A Fo'th July Pledge Story Told By Col John Hay
In a Harper's Weekly vignette Col John Hay recalls a drinking spree after a pledge break, detailing fights, hangings, and tempers, with names like Sheriff McPhail Abner Fry Leviticus and Goigers. The tale ends with a sober pledge renewal and a mock toast at the Descon's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilman Joyan
McPhail
Abner Fry
Shelly
Leviticus
Golvers
Luke
Squire
Col
John Hay
Harper's Weekly
Joe Backsey's Burning at the Quickledge saloon
In Old and New’s Quickledge Pages, Jim Slipson’s saloon ignites and Injin Mary appears. Joe Backsey rushes into the flames to save a baby but perishes, throwing the child to safety and dying from inhaled smoke. The crowd honors him as a hero while the deacon contemplates morality.
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Joe Backsey
Quickledge
James
Jim Slipson
Injin Mary
Jim
Deacon
Mary
Spurtip
Sevenenteener
Joe
Seventeener
Jor
Quickledge Company
Deacon Honors Fallen Friend With Headboard Inscription
A deacon carves a memorial headboard for his deceased partner and paints a Bible verse about laying down one’s life for friends. While drying, a heterodox intruder rewrites the inscription with a crude taunt about saving babies, prompting disbelief at the alteration.
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Joe
Thug
Fresh Currents From The Cincinnati Times Satire
A collage of puns and stinging asides on fools, fools, and fashion. Notes mock provincial gossip, include jokes about college students and judges, and tease reports from politics and letters while skimming current events with playful sarcasm.
Indiana News Roundup From Various Indiana Towns
The Seymour distillery has ceased running. Covington reports a ten week revival yielding over 100 conversions. A Clay County man produced 160 gallons of maple molasses this season. Evansville’s Grace Presbyterian Church plans a three to four thousand dollar organ. Peru parties explore building gas works with council support. Terre Haute Express notes furnace ready but coal scarce due to Brazil strike. Seymour Democrat suggests O M Railroad shops may move from Cochran to Seymour. M E Church accessions in Jackson County revivals: Mount Sidney 20, Brownstown 1237, Conquest 30, Wallonia 64. Brownstown Banner says Fleetwood brothers mob rumors are imaginary and they’ll be tried at April Court.
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Indians News
Indianapolis Journal
Seymour
Covington
Clay County
Grace Presbyterian Church
Evansville
Peru
Terre Haute Express
Brazil
Seymour Democrat
Cochran
M. E
Jackson County
Mount Sidney
Brownstown
Conquest
Wallonia
Fleetwood
Jacob Heine
Treating the Wrong Disease and Misdiagnosis
A letter explains how women visit multiple doctors for dyspepsia palpitation breast pain and other symptoms yet the underlying uterine disorder is ignored. Proper treatment would remove the cause and end suffering, instead patients incur bills with little relief. Testimonials praise Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription for improving health.
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Lorinda E. St. Clair
Shade
Athens Co
John K. Hamilin
Odell, Jr
Pierce
Fight Between W B Davis And Louis Sublett In Daviess County
A recent violent clash in Daviess County involved W B Davis and Louis Sublett, each armed with a fence-rail and an ax. The piece criticizes lax enforcement of concealed weapons laws and questions when bloodshed in the state will end. It urges public action by Colonel Dick Jones to seek legislative solutions.
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W. B. Davis
Louis Sublett
Daviess County
Dick Jones
The Younger brothers and the Gad's Hill bandits sketch
A special Inter Ocean correspondent profiles the Younger brothers Coleman Cole Jim John and Bob as modern Claude Duvals. They are educated aristocrats turned desperadoes rooted in Missouri scandal with a history of raids in Kansas and Illinois. The piece recounts Cole leading guerrilla actions, John’s daring fatalism, their family ties to a St. Clair county judge, and violent clashes with detectives amid ongoing pursuit.
