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Newspaper
Rushville Weekly Republican
Location
Rushville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1878
Page
1
A poem by Christian Skegister urges parents to treasure daily moments with their children. It counsels guiding, praising, and filling the household with warmth and sweetness while children are young, rather than delaying until sorrow shadows their lives.
The piece urges Republicans to unite to elect a Republican majority to the next House, warning that Democratic control of both chambers would unleash dangerous, repudiate and inflationary policies and threaten the country. It cites concerns over Southern disenfranchisement, Greenback influence, and district-level races in Ohio Missouri Illinois Indiana Pennsylvania. It calls for disciplined effort, unity, and sacrifice to defeat Democratic candidates.
The article argues that paper money advocates split the Democratic party in Maine and Ohio, predicting dissolution as greenbacks gain. It urges Republicans to stay with honest money and contract obligations, while noting Indiana and Indianapolis Journal excerpts on Maine results showing Republican solidification and Democratic decline.
The passage extols kind words as a force for good, noting they cost little but yield much by softening the soul and tempering others. It contrasts kind words with angry or idle language, arguing kind words shape a beautiful inner image, soothe the hearer, and curb morose feelings, yet society underuses them.
A humorous exchange between a tormented passenger and a newsboy unfolds as the passenger laments and the newsboy retorts. The crowd appears amused by the banter and the unexpected twist on heaven’s news distribution.
A Burlington Hawkeye piece recounts Farmer John showing a bay mule to a buyer who questions its soundness and gentleness. The farmer insists the mule is perfect, noting it is a household pet and has never been shod or harnessed. After a cautious exchange, the man leaves and Farmer Job never sees him again.
A New York Evening Post anecdote describes a man cursed with a stubborn spouse. A friend teases him by asking why he is like a donkey, noting his wife’s obstinacy. The man asks his wife at supper, who replies that he was “bers go” implying humorously that he cannot avoid his own stubbornness.
The Maine House will be 67 Republicans 57 Greenbackers 27 Democrats. Democratic vote totals decline from 60,423 in 1867 to 29,000 in 1878. Democrats lose capacity to act as a balance of power, aiding Nationals who dominate the united vote. Similar dissolution spreads to Massachusetts Ohio Indiana and the South, with a two party future forming around honest money versus money manipulators.
A Paris fatal poisoning from crushed peach stones warns families to guard children at home. The victim ate kernels containing prussic acid, with one ounce of kernels totaling about one grain of poison. Even two-thirds of a grain may kill a child, toxicology notes say.
The Maine election tallies show the Democratic vote shrinking from 60,423 in 1876 to about 29,000, while the National or paternalistic party rises from 528 to 37,000. This week’s governor votes were roughly Republican 58,000, National 37,000, Democratic 29,006, marking the Democratic party as a vanishing third in Maine.
A Williams College president argues on labor poverty causes and proposes reforms including mandatory work, better living conditions, and shared responsibility between capital and labor. The piece then traces Democratic Party stance since the Civil War, accusing leaders of lifelong opposition to greenbacks and bonds, advocating repudiation and repudiation schemes to devalue debt.
New York Dispatch suggests Voorhees faces alarm over campaign prospects with Tom Hendricks exposing him as the pivot. Democrats may scapegoat him if they lose, while party enemies in Indiana threaten to curb his ambition. The piece notes past Senate misstatements and mocks him as a demagogue aside from Blue Jeans Williams.
The narrative traces the spread of street railways from America’s first Fourth Avenue line in 1852 to later adoption in Boston and Philadelphia, with early 1869 milestones in Birkenhead and Buenos Aires. It notes tramway development in Vienna era sites and Paris, Brussels, Berlin, and widespread adoption in Paris, Moscow, South America, and English colonies.
At the Paris congress delegates urged their governments to form a mixed commission to study metric adoption. The metric system, in use in Europe since 1801, is seen as superior and likely to replace existing standards in time. A Darwin letter notes a live mussel attached to a bluewing teal foot supports ideas on distribution among river systems linked to habitat connectivity.
A Bowery barber displays a bold sign declaring No language spoken here, reflecting a gesture of inclusivity amid a multilingual city scene. The display signals a local business embracing diverse patrons and stamping its stance in the neighborhood.
An 1860s Fort Wayne Gazette item exposes Ron Boss Fleming a Democratic candidate for Indiana Treasurer and Morris Cody amid controversy over alleged political graft. The piece recounts a sworn affidavit by Cody detailing a 1862 conversation with Fleming about Sheriff office influence, double billing, and scheming for personal gain, followed by other society notices and assorted anecdotes.
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