14 Sep 1877
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Newspaper
Columbus Democrat
Location
Columbus, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1877
Page
1
Fragmented items discuss civic reunions and local events. The piece notes a planned Ohio exiles reunion in Freemont in spring 1881, wagers on political activity in Madison, entertainment plans at White's theater, and a variety of odd local curiosities including a monkey- odd items like a newly added alligator to a fishpond and a mule grooming mishap.
A chaotic mix of telegrams and mistaken addresses leads to a comic scene with Mr Prindle, a jittery operator, and a pressured clerk. The story threads through local rumors about an oratorio chorus, a Chicago excursion, a prison sentence, and a spiky strand of small town misadventures, finishing with a humorous Darwin joke.
The President will depart for Ohio tomorrow and travel to Marietta with no speeches en route. He plans a Kentucky stop before returning to Washington. It remains uncertain how long the Capitol train will stay in motion.
A correspondent reports on preparations near Rustchuk and Banjasr, with heavy artillery stocks and a planned siege. He details Russian advances under Gourko, Turkish defeats near Rustchuk, and brutal reprisals including mutilations. The dispatch notes mud, weather, and cavalry actions, ending with a grim account of Turkish cruelty and a sign-off from Moreanon.
Ex-State Treasurer Niles G Parker confesses guilt and accuses ex Governors Moses Chamberlain and Scott, Senator Patterson, and others of a Palmetto state bond fraud. He seeks trial in South Carolina, implicating Chamberlain and others with documented figures and dates. A Wilkes-Barre dispatch notes miners strike, rising Communism fears, and Governor Hartranft orders a three month regiment to quell disturbances.
The Indianapolis Journal notes Professor John M Langston newly appointed minister to Haiti will skip the Ohio canvass. A New York family admired their servant girl Bridget McFinnigan listed as Mademoiselle Bridget McFinnigan on the Paris passenger list reported by the Commercial Advertiser.
Irene A W House who murdered her husband has been released from the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum fully restored. The note calls murderers a class quickly cured of insanity and predicts General Ben Butler will enter the next Congress with an eclectic burden including the Dollar of the Daddies labor problem and Pitkin's Kuklux coffin.
Special to Cincinnati Gazette from Washington reports the second year of the money order system with a drop in amounts issued. Last year the decrease was just under 400 thousand dollars, while the fiscal year ending in June saw a decline largely over four million dollars.
The St Paul Pioneer Press proclaims the harvest with grand imagery describing thirty five million bushels of wheat gathered and stacked, followed by the threshers and railroads contributing to a worldwide commerce surge as the crop moves from field to market.
The Jewish New Year ends at sunset followed by Yom Kipur in ten days when observant Jews fast and pray in synagogues. Ten days later Succoth begins a festival lasting eight days with two full holidays and four half holidays.
A famed local resident examined the calf of Mr. Kerns, German, on Hazelwood avenue in the twenty third ward. The arm is described as perfectly human from shoulder to hand, though thin and slowly enlarging. It can be thrown over the shoulder and aids the calf in rising, drawing many visitors who may be charged admission.
At Port Byron in the county he painted boats then worked in a saw mill near Auburn at the edge of Throop where he met his first wife Angeline Works. Her cousins Canfield and Morris Worden live in the Seventh ward. The wedding was at Mr Pine’s tavern in Port Byron. Brigham owed a board bill of 17 dollars to Pine when he went West in 1830, paid thirty five years later with two New York drafts of 50 dollars. A genial yet lazy figure, he was praised by William Hayden of Port Byron for being good only to slip a shelver.
A long circulated claim in France states that Thiers married his own daughter to secure his name and fortune for his illegitimate child. The arrangement allegedly allowed Mme Thiers freedom to live and love as she chose, while fueling hostile gossip about his patriotism and family.
A collage of jokes and observations on manners, marriage, labor, travel, and technology. Quotes touch on strikes, rustic wisdom, education, elocution, timber markets, Hungarian dress, drowning at a well, a long California saw, electricity in silk worms, and a witty dig at a Vassar girl recalling a sailor as an old salt.
A Confederate soldier from the Virginia valley was struck by a minute ball in a Civil War battle. The skull wound baffled surgeons who let him die, later he recovered but lost his reason. Eleven years later Dr Fauntleroy of Staunton surgically removed the embedded ball, restoring his mind.
The excerpt quotes Senator Bayard praising President Hayes for removing the final obstacle to Southern constitutional liberties and notes wide Republican support. It also offers aphorisms on work, learning, and self-improvement, plus a grim vent about a Clinton County landowner planning a scaffold burial for his cattle and a marginal historical anecdote about the 1815 Paris occupation and museum serpent jars.
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