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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1877
Page
3
A collage of advertisements and brief items notes Thrall & Mumford offering canned fruits vegetables and paints supplies, Eight & Co selling millinery dress goods and jewelry, and Kight & Co stocking shoes and gloves. Also mentions British Rothschild link for loan, a quip on leap year, a temperance misprint, jewelry arrivals, Rev Dr Bixon visit, and Louisiana Returning Board remarks.
In New Orleans a vrijheid court case charges Attorney General Ogden and District Attorney Finney with altering and forging returns from Vernon parish to favor Hayes. The piece condemns the returning board and predicts indictments, linking the affair to Wells, Anderson, and the broader fraud narrative around Reconstruction era politics.
Judge Black analyzes the 1876 fraud to oust Hayes in Louisiana and the South. He details the returning board, forged affidavits, Grant’s involvement, the electoral commission, and the Republican plot. The piece urges every American citizen to read the North American Review to judge whom to trust in 1880.
Mr and Mrs Savat of Evansville are in town this week visiting relatives and are guests of Mr J W Miller.
Auditor of Posey County transfers real estate to E Murphy RS E 97 4 18 80 acres. Sheriff of Posey County to Singer Manufacturing Co Lot 4 James and Hovey’s Mount Vernon. K Barter to M A Burtis Lot 3 J M Barter’s Mount Vernon. E J Randolph to R G Thomas per W II 5 7 13 5 acres. Weubner to J Heubner SW 4 12 4 13 100 acres. Total transfers 5 Total consideration 88591. Mortgages $3728 44. PLA HUTCHESON RPO.
A historical item listing corrected weekly prices for flour wheat corn meal chickens eggs butter lard and more with quantities in cwt bushel dozen and gallon. It includes a nine month credit option on sums of three dollars and up with ten percent interest and cash terms under three dollars. T. J. Truscott administrator signs as authority.
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