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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1875
Page
2
Details on how famous trotters like Goldsmith Maid Judge and Dexter are cared for daily. The piece describes feeding schedules grooming steps from morning oats to evening rubdowns and hot baths, equipment, stables manners, and high priced timers used to measure pace during trials at the fair week in Quincy.
Observations on etiquette in Japan show a blend of traditional leaders and new political classes amid visiting guests and local hosts. A Newnan journalist notes courteous bows, inspection of tools, and silk gifts at a wedding with many silver presents, praising decorum yet reflecting on shifting social influences and poetic asides.
A New York Graphtec excerpt argues Yale Professor Summer urges scholars to enter politics to promote prosperity and purity. It contends that great leaders are usually practical, businesslike and experienced, preferring figures like Grant over eloquent scholars. The piece stresses business integrity as essential to governance.
A fragmented critique of Atlanta wedding notices in the Constitution’s Society News. The piece mocks the era’s wedding publicity and the verbose language used to toast brides and grooms, referencing a journalist who writes many notices and the pomp surrounding nuptials.
A New York Herald summary notes a Democratic win in California, surpassing expectations and aided by Pacific coast momentum and supportive actions from speculators and former Republicans. It links California to Oregon trends and explains heavy betting by financiers to influence state politics.
A writer notes a striking San Francisco woman who primes herself before a mirror in artful poses yet remains cool under praise. She sings love songs and waltzes with roguish charm, fully aware of her beauty and the effect she has, while insisting on credit for her audience’s amazement.
A pair of scammers in Paris posed as trusted dealers offering untaxed brandy at low prices. They supplied a fifty quart cask to buyers and instructed tapping it to verify the sample before finalizing the sale. The scheme aimed to swindle tavernkeepers and other customers through secrecy and deception.
A historical account describes a clever ruse in which a fifty litre cask hid a forty eight litre water-filled smaller barrel. Brandy was poured to fill the space and bottled successfully until a gurgling sound revealed the concealed compartment.
Sept 8 Mississippi Governor Ames telegraphs President Grant saying domestic violence spreads beyond state control and requests federal aid to restore peace and protect citizens. Reports from Jackson, Mis sissippi, cite armed bands on roads, plantation disruptions, and four men wounded in Yazoo County.
The piece urges dressmaking be elevated to a fine art with a school of art dressmaking and patronage by royals and painters. It laments current millinery in portraits and calls for rules to guide dress, replacing "fashionable" with "becoming" to curb excess and aid those with limited work. It suggests reform as a public benefit.
Calvin C. Sniffin assistant private secretary to the President arrived in Washington with his wife from New York. Mrs Sniffin had been reported missing by police in New York City. she was later found staying with her husband's aunt in Brooklyn after a series of detours and misdirections.
The New York Herald asks how much is spent on dresses by Saratoga visitors, estimating 60,000 women and about 10% buying new dresses. Assuming 200 dollars per dress, total spending reaches 60,000,000 dollars, prompting reflections on funds for schools and hospitals.
Ex Senator John Ho Benderson, leader of the Missouri Republicans, urges fellow Republicans to vote for the new Constitution. He praises Democrats for imposing populary limitations on power, a framework he says will stay in place for years.
Chicago correspondent recounts Senator Kelley’s bar visit at Tremont House where a bartender compares inflation era finance to a cocktail. Kelley argues for immediate whisky resumption while the bartender parodies convertible money, mixing ever-stronger analogies with bonds and greenbacks.
A man drawing a bend on a hawk lowered his pistol to set the hammer when it slipped and discharged. The ball struck a little girl in the right shoulder, near the subclavian artery, and traveled into her back muscles. The attending surgeon could not locate the ball but said the child is not in danger and bore the pain bravely.
Muishe Yd, a boy from Soap Hollow, aimed a pistol at a hawk perched near his home. His sister, aged around six, watched closely as he prepared to fire. The episode unfolded with the boy taking aim from a yard or two away.
Severe rainstorm causes three fatal railroad wrecks on the Chicago and Northwestern. At Lawrence a bridge washed away the 9:45 p.m. train jumped the track. engineer Henry Morris, baggagemaster James Fury, a newsboy and a passenger were killed with four injured. A Harvard culvert washout killed a fireman on a freight train and another culvert near Shopiere killed an engineer and fireman P. Dolun. Names of other victims were not yet confirmed.
A scanned roster lists Adams county and attached counties legislators from 1818 to 1873. It names senators George Cadwell Theophilus W South Thomas Carlin Henry J Rosa Archibald Williams James H Ralston Jacob Smith Hugh Sutphen John Wood Solomon Parsons Wm H Carlin Austin Brooks Scofield Samuel Chittenden J H Richardson Jessie Williams George W Burns Maurice Kelly and many other Adams figures. The page shows numerous representatives such as Abraham Prickett Samuel Whitesides John Howard Nathaniel Buckmaster Joseph Bronaugh N Hanson Henry J Ross Levi J Roberta John Tarney John Allen A W Caverly Joel Wright Chas Gregory Wm G Flood Philip W Martin W Rosa Thos Owen George Galbraith Archibald Williams A Williams Robert Starr J R Hobbs M Pitman J W Singleton J Wolf H Boyle Jelideeehorn H V Sullivan Samuel Holmes M M Bane W Metcalf W C Harrington A E Wheat Win Brown Thos Richmond Henry F Warren P G Corkins Jasper John E Downing George J Richardson Joseph Stewart HW Trimble Ira M Moore Chas Ballou N Bushnell John Tilson A Griffith and Ira M Moore among others.
In a playful note the paper cites Gen Phil Sheridan with seven shirts seven collars and twelve handkerchiefs. It jokes about the dailies’ declining output on the subject and mentions Sheridan and his bride sneezing and the general blowing his nose with a light horn-like sound.
After persistent urging from his wife, Aprach Yarn of New York consented to carry a basket of peaches to New Jersey from Washington Market. He paid 75 cents for the peaches 10 cents for a boy to cart to the ferry 15 cents to carry to the cars 25 cents freight and 50 cents for express delivery totaling 1 75. Minutes after Yarn arrived home a similar basket arrived with the same peaches at the same basket.
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