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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1882
Page
5
The weekly issue from OMBSTUNE Arizona reports no eastern mail for two days. It notes A N Kjaer’s comparison of railroads at 0.8 tons per horsepower versus steamers at 1.9 tons. Commentary on world fleet halves and southern Arizona rainfall forecasts Cochise county grazing growth and potential herd expansion. Also mentions A A Saran’s U S Germany mission and Sargent and Conkling political shifts.
Consul General Walker in Paris reports six months of official French wine analyses ending August 31 1881 showing March 23 of 218 wines were good 59 passable 136 bad April 8 29 passable 106 bad May 6 good 41 passable 184 bad June 14 good 123 passable 318 bad July 15 good 188 passable 209 bad August 23 good 155 passable 225 bad Readers are urged to question what portion of good or passable wine reaches America.
Consul Mason reports to the state department on August 24, 1881, noting about fifty Saxon joint stock enterprises manufacturing goods that enter U S ports. The list includes 13 breweries with 11,622,000 marks capital paying 651,500 marks, eight paper works paying 1,289,390 marks, and 16 engine factories with 33,885,000 marks capital yielding 1,084,000 in profit.
The text notes sixteen companies with a capital of 18,822,600 marks paying 1.05 percent or about 5 percent, illustrating small profits in continental European manufacturers where skilled labor costs are minimized. It states that without protective tariffs American industries with high skilled labor costs would have to shut down.
At Waite from Washington Feb 24 the Mason court martial heard nothing material, the prisoner lamenting confinement. A subpana was ordered for J C Robinson, late major of the Seventh Ohio volunteers. In the senate a relief measure for Mississippi flood sufferers was adopted and the house passed it for $100,000. Washington Feb 24 Sargent and Conkling nominations stir the senate while Conkling’s possible declination looms. Edmunds may be appointed if Conkling declines.
In Wasuvnctos the retirement bill was followed by a flood relief measure as Gen Miller and senators pressed for priority. McPherson moved to consider reorganizing the marine corps while Bayard warned of tariff debate. The session adjourned after a brief executive period with plans to resume once the deficiency bill passes. In Wasumetox Belmont and Kasson offered resolutions on missing state department letters and Peru Chile relations. Imant accepted a substitute proposing inquiry by the foreign affairs committee.
In the Campbell versus Cannon case the House elections panel recommended no seating for either contestant, declaring the seat vacant. Also reported are dispatches from the Arctic to Washington, Ohio River trends, a seduction case ending in death, and Texas Republicans planning an anti Bourbon movement with possible Throckmorton leadership.
A man named Wood Hite, arrested in Logan Kentucky for aiding the Maston Missouri train robbery, pleaded guilty at Gallatin Davies county and received two years in prison. He claimed to fire eleven shots at the locomotive and chased the engineer but offered no details about the rest of the gang. He is first cousin to Jesse James and has lived in Logan county for years. Boiler explosions in St Louis and New Canons Ohio killed five men in a mill blast. In Ricutann Arkansas a wife killed her husband with a rifle barrel after he forced his stepdaughter into an adulterous bed.
In St Peterssune on Feb 23 Tishinin was freed on insanity grounds after a turbulent session. Prisoners protested court jurisdiction as Boustan’s appointment to Washington was gazetted. Crevasne notes follow. In Caro on Feb 24 the new Mississippi levee reportedly broke at 2 p m sparking great excitement.
San Francisco February 23 at a Republican county committee gathering the chairman and executive panel invited cooperation from the Democratic county committee the chamber of commerce and the board of trade to promptly convene a mass meeting of electors of Francisco for a united action aimed at advancing the monument project.
A compilation of snippets shows support for the immediate passage of an anti-Chinese bill before Congress. Other items include a Sacramento shooting incident in Live Oak where J O Sherwood claimed self defense after a Chinese miner advanced on him, and various Arizona mining reports noting rich ore finds at The Notting Sun Mine near Niggerhead Mountain with high grade assays and leasing activity.
Readings from the Aus trian Society of Engineers detail native silver occurrences along a 5000 ft iron ore hill near Las Herrerias on Spain's east coast. Silver lies primarily in heavy spar and iron ore, with distinct sandy texture. Evidence discusses alluvial vs in situ origins, including local dykes of trachyte and basalt and Miocene shells in marl.
Drory Simury Breakenridge returns from Tucson while W H Struwera plans arrival to open court. Notables such as Hon Jon Haxses, James Furns, and J A Warrmone appear in town, with updates on Emerald mine, hospital cases, and the Cosmpopolitan hotel. Board of Supervisors proceedings include leave for Lyttleton Price and a $1500 warrant. Marriage notice for Ida Hooker to M W Stewart withDet? ceremony by Bishop Punk AS.
The note details Meissonier finishing a portrait of Mrs Mackay with disputed value of 16 000 to 25 000 dollars and a forthcoming Bonnet painting of her in a 25 000 dress shown at May exhibition. It describes the luxurious lace dress ordered by Paris authorities for Empress Eugenie, worn over a white silk train with heavy rose lace and a large rose bouquet. Also mentions a court case in Contention where a pistol discharged and ten percent was arrested.
A smallpox patient was moved to the pest house at midnight. Reports detail kerosene exports to Bombay from 1880 to 1881 and a lack of eastern mail. Deputy Marshal Wyatt Earp led a weeklong rural district scout in Cochise. Multiple notices mention residents leaving hotels, renovations, and local arrests. Tobacco and alcohol tax figures cited. general import duties tallied. A small-pox cask was reported at the county hospital with removal planned. Dining room expansion at the Grand and an Eureka Nevada petrified wood exhibit are described.
Sherry Mayfield a bound-out youth from Bodie leaves Carson to cross oceans for Europe. He reports enlisting in the British army in Lower England for seven years and currently stationed at Newry Ireland with his regiment. The long journey included Germany France Spain and Prussia, and he hopes for a better match with life abroad. A Boston crowd imitates English revelry by forming a fox-hunting club and sending a pack of dogs to London.
The article contrasts energetic young Englishmen and other white immigrants with idle elites in Boston. It asserts that European steamer arrivals will bring capable workers who will advance national interests through hard work, while condemning the land entail system and the idle “young men of leisure” as detrimental to American progress.
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