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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1871
Page
2
The Appeal notes J P Sawtell Elam Christian EnitoUs and proprietors involved in a venture. The item highlights business interests and ownership among local entrepreneurs with emphasis on collaborative enterprise and regional impact.
Judge DuPont writes from Quincy Florida praising Swedish immigrants brought in under county association channels. He details their hard work, language progress, and reliability, noting costs of transportation, wage scales, and one year service terms. He cites cooperation with Leon and Jefferson counties and plans for further shipments to Sweden to meet labor needs.
Judge RB Carpenter of Charleston faced the Ka Ktuk Committee on Saturday, recounting state outrages and failed redress. He cited a defective state government, eleven million dollar debt, and violence by Loyal League before Ku Klux activity, noting he did not endorse the organization. He described a four million levy that will bankrupt a third of the state.
The speaker notes a conversation with a son ploughing in Florida and Sweden, arguing climate change fears are medical. He claims no diet issues, describes meals of corn bread and butter milk with little fruit or vegetables, and asserts no apparent climate impact on health.
A Nashville crowd awoke to news of a fatal Northwestern Railroad wreck. A bridge collapse sent the front passenger car into the Harpeth River, killing thirteen in the ladies car and injuring many. Rescue workers, physicians, and local citizens rushed to aid the injured, with bodies laid out at the undertaker’s and wounded cared for at homes and hotels.
The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Bridge, long noted for repairs and deemed safe, experienced a collision that halted the train to discharge Mrs Burns and her child. The brakeman was hurled into the river while attempting to brake, and a newsboy on the platform also fell in. his body remains missing.
In Chicago, Martin Mera brutally whipped his ten year old son with a horsewhip two weeks ago. The mother, wounded by illness, testified at the coroner's inquest detailing the child’s pleas for mercy, be forced to strip, and eventual death from beating followed by concealment under a bed before burial. The sisters' testimony added further horrors.
President Ulysses S Grant grants a full unconditional pardon to C. C. Bowen for bigamy after a 1871 DC Supreme Court conviction. The pardon cites Bowen’s good conduct, Civil War service, and juror support. Also notes Bowen’s release and a separate account of a thunderstorm near Rev. Davis’s home and Hancock fundraising efforts with Hill relocating to Atlanta.
At a meeting of stock holders in Atlanta last week Major Campbell Wallace, a railroad celebrity, was elected President of the Georgia Western Railroad. The Atlanta press greets the choice. Congressman Wallace of South Carolina testified before the War Committee in Washington three weeks ago that he feared to return home for fear of the hvkdux but left after his witness fees and has stayed home since without trouble. Northwestern University of Illinois awarded Phil Sheridan the degree of Doctor of Laws, a gesture seen by many as dimming his public image.
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