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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1879
Page
1
A rustic nocturnal scene unfolds with a roosting rooster and husking girls by candlelight. The narrator frames flirtatious merriment through mythic imagery, invoking Ovid and Money Musk while recalling the old-time corn husk festival as fiddles, dances, and cider cups swirl in dusk.
In a small town a strange woman leaves a homeless girl named Quiz with a family. Quiz learns, grows, and saves a train by warning of a broken bridge. Her bond with Fred strengthens, and she is later revealed as Mamie, the lost daughter of Arthur Wilburton, joining the family.
Recount describes a brave girl waking on damp ground with a seat cushion for her head while a kind gentleman assures her no one is killed, crediting her bravery for saving them all.
An 1880s exchange notes a man who chews two inches of solid plug daily for fifty years would consume about 6,366 feet or a mile and a quarter of tobacco, costing $2,373 at current prices. The figure emphasizes the immense long term expense of chewing tobacco.
A vivid recounting of Paul Jones and the Bon Homme Richard facing HMS Serapis near Flamborough Head on the night of the 1779 battle. Jones lashing the bowsprit to the mizzenmast, boarding actions, and the mainmast being severed after steady firing led to Serapis’s surrender. The victory earned Jones honors from Louis XVI and recognition across Europe.
A Louisville Courier Journal account extols Leadville as a booming mining boomtown with rapid growth and wealth. It notes wide civil disorder and crime, bunko steerers, handgun culture, all-night theaters, and a melting pot population excluding Chinese residents, with anecdotes of unexpected social roles among professionals wandering into labor and leisure.
New York misers, often from lower classes, accumulate large estates while avoiding heirs. A Rochester Democrat report details cases including a man worth nearly $1,000,000 and the ragpicker Samuel Leach found dead in a tenement attic with hidden cash and bank books. Relatives rush to claim after coroner and lawyers uncover the hoardings.
The text notes Cabul as the Afghan capital scene of the Cavagnari massacre and a ruined embassy area. It describes neglected streets and shabby public buildings, lacking sanitation, with few shops aside from leather and iron trades. Autumn fruit stalls are packed with diverse ripe and raw fruits.
Observers note Berlin builds an electric railway with a locomotive drawing three carriages, each carrying eighteen to twenty people. The three-car train circulates a 300 meter loop within one to two minutes, originally designed to haul coal, but its strong performance suggests electric locomotives could advantage railway systems.
An ostrich exhibition at Middleburg Cape Land highlights rising values as birds fetch $900 to $1,425. Domestication has spurred farming, with London Zoo lacking live birds and exports from the Cape increasing from 1860 to 1873. Recent Port Elizabeth sales reach $3.60 per feather.
A German study estimates the global Jewish population at six to seven million, with Europe hosting about five million. Russia holds 2,621,000, Austria 1,375,000, Germany 512,000, Romania 274,000, and Turkey 100,000, among others. Berlin counts 45,000 Jews, more than in many other European countries. In Africa Jews are concentrated in Algiers, with communities across Abyssinia and the Sahara. In Asia 20,000 reside in India and 25,000 in Palestine. Jerusalem hosts 13,500 Jews amid 7,000 Muslims and 5,600 Christians.
A Washington Republic note recounts a once grand married pair from politics and law who built a lavish house abroad with costly tapestries curtains rugs and furniture. Now the senator is out of office practicing in San Francisco and the Washington house sits vacant as moths and decay haunt the goblin estate.
In Lyon County Nevada Mr. Lebron reports a Daytona wren’s nest with two eggs so charged by electricity that they attract a knife blade within half an inch and cling until removal. The eggs gained their charge via a telegraph wire through the tree and have remained equally magnetic for about two months. An offer of fifty dollars was refused.
A Lucy Larcom meditation on shared abundance and endurance. The speaker finds joy not in solitary riches but in communal wealth, where air light and life belong to all, and true blessedness arises from what is shared with others.
A medley of quotes and trivia notes cites bakers mottoes the electric light history lifting 2400 pounds and French settlers in America. mentions the Lochaber axe museum relics and a robin’s note. includes social quips about fashion nature and a mind reading verse from a Boston Transcript style item.
Leadville correspondent notes fewer breaches of the peace and highway robberies. Two murder suspects Bush and Ritchie were arrested after grand jury indictments for first degree murder. Bush, previously released on bail after a man slaughter ruling, faces trial. sheriff serves the warrant as he leaves his inn.
The Prince of Wales watched American beehive methods as Mr Hoge explained operation. Bees clustered on his right hand and beardlike swarms formed around his face while he demonstrated hive control and the role of the queen bee in guiding the swarm.
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