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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1890
Page
20
A study traces when Senators and seasoned statesmen engaged with the code in public debates. It highlights clashes over constitutional interpretations and suggests how long standing figures shaped legislative norms.
Washington January 25 A dozen senators avoid speaking terms as calls and insults fuel a long running feud between Call and Plumb. Ingalls targets Joe Brown with sharp charges while Joe Brown and Toombs duel tale hints at earlier near confrontations and unreceptive relations endure in the chamber.
The piece recounts dueling near misses and sharp exchanges among Senators like Toombs Ingalls Sherman Voorhees and others. It details pistol bravado, threats, and strategic retorts in Kansas Nebraska era politics, plus feuds between Morgan Mitchell and Sanders, illustrating a volatile early Senate culture.
The passage paints a portrait of Senate power networks high in sociability and loyalty. It names Damon Payne Pythias Sawyer Camron Butler and Van Wyck, Palmer Manderson, Stanford and Cameron, with tales of dinners, gifts, and long standing ties across party lines.
A historical sketch tracing the Washington family roots from Tudor times in Northamptonshire to the Bristol and Worcester campaigns, highlighting Sir Henry Washington and the branch that led to George Washington, noting Brington Church as a key link in the patrimony and patriot legend.
A historical note traces two sepulchral stones dated 1616 marking kin of a Virginia emigrant and his uncle, linking a brass shield with a flag’s stars and stripes heritage. The piece then shifts to a Hertfordshire branch, telling of Much Hadham and Little Hadham, Tudor bishops, royal hunts, and an ancient bishop’s palace ruin.
A fragmentary reminiscence gathers Hadham parish history from a tomb’s brass portrait of Thomas Newee and his wife to Clement Newee and Martha Newee, who married Lawrence Washington in 1578, linking to George Washington’s line. The piece evokes memorial gravity, moral reproach, and enduring heritage.
A New York Tribant item recounts Senator Z. Vance of North Carolina entering the Senate cloakroom bare headed with coat over his arm and asking staff if a tall hat had been left about. A page later returned the missing hat, prompting a quip from Vance about a previous governor. A tramplike man near the scene muttered about boots, adding to the odd moment in the corridors.
A writer notes quinine is consumed daily by Africans on the west coast, where it is as regular at table as bread. Though natives don’t need it, the white man’s shield against malaria is taken routinely, with a missionary recalling six grains daily for a three person family, illustrating the large grain quantity per ounce.
A Brooklyn physician visits a rheumatic patient for $2 each, using pellets and dilutions that fail to help. The patient begs for real cure and, after a burst of impatience, the healer selects a medicine that allegedly works within 24 hours. The story questions why it wasn’t given initially.
A quirky discourse argues most people fail to chew enough, causing heartburn and poor nutrition. It urges mindful chewing to maximize taste and nutrition, claiming longer chewing prevents overeating and improves life value. The piece blends humor with a health caution about eating habits.
A New York Sun piece quotes a Canadian politician now living in New York describing the Australian ballot system. He asserts it protects vote buying, detailing how officials, buyers, and voters manipulate ballots before polling day and inside the booth to transfer marked ballots for payoffs.
The St Louis Post Dispatch presents a facsimile wood-cut of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London. It notes the Globe housed plays by The Queen’s Actors, with winter performances at Blackfriars and summer at the Globe, a large wooden fortress-like structure that burned in 1615 during a performance of Henry V.
Beatrice Granger a Bryngelly schoolmistress saves Geoffrey Bingham a young London barrister after a canoe capsize near the Welah coast. Geoffrey wakes stiff and sore in a Bryngelly cottage as Effie Bingham the child daughter is found crying. Dr. Chambers and Rev. Granger note healthy recovery while family ties and looming romance unfold amid a storm tale of survival.
A wounded man named Geoffrey receives care and asks to see his daughter. Effie, his daughter, and a servant discuss breakfast while Effie worries about her mother and Annie who have arrived to scold Geoffrey for running away. The passage follows tense family dynamics and hospital recovery.
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