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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1883
Page
4
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A new serial by Ernest A. Young begins this week at Flurry Brook Farm Oregon. The tale, titled Life and Love in New England, is praised as superior to the author’s previous works and filled with healthy, exciting interest. Jealousy drives the action, followed by a veiled mystery as chapters unfold. Back numbers will be supplied during publication, but not after the story concludes.
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Editorial notices aside, the piece lingers on political intrigue and lobbying. It notes the Senate's rejection of Page and Robeson funding, mentions Blaines lobby influence, and touches on Mormon polygamy claims, a shooting affray, and Senator Tabors short Senate tenure with scattered anecdotes.
The piece crowns his senatorial arc with a display of six night shirts bought at 250 dollars each shown on the eve of his marriage. It notes his wealth around ten million dollars and hints at the publicity value of the display. It mentions his forthcoming honorific and his marriage.
The Forty-seventh Congress ended with a harsh verdict as its record is described as the worst in history. Only 650 of 10,650 introduced bills were enacted, with widespread waste, partisan tactics, and a powerful lobby influencing proceedings. The speaker allegedly packed committees and corruption thrived, prompting hope for a more economical and straightforward legislative future.
The West risks rule by wealth and inexperience as new senators replace Davis Windom Ferry Saunders and Tehler. Sabin and Palmer are rich lumbermen unfit for public duties while Cullom and Wilson are stronger, Manderson and Bowen deemed unfit. Colorado’s Tabor and Bowen show how money dominates politics, signaling a future ruled by capital.
An eye witness view of China’s population, resources, and industries. China hosts vast coal beds and iron ores, with 400 million people compared to America’s 53 million, yet conservatism hinders rapid development. Provinces excel in silks, teas, pottery, and glass, while Europeans are seen as barbarians.
The subject spent years in military service and served in India and Australia. In 1868 he held the post of under secretary of state for foreign affairs, marking a high point in his diplomatic career.
An editorial condemns Congress as a bear garden with down grade behavior and a bad odor. It cites Hoar and Edmunds incidents, vulgar remarks, and a clash over parliamentary terms, noting a limit to blackguardism amid disappointing conduct in the national council.
The article reports physicians and dentists arguing that bad teeth trigger nervous disorders, including neuralgia, ear disease, vision issues, and even brain trouble. It cites cases like a Boston merchant whose sleeplessness and neuralgia improved after dental decay was treated, underscoring the need for dental vigilance to prevent broader health problems.
The conference report on the tariff bill has been adopted with projections of revenue impact uncertain. Key changes include higher duties on ware and glass, iron ore, copper content in ore, pig iron, steel rails, and books, plus a debated revenue reduction. Experts doubt the large cuts, noting possible annual surplus remains, while the bill favors monopolists. The piece cites concerns over the lobby influence and notes advances in telegraphy and the Leggo system promising rapid dispatches.
A system divides a 3000 word message into seven takes assigned to operators who push their copy to cylinders. The seven cylinders then run in unison, sending the entire message over a single wire from New York to Cleveland.
The Manchester Guardian argues two key questions shape this year’s home trade: the state of the agricultural population and the harvest’s impact on prosperity. It notes pauperism rose in December 1882 mainly in cities, while rural districts show gains. improved farm conditions point to agriculture being better off than a year ago, with weak demand for manufactured goods tied more to rural traders than urban laborers.
In New York the Stokes will dispute features testimonies on the deceased’s odd habits. A witness says the old man struggled with style from 1875 to 1880 and began to fail will power in 1878. He limited meals to at home times and fed chickens from the window, while offering marriage premiums for his son James. Most such testimony is deemed frivolous by observers.
A compendium of humorous and observational snippets. It includes a dialogue with Baron Rothschild and a bank cashier defaulter, a Milan professor on drunkenness, a clergyman’s quip, a proposed glass coffin method, and social notes on bankers, lawyers, doctors aging, and school accounts in Des Moines.
A collage of social witticisms and observations on finance crime and manners. Notes on testimony of a witness, banking tales, wealth gossip, lectures on education, corsets and fashion, jokes and moral quips. Mentions Bernhardt Langtry and a judge's stance on smoking.
