16 Feb 1876
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Newspaper
Monmouth Review
Location
Monmouth, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1876
Page
1
A report notes a widow tied to Dr. Lords family in Buffalo wed against friends approval. A note to relatives from her husband explains the union as a result of divine will, ending with blessing the name of the Lord amid the dispute.
Samuel Smith writes in the English Mechanic with a practical rule for whitewashing ceilings. The method uses wetting, scrubbing with a stumpy brush, wind off with a sage sponge, filling cracks with whiting and plaster, and aging with size before whitewash. A detailed recipe for whitewash includes whiting soaked in water, melted size mixed with a blue-black paste, then colored distemper by using ocher to indigo pigments. The guidance ends with cautions on application order and color variety, referencing limited wool production in Texas.
A Constantinople dispatch says Midhat Pasha, the Turkish Grand Vizier, was dismissed and exiled for constitutional reform plots. London notes rise of smallpox in the city with 108 deaths the prior week. Other items include shipwrecks near Lundy Island with nineteen drowned, a fatal mine explosion near Bolton, Parliament opened by Queen Victoria, and multiple European developments through mid to late January 1876.
Rear-Admiral Allen dies in San Francisco from brain congestion. German consuls to be appointed in Chicago St Louis and Cincinnati. Crazy Horse’s Sioux Cheyenne defeats reported with US Mills forces from Jan 1 to 8. US losses three killed eight wounded. Apaches plundering southeastern Arizona settlers. Judge Carpenter halts payments by South Carolina National Bank to Cardozo and Cardozo from payroll for legislature services. John O Mahoney Fenian leader dies in New York. Rear Admiral Wilkes dies in Washington. Mrs Mary S Oliver sues Cameron for 50000 in breach of promise. Chicago Daily News boiler explosion causes havoc. no deaths. Greensboro NC armed attack on court injures deputy marshal and defendant. Belknap bribery case dismissed. Canadian trade with US 1876 at 76 million. imports exceed exports by 16 million. Lake Shore Michigan Southern settles with Crain widow for 5175. Lee murder appeal overruled. execution date set. Redemption call for 56 20 bonds. 10000000 total.
Testimony before House and Senate committees details alleged irregularities in Vernon Parish returns, intimidation at polls, and possible bribery attempts to influence the Electoral vote. Clerks described Littlefield’s involvement and transfers of figures. witnesses noted attempts to alter records and bribe actors to vote for Tilden.
Witnesses questioned Maddox s honesty and veracity amid allegations of tampered election affidavits and altered electoral vote totals. Clerks and officials described altered figures, with Littlefield alleged to have altered parish results and signatures on affidavits. Senate and House committees examined Florida Governor Stearns and other figures on messaging, dispatches, and alleged partisan influence in the Oregon case.
The Electoral Commission met on the 7th and 9th in secret and open sessions to decide not to go beyond the Governor’s certificates, ruling that Florida electors were not to be counted unless properly certified. The panel split 8 to 7 on key points, with debates over eligibility of F C Humphreys and the legitimacy of ministerial acts versus judiciary actions.
Amid certificate filings from Louisiana McEnery Kellogg and Deslonde and a burlesque vote for Peter Cooper, the Electoral Commission considers objections to Hayes and Tilden ballots as New York markets and Chicago grain quote a day of volatile prices with wheat at 1.42 to 1.48 and pork around 16.80.
Cincinnati Enquirer reports Charles P. Wetmore died after a brutal battle with hydrophobia. Attendant Mackey Flanagan and others describe convulsions, foaming, and frenzied snapping as Wetmore fought the disease, was bound to a bed, and endured near-daily agony before succumbing.
A London Saturday Review vignette recalls a Cairo railway scene where a white-bearded dervish, bearing a disfigured hand and heavy chain, commands a crowd. He delivers measured, prophetic rhetoric to a respectful but challenged audience, seeking free rail passage eventually denied by the station master.
At the Tombs Police Court Judge Duffy decides a Newfoundland dog must choose its rightful owner by instinct after two men claim ownership. The dog, released to run, picks Kanitz as rightful owner by swiftly leaving Koler behind. Audience and judge marvel at the verdict of instinct. The piece also notes New York's patent right notice law and London World on disallowing Jewish lease holders.
A long miscellany of social notes and oddities from a 19th century newspaper. It references Senator-Elect Davis, banana ripening in Greenwich Street, wealthy South Americans buying a ranch near Los Angeles for coffee experiments, English society scandal, vaccination hoaxes in Los Angeles, and tobacco nicotine found in London customs. It also includes a string of humorous vignettes on meters of men, a pie counting joke, lamb slaughter orders in Stanislaus County, and a tale of a boorish bore in public. A separate note details a wife’s fear and a husband’s leap from a second story window.
An Arctic traveler recalls a curious night encounter with swarms of lemmings near a Kjoal mejaure waterway. The animals surrounded the boat, swam alongside, and attempted to board, shrieking like muskrats as they descended in millions. The Lapps say they rain from the sky, while locals in North Troy watch for teams to help them cross frozen hills.
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