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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1872
Page
2
The notice lists political buzz around Tweed and Co with claims of Tweed’s defiance in New York. It questions the stock of the Democracy in Tweed’s circle, notes a rumored illness of ex Secretary Seward, and mentions John Jay dining with Count Andrassy as European powers gather.
A Washington dispatch reports that the National Executive Committee has selected Philadelphia as the site for the upcoming Republican National Convention. The decision marks a key party gathering location for the year.
The Cleveland Herald predicts Mr Medill will emerge from Chicago mayoralty with more kicks than coppers and that his term will mark the end of his political career.
The New York Citizen argues the Democracy should adopt the One Term principle but doubts the people will concede to it. The piece frames the issue as a test of political will and public support for reform.
The national debt of England has been reduced since 1815 by about five hundred million dollars and remains more than seventeen hundred million dollars greater than the United States debt.
The Cincinnati Commercial labels George Francis Train as a howling blasphemous idiot, lamenting that such a figure should be denounced so harshly.
Dr Livingstone the African traveller faces trouble and alarming rumors spread across England. He is reportedly shut in somewhere between the sea coast and Lake Tanganyika. Plans are proposed to dispatch an armed expedition to rescue or locate him.
Unrest rises in Chicot County Arkansas as a group described as mostly enslaved African Americans under James Mason a mulatto county official reportedly occupy Lake Village and vow to defend it against any challenge Mason serves as County Judge according to reports
The United States frigate Wabash, sailing from New York to Liverpool with General W T Sherman and Lieutenant Fred Grant aboard, endured a fierce voyage and reports indicate thirty to forty sailors were lost overboard.
A murderous Ku Klux outbreak in Saline County Missouri was reported to have occurred on Christmas Day. If Sedalia’s reports are confirmed, state authorities face pressure for prompt action to uphold the law against the ruffians bringing reproach to the state.
The Agricultural Congress in Selina Alabama seeks to rebalance the regional economy by uniting farmers against consolidating and monopolizing interests, boosting southern industry, and introducing skilled labor.
The Colored Baptist Church of Haversville Mass added several members Sunday before last and immersed them in the Merrimac despite a icy river. A hole was cut in the ice to allow the immersion, to avoid warmer weather concerns. The NY Tribune questions whether such methods were necessary when conditions were extreme.
General Schenck has disposed of his stock in the Emma Mining Company where he served as a director. The move follows rumors of trouble and aims to avoid suspicion of impropriety or scandal that could harm his interests and the government he serves.
The Georgia Democrats held a special election after Governor Bullock’s resignation, vetoed by Acting Governor Conley for unconstitutionality. Democrats pressed the bill, Republicans boycotted, resulting in a low turnout of about sixty thousand votes from over two hundred thousand cast, a victory the courts may resolve.
The California senatorial contest ends with Hon. Aaron A. Sargent chosen by Republicans to succeed Cornelius Cole. Sargent, a Massachusetts native and California rep, became a printer by trade and later a lawyer. Elected to Congress in 1861, he served in the Forty-First and Forty-Second Congresses, winning re election by 2723 votes.
Senator Flage of Madison county presents a plan for state congressional apportionment. One option keeps the current district lines with Jo Daviess Stephenson Carroll Ogle and Whiteside in the Fourteenth, dropping Lee to join Bureau LaSalle Grundy and Kendall for the Fifteenth. A second plan makes our district the Fifteenth including Daviess Stephenson Carroll Ogle and Lee, moving Whiteside to the Twelfth with Henry Bureau Putnam and Rock Island.
News reports reveal Jesse R. Grant father of President Grant suffered a sudden paralysis while serving as postmaster in Covington Kentucky. He was taken home and, though briefly insensible, has since recovered enough to sit up and converse with visitors.
Senate discussions reveal a push for the fullest and most detailed investigations with power to send for persons and papers, conduct inquests during recess, and hold committee sessions. The outcome shows unanimity on expanding inquiry authority across New York and beyond.
Mr I V Redfield writes in the Cincinnati Commercial about reporters by the Speaker's chair. He describes them as miserable men with breast-bones on the crater edge, peering for words and stringing them on paper like fishermen without hooks.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a Chicago item about snails and a building with tons piled outside. The readable words mention “so much snail matters,” “one day recently,” and “forty” but no clear event, people, places, or outcomes to confirm.
The Albany Journal critiques Sumner's one term resolution, arguing the preamble is overly long and unnecessary. It proposes a concise substitute asserting voters decide on a president after one term and dismissing the notion that office-holders control renomination, citing Lincoln as an exception.
The past year reports farm product value at 2 445 000 000 dollars across states and territories excluding livestock. It notes wealth created is offset by debts and expenses: supporting 40 million people, taxes, public debts, and private debts to foreign countries, leaving little spare wealth despite large figures.
New statistics show Ohio nearly stationary population over the last decade. Emigration and immigration nearly balance. 37 counties gain, 33 gain nothing, 18 fall significantly. Gains occur mainly in cities and villages, with similar patterns elsewhere.
Among young American press figures Charles B. Smith of the Albany Journal is praised as an ascendant political writer. The tribute lauds his keen discernment, seldom error, and vigorous prose, calling him a public esteem rising star.
Telegraph reports Jesse St. Grant, father of the President, is much improved and out of danger. His condition has stabilized and he no longer faces immediate peril.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt profiles Hon. H. C. Burchard of Illinois, noting his background from Oneida County New York to Beloit and Freeport, education at Hamilton College, and law and business career. It recalls his 1869 Illinois Legislature role and eventual election to Congress, highlighting his shift from tariff opposition to service on the Ways and Means Committee and defending consumer rights under a republic.
A historical note on Burchard’s early Congress days, his stand during tariff disputes, and his defense of taxing principles. It covers Judd’s warning, his shift to speaking on tariff fairness, and his opposition to broad tax repeal while criticizing excessive taxation and emphasizing payers’ rights.
A fragment notes that those extorting individuals for essential goods such as pig iron, bread, and Balt aim to push for free coffee and tea while trying to force revenue from items they wish to monopolize.
The article reports Reverdy Johnson, acting as Ku Klux prisoners' counsel, delivering a speech in Columbia denouncing the outrages as horrific and asserting a moral verdict from conscience. It notes Democratic papers downplay Ku Klux crimes and hints at Republican justification of federal intervention.
The Illinois Senate approved a stringent liquor bill with only four dissents and the measure moves to the house for a second reading. It imposes licenses to sell intoxicating liquors in grocery and related premises, requires a three thousand dollar bond, bans sales to minors and intoxicated persons, designates violative premises as common nuisances, and creates liability for damages and ongoing costs to intoxicated individuals and their families. The act empowers recovery in debt courts and grants victims actions for injuries arising from intoxication.
A historical Illinois statute outlines penalties for illegal sale or gifting of intoxicating liquors. It details fines from twenty to one hundred dollars, jail terms up to thirty days, and costs. treble penalties apply for keepers of nuisance premises. Bonds of one thousand dollars may be required, with property liable for fines and damages.
George Francis Train launches a harsh verse attacking Cincinnati editors who call him lunatic. He derides their speech as scurrilous and counters that the Grand Duke, after success in Chicago, now targets Milwaukee.
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