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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1879
Page
3
A short verse excerpt by Frederick Locke in Appleton's Journal comments on how footsteps betray a person. It imagines tremulous, twinkling feet in snow revealing where they came from and who met them, blending poetic conceit with a cautionary note about disguise and detection.
The excerpt from Francis David Mone in Theophile Gautier’s poems collection August Appleton describes a specter of love and death. A rose imagery appears at a ball and bedside, with a poet kissing the alabaster bier and declaring kings envy the rose’s bliss.
Real estate in Freeport shows dormancy as farmers remain busy. Only two sales of small tracts noted: L Brownlee to J M Sindlinger for parts of Knowltons 2d add Freeport valued at 1000 dollars, and Vandalkenbergh to Edward Daily for Rock Run acreage priced at 810 dollars. John Fair Sr sells 70 acres in Waddams to Thos M Fair for 1069 dollars.
A rich August issue features the Earl of Dunravens Moose-Hunting in Canada, Matthew Arnold on Wordsworth, Branwell Bronte reminiscences, a piece on The Comedy-Francaise, and notes on The Mirabeaus. Also included are Wandering thoughts about Germany, A Cornish Saunter, a New England story Out of the Depths, Schopenhauer on Men and Music, translations of Gautier poems, Patriots abroad, and reviews of Thackeray and other Books of the Day.
Eclectic Magazine announces its August number featuring a steel portrait of Yale Professor James D. Dana with an appreciative biographical sketch. The issue mixes light articles with substantial reads including Foreign and American notes, science, art, poetry, and Thackeray reminiscences.
The rule states a Massachusetts woman must be Ve Rl years old, able to read and write, have paid a tax within a year, and have resided in the state for that time and six months in the voting town.
Four Swiss newspapers publish mutating statistics showing wildlife losses in Grisons for a year. Claims include 770 claminis, 4 bears, 5 eagles, 4 vultures, 15 owls, 60 sparrow hawks and 824 magpies killed in the canton.
The August Demorest issue offers readers two oid pictures Tell's Chapel Switzerland and Off A Lee Shore along with two steel engravings The Valley Farm and A Summer Holiday among its varied stories poems and fashion notes for subscribers.
The August number of The Nursery presents mid-summer scenes including On The Farm Lost in the Woods All about the Bees Rover and the Rabbit Joe the baby turtle The Search in the Meadow Georgie's Frog The Blackbird's Nest and How Kate Helped her Father. Also features The Doll's School and a comical Barnyard Song to amuse children.
The issue will feature a studied article by a noted American soldier on Caesar's Art of War and a second paper by Hon John Watts Kearney on American Finances 1789 to 1835. Also planned are essays on Mountains in Literature Birds songs and eccentricities Irene installments four chapters and two short stories plus boat racing stories and more.
Ballou's Monthly Magazine for August presents an illustrated article on artesian wells a sea story adventures poetry and domestic tales. It lists contents including The House-Fly Suabia and its Peoples and A Quiet Nook plus engravings and puzzles. Published by Thames & Talbot Boston at $1.50 yearly and 15 cents per copy.
Lippincott's August number opens withCat skill and the Catskill Region travel piece illustrated in first rate style. Dr Oswald Summerland sketches continue. Guignol on Paris marionettes described with engravings. Bayard Taylor reminiscences by Boyesen, and notes on Etiine Willemmstadt. Miss Porter village sketches South. Woman's Mistakes on Work featured. Fiction strong with That Last Rehearsal and A Narragansett Idyl. Gossip reviews art publications.
A historic issue of St Nicholas For August extends to seventy two pages with content tailored for summer reading. It opens with Celia Thaxter’s long poem adapted around an incident involving the current German emperor and two peasants, followed by Mississippi Chowder a brisk fishing frolic and two striking pictures. The Baby's Morning recounts an escaped baby's meadow pranks with five Addie Ledyard illustrations. An illustrated Brighton Aquarium description and a full Lawn Tennis guide appear. Hercules Jack a humorous tale with seven Hopkins pictures precedes the Newsboy story and portraits of his helpers with stirring Nun’s exploits.
A collage of features includes a lifesaving tale, a waterborne pony ride, Goethe child-life sketches, and nine pages for Very Little Folk fans. It lists multiple periodicals and articles such as Origen and Christian Philosophy Part 1, contemporary criticism,Village Life in the Appenines, Cornwall, Temple Bar, and various essays, poetry, and advanced sheets from July issues.
Scribner's August number showcases Whistler in Painting and Etching with portraits and etchings, a Summer Entomology talk, Whittier study, a frontispiece portrait, and a Confederate Army Cook paper. It includes travel sketches of Antwerp and Holland, a narrow gauge railway piece, and various literary selections. The issue teases Henry James’s Confidence and hints at Cable's forthcoming serial The Grandissimes in November.
A rejected and dejected youth in Worcester county Maryland confessed after mortification that, in a fit of anger over a young lady’s rebuff, he used a hatchet to cut down all the peach trees in her father's orchard.
The August Penn Monthly lists pieces on the Death of the Prince Imperial and imperialism, Zulu War, Boers, Afghan treaty, end of Kalter Kamps, Eastern Roumalite and Egypt, congressional straw threads, Sherman’s withdrawal of certificates, Harrisburg representation, Humanity and Economy in War, plus works by I N Burnett, Edward Howland, M D Sozinsky, A Bolles, and Joaquin Miller.
The article lists several featured works and authors in The Atlantic for August. Notable items include Preaching by Christine Chaplin Brush and an Experiment in Play Writing by Joseph Kirkwood, alongside pieces by Henry King, Henry Van Brunt, and others. The Contributor's Club is highlighted as bright and entertaining.
The August issue presents editor selections titled Summer with the Poets, along with sections on Prague by Prof. J. H. Worman, Lady Jane Grey by Mrs. E. S. Martin, Jamaica by Prof. T. H. Perne, and Bodleian Library by D. C. Macdonald. It continues My Land of Beulah, includes The Silhouette by Henry Gilman, and features the Editorial Miscellany.
A London Harper’s Bazar correspondent recalls an amusing scene of Americans meeting the Royal family on a Chiswick road. Mr A’s companion learns that the “bowing acquaintance” hid a longer story after trains of royal carriages passed Beatrice Louise Mary and Teck. In a separate tale a preacher’s sermon is upstaged by a boy’s blunt quip about no seats at the window.
A Halifax Nova Scotia company stages Pinafore with heavy shipboard realism. The Griffon boatswain’s mate pips the side when Sir Joseph comes aboard and a real sailor runs signals. Ship’s gear and a gun crew appear as the audience tours the vessel and learns naval regulations after the performance.
Judge Shea received the Freedom of Cork in a midsummer ceremony in a cenium box, wearing a green ribbon from the presentation the year before. The death of Isaac Butt leaves one American as the sole living recipient, with Cork having conferred the honor only three times in total.
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