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31 May 1873
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Newspaper
Aiken Tribune
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1873
Page
1
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A mother knits a baby's boot as a seafaring voyage ends. The sailor returns to find a grave, a cottage dark and empty, and the unfinished boot beside the tangled skein. The knitter lies in the churchyard, the babe resting on her breast.
The New York Herald piece ponders Pope Pius IX as possibly the last Roman Pontiff, tying St Malachy’s prophecy to Crux de Cruce and Catholic fears. It lists watchers from Italy to Britain, Austria, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire, noting royal intrigue and church devotion as Pius IX’s health wanes.
A New Hampshire firm develops six ton locomotives designed for wooden track railways in Georgia lumber regions. The machines feature large cylinders and fuel capacity, delivering high power for their size and potentially performing work of thirty traditional rules.
A Mount Vernon visit included a notable moment when a young ex Confederate cavalry officer encountered Miss Nellie Grant. He was introduced by the First Lady to Nellie’s daughter and, upon hearing the name, reacted with surprise as the old friend recognized him. The scene reflected lighthearted courtship amid official visits.
The letter from Chief Justice Chase to Captain Manning in 1869 praises national unity and calls for postwar reconciliation. It argues true patriotism means honoring both sides, rejects proscription, and urges charity toward Confederate dead as Magnolia Cemetery graves are tended. It notes Mr. Williams’s displeasure and Chase’s reply maintaining civil harmony.
The writer, reflecting on ambition, argues he seeks no political position and desires to do as much good with minimal harm. He praises the Chief Justice for teaching goodwill and states he will be content with general welfare and prudent statesmanship for the country. He signs as 8. P. Onase.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the Hon. Charles Sumner obtained a divorce for wilful absence after a long estrangement. It suggests Mrs. Sumner, a young widow with no children, may have secured the divorce or encouraged separation. rumors tie the dispute to a Prussian embassy attaché and Berlin letters, with Sumner resuming bachelor life and Mrs. Sumner living in Europe.
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An editorial note on Hartford schoolboys writing tasks or sitting with girls, plus scattered items: a London bricklayer’s brain weight of sixty seven ounces, Capt. Jack Modoc described, and demographic data on military and voting ages in 1870. It also mentions Postmaster-General Creswell on postal cards, polygamy debates in Massachusetts, Arizona urging multiple husbands, expected 288000 immigrants with $25 million gold, and parasol fashions of twenty inches with silk colors.
A biographer has spent five years on the Methuselah biography and has reached the patriarch's boyhood days. His vivid description of the young hero's athletic sports at age 129 entertains. Other items note mine locomotives mourning James Fisk Jr., a plan to hang Stokes, and Mrs. Stowe predicting alligators in the Legislature. The piece also comments on English rising as a global language with English schools in Siam and Japan adopting it as an official language.
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