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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1882
Page
1
The Register lists subscription at $150 yearly payable in advance and discontinues only after arrears are paid. Advertising rates show one square 12 lines for $100, with multiform insertions and durations. Legal notices charged per law, local notices 10 cents per line, column rates vary by size and term, all ads prepaid for transient work on delivery.
Election Tuesday November 7 includes William R. Myers for Secretary of State James H. Rice for Auditor John J. Cooper for Treasurer Francis T. Hord for Attorney General John W. Holcomb for Superintendent of Public Instruction Simon P. Sheerin for Clerk of the Supreme Court William Few, Niblack Floyd George Howe Knox Allen Zollars Allen Leroy Williams Oliver N. Fretageot Andrew Wasem George S. Green Edward Hayes Vincent Cartwright Thomas Johnson William Hendricks James Bailey Eberhardt P Schenck for various state and district offices
Notes and News summarize diverse 19th century items: prohibition majorities by county, De catur Alabama sawmills, Mississippi mills turning out 124 cotton varieties, Nashville lumber mills running day and night, North Carolina pine needle mattresses claiming health benefits, silk industry growth, Arkansas slate quarry development, Lake Shore railroad wreck near South Bend with fatalities, U.S. poultry value over 300 million dollars, farming yields including potatoes corn wheat across multiple states, Florida pineapple at twelve inches and eight pounds, sand for glass near Carabelle, England importing 750 million eggs, global cotton mill spindles totaling 72,121,148, Baldwin locomotive works producing two engines daily with long lead times, verticals on locomo tive orders and 104 locomotives under construction, Minnesota wheat at 85 million bushels, Kansas corn 75-100 bushels per acre, Nebraska corn at 100 million, Dakota wheat at 35 million, Michigan crops dewinged by rains, approaching shift to southern cotton in Iowa, Alabama state election with Democratic lead around 30,000, Gardiner Maine fire destroying 20 acres of business district.
A collection of local items notes a horse killed near the Big Creek E and T branch and buried by the roadside. Reports cover political slates, self defense shootings, county ticket reception, farming yields, lightning deaths, wheat shipments, buzzard migration, giant cabbage and corn curiosities, river crowds buying berries, and various regional happenings from Carbondale to Carmi.
Indianapolis August 2 The Democratic State Convention adopts a vigorous platform denouncing Republican misrule and calling for tax relief civil service reform and labor protections. It nominates Captain William R. Myers for Secretary of State and agents for Auditor Treasurer Attorney General and Superintendent with Thomas Hendricks delivering a congratulatory closing speech awaiting a vigorous statewide campaign.
Special to the Negister from New York reports stifling heat at 86 degrees, downtown street disruptions from steam heat and electric firms, and high Brooklyn mortality. It notes public health workers touring homes, stock exchange cost-cutting, and a string of urban vignettes including police fatigue, a drunken boy, a savvy showman, boxing controversies, Bergh’s clashes with a policeman, and stirring political anxieties about Irish and Egyptian affairs centered on New York.
Washington August 8 Congress approved an $18 million river and harbor appropriation despite the president's veto. House vote 122 to 59 Senate 41 to 16. Indiana ticket described as unusually strong with Capt Myers poised to lead. Government appropriations for 1888 cited as $298.5 million, versus $190 million in the prior Congress.
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