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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1877
Page
2
Eleven McLly Mc Guires were hanged in Pennsylvania yesterday. Foreseeable harvests promise record wheat across Central Ohio and Indiana amid a foreign war in progress.
L. J. Jennings reports from London that Grant makes a strong impression with discreet restraint during a lengthy reception. The gathering applauds his quiet bearing and solemn expression as a sign of steadiness and dignity.
Telegrams from General Howard describe Idaho as gloomy with active Indians drawing from other tribes. Troops rush to the front as about thirty citizens have been murdered. Captain Perry commands roughly 200 men pursuing a well posted enemy in a ravine, last heard engaging them as the messenger departed.
The President has booked a cottage at White Sulphur Springs Virginia for July and August. Leading aspirants for the Speakership will go there as the Forty-fifth Congress forms. A Republican basis may emerge before mid August and influence the Ohio fall campaign.
The Inter Ocean lauds ex Senator Pratt as a prominent Indiana citizen and powerful Western bar advocate. He settled in Logansport, spoke with a notable voice at Chicago's Wigwam nominating Lincoln, served in Congress and then as Commissioner of Internal Revenue under Grant. He is praised as pure, honest and patriotic, with his loss widely deplored.
The Ohio State Journal reports Democrats in Columbus worry over who claims credit for the silver dollar plan as they prepare for the state convention. They fear Republicans may steal Democratic principles and threaten the dollar of the fathers, citing a 1877 Republican resolution on restoring silver money.
The New York Tribune quotes Mr. Tilden noting that a year or two ago all Tammany ring members were in exile or prison, but he does not reveal where they are now.
A Treasury Commission led by Secretary Sherman investigated the Bureau of Engraving and Printing finding 958 employees at start and about one third remaining active after, many hired by Congressmen as deadwood. The report credits Civil Service reform for abolishing Hayes era Congressional appointments and improving efficiency.
Henry Ward Beecher earns five thousand dollars yearly from the Christian Union while once valuing his work higher. His Hudson farm serves mainly as a caution to clergymen against relying on agriculture for income. A recent lecturing tour added forty thousand dollars, diminishing sympathy for his finances.
Daniel Spielman alias Henry Adams, convicted for the Henry Mulharren homicide near Dayton, is depicted as a lifelong criminal driven by liquor and greed. The narrative covers his birth in Adams County, his Spanish mother, father a counterfeiter, years on the road committing robberies, prison escapes, and his final refusal to confess on the scaffold before execution.
Cincinnati report notes Hon. Charles Foster of the Tenth Ohio District praising President Hayes for improving Republican prospects. Foster cites German support, uncertainty over Taft, and the silver remonetization issue as key statewide factors shaping the fall election outlook.
In Talbot county Maryland Marshal Douglas of the District of Columbia met his former master Captain Thomas Auld and teacher William Buff who helped him learn. He urged colored people to earn and retain money and property to gain respect and progress, warning doom if the race regresses from emancipation.
A young man recalls a diary entry dated January 1 promising to abandon intoxicating liquor. He muses on balmy June mornings, Seidlitz powder, and the faded vow, wondering if the resolution holds or dissolves as he searches the bureau.
In Oil City a dusty weary stranger with a carpet-sack asked a local about Edinburg. The resident warned the walk is long about twenty two miles and offered a wagon ride into town. The stranger paused so abruptly his teeth fell out.
A Dallas physician Dr J W Davenport patents a cheap fluid preservative for fruits vegetables and meats that keeps them fresh for months without flavor loss or harm. It claims four cents per barrel and renders corn meat and fat dishes indistinguishable from fresh as boiled samples prove. A separate Providence Rhode Island anecdote notes a New York suitor’s bracelet containing Miss Cary’s picture.
The most extensive gang of horse thieves, robbers and forgers in the country was uncovered after a Kitsville Missouri arrest. A member confessed, naming principal actors and residences, with further arrests ongoing across three to four states.
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