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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1883
Page
2
Senate and House proceedings cover election of officers, committee appointments, and rules amid party divisions. Reports note new standard time for DC, rail and land grants, and a centennial tribute to Washington. Also listed are accidents, crimes, and economic shifts across states.
The Rules Committee on the eighteenth proposed dividing the old Education and Labor Committee into two panels the Committee on Education and the Committee on Labor and also urged creation of a rivers and harbors committee. It kept most select committees but dropped the Census and Library Accommodation ones and recommended nine member panel on woman suffrage not adopted. Senate confirmations included Lawrence Weldon John Tanner Nathaniel Banks Alonzo Gresner John W Scott Samuel Holabird John Tooker Robinson Lock. Postal service expanded over 5000 miles of rail from July to December mainly in the South Southwest and West. General Cecil Clay named chief clerk of the Department of Justice. Curtis reports fewer hog diseases in the West no pork inspection system yet and a commission to study pork diseases to meet mid January. Colored National Convention executive committee met in Washington and prepared address on recent Virginia killings of Negroes. An additional long list of recess appointments were confirmed by the Senate on the nineteenth most as postmasters.
Six men were injured when two boilers exploded at D. P. Perghard's oil refinery in Pittsburgh on the 18th. Samuel Henderson and West Roup were likely fatally hurt as the boiler-house lay in ruins and a boiler section was hurled over 100 yards.
In Toledo, Judges John Baxter and Martin Welker overruled Fayette Brown’s motion to dismiss from the Brown Bonnell & Co. receivership. The court held the property in trust for all creditors with pro rata distribution after sale. Other items note Odd Fellows in Chicago policy talks, St. Louis Democratic Convention planning, a fatal prank in Paris Illinois, a West Virginia shooting, a jail escape suspect arrested in Cincinnati, the Occidental Hotel fire in St. Louis, a Maple Rapids burglary with heavy losses, Washington Territory woman suffrage, a gas tragedy in Cleveland, and a Huntingdon robbery by seven desperadoes.
Reports cite Irish refugees in Paris condemning O'Donnell execution and threats against Newgate and London Bridge. Other items note English artillerymen sailing to Egypt, a Chinese denial of involvement in the Annam murder, intrigue around Bonaparte kin, a Parisian duel aftermath, and police guards for Gladstone.
Resolutions at the Louisiana State Democratic Convention on the 21st include a push for a constitutional amendment prohibiting lotteries in the state. Gover nor McEnery was renominated by the Louisiana Democrats at Baton Rouge.
The Manito ba and Northwest Farmers Union resumed discussions on rights. They adopted a declaration demanding provincial powers to charter a railway, control public lands, remove agricultural duty, reform tariffs, and enable elevators and mills. Debate included forming a new northwest confederacy with broader regional interests against Ottawa and the CP Railway.
Washington reports Curtis, member of the President's commission on swine diseases, has returned and presented findings to Commissioner Loring. He toured Chicago packing houses and farms, finding less disease in Western hogs than feared and no support for offal feeding claims. Proposes two inspectors per packing house and calls for a full national commission by mid January.
A Laredo dispatch reports ongoing complaints against the new Mexican customs collector in New Laredo. Exactions include forcing all Texas goods bound for interior Mexico to be unloaded at the depot and hauled to the customs house, and applying the same process to coal shipments for the Mexican National Railway. Drayage charges have raised coal costs enough to push the railroad to abandon coal in favor of scarce mesquite wood.
The Louisiana Democratic State Convention met at ten and recessed till eleven. The Credentials Committee reported unanimously. John S. Young of Caddo was elected permanent chairman. Governor McEnery was renominated on the first ballot. Nominees include Clay Noblock for Lieutenant Governor Major E A Burke for State Treasurer J M Cunningham for Attorney General Oscar Arroy for Secretary of State and O B Steele for Auditor.
