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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1879
Page
4
An illustrated wedding scene turns macabre as the bride and groom kiss while death closes in. The bride offers a rose, the groom cuts it, and the couple gaze in a chilling tableau as music swells and the dance continues amid a sense of fatal fate.
Narrator Nelly, a poor seamstress living with her mother on a cliffside, recalls Ned the Captain's son returning from sea, their growing closeness, and her hidden romantic love. Ned perishes aboard a lifeboat during a fierce storm after a distressed shipwreck, leaving Nelly gravely injured and bound to a life of memory. Carrie consoles her as years pass, and Nelly clings to the belief of Ned's love, though the truth remains unknowable.
In a April 25 communication the Interior Secretary states that U S citizens and others may attempt to settle parts of the Indian Territory under the guise of settlement. The letter explains the territory remains Indian country under intercourse laws and urges vigilance and removal of any unauthorized settlers, with reports back to the department.
The Baltimore Sun reports General Wright arranged a free exchange of Civil War records between the Southern Historical Society and the War. The planned 51 print volumes cover United States and Confederate materials, including operations, telegrams, letters, and orders. Col. Scott leads the Union work. A. P. Tasker and H. E. Ellerbrook head Confederate and Union archives. Congress may fund a permanent 1861 publication for President, War Department, and lawmakers.
Godfried Heider, a young Cambria Steel Works converter dept employee, died after a massive white hot skull metal mass fell from a stack and crushed him. Witnesses describe his entrapment and extreme burns before death at home hours later.
A boy near Alfred Street dreams of a granite monument five hundred feet high to honor the fishhook invention. He fishes a muddy pond with ham and cake as bait while his mother had promised a half day off school when the fish bite. The scene captures enduring boyish zest and the endless lure of fishing.
A Free Press fragment recalls a boy who stayed from school a half day and bragged about fishing with friends. He laughs at not catching fish since they were on their nests and describes a large frog tumbling off a rock, his eyes “like diamonds.”
The article recounts a close call in March 1864 when Corporal C-, a Gosling Zouave veteran, faced desertion charges after secretly rejoining his unit in Maryland. Recognized by Lt. P- who had saved his life at Fredericksburg, the deserter is overwhelmed by the officer’s revelation and the moral tension of duty versus family.
The narrative recounts a lieutenant sheltered at length and later cleared of desertion charges. Despite a marshal order and red tape delaying reinstatement, Corporal C- was branded a deserter and a trial led to a death sentence. Lincoln's reprieve, aided by an officer who had saved his life and General Ingraham, saved him briefly before he fell in a Petersburg assault. his wife and children waited in a Pennsylvania hamlet near Gettysburg.
Practical advice covers home painting before spring, preserving blue fabrics with simple solutions, pea feeding versus corn for hogs, making milk and rice gruel, bee-keeping notes on old honey, Hingham pudding and Runaway Cake recipes, currant worm control with plaster of Paris, cherry rot observations, and a farmer's method to relieve choking cattle by progressive jumping aided by a whip or oil for a fat cow.
A narrator extols Hudson River scenery near New York and recalls seeking real estate along the river. He quotes buyers and sellers, notes prices around 58 000 dollars, laments inflated valuations, and describes selling holdings after a financial setback while settling for a modest scow.
A New York Herald report cites an English veterinary method using hot blankets or bran poultices applied to the belly and kidneys, with warm water enemas and cayenne, to draw colic from the stomach to the skin. The treatment emphasizes rest, a hot fomentation to the spine, and a bran mash as a safe, outside-in approach.
The article examines sardine packing for inland markets in Navarre and Alava and then Castile. It estimates dealer profits at about 4s 2d per thousand and patron earnings up to £90 in three months, with crews earning around 12s each per voyage and £80 in a good year, noting weather and obstacles hinder longer, larger gains.
An advertise col says indigestion triggers nervousness and Bee Bitters strengthen the stomach purify blood and keep liver and kidneys active to remove poisons and waste, promoting sound nerves and health.
A California Colony is being formed at Buffalo New York to settle a tract of seven thousand acres in California. Those wanting information can learn by sending six cents in stamps to California Colony 14 W Swan Street Buffalo New York or to Wendell Easton 22 Montgomery Street San Francisco California.
An antique-patina critique of illnesses blamed on cold neglected air and dyspepsia. It touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a strong pectoral and blood purifier that can hasten relief from coughs and early consumption, and claims Pellets cure constipation. It also recommends Sage’s Catarrh Remedy for local catarrh.
National Life is a 72 page pamphlet with biographies of all US presidents from Washington to Hayes and 19 engraved portraits plus 12 portraits of Canadian notables. It can be mailed on receipt of a stamp. H R Stevens Boston Mass. Gilbert Starches of Buffalo NY advertises as the world’s best and purest starches.
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