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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1882
Page
4
An 1882 Dixon Illinois issue reports community affairs in brief items with notices, notices, and local happenings visible in the August 25 edition. The paper presents regional updates, named residents, and civic notes typical of a small town newspaper.
Lee County Illinois Democrats invite town delegates to a county convention in Amboy on Saturday September 2 1862 at 1 p m to select delegates for the State Congressional District and Legislative District Conventions and to conduct other business as needed. Representation is based on presidential vote with one delegate for every twenty five votes or fraction thereof. Signed Sherwood Dixon SPROUL E H GROH Democratic County Committee.
The Republican voters of Lee county are asked to send delegates to a September 4 Amboy convention to nominate officials and appoint delegates to Sterling and Dixon meetings. Primaries on September 2 will be held by township committees or individuals, with voting by ballot and full county representation.
The Democratic voters of Lee and Whiteside Counties are urged to send delegates to a Dixon convention on September 11 1882 at 2 pm to nominate candidates for Senator and Representative. Representation is one delegate per 200 Hancock votes plus a fraction over 100. Lee County gains 11 delegates and Whiteside 11. Political notes follow, including remarks on Senator Hill’s funeral, Hubbell’s status, a lightning strike joke, and indecorous commentary on public figures.
The Dominion of Canada has removed postage on newspapers and lowered the money order rate. Registration of letters cost ten cents locally, but is reduced to two cents abroad, providing security at a nominal charge.
A Alexandria cablegram notes an American admiral performing a graceful act as he steamed around the British fleet. His crew cheered each ship in succession, praising the brave man who dared go out on an American man-of-war and showed no fear.
Henry Ward Beecher recalls a circuit breakfast where jonny cakes were served. He jokes the cake is feathering out as a feather protrudes, and the hostess replies she warned Joan the meal barrel needed a cover or to move the hen-roost, a rural pun.
Conkling, still unsettled by his resignation, recalls a crowded French theater where a woman toppled from the gallery to the pit. A spectator heard her groaning and asked about injuries she quipped that she had lost the best seat in the middle of the front row.
The Pall Mall Gazette says Grey's sentence looks worse than it did, claiming any English journalist would publish the same statement from the given information. It calls his jailing a first magnitude scandal. British law officers review speeches at the Parnell banquet in Dublin to gauge action. Subscriptions, headed by Catholic bishops, flow in to pay Grey's fine.
Doctors studied the late Charles Guiteau's bones in Washington trying to assemble a skeleton for display. The porous bones resist proper reconstruction and the exhibit would not reflect well on Guiteau or satisfy visitors.
Pennsylvania independents circulate questions to candidates asking if they support reducing internal taxation. Those opposed face political defeat at the polls. The last congress dodged the issue by passing it to a commission whose report may fade as wind by December.
An Iowa election passed a constitutional amendment banning manufacture for sale and sale of intoxicating liquors including ale wine and beer. The amendment directs the general assembly to enact enforcement provisions and penalties, a topic now engaging public attention statewide.
The state of Oregon conducted a general election on May 5. Other states held elections across months August through November 1882 in Alabama Kentucky Tennessee Utah Arkansas Maine Vermont Georgia Indiana Ohio West Virginia California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Iowa Illinois Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Hampshire Nebraska Nevada New Jersey New York North Carolina Pennsylvania South Carolina Texas Virginia Wisconsin Arizona Dakota Idaho Montana New Mexico Washington Wyoming. Most states elected legislators with exceptions including Iowa Mississippi Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan Rhode Island. United States senators will be chosen in twenty six states and take seats March 4 1883.
The September North American Review features Dorman B. Eaton decrying levies called Political Assessments. Judge Edward A. Thomas examines whether oaths are essential in legal testimony. Thompson B. Maury discusses Tornadoes and their Causes with scientific and practical insights.
The piece surveys disaster prevention ideas from Clarence Cook on wind storms and notes other essays on architecture and memorial topics. It recounts a Marquette circus incident with a drunken performer and a German policeman, and ends with Congress debates over a courtesy resolution for Speaker Keifer.
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