Strong push for resumption of specie payments in Treasury report
The Secretary of the Treasury urges rapid return to gold and silver payments, detailing refinancings of the national debt, proposed amendments to extend bond redemption to thirty years, and plans to fund legal tender notes into low-interest bonds to ease currency realignment. It argues irredeemable paper currency harms trade, labor, and national credit, advocating redemption in coin and submits steps toward monetary restoration.
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New York City
Two Murders Blamed on Molly MaGuire Gang
Dispatches from Ma honing City and Gilberton report two murders at 2 a.m. by masked men. Charlca O'Donnell was seized bound and shot behind his house. McAllister and his sister were also killed. Locals attribute the killings to the Molly Maguires. No motive is known.
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Dee
Mahoning City
Qgilberton
Charlca O'Donnell
McAllister
Married by contract: Angel and Hunt seal a lifetime union
A Jackson Michigan couple, Angel and Hunt, declare a soul contract to marry only while mutually agreed, then present it to Judge Potts who marries them. The Herald notes the legal grip of marriage rules and mocks attempts to remain both married and single. The piece also cites a county financial report from December 1675.
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Widow Hunt
Jackson
Mich
Angel & Hunt
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Chen
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Tec
Law
Elizabeth Angel
Hunt
Herald
Babcock
Missouri Farmers Clash Over Labor, Railroads, and Progress
Correspondent in Monticello defends Missouri farming against a rival from Illinois. The writer cites railroad access, marketing, and stock improvement as keys to growth, noting slavery’s legacy and the shift to free labor. He argues Missouri will advance faster with better schools, stock quality, and wider farming effort.
Jonathan and the Yankee Hero: A Satirical Portrait
A poem-like portrait mocks a prominent American figure labeled by critics as a rapid, self-willed democrat. It paints him as a transcontinental chameleon—judge in California, colonel in the South, trader in the West—loving freedom yet eyeing profit, skeptical of education while chasing bonanza, described as a lawless yet pious money-maker.
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London Globe
AVCILLENT AU PLYMOUTH Correspondence of the Whig
Late yesterday evening Mr. M. Newnan, president of the Town Board, was shot and wounded as he fell ill from a head injury. He was taken to his home where medical aid was summoned and is now in a partial coma and delirious state. Doctors doubt a full recovery. Newnan is a former citizen of Adam County.
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Adam County
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