Republican Platform of Ohio Seeks Civil Rights and Silver Remonetization
The Ohio Republicans declare past control has been clean and pledge fidelity to national principles. They reaffirm Hayes, demand remonetization of silver, oppose new land grants and patent renewals, call for national labor remedies, and urge a bureau of industry and statutory arbitration to balance employers and workers.
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Ohio
Oho
Cincinnati
Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican Party
Congress
Bishop Nominated With Pledge of Campaign Support
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes Mr. Bishop's nomination was made on the promise to contribute a sizable campaign sum and to look after Hamilton County.
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Bishop
Hamilton County
Cincinnati Enquirer
Strrit Holds Place on Ticket Despite Nomination
The brief notes that Strrit remains in his position on the ticket even after IHTEI TAND received a nomination, indicating no change in the lineup.
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Strrit
Ihteitand
Resumption Timing Highlighted by Tilden Comment
The author cites the earliest feasible moment for resumption as a key point, quoting Tilden on the sequence and significance of timing. The brief remarks frame resumption as a strategic issue, emphasizing forward planning and cautious progression.
Was Hon. WM. H. Westa a Know Nothing
The Bellefontaine Republican on page four of today’s BULLETIN answers the query in the negative. The article clarifies Westa’s political affiliation, indicating he was not associated with the Know Nothing movement.
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WM. H. Westa
Bellefontaine Republican
Bulletin
Fractions Stir Up Van Wert County Politics
The Lima Gazette reports fractions causing turmoil in Van Wert County with Democrats nominating a Sheriff candidate who lacked votes and Republicans naming a Representative nominee who also did not secure sufficient ballots. The Republican nominee declined the seat while the Democratic candidate remains.
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Lima Gazette
van Wert
Democracy
Republicans
Resumption Act Quote Cited by Ohio Democratic Papers
The papers carry JOAN SHERMAN's claim that the Resumption Act can be ought to be and will be executed. They may also include from TRiLPEN's acceptance letter that the earliest time a resumption result can be achieved is the best.
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Tilden
Ohio Democratic
van Wert
Joan Sherman
Trilpen
Local Sheriff Candidate Profiles in County Race
Charlees P. Ricney, a 33 year county resident and former sheriff, is praised as an honorable, upright candidate likely to be a faithful officer. His opponent, Mr. Stiru, has lived in the county less than 18 months and remains largely unrecognized by voters.
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Charlees P. Ricney
Mr. Stiru
Ohio Democracy backs Tilden while opposing resumption
The Ohio State Convention declares for Tilden a hard money candidate pledged to resumption, yet the Democracy of Ohio denounces resumption and urges joining a party aligned with their views. They point to the Greenback or Workingmen to represent them financially, not Tilden or the National Democracy.
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Democracy of
Ohio
Tilden
Greenback Party
The
National Democracy
Consul Warns Against Returning to England for Work
The United States Consul at Liverpool cautions all abroad workers that both skilled and unskilled laborers cannot expect employment in England. He cites a widespread dull mood across industries from silk manufacturing to shipbuilding and predicts a winter likely to bring significant hardship and want.
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United States
Liverpool
England
Death of Elder Brigham Young at Salt Lake City
Brigham Young, the Mormon saint, died in Salt Lake City on Wednesday at age 76 from cholera morbus after a short illness. His death ends a long life weighed by age and frailty, and concerns over Mormonism’s future amid public opinion.
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Brigham Young
Salt Lake City
Brigham Youn
Saur Lake
Utah
Political turmoil over ditch regulation and labor relief
The piece rails at Jim Rimer a county surveyor pushing to legislate ditching. It touts Van Wert Bank backing as job support, denounces tramp politicians and calls for action amid farm and labor discontent. It critiques both parties for failed finance bills and lack of relief plans.
Ohio Democracy Faces Hard Money Debate in State
The passage cites a clash over hard money policy with Ohio Democrats urged to join the workingmen. In St Louis, Dorsheimer of New York argues for a middle ground between soft and hard money, urging support for the committee report over immediate repeal.
