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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1876
Page
4
A Washington letter-writer recalls elegant West End houses where guests lavish dinners, claiming a congressman, enticed into excess, lost all his cash and signed a pay order after being tricked in a card game. Married and president of a Temperance Society, he avoids further dinners. A burned child dreads the fire.
A Jamaica common plant called life plant or leaf of life is said to survive cutting, packing, and even dry herbarium storage, growing again regardless of light or moisture. In London society Swinburne is expelled from the Arte club after hurling hats, mocked for moral judgments, while political chatter notes Orth seeking to resign his Washington post to run in Indiana, with questions about his accounts and salary.
In Paris a famed blind Count returns from London after eye surgery and meets a Marchioness preparing for a ball. While she and her maid attend to toilet tasks, he reveals his restored sight, prompting her to flee the scene in a carriage. Paris Letter notes the awkward encounter and the need for dollars and sense in business.
The Democracy of Indiana declare fealty to the constitution and a unified union, call for fiscal reform, cheaper government, sound currency, and civil service honesty. They condemn corruption, endorse retrenchment, and back Thomas A. Hendricks for President, instructing delegates to vote with the majority.
The document lists the Democratic State Central Committee members by district with names and counties: First District Thomas Byrne Vanderburgh, Second District Calvin Faylor Sullivan, Third District J D Lyle Bartholomew, Fourth District Charles L Jewett Scott, Fifth District Train Caldwell Fayette, Sixth District Alonzo Blair Shelby.
Seventh District R J Bright Marion. Eighth District Judge John Scott Vigo. Ninth District M D Manson Montgomery. Pouth District H K E Wadsworth Laporte. Eleventh District D D Dykeman Cass. Twelfth District W J Craig Wells. Thirteenth District Laporte Heefner Elk rath. Col Charles Denby Vanderburgh. William Fleming Alien. Capt J A Amfitchell Elkhart. Dr G W McConnell Steuben.
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