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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1879
Page
2
A new department in the weekly globe invites farm readers nationwide to submit questions and topics on agriculture. The column will cover crops grasses grains fruits stock management dairy improvements and other farm life subjects with guidance from competent authorities. Communications should be addressed to Taz Weekly Globe Boston.
A lengthy piece arguing the quality and handling of hunter horses for English markets. It covers training methods, rider skill, and the dangers of using unseasoned grooms, plus notes on buying, jumping practice, and the economics of training for fox hunting.
Historical account notes oxen once powered forestry clearing and field work in New England. As agriculture modernized with faster horse-drawn and wagon transport, oxen were displaced. Horses became preferred in winter logging regions, leaving oxen to a diminished role in lumber areas and farming tasks.
Weather changes harm poultry with dampness causing rheumatism and weak tendons. Fowls seek sun and shade, avoiding constant exposure. Handling tips advise catching birds by both legs, avoiding tail or back, to prevent feather damage and distress. The article emphasizes careful, gentle restraint during catching.
The article urges careful judgment and practical experience in fruit harvesting. It discusses varying timing by variety, notes Isabella grapes needing late October warmth, and warns against premature picking. It advises handling apples like eggs, sorting into four market grades, and avoiding large storage heaps that cause spoilage.
The article advises replacing barrels with square hinged boxes for storing apples and pears kept under trees and later in cool cellars. It details box sizes, ease of handling, and notes boxes prevent spoilage and simplify variety sorting, carting costs, and preserving fruit.
Belgian authorities have not prohibiting underground female labor yet. 1868 Liege collieries employed 040 women of 15,686 total. 1877 figures show underground women 463 above 15 and 67 girls under 15. overall underground 453. Britain banned underground female labor by Mines Act.
An August 24 Lloyds London Weekly editorial predicts a brighter era for Britain tied to American prosperity. It cites revived United States trade, rising wages, and rail and construction activity as signals of a broader trade revival while noting risks from weather and German tariffs. It highlights emigration, new mining labor arrangements, and growing exports to the United States as key factors shaping the recovery.
In Berlin an electro dynamic locomotive runs on a circular 300 metre railway with a middle isolated line and outer rails. The train uses a dynamo machine in the locomotive and a power-producing machine in the carriages, delivering full power at all speeds and offering braking by reverse operation. Though not built for passenger service, tests indicate potential advantages for electric traction in suitable applications.
The discussion centers on rail isolation and ocean resistance. Dr Stemon proposes installing periodic primary dynamo electric machines to maintain grip tension between middle and outer rails on long track.
An Boston Post attache, William H. Hoogs, bought a Louisiana State Lottery ticket for one dollar. The September drawing awarded him 30 000 dollars for ticket No. 57 803, paid as thirty $500 bills. He refused a $14 000 cash offer and sent the ticket to New Orleans for settlement, planning to retire on his future Greenback investments.
A lengthy poem fragment explores a failing love between two lovers marked by time and memory. It contemplates farewell, the irretrievability of past pleasures, and the ache of remembrance versus forgetfulness as time withers emotion and leaves only sorrow. The speaker invokes cyclical seasons, divine indifference, and the enduring pull of shared history.
The Swiss Times notes the scale of perfume production, citing Europe and British India consume about 10 000 alla around handkerchief perfumes yearly and England earns about 240 000 annually from French eau de Cologne plus others. It mentions Cannes as a major distillery with large quantities of acacia, jasmine, tuberose, and other materials, and highlights Victoria and South Australia as prime perfume plant centers. It provides per acre value estimates for jasmine, roses, orange trees, violets, cassia, geraniums, and lavender, illustrating significant potential for perfume crops.
Leslie, the renowned fish merchant, displays a rare shark’s pilot caught off the bar. The 18 inch creature resembles a toy black rapier and bears a three inch sucker on its head with adhesive power rivaling rubber. After death the sucker clings firmly to smooth surfaces, as marble resisted even strong pulls.
Lonpos reports a disastrous maritime accident as the excursion steamer Undaunted, sailing from Ramsgate to Southampton, is sunk near the Isle of Wight. All 100 aboard perish or are lost, with names of the dead still unknown, causing widespread distress among passengers and Ramsgate visitors.
The barque Cotinne of Dungeness was struck and cut in two at midnight September 10 near Dungeness by steamship Luland after arriving from Antwerp. The barque sank in five minutes. The captain leaped overboard with his wife and four children. the wife and three others perished, while two or more survivors were rescued and taken to an English coastal steamer.
A Bay Islands dispatch from Ruatan reports an explosion on a railroad train near Fort Cortez killing ten passengers and the conductor. Captain Edward Hicken, master of the American schooner Joan Atwood, is among the victims. wreckage and personal effects were destroyed. United States Consul William C. Burchard offers official aid.
In Stratford near New Haven, Rev. Dexter L. Lounsbury, pastor of Christ Episcopal Church, was shot dead by his wife as they slept. The weapon a six barrel Peerless revolver, found on a bureau. the couple reportedly lived happily, with the wife alleged to have acted during temporary derangement or disease. The inquest and grand jury actions follow, with Mrs. Lounsbury under guard and plans for a Saturday funeral at Christ Church Stratford.
Ex United States Treasurer Jona C New assaulted Colonel G P Bissell a Hartford banker at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The clash ended after bystanders intervened and both men sustained facial injuries. The dispute arose from business matters tied to the Dennison House sale in India five years prior. Bissell defended his courage citing his wartime service with the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment. In a separate note a man named John Haggard from Painswick choked to death at Wellington House breakfast in BaRriz Ontario, with a piece of food alleged to have caused the incident.
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