22 Mar 1877
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Newspaper
Ohio Cambridge News
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1877
Page
1
Rates shown: fifteen cents per line for local in reading matters, ten cents per line for local notices first insertion, five cents per line for subsequent insertions. Special notices ten cents per line first insertion, eight cents per line subsequent. Marriage and death notices free. Obituaries five cents per line.
Summary of Senate actions from the 10th to the 16th including confirmations for Keys Schurz Evarts McCrary and others, Western Union telegrams, and appointments in Portland Cincinnati and Utah. Reports on resignations posturers and acts by the Republican caucus. Notable incidents include Pennell murder suicide Elmira arson Woonsocket losses Vanderbilt will settlement and New Hampshire election results.
A detailed timeline covers the White House reception for Mrs. Hayes, new Treasury Secretary John Sherman taking office, and the forty-second call for redemption of 1865 bonds. It notes oathes for Evarts McCrary Key Schurz and Devens, Senate action on Kellogg, postmaster changes, naval and lighthouse shifts, and interdepartmental notices on appointments, promotions, and reappointments. It also mentions Douglass’s nomination as Marshal of the District of Columbia and New Orleans bankers backing Nicholls Legislature resolutions.
The New York Graphic on the 10th discharged its union employees and hired non-society men at thirty five cents per 1000 cms. The Exchange Bank of Canandaigua New York failed on the 10th with liabilities 70000 to 100000 more than assets. A receiver was appointed for the North American Guardian Mutual Widows' and Orphans' and Reserve Life Insurance.
The new East freight rates in force on the 12th set the New York to Toledo, first class 58 cents per 100 pounds, second 54, third 46, fourth 35, special 27 with Columbus at one to two cents higher. The Special Agent reports arrests of Harrison Baker and sixty five distillers in Georgia, with twenty one distilleries and 30 000 gallons of beer and mash destroyed. The First National Bank of Monroe Michigan closed its doors.
A Constantinople telegram on the 10th decries the Turkish condition as tyranny combined with anarchy and impotence. It notes possible war risks with Germany and France amid rinderpest and foot and mouth disease.
Red Horse of the Minneconjou sketches the Greasy Grass fight at the Rosebud camp, detailing council actions, troop attacks, and the savage hand to hand fighting that left 136 dead and 160 wounded. He notes Custer’s fate, praises Native resistance, and recalls the chaotic melee plus later troop maneuvers.
A Pittsburgh date line reports the year’s appropriation bills with totals and changes from last year. Summaries include pensions, post office, fortifications, consular and diplomatic, legislative, military academy, and other major expenditures. A separate item describes a planned express robbery in Brady’s Bend and Templeton involving telegram spoofing, a transfer scheme, and a $4,000 theft.
The bill tightens legal advertising rules and pricing. It sets one dollar per square for the first insertion and fifty cents for each extra square, with 50 percent more for tabular content, and requires two newspapers in counties for certain notices. It also details measurement standards and penalties for false billing, plus county auditor controls. Separate items report street fights with tramps, suicides, civic appointments, and state notices on militia, prisons, and vaccination.
Two young women visit a Woodland avenue dry goods store to inspect new circulars lacking sleeves or arm holes. The salesman explains the style covers shoulders and arms, prompting one to declare no purchase until a friend suggests the circular is worn so a beau can put his arm around the wearer. The anxious customer orders the item.
TuereE discusses the debate over qualifications for the wife of a literary man. It notes no requirement about financial support from the wife and criticizes the discussion as ignorant.
Senate and House actions span nominations, road and jail reforms, education and asylum issues, and a Cox-Harmon case. Governor Young’s inaugural message is referred. A Vermont couple’s reunion in Oakland ends a long custody dispute, offering a rare happy restoration amid era crime and political moves.
The Alliance advocates a staged shift to blue glass while urging the poor to buy flour meat and clothes for health and the rich to fund a common solution. It also extols nature’s white light as an affordable asset for all, framing it as a universally good choice.
Washington obituary notes the death of Dr Darnk Hart, described as abstemious and a man who lived modestly, passing away recently in the capital.
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