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Missouri
Younger Brothers
Chicago
Gad’s Hill
James Brothers
Whicker
Pinckerton
Youngers
Inter- Ocean
Claude Duvals
Kentucky
Mississippi
St. Clair County
Coleman
John
Cole
Harrisonville
Cass County
Society
Quantrell
Lawrence
Enfield
Pires
Hot Springs
Iowa
Allen
Dallas
Texas
Manigan Springs
California
Great Britain Immense Resources Census Figures Show Vast Dominion
An 1871 imperial census tally cited by the New York World outlines Britain's global reach. It records 234,762,593 subjects across 44,142,651 houses in 7,769,449 square miles, distributing across Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australasia with varied religious affiliations and large overseas colonies.
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British Dominions
New York World
Europe
North America
Central America
West Indies
Africa
Indian Seas
Australasia
Asia
England
Wales
Heligoland
Gibraltar
Malta
Canada
British West India Islands
British Honduras
Guiana
Great Britain
Mauritius
West Australia
South Australia
Victoria
Queenstown
Tasmania
New Zealand
India
The New Volcano Near Bald Mountain
Correspondent from Asheville reports tremors and subterranean detonations on Bald Mountain between Round and Stone mountains. Shocks jar houses and disturb sleep, prompting emigration fears while local Baptists report a strong revival. Buying land is cheap yet buyers stay away.
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Asheville
N. C
Bald Mountain
Candor
Round
Stone Mountains
Baptist Church
Daring Equestrienne Miss Mattie Ould Hero of Runaway
A Richmond paper reports Miss Mattie Ould daughter of Judge Robert Ould calmly rode a mettled horse from her father’s residence with Judge B W Lacy, guiding the frightened animal through streets before being halted by Charles Rose and aided by bystanders. She escaped unharmed and was escorted home by Judge Lacy. The item closes with a sharp aside about New York Comic Advertiser credit.
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Richmond
Mattie
Robert Ould
B. W. Lacy
New Kent
Twelfth Street
Governor
Main
Charles Rose
Main Street
Governor Street
Archbishop Purcell on temperance and wine use creed
Arch bishop Purcell of Cincinnati weighs in on the temperance crusade arguing moderation with wine is permissible in Scripture and practice. He cites biblical examples and warns against harsh penalties while urging licensing controls to curb grog shops and protect the city from vice and financial strain.
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Nentinel
Archbishop Purcell
Cincinnati
Ladies’ Temperance Movement
Fort Wayne, Inc
Fort Wayne Sentinel
Purcell
Holland
Steutz
Cana
Galilee
Hell
An Argument for Cremation in The Popular Science Monthly
A March issue argues burial harms the living and contaminates water sources. It notes intramural interment is banned and urban populations demand reform. The piece prefers cremation as a safer alternative to soil burial for future generations.
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Popular Science Monthly
March
Portrait of Liszt by an American pupil
An American pupil of Liszt offers a vivid portrait of the composer. Tall and slight with deep-set eyes, shaggy eyebrows, and iron-gray hair, he wears a middle-parted style. His expressive face shifts from dreamy to sardonic, yet retains captivating grace and elegant ease.
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List
Liszt
Sumner’s Art Treasures Attract World Class Interest
A correspondent hails Mr Sumner’s private collection as uniquely valuable, spanning medieval and modern manuscripts, engravings, bronzes, statues, and oil paintings, with rooms overflowing and walls shingled with pictures. The Wabash Erie Canal remains under committee control, to be opened this spring or surrendered to Trustees, as efforts push to avoid decay. Robert Brackenridge named general manager at the last leasees’ meeting, awaiting a master commissioner. And what went ye forth for to seed My ten acre lot, thank ye, sir.
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Summer
Sumner
Wabash & Erie Canal
Robert Brackenridge
Colton
Huntington Democrat
Revised Losses From Indianapolis Fire Narrowed
A corrected tally shows lower total losses than yesterday with partial reuse of walls and more precise tenant losses in Martin Dale's Block. Insurance company losses list Home Insurance New York North British Mercantile National Hartford Hartford Fire Etna London Assurance Continental Amagon Franklin Indianapolis and others. The smaller insured totals are blamed on high rates and reluctance to buy policies from firms offering lower rates.
