Life and Legacy Notes: Macaulay and Immigration News
A London release on The Life of Macaulay highlights that the author earned at most two hundred dollars per year during his best essays. European immigration to 1870 reached 7,319,025 with major influx from the British Isles Teutons and Latin races. The oldest church edifice in America aside from St. Augustine’s Romish church is St. Luke’s in Isle of Wight Virginia built by 1635 and roofed anew around 1830 to 1835.
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Macaulay
London
British Isles
Teutons
Pacific
America
St. Augustine
St. Luke’s
Isle of Wight County
Virginia
Smithfield
Mormon Apostle Fined in Berne for Polygamy Tracts
An American Mormon apostle distributing tracts in the Canton of Berne was fined ten dollars for violating Swiss law and had his books confiscated. The higher court upheld the ruling on appeal, illustrating the difference between republics.
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Switzerland
America
Berne
Ireland-born doctor claims relation to Mr Stewart
Dr Thomas Bailey of Hempstead Long Island asserts he is Mr Stewart's first cousin though he cares little for the will. Bailey arrived in this country as a youth from Ireland and once lived with Mr Stewart’s grandfather, whom both boys knew. They were later separated by distance and disputes over property.
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Thomas Bailey
Hempstead
L. I
Mr. Stewart
Dr. Bailey
Ireland
New Orleans Picayune
Michael Gross
Elysian Fields
Marigny
Mr. Gross
Incendiary Fire Causes Highlighted by Underwriters
The National Board of Fire Underwriters reports that at least thirty five percent of fires last year were due to incendiaries, accounting for fifty five percent of property losses. It lists 3946 total fires with causes including defects 868 matches 214 spontaneous 100 accidental 517 carelessness 777 miscellaneous 393 unknown 461 incendiary 398 petroleum 309 and defective flues and chimneys causing daily fires.
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National Board of Fire Underwriters
New German Cosin dye offers vivid rose brown fluorescence
A new cosin dye from a German firm shows striking fluorescence on silk and in solution, blending rose and reddish brown. It forms water soluble greenish scales from an alkaline yellow dye, precipitated by acids, likely related to Bavarian phthalic dyes. Meister of Zurich uses it for rapid alkali titration due to its sharp rose color change.
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Meister
Zurich
Remains of Robert Fulton Found in Livingston Vault
In Old Trinity church yard New York City Rev Richings discovered Fulton’s remains interred among Livingston relics. Fulton a remote Livingston relation died with his body placed in Chancellor Livingston’s vault awaiting a nearer relative to claim. When will Georgia claim the body for a monument remains a question.
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Livingston
Old Trinity Churchyard
New York City
Richings
Robert Fulton
Hudson River
Livingstons
Chancellor Livingston
Georgia
Fire Underwriters Convened in New York at Annual Meeting
At the National Fire Underwriters convention in New York City principal U S and Great Britain companies gathered. The treasurer reported receipts of 134000 and expenditures of 133000 for the year. The capital employed rose to 55000000, up 2000000 from 1874, with dividends averaging 13 percent. Premiums by American companies reached 50000000 and by foreign firms 11000000, down 1.7 percent from 1874. Losses paid totaled 28000000, while risks assumed in 1875 grew by 290000000. Remunerative rates were urged.
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National Fire Underwriters
New York City
United States
Great Britain
Oakley
A Quirk of Speech and Stew in a Sunny Scene
A speaker muses on a valetudinarian enjoying a couch of indolence while recalling heroic times. Maud interrupts, noting the scent of burning Irish stew, then the man excuses himself and leaves for home.
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Maud
Do As You Please Despite All The Talk
A social guide warns that gossip will follow any bold move or quiet stance. It urges staying calm, ignoring taunts, dressing modestly, and pursuing personal aims while facing inevitable criticism.
The Snarling Princess
A king raises his self willed daughter after a queen's death in a tale of strict control. The princess grows with a snarling temper that pains the court while the king defends her will, forbidding harsh speaks and shaping her upbringing.
Snarling Princess Learns Humility in Forest Curse
A vain future queen nicknamed the Snarling Princess spurns suitors and torments a poor Wood-wife. For disobeying, she is transformed into a pine tree within a circle of enchanted stones. The king mourns, the fairy godmother reveals the lesson, and the princess is restored after twelve months, marrying a prince.
Mexico Revolt Underscores Lerdo Regime in Turmoil
The piece outlines Porfirio Diaz’s rising influence in Oaxaca and Michoacan as rebels challenge President Lerdo de Tejada. It notes desertions from government troops, foreign sympathy for the uprising, and fears of a renewed bloody conflict endangering Mexico’s republican stability.
