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Newspaper
Daily Star
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1877
Page
2
A speaker recounts a humorous Civil War tale from Missouri, detailing a detachment under General Tom Harris. He recalls early service, odd military misadventures, and a morale boosting yet quixotic journey that ended with a self disbanding regiment. The narrative emphasizes forgotten soldiers and calls for reverence of the frontline foot-soldiers.
A Boston Commercial Bulletin note details a merchant near the Merchants Exchange who feigns readiness to lend five dollars to deter beggars. He instructs a clerk to acknowledge fictitious borrowers by name, then refuses once the loan is verified as already loaned, prompting repeated exits by the desperate applicant. The piece adds a Michigan county report on stand ing pine timber tallies of 2,311,120,000 feet of amber.
A missionary writes from Sholapoor India amid a devastating famine. He describes widespread starvation, sky‑high grain prices, and mass begging while government relief and local charity try to cope. He details daily feeding at his house for about 350 people and the grim sight of skeletons, illnesses, and repeated deaths from starvation.
The Bridgeport Connecticut cartridge factory furnishes material to both Russia and Turkey, producing six to seven hundred thousand cartridges daily. They have supplied forty million to Russia and seventy million to Turkey, with an eighty million order from Italy. Two tons of powder are used daily, and inspectors for Russia and Turkey supervise production side by side.
A witness recalls Paris in May 1871 and again in 1878, noting vivid streets full of life yet shadowed by barricades, burning edifices, and blood. He contrasts calm soldiers with brutal violence and laments cultural shifts, observing luxury goods rising in price and wider changes in civilization and national character.
A small silver mounted derringer once used by John Wilkes Booth to shoot President Lincoln is described as barely four inches long. The weapon, dropped in the private bar after the act, is now in the National Museum in Washington and was recovered from the stage area.
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