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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1879
Page
2
A bill introduced by Senator Barrell proposes a State Board of Engineers to oversee boiler and engine operations. The three-member board would certify competent engineers after annual county inspections, addressing widespread ignorance and unsafe practices in Indiana industry.
The New York Herald calls Tilden's testimony clear decisive and unequivocal and argues the evidence shows the men who controlled the canvass of the states were involved. It suggests votes and certificates from Florida and Louisiana were bought by the Republicans.
The next Radical candidate for governor stirs party factions as caucuses convene. Opinion is split among El Paso Hunter Libel Suit Heilman Venezuela Orth and Cipher Dispatch Tyner with Strawstack Robinson and Credit Mobilier Colfax occasionally named as dark horses.
The cipher dispatches inquiry shows James N. Tyner and John W. Foster bribed Greenback chiefs to yield to the Radicals in 1876 and boosts Samuel J. Tilden’s reelection prospects.
Senator Christiancy of Michigan resigns and Zack Chandler fills the vacancy. The trio Zack Chandler Don Cameron and John Logan are urged to back Grant and strong government in the next Senate. The Radicals threaten reapportionment battles to keep a Radical majority while J Madison Wells faces a new scrutiny by federal officers. Choctaw teachers receive higher monthly pay than Maine's schools.
The Special Correspondent notes two New York witnesses contradicted St Martin’s lies about Republican efforts in Hayes Tilden politics. Edward Cooper testified of a Baltimore dispatch and money to buy votes, while Tilden denied knowledge of such despatches. The piece also covers steamship line subsidy talks, Army funding, Mississippi River plans, and California railroad sentiment, concluding with expected legislative moves before March 4.
From Our Own Correspondent in New York February 7 1879 reports on the Custom House battles and the vast revenue it handles for the government. It describes an elevated line delay on Ninth Avenue causing crowd trouble and gate clashes. Also notes Thomas Nast receiving a silver canteen shaped vase from army and navy officers, plus insurance market gains, sugar scare fading, and pigeon shows at the Aquarium.
The Indy Sentinel reports an extended editorial praising President Tilden as corruption exposed and the Democratic party’s integrity vindicated by a congressional inquiry. It contrasts Tilden’s defense with Republican alleged fraud, noting the investigation’s value for future contests and calling for vigilance against conspirators. London clocks in sync: ten miles of wire link 108 city clocks to a central standard.
Professor Barff declined a bid of 1 250 000 for patent rights to his re encompassing a recess for permanent protection of roofs from rust and atmospheric influences.
The Indiana Senate passed a resolution to support the interstate commerce bill. The House backed a bill allowing farmers to sell their leaf tobacco without a license. Joint session chose state librarian Maggie Fitzgibbon and prison directors P L Mitchell, Thomas W Shea, John Lee, Frederick Hoover, and Simona Wise.
Traveler describes Monticello near the Blue Ridge, where Jefferson is buried and the old house decays. The Jefferson estate, once tied to a naval captain, passed to government land and an agricultural endowment, but a court partition left it undivided and neglected, with wildlife invading the rotting rooms.
A Cincinnati Star report recounts claims linking the Book of Mormon to Rev. Solomon Spaulding of Amity near Pittsburg along the Monongahela River. It notes Spaulding wrote A Manuscript Found and that his work allegedly influenced the later Mormon text, with his manuscript reportedly lost before publication.
One fourth cash down and three equal installments at six twelve and eighteen months from sale with notes and 6 percent interest. Waives valuation laws. T. J. Trusc administrator. January 31. District of Indiana. Assignee of William H. Price Posey County bankrupt listed in the district court filing.
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