Vast European death rates cited by Home Monthly
The Home Monthly asserts Europe suffers nearly double the death rate of the United States. It lists costs to the U S from clergy, criminals, lawyers, and intoxicants, notes a fatal case from Fond du Lac, and reports on lead arsenic pipe poisoning in Sacramento.
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United States
Sacramento
Cal
Board of Health
Pichincha
Ecuador
Smyrna
Alexander Pope
Clinton
Pope
America
Joseph Park Custis
Virginia
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Pacific
Dr. Schwabe
Berlin
Diana
Ephesus
London
British Museum
Wood
Mansfield, Coldwater
Lake Michigan
Pioneer
Journal Des Debats
Massachusetts
Hundred Workmen On Snpps Work At Albany Capitol
TarrTeEEN hundred workmen are now snpps on the new Capitol at Albany N.
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New Capitol
Albany
Love Stronger Than Death Ends Winter Rescue
A Newfoundland correspondent recounts a winter snowscape tragedy. A widowed mother and her 16 year old son perish beneath a cliff after a failed search by villagers, the son refusing to leave his mother and all saving efforts proving futile. They die entwined, a poignant tale of devotion.
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Newfoundland
Baby detained for fare on railway car
A woman with a baby aboard a T G and B railcar between Orangeville and London claimed poverty and a sick infant. Conductor Lewis detained the supposed child, the baby proved to be a bundle of clothes, and the woman, Mrs Kelly, went home without her offspring while the “baby” is cared for at the station.
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London
Ont
T. G. and
B. Railway
Orangeville
Lewis
Come Home Hiram Ulysses A Dismal Office Holder Lament
Satirical verse laments Hiram Ulysses as a dismal office holder. It mocks political figures from Philadelphia conventions to the Ohio telegrams and recalls a circus anecdote about Ulysses S. Grant amid public weariness with leaders.
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Father
Hiram Ulysses
San Domingo
Philadelphia
Methodist Conference
Ohio
Grant and Our War Records in the Congressional Inquiry
The New York World contends Congress is prolonging its inquiry into alleged tampering with War Department records involving President Grant. It asserts the committee’s preliminary findings implicate Grant and criticizes his delaying stance and acceptance of the nomination.
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New York World
Robert Walpole
Committee of Congress
War Department
General Grant
Grant
The
Union
Settle the Question Settled by the Philadelphia Convention
The Philadelphia Convention chose a Permanent President, while Judge Settle is accused of early secession activity in North Carolina and treason against a government still functioning in the South. The piece alleges Settle was appointed minister to Peru by Gen. Dent, later aligned with Grant’s NC slate, now defending civil service reform as Tory to the Union.
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Settle
Chicago Tribune
Philadelphia
Judge Settle
North Carolina
Jeff. Davis
Senate
Pickens
South Carolina
Wise
Pryor
Virginia
United States
South
Davis
Lee
Gen. Dent
Peru
Washington
Grant
Gen
Sumner
Trumbull
Schurz
President's Acceptance Letter Secretly Drafted by Pencil
The telegraph reports the President wrote his letter of acceptance for Philadelphia renomination with a pencil and made only one verbal change after the first draft. The note implies questions about authorship, recalling the Emancipation Proclamation draft lost in the Chicago Historical Society building fire.
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Philadelphia
Chicago Historical Society
Emended Draft of Mr Grant's Letter Sought for Preservation
The Chicago Times notes value in acquiring the pencil draft of Mr Grant's letter altered with a single sacred change. It suggests framing the original to present to the Historical Society, arguing preservation denied the Lincoln document should be extended to this item.
Then and Now in tariff debate across eras
The piece contrasts 1860 tariff collection at 6.25 per 100 with 1871 at 3.11 per 100 and critiques Democratic claims of cheaper governance. It presents per capital expenditures under Buchanan era versus a proposed Radical Government, noting exclusions for war navy Indians pensions and interest. The New York World relays Times figures and questions print coverage.
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New York Times
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Buchanan
Orr
Times
New York World
Svessisensesraes
Resignation of Casey as New Orleans Collector disputed
A June telegram reports Louisiana delegates and Senator Kellogg protesting the acceptance of Casey's resignation by President Grant. The President vowed not to accept Colonel Casey's resignation, though the brother-in-law remains in office alongside Leetuid Stocking.
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Grant
Casey
New Orleans
Washington
Louisiana
Philadelphia
Kellogg
Words versus Deeds in Grant Platform Pledge
The Grant platform pledges Civil Service reform Civil rights and labor support yet Congress recently rejected the Civil Rights bill and the Late Commission bill. The Philadelphia declaration that past records are the party’s best pledge for the future gains significance.
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Philadelphia
Bayonet bill clash exposes split over Grant measures
A Chicago paper rails at Republicans for trimming the bayonet bill as a rider on an appropriation amid fears of overreach. It notes Radicals oppose Grant’s re election, while Democrats block both the bayonet and Ku Klux bills, slowing a dangerous push with a few Grantites yielding.
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Sreakine
Chicago
Grant
Kelley
Senate
Chicago Times
Satirical Philadelphia platform echoes old California bravado
The piece mocks a Philadelphia platform as ludicrous satire and recalls 1849 California frontier bravado. A quip about a pistol duel with Brown is cited to illustrate compromised threats to England and Spain and the indignation it provoked.
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Franklin
Philadelphia
California
Brown
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