Louisiana politics and federal questions frame a 1875 report
The majority and minority reports of a Louisiana Committee condemn Grant and his party over 1874 elections. They claim registration fraud and Kellogg control, while Conservatives secured a legislature majority. Other items note political nominations, Democratic appeals to voters, and tax bills moving through Congress.
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Louisiana
Administration
Grant
Kellogg
Republican Party
Ita
Tia
Kellogg Party
Washington
South
Southwest
Federal Congress
North
Congress
Bryant
Evarts
Charles Francis Adams
Indiana
Kentucky
Ilinois
New Appraisement and Assessment Act Becomes Law
A lengthy Indiana legal text announces the New Assessment and Appraisement Act. It replaces the county assessor with township assessors, sets salaries, repeals conflicting laws, and provides for duties, bonds, and emergency provisions. It also amends multiple sections of a 1872 act and details township election timing and deputy listings. The piece also includes a Washington dispatch urging Southern reconciliation and fair voting rights amid postwar tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hull
House
Senate
General Assembly
State of
Indiana
Board of County Commissioners
Jin
Board of Commissioners
North Carolina Senators Sign Liberty Protection Document
A historic pledge to defend republican government and civil liberties was signed by Senators including Goldthwait, Stevenson, Norwood, Cooper, Gordon, Bogg, Rawson, McCrary, Johnson, and Merrimon, among others, reinforcing commitment to constitutional safeguards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldthwait
Stevenson
Norwood
Cooper
Gordon
Bogg
Rawson
North Carolina
McCrary
Johnson
Merrimon
Death of Mrs. Araminta McDonald in Crawfordsville
Mrs. Araminta McDonald wife of Hon Joseph E McDonald died suddenly at home 229 North Pennsylvania Street after a brief illness. She had just passed her fortieth birthday and leaves three sons from a former marriage along with many relatives including her father and brothers. Her husband then a Senator elect faced a heavy trial of loss. The notice appears in State Sentinel dated 19th inst.
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Araminta McDonald
Joseph E. McDonald
North
Pennsylvania Street
Montgomery County
Chicago
Crawfordsville
United States
State Sentinel
Fortunes of Presidents Highlight Varied Estates
A look at presidential fortunes shows Washington valued at nearly 300000 dollars, Adamses moderate, Jefferson poor at death, Madison wealthy, Monroe buried privately in New York, and Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Buchanan, Lincoln, and Grant leaving substantial sums. Also notes Chadwick’s donation to the Anti Corn Law League and Modoc remnants at a Missouri hotel, plus a Vermont woman supporting eight children by stone wall work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Adams
Jefferson
Congress
Madison
James Monroe
Second
Third Streets
Bowery
New York City
John Quincy Adama
Andrew Jackson
Hermitage
Nashville
Tenn
Martin van Buren
James K. Polk
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Grant
Before the fall of a bandit’s fortune in New Orleans tales
A former opulent New Orleans bandit recalls a $10,000 yearly real estate income, paid-off property, and strict business prudence a decade earlier. He notes current uncertainty, possible tax payments, and a $25,000 house he bought that now seems worth far less, while a friend’s $13,000 residence sale underscores shifting fortunes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaz
New Orleans
Eerie Sale in Posey County Court Decree Action
A certified decree summons public sale of real estate in Posey County Indiana. On March 6 1875 at Mount Vernon Court House doors the rents and profits for seven years of Lots 22 and 24 in Whiting's Enlargement Cynthiana and two acres of land described lie to be sold. If insufficient funds another sale of defendant rights follows to satisfy the decree. Sheriff Alex Crank.
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Circuit Court
Posey County
Indiana
Virgil P. Bozeman
Lewis
Rose
James Lewis Rose
Ulysses Grant Rose
Court House
Mount Vernon
Whiting
Cynthiana
Grave Yard
Alex. Crank
Walden Driggers
James Lyon
Lucinda Lyon
New Harmony
Main Street
Otich
Harmony
Posey
Harmony Township
Board of Commissioners
Commissioners’ Court
Wabash and Ohio Railroad
Wabash and Ohio Railroad Company
Suau
Board of County Commissioners
A. D
Frank D. Bolton
Green
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the Register
New Harmony, Indiana
White House
Timothy
sarThere
Arkansas
Ohio
sapThe
Songreas
House of Representatives
Finance Committee
Bee
United States Senate
Joseph BE. M'Donald
New Albany Ledger- Standard
James Chadwick
Anti-Corn Law League
Carlyle
Mr. Chadwick
Cobden
Sar Shack
James
Sear
Charles
Pacific Hotel
St. Joseph
Eas
Vermont
St. Louis
Detroit Free Press
St. Louis Republican
Smith—Schner
Evansville
Tuomas Suairu
Etta M. Scunrxu
Mail
Address Courier Company
Vansville
Ind
Qherifi
Sarah E. Flelarts
Bethel Township
Samuel Griffin
Adm’r
Thrall & Mumford’s
New Michigan
New California
Bhaker
Yarmouth
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