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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1882
Page
2
General Sherman recommends expanding army to 30 000 and soldier pay to sixteen dollars a month. Reports recount numerous robberies murders fires accidents and jail escapes across Ohio Missouri New York Pennsylvania Louisiana and Wyoming with deaths, wrecks, and a looming cable project.
The governor of Kansas names H C Sr John as law clerk in Washington. Vermont holds a legislative joint session electing state officers including Nichols as Secretary of State and J Kingsley as Adjutant General. Francis George Shaw, noted anti slavery figure, dies at West New Brighton. New York City votes overwhelmingly to amend the Constitution for free canals. In the New York State Assembly race 178 of 203 incumbents sought reelection. 130 reelected, 43 defeated. Archpriest Bourget marks 60 years in priesthood. Corcoran to move John Howard Payne’s remains from Tunis to Washington for interment. The canal amendment gains wide support in New York.
News items note a Paris Boulogne train collision injuring passengers including the Countess of Somers, a stranded iron steamship Arragon near Anticosti, emigration statistics from Canada to the United States, paralysis illness in London, the ban on Le Courier des Etats Unien in Quebec, Moody and Sankey events in Cambridge halted due to illness, Halifax alms house fire killing 31, Arabi Pasha trial politics, a Clay Cross mine explosion killing 30, riot injuries in New Bay Vienna, English canal floods, and a Philippine hurricane.
Reports of explosive accidents and shipwrecks, floods in North Wales, and war notes from the Soudan. British trade shifts show imports up and exports down. Political tension in Egypt and Mecca cholera end, with Gladstone and Wolseley in focus.
Reports from Pensacola to Lake Ontario note yellow fever cases and three deaths. a fishing boat capsized near Bay Dedoor with all hands lost. a comet sighted in Hayti sparks apocalyptic fears. Other items include a railroad wreck near Clarksville with fatalities, a fatal fire in Frankfort, haylighting by a man with a pipe, river ice conditions in the Missouri, criminal sentences in Pittsburgh, a murder-suicide in D T, Spencer’s voyage to Liverpool, North Carolina political shifts, and India agricultural banks plan.
Returns from the July 7 elections indicate Democratic gains in key states with Republicans winning in Illinois and Kansas while Democrats sweep California and Georgia. Arkansas Missouri Louisiana and Maryland show mixed results with several districts leaning Democratic and some Republican. Florida New York and Minnesota tilt toward Democratic or Republican outcomes in Congress and state offices.
The report lists partial post election tallies across several states. North Carolina shows Democratic gains and Republican losses. South Carolina moves to six Democrats and one Republican. Tennessee and Texas favor Democratic majorities with varied congressional gains. Utah notes Gentile and Mormon voting. Virginia reports Wise as a Readjuster victor and a shift toward Democrats in Congress.
A Saturday streetcar ride on Shawmut Avenue ends with a plasterer declaring he must preserve his character after offering a seat to a woman. He retrieves his clothes and tools, prompting silence as six well-dressed youths watch, while a Hibernian man nearby adds to the scene.
The St Louis Globe reports a forthcoming elite directory aiming to compile about 6,000 names of prospective high spending customers arranged by street for door to door canvassing. Names of young ladies will not be published.
A Nebraska man describes oysters in the shell as an inside-out sort of dish and claims the pits are the best part of them. The quoted remark reflects a playful assessment of the edible shellfish.
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