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Newspaper
Cedartown Record
Location
Cedartown, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1876
Page
1
A collage of items on social ills and science from the era. Topics include a poison ivy remedy, the Amazon river’s navigability, Mexican school instruction, violence in China against Catholics, Gen Crook and Terry’s temperaments, Chicker ing Lal’s scientific audience triumph, and Thaddeus Stevens’s courtroom quip about conspiracy trials. The yellow fever rise in the South and maritime anxieties punctuate the page.
News items report Savannah receiving a sum of 46 088 dollars related to some treaty, plus notes on Mississippi penitentiary populations and African inmates. Also mentioned are a Arkansas man jailed for swearing about a woman’s age, a fatal hatchet blow in Powhatan, and various military and political points across the era.
The New York Herald portrays Provison Urxnny as an elderly, medium height man with a lean frame and overtaxed mind. He appears as a well fed evangelical clergyman type rather than a vigorous intellectual athlete, contrasted with Tyndall who speaks with clear force and notes.
ARION notes a seven hundred working men’s club in England with about 120000 members forming a powerful movement in gin and hops trade. The piece mentions clubs operating openly and the licensed traders in their ground, reflecting social unrest and labor influence.
A large cord specimen from Gear win, Thwelgha, weighing twenty four ounces, sparked interest at the centennial. Report notes its deep grain and dented end, compares it to other crops, and urges southern growers to share cultivation techniques to boost Georgia grown timber and fiber production.
An account describes Ten Broeck racing Lexington and Followcraft, producing a time of seven minutes and change with record splits. Ten Broeck, four years old and carrying 104 pounds, beats prior marks, with riders and officials praised for arrangements.
A sensational report describes trap doors and hidden passages in the Quirinal palace leading to a gallery and the roof. The king reportedly bricked up a rotating trap door and a secret wall door after an exploration. Two black dogs at the royal bed reportedly obey only the king and would attack intruders without warning.
A DADMATIAN detective named Druskowitz is described as a master of pursuit among criminals in London. He shadows suspects, uses moral influence, and pursues danger without guns. The article recounts his involvement in a 1866 case of Vital Donat, a wine merchant, whose death claim led to exhumation and discovery of a fraudulent burial, bearing on his wife and an elaborate insurance fraud scheme. Druskowitz aided in exposing Donat, who was tried in France after extradition and sentenced for fraud and bankruptcy.
An English steam yacht observes a mother brown bear with two cubs on a rocky mud flat after pursuing them along a fjord. The bears struggle over tidal channels as the boat nears, the mother defends her young before the hunt ends with the old bear killed and the cubs scattering. The narrative links the cubs to a Parisian fate and hints at cannibalism among humans and bears in a grim historical corner.
In Onin a lazy Hang Chow man Ho boasted he would never work again and seek a rich employer with pretty daughters. An old screw named Tylang overheard the remark and took action by engaging others to test the claim and pursuit in a tale of cunning and trickery.
In Taiang's yard a mournful man named Ho slept when a bundle of clothes was hurled from a window. Ho, thinking thieves, shouldered the load and walked off with it. A girl joined him, and by dawn they reached the village inn. The girl revealed the groom was her cousin, and they decided to marry at once amid a dowry of 800,000 cash.
Fashionable English Danes and dances arriving in England created clashes over which step truly led. Almack's circles favored old country dances while the waltz gained popularity, spreading from Edinburgh orchestras to London social gatherings and private mansions as society debated its place in ballroom life.
The Barlington Hawkeye ponders the Walküre in Wagner's tetralogy noting the key plot turns. The piece asks how the Valkyrie scene ties to Wotan's discovery of Brünnhilde and the broader fate of the doomed Duke within the Ring cycle.
An observer at Dearborn Observatory used strong magnification to glimpse a rare feature on Saturn. On the western limb around latitude 40 10 46% north a large bulge appeared, mirrored by a similar but smaller feature on the northern hemisphere, described in books as the equare-shouldered aspect. The report discusses atmospheric density, planetary structure, and enormous tidal movements causing visible shape changes, noting the phenomenon’s difficulty to fully explain.
An essay argues against the idea that a woman can reform a drunkard through marriage. It cautions that such efforts are often misguided, and that marriage to a drunkard tends to deepen vice rather than restore virtue. The piece urges women to avoid this path. It also references historical wartime remarks by Bishop Whipple and a comparison about costs of Indian war outcomes.
A disrupted rehearsal featured Nuonys in smoke as dense fumes billowed from a fire. The singer protested the smoky conditions and insisted the smoking and singing occur together, while Wagner acknowledged the challenge and admitted he could not extinguish the blaze.
Readable scraps include moral aphorisms on calumny and virtue, snippets about Parliament, memorials to Byron, Vanderbilt and Stowe, a rescuer who saved a train, and various humorous anecdotes about society figures, actors, misers, and travel. The scattered items resemble a column of quotes and short notes.
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