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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1877
Page
3
Poem-like reflection on roses and fragrance as travelers pass. compares kindness to a lingering perfume that transcends understanding. The speaker notes the sweet scent of flowers as travelers breathe dusty air and bless the fragrance, then hopes to bring sweetness back into lives.
A Tucson correspondent recounts Mountain Joe’s quest to buy a pony from Senor Romaldo for five dollars. After rescuing Inez from Kickapoo captors, Joe endures a fall, cave imprisonment, and battles, then returns with the girl and a choice between gold and the pony. He takes the pony and the five dollar debt, and plans to wed Inez next week.
An American engineer Mr Unthank surveys the Great Wall measuring eighteen feet high and fifteen feet wide on top. Towers twenty four feet square rise every few hundred yards with solid granite foundations. The wall spans 1300 miles across plains and mountains with towers and breast works enabling defense along its length. It surpasses all ancient and modern structures in scale, exceeding the pyramids of Egypt.
The 1875 proceedings at the assizes totaled 4701 with 947 acquittals. Of the convicted 33 were sentenced to death, 141 to life penal servitude, 975 to limited terms, and the rest to simple imprisonment or fines. Among 3815 convicted, 1818 had prior sentences. 262 prosecutions involved death penalty, with only 12 of the 33 executed after extenuating circumstances.
A reflective meditation on secrecy self love and virtue urging that true greatness rests in inner merit not possessions. It warns against vanity indifference to truth and social pretense while stressing self care and the effort to live well through humility and restraint.
In the county jail yard prisoners devise grape thefts by tying cords through a grated window. A Turnkey notes inmates coax fruit with improvised tools and rope to reach a grape cluster, straining and twisting until a stem yields. Guards observe but endure the minor breaches as a curious jailyard craft.
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