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Quincy Whig

Location

Quincy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Mar 09, 1870

Page

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Wholesale listings and trades in city commerce

A dense roster of shops and dealers along Maine Hampshire and other streets lists wholesale wares Mains street produce and grain buyers fashion and hardware firms filling notices with names of firms like Goodman & Co J Nelke Jacob Meyer Co Seeger Lally and many others indicating a bustling midwestern city marketplace with durable goods groceries and services.

EL Allen Maine Street Hioth Phelps West Side Maine Erfiema Bet Reglyville Ecal C. Goodman & Bno Queeus— Ware Hampshire Walenale Lesem, Rro Fou Min Breedway Baeb Castle Mills Front Street Union Bagby & Ween Center Mills Front Jersey Streets Atten & Whyerk Choice Family City Spring Mills Sixth Street York Kentucky JG Hinkle Exchange Millis Fifth Street State Ohio Eagle Mills Broadway Second Streets Oh Osters & Co Star Mills Spring Second Wheeler & Cruttenden Tellico Mills Delaware Dick & Bros Spybgrl & Thom Parniture Co Muing Street W. Jansen & Son Washington Park Perth Fifth St Wiardware Hampshire St Adams Hughes Laclene Chicago Madison & Canalets Pittsburo Lois Depot Yimginia Third Hampshire Streets Sixth York Streets Bine W. Brown H. Gage Fifth Bisine Hampshire Street Meriam & Son Third Street Vermont Wisconsin River Lumber Meisser & Dicrhut Fifth Sts Nccomb Fork GEO. Neeves & Son Lamber Lath Bradford John A. Allen James A. Parker Mains James Templeton Powers & Finlay J P Bert Jacob Metz Scheiner & Kreitz Mains Street Jacob Meyer & CO Miller Mallory & CO Sylvester & CO Union Planing Mills Fourth St Quincy House Menee, Grimm & CO Commer Ninth Streets

Congressional actions and nominations reported in Washington

The Banking and Currency Committee plans to report instructions within a week to provide for fifty million more greenbacks and may defeat the measure in the House as some supporters now question. The Georgia bill likely will pass. Whitney is confirmed as Assessor of Internal Revenue for Illinois Fifth District. The Reconstruction Committee weighs Congress power over Tennessee amid ongoing state turmoil. The McGarrahan case sees continued hearings with O P Shaw alleging fraud, perjury and forgery to sway the Supreme Court.

CuicaGo the Tribune Washington Banking and Currency Committee House Lasghilders Georgia Senate Richard A. Whitney Internal Revenue Ilinois Reconstruction Committee Congress Tennessee Maybard O'Neil Butler House Judiciary Committee McGarrahan O. P. Shaw New York Supreme Court

Stearns Likely Elected Governor in New Hampshire Race

Coxcord March 8 active canvass boosts turnout as four candidates vie for governor. Early returns from 115 towns show Stearns, Republican, ahead of Bedell, Democrat, with a margin under 500. Later tallies from 147 towns place Stearns at about 26,554 to Bedell 17,831, Flint 877, Barrows 881, with a Republican Legislature and Stearns possibly leading by 1,000 to 1,500.

Coxcord N. H Stearns Bedell Flint Barrows Temperance Concord Bedel

Capitalists Purchase LaSalle Peru Ground for Zinc Furnace

A party of Pittsburgh capitalists has bought land between LaSalle and Peru, Illinois, with plans to immediately erect a zinc smelting furnace, signaling industrial expansion in this Illinois district.

Chicaco Pittsburg LaSalle Peru

Que sada's Cuban War Report Arrives in Washington

New York March 8 General Que sada writes for the Cuban Junta report on early Cuban army operations. He alleges the United States and Great Britain ignore Cuba's events due to easy false news. He is expected in Washington today to meet the Secretary of State and present credentials as Cuban ambassador.

New York Quesada Cuban Juntaa Unitod Great Britain Cuba Washington

Shooting tale in Rupert’s Land unsettled report

From Red River reports a St. Paul dispatch questions the shooting of Boulton and others. Gouldy the scout was tried and sentenced to be executed, then claimed to be shot by officers but believed alive. Boulton remains a prisoner as the story continues to unfold.

