Illinois and Michigan vote tallies show shifts in party strength
The report compares state totals from the recent election with presidential figures, noting Republican leads in Illinois and Michigan diverging from earlier patterns. It highlights Democratic and Greenback gains, a surprising Michigan swing, and narrates a humorous Owasso Michigan tale of a husband fleeing town, later coaxed back by his wife as villagers search for him.
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Ilinois
Dolocia
Cesseseoscoensis Accessensensannneenenensesanan
Greenack
Michigan
Vermont
Owasso
Stewart
The Silver Dollar Remonetization Totals Revealed
The total standard dollars coined since remonetization up to the 2nd inst is 19,814,551 dollars. About 10,500,000 are in the United States Treasury, around 4,200,000 in mint vaults, and a little over 5,000,000 in general circulation. The total exceeds the legal minimum by about 1,500,000 dollars.
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United States Treasury
Geneer
Loss of Pommerania After Collision Off Hamburg
The steamship Pommerania sailing from New York to Hamburg collided with a Welsh barque near Portsmouth. The vessel sank within ten minutes on the night of November 25. 172 passengers and crew were saved, with 50 to 60 believed dead including Captain Schwenzen who stayed with the ship.
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Schwenzen
New York
Hamburg
Portsmouth
Decline of Black Representation in the Forty-Sixth Congress
A 1868 letter by Sam Carey is dismissed as outdated by the Mail, noting the shrinking number of Black officials in Congress from 869 electing members to only Ozila in the House and Bruce in the Senate by the era. The piece mocks reliance on old political letters and urges focus on contemporary events.
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Ozilara
House
Bruce
Senate
Congress
Republican press trumpets victory while voters reject party
The piece argues Republicans lost in 11 states on November 5 with a 333,000 popular deficit and hold only four states now. It cites Dill and Mason ahead in Pennsylvania yet predicts GOP collapse by 1880, urging fusion with Democrats or Greenbackers to destroy the party, noting minority gains for Hoyt and Osmer and urging vigilance against “bloody shirt” rhetoric.
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Pennsylvania
Dill and Mason
Hoyt
Greenbackers
Mason
Harrisburg
Warren County
Osmer
Ley
Thompson
Sun
Republic
Congress
The
Daily Sun
the Sun
J. W. England
New York City
Trade Here and Abroad in a Time of Economic Slump
The global business mood remains somber as England and France face recession and liquidation. Yet U.S. import growth surges with nine months of 1878 exports surpassing imports by 209 million dollars, signaling an early revival. Prosperity now hinges on conservative practices, long-term effort, and disciplined spending.
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England
France
Bureau of Statistics
How Diphtheria Spreads
A St Albans girl recently recovered from diphtheria visited a neighbor’s family in a nearby town. She slept with the children, triggering several cases and deaths. Relatives and neighbors were allowed to visit, spreading the contagion further. A local physician failed to take precautions, causing a death in his own family.
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St. Albans
Senator Gordon Defends Reconstruction and Faces Opponents
In Atlanta a U.S. senator rebukes Republican leaders for reviving the Bloody Shirt motif and reopening wounds from the Civil War era. He praises Northern benevolence and Southern patience, urging unity against a reactionary push that would revive sectional tensions.
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Atlanta
Gordon
Georgia
Blaie
Conkling
Seerebury Sherman
Hines
Lousiana
South Carolina
Want the Old Times Back Again
Boston Herald fragment recounts Grant era social decline with Shep herd and Kilbourne houses, Nellie Grant rumors, political talk in Maine and New Jersey, Tompkins released, Estrada and Glenn duel, prize fighting revival, Watson’s wheat farm, and a snake drinking milk at an English dairyhouse.
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Boston Herald
WasuIneTon
Shepherd
McPherson Square
Babcock
Hallett Kilbourne
New York
Williams
Robeson
Grant
Washington
Europe
Washington society buzz as Senator Bruce returns with bride
Washington correspondent notes social intrigue over reception of Senator Bruce and his European adorned wife. Bruce, to serve until March 4 1881, stays in a Capitol Hill residence. Article mocks etiquette, mentions Mrs Pinchback and Beecher, and widens to assorted notices and ads including arnica salve and Hop Bitters.
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Washington
Chicago
Cleveland
Europe
Pinchback
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Grand Valley
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Old Exchange Buiding
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Warren, PA
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Warren PA
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Fisher's Block
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Jbasister
Fisher
Waerem, Pa
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Hickory Street
Union School House
Otijan
Warren, F
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Orphans Court
County of Warren
Sugar Grove
County of
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Fairview Hill
Comfort Hamlin
Jackson Run
Warren Road
Jane Aineton
Christian Byer, Jr
Naan
Orphan's Court
Said
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Charles Wilson
John Wilson
Geo. W. Churchill
W. J. Alexander
Jamestown
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Aper
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