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Newspaper
Wilmington Post
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1878
Page
2
The Wilmington paper cites a Raleigh News editorial praising southern resistance to federal policy. It argues the south will not endure further coercion and highlights secessionist sentiment, West Point figures, and loyalty to state identity amid national tensions.
In a West Point appropriation showdown, Mr. Aiken of South Carolina took the floor and spoke in a distinctive self confident style. The piece notes the speech as a sui generis example of state rhetoric reminiscent of Keit and Brooks and highlights the frequent use of the pronoun I.
The bank’s Commissioners state they will pay another 10 percent on March 20. Debtors may present pass books in person or by mail or through a banking house, with full addresses. They emphasize not forcing asset sales, noting 117 of 134 foreclosed pieces were bought in for depositors, with only 24 sold since, and eighty nine pieces valued at 250000 remaining, plus assets in Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Nashville, and Vicksburg, totaling about 275000 more awaiting disposition.
The Titl silver dollar bill clears the Senate 48 to 21 and heads to the House. President fate unclear. two thirds support in both chambers suggests possible override if vetoed. Text specifies 412 grain silver dollars legal tender at 90 cents on 100, with Treasury to mint and purchase bullion under set limits.
A proposed act calls for a Latin Union conference to fix gold and silver values and adopt bi metallic money. It authorizes commissioners and outlines compensation and Treasury funding. The text also recalls political maneuvering around the Louisiana Returning Board and Emancipation Proclamation events with names like Tilden Wells Anderson Pelton and Frederick Douglass.
The piece urges young colored readers to labor and save to gain independence. It then reports a Girard Ohio tragedy where trichina worm infection from undercooked pork caused multiple deaths, detailing a family’s illness, a doctor’s diagnostic findings, and microscopic evidence of trichinella spiralis in muscle tissue.
The passage describes Job as the wealthiest man in the East with 30 000 acres 7000 sheep 3000 camels and 1000 yoke of oxen and a household of 2000 plus 300 trained warriors and laborers with buildings valued at 26 000 and total property around 400 000 money in ancient times later near 1 000 000 before his fortunes fell.
Ex Governor Walker of Virginia plans a move to California. Edward Everett Haley released a new book What Career. Senator Burnside urges a bill to abolish all racial distinctions in recruiting.
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