Migration and Education Stir Southern Civil Labor Shift
An American general notes large migrations of poor whites from South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama toward Arkansas and Texas seeking cheap land, while blacks move along the “black belt” from Sea Islands through Georgia and Alabama to Louisiana. He believes better education could boost this exodus. Madame Ollivier dazzles at the Tuileries detailing her marriage tale to Emile Ollivier as they vacation in the Vosges.
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Rutherford
Gulf States
South
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
Texas
Sea Islands
Mississippi
Louisiana
Madame Emite Otivier
the Figaro
Madame Ollivier
Tuileries
M. Emile Ollivier
Vosges
Napoleon Iit
Meeting on Dismissal of John Madden from Peace Commission
In Enniskillen a private county Grand Jury meeting of Fer managh magistrates debated steps after the dismissal of Mr John Madden from the Commission of the Peace. Resolutions were kept temperate and released only after absent signatories join in. Also noted were plans to renominate O Donovan Rossa for Tipperary if a seat becomes vacant and local tenant rights demonstrations.
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Fermanagh
Enniskillen
John Madden
Commission of the Peace
Earl of Erne
Clonmel Chronicle
O'Donovan Rossa
Tipperary
Larne
County Antrim
William Hamilton Burke
Trish
Robbery at Peek Tea Merchants and Trials in Court
A safe at Peek tea merchants Eastcheap was robbed of 2500 in coins and notes. Spinas, accused of murdering Cecilia Aldridge in a drunken assault, is sent for trial. Highbury riots linked to St Bartholomew's students. two dismissed. MP John Hardy committed for trial for libel against auctioneer Knight. A sailor shot himself on Saturday afternoon.
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Peek
Eastcheap
Spinas
Cecilia Aldridge
Treasury
Highbury
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Lone sailor fatally shoots himself after dinner at Albion
A sailor who had just dined at the Albion Coffee House in Fish Street Hill shot himself through the mouth, saying he bought a six barrel revolver that morning and would end his life. He had returned from the Cape and had told a landlord of a mate appointment on a ship to Australia. The name remains unknown.
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Fish-street-hill
Ife
Albion
Cape
Australia
St. Joseph’s Catholic
Liverpool
Grosvenor Street
Father O'Donovan
Raphael
Jesus My God
Sheffield
Thorncliffe
Dividend Declared by John Crossley and Sons
John Crossley and Sons Limited announce a dividend for the year ending December 4 1869 at a rate of fifteen percent per annum. The London Union debated women’s franchise but rejected by a large majority Mr N Martog’s proposal that civil and political rights of women be extended to include the franchise, along with a moderating amendment.
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John Crossley and Sons (Limited
London Union
N. Martog
University College
Overcrowding in Southwark and school debates across regions
Reports cite severe crowding in Southwark with families sharing rooms including a typhus case and multiple fatalities. The Liverpool Liver pool vestry criticizes adulteration linked to delirium tremens while Bradford Chamber airs tax cuts and commerce plans. A telegraph ship will anchor off the English Channel with visible signals and timed gun and bell alerts.
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Desanges Purcell
University
Rouasy School
Rugby School
Scotsman
Hayman
Southwark
Marshalsea
South London Press
Liverpool Select Vestry
Glover
Bripgewater
Lovibond
Court of Queen’s Bench
New Street
Brapford Chamber of Commerce
Bradford Chamber of Commerce
J. Behrens
Chambers of Commerce
Frederick Cavendish
M.P
Miall
J. Whitwell
A. Illingworth
Bradford
Hanper Cossuam
Dewsbury
Ridgway
Cossham
Ireland
Ife
England
English Channel
International Mid-Channel Telegraph Company
Greenwich
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