28 Jul 1875
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1875
Page
1
Poetic lament traces Hilda and her lord as torches blaze and guests frown. Marie Le Baron anchors the tale of a vanished grace and a lover calling to bring repose in a lonely house.
A Boston to San Francisco voyage in 1851 on the Mermaid features a four hour rain spell and a vast gulf-weed field that trapped the ship for thirty six hours. The crew, including Jim Walker, Tom Cook, and Billy Williams, combats tow and mast damage then sails on to Pernambuco for repairs after a dramatic rescue attempt and a lone wind puff.
A Chicago Times report highlights rumors of a semi religious society aiming to control votes in the coming campaign. A published circular circulated in Ohio and Iowa asks questions about Protestant allegiance, education funding, and political office, urging unified action and disclosure of supporters.
The Reading Pa Eagle describes hunters who work in pairs in the Blue Mountains to capture rattlesnakes. They wear heavy rubber-soled boots for silent movement and use iron hooks and pincers to seize and box the snakes alive for skins kept as trophies.
A Toledo barber, formerly of Fort Wayne, sent his wife to collect debts and enticed her with a scheme. She accepted offers from several former debtors, including a former assistant fire chief, who agreed to send the money if she left her husband. She took the money back and revealed the plan, leaving the Fort Wayne man humiliated.
A forthcoming Harper's Weekly engraving, released with Gentile's studio photo, will depict the end event casting nationwide sadness. In the upper right is Donaldson, with Grimwood on the left, and a central figure representing the scene.
Descriptive scene shows a central furious figure surrounded by tiny evil spirits with eyes wide and hair tossed by wind. At its feet lie two dead bodies wrapped in burial sheets, floating in clouds. Lake Michigan churns below as Garden City appears in the distance. Regamey of Paris, visiting Chicago, is the artist.
A Chicago Times correspondent from Dresden mocks German hygiene noting scarce water and few baths. He recalls public water draws by servants, crowded baths, and routines as locals ignore cleanliness while foreigners rely on public facilities. He laments bed linen neglect in Heidelberg and a longer than needed laundry cycle.
Reverend W. H. Murray of Park Street Congregational Church in Boston resigns after a sensational scandal involving a wife and a traveler. The episode centers on Murray’s affair with a married woman while on a Adirondacks tour, ending with his resignation and a promised new church edifice.
A detailed account claims Bristow pressed President Grant to act against internal revenue chief Douglass over lax enforcement and St Louis friends. Grant reportedly demanded explicit reasons for not enforcing the laws, then offered Douglass resignation, ending his tenure.
Grant increased his salary by 100000 over four years for saving the union while Beech er gains 80000 for one year with unclear reasons, illustrating varying gratitude across institutions.
Paris dispatch notes a high life divorce case from Portugal where Count di Mello accused of separation loses. In Villefranche a Russian prince hosts a party with American officers. Countess falls for Viscount Gustave Lilio. duel follows after a jealous husband exposes the scene and accuses the Viscount of stealing a handkerchief.
The Paris Debats surveys the US crisis as caused by excessive railway speculation and forced currency, noting European finance pulled from American rail projects as 1873 to 1875 output fell. It highlights France’s own currency policy and protectionism and cites widespread capital from Germany, Holland, England, and Belgium.
The speaker recounts Pendleton's shift on the legal tender act. Once opposing it as unconstitutional to fund the war, Pendleton later supported large scale issuance as constitutional to pay debts after the threat to the nation subsided. The Times condemns his change as treacherous or foolish.
The Lewiston Journal reports the highlight of Bowdoin’s commencement was a satirical plea for a yardstick shortened to thirty inches. The speaker argued such a law would immediately boost production and wealth, create jobs, lower cloth prices, and promote virtue, mocking those who push depreciated currency.
An eighteen month old child two miles from town was spurred in the face and head by a rooster while playing in the yard. Dr Ewing treated the wound but the spur penetrated the brain and the child died Saturday morning after lasting agony. The doctor notes it as a unique case in his twenty years of practice.
A recent arrival in the country while seeking agricultural land in Lewis county encountered a large cougar emerging from the woods along an old road near Olympia Washington. The incident is part of the Olympia transcript series describing frontier wildlife encounters.
The text explains a theory that large ear individuals focus on general facts and principles while small ear individuals seek details and exact measurements. It suggests large ear people are suited for big enterprises and wholesale functions, whereas small ear people prefer precise handling and retail-oriented work.
The Ohio orator Sam Cary asserts Europe holds 24.25 to 34.75 dollars of money per person, while the United States has 16.75. He distinguishes paper money from combined paper and specie and claims Americans lack money compared with England Germany and France.
The piece notes F Crossley’s Irish uim boy theory linking humbug to soft copper and worthless money, cites James II mint adulteration, and mentions Churchill’s 1750 use. It suggests the root lies in hum meaning to applaud and humming as flattery or nonsensical chatter in trials.
