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180 Poughkeepsie Journal Bicentennial Edition August 11, 1985 Fire levels 11 stores at Garden, Main streets i i lBViaW The 1870s Gen, Custer meets defeat CITY FIRE: Fire takes its toll at Main and Garden. streets on Dec. 26. 1870. "Eleven stores or places of business were destroyed on Main it.

and several on Garden." the paper says. "It originated In the rear of the drinking saloon of George W. Cannon, No. 301 Main and almost as soon as it was discovered there was a slight explosion, when there was a rush of flame and smoke from the saloon windows and door way into and partially across Main st." Dec. 28, 1170.

SOLDIER'S FOUNTAIN: At noon the tide of travel set towards Eastman Park, in the vicinity of which stands the Soldiers' Memorial Fountain, which was there and then dedicated." Major General McMahon of Brooklyn, a civil war veteran, gives speech. July 1170. jijfcl VMS a long dedication Dutchess County Historical Society This is the scene after the fire that destroyed 11 stores and businesses at Garden and Main streets on Dec. 26, 1870. The busy 'editor One of the early publishers made the statement that a country editor is one who roads the newspapers, selects miscellany writes articles on all subjects, sets type reads proof works at the press folds papers and sometimes carries them prints Jobs, runs on errands cuts and saws wood, works in the garden, talks to all his patrons Who patiently receives blame for a thousand things that never were aj)d never can be done gets little money, has scarce time or material to satisfy hunger or enjoy the qaiet of nature's grand restorer, aid esteems himself peculiarly happy if he is not assaulted and battered by some unprincipled demagogue from 175th anniversary edition, Poughkeepsie New Yorke June 19.

1960 THE LAMENTED DEAD. Arrival Here of Custer's Remains. aSBWaVBYJaBkMaVJaV ACCOMPANIED BY A WEST POINT OFFICER THEY ARE TRANSFtRREO TO OUR CEMETERY AN INTERVIEW WITH MAJ GEN SCOFIELD THE FUNERAL OBSEOUIES TO OCCUR IN OCTOBER Theremains of the lamented Gen Custer arrived in this city Thursday morning by the Atlantic express having left Fort Abraham Lincoln eight days ago Jt was intended to have them sent directly to West Point Mrs Custer, however, understanding that there was no receiving vault there had communications with Mr. Philip Hamilton of this city, and it was decided, through Quarter Master Miller of West Point and Mr Hamilton, that the remains of the distinguished dead should find a temporary resting place in the receiving vault of the Poughketpsie Rural Cemetery Gen George A Custer was a brevet Major General ihell. S.

Army. He was killed while leading his command against the Indians at the Crow Reservation. Black Hillsnear the Rosebud River. Oakotah Territory, June 26, 1876. The Poughkeepsie Dally Eagle Aug.

J. J77 A CASE OF KIDNAPPING IN OUR CITY arly this week a number of gipsies passed through the city, making a temporary halt One of the party, as we arc reliably informed, called at a house in High street, and shortly after his departure a little child belonging to the family was missed The gipsy was suspected of luring him off and a search for hm was at once instituted. He was finally traced to the Po keepsie Eastern car Ind overtaken on a train about to depart with the boy at his side A suspicious woman war also in his company The anxious pursuers were so overjoyed at recovering the child, that for the time being they lost sight of the abductor and he escaped. It's a pity that he couldn't have' been handed over to the authorities to be dealt with as his crime deserved. Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle May 21.

IUS NEW PUPILS ARRIVE: The beginning of the end of segregated schools in Poughkeepsie. and Marietta Rhodes, the two colored children, started for the Second Ward white) school the same morning The principal, Lydia A Vail, walks out to the corner of Clover and Union streets to greet them Sept. 4, 1171. U.S. CENTENNIAL: "In saloons and barrooms hilarious cclcbratcrs toasted our country, the old flag.

Gen. Washington. at twelve o'clock all the bells in the city commenced ringing and. Bald Eagle Battery commenced firing a salute of one hundred guns from their four gun battery on the summit of College Hill Jan. 1, 1878.

The highlight of the festivities is "The Great Exhibition" of May 1876 in Philadelphia. "It shows the natural products, the industries, the inventions and the arts of the Western Hemisphere as they were never shown before and brings them for the first time in their fullness und perfection in contrast with those of the Old World." May 12. 1876. LITTLE BIGHORN: The Battle of Little Bighorn on June 2S 26. 1876 brings flamboyant General George Armstrong Custer against the Sioux, led by Chief Crazy Horse.

"General Custer's Terrible Defeat, The Sad News fully Confirmed. ground was strewn with slaughtered horses, cavalry equipments, and bodies of nine chiefs. July 8. 1876. RAILROAD STRIKE: The Eagle refers to railroad men on stake in the summer of 1877 as "THE RIOTOUS STRIKERS" and says regular troops have been ordered out to take care of the situation.

One sentence in the story is: "Col. French, 'commanding the troops at Martinsburg (West Virginia), telegraphs this afternoon (July 19) that he will enforce the President's proclamation and disperse, the strikers." July 20, 1877. CITY'S FIRST TELEPHONE: Mr Mason, the operator at the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Office in Poughkeepsie, calls an unidentified" man at Eastman College "Well, what shall I say1" Mason asks He then counts from I to 12 and recites the alphabet Oct. 24. 1877.

Statement of Policy Ever since the'first indications of the struggle be tween slavery and free sum, we have been firm and uncompromising defenders of the doctrine of the fathers of the Republic, that ALL men are entitled Jiff, liberty and the, pursuit nf. Vppmess, and that to guarantee these rights governments are established on earth. Because it has teen the recognized political em aodiment of this doctrine we here Sustained to the best of our ability the Republican party When it jslood as a bulwark against the fur. tfcer spread of slavery over territory dedicated to freedom, we tjtlped as far as we could to resist the endeavors of us opponents to thrown down the barriers and expend the domain of the oppressor When those opponents took up trrms to destroy the Union, and the 'party became the champion of the and the laws, our allegiance to became the Wronger And now when it is called to defend, the right of the American citizen in every part of TJie country to freedom of speech, of political opinion and of the ballot; when those tame opponents re assailing it in the endtavor Jo gain by fraud and violence what They lost on the field of and when the signs of the times point Jt preparations for a new rebellion, we are more than ever convinced that it is our duty to stand the Republican party We da jtot uphold it because of any ties of tjiere party loyalty nor because we are interested in any official or Candidate or clique, but because we believe it to be right Pougnleepie Daily Eagle Feb. 1.

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