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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1875
Page
1
Poetic complaint rails against overwhelming stench at the docks. Images clash with rancid fish, spoiled meat, drowned dogs, and garbage while a candle wick smells sweet in comparison. The harsh catalog underscores urban nuisance and environmental neglect at the waterfront.
The Chicago Times profiles Augusta Evans Wilson, Alabama native and author of Beulah, praising her memory and erudition. It notes her early teaching, scholarly reading habit, and engaging yet lofty public manner, with a vivid physical and personality sketch.
A private preview by James Dixon, known as The Salaman der or the Fire King, features a black performer who endures and even enjoys intense burns. The act includes applying red hot irons, flaming oakum, molten metal, and heated blades while the crowd is warned to view from a distance due to odorous smoke and scorching flames. The performer laughs off hardship, hints at shaving with a red hot razor, and contemplates future exhibitions with official notice planned.
The passage describes the president's morning routine with aides like Gen Babcock and Gen Porter. It details cottages and residents along the Branch near Long Branch, including Geo W Childs, Mr Drexel, Mr Siligman, Mr Pullman, and Mr Thomas Murphy, noting their homes, roles, and social ties.
In Little Rock, Captain R W Wishard reads a Dar danelle Independent item accusing cruel treatment of a cat. He visits the paper office, leaving a notice with a boy to protest the reflection on his name.
In a late night confrontation at a city office Wishard demanded the author’s name from Cloyd, who complied. A later encounter at 5 pm led to firing. six shots killed Wishard, a former legislator and citizen advocate. Cloyd is under guard. the Independent article cited alleged cruelty by a local resident named Bottom.
A Toledo Farm Journal correspondent shares a dairy experience using cotton seed oil cake to reduce feed while boosting milk and cow health during long winters. He details dissolving oil cake in water, feeding a quart per animal per session, and notes linseed oil cake as an alternative. He urges dairymen feeding for city markets to trial this method for cost savings and potential cream quality gains.
The London Academy reports on Bond the Indian surveyor who captured two wild people in the Madras Presidency southwest of the Palanei hills. The description details a short four foot six inch man and a yellow skinned woman, noting their dress, dwellings, diet, and forest worship as the forest people are described in depth for the first time.
Charley Backus, a practical joker, caused a scene in a Connecticut town. He shouted threats at a stranger as a train pulled away, then locked himself in a drawing-room car. The depot lounger boarded the moving train and demanded the joker, who remained hidden until New York.
Mrs Gamboge defends rides in burrooshes as townsfolk mock a death pretext outing. Allen Al. Dougall resigns as city editor and joins the United States anger. note ends with oblique farewell line about Ossie Oosen.
A collage of curiosities and light crime tales from various cities. It notes a cobbler’s death in Indiana, a peacock yard gambit in Chicago, New York concert ire, a venice painting critique, plus assorted scraps about newspapers in Kansas, Beecher trial chatter, and other quick items from San Francisco to Texas and Kentucky.
The journeyers toasted the past present and to come while descending in intense heat. At eight PM they completed the perilous descent. In Waverly Tennessee Mr. Pavo awoke to his three year old screaming about a scratching noise. A huge coon leaped from bed to window and back, fighting Mr. P then retreating outside before returning to attack again. He captured the creature by turning a barrel over it. The incident remains a puzzling freak of coons entering a home and battling residents.
An Evansville Courier excerpt relays Kentucky rumors that the James and Younger outlaw band may be in the Sebree City area. Reports describe armed visitors, bank warnings, and frightened residents fleeing to Hopkinsville, Sebree City, and Madisonville. Bank notes and saloon incidents are cited without confirmation.
News from New York recounts the wreck of the steamship Vicksburg with about forty lives lost after colliding with heavy ice while southbound from Quebec. Survivors describe boats launched amid chaos and discreditable conduct among some crew and passengers as rescue efforts began.
In a grim courthouse scene, the old janitor confesses he had a nightmare about a white horse, seen as a death omen. The judge jokes about rich relatives, a physician suggests stimulants, and the janitor exits cursing a cross-eyed boy with threats by the hydrant.
The piece notes Burma facing Britain with Burmese subjects expected to fear British cannon fire. It recalls King Mindon’s offence over a proposed territorial slice, a viceroy envoy seeking peacemaking, and Sir Douglas Forsyth’s role as a famed British mediator. Bengal is cited as a cautionary parallel to the king’s defiance.
Two Kentucky couples eloped to Caseyville NL and faced a crowded ceremony. Rev. R W Jeffries presided as the sole officiant and, in a startling turn, about a dozen friends also joined as spouses. The groomsmen and bridesmaids were unintentionally married along with the couples.
Ex judge Porter defends Mr Beecher noting a wife’s intuitive knowledge of infidelity. Old Blifking reads the item at breakfast and, unsettled, leaves town muttering about a “mighty good agare” and a “mighty good neare.”
A May 19 letter from Salazar details a 11 am earthquake on May 18 that wrecked San Cayetana Santiago Gramalate Arbolda Cucutilla and San Cristobal, killed and displaced residents, with Bogota felt tremors and a volcano near El Alto de la Girocha belching lava. The report notes San Jose de Neireata's population, the region around Colombia and Venezuela, and widespread destruction.
In Lebanon New Hampshire the main building of the agricultural works and equipment were destroyed by fire this morning. Losses total about 63,000 with 33,000 uninsured. Some 150 workers lost employment and all their tools. In Newburgh New Hampshire the Mount Suneshe house burned this morning with losses around 25,000 and 15,000 insured.
New York authorities report the grand jury remains on the silk smuggling frauds and expect to indict several prominent merchants and three or four custom house officers by early next week.
M J Jamin of the Paris Academy cites Galileo’s 1607 letter describing a loadstone of immense force that could attract and repel the same iron pole at varying distances. He notes the stone’s attraction to magnetized steel and its loss, then mentions a parallel modern case: a steel bar magnetized to saturation by a strong current shows the magnetic fluid penetrating to the core of a half, illustrating deep magnetic behavior.
Scribner's notes Mme Bona parte, still living in Baltimore and denying death before a hundred. She has traveled Europe sixteen times, plans another trip, and amassed wealth through speculation and lifelong spying. Her father Patterson’s will condemns her disobedience, detailing a modest inheritance of houses and cellar wine, while she remains rich and guarded about her diary.
An old medical ad extolls Green's August Flower and Dr Walker's California Vinegar Bitter as cures for dyspepsia liver issues and blood diseases. It promises relief in two doses and cites a ten cent sample from a druggist. It asserts yearly body renewal and blood cleansing as the mechanism of health.
Paris dispatch May 9 reports M. Francois de la Bastie and M. Victor de Luynes presenting a process that toughens glass while preserving transparency. At Sorbonne demonstrations, heated glass in an oily bath resisted hammer blows, shattered only with great effort, and small globes dropped from ladders rebounded without breaking.
Gen Howe arrives with about three thousand British troops and orders a push on the American lines at Bost on. Prescott and Putnam direct defense behind the rail fence as Americans pick off advancing units. Fire is ordered at eight rods, powder saved, and marksmen target officers. Pigot’s troops advance but the redoubt drives them back. retreat follows with heavy British casualties and only scattered boats for escape. Aftermath hints at stubborn resistance and a costly repulse in a tight square.
Rudolph Warch, identical to a figure pressuring subsidies elsewhere, aims at Allen County. County commissioners have rebuffed him and the Fort Wayne Logansport Post forecasts a loud response when its edition appears next Saturday.
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