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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1880
Page
1
The day's pages record passage debates on the Army Appropriation bill and measures limiting troop use at polls, amendments on Indian affairs, and a census report. Other items include immigration statistics, fires, murders, and political conventions in multiple states.
Ignatius Donnelly asks the Committee on Elections to investigate the claim that a friend wrote an anonymous letter to Mr. Springer of Illinois with a corrupt proposition. A West Point grievance inquiry is headed by Sparks Johnson and Brown. Senate confirms Angell Swift Trescott to serve China commissions. Postage and related issues rise to 23,779,335 in nine months. Governor Howard of Dakota Territory dies in Washington. Senate Democrats delay Spofford Kellogg action pending Geneva Award. Vanderbilt reports 20 million sent to Treasury after 31 million owned.
A Loudon telegram reports the British steamer Syria from New Orleans to Liverpool abandoned in a sinking state. Her crew were rescued by a Hamburg steamship. Constantinople reports the Turkish Foreign Minister demanded the surrender of an American convicted by the US consul for manslaughter. Heap refused to deliver the culprit and negotiations were anticipated.
Debates on the Geneva Award bill continued in the Senate on the 13th. In the House Mr. Ewing closed debate on the Army Appropriation bill defending the poll-troops amendment. minor amendments passed and the poll-troops vote was party-line 116 to 95. The Census bill conference report was agreed after debate. Other items include Vera Cruz reporting the first yellow fever case, British Liberal gains, Burmese ambassador denial of Mandalay massacre, and various political and legal notes.
Thomas Boyd of Belfast Ireland leaped from a 120 foot railroad bridge over Green River amid a large crowd from Bowling Green Cave City and Upton's. He landed in the water and swam ashore to a cheer, earning a silver hatful amid claims of the highest jump in the state.
Nasby reports an interview with Tilden in New York as the Kentucky delegation backs a push for the presidency. He outlines using office holdings and press influence, mentions the Louisville Collectorship, and notes opposition from rival Democrats and a Chicago dispatch detailing mob violence at Indiana polls.
A Black citizen in Shelbyville Indiana faced a vote challenge when a Democrat swore no Black person should vote. A Republican provided an affidavit asserting the man qualified, reflecting violent racially charged tactics in the election scene.
A collage of newspaper quotes critiques Tilden as the Democratic standard bearer, cites fear of negro voters influencing South politics, notes Field nomination chatter, and discusses Democratic immigration ploys in Missouri. It includes commentary from Indianapolis Journal Philadelphia Times Burlington Hawkeye Chicago Tribune and Chicago Journal.
A Sentinel critique catalogs a long string of Democratic missteps over the past decades. It frames the party as repeatedly opposing emancipation wartime measures and civil rights, resisting progressive policies, and backing Southern interests, with many examples from Reconstruction to late antebellum era actions.
The Indianapolis Journal criticizes executive usurpation and the Maine defense as part of a wider critique of Bourbon misrule over the last twenty-five years. The piece argues a full history would require a volume to document the party’s actions.
The speech portrays the Republican party as principled and capable of securing resumption and federal enforcement of civil rights. Sherman argues the GOP must lead on education and equal rights, warns against Democratic control of the presidency and judiciary, and praises recent economic recovery and reduced debt as proof of Republican policy success.
A parade of brief notes ranges from a 15 year old Armstrong County girl’s weight to Japan’s shell mounds with cannibalism clues, Irish immigration, London Times offices, New York laws on women in school posts, Irish child hunger, and a Pearson County NC eagle attack where a father killed the bird after it seized his child.
The salary of Rev. Dr. John Hall rose to 15000. Bishop Bowman invited to move to St Louis as Bishop Ames dies. A Northampton Mass church gains a telephone for the homebound. Miss I M Guthrie sails as the first foreign missionary for the Methodist Protestant Church to Japan. A Berlin dispatch notes the Bishop of Strasburg allowed to reopen the seminary. The New York Observer offers 100 to theological students for essays opposing infidelity. Danville Seminary in Kentucky hosts small classes with a 10000 volume library. Atlanta Baptist Seminary has ninety students, many freedmen pursuing ministry amid hardships.
A historical piece notes New York City as reluctant to grow, with municipal population now not less than 1,200,000 and Brooklyn around 550,000 while the metropolitan area hosts about 2,000,000. It emphasizes geographic constraints and historic growth from 1790 to 1850, comparing New York to other cities and marking the urban pull of surrounding regions.
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