The Negro Not an Issue and the Southern Outrage Rhetoric
The piece argues that Republican editors push the Southern outrage issue to gain political advantage. It contends the North cares about practical labor and taxation questions, not race, and labels anti negro agitation as a feeder of strife. It says negroes have protection and no longer justify national political focus. Washington Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Indiana
South
North
Congress
Washington Post
Reconstruction Measures and the Threat to Liberty
The piece denounces reconstruction measures as a bold assault on the political system and civil liberties. It argues that Radical Republicans aimed to centralize power, destroy state sovereignty, and install military rule, referencing Hayes, Thaddeus Stevens, the Crittenden Resolution, and the imagined fate of the Union. It cites Victor Hugo on tyranny and compares the usurpation to Louis Napoleon’s crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Magna Cherta
Dantons
Robespierres
Marais
Johnson
Ben Wade
Thad Stevens
Grant
Hayes
Electoral Commission
Federal Union
Victor Hugo
Louis Napoleon
France
American Register
Not Likely to Fire the Northern Heart in 1884
The piece argues the bloody shirt meme failed to sway Northern voters in 1876 and won’t help Republicans in 1884. It accuses Republicans of using carpetbagger abuses and Federal bayonets to justify despotic rule in the South and notes Virginia as the only Southern state under Republican control, dismissing Mahone’s potential acts.
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Virginia
Mahone
Louisiana
Exposure of an Alleged Fraudulent Ring in New York
The Tribune reports a citywide ring of contractors manipulating bids on Public Works contracts, similar to the canal ring eight years ago. Secrets, unbalanced bids, and deceptive estimates have cost the city millions, driving honest bidders out and swelling assessments. A specific case on Ninety-fifth Street shows a bid of eight dollars per cubic yard for earth and a quarter cent for rock, totaling 15 676 dollars but an estimated value near 112 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tribwne
Department
Department of Public Works
Thompson
Jimmy
Tribune Grives
J. Brady
Andersons Postal Telegraph Bill Aims Three Nationwide Lines
Representative Anderson of Kansas revises his Postal Telegraph bill to authorize the Postmaster General to build and operate three main lines from Bangor to St Paul, New York to Topeka, and Baltimore to San Antonio with miles totaling about 9,110. The plan includes government bonds worth 6 million dollars and transfer of Army telegraph lines after military use, plus connections with railroads and telegraph companies under government rates. Local offices would be in government post offices with stations at existing post offices.
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Washington
Anderson
Kansas
Bangor
St. Paul
New York
Topeka
Baltimore
San Antonio
Secretary of War
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury Department
Congress
Europe
Cherokee appropriation scandal described as harmless
Washington dispatch explains the 1883 $300000 Cherokee appropriation transfer to the Cherokee Nation Treasury. It asserts funds moved via official channels from Interior to Treasury and then to the Assistant Treasurer, with no possible bribe path through Phillips or others. Secretary Teller’s certificate is cited.
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Washington
Teller
Dawes
United States Treasury
Phillips
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of the Treasury
St. Louis
Cherokee Nation
New
LE. O. Graves
D. W. Lipe
Postal Affairs and Telegraphed Costs and Proposals
The department reports revenues of 45.5 million dollars with a 1.0 million surplus after liabilities. Expenditures reach 42.8 million, including 466 thousand for prior-year liabilities, and rail costs total 12.7 million. Postal notes and money orders expand, with billions in value and stamps issued. Debate over government versus private telegraph control outlines three plans, voting against full national ownership or competition while urging prudent reform.
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Department
Pacific Railway
Rairoad
Star Service
Pacific Railroad
New York City
New York
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia
Postal Union
Canada
Great Britain
Germany
Congress
Illinois Coal Output and Jobs Rise in 1883 Report
Colonel Lord reports Illinois coal production for 1883 with 49 counties active and 10,608,791 tons mined valued at 15,310,520 dollars. Employment totals 23,939 underground and surface workers, with 73 casualties and 13 strikes. output up 1,303,138 tons from 1882.
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Illinois
Lord
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Hbo
Cass
Edgar
Macon
Illinois Briefs: Post offices opened and disasters spread
Horton Station and Avondale gain new post offices while Brookside is discontinued. Burglary hits the Lincoln freight depot, 30 dollars stolen. A Newton farm blaze destroys a two story dwelling, losses rise to 3000 dollars insured for 1002. Fire at Chicago Evening Journal inflicts 125000 in total losses.
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Horton Station
Pike County
Avondale
Cook County
Brookside
Madison County
Charles Streetz
River Park
Charles A. Shanner
Plainview
Chicago & Alton Road
Lincoln
Logan County
Newton
Jasper County
Jesse R. Johnson
Thomas D. Grover
Chicago
Fred Zollars
Macon
Macon County
Ohio
Youngstown
Warren County
Isaac
Joseph Davis
Lake Erie & Western Road
Bloomington
Chicago Evening Journal
Journal Company
John B. Jeffreys
Kitty Hilgert
Frances Fairweather
Sheboygan
Wis
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Postal Affairs
Gresham
Illinois State News
Charles Stark
Belleville St. Clair County
Samuel Remine
Cornland
Carbondale
Jackson County
State Normal University
Cairo
Decatur
Mary Queen
Bay
Moultrie County
J. W. Orth
Linn & Store
Brooklyn
Henry Geiger
William
Julius Driver
James Barker
Lydia Coleman
Carmi
White County
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