03 Mar 1880
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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1880
Page
1
Poem extols the dignity of toil across trades from anvils to looms. It contrasts working life with ease, praising labor as noble, virtuous, and essential to personal and national good. It frames work as a divine calling with rewards in earth and heaven.
Joe Berthfield fails to land a New York dock job and parts from Hattie Hadwin, who sacrifices love to care for her aging father. Ten years later Hattie has built wealth as a teacher and performer, while Joe rises as a stoker and later reunites with her after a stormy path.
Publishers face higher costs as wages prices and especially white paper rise while readers see price gains. Newspapers respond by trimming supplements raising subscription and delivery charges and shrinking paper size to curb losses amid the business boom. The Times raises retail to six cents and delivery to thirty cents weekly.
Dr Hitchcock notes an old Indian mask from the Yaquis of Sonora, eight miles south of town, presented by A C Benedict. The worm-eaten wood carving features vines and armor engravings, crosses on chin and forehead, white hair bangs, hair tufts on cheeks and chin, a carved open mouth with broken teeth, painted black with white engravings.
The president of the French republic earns 120000 dollars a year plus 120000 for household and travel. The governor general of Algeria gets 20000 salary and 5000 travel. Ten ministers of state receive 12000 each and under secretaries 4000 to 6000. Senate salaries total 860000 and deputies’ pay is implied. Ambassadors top earn 50000 to St Petersburg and 40000 to London with 17000 to Washington. Key consulates in New York and Shanghai are 12000.
In England there are now 577 peers or peeresses and 865 baronets, making a little over 1 400 persons with hereditary dignities out of a population of about thirty million.
Report notes the Hudson river tunnel has been excavated more than 11 feet with a small frame shed at Fifteenth street Jersey City covering the shaft. Workers below sixty feet depth operate in three shifts of ten men each, using air locks to enter.
The council of administration at Fort Dodge Kansas imposed a five cent tax on every soldier at the post for traders. The attorney general rules the levy legal under the 1876 act. Post traders operating only within army limits are exempt from state territorial or county taxes.
New York plans a Ladies Co operative Dress Association to run a store with ladies and children dress goods and millinery. Capital stock is 250000 dollars, 100000 subscribed. A similar English institute founded in 1877 has flourished so well that stock is now unavailable.
The article notes Chinese men in New York number about three hundred with white wives mainly Spanish and Irish. It says intermarriage began six years ago and a China-Celtic generation is forming, the oldest child about five.
Mrs. Gov. Lew Wallace describes New Mexico life in the independent noting poetic names and Indian blood mixes. She portrays a Santa Fe woman Blandina as statuesque yet worn by sun and wind, with skin described as parchment aged by exposure.
A Liverpool Engineering meeting discusses tides replacing coal as a power source. A Builder correspondent approves, noting a Brighton compressed air chamber could drive an atmospheric railway to London. Proponents claim tides would end steam, smoke, and noise while removing coal cost concerns.
A document in the possession of John W. Greaton of Brooklyn shows a claim for one cent against the treasury for bullion balance payable only in silver. He refused a silver dollar and kept the warrant, which details the demand for one cent in silver rather than coin.
A local mayor hosted a banquet for the sub prefect amid pomp. A foreign secretary, mistaken for the butler, was forced to proceed in, while a maid Victoire revealed the mix up. The mistress fled in embarrassment as the secretary announced the meal.
In Plymouth Church Beecher condemns sensational Christian and secular press for damaging reports and personal vices coverage. He laments editors who fail to correct errors and warns the press wields power to lift or ruin lives, urging a Christlike restraint and broader view of mercy.
Reports of wildcats killed by a Winters Cal. lad and a red and white deer shot by George Winthrop in Pine Nut valley. A finger cut from a bottle caused J W Stanton's death in Stonington Conn. Mud hinders Ellwood Ill business. Joliet hosts a tramp sociable for Universalist church. Gallatin river freezes near Missouri confluence, rare in eighteen years. Lunbeck Malta Bend Mo invites marriage proposals for forty days. A Vermont man in St Johnsbury publicizes delinquents by painted wagon names. A Missouri Iowa Nebraska train at Promise City loses rear trucks. car suspended by couplings jumps track.
Over the last year about 16,000 people met British India for colonial engagement or official events, reflecting ongoing interest in imperial links and administration between the metropolis and its colonies.
A reflective poem by Arthur O Shaughnessy contemplates workers, a fallen hero, a healing singer, and a loving woman, all fading with time. The author likens them to human flowers that bloom and fall, noting only a few sigh and the world moves on.
A miscellany notes a Mormon colony on Big Sandy river Kentucky with about fifty members, English shoddy trade revenue, Madrid sentry changes, Oregon sugar beet trials with prizes, long paper wheel lifespans under engines, quinine via cinchona cultivation in warmer regions, a 105 year old Oswego woman with 15 children, and parliamentary and postal history details. A lively roundup ends with a funny wood-cut wager tale from Janesville.
Paris papers retell a story from Henry de la Touche of Casimir Perier visiting the king at the Tuileries. Louis Philippe reportedly searched cinders for a dropped ten-sous piece, then joined the cabinet council with the coin in hand, humorously captured as royal thrift.
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