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Newspaper
Springfield Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1876
Page
1
A poetic meditation on night sounds and distant harmonies, contrasting serene nature with the urge for light recreation. The piece argues recreation is essential to happiness, citing Germany and America, then warns against excessive severity in sermons and social life while urging balanced joy. It links leisure to virtue, health, and social harmony.
A Ladies' Baptist Missionary Society piece urges generous giving as a spiritual virtue. It extols casting kindness and funds upon the waters, promising divine reward and heavenly blessings, urging all readers from children to elders to contribute with cheerful faith. Kirry Bower notes a Chinese giant Unie Ke Tsar, seven feet four, visiting the Centenn ial.
A grieving narrator recalls a dying sister Harriet in a bleak December. The fever, cold, and snow frame a mother's final bedside, farewell words, and a family scene filled with frostbound windows, the mill dam, and memories of a vanished sister. The piece blends faith, sorrow, and the enduring ache of loss.
The French Department, slow to perfect its arrangements, becomes the most interesting feature after completion. It showcases French bronze and porcelain, terra cotta ware, jewels, and fancy goods with Paris robes and lace. The exhibit aims to charm refined tastes with colors, patterns, embroideries, and elegant accessories.
The piece reviews Governor Hayes of Ohio as a leading, yet uncertain, GOP candidate for the presidency. It notes his hard money stance, prior win over inflationist Allen, and hopes for uniting Republican and liberal votes. It also critiques the Republican Convention as lacking urgency and questions Hayes's appeal beyond Ohio.
Reports from Carthage Missouri detail a shooting at Reed's Station that mortally wounded T Foster of Solomon City Kansas. E A Hoag of Carthage confronted Foster after Foster pursued Hoag’s wife. Foster died within hours. Hoag fled after surrendering to authorities. The case involves a troubled marriage and alleged intracity affair, with Hoag claiming self defense.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer list of alleged scandals targets the Republican party as it heads toward a presidential campaign. The item mocks figures and episodes such as Kilkawn San Domingo, Stocking Affair, Sale of Arms to the Preach, Burglar Harrington, Ulysses Grant, Hosige and others while linking whisky rings and carpetbag swindles to national power and southern supremacy.
In an interview Tucker argues no man should face St Louis nomination without candid full consultation. Nominees should be pure, capable, loyal to the Constitution, and uphold liberty with sound federal policy in taxation tariffs and currency. He envisions broad patriotism and constitutional rights for all union citizens. He also muses on potential thrifty trade with the Carnibale exchanging well kept men for fruits.
A distorted report traces the Caldwell Telegram’s origin from New York to Washington, with possible links to Philadelphia or Baltimore and a later Western Union telegram to the House Judiciary Committee. The item questions authenticity, noting purported authorship by Mr. Guldwell Loudon and involvement of agents in London.
The reading of the committee report exonerates Speaker Kerr from the motive charge raised by Lawrence Varnes. Only Mr Bass was absent. the vote to adopt the report favored clearing Kerr. Kerr, moved by emotion, plans to visit Ted Sulphur Springs, W Va, for health benefits.
Whites and Blacks clash in Port Hudson, Louisiana over a Republican meeting turning violent. One white killed and four wounded as the mob size grows from about 25 to 400, with both sides arming and exchanging gunfire on the riverbank near the Mississippi town. Local whites planned to arrest leaders, while black attendees reinforce forces and prepare for further action by daylight.
The Honorable Heister Clymer says he was elected delegate at large to St Louis from Pennsylvania and will govern his actions by the majority will after full consultation. He asserts no state is wedded to any man and aims to nominate the best person to unite and strengthen the party amid the government’s stakes in the contest.
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