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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1882
Page
2
After weeks of stalemate the Democratic Party secured a Speaker with Tammany support. Tammany then switched to back the Republican Clerk, using patronage leverage. In the Senate, Tammany joined Republicans to empower Lieut. Governor Hoskins to assign committees, signaling a tactical power shift.
A long letter from Mrs. Scoville to Mrs. Garfield seeks intercession for the Garfield assassin. J. H. Rhodes says Mrs. Garfield received the letter on the 17th, and she asks to be left alone with her sorrow. no reply will be given.
A Long Branch dispatch reports a program to honor President Garfield with a public subscription. The finished Gothic arch window will be placed opposite Garfield’s pew, eight seen features include a central medallion from a photograph and an inscription date.
The New York Herald brands the cigarette tax cut as a bill to make idiots. It argues cigarettes kill thousands of youths annually and ruin minds, urging the tax be raised enough to keep poisonous packs from children.
Secretary Dunket of the Department of Internal Affairs sent the list of seventeen railroad companies operating in the state to the Attorney General to pursue penalties for failing to file annual reports within thirty days after the financial year end. Each violation carries a $5,000 fine. Garfield address planned for Monday February 27 in Washington draws keen interest. About 1,500 tickets issued for the event. Mrs Garfield will receive 25 tickets and the orator an equal amount. Each Senator and representative will receive three extra tickets.
The United States and Canada show about one million more men than women based on late census data. England has one million more women, while Germany's population shows a two million surplus of women due to war and immigration.
A Saturday morning blaze nearly destroys Haverhill Massachusetts in Essex County. Loss is estimated at 2 million dollars. the city with about 1500 residents depended on boot and shoe manufacturing, silverware, and woolen goods.
The piece notes a Dublin copy dated January 27 its royal court notices from Osborne to the Prince of Wales shooting party at Selby and Thropewood. It then quibbles with Americas Guiteau trial coverage claiming public appetite for sensational details while affirming the condemned hanging.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant addressed the Lincoln Club in New York on Lincoln’s birthday and recalled meeting Lincoln in 1864. He recounted anecdotes and highlighted Lincoln’s clarifying stories after Appomattox while describing a dispatch about Virginia’s government as a test of his resolve.
A Newark clergyman questions if a Democrat can attain salvation, noting good Democrats deserve heaven but fearing nomination and election at the polls would fail them. The item also recalls Gen Hancock’s 58th birthday and notes Kentucky’s move to drop New Year’s Day from legal holidays.
Pittsburg will see a new theatre costing 159000. The report notes 20000 children attend Pittsburg public schools and that newspaper reading is a daily exercise in Indiana public schools. It also mentions 81 new Pennsylvania post offices opened last year.
A new industry grows among local insurance agents who lost work in the graveyard business. They market weekly premiums to insure children against scarlet fever, diphtheria, and similar illnesses, paid by parents. The practice is described as a systematic swindle preying on poor families, with Harrisburg swamped by male and female agents.
A Washington paper cites a tender acceptance letter from a woman to Donald confirming gratitude for his proposal. The note expresses humility and resolve to become worthy of his offer, ending with a pledge to try.
An explosion in a pyrotechnic works at Prof. Jackson in Cuestrer Pa shattered the building and fire followed. At least fifteen people are dead or missing and many injured. The old Porter mansion housed many colored families nearby. A large crowd watched as firefighters battled the blaze. The incident coincides with Whittier nearing his 74th birthday and his increasing age and deafness.
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