Sheridan and Beecher in the spotlight of a trial week
A Nashville Union critique labels Grant equivocal yet seeks profit from pursuit of presidency. A glimpse of Sheridan’s bridal chamber leaks to papers while he warns adventurers off the Big Horn. A Texas paper predicts volunteers may rise to twenty five thousand to pursue Mexican raiders, with a sardonic note on time needed to raise such an army.
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Tux
Nashville Union
Grant
Jenkins
Gen. Sheridan
Texas
Grasshoppers Flee Missouri On Smiler Colfax Visit
An odd theory suggests grasshoppers migrate from Missouri when Schuyler Colfax, dubbed the Smiler, appears in lecture tour. The writer notes hoppers endure many trials yet scatter at his amiable look.
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Missouri
Schuyler Colfax
Smiler
Annexation scheme and Madrid unrest dominate frontier notes
Washington hosts two claim commissions with Sir Edward Thornton as arbitrator to settle Northern Mexico annexation claims. A ceded territory slice could settle the account and boost U S gains by 200000. Meanwhile Madrid faces another revolution as Alfonso’s weak rule spurs republican plotters eager for upheaval.
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Mexico
Washington
Sir Edward Thornton
Irwin lauded for long service on Fort Wayne school board
The article praises Dr. Irwin for years of service as a school board trustee, noting his intelligence energy and scholarly habits have kept Fort Wayne schools in excellent condition. It credits him as the working member and extends thanks and best wishes to him upon departure. It also mentions various political figures and a note on a large crop of disim.
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Irwin
Fort Wayne
Grant
Morton
Sherman
Columbus
Banker Hill
Louieville
Wilson
South
Washburne
Paris
Disim
Indiana
Dreier & Bro
Calhoun
Columbia Streets
Columbia Street
Clay Todd
Todd
Eli W Brown Endorsed by Indiana Official in Whitley County
The piece extols Eli W Brown amid campaign attacks in Whitley County. A testimonial from W H Donahey, assistant attorney general, commends Browns records as honest and well kept, noting finances and docket items as orderly and properly handled.
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Whitley County
Eli W. Brown
Columbia City
W. H. Donahey
Indiana
W. H. Denaney
End of Pennsylvania coal strike marks a costly defeat
The long running anthracite strike in Pennsylvania ends with a foreseen result. unions failed to force capitulation and the industry bears immense losses. The piece condemns the strike as a crime against stability, notes widespread suffering, and questions the right to strike across all trades while highlighting the broader economic collapse for miners, railroads, and living costs.
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Anthracite Minera
Pennsylvania
The
Chicago Times
Oil Cake as a Winter Fodder Economizer for Dairymen
A Toledo Farm Journal correspondent shares experience with cotton seed oil cake as an economical fodder option for milch cows in long winters. He fed a quart of dissolved oil cake over middlings or hay, noting sleek cows, better health, more milk, and reduced feed, with linseed oil cake as a backup when cotton seed oil cake was unavailable.
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Toledo Farm Journal
Coleman
Descriptions of a Western Ghats Jungle People by Bond
The London Academy recounts Bond the Indian surveyor’s capture of two wild hill folk in the Madras Presidency southwest of the Palanei hills. It details their appearance, clothing and social habits, diet of roota and honey, nomadic shelters, forest deity worship, and notes they are now described with minuteness for the first time.
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The
London Academy
Bond
Madras Presidency
Palanei Hills
Western Ghats
Electric fish tale and editorial musings in a jumbled column
A gentleman fishing near Penzance recounted a shock from a torpedo like device inside a fish that caused numbness in him and his servant. The fish contained honeycomb of membranous tubes filled with a mucous substance forming a galvanic pile. Also included is a Lebanon Standard note about a horned snake killed on a Springfield farm showing ferocity and odd features.
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Penzance
England
Lebanon
W. F. Booker
Springfield
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Big Horn Country
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Madrid
Republicaps
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North Pole
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R.H. McDonald & C0
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Basel
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Palmer House
Chicago, Ill
Iowa A. BR. Land Company
Owen Town
Chicago
Nds
Chiand Northwestern
Tinois Central BE
Yand
Bantreet
C. Footes
Genaa
Western Factory
South Water St
Allen
James B. White
Frank H Wolke
Allen Zollars
State of Indiana
Allen County
Allen Civil Circuit Court
Samuel B. Sweet
Amanda Sweet
George Pratt
John McKinley
Mary McKinley
Henry Pratt
Amos Pratt
Walter Pratt
Augusta Pratt
H. Wolke
Coombs, Morris & Bell
Medical
Dr.s.clay Todd
Ohn A. Miller
Henry Street
Ind
Fort Wayne, Ind
Concord
Abbot Downing CO
N. H
Mayddeodiw
H. R. Stevens
Boston, Mass
Sen
Patrick Henry
Boston
Jos.Horne & Co
Market ST
Pittsburgh, Pa
Hamburg
Sprague
Merrimack
Smali
Qherife
Allen Circuit Court
Francis J. Beck
Louis Becker
Court House
Beck
Costa
J. D. Hance
John Stahl
George A. Gale
Francesa Maria Johnson
Allidavit
Frances Maria Johnson
Seldon G. Johnson
George G. Felton
Elien J. Felton, Jr
Mary Felton
Chas. E. Felton
Henry P. Wale
F. H. Wolks
Z. P. Taylor
Maylow
George W. Ely
Indi
Charles Ford
Rockhill
Satpales
Daly Dal Vaccuriveo
J.D. Hance
S. E. Sinclair
Qabriee
A. C. Beaver Et al
Robert Anderson
State
Charles Hanna
Graham & Gotghall
Fred. Lohmann
Rail Road &T
Pittsburgh Depot
Floghes & Humphreys
Waynes
Ie Sia
Brussels
Alpacas
Eye
Marseilles
Ramets
Ange Oe
August Trentmap
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William Ne
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Seein Circuit Court
State of
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H. Colerick
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