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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1877
Page
1
Excerpts reveal a speaker who loves in shadow, seeking control through deception and revelation. The speaker smiles at harm, enjoys revealing cruelty, and lures companions to ruin while masking true motives behind refined speech and ritual imagery. The passage shifts between craving secrecy and exposing vice.
A New York World summary notes Casandra Galvert de Bonaterre as executrix of Notley Ann Holladay sues Ben Holladay and others to set aside the 1873 will. The case centers on competing wills from 1871 and 1873 involving about $30,000 in personal estate, a New York house, and a Westchester county farm mortgaged to $200,000. Defendants claim the 1871 will was intended to go to Holladay, with the 1873 will serving as a life trust. A trial issue motion is set for next Monday in the supreme court chambers.
New York reports Capt. Charles Maciron of the Geneva survived the Huaniillos quake on the Pacific coast on June 9. He describes the anchored ship entangling with others, violent rolling, sudden receding waters, and a firelike volcanic glow as mountains erupted. Several vessels, including Avonmore, drove ashore or sank, with captains and passengers lost.
The German empire bars church leaders, deposes six archbishops and bishops, leaves Treves and Fulda vacant by death, and expels about 600 church members from Cologne. Parishes without priests rise across Cologne, Paderborn, Munster, Treves, Limburg, Breslau, and Hildesheim as the pope resists conformity to empire laws.
Former treasury secretary Hugh McCulloch told Washington observers the nation is entering a fresh period of prosperity. He contrasted past excess from 1861 to 1871 with current frugality, saying economy now dominates after former prodigality.
A harsh, opinionated passage argues that urban life corrupts laborers, urging migration to unsettled western regions. It blames northern idle masses and Republicans for anti labor sentiment while claiming the south faces theft by carpetbaggers and scarce economic opportunity. The rhetoric paints a grim view of national labor trends and regional conflicts.
A roaming lecturer calling himself Harry Belmont alias Dr H J Fuller staged Money Getting Styles and Abuses lectures. He robbed Farmington post office after June 6, tearing open letters and stealing hundreds in drafts. He confessed to Sheriff Hitchcock in Peoria and was held on $3000 bail in Chicago for trial in Springfield.
A couple sought a Quincy minister and were married after paying a $3 fee. The groom received $17 in change from a $20 counterfeit bill. The bride revealed heavy boots and disappeared, then reappeared as a fine man. The minister found the note counterfeit but is yet to identify the con artists.
A Detroit Free Press passage depicts a young peanut peddler chatting with a man named Big English in Justice alley. They discuss a scheme to mix quinine with chalk to create a deceptive drug sale, with plans to use the proceeds for chalk and gumdrops, while the father supposedly recovers.
A Lima Democrat is depicted through a long card game metaphor describing his life as a progression from cribage to a final death. The narrative uses gambling terms to chart attempts to act independently, join a partner, and ultimately shuffle off life like a dealt hand. It culminates with references to death and judgment.
M. de Fourton is described as the French minister of the interior whose appointment unsettles Europe. An 41-year-old lawyer from Riberac, he hails from a long distinguished Languedoc bar family and has held several ministerial posts under various regimes since 1871.
A fragment contemplates the mind and soul’s unity beyond form. It muses on the living soul bursting from the cold clay tenement as angels lift it to a glittering heaven. The piece imagines Christ given glory and a divine brightness in the afterlife.
The Indianapolis Journal notes Senator Morton plans to push his amendment early in the next regular Senate session, expecting it to cross both houses and proceed to the states for ratification in the upcoming Congress.
New York June 12 ex Gov Hendricks reception at Manhattan Club drew NYC Democrats including David Dudley Field Augustus Schell and Chief Justices. Gov Tilden condemned fraud in election with calls to uphold the people’s elective rights and preserve republic. Departure to Europe noted next day with farewell at Fifth Avenue Hotel and Scythia voyage preparations.
The State House Commission and Indianapolis News report ongoing sessions after a Springfield trip. They will set rules for experts to evaluate four proposed state house plans in July. Selection is pending, with emphasis on unbiased specialists. Stone samples from nearby quarries will aid final choice.
A Mt Vernon National Bank tolls an $8,000 shipment to the Third National Bank of St Louis via Adama Express. The package arrived with brown wrapping only and no money, though seals and wrapper match Mt Vernon used, prompting an official investigation. Also notes ancient English glassmaking and Roman era glass finds from Pompeii.
A scattershot collection of notices and quips from various places and topics. It mentions Bath Maine unemployment, a Danish Canadian verse about the sea, Dozens of brief items on people, places, and events, including Oswald Nest, Laura Fair, Ulysses speeches, Rome pilgrims, and New York church rules, reflecting a late 19th century style.
