Treasury Plans Bond Purchases and Gold Sales
The Secretary directs the Assistant Treasurer in New York to buy 1,000,000 in bonds on the first, third, and fifth Thursdays of February or 3,000,000 total, and to sell 1,000,000 in gold on the second and fourth Thursdays or 2,000,000 total. Apportionment bill fixes House at 283 members. nominations for Postmasters and U.S. Attorney for Washington Territory sent to Senate. Currency outstanding Jan 31 was 399,067,070. Foreign items include England Spain and France discussions, Boulevards of political shifts, and a Nature of the Alaska earthquake news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Treasury
New York
Senate
House of Representatives
Cord
Makon City
Iowa
J. H. Allen
Maquoketa
Lewis Lambright
Middletown
Balbeers Young
New Lisbon
Jeremiah Clark
Leavenworth
Kansas
Thiers Prefers Prussian Presence to Prevent Chaos
Paris dispatch reports Thiers saying he would yield to public desire for an end to German occupation only if France had stable government and public opinion. He warned Bonapartists could inflame factional strife. He added Prussian presence serves as a guarantee of peace. Madrid report notes 8000 reinforcements sailed from Cadiz to Cuba.
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Paris
Thiers
Rothschild
France
Madrid
Cadia
Cuba
Gold closes in New York and Tweed trial delay noted
The day’s reports detail Gold closed at 1097 in New York. The Turf Board awards a 2 17 record to Goldsmith Maid at Milwaukee. Albany notes Tweed’s trial postponed to the March term, likely delaying his seating. Other items include Eddy’s death, Utah constitution delay, bribery trials in Chicago, and a 250 delegate national religious amendment convention in Cincinnati.
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New York
Turf Board of Appeals
Milwaukee
George Botts
Newark
N. J
Pet Halstead
Greeley
Hornet
New Yo
Albany
N. Y
Tweed
Republican General Committee of
John G. Townsend
John J. O’brien
New York City
Norman
Eddy
Indiana
Indianapolis
Woods
Utah
Legislative Assembly
Supreme Court of Ilinois
Alderman Glade
Chicago
Ohio Republican State Central Committee
Columbus
National Bank of New York
M. B. Bailey
Ohio Supreme Court
Cincinnati Southern
Brigham Young
Salt Lake City
J. K. Robinson
Joseph E. Montgomery
San Francisco
East
Cincinnati
M. B. Hogans
Superior Court of
Legislative Returns and Federal Probes Across States
The South reports most legislators seated at the Louisiana State Capitol. Texas says a Federal Grand Jury returned true bills against Governor Davis and Secretary of State Newcomb for election irregularities. The Congressional Investigating Committee begins in New Orleans on the 29th. Postmaster Stamford Easton to head Covington Post Office during Jessie Grant’s illness at $1600 yearly. M W Ransom elected U S Senator from North Carolina. Republicans abstain, saying the Legislature lacked authority to elect a Senator.
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South
Emory
New Orleans
Texas
Davis
Newcomb
Congressional Investigating Committee
Custom-House
Stadford Easton
Covington
Jessie R. Grant
M. W. Ransom
United States
North Carolina
Senate Advances May Adjournment Amid Amendments Rejected
The Senate on the 26th took up the adjournment resolution for the May 29 final adjournment, rejecting several amendments and passing the resolution unamended by a wide margin. The Apportionment bill was debated and the proposed House size to 300 was defeated, sending the bill to regular order for May 29. Credentials of Senator-elect Allison of Town were presented, and adjournment to May 29 followed. In the House, numerous pension and appropriation measures were referred, and bills advancing through the whole were reported. A resolution requesting information from the President on one 38th Congress session for debate only was referred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Howe
House
Allison
Senate and House Debates on 1870s Finance and Legislation
Senate discussions covered resolutions on Ku Klux witnesses and apportionment, while House and Senate debated land grants, suffrage, railroads, foreign relations, and amnesty. Bills passed or referred included pensions, customs control, Yellowstone park land, and a lighthouse at Fond du Lac River Wisconsin. Adjourned with Amnest y bill debates continuing and loan negotiations scrutinized.
