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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1885
Page
9
A voyage tale featuring Jack Bond on a quest to the Gold Coast. The text references works by the author including Harry Hale's Log Book and Blown Out to Sea with other titles noted.
The Sea Witch endures a fierce cyclone off the Antillean coast. Skipper Lombard, Jack Bond, and Dick Earle cling to survival as water fills the hold and gear breaks. Amid fear and strain, Dick seeks resolve, Jack weighs homecoming, and the crew strives to steer toward safety and a possible sighting of a rescuing sail. The crew endures a harrowing night of cold and danger while mortgage and loss shadow their futures.
Describes the Sea Witch voyage back from the equator with three days of calms under a broiling sun. A southeast wind then began the voyage toward the destination, while the vessel’s course was altered to northwest by west to pass east of the Bahamas and reach the Gulf Stream.
After a cyclone threat forces a makeshift raft, Jack Earle and crew struggle at sea. The raft scenes include a cut painter, a perilous night, a vision of his mother, and a lone boy’s endurance. Jack spots a schooner and abandons his raft to swim toward it for salvation.
Jack Bond and Black Bullet recover from a wrecked Sea Sprite after a gale. They search for a missing dory and life-boat, determine their position east of Antigua, and set a plan to endure weeks of hard pumping and navigation to survive and rescue crew members.
Salt Lake September 30 Yesterday was a field day in the District Court. Bishop Hiram B Clauson a well known Mormon was arraigned on unlawful cohabitation. He pleaded guilty and said he believed he was doing right and would stand by his religion. The judge sentenced him to six months imprisonment in the penitentiary and a $300 fine heavy poverty allowed. T O Angell assistant of the Meamnong church pleaded fully but promised to obe Line law acting one wife He was fined only $15 wiant superintendent of the 5 WS Sears ent of the Mormon co oper ate store followed Angell s lead and
A church news column blasts Mormon leaders for promising the court to abandon surplus wives and adhere to the law, labeling the pledge as furious denunciation and accusing the group of malfeasance amid the legal dispute.
General Sherman denounces war reporters as spies and lies, blaming home editors for sensationalism. He dismisses Halstead and McCullough as reckless writers who stayed home and wrote about events at long range. McCullough scoffs, calling Sherman a privileged, garrulous old fool.
A large convention in StArrite Washington Territory with delegates from Tacoma Newcastle Renton Black Diamond Colby Sumner Squak Whatcom and Seattle endorses peaceful or forcible removal of Chinese labor. Resolutions call for immediate discharge of Chinese workers and mass meetings to force departures by November 1 1885. Chinese workers in local coal mines have been discharged and mills replacing them with white labor. Four carloads of Chinese displaced to Portland.
Daniel Simpson, veteran drummer of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, marked his 95th birthday at his 920 East Fourth Street residence in South Boston. A large crowd called, flowers and fruit arrived, and a serenade by the First Regiment drum and bugle corps followed by Dahlgren Post, 2, G.A.B. and a street parade through South Boston concluded the day.
Light Guard and U V A personnel marched via J P yar and the residences of Bradley and Wilson stopping at Uncle Dan's for a wine and five rolls. At Gray's Hall, 200 guests enjoyed tables, songs, and remarks by Colonel Walker Captain Mahoney and others before a late farewell.
Boston pharmacists and druggists nationwide discuss a circular from Rutherford and Mayne of Washington offering to pursue government tax refunds believed to total at least 500000. The firm claims no upfront costs but would take one third of recovered sums if successful. Details of the alleged taxes are not disclosed.
In RaLeica North Carolina on September 29 four black men Jerry Finch his wife Lee Tyson and John Pattishall were taken from jail and hanged one mile from Pittsboro. The killings tie to the Finch family murder on July 4 and the Gunter family killings eighteen months earlier. The coroner's verdict favored guilt amid public unease.
In Galveston a gentleman asked a friend if a man he wished to hire on a ranch was honest and reliable. The response: he is tried and trusty, having been tried four times for stealing horses and cleared each time.
A San Francisco Chronicle anecdote describes a girl asking how milk is produced. A helper explains cows produce milk from dairy cows, and a humorous misinterpretation leads to a playful misunderstanding about milking. The tale reflects country life contrasts and a child’s curious questions about farming.
A collage of quirky items and brief notes from across the United States. Items include valuations of objects and fortunes, prohibition era effects on opium sales in Georgia, playful street name reactions in Mexico, a hobbyist necktie collection, a Pottstown marriage confession, coffin society in Memphis, a Cincinnati fine for a violent threat, Persia’s tobacco ban on American plug tobacco, a controversial article on insanity, jail water strikes in San Jose, funeral procession cabmen in London, a Hindoo loom value, statistics causing insanity among clerks, and various oddities from Kansas, Ohio, North Carolina, and Armenia. Includes humorous animal tales, school principal resignations, Moody and Sankey hymn book censorship, photography evidence advice, a California capitalist’s prank bill story, and prayer-based infant wishes in Kingston, New York.
Those planting Holland bulbs now can have Roman hyacinths blooming by December first. Plant bulbs in ground or six inch pots, then plunge under a frame with four inches of soil. Bring pots into warmth near light to start rooting, then into a greenhouse for steady flowering into spring. Narcissus and hyacinths offer winter color, with lilies and tulips also suitable for forcing in heated greenhouses. Lily of the valley and other blooms can be produced year round with hotbed sash and dedicated heating systems.
Winter florists offer forced flowers from hardy plants grown for open ground. Dentzia gracilis and lilac towers appear in city shops, while hyacinths and narcissus bloom in pots or water. Spiraea japonica becomes a favored window plant, with vibrant foliage and small white blooms, kept in December or January in a cellar and moved to light for rapid growth.
Thirteen years ago a dozen overgrown roses were planted and later deteriorated. Attempts to feed and stir soil failed as feeding roots lay far away. The plants were cut back, transplanted with roots trimmed, deepened, and covered with manure. This spring new buds appeared and roses bloomed well.
This October guide covers moving plants indoors to avoid frost, staking chrysanthemums, trimming and lifting dahlias before frost, labelling and storing bulbs to deter rodents, drying parsley for winter use, and preparing beds for tulips and hyacinths. Hyacinths may be forced indoors later in winter depending on warmth.
Milton Maine record notes A F Searles gave a generous basket of Snowflake potatoes, grown on freshly broken ground, as a token to the editor. The note thanks Mr Searles for the gesture and discusses the harvest.
Frank Siddalis the soap man spent over $200,000 a year on ponies. He used horses as paid pens, and the mural looms as prominently as a circus poster on a whitewashed barn at the stock farm.
A humorous note from the Chicago Ledger quotes that the farmer is the most independent man in the world when his wife is away from home, framing rural life with wry domestic insight.
Nostalgic jingle recalls use of Castoria for babies when sick and for children as they grew. The poem traces generations from infancy to motherhood, noting the product’s continued presence in family care and its association with children’s remedies.
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