11 Feb 1880
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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1880
Page
1
Anxious harbor scene as storms lash the coast. Fishermen on deck pray for safety while sails tear and cables strand. Mothers and families endure tearful waiting for tidings of missing such as a father or son lost at sea.
In a Berne canton town, Samuel Stauffer is found dead by hanging in his shop, the cuckoo clock above him marking three o'clock. Jean Muller, his mute servant, is accused as the prime suspect, with a sensational courtroom moment when a tests clock motion triggers the accused to vow his innocence and claim his master killed himself.
A trial recounts how a cuckoo clock in Samuel Stauffer’s house allegedly drove events leading to a death. The accused testifies of midnight music, a murder attempt, and a final suicide scene as the jury acquits him. The judge orders the clock burned and the Jew Wolfmann barred from the city. The house is abandoned and later rebuilt as the tale lingers in town memory.
The Washington Post notes Ute chief Ouray aged about fifty and his wife Chipepa as they appear with the group in distinctive dress. The couple walk at the head of ten Utes, many wrapped in blankets, others in calico shirts with beads and quills, some wearing army brogans and slouch hats.
The street railways of Rio de Janeiro founded by an American firm during a war era, known as bonds, expanded to 53 round trips daily by 1872 with five to six mile radii. Cars operated from Rio to Bahia and Pernambuco with tickets used as money in shops and offices and drawn by mules. most conductors were men of color.
An old advertisement touts Dr Buils Cough Syrup as the superior remedy for colds and related ailments. It claims a guaranteed cure and lists a price of 26 cents for the bottle.
A San Francisco Chronicle piece reports on a quirky trade where local artists paint black eyes for a fee. Painters describe cheap pricing, secret techniques, and the claim that many “accidents” lead to work, with anecdotes of bruised eyes from skylarking and door mishaps.
A youthful Irish baron Jameson engages a grizzly near Cas cade creek east of the Muscleshell. He wounds the bear with two shots, retreats to the creek, then returns to finish the hunt with two more shots, killing the animal which weighs about 1000 pounds. The carcass and pelt are displayed at camp. The Helena Herald notes on earth axis shift theories follow.
A review shows a dramatic boost in the St Louis horse and mule trade with last month receipts by river and rail totaling 12 000 head, up from 4 000 a year earlier. Estimates suggest arrivals could reach 15 000, with buyers from across the United States, the West Indies, and England. Rail shipments alone were 800 head at the period.
The report notes a week in New York with about $100 spent on balls parties and receptions for charitable aims. It mentions fashionable figures and a tableau de portrait of Benjamin Franklin at the Louis XIV court using costly antique costumes and diamonds, surpassing those in the original scene.
A Naples writer, living there 1870 to 1873, claimed lava in Vesuvius crater rose and fell with the moon. New moon saw lava fade and few flashes, while full moon increased height and brightness before fading again, supporting a theory that sea inflow powers eruptions.
The article lists major railroad projects toward the Pacific: Union and Central Pacific from Omaha to San Francisco, Texas and Southern Pacific from Texarkana to Los Angeles and San Francisco, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe from Kansas City to Guaymas, Northern Pacific from Duluth to Puget Sound and Portland, Canada Pacific from Fort William to the Gulf of Georgia, plus two routes via Jay Gould's Northwestern line to the Columbia River and a Santa Fe branch from the Rio Grande toward the Pacific near the thirty fifth parallel.
A Leadville Herald report describes a growing glacier in the Modan range about fifteen miles north of the pass. The mass began nearly a mile long with a 150 foot ice face and, despite seasonal melts, has regained bulk showing motion and a large summer runoff. The observer predicts it will melt away in years and notes the difficulty of reaching the site.
The great French author M. Taine answered a request for biographical reminiscences with a concise life summary. He said he has worked, married, and had children, calling that the history of everyone.
A reflective poem describing a quiet night scene as stars rise and dawn approaches. The speaker bids good night to the world and its creatures, noting lilies, hares, partridges, and roses asleep while the moon and stars illuminate the hush before daybreak.
A collection of brief curiosities and quotes from various publications. Notable lines reference bells, clocks, Indians, early American mining, animal vision, life-saving stations, legal wisdom, weathered wit, and historical observations, including Jefferson on farming and English land data.
Patrick Dunne a twenty year old Chicago blacksmith who loved dogs contracted hydrophobia after a neighbor’s dog bite six months earlier. He woke with burning, chest pressure and refused water then suffered violent convulsions until he died within eighteen hours of first symptoms, a case noted for its extraordinary speed.
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