Democratic program outlined for power in 1872
The article details Democratic aims including restricting annual taxes to 250 million and applying 25 million to debt, reforming banking to curb monopoly, reviving shipping, expanding universal suffrage, ensuring pensions, protecting state election independence, and enforcing constitutional amendments. It contrasts with Republican views and cites The Golden Age.
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New York
Fzrety
Powe
Democratic Party
Texas
South Carolina
Army
Navy
Supreme Court
Last day for May term service delays Sheriff’s burden
The Rockport Democrat notes that on the final Friday for May term summonses the sheriff, swamped with papers and with only one deputy allowed by law, had to return several papers to the Clerk stating that the law allows one sheriff and one deputy. Parties needing service were advised to arrange for process service.
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Tonisnep
Court of Common Pleas
Rockport Democrat
New England Philanthropy Impacts DC Public Charity
The District of Columbia aided eighty six thousand six hundred Black residents last year. Once self-supporting, these individuals were overwhelmed by charitable actions from New England donors, described as causing harm to their prospects.
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District of Columbia
New England
Platform and Candidates for Democratic Canvass
The New York Sun argues the Democratic party needs a clear explicit platform and a candidate whose record matches convention pledges. They urge firm stance on postwar amendments and broad, progressive views on commerce finance taxation retrenchment and foreign affairs. The paper says such a nominee would contend with any Republican, even Grant, and could defeat him.
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New-York Sun
Democratic Party
Grant
Editorial backs Horace Greeley for president
The Cincinnati Commercial on April 20 urges Horace Greeley as next president praising his sobriety and abstention from tobacco. It notes the piece is critical of Grant and emphasizes Greeley’s temperance as a key argument.
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Cincinnati
Horace Greeley
Horace
Grant
True and False Judges Debate on Greenbacks and Court Power
The piece argues incorrect Washington statements about 1869 Supreme Court votes on legal tender. It cites Hepburn vs Griswold and claims politics influenced rulings, noting changes after Grier’s death and Grant appointees. Gen Sherman speaks in New Orleans urging unity and charitable treatment amid Reconstruction disputes.
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New York
Washington
Hepburn
Universal suffrage call in postwar Louisiana speech
The Terre Haute Gazelle reports Morton's keynote on reconstruction, urging universal amnesty and suffrage for all citizens, white and colored. The piece argues half a million white men remain disfranchised in the South to admit the same number of Black voters, urging equal ballot access and personal protection for all.
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Morton
Louisiana
Georgia
Carolinas
Terre Havite
Alice Cary's Invalid Plea against Summer's Embrace
The text presents a lyrical lament from Alice Cary about summer as a giver of beauty and life yet denying warmth to an exhausted narrator. It articulates nature’s vivid images—the sun, dew, flowers, birds, insects, and fields—while the speaker pleads for room and relief from despair as death gathers.
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Alice Cary
New England
Bright Sundays and the Joy of Living Openly
A Fanny Fern reflection pleads for joyful Sundays free of gloom and hypocrisy. She advocates pleasant weather for spirits, simple acts of kindness, and welcoming homes with flowers and warm words, warning against dour Bible-reading reformers who dampen youthful hope.
Rough Green Mountains talk challenges hell fire sermon
A revival preacher recalls a tough valley man who doubted hell’s fire and brimstone. The man argued against the preacher’s vivid warnings, saying he would rather be in hell than anywhere else, leaving the minister momentarily at a loss before continuing the discourse.
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Green Mountains
Hell
Death in the Pulpit at Trinity Church Galveston
The Rev Benjamin Eaton rector of Trinity Episcopal Church Galveston Texas died after collapsing in the pulpit during a Sunday service. He spoke of the living and the dead as he faltered and finally fell into the arms of a deacon. He was moved to his rectory where he expired.
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Benjamin Eaton
Trinity Episcopal Church
Galveston
Texas
Ile
OC. R. Hughes
Moses
God
Mr. Hughes
God the Father
Confessing Sins and Specific Repentance
Beecher argues confession should be selective not exhaustive. He favors public admission of clear wrongs such as liquor trade involvement, while urging restraint on detailing every private fault and avoiding morbid dwelling on others' ailments.
Beautiful chemical experiment for tea party curiosity
A simple cabbage extract experiment shows acid and alkali effects on vegetable blue. Vinegar reddens the acid glass, soda greens, alum leaves color unchanged, then mixing proves color changes with acidity and basicity.
