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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1882
Page
1
The Register charges 12 line squares for one insertion at 100 dollars per square, with multi insertion and time-based rates for months and columns. Legal ads follow the law, and all transient notices and job work require advance or on-delivery payment respectively.
Caught in the news current this Posey County roundup reports a milk of county facts. A train accident north of Mt Vernon killed a $100 yoke of cattle owned by Henry Southworth. Wadesville convention promises harmony with clerk and sheriff races. A Mt Vernon G A R post forms with twenty members. Robert Wade named deputy treasurer. Trains now run Mt Vernon to Cynthiana. Political candidates scarce in Republican circles. Princeton telephone list trimmed. other lists to follow. Owenville freight volumes rise with watermelons and cargo. County births exceed deaths by three months end June. Prices: watermelons 35 cents, potatoes 30 cents in Oakland. Baseball fever fades in Owensville. A near-accident in Grayville involves Lew Ronals. he escaped injury. Township classifications and land values outline county wealth and land use. Market notes include wheat yields around Crossville and hemp of farm towns. Demographics list livestock counts, crops, and township outputs. Miscellaneous items conclude with riverine notes and local transitions.
Rail mishap near Evansville injures no one fatally as two freight cars topple from a trestle after wheel derailment. The notices cover local deaths, county politics, wheat crops, strange artifacts, and New York gossip with urban crime and gambling themes.
Special to New Orleans Times-Democrat reports Garfield expressed contrition for his role in the 1876 fraud that denied Tilden the presidency. He reportedly feared avenging Nemesis on his party and asked confidants to keep silent as Stalwarts and Half-breeds debated the matter privately. Additional dispatches note a Spokane Indian death, a Mexico City earthquake with no fatalities, Havana warehouse fires, Chicago suburb plans, and Mrs Li Lincoln’s estate valued near $75,000.
A compilation noting international and U S items: Wisconsin's foreign-born share and Boston debt. Milwaukee’s saloon count. French brickmaking from coal dust. Niagara and Canadian railroads. Tombstone Arizona population. prohibition trends in Arkansas Nebraska. Other items cover U S rail mileage figures. unusual fishing tales. Oregon salmon canneries. Marysville frog invasion. curious fish in Georgia streams. population projections by E G Eilott. Kansas forestry gains. Yellow fever counts. Providence Star quote on Boss rule. Iowa wheat prospects. leprosy cases in San Francisco linked to Chinaman-made cigars. Greensboro peaches. cattle shipments from Texas. church property value in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania politics. Selma Alabama boy height. California wheat. Bogus Mark Twain in Ireland. Whittier at Center Harbor. Barnum’s beast purchases. Yazoo City moccasin snake. Florida potato and Indian population. Owensboro catalpa branch. Florida cattle trade. Mahone Co sugar issues. Ogden Utah anti-Ming persecution and polygamy, court test. tax bill caucus and tariff concerns. NC GOP convention split.
Washington dispatches report a brewing collapse of machine politics led by Boss Cameron in Pennsylvania and a revolt against the old guard. Pattison emerges as reform candidate for governor, while new three percent bonds begin printing with Garfield vignette. Also noted are embalming rumors, fortification petitions, flood signals in Tennessee, patronage fears in Kentucky, tariff debates, and a proposed New York boxing bout arrangement.
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