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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1879
Page
2
The Warren Ledger reflects on a hard 1878 with tight credit and reduced profits. It notes a political dispute over a monopoly case, hopes for recovery in 1879, and urges debtors to settle accounts as the paper returns to print after a lean period.
Little Johnny Davenport, an acting United States Commissioner in New York City, arrested over two thousand voters on election day. Judge Blatchford of the U.S. Circuit Court ruled the arrests illegal and ordered all released. The piece accuses Republican presses and Jim Blaine of silence and laments perceived party bias toward Southern outrages.
A San Francisco driven memorial presented to Congress argues for a strict federal ban on Chinese immigration. It lists reasons from economic competition, perceived moral decline, and public health fears, urging Congress to adopt prohibitory regulations while California maintains police power within its borders. The document cites famine-driven influx fears and warns of social disruption and labor displacement. It also notes the broader national interest versus state actions, and criticizes delay in federal action on immigration policy.
The Warren Asylum commissioners review progress on the Warren Pennsylvania state hospital for the insane. Roofs rising this year, arches and sash nearing completion, and extensive iron beams and stonework underway. Plans indicate much brickwork finished, with funds needed to finish entrances and plumbing as key factors for continuing work into 1879. Total bricks used and on hand noted, along with detailed labor payments to carpenters quarry and bricklayers.
The Resumption Act begins to operate as the nation faces a return to specie payments. The New York Herald notes divided opinions yet calls for cooperation with the law to restore prosperity. Supporters and opponents alike suspend active opposition to let the experiment run its course. The piece warns that undermining the plan would unsettle business and worsen distress, urging united resolve to prevent disarray.
The Secretaries of the Senate report reveals costly curiosities and lavish items from pocket books and autograph albums to cigars and lotions. It notes large expense on investigations of Grover and other 1876-77 probes, with figures for Redpath, Darbaud, and Bullock. Canada’s debt critique and Iowa poet James Ballard conclude this briefing.
The New York Sun recalls two days after the 1876 vote that Tilden held 184 electoral votes and Hayes 163, with 22 disputed votes in Louisiana Florida South Carolina and Oregon. Republicans claimed those votes were offered for sale, and Hayes's side bought them, a claim supported by strong testimony though no Tilden vote was gained.
Interview with a Milwaukee Chinaman reveals why Chinese families are kept abroad. Ab Lum argues Chinese women could not walk streets or perform labor in America due to refined feet and high costs. he also notes American women’s presumed extravagance and a preference against marrying American women.
Colonel Henry Tr Foster, 72, wed Amanda Cummings, 69, after she forced a $30,000 demand on their union. The piece also reprints the oath for public officers and notes Bayard’s presidential prospects facing Southern skepticism. inkluder includes social items, ads, and notices from Warren, Pa.
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