Public meeting urged to reform state constitution
The Dubuque Herald notes calls for a convention to amend the state constitution. Delegates from several counties are invited to attend a late convention in August 1884 to nominate and support leaders including governor and other officials, with public support from the people at the upcoming election.
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Polls security and labor turmoil sweep Kentucky and Missouri
Reports describe Gen Palmer ordering polling-place troops in Kentucky amid election tension. In St Louis thirty five gasworks workers dismissed for new hires at higher wages, while discounts of Confederate notes trigger bank doubt. Grant praised at Bowdoin College. Mesien liberalds seek volunteers.
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Soldier Speaker Urges Duty and Unity in St Louis Crowd
A lengthy public address in St Louis urges citizens to fulfill daily duties and build the city, stressing peace over vengeance. The speaker, amid a noisy crowd, emphasizes unity, future development, and the soldier’s duty to fight only armed foes while respecting due process.
Radical Heaven and its Confederate Christ a profane jest
A reader lampoons a Radical Heaven as a battlefield scene with Old John Brown and celestial figures. The piece mocks the idea of eternal joy under military pageantry and a banner waving above a blasphemous, abolitionist fantasy. The tone is critical and nasal toward excesses in political-religious humor.
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Paradise
Abin Trent
Jesus Christ
John Brown
Jeyna Christ
State News Highlights and Local Developments
State Register reports Congressman Kaison supports negro suffrage after stump speeches in Kentucky. Wheat damage reported in Polk County. Lands granted for an Agricultural College offered for sale or lease across several counties. Obituary notes Samual LE Lunt in Mobile. Police and military matters include a guarding militia in Davenport and a petrol discovery near Lansing. Local infrastructure and business updates cover a new bridge prep in Independence and a 100 acre farm near Masonville expanding stock.
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Davenport
Radical Views Emphasize Provisional South Carolina Governor
The New York World argues that radicals seek a provisional South Carolina governor approved by Northern voters. They claim the goal is to show the Union rebuilt by Northern power, turning Southern states into Poland and binding them to the nation.
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Massachusetts
Iowan
Poland
Washington receipts and expenditures quarterly report
Official dates show receipts from customs 20.519 million dollars and internal revenue 65.262 million. Public lands 162 thousand, direct taxation 627 thousand, miscellaneous 4.159 million, plus loans 290 million. Total expenditures for the same period 353 million.
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The Irrepressible Negro Still in Control of Government
The Herald reports ongoing regulation of freedmen affairs in Louisiana with many working under contracts. Garrison at Port Ludlow remains, and Gen Canby is urged to remove it but will not. Military tax collection ends in New Orleans. most blockading ships depart Galveston while Oneida sails north. Conflicting reports on U S troops across the Rio Grande and Mexico policy persist. England to stay aloof from Mexican entanglements as Maximilian policy remains unchanged. New Orleans steamer incidents and partisan movements accompany a busy August coverage.
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Fire on Glasgow and rescue at sea
The Glasgow bound for Liverpool July 20 was seen on fire near Anglat at 230 p m. Passengers and crew abandoned to boats. later taken by the barque Martha Washington of Readsport and the barque Rosumbnab. About 25 aboard Glasgow were saved and landed in New York. Among them Charles J. Sears U S Consul at Madeira and Edward Spencer of Cincinnati Pit Hole Pa Aug 3 Well No 29 on Pit Hole Creek burned at seven in the evening destroying the well and surrounding area. three men seriously burned. Also Deputy Sheriff Bryan arrived in Brooklyn with order to imprison Michael Kennedy for life for murder. Sir K P Tache funeral in Canada. cabinet shakeup expected. Gold closed at 144. Glasgow’s fate and rescue followed by later reports.
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