President vetoes measure altering election law enforcement
President Hayes returns the Judicial Expenses bill with objections, arguing it would nullify enforcement of the Election laws for the next fiscal year by prohibiting funding for Deputy Marshals. He contends the bill upsets constitutional duties to execute laws and cannot approve legislation that curtails executive power to carry out pending statutes.
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House of Representatives
Judicial Department
Congress
Enid
United States
Department of the Governent
War and Navy Departments
Executive Department
Permanentaw
United
Thaven
The
Legislative Department
Magstrate
A. G. Lapham
Geoneu J. Roninson
Windiam McKinley
Dit
Cyanves G. Williams
Epwix Willetss
District Court of the
Bayard
Thurman
Voorhees
Beck
Randall
Cox
Ben Hill
Blackburn
Army
Navy
Democratic Party
Chicago Tribune
Minority statement on presidential veto against military electoral interference
The minority on the House Judiciary Committee rejects the majority report arguing federal supervision of elections is phantom and asserts the President never claimed to military interfere with state elections. They condemn state supremacy and urge enforcing federal law to guard free suffrage while praising Lincoln era acts and noting past military restraint.
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House Judiciary Committee
House of Representatives
Rght
Congress
United States
Union
McClellan
Army OF the Potomac
Washington
Virginia
Stone
Tam
Ki. B. Marcy
Mason Gensera N. P. Banks
Muddy
Lincoln
New York
Forty-fourth Congress
Imperial
Ihs
Democratic strategy derides South East alliance in 1880 debate
The piece lampoons Southern and Democratic strategists debating alliances with the West or East, arguing the party must first resolve its internal crises. It criticizes reliance on strategy, notes failed attempts to leverage power, and warns against starving the government and suspending the courts.
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Louisiana
Democratic Party
Congress
Washington
Political strategy and national authority debated in Times
The passage argues the party will gain knowledge to counter Democratic strategy and insists the North and West favor practical government over theoretical disputes. It claims the public cares more about government operations and a settlement of issues tainted by Democratic dishonesty than party maneuvering.
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North
West
New York Times
United States
Washington
Hayes
H. R. Stevens
Boston
Mass
Farmer Quotas Death Reaper Tale in Cincinnati
An Ohio farmer travels to Cincinnati to buy a reaper. An agent boasts of handling the machine and warns the farmer against recalling its deadly impact on their business, citing a four thousand dollar risk to undo the damage.
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Ohio
Cincinnati
Death
Reaper
Reaper Bargain Debate Sparks Farm Trade
An agent touts an old style reaper as poor quality while urging a newer model to a farmer. The farmer resists, preferring a different machine, but recalls an elderly buyer who bought the old reaper on impulse. The exchange highlights farm equipment habits and shop dynamics of the period.
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Akron
Yeaper
Death of the French Prince Imperial at Blood River
Reports from London and New York detail the death of Prince Imperial near Kelitzi Mountain after an ambush. Eighteen assegai wounds found on the body, with a calm facial expression, as troops recover him for transport home. Imperialists see the event as a blow to French imperial prestige and a turning point for Bonaparte loyalties.
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London
Prince Imperial
Carey
Kelitzi Mountain
Blood River
Prince
Seventeenth Lancers
Marshall
Kraals
Kraal
Drury
Lowe
Stewart
South Africa
Price Imperial
France
World Jewish population, sponge trade rise, and mid 19th century stats
Data from 1878 shows 6,503,000 Jews worldwide and a growing Key West sponge trade with 70 vessels and 350 men. Southern cotton mills total 183 since the war, U S paper rag imports reach 2,314,994 dollars with 914,888 of paper materials. Boston boot shipments exceed 20,000 cases weekly, 681,573 in five months. Additional notes compare France and Prussia births, and Britain mineral output in 1877 including 6.6 million tons of pig iron and huge coal use.
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Tur Jewish Times
Tuer Key West
South
United States
Boston
Soma
Lombardy
Europe
Julius Cavsar
Napoleon
Simplon
France
Prussia
Academy of Sciences of
Paris
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Practical Farming Advice and Household Experiments
This reader compiled selection covers farming tips on pest control with beans among potatoes, soil conditions for corn, and proper soil moisture. It also includes a cooking vignette from Prairie Farmer on spinach preparation and a New York Evening Post anecdote about yeast bread sponge experiments leading to buttered rolls baked into flowers.
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J. G. Brown
Prairie Farmer
New York Evening Post
Practical Rules for Profitable Farming in Hard Times
A detailed set of eleven rules advising orderly planning, soil fertility, careful hiring, diligent work, prompt pay, quality tools, ample stock, memoranda, high standards, avoidance of borrowing, and winter prep to boost farm profitability and reduce risk.
Farmers urged to keep journals and ledgers daily
The Western Rural cor. advises farmers to keep a daily journal noting weather, planting and harvest dates, grain and pork prices, and bushel numbers. It promises pleasure in reviewing past earnings and profits and stresses strict business accounting to prevent losses and improve future plans.
Tongue-Holding Contest Ends in Shawl Romance
In Wilmington a tongue-holding wager collapses when a neighbor shows off a new shawl. A bystander hears a remark about the shawl and the husband wins as the tongue-holder whispers in shock. The crowd disperses, and some men hope the fad spreads. Another anecdote recalls a deacon’s quip about preaching length.
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Wilmington
Cincinnati
Allan's Anti Fat Cure Promises Rapid Weight Loss
An 1878 advertisement touts Allan's Anti Fat as a pure vegetable medicine that reduces fat by 2 to 5 pounds weekly, treats dyspepsia and rheumatism, and claims safety. It cites testimonials from Boston and wholesale druggists, plus a separate claim for Dr. F Wilhoff's Anti Periodic Fever and Ague Tonic with no dangerous drugs.
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Allan
Boston
Mass
Boraxte Mevicing Co
Butlula
GenHemen
Situ
Doomtree & Sauri
F. Wilhoff
Wheelock, Inlay & Co
New Orleans
United States
Gen- Atly
Occidentalis
Materia Medica
TALES
Xhonald & CO
New York
van Schaack, Stevenson & CO
Chicago
Richardson & CO
St. Louis
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