19 Feb 1878
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Newspaper
Connersville Examiner
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1878
Page
1
An elderly speaker recalls finding a model church and listening to a simple gospel sermon. The memory stirs faith, deafness fades in the choir’s music, and the preacher’s plain words bring consolation, hope, and a wish to rest in God.
Irish citizens in St Louis push to abolish German from public schools. The report notes political moves, including Secretary Sherman's stance on the Silver Bill and other national issues affecting education and policy.
Washington notes report Francis Murphy and his son urged moral suasion over prohibition during a visit to the President and Mrs Trayes. Murphy’s influence is blamed for shifting liquor trade, while supportive scenes unfold at the Northern market. Debates on silver and pension bills draw Capitol attention as suffrage petitions influence Judiciary Committee. Felix.
The article argues that Southern blacks die at roughly four to one compared with whites due to uncleanliness, inadequate food and shelter, poor cooking, sensual excesses, drunkenness, neglect of the sick, belief in conjurers over doctors, and lack of precautions against contagious diseases.
The article notes silver remains the monetary standard in densely populated Asia and the Russian Empire, with gold and silver serving as legal standards in France the Netherlands Belgium Italy and Switzerland.
During a New York Assembly discussion last Wednesday Nelson a Democrat forecast Hendricks will be nominated and elected in 1880 and Tilden Democrats will be wiped out.
In this Irish tale, widow Mrs Flanagan seeks a husband among farmer Mat Riley’s daughters. Flanagan chooses Kitty, a thrifty, stylish girl who reshapes his life with wealth and wit. Their playful courtship, a roadside meeting with Tom Duffy, and comic mischief temper desire and fortune.
A long humorous note filled with aphorisms about pickpockets pockets and propriety. Observations span women cooking men and daily life with quips about ink, diaries, codfish, and streetcar etiquette. A stream of satirical vignettes features figures like Bob Ingersoll and Mary Walker with era‑specific humor.
A poor, despondent youth on a bridge longs to eat and earn by selling fish. An elderly fisherman offers to trade fish for a favor, asks the youth to tend his line, returns later with a bountiful haul, and explains that opportunity comes when one acts rather than merely wishes.
In a comic church event Miss Wilson, a 200 pound woman with a cork leg, slips in water during baptism. The leg rises and falls, the minister struggles to steady her, and spectators watch amused. The minister calls for ballast as Miss Wilson exits, and she joins the Presbyterians.
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