Why the South Should Be Rescued From Misrule
The article argues the Republican policy fuels sectional prejudice while Southern soil yields valuable crops like cotton sugar and tobacco. It contends a prosperous South boosts Northern demand, warns misrule harms trade, and claims Georgia's negro property figures show labor dependence. It condemns Northern sneers at Southern industry and urges unity for national prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Georgia
United States
Rebel War Claims and Washington Ring Exposed
Washington dispatch outlines official figures on rebel war claims. Democrats claim most claims were owned by the War Department ring and that Republicans inflated totals in the Forty third Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y. Sun
Washington Dispatch
Henry H. Smith
Committee On War Claims
Forty-third Congress
War Department
Washington Ring
E. V. Rice
Belknap
Fortythird
Committee of the House of the Forty-third Congresa
Republican
Committee
Democratic House
Congress
Washington
Hayes
Republicans Plot Highlighted in Forty Third Congress Record
Fragmentary passage notes Republican carpet bag members from the south reportedly all interested in a plot. It cites an official record of action by the Forty third Congress as supporting the allegation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mands
South
Forty-third Congress
Jobbery In Gravestones And War Department Contracts
A congressional report details how a million dollar program to place headstones in national cemeteries was marred by corruption. Secretary Belknap shifted contracts among favored bidders, with Bridgeton Bridges as a key recipient, and inspectors later dismissed. The committee finds awards violated law, favored individuals over lowest bidders, and notes abuse of power and blackmail in Keokuk links.
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Congress
Committee On Military Affairs of
House
Bridges
Belknap’s
Briggs
Keokuk
Belknap
Secretary of War
Samuel G. Bridges
Iowa
Bathing in the Morava River during wartime
The London Telegraph war correspondent describes the Morava as a clear picturesque boundary stream near Alexinatz Drugovitz Supovitz and Niech. He recalls bathing with Ahmed Eyoub's army across the river and notes bathing became impossible when Serb rifles increased in the current position.
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Morava
London Telegraph
Alexinatz
Niech
Supovitz
Ahmed Eyoub
Resauei
Servia
Potatoes and Hops Yeast Starter Recipe and Florence Opera House
A historical recipe describes boiling potatoes and hops to extract flavors then making a yeast starter with flour, sugar, salt, and ginger before rising. A note mentions Florence planning a new opera house costing a million dollars, with five years for construction and another to fresco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
Radical Extravagance and Misappropriation in Grant Era Tax Records
The article argues that federal revenue under Grant was vastly misused for party ends. It compares Johnson and Grant administrations, reports large deficits from remitted taxes, and cites Missouri’s First District whisky tax failures as evidence of systemic corruption and illicit remittances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Grant
Hirst
Missouri
Mexico
Tilden urges letting bygones be bygones in postwar policy
In the New York Herald, Governor Tilden advocates turning from Civil War issues, insisting the fourteenth amendment must be enforced and rebel debts or emancipation losses not to be paid. He argues for peace, reconciliation, and a future of unity, insisting past disputes should be forgotten.
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N. Y
Tilden
Government Expenses After the War and Debt Burden
The discussion analyzes the wartime and postwar costs, noting a seventy two year span for a government period and suggesting a ten year postwar window. It highlights net ordinary expenses excluding interest on the debt and principal repayments, which ran into billions, shaping the fiscal picture.
Government Expenditures Across Early American History
The article compares the expenses from 1789 to 1861 with later periods under Johnson and Grant. It notes total costs of about 1.58 billion for long war and territorial expansion, 1.01 billion for Johnsons four years, 1.02 billion for six years under Grant, and argues peace-time outlays reached over 2.03 billion, with debt service pushing total near 4.01 billion.
The Tribune Rebuked Letter to the Editor
A New York correspondent criticizes the Tribune for publishing a piece titled A Southern Camp. The writer blames the paper, founded by Horace Greeley, for stirring war memories and racial tensions and urges a different approach in honor of Greeley’s memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Tribune
Horaace Greeley
Tribune
Lir
Horace Greeley
Trbune
South Carolina
Spencer
New York
Climbing Mount Rainier by Hazard Stevens and companions
An 1870s account details Hazard Stevens and Clarence King as they ascend Mount Rainier via rock and ice, crossing crevasses and pitching steps with ice axes. They endure falling stones, fatigue, and exposure while reaching the broad dome and the snowy summit amid emerald crevasse walls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazard Stevens
Mount
Rainer
Takhoma
Cerical Menagerie Stirs Gloucestershire Rectory Lawsuit
Rev. Dr Hallock kept a vast menagerie at Rev. E J Everard's Gloucestershire rectory from Oct 1875 to Apr 1876. Animals including dogs cats a monkey and a hawk damaged rooms and carpets prompting a damages suit by the rector after returning from illness.
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Hallock
E. J. Everard
Gloucestershire
England
Rectory Pest House Prompted Renovation and Damages
The plaintiff found his rectory a perfect pest house and could not inhabit it until after renovation. He estimated damages at £50 to £60 and won a formal verdict in his favor, with the final amount to be decided by referees.
The Scourge of Civilization from the Telegraph
The London Telegraph notes American jubilation at a centenary independence celebration in Philadelphia and warns of aging America. It laments the loss of old world Gothic arches and cites a new national phenomenon, the tramp, as a symbol of decay and social decline.
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London Telegraph
United States
Philadelphia
Belshazzar
Syre Chaldaic
Fairount Park
Herves
Alexander
Columbia
America
Bay of Fundy
Gulf of Mexico
New York
Hell Gate
States
Pocahontas
Virginia
Bess
Great Republic
Humboldt
de Tocqueville
Oyster fertility and the prospect of abundant harvests
Appleton's Journal notes oysters are highly fecund and could flood seas if spawning occurred yearly. It cites Frank Buckland claims of vast numbers of embryos and protoplasm, arguing no famine for oysters as supplies grow and prices fall, aiding the poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Europe
Frank Buckland
Buckland
Appleton
The Vintage in France Paris Letter
Uneasiness grows over the French vintage as rains rot grapes and the phylloxera spreads. A Paris wine merchant warns that vineyards are ruined on hills in Southern France and plains wines will dominate, making formerly common table wines scarce.
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France
Paris
Mons. Dufaure
Council of Ministers
Justice
Nothi
Widow Recieves Bouquet From Earnest Suitor
A widow living alone after years of bereavement received a beautiful bouquet from a persistent admirer. A dry clerk observed the scene as she passed his shop, noting the suitor’s earnest courtship and small romantic gestures. The bouquet sparked smiles and a chorus of coy congratulations in the street.
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Raleigh
Tom
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Jobbery
N. Y. World
INOT
Louisiana
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
the Tribune
Paris Cortes
Philadelphia Telegraph
Champ del Mars
M. le
M. Kranz
Caramissa
Berse . Ciel
Foreign Department
Eprce
Lippincott’s
Polace
Baccarat
Patrick
Pall Mall
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