Grand palatial residence west of the city nears completion
A prominent townsman Mr J D Cowan’s grand suburban home outlined for completion with finishing touches and landscaped grounds to enhance its appearance. Nashville American notes the Knox ville and Augusta Railroad Company purchase of Knoxville and Charleston Railroad property for 100000. Dawes and Jackson grocers entertain with a coop of live wild ducks captured upriver.
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J.d.cowan
Cowan
Nashville American
Thomas O'Connor
William H. Cherry
Wm. Morrow
Knoxville and Augusta Railroad Company
Knoxville and Charleston Railroad Company
Dawes & Jackson
Fragmented 19th Century News Fragments on Politics and War
A collage of brief notices covers Republican finance cautioning violence, Austrian army cuts, Belgium’s Pantheon project, Irish agitator Brennan’s arrest, suffrage committee moves, weather shifts in Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, John Paul Jones monument plans, desertions to Rome, Jefferson Davis and Lincoln era notes, Egyptian Abyssinian defense, Obi tramp law, Missouri congressman Alfred Morrison Lay’s death, Louisiana lotteries legalizing through 1895, Tennessee legislature’s recurring ineptitude, and mockery of state politics.
Death of Congressman Lay Triggers Congressional Adjournment
Telegraphic note reports the death of Congressman Lay of Missouri in Washington. Both Houses adjourn due to the funeral. Vorhees introduces his Greenback Bill in the House. The article also mentions vigorous remarks by the famed preacher Talmage.
Congress Defers on Coinage Plan as Lay Death Shocks House
In Washington the Senate laid on the table Voorhees proposed resolution opposing new financial agitation and urging gold and silver coinage equality while preserving greenbacks. The House mourned Rep Alfred M Lay of Missouri upon learning of his death and formed a funeral committee, adjourning at 12 15.
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Washington
Mr. Voorhees
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Voorhees
Trouse
Representative Lay
Messrs. Vest
Kirkwood
Walker
Vest
Lay
Hlouse
Washineton
D. C
A. M. Lay
Missouri
Clark
Alfred M. Lay
House
Messrs. Clark
Morrison
Hill
Bingham
Chalmers
Calkins
Ryan
Kansas
Surgeon General report cites growth and harbor plan details
The annual Surgeon General’s report for the Marine Hospital Service shows a 14 percent rise in patients served and a 2 percent rise in expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1879. It advocates first class hospitals in Baltimore and New Orleans, cottage hospitals in several cities, and purchasing Port Townsend private hospital. It calls for legal changes on proceeds from the sale of unserviceable property and notes Congressman Lay of Missouri’s death in Washington.
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Washineton
Marine Hospital Service
Congress
Treasury
Seamen’s Fund
Wasutxetoy
Congressman Lay
Missouri
Nominations and actions of the Senate and church dispute
Immediate cause of his death was paralysis. The President sent nominations to the Senate including Owen N. Denny to be Consul General at Shanghai and Jno Hay to be Assistant Secretary of State. The Senate Judiciary Committee held its first meeting, considering Secretary McCrary and a bill on lottoery questions. In New York Talmage defended against Presbyterian opponents, pledging to preach until told to stop. Irish reception plans emerged after letters from Dublin, with a large meeting and committees organized to aid tenants and starving families in Ireland.
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Senate
Owen N. Denny
Oregon
Shanghai
Dunsham J. Crain
New York
U. 8
Milan
Robt. W. Welch
New Hampshire
U. S
Carara
Jno. Hay
Ohio
Elihu A. White
North Carolina
Rodney C. Ward
Senate Judiciary Committee
McCrary
Post Office Department
Talmage
Tabernacle
Board of Trustees
Presbyterian Church
Brooklyn
Long Island Synod
General Assembly
God
Father
Holy Catholic Church
Synod of
Long Island
General Assembly of the
United States
Irish National Land League
Dublin
Phillip H. Donlin
Charles Stewart Parnell
Hamilton Park Hotel
Ireland
America
Irish Societes
South Carolina Railroad Case Fails for Full Hearing
In Charleston South Carolina Delaware District Court the United States Circuit Court denied a motion for a full hearing and final decree in the South Carolina Railroad case. The ruling cited that no final decree could be issued until all creditors are called in. An order to appoint a Referee will be granted tomorrow.
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Charteston
D. C
South Carolina Railroad
United States Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Mor— Tow
Final hearing set for April term in creditor claims case
An order allows the Receiver of the road to tender Bank of South Carolina bills to pay State taxes and to litigate the raised points of law. Creditors are summoned to prove their claims and the case will be presented at the April term for a final hearing.
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Bank of South Carolina
The Indians at Ouray Respond To Demand for Trial Location
The Los Pinos Agency reports Ouray delivers a reply to the Commissioner. They will deliver for trial Douglas and others implicated in the Meeker Massacre if tried in Washington. Colorado is deemed unfriendly and a fair trial locally is not expected. Runners are en route to summon those Indians named by the Commission.
