Cuthbert Mass Meeting and Regional Rail News
Mass meeting at Lumpkin reports strong turnout and liberal subscriptions for the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Columbus Railroad. Speakers included Col J C Kimball and AL Hamilton with a barbecue and dinner showcasing local hospitality. Also notes Atlanta ice and rail progress, politics, editorials, and various regional updates.
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Lumpkin
Col. J. C. Kimball
AL. Hamilton
Wm. M. Tumiin
J. K. Barnuus
The Pennsylvania Manifesto Address by the Democratic Executive Committee
The Democratic Executive Committee of Pennsylvania presents the 1871 address by ex Secretary Jeremiah Black. It restates fidelity to the Constitution and seeks to restore constitutional governance, criticizing federal actions and proposing steps to realign the union, protect citizens, preserve states’ powers, and curb government excess. It outlines eight pledges: reorient the ship of state, safeguard individual rights, preserve general government powers, defend state rights, cut waste, moderate taxation, maintain public credit, and allot public lands to landless citizens.
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Pemnsylya Sigly
Jeremiah Black
United States
Uss Gie
Democratic Executive Committee
W. A. Wadtvace
Great New York Riot of the 12th described in detail
The account from the New York Sun outlines a clash on a Wednesday in Manhattan as Gideon Lodge Orangemen sought a city parade protected by Gov. Hoffmann a heavy crowd of Ribbonmen and Irish laborers gathered along Eighth Avenue. Stones and missiles pelted the procession before and during its march at 2 30 PM, with police and later military force struggling to hold back rioters while rooftops and chimneys yielded bricks for weapon use.
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New York Sun
New York
Gideon Lodge
Orangemen
Jersey City
Gov. Hoffman
Eighth Avenue
Sixty-ninth
Ball
Horace Greeley
Tsibans
J. Ball
Joseph Smith
Maxsa
Paieps
U Ellis
Daytort
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J. Lall &O
P.O. Box
Liberty St
York
Ors Fe
J. Bala & CO
P. O. Box
Liberty Street
Randolph County
W. B McBane
Curhbert
Hibernian riot of July 12, 1871 explained
An 1871 account describes a brutal attack on a Ribbonmen mob by National Guard and police after a Protestant Orangemen procession. Dozens killed, hundreds wounded, with detailed disorder, body mutilation attempts, and a summary of the Loyal Orange Institution origins and prohibitions.
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Orangemen
England
Ireland
Orange Institution
Britain
William Lil
Prince of
Orange
France
Vanclusa
James II
Boyne
James
Dublin
Duke Shomberg
Boyne Water
Duke of Cumberland
The
America
Storm Toll and Riots Shadow New York Day
A Sunday storm in New York toppled a six thousand pound bell from a hundred and thirty foot tower, while a fallen tree crushed a carriage on Fifth Avenue. A yacht capsized with a drowning, a brig was struck by lightning, streets flooded, and a three year old child died. Two Orange men were wounded in a riot procession. A letter from John J. Bond to Superintendent Kelso urged halting the Orange demonstration to spare bloodshed. Paris saw five hundred people go crazy during the reign of terror. Cleveland Tennessee reports smallpox.
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New York
Pilth Avenue
John J. Bond
Kelso
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Cuthbert
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Photographic World
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Charles A. Kelly
Terrell County Superior Court
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Houston County
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Findlay Iron Works
Third Street
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Macon, Ga
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