11 Dec 1879
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Newspaper
Ohio Cambridge News
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1879
Page
1
The Cambridge News lists advertising prices for space in 8m 6m and yearly options. Rates cover one-quarter to full columns with per-line charges for local reading matter notices and local notices. Marriage and death notices are free, obituaries priced at five cents per line.
Senate and House actions include discussion of an inter oceanic canal project for Nicaragua with Monroe doctrine ties, finance notes volume, and potential tax and refunding measures. New Michigan senator Baldwin sworn in. various committees updated. debates on currency and banking reforms continue.
The November debt statement shows a monthly decrease of 799 823 with cash at 207 217 688 and outstanding legal tenders at 346 681 016. The President nominated George W. McCrary for the Eighth Circuit and William H. Hayes for the District of Kentucky. Mint output for November totaled 3 909 135 in gold plus 2 499 000 silver dollars and 31 236 minor coins, a total of 6 489 421. The Republican caucus assigns Chandler's Commerce seat to Baldwin and Ferry to Naval Affairs. Sixteen contested elections cases sit before the House Elections Committee. Indiana's Judge New secures War Department transfer of Morgan raid claims to avoid statute limits. Kellogg-Spofford closes New Orleans inquiry. report due in Washington. Last year 177 lives were lost on steam vessels, with 44 not due to navigation accidents. merchant marine vessels increased by 400 over the prior year.
The Atlas brought survivors from the Edith with the captain and four crewmen missing. Circassian carried $1 705 000 in gold to New York, while Westmoreland reached Jacmel after a yellow fever plague killed three crew. Elections in Philadelphia New Haven and Gloucester regions drew clashes and strong shows for Republican and Democratic tickets. A Walter murder confession, other executions, fires, mine cave fears, and immigrant arrivals fill a day of crowded dispatches.
A schooner Hattie Johnson from Milwaukee foundered near Manitous with Captain Proutt, wife, and eight crew missing. A Kentucky shooting fatality, a Georgia moonshiner raid, a Chicago pneumonia death, a Wisconsin boiler explosion, a Texas dance hall duel ending in multiple injuries and a murder, a Youngstown furnace boiler explosion with one death, a Louisiana election showing Democratic gains, Ute Commission testimony on Thornburg fight, Western Union cutting telegraph rates, and hog supply outlook across western states.
A summary of scattered 19th century dispatches notes a factory collapse in Foggia killing many with seven saved, royal Madrid nuptials for King Alfonso and Archduchess Marie Christine, and London School Board election results. Also reported are a Toronto opera house fire deaths, military actions in Kabul Peshawar and India, Golos suspended in St Petersburg, a Nihilist sentence, foot and mouth disease control changes, a Saxony mine fire, an assassination attempt on the Imperial train, a Moscow bombing plot, Russian Poland rinderpest, Silesia famine, remarks by MP Potter, Volos censorship, Chilean battle aftermath near Loa, Spanish Cuba naval moves, slavery abolition in Cuba, and Egypt preparing for war with Abyssinia.
A religious sect rejects civil authority and contracts marriages without state sanction. Gordon, their leader, declared he had married a woman. Governor Saltonstall removed his pipe and proclaimed them legally man and wife under Connecticut law.
A Norristown Herald item notes a controversial exchange headline about social space at a dry goods store. The piece suggests some men avoid that shop to dodge meeting better dressed women, calling the claim slander.
A historical note states that in 1873 people worldwide exchanged 3.3 billion letters and by 1877 sent 130 million telegrams, reflecting rapid growth in long distance communication during the era.
The marriage of Alfonso XIII and Archduchess Christine Christine unfolds in Madrid with dawn banners and Cavalry parades. The ceremony at the Atocha Church showcased imperial gifts, jewelry, and a grand display of attire, as Vienna society lauds the brides ensemble and trousseau.
Harper’s Magazine notes reef-shaped flake implements from four to nine inches long found in masses. Thomas Rhodes unearthed 197 pieces near Akron two feet deep under a tamarack stump. William Gifford calls them Indian plows used to earth around corn hills, explaining why they occur in clusters. Peoria Journal.
An excerpt recalls Daniel Webster at Bunker Hill with a boy clinging to his father’s arm. Webster’s line, Gentlemen, nothing is impossible to Americans on Bunker Hill, inspires a crowd and is praised as noble action beyond eloquence.
A narrative image shows a girl holding time by the bangs as her gentleman friend visits for an evening. She uses a gentle hint about what she would like to receive for Christmas, signaling her wish through subtle cues.
In Rochester, New York, Mrs. Webber seeks a railroad suit claiming she found keys in the Ashtabula wreck debris that fit her clock, chest, and door, implying her husband survived the December 29 1876 catastrophe. A witness from Auburn swore a key was made for the deceased.
A humorous courtroom exchange centers on Tom Gains who testifies while drunk about his memory. The judge questions his reliability and recalls a prior instance when Gains testified about Jim Wilkins biting his ear off. The tale unfolds with local color and sharp wit from Bul Arp's Detroit Free Press anecdote.
John Haddock recalls with Prof. John La Mountain a September 1859 balloon ascent that traveled over 400 miles in about four hours. They ended up 400 miles from base in the Bosketong wilderness, spending thirteen days before reaching civilization, changing views on balloons versus fixed ground.
A humorous note recalls a forgotten Hopkins estate windfall of over five million dollars. Investigators say no large assets have reappeared, only a four percent interest ticket for a family watch, prompting bemused reflection on misplaced coupons and bonds.
Indiana reports a combined school fund totaling 20.6 million dollars. The state lists 11.6 million in school property and 9 million in the State Treasury, equating to about seventy dollars per child in public schools.
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