Mixed 19th century dispatches from Vienna to New York
The report covers various ills and events: military advances near Mery and Port Ervis. a bank manager in jail in Montreal. a Miss Blanche Tucker leading a Pinafore tour. resignation rumors of Count Zichy. a furniture factory blaze in Chi hn. a San Francisco blacksmith shot. escapes from Beaver jail. emigration investors bound for Texas land. Harvard bequest rumor. a Ruskin bust. Ohio miners seeking higher pay. counterfeit coin arrests. General Grant platform incident. Grant era politics and theatre notes. postal card plans. Rhode Island Assembly call. Atlantic Gulf railroad sale. Saturn's rings and moons. Carlotta’s sanity recovery. counterfeit coin rings. missing Waynesburg printer. pleuro-pneumonia outbreak in cattle.
1880 Presidential Hopefuls and Political Shifts
Brick Pomeroy announces candidacy for 1880 president as a wing of the greenback party. Go Prove Orta doubts Indiana’s GOP standing and cites Grant possibility. Uplifted by talk of a southern exodus of exodists to the northwest, and Kerionoe inviting Evarts to Louisiana for speeches, signaling renewed Republican canvassing. The ball is rolling.
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Brick Pomeroy
Greenback Labor Party
Orta
Indiana
General Grant
Mr. Orth
Keriooe
Evarts
Louisiana
South
Gold reserves surge in New York bank network
Observers note rapid gold accumulation, with New York clearing house banks holding about $10,000,000 in gold. If trends continue, deposits could climb to $15,000,000 within weeks, reflecting rising confidence in the treasury and banking system.
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United States Treasury
New York Clearing House Association
Republican gains tally across Northern states show broad GOP wins
The Republican majority rises across Massachusetts Pennsylvania Wisconsin Minnesota Nebraska and other northern states after Tuesday elections. Legislative races favor stalwarts with widespread rejoicing in GOP ranks.
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Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nebraska
Trade surplus rises in September and year to date
Figures from the secretary of the treasury show that in September the excess of exports over imports of merchandise was 20 620 087 dollars. For the twelve months ending September 30 the merchandise trade surplus totals 256 846 277 dollars. Excluded are gold and silver coin and bullion, whose September imports exceeded exports by 27 130 587 dollars, and the year by 27 164 821 dollars.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Washington
Congress to consider limits on blind and aged immigrants
Since January first 125000 immigrants have arrived at Castle Garden. A large percentage are blind, aged and crippled paupers. Congress will be asked at its next session to pass legislation to curb such immigration and provide for returning the blind, crippled, and aged sent here with passage paid to abandon them.
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Castle Garden
Congress
Congressman Willetts Visits Chandler Before Death
The narrative suggests Edwin Willetts, congressman from Michigan's second district, was in Chicago the night Senator Chandler died. Willetts called at Chandler's Pacific Hotel rooms at midnight and spoke with him while Chandler, seemingly in good health, mentioned a troublesome cough from a cold caught in Janesville and praised Chicago reception and his canvass. Willetts left about twenty minutes after twelve, unaware Chandler was near death.
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Spaulding
Senator Chandler
Edwin Willetts
Congress
Michigan
Chicago
Pacific Hotel
Janesville
Tilden Income Tax Case Sees Witness Struggle in New York
In the United States district court in New York City the government pursues taxes and penalties from Samuel J. Tilden for failing to file returns. Broker Colgate testified but recalled nothing definite about Tilden’s dealings, refused to produce books, and the proceeding adjourned. The judge suggested memory may improve with access to the books, while noting Colgate’s vague recollections of Fort Wayne stock dealings.
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Samuel J. Tilden
United States District Court
New York City
Colgate
Tilden
Fort Wayne
Dominion
District of Columbia
Halbert E. Paine
McCreary
Herman
Army
Devens
Congress
United States Court
Army of the Cumberland
Gen. Ney H. Thomas
Washington
Tilden’s nomination chances stir Democratic party debate
The piece weighs Tilden as a live factor in the presidential race and notes factions betting on his Nomination while urging caution. It discusses the party’s internal calculations, the bar system’s influence, and Tilden’s persistent push amid mixed public signals. A separate farmyard tale follows, detailing a church powder incident and a redeemed suitor seeking consent to marry Jennie after honesty vows.
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New York
Tilden
Samuel J
Indiana school fund and state assets praised as model system
The Indiana school fund exceeds nine million dollars at six percent to the state and eight percent to individuals secured by mortgages on lands valued at twice loaned. No loan over one thousand dollars. Annual increases come from fines and forfeitures. State school property tops twelve million, with strong progress. Also reports Indians from Thornburg and White River agency massacre to be surrendered to U S authorities for trial.
