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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1870
Page
1
In a Athens address, Jbk Holcomb argues for Christian unity across denominations. He views ecumenical progress as divinely guided and notes wounds of sectarianism while urging respect for differences and cooperation in evangelism for the salvation of souls.
The article extols a rail ride from Glasgow to Dumbarton along the Clyde, highlighting Dumbarton Rock’s sheer walls, Wallace’s exploits, and Mary Stuart legends. It details the stair-cut fortress cleft, Wallace’s vault, Victoria’s visit, and the surrounding panoramic view from the gorge’s summit before descending.
A married city woman on her steps was surprised by her husband and frightened into convulsions. The shock left her nervous system delicate, with relapses and threats of lasting mental distress. A playful warning to husbands.
A St Paul Minnesota report on December 28 dismisses rumors that large bodies of filibusters were organized there to aid Red River insurgents and that squads were moved within one hundred miles of the British border. The tale is called a sheer fabrication as the furthest railroad point is about four hundred miles from the border and such forced marches in severe cold are unlikely.
General Hugh Ewing of Ohio has been appointed minister to The Hague and claims Kansas residency. A letter signed by Senator Pomeroy, Representative Clark and Kansas state officers asks the President to remove him, arguing he is not Kansas or its people’s representative. Horace Greeley is noted for telling stories about such affairs.
Silvain Salnave born in Cape Haitien 1882 rose from soldier to Captain of Cavalry in the North. He aided Geffrard in quelling revolt, helped expel invaders, led insurgencies, and was executed at Port au Prince on December 10 after a career shaping Haitian political strife.
Mrs L of South Akron almost died after giving her children candy saved from holidays. She ate a colored piece herself, grew ill with retching and vomiting, Dr Jacobs treated her and suspected arsenic coloring. Authorities plan to analyze another similar piece to prove poison presence.
A Hartford family held a memorial for a deceased daughter in the home parlor. The body lay among roses, camelias, and other flowers, dressed in light blue silk, as hymns from an unseen choir filled the room. The report notes a cautious mood about an ice crop shortage due to mild winter conditions and scarce frost on the Great Lakes.
Cristopher Columbus Langler, a New York City lawyer and Harvard Law School alumnus, has been named professor of law at Harvard. The appointment elevates Langler within the Harvard faculty, reflecting his legal career and academic credentials.
Ex governor Randall once postmaster general ignored a lottery notice then received a fine chronometer and a cheap watch via a New York express. He paid a ten dollar bribe to fetch the second watch, which proved worthless. A New York letter warns worshippers of A T Stewart that giants of dry goods crush rivals, while smaller dealers face ruin. War-time killings in Tennessee see Gatewood’s guerrillas claim twenty seven lives including Baker Armstrong. a suspect Jackson is killed en route to Cleveland after being identified by Mrs Armstrong. The Armstrong family remains loyal.
Notes on Rufus Choate described as a poor penman and the lack of his complete life writings. The Knapp brothers of the St. Louis Republican plan a new trial after a $5,000 slander verdict for Eliza P Buckley. Two Buckley sisters may sue for the same article seeking about $5,600.
A tale recalls a youngster mishearing matrimony as purgatory and defining it as a life punishment before heaven. The Knoxville News notes condemn the Pillow brothers murder as cowardly in Tennessee. In Hannibal a three day groom rescues his bride from a river as she vows to die for him, a policeman arrives to arrest him.
A. L. Harris, appointed by Governor Bullock as Clerk of the Georgia House at the organization, praised for cool judgment during the Hircateling disturbances. Formerly local editor of the Ohio State Journal before the war.
Meltialf Lawrence died in Gardener Maine on Saturday aged about 99. Born September 1770, he outlived his mother who died at 99, one brother who reached 92, and a sister who lived 100 years and six months.
The Troy Alabama Advertiser reports burglars attacked C. P. Stewart and his wife, restrained them briefly, then fled with the gentleman’s trunk and pants containing seven hundred dollars in gold and four hundred dollars in currency. a Nashville lawyer adjourned court in a casual posture, tilting his feet against a stool.
The Mmwanoen Establishment lists advertising options including legal advertisements at $100 per insertion and business cards up to six lines for $80 per year. It notes a legal affidavit and a yearly reduction, with additional lines billed beyond the first six.
Medina County Ohio hosts nine cheese plants averaging about five hundred cows each. The largest facility milks six thousand cows and produced twenty thousand pounds of cheese last year. A local farmer reports cows valued at seventy dollars each in 1860 as new dairy emigration grows.
John Freas traveled to New Bedford, Coat Hocton County, Ohio the night before Christmas, drank heavily and died suddenly. He was buried in a churchyard corner but when his friends opened the grave only a piece of the coffin was found. The Holmes County Farmer notes the grocers whisky is viewed with suspicion.
The West Union Defender and Cincinnati Gazette report flooded bogus ads promising a music box for two dollars. A local young man mailed payment, received a cheap harp instead, showing how easily readers fall for such schemes.
A shuffled page cites a Georgia reporter not interviewing a legislator, visits by General Rosecrans to Reading, and stray remarks about public figures. It recounts church sermons, a fined insult in Mystic, New York Army statistics, a New Orleans praise for Magruder, a fatal tree limb accident in Kenton County, and a soap of local thefts, drownings, and petty legal actions in Ohio.
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