Industrial shift and self reliance transform the South
The article argues that postwar Southern labor moves from slave to paid work, boosting self ownership and independent black labor. It cites Gov. Alcorn data showing rising white tenant farming and growing black land ownership, real estate and personal property gains, illustrating broader wealth distribution and regional development from self-directed work.
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Mississippi
Missouri in Congress and the Speaker vote
A Missouri perspective criticizes James G. Blair for siding with Democrats on the Speakership, arguing it damages the state’s GOP and national representation. The piece also discusses the proposed national loan of 1.5 billion dollars to refinance existing debt with bonds of varied terms and rates, noting expected interest savings if fully subscribed.
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Missouri
Congress
House of Representatives
James G. Blair
Gen. Morgan
Ohio
Republican Party
North Carolina Report on Ku Klux cases shocks nation
The Senate Committee report on southern conditions highlights Ku Klux activity in North Carolina with 90 black and 44 white witnesses, detailing murders, beatings, and forced exiles. It accuses organized crime of influencing state politics and questions Holden’s impeachment context, while noting broader southern parallels and a partisan minority view.
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Camilla
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Elshami Bayard
Gov.Holden
Col. Kirk
Courtship principles in Illinois high court ruling
A Illinois Supreme Court opinion defines engagement by frequent visits months of intimacy letters and endearments, noting mutual affection and earnest love imply an engagement even without a formal promise. The case involves a man gifting an estate to a young woman who later refused him, seeking to reclaim the property in another court.
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Supreme Court of
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Mississippi Senate Vacancy Sparks Three Leading Aspirants
Goyrzexor Acorns of Mississippi declines the fall term United States Senatorship set to begin on the 4th inst. with Revels succeeding. The Legislature, Republican majority, will elect Tuesday the 14th. Leading candidates are ex-Senator Samuel Melfee, current Congressman West, and General West, president of the Mississippi Central Railroad, with about equal chances.
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Goyrzexor Acorns
Mississippi
United States
Revels
Samual Melfee
Congress
Ind
General West
Mississippi Central
Senate reshuffles shift judiciary chair to Edmunds
The article reports changes in the U S Senate committees with Senator Trumbull being replaced as head of the Judiciary Committee by Senator Edmunds of Vermont. It notes public reasons are not yet disclosed and suggests the move may reflect broader political recalibration beyond the Johnson impeachment fallout. Governor Avastin of Minnesota criticizes jog-rolling in the Legislature and vetoes a bill on procedural grounds, advocating executive discretion to challenge ring-driven acts.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Edmunds
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Senate
Johnson
Witten
Govinxor Avastin
Minnesota
Wasurxatos
Butler
Sumner’s Senate chairmanship replaced amid fierce breach with Administration
The attempted removal of Senator Sumner as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations marks a sharp rebuke and widens tensions with the Administration. Sumner’s removal is blamed on his personal hostility to the President, not purely on policy, and could impair his usefulness due to deteriorated confidential relations between the President and the Foreign Relations Committee head.
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Cameron
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Senate and world events sketch from March reports
Special correspondence from Springfield notes the Senate approving trustees for the Industrial University and debating bills on asylums elections and taxation. Reports from Europe and America cover the Black Sea conference, German occupation plans in France, Paris disorder, English ministry actions, and a Hawaiian earthquake. Local and national items include canal opening prospects and a projected capital move to Peoria.
New York Herald counters anti Annexation fears in press clash
The New York Herald reportedly aims to blunt the San Domingo annexation push by publishing reports countering early favorable notes from the Commissioners. Opponents are described as violent and threatening destruction if annexation goes ahead, a testimony treated with caution like partisan reports. The piece urges weighing the Commission’s impartial report over partisan testimony or newspaper sources.
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New York Herald
San Domingo
Sumner
Cabral
Chicago Times Calls Illinois General Assembly Session a Failure
The Chicago Times appeals to Illinois General Assembly members to bear witness that it has endeavored to defend the body against complaints statewide. It says the Legislature spends time to little purpose and calls the session a failure. The paper’s defense has chiefly branded lawmakers as thieves and robbers.
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THE
Chicago Times
Dlinois
Blood Seedling Opens Col John Hay Serial
Col John Hay’s new story The Blood Seedling appears in Lippincott’s Magazine for March. The scene unfolds on the eastern bank of the Mississippi opposite Keokuk, offering local interest to readers alongside other merits.