CuicaGo St. Paul Red hKiver Boulton Gouldy

Europe Missing Steamer Loxpon Reports Ice Lanes East

Europe notes the missing steamer Loxpon with March 8 updates from Loxpon reporting heavy easterly gales in the Atlantic and fast ice fields drifting south earlier than usual. Also mentions Pall Mall Gazette backing a scheme and The Times condemning Bombay’s captain after a collision with the Oneida. Dublin reports imminent habeas corpus suspensions in Ireland.

Loxpon Atlantic Pall Mall Gazette Bontwell The Times Bombay Oneida Dublin Irish Times

Detroit River Transit Company Bill Introduced in Parliament

In Parliament today a bill to incorporate the Detroit River Transit Company was introduced to serve the Great Western and Michigan Central Rail road interests. The company would have power to build a bridge over the Detroit River or a tunnel. John Young, Governor General, will proceed to Red River after session closes.

John Young Red River

Second carnival draws vast crowds in Havana on March 6

Havana reports the second carnival drew an unprecedented concourse, with an estimated forty to fifty thousand people in procession. The Captain General issued a proclamation about the Isaac Greenwald murder and Zamora execution, noting Greenwald was under Spanish flag protection and that Zamora, though a volunteer, is vindicated by his punishment. The Vase de Cuba attacks Masonry, and recently arrested Masons remain jailed.

Havana Isaac Greenwald Zamora Greenwald Vase de Cuba Cuba

Mexican Revolution News From Havana March Update

Latest counts from Mexico City place Garcia Decedena at Lagos with 2000 troops and 112 cannons while Marrinez camps at San Felipe with 1000 men. Toledo’s wife, captured, has been freed by Escobedo. Government celebrates Escobedo victories as insurgents lose several pitched battles and are taken prisoner. Zacatoscas region reports captured rebels now held by authorities.

Havana Mexico Garcia Decedena Lagos Marrinez San Felipe Toledo Escobedo Crry San

Widespread Commerce Prostration Warned Across Regions

The report notes commerce and industry are prostrated nationwide with the situation still critical. It warns that further decline appears imminent in many parts of the country as markets struggle to recover.

McFarland Trial Delayed as Defense Requests Quick Fix

New York March 8 McFarland was absent when the case was called and represented by counsel Mr Graham who protested DA delays. He warned of immediate release for his client Ogban health concerns cited and he predicted an acquittal and public stir. A large crowd filled the chamber with strong interest in the proceedings.

New York McFarland Graham Ogban

Fire on stage saves actress in Lost at Sea

Springfield March 8. During the fire scene at the Opera House last night Mrs Sedley Brown's clothing caught fire and would have burned fatally but for two company members who rushed the stage and extinguished the flames. All three were painfully but not seriously burned.

Springfield Mass Opera House Sedley Brown

Congressional actions update on foreign relation and finance bills

March 8 reports from Washington describe Morton and Bayard shepherding bills through the Senate on misusing war ships for European powers and tax exemptions for public charities. Chambers debate a funding bill, specie-based finance moves, and proposals to redeem legal tender, while Indian civilization and land policy reforms surface amid committee notices.

Washington Morton Committee On Foreign Relations Chandler Committee On Commerce United States Bayard Committee On Finance Kellogg Committee On Public Lands Fowler Finance Committee Secretary of the Treasury Treasury Williams Wilson Secretary of the Interior Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morrill Maine Messrs Sherman Corbett Davis Senate United States Treasury London Paris Berlin Amsterdam Frankfort U.S Navy Internal Revenue HOUSE

Congress Heated Debate Over Georgia Bill and Floor Privileges

Mr. Rogers urged enforcement of floor privilege rules as lobby influence flared. The Georgia bill drew sharp opposition from Wood and Cox who warned of an oligarchic precedent. Amendments passed along party lines, while other measures on patents prints and pensions moved or stalled, and an Arctic voyage grant was referred to appropriations before adjournment.

Rogers House Georgia Wood Cox Union Messrs Bingham and Butler Congress Blodgett Bullock Woodward Hischusetts Mr. Bingham Yeas Bingham Farnsworth Massachusetts Laflin Committee On Printing Commissioner of Patents United States District Court Congressional Library Benjamin Stevenson Capt. C. F. Hall Arctic Committee On Appropriations

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