16 Dec 1875
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Newspaper
Wilmington Daily Gazette
Location
Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1875
Page
1
Executive Department confirms a true and correct list of commissions for justices of the peace and notaries public with fees paid for the year ending December 6, 1874. Witnessed by Ignatius C. Grubb, Secretary of State, at Dover on December 6, 1874.
A reprinted advertising spread extols St Nicholas magazine as ideal for children, noting praise from The Boston Journal The New York Tribune and other outlets. It highlights four volume bindings for 74 and 75 and calls it a premier family gift with stories poems and pictures from notable authors and editors.
Advertisement offers a bound volume set and two volumes at reduced rates. A one year magazine subscription with both volumes costs 21.00, or the bound volume edition priced at 8.80. Dealers and sellers are invited to receive subscriptions and supply volumes at these rates.
A California winter described as milder than the East with green landscapes and flowering groves. The piece contrasts climate, notes year round outdoor work and beauty from Klamath to San Diego, and praises vegetation and fruit harvests. It references a December note from the San Francisco Chronicle.
A Charleston municipal race in October shows a dramatic cost gap. 1873 elections spent $18,208.67 under a controversial board, vs $750.87 for the recent election by a trusted panel. American Geographical Society discussed Stanley’s Equatorial Africa explorations with praise from Chief Justice Daly and Bayard Taylor. Arabella Goddard receives $250 and Bulow $100 for unspecified services.
Captain Hanna, a Confederate officer, learned of a dying Union lieutenant named Walter Thrope at Gettysburg. Thrope, wounded near Oswego, asked him to tell his friends there he died bravely and repented. After twelve years, Hanna wrote Oswego’s mayor revealing Thrope’s identity and fate to a devoted wife, child, and mother.
A New York Herald special from St. Louis cites Ex Collector Murdoch claiming Grant knew of whiskey frauds and faces possible conspiracy indictments. It says Murdoch’s statement will be used against Babcock, with an attempt to indict Senator Morton for alleged Whisky Ring money for elections. Judge Aldridge in Jersey City hears a Mary E. Pomeroy affidavit accusing Rev. John S. Glendenning of fathering her child, with a Henry Illinois flock member seeking confirmation.
A remark attributed to Col Fred Grant from the St Louis Times suggests Babcock is the victim of conspirators aiming to crush President Grant and his allies rather than planning a government swindle. The article notes the president’s silence on whiskey prosecutions, implying Grant’s view on the matter.
Col James O Brodhead's retainer as special counsel in St Louis is fixed at 1000 dollars President Grant asks ex Governor Reynolds to assist but the lawyer declines the commission A dynamite plot to destroy the steamer Mosel near Bremerhaven Germany appears the American Thomas is suspected and searched by police The Mason County Texas silver mine boom reports two shafts 75 feet deep ore valued at eighteen dollars per ton over 100000 acres located Mrs Margaret Aster Chandler dies at 87 widow of ex Congressmen John W Chandler and granddaughter of William B Astor
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