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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1885
Page
1
The notice lists rates for display and legal ads in The ReceiveRx paper, incl. one square with various insertions, fractions counted as whole, and advance payment required for transient ads. It notes no paper will be discontinued until all arrears are paid and outlines column and page rates for half and full column ads with different time spans.
The New Harmony Register correspondent reports on the New Orleans exhibition galleries filled with paintings and portraits, including a large colored exhibit with works by John Allen and a drummer boy from Augusta. He notes educational displays from multiple states, Jamaican and Mexican orchids, and a French exhibit, plus Mardi Gras parades Rex Proteus and Momus costing about $100,000.
The Stewartsville graded school held closing exercises under Principal Cunningham with Miss Etna Lowe in charge. Diplomas were awarded to Mary Fitzgerald Ethel Hughes Lula Henbner Larkin Allman and Graham Fitzgervall. Essays declamations and music by local students delighted a crowded audience. Alex Kilroy addressed the retiring class as Cunningham closes his winter term.
A roundup of varied local items includes Carmi treasury 98 cents Salem fund 20000 for a coal project two Giney men quarrelled over children a man shot dead in town Ashley coal vein struck at depth one mile Olney resident W A Cope keeps 24 hens laying 600 since December 1 Mt Carmel notes a legislator's death and April 11 successor election wheat prospects poor Mt Vernon council votes on licensing and women's suffrage in the measure Cairo reports a violent rollerskating craze and a prize for Sunday attendance at a Sunday school
Knox county otiers are endorsed not paid for want of funds. Governor Gray plans to grant few pardons. The Ge State school fund totals nearly $10,000,000. Vincennes Democrats clash over the post office. Princeton hosts many lawyers and doctors. Thompson becomes state geologist. Townsend is a Senate candidate. A many pole dance is planned at Princeton. Terre Haute normal school reports high attendance. An undertaker features pauper coffins at 82.00. Two men jailed at Princeton for 30 cents leaf tobacco theft. A Vincennes female doctor cowhides a man. Pike county paid 200 bounty for hawk and owl scalps. Mrs. M J Wells, temperance worker, dies in Indianapolis. Representative Browning, Brown county Democrat, dies. Legislature reorganizes soldiers home with two ex-Union soldiers and a lady trustee. Two German cousins kill each other near Stewartsville. Fleischmann is stabbed. Schorndeil’s skull crushed. W A J Sparks appointed commissioner of the general land office. Congress spends 129 million less than prior session. Evansville Republicans grow demoralized. The national administration makes a splendid start. Sam S Cox named minister to Turkey. J A Bercy becomes Arkansas senator.
Attorney General Garland reduces Justice Department examiners by about half. Milton J. Durham of Kentucky named first comptroller of the treasury. Ex Senator McDonald reportedly declined a Russian mission. Gen Black to head the pension office as reforms target idlers. Hendricks and McDonald exchange friendly calls. The administration pushes clerks to greater output, replacing old habits with efficiency. Special to Louisville Courier Journal Washington March 19. Mention of Senator G V Menzies of Indiana for Land Office Commissioner sparks optimism.
Special to the Sun from Washington reports a planned purge of officers on duty in the capital. The new secretary aims to relieve those with long Washington tenure, potentially removing staff and line officers after three to five years. Chiefs of staff are exempt by law, but many others face reassignment.
Ex Senator Joseph E. McDonald of Indiana calls on President Cleveland in Washington. Cleveland seeks to honor him with a suitable appointment, preferably connected to his legal work, though McDonald shows a preference to stay home and avoid foreign missions. Friends warn against accepting any administration post, fearing a future Indiana senatorial bid.
Special to Sun from Washington March 17 Secretary Whitney restores Commander Rodney Evans to head the Baltimore lighthouse inspection district after Mahone removed him for opposing a political appointee. Evans, wounded in the Civil War, had earlier ousted the drunken appointee off Cape Hatteras. Mahone threatened Evans with removal but yielded to duty over politics.
Associated Press Dispatch reports the president sent to the senate nominations for Edwin J. Phelps to Great Britain Robert M. McLane to France George H. Pendleton to Germany and Henry R. Jackson to Mexico all confirmed.
The article outlines expected vacancies in the U S Army over the next four years and beyond 1886 88 including retirements Brig Gen Augur in 1855 Maj Gen Pope and Gen Newton in 1886 Surgeon General Murray in August and potential promotions Gen Terry or Gen Howard for Pope retirement Gen Hancock to retire 1888 making room for a major general and a brigadier vacancy Gen Miles favored to lead after Sheridan retirement
In the Washington era discussion, politicians admit they are dazed by how appointments are made. They feel discouraged as no single man or faction can influence the president. They conclude Cleveland appears to be running himself with no external handlers or power centers.
An inch of rain over an acre yields about 113 tons. The passage also reports cattle losses in Kansas winter, a Hartford smoker’s cost tally, Cheshire apple tree yields, Washington apron relic, Trinidad pitch lake, and miscellaneous curios with dates and figures.
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