28 Sep 1877
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Newspaper
Columbus Democrat
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1877
Page
2
The piece humorously notes Grant staying abroad for a year, compares American politics to the French plan, and predicts Republican impeachment of Hayer if they held Congress. It remarks on Russian defeats, widespread political mission fever, mercurial politicians, South rebel complaints about Key, and North loyalist anger over Hayes remarks.
The piece argues Republicans distrust the President’s pacific approach, likening Hayes to Andy Johnson. It cites Louisville, Indiana, and national sentiment showing anti Hayes feeling, predicting a looming party schism as anti Hayes factions fear defeat and cling to Southern policy views while Democrats embrace peace and goodwill.
Excerpts from Hayes Atlanta remarks stir Aerusticans with lines about Greeks and soldiers, claiming two sides learned to ride and shoot, ending with a boast that the conqueror will be the one with more Greeks. Also notes on patent office fire losses, Madison editors, and local tragedies and deaths including a teen’s death after wagon accident and Capt. Brock’s passing.
WasHMcTon Sept 25 The Patent-office building is being tidied after a fire that destroyed about thirty thousand models. Property loss is estimated at 1,500,000 but actual recoverable losses may be 800,000 to 900,000. Currency and printing bids are discussed as Congress may approve needed funds. President Hayes and Mrs. Hayes return to Washington and plan to skip Richmond until next month for the Virginia State fair. Cabinet meets tomorrow.
Reports from London and Constantinople detail ministerial divisions over continuing war versus peace, Russian and Turkish maneuvers around Plevna, with reinforcements and mobilization continuing across the theater. Observers note shifting allegiances and diplomacy as events unfold in Athos, Bucharest, and Vienna.
A fragmented miscellany recounts Kilpatrick’s lore of St. Patrick born in 372, his Irish mission, and legends of miracles and Trinity. It shifts to praise of local fair figures in Bartholomew County, then hints at rules of a boarding house and a London dinner party anecdote, ending with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s verses in St. Nicholas.
A compact history of Driftwood Monthly Meeting in Jackson County from 1820 to 1827, detailing oversers, recorders, and early marriages, expulsions over discipline, the rise of Azalia Sandcreek branches, preparative and quarterly meetings, and the stance on divorce militia and temperance, plus Underground Railroad aid and Hicksite splits.
The piece lists events and notes from several counties: Oxford temperance club numbers 600. Plymouth Murphy movement. Van Amburg to winter in Rushville. Friends yearly meeting at Richmond. Montgomery Queen's circus planned for Plymouth. a Montgomery county barber in the courthouse. a $1,200 mortgage on Daviess county fairground foreclosed. Ezra Patterson of Lawrenceburg dies in Winds. southern counties overrun with migratory squirrels from Kentucky. Randolph county grand jury returns six indictments. Amora White, Quaker preacher, dies at Spice Land of heart disease. Gen Joseph Orr of Laporte donates $5,000 to Indiana Asbury University on his 59th wedding anniversary. Rush county physician sues a brother knight of the pill over a $10,000 note for seduction of the plaintiff's wife twenty years ago. Wm. Blackwell of Cincinnati robbed near Jeffersonville of watch, money, band trunk, clothes, skiff by two men. Richmond Palladium confirms gypsy tale that Robert Cotton of Richmond stands to gain two fortunes in England, wife confirming, likely near $20,000.
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