Local Train Timetable From Wilmington to Major Cities
Detailed schedule lists outbound trains from Wilmington to Philadelphia New York Baltimore Washington and other points with multiple daily departures on weekdays and Sundays. It also shows trains arriving at Wilmington from Philadelphia New York Baltimore and Washington along with Sunday services.
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Wilmington
Philadelphia
New York
Patro
Baltimore
Washington
Pee Port Deposit
New Castle
Delaware
Rock Deposit
Delaware R.R
Wilmington & Northern R. R
Delaware Western R. R
Broad Street
Washington Avenue
Thirty-second
Market Streema
Servians seize towns and loot in Turkish territory
Foreign dispatch reports Servians occupying several Turkish towns, looting cattle and provisions. Turkish prisoners from Plegna are freezing. Gen. Grant sailed from Palermo to Malta. A new Italian cabinet formed. Gen. Borel retired for remonstrating against orders linked to a coup rumor. Christmas observed in Havana with usual enthusiasm.
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Severa
Plegna
Grant
Palermo
Malta
Borel
Havana
Cuba
General Cass and John Guy in Christmas Gazette
In John W. Forney's Christmas Gazette a vivid recollection recounts how politicians gathered around Barnum and Guy to choose presidential candidates. The tale centers on Guy as National Hotel chief in Washington, his Cass lookalike, and a laughing misidentification by a western guest who mistook Gen. Cass for Guy twice, prompting a corrective intervention by Guy.
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Guy
Gen
Lewis Casa
National Hotel
Washington
Michigan
Cass
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Atlast
Old Cass
Tam
Arrests Stir San Elizario and Lynchings Spark Curfew
U S troops clashed during arrests at San Elizario Texas with two mob deaths. Texas Rangers seized two alleged aggressors and lynched them. A Union Pacific collision near Cheyenne left a fireman dead and several workers injured. Ann Marmion in Boston faced $10000 bail for brutalizing a girl who died. W W Heaton of Dixon Illinois, Chicago district chief justice, died of heart disease. The Canada machine canal strike ended with wages at ten to fifteen cents per hour.
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United States
San Elizario
Texas
Texas Rangers
Union Pacific Railroad
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Ann McCullum
Boston
Emily E. Marmion
Hen. W. W. Heaton
Dixon, Ill
Appelate Court
Chicago
Canada
The Learned Blacksmith Elihu Burritt near death in Hartford
A Hartford letter reports Elihu Burritt of New Britain known as The Learned Blacksmith faces imminent death from recurring lung hemorrhages. Born 1810, Burritt rose from a New Britain blacksmith apprentice to editor and reformer, advocating compensated emancipation, serving as US consul at Birmingham, and later returning to his hometown for study and philanthropy.
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Elihu Burritt
Hartford
New Britain
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the Bellows
Nome
Elijah Burritt
New Haven
Yale College
United States
Birmingham
President Grant
Great Britain
America
Tomb of Francis Scott Key Sketched by Fredericksburg Writer
Fredericksburg correspondent sketches the tomb of Francis Scott Key in the cemetery overlooking the city. He notes the sunken grave beside his wife Mary Taylor Key and in front of Francis Scott Key Jr. dated 1843, with a rusty harp frame and a view of Union and Confederate burials nearby. The piece contrasts neglect with surrounding well-kept plots.
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Fredericksburg
Cincinnati
Francis Scott Key
Bard
Mary Taylor Key
Francis Scott Key, Jr
Hayes Wanderer Versus Republican Ideals In St Louis Interview
Senator Blaine remarks on Hayes and the Republican party noting a drift from party principles. He argues a split exists between Hayes’s policies and core party aims, claiming harmony is impossible while he pursues his current course. A second note thanks Mr Beecher for a life size portrait presented to St Mary’s table for the Orphans Fair at Institute Hall.
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Blaine
St. Louis
Hayes
Republican Party
Solid Family At Oath Ceremony In Supreme Court
Louis Times reports the Supreme Court room crowded as Justice Harlan takes the oath of office. The new justice, over six feet tall and 250 pounds, with a tall wife, is described alongside a son of eighteen, six feet three and 200 pounds, all likened to Kentucky giants.
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Louis
Supreme Court
Harlan
Kentucky
Advantages of Texas
The article extols Texas for its unmatched production diversity and vast natural resources. It argues the state is highly self-sustaining with abundant arable land close to strong markets, enabling the profitable growth of nearly every major product.
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Texas
Tom Ewing speech denounces press and backs specie bill
In Lancaster Ohio on December 26 1877 General Tom Ewing spoke to a large crowd during a serenade. He blasted the Eastern press and voiced strong faith in passage of the Specie Resumption Repeal bill by the Senate and its approval by the President. The remarks touched on frontier conduct and warned against inflaming diplomatic tensions.
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Tom Ewing
Lancaster
Ohio
Senate
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