Episodes Nearest to October 26, 1889: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. President of Wake Forest University Denounces Participation of his students in Republican Stump-speaking
    date October 26, 1889map WAKE, North Carolinatags Education, Politics

    Despite 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...

  2. Purging Polls in Virginia's Black Belt
    date October 31, 1889map SOUTHAMPTON, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    In 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...

  3. Military Inspection and Celebration in Panola
    date September 27, 1889map CLARENDON, South Carolinatags Arts/Leisure

    On 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...

  4. Freedom of the Black Press?
    date August 20, 1889 to August 27, 1889map DALLAS, Alabamatags African-Americans, Health/Death, Politics, Race-Relations, Slavery

    It 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...

  5. Black Prisoners Taken and Killed
    date December 28, 1889map BARNWELL, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations

    Authorities 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...

  6. Opposition to Freedom
    date December 31, 1889map ROANOKE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Government, Politics, Race-Relations, War

    On 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." ...

  7. The Cigar Industry: Florida's Livelihood
    date January 1, 1890map MONROE, Floridatags Agriculture, Economy

    An 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...

  8. Boston's Predicament: Women in the City
    date August 18, 1889map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Women

    According 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...

  9. Georgia Outlaw Escapes from Jail
    date January 5, 1890map HARRIS, Georgiatags Crime/Violence

    Many 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...

  10. Love Letters from William A. Moats to Nela Miller
    date April, 1889 to December, 1889map PENDLETON, West Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Women

    During 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...

  11. Angel Comes to Johnstown
    date June 5, 1889 to October 24, 1889map CAMBRIA, Pennsylvaniatags relief effort

    As 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...

  12. McNeilly Shoots Jenkins in Self-defense
    date January 8, 1890map MECKLENBURG, North Carolinatags Crime/Violence

    On 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. ...

  13. Company Buys Cotton Plantations in Twiggs, Georgia
    date January 9, 1890map TWIGGS, Georgiatags Agriculture, Economy

    On 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...

  14. Anti-African-American Sentiments Spur State Pursuit of Segregation Laws
    date January 11, 1890map PULASKI, Arkansastags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    Events 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...

  15. Farmers' Alliance Political Agenda Published in National Economist
    date January 18, 1890map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Agriculture

    On 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...

  16. Publication of the “Shell Manifesto'
    date January 23, 1890map LAURENS, South Carolinatags Agriculture, Economy

    On 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...

  17. Dirty Elections
    date January 23, 1890map ROCKBRIDGE, Virginiatags Crime/Violence, Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations

    On 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...

  18. The Prospector
    date January 23, 1890map ROCKBRIDGE, Virginiatags Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    The 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...

  19. Thirty-eight Sheriff Sales Reported in Local Missouri Newspaper
    date February 2, 1890map COOPER, Missouritags Agriculture, Economy

    Many 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...

  20. Bloody Fight in Alabama between White Stone-cutters and Bridge Builders and African-Americans
    date February 6, 1890map BIBB, Alabamatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Race-Relations

    The 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...

  21. A New Reservation for Geronimo
    date July 7, 1889map SWAIN, North Carolinatags Government, Law, Migration/Transportation, Native-Americans

    Chief 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,...

  22. Florida Canal?
    date January 1, 1889 to 1889map ST JOHNS, Floridatags Economy, Politics, Migration/Transportation

    The 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...

  23. Remembering the Confederacy: Helpful or Hurtful?
    date 1889map NOTTOWAY, Virginiatags Politics, Race-Relations, War

    In 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...

  24. Journey to Freedom: The Bethany Veney Story
    date 1889map PAGE, Virginiatags Runaway Slaves, Children, Freedom, Massachusetts, Women, Slavery

    Bethany 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...

  25. Journalist Kincaid Shoots and Kills Former Congressman Taulbee in U.S. Capitol
    date February 28, 1890map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Crime/Violence

    In 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...