Birds Begin Their Southern Trip Amid Court House Disputes
A varied column notes migratory birds returning southward and observes local quarrels over hitching posts around the Court-house. It reports S. R. Quick selling a Dur ham hull named Mugging to Thomas Thompson, visits from John R. Griffith, warnings about vandalism, a copperhead bite survived with remedies, and an upcoming Cincinnati excursion. It also recounts accidents, a dramatic piano scene, a newborn with a striking red skin color, and social-behavior sketches from Elizabethtown.
Leek's spring trotting shoe patent granted
Charley Danforth's time in Jeffersonville ended in April and he now wears a citizen's suit. Butler the mill man sent a large invoice of flour and meal to stations south this morning. Elizabethtown sees little train traffic with not over forty at the depot. The blue stocking baseball club began a starring tour at noon toward Elizabethtown to face its crack club.
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Saratoga
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Dakota Territory
London Punch
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Columbia, D. C
Richard Roe
Harvard Boat School
Paris
Boston Corbett
Wilkes Booth
Camden
New Jersey
Neper
Switzerland
Misa Mollie Maguire
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Montclair
Odd Funeral Hat Gift and Other Quick Snippets
An Oshkosh man, a church deacon, passed the hat at his wife’s funeral during the second choir sing, an act misread as meanness but explained as absent mindedness. Other items recount a pugilist blow leading to a growing lump, railroad humor, Irish stereotyping, a kitchen dispute, a Vermont man who speaks to no one but women and minors, and notes on Chinese hair exports, Chief Joseph, and Massachusetts cows.
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la Crosse
East Burke
Vermont
Jaun de Nova
Prince Hassan marches Egyptian troops toward Russian lines
A Balkan dispatch reports Prince Hassan in Dobrudscha moving to cut Russian communications with Bessarabia while Turkish forces disembark north of the Danube. Montenegrin outposts warn of Turkish advancement. Montenegrin forces retreat for inhabitants' protection awaiting reinforcements. Russian depots and Romanian tenders indicate long war prospects amid muddy roads and scarce supplies.
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New York
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Athens
Elna
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Gabrova
Constantinople
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Gorny
Langenneichenbach
Sorgu
Germany
Loxpon
Montenegro
Nicsics
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Grongstondene
Gourkhos
Hatters Humiliation Sparks Quick Quarrel at Block Shop
A young man waiting to have his hat blocked at a Chicago hatter’s is insulted by a high-toned English customer who mistakes him for a clerk. The exchange grows heated as the Englishman orders, and the young man retorts that the other’s coat fits poorly. The clerk intervenes to calm the dispute.
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Perfidious Albion
House of Correction Twist in Sermon Report
A newspaper note accuses a writer of distorting a sermon about Peter at Cornelius turning into a jab about a house of correction. The coroner later rules the death as a result of being thrown from a fourth story window.
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Peter
Cornelius
House of Correction
W. P
Aristocrats and burglars shun the home of the poor
A provocative column contrasts wealthy elites and criminal intruders with the neglected dwelling of impoverished residents. It suggests social neglect and class bias shape who enters and who avoids the poor home. Community voices weigh affordable housing and security concerns.
Auditor Advises Advertising Delinquent Second Installment Lands
The Auditor of State writes that real estate owned by non residents delinquent only on the second tax installment should be advertised promptly, and that if the treasurer enforces collection by personal property levy first, real estate sale remains legal and notice is required. The letter to J H Bogart, Vermillion county treasurer, clarifies timing and procedures for tax delinquency notices.
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Auditor of State
J. H. Bogart
Vermillion County
FE. Henderson
Bonner’s Stable Riches and Auction Threats Mentioned
The Turf Field and Farm editor visits Robert Bonner’s White Plains farm noting a vast stable with horses running 2:16 to 2:25 and a $500,000 investment. He will sell some young stock later as natural increase risks overstocking. Also described is a Tasmanian carnivorous plant that traps flies, a Duke’s rank below a prince, and that prints cost six cents a yard. An angry man tends to grow wicked before becoming furious.
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Turf, Field and Farm
Robert Bonner
White Plains
Gale
Military dispatches from Montana about Nez Perce pursuit
Reports from Helena Deer Lodge and Bannock detail General Howard's troops moving toward Horse Prairie with 50 infantry and artillery. Wounded are improving after aid from St Helena Deer Lodge and Butte. Bannock scouts return with bodies Montagne Smith Flynn Farnsworth amid Indian movements 35 miles south of Bannock.
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St. Paul
St. Helena
Deer Lodge
Butte
Howard
Norwood
Second Cavalry
Big Hole
Cushing
Stage Road
Fort Hall
Grppon
Helena
Vicginia
Gibbon
Lieut
Jacobs
Viratnra
Potts
Bannock
Horse Prairie
Bleaching tips and Keely engine claims discussed
The article mixes household advice on stain removal with a report on Mr Keely's new machine. It describes sulfur fumes to remove berry stains and methods for fixing alkaline residues, then quotes Keely about a 60,000 dollar iron and steel device claiming 11,000 psi and potential 1,000 horsepower from a quart of water, with a near complete condenser.
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Keely
The Deepest Well on the South Downs
The Warren Farm Well near Brighton began in 1858 and after four years of digging reached water at a depth of 1285 feet with a six foot shaft to 400 feet and four feet thereafter. The project cost between £6000 and £7000 and drew keen geologist attention. Also notes a Scottish minister quip about fishing on the Sabbath and a boy’s remark about no rise. A brickmaker joke and a Marseilles to Egypt sugar plums export news conclude.
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Warren Farm
South Downs
Brighton
Long Lost Uncle Turns Out a Cold Dash of Trouble
A tale of a supposed long lost uncle who visited a Dublin named Mrs. McCarthy in Fifth Street. The man kissed and claimed kinship, then borrowed a dollar to wire home. Police lament the ruse as he vanished after the visit. A Pine Street tramp anecdote follows with a jokey misadventure about a dangerous alley and pie.
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Villian
Ireland
Pine Street
Jacob
Henry
Black Country coal fields hectIC of Ohio promise
A district spanning Athens Perry and Hocking counties is forecast as a future coal rich region termed the Black Country akin to Staffordshire in Britain. It reportedly holds twenty two feet of coal in five seams with veins up to twelve feet, plus iron beds and abundant limestone while the coast shows uniform hills.
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Athens
Perry
Hocking
United States
Staffordshire
Great Britain
Nelsonville (O
Fragmented Observations and Oddities from a Past Page
A weathered collage of quips and curiosities covers topics from Thackeray and printers to torpedo balloons and a Paris restaurant with a doctor at the door. Miscellaneous snippets note 150 normal schools, a June bug on a trousers leg, and a Chicago report claiming desperate bloodshed with the murdered man not expected to live.
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