Famine in India and British War News Dominate Atlanta Dispatches
The latest reports describe a famine in India with up to 200000 dying, battles on the Gold Coast against Ashantees, and negotiations breaking off. Other items cover cholera in Buenos Aires, a new British cabinet, and temperance campaigns across the United States.
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Madrid
Ith
Bilboa
London
Treasury
Tuiserachi
Exchequer
Sir Stafford Northcote
Use
Admiralty
George Ward Hunt
Home Department
Richard Agsheton Cross
Forvgt
Earl Derby
Colonial Department
Earl Carnarvon
Gathorne Hardy
India
Marquis Salisbury
Lord Cairns
Earl Malmsbury
Duke of Richmond
John Manners
Nagasaki
Japan
Usai
Coren
Cougar Nagasaki
Biscay
Portugallte
Anch
Vinarose
Lutnbering
Sen. Dorregarmy
Somorrasto
Buenos Ayres
Klsay Uist
Reyal Geographical Society
Wad
Bartle Frere
Kirk
Livingstone
Gladstone
Acrogmba
Gold Coast
Sir Garnet Wolseley
Sir Garnet
Coomassiv
2Th
Bayonne
Marionez
Santander
Bloomington
Ohio
Missouri
St. Louis
Cincinnati Gazette
Steele
Hillsboro
Dunn
United States House of Representatives
Departments
House
United States Treasury
Uniondale
Jefferson Branch
Susquehanna
Carbondale
John R. Harding
Cramer
David Cramer
Thomas Rapley
Sovereigns of Industry
Patrons of Husbandry
Chicago
Barte
Victoria C. Woodhull
Kingsbury Music Hall
T. Jones
Missouri State Grange
Congress
Mississippi River
Kansas State Grange
Galveston
Wigfall
Texas
Iowa
Illinois
Oswego
Lexington
Ilinois
Davenport
Dubuque
Congressional actions and bills debated in Senate and House
Senate discussed a patents and copyrights revision act while rejecting a currency consolidation amendment. A substitute urged free banking under the National Bank act and treasury note convertibility. motions to recommit and reconsider followed as the session adjourned. House actions included canal project extensions and DC affairs during a busy period. Adjournments occurred as sessions ended.
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M. E. Hudson
State Grange
Tennessee
Gallatin
Washington
Senate Committee On the Public Lands
Wisconsin Central Railway
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Sioner
Chicago
Committee On Public Lands
Schurz
Morton
Indiana
Wolf Lake
Lake George
Congress
Agricultural Department
Senate
Finance Committee
House
Ew Hampshire Press Association
Committee On Finance
United States Treasury
United States
National Bank Act
Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay
Lake Michigan Ship Canal
Alabama
United States Marchale
Unite States
Alsa
Waite
District of Columbia
Abraham Lincoln
George
Wisconsin
Russia
Internal Revenue
Commis
Markets and mills report and social critique
The article lists regional commodity prices for cotton, flour, wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, pork, lard, beef, and wool across New York Chicago Cincinnati St Louis and Cleveland with specific figures. It notes Saginaw Bay County saw mill activity, capacity and output for 1873 and employment figures, then provides a social critique on fashion enslaving women and calls for reform and organized relief.
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New York
Chicago
Iowa
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Cleveland
Dersorr
Epo
Saginaw
Bay County
Saginaw Valley
Let Us Have A Substitute For The Holy Kiss
A Christian at Work humor column notes Paul urged a holy kiss but modern readers may resist. The piece suggests a safer substitute fitting today’s social norms a firm handshake and mutual goodwill.
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Paul
Christian
Wealthy Pennsylvanian Asa Packer Built Fortune From Coal Lands
Asa Packer of Mauch Chunk is described as one of Pennsylvania and the Republics wealthiest men with at least 25 million dollars. He started with nothing, driving a Lehigh Canal boat, and built his fortune by buying coal lands nearby at low rates that rose rapidly in value.
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Asa Packer
Mauch Chunk
Pennsylvania
Republic
Lehigh Canal
Ice shipping from Maine spurs South demand and beer price rise
The item notes Maine dealers shipping large quantities of ice to the South while Chicago brewers back reformers in Ohio by raising beer prices. Other snippets cover mining stock mania in San Francisco, blood cures in Boston, and various local curiosities and legal notes.
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Maine
Chicago
Ohio
San Francisco
Boston
California
Tuk News
Nashville
Mich
Gen
Jackson
Lafayette
Ind
Radford & Co
Bennington
Worcester
Damascus Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Order
St. Louis
Chas. F. Gates
Southern Railroad of Massachusetts
Salem
John Hunt
Burke County
Chico Man Slays Deer From Bluff Sudden Rock Drop
A Chico California man observing a deer at a rivulet on a bluff dropped a large rock from above, breaking the animal’s back. The incident occurred after he noted the deer drinking below. Local authorities are notified and investigating the matter.
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Quimixthan
Mexico
Aio State Grange
Victoria
Woodhull
Chicace
THE
NEW World
Smith
Connecticut
Ohio State Board of Agriculture
Columbus
Topeks
National Capital
George Washington
Friends of Temperance
Foster
Mass
Fosters
Rock Island
James M. Allan
Illinois Farmers’ State Association
Decatur
Horton
Kansas House of Representatives
Hayes
Sheridan
Ord
Fort Laramie
Wyoming Territory
John E. Smith
Laramie
Red Cloud Agency
Saginaw Bay
Steve Lowry
Robeson County
N. C
Quimixtlan
Huascaleca
Huascalocans
Chin Lan Pin
China
Rhode Island
Providence
Henry Howard
W. F. Sayles
J. M. Addeman
Edwin Metcalf
Henry Gait
Hth
Dio Lewis
van Pelt
Woman's Temperance Association of
Montgomery Queen's Circus
Valparaiso
Richmond
Kansas
Nebraska
Europe
Grant
Boston School Committee
Supreme Court
Maine Hour of Representatives
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Wilson
New York City
James Gordon Bennett
Detroit
Bay City
Des Moines
Thomas Mitchel
J. M. Weart
J. Hartenhower
O’brien County
Frank Brown
J. Weaver
Cedar
Buchanan
J. O. Crosby
Blackhawk
L. B. Nelson
Tama
E. N. Gates
Jasper
G. F. Parker
Warren
J. F. Bishop
Union
I. Jackson
Greene
Congressional
Spurgeon
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Union
No. 1
Courier Journal
Boston Journal
Massachusetts
Ste
Crawford County
James G. Glass
Mary Glass
Hyde Park
Epburn
Glass
Hepburn
Mr. Glass
England
Hawkins
Parry
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