Fragmented Epitaphs Amid Moss and Vine on Tablets
The verse paints an aged landscape where familiar names fade under moss and lichen. Briars and creeping vines pierce crumbling tablets, suggesting a graveyard scene where memory wears away.
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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1886
Page
4
The verse paints an aged landscape where familiar names fade under moss and lichen. Briars and creeping vines pierce crumbling tablets, suggesting a graveyard scene where memory wears away.
Hugh Beverley, a wanderer with means, finds a frightened young American girl, Lucile Ventnor, orphaned after her mother dies in a Tyrolean inn. He pays her debts, arranges a burial, and, moved by her plight, plans to take her to Paris to live with his sister Clara Valentine, ensuring a safe home and guardianship.
Beverley surprises Mrs. Valentine by proposing to Lucille Ventnor after learning she is the penniless ward. Lucille confronts the scene, but Beverley comforts and reveals a past wound with a lost love. He asks Lucille to marry him, promising care while noting his sister’s potential disapproval and Clara’s clever resilience.
Sailors recount a haunted ship out of Liverpool whose violinist supercargo went mad and leapt overboard after which a ghostly violin plays in storms. A Cape Cod captain, taunted by a sinking bark crew’s ghosts, dies with a vow to rescue them as a phantom ship appears at his window and vanishes.
A broker recalls a clerk on La Salle Street who turned $100 into over $20,000 in stock trades from June to November by buying St Paul stock with a bucket shop margin and steadily selling as prices rose. He then pulled out and invested in real estate, which proved wise.
Captain J H Smith of the Nineteenth Infantry was found guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman after a court martial at Fort Clark. He is to serve twelve months as a prisoner at the post with duty and will forfeit half his pay. The offense arose from a draw game with citizen gamblers in a saloon, losing 135 dollars and refusing to pay, claiming cards were fixed and that M S Moore and C H Halsey alias Jiggerty played him for a low stake. Gamblers complained prompting investigation and payment of the money.
Senator Tom Bowen faced claims of vast wealth in Washington, but Stapleton of the Rocky Mountain News says Bowen never exceeded fifty thousand dollars. He merely owned interests in unprofitable mines, a pattern said to inflate fortunes of several Colorado magnates.
In Ohio the census counts 761223 horses 24302 mules 536439 milch cows and other horned cattle 1251691 sheep 5421162 hogs and 1923903 additional livestock, reflecting a broad animal population across the state.
An1890sHealth and Home essay argues tobacco should be pure not adulterated with syrups, acids, and dispiriting additives. It warns bleaching, sulfuric acid, and mold risks, then details syrups, licorice, rum, and other flavorings used to enhance chewing and smoking tobacco. It condemns adulteration and notes deadly poisons linked to some additives.
The piece recalls a western driver famed for a lisp and sharp style who fled a sheriff’s threat amid a trotters’ stable scheme. Associates planned to seize movable property for quick cash, but the culprit fled to a loft as Sandbag led the plot. The miscreants vanished with a stove and other items, leaving the owner furious at the attempted theft and claiming a lack of funds.
In the New Haven Journal an account describes freight brakemen enduring extreme cold and sleet, then detailing a hazardous winter skill: jumping from speeding trains. It cites Davis of Porchester injured by car steps, praises Charles Phillips of Court Street as the best jumper, and notes John C. Gallagher of Putnam Street as a skilled conductor on the New York day freight.
The piece notes that children should breathe through the nose and keep mouths closed while sleeping to prevent facial distortion and diseases like spinal trouble and rickets. It cites George Catlin claiming inhaling through the nose prevents respiratory ailments and links nose breathing to lower rates of deafness, dumbness, and teething deaths among 2,000,000 people observed in his works.
In Boston Traveller a Washington letter notes poker’s decline since Congress opened. Hearts replaces it as the popular social card game. Players follow suit with all cards, and those holding hearts in hand pay per card to the winner who gets rid of them. The game is fast, costly, and seen as a refined evening diversion.
Market brief lists wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, flax seed and dairy prices at Cmiaco Minneaports and Milwaukee. Includes futures-like cash values for pork, lard, butter, eggs, and staples such as flour shipments. Also shows price ranges for No 1 hard wheat, flax seed, clover, and mixed feeds.
Prof C A Donaldson of Louisville Kentucky, a pioneer in rheumatism research, spent eighteen years and ten thousand dollars seeking relief. He finally used St Jacobs Oil, was cured, and sold his crutches.
Joseph Bork, Buffalo city treasurer, recently pardoned by Governor Hill, returned from Auburn state prison to a warm, embracing crowd at the depot, signaling public forgiveness after the embezzlement scandal.
The late Delaware State Chemist Prof. Chas. P. Williams says the Red Star Cough Cure is safe and valuable and contains neither norphin nor opium or any narcotic poison. The price is 25 cents.
Gen. Hancock’s pall bearers included Thomas F. Bayard, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan, Scho field, Don Carlos Buell, Wilcox, William B. Franklin, Alfred H. Terry, N. A. Miles, Newton, James B. Frye, Francis A. Walker, William F. Smith, B. M. Harthorne, W. P. Wilson, W. D. W. Miller.
Notre Dame university and its associated buildings were fully lit by electricity, with a notable feature around the Virgin Mary statue atop the dome. The president hosted a state dinner for the U S Supreme Court, escorting Mrs. Chief Justice Waite while the chief justice escorted Miss Cleveland. United States consul Griffin reports strong demand for American beer in Sidney, N S W, Australia. A hair growth product called Hall's Hair Renewer is promoted, as is Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for cards and coughs.
Senator Spooner is among the few in Congress who free themselves from a manuscript when speaking, delivering remarks in a natural, unrestrained manner.
An advertisement urges readers to promote Warner's White Wine of Tar Syrup as a cure for coughs colds throat and lung diseases. It offers a map of the Holy Land free with medicine and requests the name of the druggist who will order a dozen bottles from wholesale druggists. Includes price and a secondary claim for Dr Bigelow's Positive Cure as a child friendly remedy.
Wm Raymond of Peach Grove Kansas reports severe rheumatism and neuralgia, leaving him weak. Athlophores acted like a charm, described as providential medicine that brought relief.
Saskatchewan Fife Wheat Incarlots Genuine Send for sample and pres s J. Abernethy sole originator Minneapolis Saeeiege ae al nce ee
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