Chinese Treaty debate and Western trade tensions
Editorial notes optimism that the Chinese government may accept modifications to the treaty while urging Californians to avoid actions that could curb China trade. The piece discusses the wheat flour and rice dynamic, possible migration, and the broader reciprocity treaty context with Hawaii, plus assorted regional notes on crime, sports, and shipping.
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Europe
California
European War Warnings and Floods Sweep Regions
Foreign dispatches report a Cabal speech threatening severe punishment for military interference. Floods spread across Andalusia to Murcia causing villages to collapse, railways ruined, and hundreds displaced. Madrid reports high death tolls and widespread damage.
Efforts for Peace Near Afghan Hostilities
Pretoria reports an officer will travel to Seeacoent to seek a peaceful settlement before fighting begins. Afghan chief Seeacoent grows hostile and three Afghan chiefs are jailed in Cabul. The British military commission will convene at once. Sir Frederick Roberts enters Cabul with Gen Hill as military governor and assistants. Afghan regiments away from Ghuznee dispersed near Cabul. forts and ammo found at Baln-Hissar.
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Murder Guilty Verdict In Syracuse Wife Case
Orlando Greenfield was found guilty today of murdering his wife in Syracuse yesterday. The report notes the homicide and cites related misfortunes and extraneous items from the era, including other incidents and political dispatches.
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Cleveland Plaindealer Weather Guide for 1879 80
Weather predictions by Blake of Decatur Jr outline a warm wet October 1879 followed by a volatile fall and winter. November appears unsettled and not very cold, December similar but warmer and wetter, January warm and wet with some cold snaps, February rainy and snowy, March changeable and wet. The winter of 1879 80 described as warm and wet with occasional cold spells and overall changeable and disagreeable.
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Cleveland
Blake
Decatur, Jr
Congressman Waiting His Turn at the Dinner Table
A humorous tale recalls Colonel Russell Errett, congressman from Pittsburg, as not handsome but rugged. In Steubenville a friend introduces him to a dinner host, who snubs him saying only paying guests eat, hinting at the overuse of titled figures in society.
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Governor Morton Won Massachusetts by One Seniority
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Revival in New England Boosts Local Mills Says Windom
Senator Windom reports a nationwide business revival reaching New England. In a New Hampshire mountain town an old sawmill owner notes he can sell all the boards he can saw for the first time in years. The tale underscores broader prosperity across obscurer parts of the region.
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New England
New Hampshire
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Enya
Reformatories and crime prevention in Britain and a British steamer disaster
A survey of reformatories and industrial schools in Britain shows high rehabilitation rates for juvenile offenders, with many moving into employment or emigrating. Separately, the Brest of Gyard & Co. struck a rock near the Lizard in fog on the Havre to Liverpool route, with most passengers rescued and several missing. Severe weather also devastates crops, with projections of substantial wheat, barley, oats, and potato losses, totaling around thirty million sterling potentially.
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Galesburg Caller Receives Wartime Style Tip From Reader
A terse, archaic reader letter from Galesburg arrives at the Chicago Tribune offices demanding coverage of Hill Grant. The note warns against omitting details about the boy and hints at a forthcoming bonar for Grant, signaling local interest in the topic.
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Return of a Parsis Spirit in Bombay Household Tale
Over half a century old tales recount a Parsi belief of returning in flesh after burial. A Bombay death of Shapurjee Vahanjeabho in Dehgau, linked to a wife and 213 sons, sparked legends of a spirit haunting towers of silence and roaming villages.
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Fragmentary OCR Reflects Obscure Political Mention
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Medical Advice Offer by Mail for Patients
Price $1 per bottle delivered to any address free from observation. Patients may consult by letter, receiving the same attention as by calling, by answering questions about name, post office address, county and state, nearest express office, age and sex, occupation, market or single, height and weight now and in health, and how long they have been sick.
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Treadaghe Describes Dyspepsia Symptoms and Causes
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