Wealth Gossip and Astor Fortunes in New York
The New York Dispatch discusses William B. Astor's wealth, offering a cautious estimate near 15 million from a 27 year perspective and contrasting it with vast holdings in real estate. It cites Commodore Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and A. T. Stewart as contemporaries, notes limits of data, and explains how wealth could be misread amid market swings.
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New York Dispatch
William B. Astor
Peter Cooper
Canal Street
Astor
Chicago
Boston Tire
Boston
Legicy
Mr. Astor
B. Astor
John Jacob Astor
John Jacob, Jr
Astor Library
Wm. B. Astor
Wiliam B. Astor
Hindeath
Chambers Street
Broadway
Wall Street
Garden City
Stewart
Ifo
Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern
Western Union Telegraph Company
Commodore Vanderbilt
A.T. Stewart
Vanderbilt
Commodore
Stock Exchange
New York Central
Michigan Southern and Lake Shore Railroad
Jay Gould
Mephistopheles
Erie Railroad
New York
A. T. Stewart
Limnecl
Christmas Cists and Fashionable Gifts for Society Ladies
New York correspondence notes fashionable Christmas gifts in society circles. Plain dress necklines push plain necklets while box stationers, platinum jewelry with red gold finishes, and monogram note papers become must have items. Cameos for gentlemen and chatelaine sets with silver bags and mirrors rise in popularity though cost remains high.
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New York
Baltimore
Consecration of Bishop McLaren in Caicaco
The consecration of Rev. William Edward McLaren LL D as bishop of the Northern Diocese of Winvis occurred at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul on the West Side. The building filled early with a large audience and hundreds were unable to gain admission as the service began around 1 o'clock with the bishop assisted to the Eucharist.
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Attalic
Ehoraters
R. MW
Clachano
D.D
LL. D
H. B. Whipple
D. D
Edward J. Welles
NT. D
Gregory I. Bedell
Josph TL. Lalbot
John F Spalding
George D
Samuel McCloskey
Canon Knowles
McLaren
Chase and Whitehouse
P.M. Grege
Edward Sullivan
Robert McMurdy
Harris
Samuel A. McClasky
Edward WR. Welles
Lh. D
Wisconsin
Cleveland Trinity Church
Ilinois
Patapustura
D. Eccleston
Towa
M'Laren
Caicaco
William Edward McLaren
Winvis
Saints Peter and Pail
Eucristy
Lhe
Justice in New York as a game of chance
A New York Times critique argues that justice in the city is a game of chance with the odds against law. It cites Tweed Genet Scannell and Tweed’s escapes, blaming weak enforcement, venal juries, and lenient jailers, and laments public opinion as slow to reform abuses while officials evade accountability.
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New York
John Kelly
Kelly
Tweed
Genet
Sharkey
Scannell
Weed
Tammany Band
Mir. Brennan
Mr. Conner
Mr. Brennan
Brennan
Conner
David Dudley Vield
Shearman
Justice
Field
Plymouth Church
Congress
Intrigue Shapes House Leadership Amid Presidential Dreams
A Special Dispatch reports Western and Southern Democrats align to push a Western presidential candidate next year. Thurman leads the organization with Pendleton and Hendricks sidelined. John G. Thompson named Sergeant at Arms, Fitzhugh chosen door-keeper, Stewart named postmaster. Ohio loyalty questioned as Thurman gains momentum.
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Thurman
Findleton
Lendricks
TIT House
Thuriman
New York Times
Washington
Dee. G
Pendleton
Trendricks
Hendricks
John G. Thompson
Ohio
Thompson
Fitzhugh
Texas
Itzhugh
Doorekeeper
Stewart
Churman
Friends of
Allen Ciin
Whurman
Tilden Party
Kerr
Unpleasant Propurts Report From Virginia City
About a month after a local Virginia City death a funeral procession passed a house where a Chinese cook was involved in a troubling incident. The brief item notes community concern and possible tensions surrounding the event.
