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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1882
Page
6
A cryptic fragment recalls a garden wall and a child observer. Mentions a mild morning, a letter by a bail, and a remembered afternoon, with personal reflections on a sweet life and a small object that stirs memory. The text reads like a diary note or vignette from an old page.
In a Bath area inn, two well dressed men plotting a highway robbery steal a valuable horse and silver mounted harness from a stable after a staged night visit. They escape in a gig with the horse but later discover they have stolen their own horse, returning the harness and leaving the plain set to the innkeeper.
A Philadelphia marble cutter recalls odd encounters with customers seeking grave markers. A widow, three years after her husband’s death, orders a five-foot headstone and a ready-made angel for about 35 dollars, then settles on a foot stone with a lamb. He notes many patrons aim for monuments but end with simple markers, after long delays and price haggle.
A widow, childless and rich, funded Dash the shepherd dog with a life estate, paying rent from a house to the dog’s benefit. After Dash’s illness and death, the widow returned for the funeral, arranging a grand burial in Oak Ridge Cemetery with monuments of $300 and $150, honoring the late master.
A Cincinnati firm offers Mrs. Samuels $10,000 for her son the outlaw Jesse James and a share of an estimated $100,000 exhibition proceeds, per the Boston Post.
A 2,200 ton ice sale was made at Bangor to parties in Liverpool. The unusual cross channel trade shows England normally imports ice from Norway.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt presents a colorful preacher-satire on human nature. It riffs on Baptists, orators, poets, politics, and everyday follies, urging readers to study people, discern their motives, and avoid needless conflict while advocating pragmatic social insight.
The Census Bulletin details native born and foreign born populations across states. It cites Connecticut with 391 087 native born, 88 070 born in New York, and 22 256 from Massachusetts. Rhode Island near 8 207 as the largest non native contribution. Foreign born total 129 992 with Ireland leading over 70 000.
A flood survivor from Louisiana visits the Brooklyn Eagle editor claiming to join a Relief Committee fundraising effort. He recounts fifteen days on the roof with family, modest meals of moss, and a harrowing escape to New Orleans before seeking northern aid and press support.
The Iron Palmetto, an all iron casting at the South Carolina State House yard, memorializes slain Confederates with brass tablets bearing their names. The lifelike leaves bend in the breeze, and the installation stands as a mournful tribute that darkens memories of war across the South.
The Illinois name derives from the Illinois confederacy seated in central Illinois. Gallatin notes the term means real or superior men from Delaware roots, with the French adopting the ending ois to fit local inflection. Chicago News.
Brief report notes Senator Ben Hill facing cancer within his immediate family as brothers sisters and two aunts battle the disease, adding strain to public duties. The piece highlights the personal impact on the politician and surrounding relatives.
In Pittsburg a man weakened by illness faced imminent paralysis. Physicians gave no hope until treatment with Penicillin began. Within six weeks he recovered enough to return to work. Miss Pacheco, daughter of a California congressman, won a medal for top lawn tennis in Washington.
An advertisement-style notice claims Brown's Iron Bitters cure rheumatism disordered blood general debility and many chronic diseases once deemed incurable. The piece closes with a clipped exhortation about not striking a man who is down.
Buchupaiba is advertised as a quick four day treatment for urinary affections including smarting frequent and difficult urination and kidney diseases. Priced at $1 and available at Ohio Depot MO. D Park and Sons Cincinnati OH handle the sale.
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