Enfield Shaker Dissolution Report Highlights Oddities
A long list of curious items follows the Enfield New Hampshire dissolution, noting Elder Henry Cummings may marry a sister and depart, Tennessee towels theft at the State House, a frightened horse near a locomotive, a clock prize in Augusta, and punditry on party names. The piece also covers a new long distance telephone test, Hostetter’s bitters regulation, Mrs Garfield’s alleged remark, boiler iron advice for the czar, church artifacts in New Brunswick, Capitol sightseers, thunderstorm telephones, Democratic flirtation with Conkling, Cameron’s age and virtue, and his Maytown parsonage gift to the Lutheran Church.
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Simon Cameron
Maytown
Missionaries Conversion Rates in 1880 China
In 1880 twenty thousand nine hundred Chinese were converted to Christianity by missionaries in China. Muslim missionaries, preaching paradise and houris, secured over one hundred thousand converts to Islam.
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China
Center of US population near Cincinnati hub
The 1880 center of US population is placed between Mt Adams Observatory and Mt Adams, about two to three miles south and eight to nine miles west respectively, implying Cincinnati sits near the center with westward shift likely next decade. The San Francisco Post mocks a proposed society named the Independent Order of Acquitted Murderers with a long roster, naming Dan Sickles, Mrs. Fair, and Sullivan as officers in a sensational claim about a Chicago murder.
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United States
Washington
Census Bureau
Mt. Adams Observatory
Cincinnati
Queen City
San Francisco Post
Dan Sickles
Roscoe Conkling's Long Congressional Service Highlighted
The article notes Roscoe Conkling has served twenty years in Congress, entering the Senate in 1867 as Ira Harris's successor. He previously spent three terms in the House and was elected for a fourth term before becoming senator. He will be fifty two on October 30.
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Roscoe Conkling
United States Senate
Ira Harris
House of Representatives
Congress
Emigration Concerns Across Nations and Swiss Emigrant Case
The piece notes Sweden fearing emigration to the United States and possible restrictive laws, critiques English free trade and British wages, cites Egyptian eye care issues, and reports two Swiss women Fridoline Vogelin and Theresa Houser sent from Bottstein to New York for vagrancy and immorality, later returned with town funds acknowledged as avowed emigration.
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Sweden
United States
Fridoline Vogelin
Theresa Hauser
New York
Bottstein
Aargau
Switzerland
Castle Garden
America
Houser
Canton
The Mills Will Never Grind My Boys Forever
A nostalgic tale moves from a schoolhouse memory to a rich California heir and a practical romance. Vivian Severn, urged by Uncle Daniel Somerset, loves Bertie Gray. After a deathbed scare, Somerset returns to reveal a family fortune, changing lives and plans.
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Daniel Somerset
Vivian
Vivian Severn
Daniel
Bertie
Ethelbertha Gray
Dan
Bertie Gray
Mr. Somerset
Newport
Vessar College
Delmonico’s
Yosemite Valley
Mr. Vivian
Papa
Mamma
Somerset
California
Delemnico’s
Peter Gray
Ethelbertha
Severn
McWaller & van Tunis
Bertie Severn
Simon
Prohibition Party Move Faces Republican Backlash
The Bellefontaine Republican argues the Ohio Temperance Alliance call for a Columbus convention is a Prohibition Party bid to recruit temperance Republicans. It warns such independent action harms the Republican Party and weakens Temperance laws, urging unity behind proven temperance candidates.
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Bellefontaine Republican
Ohio Temperance Alliance
Columbus
Prohibition Party
Republican
Democratic
Republican Party
Democratic Party
McConnelsville
Friends of Temperance
Alliance
Alliance News
House
Senate
Windoms and the Treasury Bond Controversy
The Boston Transcript lauds the Treasury Secretary’s unauthorized move to reduce the public interest account by issuing Windoms. It argues for a bank-like executive approach over Congress’s town meeting style and predicts eventual adoption of a stronger, centralized national financial administration similar to England and France.
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Boston Transcript
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
England
France
Tell-tale device logs Erie freight trains speed and stops
The tell-tale, newly used on the Erie Railroad, records train speed and where trains stop. It attaches to cabooses and uses clockwork to mark a paper strip, noting mile and minute divisions and interruptions when trains halt. Station names show on the strip for locating irregularities.
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Erie Railroad
Jersey City
Bergen
New York Sun
Monarch of the woods felled in 315 years near Crystal Spring
The Waterloo Observer reports Mr. F. H. Furniss felled a 315 year old white pine near his cabin in Yates County. The tree stood over 175 feet tall and would yield about 4,000 feet of clear lumber valued around 180 dollars. The timber fell with a thunderous roar as the monarch crashed to the ground after a careful plan to direct its path away from the cabin.
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F. H. Furniss
Crystal Spring
Yates County
Shakespeare
Hades
Waterloo
N. Y
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