WEWS OF THE WEEK HAZARDS ABROAD AND AT HOME
Destitution hits parts of Russia. Offenbach dies, born Paris 1819. Bengal floods kill many and ruin crops. Ireland anti rent grows. Two American officers win Legion of Honor in Paris. Greenock mills destroyed by fire. Britain sends troops to West of Ireland. Socialist congress to be held in Zurich in 1881. Miners suffocated near Kattowitz. Sultan in Constantinople reluctant to yield to powers. Galway Mayo under police state. Burmah king prepares for war. Mohammedan uprising in Kashgar. Duligno ceded to Montenegro as fleet departs.
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Russia
Offenbach
Paris
Bengal
Ireland
Birnie
Bixby
Fleming, Ried & Co
Greenock
Scotland
Coaltig
Zurich
Cir-c Ie
Europe
Kattowitz
Germany
Constantinople
Hobart Pasha
Galway
Mayo
Burmah
Kashgar
Turkey
Duligno
Montenegro
Domestic turmoil and disasters across the nation
A chaotic run of reports details factory burnings in Waterbury and fires destroying mills, a grand jury indictment in New Jersey, railroad accidents in Illinois and Pennsylvania, several murders and suicides, political clashes, and a wide outbreak of fever in New Orleans with swift sanitary actions.
Census report backs 1880 accuracy and flaws in 1870
Washington dispatches quote Gen. Walker asserting 1870 census defects while 1880 is well taken. He cites district identification errors and no fraud in 1880 returns. Secretary Schurz may authorize a new St Louis enumeration despite Walker’s belief in the current count. Postal expenditure rose 9 percent to 32,087,342 in the year ending June 30.
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Washington
Walker
South Carolina
Secretary of the Interior
Hall
Schurz
Census Bureau
Garrett
St. Louis
Delaware election returns for Inspectors and Assessors
Dispatch from Wilmington reports full state returns. For Inspectors the Democrats 9,529 and Republicans 8,678, a Democratic majority of 856. For Assessors the Democrats 9,495 and Republicans 8,806, a Democratic majority of 689.
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Delaware
Wilmington
Dobler and Guyon Sail for England in Astley Belt Contest
Chicago pedestrians Dobler and Guyon have sailed to England to compete in the Astley belt contest, signaling a rare international challenge for local athletes.
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Dobler
Guyon
Chicago
England
Deadly Pennsylvania Rail Crash at Pittsburgh Ends Dozens
A collision on the Pennsylvania railroad in Pittsburgh on the 9th killed twenty four and wounded many as the Wall's accommodation rear section collided with the lead car. Panic and steam overwhelmed passengers as police and physicians rushed to aid victims.
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Rts
New York
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Pennsylvania Railroad
Carson
Huntington
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Union Depot
Twenty-eighth Street
The Photophone A Light Based Telephone Invention
A description of the Photophone shows a voice transmitted by sunlight through a silvered mica diaphragm and lenses to a selenium receiver. Vibrations from speech move the mirror and light beam, converting sound to light and back to sound, enabling distance communication by light.
King of Spain Visits Madrid Shop in Comic Exchange
A well dressed young man in Madrid asks a shop for India rubber watches and diamond rattle boxes then questions a child’s start with velocipedes and wheel swaps for a girl. The shopkeeper, baffled, confines the visitor to the dungeon before revealing the prank.
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Madrid
Spain
Virtue and thought in moral maxims and political views
A collage of aphorisms on virtue and power, urging discipline of mind and action. It contrasts the force of ideas with voting down, notes the value of honesty, courage, and restraint, and includes a Norristown Herald attribution about men and politics.
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Josephine
Napoleon
The Grape and Wine Industry Growth in the United States
The article notes substantial expansion of American viticulture with Missouri at 1,500 cultivated acres yielding 500,000 gallons of wine, Sandusky Ohio region at 4,000 acres producing 16 million pounds of fruit, and California with 60,000 acres of grapes valued at about 300 million dollars. It predicts wine industry growth due to improving vine quality and rising capital, despite European vine disasters.
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United States
Missouri
Sandusky
Ohio
Lake Erie Islands
California
Europe
The Man for Her to Love
A young woman declares she seeks a vastly superior man who can command her soul and bend her will like Joshua. She adds he should rise early to build the fire and split kindlings, asserting such a partner would be easy to find.
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Tur
Joshua
Republican National Platform 1876 Emphasizes Civil Service Reform
The Republican platform proclaims twenty years of governance since the Civil War, praising economic growth, debt reduction, and expansion. It pledges unity, constitutional adherence, education support, anti sectarianism, and calls for restricted Chinese immigration, fair labor provisions, and civil service reform under Hayes, opposing Democratic obstruction and violence to restore order.
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Republican Party
United States
Union of
Anchon
Coarly
Triunal
Congress
Republic
Congress of the
Rutherford B. Hayes
Democratic Party
Aes
House of Representatives
Maine
South
Hayen
What He Didn't Break
Rev. Mr. Genuflux slipped down stairs on a Sunday carrying a flower vase a pitcher of water a lamp globe and a china saucer yet reached the bottom with the loads intact his wife cried to know if he had broken anything and he began a humorous inventory of his fragile burden.
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Mr. Genuflux
Fragmented quotation on Sabbath limits and frugality
A terse quotation describes a person who claims to have everything but the Sabbath and insists the sole thing they cannot afford to break is rest or ritual. The fragment hints at tension between frugality and religious observance.
Remarkable 15 000 Peach Orchard in Juniors River Valley
A traveler notes an immense Pennsylvania orchard near Thomp station in Jun County. The 15 000 peach trees and 10 000 quince trees with 9 000 Sibe crab apples stretch across steep, rocky ground, much of it cleared but still rugged. The owner recalls past missteps and the enduring promise of the site, planted since 1875 with the first full crop in a recent year.
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Salon Robinson
Juniors River
Jun County
Philadelp
Thomp
Mr. Robinson
Fennaylyag
Tay
Petre
United
Eto
H. Bradford
Myford
Left Fortunes and Hidden Wealth in a Devout Texan Tale
A fragmentary tale recalls a relative who died, leaving wealth tucked in an old arm chair and later found in a Bible and chair back. A Texan preacher, once chaplain, recounts verses about a place prepared, while a stream of improbable heirs and vignettes of church and penitentiary life fill the narrative.
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Brunswick
Fia
Sthey
Xan
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