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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1881
Page
6
An evocative Detroit Free Press reminiscence of the Antietam battlefield on September 17, recalling Lee and Jackson, Hooker and Burnside, the Sunken Road, Bloody Lane, and the costly toll on both sides. The narrator laments McClellan’s conduct, praises Lee’s resilience, and blends landscape with brutal memory.
A Chicago News piece discusses Hadfield, the 1800 would-be assassin of the English king, drawing parallels with Guiteau. It notes Hadfield’s claimed sanity on many matters, his aim to be executed for treason, and a Duke of York testimony that suggested no derangement, yet Hadfield was acquitted on insanity grounds.
A Chicago journalist recounts swimming the Tiber in Rome with companions after arriving by train from Florence. He describes dirty stations, ancient ruins, and sensational depictions in Renaissance art, noting the brutal realism of depictions from Prometheus to the crucifixion and vivid visions of saints, martyrs, and angels, with humorous observations on European guides and local lore.
Fall River seaman William Kennedy returns from China with a strange specimen labeled as a mermaid by 14 inch body. The creature has human like head and limbs with fish tail and fins. It died within hours, was preserved in alcohol, and a glass case will display the oddity. Kennedy declined offers to sell.
A physician should select a servant with care and balance. The ideal aide wears neutral clothes, not black, and avoids a cadaverous look or florid indifference. Truthfulness is tempered to protect the practice, as a servant with a knack for lies could harm confidence.
In Bath Maine a woman awoke from a vivid dream to find her left wrist actually held. She tried to scream but could not yet released the grip. Her hand was cold and numb, and the clasp remained until she realized the attacker was in fact her own right hand, a bizarre self restraint.
A keen Washington observer laments the defeated freedom of speech and a pervasive moral cowardice in politics. The letter condemns official evasions, female social pretensions, and a public atmosphere that suppresses truth, ending with a wry self‑defense and pledge to resume once urged.
A New Brunswick Sayreville horse has worked as a brickyard cart horse for twenty years and displays remarkable problem solving. He counts sixty five loads of clay to the mixing point, then retrieves coal dust, backs the cart to the proper position, and refuses further work once the whistle sounds. His behavior sides with independent judgment, yet responds to a calm explanation.
Passengers on a Yellowstone bound train from sentinel butte Montana to Dakota witnessed a rare encounter with a herd of sixteen buffaloes at two miles out. Armed passengers fired volleys with army rifles and revolvers but the animals escaped unscathed. A later rush by another herd prompted a brake test as bullets sprayed the air within feet of the train while the buffalos halted half a mile away and trotted off. The crowd debated how much lead a buffalo can bear.
A Philadelphia gathering of veteran street peddlers details twenty one years on the road from Pittsburg to New York. Thompson recounts escapes, cons, and partnerships with Standing Bear in Europe, from bold stage tricks in Leicester to London and Paris, ending with his Spanish wife.
A study argues birds sense approaching weather changes supported by US Signal Service reports. Migration patterns precede heavy storms, with geese and waterfowl moving south before temperature drops. The piece outlines seven conclusions on migration, routes, instincts, and storm-driven movements.
Reports from France claim Pekin is in fear as a comet looms above the capital. The omen coincides with a scandal around the Empress Regent and prompts prayers at pagodas while high officials are dismissed to show reform. Concerns rise that changes may worsen imperial disarray.
Vanity Fair Playfully questions Boston’s bean supply and cultural appetite. The piece riffles on beans, cola, and weekly cereal rituals, speculating whether scarcity hints at a broader strain on local intellect and humor, while playfully blaming beans for imagined decline.
Moses Warren, an enigmatic pauper, died at the Warrington workhouse England after nine years of bed rest and feigned illness. He refused to disclose identity or origin, inspired costly care and a long mystery about police involvement and possible links to the Benian movement.
Charleston news reports a policeman assigned to guard the Catafalque over the Demoiselles de Grasse tomb in St Marys churchyard abandoned his post after stating he could not stay in a graveyard all night. He faced a captain's court martial and was fined, the chief noting his desire to avoid graveyards but ruling disobedience unexcusable.
In Kentucky during six days more men are killed than in Vermont in eight years. One Owen county graveyard contains mostly murdered men and another county reports forty two deaths in two years. Homicide has been as destructive as yellow fever in the South, with higher deaths since the war.
A collage of verse and prose excerpts celebrates autumnal beauty and longing with poems by Frances L. Keeler and Alice Carey, plus humorous and reflective pieces about cows, gardens, and courtship. The prose threads mix domestic whimsy with seasonal imagery and nostalgia.
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