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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1885
Page
10
A meditation on aging and enduring affection from Oliver Wendell Holmes. The speaker recalls past songs of love and wine, contrasts youth with frost and snow, and notes how love remains a warm hearth as time passes, asking if any new notes can match remembered joy. The piece invokes Anacreon and musing on memory from Atlantic Monthly.
Sylvia reveals unhappiness as her father runs for Congress and Webster admits he is the compromise candidate. She rejects his campaign ties and declares she will not marry a politician, insisting her own convictions matter more than political alignment.
Sylvia Scott attends a mass meeting for her father’s party in Billingham Square where a hostile crowd targets her car. Webster rescues her as violence erupts and a pistol shot mortally wounds her father, the noted political figure, plunging the city into a tense aftermath.
In a district race, Arbuthnot concedes defeat to Tam Scott while Webster, beaten, asks Sylvia to renominate him as husband. Sylvia forgives and supports political convictions. Arbuthnot later returns to Congress with a higher majority than any prior candidate in the district.
In Captain Harris log entry dated January 21 an account describes Jack’s actions after Harris was knocked unconscious by a broken spar during a gale. Three days later Jack refused food, moaned, and after seeing the captain dead, leaped overboard with a final, grieving cry.
A Boston youth with artistic talent wins his father’s consent for study abroad after a bold plan. The Western cattle dealer lent funds to buy a small shipment to Liverpool, profited, and the boy sent back repayment before fleeing to Paris to continue his studies. The father now backs his son fully.
The London Land Agents Record notes real estate not at a premium in Kerry. Landlords and agents risk dynamite and shotgun retaliation as Kerry landlords reportedly suffer greatly, with Lord Lansdowne allegedly earning less than £8,000 yearly on average over a decade.
A narrative describes life for a baby Eskimo living in a snow igloo with a reindeer skin cradle. It covers clothing, indoor warmth control, and playful childhood in a harsh cold, including ice-sponge rain as ceilings melt and regrow.
A Washington letter recounts how Wisconsin’s Mr. Guenther pressured River and Harbor funding by introducing fifty amendments for Fox and Wisconsin River improvement ranging from 100000 down to 50000 dollars. The tactic risked killing the bill, but a deal emerged offering 75000 dollars if he withdrew the amendments. The note ends with a colorful aside about long and bizarre names used for black girls in a Florida paper.
On two and a half acres in Delaware township Camden county New Jersey a farmer produced eighteen hundred dollars worth of strawberries and received a premium from the State Board of Agriculture.
The Saturday Review argues that a war with England would cripple Russian finances via export blockades while potentially benefiting Indian farmers by reduced competition in wheat. It notes India would face heavy costs but could gain long term market access and production stimulus in Central Asia, with security prices for Indian bonds less volatile than Russian ones.
A dealer showcases a novel horse whip with a seven inch stock a whistle built into the butt a match safe and a leather loop for two fingers The device uses a rubber lash and a steel spring wire to form a double lash The dealer argues cowboys are more persuasive than cruel to horses describing its effect on a balky bronco and the spurs that would follow
A reminiscence describes Mexican servant hiring as requiring entire families to live with employers. It notes peasants called Peons as ideal workers, plus a two-driver stagecoach whipping system and a primitive postal post system with a clerk listing letter recipients on a public sheet.
An anti-railroad orator in the Florida Legislature condemned railroads with passion but was silenced when a nearby legislator rose and offered a handful of railroad passes. The quick retort left the speaker with no further comment.
A Pittsburg letter recounts the Graves lumber firm collapse forty seven years ago after a cash scam nets over thirty thousand dollars. Robert Graves allegedly killed a police officer with a hatchet, his son Hiram fled with him to Canada and California. Now Hiram and his family return to settle debts. descendants of creditors, including orphaned grandchildren, are paid. the officer survives as a Southern planter.
A leading actress recounts receiving daily letters from strangers seeking her acquaintance including a stock broker and a banker. She details one meeting where a surprised admirer met her husband and their child, noting the playful reaction of friends and the habit of pinning notes in the dressing room.
Describes evolving hairstyles with basket plaits and triple braids, silk and satin fabrics, and ornate Bal moral skirts with Valenciennes lace. Noting red satin petticoats with steel springs, tournure puffing, pale blue house jackets with black lace, and red velvet sash belts.
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