Tennessee and North Carolina Debt Debates And Political Turmoil
A Tennessee suit seeks nearly eighteen million dollars from railroad creditors as the state grapples with debt. North Carolina legislators face reform and retrenchment debates amid calls to settle the public debt, boost credit, and curb waste while rail and internal improvement plans unfold across the region.
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Cresar
North Carolina
Bic
Tennessee
Chas. O'Conner
New York
Edward L. Andrews
Hoadly
Cincinnati
Samuel Watson
Nashville
Li and
E. Lehman
Memphis
Colored witnesses testifies in Charleston election clues
A colored witness before the Teller Committee testified that over two thousand colored men voted the Democratic ticket in Charleston. Friends of tobacco tax reduction push ahead despite difficulties, hopeful for success. Senator David Davie of Hl. claims independence yet threatens to join Tadicals, which could shift Republican gains. Battle's Revisal is charged as a god-serd to lawmakers, with references to its messy compendium and need to amend.
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Potter Committee
Morrison Committee
House
Western Union Company
Senate Committee On
Washington
Gen. Butler
Stewart
H. R
Winston
Paterson
Caldwell County
Africa
E East
Teller Committee
Charleston
Blaine
David Davie
Battle
Richmond Dispatch
Senate Finance Committee
Friends
Voorheese
Senate Chamber
Richmond
Virginia
Jones
Nevada
Wallace
Bayard
Senate
Congress
Voorhees
Soell
Capitol
Seidler
Lorillard & Co
Death of Gen. McCown in Arkansas, noted Tennessee link
The Knoxville Tribunes obituary recalls Gen Jon P McCown a Sevier county native and West Point graduate who died in Little Rock Arkansas last Wednesday of pneumonia. His career spanned the Mexican War Seminole campaigns and Civil War service with the U S and Confederate armies before returning to Arkansas residence.
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McCown
Knokville
Tenn
Jon
P. McCown
Sevier County
Tennessee
Little Rock
Ark
West Point
Millitary Academy
Fourth Artillery
Texas
Palo Alto
Resaca Dé la Palma
Monterey
Veta Cruz
Cerro Gordo
City of Mexico
Florida
Rio Grande
United States Army
Bragg
United States Service
Arkansas
the Sentinel
Greensboro Notes Sausage of town events and movers
A mixed Greensboro roundup reports a rope walking show, theft and bail set at 300 dollars, sermons at Presbyterian and Methodist churches, Mishler’s Swedish Lady quartet touring on the fifth, Kate Claxton to perform on the sixteenth, W E Beville buying a dwelling and opening stock, Mrs Rebecca McLean’s death, Jack Roach and family moving from Rockingham, C P Vanstory traveling to Cincinnati for stock, and a warning about rising thefts with a sharp line about the whipping post as remedy.
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Greensboro
Eugene Eckle
J H. Smith
Presbyterian
Bishop Peck
Northern Methodist Church
Mishler
Kate Claxton
W. E. Beville
Rebecca McLean
Jack Roach
Rockingham County
C. P. Vanstory
Cincinnati
Disturbances at district school and local altercation near Lewisville
Lewisville Township notes report a crowd of disorderly men disrupted a district school exhibition last Saturday. A subsequent store affray at L. W. Springs left N. E. Whitman Slatter boys and Bill Freeman with non dangerous but painful cuts. Dr Hunt treated Freeman. Also a grape pruning accident injured L C Laugneau. Revenue officials recently captured another still nearby.
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Lewisville Township
Lewisville
N. C
L. W. Springs
N. E. Whitman
Slatter
Bill Freeman
Freeman
Hunt
L. C. Laugenour
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R. E. Lee
Arlington Estate
Temmessee
Happy
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Jth Iist
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Chishcllaney
Michigan
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Chandler
Tham
Tamme
Anti-Tammany
Marshal McMahon
France
Jules Grevy
Onr
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Grant
Union
Fish
Fred
Secretary of State
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Tilden
New York Eraliz
Col. W. L. Saunders
Raleigh Observer
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J. Madison Wells
United States Grand Jury
Wells
Hayes
New Orleans
Republican Party
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Zach
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Ingalls
White House
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Siedler
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Burwell
Geo. C. Ayers
National Tobacco Association
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Central Hotel
W. A. Lemly
Boss
T. Vogler
Winston, N. C
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Elaine
J. W. Alspaugh
G. W. Norwood
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T. S. Vaughn
Piedmont Warehouse
Wists
Langer Tobacco Warehouse
North
Catalina
Phifer
W. A. S. Pierce
338. Scares
Maj. J. Q. A. Barnam
Tf. Norfleet & Vaughn
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Squibb
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Geo. W. Hinshaw
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Hinshaw Brothers
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