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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1881
Page
3
Garfield withdraws New York nominations save for Payne and Tyler. Treasury notes on bonds and seven percent continuances. Arizona set speed record crossing Atlantic. Mass immigration to New York rises. Revised New Testament sales soar. Mormon conversion ship arrives. Col Thomas A. Scott dies. Fort Dolphin centennial celebrated in Augusta. Booksellers flood market with Nelsons editions. religious press debates revised text.
The United States drops back taxes suit against the International Bank of Chicago after settlement of 848000. Dovexass stable in Franklin Tennessee burned, fifteen thoroughbred stallions perished. A Curcaco saloon keeper jailed ten days and fined 100 for selling liquor to a habitual drunkard. Arkansas governor commutes a death sentence to life for a negro murderer on the eve of execution. In St Louis a Texas steer impales three hours of police work, leaving twenty bullet holes in its carcass after a five mile chase. Illinois bans oleomargarine with fines 25 to 200. Five hundred Atlanta public school children removed due to illness. Monument to George B Armstrong unveiled in Cheato. Schuyler Colfax and Fr W Palmer spoke. North Carolina colored men convene at Raleigh, form a resolutions committee for national recognition.
The Senate held an executive session confirming several nominations including Blanche K. Bruce for Register of the Treasury and Jeremiah M. Rusk as Charge d Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay. Additional notes cover amended resolutions, committee actions, and global dispatches from May 19 and 20 detailing political and diplomatic developments, with various international figures and events listed.
General Io Natieri blames youth education and official indifference for Russia's woes while a new Italian ministry formed from the Right sparks Milan and Florence protests. Pasua surrenders to Turkish authorities for a fair trial. Moran arrested in Limerick Land League action. Tunisian tribes seek treaty details from the Bey amid treason claims. A Jewish raid in Woloszka triggers destruction and mass displacement near the Prussian border.
The report details bond sales and funding progress toward a $2850,000,000 limit, legislative approvals for a Booth erm Railroad concession, a Danish death sentence for 39 alleged revolters, a Paris treaty ratification, Greek brigands releasing Colonel Butler, Swedish emigration concerns, Brennan's imprisonment in Ireland, a royal assassination aftermath, and crop market reviews. It lists nominations and confirmations or inactions in the U S Senate, including customs and survey positions, and university chair appointments, with various regional details.
An Albany telegram dated the 16th publishes the joint resignation letter from United States Senators Conkling and Platt to New York Governor Cornell. They defend their actions as a protest against executive interference in Senate nominations and detail the political pressure and public remonstrances opposing changes to New York appointments. The letter outlines refusals to disclose further comments and asserts the senators' duty to the constitutional rights of representatives and the Republican party.
A lawyer who handled a case in a single day abandons law to become a carpenter. The passage also notes the new moon with its two horns advancing toward fullness.
A Virginia Court of Appeals decision on Confederate confiscation of debts owed to Northern creditors was overturned by the U S Supreme Court. The ruling affirmed federal authority over and against state legal maneuvers, warning that Virginia’s stance risks eroding national unity and the postwar constitutional order. The Detroit Post and Tribune editorializes that Southern sentiment and state rights threats must be restrained to preserve the Union.
A Chicago Inter-Ocean piece reports a renewed exodus of Black workers from the South to northern regions. It argues the move is voluntary, driven by demand for liberty and lawful protection, and warns the South must grant equal justice or risk ruin.
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