12 Feb 1874
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Newspaper
Danville Union
Location
Danville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1874
Page
1
A Bryant verse reflects on fleeting life and the price of a single pleasure. The poem contrasts delicate morning dew with wakeful roses and warns that brief joys can exact heavy internal costs.
A verse meditation on longing as a divine impulse followed by human striving. It contrasts earthbound contentment with the call to elevate the heart from hope to hope and realize deeper longing through continual growth.
A speaker recounts joining a Masonic lodge and an absurd prank involving a runaway goat. A late night chase ends with the animal crashing into the home, startling a gathered family and friends who mock the scene as the narrator faces a humorous domestic fallout.
A jagged narrative recalls a humorous lodge goat incident with a family audience, a chaotic door charging ride, and a final pledge against bringing the animal home. The piece shifts to political notes on Nasby, Locke, Lincoln, and remarks on public figures and party reform, concluding with health advert blurbs.
A reprinted warning from the New Albany Ledger-Sandard decries reckless adverting and roving solicitors exploiting merchants. It notes that map cards hotel registers and directory listings often fail to bring customers while urging restraint and careful budgeting to avoid wasted money.
A newspaper feature surveys Gen. Grant's carriages and mounts. It describes the state and family carriage trimmed in black, a small driving wagon with a swift black Maine mare, Nellie Grants' fast ponies, the famed Cincinnatus war horse aged eighteen and crippled, and a four year old colt completing the stable on the grounds outside the Presidential Garden.
A St Nicholas correspondent extols the buffalo as a principal pathfinder for explorers and settlers. The article notes buffalo tracks as safer routes for people and horses across the Cumberland and Rocky Mountains toward Yellowstone and the Colorado region. It cites Humboldt and emphasizes the animal’s role in geographic discovery.
The New Hampshire Republican State Convention adopts platform statements praising agriculture as the basis of prosperity and urging state support for agricultural science and tillers of the soil, highlighting growing interest in farming within the state.
Gen John C Fremont suffers stomach cancer. Paris consumes five thousand horses as food. Gen Phil Sheridan loses a gold watch to a pickpocket in Albany. England holds parliamentary elections amid riots. Omaha ships tea and bullion east. Wisconsin proposes grain storage price revisions. Tichborne trial costs England's taxpayers. Prosecution costs include Hawkins retainer 2000 and 250 daily. Parry 3750 and 150 daily. three juniors 1000 each and 350 daily. Total trial cost about 2.5 million.
Gen Lew Wallace and George D. Sturley unite to practice law in Crawfordsville. J C Hadley promoted to superintendent of L C and W railway. Over 200 locals join church revival efforts in six weeks. News notes include a butter supplier with patent insides and the death of James Cason, Boone County pioneer.
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