Obituary Honors Geo Peabody Esteemed Benefactor
The Warren Mail notes the funeral fleet bearing Geo Peabody’s remains arrived in Portland and his West End burial was marked by grand ceremony. Peabody, once a modest banker, amassed wealth but gave large sums to educate the poor and aid the hungry, exemplifying the creed that giving is blessed. The piece praises his Christian charity and contrasts his private gentleness with public admiration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. Peabody
Portland
England
America
Trolden
Virginia Readmission Bill Reaches Final Approval
The admission bill for Virginia to rejoin the Union was amended in the Senate to require an iron clad oath for legislators or relief from 14th amendment disabilities. It bars altering Virginia’s constitution to deny voting or office to any group, except felons, and returns to the House where Republicans largely supported it before the President signed.
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Union
Hlouse of Representatives
Senate
Virginia
Geo D Prentice Dies Veteran Journalist Poet
Geo D Prentice, famed veteran journalist, wit and poet, born 1802 in Connecticut, died after two years of illness and poverty. He worked with John G Whittier on the New England Review, later founded the Louisville Journal and earned fame for sarcasm and verse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. D. Prentice
Connecticut
John G. Whittier
New England Review
Louisville Journal
Parallel news notes on politics and civil rights
The item reports checks payable to bearer for 1000 to 3000 dollars cashed for legislators at the Harrisburg capi tol tied to Coalition Treasurer promotion, with a call for Senator Billingfelts probe. It also notes Revel as Mississippi’s first colored U.S. Senator, Oberlin alumnus, ex-soldier, and Ohio political rise. A letter from Judge Chase urges enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment via Ohio legislature, supporting universal suffrage and amnesty.
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Irwin
Pitsburg
Harrisburg
Allegheny
Senator Billingfelt
Mississippi
U. S. Senate
Revel
U.S
Ohio
Oberlin College
Davis
Toombs
Foote
South
Washington
Thomas H. Yearman
S. P. Coask
Gould and Fisk testify on Wall Street gold conspiracy
A Congressional committee's review of Gould and Fisk reveals Gould's denial of presidential or treasury secret involvement. Reports note Fisk appears reckless and weak, while the Philadelphia Press finds no new proof of presidential or Boutwell participation and affirms the President's innocence.
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Congressional Committee
Wall Street
Gould
Grant
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington Dispatch
New York Herald
Fisk
Bohemian Press
New York
Boutwell
Philadelphia
Polygamy Bill Sparks Salt Lake City Backlash
Congress weighs Cullom measure targeting polygamy and concubinage with stiff penalties. It punishes living with another woman as a crime and disallows polygamists from voting or serving on juries. Women and men oppose enforcement if passed.
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Congress
Cullom
Salt Lake City
Harrisburg
Extraordinary mild winter threatens lumber and fruit markets
The winter is unusually mild, with potential harm if it continues. A New York paper warns ice supplies for summer may shrink, harming fruit trees and vegetation. In New Hampshire and Maine, vast logs and timber sit idle awaiting snow, crippling lumber firms as teamsters idle and owners face non saleable property and cash flow issues. a foot of snow could be worth millions.
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New York
New Hampshire
Maine
Warrisburg
Wealth of American Literati Spurs Poet Fortunes
A recent paragraph on American poets lists estimated fortunes for Bryant 500000 earned via journalism Appleton’s gift boosts Longfellow 200000 plus profits from poems Holmes 10000 from inheritance lecturing Whittier 30000 from inheritance and writing Saxe 70000 inherited earned through law lecturing and literature Lowell 30000 to 40000 from heredity and Harvard chair earnings It notes methods of wealth accumulation and the influence of positions and family.
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Bryant
Longfellow
Nathan Appleton
Holmes
Whittier
Saxe
Lowell
Harvard College
Transatlantic Cable Agreement Among Major Firms
London announces finalized working arrangements among Anglo American Atlantic New York Newfoundland and London and Societe des Cables Transatlantique Francais. Receipts will form a joint fund with 36 percent to the French company and 63 percent to others. If any cable breaks, messages travel via alternate routes for public benefit while business persists. Anglo American and Atlantic to be reconstituted on a common stock basis.
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London
Atlantic
New York
Newfoundland
Societe Des Cables- Transatlantique Francias
Monitors Escort Body to City Hall in Portland
Portland Maine January 26 monitors steamed down to the funeral fleet and the Peabody and Portland councils followed in the Mahoning toward the Monarch. The body will stay aboard the Monarch until Saturday noon then be taken to City Hall escorted by naval officers and men as Gov Chamberlin and staff receive it.
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Portland
Peabody and Portland
Mahoning
Plymouth
Fort Preble
Monarch
Miantonomah
Terror
Record of Western Steamboat Disasters Last Year
Report lists 74 Western river disasters with total losses over 1.6 million dollars. Major losses include Peoria City sunk at Natchez 50,000 and Ruth burned at Bucksport 80,000. Several vessels including Carrie V Koutz and Fanny D Scott burned in April at St Louis for 112,000, plus others burned in May at Cincinnati for 128,000. W R Arthur stranded at Cairo 45,000 and Stonewall burned at Cape Girardeau 40,000, Swallow sunk near Cincinnati 33,000.
