Grant Directs Capital Bank in New York with 3 Million
In New York General Grant serves as a director of a new national bank authorized at 3 million dollars. Reports mention Mentor Bank’s failure and Garfield’s private secretary, while Missouri Valley Bank in Kansas City suspends operations with about 80 thousand liabilities and 355 thousand in discounted papers. A canal segment of the Wabash and Erie near fifty six miles east is sold to the New York Chicago and St Louis Railway for 1 357 000. Temperance notes indicate a West Virginia intoxicants sale amendment defeated.
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New National Bank
New York
General Grant
Missouri Valley Bank of Kansas City
Wabash and Erie Canal
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Company
West Virginia
Williamson
Illiamson
Hitt
Hamilton County
Ohio State University
Tips Ee Eae & Se
State University
Foster
St. Louis
Chicago
Ohio Central
Lake Erie and Western Railway
Akron
Ohio
Indiana
Fort Wayne
Youngstown
Brown, Hurd & Co
Terrible Slaughter Under Lima Fortifications
Reports from the Lima area recount two battles near the fortifications that reportedly killed about 9,000 Peruvians and 7,00 Chilans.
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Lima
Dead oysters raise alarm among New Jersey oystermen
New Jersey oystermen report thousands of bushels of dead oysters collected as a fallout from a low river and two feet thick ice. The loss is linked to harsh winter conditions impacting harvests.
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New Jersey
Contemplated Strike by Fall River Trades Union
A Fall River Massachusetts Trades Union meeting voted to strike several mills. The specific mills and dates are to be kept secret.
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Trades Union
Fall River
Mass
Exports Rise in New York Trade Since January
Exports excluding specie from New York amount to nearly 51 million dollars year to date, compared with 42 million in the same period in 1881 and 41 million in 1879, indicating a substantial increase.
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New York
Indiana Suffragists Fail to Advance Claims
The women suffragists who sought to present arguments before the General Assembly of Indiana last week did not achieve any result as their claims were not advanced or granted.
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General Assembly of
Indiana
Detroit Electric Light Company Formed with $500000 Capital
A new electric light company is organized in Detroit with half a million dollars in stock to supply electricity for lighting heating and driving machinery.
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Detroit
Mr Mowell Retires From Atlantic Monthly Chair
W D Howells resigns as editor of the Atlantic Monthly to accept a ministerial post to Switzerland, ending his spell in the editorial chair and moving into public service.
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Mowell
W. D. Howells
The
Atlantic Monthly
Switzerland
Ill in Rondout After Eating Diseased Pork
In Rondout New York two persons are dangerously ill from diseased pork with trichina symptoms. Some meat was fed to cats causing their deaths. Medical officials warn of serious poisoning risks from tainted pork and urge caution and investigation.
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Rondout
New York
A Word for the United States in Public Remarks
In his remarks he framed newspapers as a tool alongside schools and railroads for educating the public, reflecting a belief in the press as a national teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Child chained to wall at center of theft case
A New York case recounts Charles E Crawford and wife accusing their daughter Annie Louisa of stealing jewelry and money. After repeated confessions under punishment the child claimed destruction of items. A servant Mary Dooley is later accused, confessing thefts and fires, and is bound over to the Grand Jury for 8000.
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Charles E. Crawford
Mr. Crawford
Mary Dooley
Annie Louisa
Dooley
Congress Session Activities and River and Harbor Bill Passes
The Senate credentials of Thos C Pl and Thomas F Bayard were presented with new members Cockrell and Dawes reelected. The joint resolution inviting foreign nations to the 1883 International Exhibition was adopted. Debates covered the Postal Appropriation Bill including a $1,000,000 subsidy for a U S ocean mail service and various canal and harbor provisions. The River and Harbor Bill passed after extensive amendments and a conference.
