Local News Bits From Troy Herald and Surroundings
A collage of notices: eight convicts escaped from the penitentiary with five captured by Saturday. Nodaway county Patrons of Husbandry elect county judges by large margins. a 145 pound fish head noted by the Louisiana Journal. Col Colman and political maneuverings surface as gubernatorial talk widens. Postmaster Hodge pardoned and back in government service after a large default. Debates over Senate back pay and Supreme Court appointments continue. Reports from Mexico, DC, and Louisiana on debt, organization efforts, and a fatal or suspicious death near a fairground precede a Baltimore fire that razed a district worth about a million dollars.
Political meddling and Crimons in Grant era press debate
The Democratic editors argue over Grant's conduct and the salary grab, contrasting calls for veto versus influence in Congress. They accuse lawmakers and the president of self interest while noting public outrage and calls for accountability. A separate Iowa case reports two men abusing a 14 year old boy, nearly killing him before discovery and arrest. The New York Sun questions farmers and workers about $625 monthly Congressional pay while noting overall wage averages.
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Gen. Grant
Congress
Mivayure
St. Louis Democrat
Democrat
Ite
Grant
Warren County
Iowa
McKissock
Hart
MccKissock
McKissock and Hart
Nuhissock
New York Sun
United States
People’s party forms in Aroostook County Maine
A People's party is formed in Aroostook County Maine with the aim to elevate upright men to power. The resolutions condemn the national Administration and Congress for pledges violations, corruption, and the Credit Mobilier scandal. The agricultural region likely echoes the Western farmer movement.
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People’s Party
Aroostook County
Maine
National Administration
Congress
Credit Mobilier
United States
Wheat crops and odd notices across the era
Reports claim Livingston and Lafayette counties harvests yield a fine wheat crop with large acreages and strong yields. Prize talk includes a $100 baby carriage at a fair. Scattered items mention a Maine man losing $30,000, farm movement turnout, a Portland lover’s gambit, a Pittsburg girl’s crime, an eye injury from fencing, fake fifty cent notes, larval punishment in France, and a railroad robbery with calls for vigilante justice.
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Troy Herald
Theo
B. Fisher
A. Bude
Edsters
Patrons of Husbandry
Nodaway County
Louisiana Journal
Aldebert Amos
Butler
Mississippi
St. Louis Dispatch
Rock Injland
Argus
Col.Colman
Hodge
Conklin
The
Supreme Court
Mexico
District of Columbia
Loulalania
Fair Grounds
Zimmerman
James
Dolaar
Chicago
Boston
Hartimore
Mulberry
Lexington
Park Street
Col. Lipscomb
Palmyra
Livingston
Countler
Fayette Avertiser
John Wodney
Saya
Buffalo Courier
Mt. Pleasant
Hannah McKnight
Portland
Pittsburg
David Campbell
Lorient
France
Lafayette County
Washington
Peistrup
Adair
Chicago and
Rock Island Road
Garland
Louisiana
Opelounss
Louisville Couriar-Tournal
Howard Atole
Joseph Hart Sells
Schnelle & Querl
Lumber Merchants
Main and Destrehan Sts
Louis, MO
Barton & Grant
Albert Houston
Grant & Co
Newroo Bartholow
Houston
Commission
Merch'ts
N. Commercial ST
St.louis
Laclede Hotel
Troy
MC Thornhill & Buswell
Propriectors
Fr. W. Harbaum
Laclede
Missouri
Birkhead & Thornuill
Cherry St
Mary Street
Lawlode
Withrow's
Jehu Sylvester
Bass
North Fourth Street
Olive
Pine
St. Louis
T. W. Withrow
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Sole Leather & Appels
Quincy
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