Government Surveys and Hayden Party Field Details
The article outlines how Dr. Hayden's survey parties travel by mule in Colorado using arapajos as portable saddles and tables. It notes packing, load sizes of 150 to 300 pounds, daily miles of 10 to 25, and a three month cost around 86 000 dollars, plus salaries and provisions. It also discusses recruitment dynamics, field routines, and the printing delay for season results, followed by a political opinion from the Philadelphia North American on Southern protective tariffs and party strategy.
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Nature and Literature Demonstrates the Spiritual World
The text argues that literature reveals a spiritual truth through nature, showing how imagination uses natural forms to express thought. It claims that strong teachers illustrate ideas via nature’s analogies, and that country life enriches literary and public power, citing Beecher as example.
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Nature’s analogies unlock spiritual mastery in teaching
Dr. J. G. Holland argues that recognizing the divine message in nature rivals revealed truth. He urges theologians and students to study nature directly, for its every brook, leaf, storm, flower, and sea breathes illuminating analogies that inform intellectual and spiritual instruction.
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J. G. Holland
Scribner's
Indian Summer and political odds in 1876 race
The article blends an essay on Indian Summer with a political forecast. It discusses autumn beauty and natural science observations, then shifts to a party map of 1876 electoral votes. Pennsylvania and Ohio lean Republican, Indiana and Louisiana Democratic, with New York and many southern states contested. overall odds favor Republicans for the presidency depending on New York and key swing states.
The Next Presidential Battle From the Albany Journal
The Albany Journal argues Republicans can still win in 1876 despite Democratic strength. It presents a table of electoral votes, classifies states as Republican, Democratic, or doubtful, and notes New Hampshire and Connecticut among those likely to swing Republican. The piece dismisses Democratic odds and forecasts the GOP path to a majority with 388 votes implied.
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Scribner's Monthly December issue highlights Great South Series
Notes on Kentucky and Tennessee present the final regular installment in the Great South Series by Mr. King with a major Mammoth Cave description and illustrations. Other articles cover The Transit of Venus, The Probabilities of Rivers, The Silver Age, Rambles in Madeira, fiction by Jules Verne and Saxe Holm, Miss Woolson, Miss Hopkins, poems by Celia Thaxter, and essays by Stedman and Dr. Holland. Dr. Holland notes Mr. King traveled twenty five thousand miles gathering material. The Devil in Literature appears in Etchings, and Sevenoaks starts in January.
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Romance in Real Life Unites Father and Son in Baltimore
A young Englishman seeking work in Baltimore meets his father at Lombard Street factory. The father, who abandoned the family in infancy, discovers the son is his own. Moved by the reunion, the father secures leave and sails to England to bring the mother and reconcile the past, planning to return with family members.
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French Remedy for Neuralgia Introduced in France
A device named acqua puncture delivers a water thread to puncture neuralgia pain. A force pump carries a two foot tube. water jet strikes skin creating vesicles that crust to small black points. The method is painful but reportedly provides strong relief, prompting repeat treatments.
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France
Farm property listings with multiple parcels for sale
An 80 acre farm with house and barn priced at 31 per acre with one fifth down. 280 acres under cultivation with house and barn at 27 per acre. 160 acres prairie land with 40x80 building at 65 per acre on long time. 200 acres near depot at 85 per acre with one third down. 160 acres six miles from Freeport at 45 per acre. Sixteen to 80 acre ranges, various down payments, up to 1,700 for a property. Jonun E. Gagnars, Real Fature Agent, inquiries at Dr. Peiro’s office.
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Peiro
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Galena Streets
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