A group of gentlemen viewed a large watermelon cut open to reveal a four inch yellow spotted lizard resting in the center. The lifeless lizard revived in the sun but died minutes later. It lacked eyes, was brown with white stripes and yellow spots, and was collected by Col Merrick who will preserve it and send it to the Smithsonian as a national museum curiosity.
Last Friday evening a loud rumble like distant thunder was heard as a bright meteor blaze lit the sky. Fragments were observed falling near the ground across several areas, with a stone found in a Belmont yard weighing about a pound and now crumbling, described as irregular and rich in sulphur and iron with a gray silvery color.
Guanxo Ramps Mich July 21 election results list eleven directors from Michigan Indiana New York and Pennsylvania. The slate includes W O Hughart H J Hollister J G Waite Pliny Hoagland F H Randall Mancel Talcott Robert B Potter Thomas D Messler William Thaw Thomas A Scott Geo B Roberts and John P Green. The report notes a Wisconsin joke about elections.
Mr D C Thomas press agent and amateur balloonist made a daring ascent from the Hippodrome on Tuesday. He landed in Belleville's Hazel Creek after a night of storm and drag rope failures, then returned to St Louis with the balloon and basket in tow aided by farmer Adam Weber and the Belleville canal boats. Thomas, claiming to act to Barnum’s example, described a perilous voyage ending with a mud pond landing and a long trek back to the city.
The Baltimore convention chose Stevenson Archer as temporary chairman after a four hour debate on admitting city delegates. The vote 64 to 46 favored admission, signaling support for Carroll. A Maryland state convention followed with long credentials hearings and a split between majority and minority reports, ending with the majority approved and the session adjourned at 4:30 a.m. with no final action.
One of the heaviest failures in the city, E. Nutting & Co dealers in staves and barrels with yards in Greensburg and Saline Ind and Indianapolis. Liabilities estimated at 195632.31 with assets 155630.11. Trustees W. P. Gallup Henry H. Wooley and W. W. Bell wind up the estate after fires and protracted dullness hit the cooperage trade.
A digest of incidents from New York to Cincinnati includes a fatal family shooting in New Jersey aftermath, forged check arrests in Newark, a jury absolving a son in a fatal father shooting, a rape accusation in Lexington County, a suicide attempt by a saloon keeper at a cemetery, and motives tied to financial trouble.
The Herald reports Prof. King the sercenaut has been hired by Barnum to replace Donaldson for upcoming ascents. He departs tonight for the west with two balloons and will ascend from St. Louis on Thursday.
Dr. Franklin, praised by reformist writers yet disliked by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, is depicted by Mme de Crequy as uncouth at table. Rhodes notes the scholar’s democratic appeal to the French yet affronts from high nobility. Crequy recalls his eggs in a goblet and improvised eating christened savage by aristocratic observers.
An exchange notes the dangers and charm of book agents who sell the patent office report in sixty numbers at fifty cents each, delivered monthly. After hours of talk, buyers regret opposition to a presidency and invite agents to return, while San Diego aims to produce 600 tons of honey this year but seeks funds.
Citizens traveling to Fort Wayne for Barnem’s Hippodrome were pickpocketed. Col Miller lost forty dollars, W H Edgar thirty to forty dollars, Mrs Schurger three to four dollars and a ticket, E C Kern two hundred fifty dollars, Mrs Jno Blood two hundred dollars plus a three hundred dollar check, with others affected. The notice urges subscribers to pay up and avoid aiding thieves.
The Live Stock Journal urges poultry raisers to purify fowl houses with lime and carbolic acid whitewash to deter vermin. Regular cleaning followed by carbolic acid spray, twice or thrice yearly whitewashing, and nests and coops treated—dust baths with wood ashes or sand for hens. Proper sanitation linked to successful poultry keeping.
The Scientific American notes farmers neglect wood ashes as a plant stimulant and alkaline source. An 25 year old experiment filled a hollow of an old pippin with wood ashes garden mold and lime, securing it with boards. The tree then produced sixteen bushels of sound fruit the following year and bore well for seventeen years.
A farmer weighed a 100 pound sheep in a pen and found it would eat three pounds of fodder and grain per day. He confirms the rule that roughly three pounds of feed per day per 100 pounds of livestock yields a fattening allowance. He notes variations by feed quality and stock type and explains how weights of feed and stock let him estimate sufficient food.
Advice on using clover or green grass to lure cut worms, and scraping soil plus Paria green with flour to protect early crops like tomatoes. A tale of lost rings valued at 1700 dollars after a lunch stop on a train. Duluth population drop noted with a poetic aside and a critique of a new travel book.
A promotional note extols Green's August Flower as a universal remedy for dyspepsia liver problems and indigestion claiming quick relief. It urges readers to buy a 10 cent sample from D Vollmer with a regular 75 cent size and asserts the California Vinecar Birrees cures ailments across ailments and nervous disorders.
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