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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1871
Page
2
Publication names The Appeal and identifies J P Sawtell Elam Christian as editors and proprietors. The note lists the newspaper’s masthead and leadership without additional context or date.
In this May 5, 1871 issue from Cuthbert, commentary spans global rail networks costing about ten billion dollars and 120000 miles, U.S. rail earnings, Supreme Court debates on the 1862 Legal Tender Act, Grant imperialist speculations, Ku Klux Force Bill implications, and sharp opinions on Congress and party integrity with notes on Holden, Butler, Farnsworth, and a Bainbridge quip about a boarding-school girl and a cow.
The piece argues the Ku Klux bill grants the president near absolute power and could create a military dictatorship. It notes public alarm at the word dictator, cites Grant’s term ambitions, and recalls a Virginian figure born 1798 who held high office and faced exile during the Civil War.
Last Saturday a large crowd gathered on the Champs Elysees as Free Masons prepared to depart for Thiers. Fire opened, scattering the crowd before the Masons planted 120 flags on the ramparts. They arrived at Versailles at six, with a flag bearing a vow of fraternity, but were blindfolded and sent back except for the President and two delegates. The mission failed. Rumor wrongly links Pap Dent to a possible marriage to Mrs. Smith, widow of the late John, hinting at a troubling prospect if the family is left without support. A Montgomery, Alabama incident reports a man killed by lightning while carrying stolen corn. a witness remarks, The Lord done turned kikluxes.
A compilation of brief items notes demographics in England, church activity in Atlanta, a jeweler’s sale, State Road rent, railroad politics, a Bainbridge anecdote, Southern Claims Commission fire, South Carolina slave contracts, a Norcross orphan home drive, a Quitman decoration day scene, an ex-confederate’s drift to Brazil, voting rights tests in South Carolina, a Harrison Van Buren anecdote, Grant’s nepotism, a Dale county scandal, a Norcross orphan donations tally, a Brazilian returnee’s woes, a Massa day fishing mishap near a pond, moccasin bite remedies, and local commentary from Bainbridge.
A letter from A. L. Hamrton, president of Andrew Female College, denies favoritism toward local merchants and vows to resign only if any claim of bias can be substantiated. Teachers’ cards rebuke defamatory insinuations by last week’s Appeal, with boarding students supporting the faculty. The page also comments on the Supreme Court decision about Legal Tender and a chemist’s whisky fusel oil experiments, citing concerns over railroads and justice.
A Washington letter to the Delaware County American describes extravagant living by senators and House members in Washington. It notes board at the Arlington Hotel for Cameron and wife at 450 a month, Fenton at 1000, Little 5 8 Cox at 1200, and a 1500 dinner for twenty. It also cites daily lodging rates, a senator’s annual spending, and plans for a million-dollar hotel near the Capitol.
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