26 Feb 1879
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1879
Page
1
A lyric meditation on love and time where the red-rose realm fades as winter nears. A goddess figure travels from sea to shore, stirring North and South with a rose colored passion. The brief reign of love ends in tears as seasons shift, leaving roses to drift over the fading red-rose land.
In a light satirical sketch Deacon Goodman, a prosperous New York merchant, hosts a country entertainment showing his odd diff erences. His wife and daughters in law join, discussing a simplified dinner for their closest friends and a week with the best families.
A Boston social event turns into a moral lesson as Deacon Goodin invites a crowd of poor villagers to his wife’s planned grand reception. The unexpected guests arrive, the family reassesses true hospitality, and the afternoon ends with shared meals, games, and gratitude.
A quiet banquet ends with a biblical lesson on charity. Deacon Goodman stands out as markedly different from others as a sunset fades and a moon rises. The family returns home in calm, while the host recites a Pharisee tale urging hospitality to the poor and afflicted.
The British Empire Horse Supply Association formed in England to import fine horses from the United States and Canada to boost British stock for hunting and racing. Despite a £200,900 capital and early shipments from Canada, the venture failed due to subpar animals. Now an American group plans to resume exporting high quality horses, including Kentucky stock, with sales in Yorkshire prices from 500 to 850 dollars.
Providence Journal reports the extraordinary death of Rosu, a young married woman, who died after laughing uncontrollably on discovering her husband Joshua Walker had salt pork with granulated sugar. The incident occurred on Fillmore street, leaving the widower Joshua in deep shock as neighbors mourn the loss of a once cheerful couple.
A twelve year old boy, distressed by family troubles, asks for help with a school composition. Bijah offers a humorous lesson on machinery, listing many items and praising inventors. The boy receives five dollars as reward, and the teacher hopes the moral will aid teachers and scholars.
A critical editorial argues editors should avoid personal attacks and gossip. It promotes courtesy among papers, urges restraint in reporting scandals, and says rivalries harm local journalism. If a paper serves its community well, support will follow or the paper should die.
Dr Hayes notes the United States relies on merino and mixed breeds, with merinos as the dominant race driving wool manufacture. He cites global merino counts, the rise of merino wool as essential fabric, and historical exports from Spain to Saxony France and Australia, highlighting remarkable American merino specimens.
The Florida coast and Gulf waters are reported plagued by a deadly poisonous outflow from inland waters, possibly the Everglades. It poisons surface fish, fouls bays and harbors with decaying carcasses, endangering the fish trade and public health, demanding scientific inquiry.
A long excerpt relays humor from Napoleons era. A private retrieves the emperor's hat and is promoted after the exchange. Another tale has Marshal Suvoroff testing a Daube river sergeant with playful questions. The sergeant answers with sharp wit, exposing the marshal to a lesson in leadership and prompting a mock promotion.
The Central Law Journal in St Louis solicited origins of the word shyster and received letters from LaCrosse and Chicago. Correpondents trace it to German schuser or to hier from ahier indicating a mean worthless person. The term, first linked to lower class lawyers near the Tombs, came to denote disreputable practitioners who bribe juries or mislead justice.
An article recounts personal memories of the 1841 Afghan campaign published in Once a Week. It notes Afghan troops as a murderous but unbrave race, describes Kandahar irrigation via canal networks, canal knowledge used for plunder, and a harsh climate with minimal sickness and liquor. It cites the absence of newspapers and letters from early November to late February.
The Cincinnati Inquirer notes trials with lime and earth mixtures and weeds. It identifies three findings: lime in a compound state is effective and profitable. composting with lime improves soil for wheat. and slaked lime with brine yields a strong lime application. It cites potential yields of wheat doubling with lime-based treatments.
A fragmentary 18th century dialogue reflects Curran praising Grattan for restraint against self praise while deriding Byron's vanity. The passage mirrors debates on ego among Irish and British figures, with satirical barbs about public boasting and the constancy of weather versus fame.
A Manchester bishop cites a letter from a society young woman detailing a day packed with breakfast reading papers letters calling on friends, conservatories, canaries and flowers, 2 pm lunch, afternoon tea, park drives, theatre or opera, ending exhausted. The piece laments the difficulty of finding time to be good amid such schedules.
The piece notes hospitable restaurants in Washington favored by Wormley and widow Welcker, with references to cultural icons and dining lore. It recalls famed diners and bon vivant Webster, who shopped thrice weekly for his table and shared recipes, and mentions a Britannia teapot once owned by Webster’s mother now in Massachusetts.
Presented to M Gambetts a four terra cot reduction of the statue of the Republic. The terrace of the Chan de Mars was agreed on. The work has cost about fifteen months of labor. The monument bears the inscription A Leon Gaol butta, framed by gold leaves. M Clesinger, the French sculptor, is noted.
Fragmentary OCR text references a sect and worship, noting a girl reaching age nine and implying a shaker or dancing as part of the religion. Details are unclear and names or places are not readable.
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