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Newspaper
Weekly Bulletin
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1874
Page
1
The Tribune notes a large rise in smallpox in New York and reports the Post Office Department will seize its new building in New York on January 1, 1875. Other items mention a Salt Lake grand jury, indictments against polygamists, unrest in Buenos Aires, and troops joining rebels.
The Brooklyn Argus details Tilton and Moulton indictments with a large defense contingent. Roscoe Conkling joins Tilton’s team. Evarts, Tracy, Porter, Bartlet, Graham, and Sherman assist Cowling. Moulton retains Judge Fullerton. Butler likely leads. A venue change motion and certiorari to the high court are planned.
Fifty nine principal insurers from the United States and Europe have pulled their agencies from Chicago. The move threatens mercantile credit with Eastern manufacturers and markets, as cash sales become dominant and notes rely on goodwill rather to protect payment. The Boston Globe notes the shift endangers Chicago buyers’ credit in Eastern trade and could depress commerce in the city and beyond.
Post fire, Chicago firms would have gone bankrupt but for insurance on sold goods. The piece argues western rivalry, eastern mortgage backing, and the impracticality of Chicago replacing seventy five million dollars in withdrawn capital with local funds. It notes investors would doubt such a shift and warns of broader regional economic impact.
The St Louis Republican cites a cotton committee forecast predicting a 45 percent drop in the incoming crop for the cotton belt around Memphis. It projects a national decline from 1873's roughly 4.18 million bales to about 3.33 million, with Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee yielding far less. The piece notes reduced acreages and early September damage in Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, framing the decline as politically and economically damaging to the South.
Mr N A Rector of Texas and Mr John Black of England climbed Popocatepetl reaching the snow line at six in the morning and the crater verge at ten thirty, about 20 000 feet above sea level. They descended into the crater area where a windlass and 600 foot cable reach the bottom, but gas and fumes halted further descent. Sulphur gatherers worked nearby.
The report notes the windlass failure and a mostly quiet volcano with eruptive tendencies. A vast sulfur load is ferried down to the Mexican market and the scenery from mid slope is superb, though the ascent to the peak is perilous with many dangerous sections for novices.
The Charleston News clarifies that besides Abner Doubleday and Truman Seymour two other officers survived the Fort Sumter bombardment of April 1861 Major General Jefferson C Davis and Samuel W Crawford. Davis later led a corps in Sherman’s army while Crawford, once an assistant surgeon, rose to Major General before retirement. Crawford visits the city to prepare a history of Sumter’s occupation and bombardment and is mentioned as a potential candidate for Lieutenant Governor. The author notes old Confederate soldiers remember these officers and acknowledges past hostilities with no hard feelings.
Two Chinese students joined Yale College Scientific Department after creditable exams. Sixty Chinese students funded by their government study in Connecticut and Massachusetts, with thirty arriving two years ago and thirty more expected soon. They stay with cultured host families and spend time at the Chinese Educational Commission headquarters in Hartford for progress checks.
A Welsh-born recluse named Austin Sheldon has lived in a six by eight foot cave beneath a rock eight miles northwest of Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania, for over thirty years. He arrived in America around 1840, walked to Pike County, bought a small plot in Lehman Township, and never left his cave except for ammunition. He is nearly seventy, with unshaven gray beard and clothes worn for two decades, subsisting mainly on berries and fruit.
A deaf recluse subsists on wild game and Bible study in a cave. He is educated, devout, and communicates by writing. He charms and nets birds, has never used lamp or candle, and rests on straw on rock. He plans this cave as his final resting place.
A notice stating the new firm will maintain the old reputation by supplying goods of leading brands, upholding a one price system, and offering fair prices. It invites patrons to inspect goods, exchange country produce for high quotations, and recalls the store at Main and Market streets, Troy.
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