25 Aug 1880
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1880
Page
1
Poetic lament on fallen workers heroes and singers who died in conflict and toil. It contrasts human loss with a world that carries on. The speaker reflects on a man of war, a singer, and a grieving woman, calling each a human flower that withers and fades.
Walter Austin visits Hillcrest as two heirs plot. Aunt Cora engineers a match between Walter and Mabel Cressington, but Irene Vance captures Walter’s heart. Eventually Irene admits love, Walter asks for blessing, and Aunt Cora proclaims triumph as the heiress union heads to marriage.
Farmers fear widespread damage as a caterpillar, the larva of a night flying moth, trails in orderly lines across fields. Methods to combat it include furrow plowing, fire, rolling, and turning in hogs or poultry. success depends on timing and soil conditions.
A quaint tale from London Society recounts Quaker cotton-spinner Jacob Bright delivering a Solomon like judgment. Pigs belonging to Mrs Ann Jones strayed into his garden, Samuel Sheriff punished one pig harshly, and Bright ruled that the pig be slaughtered and divided. Mrs Jones kept the undamaged half, Samuel paid her the market value of the wounded half.
McGrath and Boleman, itinerant miners, arrived in Truckee California and negotiated with Judge Keiser to mine bullion leaked from smelting furnaces. After six days they yielded sixteen bars weighing about 100 pounds with an assay value of 1400 dollars, earning about 87 dollars each per day.
Of the bishops, judges, and other official personages who took part in Queen Victoria's coronation forty two years ago, all are now dead.
Lafayette's tomb at the cemetery of icons prompted a tour for Americans. The Destruction and relocation of the ancient Cemetery de Mousseaux during the Revolution left only fragments near the walls of La Folie Chartres. Picpus, La Madeleine, and Les Evrands were the three depositories for guillotine victims.
The London Globe reports a compact table from the Constitutionnel detailing army costs per man across major powers. England tops extravagance at about 140 pounds per man yearly, with India at half that, followed by Austria Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia. Per capita army maintenance varies by country, from about 6s 8d in Italy to 12s 6d in Great Britain, while army take from national budgets ranges from 14 percent in England to 59 percent in Russia.
The fourth anniversary of Hast Line work marked by completion of a Home for Aged Clergymen. A six acre tract hosts a neat church, a spacious house, and a vegetable garden. The design by Col. Gregg of Granville features Queen Anne fireplaces and multiple rooms for social use, dining, and sleeping. Gifts funded much of the construction and fittings. The water well beside the house was used to baptize the well of making. Construction cost within 33,000.
An Indian school under Sisters of Charity at the Coeur Arene Agency Washington Territory numbers twenty seven pupils aged 10 to 14. The pupils read write spell explain calculations in arithmetic nearly as well as white children of same age. They are neatly clad, appear interested in studies, and are eviden tly making rapid progress.
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