Illinois Democratic split and a tides of items
A muddled column notes a split in Illinois Democracy and various items from July revenue totals to a burning steamboat Pat Rogers, lightning deaths in Michigan and Woodford County, a real estate inheritance dispute, election-day violence in Shepherdsville, and attacks on editors and press. It mocks the so called organ and references Gibralter plans, European war talk, and worm imagery. It closes with a jab at editors and worms on bread.
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Woodford County
Organ worth four times printing cost in Butler County
The Butler County discourse critiques county printing expenses and political manipulation. It cites $6,594.63 for eight months, calls out Peck and auditors, questions Demrom party motives, and condemns Hodder Delacourt for inflated printing costs while urging voters to see through self serving manipulation.
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Hopper
Polite Delacourt
Butler County
Aliddietons Journal
Organ Lies and Democratic Repercussions
A heated letter compares claims about Mr. Peck's Auditor appointment to political rings and criticizes both sides. It cites figures like Vallandigham and Casphey, notes shifts in party organs, and argues for focusing on postwar issues such as finances and civil service. A brief local item follows about a boy attempting to lift himself by a horse route’s tail, with a medical note on a forehead scar.
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Thomas
Peck
Jupee Cocuras
Democratic Party
Vallandigham
L. D. Caspiey
State Senate
Congress
Horace Greeley
Joan W. Loun
Mosby
Virginia
Grant
Longstreet
New York Nation
Republican Party
Times
Sit
Cloud
Ife
Corruption claims spark in Butler County organ case
A local Ledger style discussion accuses L B Delacourt and Hodder of inflated printing bids for assessor blanks, comparing bids with J U Long, and alleging favoritism to an opposing paper. The column critiques the Auditor’s records, notes stock ties, and questions the printing costs and politics behind the 1874 bid race.
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Delacourt
Long’s
Peck
Pecknew
The
Independent
Examiner Establishment
A Letter From Monson on Politics and Reform
A 1874 letter to Ed Examiner from Monson Ohto discusses public sentiment, politics, and reform. The writer notes widespread corruption, predicts county reform in 1875, praises the Examiner for consistent justice, and mentions a Beecher controversy as a distant distraction. He compares political neutrality to a Confederate figure awaiting divine victory.
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Ed! Examiner
Tate
Aweck Dean
Beecher
Darkey
de Lord
Alex
Butler
Watte
Storms and Calamities Strike Across Regions
The piece laments a summer of disasters from Mississippi levee breaches in Louisiana to New England’s Mill River damage. It blames corporate underfunding for poor dam construction, calls for state supervision, notes grasshopper plagues in the West, and warns of a worm outbreak in California beet fields as divine punishment for sin.
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Mississippi
Louisiana
Mill River Dam
New England
West
California
Tilton Beech er Scandal Sparks Morbid Public Interest
Editors chase latest testimony with zeal amid a public morality critique. The piece condemns sensational reporting on the Tilton Beech er affair, warning it harms youth and degrades morals regardless of truth. An elderly gentleman’s quip about age ends the fragment.
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Hamilton Printing Co
John F. Neilan
Illinois Democracy
Internal Revenue
National Teachers’ Association
Detroit
Kansas
Sam Jones
Rockingham County
Norm Canotrsa
Good
Joux BuLi
Jounx
Orktown
New Orleans
Mr. Neiwan
Telegraph
Pat Rogers
Steven A. DouGins
Mr. Lovejoy
Belle Oak
Michigan
Europe
Germany
Santana
Santander
Treasury
Shepherdsville
Middletown Journal
Laquirer
Huguirer
Examiner
Butler County Democrat
Mr. Peck
Hodder and de la Court
Polite
L.B. Delacourt
General van Derveer
Long
Hamilton O
Courts of the Common Pleas
Missouri
L B. Delacourt
Hamilton National Zeitung
Delathe Hamilton Court
City School Fund
Thomas H. Hodder
Fune
Hodder
Hodder & Delacourt
County Treasury
Co. Treasury
Middletown _Journal
Tilton-Beecher
Mr. W
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