Political gathering and New York council clash headline
A Virginia meeting near Greenbriar hosts famed Civil War generals including the “Hero of Stone River” amid southern political talks. In New York City five elected council members face arrest after a court ordered admission. a quiet session ends with pardoned parole. Springfield Republican rally in Sangamon and Morgan counties showcases Yates and Palmer to rally loyalists for fall wins.
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Virginia
Stone River
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Echols
Stuart
South
Springfield
Sangamon
Morgan
Tanners
Jacksonville
Lincoln
Atlanta
Lincoln Guards
Sprinefield Turnverein
Richard Yates
John Logan
Senator Yates
John Cook
John M. Palmer
Gov Seymour Evidence of War Era Copperhead Ties
A Meriden Republican correspondent recounts December 1864 at the St Nicholas Hotel in New York where a table discussion labeled Governor Seymour a Copperhead and warned the war could last four more years without Southern concessions. The item ties Seymour to antirepublic sentiment amid wartime politics.
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Gov. Seymour
New York
St. Nicholas Hotel
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Richmond
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Seymour
Collier and Edwards to Fight for Light Weight Title
In a move likely to stir boxing fans, Collier faces Edwards for the light weight championship amid reports from Chicago on crime and casualties. General Sherman is cited confirming Indian outrages while New York City council members face arrest in a widening political controversy.
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Collier
Edwards
Effort to Pardon Dr Muda in Lincoln Case in Maryland
Washington reports a vigorous campaign in Maryland to persuade President Johnson to grant a pardon to Dr. Mudd who is under a sentence of complicity in the Lincoln assassination. The push aims to sway executive clemency decisions in the late 1860s context.
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Washington
Maryland
Johnson
Dr. Mudd
Lincoln
Contempt Arrest of New York City Council
New York, Aug. 22. The entire Board of Common Council was arrested for contempt of Judge Barnard's injunction. They met at City Hall, adjourned, then lined up with sheriffs to the Supreme Court, which had adjourned. Deputies placed them on parole to appear next Tuesday. The episode is described as a farce. PMID: Rosecrans seeks reconciliation talks with Lee and southern leaders at White Sulphur Springs, with plan of action agreed but no further steps disclosed. Health inspectors report diseased cattle sold for meat. milk from sick cows sent to New York city dairy. several attendees of a Methodist camp reportedly died from diseased meat.
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Board of Common Council
Barnard
Supreme Court
White Sulphur Springs
Rosecrans
Lee
Tangent Beauregard
Ewell
Echols
Hunter
A. H. Stephens
A. H. K. Stuart
Jnc. B. Baldwin
Stockdale
Faxas
iPickens
8. C
Walker
Alabama
Gen. Rosecrans
Dutchess County
Sing Sing
Land Office Scrip and Territory Land Contracts
The General Land Office sent 563 agricultural college scrip pieces to Delaware totaling 90 080 acres as the state's full quota under law. From Denver, two survey contracts were approved involving Bear and Boulder creeks headwaters and San Louis Valley with Sawatch and Conejero settlements. The report notes general land locations for settlers in Missouri, California, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Washington.
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Agricultural College
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Conejero
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Owe
Wsacquain
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Kansas
Ebraska
Snd
Ashin
Dake
Hayes at St Louis and Baltimore Schutzenfest noted
Historical notices report August events with racing purses totaling nine thousand dollars for the LaClede Racing Association meeting starting September 28. Entries include Planta t Patte Senae Alta ela Bashaw Buh Frank Walford Visty Ontario and other horses. A separate Aug 22 baseball game saw Unions of Morrisans beat Buckeyes 23 to 7. Baltimore Schutzen festival set to begin Monday with a grand procession.
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St. Louis
Berlin
Cineeinnati
Baltimore
Worcester
Louis
LaClede Racing Associaion
Plantat
Patte Senae
Altaela
Bashaw
Buh
Frank Walford
Visty
Ontario
Morrisians
Buckeyes
Taylor
Springfield horse cars hit by robbers and wrecked
Two roughs boarded a Springfield Capital Horse Railway car at dusk, attacked the conductor and driver, fired three shots, then hijacked an eastbound car. They forced it to the terminus, wrecked lamps and glass, and a passenger, Mason, was wounded in the back. In Chicago, a man identified as A Billigheimer, Oshkosh, Wis., was found dead by his own hand at the Briggs house. Two healthy infants were found in a basement on West Taylor Street.
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Springfield
Chicago
Garden City
Capital Horse Railway
Mason
Indian War Reports Horrific Outrages Confirmed
Secretary Schofield received Gen Sherman’s Omaha dated dispatch confirming Sheridan’s reports of savage Indian outrages. Sherman orders continued pursuit and summary punishment for captured tribes. President approves stringent War Department and Sherman measures.
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Washington
Schofield
Omaha
Sheridan
Secretary of War
Gen. Sherman
Crawford county Democrats call Crestline convention for Ninth District
The Crawford county Democratic Central Committee calls a convention at Crestline on August 26 to nominate a candidate for Congress and invites other Ninth District counties to join. They refuse to support Noble, the regular convention nominee. Also Boston reports the State Prohibitory Committee urging Republicans in Massachusetts to back a prohibitory liquor law.
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Massachusettts
Gen. Rosecrans
Sandusky
Democratic Central Committee
Crawford County
Crestline
Congress
Noble
Boston
State Prohibitory Committee
Massachusetts
Attempted assassination of Queen Victoria reported
Europe dispatches note an attempted assassination in Switzerland with no Foreign Office confirmation. Paris reports the Lanterne editors fined for press law violations and attempting to resume publication. police seize and confiscate the edition before printing.