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Thos. C. Pl
New York
Thomas F. Bayard
Delaware
Alt
Columbus
Ohio
Thurman
Cockrell
Dawes
Cerom Temperance Organizations
Manates
ed —_ ae Lee
House
Eaton
United States
Panama
Carlisle
Senate
The
Freedmen’s Saving and Trust Company
Atlantic
Pacific
United Sta
Frye
France
Cornwallis
Fernando Wood
Blake
Congress
Jacob
Vermont
Committee On Judiciary
Louisville and Portland Canal
St. Mary's Falls
Des Moines Rapids
Illinois Farmers Reap Record Profits and Big Corn Output
The 1880 report shows Illinois produced about one-fifth of U S corn and farmers earned nearly $1 billion net over twenty one years after costs. The 1880 corn crop reached 251 million bushels, with average yield thirty three bushels per acre, and wheat profits push acreage up. Hog prices 22137 million and cattle value 17026 million reflect strong livestock markets.
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Illinois
United States
Board of Agriculture
Emperor William Addresses Reichstag Opening in Berlin
The German Emperor's speech at the Reichstag opening in Berlin urges appeals to the working classes. He calls for efforts to curb Socialist excesses through welfare measures like the Workmen's Accident Insurance Bill and trade guild reforms. The speech notes allied governments' difficulties from simultaneous Imperial and Provincial parliaments.
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William
Berlin
Reichstag
Misery in Minnesota Snowed settlers burn fuel to survive
In Bigstone County and Lec qui Park County settlers under the homestead law are snowed in and burning bay and now wheat for fuel. They face extreme cold and potential loss of life if relief does not come soon.
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Minnesota
Bigstone County
Lec Qui Park County
Homstead
Sugar tariff debate stalls before Ways and Means
In Washington the sugar tariff case rises early in the session as Ways and Means weighs a bill. Mr Cox pushes for passage to avoid extra sessions for 22 states, presenting a table showing 307 as a favorable basis and outlining regional gains and losses. The Cannon Campbell contest and Le Duc sorghum project also figure in the coverage.
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Ways and Means
Washington
Cox
United States
Pacific
Owever
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Tennessee
North Carolina
Cannon-Campbell
Congress
Utah
Murray
Campbell
Cannon
Mobell
Salt Lake
New Chicago
Omaha
Salt
Circlesville
Kansas
Green River
Theman
Elgin
le Duc
Great Northwest United States
Chicago
Major McDowell
le Duc Ee
Committee On Ways and Means
Wood
The Field Before Mowing in Morning Light
Poem describes a sunlit field waking with dew and flowers as evening fades toward Mars and Venus. The speaker notes the inevitable mowing soon, foretelling the harvest and shared labor, joy, and sorrow at taking the field’s wealth.
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Venus
Mars
Lessons on virtue and restraint from Bryant and Bulwer Lytton
A reflective prose piece compiles maxims on kindness self restraint honesty and humility. It contrasts truth and falsehood praising modesty uprightness and the inner strength needed to bear life’s burdens while condemning vanity and quarrelsomeness.
Court hears divorce case with mince pie joke
In a crowded courtroom Rollingstone versus Rollingstone on cruelty proceeds as Beatrice Rollingstone testifies her husband scorns her mince pies. The judge grants the divorce while Rupert mutters in disbelief about the pie joke.
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Ilis
Nix
Stix
Rollingstone
Beatrice
Beatrice Rollingstone
Boneset
Rupert
Death of Hon Fernando Wood at Hot Springs
A Hot Springs special dated February 13 reports Hon Fernando Wood died at 9 o clock. He arrived in fragile health and remained in a hopeless condition despite treatment for gout and rheumatism. The body lies in state at the Arlington Hotel awaiting his brother's arrival for burial and transport East.
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Hot Springs
Fernando Wood
Arlington Hotel
The Beautiful Moon at Denver Observation
On the night of the 14th in Denver Colorado observers saw unusual lunar phenomena as the moon rose. Streaks of light appeared from different sides then four lunar dogs and four lunar bows formed on a line with the dogs. The bows faded into a halo with the moon and dogs at equal distances, then contracted and exited. The halo vanished around ten o clock followed by the dogs.
