Suits and Decisions From Vermont Court and World News
Vermont Supreme Court holds a traveler on Sunday cannot sue a town for highway defects. Guardian James Keeler shows Donaldson children are not destitute. their income from Donaldson property supports education. August France Britain travel totals rise. Brazil’s Dom Pedro II to visit U S for centennial events. Servia’s parliament backs Herzegovinians. armed neutrality risks war. Cuiabá’s grain market processes 28 million bushels monthly with eighteen elevators costing about 5 million dollars in total.
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Supreme Court of
Vermont
Maine
Massachusetts
Wisconsin Court
Donaldson
James Keeler
Rochester
New York
United States
Brazil
Dom Pedro II de Alcantara
Europe
America
Cuiiaco
Noted Madison Negro Humorist Jack Campbell Dies at 80
An obituary notes the death of Jack Campbell of Madison Georgia at eighty. Once a slave, he boosted the inn’s prosperity and gained fame across Georgia. his wit appeared in Major Jones Courtship and Harper’s. Barnum once offered ten thousand dollars for him.
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Jack” Campbell
Madison
Georgia
Major Jones
The
Harpers
P. T. Barnum
Jack
Delegation of Pueblo Indians visits Washington
A trio of Pueblo Indians from New Mexico arrived unaccompanied by agents speaking only mixed Spanish. They brought a letter of instruction from their Indian Agent and a petition in Spanish outlining grievances and aims, then were directed to the Indian Bureau after a cautious greeting at the Washington House.
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New Mexico
Washington
Washington House
Indian Bureau
Executive Department
Treasury Department
War Department
Navy Department
Post Office
Interior
Justice
Senator Alcorsays Calm News On Friar's Point Race Trouble
On October 7 Senator Alcorn telegraphed Attorney General Pierrepont denying alarm over Friar's Point disturbances. He claimed several hundred armed blacks were repulsed by white residents led by prudent citizens, the mob dispersed with minimal violence, and politics were not involved. He urged reconciliation with peaceful labor relations and disavowed sensational telegrams linking him to the affair.
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Memphis
Helena
Arkansas
Friar’s Point
Miss
Brown
Alcorn
Rex
Chalmers
Burke
Austin
Ark
Isaac R. Brown
Rohners
Clarksdale
Jonestown
Maj. Alcorn
Pierrepont
J. L. Alcory
U.S
Paris Rebuilt: France's Capital Rises From War Ruins
A Boston Journal Paris correspondent recalls 1871 Paris after the Commune. He writes of ghastly destruction in the Tuileries and Vendome Column, then notes rapid rebuilding. He praises French resilience and economic mobilization and contrasts past ruins with present renewal.
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Paris
Boston Journal
Switzerland
Tuileries
Hotel de Ville
Vendome
Place de la Concorde
Nihe
Napoleon
Jerusalem
The Golden Rule and the Rule of Gold
A New York Tribune reflection contrasts financial failure with moral fault. It notes a bank failure swindling rumors, a merchant delaying payment, and two youths jailed for stealing shoes, arguing suspension and poverty are not excuses for crime. Lucian, the East Esop, cites the blind as his teachers.
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N. Y. Tribune
Third Avenue
Negroes Forced From Yazoo River Plantation
A Plain Dealer report from Vicksburg describes an outbreak against Black Mississippians on the Yazoo river plantation of Ewing. After white intimidation and armed harassment, the degraded group was expelled with women and children sent to Vicksburg. The affair illustrates ongoing southern voter suppression and fear among Black workers.
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The
Plain Dealer
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Ewing
Yazoo
Ewing Place
Yazoo River
Ohio’s Democratic rule under fire in Cincinnati critique
The Cincinnati Commercial denounces Ohio politics as corrupt and rotten. It accuses the Democratic Legislature of bribery and blackmail, cites Governor Allen urging adjournment, and brands Hamilton County and Cincinnati as fully compromised by “reform” Democrats. It notes embezzlement as public virtue and attacks a Republican auditor candidate over a four mill tax issue.
