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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1885
Page
2
Notification of stoppage of advertisements and subscriptions requires payment at the office. Orders for job printing may be sent by telephone and will be promptly executed. John Foss listed as circulator. office at 308 Printing.
A Jamestown Journal editorial from May 9 urges accepting the $35,000 county compromise to end the Sperry defalcation dispute. It argues the plan is the cheapest path for the people and warns that rejecting could trigger lengthy litigation and uncertain outcomes.
The passage covers a 430 mile journey from Quetta to Candahar across an Asian summer plain and then through three rugged mountain ridges toward Herat, outlining a difficult route in hot dusty conditions.
Proposals opened at the Post Office Department for supplying envelopes for next year. Bidders include White Corbin & Co Springfield Holyoke Envelope Co Kellogg and Powers Paper Co etc. Lowest bid for No 1 63 cents per thousand. No 2 1.10. No 3 1.61. Nos 4 2.00. No 6 3.75. No 7 1.90. No 8 4.59. Total last year over thirty billion envelopes used. prices about one third of last year.
A report to the Massachusetts legislature details Bell Telephone's holdings in shares and franchises totaling 22.9 million dollars, parent dividend income reaching 1.021 million, and Massachusetts vs non Massachusetts reach. It lists telephone counts, costs and rents, dividend history, taxes, and a Western Union contract payment.
The marquis of Hartington leads cabinet opposition to any power occupying Suakim except Dogland. Gladstone seeks to avoid Soudan entanglements while Turkey and Italy push for influence and Red Sea access. Troop movements place guards at Ramleh and Abassidh while Aden houses colonial troops. Afghanistan unrest grows as Bolan railway advances. Russia maintains pressure with forces massed on the Afghan frontier and plans to seize Herat, threatening India as Britain counters across stark terrain.
The Bartimoge judge convenes a grand jury on gambling as public morals. Madrid Impartial condemns French actions on the Mun River, urging Spain to protect its gulf interests. St Louis Clergymen report 10,000 churchgoers, 40,000 at a cowboy show, 20,000 at baseball, 20,000 at beer gardens, and 5?000 hearing Bob Ingersoll. A Boston Bell conference on June 8 may fix instrument rates. current rate is 142 dollars yearly. A sensational Paris tale is likened to a New York incident. Butternut wooden shoes rise in breweries for warmth. Albany Argus criticizes Illinois Democrats. Weaver’s election helps Logan’s Senate seat. LeanDER Wetherell, aged 74, noted as an agricultural writer in Boston, dies.
A pamphlet-like notice extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for blood, chronic lung and liver diseases, claiming it can remove the mountain of disease and heal ailments like consumption and scrofula with promises of improvement and invincibility against illness.
The bill dividing Chautauqua County into three school districts and creating a third School Commissioner became law. The commission to select the new official met at the Hurlbert House with J. Lambert Fredonia County Judge Marvin Smith Jamestown and Lester F. Stearns Dunkirk. No decision was reached and adjournment was set for Wednesday in Fredonia. There are three candidates Perrin Stockton Flagg Carroll and Almy Jamestown.
An advertisement touts Dr. E B Brown endorsing Coca Beet Tonic as the best tonic for overworked women and students. It claims dentists, pill makers, and other self-supported women need a reliable energizer and marks the product as superior to any previously used by the advertiser.
County and vicinity news notes report the Western New York Agricultural Association annual meeting set for June in Cuba with dates unclear. Other items include Sen. Walter L. Sessions appointing Fred A. Brightman as law partner, lottery losses in Erie and Jamestown, a Lake Shore case yielding $48,000, and local efforts on electric lighting in Hernellaville. A Chautauqua boy Henry L. Woodward passed Annapolis exams, and Alanson Porsell, Hamlet farmer, committed suicide after complaining of poor wood quality. Burdock Blood Bitters claim to cure erysipelas and rheumatic pain in Wis.
Miss 8 E Herrick returns from New York with latest millinery goods. Fine assortment of hats and Bonnets with trimmings to match in very latest styles at low rates.
Parties wishing to go fishing should call Bucher & Thompson at the foot of Hagie street. They offer new boats and experienced fishermen to take groups out, with fine boats for pressure riding also. Also Harper's Improved Sodawater offers a large NY assortment of latest fashion mats bonnets and novelties in flowers.
Dotteracich unveils its celebrated Bock beer on draught Monday May 25 with a special celebration. The event marks the return of the popular brew to the tavern lineup for local patrons.
Traveler's Guide lists inbound and outbound times for Dunkirk and Fredonia with departures from Dunkirk at 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. and from Fredonia at 8:00 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. schedules, noting local New York time. The timetable names Ve Fredonis and Ve 19:00, with multiple daily trips and special notes on days and times for travel beginning Monday, Nov. lth. 14 cate PY by N.Y. time as follows.
A fragmented timetable announces Nickel Plate railway trains including No 21 with an 8:20 a m start from Carrollton and Dunkirk arrival at 10:35 am, No 1 daily except Sundays from Horneltsville to Sumance, and No 29 on Western Division service. It lists numerous intermediate stations with times and mentions separate services to Dunkirk and Sumance.
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