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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1875
Page
1
A poetic meditation on surpassing ascent and lost grandeur. The speaker compares personal ascent to a swallow's flight and reflects on a heaven found beyond the visible world. The verse traces longing, awakening, and a vanished splendor in dreamlike imagery. Faxniz R. Rosinson is credited with the Harper's Magazine July feature.
In Virginia a young man named Frank Mercer is accused of murdering his uncle for gold. He proclaims innocence and escapes execution, later proving his guiltless deed from a mountain misstep and escaping prison. He becomes a Mexican navy captain, saves Mary Dewes, returns home to claim fortune, and marries Mary.
This forenoon Jonathan Runyan narrowly escaped death when a sand-bank twenty feet deep collapsed in Monroe street east of Mich igan. He was buried standing under earth two feet high before helpers freed him after ten minutes of digging. He remained weak for hours afterward.
The article extols the Chicago & North-Western Railway offering frequent through trains to Council Bluffs Omaha and many northern points with Pullman Palace Cars and advanced safety gear. It highlights the newest equipment including Miller Safety Platform Westinghouse brakes and telegraph operations, claiming superior track and comfort. It lists daily through services to St Paul Minneapolis Green Bay Lake Superior Marquette and other destinations with multiple connections and luxury amenities.
A dated missive from Chelsea on May 5, 1875, notes inability to attend a May party due to age and distance yet expresses support for women's advancement. The letter promises to join Mr. Demoniac's dinner in New York and praises the sisters' Grecian pursuits while signing Rory Parrineron.
A tale recalls a woman who confesses to a priest after sowing rumors. He gives a ripe thistle top and orders her to scatter seeds, then later to gather them. The priest compares her task to the impossibility of retracting harmful gossip once spread.
A Sunday duel in Havana pitted Dr Alger Curtis of New York against Salvador Cortreal a Havana and New York tobacco merchant. Once close friends the men fought at twenty feet five shots each with Curtis wounded in the hip at the fifth shot. Cortreal then fatally shot himself. Curtis expected to recover.
George Milburn and family will move to Toledo as he assumes duties as president of Milburn Wagon Works. Mishawaka loses a liberal and energetic citizen whose long business career and generosity, especially toward the Methodist Society, are fondly remembered.
A cautious East couple riding to a hotel from the depot during a trip spots the sun on the left side in the morning and jokes that at home it is over the barn. The man declares travel wisdom in a lighthearted exchange quoted by the Detroit Free Press.
The Grand Worthy Chief Temp lar J. J. Talbott is praised for delivering speeches averaging two hours daily over the past fifteen months with eighty two per cent growth in lodge numbers. The Madison Courier notes his flourishing cause and doubling lodge membership in the last year.
The text describes mixing white dough the night before and shaping rolls after rising. It calls for a pint of warm milk with salt and half a cup of yeast stirred into flour, kneaded until springy, then moulded, and risen before baking in the morning for delicate light rolls.
The Oran gemen of this city decide not to parade this year and announce a grand excursion and picnic to honor King William I of glorious and pious memory on July 12.
Concord New Hampshire June 10 Governor Cheney was inaugurated today and took the oath of office and delivered his message. There was no civil or military display.
The Prince Alfred, an English guano ship bound for London, foundered at sea near Coquimbo. The crew abandoned in two boats. one was saved by the Limena, a steamer of the Pacific Navigation Company. The captain remained aboard the other boat and was later landed at Carrizal.
Five seamen from the Dominion Line steamer Vicksburg, en route to Liverpool from Montreal, were rescued June 5 after the vessel sank June 1 amid icebergs and drifting ice. They described a night of peril with many passengers lost before lifeboats could be used.
Report from Salazar dated May 19 details a violent tremor at 11 10 yesterday that devastated Circuita and San Cayetano, Santiago, Gramalata, Arboleda, Cucutilla, and San Cristobal. Described are fires at Potica Alemania, lava belching from a nearby volcano near El Alto de la Giracha, with San Jose de Neircalo and Bogota feeling the quake. Population figures for several towns and the region around Santander are given.
Celebrated sleepers run all night on this road for routes including Chicago to Omaha Cedar Rapids Dubuque via Clinton Freeport Marquette Green Bay Milwaukee and St Paul. Only line with Chicago to St Paul and Chicago to Milwaukee services. Sleepers at Omaha link with Union Pacific Overland Sleepers for west of Missouri River. Tickets sold by all agents. T W Hughiennette, General Superintendent.
The Wilson Shuttle Sewing Machine boasts simple construction and elaborately finished design with large capacity and broad adaptivity for home and factory use. It integrates all key elements of 25 years of patented sewing machine development plus recent improvements from Wilson Company inventors. Machines delivered free to county railroad stations via the Cleveland branch at 327 and 329 Superior St. A catalogue and chrome circular are mailed free on request. The company seeks additional agents.
The Sacramento convention adopted strong anti-railroad resolutions. Sargent presided as Gorham denounced the Central Pacific. Pacheco was withdrawn as a gubernatorial candidate and T. G. Phelps was nominated by acclamation for Governor. Jos M. Davis named for Lieutenant Governor and O H Hallett for Secretary of State.
The trotting mare Volunteer Maid owned by Simon R. Bonne of Flushing valued at 12000 dollars was found in her pasture yesterday with a broken leg and killed.
Washington June 12 Frank W Palmer ex member of Congress from Iowa and editor of the Chicago Inter Ocean has been appointed one of the Commissioners to treat with the Sioux Loxpox June 11 in the railway accident near Bath several persons were killed and many injured
George Clark a convict in Newburyport Mass held prominence in a church Masonic body an Odd Fellows lodge and a temperance society reflecting his community roles despite legal status.
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