Old World News And Events From the London Desk
A long dispersion of items reports the death of eminent archaeologist Sir John Wilkinson in London on the 2nd. ship Catherine Griffiths wrecked near the Scilly Islands with eight drowned. Vienna and Berlin runs on diplomacy, Turkish reform, Prussia Austria moves, and various elections in the United States show shifts in governors and legislatures amid financial and railway upheavals.
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John Wilkinson
London
Catherine Griffiths
Sunderland
Scilly Islands
Beiliff
Austria
Sublime Porte
Provinc
Turkey
Realsberg
J. J. Ronaldson & Sons
West India
United States
Schenck
London Times
Madrid
The
Catalonia
Apd
I T
Saballs
Spain
Dorregaray
Market Summary of Grain and Livestock Prices in Various Cities
New York reports fluctuations in flour wheat and corn prices with No 2 spring in Chicago and Milwaukee trading around 1.27 and 1.29 respectively, Western oats at 38 to 79 cents, pork mess at 23.12 and dressed hogs around 10, lard near 1.33, cattle varying from 4.50 to 12 percent gains, and hogs at 8 to 8.5s. Philadelphia and East Liberty show best cattle at 6.00 to 6.50 and hogs around 7.50 to 8.40, while Chicago cash closes reflect mixed grain prices and pork and lard firming slightly.
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New York
Chicago
Milwaukee
Northwestern
East Liberty
Philadelphias
Market Prices Reported for Hogs Sheep and More
The column lists varied prices for beef and pork products and livestock. Hogs graded good to choice range from 7.60 to 8.12 per unit, sheep from 1.00 to 4.50, and meats such as dime and butchers stock show prices between 2.50 and 4.50.
Foreign Gossip Sparks Royal Ties and War Talks
A Portland column rounds up global chatter. Queen Victoria’s expanded brood, the Duchess of Edinburgh’s new arrival, and Albert Edward’s India departure thread royal life with social quirks. In Cochin China, men’s and women’s dress blur, hair ribbons mark gender, and a French officer mixup causes mirth. The Pall Mall Gazette notes Mrs Turner defending a policeman in a riot, while Japanese troops rely on coolies for shelter, food, and off duty comforts. An Ottoman family journal concept hints at rising Turkish female literacy, and Gen. Washburn in Minneapolis regains fortune after a local insolvency. BERGNH’s cruelty group denounces ear piercing as barbarous.
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Tur Pope
Russia
Duchess of Edinburgh
Queen Victoria
Louise
Princess of Wales
Albert Edward
India
Albert
Cochin China
Pall Mail Gazette
Mussulman
S’noras
Sydney
New Guinea
New York
Larimer
WN. Y
Canolienati Times
Martha Jane
Phipps
Broadway
Mississippi
New Yorker
Arkansas
New Orleans Times
Massachusetts
Berkshire County
Grand Crossing
Cook County
Ill
Leavenworth Mountain
Col
Matthew Walpole
Groton
Wen
Boston Advertiser
Supreme Court of Iowa
Supreme Court of Indiana
Supreme Courts
Chicago Evening Journal
Old Smith
Yazoo
New Orleans
Springfield
Mass
Victor Emmanuel
The Bell Maker and the Inventor Boy
A half-wit boy known as Inventor helps guard a furnace. A blast ruptures the kiln and fails, but he taps a vent driving the molten bronze into a mold. The bell is cast. The master and workers learn the boy’s feat saved the project and gave him his reason back, uniting faith and craft.
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St. John’s
George
The Bell of St John s Cathedral
In a smoky harbor foundry near the town of B a gang prepares to cast a colossal bell for St John s Cathedral. As the forge master departs with the crew one odd helper named Mopus watches the furnace with instinctive skill, a remnant of a once bright mind, while others boast of the bell s grandeur ahead of the cast.
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Rufus Sargent
St. John’s Cathedral
Cyclops
Mt. Etna
George
Mepus
Industrial notes on glass wool and sheep skins
A survey of Missouri plate glass industry growth and wool dealing in Boston. Pittsburgh puddlers face price cuts and a likely lockout. Washington Territory yields serpentine marble, promising wealth. New York's sheep-skin trade tops $5 million yearly with large hides from Calcutta. Leather uses span bookbinding to furniture making. A widow outwits lightning-rod salesmen in a sharp punchline.
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Missouri
Boston
Pittsburgh
Washington Territory
Stevens County
Columbia River
New York
Calcutta
Morocco
Spanish Moss Trade In Southern States Supplies Bales
The article notes that about 10 000 bales of Spanish Moss are annually shipped from New Orleans. It explains the plant Tillandsia usneoides grows on trees in the Southern states and is used for upholstery cushions packing and paper making.
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New Orleans
Pointless musings mix with quirky notes in a era column
A collage of commentary cites social quirks and oddities from humor to politics. It ranges from fashion barbs and trains to bee trees, lawsuits, and royal anecdotes. Notable lines include a quip about women and washing machines, the King’s fox story, and a cider of miscellany.
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Berlin
Prussia
Foerster
Ignatieff
Constantinople
Duke Pasquier
Vatican
Holy See
Urge
Hth
Strousberg
Servia
Paria
Prince of Wales
Bombay
Goldman
Piskall
Kirkwood
Iowa
A. P. Gaylord
Saginaw City
Interior Department
Secretary of the Treasury
England
One Jackson
Jefferson County
St. Paul
Minnesota
Pfender
Robeson
New Jersey
David Robinson
Kokomo
Ind
Atchison
United States Grand Jury
Albany Argus
Bigelow
Dem
Secretary of State
Benedict
H. B. Claflin & Co
American and Spanish Claims Commission
J.G. Deangelica
Cuba
NEW World
L. C. Huck
A. C. Hesing
Rice
Gaston
Crapo
Maryland
Carroll
Portland
Oregon
Lane
Congress
Salem
Warren
Rep
Canada
St. Familie
Isle of
Orleans
Freedman’s Bank
Washington
Brigham Young
Ann Eliza
Brigham
Pennsylvania
Hartranft
Senate
House
Arkansas General Assembly
Taramany
New York City
Recorder Hackett
John Morrissey
Albany Evening Journal
Atlanta
Georgia
Sherman
Tex
Joseph Goldman
Moses Piskall
St. Louis
Wm. McKee
Globe-Democrat
Constantine Maguire
Plymouth Church
Deacon West
Mr. Beecher
W. W. Crapo
L. Q. C. Lamar
G. Wiley Wells
H.D. Money
O. R. Singleton
C. KE. Hooper
Roderick Seal
N. L. Norton
Henry Warren
Ludington
Wisconsin
Kuehn
Assembly
Post Office Department
John B. Raymond
Vicksburg
Henry R. Pease
Nebraska
Treasury Department
Congregational Association of Ministers
H. W. Beecher
Wm. Taylor
Budington
Brooklyn
Parsons and Martin
New York Theological Seminary
Chas H. Everest
Beecher
Moody and Sankey
Colorado
Council
D. C
Centralia
Boston & Amboy
Raritan
South Somerville
N. J
Boundbrook
Palmer H. Thompson
W. D. Washburn
Minneapolis
Minn
Gen. Washburn
Bergnh’s Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Baby Lulu
Lulu
Birdie
Blackie
Harper’s Bazar
Industrial
Detroit Free Press
Paryo
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