Arkansas State Election Defeats Opposition Across Ticket
The state's election results favor the regular Democratic ticket with a largely Democratic Legislature. Anticipated return of a Democratic U.S. Senator replacing Dorsey, term expiring March 3, 1879. Analysts note Independents held power in several districts in 1874 and 1876, but current outlook remains bright for Democrats.
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Arkansas
United States
Dorsey
Ovr
New
Hostetler
Hunter
National Bank
Outside Help for Heilman Stirs Election Debate
Hvansville Courier notes a Washington Globe special claiming Blair of the Republican State committee hints that Heilman could win only with outside help. The piece warns Democrats to resist fraud, insisting on a fair election and denouncing imported votes or foul play, promising a stout response if elections are undermined.
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Hellman
Hvansville
Globe Democrat
Washington
Tyner
Blair
Republican State Committee
Heilman
Congress
Kentucky
Honest John Sherman Speech at Mansfield 1868
An 1868 Mansfield Ohio speech by Honest John Sherman criticizes those who demand coin payments on five twenty bonds as extortion. The text notes other Ohio political acrobats but praises Sherman’s modest air amid his remarkable agility in political theatre.
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John Sherman
Mansfield
Ohio
John
Stephen W. Dorsey Heads to Arkansas as Senatorial Voyage
A political aside notes Stephen W. Dorsey becoming an Arkansas traveler with baggage tied to a long river of Republican figures. The writer mocks Governor Williams and Heilman for alleged resignations and nominations, calling for party papers to comment on decency and political maneuvering.
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Stephen W. Dorsey
Arkansas
Stephen
Logan
Weat
Ames
Republican Papers
Williams
Heilman
Senators Patterson and Smalls tour Maine for Republican hopefuls
The piece notes John J Patterson and Robert Smalls under indictment for bribery will stump Maine for Republican congressional candidates. It cites local reactions from Vanderburgh county pools and reports on Heisman voting views, with General Tom Ewing set to speak in Ohio and the state during the campaign.
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John J. Patterson
South Carolina
Robert Smalls
Maine
Heilman
Tom Ewing
Ohio
Thi State
Curious Case of the Yellow Fever Charity Ballot Scam
From Our Own Correspondent New York August 31 1878 reports the yellow fever crisis fueling public sympathy and a novel ballot box fundraising plan allowing early and repeated voting without registration. It covers Coney Island’s rapid transformation with two grand hotels and electric lights, the national bankrupted law repeal, Theodore Thomas leaving for Cincinnati, a larceny case at Essex Market Police Court, and ongoing anxieties about recovering a missing $400 diamond from a bathhouse attendant.
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Paradise
Coney Island
Theodore Thomas
The
Register
Manhattan Beach
Brooklyn
Atlantic Ocean
Long Branch
Cape May
Baden
Wiesbaden
Bath
Levy
Europe
Cincinnati
Gotham
Thomas
Essex Market
Rapix
Washington Letter on Sherman and Kearney in 1878
Washington correspondent analyzes Secretary Sherman's Ohio financial focus and Louisiana remarks, calls out the controversy over a handwriting counterfeit, notes Dennis Kearney's limited Massachusetts tour, and quotes John Roach on industrial decline tied to wartime inflation and consumer excess.
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Washineton
D.C
Sherman
Ohio
Louisiana
Hoe
Anderson
Weber
New York
Potter Committee
Dennis Kearney
Jie
Massachusetts
General Butler
Kearney
Mr. Hayes
Hewitt
John Roach
Roach
Austin’s Acquaintances Recall Dawn of Practice
A fragment notes a person in Austin reflecting on acquaint ances and a practice from twenty years ago tied to similar classes. The terse line suggests a social or educational reminiscence rooted in local history.
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Austin
Golden Wedding Reminiscences From Olney Times
Lloyd and Matilda Rawlings marked fifty years of marriage at their Olney county homestead joined by eight children and twenty four grandchildren. The couple’s life spans frontier hardship and two California trips, and Rawlings survived a grizzly bear attack years ago with aid from friend Oliver Hays who later died in violence in Jaap or county.
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Olney
Lloyd
Matilda Rawlings
Lloyd Rawlings
Lawrence County
Matilda Ruark
Mr. Rawlings
California
Oliver Hays
Rawlings
Slaus
Hays
Ulayes
Jaa~ Por
Reform Bad Outlook for Mayes Campaign
Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer reports from Wastimaron on September 2 that Colonel Frank A. Burr the Republican nominee for Congress in Martinsburg West Virginia has been granted four weeks leave from the patent office to campaign. Delegate Kidder of Dakota says the territory has shifted politically within a year and predicts the Democrats will win the next Legislature and Burr’s successor in the 46th Congress will be a Democrat.
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Anvti Orth
Indiana
Congress
Cincinnati Enquirer
Wastimaron
the Star
Frank A. Burr
Martinsburg
W. Va
Patent Office
Kidder
Dakota
Republican Congressional Committee
Terrible Accident Claims Princess Alice Passengers
The excursion steamer Princess Alice, returning from Gravesend with 800 aboard, was struck off Barking at 8 p.m. by the screw steamer Bywell Castle. Between 400 and 500 people, mostly women and children, drowned as the other ship reportedly fled. Woolwich police label corpses as rescue efforts continue.
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Associated Press
London
Gravesend
Barking
Saps
Bywell Castle
Woolwich
Sandwich Islanders Study Women By Weight Claim
Georgia agricultural insight notes raised corn yields while a regional quip questions whether the Sandwich Islanders estimate women by weight, reflecting playful regional humor and cultural stereotype.
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Johnson
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Thomas E. Garvin
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John Brownlee
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Heisman
Vanderburgh County
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Harmony Pools
Mayes
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Crusher
Washipton
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Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Joe Blackburn
Windom
House
Senate
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Phillips—Robson
Lorenzo T. Phiniips
Hattie Rosson
Noble
Lewis Nowe
SA Briff
Posey Circuit Court
Hannah Blensinger
William Kreipke
Anna M. Kreipke
Renry Brinkman
John L. Wheeler
Posey County
J.B. Campnett
W. P. Epson
New Harmony
Oly
Smithsoman
Reha US Studer
Peter Stallings
Sarah A. Stallings
Joseph M. Sturgis
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Julius C. Miller
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Point Township
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L. J. Larkin
William Purcell
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Daniel Fitzgerald
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