A movement has been inagurated

A movement has been inagurated

A report on the 1874 Alabama State Convention of Colored Men held in Montgomery published in the Lowell Daily Citizen (December 4, 1874)

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Lowell Daily Citizen

1874-12-04

Newspaper article

VARIOUS ITEMS. The town of Wendell celebrated its centennial yesterday, in connection with the 100th anniversary of the Congregational church, the Rev. W. H. Bowman of Amherst giving the historical address. It is now decided to erect an immense hotel at Belchertown. Work will be begun early in the spring. Worcester's untaxable property amounts to $ 1,754,200. 200. Mary Ann Kelly, Susan Kelly, Lizzie Cole and Lizzie Smith nearly lost their lives while skating on Silver Lake, Lynn, yesterday, the ice unexpectedly giving way. By the efforts of citizens they were saved, in a chilled and frightened condition, and were taken home. Susan Kelly was quite ill last evening; the others were all right. The New England Nail Manufacturers' Association on Tuesday reduced the price of ten-penny nails from $ 4 to o $ 3.75 per keg, with fifteen cents discount to the trade. Inasmuch as it is said these nails cost $ 4 per keg to manufacture, this reduction of price is significant. A movement has been inaugurated by the colored people of Alabama for a general exodus from that state, where their persecutions and privations are too great to be borne. The prohibitionists of New Hampshire held a state convention at Concord, yesterday, and nominated Nathaniel White for governor; Rev. A. C. Hardy of Portsmonth, J. M. Fletcher of Nashua and Edward H. Weston of Whitefield were nominated for congress. The bust of John G. Wnittier, by Mr. Power, is nearly finished and will be received in Boston in January. President Grant has pardoned W. H. Wadleigh, the defaulting teller of a Boston bank. He had been served only two years of a five years' sentence. According to the report of the secretary of war the expenses of the army for 1874 were nearly four million dollars less than for 1873. The calaboose at Pontiac, Ill., was burned Wednesday night. Frank and Samuel Downing, confined in the jail for disorderly conduct, were burned to death. The work on Mitchell's Falls has been suspended. The steam dredge has gone down the river, and is to be used to some purpose for a day or two clearing away the loose stones around the piers of the bridge between Haverbill and Groveland. The people of Northern Vermont have good sleighing.

Montgomery

AL

USA

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