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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1882
Page
6
A collage of 1880s notes: Astors versus Vanderbilts tax figures, New England governors abstaining, Vermont and Kentucky shifts, and war indemnities. Reports cover voting, floods, smallpox, vaccination drives, labor strikes, and a booming street life with crime, industry, and politics shaping daily life.
The piece surveys France's Bank of Generale failure, European credit strain, and London market turmoil. It notes Lamb the Chicago murderer facing a third trial, Scoville’s plea for funds to overturn Guiteau verdict, and a proposed postal pension measure. It also covers Cyrus W Field's New York building project, Chicago State Street cable system debut, mass land grant forfeitures, and Edmunds anti poly gamma bill aims. Additional items include pension ruling updates, fire losses, Sagasta's 1882–85 program, and Cardinal Bennechose’s letter.
A dispatch from Rome describes pressure to transfer the Papal seat to avoid the Pope’s departure from Rome. Italian sentiment splits, while a South Bend report recounts Arthur Thomas’s repentance after confessing to burglaries including a recent Whitley County theft. Trials of Guiteau proceed with death verdict. Sabbath noise atop Sunday reforms. new State House marble columns. and a Jennie Cramer crime confession exposing Blanche Douglass’s role in a New Haven scandal.
The article cites anecdotes of large barns and cider talks from parsonages, then notes two Calhoun grandsons in February Century. One grandson recounts move to a Mississippi plantation after the war and praise for freed laborers, while another remarks on slavery and racial progress.
Senate honors late Senator Carpenter with commemorative exercises and passes a pension bill for Lincoln’s widow. Sherman funding bill advances with amendments, debates continue along with routine measures. House reports post office and Congressional appointment bills, and adjourns to Monday with private bills passed.
The Maxwell ranch spans 1,700 000 acres in New Mexico with a crossing path of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe line. Named after a man who acquired it by marriage and purchase, it is folded into an English stock company and a fence rings the property as blooded stock is readied for large scale farming. Foot warmers are described as leather portmanteau style with fur lining and a clasped hand.
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