Washington Letter highlights Porter bill and tariff clash
Washington letters reveal the Fitz John Porter bill passing the House 171 to 118 with strong Democratic support, Republican opposition and reported pistol incident. Virginia posts and postsmasters reshuffled, Senate confirmations awaited amid Mahone obstruction. New tariff reform bill faces GOP resistance.
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New Harmony Register
Washington, D. C
Fitz John Porter
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Bragg
Wisconsin
Gov. Curtin
Pennsylvania
Brumm
Gen
Porter
Virginia
Petersburg
Woodstock
Mahone
Edmunds
Logan
Chevreul McClure Letter From Indiana Scientist Advocate
An 1880s Indianapolis linked letter recounts M. Chevreul and William McClure as early science patrons and reformers. McClure helped found Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, promoted education and working-class libraries, moved to New Harmony Indiana, and funded McClure Libraries in multiple counties with a strong focus on working people.
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Indianapolis Sentinel
New York
N.Y
Sunday Sentinel
M. Chevreul
Chevreul
William McClure
Indiana
Wm. McClure
Jie
Paris
Philadelphia
C. A. Leseur
la Pernse
Napoleon I
Australia
Leseur
Peron
Joseph Neff
Neff
Phigttepal D'Arusement
Frances Wright
McClure
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences
New Harmony
Posey County
Ind
Thomas Say
John Speakman
Tuber
Owen
City
Mexico
Allegheny Mountains
City of Mexico
Indianapolis
E. T. Cox
Indiana State News Briefs From The Hoosier Currents
A weekly fault report from exchanges covers Indiana licenses for traveling exhibitions, state agriculture funding duties, and county treasurers. Local incidents include a Hartford City child’s fatal head injury, army clothing removal costs in Jeffersonville, and widespread saloon activity. Reports note counterfeit dollars, tramps in a sand house, buried wealth near Clarksville, haunted homes, an oil well gas strike near New Albany, and a wide range of local crime, education, and public-safety notes across dozens of towns. Indiana’s population and economic activity are also summarized.
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John Burchard
Hartford City
Army Clothing Works
Jeffersonville
New Albany
Utica
Charlestown
Fire destroys Main Street business block in Mt. Vernox
Fire swept through Schultz’s saddlery, the Democrat printing office, Mrs. Dismer's millinery, Frank's bakery, Wolf's meat shop, and Mann's clothing on Main Street. Fire damage estimated at about 15009 dollars. Fire suspected arson after engine house burned first. Poseyville fire scoraged Reita's saloon and several other structures, total loss estimated 4000 to 5000 dollars with little insurance.
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Mt. Vernox
Ivan
Schultz
Poseyville
Reita
Downs & Fairchild
Dr. Ruttedge
Young
A. L. Copeland
Thomas Vaner
E. KE
White county tract to be tillable by long ditch plan
Al Paris reports a 3000 acre White county area in Hawthorn and Imma townships could be cultivated after building a 6 by 10 ditch four miles long to join the slough feeding the Wabash near Marshall's Ferry. Residents urge dam removal at Carmi for drainage and cultivation of flood prone bottom lands.
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White County
Hawthorn
Imma
Wabash
Marshall's Ferry
Little Wabash
Carmi
Sam Horton
Albion
Chicago
Shawneetown
Knights of Labor
Vermillion County
Groundhog Bill Seeks February First Start Date
Kansas legislature introduces a bill to move groundhog day to February 1. Washington government offices closed on the 22nd. Smallpox rages at Fort Worth Texas. Woman suffrage convention meets in Washington. Senator Miller of California seen near death within months. Earthquake shocks reported in Alabama. Hudson ice harvest estimated at 3,000,000 tons. John B Gough, temperance lecturer, is dead. Kate Field heads to Washington on Mormon question. Wilmington North Carolina nearly destroyed by fire. Oscar Wilde National return anticipated.
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Kansas
Washington
Fort Worth
Tex
Miller
California
Alabama
Hudson
John B. Gough
Kate Field
Congress
Wilmington
N. C
Oscar Wilde
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NEW Hew Harmony Register
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FORD
PENNE
Meadquarters For
New Orleans
Ford & Bennett
BROWN
Acme
Brown’s Clothing
Ek i
Harmony
Lanky
Duclos
Odhul
Thrall & Mumford’s
F. W. Cook Brewing Company
Pilshener Export Beer
Aopd Y
Evansville
Peter Weber
NEW Eflarmony, Ind
C. A. Snow & Co
U. S. Patent Office
T. S. Hood
Dana
Building Wall
Aydelott
M. F. Richardson
Liberty
A. Conner
Bloomingdale
Hi. H. Fulton
L. W. Hollaway
W. Ludlum
Marion
A.J. Martin
G. W. Henry
North Manchester
W. H L. Miller
South Bend
D. B. van Horn
Elkhart
J. Wyttenbach
Rockport
J. F. Vandyke
Anderson
Wooster
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Wasnuixeton
D.C
Indiana Statesman
Chicago Ierald
Bvaxsville
Isp
Oscar Baldwin
Evansville & Terre Haute
Gibson County
Princeton
Tilden
Judge Holman
Samuel J. Tilden
Mendricks Monument Fund
Jonx Maxy
McLeansboro, Il
Chevreul-Mcclure
Prof. Coxon M. Chevraeul
U. S
New Orveans
State Department
Col. C. S. Ifill
Department
Bureau of Statistics
United States
Norway
Saxony
England
Oldenburg
Crefold
Rhine
Cuba
Mediterranean
Afvica
Col. Hill
Indiana State News
Hoosier
Agricultural Society
State Board of Agriculture
Pateka
White River
Dubois
Wike
Val Kelly
Ohio
Clarksville
DePauw
Wm. Price
Knox County
Ben Miller
White's Institute
Danville
Boonville
Black
Sullivan County
Wabash County
Laporte County
the Baptist Sunday School At
Vincennes Opera House
Richmond Telegram
Owensville
MT. Vernon
al Paris
Mlinois
Mt. Carmel
Richard Ford
Shady
Mason
Rochester Mills
Landes
Kleiner
Secretary of War
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