27 Mar 1878
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1878
Page
1
The speaker accuses a reader of harboring a troublesome boy at home, questioning domestic unrest and constant racket. Rhetorical questions imply a lively, possibly mischievous child causing ongoing stir and flutter within the house. The verse reads as a light playful warning or tease about a disruptive youth.
Mrs. Woodstock endures a fierce thunderstorm while her farm is rattled by hail. Orson Larely reports Dr Seacrest’s grapevines damaged, claiming potential five hundred dollars in gold to restore vines, prompting Aunt Crissy to inspect the scene and fetch medicine.
Mrs Seacrest and her daughter Miriam host a tense welcome for Ernest Seacrest and Lily, the bride, while Mrs Woodstock sifts through rumors of Ernest’s secret marriage and Lily’s inheritance. Lily reveals their motive was a family legacy, and Ernest laments the arrangement as the Hollow townsfolk gossip.
In a humorous retelling, Ernest recalls a scheme to marry Lily for money while keeping the union secret from Drymar. Lily proves adept at escaping, and the couple disguises her to flee. The family reacts with mixed emotions, marveling at youth and beauty amid scandalous arrangements.
A long, disjointed description contrasts a grim bar room mural with apocalyptic imagery and moral judgment against alcohol. It imagines Death, the Angel of Mercy and Justice, and a tombstone decree No DRUNKARD SHALL INHERIT THE Kingdom, all set beside a ruined home and desolate landscape.
In a reflective piece from AUV/antt: Monthly, a woman is praised for listening and pleasing. The essay argues female tact, delicacy, and perceptive sensitivity shape social life, making conversations memorable and hospitable, while noting women naturally seek approval in conversation.
A Maine Farmer subscriber shares a cattle treatment using ashes for wood-chewing and bone-eating habits. Four bushels of leached ashes fed in a barnyard and daily shovelfuls. After pasture exposure, one peck weekly on ground, cattle improve, gain flesh, and thrive. Now recommends a quart ashes with salt for twelve head weekly.
A humorous anecdote from The Brunswick News recounts a new subscriber visiting the shop. A colored reader visits, asks about the boss, negotiates price, and requests an issue for his son Ebbaneezah Snow, offering six cents and promising a month’s subscription if satisfied.
The author notes English towns, including Byemoor, cherish their green commones used as cricket and football grounds. He contrasts cricket with baseball, praising its broad appeal across social classes and age, and observes cricket’s cultural prominence over English society.
In a second degree murder indictment Joseph P Wall pleaded guilty to kicking his wife to death. Wall admitted drinking ten or twelve glasses of lager then four glasses of whiskey. Judge Davis condemned the irresponsible liquor trade and urged steps to sue whiskey vendors for damages to support Wall’s children. Wall received a fifteen year sentence.
The piece explains paste or strass as the French term for artificial gems. It describes stress is prepared from silica potash borax and lead oxide sometimes arsenic. Crucibles are heated in a porcelain furnace for twenty four hours to anneal the paste, which lapidaries shape into imitation diamonds.
Potter's American Monthly notes a family with eight children born every July 4 from 1869 to 1877 in Allentown Pennsylvania. Parents Mr and Mrs Barne Ward show a mix of living and dead children with July 4 anniversaries. The item mentions complaints about leaving town for celebrations.
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