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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1878
Page
2
The Gazette notes growing public sentiment against repealing the silver hill and argues Fort Wayne banks should lower interest rates, aligning with actions by Grand Rapids and other cities after strong national response.
The House committee of Ways and Means favorable action on a bill to issue treasury certificates in ten dollar multiples. Interest would be 3.65 percent annually, convertible at pleasure into a four percent government bond. The measure is described as sound and likely to gain broad approval.
The long standing Ohio gubernatorial bid pressures Senator Thurman. He cites age and infirmities as reasons for refusal. Despite strong Democratic support he may be forced to consider the race. Republican plans hinge on a Thurman or other nominee for national stakes.
Eoacnos's proposal to regulate electoral vote counting clears the Senate with nearly full Republican support. only a few Democrats favor it. Analysts doubt House passage, expecting continued Democratic control and no cross-chamber clash. Judge Ep wreene's alternative, while improving some, leaves key decisions to state tribunals, risking injustice and echoing state rights over congressional power. If enacted in 1876, Hayes would still become president, suggesting voters oppose repeating past frauds.
The article argues against eliminating the silver dollar and for the option to use either metal. It warns that moving to an exclusively gold standard would shrink prices, increase debts, and cause property confiscation, urging support for maintaining silver coinage and opposing fiat money expansion. It cites critics from banks and government officials and references the historic silver measure.
The speaker argues for lighter gold coins by one eighth or one tenth, urges lifting silver coinage restrictions, issuing silver certificates, and placing silver on equal footing with gold. It calls for strict penalties against banks or officials who evade the law to satisfy the American people.
Editorials discuss Grant and Hayes positions in 1880, promote Hendricks, critique bankers and a senator’s agenda, note cremation society in Indianapolis, constitutional convention talk, and detailed Senate debates on monetary policy, elections rights, and federal appointments.
Louis A. Godey founder of Go deys Lady Book and longtime publisher died last Friday evening at his Philadelphia residence at age seventy five.
United States treasurer expects to have by January 1 exclusive of all demanded 135 million dollars in coin to resume specie payments.
Cleveland clergymen endorse Moody Baltimore plan for a national January revival after the week of prayer. They urge a broad, united effort by all churches in the United States to spark a general revival. Steel Price ad notes Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder and flavoring extracts government approved.
London dispatches report the Princess Alice funeral as the Prince of Wales Prince Christian and Prince Leopold depart for Darmstadt to attend. Other items note murder of Wm Anderson Eastern Telegraph Company superintendent in Candia Crete and political moves on jurisdiction over Cyprus by Britain and the Porte.
Galt E Hay of the publishing firm Galt and Flay died by his own hand in New York on December 16 amid financial troubles. The Cimbria brought two German children rescued from the Pommerania wreck and identified as Mrs Heil’s children, with Richard W Clymer and a nephew of Congressman Hiester Clymer aboard.
The Families of John Keble and Martin Bergan of the Molly Maguires pleaded with loved ones this morning as the hanged sentence loomed in Pottsville. In Harrisburg the pardons board refused to reopen Jack Keogh's case, leaving his execution scheduled for Pottsville tomorrow.
New York reports gold sold at par for the first time since the 1862 suspension of specie payments. The 12.20 sale marks a significant market milestone as gold returns to par value.
Ex-President Morton of Market Street Railway and Samuel B. Huhn are sentenced to ten years in eastern penitentiary for stock fraud. Fireaxed losses in New York corset factory and piano storeroom top 100000 insured. Chicago snow totals, and Washington treasury resumption circular. Murder verdict in Indianapolis, and fires damaging Short Firman's printing plant.
Rev J Oliver, a 30 year old Kentucky preacher, elopes with Emma Abbott, 18, a schoolteacher daughter of a wealthy farmer. After a dramatic chase by her brothers and father, they flee by road and rail, marry in Lawrenceburg Indiana, then plan to preach and return home.
An advertisement touts Greens August Flower as a cure for dyspepsia and related symptoms, promising relief in three doses and a sample bottle for ten cents. The page also cites a superintendent of public instruction report noting colored children’s enrollments and attendance patterns in schools.
The piece outlines appeal rules under sections 119 and 150 of the criminal code, noting appeals by the state only in cases of acquittal. It then lists recent Superior and Circuit Court actions including dismissals, set hearings for Monday, judgments, divorces, estates, guardianships, and various criminal court outcomes such as acquittals, sentences, and preliminaries.
The record outlines an 1879 institute meeting with James Fry as trustee and D. S. Austin as secretary. It covers essays, committee assignments, and an upcoming meeting on January 8 1879 at School House No 10 along with a detailed plan for the Evangelical Alliance week of prayer from January 6 to 12 1879 across Christian nations and missionary stations.
A Young, a junior furniture firm member, confesses to pursuing Mrs. Cole during revival meetings. Mrs. Cole admits past intimacy. her husband Mr Cole sues for damages. The affair shocks church and social circles in Hornellsville and prompts religious leaders to intervene.
The Ligonier Banner voices opposition to legalizing Mexican dollars as tender. It argues most such coins have harmed the public by depreciation after circulation at par. The paper favors only silver dollars of 412 grains and supports issuing millions of them amid skepticism of other coin types.
Report notes Patti earned about 90000 marks for a Berlin engagement spanning nine or ten nights. The speaker recalls similar sums from a boarding school singing stint and mentions they did not sing long and the marks were not flat.
In New York on December 17 the market shows cotton dull at middling 8 15 16c, flour in buyers’ favor with 16 000 barrels receipts and 14 000 sold, wheat steady with 188 000 bushels received and 24 000 sold, corn quiet with 25 000 receipts and 35 000 sold. Prices for oats and mixed western varieties steady, pork and lard unchanged, butter and cheese steady, whisky 1 00, eggs unchanged. petroleum in crude 73 8 Ke. Toledo markets show mixed grain movement with wheat varying in price, corn steady, oats dull, flax and clover seed quoted, hogs and dressed meats at varied but steady levels, and wool prices mixed by quality.
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