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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1877
Page
4
A long excursion from Fredericktown to Hot Springs, Arkansas, details a lively journey with editors drinking safe water, a prank, and a stormy welcome. The party tours the town’s springs, notes wartime histories, and describes the mountain resort laid out along a serpentine gorge. A rainstorm delays travel and a Missouri editors’ ball ends with a communal newspaper project.
Governor Sibley argues Minnesota voters narrowly authorized railroad bonds in 1858, loaned 2.275 million dollars on strict terms, bonds depreciated amid panics, and the state gained control of collateral through mortgage seizure to secure the bonds. The legislature rejected paying 60 cents on the dollar, despite prior authorization.
A recount of the excursion notes repairs to roads, settled hotel bills, and a pleasant homeward journey. At St Louis the Issomatios members met in the Laclede parlor where W I L Woodward received a gold headed cane for his care of the trip. Mrs Sankey’s ten week old baby was adopted as the child of the association and Eugene Field was praised for enhancing the event.
An impassioned plea to honor the nation’s birth with reverence and remembrance. The piece laments modern irreverence, recalls Washington and Constitutional ideals, and urges unity, virtue, and faithful celebration of the one hundred first birthday of American independence. It contrasts decay with restoration and calls readers to renew devotion to liberty and just government.
An artillery duel reported kills Mehemet and drives back Turks who recapture Bayazed. British plan to dispatch an army to Egypt. Turkish losses in six days of Montenegrin campaign total about 7,000. Russians cross the Danube at Galatz and movement appears at full tilt.
The city of St Josus in New Drunawick suffered a massive blaze on the 20th, destroying the business district including wharfs, churches, and hotels, while homes survived. Loss is estimated at twenty million dollars, leaving thousands homeless as relief efforts spread nationwide.
The letter criticizes Lincoln county roads calling the main route near Culvreville a poor highway. It suggests Pike county farmers would benefit if Troy were their trading point, arguing toll roads are a burden yet a blessing. Also notes the death of historian Rev. John S C Abbott on the 17th.
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