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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1878
Page
2
Tule public debt decreased by $71,623 in the last month marking the first December reduction in national indebtedness in several years. The note highlights a rare monthly decline and places it in the context of ongoing fiscal changes.
A member of the fighting McCook family dies Saturday in New York at the home of Anson G McCook confirming the line of Civil War era generals. Ohio born Grorche W McCook is counted among the silent majority in this era.
Jy reports that Governor Bishop appointed an Adjutant General who once captained a company and allegedly did not file an official report. The National Guard units in the state express anger over the decision. Friday, the Golden Gate Mining Company in Deadwood sold four mines to California capitalists for $400,000, the largest mining property transaction in the Black Hills to date.
Browarp T Haley argues for transferring 12 million dollars to a U.S. commission to fund artificial limbs for needy ex Confederates and other uses as the panel decides.
The speaker denounced the doctrine of future punishment two weeks ago and last week argued for religious sincerity over formalism. He claimed prayer three times a day does not avert hell and affirmed hell exists both now and hereafter, condemning ritualism without faith.
Under federal law, United States Senate balloting begins on the second Tuesday of the new legislative session, January 15. Both the Senate and House will vote separately that day. a majority in each house ends in a joint convention to declare the result. If not, the joint convention proceeds to ballot the next day.
An editorial in the Mobile Register discusses a December Historic Megazine piece by R M T Hunter. It quotes that Lee and Breckinridge despaired of victory and urged peace negotiations early, with Lee meeting Hunter to push peace ideas to the Confederate Senate. Hunter says Davis distrusted him and blocked private communications, and the article accuses Davis of personal failings amid the Confederate capital's collapse.
The Louisville Courier-Journal reports Southern residents urge the U S Government to fund and supervise Mississippi River levee construction. They argue Northern states receive internal improvement appropriations and contend levees should be built under federal oversight, estimating 40 million dollars for 30,000 square miles.
The Celina Standard notes a city fair in Millersburg where a rooster won a local vote. John Biracree reports two valuable horses stolen near Celina and recovered in Van Wert. A Christmas turkey gift to Paper Mill workers is praised. A fatal pistol accident in Sidney involves Grant Fry and Benjamin Conner, aged fifteen, with the shot striking Conner in the eye.
The Findlay Courier notes a peaceful Christmas season with no arrests. The Defiance Democrat warns that water power interests and land sharks from Toledo may threaten the Paulding Reservoir through legal tricks, risking loss of local water advantages. The piece contrasts Defiance’s energetic business climate with regional mud-bound conditions and calls for fewer expensive projects and more pikes.
Wilkes Spirit of the Times highlights Creedmore records by the New York militia under the new rifle drill system. The piece contrasts historic European tactics with American marksmanship advances, noting how open, rapid fire and breech loading weapons shorten wars. It weighs future implications for armies and strategy.
Philip Martz of Monroeville Indiana wed and hosted a reception. Uninvited guests arrived, triggering a serenade of bells horns and tin pans. The couple and invited friends fired revolvers and shotguns at the crowd wounding nine. Police investigation follows.
Miss Thompson, an American resident in Edinburgh, had a mare shod with solid gold horseshoes and gold nails at Prof. Baird’s veterinary shop. The mare, bought two years ago at Moir’s sale, was ridden in Moir’s yard before departure with Miss Thompson for London en route to America.
Miss Tompson, a young American woman, astonished Edinburgh by wearing a horse shod with gold shoes costing 1000. She registered none of her details at the Contract House, Niagara Falls, paid with twenty dollar gold pieces, and kept servants unpaid in lavish fashion. She rode a spirited mare, dispatched telegrams from England requesting care for the horse, then returned to Scotland with the mare and a hotel porter to tend it, making no acquaintances.
A novel marriage rite described at the Puyallup ferry near the Lummi Indians where a groom must sacrifice valuables to win his bride. He gave four canoes, $150, a rifle, two shotguns, and other items to the bride’s parents. The gifts are to be returned once he proves his worth to the in law parents.
The sale concerns undivided interests of Henry Wright and John Davis in Griswold Addition to Middlepoint Van Wert county Ohio. Appraised values 2590 and 55 dollars respectively. Terms: cash. Sheriff Fred Billman and Attorney Jameson announce sale from Van Wert Ohio January 4 1978.
A reader argues against furnaces in small homes noting heat from stoves and boilers risks health and safety. The letter contends old fashioned fire grates better warm, cheer, and ventilate homes, calling for sanitary laws to ban modern heating in modest houses.
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