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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1875
Page
3
A Chicago editorial reflects on the South's peril, demagoguery, and threats to Black rights. It cites New Orleans investigations, private pleas for law and order, and Republican resolve to safeguard Reconstruction gains and Unionists amid Democratic intimidation and rebel politics.
Beribner's Monthly notes Scribner March features Major Powell Colorado papers praised as a grand achievement. The back-number demand rises as Dr Holland's Sevenoaks installment moves to urban settings. Jules Verne story aimed at youth disappoints some readers while editors condense it beyond Emerson.
A condensed note on the March Scribner issue highlighting Stedman’s view of Swinburne, a narrative on How the Opera of Dante was Written, Airy Lilian as an occasion story, and Albert Rhodes’s La Fontaine sketch. Includes Old Letters with a Sir Walter Scott portrait, commentary on Dr. Leonard Bacon, and poems by Dufield Saxe Warner Bates Lathrop Miller, plus Dr. Holland essays on Criticism and Preaching and a broader Etchings section.
The issue highlights Miss Alcott’s Eight Cousins with Rose’s discoveries, along with Trowbridge’s Young Surveyor and a vivid War of the Rats and Mice poem. It notes vivid illustrations, stories by Stock ton and others, travel and science sketches, and an address by WH Baldwin urging active civic duty for youth.
Eclectic Magazine March features Carlyle on The Early Kings of Norway with vivid prose and portraits including Professor Henry. It promotes subscriptions at $5 yearly or 45 cents per issue plus a May 1 offer with seeds from D M Ferry Co and a Seed Annual. A brief aside notes a joke about locomotive motives and a physician’s wife tears analysis.
The Shah of Persia's strong box fills a 20 by 14 foot room with jewels valued at about £7,000,000. The Kaianian crown sits among diamonds, pearls, and emeralds, with girded belts and gauntlets covered in gems. Swords’ scabbards are said to be worth a quarter of a million each. A famed flawless turquoise and a walnut-sized emerald with royal inscriptions are noted among the treasures.
In a cold climate, weekly baths may suffice and bathing in winter could risk illness. Delicate constitutions are said to be prone to colds from bathing, while a notable 83 year old credits avoiding baths with longevity. The piece urges gentle cleansing with a warm sponge for children to avoid convulsions and disease and condemns harsh tub immersion.
A Titusville man reportedly killed himself after confessing in a dying statement that he discovered he was his own grandfather. He explains a tangled chain: he married a widow with a grown daughter, his father married his step-daughter, making his father his son-in-law and his step-daughter his mother. Their son became his uncle and brother, the grandmothering cycle makes him both husband and grandchild. He concludes that marrying his grandmother made him his own grandfather.
A chalk mark around sugar buckets or shelf edges stops ants as they cannot cross chalk. For jam and jelly pots a wet sponge with fine white sugar attracts ants, then dipping the sponge in boiling water kills many. Red pepper dust helps but the sponge method is most reliable.
A Nevada man with seven daughters received a sensational paper hinting he hid seven kegs of gold in his cellar and that each daughter married within five months, a claim reported in the era’s sensational style.
A columnist urges readers to wear adequate clothing to stay warm, arguing that self-imposed frugality beats overreliance on fires. By layering and avoiding half measures, people can stay comfortable without large heating costs. Hands in hot water offer quick warmth for the poor.
Edward Spangler one of the Lincoln assassination arrests died at Dr Samuel A Mudd’s home near Bryans Town Maryland on Saturday. A Pennsylvania native and Ford’s Theatre stage carpenter he was alleged to have helped Booth escape by keeping the way open. He had been pardoned and released from Dry Tortugas imprisonment near the end of Johnson’s administration and had lived with Dr Mudd for about two years. Other parties in the case included Booth Harrold Atzerodt Payne Mrs Surratt and O’Laughlin with varied fates.
Trains from Freeport to Sioux City and St Louis. passenger times 3.45 pm Mondays and 12:81 am Sundays east and south to St Louis by 9:20 pm or 6:30 am arrival. Freight schedules vary Sundays. W. P. Johnson and A Mitchell listed as agents. Chicago & Northern schedules show Day Express and Night Express eastbound and westbound freight and accommodation. Western Union Rail also lists east and west trains with respective times.
An old real estate notice advertises several farms and city properties for sale near Freeport and Galena. Listings include 80 to 280 acres with houses and barns, prairie tracts, and near depot access. Down payments and long-time balance terms are offered, with prices varying per acre and per parcel. Local agent Joan B. Ganpers invites inquiries at Dr. Peiro’s office.
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