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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1872
Page
2
The Evening Star surpasses all Ohio papers by more than three thousand in prominence. The piece mocks broom corn decline in Massachusetts due to tobacco, warns of a Colorado Desert reclamation plan with artesian wells, and urges limited Congressional aid through land grants, fearing unrest if improperly funded.
The article discusses rising U S immigration after the Civil War driven by kinship ties and labor needs. It highlights German states like Pomerania and Mecklenburg returns of laborers to America to seek opportunities, noting landholding patterns and emigration’s impact on estates. It references parliamentary concern and practical difficulties in homeland land access.
The Maine lumber industry nears exhaustion as timber yields drop to about seven hundred million feet this year. New Orleans's commerce expands with twenty ocean steamship lines to Europe, soon five lines between New Orleans and British ports and two to Germany. The iron industry dwarfs at nine hundred million dollars annual output with 940000 workers and six hundred million in wages, while agriculture sustains these traders and producers.
Assistant Postmaster General Marr explains electrotypes are treated as merchandise for postage. Two cents per two ounces or fraction thereof, paid by Laegg on packages to one address, weight limit twelve ounces. References sections 24 and 25 of the enclosed regulations.
Reports from Indiana mention Lanesville adopting graded schools, Decatur building a small jail, and bond plans for a $40,000 schoolhouse in Washington. Other notes cover army worm outbreaks in Lake County, deaths from morphine overdose in Princetown, a murder verdict in Haubstadt, fatal crush injuries near Huntington, and drownings in Salmony River. Additional items describe a California trekker, a race track project on School Grove Island, injuries from a forest accident in Fulton County, and mining developments in Deer Creek Utah with mixed ore prospects.
The Goshen Park Association races closed yesterday with Coroner K winning the 2:35 class for horses never beaten, Young Thorne second, Mystic third, George Archer fourth. Gray Jack topped the 2:28 pace, Fleetwood six and six, once distanced. Gerald won the running race, distancing Athlone and Harry Booth. The meeting was very successful.
A Sunday afternoon blaze in Janesville destroyed a large shingle mill owned by Allbright and Engleson along with several lumber and shingle piles. The loss is estimated at 20 000 dollars with 7 000 dollars covered by insurance.
Weather report from Washington on July 26 at 7 30 PM shows low barometer moving eastward with cloudy conditions and rain over New York and New England Areas of western and northern Pennsylvania expect clearing with southwest winds turning light north. Virginia and the South along with Atlantic and Gulf States will see clearing and northerly winds Tuesday. Lower lakes to Ohio river areas expect partly cloudy weather with winds veering northeast on upper lakes and varying from northwest to southeast along the Mississippi system.
The article lists election dates for numerous states and territories with the presidential vote set for November 5. It notes August dates for several states and October dates for others, culminating in a nationwide presidential election on November 5. It also cites a Paris telegram about Versailles executions and an impending execution of a cantiniere, described with cautious phrasing.
Reports mention General Sherman returning about September 5 and a potential new trial decision in Lebanon Indiana. Other items note French loan subscriptions, Geneva Tribunal awards to Florida and Alabama, Utah tensions ending around September, Philadelphia hosting the Pegeneee Embassy, and suspected fraud pledges by Wadleigh. Baseball score adds 18 to 12, a Nashville death after a balcony fall, and various local political and legal notes across New Jersey and North Carolina.
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