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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1877
Page
4
A jumble of reportage and opinion mentions public sales in St Louis, fires in the South, arrests in Arkansas, and plans for hotels on former Southern-ground sites. It critiques Radical policy toward Hayes, praises or mocks party figures, and rails at religious amendments while lampooning the era’s press and musical tone.
A heated railing attacks Wendell Phillips and David Devens for enforcing the fugitive slave law of 1851 in Boston. The author deplores anti federal critics, defends marshal duties, and condemns abolitionist hyperbole, citing political figures Blaine and Hayes while linking shore lines of constitutional obedience to civil liberty.
The piece mocks Grant as a restrained orator after a serenade in his hometown on the ninth. It notes his sixteen years of public life and suggests his silence is prudent. It also references political names and satirizes appointments and theatre seating bias in Washington.
House committees investigating bribery tied to the Hannibal and St. Jo bond renewal bill report total expenditures of 966,609.23 used to pass the measure and defeat the repeal. Key agent was B D F Carver of the H and St Jo KR Co. Names listed include Col Clay King 11000 Capt Dan Able 1000 Col Waddy Thompson 1000 Col A W Lamb 10000 Col Frank Mickok 1000 Gen J O Shelby 760 Col Clay Taylor 250 J K Rickey 250 W U M Match 400 Richard Crane 905 St W Hewitt 307 J W Strong 500 Col J T Criep Irwin D Wright and 51 Homenway share in professional fees. Lobbyists for the case John B Henderson Willard J Hall J O Broadhead paid 3250 to the two former, amount to the latter unknown. Newspapers benefited: St Louis Republican 505 80 St Louis Dispatch 200 St Louis Times 285 St Louis Democrat 156 50 Kansas City Zinc 2500.
The Southern Hotel burned on a Wednesday shortly after 1 am killing about thirteen people and leaving several missing. The fire started in the basement with unclear origin. One man shot himself during the turmoil. The list of victims includes George Frank Goulay Andrew Einstmann Henry Mazen Kate Ieilly Kate Dolan Mrs Mary Moran Rev John Adams Mrs W S Stewart Chas Tienan MH J Clark Mrs EH J Clark Stella Clark and an unknown. Funeral rites for George Frank Gonley, grant secretary of the Grand Masonic Lodge of Missouri, were held Sunday in St Louis.
The opinion questions the poll tax as a means of state protection, arguing it discriminates by poverty and risks franchise trafficking. It notes that men without capital may pay taxes yet cannot afford a newspaper, and compares to armed service duties. The piece warns white indifference to voting and mentions the Missouri legislature ad journ on the 90 binet.
The senate passed bills on married women protection delinquent tax dog law and dental practice regulation. Other measures advancing include education bonds court building funding poll tax for school voting and game preservation. Governor vetoed $70,000 St Louis asylum funding while a rape castration bill moved to engrossment.
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