Financial and government notices from a New York report
A New York paper reports a rise in August internal revenue receipts over 1877, details Treasury operations, land office layoffs, new officials, currency moves, and a yellow fever relief effort. It notes Navy, War, and Interior actions, railroad news, and international events including naval visits and stock market signals.
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Deent
Attorney-General
West Point
Treasury
United States
Commissioner of the Land Office
Why Do We Do Things Without Reason
Yonkers Gazette surveys everyday quirks from cheer counts to handedness and road habits. It ponders why people act in predictable, odd ways and how custom shapes our simple choices.
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Neer
Yonkers. Gazette
Bordeaux Exempts from Strikes Says Consul Gerrish
United States Consul Gerrish reports Bordeaux with 150 workingmen's societies has avoided strikes. Farm laborers save enough to be wealthy proprietors earning 380 to 420 francs yearly plus lodging. day laborers earn 2 to 3 francs daily with wine. Tobacco industry employs 150 men and 1,400 women, paying 5 francs to men and 2 to women daily. Over 700 copper shops employ 4,000+. Slaves mainly come from Baltic and Adriatic borders. a few from the United States, though quality of manufacture is questioned.
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Scientific American
United States
Gerrish
Europe
Baltic
Adriatic
Mosquito Horror from the Inland Trek Interview
An interview with Captain Barge in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat recalls a brutal inland mosquito invasion. He describes tiny biting pests penetrating nets, biting through clothing, driving cattle and men to madness, and forcing smoky fires as the only protection. The ordeal left men swollen, eyes bloodshot, and animals skin and bone.
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Tropics
Missouri River
Skeeters
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
One-Armed Worker Cleares Land in Mississippi
A Mississippi paper notes a man with one arm working on the Homochitta River clearing land in this county. He earns three to three and a half dollars per day and handles his own cooking, clearing from three quarters to a full acre daily. If he had two perfect hands he might be in the city suffering from the times.
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Wall Street’s Turnaround Man Rufus Hatcu
Rufus Hatcu rose from a $2,500 failure to wealth, after settling creditors he was readmitted to the board. He is now estimated worth about a quarter of a million dollars, most of it earned in Granger stocks.
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