Unity Call and assorted notes from Georgia press 1874
The Appeal urges unity and calls a July executive committee meeting in Atlanta, with guidance to pause nominations. The page lists diverse items: coffee prices, civil suits for spouses in Illinois, bountiful Georgia crops, deep Michigan snow, wages at Columbus factories, a band’s return to Georgia, wheat flour movements, a constitutional amendment on presidential election by popular vote, a botched execution rescript, corn planting optimism, a bleach-water pond in Iowa, Victoria Woodhull lectures, gloomy Sumter cotton prospects, a chick cholera cure from May-apple, Sumter grange warehousing funding, Shaker society notes, and advice to former slaveholders to record names of slaves for potential federal payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Georgia
Atlanta
Ilinois
Upper
Ontonagon
Michigan
Senate Passes Civil Rights Bill Amid Controversy
The Senate approved Sumner's Civil Rights Bill by 29 to 16 despite fierce opposition. It outlines equal access to inns, transport, theaters, and schools and imposes penalties of up to 1000 dollars or one year in jail for violations. The measure awaits House action and presidential assent.
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Senate
Sumner
House
Grant
Congress
Massachusetts
United States
Texas Correspondence from Paris Texas May 16 1874
A Texan travelogue recounts a journey from Galveston to Paris via Houston Sherman and Brookston. The writer praises Galveston dining and city life, notes rough stage travel, then describes Paris soil growth wealth and institutions including six churches, 100 businesses, two seminaries, mills, newspapers and a $50,000 courthouse. The author contemplates Texas as a potential home while promising more updates and facts in future letters.
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Texas
Lt le
Galveston
Sbissu
Atlanta
Houston
Dallas
Sherman
Trans Continental
New Road
Brookston
Mr. Wooten
Bullock
Paris
North
Georgia
Delta County
Fannin
Red River
Marin
Cincinnati
Suffering in North Louisiana Report Details Widespread Flood
A Wynn's Island flood scene is described with ten to twenty miles wide and sixty miles long, water ten feet deep in Joel Wynn's dwelling, famine and disease in Madison and Tensas parishes, stock losses, and vanished credit. Nearby notes mention a strong child and Arkansas governors resembling historic figures.
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Wynn
Eland
Boeuf River
Louisiana
Wynn's Island
Joel R. Wynn
Monroe
Ouachita
Madison
Tensas
Girard
Alto
Red Mouth
Vicksburg Herald
Quitman Grand Jury Presentments 1874 General Report
May Term 1874 grand jurors of the Superior Court present roads and bridges in good condition. Jail and court house repairs recommended including doors, sills, roof, and yard posts. Names added to and removed from county poor list, and school teachers unpaid claims to be paid from Public School Fund. Appointments of road and revenue commissioners and jail feeding rates set. Praise for Judge Bart lett and Solicitor General Col Flewellen. presentments published in the Cuthbert Appeal.
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Superior Court
Bey
Commissioners of Roads and Revenue
Dozier
Court House
Margarett -Williams
George Barrett
Raleigh Henderson
Saral Wigs
Coamy
Elizbeth Fields
Lewis Lambert
Mary Clansey
Mary Parham
Mollie Low
Winter
Messrs
W. J. McKee
H. M. Kaigler
Schook
Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue
Jas. M. Olivers
W. H. Key
T. J. Bryan
W. J. Jordan
Lattor
Cuthbert
Bartlett
Menner
Kid@oo
Col
Flewellen
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jas. P. Sawtell
Es Cuthbert
Democratic Party
Tros. Hardeman,jr
Dem
Columbus
Fort Valley
Mississippi Valley
Stovall’s
Augusta
New York
Savannah
Henry Jackson
Leesburg
Iowa
Victoria Woodhull
Salt Lake City
The
Sumter Republican
Atlanta Constitution
Granges
Sumter
Americus
Samson Bell
Ann Lee
England
America
Supreme Court of
Marietta Journal
Jas. Somerhill
Marietta
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Warren
Arkansas
Brooks
Brownlow
Baxter
Old Bender
W. B. Tackett
Quitman Grand Jury
W.J. Brows
T C Gatchings
Jaz M. Balkomb
John Atwell
Jack Guilford
James R Moore
William Graddy
R A Sanders
Jas D Owen
Thomas
Thomas Lindsay
Laban Owens
Hiram Johnson
Simeon Griffin
Jas A Avery
Green B Horsely
Jas A Smith
Reuben Tye
Arthur S Avery
Quitman County
E. J. McOre
Quarterman
Lumpkin Street
Board of Education
Thomas Coleman
Im County
T. S. Powell
TS. Powell's
Crockery
Tronstone
Ee Ereger Bakers and Bowes
T. S. Powell's, Druggit, Bookseller & Stationer
T. S. Powells
Draggist
Mawy Grier
Cabbet
Randolph
State of Georgia
Arthur Hood
le Wise Parker
Fune
A. D
W. Ti. Swytit
Aladdin Security Oil
C. West & Sons
Baltimore
T. S. Po”Ell
Drouggist
Hale
Rogersville
Tennessee
Holston
D. Powel
Hawkins County
Isqueens Deligh
J.S Pemberton
Powell
Hunt, Rinkin & Lamar
T.kiddoo & CO
Tilden & Co
T.S. Powell
Whiting
Pe Aireir Durham Es
Eee
Dragvis
Fairchild
Dragpist
T.8s
Rickard
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