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Peoria City
Natchez
Ruth
Bucksport
Ben Johnson
Hy. Adkins
Carrie V. Koutz
G. B. Allen
Jennie Lewis
Fanny D. Scott
St. Louis
Clifton
Westmoreland
New York Grain Trade Losses Shift Westward in 1869
The grain trade centered on New York declined from 73 million bushels in 1863 to 56 million in 1869 as Western hubs expand. St Louis Chicago Montreal and Welland canal infrastructure attract trade, while Buffalo drops and Baltimore grows. Baltimore Gazette notes 1869 grain up over 1868 by fifty percent and predicts continued Baltimore gains. A separate Omaha dispatch reports telegraph and rail line damage from a recent storm and ongoing rebuilding. Augusta Me notes lawmakers attending Peabody obsequies in Portland.
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New York
Buffalo
St. Louis
Chicago
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Montreal
St. Lawrence
Canada
Welland Canal
Baltimore
Baltimore Gazette
Varied items and oddities fill late 19th century column
A collection of short items notes unreciprocated love and other oddities. It mentions a Calhoun relative driving a Charleston streetcar, resignations in Irish emigrant circles, Sheridan’s tears at Miss Caterman Warner, Wallack touring, Sigel’s New York post, Muscatine jurors and whisky, a Mass tax valuation, Parker field oil output, a flea in a burglar’s ear, brain size in hogs, moon as a youth, and a Methodist pastor’s wife filling pulpit duties in Bingham Massachusetts.
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General Sheridan
Miss Caterman
Mary Warner
Lester Wallack
Franz Sigel
Internal Revenue District
New York
Muscatine
Iowa
Parker
Horrid man says present hair styles confuse young ladies
A jumble of items reports odd opinions and events. The piece notes a man jailed for planting horse chestnuts to raise sorrel colts, a train attendant asking about Abank s Cut, Plymouth Church paying Beecher $20 000 yearly, and pew rents totaling 54 000 for 1870. It mentions Pius IX and the Ecumenical Council, a child’s Sunday lesson misquote, and Brooklyn coal for the poor at 31 000 daily with a requested extra 200 000. Also covers Mrs Peters hearing Mass in Rome, a quip about women’s bones, a pulse study in young ladies, Hudson River ice gorge, a New Haven stove incident, Detroit tobacco output and taxes, London skating basin, Beaver Falls works, an Englishman living in a rock dwelling, a Dubuque eccentric botanical collector, and news of Capt Smith’s murder at Fort Wrangle.
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Lafayette
Plymouth
Beecher
Pius IX
Ecumenical Council
God
Hudson River
Hudson
Albany
New Haven
Western Railroad
Detroit
United States
London Skating Club
Regent's Park
Beaver Falls Cutlery Company
Beaver Falls
Beaver County
Dubuque
Iowa
San Francisco
Removing Rust From Polished Iron Or Steel
Rust on polished iron or steel forms a thin oxide scale from oxygen in the air. Red rust can be removed by olive oil rubbed in, then lime or whiting after a few hours. If allowed to corrode, surface repolishing is needed for black rust. otherwise rust removal fails. Also notes a ship report and an obituary for Louis Gottschalk.
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Titusville
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Democratic Caucus
Prince Arthur
Victoria
White House
Jenkins
Greeley
Wallace
Philadelphia Navy Yard
League Island
New England
Chase
Cuicago
Omaha
Auger
Fort Randall
Buck
Republican River
Augusta
John C. Calhoun
Carleston
Richard O’gorman
Irish Emigrant Society
Massachusetts
Bingham, Mass
Lunatic Asylum
Brooklyn
Arthur Mitchell
Sarah Peters
Cincinnati
St. Peter’s Cathedral
Rome
Dearn Or
Gortscua
Curcaco
Superior
Hinckley
St. Paul
S. P. Johnson
Henry &. Getz
Trinity Memorial Church
James A. Galbraith
Struthers
Lottie
Gilbert D. Smith
Panama
N. Y
Aale
Conenango
Maria Ursala
Christian Beyer
First National Bank of
Warren
Pennsylvania
Moses Beecher
M. Beecher
Atteestt
Boon Mean
J.R Clark
Oak R. Prown
Svate
C. F. Reese
John Green
Conewango
Warren Co
Anna Green
Adm
X. Warren
Lljaust
James J. Vroman
Eldred
Warren County
Francis Vroman
Starr P. Q. Warren Co
Adin
Court of Common Pleas
Joseph Hall
Sillings
Borough of
Sid
WM. Jagger
Com- Rfmon
D.C
G. Blair
George Blair
Benjamin P. Carr
Chas. Parker
Carr & Parker
Prothonotary
WM. J .Gger
Phila
Deerfield Township
Warren and Franklin
Hickory Creek
J. Richardson
Silas Ruland
Said Ruland
John 5. Wilson
Warren Conty
Warren and
Franklin Turnpike
Harry Rothman
John Rothman
John Parshall
John S. Wilson
Williams FP. Noble
J. R. Capron
Hazeltines CO
Pavta
Henry Sutter
Conservatory OF Music
Warren, Pa
Paris
Leipsic
Dresden
Jamestown
Brown
A. J. Davis
Hill
Henry Lutte Warren
People’s Literary Companion
C. Allen & CO
Lorillard
Eureka
Lorillard's “Yacht Club
Lorillard’s
P. Lorillard & CO
Magic Come CO
Springfield
Mass
Mr. Green D. Franxrry
Jersey City
N. J
Wolcott
Chatham Square
R. L. Wolcott
Lsjatt
Chatham Square N. Y. Islandt
Issut
Philadelphia Grocery
JAS. V. Mazurie
Glasswale
Willow Ware, &C
N. B
Broadway
Ilorace Waters
Common Pleas
Assumpsit
George Pardee
P. F. Lewis
George Pardee & Co
Charles Parker
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