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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1876
Page
7
Fort Fetterman correspondence describes Indian torture methods as endured by male prisoners including ear gunpowder blasts and burning, with women implied to suffer harsher tortures. Frontier settlers fear capture and prefer death, while reports confirm Custer battle losses and ongoing US responses, including troop movements and volunteer calls.
The account describes fifty rounds per man two days of rations left a two day march back to camp. Wounded lacked ambulances, animals were worn, forcing a retreat to resupply before further expedition. All dead were recovered and buried in a common grave near Rosebut River beside wild rosebushes.
Indians recount Custer's last stand with heavy losses including many chiefs. Custer fired with pistols and sabre causing thirty deaths before Rain in the Face killed him. Indians claim weapon shortages and vow to fight again after agency supplies. New York Herald bids for a Custer monument with a $1000 subscription. Ohio school year at the institution begins September 13.
An anecdote recounts Edwin Forrest in a crowded Albany theater where a staged battle with six minions turns chaotic. After a nose strike and kicks, the six fall in, one atop a drum, another on the roof shouting fire, while Forrest bows to roaring applause.
A West End Reform Club meeting debates slang policing among young ladies. The session features near farce as speakers clash over phrases like awful nice and old splendid while fines, dusting Miranda Pew, and a chaotic adjournment echo the club’s quirky stance on language.
Dr. Lancaster of London described a completed body analysis weighing 155.4 pounds with 25.1 pounds of carbon 2.2 pounds lime 22.5 ounces phosphorus and small amounts of sodium iron potassium magnesium and silicon He listed bulk amounts of oxygen hydrogen and nitrogen not exhibited due to size The body’s composition totaled 121 pounds water 16.5 pounds gelatine 52 pounds fat 8.5 pounds fibrin and albumen and 7.7 pounds phosphate of lime and other minerals
One Samuel Deaton of Christianburg Olio claims a remedy cured his rheumatism after nineteen years. He lists ingredients including one quart rye whiskey one ounce wild cherry bark root prickly ash root yellow duck root spikenard root gentian root gum myrrh.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has active branches in most large U.S. cities. In Oakland California a four year old child used in circus feats has been rescued and another case reported in Washington.
A Lon don monthly reprints lore on Artemus Ward and Fanny Fern as early American writers in the Dutchman era. It notes Ward’s 1850 Albany Dutchman start, a Boston printing stint, and a London visit. The piece also mentions a Petaluma report of a girl with two heads, named Dollie and Ollie, and colors Colorado as newly admitted state.
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