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Ohio
St. Louis
Dorsheimer
New York
United States
Ewang
Ohio Democracy
Ohio Democrats Split Over National Platform 1865
A fragment from a St. Louis platform outlines Tilden resisting financial immobility and urging resumption of specie payments. It criticizes the Republican balanced stance and calls for repeal of the 1875 resumption clause. It notes Ohio Democrats backing national officers must favor resumption and urges unity with workers under Ewina and Pendleton.
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Ohio
Scranton Meeting of Railroad Firemen and Brakemen
The Scranton gathering failed to meet expectations as many strikers seek help from workers, jail inmates want release, and aid requires money. Resumed workers show dissatisfaction with agitators and leaders, fearing further losses and wasted funds. The riots threaten the dissolution of the organizing society behind the disturbance.
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Scranton
Gambetta Speech Prosecution Sparks Free Speech Debate
A French government telegram says M. Gambetta will be prosecuted for his Lisle speech and liberal papers publishing it face action. MacMahon’s coalition seeks a sweeping victory while Imperialists push hard, yet signs suggest they may misread public mood.
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M. Gambetta
Lisle
France
MacMahon
Tramp Labor Exploitation Under General Forrest in Tennessee
A Tennessee report states General Forrest operates a system with Memphis authorities where arrested tramps and vagrants sentenced to confinement are used as laborers. Forrest pays Memphis ten cents per day for each convict and enforces strict discipline guiding them into hard labor on Pres Presidents Island.
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Tennessee
General Forrest
President's Island
Memphis
Condensed beer breakthrough from England patent
A new condensed beer method, patented in England, evaporates water and alcohol under vacuum, shrinking beer to about one eighth of its original bulk. To restore its volume, add water and a small amount of yeast, allowing Britons to carry beer easily.
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England
Weather Prophet Warns Ostend Storm On August 12
The New York Herald predicted a violent storm would pass Ostend on the 12th and the forecast proved timely. The Herald has long been cited as a respected weather authority and its forecast drew broad notice in papers worldwide.
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The
New York Herald
Ostend
Herald
Death of Brigham Young Seen as National Blessing
The death is viewed as a national blessing and indicates Mormonism may disintegrate due to lack of competent leadership.
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Brigham Young
Forger gang arrest shocks CuHicaGco crowd
A substantial forgery ring led by Stevens alias Henderson and associates Weston and Gesner is linked to multiple large frauds. Arrests occurred in CuHicaGco and Grand Haven, with investigations ongoing toward New York. Authorities say the gang swindled banks for millions through stolen drafts and altered checks.
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CuHicaGco
Ill
New York
Hartman
Weston
Gesner
New York Life Insurance Company
Union ‘Trust Company
Stevens
Henderson
Nelson A. Gesner
Minnesota
E. B. Weston
Grand Haven
Train strikes group on Pennsylvania pier in Salem
Five people were struck by a Lowell train on a crowded Long Wharf pier in Salem last night. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Swazey and Miss Rachel Gasford were killed. two others injured. The accident is blamed on the conductor's carelessness and lack of warning light. Wilber F. Swazey died this morning. several others missing or jumping overboard.
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Salem
Mass
Lowell
Pennsylvania
Joseph Swazey
Rachel Gasford
Hardin Arrest Attempt as Train Leaves Pensacola
Sheriff and posse halted a departing train to help Texan officers capture the outlaw John Wesley Hardin, reputed of twenty seven Texas murders. A reward of 4000 dollars was posted by Texas legislature. Hardin, living in Florida as John Swain, reportedly fired on deputies. his accomplice Mann was killed.
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Whuittime
Ala
Pensacola
John Wesley Hardin
Texas
Comanche County
Florida
John Swain
Hardin
Mann
Gang of horse thieves broken up in Saline county
An extensive horse theft gang has been disrupted in Saline county. Three members were arrested Wednesday and seven more last night, including Big Jim Smith, a notorious gang leader. A Lexington arrival reports seeing three bodies hanging from a tree in the bottom between Lexington and Holden labeled horse thieves, believed to be part of the same gang.
