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Newspaper
Reading Daily Eagle
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1868
Page
2
Fragmentary text recounts a heated legislative clash and partisan sniping over Reconstruction era policy. It references figures like McKee and Pratt, and discusses military service, loyalty, and political alignments amid contentious rhetoric and calls for pardons and opposition to Radical Republicans.
August reports describe a cerebrospinal meningitis like epidemic among Brooklyn horses, with several deaths and veterinary officials calling it non contagious. Meanwhile political meetings spread from Throggs Neck to Astoria, with large crowds attending gatherings in multiple wards and districts.
A Virginia address dated August 27 and signed by leading Southern figures including Rosecrans and Lee era officials argues for peace and Union, noting a pacific tone and desire for harmony amid Confederate leadership.
Waanixgror reports on discussions in Radi cala August 28 about reassembling Congress next month and passing an act to block all Foconstructed States from voting for Presidential electors next November. The paper questions how Congress could enforce such measures and cites supposed Rebel elements intent on winning by any means.
Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South recommended a period of special prayer and fasting starting August 28, observed across the South. They urged churches to devote the week to intercession for the church and country, with August 28 marking the beginning of the day.
In an altercation, Balthezzar Fell was badly cut in the head with a hatchet and is not expected to live. Asa John was involved in the incident this morning. General Frank Blair Jr. has been invited to attend the Wisconsin State Fair in the last week of September and may be present if possible.
The Missouri report notes Democratic Governor candidate John Phelps will launch his campaign at College Phelps County on September 1. Registration suggests reaching 80,000 in St. Louis could tilt the state Democrat. Radicals acknowledge this. A separate New York test case concerns union nonmembers and trades. A Manhattan cooperative grocery faces closure but contemplates continued shares payments by members. Nearby Indiana reports a Greensburg lightning fatality to John Walters.
A woman from Mini Pratt, Maine, vanished earlier and reappeared in the evening wearing a pair of pants and a shirt. She could not explain her absence or whereabouts.
The article reports on a range of 1868 events including the National Convention actions, H. P. Farron becoming Attorney General, debate on negro member eligibility in the House, Meade and Schofield in Washington, Howard’s New Orleans visit, Schenck’s renomination in Ohio, a Rochester Spiritualist Convention, a California Paris Exposition medal, cattle disease reports in Indian Territory and Illinois, counterfeit currency concerns, Cheyenne and Arapahoe depredations in Colorado, Santos denying territorial sale talks, the death of William H. King, a Louisville suicide, a Louisville store burglary, a Boston fire, Jose Ferrer de Counts facing a duel challenge, a whiskey raid in Philadelphia, and whiskey production arrests in Richmond.
Special to the Daily Eagle reports Carl Schurz addressed four large meetings in Pottevile on August 20, 1868. The audience heavily Democrats, with only a minority of Radicals understanding his German speech. A luke warm demonstration followed, marked by street noise and bonfires, and Germans lamented the lack of solid argument. Some say Radicals misread German sentiment and Germans are deserting the Radical cause.
August 27 report notes abolition of general acada distribution by the Agricultural Bureau with limited experimental supplies. Cardington Ohio resident George Wilson fatally shot by a Mrs White’s son during a break in. San Francisco mail service to Cuba now overland saving time. Chloroform use by fashionable travelers noted. California figs described as large. The suits against General Butler to be dropped. A Lehigh Valley Railroad employee Thomas Banford killed in Catagagua after being run over.
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