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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1885
Page
1
The column blends wild anecdotes and jumbled lines about wealth, crime, and society. It mentions Detroit policemen, New York sentences, Boston manners, and absurd puns. A stream of brief items covers pensions, love, and public notices, all framed as light gossip.
The article reports New York experiments with compressed air driven street cars. A car built with air chambers stores air to power a stall motor on the front platform, capable of twenty five miles per hour and instant stopping with a strong brake. The prototype is planned for service on the Siouxineway and Hunter's Point Railroad linking New York and Cincinnati.
In this editorial style passage the author argues that Republican missteps or errors could be the Democrats’ best hope. It warns the Democratic Party to stay united and pursue administrative reform as the county’s urgent need while pondering whether past defeats will curb its excessive triumphalism.
May 22 Secretary Manning notes Treasury records show payrolls at New York Custom House shrinking. October 1884 payroll was 256000 dollars, April 1885 244900, May 1884 227000, a drop of 17000 from April and 2000 from October. A garbled political meeting anecdote follows about editors and papers.
A dramatic rural romance unfolds as a couple exchange hushed vows and confessions while a spring breeze stirs their hair. The male lead reveals a confession that includes a comic twist about eating onions, producing a startling, tender moment between lovers.
The New York Sun quotes a fashionable bathhouse proprietor praising women’s swimming as delightful and fearless. He notes many wear minimal swimwear and that only women supervise ladies hours, with a dozen young women diving from a platform and one man attempting it. He highlights a renowned patron and the era’s elegance and bravado.
A vivid slice of New York life compares a daring water entry to a celebrated swimmer, then segues into a moth-eaten glossary of familiar proverbs with satirical, sometimes harsh commentary. The piece transitions to a guide on newspaper etiquette and ends with notices about periodical content and Navy funding criticisms.
An article describes a journalism college that abandoned its old curriculum and hired a veteran newspaperman to guide students. It recounts mock exercises and classroom banter about defining roles from lawyer to drummer and orator, claiming the school succeeds by clarifying the newspaper’s true function without revolution or error.
A governor ill in old China loses the emperor’s seal from a cabinet. A wary mandarin advises a staged theft, fire and a public recovery to trap the thief. The plan succeeds, the seal returns, and both sides keep the ruse secret for safety.
An awkward village anecdote centers on Judge Robert Grinrod in Little Rovk. A man recounts a drunken mishap with a rooster, a tale told in rough dialect. The narrator laments that a Marsted fowl has exposed his folly before his wife as he hoped to hide the beer problem.
The court heard Calvin Griggs charged with assault with intent to kill. He admits inability to hire counsel and the judge moves to appoint a lawyer from the assembled bar. one attorney refuses, citing conflict, and questions what defense method to adopt while Griggs awaits representation.
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