26 Sep 1880
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Newspaper
Wilmington Post
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1880
Page
1
Excerpt shows advertising rates and office details for the Wilmington Post in Wilmington North Carolina. It lists second class mail, price per line for first insertion and subsequent insertions, eight lines per square nonpareil type, subscription price, and where communications and ads should be addressed.
Public notices list speeches by Mesara, Jobin W. Shackelford, and William P. Canaday in Fayetteville Kingsbury Rockfish Hollow Elizabethtown and Tarnbull with meetings at noon on successive days. Existing Democratic poll officials accused of voter illiteracy actions are challenged with affidavits.
A correspondent reports J J Martin has campaigned for Cyrus W Grandy in the First District. Judge Buxton draws praise, Jarvis garners attention, and Vanaday rises. Judge Fowle declines to split time with W A Moore and M Moore for Attorney General in August.
Augustus M Moore, Esq a Republican candidate for Attorney General, born in Edenton in December 1841, and a long-time resident. A veteran of the Civil War, he pursued law from 1867 and has held multiple local offices. He is described as an earnest Republican with strong speaking and writing abilities and wide local popularity.
The passage captures Democratic criticism and defense of Gen. Garfield amid Credit Mobilier controversy. It quotes William M. Springer and Senator Edmunds disputing Garfield’s integrity and party loyalty, contrasting anti Garfiel d sentiment with calls to trust his honesty in the Credit Mobilier matter.
Governor Corvell ill at Coney Island as Albany physician treated him. Senator Blaine starts a tour with Philadelphia speech to 30,000. Rumors place Jay Gould at Western Union control. Irish Republicans active in New York amid Unitarian Conference and Cleveland era figures. Reports of executions, pension debates, and Edison’s electric light claim dominate political chatter.
Wilmington scene runs through religious, civic, and criminal notes with interments, licenses, elections, and a few personal moves. Reports on cemeteries, a charitable jail docket, railroad and water works talk, crime trials, and a memorial fund, plus a Smithville sermon and a Kiln King monument drive.
Local report describes James A Gariteld and a notable canine performance as a key attraction. The article notes a unique contest with a focus on a single outstanding dog and its handler amid community interest.
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