Cotton Yields in Travis County and Regional Notes
Travis County reports cotton stands good with average bale per acre. County corn prospects look strong with more corn produced than can be gathered. A Brenham indicts a young lady for shooting out two lawyers eyes. Brenham lawyers offer defense. Mexico adapts to progressiveness. Monterey welcomes electric light. Charley Ford of Jesse James notoriety is ill and returning home. Bob Ford heads to New York. Georgians plan a memorial for Lena B H Hill funded by subscription. Louisiana cane outlook is bright, with cane yields about a third higher, and a sugar crop near 250000 barrels despite flood damage.
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Travis County
Louisiana
Jay Gould outlined as press controller in national alarm
A Chicago editor notes Jay Gould’s bid to dominate national news via controlling four leading New York journals and the Associated Press. The piece warns Congress to act and suggests government purchase of telegraph lines to serve the public interest while outlining political maneuvering across Texas and Missouri.
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Jay Gould
Gould
New York
Associated Press
New York Herald
Waco Examiner
The
Herald
Congress
Memphis responds to yellow fever relief in Texas and Pensacola
The city notes its own struggles with yellow fever and praises Memphis for sending 1200 dollars to Pensacola. It urges Texans to support sufferers in Brownsville and other areas, stressing local prosperity should ease all distress without outside aid.
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Matamoras
Brownsville
Pensacola
Memphis
Texas
Wheat Supply Outlook in 1852 Crop Estimates
The September review by the department of agriculture estimates winter wheat at 350 million bushels and spring wheat at 146.09 million, totaling 520 million. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois contribute about 142 million. With a population of 55 million, per capita supply reaches 9% bushels, about two barrels per person, and exports could hit 200 million bushels if prices hold above $1. The report notes European crops improving but prices falling, citing the Vienna congress.
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Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
South
United States
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Germany
France
Vienna Congress
Fort Worth
Political intrigues and clashes in Alabama and beyond
The Independents labeled as scavengers amid a secret Alabama convention denouncing George H. Craigue and backing Merrett E. Howse. National election notes mention Georgia on the 4th and Ohio, Iowa and West Virginia on October 10, with commentary on temperance and upcoming contests.
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Alabama
George H. Craigue
Merrett E. Howse
Congress
Georgia
Ohio
Towa
West Virginia
Dallas Man Recovers Note From A Lone Eagle
C M Huffonan of Dallas captured a wounded Texas grey eagle near the fair grounds on August 27 1881. He freed the bird after marking it with a tin box containing a note, then learned from a letter sent from Ridgeway Iowa that Albert Kr Koch had killed an eagle and found the tin box and note attached to its neck.
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Dallas
Dallas County
C. MH. Huffonan
Texas
Fair Grounds
Liberty
Albert KR. Koch
Ridgeway
Iowa
Musical Prodigy Frederick Andrews Plays Accordion
A six year old prodigy, Frederick Lee Andrews of Grapevine Prairie, visited the Herald office with his blind sister Agnes and father J. B. Andrews. He played sweet pieces on the accordion with remarkable skill, despite being too small to manipulate the instrument easily. His father notes no formal instruction, yet Frederick learned by ear and claims to play any piece heard.
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Herald Office
Frederick Lee Andrews
J. B. Andrews
Grapevine Prairie
Andrews
Agnes
Austin
Herald
Datlae Herald
Who Wouldn’t Be An Editor in Town
A reflective portrait praises a newspaper editor as a busy, public spirited figure who reads writes proofs folds mail and helps people get jobs while facing blame and occasional cheating. The prose notes editors fuel town growth and benefit even those begrudging critics.
Dr. Mary Walker's Trousers Controversy Reported
Dr Mary Walker faces trouble over a promotion notification that misgenders her and uses a stamped signature. She visited Assistant Secretary Joslyn in anger after being listed as Mrs instead of Miss, prompting a hasty retreat.
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Mary Walker
Josiyn
Coup Circus Sale Fetches Big Sums at Auction
The sale of Coup's Circus raised about 11000 as items from the menagerie drew prices for hippo potamus 2000 gun 625 porcupines 50 monkeys 14 each cockatoos 7.75 lions and a leopard 250 hyenas 399 sun bears 220 jaguar 135 kangaroo 100 with many animals going to Cincinnati gardens and Poronto representatives present. Elephants and eighty horses remain to be sold Monday.
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Wepecwiher
Coup
Circus
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Poronto
Ontario
Cincinnati Gardens
Wash Jones described as political atheist and contender for Texas governor
Col Jones is portrayed as a political nondescript canvassing without principles or party. The Nortons Intelligencer notes his trade is to abuse the democratic party and court Republicans Greenbackers and others to gain the governorship, risking a return to Republican misrule. The County News questions if Texans are prepared for this approach.
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Col. Jones
Texas
Task County News
Wash Jones
G. W. Jones
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