Thomas Alva Edison Papers, Daily Electric Letter, Vol I, No. 39, 1877

Thomas Alva Edison Papers, Daily Electric Letter, Vol I, No. 39, 1877 Daily Electric Letter. Vol I. Monroe, La., Tuesday Morning, November 6th, 1877. No. 39 Murder. Special to Letter. Bastrop. La., Nov. 5th New received here to-day that Mr. Ernest Hatch, who lived near Oak Ridge, was shot and killed on Friday night by a negro. The negro was accused of hog stealing and Hatch, with some others went to see him about it. The statement is that the negro refused to open the door and they broke it down, whereupon the negro fired both barrels of his gun at them killing Mr. Hatch. Think the negro escaped. The Police Jury in session yesterday passed an ordinance authorizing the payment of Parish Taxes in Jury Certificates -- The Certificates for the current year to be received in payment of taxes due and collectible in 1877. Certificates issues prior to Jany 1st 1877, to be received in payment of taxes due and collectible prior to Jany 1st, 1877. They took no action on the warrant question City Council met last night but no business of importance was transacted. Very cheap and good -- Sewing Machines at Rills Bookstore. Forty Fifth Congress. Washington, Nov. 5th. House. There were 190 bills introduced under the call of States. Among them were two for reclaiming the alluvial lands of the Mississippi River. A bill to authorize the re-coinage of the standard silver dollar and to restore its legal tender character was passed under a suspension of rules. The bill to repeal the resumption Act was, under a suspension of rules -- 143 to 48 -- taken out of the morning hour and made the special order from to-morrow, till Tuesday the 13th, when the vote is to be taken. Items. Col. Blackburn, of Ky, declines a place on Committee on Pacific Railroad vice Potter resigned. Col. French, Sgt-at-Arms, had the Senate and its approaches tastefully decorated with emblems of mourning for Morton. Evarts, Secy State, desires $225,000. for the Paris Expositions. No Southern nominations to-day. Anti-resumption. St. Louis, Nov. 5th. A petition measuring 127 feet in length and containing 5,573 names, was to-day forwarded to the Committee of Banking and Currency at Washington The memorialists ask for a financial system independent of a metallic basis -- They insist that the whole theory of specie resumption is unsound and unphilosophical. Potter. New York, Nov. 5. There is authority to say that the statement in a Washington dispatch that Mr. Potter is reconsidering his refusal to accept the Chairmanship of the Pacific R. R. Committee is without foundation. Border Troubles. City of Mexico, Oct 30th Via Havana, Nov. 5th Much excitement prevails at number reports of fighting on the Rio Grande between Mexicans and Americans. Rumored that party Mexicans crossed to Eagle Pass and pulled down American flag and ran up Mexican banner. Excitement increased upon report that number Mexicans had been killed in Texas. Writer [[Person |Person:]] Date written 1877 Paper x in x x in Electric Pen Penmanship Style Collection Courtesy of Thomas Edison National Historical Park The Thomas Edison Papers, Rutgers University [1] Links Additional examples of Edison Electric Pen writing S W Wetmore, Christmas at Illinois State Penitentiary, 1878 S W Wetmore, Christmas at Illinois State Penitentiary, Programme, 1878 J U Mackenzie, Receipt to Valentine Marsh, 1878 Edison Electric Pen Electricpen.org[2] Thomas Edison's early drawings of electric pen, 1875, Courtesy of The Thomas Edison Papers, Rutgers University [[3]] [[4]] Rough Transcription of Edison's Autographic Press Caveat No 2. October 2-3, 1875 [[5]] Advertisements and articles on the electric pen December 15, 1876, Engineering, The Electric Pen [[6]] May 17, 1877, New-England Journal of Education, The Electric Pen [[7]] History of Edison Electric Pen Predecessor of Edison's Electric Pen, Samuel Huffman's Puncturing Machine, 1866 [[8]] Edison et al v Klaber, copyright infringment case, 1889 [[9]] File name Edison Thomas Alva 1847-001-001-001