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A column of miscellaneous short news items from around the world in early 1876 — deaths, gossip, labor conditions, and dry political jabs — offering a grab-bag snapshot of the era's preoccupations.
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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 11, 1876 · Page 1
1 min readDeak, the Hungarian statesman, is dead.
Rhode Island still reckons eleven hours a day's work in its mills.
The cable contradicts the report that Rubinstein, the pianist, has become blind.
Joseph Dutrie has been chosen president of the Institut Canadien.
E.D. Winslow was not a journalist. He was a speculator in everything he had anything to do with. He used to say that he could preach more in an hour than he could practice in a year.
The Hartford Courant wickedly says that Pond's extract and Winslow's soothing syrup do not appear to be popular in Massachusetts just now.
The Pope has appointed Father Moreau to be Bishop of St. Hyacinthe, Canada; and Father Irving, to be Bishop of Pittsburg.
A mass meeting of Montreal manufacturers, Thursday night, recommended the Dominion Government to adopt the tariff of the United States.
The British Quarterly, reviewing Prof. James D. Dana's work on Corals and Coral Islands, says, "Prof. Dana, who is another Hugh Miller, made his mark as a writer many years ago, by 'Two Years Before the Mast.'"
The Springfield Republican criticises the Northampton cashier because he did not remain dumb when the bank robbers held a pistol at his head and demanded the combination. Charles Francis Adams would have done it. — Boston Post.
Bismarck has suffered a serious relapse.
The Iowa Legislature proposes to restore hanging and make rape a capital crime.
John B. Gough is lying very ill at Lockport, N.Y.
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