Fatal confrontation near Varnville sparks mob violence
A deadly clash between whites and blacks in South Carolina left Policeman Robert Reid killed after a pistol exchange with Jake Gantt and a following march of about twenty Black men to Stamptom Courthouse. Whites were attacked. several men were wounded, and threats of further bloodshed were noted as the mob dispersed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Varnville
South Carolina
Robert Reid
Hampton Courthouse
Jake Gantt
Gantt
Brunson
Stamptom Courthouse
Reid
C. Nowell
A. D. Gerald
Samuel DeWitt
Maj. Causey
H. A. Peoples
Nowell
Gerald
DeWitt
Henry Peoples
United States
Yumar
Howe
Frank
Terre Haute Iron and Nail Works
Wabash Iron Company
Greencastle
Lupina
Kansas
Mary Isabella Martin
Kriegar
Monterey
Mexico
Pensacola
Mixwiz Shanxs
Mary Godfray
Marion County
Nza
Shelby
North Carolina
James Queen
Ann Parrett
West Chester
Butler County
Ohio
Ordway
Kinkezd
Jones
Chandler
Red Ash
Wilkesbarre
Pennsylvania
Sherman
Garfield Claims Commission
Elbérom
Elberon
New Jersey
Garfield
Vienna
Louisiana
Ray
Wm. McLzaper
Sam Stafford
Wm. Starr
Macon
Georgia
Brunswick
Tas Comptroller
Moss National Bank
Sandusky
First National Bank
Red Cloud
Nebraska
Ben Butler
Capitol
Massachusetts
Artroower
Brewster
Judge Gray
Department of Justice
Yematz
Erie
Gas Company of
New Orleans
Mecca
Port Said
Suez
Malivan
Corea
England
Pispatcn
Alexandria
Clay Cross Mines
Derbyshire
Newham
North Wales
Clwyd
Rhyl
Biela
Denbigh
Conway
Soudan
Khedive
Khartoum
Bara
Windsor Mills
Quebec
John Randall
Amoor
Russia
Toronto
Northern and
Hamilton and Northwestern Railway
Scovi_ie
Canada
Young Men’s Christian’ ‘Association of
London Ontario
France
Duclerc
Chamber of Deputies
Paris
Rome
Italy
Local bear hunting mistake ends in man’s death
In Michigan Mr. Sam Monet Tarsox of Xenia Ohio fired at what he believed was a bear. The shot killed a man instead. Tarsox returned home, deeply distressed by the tragedy.
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Sam Monet Tarsox
Xenia
Ohio
Michigan
Tarbox
United States District Court
St. Louis
Louis F. Koch
Lagrange
Missouri
J. T. Whittaker
Cincinnati
Commercial Club
Burclars
Delos Barnes’ Banking
Cortland
Wyoming
Philadelphia
Louisville
Ellen Shearer
Albert Biersstadt
Painters’ Box
Irvington-on-Hudson
R. M. Donley
Election results outlined in party gains and state leads
The tally shows Democrats winning large majorities in the House with 47 to 52 vote edges over Republicans and Readjusters. Senate balance remains close. New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania monuments noted. various local incidents and legal notices follow.
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House of Representatives
Democrats
Senate
Grover Cleveland
New York
Pattison
Pennsylvania
Ben Butler
Massachusett
Indiana
New Jersey
McPherson
North Carolina
Alabama
South Carolina
Florida
Tennessee
Georgia
Texas
Louisiana
Virginia
Mississippi
AML Lorinia
Connecticut
Delaware
Illinois
Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
Missouri
Ohio
West Virgin
Wisconsin
Arkansas
Nevada
California
Colorado
West Virginia
Michigan
Oregon
Iowa
Minnesota
Rhodes Island
Kansas
Nebraska
Vermont
Hampshire
Maine
Presidents Ages Show Longevity and Deaths Across Era
A study of presidential ages reveals four deaths in office and varied longevity among leaders. Garfield, Harrison, Taylor, and Lincoln died young, while Adams and Jefferson lived into their 80s. The piece also notes Harrison’s death from illness and Arabi Pasha’s complex portrayal as a political figure in Cairo.
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Arthur
John Tyler
Millard Fillmore
Andrew Johnson
Chester A. Arthur
Garfield
Harrison
General Tayor
Lincoln
Gen. Taylor
Washington Monument
Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
College of William and Mary
Burke
James Madison
Princeton
James Monroe
Revolutionary Army
John Quincy Adams
Harvard
Andrew Jackson
Martin van Buren
James K. Polk
University of North Carolina
Franklin Pierce
Bowdoin College
James Buchanan
Dickinson College
Gen. Grant
West Point
White House
Rutherford B. Hayes
Williams College
Union College
Hampden Sidney College
Tyler
Grant
Hayes
Adams
Jefferson
Madison
John Q. Adams
van Buren
Polk
N. Y. Man and Express
The West Will Bloom With Green Farms and Rain
The article cites irrigation from Rocky Mountain streams and Salt Lake Valley farming as turning arid plains east of the Rockies into fertile land. Artesian wells, population growth, and tree planting are said to boost rains, with Denver possibly receiving more showers. Horace Greeley foresaw windmills powering arid lands, and railroads are linked to bringing rain from the east.
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Missouri River
Rocky Mountains
Salt Lake Valley
Utah
Denver
Horace Greeley
Demorest
Coon-Hunting Tales and Rough Reveries in a Nation's Mind
The piece surveys varied views on hunting as a personal ideal and ridicules the rough antics of night coon hunters. Dogs baying through woods chase coon and end with hunters and dogs covered in mud, then dine on the wild game, praising it by the sacred name of game.
