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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1873
Page
4
A jumble of local items notes Boal affairs and a circus in town this Tuesday. August events include an Arkansas fair, Prairie chickens ripening August 15, and a Great Grant and Wilson meeting. discussions cover rail expansion Chicago and Pacific, mineral springs in Nora, and Grand Warren meetings.
W Collins book-keeper for W D Rowell & Co has moved to Chicago to fill the same position at White Rowell & Co a large lumber firm. Success awaits him in the new post.
A Saturday night Democratic gathering drew a small crowd with poor signer turnout. Brown, a mail route agent from Freeport to Bloomington, took a leave of absence to seek health and leisure on lakes and the St. Lawrence. In the Freeport District of Rock River Conference, 25 of 27 ministers back Grant, one is not naturalized, and one undecided but unlikely to favor Greeley.
The Liberal Republican reformer Senator Trumbull is praised by admirers but faced criticism after he helped oust a crippled Illinois pension agency clerk and installed his brother in law in the position. The episode underscores tensions between reform rhetoric and patronage practices in Illinois administration.
Night passengers to Chicago may use the sleeping car at the depot during the evening hours and return trips let travelers finish sleep undisturbed. A small specimen of the 15th Amendment is kept on hand. Citizens are urged to call on Knopp for redress of grievances.
A week earlier a coal house demolition caused a heavy frame to fall on Phillip Crayton of reeport near Elke horn Wisconsin. He suffered multiple skull fractures and a broken hip with critical condition. Western Union officials and doctors provided swift care and arranged nursing and watch care.
Mr Wm Kottman a respected farmer about two miles south of Lena suffered apoplexy Wednesday evening while driving a reaper. His son arrived in time to support him and he died at his home Thursday morning around two oclock. He was about sixty and leaves grown children, according to the Lena Star.
Dr Burrell has removed from the Opera House to Munn's building over the First National Bank where he has fitted up the finest dental rooms in the city. Those wishing first class work would do well to give the doctor a call. Sumner writes a long letter in opposition to Grant citing concerns over negro equality and party differences. How do the Democrats of Freeport like that.
The Illinois State Fair will be held at Ottawa from September 16 to 21. C H Rosenstiel Esq Vice President of Association thanks for season tickets. The Sunday School Convention for Lancaster will meet next Sabbath at 10 o clock in the German Reformed Church.
Sam Massexnenc announces a service card proposing to serve as letter-writer interpreter and legal question adviser for Germans and others in Freeport after fourteen years there. He pledges moderate fees, prompt order fulfillment, and neat, accurate book-keeping, inviting businessmen and individuals to visit his office daily during business hours.
Nine horses were dishonestly taken from owners in Warren during the last fourteen days. Two were stolen from Mr Murphy and one from Mr Z Pitts by a swindle described as as bad as theft. The thief who took Murphy’s span was pursued to Rock Island, where he was captured and the horses recovered. The Chicago Tribune laments American labor decay, blaming lack of technical schools and protectionist policy.
Local rumors swirl about James McHenry striking a rich Utah mining claim. Reports basing value on assays as high as many times the $80 per ton, with a claimed sale price of $100,000. The McHenry district expands its claims and extensions, suggesting a booming mining region.
A group of six Freeport youths enjoyed a spring picnic at Tess mill on a sunny Thursday. They arrived in good time, indulged in energetic games, and praised the refreshments prepared by the ladies. As evening fell they gathered leftovers and returned home tired but happy from the outing.
Real estate section reports July with the fewest sales in ten years. Transactions include Jd. D. & D. Wymer to Frederick Meinare for Rock Grove land, Martin Murphy to 8.8, Shetitah 8, 24, 28, 61 for 125 acres, and August Pfeifer and Anthony Dittmar dealings in Freeport and Mariem. Abstract books offered as county standard with titles, deeds, mortgages, and land office services.
A Marquette Michigan article describes the iron mining region from Green Bay to Marquette. It notes 21,000 county population, Marquette as the chief ore shipping point, 507,116 tons shipped last year rising toward 600,000, and 52 trains daily. It details 24 mines, the Jackson mine at Negaunee, peat bed experiments for fuel, peat processing, and cost about 2.50 per ton vs coal 4–6. The piece highlights tourism, science interest, and sport with a vivid portrait of the landscape and resources.
Treasury of a bitter era recounts a Democratic party agent’s failed attempt to incapacitate Sumner and Sumner’s own flip in service to the Democracy. President Grant’s New York State tour drew vast crowds including 20,000 in Utica as he moved from Utica to Trenton Falls and then Pullman Island. Colored Americans nationwide condemn Sumner’s course recalling Jeff Davis’s slave nation and Horace Greeley’s bailouts.
The Chicago Journal denounces Senator Sumner for pettifogging rhetoric against Grant Gratz Brown and Horace Greeley. It accuses Sumner of hypocrisy and demagoguery, claiming his criticisms misstate party loyalties and history while praising Grant’s record for colored rights.
Proceedings record the August 1 1872 assembly at Warren with J W White as initial chair and Gen S D Atkins as temporary chair. Delegates seated include Geo H Green S Tyrrell J W White S K Miner W M Logan and others from Jo Daviess and Stephenson. Henry Green of Elizabeth was named unanimous State Senatorial nominee. Capt K H Beebe and W W Robey elected to the Senatorial Committee.
A dispatch from Oregon and Ogle County reports Gen S D Atkins of Freeport delivering a vigorous Grant and Wilson speech to a crowded court house. A Grant and Wilson Club organized with 140 members. county voting population 800. The counties are expected to boost Republican support with a 2590 majority forecast for Grant and Wilson.
The N Y Tribune reports that the claim A T Stewart gave twenty thousand dollars to the Liberals is nothing more than a rumor with no factual basis.
A court ruling in Chicago dissolves the through-line obligation between the Illinois Central, Chicago and North Western, and Galena and Chicago Union railways. The decision states no enduring agreement compels continuous operation as a single through route. only required is proper facilities for freight transfer and car interchange among the five roads.
In Salem New York area the press undercuts its own editors while examining national politics. The New York Tribune lauds a colored man who backs unity with Greeley and Tammany rivals as a threat to party rights. Reports note Liberal shifts, a new locomotive at Schenectady, and a Fort Wayne launch. A Chicago Milwaukee express vote shows 170 for Grant and Greeley, 25 for the other ticket.
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