25 Mar 1875
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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1875
Page
1
A dense list of 19th century notices and ads. Includes attorneys firms such as Tarnon I Anobnaus, Taylor & Ackernon. Cambridge Ohio merchants. estate sales listing properties in Liberty and Cambridge. notices of partition, administrator appointments, and public auctions. Also mentions physicians and surgeons, architects, surveyors, and monument makers with addresses in Cambridge, Guernsey County.
A wandering verse depicts a woman on a street, her worn clothes marking her status as a servant. A gentleman, busy and self righteous, brushes past, dropping her basket, while the speaker contemplates judgment by appearances. The poem urges empathy, recalling divine sight beyond outer garb.
This excerpt surveys historical anecdotes on memory loss and erasure. It recounts a French-English language amnesia case, a man forgetting numbers 3 and 7 after brain injury, a groom forgetting after a blow, and a minister who regains identity after illness. It also notes writerly memory lapses, including Sir Walter Scott and Byron, and ends with a tale of Josephus Buffer learning the reach of printer’s ink through a satire on advertisements.
A scribbled letter describes Johnny as a dull boy with a sharp brain and quick wit, prompting caution in others around him. The note recounts his father returning from a distant city after Johnny’s missive changed his plans, family scenes with a preacher, a Jewish paper, and a storytelling night about Decher and Ti sfton and Moulton.
The article cites Prof Leslie on forest loss affecting rainfall and desert expansion. It notes the Kalahari’s growth from timber felling, Hauran’s ruins becoming desert, Mississippi river flow decline from upper watershed settlement, and India’s springs revived by replanting. It references historians and officials on forests and water cycles.
The jury found Lady Mordaunt guilty of adultery in the sensational English divorce suit. The case touched major noble families as the Prince of Wales testified, denying deeper relations with the offended spouse, and cast a pall over Britain’s aristocracy and politics.
Nanby’s stake in the Toledo Blade valued at 135000 dollars. Revival meetings of Moody and Sankey draw strong crowds in London. The Japanese minister in Washington celebrates the birth of a daughter, the first in the U.S. to Japanese parents. Texas Senate repeals hotel licensing requirements. Indiana governor signs new liquor laws effective August 1. Niagara ice bridge hosts a temporary hotel attracting patrons. Modoc leaders visit the White House and meet President Grant. Real estate repeal and license law battles pass in Pennsylvania. Interior Department plans Sioux delegation talks on lands in the Blank Hills country. Brigham Young jailed a day over unpaid fees in a divorce case. John Young Brown returns to Henderson, Kentucky, as locals burn Ben Butler in effigy. St Patrick’s Day celebrations in New York draw about 20,000 attendees with Catholic services statewide.
Judge Green of the School District in Washington Territory presided over a murder trial arising from a husband killing a medicine man whom he believed had bewitched his ill wife. The judge refused to deny the possibility of witchcraft and instructed the jury to render a verdict of not guilty, citing the defendant’s belief as a defense. The decision provoked consternation among medicine men and drew sharp commentary on belief and justice.
Commentary on women’s influence and originality, Johnson’s Anodyne Siniment praise, a Lebanon Ohio auction tally with exotic animal prices, a Tennessee bachelor tax bill, ice formation for Arabs in Jerusalem, Col. J. Wheaton swindle arrest, and a Treasury bond call of 30.2 million under the sinking fund act.
The piece discusses preferring iron bridges to wooden ones, citing old clumsy constructions in Steubenville area and Dixon as costly failures. It mentions Howe truss or railroad patterns with covering or painting as likely cheaper, stronger options. Also included are brief notes on sand under pressure, dice origins, hunger remedies, and Parton Purgative as guidance.
A jumble of anecdotes and brief notes on divorce in Maine, horses in Texas, female fashion and Chinese dining, with remarks on civic life, marriage longevity, and a pirate of statistics. Includes observations on school attendance, wheat crops, ice value, cattle, and a note on the New Encyclopedia Britannica regarding global resources.
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