Seven hundred negroes attack Vicksburg in violent assault
Dispatch from Vicksburg reports seven hundred Black attackers stormed the city on three roads Monday morning. Citizens repelled them with 25 killed and wounded and 40 prisoners. Whites suffered 1 killed and 2 wounded. The assault aimed to reinstate Sheriff Crosby who was demanded to resign for lacking a bond. Latest evidence suggests Gov. Ames and Attorney General Geo. E. Harris urged the invasion.
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Vicksburg
Crosby
Gov. Ames
Geo. E. Harris
The President's Message and Naval Academy Changes
Congress received the President's annual message praising General Grant and urging return to specie payments with repeal of the legal tender act. He backs increased revenue and free banking for resumption. Navy changes adjust cadet exams and academy year dates to streamline admissions and study time.
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Congress
General Grant
Secretary of the Navy
Naval Academy
A Farmer's Railroad Links Salinas Valley to Monterey
California farmers of Salinas Valley built a narrow-track railroad to Monterey to escape rampaging railroad monopolies. They financed the line themselves, seeking cheaper transport to the seaport, twenty miles away, and to reduce annual costs even if using the existing main line.
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Salinas Valley
California
Monterey
San Francisco
Standford & Co
Salinas Valley Upgrade Promises Freight Savings and Profit
The proposal includes turnoutg and polling stock with two large warehouses costing the people of Salinas Valley $13 000 per mile. Freight savings on 1 600 000 bushels of wheat at fifteen cents per bushel would yield profit for themselves.
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Salinas Valley
Cremation in Dresden Observed At New Oven
The second cremation in the Dresden oven used for Lady Dilke's body occurred on the evening of the sixth last. A 23 year old wife of a South German physician was cremated with flowers nearby and no clergymen present. Herr Siemens spoke, witnesses described a pale reddish flame and no smoke. After seventy eight minutes only ashes remained, placed in an urn.
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Dresden
Dilke
Herr Siemens
German Frugality In German Domestic Life
Hurst notes German contentment and frugality shaping households through modest rooms and limited expansion. Wealth grows without moving to grand mansions or ostentatious entertainments, as many Germans prefer simple living. Only when wealth rises does the idea of aristocratic status and luxury appear, often hinting at connections to America.
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Hurst
Germany
America
How James Lick Made His Great California Fortune
From the New York Tribune, this piece chronicles James Lick born in Fredericksburg Pennsylvania who after piano making in Philadelphia ventured to South America then to San Francisco Bay with $30,000 in cash. He bought property at Montgomery and Jackson, anticipating a booming town and began building his fortune through industrious thrift and bold ventures.
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New York Tribune
James Lick
Fredericksburg
Philadelphia
South America
California
Pacific Coast
Lick
el Dorado
Peru
San Francisco Bay
Montgomery and
Jackson Streets
Speculator’s Quiet Rise Shapes Early City Lots
In 1848 a quiet buyer secured choice parcels and titles as a booming city emerged. Prices paid exceeded market norms, reflecting the agent’s preference for prime positions. Lick pursued only top lots, keeping counsel as successive blocks remained in unknown ownership for years.
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Lick
Parisian Charities Solve Winter Soup Needs in Paris
A Paris correspondent outlines how two major soup kitchen societies, Philanthropique and St Vincent de Paul, feed the poor at low cost. They run 42 kitchens and served millions of meals last winter, with free medical aid and large funds raised for the needy. Clerical leadership oversees operations with limited staff, aided by subscriptions.
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Boston Post
Paris
Philanthropique
Bouillon
St. Vincent de Paul
Mme. de MacMahon
Sisters of Charity
The Silver Age in American Silverware History
A December Scribner's piece traces the Silver Age back to 1831 in Providence with Jabez Gorham and the Gorham Manufacturing Company. It contrasts gold’s luxury tradition with silver’s rise, praises Gorham artistry and a Pairpoint bass relieft plaque, notes English plated ware origins, and explains Gorham plate’s indistinguishability from solid silver.
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Scribner's Magazine
Jabez Gorham
Providence
Great
Gorham Manufacturing Company
Benvenuto Cellini
Florentine
England
Elkinton
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Sam
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Cassimeres
Queensware
Rawson
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Troy
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Lyl
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JOB Press
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St Louis
Republican
Beat
Weat
Washington Administration
Mississippi Valley
Daily Republican
St. Louis
Missouri Rep
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DR. Clark & Co
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Edwardsville
St.’ Louis
Fred. Auwarter
Seth Thomas
Wei
Troy City
Osage Corn
Illnois
Challenge Feed Mills
Semple, Birge & CO
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Bulletin Ofice
Joan
Dewex
Clay and
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Huoils
F. A. Sabin
Market Street
Trey
W. W. Jarvis
Andrew Mils
Justice OF the Peace
Risser & Rawson’s
F. L. Hampton
Ladder Shop
Main Street
John L. Purviance
27Tna and Cionx Insurance Co S. Ly
Independent Cornet Band
N. Jarvis
Leaver Troy
Tuinois
Rail Road
Andrew Klein
Dlinois
John Deimling
Benet Shmitt
Boot and
Troy City Exchange
Felix Droll
John Diehle
T. H. Bell
Smith's Old Stand
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F. L. Hamiron
Edwin
Donoho
John H. Neary
the New Photograph Gallery
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