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Newspaper
Central Catholic Advocate
Location
Nelson, New Hampshire, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1881
Page
6
Obscure ad for a printing business offers printing of every description in the best manner and styles at the lowest prices. The job department is well supplied with new material and the establishment aims to handle fine or common printing as any in the city. Patronage requested with prompt handling of orders by mail express or otherwise.
Immense meetings were held Sunday in Woodford Eyre Square Pullow Kildare Windmills Hill Ennis Killen Westport Inagh County Clare and more. Thomas Brennan warned of social emancipation or poverty while urging tenants to strike on rents and support Irish democracy against landlords. Four men drowned returning from the meeting in Galway Bay as arrests and coercion acts loom.
Archbishop Croke would not publish a letter to the Tablet protesting an article titled Ireland and France. He condemns alleged misrepresentations and warns Irish Catholics against joining irresponsible leaders and revolutionary conspiracies.
The report by Dr Hancock on Ireland notes a £120,000 rise in Postoffice savings banks driven mainly by servants on fixed incomes, not farmers. It cites a £795,000 fall in joint stock banks this year and £1,424,000 decline since 1876, challenging claims that harvests strengthened tenants' rent payments.
The speech denounces a proposed Coercion Bill as an attack on English liberties including press freedom and trial by jury. OConnell warns it creates a revolutionary tribunal and undermines the throne, urging vigorous protest to defend rights.
A speaker declares the measure harsh and unjust warning that opposing voices will echo across the plains and green valleys. He says he has done his duty and stands acquitted in conscience and society, denouncing the action as oppressive and retaliatory crime.
A Dublin correspondent praises Lord Monteagle for land reform advocacy and reports a 20 percent rent abatement across his Longhill area estates in Hovynes Shanagolden Longhill and Ballyha bill. The act reduces rents to Griffith valuation levels in many cases and shows the nobleman bearing a share of burdens from recent bad seasons.
At Kilkenny Assizes a Catholic priest, Vice Father Michael Coady of Ossory, faced charges with locals for boycotting Darby Walsh. The crown showed a family quarrel motive, but the jury acquitted the traversers. The defense would likely have shown Coady merely warned villagers against troubling Walsh. The episode is linked to the coercive legislation era.
An advertisement claims Parker's Ginger Tonic offers a smooth complexion for every woman by regulating the liver and kidneys and purifying the blood, arguing it quickly clears pimples and brings a rosy bloom to the cheek. See notice.
Farm guidance notes indicate well grown parsnips require good seed and land, with soil rich beyond scarcity to avoid scraggy, pithy roots. In rich garden soil, sow in rows fifteen inches apart and keep bed clean with the hoe, planting three seeds per inch of row.
The article discusses planting timing for corn and parsnips, noting earlier sowing may yield more with two to three weeks head start. It emphasizes slow germination, the need for early hoeing to prevent weeds, and rapid growth once established. Parsnips can stay in ground in winter, with fall digging for winter supply.
The Australian brumbie, a wild horse similar to the American mustang, roams vast inland Queensland and New South Wales. Narratives describe their numbers, use of tallow and hides, and the risk they pose to settlers pastures. Brumby stalking is a pastime, while capture and taming attract adventurers. Training enhances value, and crosses with European horses yield strong progeny. One station records 7000 wild horses shot in a single year.
Puget Sound forests showcase giant firs averaging 200 feet with some 320 foot specimens. Cedars rival in value for wooden wares and ships. San Francisco gains fourth the wealth from Puget Sound fires as mills export up to 200,000 feet daily. Forests show no exhaustion. a century may pass before depletion.
Professor Fontaine outlines methods to curb mosquito breeding as warm weather returns. Close cisterns with brass wire netting, drain stagnant water within a mile of homes, and pour lime into cesspools and springs. Use one pound of lime per 100 gallons of stagnant water, or even per 1000 gallons of drinking water with taste and hardness considerations.
Wheat in East Tennessee is expected to be excellent, while the Irish potato crop in Middle Florida looks to yield well. Jute culture gains interest in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Decayed grain harms stock, carrots aid horses. Brady land in Rockbridge VA sold for 23000 to a PA firm. Every orange tree in seven years in bloom in Starke County PA, suggesting freeze benefits. Drainage requires outlets. dry wells help, but stone-filled ditches without outlets fail.
A Courant excerpt notes that grateful women praise Hop Bitters as a remedy for many female ailments. It claims the tonic helps with chills and fever, indigestion, back and kidney pain, headaches, fatigue, and despondency, presenting it as uniquely suitable for women.
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