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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1871
Page
1
A fragment-like reminiscence laments a baby's grave as a symbol of deep loss. The speaker contrasts the tiny marker with the vast grief it evokes, pondering how to measure sorrow for the child whose life was brief and whose memory remains near family hearts.
Storied seafaring tale recounts a brave American sloop eluding a British frigate in fog off Virginia's capes with a daring flag and gunplay, followed by a Knoxville Tennessee report describing a magicians’ cabinet illusion exposed amid audience turmoil and a dramatic rescue.
A British frigate pursues the American sloop Providence but the American ship bolts away with a steady wind. Paul Jones commands Providence and gains the lead, provoking sharp words from the British. Jones is hailed as a renegade by foes and a hero by supporters as Providence hoists the American flag first.
The article surveys spring fashion with updated tunics and casaque dresses first seen last summer. Black cashmere outfits return with minimal change, limited by cashmere scarcity. new poplin suits feature a single skirt and a polonaise cut casaque. Velvet trimming and broad velvet bands dominate, with variations in jackets, basques, and overskirts, including postillion details and paganda sleeves.
The silver mines in southwest Utah attract four to five thousand workers with expectations of thirty thousand by summer. Ore yields range from eighty to one hundred tons daily sent via wagon to Salt Lake and rail to Ogden, Swansea, and San Francisco. Transport improvements are planned including a Pacific railroad shipping point at Coriane and a Bear River steamer to Salt Lake, opening up rich lodes from Tuilla to Meadow Valley along a 150 mile belt.
Corinne, Idaho Territory, is described as the ideal point for shipments to Montana and new steamline plans likley opening May 16. A 250 ton stern wheel steamer is being built with Pacific timber, engines by Gerard B. Allen & Co, and Fox Diefendorfs & Co of Corinne spearheading the venture to attract St. Louis and Chicago merchants.
Anovr titty bills aimed at forcing Southern voters to back the Radical ticket are noted amid West Troy charter results where Democrats won President by 732 and Treasurer by 746. Reports discuss Kentucky and Rhode Island voting rights, Ku Klux inquiries, Freedmen's Bureau finances, Iowa and Pennsylvania party dynamics, and social notes on women’s rights and divorce trends.
The author argues spelling is visual and suggests writing words in doubt on scraps to judge correctness. Examples include recieving and beleive as obvious mistakes, and cites Cobbett who taught his children grammar by copying lessons, noting his amusing grammars.
The Southern Pacific land grab deal is described as a sweeping concession designed to grant rail routes from San Diego to San Francisco and Marshall Texas to New Orleans. It would expand land grants to about ten million acres for Fremont and associates, a claim that amounts to a state-sized parcel rather than that of lower Michigan, reflecting Radical policy.
A sweeping Indiana roundup reports arson at Terre Haute, revival gains at Pine Village with 119 new converts, a body snatching claim near Evaxsville, and various local woes. Items note a coal bore plan at Spring Hill, stock talks in Decatur, a Jefferson county accident, and political resignations tied to reform battles.
Jackson Tennessee reports from Sunday about a brutal murder of Mrs. N S Vanhook at her College and Cumberland street home. Found in her room with severe head injuries, likely struck with a hatchet, after her children left for sabbath school. The killer remains unknown in this dark crime.
The Cincinnati Chronicle’s Washington correspondent notes in the new Congress there are duplicates among members with two Biafras two Brookses two Harrisons two Hunzletons two Myerses two Robertses two Rogers two Speers two Townsends two Williams and three Fosters and three Smiths. Por ter and Hale are tipped for the bibulous, and several changes in committees and trades are forecast along with new faces on naval panels.
A compassionate city magistrate once helped a deaf mute by clothing him and guiding him to his home. Years later in a jail, the former protege reveals he became an ex-silent man after pitying crowds drove him from the trade. A railroad accident near the east is reported, notable for avoiding the Hudanan and Erie lines.
The London Saturday Review exposes rising female drinking in England. A Boston Advertiser London correspondent notes country houses and balls as witnesses. A married woman blamed, medical men encouraged, and working and lower middle classes seen as improving while gentlemen drink less.
The Porter County Vidette laments the short session and says few laws were enacted, deeming the session costly for the state. It claims the Radicals blocked last minute bills and alleges a partisan plan to render the session useless.
Crowds packed Carroll’s Theater to witness the Marietta Sisters on the trapeze. The thirteen year old Rosalie hung by her sister’s feet as the elder performed a high bar maneuver. The younger fell when the elder loosened her grip, striking the floor with a dull thud. The child was carried away, later announced to have only trifling injuries and to perform again tonight.
The Silver Islet mine near the north shore of Lake Superior yields extraordinary ore. Smelted ore averages 1700 currency per ton, with assay results from six samples reaching 13000, 14001, 11000, 8500, 11000, and 17200 per ton. No gold detected, but native silver present and substantial lead. The shaft lies beneath the lake, furnace sent to New Jersey, Lafayette Courier notes no city fires for three days.
The Pittsburgh Paper reports on the Joint High Commission at the mansion and the approach of Grant toward his guests. Officials reflect on royal decorum and the need for restrained state conduct as the entourage plans their Saturday meeting and formalities.
The note details German provision of tens of thousands of volumes and pamphlets to wounded soldiers and hospitals in France, including about 60,000 volumes for the wounded and 60,270 volumes total across 141 holdings, with a large portion sent to the besieging army near Paris. it uses this to illustrate German culture and literacy versus French readers.
A party of laborers, captured near Thompson’s Lyon’s farm in New Jersey, dug into a mound to fill a marsh. They uncovered an old pan, a knife piece, two tobacco pipes, and stone fragments with arrow marks. The site shows garden soil filling gravel, and no prior house is remembered on the spot. Terre Haute merchants plan a novel method to deter street rovers, trading dignity with a sharp plan to curb loiterers.
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