07 Mar 1877
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1877
Page
1
The speaker recalls wandering, a deserted nest, and a heart torn by memory. Natural images of moon, sea, and birds accompany lines about love, fidelity, and the ache of parting. Death and forgetting weave through a somber meditation on what remains when lovers separate.
A lyrical meditation on harmony, truth, and duty as music unfolds within life’s changing chords. The speaker likens a pianist to a devout musician of the soul, whose “Great Master’s score” endures beyond discord and strife, guiding true service and love.
A fragmentary verse from Caroline al. Sale on St Nicholas for Marek laments wages earned and daily labor. It weaves wishful thoughts, daily toil, and future hope, noting evening scenes by fire and the refrain of tomorrow’s cure or wages.
Hayes and Wheeler declared elected at 4 12 A M on March 2 1877 amid a fierce struggle in Congress over the South Carolina Vermont and Wisconsin electoral certificates. The Senate and House clashed over opening papers and counting votes with loud debate and procedural surges, producing a charged record of political maneuvering.
A compact digest of foreign notes reports Cardinal Cullen declining state burial for John O Mahoney and condemning a funeral protest. Other items note Vienna aiding exhibitors, Turkish diplomacy, Roumania military reserves, and a Black Sea warning. The page also carries light quips, anecdotes, and a Virginia bridegroom tall tale.
A farmer in Limerick, Virginia, hung his waistcoat on a fence while cutting poles and found his pocket stuffed with two hundred dollars chewed by an ox, with silver coin tasted and spat out. In Cleveland readers comment on library novels, an emotional creature writes the pangs of love is grate I have been there my self.
A fragmented essay explores dreams and sleep’s mysteries. It recalls a narrative where a man dreams a crime and faces consequence, contrasts waking life with dream insight, and muses on memory, sleep, and the soul’s travels across night and place as told by Longy Tinws.
One hundred named men serving during the count stood in the rotunda as sworn in. Sergeant-at-arms French had fifty in his line. When asked to raise the right hand for the ironclad oath, all but three complied, two of whom lifted the left hand having lost the right at Gettysburg. Thompson’s fine prompted only three hands, leaving forty-seven others to seek a modified oath for police.
List of patents issued to Illinois inventors with dates Feb 18 1877. Names include Campbell Napkin Holder Chic az Dartlett Soap Composition Moline Sk Bickford May Mouth Brokaw Gates Litchfield Haight Rope Reels Oswego Moore Home Fastener Chicago Nichols Windmills Batavia Peacock Twisting Barbed Wire Chicago Pierce Draft Equalizer Galeshurs Richards Coal Seats Woodhull Wray Artificial Stone Rock Island Bull Windmills Amboy Watson Springfield.
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