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Indianapolis
Martindale
Loess
Chas Dennis
Keyser & Smith
A & &Ott
Morris & Spohr
Troutmap
OLAS
Seesseeseerenenseesen
TRE Insurance Companies
Home Insurance Company
New York
North British and Mercantile
National
Hartford
Connecticut
Hartford Fire
Etna Eto London Assurance Continental
Franklin
Reese
Nanane Ace Vess
Victor Hugo Dictating to a Secretary and Dining Like a Giant
A biographical sketch portrays Victor Hugo as a tireless, brain driven author who dictates slowly to a secretary, paces rooms like a prophet, and maintains an extraordinary appetite. It notes his early rising, long work hours, and a readiness to resume writing minutes after personal tragedy.
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Victor Hugo
Job
Adeak
Moses
Hugo
Jacon de Parler
Victor Haago
Guizot Who Reaches Ninety? Paris Historian in Quiet Life
A Paris correspondent notes Guizot is 87 and lives on Rue de l Oratoire de Roule in a fourth floor apartment. He hosts weekly receptions attended by a brilliant intellectual circle, discusses art science and progress, and limits visits to eleven. He rarely leaves home except for academy meetings and summers at Val Richer.
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Paris
Tessa
M. Guizot
Charles Ex.atill Ir
Academy
Val Richer
France
The Westminster Hotel Clerk and London Style
George Butler and actor John McCullough visited the Westminster Hotel in New York to meet Wilkie Collins. Butler paints hotel clerks as haughty and self important yet notes one with a distant regal bearing. The clerk’s lair is two stories high, scented with music and arrogance, and his diamond pin is oversized. The bookkeeper is absorbed in a ledger, pondering extras allowed for guests’ bills.
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George Butler
Wilkes
Spirit of the Times
John McCullough
Westminster Hotel
New York
Wilkie Collins
Butler
Moses
Rabbie
Iceberg at the Station A Wordy Stage Encounter
The narrator and companions flee a tense scene as Mr McCullough leads a rousing sing along with Wearing of the Green while a Brahmin hosts a silent Wilkie Collins figure. A comic aside about a fishy house sets the mood for a dramatic ascent to Mr Collins’s apartment after a bustling procession of theater types.
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Christian Times
Sandy Hook
Mr. McCulough
Barney Williams
Trapeze Tragedy Ends Young Sylvester’s Flight
The New York Sun reports the death of Sylvester a trapeze performer known as The Monarchs of the Air. He told partner Baldwin he felt weak but tried the act anyway. After a somersault from the trapeze to a rope, he struck a private box and died in Baldwin’s arms.
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The
New York Sun
Sylvester
Baldwin
James ‘Sylvester
Readjustment of Political Parties in America
Long critique of Gen Butler noting wealth, work ethic, memory, and demagogic skill. Then a discussion on political party readjustment, aging war issues, and a call to embrace new voter realities. Includes endorsement of Simple Reason Hand Soap as a versatile household product with wide claims.
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Young America
H. FE. Hale
Debate on temperance and religion in 19th century speech
Rabbi Isesa M. Wise argues that wine as a beverage is not inherently immoral and that prohibiting its use would threaten liberty. He critiques legal crusades, cites religious tolerance, and notes practical strides like establishing a United States District Court in Fort Wayne for economic and judicial balance.
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Isesa M. Wise
Cincinnati
Jesus
Paul
Epee
Gietetia
Emr
Democratic
Axesueras
Medo
Persia
Shadow in Sumner Life and Cambridge City Accident
Chicago Times letters note Charles Sumner died without a wife’s word of support as his ex wife seeks permission to remarry under Massachusetts law. The column laments social judgment and reports a frightened horse injuring three people in Cambridge City, one severely.
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Sumner
Chicago Times
Charles Sumner
Massachusetts
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