Credit of Hayes and political maneuverings in 1880s era
The notice distills 1880s newspaper chatter on Hayes and Grant, Indian agencies, party nominations, and looming conventions. It cites Lansing, Utica, and various state papers predicting candidates like Washburne, Blaine, Sherman, and Edmunds, while noting Greenbackers hiring Dr Arnold for speeches amid biographical efforts for Chief Justice. It also touches on labor, public notices, and a slice of Illinois and New York political reporting.
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Cincinnati Gazette
Sherman
President
Blaine
Grant
Washburne
Garfield
Hayes
the Gazette
Sheraman
Cincinnati
Swith Cleveland
Ita
Indian hostiles defeated Gros Ventres in daylight raid
Fragmentary 19th century dispatches describe Gros Ventres driving off a large pony band after a clash with hostiles near Glendine. Other items note Spanish senate approval of abolition bills, Meissen coal mine fire fatalities, German army strength, grief over Irish distress, and various political moves in U.S. Congress.
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Bisuy
Glendine
Ry Bork
Ty Connors
Keough
Buford
Morgan
Grase
Monument and canal measures in Congress outlined
The record covers debates on a monument for F. S. Key, a cosm o American bureau, and a canal project. It notes votes on public roads as post routes, pension and military relief bills, and adjournments with eulogies for Bay and Chandler.
Indian Bureau scandal and Grant rumors fuel political shifts
The column alleges General Shelley bribed election officers in Lowndes county and jailed witnesses while evidence timed out. It cites the dismissal of Commissioner Hayt, reformers clashing with party machinery, Grant withdrawal rumors, Blaine rising, and Democrats chasing patronage. It also condemns General Boynton as a sensationalist journalist and attacks General Sherman.
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Shelley
Haralson
Lowndes
Washington
Indian Bureau
Hayt
Hammond
O Burk
Bureau
Republican Party
Commissioner Bently
Pension Office
General Grant
Pennsylvania
Blaine
Otion
Senate
Congress
Ishmaelite
Boynton
Sherman
Irish Poverty Visited by an English Stranger in a Wretched Cabin
A London Telegraph letter recalls stark Irish squalor in a cabin where earth floor, damp walls, and scant furniture define a starving family. A widow with seven children gathers fuel for a cabbage meal as famine bites, while other women struggle to boil Indian meal. The writer witnesses widespread destitution and piteous pleas for aid amid ruined crops and collapsing livelihoods.
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London Telegraph
Editor’s Vacation Tale From a Parson Visit
An editor recalls six weeks ago a parson entered the office with a novel pitch about a lasting pen and a proposed vacation. The exchange turns humorous as the parson questions the editor about depriving them of vacation while the pen rests in ink. The piece closes noting the editor took a rest.
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Lakeland
Muday Law Journal
Palestine Pottery and Biblical Imagery Recalled in Harper’s
A fragment from Harper’s Magazine recalls ancient pottery describes a potter at his wheel. The essay notes how biblical visions liken God’s judgment to shattered vessels, comparing fragile water jars to the fragility of human tools and fate.
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Palestine
David
Zion'a
Harper's Maga
Umbrella Ethics and Ocean Breakers Across the Ages
A reminiscence recounts an 19th century umbrella swap in Cincinnati where a doctor’s missing umbrella reappears via a letter from Indiana. The piece also cites Bell Rock and Skerry experiments showing Atlantic breakers deliver far heavier blows than German coast surges, with granite blocks hurled by gale force in Plymouth breakwater events.
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Bell Rock
Skerry
Hootland
Plymouth
Value of worn gold coins and government receipts
Letter from the New Orleans Mint explains how gold coins retain nominal value after natural wear. It cites the Coinage Act of 1878 and outlines standard versus least current weights for double eagles, eagles, half eagles, and smaller denominations, noting expected wear timelines and the absence of a fixed least current weight for silver coins.
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New Orleans
United States Treasury
United States
England
The Fame of Thackeray and His Time
The Atheneum lauds Thackeray as the era’s premier novelist whose popularity grows while rivals fade. It notes his balanced mix of pessimism and optimism, critique of sham, and conventional morality, praising Esmond yet deeming Vanity Fair and The Newcomes his most vital works. It calls Thackeray a vivid painter of early nineteenth century English society.
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Thackeray
Waterloo
Vanity Fair
Newcomes
Atheneum
Quotation of Odd Knowledge and a Tax London Twist
A humorous anecdote features Rev Dr Bledsoe dismissing a pompous scholar who claims vast knowledge by noting the man knows all but that he is a fool. The Tax London Telegraph relays a muddled report claiming John Quincy Adams left £10,000 to his son, a later president, who died rich after a marriage to a wealthy lady.
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London
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Addresa
Maia
Marshall
Woo Pde
Four-Quart Pan Confusion At Trial And A Franclin Exhibit
A courtroom exchange questions the size and shape of a four quart pan with witty misdirections. The jurors drift as the witness confounds a pan with a pail and a barrel, then a Tangled anecdote about Franklin and an exhibition in France mocks a historic savant.
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