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R. H. Duell
George Miller
William Smith
Jefferson Borden
United States Clieut
Boston
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company
United States Circuit Court
District of Richmond
Parkersburg
Fall River
National Bank
Mass
John J. Baker
Beverly
D. C. Eddy
Alexander H. Rice
Tennessee
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Nashville
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Missouri
Illinois
Iowa
Penn
Ohio
Cincinnati
Allen
Hamilton County
Grant
Welch Aged Man Attacks Wife With Axe at Knowlton
In Knowlton Quebec an elderly man named Welch tried to murder his wife with an ax. He then shot at his son as he entered. The son shot the father in self defense, killing him. The wife is not expected to survive.
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Cleland
British Association
Land of the Unseen
John Bull
Horace White
America
Suncook
N. H
Miss Longmade
James T. Longmade
Robert Miller
Paxton, Ill
Willis Conn
Champaign County
Paxton
Miller
New Orleans
Missouri
James F
Jefferson
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Kerr
Cox
Randall
Vicksburg
Mississippi
South
THE
Boston Transcript
Massachusetts
Tilden
New York
Canal Ring
Hartford Post
Gowanda
Cattaraugus County
N. Y
Lewis Darby
Charles Blackney
Darby
Blackney
Hidi
Knowlton
Quebec
Welch
Illinois
Dewitt
Saxe-Meiningen
Germany
Europe
Moonlit Fancy: A Young Woman and a Constant Man
A brief, poetic line notes a young woman's allure likened to the moon that waxes and wanes yet consistently includes a man in its imagined realm.
Clermont Courier Ad Rates and Public Notices Policy
The Clermont Courier outlines advertising charges for legal and transient notices at 1.00 per square ten lines for first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly reductions apply. Business cards up to six lines cost 6.00 per year.
Health Rules for Married Ladies in a Monotone Household
A comic historical piece lists a daylong routine for married women filled with endless chores nursing the baby cooking cleaning and managing a man unenthusiastically. It suggests women in delicate health would find the practice either kills or cures them.
Brooklyn Woman Finds Hidden Gold After Bed Inspection
Mrs. McGreavy of Brooklyn discovered a small package in a feather bed she bought. She discarded it from a window where a passerby picked it up and opened it. O Malley senior retrieved gold double eagles and seven hundred dollars, returned the bag to Mrs. McGreavy, and was arrested for grand larceny by her husband.
Children Gone To Rest In Snow White Caskets
Poem reflecting on grieving for children lost to death. The speaker imagines children returning at dusk, children in white caskets, and the sorrow of separation. It contrasts playful days with silent rooms and a journey toward the city eternal. The verse contemplates mortality, faith, and lingering memory.
Poetic Snippets and Light Verse Reflections
A collage of wry humor and social quips from a bygone era. Short pieces touch on manners, farming lore, language quirks, and light gossip including a Kansas cow boast, a Madison marriage tale, and a German duke who acts on stage. A playful snapshot of daily life and language.
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Dover
Skupstehtina
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Stewart
George Wall
New York Central Railroad
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N. J
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Long Island
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Sylvania
Michigan
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Indiana
West Brookside
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Moody and Sankey
Brooklyn
Great Britain
Memphis Cotton Exchange
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Richmond
Henry Tyson
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Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
W. C. Wykham
Green River Station
Union Pacific Railroad
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Big Horn Mountains
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Sweetwater
Burmah
Yunnan
Enlish Admiralty
Sublime Porte
Cushing
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Cuba
Brown, Stevens & Williamson
Glasgow
Scotland
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Ultramontane
Chamber of Deputies
Spain
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Breslin
Leicestershire
Warwickshire
Holy See
Montevideo
Bombay Times
Lysore
Pennsylvania
Pershing
Green Bay
Wis
Volks Zeitung
Old Bay State
Bunker Hill
South Carolina
Cincinnati Enquirer
United States Bank
Democratic House of Representatives
St. Louis Times
St. Louis Times: What Has Become of the ‘“‘ Independent Press
Cincinnati Syndicate
Cincinnati Commercial
Chicago Tribune
Louisville Courier-Journal
New York Tribune
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Republican
Knapps
Fat Boy
Newton
Union College
Boston Common Council
District of Columbia
Board of Trade
Harper’s Weekly
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Toombs
Republican Party
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Clermont Courier
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