06 Jan 1868
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Daily Times
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1868
Page
1
gar nisos, pae- prietor, ae oes Lawrence Treces of the Clayman Morter a fence dry goods clerk murdered rear south side Thébd cuhla and Walnwe. police vow to bring guilty parties to justice in due time.
Ice supplies tighten for next summer while work continues on a new hospital expected to near readiness. George H. Thayer moves to a deputy role in the county recorder’s office. The piece also notes gas quality, an old resident, a centuries old watch, the Times site history, and rail line improvements.
A brief item notes three former brick-makers in the city each holding estates exceeding 300000 dollars. Another item reports that the recent Boyle Miller & Co whisky fire was visible clearly at New Trenton Franklin County Indiana, about thirty one miles away.
The article notes merchants backing a plan to build a Union Depot in the city to concentrate railroads. It references the late Dr. J P Judkins will and prints a souvenir, mentions river conditions and business revival, and cites local figures including Captains Pierce and Joe Williams.
The Bethel Sunday School led by Rev Frankland hosts 2 008 scholars, many from the city's lowest classes, and is described as possibly the world’s largest. The article notes the moral impact of such instruction when home moral teaching is scarce.
City voters backed Democrats with scattered Workingman and Republican entries. Detailed results show Democratic and Workingman tickets contesting council seats and school trustees across wards, with numbers indicating party support.
From Columbus a lively scene at Goodale House as Democratic and Republican caucuses meet over senatorial and representative votes. Reported nominations for chief clerk and assistants in the Senate and House, with figures and party names, and notes on Gov Hayes’ staff inquiries and emigration commission tallies for 1887 and 1886.
The account from Marshal Texas notes widespread ruin from floods and overflows along Red River and waterways. Fields of sugarcane and cotton vanished, cabins scarce, levees neglected, and plantations abandoned as the land regrows. Some hope remains in fast-growing cottonwood trees and future recovery prospects.
A garbled OCR fragment discusses cotton plantations, payments, and rates such as 80 000 dollars and 20 per month. Mentions River plantations and parishes, with unclear context about terms, temptations, and warlike references amid disrupted phrases. No clear names, dates, or actions emerge.
Miss Cynthia Chase of Waukesha shoots Doctor Youmans aboard a Prairie du Chien to Milwaukee train. The four barreled pistol wounds him. she surrenders at the station, citing prior criminal actions against him. The doctor remains gravely wounded as legal actions unfold in Waukesha and Mukwonago.
A Newark inspired circular calls for a State Temperance Convention to meet in Columbus on January 27, 1868. Delegates from churches and temperance organizations pay five dollars to the Treasurer as a fund nucleus. The Newark Convention seeks a broad statewide delegation and aims to form a temperance society with a strong financial base to fund field workers and committee work. Congressman Behenck attended a Manhattan Club banquet recently.
A digest of dispatches reports and rumors including Charleston harbor removals, Canada’s Parliament maces purchase, Chicago Republicans’ convention planning, the America locomotive sale, Paris observatory tours, Cuban sugar prospects, Arkansas and South Carolina conventions, slave registry in Cuba, Maine timber outputs, and maritime losses in 1867. Street incidents in St. Faul and Windham CT, New Jersey canal work, Memphis election notes, New Hampshire lottery enforcement, Mississippi planter wages, a shooting in St. Louis, and temperance debates in London.
The report covers arrests of figures in North Carolina politics, preparations for Conservative conventions, and public pledges to support General Meade. It notes a Raleigh meeting in February and a Georgia bishop election. Dispatches recount a train attack near Branchville, calls to curb armed violence, and China Japan developments including Formosa casualties and port activity. Mexican unrest and U S political finance disputes in Washington are also summarized along with federal budget figures and military command changes.
Incoherent OCR fragment recounts snowbound village events and a British expedition stuck at Naefo with Gen Napier’s ailing troops. Mentions a Turkish ambassador seeking protection from Russia and a Swiss consul’s dispatch of Denmark's Caribbean islands sale to the United States to be debated by the Rigdag on Wednesday.
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