Era of varied tales spans arts, crime, and empire
A collage of notes covers Singer's many wives and a Paris busts display. Pottawatomie lands advance under Hoag. suicides spark alarm as public spaces host tragic jumps. a stairway precaution warns of burglar notice. railroads face large foreclosure suits in Iowa. England's Krxyce Epward I recalls medieval licensing and Cock's Company privilege.
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Krxyce Epward I
England
London
Westminster
Father of Roscoe Conkling Remains Public Figure Icon
The elder Conkling recalls pride in public service after being introduced as Roscoe Conkling’s father at a large public gathering. An official 1887 free delivery report lists 2195 carriers in 80 cities, 574 million pieces handled, 18.8 million dollars total cost, averaging 3.26 mills per piece.
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Roscoe ConKkioye
Roscoe Conkling
United States
Mexico
United States Court
Origin of Mother Goose in Boston Nursery Tale
Wm L Stone recounts in the Providence Journal how Mother Goose, linked to Boston high society, inspired the famous rhymes. The tale traces her family ties to Elizabeth Goose and Cotton Mather and notes Thomas Fleet’s 1731 book Songs for the Nursery printed in Boston. The note links Mother Goose to many children and to the rhyme There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
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Wm. L. Stone
Old Providence Journal
Thomas Fleet
Boston
Mother Goose
Elizabeth Goose
Cotton Mather
Fleet
Mrs. Goose
Mr. Fleet
T. Fleet
Pudding Lane
Rich Newfoundland codfish Harvest Report
The codfish are very numerous this year off Newfoundland and fishermen are reaping a rich harvest. Herring and mackerel fishing began on October 13.
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Newfoundland
Treasury calls ten million bonds for redemption
The Secretary of the Treasury issues a call for redemption of five million coupon and five million registered bonds from 1864 act details include $50, $100, $500 and $1,000 denominations with specific serial ranges. Also notes no importation of neat cattle or hides from England due to hoof and mouth disease.
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Secretary of the Treasury
England
Supervising Inspector of
Japan
United States
Chandler
J. P. Thompson
Interior Department
Thompson
Massachusetts
Pension Office
Pease
Vicksburg
Sterns
Holly Springs
Jewell
Post Office Department
Mississippi
Ames
Missouri
West
Early state election returns show broad party gains
Initial returns indicate Democrats carry Mississippi Maryland and Virginia while Republicans win Kansas Massachusetts Minnesota New York New Jersey Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Pennsylvania may reelect Hartranft. Massachusetts votes Rice Republican with a solid Legislature gain. Maryland Democratic slate wins. Minnesota GOP ahead. New Jersey Assembly GOP strength rising to about 36 to 38 seats. The Mississippi special notes a quiet election with no disturbances.
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Alexander Lewis
Detroit
Portland
Oregon
Lane
Congress
Salem
Warren
Chicago
Huck
Hesing
Keeley
Jones
Nelson
New Jersey
Senate
House
Albany Journal
New York
Assembly
Wisconsin
Ludington
Kitchen
Mississippi
Maryland
Virginia
Kansas
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
Memphis Avalanche
Jackson
Miss
Hartranft
Rice
Pap
Chandler
Ohio
Interesting Postal Statistics From The Annual Report
Mr E W Barber Third Assistant Post master General releases figures on last fiscal year showing 685000 official letters opened classified and distributed by four clerks. Postal cards issued reached 107616000 valued at 1076160 with October sales 20180000. Total stamps issued 973275025 valued at 25477511. Dead letters about 4500000 with 32799 containing money and 142000 drafts and notes. Foreign letters totaled 12500000 sent 11800000 received with several undelivered items. Post treaty Berne impact noted with small net gain. New newspaper pre payment law yields near 800000 in prepayments. Other items include 3400 offices pre printing and 15 percent rise in registered pouches.
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E. W. Barber
Executive Department
United States
Berne
Postoffice Department
Lane
Many topics listed from industry to disasters and politics
A wide roundup reports on air pressure and fashion laces, layoffs at Hudson River Railroad, California bee populations, Connecticut barley judging, American broom exports, a post mortem on an Italian hen, a New Orleans scaffolding collapse, German pension figures, a Dale Creek cloud burst ruining a wagon road, a Colorado subterranean ball, prison capacity in Connecticut and Massachusetts, the Star Spangled Banner on Tallapoosa, ancient graves in Sparta, a Virginia City fire emergency, a Queen Anne relic set for demolition, Arkansas General Assembly adjournment, and Western Union notes on language costs.
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Hudson River Railroad Company
California
Connecticut
Europe
England
Germany
Boothbay
Maine
New Orleans
George Mooney
Thompson Trackwell
Dale Creek
Arizona
Leavenworth Mountain
Colorado
Massachusetts
Wethersfield
Fort McHenry
Key
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Philadelphia
Sparta
Tennessee
Virginia City
London
South Kensington
General Assembly of
Arkansas
Little Rock
Orton
Western Union Telegraph
Deaths of Hackett and Wilkinson noted with obits
Professor Horatio Balch Hackett of Rochester University dies aged sixty seven after a career in Amherst Brow Newton Theological Seminary and Rochester He published a Bible commentary and aided Smiths Dictionary Ezra Abbott collaboration Sir John Gardener Wilkinson Egyptologist dies in London aged seventy eight Taunton Gazette obituary notes a praying widow lamenting lack of effect.
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Horatio Balch Hackett
Rochester, N. Y
Baptist Church
Union
Salisbury
Mass
Amherst College
Andover Seminary
Halle
Berlin
Brow University
Newton, Mass., Theological Seminary
Rochester
Old World
Egypt
Palestine
Plutarch
Ezra Abbott
John Gardener Wilkinson
London
Oxford
Political items reflect postwar demagoguery and satire
Cincinnati, Louisville, and Chicago papers brawl over Mississippi election peace amid racial absence from polls. Debates over Democrats, Morrissey, Morrissey’s district, and third terms frame a panoply of party blame and reform critiques.
