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Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 16, 1881

Page

3

Vast 1880s US political and crime roundup summarized

A sprawling recap covers treasury payments to federal clerks, Navy promotions, a Star route inquiry, Ute land exams, Bank notes, New York bribery hearings, Ohio and Virginia state politics, rail and labor unrest, Irish violence, ship explosions, fires, storms, and misdeeds across the country with names like Walker Sessions Depew Grant and O Connor appearing amid a flood of incidents and dates.

Secretary of the Treasury Walker Congress Commodore Jeffers Bureau of Ordnance Navy Department Secretary of the Navy Star Service Investigating Committee Washington War Department Sos Pinos Agency Grand River National Bank Robertson New York Walsh Brown Circuit Court of District of Columbia Springfield Ill Depew United States Platt Bradley Senator Sessions Mr. Sessions Mr. Depew Tim Pennsylvania Buffalo New Hampshire Supreme Court State Senate Rolling Tunre Missouri Boston Liverpool John G. Saxe Brooklyn N. Y Albany William L. Hall New York City John Parker Hall California Parker Treasury Victoria London Ont Rankin Parish Jonesy Lars Pekin Emperor Chins Ben Bile Wendell Phillips Mexico Pladras Negras Topolovampo Assemblyman Sessions Ludington Michigan Miles Whittaker Central Town Minnesota Colfax Iowa Milvane Kansas King City Pau Boyron St. Paul Mississippi Burlington Tur Ross House of Commons Forster Ireland France

Statue unveiling at Chambly honors Col. De lasalleberry

Governor General unveils statue of Colonel De la Salleberry in Chambly Quebec to honor his role in saving Canada for Britain. Article notes other global events including arrests in Petersburg and a Whit Tuesday race winner from Pittsburgh with 62 entrants and a $500 prize.

Law’s End Eng Skibbercen Treland Munster Ballydehob Dromore Stha Quebec St. John St. John’s Church Marquis of Lorne Cork Ireland Tobin Germany United States McKevett Roberts Liverpool Thn French Republic General Lichtenstein France Yorktown Bulgaria George Stephenson Newcastle England United Kingdom Liberia Cioles Anthony W. Gardner A. I. Russell International Typographical Union Toronto Can George Clarks St. Louis Thomas Wilson W. H. Hovey Norwich W. Hh.traves Boston Trenasurer Schley Indianapolis Hungary London Ormaby Kimmeraburg Geny Calliope Milwaukee & St. Paul Sioux City Running Water Inc Montes Edward Goddard The Pioneers? Assoviation van Buren County Keoxauqua Hopublicana Bio Gartold Ag Caltizens Ohio Unitad Amiibe Western Reserve MLO Hopublican Party Ohoura Nho Hberty Columbia Tai Cronsice Agra Avery Amy Alwan Cieigal Republican Party Bret Ben Hapaite Setlow-Altizans Juno A. Garrelt Hopunitain Party Intercaston Windom Ohio Bay Lapplaise Garrold Etvetlin Epublican Hapublican Party Demouwratio Republicana of Canada de la Salaberry Chambly Montreal Petersburg Imperial Guard Sheffield Mr. Smith Pittsburgh New Caledonia Paris St. Gothard Tunnel Penn State of Pennsylvania William Penn Canada Pacific Railway Bradley Theater Royal Belfast the &Th

Political breeziness and party analysis noted

The article mocks Democratic decay and Republican strategy with quotes from Samuel J. Tilden and Frederick Douglass. It cites a French observer on American partyism and recalls John Brown’s Harper’s Ferry legacy as linked to shifting government and society since his execution. It ends with a Florida gardener reporting a banana stalk with ninety fingers.

Gay Samuel J. Tilden Watterson Marquis de Chambron America Democratic Party John Brown Frederick Douglass Harper's Ferry Brown Charleston South Virginia N. ¥. Tribune

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