Clerks in Departments and Mississippi Reconstruction Debate
Special correspondence from Washington discusses proposed joint investigative committees on civil service reform and clerk appointments. It cites anecdotes on misuse of funds, slow Senate action, and resistance to reform, plus coverage of Watson's testimony on Mississippi Reconstruction and calls for election and constitutional debates.
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Cincinnati Chronicle
Wweashington
Senate
House
Congress
Sk Ae
Prine
Charity Ball in New York and German Vanity Observed
Correspondent reports on the winter Charity Ball scene in New York with its high prices for tickets boxes and carriages, the costly supper and attire, and the philanthropy angle. A German vanity discussion follows, noting numerous German personal crisis reports and a morbid pride in achievement.
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Honndt
New York
Academy
Brooklyn
Springfield Mourns Hon. Bampson Mason Funeral Planned
Correspondents report the death of Hon. Bampson Mason a longtime Ohio politician and lawyer. Mason served in the 1800s in Congress the Ohio Legislature and the Constitutional Convention of 1850 He lived in Springfield over fifty years and his funeral is set for tomorrow at the Second Presbyterian Church with city business firms urged to close. Local bar associations prepared resolutions and invited bar members from surrounding counties to attend.
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Treasuries
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Broadway Theatre
Wallack's
Academy
Tammany
Springfield
Telegraph
Bampson Mason
Ohio
Thomas Ewing
Dene Green
Champaign
Logan
Union
Madison
Congress
Harrison-Tyler
United States
Oho
State House of Representatives
State Senate
Second Presbyterian Church
Bane
Spanish Cruelty At Malaga Reported By Citizens
Letters from Malaga citizens and workers describe brutal acts by Spanish troops under Gen. Caballero de Rodas. Witnesses allege firing on civilians, bayonets used against sick and elderly, and executions after barricades fell. Reports claim officers sanctioned killings as part of spreading terror. In Arkansas, Woodruff County faces 1400 bales of cotton rotting due to labor shortages and theft of animals.
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Aldad
Caballero de Roda
Rom
Caballero de Rodas
Boston Post
Woodruff County
Ark
Clayton
Ohio
England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
Germany
Small-Pox Ravages San Francisco and San Juan City
A San Francisco report from January 12 chronicles a deadly small-pox outbreak that spread from the city to the state, with many deaths, impure vaccines, and hospitals strained. San Juan in Monterey County bears the worst toll, with four hundred infected and one hundred sixty dead out of a thousand residents.
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San Brapeisco
Sacramento
Marysville
Stockton
Tninley
Anatos Angeles
Francisco Gan
Los Angele
San Juan
Monterey County
Gilroy
Sonoma County
Joe
Balloon voyage across the Atlantic by M. Chevalier
The era's famed aeronaut M. Chevalier plans a transatlantic ascent from New York in a steam flying machine balloon. Details describe the airship’s 150 foot height, 125000 cubic feet of gas, bamboo car, and preparations to test westerly currents at 8000 to 16000 feet while seeking public and scientific support.
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New-York
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Chevalier
Paris
Marseilles
Lyons
London
Dublin
Europe
Australia
Russia
St. George's Channel
England
New York
Y. Tribune
Orators and Oratory of Phillips Beecher and Sumner
A critical survey of Wendell Phillips Henry Ward Beecher and Charles Sumner as leading 19th century American orators. The piece praises Phillips for radical reform and eloquence, contrasts Beecher’s pulpit and popular appeal, and analyzes Sumner’s classical scholarship and Senate power.
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Willian
Baety Wendell Phillips
Henry Ward Beechar
Wendell Phillips
America
Sretor
Politi
Webster
Clay
Phillips
Henry Ward Beecher
Brooklyn
New York
Beecher
Mr. Spurgeon
Revival Claims For Mina Rasch Case In Wisconsin
The Mina Rasch trance case from Burlington Wisconsin is revived as Dr Kramer of Milwaukee reports she remains in a strange state thirty days after a reported death. No decomposition yet and the right ear reddens for hours sometimes a day. Her father opposes further experiments amid suspicions over resuscitation.
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Burlington
Wisconsin
Kramer
Milwaukee
Tragedy Near Monroe Ends in Family Murder Attempt
In Marion county a man named Sha attacked his wife killing her with a head wound after a confrontation at her father's house. He then tried to kill himself but survived injuries. He told authorities he came to kill the family if needed and keep a barrel for his own death.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Marion County
Monroe
Red Rock
George Sha
Missouri
Yarns
Accidents Haunt Iowa Man In Latter Day Peril
A man in Iowa faced a string of disasters after falling into a well. He was lowered about thirty feet before the rope broke, leaving him suspended. A new rope was attached and as he began the second descent the windlass gave way and struck him on the head. He is now under surgeons care.
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White Gulf
Senate
Baltimore
Maryland
House Committee of Commerce
Cincinnati Chronicle
Pittsburg
Cleveland
Bellair
Ohio
Steubenville
Yellow Creek
Ohio River
Pennsylvania
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Laskiel
Sandusky
Detroit
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Iad
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Williamson
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Virginia
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Sheboshh
Port — Pitt
Salem
Adenhuetten
Doddridge
Iowa
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