The official opening of the Cantilever Bridge on December 21 was a perfect success with twenty locomotives and twenty four gravel cars tested end to end. No deflection appeared as engineers from a three hundred strong commission took levels. Ten thousand spectators attended the ceremony and a banquet followed.
Four residents died of cholera on Wednesday near Assiout in Egypt as health authorities investigated the outbreak. Local officials urged cleanliness and warned residents to seek medical attention for symptoms.
The 14 December list names the standing committees with members from both caucuses. Key figures include Hoar, Cameron of Wisconsin, Sherman, and Edmunds chairing Privileges and Elections. Morrill and Sherman on Finance. and Cameron of Pennsylvania on Naval Affairs among others. The roster covers Appropriations through Transportation Routes to the Seaboard.
A scene shows a merchant offering two dollars a week to a naive young man and later the same pay to an older applicant. The merchant dismisses youth for experience and pace, then mocks age for being slow, while the piece ends noting the merchant’s cold exchange of May for December. The text shifts to a list of joint committees including Printing and Library, with members named.
In a Philadelphia boarding house at Broad and Spruce streets several residents fell ill with poisoning symptoms after eating cream puffs from G. Byron Morse’s confectionery at Thirteenth and Chestnut. Morse blamed possibly stale eggs. doctors suspect the dessert caused the illness, but all patients recovered.
A Boston Transcript report describes a boy in a horse car who fainted as the conductor asked for fare. The boy then explains he swallowed the payment to charge it to his father, surprising bystanders with his quick recovery.
A fisherman at Catemaco in Vera Cruz caught a red lizard nearly thirty feet long with an elephant like ear. The queer creature was shown for three days before local superstitious residents burned it on the public plaza.
Amos R. Eno, now eighty, has collected about $?719000 in rent from the Fifth Avenue Hotel property since its early years. Once poor, he built wealth as a successful dry goods jobber.
Mrs. Annie Cutlip of Webster County West Virginia is credited with killing twelve bears twenty seven deer and fourteen wild turkeys over her lifetime. The Chicago Times cites this feat prompting questions about rival women’s hunting prowess.
A strong man aboard a Charlestown Massachusetts horse-car ferried a large turkey and kept it seated beside him despite conductors warnings. The crew demanded the animal be moved, but the man argued the turkey is a seatmate and pays no fare, prompting laughter from other riders. The turkey remained seated as the scene amused all aboard.
Cloth cloaks come in large designs and various pelisses with close or nun sleeves. Ottoman ropped and camel hair fabrics in black, brown, gold, red, blue, and green top the season, lined with twisled silk or satin for easy wear. Pelisses with loose fronts suit slender ladies, while youths favor roped cloth jackets and short tailored outfits with velvet trims and braids.
Utica Herald replies to critiques of ancestral name spellings on the Oriskany monument. The paper says the monument honors the dead, not the living, and defends the Oneida Historical Society for using the spelling methods common among educated Mohawk Valley circles a century ago.
A collage of social notices and trivia mentions Colonel Ward Lamon leading the Goat Club in Denver, ex Senator Randolph giving his salary to charity, a India review titled Cream, Sojourner Truth’s birth name Isabella Hardenburg, and various portraits and birthdays. It covers President Adams and Van Buren busts found in the White House, Mrs. George Bancroft turning eighty, vast copies of Ben Hill speeches, Speaker Carlisle’s domestic happiness, and Long Branch resident Jason Butler aged 105 with a worldwide family footprint.
A collection of quips and anecdotes from various newspapers. It includes cartoonish remarks on rail travel, spelling with ue endings, a doctor patient exchange about fever, and humorous exchanges about languages, race, and a boy awaiting his editor. The pieces showcase light satire and linguistic humor from mid 19th to early 20th century papers.
A local column reproduces Artemus Ward style humor about a fight with a schoolmaster over spelling the word Kum. Ward narrator describes using a left hook and a broken nose, the janitor and pupils joining in as the skale master ends up in hospital. The tale ends with Ward and friends heading home for dinner.
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