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Newspaper
Lancaster Gazette
Location
Lancaster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1867
Page
2
The Gazette explains its aim to cover voter registration efforts under military authority, plans to publicize or abstract the topic as it develops into law. It notes the seventh volume of the Gazette and the paper’s forty first year, praising subscriber relations and urging continued support to grow value and circulation.
A partisan circular from the Democratic State Central Committee urges mobilizing Union voters' inactivity to boost copper interests in upcoming municipal and township races. The memo argues for strengthening Democratic majorities, rebuking constitutional overhauls, and rebuilding the South through targeted local votes while warning against disruptive national policy shifts.
An interview with Mr. Guawam, agent for the Mineral Railroad, reports favorable progress toward acquiring right of way across Fairfield County toward Franklin boundary. Most landowners consent, but south of Lanewater opposition grows, attributed to misperceptions about community benefit. The piece urges prompt, liberal terms to advance the line, notes southern completion depends on right of way gains, and mentions a new weekly paper in Columbus by publishers of the Republic and others.
Historic provisions set township boards as sole caretakers of roads and bridges, requiring labor by able bodied residents, penalties for obstruction, and new taxes to fund repairs. The act outlines duties for trustees, labor schedules from April to September, wage payments, and bridge construction limits. It also covers enforcement, liability, and transitional provisions for road maintenance and safety.
The column lists crop prices and market activity including flour demand high for higher grades, scarce spring wheat priced at 82-40, corn firm at 61.0 for No 1, and barley steady. It also covers pork prices around 822-823, butter firm, lard up to 240 in city, and a brief civic notice about city clerk and city attorney salary discussions. A sensational theft and injury item appears, plus a delayed grand gift drawing in Lancaster with tickets and commissions.
Hannah G Patten of Cincinnati writes about Palmoe’s Vegetable Cotamotion, declaring the forest has conferred a blessing and the eruption deemed incurable by all physicians. The lines convey disbelief and a plea regarding a strange local matter.
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