Evensong of crises and a sweeping saloon raid in North Bennington
Long column notes Mrs Ballon and authorities in North Bennington Vermont raiding seven saloons, three storms across New York and New England, a series of trials and political shifts, fires destroying the Eagle dock at Hoboken, and a set of notable deaths and legal notices as 1883 era tumult unfolds in multiple regions.
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Ballon
North Bennington
Vic
Boston
Emma W. Skelton
New York
New England
Bth
St. Lawrence County
Hudson
Catskills
Ontario
Mechanics’ National Bank
Newark
Harry B. Marchbank
Eagle Dock
Hoboken
N. J
Irish unrest and shifts in land policy reported abroad
Reports from Ireland describe a bellicose mood with a military deployment to Belmullet and a Land Act decision at Monaghan cutting rent for fifteen years. News covers boycotts, tenants urged to withhold rent, and calls for reform as Ireland faces arrests, proclamations, and international attention amid political agitation.
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Belmullet
Ireland
Monaghan
Sexton
Parnell
Kilmainham
Freeman’s Journal
Corneil
Waterford
John ‘Dillon
Cairo
Mohammed
France
Herr J. von Schaeffer
Washington
England
St. Petersburg
Pall Mall Gazette
Bank of England
St. Gothard Tumel
Ladies’ Laird League
Dublin
John Stuart Mill
Ladies’ Land League
Turkey
Galway
London Daily News
London
Russia
Hungary
Servia
Land Court
Belfast
Vast array of 19th century news items from Washington and abroad
Hunter tragedy in Wyoming reports arsenic mistaken for baking powder with many deaths. Bonus items include proposed whisky tax cuts, Corkhill defense in star route cases, a deadly New York tenement fire, bank bail and bonds, shipwrecks off the New England coast, Archbishop McHale’s death, Byron statue unveiling at Missolonghi, a Kansas City swindle, territorial appointments, Wrangell Land discovery, Louisiana governor calls extra session, and President Arthur Thanksgiving proclamation urging observance on November 24, 1881.
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Minnesota
House of Representatives
Senate
Ough
Mississippi River
Keokuk
Iowa
Louisiana
Gov. Cullom
Illinois
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland
New York
Connecticut
Delaware
Cullom
Garfield
Cleveland
Euclid Avenue
Painesville
Saturipa
Sonora
B. K. Scott
South ‘Carolina
Napoleon
Ohio
Warren G. Drury
Anton Stein
Iowa City
Stein
Chicago
Watson B. Smith
United States Court
Omaha
Col. Smith
Nebraska
Fort Steele
Wy. Ter
Congress
Corkhill
Criminal Court of
Washington
MacVeagh
Cox
Laight and
Varick Streets
Baldwin
Newark
Marchbank
Delia Hodgkins
New England
Ireland
John McHale
Tuam
Lord Byron
Missolonghi
Greece
J. N. Dubois
Kansas City Board of Trade
Federa
Rogers
Wrangell Land
Siberia
Chester A. Arthur
United States
Ghestrer A
Arthur
Blaine Predicts Grant Cabinet After January 1
Secretary Blaine says Arthur's Cabinet after January 1 will be a Grant cabinet from top to bottom. He expects Frelinghuysen to become Secretary of State by January 1 at latest. Blaine plans no new consular appointments, leaving that to his successor.
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Blaine
Arthur
Frelinghuysen
Washington Notes Defrees Faces Possible Replacement
From Washington it is reported that Public Printer Defrees is making a vigorous effort to be retained but will probably be compelled to give place to S P Rounds of the ...
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Washington
Defrees
Confederate Government Debts Range From Five Cours to 300000
The article notes government obligations in amounts from fifty dollars up to three hundred thousand dollars reflecting the scale of Confederate finance during the period.
Quote from Bill Nye on Salt Lake City Indians
The passage portrays Salt Lake City Indians and stereotypes the “festive red man” with venison and fire water. Nye describes the common image, clothing, and behavior, noting the Indian in Zion and his non war-path stance as observed by Nye.
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Salt Lake City
Zion
Salt Lake
Bill Nye
Spotted Tail Joke About Honest Men and Shaking Hands
Captain Lee and Spotted Tail discuss honesty and promise keeping. The captain jokes there are no honest men, then recalls a myth about a hair tuft on the palm worn away by shaking hands with whites, as Spotted Tail references a past feature of his own hand.
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Lee
Spotted Tail
Irvine Keeps Hanging Gallows For Twenty One Years
Irvine Kentucky has maintained its historic hanging gallows for twenty one years, preserving a stark reminder of local past punishments and the town’s cultural memory.
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Irvine, Ky
Irish Land Court Rules Benefit to Tenants in Rents Shake
The Land Court in Ireland, led by Justice O Hagan, sets a tenant favorable tone. Rents on Crawford estate and Dundonald estate fall by about one third as courts apply the act to permit tenant improvements and limit landlord claims. The decisions expand tenant protections and remove appeal avenues, provoking landlord concern and planned tests by eminent lawyers.
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Tricia
Dupin
Nev
Trish Acad
Justice O'Hagen
Belfast
Crawford
Dundonald
Land Court
League
Justice O’hagan
Ireland
Smith
The
Court of the Land League
O’habin
Parnell
Justice O'Hagan
England
Land Commissions Court
House of Lords
Sheep Ownership Totals in Australian Colonies Revealed
Official returns show large flocks across Australasia with the New Zealand and Australian Land Company owning 300,000 sheep. Robert Campbell holds 386,000 sheep, George Henry Moore 90,000, Dalgetty & Co. 208,000, Clifford & Weld 80,000, Sir Dillon Bell 82,000, the Hon William Robinson 68,000, Sir Cracroft Wilson 48,000, Kitchen 80,000, and Allan McLean 500,000 sheep.
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Australia
New Zealand and Australian Land Company
Robert Campbell
George Henry Moore
Messrs
Dalgetty
Cracroft Wilson
Kitchen
Allan McLean
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iMast
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Virginia
Utah
Greenwood
Robert Williams
Justic
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Tenn
Joseph K. McCammon
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Theophilus French
Chauncey L Filley
St. Louis
Interior
Chaffen
Sargent
David Davis
Bliss
Walsh
Lincoln
Baxter
South
Dakota
Union
Treasury Department
Pension Bureau
Gilfillan
Met
War Department
Mason
Gaiteau
Arsenal
John W. Foster
Alliance
Halifax
Manzanillo
Pacific Mail
Due
Augusta
Adelina Patti
Richard Leonard
St. Augustin
Quebec
Solomons
National Garfield Memorial Hospital
Wendell Phillips
Land League
Fonene Evesase
Bbeee Renee
Navy Pension Fund
Weasuty
Esseetes
Pacific Railway
Unite
Hagles. Co
Foreign News
Archbishop Croke
Cashel
Branch Lands League
Egan
Washington Notes
Land Cour
Ieee
Saeneee
Ieee Saace
Cincinnati
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Detroit
BaRrwey
Paan
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