Reading Daily Eagle in Reading, Pennsylvania

Fragments of 19th Century News and Oddities Across Cities

A collage of brief items notes drowning of a crippled man’s family search in San Francisco, Brazil’s gold prize for beef preservation, and New York social satire on Grecian bands. Election day mischief includes a 98 year old grandfather voting Seymour and Blair. Virginia nut trade rumors rise with pecans. Drowning of a drunken man named Valentine in Philadelphia and a man hanged by neighbors near Piladelphia. A Polish earth burial custom in Paris, and arrest of Moses H. Bentley in Georgia for riot. Texas’ Mr. Lancaster is assaulted by neighbors. Kilpatrick prison claims debated by Butler. A novel cobbler tale with Pana le on. A Universalist church court case, English laborer’s hard labor carrot theft, former Confederate Gen Baill Duke practicing law in Louisville, and Grant era cigar business and charity letters thrive.