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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1879
Page
4
Fragmentary verse from Celtic Monthly recalling childhood meadows and memory. The speaker laments waking to daily toil while fleeting scents of lilies and fields evoke a lost face and distant past.
Alfred Graves loves Hester Stretton but learns she carries a hidden sisterly family tragedy. After Hester's brother dies in prison and is exonerated posthumously, Alfred learns the truth and asks for her hand. She accepts, uniting them as his wife and her mother’s support.
French savants report experiments by M Grandeau showing tobacco plants grown with lightning or electricity reached 3 feet 5 inches and 44 000 grains while control plants reached 2 feet 4 inches and 22 000 grains. Professor Tobin endorses the practicability of lightning fertilizer for farms.
The storm left Walterboro with a ruined courthouse and jail, destroyed churches and academy, sixty of ninety dwellings uninhabitable, and the population crowded into remaining buildings. Debris scattered across streets and yards, trees uprooted, and a prolonged rebuilding effort anticipated amid hunger and poverty.
In a dwelling’s garret the wind carried away by the house collapse. Items flew miles into the swamp and trees. buggies and a four horse wagon were displaced. A basket of books landed in a distant tree with contents intact. a sheep lost all wool. A mother saved her infant from dust as brick and mortar shower fell. Walterboro coradine report.
Carrie Roberts, a domestic in G K Kitchen’s residence near Monroe, fights a tramp as he robs a tin box of money and jewelry. She wounds him with a clock-shot revolver in the dining room, he escapes after leaving bloody marks. laborers pursue, no ID yet. Kitchen returns, Carrie mails a detailed letter to her brother.
A survey details federal post office expenditures in major cities, led by Chicago at 5.675 million dollars plus site costs, with New York and others receiving multi million sums to complete new facilities. Bohemia reports a spreading cattle plague with military cordons and economic disruption.
A weasel is chased from a Bristol farmyard by a farm cat after attempting to plunder a stable. A South Devon tale details an elderly tabby defending its mistress from a visiting woman. A spider builds a weighted five foot web across a garden path, using a stone and threefold cord, trapping and catching multiple flies. The writer also shares a letter about a wrenlike starling box and a clever bird defending its nest from a boy, illustrating perseverance and nesting behavior under observer John Oldham of Maresfield.
A fragment from Land and Water urges readers to guide the young toward a better life than the reckless acts described. The writer laments the imperfect narration and recalls escaping harm multiple times while drafting the piece, warning against the habit of boasting about violence and exploitation as a social pastime.
The German ministry proposes a formal tariff for medical visits in Prussia. A first sick visit would cost 2s, subsequent visits 1s 6d at doctors homes, with reductions for multiple patients and higher charges after 10 pm. A 3s fee covers chloroforming to diagnose, with no clarity on during operations or fatal outcomes.
A brass hand clock with a transparent dial operates without visible works. The French Society for the Encouragement of National Industry describes a hidden mechanism inside the knob behind the pivot. A mainspring and wheels drive a platinum weight, shifting gravity to guide the hand and return it to time after interference.
The article describes a black laborer who used to fill his mouth with gold dust and wash it through tobacco juice to fake mining yield. When watched, he ran dry, revealing a fraud melange of salting operations. Boston capitalists spent $400,000 learning not to trust such Brazilian washings.
A collection of home tips and recipes on food prep and farming. Instructions cover pudding steam molds and water temperatures for bread, hay water to remove kettle iron taste, calf feeding, Flemish cabbage apple stew, pigeon and beefsteak pie, hen nests, batter puddings, and a chocolate marble cake with step by step methods. Names of dishes and techniques anchor a practical household manual tone.
A lecture summary explains coral as skeletons of many tiny animals, not an insect. Coral polyps reproduce by eggs and budding forming reef structures that grow from a soft origin into firm limestone foundations. Reefs create lagoons and harbors and even influence continental geology. the piece notes duck hunting around Stillwater.
A North Beverly accident aboard an Eastern Express Company car reveals how a single train spring drop near Portsmouth could have caused a wreck. The watchman’s telegraph warning halted the Bangor to Boston night train before a fatal strike on a bridge or curve, sparing passengers and the community heavy losses.
Boston investors lost about 400000 in a fraud involving the San Cyriaco mine. An old black washer's samples led buyers to believe rich yields but expert inspectors found the washings dwindled, exposing the deceit and resulting loss.
The government plans a Grand Duke led mission to trace a Central Asian Railway route from the Ural to Kunduz via Syr Daria and Samarcand. Objectives include river navigation tests, resource surveys, astronomical observations, and potential military use against Merv. The effort may evolve into a military campaign if tensions rise in the East.
The Paris Exposition report by Hon. J. J. Woodman cites Oregon State Commission as the finest U S agricultural exhibit. It covers farm counts and sizes in France, ownership patterns in farms, England wheat yields, and European cereal production versus the United States.
A thief attempting to enter a Sheffield pawn broker's shop through a chimney becomes jammed six feet from the fire. After four hours of struggle, he is found trapped and roasted by the blaze. Fire and police rescue efforts fail. the man dies soon after extraction, with soot in mouth and eyes and severe burns.
A panther seized a three year old boy on a Soda Springs porch near the Sacramento River. The animal cut the child’s lip and neck and scratched the chest before armed men chased it up the mountain and Mannon killed the hungry panther, five feet long, after returning with a gun.
Advertises Hop Bitters as a remedy for malarial fevers and related ailments. Claims it repairs disease ravages by converting food into rich blood and restores vigor to the aged and infirm. Mentions an external column titled Truths for further reading.
Safety efficiency and reliability are urged as virtues of a remedy for malarial diseases. Dr F Wilhoff's Anti Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic is presented as effective and approved by the medical profession. Wheelock Finlay Co advertise its composition and sale by all druggists in New Orleans.
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