Industrial Exposition at Cincinnati Ends in Success
The Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, ongoing for weeks, closed on Saturday to great acclaim. The year 871 is praised for mammoth fairs nationwide. A Madrid message signals reinforcements to protect Spanish dominions in Cuba as revolts persist. US Utah polygamy crackdown alleged to provoke Mormon Indian alliance and a broader northern conflict.
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Pennsylvania leads with five thousand majority in Radical gain
The report notes rioting in Philadelphia during the election with several deaths. Later dispatches discuss Mexico’s situation and Juarez’s potential new term amid revolutionaries. General Pedro Martinez arrives to issue proclamations opposing the reinstalled Mexican president.
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Harper Elected by 2200 in Scioto County Victory
From returns in the district John J. Harper of Scioto county is elected the regular Republican nominee by a 2200 majority over Plyley Bolling. Harper leads in Scioto 1600, Lawrence 1000, Jackson 125, while Plyley wins Vinton by 878 and Pike by 110. Rev J J Vallandigham plans a 500 page book detailing the late statesman career with engravings of birth place and Dayton residence.
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Paris Dresses Shipment To New York Firm Reveals Prices
Paris correspondents report a shipment from Paris to a New York firm comprising 600 ball gowns averaging 800 francs each 800 dresses at 600 francs each 1000 gowns at 500 francs and 2000 at 250 francs.
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Maine Sophomore Reports Narrow Money Loss to Parents
A Maine sophomore writes home describing a near miss of thirty seven dollars last week. Parents respond that they are glad the money wasn’t lost and ask how near. He replies he came within one of it, nearly losing $36.
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Election in Vinton County Lets Radicals Down Amid Low Turnout
Vinton County voters went to the polls quietly with Radicals failing to sweep the slate. Despite 150 absent Democrats and Sherman money, the Radical ticket won only a narrow House majority while state results skew similarly.
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Chicago Fire Devours City Leaving Ashes and Loss
A sprawling Chicago blaze began Saturday night in a Canal Street planing mill and, driven by south winds, razed six blocks by dawn. By Sunday afternoon the entire business district lay destroyed with 10,000 buildings gone and losses estimated at 500 million dollars. Thousands homeless, lives lost and order frayed, aid from across the nation flooded in as Gen. Sheridan’s troops tried to restore calm amid a city-wide inferno.
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Indiana bridal couch spurred by hidden firecrackers
President White urged Cornell students to read Reade's Terrible Temptation as Ithaca bookstores struggle to meet demand sparked by the advertisement. The frenetic publicity around the方案 has stirred local chatter.
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Texas Gains Four Congressmen in 1871 Election
Reports from Texas show a Democratic majority near 20 000 with four Congressmen elected, a gain of three. The piece notes postwar political shifting, some counties won despite bayonets, and predicts a Democratic presidential majority in 1872. It then recounts Wyoming suffrage progress with Justice of the Peace Mrs Morris and a domestic scene in court.
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Mormon Leaders Arrests Face polygamy charges and exile
The authorities press a crackdown on Mormon practices, targeting polygamy as the main point of attack. Cannon and other church figures face arrest as the crackdown compels adherents to abandon distinctive beliefs or flee to the wilderness.
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Deseret News
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Vermont Girl Wins Ta Crosse County Fair Equestrian Prize
A seventeen year old Vermont girl living in Towa plays the cabinet organ and sings in church. She drives two or four horses on the reaper during the week and recently won the first prize for equestrianism at the Ta Crosse County Fair.
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Fires in the Northwest Blaze Across Minnesota Wisconsin
The great fires sweep Minnesota and northern Wisconsin for a week, stretching nearly 300 miles, threatening vast timbered lands and many enterprises. The blaze reaches from near New London to the St Croix region and down the Lower Fox, with Fort Howard near Green Bay already affected. Michigan reports fires as well, though less extensive than the lake region disaster.
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Last act disruption at Mary Stewart theater in California
An audience scene turned emotional as a seat leapt from the orchestra and moved onto the stage during Mary Stewart’s performance. In Cincinnati Pike’s Opera House Jefferson’s two week run drew just over 2000 dollars, averaging under a dollar per ticket with the peak Thursday audience at about 1800 dollars.
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Cincinnati
Cannery term refers to castor beans as state pride
In a terse reflection the phrase proud cathartic State appears as a nickname used by loving sons for the Commonwealth of Kanens, linking national identity to the cultivation of castor beans.
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