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Newspaper
The Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1872
Page
1
Yesterday's contest re elected President Grant carrying the northern states by large majorities. Greeley captured eight states and eighty electoral votes. Dix and Havemeyer elected in New York. New York papers review the situation.
Melbourne reports the completion of the Australian telegraph line across the 7th line is hailed with joy and a banquet will be held on the 15th to mark the event. The brief note highlights national pride and a planned commemorative gathering.
New York papers report Grant’s victory with 268 electoral votes and a 532000 popular lead while Greenley totals reach 90 electoral votes. Edits urge reform and civil service cuts, with Tribune supporting Administration changes and Herald blaming Liberal missteps. City contests show Havemeyer’s narrow edge, later overturned, with Lawrence victory possible.
The piece reviews Liberal defeat causes with multiple editorials from The World Times and Sun, notes Grant’s election shifts and state returns across several cities, and includes practical advice on storing winter vegetables like turnips onions and parsnips, with emphasis on proper ventilation and temperature control.
White House dispatches from Louisiana claim a Republican win by about twenty thousand. Navy reports confirm health aboard the Asiatic fleet ship and flag officers assign personnel to San Francisco and Philadelphia posts. White House updates through midnight show many states have gone Republican, securing Ulysses S. Grant’s reelection.
New Orleans November 6 The ballot counting method after election is settled against Blanchard and votes for federal state and municipal offices will be counted in presence of Supervisors of Election appointed by the United States. Orders have been issued to count votes in parishes similarly and at nine o'clock yesterday morning the first poll boxes in each ward were opened with totals counted in most cases and approximate tallies in others.
Early returns across multiple districts indicate Havemeyer Republican with 51 959 to Lawrence Tammany 48 505 and Brien Apollo Hall 34 301, giving Havemeyer a 3 454 edge. Democratic Congressman-at-Large S 8 Cox leads Tremaine by 22 387 in city tallies as partial results favor Republican alignments in statewide and national contests.
London reports Roe buck may run in Sheffield if a seat opens, while Tiverton sees Liberal Massey win by thirty. The Times forecasts Grant's re election as sensible, calling for civil service reform and a cleaner administration. Berlin says new peers help the govt push country reform, Khiva expedition recalls begin, Bazaine trial continues with hundreds of witnesses, Rochefort to visit Versailles for his partner’s mother’s death, and German troop evacuations from Upper Marne completed with slow Marne withdrawal progression.
The Old Washingtonian Society in Portsmouth opened a campus meeting on Sunday in the large Temple. Over eight hundred attended as churches shortened services to allow participation. J Grace Kent chaired, pledging lifelong temperance work, with Rev Dinsmore leading prayer and J F Coles from Boston delivering an hour of anecdotes and argument.
Butter cake recipe details two lemons cinnamon eggs butter sugar and almonds. In Florida, land is offered for sale at eighteen cents per acre.
Mark Twain, in London at the Savage Club after dinner, riffs on how Londoners express distances in parables. He jokes that a Birmingham distance costs twenty one shillings and sixpence, and a cab fare to Charin Cross yields only a shilling fare, suggesting the sublime or ridiculous could be counted in coin.
The piece urges wives to value husbands before loss, portraying him as roof-tree, keystone, bread-winner, defender, and ruler of the home. It warns of frail life and the gloom of illness or death, with poverty and widowhood following in his absence, and orphanhood signifying desolation.
Twenty ocean steamers now ply between New Orleans and Europe. The item lists sailing links and hints at busy transatlantic traffic, reflecting robust maritime movement from the port.
A correspondent article outlines Quaker beliefs, including the inner light, personal holiness, and silent worship. It discusses rejection of oaths, Master titles, Sunday naming, baptism, sacraments, and war, plus testimony against vanity and dress, and the belief in the universal priesthood guided by inward revelation.
The L. C. and L. railroad stockholders meeting in Indianapolis elected directors including W A Booth Geo Bless John Kennedy and Charles G Thurston of New York T H Perkins and B W James of Boston J C Butler and J H Bates of Cincinnati and T H Chapman of Indianapolis The article also notes bridge work at St Joseph Missouri and a water cake recipe.
Drunken street disorder noted as fines are light. Election results show Greeley and Brown ahead in Kenton County by about 1,200 votes with O Conor and Adams only sparingly polling in wards. Deputy sheriff appointments discussed. Tupman and Gillespie named.
The New York Journal of Commerce outlines how the stars and stripes became the United States flag by a June 14 1777 Congress resolution later publicized September 3 1777. It covers early flag designs Washington Franklin and Reed, the Cambridge camp, the blue field with thirteen stars forming a circle, Burgoyne’s surrender in 1777 and the 1795 1818 evolutions adding stars for new states, plus etiquette on courtship and introductions and stray items on cruelty to animals and Japanese or Illinois notes.
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