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Controversy Over Bonds and Prominent Figures in 1860s Politics
Page prints accusations of Republican misuse of bonds issued by the 1868 convention and legislature, naming recipients and totals. It also covers letters from English observers on American women, military department reshuffles proposed by Lt. Gorridan, pension office clerks promoted, Deadwood land dispute, Irish emigration, UK newspaper counts, a physician joke about Hop Bitters, and Prof. Swift's reported seventh comet discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
London
New York
Chicago
Liverpool
England
John M. Comstock
L. E. Dickey
Maine
Chauncey Hickox
Connecticut
Talbert Lawton
Ohio
Frederick Mack
Vermont
G. A. L. Merrifield
Frederick W. Poor
Virginia
Charles F.sawyer
Georgia
J. R. Vanmater
New Jersey
Charles L. Whelpley
W. H. Webster
Deadwood
Dak
Secretary of the Interior
Black Hills