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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1870
Page
2
Stephenson County Republican Central Committee announces a meeting at the Circuit Clerk's Office in Freeport on Monday August 1 1870 at 1 PM for business before the committee. Chairman George Ousterhout urges full attendance.
The Legal Voters of Stephenson County hold a convention at the Court House Freeport on Monday August 1 1870 at 8 30 PM to select six delegates for a Judicial Convention to nominate a judge for the Fourth Judicial District of the State of Winds to fill the vacancy caused by Judge Sheldon’s resignation. TAMES SNEFF JOAN COATES B D BARTON are named in Freeport July 26 1870.
Counties of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Illinois are urged to send delegates to a convention at the Freeport Court House at 10 o clock am on Thursday August 4 1870 to nominate a candidate for judge to fill the vacancy caused by Ben R Sheldon resignation for the special election to be held August 10 1870. Representation will be based on the 1868 vote with included counties Rooneetee Jo Daviess Stephenson Winnebago Freeport listed among others.
Stephenson County will be entitled to five delegates in the Republican State Convention, to be held on the first day of September.
Governor Palmer has appointed August 10 for a special election to fill the vacancy in the Circuit Judgeship caused by Judge Sheldon’s elevation to the Supreme Court. The winner will serve the September county term. Congress votes a pension for Annanam Tixeaux’s widow, honoring the late commander in chief.
Vion Lawrence Church of Woodstock McHenry county Illinois dies suddenly at home Friday morning. A prominent lawyer and former long serving legislator he was a Constitutional Convention member and a candidate for Congress. He led the legislature during the spring 1861 session at the onset of the war and was a state senator at the time of death.
A letter to the editor celebrates the Republican tax plan reducing burdens on the poor and exempting incomes under two thousand dollars from returns. It favors Hon. H. W. C. Benettaro and Mr. Burenarn for Congress, notes district unity, and shares a farmer's personal tale of losses and perseverance despite hardships.
A rural letter from Mu Eviton recounts aging land holdings, heavy taxes for public improvements, and shifts in district boundaries. He describes selling land, keeping a small farm, and attempting beef and hog farming amid poverty, with a note on buying old breed hogs to prove basic farming resilience.
A fervent pamphlet style exhortation derides stingy and ignorant men who avoid newspapers. It extols reading as essential to citizenship, warns against ignorance, and urges every American to subscribe and read regularly, praising newspapers as affordable, nourishing mind food.
A government steamer arrives in Charleston from Rio Janeiro carrying self made exiles who fled after the war to Brazil. Unable to earn livelihoods they sunk into poverty and were brought back to their deserted homes at United States government expense.
A sharp quip riffs on an empty champagne bottle as an orphan, joking that it has lost its pop and spirits amid a punny exchange.
The state Senate will be 50 members next session with one senator per over Districts and two in all others. The list shows holding over members by district and additional districts with two seats. Elections in several districts occur due to vacancies and deaths, and a broader apportionment for 1872 will be made by the 1871 Legislature.
A collage of 19th century excerpts remarks on social vice and charity in St Louis, wild humor across papers, and political analysis. It notes Prussia and German unity shaping Europe, Napoleon III’s war aims, and growing sympathy for Germany alongside warnings of French aggression. Conservatives fear disruption of liberty while Liberal hopes for popular rule rise.
An enthusiastic French thinker suggests mounting a movable giant mirror to flash signals toward Jupiter and Venus. Regular, timed signals could be understood as a message to or from alien inhabitants, with bright planetary spots cited as possible prior signals. The idea, discussed before and deemed impractical, drew serious attention from the French Academy of Sciences.
Washington correspondent reports no House or Senate committee sitters during the recess none left on roving commissions or clerks paid through month. only year-long employees and a few disabled soldiers remain. Also mentions a docile 850 pound alligator used for plowing near Midway and humor about the Pocket Lawyer. Senator Sherman estimates 75 million dollar tax relief from the new bill aiding Republicans in the election.
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