A fragmentary newspaper item lists curious finds: an exploded powder mill foundation near Montgomery County, a four foot thick stone wall in Carlisle Pennsylvania, a possibly 8000 year old Chinese coin from a Cal claim, an Indian tomahawk found near Lake City Florida, and a 98 year old man in Unity New Hampshire shooting four squirrels with a musket once owned by a Revolutionary War soldier all without spectacles.
A government safe built in Argentina weighs just under 44 000 pounds and measures five feet by nearly sixteen feet. Its walls use iron boiler plates and air chambers with non conducting cases. Doors include a dial combination and an electric time lock. Access would require a long watch, a key, a lockless dial, or a powerful force to move the immense box.
A large buck chased by dogs crossed ice near Saline mouth and fled along the Ohio bottom toward Patrick Hewry’s cabin. The deer and a dog fell through the open channel during the chase and drowned, while the buck’s antlers and the dog’s death marked a grim end to the sport.
Utica Observer notes Fred C Griffith, son of Josiah Griffith of Remsen, visiting friends in Utica and Remsen. He left Remsen nineteen years ago on his nineteenth birthday to California, then Arizona, and recently settled in New Mexico where he gained a fortune. He returned on his nineteenth birthday anniversary this week, February 19, amid well wishes, with the Observer joking he may father nineteen children and amass $19,000,000.
Residents digging along a hill in Corpus Christi unearthed an elongated tusk point about six inches long and a rhinoceros horn of similar size bearing etchings of a Spanish dancing woman, a ship at anchor, and a rope-entwined anchor. Excavations revealed a skull ribs and a portion of a spine of a man.
Mr. R. Roberts of Lebaton seeks to release water from his mill pond covering about 600 acres to expose fish as a rare chance to fish. The process will take two days. each fishing share costs $1 and requires at least 200 names to trigger a notice of the fishing time.
A Thomasville Georgia dog stops at the Mitchell house and can sit on his haunches and catch a ball on the fly three times out of five. Mr Parnell's dog is inclined to be literary and guards the gate every Wednesday until the Thomasville Enterprise arrives. John J Bradshaw of Dooly county reports a seven month old puppy that treed eleven possums, eight weighing fifty pounds. Neighbor John Vaughn owns a six month old puppy weighing 100 pounds.
The Clarke county oldest resident, Isaac Dunnaway, aged 96, has suffered facial cancer for years. He recalls a 1852 opossum hunt where a dog bit him on the nose, a bite from which the cancer allegedly arose over thirty years later and will torment him until death. He was once a sturdy, hale man.
Mrs. Augustus Roberts of Tilghmanton Maryland attempted death by swallowing a pin Monday evening. She had also prepared broken glass to swallow, but family intervened. The pin’s effects had not yet shown.
From J E Walker the Greensboro Journal reports Dillard Barnes a 43 year old colored man has a perfectly white patch of hair in the center of his head surrounded by black His father lived to 115 and also had a similar white patch A white man in the county is said to have a white lock amid a red covering confirming racial hair markers noted by Dr Walker
A Northern New York snow storm was felt in Carthage where snow fell last week. Three days after the storm a man on snow shoes searched from Pinckney using a long pole and found the Levis House buried seventeen feet to the roof. He entered to find the bar room full of sitters who asked if the storm had ended.
A setter dog died in the bitter cold while standing between Lehigh Valley railroad rails near East Penn Junction. It is unclear if the animal collapsed at that spot or died while standing, but the dog was on the track, marking its last hunt.
A Utica lady over 90 who contracted fever a year ago lost all her hair. After recovery her hair grew back gray and thick, so dense a comb cannot pass through it.
A Cheyenne Leader item notes a new pin cushion exhibition in a Lewis and Clark era setting. It mentions a woman removing 547 needles from the cushion and a Montana tale about a baby birth causing Helena’s fire bell to ring.
When hops cost 126 per pound an acre yields about 1000 in profit. Hop Bitters promises the same quantity of hops and is sold at a fixed price years ago, despite hops now being twenty times higher. Rise hops, get rich in pocket, and gain health with Hop Bitters.
A reader asks advertisers to honor a favor for Boston Weekly Globz in this note. The item appears as a brief plea within the paper’s pages. Supportive language hints at a community tone and requests cooperation from advertisers.
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