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Denver
Colorado
Liberal Bequest for Northampton Town Library
Judge Charles E Forbes of Northampton Massachusetts leaves in his will a trust of 220000 to the town for a public library with 50000 for building 20000 annual maintenance income and 50000 for books and a provision that no minister may handle the library. If Northampton declines Harvard College would receive 220000 for an Advanced Scientific Research Professorship.
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Charles E. Forbes
Northampton
Mass
Harvard College
Telegraph System Consolidation Prompts Litigation Fears
Projections warn that the consolidation of the telegraph system will trigger substantial legal challenges. Analysts and officials anticipate disputes over control, costs, and regulatory approvals as the plan proceeds.
Iowa Man Bound to Two Wives Under Crossed Bigamy Rule
An Iowa man was divorced in Illinois and remarried in Iowa. The Iowa Supreme Court ruled the second marriage bigamy. He may live with wife one in Iowa but commits adultery toward wife two, and vice versa in Illinois. He cannot take either wife across the state line.
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Iowa
Illinois
Iowa Supreme Court
Keeping to the Right on Roads and Sidewalks
A preacher urges pedestrians and drivers to keep right on roads and sidewalks. He notes England favors left passing for drivers but here driving on the right prevails. The piece stresses caution with animals, turns, and unreliable others, and cites a Troy case where a horse owner paid damages for a sidewalk incident.
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England
Cenes
Troy
Christian Union
The Vagabond Sage Dialog at the Police Court
An old traveler of sharp physiognomy is brought before the police court. He offers wry observations on travelers and vagabonds, praising home stability and quick sermons, while censuring marriages for dress and drunken officeholders. He is dismissed after exchange.
The Healing Power of Laughter and the Mind
The piece asserts that hearty laughter stirs every blood vessel and invigorates the body, sending life to the surface and extending life by stimulating vital forces. It predicts a future where physicians rely more on mental influence than drugs to aid healing.
Hitznoodle Reads Puck On A Night In
Hitznoodle comments in Puck about inviting a regiment of people to a house event and serving only water and ice cream, noting that missing toothpicks would be a lapse in hospitality.
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Hitznoodle
Puck
Fitz
Boy
Exasperating Moment for Man at Front Stoop
A Boston Globe quip notes a man at 2 a m finds his right key in his other vest. The brief wry line captures the humor of late night misfortune and ordinary domestic life.
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Boston Globe
Infinity of truth lies beyond reason’s reach
A saying notes that the ultimate scope of truth surpasses human reason, framing knowledge as an endless pursuit with countless ideas beyond current understanding. It emphasizes humility before boundless inquiry and the limits of rational mastery.
Ohio State News Highlights Diverse Fatalities and Trials
Reports from Ohio recount Matthew Lorris killed near Hazieton, a miner crushed at Union Mines in Coshocton, and Melvain Cotcrove fatally kicked by a horse in Perry. Kent area illness, illicit distillery charges in Mansfield, and a spate of accidents, trials, and oddities fill the page alongside a major display of local crime and public notices.
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Matthew Lorris
Hazieton
Maysville
Melvain Cotcrove
Perry
Kent
Marruies Bowser
Mansfield
Cleveland
Union Mines
Coshocton
Warren
McCoy and McCaffry
Spears
Howlan Prings
Linodal Sppragve
Wooster
Ed. Creely
Forest
Louis Scuawn
Portsmouth
Scioto County
Mount Vrerrnon
New Delano Preparatory School
Kenyon College
Gambier
Fish & Son
Columbus
Henry Daewexpacn
Logan County
Coalport
Ida Ann
O. Barker
Franklin Township
Ross County
United States
McDougal
Nicholas Hederick
A. Oi Wilson
Samart D. Brown
New Philadelphia
Lizzie Quillen
Brown
Icksyville
Uhler
Joan Lerten
Cincinnati, Sandusky and Cleveland
Common Pleas Court
Sandusky
Kenton
Jor Johnston
Mill Township
Tuscarawas County
Blue Goose
Joe
Clarke
Newark
Mary Beckly
Dan Miller
Florence GoLps Bonovan
Frank Harr
Uhrichsville
Florence Goldsborough
Belmont County
Bellaire
Globe House
Cincinnati
Alaska
New Orleans
Florence
Vine and
Eighth
Ohio
Ohio Senate Bills Move Through Long Session Fragments
The Ohio legislature introduced numerous measures including authorizing Lebanon to issue bonds up to 50000 for a machine shop, and calls to tax and regulate guardianships. Other bills cover Lancaster bond funding for wool and water works, road district tree planting, and road-related taxes. A series of committee actions, readings, and votes followed with various resolutions and pending measures.
