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Newspaper
Reading Eagle
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1869
Page
2
A State Senate bill proposes moving elections to fall and bars spring ballots, restricting hours to six to seven in the morning and six in the evening. The measure exemptions Philadelphia, and critics say it targets working voters to favor wealthy Radicals and tilt power away from the working class.
The writer notes Wisconsin’s mixed population with Germans and Irish majority in one area and Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers nearby. He describes Norwegian and half breed settlements, growing farms, and high land prices from ten to two hundred dollars per acre driving some farmers to Missouri. He praises local waterpower and growth potential, mentioning manufacturing and B D Ginith's pail and tub factory as an example.
The speaker notes a shift from anti-immigrant Know-Nothing positions to advocating universal suffrage and eligibility for all regardless of creed, country, or color, contrasting with earlier calls to restrict officeholders born abroad or with Catholic faith.
A caustic remark targets a newspaper and its editor over insulting women and old maids. The piece notes Graavon, sentenced to death for Timothy Heenan's Philadelphia murder, has been granted a governor Geary clemency reach.
Tar Cuban ladies in New York have formed an association for the relief of their countrymen who are struggling for independence. Every true patriot will wish them success in their noble efforts.
The Democratic ticket was created in Cairo Illinois on Tuesday with the slogan Keep the ball rolling.
The Presidents order exhumed Capt. Henry Wirz remains from the Arsenal grounds on Wednesday afternoon. Lewis Schade, one of Wirzs counsel, received the body and it was placed in a walnut coffin at Augus tus Burgertss undertaking hall. The head is missing and the left leg has flesh while the right arm is gone. The remains will be kept overnight before burial at a friends house.
A Saturday gun attack at Port De posit Maryland left two young men Obr badly wounded and a constable Lyons gravely shot. The assailant Sackison, described as fiercely temperamental, was arrested after Mackison secured custody.
A fragmented note from the Country Gentleman lists cloverseed per bushel at 27 130 613 and timothy at 31 830 117. The readable lines suggest farming estimates rather than a full article.
In Wasityotoy on February 25 the Senate reported a bill to create a Board to study harbor obstruction prevention and passed an exemption for naval machinery manufacturers from tax. The Army Appropriation bill. the Suffrage Amendment set as order for the day. In the House Kelley Nickel Coinage bill passed. Conference reports on Diplomatic and Suffrage Appropriation bills discussed and adopted or rejected.
The report by Mr Kerr presents a detailed rebuttal to the majority findings, arguing courts were not implicated by voting irregularities and that repeating favored Republicans. A Bloomer appearance in the Harrisburg galleries reports a green plaid ensemble as a curious sideline to official proceedings.
Mr Craries Axt of Crawfordsville Georgia was found dead in his bed Wednesday morning with his throat cut from ear to ear and his skull crushed. An illegitimate son of the deceased by a mulatto woman has been arrested as implicated in the murder. The youth was found at the wine cellar door near the house with the murdered man's vest, pocketbook containing $47, and had been punished by the father the day before the killing.
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