County and City Directory Officals Ready for Terms
County officers list terms expiring in 1874 to 1876 including Judge W L Gil Cochran and Jervis Harritt. Probate, sheriff, treasurer, auditor, recorder, coroner, surveyor, and infirmary directors named with deputies and term dates. City officers include Mayor J B Lawder and council wards with term schedules through 1875.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judge Court Common Pleas
W. L. Gilmore
W. KR. Cochran
Clerk Court Common Pleas
Jervis Haritt
W Caldwell
Frank Jones
J. L. Vallandighan
Allen
Timothy Lavin
John C. Weaver
Teri
George Winnedge
Peter Shafer
Jacob Matthias
Samuel Deneen
B Stevens
Board of Education slate names listed in city filing
A list of board of education candidates includes Jacob Matthias W W Caldwell Henry Wilg L B De la Court Constantine Markt John G Weller and John W Meckley as part of a local election filing for potential trustees.
United States Officers Named in Tax and Law Enforce Roles
Deputy Collector United States Internal Revenue Robert Joyce and Deputy United States Marshal M C McMakin are listed as officers. The note presents their official titles and association with federal enforcement agencies.
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United States
United States Internal Revenue
Robert Joyce
United States Marshal
M. C. McMakin
Zara's Despair After Claude's Desertion in Chapter II
Zara endures a troubled dawn as the memory of Claude's cruel desertion returns. She battles pride love rage and despair while waking to a sorrowful city and a night of tears ending in sobs and exhausted sleep. Her growing awareness of her vulnerable situation follows days of vanished hope for Claude's return.
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Pans
Zarah
Zara
Claude
Zara’s Return to London and Pursuit of Claude
Zara returns to London seeking her husband Claude Franklin to claim rightful marriage amid poverty illness and clerical aid. She meets Reverend Joseph Nilton who helps housing and support as she battles debt loss of voice and a mysterious clue about Claude from landlady Mrs Harnitt revealing Claude’s rise in London and a past he has with her.
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Claude
Claude Franklin
Charles Fenton
Zara
Joseph Nilton
Marjory Tarnitt
Franklin
London
Wanston
Mr. Franklin
Mrs. Harnitt
The Crusaders and Saloon Keepers Clash in Court House Square
The Crusaders hold Sunday meetings in the court house square with prayers hymns and speeches for saloon keepers and patrons while saloon keepers serve lager and Schweitzer cases. A domestic scene follows with family chatter and a loud breakfast call as William is urged to rise and come down.
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Our Court House Square
SLAIN CHILD AND DOUBT HAUNT HARPER PIECE
A fragment from Harpers Magazine July features a speaker lamenting a killed child and a life of doubt. The meditation blends grief with religious doubt, contrasting innocence with skeptical modern thought and asking for a return to early simple faith.
Religious Miscellany Notes From Various Churches
A conference in Edinburgh cites 50000 residents in that city without worship. Universalist minister Van Desword of San Francisco dismissed on charges. Hoboken lays foundation stone for a 140000 Catholic church amid large gathering. Methodist Protestants in Kansas report 1374 numbers and 24357 communicants, up 5968. Lynchburg General Conference abolishes deacon in ministry. Kentucky Baptists show under 400 of 1000 churches with Sunday Schools. missions under 200 congregations. London Watchman notes Irish Church disestablishment leads Episcopal clergy to preach in other Protestant churches. Prof Swing plans a new central church for three thousand in Chicago. Petersburg Colored Baptist Church adds 554 converts in Apr–May, now 2504 members. Spurgeon’s Tabernacle crowds require doors locked early. Salem Methodist Protestant joins the M E Church in Philadelphia. Reformed Dutch Church Synod shows 451 churches, 505 ministers, 67123 communicants, with 331 receiving on confession. Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America reports 4 bishops, 15 annual conferences, 607 traveling preachers, 74899 members, 545 Sunday Schools, 1102 teachers, 49835 scholars, seeking a ministerial school. Rev Dr Morrat, Livingstone’s father-in-law, 53-year missionary in Africa. Catholic Review warns Rome convent confiscations yield few charitable uses, many converted to barracks or public offices. Episcopal Conven tion at Charlotteville condemns lotteries and gift enterprises, urges church funds not to come from such means.
