16 Nov 1866
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Newspaper
Jefferson Era
Location
Jefferson, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1866
Page
1
A jumble of items reports Canadian ambassadors en route to England to discuss colonial confederation, shifts in political majorities in Delaware and New York, Emigration shifts from North Carolina, Fenian fears, and pending U.S. fiscal and territorial debates. Also notes a general expectation of amnesty talk and military organization, plus state legislature outcomes and party splits.
The sketchy Iowa items report a prairie fire near Affon Revellly that destroyed a school home and fence. Council Bluffs considers borrowing $60,000 for public improvements. Marshalltown hosts wool factory news and local rail effects. Keokuk teachers’ wages are criticized. Guthrie and Carroll counties note growth and land offers. Des Moines area plans include a new Mul at Des Moines and farmer propositions. Ankeney Brothers plan agricultural ventures. A herd of 72 cattle with weights around 1200 pounds. An apple yield highlights five bushels from an old orchard. A three foot tall Green Male crane is shot near Boone township.
A translated report from the official Gazette of Turk describes brutal acts in Palermo, including crucifixion, mutilation, and killings near convents and monasteries. Soldiers faced hostile fire as monks and locals engaged in violent acts, with executions and gruesome injuries reported in several quarters.
An American carried the first Italian flag into Venice after the close of the into war. Twenty six iron clad vessels are now being built in England for the British navy. John Mitchell travels back from Paris. Governor Wise recovers from cholera at Richmond. Garibaldi may visit England in November. Three tons of steel daily become hoop skirts. Lewiston manufacturing firms paid over 1,260,000 in revenue taxes in four years. Beauregard declares no railroad employment without Confederate army service. Baron Rothschild reportedly loses an eye and may lose the other. Roman coins unearthed at Stalbridge bearing Constantine’s head and armor figures. In Mariposa County a gray lithographic stone vein named The American Flag is found. Gold and coal discovered near Fort Laramie in Dakota Territory, with silver paying. The War Department orders 476,000 iron head blocks for national cemeteries with detailed inscriptions.
A Pacific Railroad report notes slower progress on the California end despite heavier work, with 12 000 Chinese laborers in California and 10 000 more contracted for next spring. Track reaches Cisco near Mount Washington height while surveying from Sacramento to the summit, describing grand canyon walls, massive culverts, and sublime scenery along the line.
An 1816 calculation for U S population growth by Jeli Adams and Edmund Burke. tracing 1810 figure of 7 239 903 and predicting rapid increases through 1890. The article notes Watson’s later insertion of census figures and praises the accuracy of the forecast.
Five women and children held by Kiowa Indians were delivered up to Colonel Leavenworth at Fort Larned and sent to Fort Riley. The Colonel refused gifts and demanded the captives be returned to the Indians. A railroad contract with Chicago capitalists is reported for the Lawrence and Galveston line to the southern border of the state. The Cherokee neutral lands sale by Secretary creates comment. about 15,000 settlers reside there, with rich lands noted for agriculture, stock, and minerals.
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