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Valley Spirit: August 5, 1868 Go To Page : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |

Brilliant Financiering
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Summary: Attacks Republicans for their financial policies that have produced a depreciated national credit and a large public debt. "No other party that ever held power in this country exhibited so little wisdom with financial questions as have the Radicals."

[No Title]
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Summary: The paper blasts Grant's slogan "Let us have peace." The editors assert that peace reigned when Whigs and Democrats had power. It was Grant's own Republican Party that brought war to the country in the first place. Peace can only be assured by defeating the Republicans.

Temperance Candidate
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Summary: The paper predicts John Cessna will run as a temperance candidate, a move that may divide the Republican Party.

Cost of the Freedman's Bureau
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Summary: The paper attacks the Freedman's Bureau for draining the national treasury. It has cost over 11 million, the paper asserts.

[No Title]
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Summary: The paper attacks the national debt Republicans have run up. "If a national debt really is a 'national blessing,' as Jay Cooke asserts, the people owe a mountain load of debt to the Radical party for piling the national debt mountain high."

[No Title]
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Summary: The Rev. Thomas G. Apple will hold services in the German Reformed Church on Sunday.
(Names in announcement: Rev. Thomas G. Apple)

[No Title]
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Summary: A volunteer militia company is being organized in Chambersburg led by George W. Skinner, George L. Miles, and S. Wilson Hays.
(Names in announcement: George W. Skinner, George L. Miles, S. Wilson Hays)

Monument Association
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Summary: William C. Eyster, treasurer of the Monument Association, issued a financial report. The organization has taken in $555.09 in receipts and spent $415.94. A concert will be held on the grounds of William McClellan and C. M. Duncan to raise more funds.
(Names in announcement: William C. Eyster, William McClellan, C. M. Duncan)

Federal Hill Seminary
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Summary: Mr. Foster, principal of the Federal Hill Seminary, is at work preparing the buildings for the inaugural school year. Courses of study are being planned. A Preparatory Department is opening for those not fully prepared to enter the Junior Department. Tuition for that program will be $16 for the first session and $12 for the others.
(Names in announcement: Foster)

[No Title]
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Summary: Typhoid Fever is prevailing in Greencastle. The epidemic of cholera infantum that carried off many children has been subsiding recently.

Democratic County Convention
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Summary: The Democratic County Convention met in the Court House to elect candidates for local office. The convention supported F. M. Kimmell for Congress; C. M. Duncan for State Senate; J. McDowell Sharpe for Additional Law Judge; B. F. Winger for State Legislature; Frederick Zollinger for Sheriff; W. S. Stenger for District Attorney; William S. McAllen for County Commissioner; Jacob R. Smith for Director of the Poor; William D. McKinstry for Auditor; Hugh Auld for County Surveyor. Resolutions were passed demanding restoration of the southern states to their rights under the constitution; respect for the rights of the states to regulate suffrage; restoration to the president of all constitutional powers; economy in government by reducing the army, abolishing the Freedmen's Bureau and punishing corruption; equal and impartial taxation. They also support Seymour for president.
(Names in announcement: John Armstrong, William Brandt, Jacob R. Smith, Dr. J. M. Gelwix, M. D. Reymer, Dr. J. R. Smith, Isaac Clugston, Emanuel Canode, J. B. Barnhart, Christian Lesher, Christian Whitmore, George W. Skinner, P. H. Peiffer, Adam Crist, Joseph Deckellmayer, Charles Evans, Christian Frederick, Marshall Donnelly, Joseph Doyle, Martin L. Hammond, William Piles, Isaac M. Stark, Samuel Brackenridge, Pharez C. Duffield, Jacob Lightfoot, Peter McFerren, Solomon Shively, Joseph C. Clugston, William Brant, William Etter, Jacob C. Snyder, William B. Gabby, Jeremiah Deihl, Daniel Palmer, John C. Tritle, R. R. Picking, Samuel West, William Forbis, Philip M. Shoemaker, Martin Pugh, Jacob Snyder, John H. Jarrett, Thaddeus Reilly, John W. Dehaven, Jacob Meinhart, John Brackenridge, William Boyd, William D. McKinstry, J. Weidlich, William Noonan, R. Barclay, J. S. Nimmon, Simon Bitner, Jacob Reber, Joseph Etter, Col. J. B. Orr, Henderson Skyles, Houston McCullough, A. J. North, William Branthaver, Cephas L. Unger, George McLeary, Adam Essick, Emanuel Monn, William Mentzer, E. J. Small, Albertus Hicks, Thomas Gillan, Alex Martin, Andrew Lohr, Daniel Stake, James Culbertson, Ezra Shoemaker, Joseph Phenacle, Isaiah Brewer, David B. Tenley, John Mullen, J. J. Miller, W. F. Horner, Henry Besore, Samuel Nicodemus, M. A. Embick, Jacob Elliot, John McLaughlin, Jacob C. Snider, James B. Orr, Charles Evans, Ephraim J. Small, Jacob Snider, F. M. Kimmell, J. McDowell Sharpe, G. W. Brewer, G. W. Skinner, T. B. Kennedy, J. W. Douglas, J. W. Dehaven, Col. B. F. Winger, Frederick Zollinger, George W. Wolfe, Joseph C. Kennedy, George Leidy, Jacob Sellers, J. G. Wallach, Abraham Hafer, George W. Welsh, W. S. Stenger, William S. McAllen, Emanuel Canode, John Lindsay, Maj. J. North, William B. Gabby, J. J. Miller, William Logue, Isaac Hockersmith, Solomon Shively, Cyrus Hambright, Jacob Leedy, William D. McKinstry, William B. Gabbey, Hugh Auld, E. J. Small, J. C. Snider)

Damages
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Summary: Woods and Ely, the commissioners appointed to assess war-damage claims, are planning to visit Franklin County.
(Names in announcement: Woods, Ely)

Origin of Article: Fulton Democrat

Died
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Summary: Mrs. Jane Parker died in the Orrstown residence of her son on July 18th. She was 87 years old.
(Names in announcement: Jane Parker)

Married
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Summary: Edward H. Krontz and Miss Marenda M. Palmer, both of Chambersburg, were married on July 19th by the Rev. Irving Magee.
(Names in announcement: Edward H. Krontz, Marenda M. Palmer, Rev. Irving Magee)

Married
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Summary: John F. Fuller and Miss Helen Frey, both of Chambersburg, were married on July 30th by the Rev. Irving Magee.
(Names in announcement: John F. Fuller, Helen Frey, Rev. Irving Magee)

Married
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Summary: John F. Gipe of Orrstown and Miss Margaret A. Eckenrode of Amberson Valley were married at the Montgomery House on August 2nd by the Rev. Irving Magee.
(Names in announcement: John F. Gipe, Margaret A. Eckenrode, Rev. Irving Magee)