23 Nov 1871
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1871
Page
1
A veteran night watchman recalls a terrifying escape from a padded asylum ward. While guarding three galleries a violent patient seized him, locked him in, and threatened with a carving knife until the guard overpowered him and fled. He left the asylum the next day and started a farm with his wife and child.
The article recounts Burr aiding Vanderlyn in art training and travel, the lifelong bond with Theodosia Burr Alston, and the famous portrait ending in Saint Louis. It notes Vanderlyn’s later works in Washington and New York, and the painting’s journey through several households to its current Saint Louis studio.
A collage of maxims about age wealth and virtue including lines about the oldest lunatic, the costliest home, and the worth of a bird in hand. It notes a 2000 dollar Chicago relief effort and classic authorities like Confucius Rochefoucault and Swift.
The Tribune condemns thieves and predatory acts while noting a policy shift in Arizona placing Indians under Major General Schofield. It argues Crook gains control of Apache affairs but questions failed prior policy and hints at accountability for friendly Indians. The paper also reports on spirit photographs in Robertson county Texas, tracing a farmer's sheet bearing tree and log sketches.
The editor argues that Western mining wealth remains largely untapped with new mines and cheaper extraction methods emerging. Since the Pacific Railroad the ability to deploy quartz mills to remote sites grows, coal travels to mining regions, and vast gold supplies await use via water rights and organized effort.
The Washington Chronicle notes it is notorious that American lives are safer in Japan and the islands than in reconstructed Southern States. It calls the claim humiliating for the nation’s capital and warns the Democratic party contends the President has no right to protect citizens in peril in South Carolina or Georgia, implying weaker federal power at home than abroad.
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