15 May 1874
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1874
Page
1
The Appeal outlines advertising rules with rates for notices, obituaries, and political candidate announcements. It notes payment requirements, renewal terms, discounts for yearly ads, and penalties for late or unpaid insertions. It also mentions responsible handling of corporate or societal promotions and prompt responses to proprietor inquiries.
A poetic piece contrasts a traditional slow lifestyle with fast evolving times. It laments steam travel and changing fashions while praising sturdy old values and home spinning. A farmer’s note adds a tip about using china berries to deter cutworms and enrich soil.
In August a solitary strange man visits a city office and leads the narrator to a tower room. A deranged genius reveals plans from perpetual motion to rocket through space. The discussion ends with a struggle, the madman slain, and the tale lingers on odd scientific ponderings and flight of locusts.
Beuros Texas April 20. A local tale of buried treasure in Noland's Valley near Belton resurfaces after an old Mexican captive told of four cedar boxes containing 100000 Spanish doubloons each. A clay mound was opened and yielded 6250 doubloons, prompting a rush of adventurers to search other mounds with many guarding their lands as treasure fever spreads.
A reflective piece compares the scale of national debt to vast counts of money and world-spanning measures, illustrating magnitudes with vivid examples. It then extols the domestic fireside as a lifelong school, where childhood impressions shape life, ending with a humorous courtroom quip about knowledge.
The Island of Borneo yields a race of wild beings similar to varieties in the Philippine Islands, Terra del Fuego, and South America. They stand about four feet tall, live without homes, form no families, and keep to caves. They hunt snakes and vermin, feed on ants eggs and even each other, are untamable, and resemble a slanted copy of the great gorilla. Captured individuals utter jabbering sounds that resemble speech, gaze with a human face, and show modesty in females.
Bayard Taylor reports from Egypt a late letter describing a pygmy race in Central Africa. He details Tubbul at forty six inches tall with a proportional head and body, curved spine, thick knees, and a broad nose. complexion described as dark mulatto and intelligent eyes noted.
The passage argues that women rely on men for protection and love, and that a man must be a true gentleman, kind, respectful, and decisive to win a good woman. It extols a confident, benevolent male leadership and personal virtue as essential in courtship.
A St. Louis Globe interview with General Bragg discusses the Chickamauga battle, noting Bragg led about 39 000 troops and lost 17000 by early morning, with a similarly heavy Federal toll. He doubts he could have trapped the Union army, estimating a two to one Federal advantage. He vows a fuller account after returning home.
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