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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1888
Page
1
Indiana politics preview with Democrats and Republicans shaping county and state committees, gubernatorial prospects, and a heavy legislative slate. Also, Jeffersonville penitentiary foiled prison break plot by forty-two convicts and reports of a Vincennes haunting and local bomb threats amid temperance activism.
The Menard Illinois post office near Chester is closed after the prison authorities blocked a Democratic postmaster from taking charge. Officials say the move stems from political and logistical disputes, forcing inmates and staff to receive mail from Chester. Also reported: Cairo candy-pulling death by molasses cat. Charleston possum supper rumors. Champaign postmaster Eli McAllister given a $3800 watch. Dekalb man A H Rote dies laughing. nearby oil finds near Elm Grove. talk of reviving hangings. Illinois has 22 Congressmen with 3 natives. Sangamon cow births three calves. McLean County records 666 divorces since 1868. Tazewell goose aged 81.
Pittspure January 29. The Economites a sect founded by Geo Rapp in Germany now one thousand strong in Economy near Pittsburgh have dwindled to about eighteen members aged two to eighty five. The town runs by strict rules with uniform dress work hours and social separation. Miss Gertrude Rapp granddaughter of Rapp leads organ and singing with a blue white chapel and bench of punishment. The Rapp mansion garden grotto bandstand and marble stones mark the quiet colony once famed for silk and wine.
An elderly panorama recalls Grorch Baryr founder of the Harmony Society with birth in 1757 and death in 1847. The piece describes Harmony Pennsylvania 1805 New Harmony Indiana 1815 Economy Pennsylvania 1425 and life at Economy detailing burial customs press intrigue wealth and enduring faith of Economites. It blends legends of Rapp chair wealth oil finds and the private, self contained village.
Col Bennett Young of Louisville sent a friend in Philadelphia two Kentucky turkeys weighing 68 pounds the gobbler 44 pounds and the hen 24 pounds. Six Republican delegates to the national convention have been chosen all reported for Blaine. Santa Cruz California notes men in snow picking grapes. Wisconsin declares woman suffrage unconstitutional.
In the Indiana Lowry White seat contest the house committee finds neither man clearly entitled with White’s claimed citizenship failing to meet seven years. A small Iowa Republican rebellion ends when an inspector ejects a defiant incumbent postmaster. The Democratic National Convention is likely in Chicago or New York with Chicago favored. Governor Gray is the likely Democratic vice presidential candidate. Turpie’s senate case awaits Indiana legislature's next move. Michigan Republicans cling to a slim majority in the vacant Congress district ahead of the February 14 special election.
Washington experiences unusual sleighing as a week of extreme cold frees a thick ice covered river. Early snow enhances betting spots and liverymen get high fees, with many using improvised sleighs like a dry goods box on bent gas pipes or a crockery crate to ride. Some contraptions rival the $10 per hour sleighs.
The January meeting in Washington DC turned into a noisy fight with police needed to restore order. The Blaine faction elected Perry Carson, a black saloonkeeper, while the Sherman faction backed Shellabarger. The contesting seats committee may require surrender of razors before ruling.
Washington notes discuss banishing intoxicants from receptions as tea and coffee replace liquor. It cites Congress schemes to drain treasury funds, Sen Ingalls mocking prohibition, and expected Democratic tariff reform gains with some GOP crossovers. A Gainesville orange tree anomaly and coal production figures for Britain and the United States are also noted.
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