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Virginia City Enterprise
Premonitions and a Child’s Death in a Chipaman Tale
A Chipaman reports a prophetic claim where a woman foresees her baby will die in twenty one days. The baby falls ill and dies exactly after the period foretold. Another account has a clairvoyant forewarning a mother in San Francisco that her son’s wife may take a child, leading to the elder child’s illness and near death.
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San Francisco
Woman's Foreign Missions Meet in Chicago
The quarterly meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Northwest was held in Chicago with leaders from Indiana Michigan Wisconsin and Illinois. Officers reported encouraging state reports a loan offer of 500 to Philadelphia for a Japanese trip and a ledger showing receipts 4 232 17 expenditures 2 398 83 balance 3 169 60.
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Woman's Foreign Missions
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Northwest
Chicago
Ilnvis
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Mra
Beversdyre
Puestion
Morton
Secretarica
Philadelphia
Japan
Quiet funeral critics mock praised dead names
The New York Tribune notes how petty critics surface after prominent deaths, with skeptical jabs at those who honored the deceased. It mentions figures like John Jacob Astor as examples of simple habits being scrutinized after death.
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New York Tribune
Astor
Henry Wilson and the Place of Literature in a Republic
T W Higginson recalls Henry Wilson in Washington years ago arguing that after war debts are settled and trade expands politics will not dominate national ambition. He believed science literature and art would grow in importance, with politics becoming just one outlet for individuals.
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T. W. Higginson
Woman's Journal
Washington
Republic
America
Massachusetts
Wilson
Anecdote of a Trout Intelligence
A Treasury of Observation records a pond trout learning to come when fed by worms and later spotting a radish bait. The creature initially seizes the radish but spits it out, retreating to shelter. After repeated shows, the trout distinguishes radish from worm and stops coming out for the fake, as noted by Chamber's Journal.
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Nanarine
RAILROAD TRANSFER TALKS BETWEEN TWO LINES CONTINUE
Reports say the Chicago Burling ton and Quincy Railroad seeks the Quincy Alton and St Louis line to Louisiana. Negotiations failed earlier as stockholders would not sell to Hannibal. a new arrangement may give Q A S L stockholders a lease. Details and dates are not known, with a possible meeting next week in Quincy.
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Quincy, Alton & St. Louis
Louisiana
Hannibal
Louisiaha
Tho
Woody
Disaster to the Steamer Deutschland
Recovery of bodies follows a catastrophic sinking described as a fearful scene of ruin and plunder. Reports detail a chaotic rescue and the search for missing crew and passengers amid high seas and wreckage. Authorities and ships scour the area for survivors and remains.
Loss of the Deutschland and English Floods in London
Dispatches from London report the Deutschland disaster off Bre men with 101 adults and 13 children aboard, 56 saved, 58 missing, and corpses recovered. Separate English flood coverage details mass displacement in London docks, Bishop of London’s palace loss, immense property damage, and dire forecasts for further floods.
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London
Bremen
Meyers
Harwich
Grasman
Stratford
Thames
Lambeth
Bank of England
Phames
Watill
Folkin
Earl of Ranelagle
The Whisky Caseys Report on Government Probes
A collection of dispatches from December 9 1875 detailing the U S Attorney General not sending telegrams to the St Louis office about Attorney Henderson in the Avery trial The Grand Jury in Missouri adjourned after presenting thirteen new indictments including a possible case against Gen Babcock A public letter from the Grand Jurors to President Grant praised the Chief Executive and the pursuit of honest revenue Deputy Revenue Collector James K Hill faced trial for conspiracy with local distillers and others connected to a revenue fraud ring in Indianapolis and Barback & Reynolds rectifiers pursued for conspiration with no major new developments reported
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Casey
United States
Dyer
St. Louis
Henderson
Avery
Department
Dee
Pierrepont
United States Grand Jury
Babcock
U. B
Banda
Esteer
Indianapolis
James K. Hill
First District
Yu Hettala
Muawathes
Barback & Reynolds
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