Topical notes on Tilton police and Paris nests
The article mentions a New York Theodore Tilton confusion in the Beecher case and reports the arrest of Chief Dent Walling for oppression. It also notes Parisian efforts to boost bird populations with artificial nests and profiles poisoners Lucgeria Borat and Brigette Burckel with remarks on beauty aiding crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Tilton
New York
Theodore
Beecher
Tilton
Beechers
Dent Walling
New York City
Board of Police Commissioners
Paris
Lucgeria Borat
Brigette Burckel
Strasburg
Fragmented World Notes From A Late 19th Century Dispatch
Reports on Marswa Bazarre at Santander show unrest with a crowd taunting a marshal, while comments on Gail Hamilton, Chinese population, and Jesuit persecution appear through varied anecdotes. A Senator Schwarz plan includes Europe travel, writing a U.S. political history, and a St. Louis lecturing return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marswa
Schwarz
Europe
Germany
Switzerland
St. Louis
Western Post
The
United States
Education mandates grow as compulsory schooling spreads
The article notes compulsory education gains support among educators and the public. It cites laws in Massachusetts and New York, considered moves in Pennsylvania Maryland and West Virginia, and compares Prussia where strict enforcement yields near universal school attendance and low adult illiteracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachussetts
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Wes Virginia
Prussia
Classified Ad Rates and Policy Note
Legal rates set at one dollar per square for ten lines with fifty cents for each extra line. A yearly liberal reduction applies to advertising. Business cards priced at six dollars per year.
Treasury Bond Call and Army Reassignments in Capital Brief
The Treasury calls thirty million dollars in bonds for sinking fund with coupon bonds totaling 24,063,750 and registered 5,936,250, due in three months from March. Gen Augur, Gen Ord, Gen Cook, and Gen Kautz are reassigned to new posts, and Sioux treaty actions would bar access to the Black Hills until title is extinguished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
New York
Gen Augur
Alfonso
Grant
Washington
Black Hills
George Emerson
Col
F. W. Fenton
Celso Cesar Moreni
Washington City
Chandler
Russia
George H. Baker
Government Printing Office
International and Domestic News Roundup
Reports from Rome note cardinals named by the Consistory. In London revival meetings by Moody and Sankey draw huge crowds amid mixed criticism. Paris, Berlin, and Madrid dispatches cover warfare, diplomacy, and church-state tensions. Louisiana politics in U.S. Senate include Pinchback admission debate and executive sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Maynard Gomm
Coldstream Guards
Tower
Ife
Waterloo
India
Wheeling
Portland
Hartford
Kingston
London
Assam
Paris Universe
General Cabrera
Don Carlos
the Universe
Paris
Cabrera
L’ Universe
Madrid
Elia
Sendugary
General South American Banking Company, Limited
General South American Banking Company
Moody and Sankey
Agricultural Hall
London Times
Berlin
Cologne
Landtag
Prince Bismarck
Neury
Mitchell
Belgium
Portugal
Swatow
China
Furst Bismarck
John Mitchel
Sidney Herald
New South Wales
Bathurst
Orange
Melbourne
Ellery
Victoria
South Australia
New Zealand
Congressional Resolution on Black Hills Emigration
In the Senate March 15 Mr Ingalls of Kansas introduced a resolution asking the President to transmit to the Senate, if compatible with the public interest, any information in his possession regarding proposed emigration to the Black Hills.
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Ord
Fort Laramie
Harney’s Peak
Parker
Missouri
Supreme Court of
Utah
J. B. McKean
Register of the Land Office
Salt Lake City
Axtill
McKean
Sheridan
Fort Sill
Tadinea
Pinchback
Ferry
Connecticut
Senate
West
Louisiana
Morton
Indiana
Edmunds
P. B.S. Pinchback
Thurmen
Ohio
Yeas
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
United States
Stevens
Albert A. Wyman
Washington
Leroy Tuttle
Boutwell
Hamlin
Thurman
Anthony
RR. I
Bayard
Del
Rhode Island
Mr. Ingalls
Kansas
Black Hills
Slander Case Recalled From Cambridge Court Archives
A brief from a Cambridge Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas recalls a twenty five year old slander case. Plaintiff Avery sued Constable Pressy of Lowell over the Stop thief shout while serving process. Jury awards six cents damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Common Pleas
Cambridge
Mass
Avery
Constable Pressy
Lowell
The Louisiana Compromise in Harper's Weekly Opinion
The piece argues Democrats favor Kellogg as Louisiana governor de facto to avoid chaos and rebellion, condemns White League influence, and warns that Democratic ascendancy in Congress would threaten colored citizens' rights and national stability, naming figures like Robespierre and Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Harper’s Weekly
M’enery
Mr. Kellogg
Board of Registration
Kellogg
House
Democratic Party
Congress
Tilden
Thompson
General Butler
White League
John Young Brown
Robespierre
Danton
Marat
White House
Pierce
New York
Horatio Seymour
Washington
Washington arrivals fill nation’s capital during transition period
In the capital crowds converge as members of the coming Congress and new Senators arrive to observe how government works. Many seek offices, others pursue sightseeing or influence. A prominent presence includes White Leaguers in Confederate gray, noted for their severe appearance and rumored ambitions in the Democratic era ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Union
Caliban
Pennsylvania Legislature Blamed for Democratic Rule Failure
The piece notes a Democratic era in Harrisburg as a failure, likening the Senate to veteran Republicans and the House to a chaotic militia. It contends the session proves a political revolution misfired and ends with calls to adjourn and end partisan rowdyism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Philadelphia Times
New Democratic
Keystone
Senate
Harrisburg
Rutan
Strang
Quay
Mackey
House
Rise up William and the force bill in Congress
The text critiques the force bill and notes the South's private war claims totaling 716,058 dollars approved by the last Congress. It comments on Governor Smith's plan and political shifts, including Barnum's potential mayoral candidacy and a New Hampshire result praised by the Boston Transcript.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Congress
Hartford Post
P. T. Barnum
Bridgeport
Tuk
Boston Transcript
New Hampshire
Smith
Georgia
United States
Bruce
Mississippi
United States Senate
Farren
New Haven
Springfield
Connecticut
Brookily
Argus
Civil rights and political battles echo in a turbulent era
The piece reports on Senate acquittal votes, party splits, and legislative excesses amid Civil Rights law debates. It notes Senator McCreery as a lone Kentucky Democrat who joined the acquittal side, Republicans planning campaigns with Blaine and Wilson, and Tennessee's bill to nullify civil rights enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond Whig
Ohio
Blaine
Wilson
Conkling
Logan
Hawley
Frye
Treland
John Mitchel
America
Mitchel
THE
Commonwealth
Washington
New York
Samuel Bowles
New Hampshire
Tennessee
Cheney
Toledo Blade
Chicago
Illinois
A Sack of Gold Gift Prompts Sewing Machine Donation
Virginia W. Johnson’s novel A Sack of Gold features a heroine who gives a poor lad a sewing machine to support his widowed mother and sister. A manufacturer read the tale and donated a machine to a worthy real life counterpart. Also noted is a Kentucky claim of hydrophobia misdiagnosis in a cow killed nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia W. Johnson
Joseph the
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Leslie
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Appling
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Evening Dispatch
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Richmond
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Jefferson
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Lehigh Valley Railroad
Wilksboro
Delaware
Grand Army of the Republic
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Elliott
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Equitable Life Insurance Company
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