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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1885
Page
1
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New Orleans notes from the Great World Exposition detail Virginia display at the fair. John A. Elder unveils a $10,000 oil of Custer’s Last Fight, plus Virginia agricultural and mineral exhibits, shipments of red cedar ware, tobacco, and fruit, and photos of public buildings. Commentary covers Oregon fruit displays, weather, passes, and exhibits including locomotives, streetcars, and the electro engraving machine by W. M. Guerrant.
The Republican press labels the speaker as E Mahdi Haines while Shelbyville Herald, a Greenback survivor, fails checks. A Republican legislator died last week. successor to be elected March 21 in a district with about 3,000 Republican majority. Judge Samuel H. Treat remains the lone Democratic federal judge after twenty five years of GOP rule. Mt Carmel reports 3,000 residents. During snowstorms fuel shortages drove drastic measures. at Bloomington a Lake Erie line coal theft of 42 tons occurred despite train crews. Centralia Democrats held a postmaster election with 500 votes. White County sent 26 criminals to the penitentiary in two years. Sumner Democrats elected a postmaster.
Indiana reports 23 352 pensioners drawing 4 603 606 annually. A Vincennes post office shortage noted. A Boonville justice tried a case by telephone with a prisoner in Folsomville, fining 5 dollars and costs. New Albany plagued by counterfeit silver dollars. Indianapolis will have a match factory. Fort Wayne Gazette notes a mysterious hog disease in Allen County, skin lesions and hair loss. no cure. Legislative and Congressional apportionment bills pass the State Senate 27 to 19.
The article recalls the 1884 inauguration with Cleveland and Hendricks, describes parade crowds, the Greworke night display, and the Capitol decorations. It notes President Arthur’s courtesy to Cleveland, a special Senate session, and Miss Rachel E. Cleveland preparing to take residence at the White House.
From Washington D C February 28 1886 a breezy column on inaugural preparations the pension office and the mood in the city Vice President elect Hendricks arrives and Cleveland plans on Tuesday arrival A critique of Congress notes long sessions absenteeism and payrolls docked wages for missed roll calls highlighting Senator Bayard Delaware as most attentive to roll calls
A collection of striking figures and anecdotes across science industry and society. Highlights include a 340 ton steam hammer built in Philadelphia for Cleveland, Nevada weather, vast global trade figures, and curiosities about hymns, goose values, gambling, and telephony.
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