Washington Cabinet debate on Southern policy division
Washington March 20. The Cabinet opened with a heated Southern question. Schurz urged immediate troop withdrawal, others opposed. Hayes faced divided views, proposed a Commission, while Nicholls and Hampton supporters pressed for transitional arrangements. The session left the Southern policy only sentimentally endorsed, with adjournment to discuss further.
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Nicholls
White House
Charley Foster
Foster
Stanley Mathews
Blaine
Death Song of Sioux Indians At Standing Rock
An Sioux City observer recalls an incident at Standing Rock where two men fired on each other, both wounded as the death song began. Friends gathered around while the wounded confessed killings and scalps taken before dying. Also notes Hayes lineage and a Nashville lynching attempt.
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Standing Rock
Omaha Herald
Hayes inaction and conflicting counsel from conservatives
Washington specialist report shows President Hayes overwhelmed by advisers with many conservatives urging delay. Kellogg clash blocks Southern policy as Nicholls government aid falters. Miscellaneous notes include a Tribune verse, a Tennessee family with twenty-two children, and a Connecticut tooth tale with a two dollar bill.
Kind man saves pig with leg tether and cooks pie
A considerate man rescued a pig tied by the leg from a mob of boys who planned to stone it. After freeing the animal he carried it to safety and later noted the deed yielded a surprisingly fine pie.
New York City Salaried Officials Draw Large Treasury Sum
City reports eight thousand seven hundred eight salaried officials receive annually ten million eight hundred fifty five thousand four hundred sixty six dollars from the treasury.
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New York City
Treasury
Miner’s Suicide Plot Thwarted by Dog and Ranch Owner
A miner, jilted by his sweetheart, wrote a note about blowing out his brains at a cemetery. He tried to shoot a bulldog on a chicken ranch but a ranch owner stopped him with a shotgun. He begged for life, apologized, and later abandoned his plan, returning to town and taking another girl to a theater.
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Virginia City
Curious San Francisco farce ends in mob violence
A returning sailor in San Francisco assaults his wife suspecting infidelity, then the crowd bursts inside. In a chaotic sequence a neighbor is shot, a sleeper inside fires on the crowd, and a man is nearly lynched before the error is found. The wife is only lightly hurt and hopes her husband will return.
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Washington
San Francisco Chronicle
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Martha Washington
Edward Baker
San Francisco
Ambiguous Roles Plague Hayes Schurz Cabinet Tale
The New York World questions Carl Schurz and Mr Hayes’s cabinet roles and states their uncertain affiliations. A Mariet Street man’s wife wakes him, hearing ticking, only to find the bed ticks and he snores. Maria leaves for her mother.
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Monterey Street
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George
Maria
Bet on Presidential Election Sparks Court Case in Baltimore
Two men in Baltimore wagered one thousand dollars on the Presidential result. Unable to agree on the winner, they brought the matter to a court where the district attorney, citing state law, seized the stakes and delivered the money to the city treasury.
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Mean man quips with doctor over unpaid bill on State Street
A Detroit ex-patient meets a physician on State Street and refuses payment, prompting a sharp exchange. The doctor asserts the man’s dishonesty and even jokes about burial tricks, while the patient retorts with a remark about writing a chart and praise for another rider, ending the encounter with a spring joke.
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State Street
Fowler
Free Press
Dinner in Foochow and a political rebuke
A private letter recalls a three hour Chinese dinner with thirty nine courses and strong jamshee wine while chop-sticks and birds nest soup appear among delicacies. The report contrasts this with Hayes and the push for a South political commission, denouncing delay and urging immediate action against the Metternichian bloc.
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Foochow
China
Quotable Fragments From A Fractured Era
A garbled compendium of witticisms and quips touches on beer and turnips, life insurance schemes, fashion slips, and regional sayings. It riffs on political figures, famed authors, and public life with cryptic lines about confidence, wealth, and social norms, fragmentary yet oddly revealing of era humor.
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