Sixtieth annual meeting and varied political notes
The sixtieth annual meeting of the American Colonization Society was held in Washington. Reports cite 15,125 emigrants forwarded to Africa. Burning in Edenburg, Pennsylvania, caused $75,000 in losses. Blaine elected U.S. Senator from Maine. Garland, and Windom and Ferry also noted. A flurry of electoral disputes, duels, and congressional actions fill the rest of the item with similarly dense entities and events.
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American Colonization Society
Washington
Africa
Brown
Coal King
Pittsburgh
Monongahela
Ohio
Cairo
Edenburg
Pennsylvania
Maine
James G. Blaine
United States
New York
Donahue
Supreme Court
Dr. Phelps
Grand
Arkansas
B. i. Garland
Minnesota
Michigan
Messrs
Windom
Ferry
United States Senate
Jean-Apurrau Joserx Surru
Senate
House
Congress
New Hampshire
Concord
Daniel Marey
Thomas Dinsmore
Hayes
Tilden
Gilman Marston
Jas. F. Briggs
Mvccw
Wall Street
New York City
Union Trust Company
New York Life Insurance Company
Mr. Moody
Casanave
New York Tribune
Bennett-May
Mr. May
Mr. Bennett
Frederick May
Massachusetts
George F. Hoar
Boutwell
Tennessee
James G. Bailey
Andrew Johnson
Nebraska
Alvin
Grant
R. G. Dow & Co
East Feliciana
West Feliciana
Messrs. Stagg, Dusson and Prescott
St Landry
Mumford Wells
Rapides
T. C. Anderson
Frank Wheaton
New Orleans
Kenner
Returning Board
Nolle
Senate Committee
Ouachita Parish
T Croberay
M. F. Vickers
John A. Sunter
Richland Parish
Alexander B. George
Webster
Henry Blair
Morehouse Parish
West Feliciana Parish
Wells
Louisiana Returning Board
House Committee
Kennedy
Dr. Kennedy
Zacharie
Louisiana
Bis
Gen. Anderson
Fav
McEuery
Odd Bits From The Times Of Wit And Warning
A hodgepodge column compiles quips on finance and poverty, weather forecasts, and moralizing. It notes the Austrian plan for passenger insurance, jokes about Chinese immigrants, and a Dorset inn bill. It also sketches street conversations, masquerade mischief, and a New York Herald report on Stanley Africanus and British flag antics.
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Partington
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tice
St. Louis
Iowa State Register
Andrews’ Bazar
John
Dorsetshire
England
Earth
New York Herald
Stanley Africanus
Herald
Stanley
Iowa dairy boom and strange fire story spread in 1877
Iowa reports record dairy output with 27 million pounds butter, 1.1 million pounds cheese, and 800 gallons milk, plus large increases in cows and value. Also recaps a revival disturbance in Council Bluffs, fatal mine injuries in Boonesboro, a banker’s safe fire in Detroit’s region and other state items from 1877.
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Philadelphia
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Boonesboro
Ben Banfield
Ex Weaver
G.H. Welsh
Boone
Micwar
Swrru
Des Moines
Fenrp
Wixstow
United States Treasury
Dubuque
Henry Meyer
Capitol
Davenport
Wankxen Gopparp
George von Fossen
Putnam County
Ind
Ida County
Ida
Board of Supervisors
Polk County
Treasury
Omaha
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Atlantic
Boone County
William Connett
Prairie City
Connett
Asylum For the
Mt. Pleasant
Berkshires
Poland- China
General Assembly
Keokuk
Industrial Mischief and Clergy Wife Note Figures
A satirical piece mocks nurserymen selling specimen fruit trees in glass jars to Kentucky farmers. It also highlights a Concord clergy wife boasting a record year with lavish social counts and writings, then shifts to Nevada and California mineral yields and daily outputs, adding Colorado mining figures.
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Kentucky
Concord
N. H
Nevada
California
Colorado
Little by Little a Picture Teaches Perseverance
Marion receives a large commission to draw a grand picture for her father’s New Year gift. Her teacher insists on a line at a time, turning a daunting task into patient progress. By shaping small sections daily, Marion completes a beautiful work and learns that perseverance conquers difficulties.
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Marien
Marion
Mamma
Papa
Kringle
M. Y
Inhabitants of New Britain and New Ireland Explored
Pall Mall Gazette reports a Wesleyan missionary Rev. George Brown’s twenty month survey of New Britain and New Ireland. He found a well populated interior where white contact was rare, noted cannibalism, and encountered legends of tailed people. The party, including naturalist Mr. Cockerell, described hostile chiefs, a captive daughter kept in a cage, and practices of death and disposal.
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George Brown
New Britain
New Lreland
Blanch Bay
Cockerell
New Ireland
Pall Mall Gazette
All the Difference in the World
A rich bachelor ill seeks to will his fortune to a distant acquaintance. The notary notes the nephew may change, yet the uncle insists the heir be the universal legatee despite warnings. A French paper and Chicago Times quip about fashion and fiction in classification.
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Tama
Werner Woods
Washington Associated Press
Miller
Field
Justice Miller
Justice Field
Edmunds
Joint Committee of Congress
Illinois
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Handee
Shaw
Democratic House
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Gov. Packard
Gen. Augur
Packard
Augur
Barrett
Eustis
Committee On the Judiciary
L. J. Barron
Nachitoches Parish
Republican House
Judiciary Committee
Wella
Anderson
Cassanave
Morton
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Committee
Territory
Oklahoma
Black Hills
Returning Board of
Anawi
Florida
Seovi
Wallace
Said
Applendes
Tepor At
Sherman
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Parkard
Conference
William Orton
J. Madison Well
Thos. WA. Anderson
Conference Committee
Petersburg
Messrs. Withers
P. Packard
Paine
Associated Press
Oregon
Col. W. T. Pelton
Jordan
Third National Bank of New York
Harrison
Watts
Bellinger
Oregon Democratic Committee
Dimon
Cronin
Patrick
Orava
Trevn
Ladd Ab
D. William T.‘ Pelton
Benator
Kellyjon
Kelly
Lynch
Kingston
Adams County
A. M. Hardy
Natchez
Miss. Mew South
Mississippi
Merryman J. Howard
Jefferson County
Mr. Richards
Claiborne County
Fayette
W. D. Jibbs
Yazoo County
House Special Committee
Richard McCormick
National Republican Committee
Purman
Z. Chandler
W. E. Chandler
William E. Chandler
Executive Committee
North
South Carolina
Clancey
Cary
National Committee
Committee of the House
Chandler
Gov. Stearns
Interior
Oswen D. Roberts
Second National Bank
B. Packard
G. W. Partridge
J. B. Stockton
Greensboro
T. B. Keogh
North Carolina
Z. Uhandkr
Thomas Joinder
Thomas B. Keogh
Russia
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Japan
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Austria
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Iowa State News
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H. RB. Scofield
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Garry Owen
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John Hale
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John Delano
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Allen Wilcox
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Charles F. de 8Eclhorat
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Frederick A. Frost
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Creation
James V. Campbell
John Owen
C. C. Trowbridge
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