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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1882
Page
2
A sweeping mix of items notes Russia’s Jewish exodus, a May snow in Colorado and Wyoming, smallpox in Illinois, gold flows, and the U S Supreme Court denial in Mason v. United States. Other items include Blaine’s congressional prospects, Chinese laborers, and suffrage discussion.
In Cincinnati a defendant fined 100 dollars and sentenced to thirty days for opening a saloon on Sundays under the new law. The war secretary plans a Jefferson tomb monument at Monticello with a 10000 dollar appropriation and immediate work. Rains drowned chinch bugs aiding wheat. Rev Dr Bartler accepts Washington church call with 6000 dollar salary and moving expenses. Prices rise, wages shrink in Chicago and big cities. The President pardons Fitz John Porter.
A New York special notes Mercy cannot regain his army status. Congress alone can restore him. A New York dispatch reports relics from Saint Prophyrus arriving from Rome to Notre Dame, while the 24th NY Chamber report warns of a critical period for U.S. economic and financial affairs. The Vatican envoy plans consolidation of Catholic America, and parties prepare for a national congressional campaign. A NY law grants the defense counsel closing remarks in capital cases. Curtis and Mrs Dixon, once elopers, are in New Orleans facing vagrancy and disgrace. Chicago Inter-Ocean hints at a railroading advance reshaping the field, with six Mississippi Valley firms privy to the breakthrough.
Lory PF Predenick Cavendish appointed to succeed Div as Secretary of Ireland amid Gladstone era changes. Lordivendish previously Financial Secretary to the Treasury gains Irish post, signaling Whig concessions. In Recine Wisconsin a fire destroyed seven and a half acres, seven blocks and 44 buildings, with lumber losses around 10,000,000 feet. Total loss about 578,000 dollars, insurance near 250,000 dollars.
A current editorial states plagiarism is the besetting sin of clergymen with notable Chicago missteps and light punishments. In Louisville suspicion grows that Rev Adams pastored sermons not his own, leading elders to obtain stenographic reports and confirm worst fears. He resigns praising better sermons than his own.
A Washington special reports that 5 20 and 7 30 1000 dollar bonds were produced from engraving stock and circulated as genuine about 17 and 15 years ago. Several hundred thousand dollars in bonds circulated and banks took them. $50 000 redeemed by treasurer’s assistants in the main office. Stock captured in hands of suspects. grand jury witnesses under examination.
April saw 918 Chicago deaths while General James B Steedman was named Toledo chief of police. Peoria Illinois produced over 1.28 million gallons of spirits last month. Charleston ballot box trial ended with a hung jury. Sheriff Bowman and a deputy were killed by cattle thieves in Gunnison Colorado.
Signs indicate H R H the Princess Louise will sail from England for Canada on May 25. In Grenada Spain several houses were destroyed by an earthquake shock. Land Leaguers promise to withdraw the no rent manifestoes. In Berlin the lower house adopted an ecclesiastical bill. Labrador seal fishery hampered by unusually large ice.
New Albany sees two new knitting factories with another in prospect. Fort Wayne’s Thomas B Helkin house burglarized. silverware valued at over 5 dollars. A Muncie temperance camp meeting planned for August or September. Terre Haute fair track dug and filled with clay and fenced. Reynolds area welldriller Michael Owens taps a gas vein at 100 feet. Richmond resident Peter Weber reports theft of a rare three year old pear tree. Local saloon keepers challenge city license collection after county license paid. Greenfield babe suffers severe whitewash accident. eyesight at risk. Mrs. Conrad elopes with carpenter John Nichols. husband aged 70+. Joseph Bogardus of Wabash County also elopes.
The Senate and House advanced several bills including the tariff commission measure and the Court of Appeals bill. A proposed corruption inquiry into whisky interests was discussed with actions postponed. Other items covered Arctic exploration powers, Confederate servicemen, and agricultural department powers with cabinet status considered. Adjournments occurred across days with continued discussion of executive mansion funding and cannon donations.
Harper's Bazar catalogs illustrious women who shaped government science poetry and fiction. It cites Semiramis Venobia Elizabeth Maria Therisa Catherine Isabella and Jeanne d Arc as leaders, Mary Somerville Caroline Herschel Maria Mitchell Sappho Elizabeth Barrett Browning Marian Evans Harriet Beecher Stowe Sarah Siddons and other female luminaries as peers of male figures.
Felix Masure reports that very wet arable soil throws off more water vapor than fat content. Moderately moist soil yields about equal evaporation to lard, while very dry soil shows reduced evaporation.
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