Episodes Nearest to October 26, 1889: 1 through 25 of 25
- President of Wake Forest University Denounces Participation of his students in Republican Stump-speaking
October 26, 1889
WAKE, North Carolina
Education, PoliticsDespite President Charles E. Taylor's plea, the students of Wake Forest University would not silence their political opinions.On the night of October 26, 1889, a Republican stump-speaking, literally delivering a speech from atop a freshly cut tree stump, occurred half-a-mile from campus. Fifty of Taylor's students attended the stump-speaking, led by Wake County native John Nichols, who was...
- Purging Polls in Virginia's Black Belt
October 31, 1889
SOUTHAMPTON, Virginia
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Government, Law, Politics, Race-RelationsIn one fell swoop, Democrats in Southampton and Nansemond counties erased over 1,000 black names from the voter registration books, hoping to secure Democratic majorities in previously Republican dominated counties. Looking at Virginia's entire 2 district (heavily African American), which included these Tidewater counties, Democrats appeared to have netted about 4,000 votes, greatly slimming...
- Military Inspection and Celebration in Panola
September 27, 1889
CLARENDON, South Carolina
Arts/LeisureOn September 27, 1889, General Bonham came to the Panola Academy to do his inspection of Clarendon's cavalry, consisting of the Hampton Light Dragoons commanded by Captain D.W. Brailsford and the Connor Mounted Rifles led by Captain A.L. Lesesne. By 11 o'clock in the morning, the decorated Panola Academy building was filled with lovely maidens and friends of the company who had come to watch...
- Freedom of the Black Press?
August 20, 1889 to August 27, 1889
DALLAS, Alabama
African-Americans, Health/Death, Politics, Race-Relations, SlaveryIt was just another days' work for two employees of the Alabama Great Southern train company. On the evening of August 27, 1889, the trainmen pulled into the Birmingham station and prepared to disembark. Upon exiting the train, the workers spotted two black men swinging from trees in the near distance. According to sources at The Washington Post, the lynched men were the incendiary...
- Black Prisoners Taken and Killed
December 28, 1889
BARNWELL, South Carolina
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Migration/Transportation, Race-RelationsAuthorities in Barnwell, South Carolina had arrested and jailed a group of black men, accusing them of the murder of a pair of white men in the area. As the eight suspects sat in their jail cells one night in late December 1889, a group of masked men entered and forcefully removed them from the jail. The masked men took the accused and slaughtered each and every one of them. While the law enforcement...
- Opposition to Freedom
December 31, 1889
ROANOKE, Virginia
African-Americans, Government, Politics, Race-Relations, WarOn the last day of 1889, an editor of the Roanoke Daily Times criticized "the relations of the races," which, he avowed, "do not appear to be at all improved by the election of a Republican president." The editor continued, affirming that black people had "become restless and arrogant in a large measure, and ready at any time to enter on the work of bloodshed and murder." ...
- The Cigar Industry: Florida's Livelihood
January 1, 1890
MONROE, Florida
Agriculture, EconomyAn 1890 article from the Manatee River Journal clearly noted the importance of the cigar industry in Florida. Following the cigar manufacturers' strike in Key West that same year, Florida was forced to recognize cigars as a major agricultural product. The opportunities that the cigar industry offered, as well as the profits, made cigar factories in Florida as valuable as tobacco...
- Boston's Predicament: Women in the City
August 18, 1889
SUFFOLK, Massachusetts
Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism, WomenAccording to the Boston Daily Globe of August 18, 1889, "Too Good to Lose Are Boston's Surplus Women." This article pertains to a matter of utmost importance, the eligible bachelors of the Wild West heroically discovering a solution for the "marriageable femininity" and the "confoundly delicate matter" of the over 80,000 surplus of women in Massachusetts. Belle Eyre even reports that these men...
