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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1875
Page
3
Local items cover Rand olph Grange meeting and fashion jests of the fall. Reports include West Arkansas improvements, baseball trip to Georgetown, a fatal lightning strike near Clinton, a Fort Gaines concert, and a Midway church gathering with speeches by Crittenden.
Mrs Jnc F Kiddoo announces a spelling bee by Fort Gaines ladies to raise funds for a church bell. Prizes will reward top spellers with open entry for all. Organizers invite Cuthbert to visit and compete. The notice promises time and prizes to be announced, and urges contenders to prepare. Also mention T J Glenn installing Bean's Double Acting Stone Pump in town well and a planned large trough to catch waste water for stock.
The notice invites names from the Senatorial District for a beneficiary scholarship at Lou isville Medical College. Applicants must provide references to Fort Gaines GA promptly. Also reported are farming losses from Barnum's circus in LaFayette, New York builders' stagnation, Alabama convention agenda, Missouri and Georgia notes, and local court and festival notices from Fort Gaines.
A reflective piece praises Floraline as a poet and urges continued output while contrasting poetic influence with prose fame. It extols poets who move hearts and imagines fireworks and varied languages during a public speech as a vivid backdrop.
The article details Georgia penitentiary figures: about 800 convicts with one tenth white, 30 women including one white woman from the city, deaths totaling 40 for last year from 700. seven months this year show 30 deaths from 800, plus escapes at 25. It lists farm sites, mines, brickyards, and rails with counts, totaling 802 after discharges. It also notes a foreign embassy seeking a heiress and a comic detective story, and reports widespread rainfall affecting crops across Missouri to Ohio with projected losses around 25 to 67 percent in the rain belt.
Dr. Thomas P. Jones releases his final monthly report with figures on wages and labor willingness. Data show male labor at $10 monthly with board, female labor $5.50 with board, and various shares of crop labor costs and profits. Also notes a giant redwood discovery in California and a humorous piano composition.
An advertisement from Prof Wiggin of Charlestown Massachusetts promotes a speedy cure for nervous debility weakness opium eating drunkenness catarrh asthma and consumption claiming a druggist can supply it. The notice urges readers to seek treatment locally.
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