New Orleans Toll Gate Threat Signaled By Mississippi Prax
A February 1 1873 memo rails against a supposed Negro rule in New Orleans and denounces tolls on Mississippi trade. It glosses over finances, citing Louisiana debts and levee costs while warning that new governance could close the river to commerce. The piece contrasts US actions against Denmark and other nations with imagined calamities at home, calling for scrutiny of public funds and governance. It references Bowles Brothers Co and Frau Spitzeder as historic parallels of plundering.
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New Orleans
Mississippi Basin
Mississippi
Great Basin
Great Mississippi Basin
United States
Baltic
Denmark
Elbe
Amazon
Paraguay
China
Japan
Imperium
Louisiana
South Carolina
London
Paris
Bowles Brothers & Co
Munich
Frau Spitzeder
Hans von Stein
Toll and Anarchy in Louisiana Mouth of the Mississippi
The New York World accuses President Grant of placing black and tan influence in Louisiana, claiming farmers and merchants who once paid Lafitte or tolls from the Mississippi Valley will now pay again to a new power at the river’s mouth.
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Rhenish
Mississippi Valley
Lafitte
Grant
Louisiana
Mississippi
New York World
Deaths from Credit Mobilier Sweep Washington Elite
A New York Herald reprint lists prominent American figures from Massachusetts Iowa Ohio Pennsylvania and New Hampshire who died of Credit Mobilier in Washington’s capital. The satirical memorial notes mock stock dividends and political corruption while naming funerals at Congress, Faneuil Hall and other venues.
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New York Herald
Canada
Asia
Pennsylvania
Washington
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
Ames
Credit Mobilier
Union Pacific Railroad
Alley
John B
Frand
Allison
Iowa
C. M
Bingham
John A
Ohio
Dawes
Welkin
Buckeye Bingham
Ben Butler
Prooks
Jim
New York
Salt River
McComb
Jim Brooks
Colfax
Smiler
Indiana
Colfa
Schuyler
Henry L
Plymouth Rock
Garfield
James A
Mobilier
Ioax Ames
Lee
Congressional Cemetery
Washington, D.C
Kelley
William D
Pattersn
James W
New Hampshire
Uriah
Scofield
Glenni W
Hoax Ames
Mariner
Navy
Henry
Natick
Mass
Faneu
Soldiers' Land Bounty Resolutions At Hamilton County Meeting
A Noblesville mass meeting of Hamilton county soldiers adopted resolutions urging U S Senators to pass the Soldiers' Land Bounty Bill granting 160 acres to each veteran. They sent copies to Senators Morton and Pratt, thanked Rep Tyner, and formed a county union with officers. Also notes on Townsend critique of Chandler and other political items.
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Noblesville
Indiana
United States Senate
State Sentinel
Hamilton County
Wuenras
United States
Wueresas
Congress
O. P. Morton
D. D. Pratt
James N. Tyner
House of Representatives
Bopennamer, Sec’y
Patents Issued to Indiana Inventors Week Ending Jan 7 1873
List of patents issued by the United States Patent Office to Indiana inventors for the week ending January 7 1873, with names and brief item titles such as centrifugal honey extractor apparatus and vapor stove for heating soldering irons, noting contributors like W Probasco Lawrenceburg D Berkey Huntington W Lawrence et al New Albany T W Gardner Terre Haute H Martindale Newark and others, plus assorted quotes from The Savannah News and a humorous anecdote about a Troy girl and a Macon boy.
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United States Patent Office
Indiana
Messrs
Cox & Cox
Solicitors of Patents
Washington, D. C
L. H. Bratt
South Bend
L’lanter
W. J. C. Crandall
Steele
W. Probasco
Lawrenceburg
Irona
D. Berkey
Huntington
W. Lawrence Et al
New Albany
T. W. Gardner
Terre Haute
H. Martindale
Newark
Hanks and Robinson wed at New Harmony residence
On January 23, 1873, at the bride’s mother’s home, Mr. Janes Hanks married Miss Mary Eliza Robinson of New Harmony. New advertisements note a February 4 price of 10 dollars.
Taken up bulls and steers in Posey County notice
Taken up January 10 1873 in Robbs Township Posey County Indiana by Thomas Wilhite one dark brown bull three years old with a slit in the left ear appraised at ten dollars Also Jan 9 1873 notice of a steer taken up December 26 1873 in Robb Township Posey County Indiana about three years old red roan white brisket white tail and white spots on shoulders appraised at twenty one dollars by Shadrack Downs and Jonathan Oglesby with J P WM Williams signing two item notices in the same county and period.
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Evansville Journal
Indianapolis
Senate
Reformed Church of the United States
Joint Select Committee
Vanderburgh and
Posey
Warrick, Spencer and
Perry
Crawford, Harrison
Washington
Floyd
Clark
Scott
Jefferson
Switzerland
Jennings
Ripley
Ohio
Dearborn
Franklin
Decatur
Fayette
Rush
Bartholomew
Jackson and
Brown
Orange
Lawrence
Monroe
Gibson
Pike and
Dubois
Knox, Daviess and Martin
Sullivan, Clay and
Green
Vigor
Owen, Morgan and Putnam
Johnson and
Shelby
Wayne and
Union
Henry and
Randolph
Marion
Hendricks and
Boone
Parke
Vermillion and Fountain
Montgomery and
Clinton
Tippecanoe and
White
Hamilton
Tipton and
Howard
Delaware
Madison and
Hancock
Wells, Adams and
Jay
Huntington and Wabash
Grant, Blackford
Miami
Cass and
Carroll
Benton, Jasper, Newton and
War
Robbs T
Posey County
Indiana
Thomas Wilhite
Wm. Barnett
Wm. Johnson
Wilhite
John, Kilbinger
J. P
Common Pleas
Nicholas Shepard
Jesse Hayes
William Hayes
James Kelliner
William J. Dallom
Clark Garris
Mt. Vernon
County
Alex
Crank
John Christa
Robb Township
Ind
Shadrack Downs
Jonathan Oglesby
WM. Williams
Common Pleas Court
William A Jaquess
Adam Lichtenberger
James LB. Cuyler
Caroline Lichtenberger
Edward Homer
Court House
Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon and
South Road
Main Street
New Warmont
New Harmony
John Beal
Beal
Alex. Crank
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W. Blater
New Harmony, Mnd
Total
State Legislature
Ren
Lake, Porter, Stark and Pulaski
Laporte and
St. Joseph
Marshall, Kosciusko and
Fulton
Elkhart and Lagrange
Steuben, DeKalb and
Noble
Allen and Whitley
Courts of Common Pleas
Circuit Courts
Howsz
Jamess. Hinton
Canal
James T. Henton
Cyrus T. Nixon
Floyd County
Hinton
Diana
Peru
Capitol
James Parton
Whitelaw Reid
The
Tribune
Ireland
George Alfred Townsend
Zach Chandler
Michigan
Hannegan
National
Florida
West Point Military School
West Point
John P. Jones
Cleveland
James W. Nyo
Nevada
Nyo
Jones
Louisville Courier-Journal
Senator Brownlow
Heaven
Hell
Troy
Savannah News
Macon
Alabama
Gheref
Common: Pleas Court
Reuben Miller
E. Ball & Co
Richards
Hornbrook
South Street
Alex. Crunk
Batbay
SUS
Gherief
State OF Indiana
Sarah M. Morehead
George Hutchison
State of
WM. Nelson
H. Priduaga
Mra. C. C. Warrén
Dee Baldwin, Jr
G. W. Warren
Evansville
Novli
Emporium
Dei Thrall & Mumford
G. Atineos & On
Portland
Malus
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