- Georgia Outlaw Escapes from Jail
January 5, 1890
HARRIS, Georgia
Crime/ViolenceMany masked men broke Willie Wallace, the infamous outlaw of Harris County, Georgia, from jail in Hamilton at eight o'clock in the morning. The group of masked men rode quickly into town and disposed of guards on the roads leading to Hamilton. Ten of the masked men remained outside the sheriff's house. The men broke in through the front door of the jail and proceeded to find Wallace's...
- Love Letters from William A. Moats to Nela Miller
April, 1889 to December, 1889
PENDLETON, West Virginia
Arts/Leisure, WomenDuring an eight month period, William A. Moats wrote love letters to Nela Miller. Each letter was structurally similar to the previous, always commenting on his good health and the hope that the letter reached her well. Moat made continually plans to visit her and her family in the months the correspondence took place. As the letters evolved chronologically, his profession of his undying love for...
- Angel Comes to Johnstown
June 5, 1889 to October 24, 1889
CAMBRIA, Pennsylvania
relief effortAs the news of the destruction of the 1889 Johnstown flood reached beyond Cambria County, relief and aid efforts immediately began to mobilize and move into the valley. Among the first to arrive was Clara Barton, the "Angel of the Battlefield." Barton's American Red Cross was a relief organization that she founded during the Civil War. During the war, she and her envoy of good...
- McNeilly Shoots Jenkins in Self-defense
January 8, 1890
MECKLENBURG, North Carolina
Crime/ViolenceOn January 8, 1890, an intoxicated H.O. Jenkins approached J.H. McNeilly, an employee of Jenkins's distillery, with a drawn knife. McNeilly had boarded with the Jenkins's family while also working for them, and had fallen in love with Jenkins's seventeen year old daughter. The teenage girl, however, did not have reciprocal feelings for McNeilly and did not appreciate his advances. ...
- Company Buys Cotton Plantations in Twiggs, Georgia
January 9, 1890
TWIGGS, Georgia
Agriculture, EconomyOn January 9, 1890, Colonel Thomas P. Stovall closed a deal on one of the largest land transactions in the state of Georgia in recent history. His company, the Union Real Estate Trust, purchased 24,000 acres of plantation land used for cotton cultivation located in Twiggs County, Georgia. The land was not being used to its highest potential, which was a significant appeal to the Trust company. Their...
- Anti-African-American Sentiments Spur State Pursuit of Segregation Laws
January 11, 1890
PULASKI, Arkansas
African-Americans, Race-RelationsEvents across the south served to reinforce the southern state legislatures efforts in pursuing segregation and separate coach laws. One such incident happened in Atlanta, Georgia. Three business men A.W. Boggs of Chicago, E.D. Gilmore of Pittsburgh, and P.E. Brady of Tiffin rode the Pullman sleeper train from New Orleans, Louisiana to Atlanta, Georgia. On the ride the lower berths filled, so...
- Farmers' Alliance Political Agenda Published in National Economist
January 18, 1890
Washington City, District of Columbia
AgricultureOn January 18, 1890, The National Economist published the political viewpoints of the strengthening Farmers' Alliance. The article indicated that Alliance leaders remained skeptical of the political system and its ability to represent all parts of the population (especially farmers). In response to the closed two party system of the time, the Alliance strove to create a third movement in accord...
- Publication of the Shell Manifesto'
January 23, 1890
LAURENS, South Carolina
Agriculture, EconomyOn January 23, 1890, G. Walsh Shell, president of the Farmers' Convention published the widely distributed Shell Manifesto.' The Manifesto called for a convention to select candidates for state office that the Farmers' Convention would recommend to the Democrats before their party convention. The publication stressed the importance of farmers trying to influence government at...
- Dirty Elections
January 23, 1890
ROCKBRIDGE, Virginia
Crime/Violence, Government, Law, Politics, Race-RelationsOn January 23, 1890, a small county newspaper printed in Lexington, Virginia published an article discussing the corruption of the election process with the memory of the prior year's November election fresh in the mind. The writer of the article was disgusted with the corruption of the election process, and was fed up with the continuing corruption. The congressional seats of important mining...
