24 Dec 1879
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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1879
Page
1
Poem by William Winter read at a banquet in Boston honoring Oliver Wendell Holmes on his seventieth birthday. The verses celebrate Holmes as a life blessing, praising his voice, patriotism, and work for truth, liberty, and poetry. It contemplates his legacy, paying tribute with imagery of flowers, rivers, and timeless song.
Ralph Grantley, broke and disinherited, meets Miss Evelyn Donington who offers half his grandfather’s estate. He refuses the deed of gift but falls in love as she invites him to stay at The Hall. He pledges to wait six months to marry if she confirms the arrangement and gives him the future.
A New York paper notes John B. Gough remains a powerful temperance lecturer in his 60s after 39 years in the field. Born in Sandgate England, he migrated to the United States as a child, fell into dissipation, then rebuilt his life after signing the pledge. He has lectured nearly 9,500 times, earning fame and money, and is praised as a natural orator with a dramatic tale of downfall and reform.
The writer describes the Ford's Theatre scene after John Wilkes Booth killed President Lincoln. He recalls William Withers, Barb, and others reacting, the mistaken pistol flame, Booth's leap to the stage, and the immediate chaos as Lincoln was carried away. The account asserts these facts as known to the deponent.
An Omaha letter to the New York Herald recounts Brigadier General Crook and two Omaha friends hunting near Schuyler when a blizzard hit. Crook fell through an ice hole, was nearly frozen, and, aided by his companions, barely reached the house after a perilous return journey. He is noted for enduring severe cold in past campaigns.
The Paterson accident case shows the brain surviving a severe wound from a circular saw with the MacElvoy boy living for almost a week after the injury. Reports suggest brain regions react differently to trauma with gray matter more sensitive than white matter, and long term outcomes vary widely.
A Parliament member cites tenant farmers insisting on better representation security for capital freedom to cultivate liberty to dispose of produce at best advantage abolition of distraint reform of game laws legitimate share in county government and fair apportionment of local burdens in England.
In Nemehah county Missouri David Meisenthaler was killed by a meteor while driving safilé from a field. The meteor descended obliquely through a tall maple, severing limbs and striking him near the shoulder then burying two feet into the ground. The iron pyrites meteor is described as round rough and about bucket size.
The Free Press notes a Elmira meeting to honor Sterling Adam with a monument. A three member committee will seek designs from sculptors and estimates on costs while several favorable sites are discussed. The project aims to proceed earnestly until a final design is realized.
The Sandusky Register reports that in Northern Ohio this season less than a million gallons of grape juice were used from about 1.5 million gallons of wine. Dealers admit using spirits sugar and water to adulterate wine, claiming it s to please patrons rather than to profit.
A German method for preventing horses from slipping on public roads uses shoes drilled with a hole then fitted with a inch long pointed screw stud. When on the horse, the stud is in place for traction and removed at the stable to avoid injury, with a button filling the screw hole.
Professor Willard urged moderation at the New York dairy fair while The New York Graphic criticized extreme thrift among farmers. The commentary argued refinement is not extravagance, and that farmers deserve modern comforts including pianos and tasteful furnishings to combat isolation and boost life in rural homes.
William Thompson, a homeless man in a San Francisco almshouse, possessed a vast estate once valued at 400 000 to 500 000 dollars. For thirteen years he defended against Mexican grant claims, fought lengthy lawsuits, and died before final vindication. His life was a slow grinding legal ordeal, leaving observers to call him a doomed figure of the courts.
A Boston society named Worstenbrod ante declares the term means Sausage Bread-makers Society and contains no seditious implication according to the Detrow Free Press.
A Milford to New York Truth letter profiles Austin Sheldon the Lehman Hermit living in Lehman township Pike county Pa. Born 1806 in Sunny Creek Connecticut he left his trade as a blacksmith for love and later lost his money to swindlers. He built a cave home where he studies the Bible and recalls close calls with death. He has no companions, is nearly deaf, and plans to return to Connecticut after selling his land and possibly remarry.
Jakutsk, the coldest town on earth, lies in Eastern Siberia on the Lina river. Summer highs reach 85 degrees, but November to February bring 42 to 68 degrees below zero. the river is frozen most of the year. A 5,000 population center, it hosts a June fair trading butter with Okhotsk and furs with Buriats, culminating in a 400,000 rouble fair value.
Florida plants fig trees and General Grant’s world tour totals 943 days. A 12 year old in Lawrence Kans arrested six times. $26 million aids mining in Leadville since Feb 1879. Paris has 10 000 educated copyists at twenty cents a day. Various notes on Society and politics. Obstructing the mails becomes a growing issue with a case in Ohio and a charco al dealer fined in another.
The poem traces a fickle force that shapes nature and life. It flaunts power over wind and weather, stealing colors, bending trees, and draining streams, only to relent with spring and switch to the southward reach toward the Arctic pole. It contrasts playful artistry with harsh effects on the needy.
Charlie Youngworth keeps six large solemn frogs in his restaurant window as he explains frog lore. He claims frog legs are the finest dish when cooked properly, yet admits never tasting them himself. He recounts a two month order for dressed frogs with legs carved and sizzling, noting the creatures jump and flop on the platter.
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