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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1880
Page
5
The excerpt surveys global death and birth rates, Scottish furnace production, French military manpower, silk production by region, Manitoba settlement land sales in 1880, wolf and wildlife culling in France, and quirky anecdotes including a horse-curing joke and a Texas elopement anecdote.
The Senate takes up a bill to remove James Monroe Heiskell's disabilities by unanimous consent as Democrats back a party line vote on the five percent bill. House discussions cover Star Service funding and postage policies while Alaska and Darien affairs attract attention. The session outlines include inland transportation costs, postmaster funds, and provisions for miscellaneous fiscal measures with adjournment planned.
From Washington on the 25th the Postmaster General barred B. H. Martin & Co of 128 Clark Street Chicago from using registered mail and money order services for alleged fraudulent money obtaining. Other items note Boynton Sherman dispute, treasury receipts, Indian affairs, and political conventions with focus on rail and banking actions, fines, and electoral moves.
The article reports twelve district conventions on the 25th electing Indiana Republican State Central Committee members: Bennett in First District. Evans in Second. Hurley in Third. Jordan in Fifth. Jenkinson in Sixth. New in Seventh. Boudinot in Eighth. Kumiler in Ninth. Tomlinson in Tenth. De Long in Eleventh. Stratton in Twelfth. Graves in Thirteenth. John C. New is chosen chairman. Also noted are Iowa Democrats choosing delegates on April 7, Indiana’s district delegates to the Republican National Convention split between Blaine and Sherman. Illinois and other items cover trunk-line rate cuts, a Fort Leavenworth advance, and other state news.
Reports from Leavenworth Kansas note a residents formed a secret league to discourage black emigration from the South. Two steamers of Chinese laborers traveled via St Louis. Troop detachments were ordered to Coffeyville and Caldwell to block squatters near the Indian Territory. A mine slide at Salt Lake trapped several men. four were rescued. Barges carrying 250000 bushels of corn sailed from St Louis to New Orleans for transfer to European ships. Speakers in San Francisco denied plans for violence and said workers would form a sheriff posse if peace was threatened.
The Dublin Freeman's Journal denounces Parnell in stern terms over his American course and the Duchess of Marlborough's relief totals, predicts clashes upon his return, and notes legislative and religious notes from Vienna to Rome, plus a fatal Montreal carbonic acid incident and a sharp St Petersburg proclamation.
The text notes a U S Supreme Court reversal upholding a murder conviction after excluding colored jurors in West Virginia, with discussion of related Virginia and Tennessee cases, and mentions debt figures, the Hall District Bank suspension, and several Senate and House actions on tariffs and military matters.
At the Montpelier Vermont gathering on February 25 the Republican platform lauds Civil War victory, debt reduction, stable currency, and public integrity. It condemns Democratic tactics, pledges loyalty to law and majority rule, and endorses Edmunds as a presidential candidate choice.
The New York Republican platform declares the party’s opposition to Democratic efforts to control the federal government and to subvert state authorities. It endorses Ulysses S. Grant for renomination, urges united action by delegates, and stresses the importance of the electoral vote in selecting the nation’s next president.
The piece accuses the Democratic leadership of inactivity and silencing internal dissent, likening Congress to a place under a strict regime. It predicts electoral manipulation to curb Republican gains, citing the South’s bloc voting and mobilization of Northern allies to influence national control.
Washington Correspondence reports Badger son of ex senator Badger of North Carolina testified to during Democrats’ investigation era that Ku Klux orders existed to kill outspoken Republicans. He claimed three groups White Brotherhood Constitutional Union Guard and Invisible Empire plotted violence for political gains and alleged court bias against black defendants.
The Southern Republican Association in Washington urges harmony among Southern Republicans and calls for a unified expansion of Republican governance. It notes 270 Southern delegate seats at the Chicago convention, warns against dissension, and advocates free delegate action, urging a May council of Southern delegates. A pistol accident report follows, describing Mrs. Adams of Deer Island, Maine, firing at her daughter, killing the child.
Senate in Iowa discusses and returns to committee a wide set of measures including school funds tax changes, millage rates for districts, repeal efforts, and amendments to public works and militia organization. House actions cover municipal powers, police, and road regulation with numerous bills advancing or being amended.
Fire consumed the J. Morrison & Son store at Merrimag Jefferson County. It is thought the shop was robbed first and then set ablaze. Logs valued at about 4000 dollars. A man named Yates has been arrested in Boone County for killing his wife and child. Grain quotations from St Louis show No 2 Red Wheat at 1.27, No 3 at 1.23, Corn 58 1/2 to 60 1/4, Oats 46 1/2, Rye 75 3/4, Barley unchanged. At Birkenhead England a man was arrested for driving a horse furiously to explain it standing on its hind legs and drinking beer. Ten years ago a colony of German immigrants from Cincinnati bought 4100 acres in Lawrence County Tennessee but two thousand fifty seven acres are fraudulently claimed to be theirs. They sue in the Nashville Supreme Court for recovery. Pre eminent among the arts ...... agriculture ought to occupy special attention.
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