- The Prospector
January 23, 1890
ROCKBRIDGE, Virginia
Economy, Urban-Life/BoosterismThe Prospector
On the sixth of January, 1895, northerner H.C. Hovey, remembering his past trip to the Luray Caverns in Page County, Virginia, wrote a letter to the cavern's newly appointed Manger Superintendent, Lemuel Zerkel. Hovey filled the letter with friendly words and personal anecdotes referencing the caverns, to hopefully illicit a feeling of mutual interest from the newly appointed...
- Thirty-eight Sheriff Sales Reported in Local Missouri Newspaper
February 2, 1890
COOPER, Missouri
Agriculture, EconomyMany Missouri farmers lost their farms in sheriff's sales during 1890. The Boonville Semi-Weekly Star reported 38 sales on February 2, 1890. Sheriff sales occurred when individuals failed to pay taxes on their property to pay taxes to some other creditor. The sheriff then sold the seized property on the courthouse steps. The locality listed the seized properties in the newspaper in an attempt...
- Bloody Fight in Alabama between White Stone-cutters and Bridge Builders and African-Americans
February 6, 1890
BIBB, Alabama
African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Race-RelationsThe growing presence of racial intimidation and violence marked the decade of the 1890s, also known as the height of mob frenzy.' Private mobs punished alleged offenders for both attempted and committed crimes of violence, murder, and rape. Failure of local officials to protect prisoners adequately contributed to this vigilante mob justice. <br /><br />Increasing power of...
- A New Reservation for Geronimo
July 7, 1889
SWAIN, North Carolina
Government, Law, Migration/Transportation, Native-AmericansChief Geronimo and his Apaches were forcibly removed from the western territories of the United States. The government relocated them to Mt. Vernon Barracks, Alabama, where they were forced to stay, cramped and confined, until the government decided what to do with them and where to send them next. As Native Americans, they were at the mercy of an unsympathetic government.
Sometime thereafter,...
- Florida Canal?
January 1, 1889 to 1889
ST JOHNS, Florida
Economy, Politics, Migration/TransportationThe recovering South slowly caught up to the North after the Civil War in means of transportation. In a large a state as Florida, transportation posed a serious problem in the late nineteenth century. However, politicians felt that railroads were a priority since Florida is a peninsula. More than 300 miles of land also created a challenge to connect the Atlantic Ocean and trade from Europe to prosperous...
- Remembering the Confederacy: Helpful or Hurtful?
1889
NOTTOWAY, Virginia
Politics, Race-Relations, WarIn 1889 Thomas D. Houston, formerly a Captain in the Eleventh Virginia Infantry, wrote about a letter a man named Captain James had written to his family after the Battle of Gettysburg. Houston's writing demonstrated that more than ten years after the Civil War, Southerners were still haunted by the devastation and eventual loss they faced during the Civil War. At the same time, they still...
- Journey to Freedom: The Bethany Veney Story
1889
PAGE, Virginia
Runaway Slaves, Children, Freedom, Massachusetts, Women, SlaveryBethany Veney recalls her time as a slave in her autobiography, The Narrative of Bethany Veney: a Slave Woman. Born into slavery Bethany had little memory of her early life, but distinctly remembered being a source of entertainment for her master by singing and dancing. Although Bethany never mentioned feelings of objectification or dehumanization, which Hartman discusses in Scenes...
- Journalist Kincaid Shoots and Kills Former Congressman Taulbee in U.S. Capitol
February 28, 1890
Washington City, District of Columbia
Crime/ViolenceIn the 1880s, Louisville Times journalist Charles E. Kincaid reported that married Congressman William Taulbee was seen in a compromising way' with a young woman in the United States Patent Office. As a result, Taulbee's political career ended. On February 28, 1890, Taulbee came across Kincaid in Washington, D.C. and threatened the journalist. According to a Capitol doorkeeper who...