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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1879
Page
4
The pope plans a universal Catholic organ issued in seven languages to reach the global church. The suggestion is to consolidate with THE REVIEW to strengthen Catholic communications.
Democratic editors argue Congress did not back down as the President issues six vetoes and one veto is concurred, leaving a tally of five to one in favor of the President and one for the Bourbon Brigadiers.
The Chicago Socialist group protested the national birthday celebration carrying a red flag. Their action drew sharp rebuke, with calls to suppress any organization honoring the day under a flag other than the stars and stripes.
The report notes a subdued Fourth of July in Charleston and Montgomery with fewer celebrations than common. It contrasts general restraint with the fervor that would accompany anniversaries of Confederate victories in the late war.
The body of JouUN FL Stimour, kin of Bishop Seymour, was found on the grounds of the Theological Seminary in New York after midnight last Friday. He had a bullet wound to the chest and authorities suspect he was shot by a tramp or by a stray ball fired in commemoration of the event.
A prominent archaeologist proposed that Deuteronomy is not a historical record but a later forgery attributed to Moses. The claim provoked strong reactions as peers nearly mobbed him at a date convention, though supporters say the truth will emerge over time.
A meteor weighing 4.1 pounds struck Col. C. H. Perry's Emmet County farm in Iowa May 1. Scientific men took the rock, and Perry has filed a replevin suit claiming ownership of meteors and similar heavenly drops on his land.
A new Arctic exploring voyage departs San Francisco aboard the Jeanette commanded by Capt. Geo W DeLong of the U S Navy. The vessel, donated by James Gordon Sennett, carries about twenty five crew from among 1300 applicants and is provisioned for three years.
The article notes numerous Fourth of July incidents, including a Newport Kentucky man shot dead and a Clarksburg Virginia man who shot another and then killed himself. It argues arming the populace is cowardly and unnecessary, urging virtuous restraint and condemning knives and pistols in ordinary street life.
The text mocks Congress funding a monument at Washington's birth site while joking that Jeff Davis deserves a similar honor for a postwar escape incident. The tone satirically contrasts commemorative grants with an anticlimactic claim about Davis.
A historical snippet argues for a monument to Jefferson Davis’s capture by General Wilson after the war. The piece humorously proposes using discarded women’s clothing as material for the monument, claiming it would symbolize patriotic virtue and attract Northern support.
The piece critiques Democratic papers for calling Hayes illegitimate and portrays Tilden as virtuous while labeling Hayes a fraud. It cites the Argus and other editors, arguing the fraud claim rests on Congress and the Supreme Court rather than the president. The author expresses skepticism toward party editors and urges reform.
A call to reform the literary atmosphere surrounding children cites Police Gazette periodicals Youths’ Magazines and Sunday school stories as corrupting influences. The piece urges purifying bookstores and newsstands and promoting wholesome scientific reading to protect moral welfare.
The speaker urges removal of moral corruption spread by newspapers, calling for action against the harvest of immoral content produced by the nation’s printing presses.
A wartime style column notes Congress and staff have dispersed from Washington leaving an air of desolation. The piece jokes about packing up stationery and distributing leftover oratory while commenting on the high cost of the late extra session, estimated at two million dollars.
The text questions the value of grand speeches and a proposed bill to abolish the quinine duty, implying limited practical impact beyond rhetoric and tariff changes. The remark underscores skepticism about policy without substantive action.
The passage traces the fate of Napoleons died abroad from St Helena to Austria and England and notes a final heir who perished in South Africa. It posits a Baltimore lawyer, Patterson Bonaparte, as the potential new imperial claimant if the dynasty returns to France.
Judge Gould presents the fifth biennial report detailing Illinois charitable institutions including ten facilities for orphans and the insane, a deaf and dumb school, a blind asylum, a reform school, and an eye and ear infirmary. It covers patient totals, costs, and county jail and almshouse inspections, with Rock Island County jail described in detail.
A visitor describes padlocked doors and iron bars on outside apertures, new bunks, iron bedsteads, and a wind pumped heated building. Insane inmates number twenty seven with nearly twenty in seclusion, nine children under twelve, and about one hundred paupers overcrowded in small rooms. The keeper earns a thousand dollars with county funded relief and outdoor aid sizable.
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