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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1877
Page
2
Dispatches from Mexico under Diaz and various U.S. political remarks come with obituaries and notes. References include Cortina found guilty, Dr Fran auditor of L and P dies, Hayes train journey reception, and Mahoney funeral with large turnout. Multiple city and state mentions appear throughout.
Ex Senator Davin Key of Tennessee, a East Tennessee native, was appointed to fill the Johnson vacancy in 1875. He drew Republican and Liberal Democrat support in the recent Senate contest but was defeated amid Democratic opposition over his Cronin fraud speech. He led a Confederate regiment and resumed law practice in Greenville after the war. If the presidency favors, he may back the Republican ticket.
A Columbus historian writes a portrait of President-elect Rutherford B. Hayes noting his robust build, deep musical bass voice, and kind blue eyes. The biographer highlights his sandy beard, calm demeanor, and careful dress while describing Hayes as affable and respectable despite concerns about intoxication rumors.
The electoral commission's final tally lists Tilden and Hayes with state allocations. The document enumerates each state's support and totals the overall counts, showing Tilden with a total and Wheeler noted in the context of the process.
Hayes outlines guiding motives for his presidency, no fixed program, stresses national unity and lawful self government. He emphasizes protecting constitutional rights, balancing races in Reconstruction states, and placing loyalty to the constitution above party.
The speech argues for rights and equal footing for freed people, calls for honest local government, civil service reform, a six year presidential term, and a coin basis for currency. It urges national unity, patience with sectarian politics, and arbitration in foreign affairs while supporting education and the welfare of both races. It ends urging peace, justice, and a united nation.
The record lists patent grants reported by Paine and Grafton patent attorneys noting Illinois residents as assignors or beneficiaries. Named are J W Barnett of Moline with napkin holders and tilting gates. Isaac Brokaw of Litchfield with tar book stands. D Bull of Amboy. F W Campbell of Chicago napkin holders. D M Haight of Oswego stands for ropes. J C Moore of Chicago with Wom and Doran. D Nichols of Bath via wind mills. Elijah P Peacock of Chicago with thorn wire hedge. S H Pierce of Galesburg with wind moils. James G Watson of Springfield. James L Wray of Rock Island. and others including wind qaits and compounds for artificial stone.
A note explains mercury cling to metals when coated with tlue sodium while purple mercury may be washed off with fresh mercury. It describes a method to keep nuts from sugar barrels by tying a kerosene soaked net around containers and rewetting periodically. An English inventor tests pumping exhausted steam back into a valve and argues the piston side pressure mirrors the opposite side’s elastic power.
Our Auda correspondent notes Mr. Gilbert Buell of Ada imports seventy two varieties of fig cuttings from England. Figs are no longer experimental and may herald new fruit crops from southern climates ripening yearly in Michigan summers. Also mentioned is a proposed Newfoundland railway linking with fast steamers to shorten Atlantic passage, reducing trip time to Ireland to about three days.
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