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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1885
Page
1
Money and curiosity prompt a famous man to interview his wife’s favorite child. He humbles himself in the girl’s presence and soon leaves. Ellen is sent home with the unhappy orphan, and a formal notice demands the removal of Mrs. Leveson to settle affairs before Parliament resumes. The widow finds no shelter as the tempest gathers.
Mrs Levesons limited resources drive a fragile Irish estate tale of a widow and her daughters. Mr Gripston pursues love, purchasing the Leveson home and invoking a tense confrontation. After threats, a crowd discovers Gripston shot dead, a mysterious tenant robbed him, and deeds return the estate to Mrs Leveson, who remains in her beloved home with Lucy and Teresa.
A yacht party of twenty on the Lady of the Lake toured a Span ish Sanchez grant area near Crescent City. They stepped through cypress and palmetto to a moss draped forest with live oaks before reaching a fragrant wild orange grove loaded with blooms. The return sail carried a strong breeze and left a lasting impression on all aboard.
The article recounts how the Cherokee rose came to Florida's peninsula, tracing a legend of a Seminole brave and a Cherokee chief's daughter. They fled to endure, a rose plucked in farewell, planted in Seminole country, and from that root the Cherokee Rose spread across Florida.
A Nice fashion note describes parasols made entirely of natural flowers. Bouquets formed into a bloom network line the parasol with silk inside, featuring violets and tessamine, geraniums, pansies, and fern. The flowers fade and parasols are rebuilt about every two days, drawing comparisons to extravagant flower displays in New York and American society.
In parts of Ireland the red fuchsia rises above roofs and eaves, cloaking windows with dense green foliage and deep scarlet bells. The ancient shrubs boast gnarled trunks and stubborn vigor, sheltering homes beneath lush bowers built by their expansive growth.
A Brit ish Social Science Congress discussion and magazine note conclude most recent publications are overillustrated. Pictures attract readers, push rapid reading, and can undermine literary merit, with both adults and children forming erroneous ideas from images.
The London Standard describes St Peter ad Vincula within the Tower precincts as a sacred place where famed offenders and unknown malefactors lie. Private executions once occurred outside the door. Skeletons and charred bones, likely from heresy burnings, are found in the church floor and crypt during repairs. Anne Boleyn, Lady Jane Grey, and others are said to rest there, with reinterments and burial in the crypt as dust shifts.
Senators Garland of Arkansas and Gorman of Maryland visited President-elect Cleveland at the Capitol after arriving from New York. The informal talk covered cabinet possibilities with Garland possibly targeting Attorney General, Bayard likely to Treasury, and Lamar discussed for Secretary of State, though he may decline.
Albany dispatch reports Governor Cleveland will resign January 6, travel to Buffalo on the 8th, attend a charity ball January 9 at the Genesee House, then return home before heading to Washington. The piece notes likely cabinet distribution by region and hints at Illinois senatorial interest without naming a preferred Democrat.
A parmer at St. Ey California raised a pumpkin expected to reach 300 pounds. He tended vines with careful feeding and cultivation, hoping for a prize at the local fair.
A farm shaft near Clermont County yields gold from soil tested by Prof Dudley and Prof Wetherby with $1000 per ton potential. A Cincinnati syndicate plans to buy options on the farms with an old California miner guiding efforts. Also, Alice Henderson, 15, suffered severe burns when her clothing caught fire near a stove.
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