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Boston Journal
Advertising Rates For Legal and Transient Notices
The Glermont Gourier outlines legal and transient advertisements priced at $1 per square for the first insertion and fifty cents for each additional insertion. Business cards consist of up to six lines at $6 per year.
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Eee
PITH AND POINT Jokes and quotations mix from papers
A collage of humorous snippets in old newspaper tone. Includes Whitman on solitude and a commentary on collecting for the Washington Monument, a mail coach driver’s resignation, masked robbery and mining, jokes about health journals, fashion, and a dialogue about a monkey in a cage. References to Detroit Free Press Boston Transcript Norristown Herald Zeras Siftings Laramie Boomerang.
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Walt Whitman
Washington Monument
Boston Post
Arizona
Jennie June
Detroit Free’ Press
Filkinson
Fogg
Boston Transcript
Laramie
London
Norris
Town Herald
Austin
Jim Webster
Ike
Jim
Scientific Advances and Domestic Innovations Across Lands
The article notes steam pressures in locomotives rising from 60 to over 160 psi, a British room alarm and gate alert, and a train test showing a 125 ton locomotive coasting five miles after braking. It reports fir cone exports from Puyallup Valley, nickel consumption estimates in Europe led by England, bamboo uses from timber to food, and Sanitary Congress findings on high house ventilation and raised homes for invalids.
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Bettie Green
Forsyth County
England
Tribune
St. Louis Globe
Puyallup Valley
Washington Territory
Europe
Chicago Times
Germany
United States
France
Industrial Review
South Atlantic
Gulf States
F. A. Russell
Extinction of a Family near Roxana North Carolina
A North Carolina notice reports the near extinction of the Evans family at Roxana. Jacob Evans and his wife died recently leaving two sons and two daughters. The unmarried brother Taylor Isa lived with the children. After a daughter who had married died, Taylor died soon after. Within weeks the remaining daughter and another brother died, leaving one fragment of the family near death. The group was described as mentally fragile, with successive deaths following the first.
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Ing
Washington
Legation
Art St. Joseph
Birdsboro
George O. Miller
Messrs
Merrick, Ker
Wells
H. Garses
Norristown
Pensacola
Inprax Commissionner
Carlisle
Ther
Howard
West Point
William Maple
Manchester
Pennsylvania
John J. Davis
Mary Anderson
Louisville
Kentucky
Miss Anderson
Alexis
James Johnson
Wm. Buchanan
Clydesdale Breeding and Exporting Company
Robert Halloway
St. Louis
St. Louis, Keokuk and
Jonx W. Burns
Shelbyville, Indiana
Iger
United States
Alba
Commercial Avenue
Cairo
Ill
Little Rock
Ark
Isaac Bott
Julius Levy
Moses Grass
John H
Marion Court
Indian Bureau
Tule River
California
Logan County
Finley R. McLaughlin
Warren
Darke County
Amos House
Franklin
Tenn
West Mansfield
Tennessee
Exiza J. Tumbleson
Famier
Pleasant Township
van Wert County
Esquire
Richey
Charles Miller
Smith Miller
Miller
Godfrey Greenfield
Dunkirk
Cons. Williams
Delaware County
Cleveland
Columbus
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Berlin
Kenyon College
Mount Vernon
Mardenbro White
T. R. Head
Gambier
Harry N. Hills
Delaware
Theological Seminary
W.S. Hanson
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Hanson
Clinton Woodruff
Concord Township
Lake County
Painesville
Youngstown
Charles Lyon
Mansfield
Richland County
G. W. Gregg & Co
Rhodes
Charles Engle
Howard Township
Knox County
Justice Doty
Mary J. South
Engle
Twrenzo Bang
North Washington
Hardin County
Charles Hellan
Alliance
Alexander Brooks
Noble County
H. Plank
Treasury Department
Joan Slang
Toledo
Lucas County
John Beach
Union National Bank of Chicago
Merchants’ National Bank of Toledo
Burclars
Frankfort
Ross
Hamilton County
Common Pleas Court
Erie County
Harriet Smith
James Smith
George Dosh
Ellen Dosh
Alwina Busch
Carl Geo. von Busch
Thomas Hurley
Carrie Ross
Zanesville
Roxana
N.C
Jacob Evans
Evans
Taylor Isa
Taylor
Rothers
North Carolina
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I- Batavia
Hoffman
Department
Judiciary Square
Meigs
Alagcam
Port Jervis
New York Boundary Monument
Henry VP. Pierson
Chaulcey M. Depew
Elias W. Leavenworth
Abraham Browning
Thomas N. McCarter
George H. Cook
W. C. Dabney
Caldwell County
Atlanta Constitution
Waco
Tex
Kentuck
Marylan
Assachusetts
Wees
Mississ
Missou
Rene
New Hampshire
Naneewee
Pennsyvania
Rhode Island
West
Arkansa
Lowa
Peewee Ory
Earereaey
Arabi
Achmet Arabi Pasha
Alrascid
Cerberus
Arabbi
Toulba
Joan of Arc
Toulba Pasha
Ninet
Napoleon III
Hortense
Tel-el-Kebir
John of
Leyden
Mohammed
Mahomet Ali
Toulbn
Abbassiah
Abdin Barracks
Allah
Cairo Cor
London Telegraph
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