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Porfirio Diaz
Matamorag
Republic
Mexico
Maximilian
Queretaro
Juarez
Congress
Lerdo
Supreme Court
Diaz
Michoacan
Trextepec
Oaxaca
Rocha
Royal quarrels over handling of royal grandchildren
A London Letter reports friction between the Princess of Wales and Queen over the care of the royal grandchildren. The Queen objects to the Princess spoiling the eldest boy who is described as impetuous and pisitive, leading to disputes and the nurse’s dismissal during a recent visit. The piece notes the Queen's punctuality versus the Princess's known delays and mentions the Princess's deafness and lameness.
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London
Princess of Wales
Marlborough House
England
India
Wales
Rumor of Defeat Near Monterey and Diaz’s Conscription
Rumor says revolutionaries were badly defeated near Monterey and the cavalry fled the city toward that area. Diaz stays in place and is conscripting Mexicans to swell his ranks.
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Monterey
Diaz
Hungarian Question in Austria and Hungary Struggle
The rise of Magyar independence within the Empire faces centralization resistance from Vienna and Berlin. Hungary seeks free trade and its own currency, while Archduke Rudolph’s proposed dual kingship is deemed impracticable due to Magyar resistance. Russian backing and Turkish crises add complexity as Austria weighs concessions and potential separation.
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Transleithan
Hungary
Austria
Ferdinand
Kossuth
Francis Joseph
Italy
Saxony
Tisza
Liberal Party
National Party
Russia
Rudolf
Hapsburg
Pesth
Barney Williams Married Joe Jefferson's Match in Stage Tale
The New York Sun recounts how Barney Williams, famed Irish comedian and former Vauxhall Garden manager, proposed to Miss Maria Kathleen Pray later Mrs Mestayer. After a staged offer between acts, she accepted Williams, and they married between the second and third acts while both touring.
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Barney Williams
New York Sun
Joe Jefferson
Vauxhall Garden
New York City
Dan Bryant
Barney
Chatham Theater
Maria Kathleen Pray
Charles Mestayer
Chatham
Maggie Lockyer
Bowery Theater
Joe
Mrs. Mestayer
Jefferson
Williams
Political commentary on 19th century party figures and investigations
The excerpt cites editorials and correspondence from New York and other papers criticizing Democratic and Republican figures. It discusses opinions on Bristow, Hayes, Blaine, Bayard, Hancock, and Grant era inquiries, plus a Norwich bulletin take on Davenport funds and Tammany voter registration.
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New York Herald
Columbus
New York Tribune
Ind
Mary Merritt
Bristow
Jimmy Williams
Indiana
Durbin Ward
Kentucky
Congress
ConFfax
Lake County
Georgia
New York Times
Cincinnati
Morton
Hayes
Blaine
Bayard
Hancock
United States
General Grant
Mr. Williams
Robeson
Belknap
Babcock
Civil Service
Capitol
Norwich
Conn
Grant
Davenport
Secret Service
New York
Tammany Ring
Tammany
New York Registry of Voters
Advertising rates for legal notices and ecards
The Clermont Courier lists advertising charges: legal and transient ads one dollar per square (ten lines) for first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. A yearly reduction is offered, and business ecards up to six lines cost six dollars per year.
The Drifting Boat Poem Description
A battered boat drifts alone on the sea while a distant town fades from view. The poem recalls lost mates and vanished hopes as ships go down and empty vessels drift on through time and memory.
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Tower and Town
Fragmented Humor and Commentary From 19th Century Press
A collage of quips and notices covers jokes about idle cruelty in Hawthorne, a Brooklyn man on a tree box, a Philadelphia arrest for scattershot iron pans, and a North Carolina proposal to reestablish whipping posts. It also includes aphorisms, literary riffs, and remarks on rhetoric and manners.
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Hawthorne
Brooklyn Argus
Brooklyn
Job
Scattergood
Philadelphia
North Carolina
Portrait of Penn Explains Early Ivory Bust Story
In Scribner May issue a discussant recounts Lord Cobham’s search for Penn’s likeness and Sylvanus Bevan’s ivory bust, which led to the garden statue that inspired William West’s Penn portrait. The piece notes the bust’s later use and the mismatch with Penn at age thirty eight during his first Indian council.
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West
Penn
Scribner
Col. Etting
Lord Cobham
Stowe
William Penn
Sylvanus Bevan
William West
Anecdote of Dr Nathan Smith at Dartmouth
A Bowdoin College Scribner May piece recounts Nathan Smith as an eminent physician who faced a prank at Dartmouth. A messenger called him to treat a broken goose leg. he calmly set the fracture and continued visits, finally presenting a large bill that thwarted the joke and demonstrated his steadiness and integrity.
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Bowdoin College
Nathan Smith
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