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Los Piyos
Ouray
Douglas
Meeker
Washington
Colorado
New Mexico
Mexican raiders raid Texas rancho on Rio Grande
A San Antonio dispatch reports a rumor that twenty five Mexicans attacked McAllin's stock on a Rio Grande rancho. The occupants were tied to trees, and the rancho robbed of money and valuables. Horses and mules were driven off by the marauders.
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Galveston
San Antonio
McAllin
Rio Grande
Minor Dispatches From Across the Nation in Early December
A Buffalo Express derailment near Om City, Pennsylvania, after a Pittsburgh departure, crushed eight coal cars and killed fireman Arthur Simpson while passengers escaped unharmed. Other notes mention Louisville and Nashville officials moving through Waitra Indiana toward Pensacola, and a Mississippi Louisiana Synod decision restoring Rev. S. P. Linn. A New Orleans library report lists leading authors and counts of calls in November, highlighting figures from Dickens to Tolstoy across a long catalog. Total items 570.
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Om Crry
Buffalo Express
Pittsburg
Arthur Simpson
Waitra
Ann
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Pensacola
New Orleans
Louisville and Nashville
Presbyterian Synod of Mississippi
Mississippi
Louisiana
P. Linn
Presbytery of
the Public Library
Public Library
Roe
E. P
Bulwer
Lord Lytton
Evans
Holmes
Howells
W. D
Cooper
J. Fennimore
Scott
Sir Walter
Reade
Chas
Mark Twain
James
Henry, Jr
Alcott
Louisa M
George Elliot
Oliver Optic
Irving Washington
Longfellow
H. W
Black
W. M
Bancroft
Geo
Sweeteer
M. F
Stowe
Harrett B
Abbott
Jno
Dickens
De’Anbigue
Froude
James Anthony
Maloch
Miss
Harland
Marion
Kingerley
Prescott
W.H
Darwin
Kemble
Francis Ann
Mommsen
Theodore
Warren
Samuel C
Bronte
Charlotte
Ruskin
John
Headley
J. T
Parkman
Francis
Verne
Julius
Westmoreland
Thackeray
Carlyle
Thos
Green
J. R
Tennyson
Alfred
MacKenzie
Goethe
Marryatt
Capt
I Beecher
Henry Ward
Porter
Jane
Kennedy
James P
Auerbach
Berthold
Sue
Eugene
Burnett
Francis Hodgeon
Dept. Pierre
Austin
Hart
Brete
Taine
H. A
Holland
J. G
Disraeli
Hawthorne
Nathaniel
Gibbons
Edward
Emmerson
Ralph Waldo
Barne
Albert
Jones
J. B
DeQuincy
Thomas
Clemmens
Jere
Noah
Bremer
Frederica
Shakspeare
Wood
Hamilton
Gail
Browning
Elizabeth Barrett
White
Tom
Strickland
Agnes
Collins
Rev. Lucas
John S
Cervantes
A Harris
Miram Cales
Kingston Public Debate on Republican 1890 Welfare
East Tennessee report covers Kingston Court House gathering last night on the resolution that electing a Republican President in 1890 is essential to national welfare. Aff Firm W C Shelley J C Pope J W Hood F D Owings G A Guenther W E Staley argued affirmative. Negative speakers included D M Coffman J J Littleton C Seinknecht G W Henderson E E Young B A Coffman.
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D. M. Coffman
J. J. Littleton
C. Seinknecht
G. W. Henderson
E. E. Young
A. Coffman
Markets by Telegraph New York Money Market and Cotton
New York money market prices show al 1.06 for money and 482 exchange. Governments strong with 5s at 1.029 and 4s at 1.05. Cotton market reports net receipts 890 bales, futures unsettled with large totals and varied December to August futures. General market notes include firmer southern flour, better wheat export demand, and mixed grains and pork pricing with lard and whisky values.
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New York
Uplands
Great Britain
France
Continent
Corp
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Havey, Rolen & CO
Market Square
Knoxville, Tenn
Oxford Bibles
Coffin, Wilson & CO
Gay and Reservoir Streets
East Tennessee
Lewis & Carhart
W. B. Williams
S. B. Luitrell
Saturde
H.B. Branner
George W. Albers
B. F. Badgett
T. A. Barrier
Knoxville
Tennessee
Holston Salt and Plaster Company
Lenoir’s and Rockford Yarns
Gay Street
Lewis
Bartons
Anker
Lamar House
Alvin Barton
Citizens OF Knoxville
Nathan Stern
Central House
Reichstrath
Ite
Belgium
A. H. Buntock
Massachusetts
Saint James
Bullock
Jobe Bull
Committee On the Judiciary
Daublin
Thos. Brennan
National Land League
Ohio Valley
Baltimore Gazetfe
John Paul Jones
Paris
Church of
Jeff. C. Davis
Nelson
Galt House
Louisville
Gen. Davis
Lincoln
Khedive
Egypt
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Abyssanota
Rhody
Tne
Alfred Mokkison Lay
Lewis County
Jefferson City
Corgrees
Kery
Pilican
Commonwealth
Key
Capitol
Nashville
Memphis
Telegraphic
Houses of
Vorhees Introduces
His Greenback
Bill
Xlvi Congress
South Carolina
THE
Indians
Texas
Telegraph
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