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Newspaper
Brainerd Dispatch
Location
Brainerd, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1888
Page
7
Obituaries note Joseph Busch of Grey Cloud dies at 103. Foster of Fair Haven dies after a scalding incident. A Swede painter in Brainerd injured from a fall. Burglary in St. Cloud. poultry growth in Winona. a Rochester fire damages stock. Rail work proceeds toward December 1 near Duluth Red Wing. Various business openings and legal cases announced including two murder cases at Redwood Falls.
The tale recounts Lucy known as Skeery Lucy who shields her four children during a Civil War battle between Sherman and Hardee. She runs from the mill through cannon fire and shelling to reach her house, then guides the frightened children to safety as soldiers from both sides pause to assist. The story ends with Sherman vowing he would have lost the battle rather than lose such a brave mother.
The Springfield representative Col Wade entertains in the national capital with an inflated anecdote of a Missouri river trip and a mock poker claim. He boasts of a 295 pace oak and 3000 fish a day, while his listeners react with amused disbelief at his confident recital.
In a letter to President Ach ton Starke Davis explains the tender ties to Virginia would prevent him from accepting the invitation. He states he cannot reconsider or reverse his answer and fears the journey could bring serious or fatal consequences, though he hopes to see Virginia friends in the future.
In the face of cold northern weather, readers are urged to play indoors to keep fit. Games with balls sharpen sight and body, with battleredore and shuttlecock praised as simple, accessible pastimes. A cock game in a spacious hall showcases how exercise and amusement combat dullness and illness.
A quotation attributed to Dr Arnold reflecting that happiness often arrives in middle age as youthful passions cool and aging shadows loom less as life advances, signaling a calmer period between youth and old age.
A lyrical tribute to lifelong companionship praising enduring devotion. The speaker admires a wife’s faded beauty, noting tears and sorrow yet celebrating faithful love. He recalls her silvery hair and steady hands, promising devotion until death and beyond.
Margaret Hammond helps her frail friend Leila Norton write to John Lessing after a decade but his memory lingers. Leila plans marriage while Margaret quietly awaits news as letters reconnect old passions. The fragment ends with a curious, unresolved twist.
Margaret writes to a man posing as an admirer and later receives a real letter from him. The imagined romance blooms as John Lessing travels East and visits her, but a plain confrontation reveals his ordinary, unsavory appearance and collapses the dream. Margaret laments the ruined courtship and the loss of her idealized lover.
The London Star notes the Tollemache-Tollemache family has a remarkable 100 names across 13 children. The Hon. Ralph William Lyonell Tollemache-Tollemache has two marriages, the first to a cousin and the second to Dora Celo patra Maria Morenza. The eldest son Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxonsa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantagenet is 12, with sisters bearing equally ornate names and the column ponders the burden of such christenings.
A Vaughan estate pine tree in Hallowell Maine again sparks talk as a man recalls seeing smoke rise from the tree on June 9. The vapor streams from the apex, extends several feet, and waves while the column, about the width of a man's arm, sometimes splits into two, making the phenomenon noteworthy.
A former nun from the Third Order of St Dominic married Mary Julia Holly now Mrs Antoine Betz at Saints Peter and Paul in Brooklyn. The ceremony was performed by Rev Dr Smith at the residence of Father Malone. Betz, a German who works at Havemeyer sugar refinery, had left St Catharine's Hospital after serving as an ambulance driver. The couple faced no recorded objections as vows were reportedly for three years.
The abstract estimates India’s population including additions from cashmere upper Burma and the Shan states. It projects March 1887 totals: British territory 207,754,578 native states 60,382,466 for all India 268,137,044. It notes males outnumber females in both regions and overall by 6,013,410.
A Liverpool Post account recalls a dinner with the Duke of Cambridge and mayor at Town Hall where reporter Murphy was placed with fiddlers. He refused to print his notes claiming great insult, leaving England without the speeches and the topic lingering like a thunderstorm from Snowdon.
A Shanghai correspondent reports that average Celestials show indifference to prolonged stillness and monotony. Chinese students endure intense confinement with few breaks, while infants sleep calmly with simple pillows. Sleep position holds little significance for workers and many others.
The Norristown Herald reports a method using a running knot cord around the horse neck and reins over the dashboard. When the horse bolts the slip knot tightens, stopping the animal instantly, with the driver only needing to grab the carriage lines and pull hard after leaping from a saloon.
A white youth in a Waterbury colored church was accused of spitting tobacco juice on the sanctuary floor. A deacon discreetly advised him against it, then the contributor dropped a quarter into the collection box. The deacon whispered a tip to spit in the corners.
The Wells Fargo Express Co issues a liberal reward for the apprehension of Benjamin F. Allen Jr. who absconded September 10 1888 and was last seen at La Junta Colorado. Describes age twenty six, height five nine, weight two hundred pounds, dark brown hair and eyes, scar near ear, slow gait. Father B F Allen Sr formerly led Cook County National Bank and Blennerhasser Co New York advisory interests.
In Washington criminal court James H. Graham faced trial on a daybreak housebreaking charge linked toRepresentative Glover of Missouri. Testimony showed Graham served as Glover’s secretary and attorney of record, with alleged entry into the Glover home on September 10 to seize papers from suits involving Mrs Patten. The jury hung and was discharged.
Charles Johnson was hanged at Waterloo New York for the murder of John Walters last January. Two men, Johnson and Caldwell, were jailed on horse stealing charges when Johnson struck guard John Walters with a stove shaker, fracturing his skull. Walters died after days of illness. Caldwell received a life sentence to Auburn.
Bradstreet Thurber Co Syndicate Block Minneapolis reports new Christmas novelties for house furnishings and decorations. Send for full descriptions and photographs.
A large audience witnessed the unveiling ceremony in Auburn New York with many out of town guests and the W H Seward Republican club of New York in attendance. The bronze statue stands nine feet on a pedestal three feet high totaling eighteen feet, showing Seward in a speaking pose with right foot forward and directing gesture. Sculptor Walter E Robinson of Auburn attended.
The Nineteenth army corps prepared a finely bound album containing resolutions of sorrow and eulogy for Gen. Sheridan. It was presented to Mrs. Sheridan in Washington and she received it with grateful thanks.
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