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Columbus Democrat

Location

Columbus, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Mar 02, 1877

Page

3

Ben L Smith to run for city clerk and local campaigns

Street and alley cleanings progress as citizens debate city offices. Ben L Smith announces candidacy for city clerk amid talk of four to five candidates for city marshal. Local notices mention meetings, road repairs, and various community developments.

Building substructure prep and city notices in old ledger

The article lists groundwork on a Washington and Walnut corner building and notes officials, indians, and local business changes. It includes council terms, lectures, theater moves, a mule incident, K P Lodge plans, school site purchase, and numerous real estate transfers with names such as Hamilton, Essex, Cooper, and Gaff firms Elliott and Wright.

K.of P. Lodge Story Irwin Washington

Local notices and society items from Taylorsville area

A week of town news includes a thief visit, illnesses, marriages, new residents, and local gossip. J. Hunter is gravely ill, John Elliott settles in from Clifty township, and a committee plans to press a commissioner to delay spring corn planting.

Plowing for corn near Columban Ita

Some farmers around this place are plowing for corn. T and Wm Sharp's crib wan

Columban T. and Wm. Sharp

Local Muddle Leaves No Arrests After Crop Mixup

A Saturday night incident leaves corn mixed and unaccounted for as no arrests are reported. Weddings are common in the area and a mule’s death is noted as an odd preface to a potential ceremony.

Secretary Fish Rebukes Dix and Fears Fraud in Election

A long letter from Secretary Fish to Gen. Dix critiques his revolutionary tendencies and endorses Grant's view that no man should hold the presidency if fraud taints the election. Fish supports a nonpartisan commission to investigate the matter and warns against a tainted title to power. A second item notes a 76-year-old resident of Frederick, once cradled by Napoleon, now destitute yet educated.

Louisiane Redfield Cincinnati Washington Louisiana Grant Packard Hayes Nicholls Fish John A. Dix Rutherford B. Hayes Dix Democratic Party Courier- Journal Napoleon Peraps Frederick (Md

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