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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1884
Page
1
The Register printed weekly at 160 per year with advance payment. Advertising costs listed per square, with options for one to twelve months and various column fractions. All legal ads charged by law, local notices 10 cents per line per insertion. Transient ads prepaid. job work paid on delivery.
A Washington column surveys capital spending since the nation's start, noting totals over 100 million dollars with recent public-building and art expenditures raising the sum. It examines district costs, major permanent improvements, and a sweeping portrait of political maneuvering around Denver and Virginia figures, plus tariff debates and Capitol machinery trivia.
Posey county bar met at Mt Vernon court-house April 23 1884 to mourn Milton W Pearse a respected city resident and lawyer. A committee presented unanimous resolutions praising his learning eloquence and public spirit and noting the bar will attend his funeral in a body. The group ordered the resolutions recorded and copies sent to Evansville press while the courtroom was draped for 30 days.
Reports from Mt Vernon include a self-inflicted shooting in a garden and multiple local incidents. Baseball vs Poseyvilles set for Poseyville. minor injuries and farm delays due to cold wet weather. several fines for liquor-law violations. Federal and state election results from New Orleans indicate a Democratic landslide with McEnery winning governor and Democrats controlling both legislature and U.S. Senate seat.
Vienna Austria April 28 a new planet was announced by the astronomical observatory. It shines like a star of the 12th magnitude and was first observed at 10 o'clock Saturday night in the Virgo constellation.
Bob Ingersoll spoke at the Academy of Music in New York on April 27 delivering a sharply critical address against Christianity and miracles. He argued for a religion of reason and arts over superstition, mocked providence and biblical miracles, and faced interruptions as he questioned Adam and Eve and the Bible’s authority.
In Garysburn N April 28 two prominent colored Republican politicians Isaac Liggin and James Porter Spiers were captured as they prepared to duel over presidential candidate differences. Liggin wore two overcoats and a sheet iron plate as a chest protector to fight the cold. The incident underscores factional tensions within the party. Meanwhile the post office department estimates money order offices to open between 800 and 1,950 this fiscal year, roughly doubling last year’s count. Republicans in Arizona and Dakota show Blaine support.
An Indiana Illinois Kentucky roundup notes no opponent for John J. Kleiner in the Democratic renomination bid while Republicans weigh Heisman and others. Mentions Veatch Gudgell Posey Edson DeBruler Kumier Hopkins Wood and likely Guigell or Posey as GOP nominee. Also covers a 110-year-old Jeffersonville man once a body-servant to Washington, a near collapse at a penitentiary tank project injuring convicts, and various regional political and social items including liquor-license fights and local incidents.
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