Project to Make Thiers President for Life
The Herald weighs in on Elisée Thiers ambition and the effort to crown him a perpetual leader. A controversial plan draws debate on governance and stability.
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Newspaper
The Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1872
Page
1
Thiers Urged as President for Life in Paris Assembly
A Paris report describes a plan by leading Right and Left Centers to make M. Thiers president for life, with broad support from commercial interests. Gambetta’s backing boosts Thiers, while Bona partistes and Legitimists resist. Bank of France and Bank of England confirm a 100 million franc transfer to assist the Bank of England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
M. Thiers
Republic
Thiers
E Bonapartis
Gambetta
Bank of France
Bank of England
Indictments and monuments in New York events
The city updates on Field’s status and bail, Scott monument arrangements for Central Park, and a fatal stabbing fear yesterday among stonemasons Fallon Patten Burns and McGouigle. Havana release confirms Henderson free. Europe bound steamers sail, cricket match set in Hoboken, and a Ireland England debate between Burke and Froude garners attention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Assemblyman Field
Field
United States
Mayor Hall
Europe
O’brien
Grand
Scott
Central Park
Scott Monument Committee
Department of Pulic Works
Cullen Bryant
Delmonico’s
Thos. Fallon
Archibald Patten
Michael Burns
Edward McGouigle
Michael
Fallon
Patten
Burns
McGovigle
Herald
Havana
A. Boyd Henderson
Philadelphia
Hoboken
Echter
Monte Christo
Fechter
Tom Burke
J. Anthony Froude
England
Ireland
The
Sugvege
Froude
Burke
Murder, indictments, and Cuban question rule city scene
Report notes many prisoners in the Tombs facing murder charges with Foster and Stokes as leading defendants. Major figures include Tweed and Mayor Hall facing indictments, grand jury set to resume. The Herald weighs Cuban belligerent status, urging U.S. recognition of Cuban patriots. Garfield calls Appropriations Committee meeting for November 10 amid brief department estimates. A plan to avoid revenue stamps on bank checks spreads, using receipts form to bypass two cent tax.
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Prinpal
Foster
Stokes
Court of Appeals
Tweed
Mayor Hall
Hall
Herald
United States
Spain
Cuba
Washington
Garfield
Appropriations Committee
Department
Bureau
Payment of Interest Ready for November 1
Washington dispatch notes the Treasury authorizes payment of the November 1 interest without rebate. Sumner may not return for Congress. health improvements needed. Also reports pardon consideration for Ku Klux prisoner Wm Teele. Navy personnel changes, tax official appointments, and a Maine coast aid to Sarah J Bellows. A New York murder case faces a November 27 hanging.
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Sumner
Congress
Ku Kliux
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
France
R. Sumner
Ohio
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Williams
Wm. Teele
Lucius D. Hurd
Navy Yard
Theophilus Cook
Long Island
E.P. Hatch
Internal Revenue
Teslastepi District
Howe
Fred. C. Lord
Evada
Mills
Mosswood
Sarah J. Bellows
Leghorn Ridge
Maine
Bellows
Eeaeat Maine
New York
Barney Wood
Samuel Cheseon
Buffalo Epdemic Among the Horses
Buffalo New York October 31 reports say horse disease spreading from Toronto and Canadian towns reached the city. Governors general of Canada horses linked to Black Rock visit brought infection. Most livery stables affected and the Street Railroad Company halves horses on duty with fewer cars. Symptoms include nasal discharge and severe cough. Not fatal so far but care needed for recovery.
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BufFalo
N. Y
Toronto
Canada
Black Rock
Street Railroad Company
Saw-mill Fire at Beach Street Destroyed in Philadelphia
The steam saw and planing mill of R. J. Leaman on Beach Street below Hanover burned down at three o'clock yesterday morning. Loss about 30000 dollars, insured for 15000. In a tavern at Bight and South streets James Creamer, 36, refused a drink and was stabbed by a rowdy, leaving him in critical condition at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Philadelphia
R. J. Leaman
Beach Street
Hanover
Delaware River
James Creamer
Bight
South Streets
Creamer
Pennsylvania Hospital
Duel In ArLania Ends With Wounding Of Townsend
J H Townsend and Houston T Force, two young men from prominent families, fought a duel Friday evening in ArLaNia with double barreled guns loaded with buckshot at close range. Townsend was seriously wounded on the first shot. Both parties hail from leading local families.
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ArLaNia
J. H. Townsend
Houston T. Force
Townsend
Sunday Liquor Law Enforced With Mixed Compliance in Chicago
Chicago October 21 reports the Sunday saloon closing ordinance largely observed, yet some bars stayed open or sold to patrons. Police tested licenses while German saloonkeepers protest, and public sentiment trends in favor of the law amid quiet streets and a heavy beer trade at Briggs House.
