Indiana Prosperity and House Seat Ratios
Indianapolis correspondent notes Indiana’s strong financial health with a corn surplus of at least fifty million bushels and hogs near seven dollars per head amid packer money pressures. It highlights bank liquidity strain and regional political representation, detailing House member counts by party across slave and free states and noting five states hold over a third of total seats.
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Cincinnati Maquirer
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Missouri
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Washington
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illinois
General Butler Builds Granite Block Near Capitol in Washington
General Butler plans a granite block near the Capitol using Cape Ann Quarry stone that also supplied the Post Office. The southern tenement houses the Coast Survey under a ten-year lease, the middle unit will be furnished and occupied temporarily this winter, and the northern section facing the Capitol is being finished for his permanent residence. His future occupation in Washington is not announced.
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Friends of Woman Suffrage Gain In Michigan Vote
The movement has grown from a small group a decade ago to an amendment securing 40 000 votes in Michigan. It now surpasses all other proposed constitutional changes in the state election.
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Michigan
Prose Fragment Describes Swearing Broadsides
A vivid aside from the Avi ners Journal notes that profanity bursts from a well dressed youth who sits in Pottaville mud, likening it to bolts of heaven’s light gliding downward and landing in the scene.
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Aviners Journal
Pottaville
Population growth shown by Michigan census figures
A late state census indicates Michigan’s population rose by 152000 since 1870, suggesting that at the next federal census the state will surpass Indiana’s 1870-1 total of 1650,000 if the same growth rate continues.
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Michigan
Indiana
Two newly elected congressmen from Minnesota and South Carolina
William S. King former postmaster of the House has won a seat in Congress from Minnesota and his former colored coachman Samuel Lee now represents South Carolina. The remark notes that modern politics produce unlikely associations.
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William S. King
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Samuel Lee
South Carolina
Old Man’s Lands Near End Warned by Reflections
The Salt Lake Tribune notes Brigham Young’s frail health with a pointed reflection that age and disease signal the nearing end of a life spent in wickedness, implying judgment on his deeds as his lands and fortune wane.
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Brigham Young
Salt Lake Tribune
Governor-elect Gaston praised as solid man
A Massachusetts paper lauds Governor-elect Gaston as solid, noting it takes only half of him to make a ton but warning that the other half remainsGas-. The comment plays on a pun about his name and is presented as a light political aside.
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Massachusetts
Gaston
Count Moltke
Moltke
Germany
Colored Democratic Candidate for Congress Loses Seat
Saw Tee of South Carolina was not elected, preventing a courtesy exchange with his former employer, Congressman-elect King, in a race affecting the state's congressional representation.
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Grant weighs foreign war to shift blame after Cuba crisis
The text argues Grant missed a chance to settle with Spain after the Virginius affair. With Republicans defeated in elections, his message suggests provoking a war over Cuban issues to redirect public censure, but the author believes the timing is too late.
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Tax installment penalties and real estate sales questioned
Attorney General Buskink clarifies that a 10 percent penalty applies after the April deadline for unpaid taxes and that real estate sales cannot proceed before personal property is levied, citing 1872 and 1873 acts. He notes the 1873 two installment option extends payment time but does not block collection, and legislative fixes are the remedy for overlapping statutes.
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C. A. Buskink
Oregon divorce law mocked as simple and sweeping
New York World notes Oregon legislature eased severing marriages by simple acts and travel away from legal formalities. The piece lampoons the result, predicting population shifts and scarcity of wives in frontier regions, with anecdotes about New England teachers and frontier settlements. It cites an elderly Nevada man jailed for 20 years for shooting a neighbor and Louisianan Major Thomas Taylor dying at 95 from whooping cough.
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New York World
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Louisiana
That Old Canal Swindle in State Legislature
Herald quotes Senator Slater Pranklin warning of a west session effort to saddle the Wabash and Hire Canal on the state. Owners aim to seize about 20 million dollars amid political fear that lawmakers may be bought. Citizens urged the legislature to reject the plan and protect public funds.
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Delinquent Lands Notice Guidance From Attorney General
The Attorney General issued an opinion in response to Auditor of State queries. It states that lands with unpaid taxes after November 15 are delinquent and counties and counties must advertise delinquent lands between December 15 and January 1. If properly assessed and advertised, a purchaser is entitled to all money paid plus 25 percent even if a county deed cannot be made.
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What Hendricks May Do
Governor Hendricka may seek a Senate seat in Indiana again and win the Democratic presidential nomination if Ohio Democrats avoid fracturing the party. The piece cites opinions from Cincinnati Linquirer and Cleveland Plain Dealer on Hendricks and party prospects, plus a Treasury note on tea and coffee duties and a quip about judging a person by looks.
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Indiana
Cincinnati Linquirer
Ohio
Tom Sendricks
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Reward Offered for Information on Evergreens Destruction
Notice seeks information leading to conviction of anyone who damaged evergreen trees early this week. Decl. 11 PW. Lichten Berger signs the public notice offering a suitable reward.
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