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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1883
Page
5
Joaquín Miller reflects on the Statue of Liberty tribute, the failed pedestal funding, and the looted obelisk. He criticizes wealth, power, and journalism while praising reporters for their sharp honesty and resilience in hard urban life.
A speaker denounces the New York State prison system for brutal treatment and high costs, arguing that maddening cruelty exceeded savings and recalling Gladstone’s Naples description. The critic warns against complacency and notes the issue is close to home, near the Hudson.
A small, eerie craft departs from a morgue area every day bound for Hart Island. Its deck holds white and black passengers in red stained caskets, a cross-section of society who have died alone and penniless. The boat, like Charon, slides along the East River carrying the city’s unmourned dead to the potter’s field.
A veteran editor urges writers to stay near home, concentrate on honest craft, and endure a seven year apprenticeship in writing. He argues that true genius comes from focus and industry, not inspiration alone, and warns against long derivative letters. The piece contrasts life in the West with the literary circles of New York and cites the value of local observation.
The speaker notes editors seek able, terse, live literary work and pay well yet remain invisible and hard to reach. Ambition from twelve years ago to see the city influenced a lifelong pursuit of public exposure and achievement in writing.
A lyrical scene set on a perfect day across brown hills as poets and travelers rest beside a blossomed rill. The poem describes campfires, grazing bronches, and burning stars overhead with white patrols nearby, signed by Joaquin Miller from New York on May 12 1883.
A summary of 250 New England reports from The New England Homestead notes an overall hopeful season for 1883. Prices for cattle and cheese rise, butter recovers, grain and grass fare well, hay is expected to be large, and acreage shifts favor corn, potatoes, tomatoes, and tobacco adjustments. Labor shortages persist with scarce farm help and limited farm house girls.
The New York Mail and Express reports a patented Ameri can clock mechanism for U S Canada Europe. The first piece, set up in an uptown hotel, costs 1850 dollars and features a nine foot case of San Domingo mahogany with a dolphin motif. It includes a solar dial with calendar and zodiac, leap year indication, and a top time plate. A Westminster chime plays on quarter hours and a regular chime on the hour, with two windings. One disc records sun positions and the other lists major world city times.
A printer’s daughter fends off a stranger who asks for a bite. The man steals a neighbor’s clothes, flees by rail, and is pursued by the two young women. They recover a shirt with help from a gentleman friend near the engine works, ending the incident without further harm.
In Plymouth Church Beecher depicts the dispersal of the early disciples from Jerusalem by persecution. They preach in Phoenice Cyprus and Antioch where Jews and Grecian converts hear the gospel. He notes Barnabas and Paul shaping the first Gentile Christian community in Antioch, and warns that strong church sympathy follows strong local vice.
London papers recount two gruesome consequences of cruel jokes. Harriet Etherington, 18, died after a masked prank frightened her on a Brockley road near a cemetery. In Paris, Planchat, once involved with a guillotine imitation, was imprisoned after shocking a condemned man, who later died insane from the trauma.
The article notes English Church of England bishops receiving enormous salaries disproportionate to services. It highlights the archbishop of Canterbury Dr Bennew and others with large official pay, mentioning figures like 7876,000 and listing Archbishop Thom as part of the high-earning hierarchy.
Details list bishoprics with cash values and number of livings. Canterbury holds 185 kings and livings valued at specific totals. York 168. London 175. Manchester 124. Oxford 112. St. David's 186. Durham 114. Lincoln 119. Winchester 111. Values span from 41,300 to 248,410 with per see totals given for each diocese.
Ex Governor Israel Washburn died of heart disease in Portland Maine The body will arrive Monday noon with services Tuesday then burial in Bangor. Born June 6 1813 in Livermore Missouri he practiced law in Orono and served in Congress before becoming Maine's wartime governor. He supported education and woman suffrage and remained active in public life until 1880.
Lucius Allin recalls his 1830s invention of matches at the Springfield armory after consulting Charles Sumner. He describes patent battles, early production on Walnut Street, opposition and panic, and a pioneer method rivaled by no prior matches.
In Jackson county a February snowstorm followed by freezing rain created a mile and a half ice crust that left travel by sleigh or skates as the only option. Cornelius W. Vining died during the icy period and was interred at East Liberty cemetery carried by skaters and sleds. Four weeks later a church service was held for a crowded audience, the day breaking up the ice block.
The Hon T Porterhouse drew his month's salary as congressman on the 4th but on the same evening drew a ten instead of an ace.
A miscellany of short observations and anomalies: a Newport boatman with long service, a Augusta to New York traveler with gear, a Bennington couple’s fire dispute unresolved for years, and a Providence tax reveal. Steam ships gain, Haverhill’s stern character, a Merrimack hay tale, and a Frisco hotel misstep with St Jacobs Oil.
Boston port reports higher exports of live cattle dressed beef and live sheep for the week ending May 12. Prices at London Liverpool and Glasgow show mixed movement with firm London, firm Glasgow, and Liverpool down. Market at Boston slow with Western beef competition affecting home slaughterers. Swift Co Arnour Co and others push for market share while prices for wholesale and retail beef and veal hold largely steady amid rising spring arrivals.
Savannah Times notes Lucy Porter an almost 100 year old colored woman living alone in a subterranean cave eight miles from Savannah on the Augusta road. She recalls colonial Georgia and once had an Indian husband, has kept away from city life for 25 years, surviving on roots and neighbor bought vegetables, never sick, with all teeth sound as a dollar.
A Cincinnati firm builds a $10,000 bar for a Texas saloon and a Salt Lake City cat broods over nine chickens. Illinois lawmakers mocked as the Springfield circus. Ridgeway postmaster Sharp has served thirty years. A Piute princess marries her twentieth husband. Bear hunter dies in Yreka jail after a spree. Harness makers use a specialized bore for leather. Two Cleveland girls age 16 plus two young men elope to Chicago. A Weare Ohioan sets fashion in pet dog deaths. A Denver paper quips about Apaches and Kansas editors in Chihuahua next month.
For those with weak lungs or throat ailments, send two stamps for Dr. R V Pierce's treatise. Address Buffalo New York.
The week closes with money market activity steady for loans and discounts. Banks report limited loanable funds as deposits shrink while trust companies attract funds. Rates for mercantile paper hold around six percent. call loans on collateral vary with security. New York funds ease, and Bank of England discount rates shift. Bond prices fall modestly. Page bill debate risks savings banks investments. Domestic commodities across Indigo to Wool show varied activity, led by grains, meats, and textiles with prices mixed.
The Boston Daily Globe reports steady apple prices with tight stock and multiple grades. It notes robust wholesale demand across Western and Southern centers, butter prices easing, cheese markets steady, coal and coffee trends, and corn, berries, dried apples, and feed showing varied yet stable activity in regional trade.
Markets report quiet grain trade with higher but thin activity in flour and grains, including corn and oats, while provisions show light pork and solid lard interest. Cotton futures rise slightly on speculative trading, with spot prices firm for several staples.
Week ending Friday May 11 1833 reports totals for Brighton and Watertown markets with Western and Eastern cattle and sheep, large overall cattle and hog runs, and prices for live beef cattle per 100 pounds including multiple quality grades and hides and tallow values.
Special correspondence from Gloucester notes 20 Georges arrivals with cod and halibut totals, 14 Western Bank boats with cod and halibut amounts, 4 shore men with codfish and haddock, and 6 from the Banks with halibut. Market prices list large and medium Georges cod, Western Bank cod varieties, shore cod, haddock, Pollock, hake, mackerel, halibut, tongues, and other specialties, with last sales cited and demand noted as improving.
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