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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1882
Page
1
A historical piece mentions one full-blooded Indian priest and seven deacons serving the Ojibway in Minnesota, plus a mixed-blood clergyman tied to the same mission. It surveys origin stories for major crops and notes European bankers' low holdings of U.S. bonds, alongside a Waldensian initiative to publish John Wycliffe’s writings.
The June Century will feature Cardinal Newman's portrait as its frontispiece accompanied by an authentic life by Kegan Paul of London. Paul draws on close friends and associates for a definitive account likely to be the best published in the Cardinal's lifetime. It includes a brief, unpublished essay by Newman on Bible inspiration.
The General Conference of the Methodist Church South at Nashville Tennessee notes an increase of 247 itinerant ministers and membership rising to 86,687. Last year 13,000 joined the communion. four year mission funds grew by 441,438 dollars. Indian Mission has 5,000 members and Central Mexican mission 1,000 with Sunday schools up by 2,071. Sunday school literature circulation exceeds 400,000.
Country Gentlemen reports 3,708 head sold in 1881 averaging 158.07 dollars, up from 3,222 at 144 in 1880. Twelve-year total reaches 29,859 head at about 277 per head, with 1875 giving the peak average of 532 dollars.
Lord Frederick Cavendish, chief secretary for Ireland, was reported assassinated in Dublin. A protege of Gladstone, he served as private secretary to Granville and Gladstone, and later as financial secretary to the treasury in 1880. He supported Liberal reforms and married Lucy Lyttelton. Leatherette emerges as a near perfect leather substitute, offering similar durability in mechanical and ornamental uses.
An old health blurb urges using Kidney Wort to ward off biliousness head heaviness foul mouth yellow eyes and disordered kidneys. It touts the remedy as an effective advance guard whether taken in dry or squid form.
A digest of Iowa items: Dubuque issues 125 saloon licenses while Marengo seeks 1500 dollars for a flax factory. State conventions meet in Des Moines May 31 for the abstract men, Osceola forms a 20000 dollar hotel stock, and Dubuque plans mayor portraits. Notable deaths include Charles Pierson and a Boom in coal and railroad notices.
In the House of Lords the Marquis of Lansdowne abandoned his motion against the Irish policy after ministerial statements on life and property protection in Ireland. He urged the government to offer compensatory measures and enforce the law despite popular pressure. Geo Otto Trevelyan named Chief Secretary for Ireland, son of Sir Charles Trevelyan and Hannah More Macaulay, born at Rothley Temple.
Gov Baren R Sherman proclaims a statewide special election on June 27 1882 to decide an amendment adding Article 1 Section 26 to ban manufacturing for sale or sale of intoxicating liquors and to set penalties. Ballots read For or Against the adoption. Secretary of State and local officers to canvass votes.
Explore the origins of various manna types in commerce from Gohr near the Dead Sea to Sinai Farran and Sicily. Buckhardt notes manna from twigs of several trees, Arabs bake it into cakes. Turner describes sweetish oozing drops from tamarisk groves used as sugar substitute in convents. Commercial manna comes from punctured stems of Ornus Europae in Csabria and a similar Sicilian product. both are pale yellow, soft and mild laxatives rather than foods.
A philosophical maxim asserts that earnest living brings lasting life while thoughtlessness leads to spiritual death, claiming those in earnest do not die and those heedless resemble the dead.
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