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Staats Zeitung
ChicaGo
Briggs House
Se Tg
R. Heseing
Supreme Court
Board of Trade
Boutwell
McCullough
Ee Ee
Central Park
Turner Hall
Catholic Temperance Convention to Honor Father Burke in Newark
New Jersey Jersey City October 21 A convention of Catholic Temperance Societies met to honor Father Burke who lectures at the Rink in Newark on Wednesday. Citizens anticipate remarks on Pope Adrian’s bull and Irish scenes by Froude. Archbishops Bayley Doane and others penned welcomes. Burke to stay at the Episcopal residence in Newark.
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Jersey Cty
Catholic Temperance Societies
Father Burke
Newark
Pope Adrian
Froude
Archbishop Bayley
Father Doane
Funeral of E. J. Young Sheriff of Dubuque County
The funeral for E. J. Young, sheriff of Dubuque County, was held yesterday afternoon at 20 o'clock. It drew county and city officers, bar members, Odd Fellows and Masonic lodges, and about 10,000 citizens. The procession stretched nearly two miles, led by a German.
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DuBugue
E. J. Young
Dubuque County
Odd-fellows
Dubuque
Seagee
Various 19th Century News Items: Finance, Agriculture, and Elections
A roundup of disparate headlines notes Kentucky Good Templars at 2800 members, Colorado herd investments near 1.2 million dollars, Philadelphia August imports at 2 533 006, Kansas fruit crop valued around 2.8 million, Pennsylvania oil pumping halt reduced stock by 36 987 barrels, France maps struck with Alsace and Lorraine darkened, Ohio's largest Secretary of State vote at 520 037, Liberia district cattle disease losses 800,000, South Carolina election amendment on debt nearly adopted, Dayton Farmers Club profitable meeting at Soldiers Home, and Locomotive Engineers union voting to expel members with liquor issues.
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Philadelphia
Kansas
Pennsylvania
France
Alsace
Lorraine
Ohio
Liberia
South Carolina
Dayton
Farmers’ Club
Soldiers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
St. Louis
Yung Wang a Chinese Educational Mission Leader
Yung Wang, head of the Chinese Educational Mission, raised a noble group of Macao pupils, taught them English and Chinese, then fed his soul with faith and patience. He founded a Morrison-named school in Hong Kong, prepared students for college in Monson and New Haven, and earned high honors. Returned to China, he impressed officials with genius and discipline, guiding a government program to educate 165 Chinese children in a broad English education while maintaining strong national studies. He is a scholar of philosophy and science, now turning to jurisprudence and governance.
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China
Macao
Hong Kong
Morrison
America
Monson
Mass
New Haven
Conn
SNS
Scotland
Canton
Ung Wang
England
Guardian
Yung Wang
Premature marriage news and distant dispatches from Europe
Lonpowm Oct 19 reports the premature marriage of Gen Van Schweilibe to Minister Jay's daughter in Vienna. Other items cover railway tragedies near Sheffield and Brixham, toll removals on Thames crossings, and political shifts in Paris with Gambetta andSenator Sumner's visit, plus reports of industrial and regal events across Europe.
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Lonpowm
van Schweilibe
Dor
Vienna
Jay
Roundell Palmer
Geneva
Sheffield
Brixham
Antwerp
London of Public Works
Waterloo
Thames River
Purebas
Brighton
Metropolitan Way Company
Count Andrassy
Paris
Berlin
Sta
Austria
Sumner
Gambetta
Napoleon
Procureur-General of
France
Interior
Ollivier
Palikao
Sperial
Prussia
Bordeau
M. Caduc
An Laroquette
Oise
Morbihan
Vosges
Ronselle
Bauvais
Meline
Count de Chamberd
Syndicate Chamber of Commerce
Boutwell
United States
Havre
M. About
Strasbourg
Alsace
Lorraine
Mapdrrd
Cortes
New York
London Times
Escorial
Finance
Peterin Tibaldi
Bartolome Corducci
Odd Fellows man and global tales fragment
A garbled digest covers John G. Potts and Odd Fellows in the United States, with scattered quotes on loyalty, rings, and love. It notes Jewish persecution driving emigrants to the United States, references Tuileries and tiles, Oxford, and social pretensions including a laundress turned heiress, all in a jumbled, stray-news style.
Impoverished lands and old fertility in various regions
The article cites Professor Orton of Ohio and others noting soil depreciation and low wheat yields in marginal areas. It describes a large corn tract with yields dropping from seventy five to forty bushels per acre over forty years, signaling nonremunerative crops and general impoverishment. It also mentions injections for embalming by M Grannal and Audigier’s method with mouth and larynx fluid, claiming complete preservation and disinfection.
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Sells
Orton
Ohio
Les Mondes
M. Grannal
M. Audigier
Rance
Prof
Seeley
Discoveries at Rome in August 1872 Excavations Reveal Pompeii Like Remains
Romer reports a busy August in Rome with frequent excavations near the Velia and Forum. Finds include sarcophagi landmarks, mosaics, a small Christian church remains, a three piece relief depicting a sacrifice, and a frescoed room with Pompeian candleabra motifs.
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Titus
Conestantine
Christ
Phocas
Barberini Palace
Ceva
Clement XIII
St. Peters
Story
Fiano
Corso
St. Lorenzo
Campus Murual
Rome
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