15 Jul 1875
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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1875
Page
1
Gov Allen speaks at Findley Ohio unveiling, praising union, civic virtue, and lasting government. He notes monuments reflect public gratitude and urges reasoned, peaceful governance while praising General Hayes and the wartime generation. He compares Anglo Saxon resolve to Spanish volatility and highlights national unity after civil strife.
The king dined alone in a grand hall on a high table with fine ware and gold goblets. Delicacies from across the empire filled hundreds to thousands of dishes, served by twenty women and five aged lords. After the meal the monarch watched jugglers, then offered audience to nobles. crowds then shared leftovers. An Illinois grocer prefers power over all else to presidency.
An elderly veteran recalls the Battle of New Orleans with comic misstatements and drunken bravado while another veteran, General Washington, is praised for strength and feats such as the Rapidan throw and lifting a heavy stone. A Cincinnati bar meeting features Bellamy Storer’s death and a blunt meditation on aging and usefulness.
In Nottingham Manitoba a Sunday service split into rival factions as two ministers vied for dominance. One preached from the pulpit while the other read scripture at the railing, with hymns and organ noise drowning the sermon until a deacon explained the scene had occurred under legal advice.
Report notes that during a visit to Washington some Sioux chiefs displayed strings of white men scalps at their belts. In New York the trophies provoked public outrage as the scalps marked murder and alleged crimes. Critics questioned why those bearing them were not imprisoned rather than celebrated.
A prose piece exalts labor as the ruling element of life and the noblest human achievement. It argues that luxury and conquest arise from honest toil, condemns scorn for labor, and asserts labor endures beyond mortals, shaping character and society.
The piece recalls Josiea George of Warner and his famed long talk with Ellery Brown a rival talker and newspaper devotee. Neighbors watched as they argued through the night until sunrise in a street seator, both refusing to yield the last word.
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