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Sedalia
Saline County
Big Jim Smith
Lexington
Holden
Bigamy conviction in Kentucky sends Davis to prison
Cincinnati August 28 Sarah A Davis twice married after securing a Utah divorce was found guilty of bigamy in Campbell County Kentucky Circuit Court and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary.
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Cincinnati
Sarah A. Davis
Utah
Campbell County
Kentucky
Growing Dissatisfaction With Bishop in Democratic ranks
The Dayton Journal reports the Cincinnati Gazette noting lively Democrat talk yesterday about forcing Bishop off the ticket. The push to oust Bishop has grown since his nomination and reflects strong, increasing Democratic desire to remove him.
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Bishop
The
Dayton Journal
Cincinnati Gazette
Congressmans West Point Cadetship Awarded to Minnie
Congressman Muller of New York City district offered a cadetship to the top scorer in a competitive exam. Charles A. Minnie, a colored boy, won with 98 of 100 while the next candidate had 75. Muller's decision to appoint Minnie triggered protests but he stood by the result, earning respect from honorable men.
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Muller
New York City
West Point
Charles A. Minnie
Congress
Greenback Party Platform in Ohio Promises Broad Prosperity
The Ohio Greenback platform pledges high wages and strong employment, elevated wheat prices for farmers, cheap flour for mechanics, higher cattle prices for stock raisers, cheap beef for workers, abundant money, and low interest. It foresees good times for most but condemns contractors, manufacturers, railroads, and bankers as to be very poor with no funds to pay workers.
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Greenback Party of
Ohio
Barnum's Tattooed Greek turns out Italian not Greek
The article reveals that Barnum's so-called tattooed Greek performer is actually Italian and was tattooed for entertainment purposes, not as a punishment.
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Barnum
Ohio Republicans urged to shun polls in Beatty proclamation
The Ohio Implacables led by Salary-Grabber Beatty urge Republicans to defeat their ticket by abstaining from voting. They claim the President disfranchised 800,000 Southern voters and endanger liberties, while Beatty is condemned as a self-serving machine politician tied to salary grabs and ring schemes.
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Chicago Tribune
Ohio
Beatty
Congress
Hayes
Mr. Hayes
General Grant
Louisiana
Packard
Republican Party
House
Senate
Credit
Swamp Angel Battery Built In Charleston Marsh
General W W H Davis writes of a Marsh battery near Morris and James Islands known as the Swamp Angel. Built secretly by New York Volunteer Engineers under Colonel Serrel, it rose from sand bags and pine logs, reached Charleston 8 800 yards distant, fired a 200 pound Parrott, but burst on the 34th discharge. The nickname reportedly came from Sergeant Feller.
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W. W.H. Davis
Philadelphia Weekly Times
Morris
James Islands
Serrel
New York Volunteer Engineers
Morris Island
Charleston
Folly Island
Jonah
Sergeant Feller
Southern press condemns Key and favors reconciliation stance
The Cincinnati Gazette reports Southern papers attack Postmaster General Key for calling himself a repentant sinner, while Atlanta Nashville and Richmond editors debate forgiveness and equality. They debate whether the South erred in the war and question emancipation and its costs.
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Cincinnati Gazette
General Key
Atlanta Constitution
Nashville
Speech by Key Sparks Southern Friction in North
The Cynthiana News denounces Key for calling Southern soldiers erring brothers and labels him a Tennessee Malungeon or Yallar-Hammer. It accuses him of treason to his comrades, people, and God and predicts his disgraceful removal from office for these sentiments.
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Cynthiana
Dem
Key
Evarts Responds to Monmouth Beach Dispatch in New England Tour
Evarts continues a triumphal march through New England. His latest reply to summer loiterers at Monmouth Beach New Jersey greets the mountains holding the President and praises his political course. Evarts signs his message to Colonel B F Shepard and friends thanking the sea for its greeting.
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Evarts
New England
Monmouth Beach
New Jersey
Ship of State
Democrat charges rival with blunt grocery pledge
A Chillicothe Democrat accuses R. M. Bishop the Democratic gubernatorial nominee of declaring he would not sell a dollar's worth of groceries to a Granger if he knew it.
