Battle near Monterey exposes weak leadership despite Trevino victory
The piece notes Trevino’s success in routing 16 000 government troops near Monterey and capturing guns trains and a army chest with sixty thousand dollars while his rival Corellia remains unscathed. It mocks the fight as another murderous clash in Mexico’s forty year cycle and says the treaty talks have petered out with Bancroft Davis returning home and no major financial impact expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natuse
Corellia
Trevino
Monterey
Mexico
Bancroft Davis
New York Strikes Stir Public Sympathy and Business Fears
The New York strikes frustrate workers and upset employers as delayed concessions provoke threats. Readers warn that violence erodes community support and damages the chance for local projects. Strikes push capitalists to abandon large jobs, even sending work abroad to Great Britain, a loss for both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Great Britain
African Travelers and Livingstone’s Perilous Journeys
The article reviews African exploration over fifty years from pioneers like Mungo Park, Denham, Clapperton, Landers, Speke, and Grant to Livingstone and Baker. It notes a persistent fascination with perilous expeditions, comparing it to battles and tiger hunts, and highlights Livingstone’s decades of hardship amid hostile terrains and near-impossible risks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mungo Park
Denham
Clapperton
Landers
Spekes
Livingstone
Baker
Mont Blanc
Dr. Livingstone
African Explorers and the Nile Mystery Revisited
The piece contrasts explorers like Baker and Livingstone, debating motives for African travel. It questions whether science, geography, or treasure drives journeys while lamenting the unresolved Nile source puzzle and speculating on Livingstone’s fate. It also touches on municipal practices and market duties in a separate civic note.
An Ancient Ordinance Reminiscence From Cincinnati 1840
The article recounts a city council ordinance in 1840 Cincinnati creating elective offices for market master civil and water works engineers and a collector while barring council members from these posts. It details the terms duties and annual pay for market and engineering officers and notes the ordinance ended by not barring legislators who resided in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
State of
Ohio
Cincinnati
Lake Shore
Mountain
Board of Directors
Citi Os
Y M C A Convention debate on Bible in schools sparks conflict
Lowell Mass June meeting of the International Y M C A convened with Rev T A Fernly proposing a pledge to resist excluding the Word of God from public schools and to promote Bible in every Catholic family. G B Strout argued for free religion, drawing hisses and applause as the resolution passed. The afternoon featured debates on the Association Monthly and the executive committee, with calls for new blood and regional representation, culminating in a committee list and plans for subscriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. B. Strout
Strout
Martin
New York
Association
Cowdres
Detroit
Fink
J. Brainard
Anderson
Boston
Cincinnati
Curry
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Association
Brainard
Mr. Miller
Charles Brainard
W. F. Lee
Joseph Stokes, Jr
Timothy G. and
Thomas Cochrane
Roswell Miller
Sudden Insanity A Servant Girl Attacks Child With Hatchet
A Louisville woman reports her servant attempted to kill her child with a hatchet after refusing to dress it. A man from Anderson's drug store alerted the household and blocked the assault. The incident follows a prior odd remark about another child and mentions unrelated records at the Endowment House in Salt Lake City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Salt Lake
Religious Intelligence and church notes across America
Religious items report a Kendallville Indiana death in church and a Baltimore Baptists plan for a 15000 colored Baptist church in the South. Episcopal stores and Edinburgh Presbyterians debate worship music. Boston Baptists favor temperance laws. Worrell and Marston receive Doctor of Divinity degrees. A South Carolina clergyman dies in New York at 75. Various notes cover church conversions to Rome, a Richmond Baptist recantation, and long-lived church members. Jewish shifts and a demand for Christian journalism appear as well. A Tyrolean Jew joins the Innsbruck council, and a famed 127 year old Nashville story is revisited. Ex-Alderman Whittaker faces a dismissed bribery case due to insanity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kendallville
Ind
Bixler
Baptiste
Baltimore
Episcopal Church Book Store Company
United Presbyterian Church
Edinburgh
Boston
Tremont Temple
T. Bermingham
Diocese of
South Carolina
New York
Payson
Dr. Payson
Curtis
Church of
Rome
J. A. Chambliss
Richmond
Dummerston
Mobile
Ala
Baptist Church
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the Evening Star
THE
TAR Publishing Company
Northenss Cor
6Th & Vine
Daily Evening Star
Nile
Gordon Cumming
du Chailin
Africa
Hamilton
Somerville
McLean
Halifax
Dr. Pratt
J. W. Willet
Rhode Island
Religious Intelligence
Congregationalist
Deutsche Zeitung
Innsbrucka
Tyrol
W. Tannhauser
Venus Sharp
Foster Pinge
A Freesboro Pike
Nashville Union and
American
Whittaker
Chicago
Safe Deposit CO
the Safe Deposit Company
West Third Street
Sestya
WiLlie Biewa
Bs Pn
Freie ? Pranop Séc
Hook’s
Ottawa
John Fitchner
West Sixth
Baltimore Pee Gee Depot
John B. Massa
Culbf
Vine
Ceal
Arene
Angus Benparentes
Inre Bane
Eng’ra
Uliawa
Wieson Bro's
Roth
Pike’s Opera
Fourth Street
Uimcinnath
Wabash Avenue
Westhington Pete Rg
A. J. Clark
T. W. Sprague & CO
Fourth and Vine
Tu&Th
Whitehead
Richmond Mescer
North Side
Stationery
GEO. E. Stevens & CO
West Fourth Street
St. Paul's
Wabben’s
Central Av
W &S
Beeler & Curry
W&s
Fourth St
Cor
Bats
Fifth and
Central Avenue
Ottawa Bear Curtai
Alfred White
West Fifth Street
and the
Jay
Insurancee
Union Mutual
Ohio Branch
TuaTh Cincinnati
Tribeute
America
M. J. Maxwell
Pike’s Opera House
Charles J. Hess
W&sa
Columbus
Insurance Department
TATE
Columsbus
OTICE
Cincinnati Mutual Life Insuran Company
James Williams
LEGAL
Tiveder
Mengurl
Linn Street
Hickory
Wade
Asean
Iecd
News Aerigreer
Rodefeld
CATE
Hamilton County
ART OF Common Pleas
Soba ‘Clark
Joseph T. Wilson
Papinet
Cosepe Watkine
Wilson
Aiganya
Pond Lons
Said
Iiton
Hundre
Acre
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