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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1880
Page
6
An elderly fly recounts surviving winter, laments modern youths, and recalls temptations, poisoned paper traps, and a tragic tale of a mate lost to a spider. He wanders memory through marriage, vice, and the dangers faced by his kind, ending with a wary note on future readings by Redpath.
Prentice Mulford writes from Washington describing the Capitol split into four parts and lampooning statues and politicking. He notes visitors misread the building, jokes about Liberty’s back, chairs, and seats, and observes galleries, manners, and the city’s grand yet unfinished grandeur.
James G Blaine, born in Washington County Pennsylvania, rises from humble beginnings to editor roles in Maine and later to Congress and the speakership. The sketch notes his debating fire, sharp tongue in clashes with Conkling, and pragmatic, money-minded ascent within the Republican era, portraying him as worldly, cautious, and a skilled political operator.
The piece weighs the contenders for the presidency with John Sherman rising beside Blaine. It recalls Sherman as a former speaker candidate and senator, while Blaine pursued the office with bold strategy that unsettled Republicans in 1876 and helped Hayes ascend.
The account portrays James Keene a dominant grain trader whose failures total 2.5 million dollars yet who remains a solitary trader. A New York figure, he chases money, lacks Gould style schemes, and often bullishly bets on better times. The scene captures his broker Bocock and the chaotic chat of large orders for Erie Northwestern and other stocks.
The Jefferson Market court heard Sarah Robinson accuse George Washington known as Snake George of swindling her after promising a fortune through card readings and dreams. The self-styled healer spoke in a brooding dialect, defending his herbal knowledge and denying deceit, then admitted a mistaken entry to Miss Robinson’s home before the loss. The case was continued as authorities investigated the allegations.
A long dialogue unfolds as a Dutch tavern keeper meets a Westward pilgrim. The visitor seeks supper and lodging and is mistaken for various trades before declaring he is a typographer who prints books and newspapers. The exchange highlights dialect humor and mistaken identity.
Rules for child upbringing stressing instant obedience firmness with gentleness and self control. Emphasizes no promises you cannot keep calm reason when correcting punishments lightly and consistency in forbidding repeats. Includes guidance on honesty truthfulness and avoiding inconsistent behavior with children.
A New York Tribune correspondent tours the treasury of the Seraglio in Constantinople. He describes glass cabinets filled with sultans’ relics, jeweled thrones, toy treasures, and the vast wealth that remains amid Turkey’s postwar distress and estranged finances. The article argues the treasury is a relic of empire and a temptation for a struggling government.
A San Francisco Chronicle report details the elaborate Dupont Street funeral for Chinese merchant Wong An Sing shot last Sunday. The procession featured a lavish coffin, gilded decorations, a Chinese band, professional mourners, and a feast including a roast pig, crabs, rice, and tea as the coffin was lowered at the Fook Wang Tong Co. graveyard.
In Eminence Kentucky a seven year old boy named Dudley lives with Mrs Mildred Wood and has not walked, weighs twenty pounds, yet speaks sermons from memory He has a vastly large head and adult manners but fragile health doctors from across the state visit to study this remarkable prodigy.
A collection of satirical and human interest vignettes from the era. Ragged boys share squash pie with a friend after a church visit. a frantic lady chases a car in song. a saloon tale on rising prices and late nights. a barber joke about a clergyman’s whiskers. and odds and ends on clocks and long words.
A tailor named Snodgrass, pursuing a debt from a curbside stockbroker, was beaten by the customer after repeating demands. The judge dismissed the assault charge as absurd, prompting cheers from the crowded courtroom and a say-the-law change plea to curb collection violence.
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