Repudiation Debate Over Sue Murphy Damages
The Messenger argues against government repudiation of civil war damages, citing Sue Murphy's Alabama destruction case as a test of loyalty and fairness. It accuses opponents in Congress of hypocritical claims and warns bondholders to beware radical efforts toward widespread repudiation.
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Gazette
Senate of the United States
Sue Murphy
Decatur
Alabama
Chis Way
Sherman
Miss Murpis
Ohio
Cincinnati
Cgiazette
Congress
Sam Murray
South
Enq
Religious items stir talk of faith and reform across nations
A broad survey of religious life notes German preaching, Bohemian ministers touring the United States, large Christmas and revival activities, and varying attitudes toward worship. Anecdotes span Boston seductions, New York spiritualists, and clerical quirks, with Beecher praising women as best prayers and ministers facing temptations and intoxication in sermons.
Ghostly blue lights seen near wreck on Ohio River
A Steamer Minnesota watch crew along the guard line reported pale blue lights rising from the water near the site of a recent collision between the United States and America steamers. The lights expanded into human forms and disappeared after about fifty seconds, causing widespread excitement aboard.
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Memphis and Cincinnati Packet Company
Minnesota
Ohio
United States
America
Joseph Thorp
John McIluren
Qurphy
Alls
Solar eclipses on the year to be observed in North America and Asia
The report notes four eclipses this year two solar and two lunar with two visible on the continent. The first eclipse occurs on the 27th and a solar eclipse on the 7th will be visible in North America and East Asia with partial visibility starting in Boston.
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Taxi
North America
East Asia
Boston
Winter of hunger in a cold street scene with a dying child
The verse laments hunger and cold in a harsh urban winter. A mother’s death, a child’s suffering, and a beggar’s plea for mercy frame a grim image of frost and deprivation in a stark urban landscape.
Postmaster General Urges Government Telegraph Network Plan
A special report to Congress from the Postmaster General urges a government controlled postal telegraph system. It endorses a nationwide company to lay lines along postal routes, under fixed low rates and with government power to adjust prices, while criticizing current telegraph management as a monopoly.
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Congress
Post Office
Belgium
Switzerland
England
United States
Randall
Twilight prayers across a mourning family scene
A maiden, mother, widow and father kneel in twilight to recite the Lord's Prayer. The grieving mother gazes at a sleeping child while others plead for daily bread guidance and safe passage as a loved one departs.
Obituary Notice of Jim Washoe Chief Passes Away
A Rooer Morwtary paper publishes an obituary for Jim, famed Chief of the Washoe Indians, who died recently. The notice praises his virtues, notes his honesty, and mentions an estate of a pair of boots to be settled by heirs. The text reflects formal obituary style with dated allusions and ceremonial phrasing.
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Rooer Morwtary
Jim
Washoe
Feyer
Agwe
Weil
Wals for the Ladies and Sudden Witty Sayings
A collage of quips on women, marriage, suffrage and society from a 19th century paper. It includes a remark on 3.5 million unmarried English women, jokes about wives, shopping clerks, and a Boston dry goods clerk earning one percent.
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England
Boston
Ohio
Staunton
Magdeburg
New York
Vermont
sIdeas
Voltaire
J. D. Fulton
Betsey
John
Pete
London
Tome
Colored man seeks Washington post from Grant era at central station
A sable representative claims to seek an office under President Grant in Washington. He travels with a mule and two youths, visits Captain Cain at the station, and requests lodgings for the night. He believes black officials will gain positions when Grant takes office and hopes to become governor.
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Cain
Washington
Washington City
Massa Grant
Chile
New Orleans
The Bishop of Mayence on drunkenness and moderation
Goethe recounts a Rhineland tale where a sermon mocks total abstinence yet judges excess. The bishop says wine pleases the heart and advises stopping at six bottles after eight to avoid abusing others. He notes Providence might grant sixteen bottles to some without losing temper.
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United States
Evelyn Evans
Methodist Church
Pittsburgh
New Hampshire State
Boston
Portland
Scudder
San Franciso
Bath
New York
Northampton
Mass
Lynn
Grant
Colfax
Trinity Parish
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Birkshire
John Emerson
Conway
Bardwalls’ Store
Bardwell
Williams
Barr la
Pittfield
Papa
Mama
Grandpa
Grandma
Astrappper
Dr. Evans
St. Mary’s Church
the Strand
London
Jouis
Gorthe
Mayence
Enemiea
Germany
Goethe
Various Illinois Notes on Education, Enrolments, and Tragedies
The period itemizes school expenses for Princeton in 1868 at 31100 dollars, cistern and church revival efforts in Fairbury, and a new Clark Street Chicago building costing 70000 dollars for 1000 pupils. It records drownings near Ottawa and Elgin, a Missouri hog shipment to Quincy, and a self-inflicted death near Danby by Hannah Winman. It notes a constitutional convention bill, insurance regulation, and medical exam boards, plus cattle shipments from Illinois and a three-child death from wagon travel.
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Princeton
Harvis
Marshall County
Clark Street
Chicago
Fairbury
Miss Clark
Perapa Rosa
Young Men’s Christian Association
Quincy
Missourian
Danby
Ilinois
Hannah Winman
Northwestern
State Senate
Harlan
Jilinoie
Toledo, Wabash and Western
Bloomington
Illinois
Earh Grand Division
Springfield
Cairo
United States
Wild Man Haunts Woods Near Galli Polis
A reported wild man, hairy and gigantic with blazing eyes, haunts the woods near Yue Devox Two Srexs. A carriage party was attacked. the father was grabbed in a vice like grip, the daughter struck him with a rock and he fled into a nearby copse, leaving the scene.
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Creaure
Aind
Cincin
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