Hippopotamus Tale and Boulder Mining Preview
Fragmentary piece recounts a tale about hippos and a family’s amused anecdotes, then shifts to The Boulder News summarizing a Boulder lecture by Commodore Decatur on Colorado mining. It urges strong Colorado representation at the Centennial Exposition and notes potential ore wealth from Caribou, Ni-Wot, and telluride districts.
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Boulder News
Boulder
Commodore Decatur
Stephen Decatur
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Whitney
Paris
California
St. Louis
Boulder County
Rocky Mountains
Beoulder County
Colorado Department
Harney Gulch Pioneer News From Fort Laramie Era
A long extract details Capt Mix’s 1876 march from Fort Laramie to Harney Gulch with miners and families. It describes camps, stockades, and snowbound routes, miners’ hardships, and the 400 ft claim, 200 ft per miner, plus the Harney City rush potential as Black Hills open for settlement. It notes miners' rights questions and quotes leader B B Logan on gold prospects and quartz finds near Harney Gulch.
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Omaha
Fort Lanamie
Mix
M. Company
2D Cavalry
Leonard Hay
LaPoint
Col. Bullock
Fort Laramie
Sioux City
Black Hills
Harney’s Peak
Red Cloud Agency
Ft. Laramie
A. McDonald
Harney Gulch
Harney City
United States Supreme Court
The Goodness of God in a World of Sorrow
A Chicago Alliance sermon urges readers to seek the light in history and in faithful lives. It argues philosophy should study sorrow yet acknowledge divine goodness, with Moses, Seneca, and martyrs as examples. The piece asserts that happiness comes from inner virtue and spiritual progress, not external wealth.
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David Swing
Earth
Mill
Cousin
Bright
Channing
Sumner
Moses
Charles X11
Washington
Seneca
Athens
Alexandria
Cranmer
Rogers
Paul
James
Luke
Jesus Christ
Christ
Chicago Alliance
Colorado Penitentiary Work Program and Reforms
Warden Prosser in Canon City oversees convict labor including lime burning quarrying shoemaking and smithing as part of an extensive jail improvement. A substantial stone wall six acres surrounds the complex with guard towers and a new front office for arms and decrees. The grounds will be landscaped while convicts, now forty seven with varied sentences, are kept in orderly military formation. Guards wield Stevens breech loading shotguns and discipline remains strict under Prosser and clerk W F Baldwin. Separately three men once dug near Cincinnati for weeks and vanished with a rusty box believed to contain gold hidden by burglars years ago.
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United States
B. B. Logan
Gordon
Witcher
Slukes
Witcber
B. Austin
Logan
Golch
Virginia City
Montana
Harney Gulch
Powder River Range
Big Horn Mountains
Prosser
Canon City
Mason and Fitch
Ransford
Steven
Graham
Soda Springs
W. F. Baldwin
Cincinnati
Individualized discipline urged for effective teaching
The Teacher's Monthly argues teachers should treat children as individuals rather than mass samples. Motivation varies from love of study to fear, praise, or judicious censure, with some unmotivated pupils requiring special handling. success hinges on common sense and tailored approaches. Emigration trends to California are rising but many return due to lack of work.
Centennial Agricultural Machinery Exhibit Plans Revealed
The Centennial Commission outlines a ten acre Agricultural Hall for farm implements at Philadelphia with steam power test areas for gins presses mills and threshers. Entries open January 5 1876 and close April 10 offering judging on originality utility quality and cost. Inquiries go to the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture Philadelphia.
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Bureau of Agriculture
Philadelphia
Spirits Speak On Beecher Trial At Sacred Court
A Brooklyn letter to the Cincinnati Commercial describes an immense court attendance with three mediums reporting spiritual spectators watching the Beecher trial. The mediums say factions form Beecherites and anti Beecherites, warlike and led by sky blue and blood red banners, while Tiltonite sentiment is absent. A Bakersfield man joked about sending red toy balloons during mail travel.
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Brooklyn
Cincinnati Commercial
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Main Street Greeley
Maple St
Tribune Office
Goperen
Mr. Moss
J. Henry
Madison &I
Main and
Walnut
Pioneer Saddle and Harness Shop
N.B
R. KE. Hart
OLD Colony
Main St
Greeley
Sing-Lee & Lang-Kek
Main Street
Colo
Coafnnes Reasonance
Pawon & Allen
Eae H. Broughton
Fort Collins
CoLonano
Larimer County
A. W. Fisk
REAL
Scott
Justice of the Peace
TE Office
F.inman
Sir McPhail & Co's Pianos
Boston
Pianosweed
Boxy
We. E. Papp
Noah Re, Allen
Abor & Allen
Cache la Poudre
B. A. Haynes
A. Be, Gipson
S & Gipson
J . Buckley
Weld County
Withian Stein
Mai
Tribune
F L. Childs
the Bakery
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J. Leavy
Grant and
Sherman Sts
Little Johnny
the Hippo
Hippo
Missy
Ned
Africa
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Menagrie
Guy Fox
Cal'ia
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Eges
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French Creek
Camp Success
Colorado Penitentiary
Golden State
Cheyenne
Centennial Commission
Bakersfield
San Francisco
Arizona
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