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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1871
Page
6
A long list of sensational mishaps and strange events from various towns. Incidents include violent attacks and deaths from cuts and burns, livestock accidents, accidental shootings, a lightning strike on a church, a barber’s misadventure with a horse, and a missing child feared abducted. Details mention Portage Ohio, Cleveland area, Wisconsin towns, Iowa counties, New Orleans, and Bristol Harbor.
The piece applauds Secretary Boutwell for converting two hundred million five-twenty bonds into ten-year fives, reducing annual interest by about two million dollars. It argues for further funding at under six percent and selling long-term bonds, suggesting radical measures to pay off the national debt within forty years and cut taxes. The National Tribune praises Boutwell despite European hostility and domestic opposition.
The Democratic press contrasts Buchanan's administration costs with Grant's, citing 1860 expenses at 63 500 and current costs at 166 600 622. It argues the figures result from item choices and presentation, noting civil and miscellaneous war appropriations totaled 69 468 760.07 and the actual amounts approved.
A 1860 issue argues Buchanan's four years cost three to five billion dollars in war, tens of thousands of lives, widows and orphans, ruined foreign relations, and ruined commerce. It contrasts this with Grant era spending as cheaper and more economical, urging the Democratic party to feel shame.
The article argues rising Republican support across three areas. It cites Ku Klux violence in the South, votes for Democratic power, and Tammany Hall’s corruption in New York as rallying forces strengthening national Republican resolve. It asserts loyalists will not yield the fruits of the Civil War to treason or an unchecked Democracy.
A damaged historical column argues the Democratic party in North Carolina failed to reverse Reconstruction through a convention to revise the State Constitution. It says the attempt would have produced rival state governments and notes the Senate’s opposition, predicting that many voters would back Democratic candidates in 1872 despite professed settlements.
A collage of light anecdotes features a lawyer jibe about feebleness, a debtor and merchant exchange, courtship mishaps with an heiress, a deaf milkman gag, a devout child’s heaven joke, neighbor Smith and Brown over a locket, and a playful payback ending with Mrs. Smith’s upcoming birthday.
The excerpt criticizes the Democratic Party's postwar stance, citing black codes and resistance to civil rights under Johnson and Grant. It argues Republicans must prevent Democratic control, warning that democratic revival reflects longstanding intolerance and injustice despite efforts at reform. The piece uses historical examples from 1868 and North Carolina to illustrate partisan dangers.
A well dressed stranger stopped at a grain threshing scene near Philm rchia and, after being allowed to operate the equipment, leaped into the thresher. He was torn to pieces, leaving no identity clues beyond a $30 pocketbook.
A wagon loaded with barley owned by Mr. Meador near Brooklyn California toppled over a 100 foot embankment and rolled to the bottom. The Koreea were uninjured.
A collage of old agricultural notes offers remedies for poll evil in horses, carbolic acid fly control, and linseed oil dressings. discussions on oats as a non exhausting crop, lime and potash in soils, and flax-related cattle illness. It also covers straw value, the chinch bug remedy with salt, and advice on clean water for cows and dairy flavor.
A carriage with two ladies slipped from a Maine bridge and fell ten feet into a brook. The horse and carriage were damaged but all escaped injury after the women and team were freed and continued on their journey.
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