House to probe Grant order on New Orleans state house
Lawmakers plan a June inquiry into the delayed and ambiguous order withdrawing troops from the St Louis New Orleans hotels used as a State house. The probe seeks who altered Grant’s directive Don Cameron or General Sherman and why.
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Congress
House of Representatives
Grant
St. Yuouis
New Orleans
Packard
Louisiana
Washington
Augur
Sherman
Don Cameron
Secretary of War
General Sherman
Hogs show record season in West totals
The season ending March 1, 1877 reports 5,072,339 hogs packed in the West, up 192,204 from last season. Lard totals reach 539,448 tierces of 329 pounds each, hog cost averages $7.18 per 100 pounds, down $1.75. Mess pork totals 488,769 barrels, up 1,445 from last year. A United States consul in China faced trouble after releasing a pirate for $7,000 under a broad interpretation of Let no guilty man escape. The Scientific American denounces the blue glass theory as epidemic foolishness. A Boston medical expert testifies opium use damages moral sense and may promote theft. A Louisville man owns a violin nearly 200 years old, yet is ousted from his boarding house for drawing nightmares from it. Packard likely to be excluded in Washington amid Governor Hampton’s remarks about Chamberlain.
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New York
Tue Bprron
Reeser
Five Points
Baxter
Mott
Baxter Street
F Rigally
Joan
United States
S. B. Collins
Laporte
Ind
America
Collins
Oscillancy Commission Sends Hayes To New Orleans Trip
Report notes from out districts describe a meek suggestion regarding travel expenses as commissions distribute trips to the sunny South. The reference to Hayes appears as a named figure amid the discussion of possible destinations and funding.
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New Orleans
Sunny South
Pee Ilis Oscillancy
Hayes
Opium Dens and the American Habit War
From New York March 1877 a correspondent tours East Side opium dens in Five Points, detailing smoke houses, gambling, idol worship, and the grip of opium. The piece cites U.S. imports rising from 700,000 in 1865 to over 2,000,000 in 1875, warns of widespread addiction among both races, and highlights Dr. S. B. Collins as a potential antidotal remedy with thousands reportedly helped.
Southern Commission A Head for it reasons why the President should go with it
A special dispatch from Washington on March 30, 1877 describes the Southern Commission led by Hawley Brown Lawrence McVeigh and Harlan as they plan to travel south soon and report by June 4. The piece argues the President should join the effort to regain party confidence and influence the commission’s outcomes. Garfield announces candidacy for Speaker and Quaker delegates call on the President over peace policy with Indians. Governor Hampton’s Washington visit draws attention as interparty negotiations unfold amid rumors of a reshaped cabinet and conferencing between Hayes Chamberlain and others.
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Southern Commission
Garfield
Wasumeron
D. C
Torus Ephor Orris Beerster
Hawley
Connecticut
Brown
Tennessee
Lawrence
Illinois
McVeigh
Pennsylvania
Harlan
Kentucky
Congress
Jayes
Schurz
Layes
Ohio
Hampton
Columbia
Chamberlain
Hayes
Crampton
Lagos
Mareh
Washington
Tottering Toward the Grave in a Fractured Party
A Boston Evening Transcript Republican critique laments the party’s minority status in popular vote and electoral college, forecasts House losses, and notes leaders dwindling. It argues the nation lacks finance and tariff policy and denounces Reconstruction policy as a failure, while contrasting windmill metaphors from other papers.
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Republican Party
Uos
Ohio
Garfield
Eugene
Senate
Edmunds
Conkling
George F. Hoar
Christianey
Booth
Laine
Morton
Sherman
South
Boston Evening Transcript
Money of the World coin values in Boston Gazette
A compiled table lists global coin values in cents for many nations. It covers gold units like sovereigns, ducats, pistareens, and silver coins such as dollars, francs, reales, and guilders with specific prices per unit for countries including Australia Austria Belgium Bolivia Brazil Central America Chili Denmark France Germany Greece Hindostan Italy Japan Mexico Naples Netherlands New Granada Peru Portugal Prussia Rome Russia Spain Sweden and Tanis.
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Boston Gazette
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Central America
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Japan
Izebu
Mexico
Naples
Netherlands
New Grenada
Bogota
Popayan
Peru
Portugal
Rome
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Adams Tactics and Usurpation in Roll of Next House
Oliver M. Wilson writes to the Cincinnati Commercial criticizing Clerk Adams over rolling the next House of Representatives. The piece mocks New York Times reports and cites McPherson’s prior rolls as precedent. It cites Hayes Chamberlain Packard and warns Radical precedents may return to plague Democrats. Ends with a quip about Oliver Morton Peabody and New Orleans potatoes.
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Oliver M. Wilson
Cincinnati
Adams
House of Representatives
Washington
New York
Wnes
Cincinnati Gazette
Commercial
Wilson
McPherson
Congress
New York Times
Hayes
Chamberlain
Indianapolis Sentinel
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