03 Mar 1869
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Weekly Chronicle
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1869
Page
1
A Cincinnati Chronicle correspondence from New York February 26 recounts a Revolutionary war anecdote about a British officer and a colonial lady. It critiques autocrats Prudently noting the Czar, the Pope, and Brigham Young versus fashion plates and Utah dress laws.
Correspondence notes Boston social snobbery among the Woman's Club and churchgoers, describing elites as exclusive and unfriendly to the poor. The writer argues against a new state prison, urging instead a reformed, self sustaining facility linked to the existing one, with no new taxes.
Ex prisoners Bliss and Masterman, recently freed from Lopez’s regime in Paraguay, arrived on the Mississippi. They recount arrest on a Lopez ally’s charger and torture before a military tribunal, praising Mr. Washburn’s efforts to secure their release and safety.
Paris fashion writers report a pivot from false hair to natural hair and simple wreath styling. A second feature describes a Second Avenue horse fair selling broken vehicles and aged mounts amid a crowded, curious crowd.
A Boston to Melbourne voyage ends in Auckland Islands wreck in 1866 with only 15 survivors. The story, told by a crew member in Harper’s Magazine, recounts the doomed voyage, ship breaking into a cave, heroic efforts to launch boats, lifeboat losses, and eighteen months of famine and scurvy before rescue by the Amherst under Captain Gilroy.
Columbus letter to the Legislature questions a new penitentiary costing a million plus, noting Ohio's current capacity and revenue from the existing facility. It cites Indiana and New York examples, argues two institutions would burden taxpayers, and cites reform and corruption concerns in related systems.
A narrative outlines how a young country boy arrived in New York with three dollars, rented rooms frugally, slept in a store, and rose to head a wholesale business within seven years. It warns that few poor boys succeed in the city, advising instead to seek work at home. The piece ends noting heavy snow in the White and Franconia Mountains and wagon teams deserting swamps.
A young man seeks his mother Catherine Clarke who died in the Pemberton Mill collapse of January 10, 1860, after learning she once lived in Nashua and later Lawrence. He discovers clerical records but both his mother’s former overseer and his brothers are dead, leaving only the tragic roll of the dead.
A prolonged Lafayette County feud flared last Monday in Abbeville as John Clarke and Wimberly clan members drew revolvers and knives. Five men were wounded, including elderly Clarke and his son-in-law Wimberly, while the younger Clarke and Wimberlys escaped serious injury. The quarrel traces back years to a prior murder connected to Thomason relations, with lingering prospects of further violence.
Ex Confederate Lieut John C Brain, jailed in Brooklyn since 1866 on murder charges, details capture of the steamer aempsede and denies harming private life. Frail, aging, and paralyzed by prison cruelties, he seeks pardon from President Johnson while supporting a widowed mother and two daughters. A Cleveland man’s bottle message recovered from Worthing closes the piece.
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