Telegraphic Dispatches and Miscellany. Priced at five cents it makes a fine gift to send to friends.
Help needed for a good cylinder feeder and one accustomed to the Adams press. Apply immediately at the Times counting room.
A fair at Cumminsville raises funds for St Peter and Paul parish. Reports note crowd turnout and charitable aim as events unfold. A separate burglary at 137 West Fourth Street saw an entrance and merchandise theft. County jail population stood at ninety five with inmates including seven women.
A Trintey Feast week session of the Police Court totals thirteen continued sad cases and twenty-nine new filings. One defendant faced arrest and a fine after a disturbance with minor injuries and costs assessed.
Fragmentary read from a legal notice or court record includes scattered names and dates but lacks clear actions or outcomes. The legible bits reference a location east of Beverte and an unfinished list of parties. No definite filing, deadline, or authority is extractable.
Police detail the Fifth Street murder of Her mean Schmidt with testimonies from witnesses including Hoover and Schmidt. Reports describe a shooting on Fifth Street near Sycamore, a man nicknamed Yankee Jack implicated only vaguely, and conflicting accounts from bystanders and a milkman resident of Sycamore Township.
A committee of the Chamber of Commerce reports massive open frauds in whisky production and tax collection. It urges abolition of bonded warehouses, direct tax collection at manufacture, restricted revenue-officer discretion, seizure and trial of violators, higher per gallon tax, and stricter penalties. Also notes political failures, calls for law reform and new city council actions.
Market notes show easier bank cash but tight outside funding as year end nears. Tariff changes for express companies expected. gold quotes firm. Reports on whisky revenue fraud inquiry and corporate mergers outline sub divisions and cost cuts. Pacific mail stock details and Panama railroad figures linger. Executives from Merchants Union lines coordinate management and tariffs.
Fragmentary report notes prices for livestock and meat at low levels. Buyers were scarce and activity limited as sellers, including butchers, faced weak demand and unusual market quietude.
A fragmentary canal recerpta spans several days of records with unclear dates and several unreadable entries. The surviving text hints at routine log entries and possible waterway activity though precise details remain fragmentary.
Telegraph market summaries from New York Chicago and Philadelphia describe dull wheat pork lard and flour with modest price shifts. Cotton and molasses hold steady while corn oats and rye show limited activity and minor firmer notes in places. Receipts around 2 700 to 12 000 bushels or hogs, dressed and live, noted in the various centers.
A Kansas correspondent to the Philadelphia Telegraph extols Kansas as a vast stock raising region with expansive grazing south of the Kansas River and near the Santa Fe route. He notes cheap wintering, growing export markets, and rapid marketing via rail, urging immigration and railroad access to lift cattle and grain shipments westward.
Gen Gillem relays Mississippi Tennessee and Arkansas suffering requests to Grant and Johnson with Congress urged to act. Meade and Thomas urged to press northern relief while Kasson reports postal treaties with England Spain Prussia and Turkey. Sherman reports coinage plan for world standard. General Pope to be removed early next year with Cooke as successor. Meade declines. Griffin's remains to be brought for military and Masonic honors. Soldiers bounties claims near half a million. debt and currency trends noted. New Year visit by veterans. Barratt trial to March. springlike weather noted.
Special dispatch reports Officer Volker badly beaten and stabbed by a gang. Edward Wilder, a Great Eastern brakesman, died after a fall from a tender. Burglars entered Daniel Kellogg's home on Wabash Avenue stealing a diamond pin and $200. A man named James Harley hanged himself. 260 inquests and 130 prisoners noted in county jail. Ole Bull to perform in Chicago.
New Albany reports river conditions with the canal at eight feet, Indian chute six feet. The Alpha out of Nashville at 7 P M, Falls City to Green River at 11 P M, and Argonaut No 2 from Memphis at 10 A M. The Walker Morris was repaired after coming off canal docks. Empire damaged by a snag near Hickman but no bow damage to Sam Merwin barges. A barge sank after a leak, taken to Louisville. About 400 bales hay damaged. Darling has 900 bales cotton and Longworth 600 tons sugar and molasses for Cincinnati. Weather cloudy and warm.
Our City Councils accepted an invitation to attend the Fenian Obsequies on New Year’s Day. The paid Fire Department Ordinance was postponed by a small majority. Captain C P Marshman, lost in the steamer Raleigh off Charleston, was a resident of this city. The weather remains warm and a general thaw continues.
Dispatch from Cairo lists Memphis to Evansville Mayflower 7 PM Armada 8 PM America 2 AM Tyrone 3 AM Tahlequah 6 AM with Cincinnati connections. Weather cloudy. mercury 75. river rising about 1 inch. Business brisk.
A Marietta dispatch notes the Ohio River conditions with a 16 foot channel, the J N McCullough passing downstream, the Harry Dean ready to depart, the Carrie Brooke set to sail for Pittsburg at 2 PM, and the Express making its scheduled passage.
Special Dispatch reports from Bantimoss, December 27, that Sylvester Powell was killed in a fatal railroad collision on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad involving freight trains. The accident occurred yesterday and is under investigation.
Weather warm and cloudy with a look of rain. River rising slowly with 13 feet 3 inches in the channel and Alleghanny at noon at 15 feet. Arrivals include Grey Eagle Parkersburg Kenton Louisville. departures Grey Eagle Parkersburg Maggie Hayes Cincinnati with two tows carrying 60,000 bushels for Cincinnati. City Comptroller John McCargo funeral held this morning. Oil trade improving crude 7c refined 24c. Business improving though money in demand.
Special Dispatch reports St Louis experiences five feet of water with more forecast as heavy rains approach. Importer departs for Pittsburg while Peoria City heads to Louisville. Madison, Indiana plans a costly enlargement cutting rates. Atlantic Company to dispatch its largest boats. Glendale arrives from New Orleans, loading for Pittsburg.
A fragmentary editorial speculates on governance and civilisation, condemns perceived threats, and argues about adoption of a policy stance in relation to Mexican affairs. The text reflects a partisan viewpoint on national and regional issues.
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