Political letters and prices in Warren Ledger note
Correspondents discuss Democratic prospects, Pennsylvania votes, and sectional politics. Price rises hurt buyers while workers stand still. Greenback and Prohibition parties fade as elections loom. Local Warren County results swing Republican. Democrats and Greenbackers lose ground. Readers are urged to ponder a shifting political landscape and possible new dispensations.
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Prohibition
Warren County
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Eric Gazette
Next Senate Becomes Likely a Tight Twenty-Eour Race
The article projects the next Senate composition from current party lines. It notes 76 seats with 43 Democrats and 33 Republicans, predicts shifts for terms expiring in March 1881, and outlines possible post election divisions. It also reports Archbishop Lynch’s account of a long audience with the Pope regarding Roman Catholicism in North America and priest education.
An Old Democrat Warns of a Solid South Rallying Behind Grant
The writer argues that post election bitterness in Pennsylvania and across the North risks national division. He urges Democrats to consider Grant as a unifying candidate to rescue the country from spoiler politics, noting Grant’s past policy shifts and popularity in the South.
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Signs of the Times in a Cautionary Waving Letter
A writer reflects on post election consequences and warns of perilous times. He cites political drift toward North and South, societal ills, infidelity, and rising secularism. The piece laments barren churches, empty pews, and a decline in true godliness while urging vigilance and moral reform.
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Paul
Timothy
Christ
What Can I Do Against the Causes Deluging the World
A short exhortation urges action in opposition to looming dangers and moral decay. It emphasizes urgency and personal responsibility, invoking charity as the guiding Christian grace and calling readers to reflect and act. The fragment cites MonE ANON as the author and questions how individuals can counter the threatening causes.
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Anon
Contention in Church and State Destroys Peaceful Order
The article argues that from ancient times to the present, educated elites spark party strife for self gain, harming nations and individuals. It cites church divisions, political rivalries, and family feuds as sources of poverty, misery, and death, urging wise restraint and selfless courage to defend liberty and peace.
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la Fontaine
Humility versus contention in church and life, 1879
VERITAS letter from Witcox Pennsylvania argues pride and self conceit fuel sects politics and family disputes. It laments universal self righteousness, notes humility as the first lesson and distrust of self as proof of knowledge, urging less contention. Nov 1879.
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Church of Christ’s Church
Seldon
Death of John Davison and the burning oil train chase
Long narrative recalls John Davison a former Oil Creek road engineer who saved a locomotive and two cars by racing downhill with a burning oil train after flames erupted in an oil car. He aimed for a switch at Brocton Junction to escape the inferno, with his fireman and horses in peril, and narrowly avoided disaster as oil cars burned for hours and a passenger section was uncoupled to save lives.
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Mayville
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Virginia Negroes Repudiate State Bonds At Polls
The Norfolk Virginian- Democrat notes that Virginia voters, including many African Americans, strongly backed repudiating roughly 15 million dollars of Virginia bonds held by Northerners. It records egg attack on General Grant in Quincy Illinois and cites St Louis Globe Democrat on the incident and local reactions.
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Ilinois
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Galenburg
Almost Young Again by Hop Bitters User
A Providence reader reports that a mother in her seventies recovered vitality after three months of Hop Bitters for neuralgia and general weakness. The letter claims the remedy restored energy and youthfulness, with no other medicine helping previously.
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Providence
KR. I.—Journal
Fidency Mutual Aid Association Promotes Home Insurance
An 1819 Warren County notice introduces the Fidency Mutual Aid Association of Philadelphia as a home insurance company with 200000 dollars in guaranteed capital. Agent S. W. Warren invites inquiries and applications, while Gov Robinson is noted returning home to attend to business.
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Warren County
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W. Warens
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