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Newspaper
Weekly Nevada State Journal
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1882
Page
1
The piece reflects on Edison promises and the struggle to run many lamps from a central machine, contrasts gas and coal oil, notes English dock lights reverting to gas, and recalls Morse telegraph evolution while discussing Sherman’s Three Per Cent Refunding bill and bank safeguards.
The piece argues against Treasury plans to repeal silver certificate issuance and rejects party manipulation of the gold standard issue. It highlights Senator Voorhees’s criticism, defends greenbacks as stable currency, and asserts silver certificates are backed by silver and equal to gold. It ends urging a broader fight against National Bank influence to restore staple price discount.
A narrator objects to political labeling, urging Nevada Republicans to maintain anti monopoly stance amid press influence. Capt Joseph Irish earns Spanish honor for aiding Pizarro crew. Pa Bier Co sends 1881 annual review with Pacific coast trade data.
A sub committee of the Judiciary reports favorably on the Shhallenberger bill to curb Mormon influence. It adds an ironclad oath for delegates to Congress and allows investigations by quo warranto for polygamy ties. Democrats and Republicans align to move the bill toward passage amid political pressure.
New Jersey farmers use goats to protect flocks at night with two goats per farmer. Goats attack any entering dogs, driving them away as dogs retreat limping and yelping. Previously sheep panicked in field, but now line up behind guarding goats. Origin traces to the West where goats deter wolves in pens.
A reader presses the Sacramento Record Union with four questions about transportation policy. They ask if Adams is universally regarded as the final authority on transport, how recent rate cuts harmed the public on eastern lines, whether the New York Chicago railway rate wars saved freight costs, and why competition supposedly harms some industries while consolidation benefits rail transport. They urge the paper to enlighten them.
The 8. F. Post says Lieutenant De Long and his party likely perished after landing at the Lena river mouth. Danenhower offers faint rescue hope, but severe cold and hardship make survival through winter unlikely. The Jeannette voyage is criticized as ill conceived for North Pole search. future plans should start from Siberian islands with ample provisions and key landmarks noted.
The U F Post reports the Senate again debated Sherman’s refunding bill on Thursday. Plumbs amendment to apply surplus over 100 million to debt reduction was defeated. Sherman and National Bank interests secured a win as Windom’s refunding operations faced indorsement and Ingalls exchange proposal with Hoar’s legal-words addition passed.
In Ribe Denmark an old brass candlestick fixed to a granite pillar bears a curse on anyone who removes it. Attempts to dismantle it after a 19th century repair failed when workers fell ill or were injured, and the candlestick remains in place as an object of awe.
New York City holds five hundred thousand tons of ice for next year but remains two hundred fifty thousand tons short. Philadelphia faces greater scarcity. Kennebec river stores two hundred fifty thousand tons. Ice prices may rise from three thousand five hundred dollars per ton to eight to twelve dollars next summer. Norway ice arrives here at six hundred fifty dollars per ton. Pensacola, Florida forms a cannery for cyaters and Spanish mackerel with Gulf fish and fruits to be canned for the Western market.
Richmond dispatch reports a gas blast at the Midlothian coalmines on Friday night killing thirty two miners. The event stirs great excitement as other political notes reach across the country including campaign rhetoric and court news. General Hancock and General Mitchell visited St Louis, while a San Francisco Republican committee pushes Chinese restriction. Guiteau faces execution delays until June due to DC law, and naval rescue efforts for the Jeannette continue alongside railroad pooling talks.
A collage of notes reports and anecdotes: quail stocking from California into Maine woods, a high stake bid for Foxhall, a New Jersey death linked to truth, Buffalo Bill wealth, school fre ferrule jokes, and weathered races. Also mills in Lewis, a Tongas ruler buying umbrellas, watchmaking feats, Chinese immigration debate, a Dakota county seat clash, farmer reform on farming as production and manufacturing, and cautions to farmers about soil depletion and profit.
A Buffalo citizen reports a swindle selling a grease like butter. A box of 1 script grease spoiled after two weeks, smelling and tasting foul with a yellow tint. Officials from the State Board of Health note no prior similar adulteration. The British steamer Cosmo foundered off Sebastopol with ten corpses washed ashore in the Black Sea.
The S F Chronicle reports a potential East coast refiner alliance aiming to curb Spreckels, with railroad and planter agents traveling east. Rumors of further sugar freight cuts circulate, though unverified, as key players depart for the East, signaling a momentous shift in the West Coast sugar trade.
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