16 Feb 1881
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1881
Page
1
A rustic romance unfolds near a flour mill where Beanie and Beasie share quiet days. The miller loves Beasie, who keeps faith while the mill’s clatter and grain fall promise a brighter future. A jeweled ring marks their betrothal as their tale winds to a close.
In Kingsgate between Margate and Broadstairs a Saxon hamlet houses legends of Kingsgate and a castle once sheltering Charles I. A retired naval officer rents out seaside furnished apartments near a preventive station where smuggling flourished. The Morriton family, including Algernon and Leila Merriton, inhabit one such cottage and witness a shipwreck involving the Northern Belle near the White Ness.
In a Margate inn tale of sea peril and entangled loves, Lieutenant Furnival confronts a lodging tenant about a denied marriage, revealing Leila Merriton as a supposed wife and the bigamous truth. The scene ends with Leila's death from prussic acid and a quiet Margate wedding for Adelaide Furnival.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recounts a 1861 camp kitchen scene with a Black cook named Joe Hemlock. The tale recalls his humorous misadventures in making coffee and beans for Col McConnall, highlighting race and camp life during Bull Run aftermath.
An editorial lament condemns daily profanity across ages from boys to gray-haired men. It argues swearing harms civility, offers no justification, calls the habit easily broken, and links drinking with foul language as paired vices degrading humanity.
The Italian minister of public instruction has taken possession of the vine yards and grounds of the Baths of Titus and Carvalis in Rome and converted them into public walks. The art fragments will be preserved in the Capitol museum.
Travel writer Lady Florence Dixie recounts encountering a jaguar and cub in South America, defending herself with a pistol. The cub, a young male, accompanied by a tiger cat, lived freely in England during winter, later moved to the Zoo logical gardens where A. D. Bartlett provided a large den in the lion house.
In a rural tale, Steve endures dew poison from slavery’s inheritance and seeks relief. Silas questions cures, as Steve recalls a failed prayer method and a misdirected plea that ends with unexpected comic relief and a moral about trying humble remedies.
A Galveston shoemaker confronts a fashionable customer in a restaurant after finding him at a lavish table with green seal and canvas-back ducks. The customer confesses he cannot pay for the boots nor the banquet, urging trust and denying future payment.
A Louisville correspondent recounts Van Bibber fleeing Indians at Kanawha Falls West Virginia by leaping from a rock over a whirlpool. His wife ferried him in a skiff while arrows rained, the baby safe on shore. She urged him to jump and he did, joining her as she ferried to safety. The rock is known as Van Bibber’s Rock.
A notable lawyer recently defended a criminal and failed. At trial a note was read: the prisoner respectfully asks that the time spent by the defense counsel's speech be counted in his sentence.
An anecdotal tale describes a conjurer whose extraordinary memory and sight enable him to identify every item in a shop window from a passing glance. The narrative recounts his demonstration in a library where he correctly names volumes by shelf position and binding, astonishing guests and baffling observers with precise recall.
English trainer Old Day visits the House of Commons asking to see Palmerston about a filly. A Commons member guides him, Palmerston hurries out, confirms the filly has won her trial, and the pair discuss next steps amid light banter from chaffing colleagues.
A Yorkshire visitor recounts a donkey at a lime kiln showing a marked fondness for chewing tobacco. After initial reluctance, the animal accepted a plug from a boy, chewed gravely, and grinned, then refused a second plug before accepting more. The episode is tied to a local moral crusade against tobacco.
An advertisement touts Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as the best form of electricity in remedying rheumatic pains and throat and lung afflictions. It claims the oil is highly sanctioned, reliable, and usable both externally and internally.
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