16 Mar 1883
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1883
Page
1
A advertised sale begins February 24 1883 and runs to April 1 1883 to clear spring stock. Henry Brown promoter offers boots hats and extra items at very low cash prices on Main Street New Harmony Indiana. Public sale of estate real estate follows later notices.
Real estate will be sold for not less than two thirds of appraised value with a quarter cash payment, three promissory notes at 6 percent interest, 5 percent attorney fee, due in six, twelve, and eighteen months, good freehold security, and a mortgage on the premises upon deed. The second and third tracts to be sold together. Sale at 10 o'clock each day. Edward Homer, Administrator. Hovey & Mensies, Att'ya. Feb 23 4w.
The final session proceedings show a cordial House mood under Speaker Bynum, while the Senate saw Republican obstruction led by the Indianapolis ring and Deputy Hanna. Senator McCullough denounced Hanna, the final bill signings stalled, and the session ended under strain yet with notable reforms and a nonpartisan police bill amid broader political turmoil.
Washington Special reports on the 47th Congress adjournment and the ensuing political mood. It notes a dispirited Republican majority, calls for expanded congressional sessions, and discusses tariff debates. Blaine survives a punctured carriage window incident as political realignments loom.
The item covers a major private French flat fire in New York injuring two Wakeman family members, praises fire safety and central courts, and argues for better ventilation. It also highlights outdoor sports trends like lawn tennis and new fashion accessories, plus odd local notes on punishments, entertainment stunts, crime, and various city stats and events.
Curio items from Posey Gibson and White counties include smallpox patients housed outside the city, a death from the disease last week, and no epidemic. Ex-Auditor Owen joins Mt. Vernon Banking Co. Sheriff Crank moves six convicts to Jeffersonville. Bridge fall damages a resident’s claim for $2,000. A house burns with the family escaping in night clothes. Prices given for wheat and corn. A farmer near Princeton suffers a scalp wound from a brush fire accident. Local reports note theft, a fire at a stave factory, and council actions in Carmi. News from nearby towns mentions a skeleton found, a birthday, a carload of cotton on fire, floods, and a range of assorted mishaps. Several accidents, political notes, and local commerce items fill the column with a broad slice of 1880s life.
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