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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1874
Page
6
A child recounts how Nellie and her sister Ella wandered from home, grew tired, and were found near a hill. Nellie falls ill, recovers, and soon dies peacefully, leaving Ella to mourn and remember her sister as a fragrant flower in memory.
A moral exhortation warns readers to keep promises, be punctual, and avoid half measures. It questions deceit, urges virtue, and champions reliability as the path to trust, maturity, and social standing. It ends with a riddle about counting cats tied to a playful example.
A collector of humor recounts a failed attempt to provoke laughter from a deaf and blind relative at a Young gentlemen of the Olagonian Society lecture. The scene includes advertising schemes misunderstood by a Cantonese printer and a Rajah who learns to trim pages with an ivory paper-cutter, ending in an elephant using carved handles.
Reported details describe Marshal Bazaine slipping past a sentinel on a cliff terrace at Sainte Marguerite, descending by rope to a hired boat, and reaching a steamer with his wife and cousin. They likely landed near Genoa. investigations and arrests followed in Marseilles and Paris. The piece also notes related moves by authorities and mentions other crimes and political commentary.
Fragmentary scene shows the Rajah addressing the Viceroy after handing a book to him. The Rajah dismounts and points to the elephant declaring the beast is the Viceroy's, challenging the validity of the paper-tutter.
The piece argues political self scrutiny is necessary across parties and asserts the Republican party has shown moral courage in self examination. It notes corruption exists in all parties but defends the party’s vigilance against taint while acknowledging reform movements as public debate rather than fatal flaws.
Harvesting in Baileyville closes with threshing underway and yields below last year due to hot dry weather in late June and early July. Corn and potatoes suffer from rain shortage while apples are scarce but cherries, plums, and grapes show promise. Local farmers purchase new equipment and the Quarterly Meeting of the Baileyville M E Church is planned for next Sabbath with Rev. Springer assisting.
A letter from Baileyville Illinois describes a journey through eastern Winnebago and Boone counties reporting very poor crops especially in the Scotch settlement and dried pastures forcing cattle feeding. It notes mixed prospects in Mc Henry County and better outlook in prairie areas with visits to Janesville Beloit Broadhead and Lantern towns and mentions libel actions against Broadhead editors and local political shifts.
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