Ill assorted news and social gossip from many lands
A sweeping column of miscellaneous notes reports on George Eliot marriage, Greenwood journal ventures, Longfellow poems, Mark Twain dullness, Irish land lord profits, Jeanne DuMask’ marriage plans, Cross’s London banking link, Bliss’s hidden stock package, Horatio Seymour’s pulse, Lorne ear injury, Lord Lytton’s India, a Nevada expense memo, Prince Frederick William, Burmese prince’s death, German rail study, Clark Mills career misstatements, and Mills’s true age and work history.
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George Eliot
Cross
Alvany Journal
Pall Mall Gazette
Greenwood
June Lippincott
Mr. Longfellow
Old St. David’s
Radnor
Episcopal Church
Delaware County
Pennsylvania
London Saturday Review
Mark Twain
New Oak
Mark
James Redpath
Ireland
Boiler explosion at Birchinshall kills twenty five in England
News notes recount a Birchinshall Iron Works boiler blast on the 15th that killed twenty five and sent sixty to hospitals, with several in dying condition. Other items mention Irish law, Tay bridge girders, a Madeira sinking, Indian Agency frauds, and various local incidents.
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Birchinshall
Lloyds
Madeira
Senegal
Bathurst
Gambia
Liverpool
Gando Point
Grand Canary Island
Melenara Bay
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
George W. Frost
Crow Agency
Montana
W. H. Danilson
Fort Hall
Idaho
F. &. Godfrey
Mescales Apache Agency
New Mexico
W. H. Jones
Quapaw
Sindian Territory
Livingston Bridgman
Whiteman
Hart
Bayard
Language misperceptions and dialects contrasted
The passage notes that an American girl abroad speaking only her native English could cause Frenchmen to misjudge her as speaking a Welsh dialect if she avoided French. It underscores linguistic stereotypes and accents shaping perception.
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Britain
Talleyrand
Shelbyville man fatally hurt in wagon accident
Indiana state news report says George Haymond of Shelbyville was thrown from a lumber wagon last week and is fatally injured. Madison Star notes the event occurred amid local county road hazards.
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George Haymond
Shelbyville
Kalloch's Growing Troubles Amid Sacramento Convention
The San Francisco Telegram reports the Baptist convention at Sacramento ended at noon with strong opposition to Kalloch. The resolutions committee sought to distance the group from him while Kalloch challenged opponents and defused readings. Clergy criticize his incendiary language as he defends his actions and warned of judgment ahead.
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Kalloch
San Francisco
N. Y. Sun
Baptist Convention
Sacramento
Brother Kalloch
Committee On Resolutions
Kallochs
Isaac
Power of Niagara and Its Electrical Potential
Dr. Siemans estimates Niagara Falls could generate work equal to 66,000,000 tons of coal per year at four pounds of fuel per horsepower hour. He calculates that a three inch copper rod would transmit 1,000 horsepower to 30 miles, enabling motion or light with about 250 000 candle power.
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Niagara
Siemans
Falls of
Farjac
The Shooting of Lincoln and the Orchestra Leader
William Withers Jr a San Francisco musician and former leader of the California Theater orchestra recounts his night at Ford s Theater on April 14 1865 He describes Booth s attack the struggle two holes in his coat the flag torn by Booth s spur and Spangler s confession about turning off gas to obscure the crime The tale adds new details to the Lincoln assassination saga with Withers preserving key artifacts and memories of the night.
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John F. Miller
Hawkin’s
Upper Springs
Richmond
Glen Miller
Cincinnati
Taylor Township
Harrison County
New Albany
Harvey Cravens
Fendieton
Surgical Institute
Indianapolis
Internal Revenue
Congress
New York Herald
San Francisco
William Withers, Jr
California Theater
Mr. Withers
West Point
Dodworth
Rye Beach
Mr. Withers, Jr
the Herald
Lincoln
Ford
Washington
Withers
Raymond
Drake
John Wilkes Booth
Lee
H. R. Rathbone
Senator Harris
Miss Harris
Tattavullo
H. P. Phillips
Phillips
Boothl
Booth
Harry Hawke
Memphis
Edward Spangler
Mudd
Baltimore
Spangler
Miss Keene
Song of Heroes and a Stage Door Conspiracy
The passage recalls a national anthem style tribute to soldiers and navy, then shifts to Mr. Withers confronting stage staff during a play. Spangler the conspirator blocks access to the prompter as Withers argues over song placement. The tale ends with Withers moving toward the stairs as the scene shifts.