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General Conference
Methodist Protestant Church
Lynchburgh
Virginia
Kentucky
London Watchman
Episcopal
Swing
Chicago
Colored Baptist Church
Petersburg
Rev. L. Black
Spurgeon
Salem Methodist Protestant Church
Frankford and
Montgomery Avenues
Philadelphia
Methodist Episcopal Church
General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church
Poughkeepsie
America
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church In America
Dr. Morrat
Livingstone
Africa
Catholic Review
Rome
Charlotteville
Jerome Park Races Close With Notable Attendance
The Jerome Park meeting on June 20 featured six races. Willie Burke won the first race for two-year-olds, Attila and Shylock led in later events, while James A. captured the sixth race. Pittsburg Driving Park held a strong card with Stewart Malony’s three heat trot taking the 1200 purse. The San Diego World items mention Bakersfield donations, a new coal vein near Monterey, and Yosemite travel notes with routes and high water crossings.
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New York
Victorious
Weasel
Little
Willie Burke
Calvin
Join
Marty Jester
Scratch
Gangamona
Thompson's v
Macaroon
Erastusi Corning
Reform
Attila
Thompson
Time Legtor
T'ree
Stak
Fadladeen
Buckd Artist
Minnie
Mac
Minstrel
Buckden
Artist
Springbok
Lizzie Lucas
Shylock
Katie Pease
Merodac
Fellowcraft
Lorrillards
James A
M. Lorrillards
Hyder
James .A
Pirtssero
Pena
Pittsburg Driving Park
Stewart Malony
Lady Alier
East End
Silon Maid
Blend
Philadelphia
San Diego
Bakersfield
Billy Carr
Monterey
Yosemite
Crane Flat
Gentry
Hutching
Hite's Cove
The Genesis Story as Poetry and Proof of Truth
An analysis argues Genesis reflects ancient poetic form and moral truth, noting Moses' style differs from earlier ages while creation, Eden, and the flood echo older traditions. It criticizes literalism, defends critical testing by science, and discusses geology, Earth's motion, and symbolic aims of revelation.
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Genesis
Moses
Chaucer
Spenser
Shakespeare
Adam
Iceland
Boy dies after hunting accident at mulberry tree
William Fumbleson and his son from Bentonville Ohio went hunting. The boy thirteen years old sat waiting for his father near a mulberry tree. Mistaking the boy for a ground hog the father fired fatally. Dr Stephenon removed twenty seven shits from the head. In Cincinnati the Senate approved six hundred thousand dollars for a new customs and post office building with a total cost of three million five hundred thousand dollars.
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Manscuesier
Ohio
William Fumbleson
Bentonville
Adams County
Stephenon
Manchester
Cincinnati
Wasnixerton
Senate
House
Cacinnati
Howe of Representatives
Relief Funding For Flood Victims In Southern States Stated
The Senate today appropriated a general sum for relief of destitute persons along the Lower Mississippi region and in Alabama Tennessee and nearby areas. Funds are to be expended under the Secretary of War by September 1, 1874, to address the overflow caused hardships and ensure proportionate aid.
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Senate
Mississippi
Tewbighes
Warner
Alabama
Tennesee Rivera
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. B. Lawder
David Lingler
H. H. Jones
J. L. Flickinger
Isaac Peacock
Engineer Fire Department
Mandel Shuler
Thomas Reed
George Bisdorff
S. L. Beeler
Henry Eger
A. Benninghoffen
Johnn W. Sohn
Robert Allstatter
William Pfau
Ath
Isaac Graham
Frederick Schliep
Commie
McMakin
John McKee
Middletown
W. B. Hedding- Marshal
John Crain
J. V. Bevinger
England
Joseph Hilton
Paris
David A. Wetts
Cobden Club
Confederate States
The
Crusaders
Willie
Wiliam
Wather
William
Phat
Edinburgh
Revi
van Desword
San Francisco
Hoboken
Kansas
Pittsburg
Critician
Saunders
Clement's Inn
Byrand
Ile
Pemberton
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