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John Hay
Lippincot
Mississippi River
Keokuk
Turbulent storm tears through town with flying debris
Report details windows perforated by pebbles and timber splinters driven like bullets. Freight cars lifted, lumber yards wrecked, and a boy and others survive close calls as a funeral party endures a windblown collapse. A young man named Jones vanishes after being seen near the Vandalia depot.
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Ohio and Mississippi
Haynes
Nameoka
East St. Louis
Terra Firma
Edward Henebery
Jones
Vandalia
Desperate Affray Stab Death At Hardin and Taylorville Shooting
A Missouri dispatch reports a fatal stabbing at Hardin near the North Missouri Railroad where an old man named Dawson was killed after a billiards dispute. The killer, a small man, was captured and sent under guard to Richmond. Separately at Taylorville, Jo Pepper was shot in a bakery attack by Peter Magin after peppered threats. Pepper is not expected to survive. Magin was arrested on $2,000 bail.
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Missouri
Hardin
Dawson
Someerson
Moore
Ray County
Taylorville
Springfield Journal
Jo Pepper
Peter Magin
Magin
Pepper
Murder in Mercer County at San Beam store
The Aledo Record reports Samuel Ford killed by Henry White in a Thursday encounter at a San Beam store. White fired a revolver, Ford died within minutes. White surrendered and is jailed in Aledo. Ford was 33, survived by a wife and three children.
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Aledo
Samuel Ford
Henry White
Sanbeam
White
Ford
Altercation and mob activity reported in Adams Co Ill
From Lorane Lonanz Adams County Illinois March 9 We are well assured that Spring is here and that summer’s hot and burning gun is not far distant. An altercation occurred one evening last week Ward the plaintiff struck Rogers on the head with a club fracturing his skull. On Tuesday rumors circulated that Bellew would pass through by train. A mob attempted to stop the train at Bear Creek to seize and hang Bellew but about a dozen assembled and the train passed. After dark the mob raided Robinson’s sugar camp stealing sugar drinking syrup overturning barrels and kettles and destroying gear. Tae Kraut.
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Carthage
Bear Creek
Versailles Dramatic Club entertains with The Drunkard
In Versailles during winter, the Versailles Dramatic Club staged The Drunkard or the Fallen Saved at Brady's Hall with scenery by John Chenowith. Two February performances drew large crowds. the final show faced poor attendance due to bad weather. Cast and crew included Thomas McCormick J Robert Reid W F Simmons Allen Burgesser Charles Eckler O F Casteen J Chenowith C W Hunt F Arlington and Misses Mattie Patton Cyrena Edmonson Mary Winslow Eliza Gaston Lizzie Edmonson Lillie Richardson Ica Casteen. Maple sugar and molasses are produced locally with prices around 16 cents per pound and about $2 per gallon. Waterfowl migration returns bring hunting and markets. Versailles debates a new schoolhouse as merchants report dull times but expect spring revival. J Chenoweth, Internal Revenue Gauger, plans spring duty. wheat crop prospects look good.
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Mattie Patton
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J. A. Casteen
J. Herbert
T. J. Rowland
J. Brady
West Point Illinois in 1871 description and outlook
A 1871 notice describes West Point Illinois on the Quincy and Carthage Railroad in Hancock County. It notes a population near 150, a depot, two stores, a boarding house, blacksmiths, a physician and minister, a two story frame school with about 80 scholars, teachers Bailey and Howerton, a 75 member Good Templars lodge, and school activities. New stores and firms Wolf Corbin and Hart Bros plan openings in April, with land at about 40 dollars per acre. It also reports sub-contractor disputes on the railroad and a land grant window for homesteads after actions by the Attorney General and Interior.
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Eat Point
Illn
Quiney & Carthage R. R
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Carthage
West Point
Messrs
Franks & Rhoades
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Arge. Ey. J
Hart Bros
Mendon
Adams County
Quincy & Carthage R. R
Grea
Ursa
J.B. Chittenden
R. Chittenden
Guilford
Conn
Fairfield
Dr. Young
Canton
la Grange
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Waters
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J. C. Martin
L. Thompson
Frances Chitsey
Rt. Chittenden
P.young
A. Benton
Frisbie
Young
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C. B. Garrett
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John H. Brey
Stephen Savage
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Thomas J. Quinns
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Eli Banks & Co
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Lunn and Heaney
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