Racial Seating Restrictions On L N Railroad
Major Banister Compton, a Louisville and Nashville conductor, refused seats in the ladies car to George Carter, colored, and his wife. A Civil Rights Bill suit followed in Nashville. Judge Trigg sustains quashing the indictment, ruling common carriers may set rules for transporting freight and passengers as they see fit.
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Ricuts
Railroad Company&s
Major Banister Compton
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
George Carter
Lndies
Major Compton
United States
Nashville
Trigg
Licenses Ceased to Be Collectable May First
The following occupations faced license cessation after May 1: Apothecaries architects assistants auctioneers boats and barges bowling alleys billiard tables brokers builders and contractors butchers claim agents circuses confectioners conveyancers retail and wholesale dealers under 50 000 annual sales dentists eating houses exhibitions express carriers gift enterprises grinders coffee and spice horse dealers hotels insurance agents intelligence office keepers jugglers lawyers livery stable keepers lottery ticket manufacturers miners patent agents peddlers photographers plumbers and gas fitters physicians and surgeons real estate agents theaters museums concert halls stallions and jacks.
Beecher on the Devil and Radical Leaders
The writer questions whether the devil would contend with figures like Ben Butler, Grant, Callicott, and others described as San Domingo Bayonet Law Ku Klux Thieving and drunken Radicals. The piece mocks the notion of a devil and ponders recognition of satanic majesty.
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Mr. Beecher
Ben Butler
Grant
Callicott
San Domingo
Jealous Lover Challenges Rival in Missouri Duel
A jealous Missouri lover challenged his rival to pistols at ten paces. The challenger asked for thirty days to practice but the rival refused. The angry youth, defeated, told him to take his girl and go away.
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Missouri
Coin of Alexander the Great Delights Fort Wayne Sentinel
Mayor Randall displays a Telredrachm coin from 330 B C with a possible Alexander the Great face on the obverse and Greek inscription on the reverse. The piece is pure silver and valued at about forty four cents of our money.
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Randall
B.C
Alexander the Great
Fort Wayne Sentinel
Evanceville Fair Grounds to Host July Trotting Trials
The Evansville Courier reports liberal premiums for speed trials of famous trotters and pacers at the Evansville Fair Grounds on the Fourth of July. The committee in charge includes Wm. W. Akin, John H. Morgan, and Thomas P. Britton.
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Evaneville Fair Grounds
Wm. W. Akin
John H. Morgan
Thomas P. Britton
Evansville
Tin Wank Cleaning Tip for Tin Ware
To Crean Tin Wank Common so da can not be beat for cleaning tin ware. To use dampen cloth and dip in soda and rub the ware briskly after which wipe dry. Any blackened or dirty ware can be made to look as well as new.
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Presbyterian General Assembly
Philadelphia Presbyterian
Philadelphia
New York
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Chicago
Baltimore
St. Louisa
Boston
St. Louie
New England
St. Louis
Short Skirts and Small Boots Feature in Cotemporary Style
A quirky note observes a trend among fashion lovers with very short skirts and accordingly small feet, pairing their ensembles with well fitting boots. The remark hints at a playful, casual style pattern in current dress tastes.
Shell Bark Lawyer Reflects On A Case
Jin H. narrates a tale of a lawyer who labels two charges as frivolous forging a note and horse theft. He drafts a continuance affidavit citing a missing Alabama witness and whispers it to a prisoner who doubts the document. The courtroom erupts as the lawyer denounces the defendants and exits.
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Jin H
West
Shell Bark
Alabama
Horace Greeley Gossip on a Fashionable Party
Horace Greeley recounts a social party in the Jenkins style. Mrs Jno Buchanan is described as charming with orange blossoms, a decollete gown, and a long train. The next morning Mrs Joe Buchanan is mocked for a maligned version with an orange tang tied to her hair and a stained shirt tail.
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Horace Greeley
Jenkins
Jno
Buchanan
Blustering veteran recalls deadly reckonings in tavern tale
An old rebel boastfully recounts his war exploits to a tavern crowd. He is pressed by a listener who asks how many rebels he killed, and he replies he cannot say exact numbers but asserts he killed as many as they did to him.
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Sherman
New Orleans
Texas
American Union Club
American
Joe Johnson
Joe
Nursery superstition about baby nails and thieves
A belief warns that cutting an infant’s inner nails before one month makes the child a thief later. The text suggests Benny Butler’s nurse missed this warning, implying his nails were not cut at a tender age.
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Benny Butler
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