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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1870
Page
1
The Register lists pricing for half column and whole column advertisements with monthly, six month, three month, and yearly options. It states all ads must be prepaid, with transient work paid on delivery.
A collection of satirical notes cites this year’s brutal storms hitting Sundays, a joke about a washerwoman’s dress, a newspaper reporter’s credibility, and various quips from papers like the Boston Transcript and Chicago Post. It also mentions a rail traffic tally of 31,000 negroes passing through Chattanooga toward Mississippi Texas and Louisiana, and notes on crime, clergy, and politics in a miscellany manner.
The Indiana Democratic delegate convention on January 18, 1870 adopted unanimous resolutions defending the Federal Union and Constitution, opposing centralization, abrogating certain tariff and currency policies, denouncing fifteenth amendment ratification efforts in Indiana, and opposing changed naturalization laws and Know-Nothingism while urging equal taxation and greenbacks.
In Wyoming Territory a curious scene shows wild buffaloes yoked to a plow yet the team never properly uses the implement afterward. The anecdote highlights frontier impracticality and rugged enterprise.
The Hon. John Quincy Adams spoke at the Constitutional Club in Boston on Washington’s birthday, accusing the administration of eroding the old constitutional order. He contrasted the past marble edifice with a voilcan lava structure bound by iron fetters, criticizing the current president’s view of the Constitution. He also commented on a Massachusetts proposal to fire a Fifteenth Amendment salute and suggested Massachusetts be invited to fire from Fort Warren.
A railway porter tells the Prince of Wales he left his watch on a carriage seat. The Prince, misreading the date as April 1, replies keep it. The incident reflects a lighthearted exchange during travel.
The article notes attempts by Radical members to force social equality by government action, including a plan to bar Government printers from employing members of a white society unless it admits colored printers. It questions white machinists about a party pushing racial integration and warns that social equality via government power looms large. It also discusses India rubber tapping and global rubber production, noting extensive rubber trees and rising manufacturing use.
The pedespeed is touted as a new Yankee device to increase man’s speed after the velocipede declined. It features two small wheels about fourteen or fifteen inches in diameter attached to each foot by stirrup-like devices, functioning like skates. Skill is needed, but the inventor claims skating is possible year round.
In Benton county West Tennessee a jail sits without a tenant and a court lacks a docket. A four month term passes with no infractions or cases to try. The court met last Monday and the judge waited a day, finding nothing to be done. Butler notes no Massachusetts county matches such records. The Memphis Appeal cites Western Tennessee as a rare quiet area for law violations.
A distorted report claims the Bey of Tunis, dethroned, could regain his throne if he divulged a metal transforming secret. The Dey allegedly sent him a ceremonial plow and pomp to return him to rulership.
The Springfield Register notes conflict between President Grant and Secretary Boutwell over reducing taxes by 25 to 30 million dollars. The committee favors relief through rate abatement and removing taxes on watches, silver plate, pianos, carriages, and billiard tables to aid industry, while questions remain about excising duties on tools and hardware. The piece critiques bondholders and laments widening grind between tariffs and taxation.
In the township convention last Saturday J N Kyana publicly renounced the radical party and pledged to vote with the white man's party. He warned the fifteenth amendment is the feather that broke the camel's back and urged conservatives to repudiate radicalism. The piece cites Mr Evans as a former Radical candidate and attacks negro suffrage as dangerous to the nation.
The 1870 five cent pieces will be prepared in a few days. Ten, fifteen, and fifty cent tokens issued three months ago have not been released because no Congressional act authorizing their issue has passed.
In Colorado a romance tale recalls seven miners who found a vast gold chunk on the mountainside. They fought over ownership until six perished. the survivor, unable to move the treasure, starved beside it.
The Louisville Courier Journal criticizes the New York Tribune for keeping a Brown obituary in type for over two years, lamenting wasted space as the paper lets the notice stand unused.
A marble quarry in Loudon county Virginia, claimed to rival Carrara in Italy, has been found about 36 miles from Washington. A company has been organized to develop and operate the site.
A twenty year old Illinois girl hanged herself after suffering dreary marital woes. Family reports one husband froze to death and two others drank to the point of divorce, leaving her ruined by misfortune.
A town clerk faces exposure after a disputed incident involving the alteration and sale of a marriage certificate. The case centers on illicit handling of official documents and a defiant response as authorities pursue accountability.
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