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Indian Department
White River Agency
Indiana
Colorado
Thornburg and
United States
Never-Ending Game Turns Into Grim Frontier Tale
Old Bodkin spins a family legend about the Gobins emigrating from Greenbriar County Virginia in 1859 while playing a card game. The tale blends cards, conquest, and a harsh trek across the Alleghenies to a desert camp where horse theft and abduction by Indians end the scene as the group leaves before the story concludes.
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Alleghanies
Ohio
Atkinson
Trump
Hoyle
Hell
Gobins
Return of British Army Volunteers by Nation
A fragmented report notes nations contributing to the British or total enlistment. It states 178,660 men with no Irish units, estimating Ireland’s share about 7 to 17 percent. Scotland adds 14,000 men roughly seven percent, Wales and other regions cover the remainder near seventy percent.
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Ireland
Scotland
Vale
Wales
The Farmer's Strategy Revealed in a Quiet Plot
Farmer Evans notes missing provisions from his woodpile and schemes to uncover the thief. He later resolves to reveal the culprit, while Bailey courts Jennie, and Evans recalls his late wife as he muses on the future. Jennie wrestles with confessing her love to Bailey.
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Farmer Evans
Tim
Jivani
Jennie
Bailey
Ptm
Harry
Romise
Evans
Ter
Gentles
Remedies for neuralgia from historical home cures
A historical note lists various folk remedies for neuralgia including heat therapy with hot oats as a pillow, camphor chloroform and alcohol applications, peppermint essence baths, Canada thistle tea with sweating, sal ammoniac solution dosages, and gelsemin extract dosed in three hourly intervals. The passage reflects period medical practices with no modern endorsement.
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Meian de Taeie
Battle of Franklin Soldier Defies Command and Jokes It
During the Franklin battle a fleeing soldier ignored orders to return to duty. Colonel B, A A G, shouted halt and threaten to shoot. The soldier replied Shoot and be hanged What’s one bullet to a basketful The colonel later joked about the incident.
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Franklin
Flying Son of Mars
Colonel B
Tea The Real Panacea of Arctic Travel and Its Effects
The text discusses how lemon juice or vegetable acids make tea more exciting while alkali reduces stimulation. It notes aphrodisiacal drugs in tea, tea’s effects on heart rate sleep and elimination, and that tea can cause constipation or nausea. It claims tea calms in cold climates and that Dr. Kane called tea the real panacea of Arctic travel. It warns green tea can cause wakefulness and nervous symptoms.
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East
Arctic
Kane
Fatal shootout over two counties and a sheriff’s shot
Murray a government teamster, while intoxicated, fatally wounded Charles Chapman of Los Angeles. Sheriff Rankin killed Murray with a double barreled shotgun to end the chase. Coroner’s jury exonerates the sheriff.
Ohio News Capsule From Peninsula to Millersburg Highlights
A Peninsula incident leaves Fred Owens with a shattered leg after a mere jump attempt on a canal boat. The Pomeroy rolling mill sells for 35000 to Moulton McMillan and Willard, Ironton. Multiple accidents and crimes populate the region from Richmondale to Kidd’s mines, Tyre to Cuyahoga. A Chicago linked Anti-Secret Society meeting in Cedarville and farm drought impacts across several counties are noted along with a fatal wooden debris collapse and a Masnful burglary spree halted by alarms and guns. The Ohio Insurance Co. sells to North German Insurance for 95000, and wheat prices fluctuate with shipping delays. A local woman is seriously injured by a runaway horse, while two young children suffer severe burns from clothing fire. A man attempts suicide in his New Lexington cell, narrowly thwarted by guards.
Origin and use of the motto E Pluribus Unum
Mr Louden Snowden of Philadelphia traces the motto to Col Reed of Uxbridge Mass noting its appearance on 1786 Newburgh copper coins from a private mint and later on New Jersey coppers a Brasher gold doubloon and English struck pieces. He covers its gradual return on U S coins from 1798 onward and its recent restoration to the silver dollar.
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Philadelphia
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Uxbridge
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N. Y
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Kentucky
England
Tramp at Carltons confronted with revolver threat
Ogdensburg Journal reports a tramp visiting Henry Carlton on Hamilton Street was served fried cakes. He accused the food of poisoning and was met by Mrs Carlton drawing a revolver and ordering him out. He backed toward the door as she kept him covered.
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Ogdensburg Journal
Henry Carlton
Hamilton Street
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