President Garfield Dies After 200 Days In Office
The 20th U.S. President James A. Garfield died at Long Branch New Jersey after two hundred days in office eighty of which were days of intense suffering. The public extends sympathy to his bereaved family. Other items note figures like Italy eyeing war in Northern Africa and a Georgia liquor bill defeat with local prohibitions discussed.
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James A. Garfield
United States
Long Branch
New Jersey
Centennial poem and political notes from a distant era
The column mixes obituary notes and political updates including Garfield’s death, Arthur’s oath of office, rail purchases for a southern line, a fountain proposal at Atlanta Exposition, and a French astrologer’s dire predictions for 1881. It references Gen Washington’s era, Fort Randall, and a mix of local and national concerns with brief remarks on public figures and events.
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Tuarx
Russia
United States
Gov Vance urged to curb rail monopoly impact in North Carolina
A letter praises Gov. Vance for opposing a freight rate monopoly that harms North Carolina towns. It highlights Col. Yates’s role at Atlantic & North Carolina road, freight reductions for corn, and calls for continued rail improvements. The piece notes Virginia Midland selling to Clyde Syndicate and outlines Shenandoah Valley and Norfolk & Western connections, arguing the Midland’s decline.
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Sare
Gov. Vance
North Carolina
Vanse
Baltimore & Ohio Road
Virginia Midland
Clyde Syndicate
Augusta
Garrett
Baltimore and Ohio
Harper’s Ferry
Staunton
Norfolk and Western
Salem
Spartanburg
Virginia, Midland
Midland
Big Lake
Virginia
Shenandoah Valley
Philadelphia
Tyler
Shenandoah
Kiniiball
N. and W
Bristol
Shetlandosh
Danville
Carolinas
An Awful Occurrent in Durham County
Durham Recorder reports a fatal accident at Jones plantation eight miles northeast of Durham Sunday. A three year old boy was killed when a fifteen year old brother discharged a gun left within reach by absent parents. The incident warns parents to keep firearms away from children.
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Durham
Jones’ Plantation
Elections This Fall Across Ten States
Elections will be held in ten states this fall including Maryland Virginia Pennsylvania New York New Jersey Massachusetts Minnesota Ohio Mississippi and Wisconsin. Governors and state legislators are elected in Massachusetts Ohio and Virginia while other states elect varying fractions of their legislatures and congressional vacancies.
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Maryland
Viginia
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Ohio
Mississippi
Levi P. Morton
France
Warn
Miller
Eldridge G. Lapham
Senate
Virginia
United States
Polish Jews in North Carolina Work in Cigarette Factory
Reidaville Times reports about roughly one hundred Polish Jewish workers at a cigarette factory run by W. T. Blackwell & Co. in North Carolina. Most are young men without families. a long-standing foreman acts as interpreter. They avoid pork, share housing, and even use goose grease. Blackwell plans cottages to create a separate settlement for them.
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Reidaville Times
W.T. Blackwell & Co
New York
Blackwell
National Convention Called for November in New York
A call has been issued for a national convention of representatives of agriculture manufacturing and commercial interests to be held in New York on November 30. The aim is to promote domestic and foreign commerce and seek congressional aid in protecting American industry.
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New York
W T Manning shoots in Dakotas Territory
W T Manning formerly of the Danvilleens shot and perhaps fatally wounded a man in Dakotas Territory some time since J T Garvey foreman of the same paper under Manning is now sheriff of the county where the shooting occurred Des Moines reports cold weather with snow along the Rock Island road two inches in Omaha A 90 mile railroad contracted from Williams ton to Raleigh via Tarboro is noted Rev Campbello has abjured Catholicism for Methodists Atlanta January 14 1880 Frank L Haraison lion librarian endorses Neuralgine as a remedy for neuralgia and headache Sold by all Druggists feb10 8 Iy
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Danvilleens
Dakotas Territory
J. T. Garvey
Mr. Manning
Chaco
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Iowa
Rock Island Road
Desota
Here
Nebraska
Omaha
Rocky Island Road
Atlanta
Messrs. Hutchison Bros
Frank L. Haraison
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