08 Jan 1879
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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1879
Page
1
A poetic meditation on drifting along a quiet stream with tender imagery. The speaker describes drifting through evening light and music of nature, longing for eternal embrace, while birds call and the sun sinks west. The tone is dreamy and intimate as lovers drift and dream together.
A first person memoir details a Civil War veteran's severe skull injury and ensuing insanity from trepanning. After years of wandering and crime, a double self hallucination leads to remorse, arrest in California, asylum recovery, and a final reunion with his wife in Stockton.
In Gotha Germany at the cremation chapel the remains of Stier were cremated under a Protestant Episcopal service. The coffin was placed in a chapel area, hymns, a sermon, and choral singing preceded the blast furnace lowering. The vault was heated as mourners spoke, ashes later placed in urns within a columbarium.
Miss Mary Anderson told Louisville Courier Journal that Sarah Bernhardt slept in a coffin for three years to study death. She described Bernhardt’s black velvet boudoir and decor as unsettling and noted the actress grew tired of the habit due to discomfort.
A humorous piece opens with a vagrant and a hungry man trading salted icicles for a meal at a Sibley Street house. A second excerpt recalls a London City Press anecdote where a Sunderland ship owner offers Mr Gladstone a salary, prompting Lindsay to play along. Includes assorted witticisms and quips about society, manners, and curiosities.
A humorous account depicts United States Senator Grover of Oregon visiting the Nez Perces camp with the Indian commission. In a quiet moment he asks a ragged boy for directions to the Nez Perces camp. The boy answers with grave honesty that he does not know the distance.
Fragmentary OCR lists Chinese business houses receded in the area including stores shops millinery undertaker's shop and two newspaper offices detailing a damaged local business district notice.
Farmers in Iowa find muskrat farming viable on ponds or marshes with steady stocking. Profits are expected after two years as trapping occurs in winter, offering leisure and entertainment for children while the work proceeds.
In Richmond Kentucky a deputy sheriff could not collect taxes from a resident. He enlisted a third party to admire the resident’s false teeth and then grabbed them when shown. After a few days of soup the resident paid taxes and redeemed the property.
Induced to lay aside their blankets and don civilized dress, about a dozen Indians agree to labor with shovels on the Utah and Northern railroad. Negotiations via an interpreter convinced them to attack a sand-bank near the stations where they previously loitered.
Martin Zabriskie known as Zborowski in life, a Morrisania real estate investor and descendant of Sobieski, had his will offered for probate in the New York surrogate's office. He built a mansion in 1838 costing 67000 and disputed personal property taxes while insisting his name be kept as Zborowaki.
The New York board of health reports 1878 saw 27 005 burial permits and 25 729 births, with 7 629 marriages. Coron ers certificates reached 2 980, smallpox rare though scarlet fever and diphtheria persisted. Mary Merneane died at 106.
The verses mix a playful morning scene with a troubled scene of injury. A young man sings of love while a wasp, arnica, and bodily pain intrude, ending with a shout of arnica as a doctor is summoned. Burlington Hawkeys is referenced in the closing line.
William Burt was sentenced to twenty lashes and a month in jail. The sheriff counted strokes as Burt endured a brutal cat o nine tails whipping. Burt claimed innocence and demanded witnesses while the judge and jury stood by the verdict.
A collage of quotes and stray lines references New Haven Register and New York, noting phrases on happiness dreams smallpox and a stove pipe misfit. Mentions Egypt onion and Bryant with musings on days growing longer and a maple sugar reference.
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