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The
Dayton Journal
Chillicothe
R. M. Bishop
Quotable remark on labor and capital leadership
Bob Toombs of Georgia reflects on the capitalist who does not respect labor as a fraud and the laborer who does not respect capital as a fool in a pointed economic observation.
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Bob Toombs
Georgia
Miss Maria Roop’s Telegraphed Heart and Hand Marriage
Miss Maria Roop, famed for Glimpses of Goth am in the News, married Captain Roop in Boston after receiving a telegraph proposal with three days’ notice. The couple plans a long wedding journey around the world, not in eighty days.
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Maria Roop
New York
Gotham
Boston
Java
East Indies
Philadelphia fraud as spirits contact shakes local crowd
The Philadelphia Times reports a Boston style spiritualist fraud at Lake Pleasant Massachusetts led by J Frank Baxter who claimed to channel Abe Banter. Investigators say Abe Banter is alive, ending Baxter’s séances and his career.
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Philadelphia Times
J. Frank Baxter
Lake Pleasant
Massachusetts
Baxter
Abe Banter
Williamstown
Abe
Abe Bunter
Mr. Baxter
Stolen Secrets and the Rise of Cast Steel
A survey traces how secret crafts once guarded by oaths and locked doors gave way to theft and disclosure. From Meissen porcelain to citric acid and Huntsman’s cast steel, hidden know-how was exposed by ingenuity and sly entry, ending monopolies and reshaping industry.
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Procelain
Europe
Saxony
Meissen
Dresden
Temple Bar
London
Charing Cross
Tabitha Bramble
Attercliffe
Sheffield
Huntsman
Attercliffe Steel Works
Mr. Huntsman
Advertisement schemes harvest names to sell obscene materials
The piece warns that cheap printed name cards flood youths with massed contact lists sold to obscene book dealers. It notes some printers may be involved in the trade, sending circulars to families and urging parents to monitor mail received by children.
Workingmen Back Bank Money Tax Stance in Henry County
The Henry County Signal notes the Workingmen oppose taxed money but support greenbacks not taxable by high courts and oppose National bank money. It calls this statesmanship and urges workingmen to align with the Republican party as the only true workingmen's party in thirty years.
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Henry County
Republican Party
Baltimore & Ohio traffic signals growing demand
The Baltimore Gazette reports an extraordinary volume on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with 1 340 loaded cars between Cumberland and Baltimore yesterday. If the current growth continues, the company could employ a larger workforce, illustrating that business should regulate itself.
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Baltimore Gazette
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Cumberland
Our Trade Surplus Masks a Deeper Debt Burden
The article argues that the apparent export surplus is inflated by interest on foreign-held U.S. bonds and traveler spending abroad. It notes European bonds totaling about two thousand million with six percent interest, plus freight and related costs, skewing the real balance. It compares with England’s gold shifts and urges prudence until principal and interest are fully discharged.
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New York Herald
Europe
England
United States
Title defect found in half of Delphos lots prompt action
A serious defect in the title to even numbered lots of Section Ten in Delphos affects the southern Fort Wayne railroad and western canal areas. Hollister Bliss Pettit originally laid out the town. Pettit later sold interests. Dr H P Wagner acts for affected lot owners and obtained a quit claim deed from Pettit in Piqua to finalize titles. Applicants are urged to secure deeds from Dr Wagner immediately.
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Delphos Herald
Delphos
Fort Wayne
Hollister
Bliss
Pettit
Kemble
H.P. Wagner
Piqua
German worker uses Niagara trip to argue self help
In Lima Gazette prose the author recalls an honest German worker who calculates the cost of a Niagara Falls excursion. He argues personal thrift and self reliance over government aid, suggesting labor bureaus and eight hour days alone won't aid those who waste earnings.
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Lima Gazette
Niagara Falls
Niagara
Dot
Washington Territory patent row spurs Roman church push
Cincinnati Gazette reports House passage of a patent grant for Fort Vancouver and surrounding land once part of a Hudson Bay Company claim. The payment to cover possessory rights exceeds half a million dollars, with suggested future money to secure fort grounds. The column later rails against Democratic support and notes a black cadet appointment to West Point in Irish district, plus a jab at Stan Mathews by the Hawkeye.
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United States
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