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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1874
Page
2
The President declines to intervene in the Arkansas imbroglio and cites Texas as a tranquil example. Federal intercession is condemned as pernicious, while Texas shows the will of the people can settle disputes without Washington. Emigration pressures and rumors about German military service drive German peasants toward or away from America.
The New York Tribune reports New Jersey town elections give Democrats optimism for winning the governor’s race and the state Legislature next fall, while Republicans reportedly back Halsey for governor and Robeson for senator. A Florida judge in custody attempted a habeas corpus writ to challenge confinement, but the plan failed.
Chas LP Jolls, a prisoner in the Troy jail, has begun wall pictures outlined in ink and colored with tobacco juice. The works range from light yellow to deep brown, showing a curious blend of art and confinement. Los Angeles leads California wine and brandy production with 4,220,000 vines, 1,580,000 gallons of wine, and 60,000 gallons of brandy reported for 1873. The Boston Post laments Thomas Nast’s rumored and grim fate, noting his crime exposés before a St. Louis audience.
In Greenfield New Hampshire a person intentionally set a hen's nest on fire after other methods failed to stop egg production. The arsonous act spread to a barn, two or three sheds, and a house, but the hen stopped setting thereafter.
The Keokuk Gate City questions the temperance movement's odds as the idea of making brandy from sawdust breathes new life into alcohol production. It wonders how reformers can curb a man who can drink using a rip-saw and a fence rail.
The world uses 250 million pounds of tea and 718 million pounds of coffee annually. China furnishes nearly all tea and Brazil provides more than half the coffee.
Flood reports from Monroe to Red River indicate widespread inundation with 10,000 people facing near starvation. Gov Kellogg pledges state aid while awaiting federal relief. Amite Valley remains submerged with banks 12 to 15 feet overtopped. General Thompson notes crevasses and ongoing flooding. Arkansas and White River regions suffer stock losses and destitution.
The Senate Committee on Military Affairs reports a bill to equalize Civil War bounties for all honorably discharged soldiers and certain noncommissioned officers. It sets a monthly payment of 8 334 dollars for service from 1861 to 1865, with widow or children receiving if the veteran dies. Deductions apply for prior bounties, and no payments to substitutes or minors. attorneys capped at 10 dollars.
The piece argues a new party formed by dissatisfied Republicans and Democrats in Indiana, urges Democrats to study the field, and defends the Democratic Party as true to Jeffersonian principles while opposing rash alignment with the new movement. It critiques Morton aligned Grangers and notes calls for reform conventions and farmer-led independent rallies.
Gen Francis A Walker, head of the Census, is described as the only U.S. officer who will not take pay. He asked that the word emoluments be removed from his commission and agreed to continue service only if he received no salary.
A compilation of quips and punchlines from several papers. Jokes about tearing down Ben Butler’s birthplace and his death house. Anna Dickinson on women, gas company rhymes, a Rhode Island farmer buying Wisconsin land, spelling liquor, and Indiana politics with Senator Morton.
A Journal reporter questioned Col BE S Alvord at Bates House in Indianapolis about the Granger call. Alvord dismissed the Grangers as mistaken and quipped they should not place fools on farms so honest men could rest on Sundays. The reporter withdrew, noting no unusual views on the Granger issue.
On Thursday April 28 1874 by Esquire Kilbinger Wm Anser and Catherine Franklin all of New Harmony passed into matrimony in a local ceremony in New Harmony.
Josian Warren died on Wednesday April 15 1874 in Charlestown Massachusetts after a lingering illness at age 75. A longtime resident of Warren and a figure in early local history he was the father of Prof Gronc W Warren and well known to the town’s elders.
Public sale ordered by Posey County Circuit Court in Mount Vernon Indiana on May 9 1874 between 10 AM and 4 PM at the courthouse door. Rents and profits for the northeast quarter of section 21 township 4 south range 13 west with exceptions including a 44 acre cut and a family graveyard. if insufficient, right to sell defendant's title to cover costs. sale under sheriff Alex Crank. Also notices to non residents and estates listed.
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