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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1879
Page
5
Poetic reminiscence recalls a long-ago romance in a June afternoon. A speaker recalls lovers sharing a secret kiss beneath birds and blossoms as summers fade and memory lingers with longing.
In a Berkshire village a young woman Elsie Stanton helps a man named Frank Carver after he rescues her from a muddy pond seeking pink lady slippers. A lost gold heart prompts a moonlit walk and a confession of love, ending with Elsie restoring the heart to Carver in exchange for a pledge of affection.
In a pioneering procedure at St Luke's Hospital, Dr Bedolph and colleagues transfused about six ounces of sheep blood into William Boeckler to stop dangerous quinsy hemorrhages. The patient revived quickly and showed signs of improvement, with physicians optimistic about full recovery. The operation, first in the state and possibly west of Chicago, drew wide interest.
A St. Joseph Missouri correspondent recalls the Missouri River’s power during April and June rises. The river clears forests, swallows bottom lands, and shifts channels, endangering river towns from Yankton to St. Louis. A tale of Forest City and White Cloud illustrates sudden loss as cottonwood snags redirect the current. A Nebraska doctor near Rule survives a land breakup that erodes his riverbank.
Dispatch reports the sudden death of Gen James Shields in Ottumwa Iowa. Shields, a former U S Senator from Missouri and Minnesota, veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, aged in his early fifties, appeared in good health Sunday evening before collapsing likely from heart disease. He had represented three states in the Senate and earned fame for his gallantry at Cerro Gordo Chepultepec and Winchester. He died among relatives after a short illness.
A summary of Cornelius Walford's statistical study listing famines from 600 to 730 across France England Britain Ireland Scotland Wales Italy and Ireland again. It compares ancient famine frequency with later centuries and notes natural and artificial causes including war misrule and grain misallocation.
A tally from the Popular Science Monthly survey lists famines from 1775 to 1877 across Cape de Verd, France, England, Ireland, Sweden, Poland, Brazil and more. It notes millions starving, scarce harvests, and relief totals, contrasting Western civilization with global famine patterns.
River fish die-offs around Paterson continue with female fish and suckers most affected. Residents suspect textile dye effluents from Paterson dyeing plants, measuring blue brown red and white water, though conundrums persist about seasonal peaks and upstream movement. Farmers bury the carcasses as eddies form along the Passaic two miles below Dundee Lake near a dam.
Charles May recounts the 1870 Arkansas Grand Canyon ascent and river descent to haul 60,000 railroad ties. His brother perished in the fall while Charley climbed the canyon wall, aided by a cedar root and his mother’s memory, returning to a camp with his hair turned white.
In the Mississippi Penitentiary there are over two hundred convicts who are imprisoned for life.
General Garfield addresses a Republican ratification meeting in Cincinnati. He condemns Democratic moves to curb federal judiciary and federal authority, urges loyalty to the national government, recalls 1861 65 wartime debates, and warns against a solid South or North controlling Congress and elections. He notes 2500 arrests for federal law violations, emphasizes unity, and praises reconstruction era ideals.
In a passionate speech the speaker rebukes Northern Democrats for pressuring Southern leaders to withhold funds and leverage against the President. He stresses unity, pledges to support the Union, and predicts a political fight focused on maintaining the public debt and the Republic’s credit, likening the Union to a solar system.
The Corners citizens gather at Bascom's meeting house to express loyalty to the U S government after the Civil War. Deacon Pogram and Mrs Bascom lead a Confederate display with flags and relics while speakers defend Southern rights and push for payment of Southern war claims and continued segregationist policies. The piece also notes a Newfoundland correspondent's pig story about a pig surviving five months under a house before emerging in April.
The Toledo Blade reprints a Loyalist plan advocating Southern control of government, nullifying wartime legislations, and excluding federal taxation in the Confederacy. It calls for a Southern president and 1880 postures while promoting unity through hostility, noting actions against a local schoolhouse as part of the protest.
The Chicago Drovers' Journal argues for simple, low cost measures to prevent hog disease. It advocates clean fields and water, shaded shelter, and weekly trough cleansing, plus a salt pepper ginger mix in troughs to reduce the impact of foul gases and filth on swine.
A whimsical note describes the meee splashing in a pond and drying his hair with a stick to avoid an old lady, then sneaking in a back door to steal a doughnut. The passage is cited from the New Haven Register and notes a QuEst10x for a debating society from the Boston Post, with a crude joke about a parrot or a Chinaman.
An array of 19th century patent medicine pitches. Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Urgative Pellets, sugar coated, claimed to cure stomach and bowel irregularities. Dr F Wilhoff’s Anti Periodic touted against malaria and chills. Sterling Baking Powder praised for purity. Gilbert’s Starches shipped 200,000 pounds to London with demand from Germany and other nations.
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