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Senate
Ku Klux Committee
South Carolina
of the Treasury
United States
Nesota
Wisconsin
Decatur
Ala
Macon
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Company
Sims
Wigtonsin
Fort Gratiotte
Port Huron
Mich
Dakota Southern Railroad Company
Southern Utah Railroad Company
Dakota
Spain
Cuba
Committee of Ways and Means
Sen Sandstone
Q Creo
Joint Committee On Public
Mississippi River
Clinton
Iowa
Kansas
Post-Office
McCartney
Yellowstone
Mississippi
California
St. Louis
Treasury
Fond du Lac
Committee On
Arkansas
Bolles
Edwards
St. Mary's Falls
Michigan
Messrs. Chandler
Sumner
Morrill
Maine
Fragmented miscellany quotes mix satire and local curiosities
A potpourri of short items mentions changes in terms like orphan elixir, Great Lakes losses totaling 119 lives and 10 million dollars, 300+ buffaloes butchered near St. Joseph Missouri, questions about house insurance, a Boston claim about ministerial rate cuts, printer quirks, leap year mottoes in Atlanta, an Indiana bachelor asking about rate reductions for marriage licenses, dog tax petitions, Brooklyn grocery debt boards, Danbury boils via lard, Rhode Island hotel plan alarms authorities, and a blunt Middlesex County epitaph for B F Butterfield the lawyer.
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Great Lakes
Alexis
St. Joseph
Washington Life Insurance Company
Boston
Recow
Vermont
Atlanta
Knox County
Indiana
New York
Congress
Brooklyn
Danbury
Louisville Courier-Journal
Rhode Island
Middlesex County
Mass
B. F. Butterfield
Mutuality of engagement proven by conduct in court ruling
Kentucky Court of Appeals holds that mutuality may be shown by a woman’s conduct implying assent to a young man’s promises, without an express agreement. The compilation also quotes varied, brief items on population comparisons, travel, and small anecdotes from the era.
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Kentucky Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
New York
London
Dublin
Heaton
New Haven
Hartford
Journal
de St. Petersburg
Russia
Alexis
United States
Cleveland
Various 1871 U.S. industrial and agricultural notes
A compilation of 1871 industry and agriculture items France and Canada are noted. Poultry exhibition in Buffalo at success. California hires a state tree planter at 15000 dollars yearly. Boston building boom surpasses prior years. Belchertown rye yields 54 cents per bushel. Milwaukee post office postage and letters handled in 1871. South African diamond mining luck claim. New York to San Francisco freight 43000 tons in 1871 up from 15000 in 1870. Farms with shade trees sell for more. M K Young argues mules best farm teams. 1871 sees 118 steamships make 1188 voyages with 325777 passengers and 1891655 tons freight. Lewiston Journal cites failure to adapt Grand Trunk cars to Maine Central gauge. Saginaw County case notes wife of ill man hoards ax and sells hoop-poles after arduous journey. stock burned and family destitute.
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Buffalo
California
Boston
Belchertown
Mass
Milwaukee
New York
San Francisco
M. K. Young
Grant Co
Wis
Lewiston Journal
Grand Trunk
Religious and Educational Notes Across the Nation
The piece surveys school rolls in Sacramento and Michigan University achievements, noting Miss White’s math breakthrough and Belleville New Jersey Sunday School efforts for Chinese residents. It mentions Rev Porter’s meager last-year earnings, Utah Methodism growth, and estimates of church membership and Sunday schools in the United States, with figures from Seeman, Dixon, Chase, and others. It highlights Rahway New Jersey as a remarkable Sunday School.
