11 Nov 1881
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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1881
Page
1
The Register outlines subscription terms at 150 dollars annually paid in advance. It warns that failure to cancel will renew automatically and lists advertising rates for squares and columns with durations. Legal ads follow statutory charges, local notices cost per line, and all transient ads require prepayment while job work is paid on delivery.
A decree summons sale of rents and profits for a seven year term on lot 22 Wilsey part New Harmony Posey County Indiana with public auction at Mount Vernon courthouse November 129 1881. If not enough, sale of fee simple to discharge decree costs. Also notice of administrator petition to sell decedent Phillip Wagner estate and required court hearing in Posey County Circuit Court September 21 1882.
Special to the Register from Posey County describes Griffin as a growing town with two saloons a drug-store a blacksmith shop and about a dozen houses while noting unsettled names for the place and plans for dry goods trade. It recounts a fatal rifle accident a rumored liquor venture by Col Heady and a night of camp life among hunter companions with various mishaps and local curiosities.
Sparks reports Denver selected as permanent capital of Colorado. Peoria Republicans carried Peoria, Illinois. Smallpox rages in Bristol Indiana. Northern Russia faces famine. New Hampshire had another earthquake recently. Severe snow storms hit New England and northern New York last week. A tenement fire in New York last Monday killed several families. New Jersey legislative ticket results show a Democratic majority of about 6600 in the popular vote.
From Mausauts Ferry Illinois dated November 8 1681 the writer shares community tidbits. A saw mill cider mill and dry goods store operate with J J Rowe at the counter and Vet Davis handling mail. A large boarding house is planned for mill workers. health is poor with pneumonia. A misadventure lifts a finger in a mill accident. a man near Carmi is badly injured attempting to jump from a moving train. News of a dashing wedding, a dance, and rail resurfacing rounds out lively town chatter and a question about Wisconsin rumbling in.
Senator George G. West comments on party divisions and 1884 strategy. He names Logan as the Administration’s mouthpiece, discusses postmaster power, Grant’s role, Arthur and Conkling’s potential, Conkling’s NY position, Green Baum’s campaign finance, Blaine’s health, and the ongoing party machine dynamics influencing future leadership and control.
The report details Mahone’s Virginia campaign funds, Republican influence, and prosecutions in a broader Labor and election frame. It notes Senate actions on postmaster selections, pending admissions of Dakota and other territories, pension rolls, and a Thanksgiving proclamation. The piece blends political commentary with oblique notes on Mississippi, New York, and Wisconsin results, plus cultural notes on theater and yachting.
New York letter reports the Newark bank collapse as a wholesale scheme. A respected cashier stole 2,500,000 via corrupt overdrafts granted to a forceful Irish debtor who demanded unlimited credit. The cashier became bound to the mechanic by a bribe and secret commissions, squandering funds in Wall Street.
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