James Logan, a private detective, arrived in the borough to continue the Ross child disappearance investigation. He asserts three years of work, possessing unique documents that could reshape the case, and claims the boy Charles Ross is alive and not abducted for ransom. He warns of a hidden motive and vows to pursue the truth despite public attention.
A fragment describes preserving strawberries by placing jars in a wash boiler with water to cover, adding fresh strawberries and sugar, ensuring jars do not touch the boiler, then heating gently until the water simmers. The text is partial and lacks complete steps or measurements.
It explains a step by step method to finish a jar, including timing between actions. Move to the back of the range after fifteen minutes, lift out the jar with a towel, wipe the neck, screw on the tops, and turn them every half hour until airtight.
A man pushing an iron lawn-roller on Woodward avenue is questioned by an old lady about why he is rolling the lawn. He explains it is to level and improve the yard as ordered, while she quips about smart bosses and blaz[ing] with diamonds as she departs.
The article warns that resuming specie payments will strain national banks. In October 2088 the 2,088 banks had deposits of 650 million and circulation of 296 million, totaling 949 million, with only 21 million in specie backing about 2 percent. Hidden losses from four years of panic may surface when banks resume. General trade may revive, but banking machinery remains at risk.
Yesterday at noon residents in eastern Virginia City witnessed a massive fiery serpent kite. The head, a red paper globe with rolling eyes, led a train of eighteen smaller elongated kites with red tassels. The display resembled a colossal, hypnotic dragon billowing through the air.
Reported by June and Grafton patent attorney Washington L B Carver Xenia J S Paracus Indianapolis syringe J Baird Lewisville automatic fan W J M Batchelder Honey Creek lifting jack J Closa Decatur stove pipe drum H H Elbrey Greenfield school desk J C Cookson and L Rastetter Fort Wayne milestone dressing machine J J Etheridge Mishawaka mechanical movement H C Hulet and J D Murphy Darlington truck for moving buildings
A Burlington Hawkeye excerpt jokes about architects striving to place a 170000 ton dome on a tiny foundation, and recounts a series of humorous, historically flavored anecdotes from disparate locales. It notes a Western editor’s move to typesetting and reflects on Iowa social conditions, with a final note on Boston Herald circulation in May 1877.
An August Flower remedy is touted for dyspepsia liver complaints and digestive derangements. The ad claims immediate cures within two doses and offers sample bottles for 10 cents, with regular size at 75 cents. It urges readers to trust a neighbor’s success and buy from a druggist.
London reports Turkish detachments reach Achalizch and threaten Russian lines to Ardaban. Russians evacuate Alti and Bennek as three Turkish columns strike the right wing. Turks reoccupy both towns and pursue Russian forces. Multiple dispatches describe Danube batteries, Kars defense, and growing Allied tensions as Danube crossings loom.
Washington reports President Hayes has shifted toward favoring a return to pre-1873 conditions on currency, believing it would boost specie payments, though he has not yet told Congress to act. Treasury data show $1,404,511 in one and two dollar notes in circulation and $10,183,387 held in reserve. In Navy notices, officials are warned on public ads with new rate rules. Brigham Young accounts are requested for possible prosecutions. Schurz and family head to Summit, New Jersey for summer.
A June 13 to 15 digest reports Paymaster Bissell and Assistant Carding shot at by masked highwaymen near Scranton, wounded Carding. Euclid resident E Drew dies after shooting himself. Rondout saloon keeper Joseph Mellart kills James Maller. San Francisco notes two sunstruck ladies. Fire department accident in Cleveland kills George Lamb. St. Louis fire escape accident kills Michael Carey. New York discovers $20,000 lace theft on Hamburg ship Herdes. Alabama rains boost crops. Ohio man Eli Beckwith’s son Fred Beckwith dies by revolver.
A An elderly patient writes that VEGETINE saved her life after doctors gave no hope. She details prolonged illness, three physicians, and a near death in bed before a testimonial in a newspaper led to treatment. She regained mobility and health, endorsing VEGETINE to friends and noting a physician’s acknowledgment.
An advertisement extols a medicine named TINK as relieving pain and cleansing the blood to restore health after years of suffering with various remedies. It asserts the great source of disease is the blood and that only medicines acting on the blood purify and renovate, calling the product a great breed act.
A woman named Eliza Ann Poole writes that Vegetine relieved her long standing canker humor stomach ailment after trying many remedies. She reports improved appetite and overall health, claiming Vegetine helped everyone with the condition.
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