09 Nov 1878
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1878
Page
1
The scene opens with a poetical sketch about summer fading and a lover dying of a broken heart as a medical verdict. In the public address the speaker declares a grand mission to save ten thousand souls, eliciting a perfect ovation from the audience.
Nev. De Witt Yalmage of Brooklyn tells his congregation about city temptations as seven thousand hear his sermon on Ezekiel. He recalls a country youth's lure to vice, warns of ruined homes, and contrasts rural innocence with urban temptations. Two peripatetic printers Flood and Bruce are noted for travel misadventure and a farmyard woodpile caper witnessed from a distance.
The article notes a surge in American livestock exports to England for the year ending June 30, with 80,040 cattle and 183,995 sheep shipped, plus 54 million pounds of beef. It argues that demand for beef, pork, mutton, cheese, and butter grows daily abroad, rewarding efficient, skilled producers who pursue a proven system rather than shortcuts.
An elderly Savannah maidservant praised Edwin Booth after a performance of Richelieu during his visit. She told her mistress the actor seemed unwell and warned the cough would likely bring him to the grave, calling him a poor old man.
A reflective piece presents varied maxims on truth, virtue, and religion. It editors notes on honesty, conscience, and life’s purpose, citing manners, wisdom, and the impact of belief. The text weaves aphorisms about sincerity, prophecy, and the social value of truth and piety.
Boston leads a revolt against rote learning proposing a shift to experiential teaching. Teachers would use talking lessons with pictures and real life to teach language, science, and arithmetic concepts, emphasizing observation over memorization and requiring teachers to possess practical knowledge.
A terse reflection notes that distrust arises from two groups among our circle: those we know little about and those we think we know, yet actually misunderstand. It warns against assuming complete certainty about others.
The passage centers on a spiritual reflection that the ultimate delight in heaven is God Himself, not creatures, riches, or glory. It emphasizes divine presence as the all-sufficient happiness for believers, per the cited Moravian style sentiment.
Beekeepers vary in wintering methods from cellar to outdoor with protection. Proper conditions include full honey stores, empty combs for brood reset, and controlled temperatures. Outdoors under corn fodder with southern sun proved best, ten hives thriving while cellar-keepers failed.
A leading merchant near Brooklyn installed a home telephone linking parlor to the house. While guests were entertained, a playful youth on the line teased the owner with a rude remark that echoed back from the other end prompting a humorous exchange from Turper's Magazine.
The judge asks if the prisoner has anything to say before sentencing. The inmate looks toward the door and quips that he would like to say good evening if the company allowed it, but they would not.
On Thursday Mr. Tilden issued a press card denying any awareness of the Tilbune cipher telegrams. The statement frames the dispute as a refusal of connection to the coded messages and offers no further details.
A narrator recalls a single duel with a man named Blood that stretched from dawn to noon, with seven hundred thirty five shots that damaged barns and crops but left both duelists mostly unscathed aside from Blood a calf wound. The event ends with a poker rematch and a $75 payment, followed by regret over not killing Blood. The piece shifts to assorted vignettes on newspapers shaping minds, advice about focusing on one trade, and light humor and observations on public schools, sermons, and manners.
Professor Burt G Wilder of Cornell unveils a Kerosene Warning Tag to be affixed to oil packages. He warns that lower priced oils may be more volatile and explosive and offers safety tips for lamp handling including hanging lamps securely, using elevated burner designs, metal carry lamps, daytime filling, keeping flames away from air currents, and steps to take if oil spills or clothing catches fire.
A New York Evening Post correspondent shares paste making tips using alum flour water and oil of cloves for durable glue in jars to mend wooden boxes and dolls. The piece also recalls a mother’s wry remark about Satan, urges forgiveness and restraint as personal virtues, and notes Arkansas papers urging large wheat plantings.
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