Grant renomination talk in press debate continues
The New York Herald presses third term arguments, the Cincinnati Gazette notes. The reply argues that General Grant’s late elections fuel speculation on a renomination.
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New YorkHerald
Cincinnati Gazette
General Grant
Tilden’s Democratic strength dented by state elections
The New York Graphic argues the state results undermine Samuel J. Tilden as a Democratic presidential candidate. It notes his surrender of control after a large early majority, a weakened state ticket, and no further elections before the national convention. Inflationist momentum and Republican gains threaten party unity.
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Cincinnati
Mississippi
Tilden
Bristow
Treasury Department
Ohio
Andrew Jackson
Allen
Cincinnati Enquirer
Louisville Courier-Journal
Democratic Party
Waatt
Congress
Virginia
CuiscaGo Tribune
Baltimore City
Baltimore
John Morrissey
New York
Fox
Morrissey
Ohio Democrats
William Allen
The
James Buchanan
Samuel J. Tilden
October Report Highlights Varied U S Agriculture Crops
The October report from the Department of Agriculture notes a sharp drop in the cranberry crop in New Jersey Wisconsin and Minnesota due to insects and frost while rice output rises in South Carolina Florida Georgia and Louisiana. It cites drought limited sugar cane in Georgia and seed shortages halting Florida plantings with some states returning to average yields after rains.
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Department OF Agriculture
New Jersey
Wisconsin
Minnesota
South Carolina
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
North Carolina
Alabama
Mississippi
New York
Oregon
Willamette
Kentucky
New England
Connecticut
Quote on farming upbringing and marriage roles
A remark states that a man raised milking cows will become a submissive husband, implying gendered expectations tied to rural labor and traditional household dynamics. The line casts a critical view of how agricultural upbringing shapes personal relationships.
Advertising rates for legal notices and business cards
The Clermont Courier lists advertising charges: legal and all transient ads at $1.00 per square (ten lines) for first insertion, 50 cents per additional insertion. Yearly discounts apply. Business cards up to six lines priced at $6.00 per year.
I would not die in any season of the year
A reflective verse declares the speaker would not die in spring summer autumn or winter. It contrasts seasonal joys with a hope to endure, noting worms cabbages frogs and birds as imagery while lamenting chills and storms yet affirming a wish to live Throughout the poem the tone blends humor and nature driven vivid seasonal scenes.
Epitaphs quirks and old jests in Vermont 1784 notes
A collage of antique lines and jokes quotes a Vermont Journal epitaph for lawyer Robert Shaw, plus pithy aphorisms, literary quips, and folksy vignettes. It blends musings on happiness, Scheherazade style quotes, and a Victorian humor strip about a preacher and a stove-pipe laden husband.
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Vermont
Robert Shaw
Faust
Budd
Rose
The Virginia City Mines Fire Impacts and Recovery Prospects
Dispatches report the Virginia City fire caused heavy losses but spared the mines themselves. The mines yield about two million dollars monthly, supporting California and the broader economy before funds move to Europe. Total fire losses are estimated at 7.5 million with 2 million insured, threatening local insurance firms and prompting donation appeals.
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Virginia City
Pacific
California
Europe
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Indian Territory
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Washington Monument
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Cedar Rapids
Davenport and
National Gold Bank and Trust Company
San Francisco
Bank of California
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Los Angeles
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Temecuela
D. A. Dryden
Smith
Indian Affairs
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General Assembly
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Bureau of Immigration, Mining, and Agriculture
Arkansas Senate
State Board of Finance
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Sherman
Texas
Cambridge
Mattapoisett
Fall River
Lehigh Valley Railway
Bound Brook
N. Y
Thomas Caper
Abraham King
William Thompson
New York City
No. 106
Delaney Street
Joseph Goldman
Moses Piskalt
Goldman
Piskalt
East Broadway
Greentown
Howard County
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David Robinson
Baily
St. Louis
Treat
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Thomas T. Bulkley
Oliver Garrison
James H. Beach
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
Deacon West
Henry Ward Beecher
Annapolis
Thomas Dickinson
Henry E. Baker, Jr
Secretary of the Navy
Navy School
Beecher
Congregational Association
William M. Taylor
Broadway Tabernacle
Victoria
British Columbia
Key West
Punta Rassa
West Indies
South America
Cape Breton
Lima
Admiral Montero
Prado
J. W. Marsh
Bank of British North America
Napanee
Ontario
John Gates Ronaldson & Sons
West India
Strousberg
Grea
Belgrade
Ignatieff
Turkey
Herzegovina
d’Audiffret Pasquier
Vienna
London Standard
Servia
Franco-American Union
Hotel de Louvre
M. de Laboulaye
Juris Consult
MM. Mallon
Leon Say
Henri Martin
Oscar de Lafayette
M. Bartholi
Marquis de Rochambeau
D’absac
Count de Harcourt
Marshal MacMahon
Leon and
Renault
Nancy
Strasbourg
Washburne and
Schenck
Sickles
Forney
Alexis de Tocqueville
Count de Bouillet
Pothian Caubert
Alexander Dumas
Emile de Gerardin
M. Offenbach
M. Carnot
Arsene Houssaye
Jules Simon
M. Kern
Brown
Brooklyn Bridge
Eeecassscas
Treasury
Treas
Pacific Railroad
General Intelligence
Taunton Gazette
Rocky Mountains
Clermont Courier
Pencil
Jusia
Carrie
Julia
Grandmama
T. B. Aldrich
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