National Day of Thanksgiving Proclaimed by President Hayes
President Hayes proclaims Thursday November 29 as a day of National Thanksgiving and prayer urging Americans to worship and give thanks for God’s mercies. He notes a year of broad blessings, national harmony, and Providence guiding the republic, with citizens urged to join in devout observance. The article also reports New York Times data on Democratic majorities and Republican gains in New York.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
United States
Washington
Wa. M. Evarts
New York Times
New York County
Ohio Governor Issues Thanksgiving Proclamation
Gov. Thomas L Young designates Thursday November 29 as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. The proclamation, issued in Columbus, cites blessings of health and prosperity and urges Ohioans to rest from ordinary occupations and attend worship at homes and churches. Secretary Milton Barnes authenticates the document.
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Columbus
Young
State of
Ohio
Thomas L. Young
Executive Chamber
United States of America
State Expenditure Rise Under Democrats Endures Local Support
The Jersey City Evening Journal notes a sixteen hundred percent rise in state government expenses under the last twenty years of Democratic rule. Despite this, voters kept the old State House ring in office.
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Jersey City Evening Journal
Connecticut Lawmakers Shift Power in 1976 Showdown
In 1976 the Democratic majority in the Connecticut Legislature stood at thirty six. Last Tuesday's vote reversed the situation and cleared out long standing figure W. J H Barnum from the United States Senate race while Connecticut responds with excitement.
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Connecticut
United States Senate
W. J H. Barnum
Another Democratic Treasurer in Trouble in Clermont County
The Clermont county treasury faces a shortage. The Treasurer and his friends recount peculiar circumstances of the alleged robbery in an account printed on the fourth page of today's bulletin.
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Clermont County
Todays Bulletin
Labor Movement strongest in Luzerne County Pennsylvania
Luzerne County that includes Scranton and Wilkes Barre gave Tilden 18 395 votes and Hayes 14 920 last year. On Tuesday November 6 Bentley Labor Reform Supreme Judge received 14 521 votes while Sterrett Republican got 6 395 and Turkey Democrat 4 386.
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Pennsylvania
Luzerne County
Scranton
Wilkesbarre
Tilden
Hayes
Bentley
Sterrett
Turkey
Judge McMANAMA condemns Kentucky murders in Carroll term
In Carroll county Kentucky Judge McMANAMA declares blood cries for justice saying human life in Kentucky is not worth a finger snap and many killers go unpunished. He laments graves and acres of grass on murdered men’s graves in his district.
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Criminal Court
Carroll County
Kentucky
McManama
Garfield dodged vote on silver bill blamed by Cincinnati paper
The Cincinnati Commercial accuses Hon. J A Garfield of dodging the silver bill vote while Garfield was in Indianapolis for Senator Morton's funeral. The piece also notes Hon. A V Rice's appointment as Chairman of the House Committee on Pensions and his plan to move pension business to the War Department with payments by Treasury checks, reducing pension agents.
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Cincinnati
J. A. Garfield
General Garfield
Indianapolis
Congressional Committee
Morton
General G
A. V. Rice
House Committee On Pensions
Ohio
Treasury
Mil
Fever and Dysentery Ravage Remote Towns in Bulgaria
From Sisrova on Oct 12 the London Times reports nearly all inhabitants suffer fever and dysentery. They lack beds, sleep on floors, with walls sodden and fires barely burning. No doctor is nearby, the closest being Gabrova two days away. The ill mingle with the healthy, muttering incantations as they await relief.
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London Times
Sisrova
Gabrova
General Sherman on the March in the Carolinas
Colonel Byers describes Sherman's march through the Carolinas marked by heavy rains and mud with corduroyed roads and constant skirmishes. Sherman slept in woods or deserted houses, encouraged troops with kind words, wrote dispatches, studied maps, and led daily advances pushing the enemy back from every chosen position.
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Sherman
Philadelphia Weekly Times
Byers
Carolinas
Billy Sherman
Ife
Fire Destroys Field Leiter Co. Chicago Big Store
The Chicago Tribune reports a fatal personal tragedy followed by a massive blaze that left the Field Leiter Co. dry goods house a burned shell. Stock losses are estimated around 1.1 to 1.25 million dollars with potential salvage of 0.5 million. the firm carries about 1 million in insurance. The Singer Sewing Machine Company owned the building, built in 1872 for about 0.5 million, with about 0.2 million insured. Three floors burned as alarms failed and firemen faced the building’s vast height and size.
