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Newspaper
Dodgeville Chronicle
Location
Dodgeville, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1875
Page
1
A verse from Chambers' Journal reflects on fleeting courtship versus enduring love. It contrasts halfhearted wooing with a committed, patient bond, noting that true love deepens with time and remains steadfast within married life. The poem frames affection as gradual, not sparked by a single moment.
The Rev. Robert Collyer argues hope sustains life beyond visible outcomes. He contrasts spring’s promise with fall’s certainty, cites biblical trust in God, and urges persistent effort aligned with divine law. He warns against overreaching hopes, praises patient waiting, and envisions hope guiding through trials toward Heaven.
Shanghai paper notes first English strawberries in London markets at $1.50 per dozen. Hawaii aims to exhibit a relief map at the Centennial. France reports a waterspout rainfall of boiled shrimp. DuFaure orders priests to sing for the Republic. Levy’s fortune lacks a valid will. London presents a gold enamel casket to the Czar. A St Pancras apprentice mistaken for Roger Tichborne. Monaco gambles huge stakes. deaths by self harm rise. Belgians and Parisians live apart from families during straw hat season. De Brazza uses an electric handshake ruse to impress savages. A French chemist markets a durable lime substitute for stone work.
At the Central New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 250 ministers attended. The youngest at conversion was seven, the oldest twenty, and the average fifteen.
Reports from Paris Madrid and London describe a rising Republican sentiment in Madrid and battles between Carlists and national troops. Banquet in Berlin for Carl Schurz. a Russian city destroyed by fire. Alphonsist defeats and prisoner counts in Blanes and elsewhere. A Paris storm causes heavy damage. Zanzibar visit to London. ship Vicksburg lost in ice with forty aboard. Measles mortality in Fiji. Spain confiscates Protestant books. a Breslau bishop fined. Bismarck bans a Catholic gazette. Bath railroad crash with fatalities. San Cristobal earthquake devastation in New Granada. California GOP convention names Phelps, Davis, Hallett, Beekman. Grant administration endorsed. Hog numbers forecast. Grange to Louisville. union officers elected. Claflin smuggling case bail. Chicago Custom House condemned. Dallas Moore libel suit outcome. Brownsville cattle thieves killed. Cumberland safe recovered with near $100,000 in gold.
A Philadelphia dispatch notes 15,000 men in the city planned to depart for the Black Hills soon. Other items include Civil Rights Act affirmed by Judge Nelson at Winona Minnesota, New Hampshire senatorial case notes, and various political developments across states and federal actions.
Flour White Winter Extra $5.50 6.23. Wheat No 2 Chicago Spring $1.11 1.12. No 2 Milwaukee $1.14 1.15. No 2 Northwestern $1.11 1.12. Barley $1.25 1.30. Oats Western Mixed 70 73c. Corn Western Mixed 78 Sic. Pork New Mess $19.70. Dressed Hogs 9%c. Lard 13%c. Cattle market quiet. Good to Extra 12% 13%. Sheep 5 6%c. Gold closed 11634. East Liberty Pa cattle Best $7.5 7.60. Hogs Yorkers $7.20 7.40. Philadelphias $7.50 7.85. Sheep $4.00 5.37 4. Curcaco Wheat No 2 Spring cash 98 98%c. Corn cash 67%c No 2, 66c Rejected. Oats cash 19 59 14c. Rye No 2 97 98c. Barley No 2 $1.26 1.28. Mess Pork cash $19.30 19.85. Lard $13.30 13.35. Cattle Choice to Extra $6.25 7.00. Medium to Good $5.50 6.15. Butchers’ Stock $1.00 5.25. Staia ways $2.59 3.25. Hogs Good to choice M.1L 74.
A mixed column covers varied items. An elderly Northampton blacksmith stays busy at 90. Maine lumber loss from pest winter nears 10 million feet. Massachusetts onion growers fetch low prices. North Hadley tobacco woes, real estate declines, business stagnation. A 96-year-old Taunton gardener plans spring crops. Kate Crane reports droplet oil tests on water to classify oils, noting turpentine, cinnamon, nutmeg, poppy seed and cod liver oils differ in spreading and pattern. Bath bricks from River Parrett deposits power global markets, employing many, with Bridgewater as sole supplier. known worldwide from England to China and India.
From New Haven journal report on June 10 details the steamship Vicksburg sinking amid ice on June 1 while en route to Liverpool. Five survivors plucked June 5 near death describe chaos aboard, crew of sixty, eight saloon passengers, and twenty steerage. They recount boats capsizing, ice fields, and a perilous drift for days until rescue 120 miles from St Johns.
At Strouse's Oak Street corset factory a group of young women fainted one after another after a playful prank with a land turtle sparked a panic. Seven girls collapsed in quick succession amid hushed fear and concern among workers and onlookers.
A jumble of 19th century miscellany notes antics and anecdotes from editors and public life. Highlights include a Vineland editor caricature, a conductor's suicide by bell avoidance, and playful witticisms on fashion, travel debts, and social foibles. Also mentions expeditions to the Okeefenokee Swamp, a San Francisco boarding dispute, a Rochester flirtation, and a blend of religious, Masonic, and civic curiosities.
Lieut. Payer intends to attempt a crossing of Greenland from the eastern coast. His Arctic exploration experience fits him for the feat. Previous attempts to cross Greenland moved from the west, including Whymper, who reached a point within a few miles before turning back.
A reviewer in the New York Tribune calls a real poet “a singer whose verses haunt your twilights” and notes that if this definition is undeniably good it places the mosquito in the front rank, as echoed by the St. Louis Republican.
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