12 Feb 1880
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Newspaper
Weekly Reno Gazette
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1880
Page
1
A partial OCR reads daily and weekly rate details for a mailing service with unclear figures. It mentions a one year term and per week pricing around 23 cents, but the text is garbled and names or places are not decipherable. This item resembles a notices column fragment lacking clear entities.
The Carson Tribune notes a revival at Metho dist church and jokes about a Deacon are dismissed. Debates rules from Senator B J Watson are praised. Mrs Bonanza Mackay may have purchased a title in Europe. A New York bill targets female pedestrian matches. Kalloch and De Young clash over political maneuvers in Kansas. San Francisco charity bequests total 40 000 for destitute women and children. Bogus five dollar pieces circulate locally. James Gordon Bennett donates 100 000 to Ireland relief. Austin hosts a masquerade ball. Tilden denies marriage plans. Bayard battles greenback policy in Senate. France railroad disaster kills seven, wounds twenty. Alameda schools adopt Appleton readers. Quincy mail routes shift via Reno. Pennsylvania Convention backs Grant. Grant campaig n appears stalled.
The Nevada debate centers on railroad influence and reform. The Appeal urges calm study and practical measures to curb oppression, warning against bribery charges and vague accusations. It stresses that voters want effective leaders who can fix evils, not mere criticism, and calls for constructive proposals.
An unnamed observer lauds Blaine for shaping party strategy at the Pennsylvania convention and in 1876. The piece notes his ability to rally opponents of Grant while avoiding exposure of weakness, and recalls Hayes’s nomination with swift support from a sick-bed telegram. It also expresses doubt about party leadership and hopes for a more statesmanlike figure.
An anxious note claims the Reno Gazette is being distributed free at railroad offices by a new syndicate. It questions whether the paper has become the official organ of a Nevada corporation and casts doubt on the profit motive behind such distribution.
The Silver State claims its owner’s name flies at the masthead and promises prompt notice of proprietorship changes in Winnemucca. It notes issuing 5,000 specimen copies of its weekly at $250 per year in advance to boost subscriptions and thanks for free advertising.
The New York Assembly railroad investigating committee calls for a three member commission to study railroad management and redress public grievances. It argues for public pressure over rigid laws and recommends a board with railroading, commercial, interior and legal expertise to expose mismanagement and foster accountability.
The Board of Supervisors opened bids for county advertising and blank work. Foot Holl Ridings offered 600 for printing excluding blanks, Grass Valley Union 1500, Transcript 1365, Herald 1507, Independent of San Juan 761 for advertising only, Tidings won the larger contract at 800 for full county printing, considered low versus rivals.
Editorial notes critique Professor Huxley on cram schooling calling youth conceited and worn out by strain while praising intellectual rest. It questions a postal card debt dispute, tax laws, and lender practices. Includes a Lucan Ontario crime report with a family massacre and arson and a Reno political jab at Cameron’s nomination tactics.
A collection of brief clippings includes poems and verse bids, Reno and Carson City satire on Elko misquotes, and commentary on capital punishment debates. It notes California's legislature considering abolition while Switzerland reconsiders hanging, and mentions Princess Amazulu visiting London. Reports on a Keokuk bar admission banquet, Kerr's Grant pledge in Philadelphia, and a severe Atlantic storm with shipping damage wrap the page.
A San Francisco Argonaut piece recounts a young man advised to bury bad habits. He buried whiskey and cigars in a coffin but later dug them up, drank the whisky and smoked the cigars, then considered himself a reformed inebriate.
A hunter saw his bird dog dive from the bank into a stream and retrieve a fish from the water. The dog surfaced with a large fish, described as a wondcock, and the hunter shot at what he believed to be a swimmer. The item notes no responsibility for the tale.
A collage of oddities and scandals: Gonzales a drunken shooter with no political motive. Guilford Conn man fined $7 for abusing his wife over Haydn’s innocence. Heath Mass pastor mocks coin collection by preferring buttons to dead money. A Iowa inventor detonates a cap under a postage stamp to cancel mail, tearing up letters. Roger Monk leaves a plum cake fund for Covent Garden pantomime. Miss Banfield a Shelbyville teacher, white, with a black fiancé, faces pushback and dismissal. furor over reinstate ment demanded by clergy. Portsmouth pastor Rounds claims Christ will return Septem ber 1881 and inaugurate a thousand years of universal conversion, ending in world reconstruction.
Artesian wells are increasingly utilized with notable outputs. Trafalgar Square fountains in London draw from a well 898 feet deep, while Grenelle in Paris yields water 32 feet above surface from 1798 feet depth. Sahara borings produce 700,000 gallons per hour, transforming barren deserts into green spaces. New York and Newark host thousands of wells supplying thousands of gallons daily. The New York gas light company saves about $8,000 yearly. breweries report 60,000 to 15,000 gallons per day from driven wells. Buda Pesth’s artesian well at 3070 feet yields over 200,000 gallons per day.
A poem about Susie dear sparks a fatal rage as a rival lover shoots the poet in a fit of jealousy. The trio are described as black and from St Louis, amid many verses claimed to cost authors their lives.
The Union Pacific conductor claims a fly on the engineer's glasses caused him to brake hard, mistaken for a buffalo on the track. The engineer recalls a night when the conductor mistook an approaching headlight and kept his train waiting before starting again. Both praise the other as the safest man who ever ran.
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