The Years That Mr Greeley Lived Life
Horace Greeley, aged sixty one years and nine months, lived a long, eventful life compared to Benjamin Franklin. The piece contrasts Greeley’s tireless travel, rapid telegram updates, and vast reading with Franklin’s slower journeys, noting Greeley’s daily output and restless intellect as expanding his perceived years.
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Horace Greeley
Benjamin Franklin
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Atlantic
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Europe
London
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Telegraph
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Minnesota
Washington
Federal City
New York
San Francisco
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Abolition Bill for Internal Revenue Assessors Passed
The article reports how Congress moved to end the office of Internal Revenue Assessors in the United States. It cites a 1872 law aiming to reduce districts to eighty, then notes a revision allowing 290 Collectors to remain, effectively increasing officials by 130. Senator Trumbull criticized the Administration in the Senate debate as the measure passed per Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Internal Revenue Department
Douglass
House of Representatives
Office of
Internal Revenue Assessors
United States
Internal Revenue
Trumbull
Senate
Cincinnati
Indiana Senate chair amid disfranchising bill uproar
The State Sentinel derides a senator as a traitor for aiding a majority backed disfranchising measure. It accuses a named figure of brazen hypocrisy and treachery, comparing him unfavorably to Benedict Arnold and others while alleging his betrayal in the legislative process.
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Senate
Benedict Arnold
Jefferson Davia
Judas Iscariot
Jason Brown
State Sentinel
Question on Democratic ticket impacts in Washington Territory
A Washington Territory correspondent laments the Demo Liberal split and urges nominating a real Democrat to win back votes, recalling Hoge and endorsing Hendricks if he had secured the nomination. The note also references Richard Manail, the Rock Island Wizard, publishing a letter on star influence in the epizootic.
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Washington Territory
Hoge
Sacramento
Jo Hendricks
Oregon
San Francisco Examiner
Richard Manail
Ieland Wiosopher
Indiana Senate Passes Judicial Circuits and Districts
The Indiana Senate approved bills creating the Twenty second Judicial Circuit covering Miami Wabash and Huntington counties and the Fifteenth Common Pleas District Court for Porter Lake Newton Jasper and Starke. Debates over monument and tax measures followed, with further redistricting and state funding plans advancing through December.
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Ndianapolis
Senate
Miami
Wabash
Hunting'on
Common Pleas District Court
Porter, Lake, Newton, Jasper
Starke
Indianapolis
Tippecanoe Battleground
General Assembly
House
Louisiana Election Controversy Cites 12,000 Vote Lead
The text asserts the Democratic and Liberal ticket won by 12,000, but legal canvassers were blocked by a US judge's injunction. A non canvassing board discarded several parishes to grant the Grant party the ascendancy, while the Administration backs the minority and the contending usurpers.
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Louisiana
United States
Grant
A Particular Man at the Boston Fire Scene
During the Boston conflagration a boot dealer, seeing his rear store ablaze, told helpers they might take boots. One man seized a pair and asked for slim sevens, but an explosion next door cut off any reply.
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Boston
Lighten Berger Owen & CO
New silver dollar to circulate in China said to be valued higher
The San Francisco mint issued a new silver dollar adapted for general circulation in China, where the lack of silver coins is keenly felt. It is valued six percent above the old dollar and will be accepted there on the same terms as the Mexican dollar, previously at a premium of five to eight percent.
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Posey County
James N. Bowles
Richard Ford
Henry Fitton
Henry J. Cooper
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Mount Vernon
Alex, Crank
Robert Dale Owen
Mary Jane Owen
Peter J. Stewart
Luzettie Bell Stewart
House of Mount Vernon
Alex. Crane
Pecey County
Board of County Commissioners
Cincinnati, Rockport and Southweatern
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Mt. Vernon
Main Street
First Street
Macadoo Creek
Wadesville
Poseyville
Cynthiana
Anid
Posey
Frank D. Bolton
Green
San Francisco
China
Opposition to Spencer Senate seat echoed by papers
A Tribune style roundup cites Cincinnati Gazette and Vincennes Sun denouncing Spencer as unfit for the Senate and mocking his Alabama Legislature election. The notices frame his candidacy as ridiculous and lament that his credentials were presented by O. P. Morton. Also included is an epizootic ad seeking a calm, family horse for a lady driver, placed as Lady box 5001 Joliet P.O.
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Edward Homer
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