02 Apr 1880
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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1880
Page
1
A New York visit after Christmas with baby Mero spirals into chaos as Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pinafore overwhelms the city. The narrator endures endless performances, clamor, and comic misadventures from hotel lobbies to barber shops, with ragged memory and satire of New York life.
The legislature imposes a $3 poll tax on all single men aged more than two years, marking a sweeping fiscal measure against bachelors.
In a San Antonio Herald editorial voice, the piece laments rising taxes and fragmented public finance. It argues that the state, despite Texas’s wealth and growth, remains hindered by constitutional blocks, limited school funding, and insufficient support for frontier defense. It questions Democratic governance and calls for reform to end perceived inequality and oppression of labor.
A Grayson Kentucky dispatch reports Regulators numbering about one hundred rode to James Binion's house on Upper Big Sinking Creek Thursday night to seize John Boggs. Binion shot at them, killing one Regulator and injuring Mrs Binion. The Regulators killed Boggs by hanging him from a tree and fired into his body.
A bill before the California Legislature imposes a fine of 100 to 1000 dollars or up to five hundred days in prison, or both, on any director who hires Chinese or Mongolian workers. Repeated offenses carry 500 to 5000 dollar fines or 250 days to two years imprisonment, with potential annulment of the corporation's charter.
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