Local Drift News Highlights From Mount Vernon Era
A compilation of local anecdotes from Pike and surrounding counties recounts pensions, Civil War reminiscences, political results, and community notes. Items include Swain’s pension delay tied to a Grant anecdote, ghostly tales of Lawson Hewitt’s death site, election pranks, beer-sharing politics, municipal salary cuts, Wilde fascination, strawberry market arrivals, instrument sales, and various county developments across Illinois towns like Mt. Vernon Carmi Princeton and Owensville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swain
Union
Pike County
Grant
Wilderness
Richmond
Petersburg
Lawson Hewitt
Hewitt
Princeton
Mt. Vernon
Kentucky Darkies
New York Gossip and Notes From Gotham May Daily
A lively New York column surveys social outrage from Ireland, hints at political fear of mailed infernal devices, promotes the Musical Festival with Geister and Materna, touts Lord Taylor catalogs, mocks moving day in May, notes Colonel Jose Ramon de Olaneta burial, Alderman Jones acquittal, and post office finance woes. The piece contrasts city wealth with growing pauperism, immigrant influx, pension delays, and a tragic flying inventor awaiting news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
N. Y
Ireland
Vanderbilt
Field
Walling
Thomas
John C. Freund
Lord & Taylor
A.T. Stewar
Alaska
Omaha
Arizona
Conjecture on Democratic Congressional Nominee Race
Evansville district observers debate who will win the Democratic nomination and which counties favor Kleiner or Menzies, with Heisman seen as weaker and Fuller unlikely. County support shifts, past margins cited, and early balloting hints weigh heavily on the race. Also included are various regional notices on trade, weather, and politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heisman
Daily Courier
Vanderburg County
Niblack
Kleiner
Pike
Posey County
Menzies
Gibson
State Senate
Vanderburg
Perry County
Warrick County
Fuller
Spencer
Heilman
Ben Fuller
Congress
Bill Heilman
McCullough
Spencer County
Posey
Washington Dispatches on Hoar, Chinese Bill, and Politics
Washington dispatches report Holman leaving Congress due to illness and pending return, debate over a revised anti Chinese bill with ten year restriction, Indiana Attorney General Baldwin remarks, Massachusetts spoils fight, Keifer’s Ohio district woes, German emigration totals, Supreme Court denial in Mason case, first new wheat record at St Louis, Ephraim Durfee dies at 97, hail stone claim near Denton Louisiana, Chinese labor influx pre August, smallpox spike in Cincinnati, Longfellow as elector, Missouri reapportionment, and a Minne sota tornado.
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Grayville
Independent
Louis Miller
Stewartsville
Illinois
Chicago
Council of Carmi
Mt. Vernon
Petersburg
Frank Posey
Planta
Gibson County
Poole
Mt. Carmel
Hamilton County
Ilinois
Rockport
New Orleans
Democrats
Harmony
Lynn Townships
Posey County
Washington
Daviess County
Gee
Spencer County
Anti-Corporation Party
Owensville
Edwards County
Linois
Carmi
Wadesville
Princeton
Baldwin
Albion
Evansville
Grand Old Party
Pacific Coast
St. Louis
Johnson County
Arkangs
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the Hegister
Co. W. Slater
Pace
G. A. Gotwald
New Harmony
Viets
Church Street
Heriff’s Sale
Posey Circuit Court
Court House
Indiana
Andrew W. Barrett
William L. Orange
William J. Q. Orange
Alex. Crunk
T.M. McArthur
Nicholas Joest
James Cross
Phillip Doersam
Phillppena Doeraam
Mount Vernon
Loudon & Leonard
Board of County Commissioners
Main Street
Church and Tavern
Jacob Breith
Peter Weber
Mark Peter Weber
Arctic
Albert 8, Newsom
Greens
Church St
Bet. Main & Brewery
Albert
S. Newsom
Aplb Mott & CO
William Hartman
Main St
Bet
New Harmony, Indiana
Eugene
Thrall
Horace P. Owen
Cashier
New Harmony Banking CO
Thomas Mumford, Jr
Eugene F. Owen
Charles A. Parke
William H. Owen
Alfred Dale Owen
Iyl John Walz
Cook & Rice
Ind
Poy
William P. Ford
West Main Street
EF. Owen
H. P. Owen
E. F. Owen & Co
New Hammony
Baldwin & Bishop
South Tavern Street
SGP
Hayden's
Brewster’s
Woodhull’s
Dexter
Jelly Baldwin & Bishop
Fred. Herberhold
East Main St
James Fred
Herberhold
Boonville
Olney
Shawneetown
Michigan
Metropolis
Gotham
Radix
Brooklyn
Lst
Hidalgo
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Jose Ramon de Olaneta
Legation
Mwe
United States
Virginius
Alderman Jones
Brother-Inlaw Stewart
Brooklyn Board of Education
London
Paris
Europe
Castle Garden
Commission
Racine
Wis
Milwaukee
Inpiana
New York City
Will E. English
Kansas
Horace Maynard
Tennessee
Young Men’s Party
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Cain
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Mass
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Holman
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Boston Custom-House
Arthur
Ben Butler
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Virginia
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Kentucky
Texas
the Great Keifer
Keifer
Ohio
Tur
Berlin Post
Bremen
Hamburg
Stettin
America
Antwerp
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Rotterdam
Liverpool
Glasgow
Supreme Court of the United States
Mason
Guiteau
Oshkosh
Ephraim
Durfee
Rochester, N. Y
Morgan
Mgr. Millerney
Denton
G.T. Alfred
Oregon
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Longfellow
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