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Newspaper
Aurora Commercial
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1866
Page
2
The excerpt muses on a baby’s thoughts and an eerie, unfathomable future. It shifts to a Sunday school scene in a wailing district where children sing a hymn about blessed English childhood, contrasting their pale, worn frames with the lyric ideal and noting harsher child labor in smaller workshops versus larger factories.
A Pall Mall Gazette correspondent describes brutal ironworks in Staffordshire and Worcestershire where boys and girls work days and nights among hot metal. The piece details long daily trudges, severe burns, squalid homes, and a culture of neglect, with scenes of a child harmed by machinery and families living in dire poverty. It also notes night schools by some owners and a wild nail making district west of Dudley where women and young girls endure extreme hours, foul living conditions, and early marriages, all under the shadow of Sunday schools and lingering ignorance.
A compact history lists editors from 1837 onward, detailing duels, street fights, imprisonments, and deadly encounters. It notes Dr. James Hagan's long editorship, his duel and death, Partridge's yellow fever death, multiple wounded editors, and a chain ending with violent deaths among successors and editors.
A Medina NY preacher Joel Lindsley is linked to the death of his three to four year old stepson. An inquest, a 15 member jury, and a coroner’s verdict of murder follow details of brutal lashes with a shin gle and other instruments, leaving the child severely injured before dying. Neighbor accounts and stinging anecdotes accompany the report.
General Browning named as successor to Secretary Harlan if rearguation occurs. Tennessee admission resolution adopted by the House on the 20th by 125 to 12. Washburne ill in Washington. Freeman Clarke resigns as Comptroller of the Currency. General Dix praises Philadelphia Convention. Forrest seeks White House interview. Henry Branbery nominated Attorney General, Speed resigned. Sheridan notes French reinforcements in Mexico. A Wells appointed Commissioner of Revenue. Postmaster General Dennison resigns. Randall and Blair maneuver for the position. War Department releases prisoners. some discharged or remitted. Possible major development on Mexican affairs. Seward’s envoy to Ortega regarding recognition and potential treaty.
European news reports rapid naval preparations by Italy under a former U.S. officer, and a new Mexican naturalization law granting instant citizenship after arrival. The Monarch of the Seas remains missing after four months at sea with 674 passengers and 54 crew. Bohemian battles yield a Prussian victory with about 14 000 prisoners. Austria negotiates ceding Venetia via France as peace prospects rise. Lord Derby forms a new ministry with Disraeli as Chancellor.
Advices to the Sh inst and Africa report Prussia and Italy accepting armistice on condition of Prussian hold, Austrian restraint, and Italy seizing two Quadrilateral fortresses. General Cialdini crosses the Po. Austrians retreat by the Mincio. Prussians push in Bohemia. Austrians clash with Bohemians. 20,000 Austrian prisoners and 116 guns lost. Frontier fighting in Venetia Tyrol. France may swap Venetia for Sardinia. Atlantic cable laid. cholera breaks out in St. Petersburg.
A Galveston thermometer reads 120 in the shade on Monday. A negro named Horace Greeley killed B. Rhett near Charleston D. C. Apalachicola warns yellow fever claims over 120 lives this month along the coast. A schooner with 85 negroes en route to Cuba is seized by U S authorities. Gen Sheridan bans Confederate monuments and reorganization in his division. Hydrophobia death in Mobile after dog bite. a mud stone treatment has no effect.
Democratic Central Committee of Wisconsin appoints delegates to the Philadelphia Convention. A Louisville girl dies from concentrated lye used in washing. A mob hangs two men and a boy at Louisa Kentucky for robberies and murders. Barney Van Arndell and James Poko Lemmons are hanged at Springfield Michigan aged 20 and 22. In St Louis a thunderstorm kills an Italian woman in bed. her 13-year-old son sleeps under the same bed and is spared. Plains Indians mass for war as old ranch-men warn of widespread campaigns. Johnson National Union Convention meets in Indianapolis with exclusive participation for Lincoln and Johnson supporters. Treasury reports say southern notes and currency are flooded with counterfeits. Chicago suffers a destructive fire destroying 35 dwellings and $140,000 in property with under $50,000 ins.ure. Tennessee House approves constitutional amendment 43 to 13 with two arrestees counted. North Carolina draft of state constitution bars officeholders who deny Almighty God or the Bible. Will K. Speed released after being bound over in Memphis for billing with two-cent stamps. steamship captains warned of future penalties.
Brooklyn court declares the New York excise law constitutional. A famed horse Dexter ran a 2:19 heat at the Passion Course on Long Island Thursday. Albany area anti rent unrest continues with sheriff resistance to ejectment and National Guard called. One day in New York 131 burial permits granted and cholera cases rise with two deaths.
Reports from Hart's Island and Governor's Island detail severe cholera outbreaks with Dr. Cal houn among the deceased. The city records 158 burial permits on the 17th, a record heat day with 102 degrees, and high fatality among sun stroke and cholera cases across Brooklyn and the metropolis.
The Senate discussed and then passed over the President's veto of the Freedmen's Bureau bill while continuing debate on the Northern Pacific Railroad measure. The House addressed transportation Commission plans, federal banking, and the Rousseau Grinnell case, with several votes and resignations noted. A sequence of amendments, appropriations, and procedures followed through the 18th to 20th, including death notices, adjournment timing, and Tennessee’s political status discussions.
A Northwestern Indian Commission assembled at Fort Sully last month as Indians performed a prolonged Sun Dance. Dancers endured piercing skin cuts, setons, and ropes to the center pole, with one painted Black enduring hours of torment. Observers record unrelenting brutal ritual, extreme fatigue, and the belief in devout offerings to the Good Spirit.
A large crowd gathered at Jones Wood New Jersey on the Fourth to watch six trained geese pull a wash tab across the river harnessed as a team a paddle steered the tab and tapped the geese on the head to keep them in line during the crossing.
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