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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1881
Page
2
Twenty five years ago the nation marked James Buchanan's inauguration under a slaveholding regime. The piece recalls the quiet ceremony, political divisions, and Buchanan's inaugural address urging restraint, Union preservation, and limited expansion, with cabinet details and oath by Chief Justice Taney.
A Chicago Inter Ocean advertisement promotes a Panama Isthmus railroad project with three million first mortgage bonds at seven percent for thirty years. It cites Mexican government grants, 5 000 tons of rails purchased, and a projected twenty million dollar construction cost.
The article describes the Araucano Indians occupying southeastern Chile near the Andes. It notes ongoing border conflicts with Chilean troops, settler-driven land seizures, and no known mineral wealth. It details attempts at civilization, a legend of a priest-prisoner, sun worship, and a wary, reticent people who seldom allow outsiders.
The 1880 Grand Master W G Morris led the United Workmen with vigor and healthful growth. The year saw 45 deaths from various causes, eighteen new lodges formed, and $7 075 45 raised for yellow fever sufferers with about $3 000 unpaid.
Senator Beck of Kentucky delivered a forceful Senate speech urging a nationwide program to support American steamship lines. He cited past land grants and cash sums, urging a annual government subsidy of four million dollars to spur domestic marine service and price bids per mile to foreign ports. Blaine of Maine countered with solid arguments for government backing and predicted a revival of the American steam marine.
The British army in South Africa suffered a severe defeat against the Boers. General Deane and his staff were killed, several officers wounded, and 181 soldiers reported killed or missing.
The annual report shows Illinois Central Railroad Company gross earnings for 1880 at 8 384 511 dollars, up from 7 334 464 dollars in 1879.
The Catholic Review argues that widespread scripture reading has caused fanaticism and abortions, noting even Catholics may develop a Calvinistic urge to judge church wisdom. It states the Church existed before the Bible, guards it, and remains its sole interpreter.
A pastoral letter to Methodists in the South, many of whom are colored, condemns whiskey use as hindering wealth and refinement. It warns adults who give liquor to children lead them to ruin, equating such parental harm with murder.
The piece notes disorder in the British House of Commons during Irish question debate with Finnegan and Biggar expelled from the chamber. It also lists House Agricultural Committee appropriations including seeds at 80 000 dollars and projects on sorghum sugar, insects, tea culture, a new museum building, and land reclamation in territories. Practical farmers question the seed funding as vote cultivation.
The passage notes Mauna Loa erupting in the Sandwich Islands with Mt Baker and Mt Head also erupting in the West, followed by reports of another Mauna Loa eruption. It mentions widespread volcanic smoke and ash, plus a heavy Pacific rainfall flood beginning on the 28th causing bridges washed out, floods, damaged crops, and stock loss.
A call is issued for a farmers convention at West Liberty, February 16 and 17, to form a state farmers alliance. Harriet Beecher Stowe reportedly lost 100,000 oranges from a Florida plantation due to frost. A borrower found a $1000 bond hidden in an old pamphlet from a Lowell physician. The Philadelphia Times comments on wit at night House sessions, noting strong smells of alcohol.
Dudlin Cor. Boston Herald reports the death of Peteritzverad known as the Knight of Kerry a baronet and leader among Irish landowners. He owned Valentia island and wrote letters defending territorial interests and Catholic emancipation. He was mid height with keen dark eyes and snowy hair, noted for writing but often clashing with opponents.
In 1870 during the war a French prisoner Teule was captured by Germans and condemned for shooting at a jailer. A second French prisoner faced ten years for a similar act and the two were swapped, leading to a wrong man being shot. Teule later returned home to find his wife remarried with children.
A clergyman cites the cost of raising a boy to fifteen at about 6000 dollars with city advantages and notes costs nearly double by adulthood even without college. The article also mentions a torn tale of an Irishwoman who lost £1000 over a jilting after a seventeen year courtship.
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