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Scott
Warren
Lebanon
Hay
J. Greene
Champs
Ray
City Council of
Lancaster
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Ohio Railroad
Atkinson
Guernsey County
Quaker City and
Summerfield
Committee On
Moore
Darke County
House
Ohio State Affairs Digest Signals Delays and Railway Plans
Ohio state notes report delays in annual department reports due to paper shortages and a suspected combination against the state. The Senate adopts a House joint resolution to omit the Railroad Commissioner from executive documents. Discussions cover life insurance investigations, university governance, and a proposed Ohio railway syndicate planning routes from Akron to Chicago with a January 1882 completion target.
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Seeenue
Senate
House
Board of Agriculture
We Life Insurance Associations
Ferdinand Seitz
Cincinnati
Five
Taut Vernor Foster
Ceanp Cate
Barnes
Sapaaters
General Assembly
Beyin
Carner
House Judiciary Committee
Judiciary Committee
Carter
The Dry Climate of Colorado
A Colorado physician warns that high altitude dry air harms health. He notes rapid weight loss, dry catarrh, and swift decline in consumptives. He urges invalids to judge for themselves whether Colorado’s climate suits them.
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Colorado
Denver
Leadville
Ace
Compulsory Education in the Continental System
The New York Sun notes ten years of compulsory education in the United States shows ground lost. It argues Americans prefer self regulated learning over official oversight and paternal government aid, favoring partial self earned gains over imposed policies.
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United States
New York Sun
Glass City Morality Allegory Cited by Beecher
A quote from Henry Ward Beecher argues that if New York were made of glass so people could see each other’s actions, the city’s morality would rise by fifty percent within a year.
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New York
Henry Ward Beecher
Cherishing a Fault or Sin Contention Expressed
A speaker rejects discontent as unhappiness for others and vows to keep personal happiness by guarding a treasured jewel of contentment, insisting they do not believe their love amounts to a fault or sin.
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Arkie
Trained Men Lead Society and Politics in Contrast
The essay argues that a few trained men direct major commercial, literary, religious, and artistic currents, while politics often ignores experience and training. It notes educated leaders propel progress and questions the belief that all work is equal, citing the need for skilled governance and a democratic right to choose capable leaders. Source: New York Post.
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Aes
Longfellow
Tennyson
New York Post
Old Man Mockingly Tries to Break Coal-Hole Cover
Witnesses recall an elderly man resisting assistance after an incident. He claimed he was attempting to sit on a coal-hole cover to test its strength for fun, glaring at onlookers as they helped him up.
Advertising Rates in The Clermont Courier
The Clermont Courier lists legal and transient ads at 1.00 per line for the first insertion and 0.50 per line for each additional insertion. Ten lines basic rate with a yearly reduction. Business cards up to six lines cost 66.00 per year.
Yankee speculator pitches multiuse gadgets and county rights
A mock Erie depot pitch showcases a versatile inventor touting traps, kettles, boot-jacks, and tools that transform into other items. He declares he is full of speculations and will accept any payment while promising each listener a chance at a million dollars.
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Erie Depot
Jareau City
Restorative Treatment for Brittle Rubber Goods
Dr. Pol suggests soaking rubber items in one part water of ammonia to two parts water for five minutes to an hour. After treatment the rubber is said to regain elasticity smoothness and softness. The text notes an envelope muff worn by its wearer indicating readiness for the meal.
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Pol
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A. N. Robinson
Clermont County
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Hamilton
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Questio
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Tyler
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Columbus Notes
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