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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1882
Page
6
A collage of 1881 news notes reports General Garibaldi's frailty, Iowa free railroad pass repudiation, rising anti Mormon agitation, Utah mines yield 10 million, Lincoln pension implications, and various political and economic items across the United States and Mexico.
Neal found guilty in seventeen minutes and sentenced to death. The balloon wreck with Mr Powell aboard found in France, Powell dead. Calls for Lynch law amid reform of courts. Rumors of Senate changes and Conkling in Folger’s seat. National Bank of Mexico receives $3,000,000 in capital. Spuyten Duyvil accident traced to whisky. Washington post office funding eyed. Wheat yields reported in Washington Territory. Heavy snow delays in Southern California and Arizona.
A sale of eight thousand chests of tea soaked and scorched by fire hits the market. Reports note pollution and health concerns as the country considers related legislation and safety measures.
Baltimore business leaders seek to form a Manufacturers aid association with 1,000,000 capital to build and lease works to renters unable to own facilities, aiming to attract major manufacturing to the city. The note also covers Mormon apostle Orson Pratt, Utah religious education, Chicago court disputes, Illinois Supreme Court rulings, and a Sunbeam about Allen City in Chiapas Mexico with tax and duty exemptions for colonists from California.
Chicago vaccination progress, Louisville Jockey Club entry count, Chicago sidewalk material totals, nationwide smallpox epidemic, bounty for Civil War soldiers enlisted 1861, banking illegal checks bill in Senate, relief cloth and goods for Kansas freedmen, Cleveland galvanist poisoning case, Judge Geey biography, fire insurance losses in Chicago, Mrs Abraham Lincoln relief bill, Knights of Labor stance on priest absolution, Shallenberger anti polygamy bill, Utah governance talks, Sherman funding bill opposition, Newburgh embezzlement indictments, Standard Oil buys rival plant near Buffalo, E Pratt wealth in story fragment.
Baltimore proposes a public library at 225000 and 233000 for books with 50000 annual support. A Rhode Island church pastor cuts his hand opening wine. Trunk railroad talks end peaceful with freight-rate accord. A Chicago pay clerk's bag is stolen en route to stockyards. A Columbus asylum fire injures inmates. state cost about 40000. A lynching in Ironton frees a murder suspect. A Presbyterians split over admitting a black member. Smuggling case leads to Queen's evidence and seizures in Canada. Court rules no damages for alighting before train stops. Various tariff, life-saving, and commerce issues span Congress to France and Britain. Conflagration in a Bucharest circus kills many. two ships possibly wrecked. cargo valued at 200000 each.
Reports describe anti German riots in Riga and peasant uprisings in Vitebsk. Austria sends troops to Herzegovina while Irish and Spanish affairs unfold with trials, pacification efforts, and calls for cheaper telegraph services.
A roundup notes wolves killing sheep in Warren county. Graveyard robbers and burglary cases in Greenfield Delaware and Madison counties. A 102 year old Monroe township man remains sharp. New opera house in Laporte seats 1200. Court fines for keno violations. A fatal river find in South Bend. A Fort Wayne mother attempts to harm a child amid marital legal troubles. Goshen condemns poor farm. Elkhart expands county farm. Legal suits over vaccination and health board actions. A Crawfordsville girl suffers vaccine injury. Laporte man struck by a series of misfortunes. A Harrison township schoolhouse fire. a German migrant's journey from Arkansas. a Madison burglary during a hospital visit.
Brief quirky excerpt portrays a child Tommy bargaining with his grandmother over a shilling and a kiss from the new housemaid, noting he already receives a sixpence. The exchange captures a light domestic moment in a humorous Punch voice.
In Congress on Monday January 16 the Logan measure to pay Mrs Abraham Lincoln 15000 in pension arrears was referred to the pensions committee. The repeal arrears resolution drew debate with Beck for and Voorhees Ingalls against. In the House many bills were introduced and a motion to suspend rules to take up the Garfield Memorial Hospital incorporation bill failed for lack of a two thirds vote.
On Tuesday January 17 the Senate discussed the Sherman finding bill and several other measures. The House considered many resolutions and debated the Rules Committee report to expand committee memberships. a motion to table the report failed 97 to 140, and the House adjourned during the debate.
The Senate reports a favorable view on the bill to retire Justice Hunt and discusses currency and Sherman funding bills. In the House a bill to sell Miami Indian lands in Kansas is reported favorably while a rules committee expansion resolution is debated without conclusion.
January 19 to 24 reports show bills passed on Justice Hunt retirement Lincoln monument management and Mary Lincoln relief of $13,000 and a $3,000 annual pension. Sherman funding debate continued and party proportional committee rules discussed. Fortifications appropriation of $375,000 approved. Kansas colored clothing import bill passed. Eulogies noted for Senator Burnside.
The narrator argues against judging Black performers by white caricatures. He compares minstrel shows to a painting and warns the public not to mistake disguise for true race, urging readers to recognize performers as individuals rather than tokenized symbols.
Chicago opening bids slip as wheat leads decline before recovering. No. 2 red cash and futures mix with January and February levels. corn and oats show light shifts. Silk of starch markets notes firm lard at 11.37 dollars per hundredweight. pork and beef watchers hold steady with new and old mess prices cited.
Baltimore market report dated January 25 shows prices for Western superfine flour and related commodities with bids for No 2 winter red and local seed terms. Details include varying seller offers across January to May and mention of oats, clover seed, and mammoth varieties with limited trades and firm or inactive status.
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