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago
Field, Leiter & Co
United States
Singer Sewing Machine Company
Tragic Street Tragedy Shocks Mt Sterling as Tipton Slays Copher
Mt Sterling Kentucky report through our regular correspondent dated the 6th inst describes a brutal street killing. John Tipton a 21 year old blacksmith walked up to Harry Copher 50 plus and struck him with a heavy hammer near the temple, killing him instantly. Tipton fled and is pursued by Sheriff Smoot and Marshal Scott.
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Mt. Sterling
John Tipton
R. L. Tipton
Harry Copher
Copher
Tipton
Sheriff Smoot
Marshal Scott
Baseball declines as corruption taints major leagues
The Louisville, St. Louis, and Chicago clubs face accusations of paying players to fix games, fueling public distrust in professional baseball. The piece also covers comments by Governor Morton’s supporters and critics, including medical views on Morton’s illness, and General Butler’s puzzled reaction to civil service reforms.
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St. Louis
Chicago
Hendricks
Ile
Indianapolis
Morton
Middleton Goldsmith
Vermont
Jefferson
Indiana
Goldsmith
General Butler
Hayes
Civil Service Order
Massachusetts
Butler
Truce Efforts Amidst Turkish Russian Frontline Suffering
The writer recalls a flag of truce sent to arrange interment of fallen troops from the September 18 clash. Red Cross and Red Crescent appeared as fighting paused, but Turkish shelling continued on Roumanian siege works. Many wounded endured thirst, hunger, and freezing weather while awaiting aid that rarely arrived.
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New York Times
Count Tatchiteff
Red Cross
Red Crescent
Skobeleff
Ohio Politicians in the Washington Letter Portrait
The Washington Letter surveys Ohio leaders and figures like General Banning and Charley Foster, praising appearances, temperaments, and political roles while noting Garfield’s stature and Townsend’s tribute to Ohio. It contrasts personal traits with political power in a period of party observance and public debate.
Penge Mystery Sparks Calls for Humane Punishment Reform
The Pall Mall Gazette notes a surge in interest around public hangings as four convicts await execution and a Manchester beggar offers five shillings per head to participate. The piece urges rethinking capital punishment and seeking less barbaric methods if death remains the penalty.
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England
Pall Mall Gazette
Penge
Manchester
Smith
Maidstone
Grand rabbit drive led by Plutes and Shoshones in Reese River Valley
The Austin Reveille reports a five day rabbit drive in Reese River Valley led by Piutes and Shoshones. Hunters form a circle around women and children to trap rabbits, then discharge guns and arrows to slaughter thousands, followed by a Piute chief engineer Charley and his son nicknamed Liar amid a post hunt dance and local gossip.
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Austin Reveille
Reese River Valley
Charley
Elias
Death and politics in a tossed tale from Arkansas and New York
The piece reflects on Tom Stoner s execution in Arkansas after killing his aunt and outlines his notorious stated plans and defiant attitude. It also critiques recent political morals praising John Morrissey s election as a State Senator and ends with a note on a California paper s report of a new three layer raw hide horseshoe concept.
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John Morrissey
New York
California
Daniel Webster Voorhees's Early Life in Indiana
The article traces Voorhees's upbringing in Wabash country by a Whig father and his education at Asbury University Greencastle Indiana. It notes his Whig and Methodist zeal his leadership in prayer and high class standing before entering law with Edward A Hannegan in Covington. It remarks on a swift shift away from Whig beliefs and Methodism after starting law studies.
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Chicago Inter-Ocean
Daniel Webster Voorhees
Indiana
Asbury University
Greencastle
Voorhees
Edward A Hannegan
Covington
Hannegan
Democratic Party
Farmer duped into killing own hog for half profit
A Maine farmer agreed to kill a hog for two men who failed to move it, but the farmer learned too late that he had killed his own animal and taken half its value. The oyster trade is brisk with shipments from East to West, Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroads running oyster trains delivering to six states by breakfast.
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Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Louis
Baltimore & Ohio
Pennsylvania
War Correspondence Highlights Turkish Brutality in Bulgaria
Herald war dispatch notes no Russian wounded reached Turkish hospitals after Bulgarian battles. Bashibazouks overrun fields, killing wounded and prisoners indiscriminately. An eye witness recalls three Russian corpses beheaded in a wood, while a captured officer loses his weapons but survives.
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Karahassan
Mussulman
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