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Queen Victoria
London
Switzerland
Foreign Office
Paris
The
Lanterne
Gas Works at Southbridge Blown Up and Riot Incidents
Springfield reports a national Camp Meeting of the Second Adventists beginning tomorrow in this city. A new rail route opens between New York, Boston and Montreal via Rutland and Plattsburg. Worcester notes the Southbridge gas works explosion with seven killed and four injured. In New York City a mansion on 109th Street burned. Newark officers were assaulted while stopping rioters at a canal boat incident. Baltimore dispatch says about 600 roughs left for a prize fight, Edwards ill and fight likely canceled.
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Southbridge
Mass
New York
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Springfield
Paket
Rutland
Boston
Montreal
Burlington
Plattsburg
Worcester
William Whitley
109Th Street
Rogers
Osborn
Newark
12Th Ward
Collier
Edwards
Fight for Lightweight Title in Maryland
The prize ring match for the lightweight championship with a $2,000 prize between Sam Collier and Billy Edwards is set for tomorrow morning near the Potomac at the Chesapeake Bay mouth, in Albermarle or North Cumberland counties. Edwards’ seconds are Barney Aaron and Dooley Harris. Collier’s are Johnny Rice and Johnny Newell. authorities may try to halt the bout.
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Maryland
Collier
Edwards
Baltimore
Sam Collier
Billy Edwards
Potomac
Chesapeake Bay
Albermarle
Cumberland
Barmey Aaron
Dooley Harris
Johnny Rice
Johnny Newell
Casualties in Chicago Rail and Street Accidents
Aug 24 at Curiaco Dennis Fitzgerald, employee of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, was run over by a switch engine and died soon after. Michael Laughlin fell from a coal cart and died yesterday from his injuries. A boy fell from a building roof in North Division between two stores but was rescued alive after a half hour effort.
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Dennis Fitzgerald
Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Co
Michael Laughlin
North Division
Lease of St Louis Jacksonville and Chicago Railroad
Bloomington Aug 22 The lease of the St Louis Jacksonville and Chicago railroad to the St Louis Alton and Chicago railroad was filed in the Recorder's Court with a $6600 revenue stamp. Lessees pay 240000 annually plus a share of gross earnings over 700000. The Jacksonville company plans a large union depot with Chicago and Alton for joint rail use.
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St. Louis, Jacksonville and Chicago
St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad
Mrecorder's Court
Jacksonville Company
Chicago and Atton Railroad
Chicago and Northwestern R. B
Sterling
Rock River
Toronto
Canada
Wim. Smith
James Richardson
Great Western Rail Way
United States
Seminary Notices From 1568 Report
Fragmentary OCR notes show a dated notice about Ganey Female Seminary with references to September entries and a principal. Details are unclear but indicate a schedule or announcement for the school around September with a mentor figure named Se GiueERt HATED.
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Wae
Giueert
Ganey Female
Lynch Law Frigid Tone Shocks Jeunxerton Kansas
An elderly resident Thos Reynolds was abducted by unknown assailants last Saturday night and hanged from a tree. The message warns horse-thieves to beware and claims knowledge of the culprits. Justice officials search for perpetrators as the town reels from the vigilante act.
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Kansas
Thos. Reynolds Y
Pendleton in Portland and Fortland Me visit noted
A mass meeting in Mattoon Coles and adjacent counties featured speeches by O'Brien Thornton and Allen. In Portland Me a grand demonstration welcomed Hon George H Pendleton with a torchlit procession, banners and bands. Pendleton spoke at City Hall and outside, with Brewster Holmes of Boston among speakers. He planned Hartford speeches then travels west.
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Portland
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Coles
Mattoon
Til
O’brien
Thornton
Allen
Fortland
George H Pendleton
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Brewster and
Holmes
Boston
Falmouth
Attacks by Sioux Indians reported near South Pass City
A South Pass City dispatch dated August 22 reports a train attacked eighty miles from St. Louis with David Hays killed. ten wagons and stock captured. On August 12 Maj Baldwin and five men were attacked twenty miles east, two whites wounded, three Indians killed. two whites escaped, others likely killed. Twenty one Mormon wagons left Omaha for Utah as Indian depredations reach Leesburg and fort areas.
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St. Louis
South Pass
Here
David Hays
Maj
Baldwin
Omaha
Utah
Leesburg
New Mexico
Forts
Selden
McRea
Eclipse and assassination rumors sweep 19th century papers
Dispatches report a sun eclipse across India except Bombay where rain fell. Lucerne cites a false tale of an attempted assassination of Queen Victoria by a Fenian. a mad Englishman was stopped. Grand Duke Alexandrovitch of Russia sailed from Algeria toward the United States.
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India
Bombay
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Foreign Office
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Switzerland
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Marseilles
Grand Duke
Alexandrovitch
Russia
Algeria
United States
Market Report Summary From New York and Chicago
New York commodities show steady to dull activity with mixed results. Cotton steady at 39 3/4 to 40 cents, flour dull, wheat and corn weak to lower, rice and oats mixed. Chicago notes echo softer wheat and corn with quiet, firm oats, and steady pork and lard. Freight rates hold firm despite limited demand amid a broad market slowdown.
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Cormin—Clores Heavy
Chicaco
Cumberland
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Cincinnati
Traialle
Lake Freighta
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