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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1879
Page
2
The blind pacer Sleepy Tom trotted a mile in 2 12 Tuersday afternoon at the Jockey Club Park west of Chicago, surpassing the best pacer or trotter times. The record trotting time cited is Barns 2 134 at Buffalo in 1878 and Billy Boyce 2 14 g under saddle at Buffalo.
Mary Clemmer in a letter to the New York Independent praises Robert M. A. Hawk of Illinois, newly elected to the Forty sixth Congress, as a remarkable figure with a notable disability. She notes his strong personality, generous impulses, positive convictions, and clear judgment despite losing a leg at age twenty two when Richmond fell.
Thirty-four deaths occurred in Memphis last week from yellow fever. The terrible scourge now has full possession of the ill fated city. Business is abandoned and a pall of mourning hangs over the city. The Howard Association says it needs no outside physicians or nurses at present to attend the few fever cases and thanks those who offered service, adding that unacclimated persons will not be accepted.
The Rockford Register weighs Senator R. H. McClellan as a potential governor candidate. It praises his leadership, education, and integrity, calling him a moral Christian gentleman whose promotion would mark an epoch in the state's civilization.
Directors meet in New York on the 16th Inst and adopt a policy that the company shall own and operate all grain elevators and sleeping or parlor cars along its railroad lines. No private freight lines to be maintained. An elevator at Fargo of 125,000 bushels is under construction by Barnes & Co. of Glyndon for future company valuation.
A Journal reporter recounts a barn fire at Stiles and Goddard where wood buildings burned before water arrived. Citizens complain that volunteers were slow, while editors urge townspeople to assist and understand the unpaid fire department and the effort to reload engines for future alarms.
A condensed summary of a long Times article argues that 1876 election results in Louisiana Florida Mississippi New Jersey New York and Connecticut were tainted by Democratic fraud. It cites official figures to claim excessive voter turnout and miscounted ballots to give Rutherford Hayes the presidency, urging legal challenges and exposing the alleged conspiracy.
Gen. Garfield in a Madison speech argues the extra session serves a solid South aim to seize New York and Ohio by controlling key cities. He claims Baltimore voting fraud could tilt elections, asserting the party could stuff ballots after polls close.
The Washington Letter discusses hot sultry weather and dwindling greenery, a West Virginia excursionist who had never ridden a train, a vapor engine promising lower fuel use, and Secretary Sherman advancing resumption amid Greenback opposition. It contrasts Republican aims with Democratic methods, critiquing patronage and campaign spending while noting postwar political tensions.
In Omaha on July 11 Bish Ner of this diocese explained a Catha terly Review piece on Gen Grant Maines speech. He says his earlier summary misrepresented the speech and that he did not intend to insult the Catholic Church. Ner cites Philadelphia Inquirer as agreeing the Inquirer’s account was accurate and expresses relief that the Catholic Church’s motives were not impugned.
The obituary notes painter Lawi, tied to the Landseer family, with early training in Hay Pils and the Royal Academy. It chronicles his 1816 school entry, 1828 exhibition, later works including Blainse Harlow in the Prigent, and 1843 1844 pieces. He became Royal Academician in 1845, served as keeper of the Academy from 1860s to 1873, and retired on a pension.
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