02 Mar 1876
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Newspaper
Ohio Cambridge News
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1876
Page
1
McCOLLUM & McKINNEY advertise their Southend Mill street shop offering a wide range of sizes and patterns for SEXOBING and other items. They highlight the facilities and expertise at the blacksmiths shop.
A dense foreign and domestic wires roundup notes floods in Upper Moravia, belligerence in Servia, and Carlist peace talks. Reports cover French election results and cabinet changes in Madrid, Austria, and Norway, plus U.S. political moves, court cases, and church investigations amid Beecher scandal fallout.
On the eighteenth resolutions called Drs Storrs and Buddington to appear and aid the Council with any facts they know about the questions before it. The speaker Mr Beech er challenged any to contradict his retriment and invoked divine judgment. At the evening session Mr Bowen faced questions about past Plymouth Church troubles and his failure to appear before the Investigating Com.
Senate and House proceedings show private bill reports and resolutions on executive acts, a February 22 Washington’s Birthday holiday, and a judiciary reorganization bill. Other actions include timber land sales, pension and military salary items, and a DC bonds interest payment conference. Adjourned to the 23rd.
Commodities and livestock values listed with bid and ask ranges for flour wheat corn and oats in New York Philadelphia Chicago and Curacao. Futures and cash prices shown for wheat corn rye barley pork lard cattle hogs and sheep with notes on closing values and market activity.
An Associated Press dispatch describes a tense Plymouth Church Examining Committee meeting at Assistant Pastor Halliday's Brooklyn home where Henry C Bowen and his sons faced a crowd including Henry Ward Beecher. Bowen declined press involvement, a door was locked, and Bowen made a rapid escape aided by his son. The report notes a separate account from Mr White detailing Bowen reading a 52 page statement and a hurried exit. The second item reports Boston's Liberty Tree felled by a recent storm, drawing crowds and looting before police protected remnants. The elm dated back to 1722 with prior storm damage and civic memorials, including an 1874 iron enclosure.
Reports describe busy steel rail mills with forward sales and cheaper than iron ore, plus diverse industrial data in San Francisco. A Chicago Later Ocean piece surveys coal dust usage, Merino cotton goods, and planetary science theories on gravity, comets, and sun eruptions, weighing evolution against theology.
Eyewitness accounts describe Edward Bowen and Henry Bowen clashing with a tense exchange. Henry Bowen urged restraint as reporters from the Associated Press and the New York Times arrived to inquire, while Edward Bowen shouted threats and demanded accountability.
A Ruskin petition protests railroad expansion across the English lake country. A Paris gunmaker touts patent revolvers for lovelorn buyers. London plans a Society for the Diffusion of Beauty to brighten poor districts. A Azores manuscript hints at early American discovery. Opal may pioneer a north passage through Magellan, shortening voyage by about 200 miles. Heckmondwike creditors accept a bankrupt’s singing of Then You'll Remember Me to settle debts.
Prof Proctor gave a Sunday lecture at McCormick Hall on The Mysteries of the Universe arguing science explains only the how not the why and that shifting perspectives alter views. He traced astrology’s rise, heliocentric shifts, and Newtonian gravity as evolving explanations. The talk linked astronomy to culture and historic belief systems.
Carr and party return from New Madrid County with over 100 pottery and relic specimens for the Centennial collection. They trace the remains of a former densely populated city with fortifications, mounds, and subsoil dwellings arranged in regular streets. Adobe brick houses show ventilation holes or burn marks, a sunken site reveals former habitations, and a nearby lake or marsh may have submerged portions. Pottery includes drinking cups and vessels with fish, frog, hedgehog, bird motifs and miniature male heads, suggesting possible Aztec links pending further study.
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