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Sacramento City
Beecher
Michigan Union
Miss White
Kentucky
Belleville
N. J
R. W
Porter
Whitehall
N. Y
Utah
Seeman
United States
Edmonds
Hepworth Dixon
Andrew Jackson Davis
Warren Chase
Baltimore
Tabb
Rahway
New Jersey
Sunday School Origin and US Church Statistics
Sunday School began in 1714 in the Quaker tradition as a secular literacy effort, later adopted by churches. The 1872 directory lists seven archdioceses, 54 bishops, 4,269 priests, and about 6,000,000 scholars with 1,000,000 teachers. Methodists make up about half the scholars. In New York City, over 100,000 scholars attend 364 schools on Sundays, with thousands of teachers and high attendance figures.
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Robert Raikes
Hitler
United States
Baltimore
Cincinnati
New Orleans
New York
St. Louis
San Francisco
Methodist
New York City
Ninth Street
Fiftywonth Street
Eng
Foreign Gossip and Royal News Highlights
Lady Franklin offers a reward of 2000 pounds for Erebus and Terror records believed hidden in King Williams. The Crown Prince of the German Empire bars his wife from England during his brother’s illness. Swiss libraries total 1, FAC. The Moltke-Wellington reply explains how they won at Waterloo with a blunt anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Franklin
German Empire
England
Prince of Wales
Switzerland
Zurich
Basle
Lucerne
St. Petersburg
Moltke
Duke of Wellington
Waterloo
Prentw Opening Farms Near Duluth Minnesota
The Duluth area opens farms with premiums totaling 5000 dollars to clear, plow, and fence land within 12 miles of Duluth. Prizes include per acre awards for best cleared land, with oats, wheat, barley, and a sweepstakes tract, all payable August 1, 1873, to E A McNair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Minnesota
Superior
E. A. McNair
Northwestern Agency Promises Free Information in New Colony
An advertisement for a new Northwestern Agency of the Colorado Spring Colony offers free information. It lists Rev. J. E. Ambrose at 49 West Madison Street Chicago and touts early cough and cold remedies. A drug store anecdote mentions Johnson's Anodyne Liniment for rheumatism with a humorous misquote about pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Spring
J. E.ambrose
West Madison Street
Chicago
Ill
Golden Medical Discovery Praised by New York Doctor
Dr. H. L. Haut of Borrate New York reports six months of experience with Golden Medical Discovery across severe coughs acute and chronic throat diseases bronchitis and other systemic derangements. He notes gentle thorough action by purifying blood and restoring healthy function.
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N. Y
R. V. Prerck
H. L. Haut
M. D
Fraudulent Medicines and Beauty Potions Plague Market
The article warns against fraudulent health tonics and patent remedies such as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Hagan's Macnouta Balm, detailing moral and legal transgressions by sellers of inferior compounds. It touts Hostetter's efficacy, condemns imitators, and extols Allen's Lung Balsam, copper-bottomed cures, and the allure of beauty products while noting widespread nostrums and misleading claims. It also advertises Cordial oils, silver tipped footwear, and the Cable Screw Wire Boots, urging caution against imitations and urging readers to consult trusted remedies and dealers.
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Western Hemisphere
Hostetter’s
Nostrumimento
Tee Lore
Hagan
Macnouta
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Gifford & Larkin, Publishers
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Chatham
Europe
Alabama
Court of Appeals
Victor Place
Diaz Quintera
Duke de Aumale
Marshall McMahon
Bordeaux
Nice
Washburn
Gen
Sherman
Italy
Rome
Pere Hyacinthe
Count de Chambord
Schamachi
Trans-Caucasia
Roberts
Republic of Liberia
Charles Dilke
Chelsea
Sheil
Peter John Locke King
East Surrey
Southwark
Havana
Manzanillo
Halifax
Washington
Congressional
Louisiana
Srey
Committee On Ways and
Davenport
Mr. Jackson
Sport
Jackson
Industrial
Saginaw County
Ovid
Religious and Educational
Prentw
Bismark
Messrs
Rochester
Sheridan
Northwestern Agency
Allen
Ike
Ord
Geo. A. Deitz
Chambersburg
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