Jamaica's Governor Reforms Spur Growth and Tax Gain
The article lauds reforms under the Jamaica Governor including police, education, roads, and public works while debating disestablishment versus concurrent endowment for the Established Church. It highlights finance wins, with customs up 87,772 pounds and excise up 11,166 pounds, totaling a near 99,000-pound surplus despite earlier deficits and unrest among the old oligarchy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roundell
Jamaica Commission
Pall Mall Gazette
Jamaica
Ireland
Kingston
J. P. Grant
Colonial Office
Cuba
Haiti
President Grant's Annual Message Outlines Far-Reaching Policies
The President addresses Congress detailing peace at home and growing industry, calls for restored commerce, gradual return to specie payments, and debt reform. He backs Virginia admission of delegates, outlines tariff and tax revisions, and favors Cuba mediation while criticizing Britain’s war conduct. The Times notes its two and a half column summary as historic.
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Congress
General Grant
Union
Georgia
Virginia
Treasury
Grant
Cuba
United States
Spain
New York
Reverdy Johnson
Alabama
Great Britain
Senate
England
Canada
Quaker Indian Commission
Post Office
Navy
Interior Departments
The
Times
America
Internal Revenue Report Shows 1869 Receipts at 160 Million
Commissioner Delano notes 1869 receipts at 160 million dollars and projects 175 million for 1870. Revenue rose by 26 million in the past six months due to improved collection of spirits and tobacco taxes. Also reports political results in the South and ratification momentum for the Fifteenth Amendment. Brooklyn revenue agents seize and destroy numerous illicit distilleries in the Irish district.
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Internal Revenue
Delano
Mississippi
Mr. Alcorn
Dent
Texas
Hamilton
Alabama
Vermont
Rhode Island
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
United States
Congress
Brooklyn
Foreign items from Florence to Memphis and beyond
Baron von Beust arrives in Florence while Senor Castelar stays ill in Madrid. Reports note Bismark’s likely Christmas trip to Berlin and Austrian Emperor’s Rome visit. Ignatieff joins Russia’s Foreign Ministry as US England postal pact takes effect. Mansfield and others appear in Cairo and Bombay, with battles and famine in India.
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Baron von Beust
Florence
Senor Castelar
Madrid
Count Bismark
Varzin
Berlin
Emperor of
Austria
Rome
Ana Ancona
General Ignatieff
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
United States
England
Vienna
Candlish
Beaumont
Abyssinian Inquiry Commission
Bombay
Cairo
Effendi
Egypt
Jefferson Davis
Memphis
Rajpoorana
India
Moscow
Janus
Congregation of the Index
Mme. Grisi
Paris
M. Marie
Pére-Lachaise
Peabody
Reichenheim
Paraguay
Rio
Lopez
Jerusalem
Order of the Knights of St. John
Prussia
Constantinople
Jean Kinck
M. Roussin
Journal Des Débats
Troppmann
Louisville
Kentucky
New Zealand
Featherston
Dillon Bell
Colonial Office
War Office
M. Guizot
Tuileries
Louis Phillippe
M. Plichon
Boker
Eourt
Samuel Baker
Lady Baker
Suez
Sanaoini
Suakin
Desert
Berber
Khartoum
White Nile
Pius IX
Council-hall
Vatican
Pius
Pius 1X
America
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