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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1889
Page
3
Dom Pedro, recovering from illness, visits public places as he repeats his stance against gratuities. He insists he will not accept any pension beyond Brazil’s legal amount, despite ongoing cable correspondence with Brazilian authorities. Rumor says the Brazilian minister in London may be dismissed.
Private advices from Brazil report the republic plans to separate church from state, ending state subsidies to Roman Catholic institutions. The 1887 88 budget allotted 454000 to clergy and related schools vs 280000 for public education. Separate despatches note a Para rubber subsidy move by Companhia Mercantile to tax other buyers three eighths of a cent per pound to support its own prices, provoking buyer unrest.
Mozambique dispatches allege Serpa Pinto deceived British Consul Johnston and used reinforcements to invade Makolole lands. He formed a large encampment, fired on Makololes with Gatling guns, captured two English flags, and proclaimed plans to subdue the Nyassa region. Johnston is said to have moved toward Belu.
London December 14 Robert Browning received the freedom of the city of Asolo. The dean of Westminster offered a burial place in Westminster Abbey, but the family may decline as Browning arranged to be buried in the same grave as his wife in Florence. The Queen sent sympathy. Romes December 18 an English physician reports Browning had a severe angina attack in November with marked arterial degeneration.
In Rome and Antwerp the influenza epidemic is reported as mild but widespread, affecting troops in garrison. Dr. Canabis, head of the health board, travels to St Petersburg to study the disease and hopes to prevent malignant forms elsewhere. Lectures in Vienna are suspended due to the outbreak.
Paris reports Briaga Brazza keeps his Congo scheme alive awaiting full government review. He seeks to form a company with an agent to study local needs and build a large trading enterprise. He also aids the government on Brussels conference issues.
Noted Italian felon Lewis Bartonia and his wife Mary, who previously served a five year term here, are under arrest in New York over possession of camel hair lambrequin curtains alleged as proceeds of a major burglary in this city.
A lengthy critique of Mrs. Bradley Gilman’s Saint Theresa biography from the Famous Women Series. The reviewer rails against mixed narrative styles and limited historical sympathy, arguing for a broader, mysticism-embracing treatment of Theresa as both mystic and reformer. The piece cites George Eliot’s Middlemarch reflection and discusses sources and scope for a fuller portrait.
A review of Major Heap's book on world lighthouses, noting its thoughtful history and maintenance systems. The piece highlights engineering insights like the Eddystone shape and Minot's Ledge catastrophe, with remarks on omissions and regional perspectives.
A thoughtful critique of James Mark Baldwin's Hand Book of Psychology. The reviewer lauds its clear structure and fair treatment of opposing views, noting Baldwin's confident yet temperate conclusions and scholarly, scientific approach. A second volume is anticipated.
A review notes The Hermitage shows Sill's mature form and spirituality with poems like The Hermitage A Prayer and A Foolish Wish. Prefaced by Aldrich's The Letter and issued by Houghton Mifflin for Christmas in Boston.
A review of Horace Walpole letters selections edited by Charles Duke Yonge. Two octavo volumes with portraits praised for broad coverage of Walpole’s interests and society influence, noting some omissions regarding political content and context.
A biographical note on Fanny Burney and her circle highlights the diary and letters edited by Mr Seeley. The selection preserves the natural tone of Burney's writing and offers entertainment for literature and court gossip fans, extending appeal beyond Evelina readers.
A New York edition of Fanny Burney and Her Friends presents selections from her diary and other writings. Edited by L B Seeley, the volume includes copper plates portraits after Reynolds Gainsborough Copley and West and features nine illustrations.
A review of FE L Mason’s Hijro Salem Vision of Peace praises the novel as a fiction founded on ideals. It traces a marriage between a Yankee transcendentalist with Quaker blood and a Jewish woman, the Eloi-heem, and notes elements of reincarnation and gender themes. The piece questions lucidity while comparing the work to Consuelo and highlights its emphasis on Woman-power and duality.
A compact review praises the latest Baminton Library volume for fencing boxing and wrestling. It credits W H Pollock and E B Michell with solid chapters and notes on prize fighting history from 1808 to 1860, comparing old and modern schools, with strong emphasis on technical progress.
Oliver Dyer’s reminiscences on Calhoun Webster Clay and Jefferson Davis are examined with balance though marked by era-tinged rhetoric. The piece highlights Webster as Dyer’s most admired figure and regales readers with a Benton anecdote about Roman gladiators and leathered skin.
A detailed local history by Briggs records shipyards and vessels along North River in Plymouth County Massachusetts. It compiles industries, lists ships built, and adds genealogies with views portraits and autographs, offering lasting value to residents and descendants.
L. Vernor Briggs presents a historical study printed in Boston in 1889 by Coburn Bros. This volume catalogs industrial development along river tributaries from 1640 to 1872, compiling data and regional enterprise histories.
A review argues geographical readers are dull yet salvageable if the reading content is removed leaving practical geography and drawing projects. It notes an Eastern States tour by Joel Cook and critiques its grandiose style and travel-lesson ambitions.
Funeral services for philanthropist Oliver Johnson were held quietly at the Church of the Messiah on Thirty-fourth Street with about 200 attendees, mostly older friends. The ceremony, simple and somber, featured Rev. Dr. Collyer and Rev. Dr. James W. Chadwick, followed by burial at the Friends Society Cemetery in Longwood, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
The New York Ballot Reform League executive committee votes to stage an early mass meeting at Cooper Union. Henry George Carl Schurz and Chauncey M Depew are among expected speakers promoting the Australian ballot system.
Mary Effie Sylvester of Lexington charges Joseph A. Sylvester abandoned her in Chelsea Suffolk after October 1886, seeking a divorce and restoration of her maiden name Mary Effie Baird. The filing cites three years of desertion prior to the libel dated November 13, 1889.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts directs libelant to publish notice in Boston West and send copies by registered mail. Libellee must appear before the justices in Cambridge on the first Monday of January to show cause why the libel prayer should not be granted.
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