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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1885
Page
1
The Register explains publication frequency as weekly Friday with annual $1.50 prepaid rate and arrears policy. Advertising rates include one square ten lines at 1, 3 insertions 2, 1 month 3, 2 months 3, 3 months 4, 6 months 6, and 1 year 10. Legal ads charged by law, al column ads 10 cents per line first, 5 cents each additional. Quarter column rates given for one to twelve months.
The Liberty Bell arrived for display at the New Orleans exposition after invited delegates from Kansas, Maryland, Dakota, Louisiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Pennsylvania invited Jefferson Davis to join the Beauvoir Station procession. Officials report pleasant speeches and a successful reception marking the bell's arrival.
Washington Chronicles report government waste in Montana and post politics with Virginia and Oregon incidents. It covers Washington society trends, coming political shifts, and details of the Washington monument dedication with parade, ceremonies, and preparations for Cleveland and Hendricks inauguration including seating, decor, and public comfort plans.
A roundup of small items from Indiana including farmers forming a hollow square near Harrisburg to root out five foxes, Terre Haute student presenting gavel to Vice-President Hendricks, oddities about a solitary lawyer in state penitentiaries, a sleeping man who never wakes, a widow robbed at pistol point near Evansville, and local notices from Indianapolis to Evansville such as plow works moving to Indianapolis and the state treasurer filing a bond for a second term.
Auditor Green and wife plan a coal mining venture at Mt. Vernon while Tom Collins migrates to Louisville, Wheat downturns shadow Caborn Station. Judge Walker of Evansville oversees circuit court in Parrett’s absence as a Californian lumberman prepares a ceremonial blaze to mark Cleveland and Hendricks inauguration, believed visible for miles.
Indianapolis 1885 summary shows the House passing the Congressional apportionment bill 53 to 40, with expected Senate opposition. Proposals on liquor law revisions are indefinitely postponed. A four year term county officer measure advances, while metropolitan police bills seem likely to fail. Purdue University gets a $40,000 appropriation amid political maneuvering and talk of Republican resignations to block the gerrymander bill. 1884 Indiana productive wealth totals are listed, with agricultural and manufactured goods contributing to a grand total of about 163.85 million.
In upper Wabash area a baby’s christening prompts grandfather to push for biblical names. meanwhile Mt. Carmel mine yields a rich 4 foot coal seam. Election ballots in several towns show party race results as infrastructure news and local quarrels unfold across Grayville Carmi and nearby towns.
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