Massachusetts Tramp Act Broadens Penalties Across State
The New Massachusetts tramp act labels as tramps all beggars and wanderers without labor or visible support and sets five year maximum terms for harming persons or property. It allows arrest by any officer and lets mayors appoint special tramp police. Escaping the workhouse adds six months.
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New York Sun
Massachusetts
House of Correction
Patti the Singer Adheres to Strict Daily Regimen
Adelina Patti follows a rigid routine aimed at preserving her voice. She eats one real meal a day with Bordeaux and seltzer water, naps two hours, drives, then practices piano before performing. A consommé precedes the opera, post performance supper ends the day.
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Patti
Adelina Patti
New Plan for Pension Examination in Washington
Senate pensions committee backs Senator Withers substitute for the sixty surgeons bill. The plan creates 200 or more commissioners, one per district with pensioners, increasing territorial reach and reducing need for attorneys. Each pensioner is examined at least once every two years, government covering expenses. Commissioners to be politically balanced. Reported favorably soon.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Pensions
Wither
An Interesting Reminiscence from Horatio King
A Providence Journal excerpt recounts a letter by Horatio King former Postmaster General under Buchanan. King discusses a Scribner’s Magazine claim about a National Hotel poisoning plot linked to Southern disunionists and Breckenridge, referencing earlier Providence letters and alleged conspiracies with Floyd Cobb and Thompson.
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Hore Atio King
Buchanan
King
Washington
H. B. Anthony
U. S. Senate
H. J. Raymond
Scribner’s Monthly Magazine
Hund
Forbes
National Hotel
Breckenridge
Culpeper Courthouse
Virginia
Providence Journal
Providence
Floyd
Cobb
Horatio Kin
Human Race Heading Toward Brain Dominance
A curious discourse questions future civilization as labor shrinks and brains grow. It cites Diderot and Darwin on reduced work hours, rising machinery, and the prospect of women walking less and thinking more.
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Diderot
England
Camille Lee
Girton Colleges
Great Darwin
Anecdote of Prentiss on an 1841 hunting trip near Vicksburg
An 1841 autumn tale recalls Prentiss joining a hunting party by the Sunflower River near Vicksburg. From a towering Indian mound he delivers a six hour imaginative speech, conjuring a lost tribe with fairies, warriors, and armies, praised by a cultivated host who knew him at the bar and on the hustings.
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Mississippi
Vicksburg
Mississippi Valley
Prentiss
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George Illiot
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London
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Hartford
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Lorne
Lord Lyrton
India
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Eureka
Faro
Gustav DoRé
Hooper
Frederick William
Germany
Thee-paw
Baron Max Maria von Weber
United States
Baron von Weber
Clark Mills
Tme
Jackson
Calhoun
Bureau of Statistics
Blackburn
Frederick Reichard
John P. Becker
East St. Louis
Chicago
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W. W. Davis
Circuit Court of the United States
Justice Swayne
Baxter
Hurd
Thomas Ewing
Perry County
Ohio
North Fork
Canadian River
Reno
Fourth Cavalry
Gale
Jarchbishop Taschearn
Quebec
Maria E. Brooks
Saran J. Taylor
John RoHart
Ernest Schwartz
Marion
Norman Skinner
Covington
B. H. West
Dr. Gaddy
Paris Crossing
F. Woop
Twenty-First Judicial District
R. B. Jones
Warren, Vermillion
Fountain Counties
Charles Hafford
Carrollton
FE. Hafford
Whitewater Valley Coffin Company
Connersville
Stirley Carruthers
Conrey, Waller & Duprez
Greensburg
Indiana State News
Madison Star
Eget
Mr. Wright
Wright
Parisian
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