04 Mar 1887
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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1887
Page
1
A lament verse narrative describing a robin singing over a snowy moor as a lamb strays from the flock. The speaker questions purpose and wisdom, pondering divine will and endurance while referencing winter hardship and a tender mercy from heaven.
In a tense domestic scene Kitty Cline lies to her father about a suitor Roberts Dunn. Mr Cline, angry yet outwardly restrained, forbids the match while Kitty plans to meet Dunn at Cousin Hune's to carry out a staged ruse that will influence her father.
In a strained household conflict, Kitty resists an arranged union chosen by her father, who enforces the match with threats of confinement. She secretly manages companionship and restricted freedoms until the wedding proceeds. Afterward, she adapts to married life with a husband the father insisted upon. Meanwhile a feature recalls smuggling tales of diamonds hidden in grapes, bread, and even bodies, revealing ingenuity and risk in evading duties.
A Pittsburgh Press item recalls a doctor recounting a sermon on economy that inspired an elderly congregant to cut her church contribution from 12 dollars and 50 cents to 10 dollars, believing she acted rightly in duty.
From authentic authorities we learn that 450 years before Christ garments hardly fit the body. The chief wear was the linen bag like chiton open at top and bottom, reaching neck to feet. Rich wore silk chitons and woolen imation. both styles were fashionable.
A humor note from Auston suburb promenade where a wife fears brigands will abduct her and asks her husband what he would say. He coolly answers that it would be easy to claim the brigands are new at the business.
A light exchange between an old beau and a young woman prompts the question of marriage age. The lady answers with a playful line noting she will not marry in her dotage, hinting at time and romance with a gentle wit.
A San Francisco Call account recounts a native guide telling of a coyote outwitting a rattlesnake. The coyote kept its nose in the air then leaped, baiting the snake and finally grabbing the venomous foe by the neck to slacken it.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recalls a Kalama bookshop thief who avoided stealing from rival B- due to higher prices. The anecdote ties a local bookseller’s reputation to the student’s moral lapse, showing how steep costs deterred theft and preserved rival stock.
The article recalls a rare moment of Grant swearing in the army while at Lexington when a contractor sought to parade him through town. Grant, warned by Dr. Kittoo, slipped away by back entrance to the depot, later telling the contractor he would not be paraded like a stallion at a fair.
The steamer TW. H. Gardner, a major Tombigbee River vessel, burned three miles below Gainesville Alabama. The loss included 64 bales of cotton with numerous fatalities among passengers and crew. The boat valued at 25,000 dollars was insured and owned by F S Stone Sid C Coleman and W F Rembert.
Fishermen near Genoa sensed danger as the sea withdrew before the quake. At Diano Marina six hundred lives lost with fifteen identifications. Baardo shelters collapsed in wind and snow, leaving patients exposed. A Gaelic steamer report notes a Chinese junk wreck with six known survivors from six hundred aboard.
Iris praised Bartley Campbell as improving while Mrs. E. L. Davenport joins the Madison Square Theatre Company for next season. Joan Gitsert, aged seventy seven with fifty nine years on stage, is highlighted amid violin and opera news. Rubinstein may lead the St Petersburg Conservatory as Erminie reaches its 290th New York Casino performance.
A Pittsburg preacher uses large oil paintings in sermons while a Elmira couple die in a farmhouse fire. Dutchess County suffers a dipritenya outbreak as children die. Carl Schurz breaks his leg in New York. New York unions condemn judge and Powderly over anarchist tensions. Icebreak on Lake Erie causes multiple fishing losses near Buffalo. Mayflower sails to Britain after yacht win. Tornado near Oroville, Cal. hits western regions. Chicago wheat prices fall. Inter State Agricultural Convention in Lake Charles draws 75 delegates. Louisiana politics see lieutenant governor contest move to Legislature. Senate clashes ensue. Cincinnati hosts a Naviona Labor Conference. James Stevens hanged in Princess Anne Md. Chicago South Park chosen for a monument site. Virginia legislature adjourns without senator. Naval retiree Traxton dies in Norfolk. South Carolina swamp quake. Indianola Texas storms claim lives. Firearms clash near Hamlin W Va injures two. Train crash near Needles Cal burns workers. engineer injured.
Senator Ingalls was chosen Friday to preside over future Senate deliberations after Sherman resigned as presiding officer. President Cleveland said he would not call a special Senate session. Several consuls were confirmed by the Senate with postings in Cuba Chile China Ontario Prague and other locations.
Reports from Europe describe a German majority in the Reichstag and French German agents buying horses for war. Belgian mills exploded killing workers, Lancashire miners strike, Russian officers executed in St Petersburg plot, Papal Secretary of State Carpinani Jaconini dies in Rome. A New Zealand incident damages 750000 dollars, and 50000 unemployed English workers protest near St Pauls without violence.
A Lange ice factory is to be built in Roanoke Virginia. An eagle shot at Fort Pierre Dakota carried a jack rabbit in its talons. Dakota settlers report the severest winter ever. Mrs Lillie Prok of Olalla Oregon has killed seven bears this winter. There are 1071 Young Men's Christian Associations in the United States with about 140000 members. New York capitalists bought 500 square leagues of land in northeastern Mexico. Mrs Cleveland favors violet as a garden favorite. The White House gardener keeps a supply of conservatories plants.
Senate and House sessions record debates on the Department of Agriculture and Labor bill and amendments, pension bills, retaliation and fishery measures, river and harbor funding, postal subsidies, and authorization acts. Key actions include conference requests, passage of Pleuro-Pneumonia and Indian appropriations, trade and textile-related measures, and a New York East River bridge bill.
A gang of bricklayers employed by Wintering & Dixon of Pittsburgh fell sixty five feet while lining stacks at new turfences in Bellafont Pennsylvania. Five men were killed and two others died of injuries. all casualties were single men. The scaffold carried eight thousand brick and collapsed during work Wednesday morning.
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